Barbarian Skills

No class fights as exclusively in melee as the Barbarian, and none has the same equipment freedom: he alone can hold a weapon in each hand. His power comes from weapon damage, a large life pool, and passive hardening rather than from any spell. Where other classes answer a dangerous room by casting into it from outside, he answers by surviving inside it.

Combat Skills carries the attacks: Bash and Concentrate for single blows, Double Swing and Frenzy for dual wielding, Whirlwind for cutting a path through a crowd, Berserk for magic damage against physical immunes, and Leap and Leap Attack for repositioning. Combat Masteries has no active skills at all, only weapon-class proficiencies alongside stamina, movement speed, defense, and resistances, and every build draws on it whatever attack leads. Warcries is the outlier: shouts that raise the party's life and defense, fear and taunt for crowd control, Find Item and Find Potion for loot, and War Cry, which stuns and damages directly.

Attacks take most of their damage from synergy points and require lower skills in the same tree first, which keeps builds narrow. Whirlwind and Frenzy each anchor a well-known one, and so does the Singer, who fights almost entirely through War Cry while Battle Orders and Shout carry the party, valued as much for what the group gains from him as for his own kills.

Combat Skills

Bash
Level 1Double Swing
Level 6Leap
Level 6Double Throw
Level 12Stun
Level 12Concentrate
Level 18Leap Attack
Level 18Frenzy
Level 24Berserk
Level 30Whirlwind
Level 30

Combat Masteries

Axe Mastery
Level 1Blade Mastery
Level 1Mace Mastery
Level 1Polearm Mastery
Level 6Spear Mastery
Level 6Throwing Mastery
Level 6Increased Stamina
Level 12Iron Skin
Level 18Increased Speed
Level 24Natural Resistance
Level 30

Warcries

Find Potion
Level 1Howl
Level 1Shout
Level 6Taunt
Level 6Find Item
Level 12Battle Cry
Level 18Battle Orders
Level 24Grim Ward
Level 24Battle Command
Level 30War Cry
Level 30