Personally, I’m fond of the fury(adrenaline) setup in Guild Wars.
It allows me to build up fury, but also have a mana pool.

This allows for the creation of character classes that can be part spell caster part warrior.

Some things just don’t make sense to use fury, and not allowing a fighter class to cast any spells at all doesn’t seem right.

if your goona use fury based skills and mana based spells in the game, then there needs to be a way for every charater to be able to get a mana pool and fury globes.

“The 4th and 5th characters seem certain to be combat-oriented”

as opposed to being…trading-oriented…?

as opposed to being…trading-oriented…?

He probably meant “combat” as in “not a caster”. It’s true that all classes will be more or less combat-oriented, though.

I highly doubt both of the remaining two classes will use mana. Melee/physical classes using mana as their resource system just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

In my experience, an infinite, quickly regenerating resource works better. It allows the use of abilities without having to worry about using potions (or similar) to sustain the resource, while still restricting the players from using all their abilities in a short timespan. After a while the players get accustomed to the regeneration rate, at which point the class becomes more intuitive, interesting and involving.

I would be excited about the barb’s fury, wasn’t it for the fact that its a direct clone of the warrior’s rage bar in WoW. Even though I played warrior a lot I was never really a fan of the rage/fury design. More often than not it was annoying to hear “not enough rage” or “need more rage” when trying to harm your enemy. I liked the concept of the rogues energy bar more, as it generated by itself all the time, but still you had to pay attention to your skill-powering resource.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a rogue type character were among the two unannounced classes, with the other one being an archer of some kind. A hunter, perhaps?

More often than not it was annoying to hear “not enough rage” or “need more rage” when trying to harm your enemy.

The same can be said for mana, it’s annoying when you don’t have enough.  If it acted as energy does for the rogue in WoW you may as well have mana (even though that regens slower than energy).  I like Fury because it encourages the Barbarian to get stuck in there, which is what he should be doing - he shouldn’t be dancing on the edges, regening his reserves. I think it fits in perfectly with a melee class.