Shattered Kingdoms

If I were playing an MR barbarian, I would rip your hellion in half. I would probably then jloot you for thinking you ever stood a chance against the combined power of aura of negation and bash.

Barbs don't need buffs.

As long as they get meditation.

Joke's on you, I'm wearing unenchanted leather.

Regular barbs are great. MR barbs are like "wait, this is a warrior class?"

MR barb should be manhandling you in 1v1. All your buffs will drop and your dominate will get dispelled. Then you get bashed and die.

MR barbs don't belong on the front rank in group pvp. Unless they are in hammer of light. Or if they are a partial MR build. That's reasonable considering all that they gain from training MR.

I'll take your word for it and wait for someone to show it to me firsthand. The PvP bit, I mean.

The only saving grace that a hellion has against an MR barb is a guard NPC. Other than that he has to rely on the MR barb being bad.

I haven't been talking at all about a 1v1; that's a horrible measure of a class's worth. I'm talking about an MR barb's value to a group, which I have never observed to be significant in my personal experience or in logs I have seen.

Or a critical cleave, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's considered magical and therefore the MR barb would absorb it.

As for this idea, lol wtf. Stop proposing buffs to some of the most ridiculously spoiled classes in the game. If anything, barbarians need wimps.

There's another dual wielding warrior class that is far more deserving of buffs than the barbarian class. A class that already gets ridiculous stuff.

Would turning auto assist off, ordering a guard to engage then following up with a cleave work? Or would he still be able to counter?

Yeah that works. You also can't counter someone you can't reach, so theoretically you can start a fight with a cleaving reaching weapon as long as you are certain the barbarian isn't using a reaching weapon. Not a good idea in PvP though.