Shattered Kingdoms

Someone with mastered fury should have it work when they need it. End of story. Fury makes the barb a class worth playing. When Fury fails, and it fails often, I may as well have rolled a scout for all the damage output I'm left with.

One of the real drawbacks to fury that people don't talk about is the fact that it SEVERELY hampers communications with the rest of the players. The sharp drop in language capabilities alone is more than enough to offset the positive features of this skillset. With Fury up, I can barely follow a conversation in my native tongue. If the conversation is in another tongue, I may as well forget about participating because its unreadable. I'm left just staring at gibberish on the screen wondering whats being said. For TEXT BASED MUD this is annoying as hell.

Please also remember that to master Fury you have to use it. So for the last half of the character's levelling life, languages mostly appear as gibberish and nonsense. Its horrible. Please at least make it so mastered Fury works when you need it.

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I actively play a paladin. I saw something similar to this working on another mud and I thought it would be a nice idea.

Get your facts straight.

I agree with this change too, and I don't play a barb anymore although I did before. Fury is ridiculous as it is, it worked something like half the time when mastered. Hell, it worked more when it was superb then when I mastered it.

You guys are just bad at playing barbs then. I've leveled a barbarian to 41 or so and I hit fury over 70% of the time while it was at low superb.

If you sit around at 100%, 100%, 100% without your pulse racing and start trying to berserk, you're digging your own grave.

Never played a barb, but, from what I've seen they certainly don't need any buffs. Fury>Spec, -and- you can use it with any weapon? Yeah, it needs a high failure rate. And you shouldn't be using it before a fight, I think the fact that it gives you HP back would make that kinda obvious...

bash barb;bash barb

barb is dead, and still not furied.

bash furied barb;bash furied barb

You are dead.


See why we try to have it up always?

Make it so that berserk/fury can be used while bashed? *shrug*

Or, honestly, I think the way bash/trip "lag" works needs to be changed, but I doubt that will ever happen.

How does one go about mastering fury? I hate that skill and what it takes to use it.

Train it to superb then just berserk any time it fades.

I do not know of this advanced training. PM plzkthnx.