Barbs suck on this server. We're a tank class but also a DD class and I've seen a lot of barbs on this server get dropped quite fast. Our magical defense is horrible.
I find that a skilled barb is one of the most dangerous and hard to beat opponents in this game. I really don't think they need any sort of boost. Pure vit defensively geared barbs are almost impossible to kill if they use their genie right and pure str barbs can kill me as fast as any sin while still having solid shield & lots of HP. (Though the str ones are quite squishy compared.) Claiming barbs suck as a class is simply not true, with r8r and the option to use magic defense rings & ornaments their mdef can get quite high. I do agree though that the way wizards kill barbs in seconds is rather bad. Though this has more to do with the ridiculous damage output of firecombo than anything related to barbs or other classes. A wizard can drop arcanes with that just as easy as a barb.
Only thing what i would chenge abaut all that is price for recasting R8 gear...so ppl can swiching stats more offen and less time spending colecting EC for recasting...better gear = more op = more fights = more funWizzy + rest Magic class even archers = chanel + magic or some resistance but basicly easy to getFrom another side BM/Barb/Sin = dissaster...need picking on int gear even if u get x1 ur still slow bcz -0.5 nothing special...same going for "Leggins" where is suposed to get some elemental resistance is almost imposible to acomplish since even if u get its to low basicly days and days going recasting and that is not anymore fun...more its depresing and tbh we all are here to have some fun and enjoy a bit game whitout thinking to much abaut "so hard work on normal servers"...at last i would chenge there "No double int...but if u get it be -10 not -5...and same going for elemental resistance...if u get it somehow then let it be 10%"Basicly was watching how barb tanking Wizzy untill Invoke is On...after invoke off he got nuked like is nothing...well lets just say when he do that to barb what gonna heppend to rest of HA gear users (except seekers with their high deff lvl...but even they are so much nerfed due high deff lvl and resistance and low demage)
So you want to be tanky AND be able to DD, you're asking too much. PW is a game based on balance, so if you want something, you have to sacrifice something, you'll never have both, so either go Str build or Vit build.
Barbs are a melee class, they are supposed to have lower magic defense than arcane classes.
If you wanna talk about balance, than lets go ahead and balance venos then. Barbs on this server aren't tanky. A few good ones are but that's about it. Barbs hp means nothing if they can be dropped in seconds.