Barbarians are seeing some large changes in the Diablo 4 PTR and Patch 1.4.0 notes, including nerfs to Charge, Weapon Expertise rebalancing, and general bug fixes.
Diablo 4 PTR Patch Notes: Patch 1.4.0 Barbarian Class Overview
Blizzard
Balance Updates
Miscellaneous - Necromancer, Barbarian, Druid, and Sorcerer Companions now receive 100% of the player's attributes.
- Skill tags have been updated everywhere to allow more Aspects and other effects to affect more skills and abilities. Examples:
Applicable «Shout» skills for Druid and Barbarian are now tagged as Shouts. - New Chain tag for abilities like and.
- New Mobility tag for abilities that move and or teleport the player, such as or.
- More skills are now tagged as Core skills, such as Sorcerer Mastery Skills and other skills which use resources like.
- Additionally, various Aspects have been updated to account for these changes.
Barbarian
- Barbarian's 10% innate Damage Reduction has been removed.
- Legendary powers that require to be equipped no longer have that requirement.
Skills - Damage reduced from 250% to 180%.
- Cooldown Reduction per Target Hit reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.
- Cooldown Reduction for hitting a Boss reduced from 6 to 4 seconds.
- Maximum Cooldown Reduction reduced from 9 to 6 seconds.
- Previous — deals 1% increased damage for each point of Fury you had when using it.
- Now — gains 2% increased Critical Strike Chance for every 10 Fury you had when using it.
- Rend's Damage against Vulnerable enemies increased from 12% to 25%.
- The initial damage dealt from Rupture is now guaranteed to Overpower.
- Korlic Leap damage increased from 104% to 156%.
- Korlic Frenzy damage increased from 39% to 59%.
- Talic Whirlwind damage increased from 65% to 98%.
- Madawc Upheaval damage increased from 195% to 293%.
- Range of damage increased from 2.2 meters to 3 meters.
- Additional damage when enemy is knocked into a wall increased from 70% to 105%.
- Damage per 10 Fury consumed increased
.
Read more on wowhead.com