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  • I found low level barb to be quite easy. Here’s my advice: At low levels for barb, use lunging strike as your basic attack, and death blow.

    The need for lunging strike at low levels is obvious. At low levels when you don’t have a lot of movement speed and struggle to keep up berserking, lunging strike helps close the gap by literally lunging you at the enemy. It basically makes up for the low movement speed. You can’t do any damage if you can’t reach the enemy, and lunging strike helps fix that.

    Death blow is an AOE attack that hits a small area in front of the barb with a 15 second cooldown that has the cooldown reset if you kill an enemy with it. So you need to optimize killing blow by never having it on cooldown by always killing an enemy. You’ll find out pretty quickly when an enemy is low enough that you can death blow them. With the “warriors death blow” skill you gain berserking for 3 seconds whenever you damage an enemy with death blow, so it helps you keep up berserking. You can usually chain death blow and keep berserking up forever in dungeons (especially low level dungeons). There’s also items that give death blow extra charges, there’s a unique item called overkill that turns it into a bigger AOE attack. It’s quite strong if you use it right.

    Also use the “hamstring” skill, which makes any enemy affected by one of your bleeds 10% slower. You just need 1 point in it. This means all of your “plus damage to slow” or “plus damage or crowd controlled” bonuses kick in for bleeding enemies. Use skills that give bleeds or just use the 2H sword mastery to make every attack inflict a bleed. It quite a strong synergy.

    I’m leveling a rogue now, yes I agree rogues do more damage, but the Barb is tanky and is harder to kill. There’s a trade off there. I think of you play Barb right, it’s still quite easy and fast to level.





  • That’s true. But with a centralized platforrm like Reddit, that’s a O(N) problem. There are only N potential subreddit names. A user just needs to sort through the N names to find what they want.

    With lemmy it’s an O(N^2) problem. There are N community names and each can belong to a lemmy instance, and there are potentially N lemmy instances. It’s literally a whole order of magnitude more confusing.

    So with lemmy it’s mathematically more confusing. I don’t see how people don’t see this.




  • I think the confusing sign up process and the clunky apps are going to scare a lot of people away. Additionally the nature of lemmy means you are more likely to have multiple fractured communities instead of just 1 central community per interest.

    For example lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, lemmy.world all have their own communities for “technology.” If I want to subscribe to learn about technology updates do I need to subscribe to all of them? Do I just hope that the smaller ones shutdown and we’re only left with one?


  • I think the confusing sign up process and the clunky apps are going to scare a lot of people away. Additionally the nature of lemmy means you are more likely to have multiple fractured communities instead of just 1 central community per interest.

    For example lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, lemmy.world all have their own communities for “technology.” If I want to subscribe to learn about technology updates do I need to subscribe to all of them? Do I just hope that the smaller ones shutdown and we’re only left with one?