Barbarian 3.0

As the the Barbarian Guild is currently undergoing a complete rewrite, this article is for information about the end result.

The changes will likely occur at the same time as the Magic 3.0 changes.

Supernatural Skills

One of the larger changes Barbarians will undergo is that their abilities will use and require skills within the supernatural skillset. In addition to the standard Augmentation, Debilitation, and Warding skills, Barbarians will gain access to the Inner Fire skill.

The Inner Fire skill controls how efficient Inner Fire is used to power abilities, with more skill resulting in smaller drains for the same effect. In addition, it will also control how many abilities may be used simultaneously.

Augmentation will affect how effectively forms, berserks, and meditiations provide improvements.

Debilitation will determine how effectively roars will impede opponents.

Warding determines the power of anti-magic abilities.

Inner Fire

The first change is that all Barbarians will have the same amount of Inner Fire. When abilities are used, they will drain Fire at variable rates. Passive regeneration of Inner Fire is limited to 1/3rd of maximum power, further increase requires killing of opponents.

In addition, active Forms will affect the rate at which Inner Fire regenerates.

Inner Fire drains down to the passive limit much faster out of combat.

Expert abilities use 5x the Inner Fire of Intro abilities, base. The Inner Fire skill can reduce this.

Inner Fire levels can be refilled using the MEDITATE FILL command (test server only).

Powers

Barbarians gain access to three paths of abilities: Predator, Horde, and Flame. Abilities require spending variable slot costs depending on the power of the ability. From 1st to 70th circle, a slot will be gained every other circle. After that, it will be one every four circles.

More powerful abilities require that you already know a certain number of abilities in that path. Each guildhall has a different selection of abilties, and they are detailed on the banner, sign, and placard located in the main rooms.

It should be noted that Forms and Berserks are no longer mutually excluse, though the number of abilities that can be active is not unlimited.

The first ability, Meditation Flame, is free to all Barbarians, and can give a rough level of the user's Inner Fire level and active abilities.

Forms

Forms are the renamed dances, and are accessed via the FORM command. When Forms are active, they reduce the amount of Inner Fire that is passively regenerated (modified by the Inner Fire skill).

Forms can be started and stopped at will, and no longer are affected by water levels. However, Forms require up to a minute to ramp up to their full power.

Berserks

Berserks no longer have the knock down, stun, or death results when they end (some restrictions apply), and have had their restrictions on vision and movement removed.

When berserks are activated, they consume a large of Inner Fire, and further have a small drain while they are active. While it is possible to have multiple Berserks going, the cost will make it impractical without a steady stream of victims.

Berserks may break the effects of a meditation, and they cannot be started while Berserking.

Meditations

Meditations are a new type of ability that perform better while wearing or holding Chakrel. To access them, you should use the MEDITATE verb. Chakrel isn't required, but it causes the Meditation to activate faster. In general, one must be sitting, not Berserking, and out of combat in order for a Meditation to be used, and any disruption can cause the meditation to not work. Once completed, the Meditation's effects do not require any effort to sustain.

Roars

Roars will be similar to previous incarnations, though they will only affect a single creature or all engaged to the roarer. Use of roars will sap a small amount of Inner Fire, and degrade the voice pool as previously.

Single targeting is both easier and less costly, and Roar Helms, Berserks, and Cynr Ales will bonus them as normal.

Magic Resistance

Innate passive magic resistance has been removed, and instead replaced with active magic resistance derived from abilities.

Circle Requirements

Restricted skills will be:
Thievery
Sorcery
Utility
Targeted Magic

Note: Arcana is not restricted but it has been noted that there will be penalties for learning. No word on what these penalties are have been released.

Augmentation will be Grandfathered at the rate of 1st Supernatural, Debilitation will be Grandfathered at rate of 2nd Supernatural, and Warding will be Grandfathered at rate of 1/circle

Inner Fire will be Grandfathered to circle.

Evasion is now a Hard Requirement, it does not count toward Nth Survival.

Skill	1-10	11-30	31-70	71-100	101-150	151-200
1st Armor	3	4	4	5	5	13
2nd Armor	1	2	2	3	4	10
1st Weapon	4	5	6	6	6	15
2nd Weapon	4	5	6	6	6	15
3rd Weapon	2	3	3	4	5	13
4th Weapon	1	2	2	3	4	10
Parry	4	4	4	4	5	13
Primary Mastery	4	5	6	6	6	15
1st Supernatural	1	2	2	3	3	8
2nd Supernatural	0	0	2	2	4	10
Inner Fire	1	2	3	3	4	10
1st Survival	2	2	3	3	3	8
2nd Survival	2	2	3	3	3	8
3rd Survival	2	2	2	3	3	8
4th Survival	1	1	2	2	2	5
Evasion	3	4	4	5	6	15
1st Lore	1	1	2	2	3	8
Tactics	1	1	2	2	3	8

Ability List

Forms
Ability	Difficulty	Path	Cost	Prereqs	Effect
Buffalo	Intro	Flame			Bonuses Encumbrance
Dragon	Intro	Horde			Bonuses Held Melee
Eagle	Intro	Predator			Bonuses Held Bow
Swan	Basic	Flame			Weak Potency Barrier
Piranha	Basic	Predator			Balance and Evasion Boost
Monkey	Basic	Flame			Reflex Bonus
Python	Basic	Horde			Parry Bonus
Badger	Advanced	Horde			Weak Generic SvS Barrier
Owl	Advanced	Predator			Perception Bonus
Wolverine	Advanced	Predator			Advanced speed boost
Bear	Advanced	Flame			Strength and Warding Boost
Toad	Expert	Horde			Elemental Damage Resistance
Turtle	Expert	Flame			TBD Strong Antimagic
Panther	Expert	Predator			Stealth Bonus
Berserks
Ability	Difficulty	Path	Cost	Prereqs	Effect
Avalanche	Intro	Horde			Pulsing Fatigue Regeneration
Famine	Basic	Flame			Pulsing Vitality Regeneration
Tornado	Basic	Predator			Shield and Stamina Bonus
Wildfire	Basic	Horde			Agility and Damage Bonus
Earthquake	Advanced	Horde			Engaged Damage over Time
Flashflood	Advanced	Predator			Immediate followed by Pulsing AntiStun/AntiWeb/Standup
Cyclone	Advanced	Flame			Charisma and Voice Recovery Bonus
Volcano	Expert	Horde			Un-killable by normal means. Cannot be used in many other abilities.
Tsunami	Expert	Flame			Increases Balance and Power of held weapon, reduces chance of critical miss
Hurricane	Expert	Predator			Pulsing Dispel, reduces mana in area
Roars
Ability	Difficulty	Path	Cost	Prereqs	Effect
Anger the Earth	Intro	Horde			Unbalance enemies
Death's Embrace	Basic	Horde			Debuffs to-hit chance of enemies
Everild's Rage	Basic	Predator			Debuffs enemy defense
Screech of Madness	Basic	Flame			Debuffs Discipline and Reflex, making it easier to land other roars
Serpent's Hiss	Advanced	Horde			Makes enemies flee the room
Kuniyo's Strike	Advanced	Predator			Stun + Knockback
Mage's Lash	Advanced	Flame			Primary Magic Debuff and chance to interrupt spell preparation
Wail of the Banshee	Expert	Horde			Immobilize
Mana Torment	Expert	Flame			Drain Mana
Slash the Shadows	Expert	Predator			Knock out of hiding, and stealth debuff
Death's Shriek	Expert	Flame			Drop enemy to his knees, and penalizes shield skill
Meditations
Ability	Difficulty	Path	Cost	Prereqs	Effect
Flame	Intro	Flame			Shows Inner Fire Level
Power	Basic	Flame			Shows Durations of abilities remaining
Unyielding	Basic	Horde			Athletics Skill Bonus
Contemplation	Basic	Flame			Defensive Bonus
Bastion	Basic	Predator			Strong barrier versus agility contested attacks
Seek	Basic	Predator			Outdoorsman-ship Skill boost
Staunch	Advanced	Predator			Stop all bleeding for a time
Tenacity	Advanced	Horde			Physical Damage resistance
Dispel	Advanced	Flame			Removes all magic on barbarian
Focus	Expert	Horde			Lock/Trap Bonus
Serenity	Expert	Flame			Very strong magic potency barrier. Blocks other abilities from being in effect.
Prediction	Expert	Predator			If you get disabled (stun/immobilize/web/knockdown), you dive-roll out of the area and away from harm.

Dual load, warstomp, and area roars will each require 1 slot special maneuvers. They are not currently available.

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