Barbarian passives

Passive skills replaced Traits late in game development. Many passives are very similar to previously-known traits, with the main changes coming in changes to the character level requirements, and the fact that passives are on/off, rather than using 1, 3, or 5 points, as Traits did. Characters only get three passive in total, with one slot opening up for a passive at Clvl 10, 20, and 30.

[edit] Barbarian Passives

This list is tentative and based on the beta build. Expect further refinements in the final game.

Name	Level	Description

Pound of Flesh
(database)
Passive

10

Increases the chance of finding a health globe by 25% and you gain 100% additional Life from health globes.

Ruthless
(database)
Passive

10

Critical Hit Chance increased by 5%. Critical Hit Damage increased by 50%.

Many skills and runes rely on Critical Hits to trigger their effects.

Nerves Of Steel
(database)
Passive

13

Your Armor is increased by 100% of your Vitality.

Weapons Master
(database)
Passive

16

Gain a bonus based on the weapon type of your main hand weapon:

Swords/Daggers: 15% increased damage
Maces/Axes: 10% Critical Hit Chance
Polearms/Spears: 10% attack speed
Mighty Weapons: 3 Fury per hit

Berserker Rage
(database)
Passive

20

You inflict an additional 25% damage while at maximum Fury.

Inspiring Presence
(database)
Passive

20

The duration of your shouts is doubled. After using a shout you regenerate 2% of your maximum Life per second for 60 seconds.

Your shouts are:
Battle Rage
Threatening Shout
War Cry

Bloodthirst
(database)
Passive

24

Gain 3% of all damage done as Life.

Animosity
(database)
Passive

27

Increases Fury generation by 20% and maximum Fury is increased by 20.

Fury is used to fuel your most powerful attacks.

Superstition
(database)
Passive

30

Reduces all non-Physical damage by 20%. Whenever you take damage from a ranged or elemental attack, you have a chance to gain 3 Fury.

Tough as Nails
(database)
Passive

30

Increases Armor by 25%.

Thorns damage dealt increased by 50%.

No Escape
(database)
Passive

35

Increases the damage of Ancient Spear and Weapon Throw by 10%. In addition, a Critical Hit with Ancient Spear resets the cooldown while Critical Hits with Weapon Throw have a chance to return 14 Fury.

Relentless
(database)
Passive

40

While below 20% Life, all skills cost 75% less Fury and all damage taken is reduced by 50%.

Brawler
(database)
Passive

45

As long as there are 3 enemies within 8 yards, all of your damage is increased by 30%.

This skill is affected by your characters: Skill Level (set to 1 for example above)

Juggernaut
(database)
Passive

50

The duration of control impairing effects on you is reduced by 20%. In addition, whenever a Stun, Fear, Immobilize or Charm is cast on you, you have a chance to recover 15% of your maximum Life.

Unforgiving
(database)
Passive

55

You no longer degenerate Fury. Instead, you gain 2 Fury every 1 seconds.

Boon of Bul-Kathos
(database)
Passive

60

The cooldown on your Earthquake, Call of the Ancients, and Wrath of the Berserker skills is reduced by 30 seconds.

This skill is affected by your characters: Skill Level (set to 1 for example above)

[edit] Development

See the Barbarian skill archive for the full list, with descriptions, of all active and passive skills that have been removed from the game during development.

The Barbarian's skills and skill trees were first seen at BlizzCon 2008 as a mix of active and passive skills (mostly passive), with only a few enabled and many showing nothing more than vague descriptions in the skill trees.

For the BlizzCon 2009 build, 24 of the Barbarian's passive skills were removed, and only five new passives were introduced: Scavenge, Strong Constitution, Bloodthirst, Retaliation, and Cripple.

For BlizzCon 2010, passive skills were removed from the skill trees and replaced by traits. Twelve of the Barbarian's passive skills were removed, but this time, 28 new traits were introduced. Only two passives were turned, more or less directly, into traits: Bad Temper and Second Wind.

By the July 2011 Press Event, the skill system had once again been completely redesigned. The traits system was scrapped, and replaced by a new version of passive skills, but still separate from the active skills. Although 13 of the Barbarian's traits were turned into passives, 18 of them were removed, and 9 passives were brand new.

The list of Barbarian passives shown at the press event was obviously still in development. There were several issues: Pound of Flesh was listed twice, Cruelty had the same description and icon as Bloodthirst, Slaughter had the same description and icon as Berserker Rage, and 6 passives had no level requirements, possibly so beta players could try them out right from the beginning. Also, the list of Barbarian passives was noticeably longer than that of the other classes, and will no doubt be shortened.

Just a few days later, the passive Tough As Nails was announced, which seems to be designed to replace Iron Skin and another passive.

[edit] References

Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
Blizzard on Class-Specific Armor Benefits -- IncGamers 9th Aug 2011
Kastigar's Really Big Barb thread -- IncGamers 8th Sep 2011

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