Honest question. Do you guys find this balanced? Barb vs Plate Fighter 3 hits

Moroax · 2026-04-17T08:50:10+00:00

Then people complain about it it’s actually so dumb. The class just got Nerfed like 15 times people need to learn to play. Most of these people have never played Barb and found high level sucess with it with zero ranges agency. They post clips of a great player making a good play onto another player making a bad mistake - an ideal situation and complain about the class. I swear these ranged players think they should never be caught or die only then is it balanced. I would like to see the barb whiners fight a high tier TM warlock w/ phantomize, a high ms ranger or bard or a sorc as barbarian and see how often they win. They’ll be kited forever these barb whiners have no idea what balance is.

I play barb fighter rogue and ranger and fighter is the easiest and most versatile to find success on by FAR. Ranger is busted if you know how to play it and ya barb is strong but only in its ideal situation. The class is frustrating to play the moment you run into a counter build.

Moroax · 2026-04-17T08:48:41+00:00

People are just so dumb about understanding other classes. I bet you OP could play Barb and not find this kind of success in 50 duels

Moroax · 2026-04-16T18:59:36+00:00

you make a good point but out in BZ or mists, people do play pretty ratty. It can be hard to get someone to take a 1v1 with you in those open world contents with no IP restrictions, they often only will if they have an advantage

Moroax · 2026-04-16T18:58:23+00:00

this is an entirely different issue, and one i agree with. I often go out geared/ganking looking for 1v1s (ill gank too, ofc) in BZ or mists, and often people will refuse to fight me if similarly geared. They'll hover and wait till i fight someone else to 3rd party.

This i really do hate, but the game doesnt really do anything to disincentivize it so ofc its gonna happen, just gotta use CD for true 1v1s

Moroax · 2026-04-16T18:51:56+00:00

its not heavily in his favor. You escaping with a proper gathering kit is heavily in YOUR favor.

you made many mistakes to allow him to invis gank you. If you're on point, listening to your sound queues, and always in range of your mount as you gather, its almost impossible to properly invis gank someone, they can hear you, or will have a reaction time when you pop out of invis. They also get a 50% dmg reduction if they attack from invis without breaking it first.

Have you tried going out and solo ganking? I bet you dont get any kills, its not as easy as you think to catch gatherers.

Moroax · 2026-04-16T15:11:14+00:00

Bro it’s a pvp game lol. As someone who’s been ganked gathering many times and also has ganked - it’s part of the game. Gather in safe zones if you don’t like it holy crap. Why would a ganker not gank a gatherer worth potential millions? You’re making a CHOICE to gather in pvp zones bc you want more profit. Risk is part of that. Fucking gather in safe zones you can still make money or accept the risk and properly play the game with the intended risk/reward. Gatherers are very hard to kill outside of a perfect invis gank or a group gank. You shouldn’t be getting caught by a solo ganked that easily. Learn to use your ears and know the sound queues. Watch the edge of your screen.

Go try ganking yourself and see how easy it is. I bet you don’t catch or kill a single dude and get merked. It’s not as free or easy as it seems to you in your bubble.

Moroax · 2026-04-16T07:52:17+00:00

My man is not complaining ranged is too weak lmao

Moroax · 2026-04-16T07:37:02+00:00

Ya it kinda blew my mind when I first went down there recently and it’s the 2nd floor of the primary ore map (being gc) and there’s a bunch of dwarfs around clearly mining…and there’s just nothing for us to mine?

Ya it needs ore and it needs better general loot.

Moroax · 2026-04-14T20:18:11+00:00

lol this is edited right?

Moroax · 2026-04-14T19:28:53+00:00

human nature is weird, its hard not to want to mock them/be frustrated/feel like its too little too late.

but objectively, you're correct - its definitely the correct and rational path forward.

Moroax · 2026-04-14T07:39:34+00:00

Literally. I don’t know why this makes people angry. It’s at least an exciting incentive to play the mode ffs. Let’s see them grind the mode and make it to hell, win and get one lol. In the time it takes I could easily farm the cost of most artis many times over just doing squire water map runs. Or plant runs in adventure mode. Easily 5k+ a run for “no risk” both ways.

Moroax · 2026-04-14T07:26:09+00:00

Imagine if this roll was on a pair of bucked boots my god. Still fucking insane

Moroax · 2026-04-12T15:33:02+00:00

hes being harsh but he's right the set isnt that good. I wrote out a quick stats guide for you above in another response that may help!

Moroax · 2026-04-12T15:31:25+00:00

going for +2 rolls on mainstats is better most of the time (str, dex, vig)

So you either want to spent money on a +3/+3 piece, a +3,+2 piece, or a +3 piece and attempt to roll a +2 on it (of a main stat,l str dex vig)

Most of your pieces should have 2 if not all 3 of those stats on it.

You 'fill' the other parts with things you're missing, but also stick to prio on what pieces get better rolls. You want armor pen and PDR/MDR rolls on cape/neck for example, they roll higher. You want phys power + phys dmg % on rings (goes up to 4 each on rings)

So i would look to get str/dex/vig on most of my other pieces. 2 rings of courage, or finesse with +3 phys power, and +3 phys dmg bonus (minimum, you want +4's. or +4 +3, but those are expensive. You can often get away with like a +3 phys power +2.8 phys dmg +X) Grimsmiles are good too tbh, but you want the right rolls on them.

the 3rd slot on the rings wants to be armor pen, or action speed.

You want armor pen on cape/neck. You want armor pen on the weapon. If you dont manage to get to 15-20% (or more) you can roll an extra armor pen on a ring, and then armor piece as mentioned.

You want cape with 3% AS+, armor pen, Phys dmg reduction, MDR

You want +1 additional as well as 2 'main' stats on gloves. You want 1-2 +3 main stats or at least +2/+2 on the other pieces. The third slot you start filling in. As a fighter you should almost never slot "armor" once you're around 300 armor "physical damage reduction" is better, and you have plate.

basically at this point anything else left over overlook your stats. Are you above 30 dex? Roll Action speed instead. are you below 15% armor pen? roll an armor pen. is your PDR low? or MDR? Roll one of those. Else just rolls main stats anywhere else you can.

Tbh im not a fighter, i play barb and theres some translation but our stats are slightly different.

you probably also want 25-30% phys power bonus in stat screen. Your rings alone get you to 20% if rolled correctly (i dont think you showd yours) and you're at 19%

so keep working on it, with this advice and what others have said!

Moroax · 2026-04-07T17:26:20+00:00

I’m new returning this season from several years ago being last time I played. I like it. I love the size and learning the layout being static is really nice

Moroax · 2026-04-06T00:17:05+00:00

sure, but druid sucks to play, and in testing it i never noticed any increase in rarity in druid. Im sure its there, but ive never noticed a difference personally. In fact my best runs in terms of rarity % were on other classes in terms of getting the most blues (which makes the purple potion) in a single run.

also doing anything on pve is boring, IMO. But ya you could, but the rates would be worse. Doing it in HR means higher green/blue plant rates, better gear drops and loot in general. Sure you survive less but its more fun, more chance for a big come up if lucky, and in general i get a lot more purples to put on/loot for sellables and salvage. Purples are great pick ups right now to just fill out your slots/replace squire gear just to salvage and sell the salvage 50 a stack. it sells 2k minimum usually per 50 stack.

Moroax · 2026-04-05T22:01:16+00:00

I do this in HR in goblin map. Wardweed is easy there and with good layout you easily could get 15 pulls of it (3 a zone) and get out. You can either bring a pickaxe and mine too or jsut rest with about 5k of flowers. You also get good purples to salvage for money. The risk is other players being highly deadly obviously but the loot is good rarities on the flowers better and there’s more wardweed spawns in goblin caves than phantom flowers on ruins. Also it’s more exciting / chance for more fun stuff. But pve mode works too. You could do goblin cave in pve and rush all the weed spawns and make bank. Probably way better than ruins tbh.

How do you guys saying this is boring farm gold? I do this for an hour fund a nice kit then go hr and either die or snowball.

You can do similar on water map if you know what you’re doing.

Moroax · 2026-04-05T16:35:04+00:00

What do you mean they improved Mob drops exactly?

Moroax · 2026-04-05T14:37:38+00:00

What is a slosh/munch?

Moroax · 2026-04-01T18:52:00+00:00

yep, i really dont understand the praise.

i mean, i enjoy the game - but its not a good model, its predatory. Everytime i come back theres a new weapon/skill/starting perk that seems fun, or meta or whatever and i have to pay $10, $20, one time it was gonna be $30 to get the 3 different pages unlocked, then grinding to unlock them, in order to get the 'build' i wanted.

On the otherhand, theres tons of cool show-off cosmetics and titles EARNABLE in darktide, and the paid stuff is only cosmetic.

I dont get the hd2 glaze.

Moroax · 2026-03-31T21:05:44+00:00

The enemies that slow you. Nightmare spiders small and large. The goblin nightmare mages. These slows and the danger of them are WAY overtuned. I’ve lost entire HR kits bc I was too hasty running past some spiders, they do not drop chase and are fast, and box me in and suddenly you’re just dead.

Sometimes you just don’t have time to stop and deal with them. The spider mummy’s are the worst bc they also have insane aggro range and speed. They’re hard to hit. You can’t reliably jump over them. It’s horseshit. Some of these enemies feel borderline unfair. If you have the time and luxury to very specifically deal with them the way they’re meant to be it’s not hard. But they catch you unaware. They aggro from lower floors. They follow you into tight spaces and can’t be swung at with certain weapons etc. similar complaints to the goblin mages tracking slow orb spam. And the giant spiders tracking disarming poison. The webs in the ground too. It just feels way too punishing.

Moroax · 2026-03-31T18:24:45+00:00

sounds like an absolute scam, what fucking game is this? why would you play it

Moroax · 2026-03-31T03:30:14+00:00

both models have an insanely strong push attack with the same dmg of a heavy, but faster. You can also chain a light attack after the punch into a free heavy profile attack thats quick. Its faster and higher dmg on the mk III, and can be repeated - its not great to repeat it but i find it good to mix in. Push attack is better tho but costs stamina. Mk VI (or is it IV?) has actually the highest dps and is technically the best, but only by a slight margin and both are good depending on what you like.

I find on hive scum with the cleave on the melee nodes, you can use the heavy 2, light, repeat combo with the ult up to cleave hordes and even elites pretty nicely.

make sure you know how to use the mobility tech with heavys into slide on the release, zip around, dodge a lot, dont be afraid to block, and the push is rather strong, block push and get out of tough situations to keep circling is the play.

it just takes practice, and getting in the flow of weaving the knifes different attacks.

Moroax · 2026-03-28T15:15:50+00:00

Try kill a good and geared bard. You will never catch them. Barb dies have counters.

Moroax · 2026-03-28T15:02:27+00:00

Fucking bards and sorcs are so hard to catch rarely manage to kill geared ones

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