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The Barbarian is one of the few melee classes availebale (The Assassin. Warrior and the Dervish are available), and has many skills designed to enhance the use of Polearms Barbarians are able to use the most resilient armor in the game, allowing them to trade hits with the biggest, meanest foes in the game. They also have the primary attribute Agressiveness, which grants extra Adrenaline when using melee skills. Many Barbarian skills revolve around combining straight-up physical damage with crippling status conditions. They also have access to Stances which modify their abilities, and Shouts to boost the party's performance and impair groups of enemies. The patron gods of Barbarians are Balthazar or Menzies.

Anyone looking to use a Polearm should take Barbarian as either their primary or secondary profession. Keep in mind that all characters are restricted to the armor and primary attribute of their primary profession, but even without the Barbarian's armor and Agressiveness some secondary warrior builds can be quite effective.

Taking Barbarian as a secondary can be useful even for characters who will never use a melee weapon due to the Barbarian's protective shouts and stances.

The Primary Warrior's base armor provides 100 armor. A starting Primary Barbarian can expect to have 10 Maximum Energy and 2 Energy Recovery.

The Barbarian is currently one of the two pure melee professions as all other melee professions have at least one attribute that is some form of magic.



Attributes

 * Agressiveness (Primary): Adrenaline gain while using Skills is influenced by Agressiveness.
 * Polearm Mastery: Increase the damage you do with Polearms and increase your chance to critical hit
 * Shouting: Increase the range and damage done while shouting.
 * Fighting: Increases the damage done by all your skills and weapons.
 * Berserk: Increased Berserking leads to longer endurance and more adrenaline gain.