v0.4.0-beta
Pre-release
Playtesting revealed that Barbarian was immensely powerful, completing normal difficulty speedruns significantly faster and safer than every other class on average while making Warrior feel obsolete in hell difficulty. A number of changes have been made to make Barbarian less effortlessly overpowered (he's still incredibly strong) while making him stand out more as a unique class and not just feel like a better Warrior.
Barbarian's Rage skill has been completely redesigned. Casting Rage now grants a buff that lasts ~20 seconds which triples your damage bonus from strength, grants 100% of damage dealt as life leech, +20% chance to hit, +20 AC, adjacent quarter damage when two-handing a weapon, but causes constant life degeneration for the buff's duration. The rate of life degeneration increases rapidly the more maximum life you have, but newly created level 1 Barbarians will experience very little degeneration.
Most of Barbarian's inherent properties have been made to match Warrior's or, in some cases, be slightly less powerful than Warrior: Barbarian's attack speeds have been nerfed to match Warrior, Barbarian no longer receives a damage bonus from vitality, Barbarian no longer has an enhanced stun threshold, Barbarian's blocking bonus has been reduced to 10 from 30, removed Barbarian's slight extra bonus to AC, Barbarian now gets the same amount of life from vitality on gear as Warrior, removed Barbarian's elemental resistance bonus per character level, removed Barbarian's AC penalty for shields, removed Barbarian's adjacent quarter damage by default, Barbarian's base damage bonus from strength is now half of Warrior's for melee weapons.
Newly created Barbarians now start with a small axe instead of a spiked club and shield
Diablo's Apocalypse spell now deals 70/120 damage in nightmare/hell difficulty, respectively
Griswold's premium shop now spawns new items at your character level rather than character level - 5
The "Jagged" prefix is now level 1, fixing a bug where normal short staves could spawn in Griswold's premium shop