Barbarian Ancient Spear Pierces, Life steals, and Great Increases Damage!

Barbarian-AncientSpear Barbarian Ancient Spear Might Skill, allows him to throw a mystical spear to his enemies and hauling them back to melee range, for the Barbarian to chop down at his leisure.

The Skill deals 185% weapon damage and slows down the target in a tapering amount of 60%. It’s also a Fury Generating skill, giving 15 Fury to the Barbarian assuming that he hits a target,

The skill is unlocked at level 9 and has a cooldown of 10 seconds, making it a good skill to pull those backrow attackers with low defense and health but have high attack, like an Archer or a Shaman perhaps, since they always hide behind their defending meat shields.

Besides, the skill’s effective radius is up to the edge of the screen, so, assuming that you have targeted accurately, you’ll be able to skewer and pull in your target and tear him to bits.

See the Barbarian Ancient Spear in action!

Also, the Ancient Spear is very useful and important in the Battle Arena, where you most probably need to catch those slippery Wizards or Witch Doctors, who excel in dealing damage from afar, and make them pay.

The runestones effects greatly increase the effectiveness of Ancient Spear, and gives certain effects like piercing, more spears, life steal, and a great increase in damage.

Barbarian Ancient Spear Runestones

Harpoon allows the Ancient Spear to pierce through multiple enemies in a straight line and drags them all back, so it means less worries for the Diablo 3 Barbarian if there are other enemies blocking his way.

Grappling Hooks gives the Barbarian two more spears to throw and each spear will drag back the enemy it hits.

Dread Spear gives life equal to 60% of the damage inflicted by the skill, and is certainly useful in tight situations where health runs low and potion cooldown is far from over.

Skirmish increases the Fury generated by Ancient Spear to 30, which will allow the Barbarian to unleash his other devastating skills.

Rage Flip is interesting, since it pulls the target in the opposite direction and the amount of weapon damage dealt is increased to 234%. It’s a good skill if you want to toss a big monster away from you and escape.

We knew that he needed a ranged attack so here is an example of Ancient Spear. We don’t want to turn the Barbarian into a ranged class so this is something that feels very appropriate for him. We want to sell the theme that he’s strong, he’s tough, he’s melee so we had to come up with something that felt appropriate for that.

References:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/class/barbarian/active/ancient-spear

http://www.diablowiki.net/Ancient_Spear