Barbarian: Attacking without Fury

#0 - May 25, 2011, 4:43 p.m.

Question: If we attempt to use a barbarian skill that requires fury when we lack it all together, will the barbarian still make a regular attack attempt or will it say something along the lines of "I'm not angry enough". The reason why I ask is I'd like to bind Cleave to my left mouse...an ability I can only assume takes some fury. If the player lacks fury it would be nice if the barb still swung his weapon normally, only we wouldn't be using the Cleave ability.

Thanks for a reply.

Bashiok

#5 - May 25, 2011, 7:45 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Question: If we attempt to use a barbarian skill that requires fury when we lack it all together, will the barbarian still make a regular attack attempt

Yes.

So say I have Hammer of the Ancients on my right mouse button, and I'm cleaving and cleaving (I have Cleave on left mouse button) and I wanna own a fool BOOM Hammer of the Ancients but I actually didn't have enough fury, so I will just normal attack. Cleave one more time, now I have enough fury, BASHAKAYAAAAAA Hammer of the Ancients and his head explodes.

Bashiok

#13 - May 26, 2011, 2:04 a.m.

Q u o t e:

So wait, do you have to use skills like Cleave to gain Fury? Because in this scenario if you only lacked 1 fury hit, shouldn't the normal attack that HotA made give you enough to use it?

Oh sure, it depends on a lot of factors. The scenario I most found myself (at low levels in Normal) was that I'd be cleaving, think I could pop HotA, fizzle with a normal hit, cleave one more time, and afford it. That's just something that happened to me a lot. But sure if that one standard hit were to generate enough fury, totally.