7.59 Barbarians!?

[theonlymoose]

I haven't downloaded 7..59 yet.  But I want to know how the barbarians as effected first.

[LordFrost]

Non-Cry-Barbs (i.e. the Whirlwind Barb or the Doublethrow-Barb) are entirely unaffected.

Criers lose damage. I don't have a Crier myself, so I can't give you accurate numbers, but from what I saw it must have hit them pretty hard.

[theonlymoose]

I'm a Dual Swing Barbarian myself (what I call a Dualarian).  Mind you I never thought that the Crys were that great unless you were playing online in a party.  I'm normally an - in your face, eat steel and die sucker - kinda player.

:s513:

[LordFrost]

Hehe well I tend to old fashioned chars, probably because I'm from the "Dark Ages" of D2.

So you'll only find me playing stuff like WW-Barbs, Fanazealots, Bowamazons, Caster Sorcs and the occasional Trap Assasin. The last one on the list simply because nothing can match 6 Flamewave traps filling the screen with fire, when it comes to awesome special effects. ;)

[arcadians]

I dont really think  babarians that use ww are very good myself even though Wc barbs have been weakend id still use one ::)

[LordFrost]

Whatever is fun to play is good enough for me. ;)
I don't compare a lot, it never ends well.

[godemperor]

War Cry Barbs were hit pretty hard with the new casting delay and damaged dropped alot.  With max synergies and war cry and a bunch of + to all skills i'm doing only 26k  where i used to do like 44k. 
Other then that I havent noticed any other changes with Barbs