Combat mastery

[Shocker]

So I was looking at the different weapon masteries for barb. 20pts into it to get around 150 ed and 20 something critical strike seems like a hefty amount of skill points with very little return.

What's the motivation for putting pts into this? Is there something special about the calculation i'm missing?

[TopHatCat64]

It depends on your chosen skills synergies. Sometimes the synergies will be better and sometimes you'll have points left over and it never hurts to add more ED/AR/ chance to crit.

For Wolfbarbs it's the only way to add more damage via a skill.

[deadbeater]

You should put at least one point in the Mastery skill of the weapon you are using, unless you are using a dagger (Wiz for singers).