05-29-2012, 02:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-29-2012, 02:03 PM by MongoJerry.)
(05-29-2012, 01:48 PM)ViralSpiral Wrote: Blizzard has historically been pretty terrible with ever balancing melee. The only time they've ever gotten it close to right is WoW, and then only because the melee isn't expected to contribute much damage and is forced to group.
Rogues, death knights, and dps warriors and paladins do a heck of a lot of dps -- certainly a lot more than my holy/disc priest can dish out. And they solo very well. But WoW's a totally different style of game from D3, so it's not really fair to compare the two games and two systems.
Mortar is a pita for ranged characters that isn't a problem for melee packs, so that's one ability at least.
Barbarians certainly have enough meat on them to tackle one or two champion mobs beating on them. The problem is when there's a whole pack of mobs beating on them. Maybe the melee classes need more crowd control abilities? Perhaps some kind of spammable short duration aoe confuse ability that confuses every mob within 10 yards except the one that you target?