Stunbarb

[Adoggg]

I have an idea for a stun barb that would have these skills:
bash:1
Stun:20
Howl:1
Taunt:1
SHout:10
Battle cry:1
Battle orders:1
War cry: 20 (stun synergy)
B.Cmnd:1
mace Mastery:1 (will use flail for fast attack)
IronSkin:10
Naturalres:5

Can someone help me out or tell me if stun and warcry helps in PvP?? Thanks:smiley:

[The Son Of Disaster]

I think the issue with this skill is attack speed. Stuning skills can be great but at 9 fps, which i think is all the fast this can get, it wont work fast enough. I know Concentration is 9 fps at fastest and I think Stun is same. What kind of weapon were you plannin on using? Also, I would almost always recommend 20-Battle Orders, and in PvP i would never be without it.

Btw welcome to the forums.

[Adoggg]

i would be using a flail for there pretty fast attack speed but i guess battle orders should be maxed lv 20 but im not really trying to make this a PvP barb, but i wonder if it would be. If it was just a PvM barb would you really need 20 battle command when u have 20 stun (4.5 seconds) with 20 warcry (thats 9 seconds) and a lot of poision charms and/or open wounds


and i wrote a little guide for this in pencil paper and i should have it on computer after this weekend

[BlameGBush]

PvM, I don't see this as very viable. You have very little mass damage. I think this would make an excellent support character with a little tweaking, but I doubt this build will hold its water in PvM.

I do however, like the idea of a barb with a 9 second stun length. I think in your equipment you should carry some singing gear and take advantage of those synergy points you put into warcry.


Couple of suggestions:
Drop the 10 points in Iron Skin down to 1, these points could be better spent in shout (higher bonus, and it affects the whole party:grin: )
Max BO, this is essential to any barb build.


Add some mass damage for the build. Basically you have no added damage at all in this build, your current setup would be like just using normal attacks all the way through hell.

Get a phase blade with a minimum of 45% IAS, this will hit your target attack rate of 9 Frames (2.7 attacks per second).

Make sure you have significant AR, otherwise if they break out of the stun lock you're sKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWed (until you get another hit)



I like the creativity of the build though

[Doppel]

Problem with stun is, that its very slow, its to bad cause it looks like a fun and "good" skill, besides, just stun with warcry and beat the crap out of everyone stunned with the more viable attacking skills.

[BlameGBush]

Problem with stun is, that its very slow, its to bad cause it looks like a fun and "good" skill, besides, just stun with warcry and beat the crap out of everyone stunned with the more viable attacking skills.

well if you think about it, it could be just a deviation of a standard singer barb

[Adoggg]

thanks for the replies guys. I probably won't make this build then but can anyone tell me a build that uses stun more then just a prereq because i find it very usefull when you don't do a lot of damage.