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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 4527451" data-attributes="member: 5834">reMy experience so far:1. At Wills: The barbarian has some of the best at wills I've seen for a class.a. Recuperating Strike: Very nice hit point boost to keep you going when you're low.b. Pressing Strikes: Being able to move around the battlefield is a nifty ability. I use Pressing Strikes to get flanks and fly around the battlefield.c. Howling Strike: I love charging and being able to do an attack other than a basic attack. 2. Swift Charge: Situational useful. Would be more useful if you didn't provoke AooS wen charging. I have to be careful not to provoke Aoos. It has been useful at times in open battles, but definitely not an every encounter ability.3. Rampage: This may be more useful at higher level. At low level when I get a crit, I usually kill what I'm hitting. But I think this will get better as I level.4. Rage: I like the rage mechanic. It is fairly useful for the entire encounter. It would be nice if there were not additional requirements like "target must be bloodied" and the like for some of the rages. But overall the rage mechanic is very nice and adds quite a bit of power to the Barbarian.5. Lack of Armor: The lack of armor makes them too easily hit. I would enhance their defenses somehow so that their armor class will be more in line with other strikers. Most strikers are based around two stats, no reason to force the Barbarian to work on three. So far only the Paladin is pushed to boost three stats for maximum effectiveness, and they can get away with two.6. Defenses: The Barbaran mobility seems like they should have +1 defense to Fort and Reflex rather than +2 Fortitude.7. Encounter and Daily Powers: Their encounter and daily powers are quite nice. Great Cleave is situational, but you are in that situation pretty often. Blade Sweep is pretty nice too. The added damage from the AoE of each attack adds up to quite a bit aggregate damage.8. They could use a base skill like Nature on top of their other skills. The Barbarian is savage, but most tribal cultures are trained to live outdoors. The Barbarian has the lowest number of skills of all the strikers.9. Hit points and healing surges: It is pretty fun to play a Striker that is harder to kill. I think they were spot on with this.10. Simple Ranged: All classes should have at least Simple Ranged Weapons. I hope this was an oversight by the game designers. You can't tell me that barbarians don't know how to throw spears or axes. Make sure to include Simple Ranged Weapons since just about everyone will house rule barbarians to have proficiency with Simple Ranged Weapons.The barbarian is a fun class. I hope to see a few tweaks to improve the class such as those for AC and a modification of defenses. But overall I like the barbarian mechanics. The class is a very unique striker much different from the other striker classes. He does quite a bit of damage and is very mobile. I'm very much enjoying the class. I can't wait to see the barbarian in final form.</blockquote>

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