I have no idea what he said. (I am currently not reading the shithole DDO forums at all - I decided to ban them before they ban me.)

But, on the subject, my issue with barbarians is that the occult slayer enhancements Vicious Strike and Driving Force interrupt combat for long enough when activated to pretty much negate their value. Typical turdbin poor coding and complete lack of QA.

He clearly really hasn't played a new barb yet.

I mean, it had been forever since I played one, and after these new enhancements went ahead and tr'd into one. Tried Cocoon since I was used to it, hmmm doesn't work while rages, swapped that out and quickly found the new self healing options.  Besides that, the tier 5 auto self healing stuff works pretty well also.  And you should be killing shit so fast it doesn't hurt you significantly

5 Foot Step wrote on Mar 11^th, 2015 at 1:22am:

Australian cringing, or misspelled whinge (whine and complain).

Lehane wrote on Mar 10^th, 2015 at 8:47pm:



you going to post your Rapebarian build?

Yobai wrote on Mar 11^th, 2015 at 3:18pm:


its pretty much the same as 5 foot steps max dps barb build, except I went with THF instead of TWF as a personal preference and switched a few enhancements around, once again personal preference and because the original build has no wiggle room

Hey, don't knock people for playing DDO.  Dumb people like games too.

Lehane wrote on Mar 11^th, 2015 at 6:37pm:

ok, so as a half orc barb you would get 2 str from race. then +2 from each tree (4) and +2 from cap stone. +5 for levels ups +8 from wheloon gauntlets and then tomes. so at 20 you can have with shippies up to a 49 if you have +6 tomes. that's unraged. using the old new enhancements.
uncanny dodge you got anyway from the old system. and with the PRR and MRR to achieve this now you need to wear atleast medium armor, there goes your dodge. is the negations using PRR and MRR far more superior now that the high dodge/blur with the current set up?
just my thoughts.

you also included race, level, gear, tomes, and ship buffs. . .I said Barbarian enhancements. plus being a half orc is sub optimal these days, human and dwarf are top barbs because you get like no enhancement points to spend in racial on the best barb builds, with human you can at least grab damage boost to double boost and even more hjeal amp. and obviously the dwarf / occult synergy need not be explained.

and yes heavy armor far and away beats what little dodge you could get, and you can still use blur, displace, incorp, while in heavy armor.

btw the strength you did list from actual barbarian enhancements was 6, 2 from each tree and cap. so 4 less if your a ravager / berserker.

now how much extra melee power do you get under new enhancements? and extra hp? and extra heal amp? and now pain touch and vicious damage scales with melee power as well as does not do damage to self, then there's eye of the storm.

barbarians do more damage now with an unnoticeable loss in str then they used too, and got a shit ton of survivability to boot. they are better, learn to play

Revaulting wrote on Mar 11^th, 2015 at 9:27pm:



such a true statement.  the PRR/MRR is a joke.

wogoflove wrote on Mar 12^th, 2015 at 2:29am:


Rapebarian would have been a good name.

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