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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 4516676" data-attributes="member: 907">The Barbarian has an at-will attack that does W+Str+1d6 at low levels (W+Str+2d6 at paragon, 2W+Str+3d6 at epic). That still seems like a little lower than what you're getting, but on the other hand the barbarian can use it without having to go through hoops to get flanking or stuff like that (admittedly, it's not that hard for the rogue to get combat advantage, but I'd estimate it at about 75%)The barbarian would seem to get more oomph out of encounter and daily powers than the rogue though. Both the rogue's and the barbarian's encounter powers tend to do 2W damage, but the barbarian gets more out of those on account of having a bigger W. Then again, the rogue gets to add his sneak attack to his encounter powers, which the barbarian doesn't.A third issue is that the rogue benefits from feats like Backstabber and Nimble Blade, but we don't know if what similar feats exist to support the barbarian. It's a pretty good bet there are some, but the playtest article only has about 2 powers per level and one paragon path.</blockquote>