11-22-2006, 07:56 PM
Quote:I have never used War Cry. But it seems to me that its duration goes down with difficulty level, no? So if you have a 6.4 sec. duration with slvl 28, doesn't it go down to 3.2 sec. in nightmare and 1.6 sec. in hell? Well, I could very well be wrong here. But with a finite amount of skill points to distribute, this skill isn't overpowered. Great? Maybe, my barbs lived well without it. Unfair? It doesn't speed up the killing, but makes it safer. I don't think it's unfair. And to be a dedicated singer, you have to sacrifice quite a lot of gear for fcr and mana. It would be unfair if the cast speed was high with low amounts of fcr, if the damage was high (it isn't ), and if a Barb wasn't to economize his skill points between BO, the mastery of choice, Natural Resistance and the attack skill of choice (+possibly a synergy) already, I think. Maybe, just maybe, it would have made sense to not be able to stun physical immune monsters with it, since it already can't damage them. But that's about it.
I agree with your points concerning singers; there are a lot of sacrifices, and planning involved in making a powerful singer. With the current overpowered gear though(including auras), a singer is up there as one of the most invincible killing machines around. You really need to play a singer to see it, but even undergeared ones are near invincible, they just aren't killing machines until all synergies are maxxed and a huge amount of + skills. I would say that the currently overpowerd gear(huge + skills, and meditation from a merc weapon) makes singers unbalanced, not the skill itself.
My only nit is that no, stunning is not reduced in duration in hell.