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I have been thinking of another thing that would help us alot. I will use the barbarian in diablo 2 as my example. The barbarian is the Master of melee combat without a doubt in diablo 2. Yes is main skill is powerful (whirlwind). I would kind of compair this to our knockdown.

But this is what really seperates the Barbarian from the other melee classes of diablo 2.

Masteries and warcries.

Now I know that this game is not diablo 2, but I have a good point so follow along. For those of you that have never played a barbarian, I will list the things that really make him a force besides his combat skills.

Masteries:

1.)Increased run/walk. With this skill you could easily make your run/walk speed up to 50% faster. They could inculde this the meditate tree.

2.)Ironskin. Each point in iron skin was like having better armour. This could tie in with the TKA drawing the force from himself instead of nature. Ironskin could really be the answer for us , since we cannot wear armour. Maybe each skill we had in ironskin could reduce damage by a certain %.

3.)Natural resist. Self explanatory

Warcries:

battle orders- Maxed out in diablo 2 this doubled your life and mana for yourself and your party. I dont think anyclass would have a problem with a TKA or pikeman having a ability like this.

Shout:

A warcry that added massive defense to himself and his party for a short period of time.

Now once again I know that this game is not diablo to, so these are only some general opinions that I have. These skills really helped a well-made barbarian complete and kill a ranged amazon or a elemental sorcy.

Leech was also nice in diablo 2, but I cannot see leech ever happening here

So what does everyone else think?

What skills do you think could be added or modified with the TKA to make him viable once again, or added to any melee class to at least help the whole melee vs. ranged debate.

Thanks

un are you Thunderwulf or did he, or you, steal this idea from the other?

No I am not thunderwolf. He is the TKA class Correspondant. I just suggested this to him on the TKA board, and thought it would help out all the brawling "elite" classes.