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Ancient Spear is a Tier 5 skill which requires a clvl of 14. The Barbarian fires a mystical spear to snare his foes.

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]
Ancient Spear Active, 5 ranks
Used by:	Barbarian
Skill Description:
Fire an ancient spear to snare your foes.
Skill Details:
Type:	Grapple
Quantity:	None
Effect:	Target
School:	Physical
Fury cost:	Unknown
Cast time:	Instant
Duration:	None
Cooldown:	Unknown
Synergies:	None
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

The Barbarian throws an ancient spear that sinks into his foes, and he pulls them into his blades.

Skill Design

Spear in flight.

Ancient Spear first appeared at BlizzCon 2010.
The skill, at its based, is designed to pull a target into melee range. The spear hit also damages the target for a variable amount of damage. This skill is likely to be a popular one in PVP to pull in ranged fighters, and as a way to not necessarily break roots and snares, but to make them irrelevant. As seen in the various pvp videos from BlizzCon, this skill has a fairly long range.

Skill Rank Table

• Rank 1: Throws a spear with a maximum range of X feet, pulling each target back to the Barbarian, slowing movement speed and dealing X-X damage.

Skill Rune Effects

• None known.

Development

Wyatt Cheng briefly discussed the development of Ancient Spear at BlizzCon 2010^[1]:

We knew that he needed a ranged attack so here is an example of Ancient Spear. We don't want to turn the Barbarian into a ranged class so this is something that feels very appropriate for him. We want to sell the theme that he's strong, he's tough, he's melee so we had to come up with something that felt appropriate for that.

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:

• Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures
• Ancient Spear-specific gallery contents

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  Barb firing spear.

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  The spearhead and chain.

References