Barbarian
The Barbarian is Sanctuary's front line — a wall of muscle and steel that fights in the middle of the pack and stays there. No pets, no ranged safety net: everything happens at arm's length, and survival comes from Fortify, damage reduction and killing faster than the pack can answer.
Resource: Fury
Basic Skills build Fury and it drains away out of combat. It rewards constant aggression — a Barbarian standing still is a Barbarian with an empty bar.
Class mechanic: the Arsenal
The Barbarian carries four weapons at once — two two-handed and a dual-wielded pair — and each skill automatically draws the weapon it is tied to. Every weapon type builds its own Expertise rank with its own bonus, and the Technique slot grants a second expertise passively, so which bases you keep changes how the whole build behaves.
Skill families
- Brawling — leaps, stuns and shouts that close distance and hold packs still.
- Weapon Mastery — Whirlwind, Rend, Double Swing and the rest of the raw damage.
- Defensive — Iron Skin, Challenging Shout and the tools that keep you standing.
- Wrath & Ultimate — Call of the Ancients, Wrath of the Berserker, Iron Maelstrom.
Common archetypes
- Whirlwind — spin through everything; the classic farming build.
- Bleed / Rend — stack damage over time and let it tick.
- Hammer of the Ancients / Upheaval — heavy single hits for bosses and Pit pushing.
- Thorns — let the pack kill itself on your armour.
- Charge and Leap — mobility variants built for speed farming.
Simple to learn, gear-hungry to master. If you want to be in the middle of the fight and never leave it, this is the class.