Diablo III™

Key Features

  • Melee Mastery

    Barbarians casually swing weapons that ordinary warriors can barely lift. They’re able to fight with a full-sized blade, hammer, or axe gripped in each fist, or with enormous (but ponderous) great weapons that crush their enemies into paste.
  • Brutal Attacks

    Strength and anger go well together. When they lend plenty of Fury to their strikes, barbarians can send their foes flying, shear their limbs off, or knock their bones free of their flesh.
  • Shouts

    Barbarians are mighty presences on the battlefield, and their ferocious war cries can bring out battle frenzy in their allies or send their tiny foes fleeing in terror. Even mighty foes who hear a barbarian’s shout can become too shaken to land their most deadly blows.
  • Taking Hits

    No other heroes can shrug off enemy attacks the way that barbarians do. Their massive strength allows them to equip heavy shields, and their flesh deflects oncoming blades and teeth like metal armor.

Resource: Fury

The rage that fills true barbarians cannot be extinguished so long as they live. Fury, a resource that represents pure anger and battle-lust, powers their every terrifying strike.

Fury rises in barbarians as they are damaged, and when they draw their enemies’ blood. As barbarians suffer increasing damage from their enemies (and quickly cut them down in response) their Fury builds to a peak.

Excess Fury can be put to explosive use – barbarians can smash and destroy the battlefield, hurl themselves through the air, and split their opponents in two.

Outside of combat, Fury wanes quickly, so adept Barbarians charge from battle to battle to ensure that they can continually deliver devastating attacks.

Barbarians are savage wanderers who never flinch from close-quarters combat. Mighty ground stomps, leaping attacks and dual-wielded slashes leave a barbarian’s enemies dead in their boots and send any survivors fleeing for cover.

Thanks to their size and strength, barbarians can dominate a melee with nearly any combination of weapon and approach, though they tend towards massive and imposing weaponry. Barbarians are no strangers to the pains of battle, and often fare better in the midst of several opponents, taking and giving cuts, than when attempting to chase down single targets.

Barbarians’ attacks are primarily melee focused. Their quick weapon swings whittle down the number of weaker foes in seconds, while their slower, ground-shaking slams and stomps can send approaching hordes reeling and crack the armor of mightier foes.

Background

“The ancients have blessed me.”

For ages, the barbarians dwelling in the shadow of Mount Arreat were shaped to be as strong and unyielding as stone. Immense in size and unmatched in ferocity, they were charged from birth with a duty passed through generations: to protect the sacred mountain.

When their homeland was shattered, many barbarians lost faith. They became aimless, haunted by their past, traveling from place to place without honor or direction.

But not all barbarians have given up their vigil. Some still honor the harsh snows of Arreat's summit and prowl the outskirts of its crater. They recall being handed axes and spears at an age when city children were clinging to their toys… and they burn with shame at the failure of their people.

These barbarians strive to find a new purpose for themselves in a changed world, and they will crush any who stand in their way.

Read the short story

Equipment

Barbarians are able to make use of weapons in ways that others simply don’t possess the strength for. They wield massive weapons – oversized killing devices that more urbane heroes are barely strong enough to lift, let alone swing. Heavily-muscled barbarians can also dual-wield normal weapons like swords and axes, barraging foes with multiple enchantments and weapon types at once.

Armor Progression

Early on in their journey, padded leather provides untested barbarians with basic protection…but most enemy attacks will still fall upon their unarmored skin.
A greater variety of gear to choose from means that barbarians can shield their vitals with close-faced helms, imposing spikes, and armor plates.
Barbarians bedecked in truly heavy armor look more like nightmare visions than humans, and they have the resilience to match.
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can some one tell me if i should build him AD (damage and attack speed) or more tanky (armor and health) ?
thx
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Fozfate#1868
Fozfate
Fozfate
22 minutes ago
my barb's at level 6 Woot
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lvl 16 :D
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JACKLIN#1360
JACKLIN
JACKLIN
1 hour, 1 minute ago
failed to download a required installation file(http:/ak.worldofwarcraft.com.edgesuite.net/d3-pod/installdata/win/diabol3_enus_disk_encrypted_win.blob). please check your internet connection and try again
who know how to fix it
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need help
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I think I managed to get home from work and eat just as the servers came back up, and I was going to bed right as I got dc'd. Was a pretty good experience for me. lol. 9 in about 1.5 hours.
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Only made it to level 8, servers down to much.
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need more time to play Diablo 3
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it keeps saying my login information is incorrect but its nott!!!!!!!!!!
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SITHLORDG#1791
SITHLORDG
SITHLORDG
8 hours, 13 minutes ago
I have rage, can I play this game???
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I like the notepad
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Frostxx
Skywall
Frostxx
9 hours ago
it says battle net is down for maintenance
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this is geting carzy. it going on & off all
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I'm shocked anyone could get to level 25 as much as this !@#$% has been down
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moneyshots#1332
moneyshots
moneyshots
9 hours, 16 minutes ago
wut the !@#$s!!!
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HellFire24#6134
HellFire24
HellFire24
9 hours, 16 minutes ago
10
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My barb is level 25, how about yours?
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Matthew3003#1277
Matthew3003
Matthew3003
9 hours, 23 minutes ago
What is going on pl when will American server be up again lol been over 1 hour.
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yeh, 11:45 PT
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have they even gave a time when it will come up i have not seen one
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RoastedLings #856
RoastedLings
9 hours, 46 minutes ago
c'mon bliz i wanna go back to brutally annihilating zombies with my barb...
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KillerCody#2787
KillerCody
KillerCody
9 hours, 48 minutes ago
bleh, updating drivers, sure hope this works, I have been very excitedly anticipating this!!
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@KillerCody:what kinda video u have i need to update mine also and try to get it to work
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Drunkendeeps
Daggerspine
Drunkendeeps
9 hours, 22 minutes ago
@KillerCody: If you two are having the "graphics card not supported error." Try changing the following settings in the D3pref.txt file. This worked for me.

- DisableTrilinearFiltering “1″ (from 0 to 1)
- HardwareClass “1″ (from 0 to 1 as well)
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@Drunkendeeps: hey where is that file located?
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NeoTheOne420#1791
NeoTheOne420
NeoTheOne420
9 hours, 50 minutes ago
Immortal King-God
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i hope soon im getting an itch
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diabloking#1110
diabloking
diabloking
9 hours, 56 minutes ago
good question
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Painkillër
Illidan
Painkillër
10 hours ago
any idea when it will be up
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been waitin eight years for this. then battlenet crashes wtf
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CannibalO12#1456
CannibalO12
CannibalO12
10 hours, 14 minutes ago
The support link helped me updated my computer. I had only 3 hours of play time. Pre-ordered the game a week and 3 days ago, and now error 3003, after 37.
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sonny2324#1563
sonny2324
sonny2324
11 hours, 31 minutes ago
hi
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What the fxxk is this ha
buy the fxxking game for 59.99 and keep telling me the !@#$ing server is busy
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Bought the game online. Do I need a password/pin or can I just start playing when the download is done
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@HAMMERTIME: you just play sir
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ok i have already downloaded the game on one computer and on this computer when i go to the diablo 3 site and click download game client the diablo 3 setup thing comes up and the green bar stops moving halfway through.
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@Horton: Go to the blizzard website, to the Diablo 3 errors and common complications or something. And he will say to delete the battle.net file on your computer. it should be c:\programdata\battle.net or something like that. Once you delete it, you just start the download again and it should work. It did for me, hope this helps.
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Buy the game and now my video card isnt supported?! great......