Maybe Barb Masteries need a bump up

[Ignatz]

I mean, I just built a strain of WW barb and he was powerful, certainly, but not in a way that I felt was broken. I used a 250% CCB with three sockets and his killing speed was good, but not better than my Avenger or even melee Assassin. In fact, WW felt relatively balanced to me. People may disagree with me on that point, but I'd say it takes me about 20-30 seconds to kill a dozen guys with WW in a 4-5 player game in hell. With the new, harder brand hell, I would expect this would work out nicely.

But I'm worried that they'll remove the 100% crit strike, nerf WW (which it appears they did), and not give the barb a bone otherwise.

I'm severely disappointed so far that the Barb, who is a good, solid, relatively balanced character is getting knocked down a couple pegs, while the 'Zon is a damage dealing horror (yeah, it's pun...sue me). It doesn't seem to me that the Zon has been nerfed much, if at all, yet she's by far, and I mean by FAR the most broken character. I just built one, after an Assassin, Were druid, and WW Barb and the difference between she and the others was simply ridiculous. She kills at 5 times the rate of any of them, fears nothing at all, and only stops long enough to grab the loot.