A small preview of the new barbarian build in Heroes of the Feywild

[WalterKovacs]

I'm sure it's going to be like the hunter/scout ... martial attacks and primal utilities. It will be interesting to see if it goes with the 'rage turns you into a striker' thing, and how they do this versions rages (since that would probably not be through a daily as that wouldn't be much of a dual role class).

 

[Grydan]

Note that as that daily is listed as a Barbarian Attack 9, unless something as-yet unrevealed prevents it, they could opt to take a Rage instead.

Also, this power would be a legal choice for existing Barbarians (if, for some reason, they didn't want to rage, and wanted an effect that is useless for them...).

 

[Dice4Hire]

Note that as that daily is listed as a Barbarian Attack 9, unless something as-yet unrevealed prevents it, they could opt to take a Rage instead.

Also, this power would be a legal choice for existing Barbarians (if, for some reason, they didn't want to rage, and wanted an effect that is useless for them...).

MBA would do it.

 

[KidSnide]

Note that as that daily is listed as a Barbarian Attack 9, unless something as-yet unrevealed prevents it, they could opt to take a Rage instead.

Also, this power would be a legal choice for existing Barbarians (if, for some reason, they didn't want to rage, and wanted an effect that is useless for them...).

This version of barbarian could also have a weaker form of rage as a class feature.

-KS

 

[I'm A Banana]

I love Barbarians as strikers, but there's room for Defendery Barbarians, too. Personally, I would've liked to see my strikery barbarian a little less...Primal-flavored, so this hits a weird spot for me.

It's interesting that they use the Aura. I wonder how much thought went into how easy it generally is to avoid that thing, or if they eventually decided, "That's why you have a Controller in your party, man!"

I also wonder if they are fully capable of being Strikers AND Defenders (thus meaning a party doesn't need either of those...and perhaps stealing Rogue and Fighter thunder), or if they are only capable of being 1/2 striker + 1/2 defender (thus meaning that a party probably still needs both of those...but not a bad 5th wheel class maybe?). Personally, I'm kind of hoping for the former-- I'm kind of into the idea of everyone filling every role eventually, so that no one has to play a certain class. A Striker + Defender Barbarian frees up two other people to play what they feel like instead of what they have to play for party balance.

 

[Minigiant]

This is probably one of those mixed role classes -- likely a defender that turns into a striker when he rages. Seems like a reasonable concept to me...

-KS

This is what I expect also. I could see the barbarian having a defender like base with an encounter primal class power that removes/limits their defender aura but grants Ws of damage for the rest of the encounter. Because a primal defender who snaps and gets all hopped up on fey crazy, spamming MBAs sounds just right.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

This power mentions expanding the their Defender Aura by 1, so it isn't much use to Original/Totem Barbarians (or whatever you want to call them) since they don't have Defender Auras and really would just burn this for Rage Strike.

 

[Dalamar]

It could be useful to a Cavalier that multiclassed into Barbarian, though. First I was going to say Knight, but they don't have a way to gain Dailies, I think.

 

[WalterKovacs]

It could be useful to a Cavalier that multiclassed into Barbarian, though. First I was going to say Knight, but they don't have a way to gain Dailies, I think.

Also a Hybrid Cavalier/Barbarian could use it, but ultimately, lacking the vengeful guardian would probably hurt the value a bit. If a knight could get the power, their Battle Guardian would benefit from a bigger aura (it would probably work with a reach weapon), but the cavalier's interupt uses a melee 1 power, so it wouldn't benefit other than penalizing people's attack rolls.

 

[DracoSuave]

I look at it this way.... some of those barbarian rages are PRETTY nice in the hands of a defender.

'While raging, enemies can't charge your allies within X squares'
'Spend a healing surge. While raging, allies within 3 gain thp at the start of their turns'
'While raging, gain +4 to grabs, enemies take extra damage while grabbed'
'While raging, gain resist X all'

That's just from Primal Power.