Maybe Barb Masteries need a bump up

[kandrathe]

...with realistically only about 80 skill points to spend, the barbarian is will be left hanging in terms of his remaining skills. The burly barb everyone's used to loses a whole lot of his resilience without being able to max Battle Orders.

These are just examples, and I wasn't even factoring in +skills from items, the new elite weapons, better rare affixs, or a 3 socketed CCB. So, maybe you might need to settle for less points in DS, Berserk, Frenzy, and get more + skills from items.

So lets scale it down as far as skill points, 10 pts in Frenzy, 15 Pts in Berserk (optional for % Magic damage), 10 Pts in DS, 20 pts in mastery (55pts used here) + 10 skills from items.

20 pts Frenzy = 185% dmg + (10 * 8%) DS synergy = +265% dmg

DPS = 172 avg * (1 + 142/100 + 190/100 + 265/100 + 87DS + 20CS/100) * 25/4 * 100/100
DPS = 172 avg * (8.04) * 2.8 * 1 = 3872 dmg/sec (with 15% (581) being magic dmg)

(versus 3776 dmg/sec when I was not factoring in + skills)

This is a one handed weapon giving you a good shield and resistances, but you can slice it and dice it different ways giving more points for SS, NR, BO if you like. Substitute higher strength, the IK maul (277 avg dmg) and boots (+250-361 (300 avg) magic dmg) if you like.

DPS = 277 avg * (1 + 225/100 + 190/100 + 265/100 + 20CS/100) * 25/4 * 100/100
DPS = 277 avg * (8.0) * 2.8 * 1 = 6205 dmg/sec (with 15% (931) + 300 being magic dmg)

I like the idea that there is no *perfect* build. You now need to chose -- sacrifice protection for damage, or damage for protection... same boat as the Paladin, only less so IMHO.