Bashiok: Barb Too Magical?

	Blizzard Quote:
	I don't get that feeling while playing one. I think the Hammer of the Ancients ability is definitely magical to some extent, he's effectively summoning a giant hammer to smash an enemy. I kind of fill in my own blanks as to where it's coming from and it feels very natural to me and the Barbarian "kit". I kind of see it as - and like the idea of - the barbarian ... I guess drawing upon the power of his ancestors. It feels very Norse, very mythological, and somehow tied to a family bloodline of great and powerful warriors. Summoning the power of a giant hammer? Hell yeah! If a barb is going to do anything magical, it's going to be so he can use a big *** ethereal hammer.

To which a poster replied semi-nonsensically: "But if you have the magical ability to hit so hard you break the rock beneath you, WHY ARE YOU HITTING A ROCK?"

	Blizzard Quote:
	Because it looks cool, and it's a very physical and apparent way to get the basic mechanic of a "crowd control" skill across. I don't see anything "magical" about it either. Is it realistic? No, but why should it be? Immersion and reality aren't intrinsically tied.

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Comments

konfeta

14 days ago

Awesome. Blizzard's views on Barbarian coincide with mine.

Holyknight3000

14 days ago

hey i thought the barb kicked *** and looked far better than before, definitely making one in the future.

SCFreelancer

14 days ago

Really, people always have to find something to whine about. First the graphics. now this... and undoubtedly there is a lot more to come.

If you want to be critical please try to do it constructively! If there is something you dislike you are free to burn it, but try to add a cool alternative way to do it then.

SSH83

14 days ago

lol. old school D1 warriors can cast FIREBALLS. The official forum must be filled with even sillier stuff than this if blizzard actually replied to this.

SCFreelancer

14 days ago

@SSH83: I am probably one of the few, but I actually liked the way it worked in D1

Something I would love to see in D3 is a way to make class hybrids/ways to use skills of other classes. In D2 some items like the Enigma runeword allowed for this. It doesn't have to allow a full transition, but more like an expansion to what could be done in D2.

Epogy

13 days ago

I'm sorry the more I read Basiok's comments the more I dislike him (and reading his comments) he sounds like an idiot.

Hows that for constructive criticism? ...ya know I don't think I will buy this game. Freaking Bashicock.