Hi guys,
This suggestion will naturally not be popular, because nobody likes to hear about nerfs. But I have a good reason for suggesting it.
I believe with a minor nerf to Resource Aspect of Echoing Fury, Blizzard could drastically increase the build variety of D4 Barbarian builds.
Currently, it seems like the Meta for Barbarians is boiling down to always running with three Shouts, primarily for the additional Fury generation while they’re up thanks to Resource Aspect of Echoing Fury.
At the same time, there seems to be 1 “flex” skill slot, either a Builder while we’re still working towards “solving our Fury generation”, or an ability like Ground Stomp or Leap after we’ve solved it.
We can increase the number of “flex” skill slots by capping the Fury generated from Resource Aspect of Echoing Fury to 8. So for example, you roll 4 on the Aspect, and you have three Shouts up, you’re still at most getting 8. This means that the 3rd Shout loses its function as a Fury generator.
This is a nerf that Barbarians can take, it seems that Barbarians are performing very well compared to most other classes. It wouldn’t be a devastating nerf, we’d still perform very well, but it would shift the meta from “always 3 Shouts” to “mostly 2 Shouts”, allowing us to pick another skill, without feeling like we’re “missing out” and “gimping ourselves.”
Thoughts?
. But yeah, in terms of build variety, barb is probably the worst. The intention is good, but just doing the nerf with no compensation, might make barb feel even worse than it already does. I would combine it with buffs to fury generation of Basic skills. I would honestly nerf shouts even harder, but again, with compensation. More fury and DR coming from other sources in the skill tree. Barb feels like a sheet of paper without shouts up and Basic skills don’t generate nothing.