Berserk flame, while extremely powerful and short-lived, broke global caps worse than Dragon Dance. We are no longer allowed to have such abilities in DR 3.0. With that in mind I designed Barbarian abilities to be used together for a combined effect that could, in some cases, approach what you used to have.
Flame is an exception because the old designers used its short duration as an excuse for excessive potency. I'm just not able to play such fuzzy math game anymore, nor would I really want to. Good designs require solid rules and undermining those rules just leads to situations like the present-day Wallstreet :P
Some abilities, such as Volcano (once I get to finish it) will give you a different kind of awesome. Being completely unkillable for a time should satisfy some people. With the ability rebalancing going on I intend to give Barbarians a larger set of offensive boosting abilities. Just need to get Alchemy out (hope to get a small part it out to Plat tomorrow, and all of it out by next weekend, then to Prime a week after). Once Alchemy is out I can get back on Barbarian abilities for a while.
"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
