Talk:Barbs

Does this skill cause them to take damage twice or just add the damage?(ie. will it trigger something like Healing Hands twice?--Devils Apprentice 18:55, 29 January 2007 (CST)
 * Take the damage twice, I believe. One packet for the original damage, one packet for the Barbs damage. &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 18:56, 29 January 2007 (CST)
 * Yep, if you watch the "damage window" you'll see Barbs show up, also it'll show as separate packets. Like "-49" and then "-9 (Barbs)". Not sure about triggering HH or similar twice, though, as that's a pretty uncommon scenario... Entropy 18:59, 29 January 2007 (CST)

Buff?
Doesn;t this skill need to be buffed to hell. At the same level any conjure spell is doing atleast 10 more damage and to any enemy not just hexed one. This needs help!Dark0805 11:52, 18 May 2007 (CDT)
 * conjure spells dont trigger when an other ally hits the target, making this spell better in that point. also triggers on minion attacks--Want2be 11:59, 18 May 2007 (CDT)
 * And you don't need a Elemental upgrade on your weapon. I still agree, this needs a buff. Sir Bertrand 10:13, 21 May 2007 (CDT)

Conjure only affects you... this affects the entire team's weapons... &mdash; Skuld 10:33, 21 May 2007 (CDT)
 * I wonder why people think this skill needs a buff. My Curses Necro does not enter a mission without it in hard mode, and it is incredibly effective. Pair this skill with Barrage/Pet Rangers and a MM Hero and you can see your enemies melt like wax in the sun. This skill WAS once really underpowered, but as you wrote this on 18 May 2007 I cannot really understand you. It has many positive aspects: Long-lasting hex. Great to trigger things that depend on hexes. Fast recharge. Plus an incredible damage boost if you have some people dealing physical damage in your team. This +16 damage is armor ignoring, conjures cannot compare to this. Give Barbs a chance! (Long, not logged in)


 * It used to need a buff, but it got it. The recharge used to be 30 seconds (if I remember right); now it's a much better 5.

The best thing about Barbs is its short recharge, even if its removed it is easily re-applied, not that you should need to. Paired with Mark of Pain, this skill is awesome. Monster healers have a really hard time keeping up with the volume of damage that comes off this especially if you have a MM with you. The drawback of the conjure spells is the long recharge, if it gets shattered then you have to wait for the recharge. Also, the need for an elemental weapon precludes the use of a zealous weapon which really helps when you need the energy to recast it. That's where Barbs is superior since it only needs physical damage to trigger. --BeeD 05:01, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Imagine two people hacking at someone with barbs. With one skill amoung both people (ie both tanks), they can both get the increased damage. This is a skill that will benefit a team. No buff is needed.StatMan 13:45, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

Barbs is one of the most overlooked Curses, and one of my absolute favourites these days. I used to overlook it too. Now it is rarely off my skillbar, on both my Necro and my Ranger. It works well in PvE and PvP. It's excellent for dealing with really tough bosses or teams with good healers. As mentioned above by another wise necromancer, with rangers and minions in your party, it will melt them like wax. The best part about barbs is that, unlike conjure elemental enchantments, this is armor ignoring damage. Facing a foe with protection monks covering him in damage reducing enchantments? No worries. They make take 0 dmg from the actual attack that hit them, but they'll still take full damage from the barb trigger. My barrage/interrupt Ranger almost always has Barbs and Mark of Pain on his skill bar, and it makes him incredibly deadly, even without other rangers, pets or minions supporting him. Whether you have 10 in Curses or 16 in Curses, I agree, give Barbs a chance! Try it instead of a pet next time you go to Tombs, and you won't be dissappointed once you see how fast a high-armor chaos worm with barbs on it dies compared to a worm without barbs on it.-- Sancha Vrinn, Aug 22, 2007

Nerfed
Now its 10 energy...too bad, it was working out nicely on my sin.. Vainity And Sorrow 15:02, 11 August 2007 (CDT)

Needs a 1 Second Cast
Then it would actually be used quite often, PvP and PvE. The fact that it's single target and has a 2 second cast makes it undesirable for PvE because you'll have to constantly recast it, but a one second cast (or AoE effect, although that may be a little too much) would make it worth running in just about every physical team. ــѕт. мıкε  17:43, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * .... You suck. RaOway/Rangerway/Heroway/What-have-you uses Barbs and it's massively effective even with a 2 sec cast. Why? Because +18 armor ignoring damage every hit in a single, RoF killing package 10 times per 3 seconds hurts. A lot. This is one of the few skills that should never be buffed. --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]]-- (s)talkpage  17:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Those are mostly HA gimmicks, but I'm thinking more about PvE, where once you blow up one monster, you don't want to have to take 2 seconds to cast a hex to blow up the next. Barbs sees little to no use in PvE, and even less in GvG, where it could actually be quite useful if it weren't interrupt fodder or too slow to be worth recasting every couple seconds. ــѕт.  мıкε  21:34, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I always take Barbs on my Curses necro, actually. Very nice with a minion master. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 21:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Barbs sees little to no use in PvE...hehe [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 22:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ^What she said. King Neoterikos 22:43, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * so i herd everyone using sabway and discordway use Barbs on their melee buff bitch. i also herd 40/40 sets are quite popular with curses. --Alf&#39;s Hitman 22:45, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * A 40/40 Set has a 32% chance to halve the recharge of a spell (and 4% to quarter it), so that's like a 17% reduction in casting time on average. I'd rather not run 40/40 sets for just one skill when I could take Hale/Fortitude mods to be able to afford to use a Superior Rune on a Hero. I'm not saying the skill is bad, but it would see more use in organized groups as well as casual PvP. Sure, Sabway and Discordway are nice, but I'd rather run some hard-hitting frontliners and Orders to make things blow up twice as fast.
 * Barbs has to be constantly recast to be worth running, and a 2 second recharge just slows you down too much, imo. ــѕт.  мıкε  23:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * They could only reduce the cast time for PvE. In PvP, it would be too imba for it to be a 1s cast. King Neoterikos 23:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Barbs takes one slot and can be thrown onto any Curses bar. Orders is a specialized build that basically occupies one whole bar (D/N Orders). I know what I'd take for bar compression. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 23:17, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * PvE isn't meant to be done one monster at a time. Orders means that every physical in your group can pick out onemonster and blow them up in a couple seconds. OoP also has a shitty Casting time, though. XD ــѕт.  мıкε  23:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Recharges in 5 seconds and lasts much longer than that, omg. Orders doesn't work on pets and minions (and the Assassin Support). [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 23:23, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

(resetting indent) HM kind of needs barbs (if you plan on running curses, that is). King Neoterikos 23:26, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * (EC)Pets, Minions and the Vanguard Sins can't hit multiple foes with one attack, which is why I'd opt for a team with 5-6 physicals, the Orders and a Healer. ــѕт.  мıкε  23:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * And then blind (and blocking) destroys your build. NM is too easy for 1s cast, HM needs a 2s cast or it's imba. King Neoterikos 23:30, 2 November 2008 (UTC)