Ideas on what runes will do for barb

[droscoe]

Whats your speculation on how runes will affect the Barbarian?

We've seen the runes being used with a wizard and witch doctor, but not the barb. What do you think multistrike will do? or lethality? etc etc

[Athanasios]

Hmm thats a good question. I just looked over the barb skill trees and it took me a while to figure something out lol...

All i could come up with is the frenzy in conjunction with the multistrike rune would maybe swing faster or something?

Also, what i think would be cool is the Power rune working with WW or Leap attack. Like the monsters killed by WW explode, or something more down to earth like get knocked back to damage other monsters. The same would go for Leap Attack.

Thats really all i could come up with. The few(five i think) runes that have been showed to us really dont mix well with the barbs skill sets. Maybe there will be other runes that will mesh better with barb skills? maybe im just blind, or lack imagination lol

Curious to see what other people come up with...

: )

[Keighvin]

Well, an idea that was bounced around the battle.net forums after blizzcon was that multistrike on lea would make you kinda hop with some splash damage along the way. Quite silly, but an idea.

[konfeta]

Blizzard has no right not to include that idea. That will be simultaneously the most beautiful pro/strategic move in history ARPG and the greatest HC barb killer ever. Whirlwinding into IM has nothing on watching someone doing a series of hops to their death.

[Echod16]

Well, I imagine Lethality will include a % chance of corpse explosion on death of minions

The bouncy one, though... probably just a greater arc of coverage (area) on their AoE attack

[Athanasios]

Originally Posted by Keighvin

Well, an idea that was bounced around the battle.net forums after blizzcon was that multistrike on lea would make you kinda hop with some splash damage along the way. Quite silly, but an idea.

I like that idea.

Im not to familiar with the way the rune system will work, will every rune be compatible with every skill? If so, then maybe the splash damage idea would be totally viable. What would be even cooler would be if the Multistrike rune on leap would somehow let you leap multiple times some how for the cost of one leap. That would be cool lol

[Matora]

Have you land several times before you land where you wanted to, hitting more enemies in between that can't retaliate. Could make it a better attack, with strategy.

[MooCQ]

Glow in the dark...

[Maxadrenaline]

Lethality/power rune on Leap Attack:

Every creature killed by the attack violently explodes in a shower of bloody bits and pieces, damaging creatures close by but not affected by the initial AoE.

I know it's yet another version of the corpse explosion skill, but don't you guys agree that it would look awesome and incredibly powerful?

Edit: typo

[Ouroboros]

Man .. How about Multi-Strike or Lethality with Whirlwind .. can u imagine if you started Whirlwinding and tornadoes were generated as you were spinning and shooting off in random directions .. that would be utter SICKNESS!