Barbarian is up!!!

[Asmor]

Nope, it took me a couple of readings, but it appears that Rage Strike is poorly worded. You have to have a daily power available for rage strike to work. Basically, you expend a daily power, you gain rage strike until the rage ends.

Uhh.... No. The earlier interpretations are correct. Rage strike burns unused rages for powerful attacks.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Nope, it took me a couple of readings, but it appears that Rage Strike is poorly worded. You have to have a daily power available for rage strike to work. Basically, you expend a daily power, you gain rage strike until the rage ends.

You spend an unused rage to do the listed damage while already raging. I didn't find it ambiguously worded at all.

What I did find ambiguous was the benefit, until I compared the damages that higher level rages do. The 29th level Rages do 5[W] and 6[W], but Rage Strike deals 9[W] damage when you spend a 29th level rage. It's a trade-off of effect for damage.

 

[chaotix42]

Rage Strike looks cool for those times when you've already entered a rage whose benefits you enjoy and don't want to replace by entering a new rage.

Also, Rage Strike does more damage than the various Daily rages do, pretty much.

I find it kinda odd that the two 25th lvl Daily rages do 7[W] and the two 29th lvl ones do 5[W] and 6[W]. Maybe the extra effects balance it out, but it seems weird.

 

[JVisgaitis]

Look at "Rage Strike".

I've been stuck there since I downloaded this. I don't know what the hell it means... Does it mean that if I use Rage Strike, I lose my daily?

 

[chaotix42]

^^^ Yup.

 

[ppaladin123]

Nope, it took me a couple of readings, but it appears that Rage Strike is poorly worded. You have to have a daily power available for rage strike to work. Basically, you expend a daily power, you gain rage strike until the rage ends.

So you are in a rage...and you expend a different rage to do lots of extra damage at-will during that rage. You still need at least two rages to benefit though so you'd need to be level 5 (since you get one rage at level 1 and another at level 5). But it makes sense that it gives you the extra damage for the entire encounter...otherwise you blow an extra rage for one-hit.

 

[Shroomy]

Oops, I guess you guys are right.

 

[mattdm]

Nope, it took me a couple of readings, but it appears that Rage Strike is poorly worded. You have to have a daily power available for rage strike to work. Basically, you expend a daily power, you gain rage strike until the rage ends.

Hmmm — that might make it worthwhile. But, it doesn't seem to say that the effect is until the rage ends. It's just one attack.

 

[Rechan]

I've been stuck there since I downloaded this. I don't know what the hell it means... Does it mean that if I use Rage Strike, I lose my daily?

It appears so.

Although, jeez. The Barbarian looks like he's going to go through Daily powers like no one's business. Talk about the 15 minute work day.

 

[ppaladin123]

Great Stomp Barbarian Utility 16
As you slam your foot into the ground, primal energy pours through you, buckling the ground beneath you with its power.
Daily ✦ Primal
Minor Action Close burst 5
Effect: Each square in the burst becomes difficult terrain until the end of your next turn.

That's a power I thought of when I was musing about martial controllers. It seems thematically appropriate for a barbarian but not mechanically appropriate for a striker (especially one that has to charge across that terrain to do damage!).