05-24-2012, 03:59 PM
I was playing TankBarb™ with Quark and Lissa a while ago in Nightmare difficulty. We encountered an Arcane Enchanted boss pack in a very tight space with nowhere to maneuver. I stood my ground and tanked the boss mob to give them a tiny bit of room to stand back and shoot, while sitting through an Arcane beam, and noted on Mumble that I could just stand there and tank it - woo hoo! With my newfound exuberance, I Leaped into the boss' minions, and died instantly to multiple arcane beams. I laughed a good bit at that. Quark and Lissa were nice enough not to - at least over Mumble. 
The key problem with Barbarians, from my limited perspective, is that either you're geared enough to be able to stand toe-to-toe with the monsters and contribute, or you're just dead weight. There are very few encounters against rare/champion packs where I'm "sorta" able to tank...it's either "I can stand here and eat what comes at me" (boring) or "I go splat instantly" (no fun). I'd prefer the sorta-tank variety.
The key problem with Barbarians, from my limited perspective, is that either you're geared enough to be able to stand toe-to-toe with the monsters and contribute, or you're just dead weight. There are very few encounters against rare/champion packs where I'm "sorta" able to tank...it's either "I can stand here and eat what comes at me" (boring) or "I go splat instantly" (no fun). I'd prefer the sorta-tank variety.
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