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Revenge is a Situational Barbarian skill unlocked at level 12, which hits all enemies in an AoE around the Barbarian and heals him. Only usable if the Barbarian's been hit.

Background

Revenge in action.

The Barbarian retaliates by smashing the ground with a vengeance, taking the life force of enemies who still cling to life.

Skill Effects

The following is a very quick list. See the Revenge rune effects page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

Skill		Effect
Revenge (Level 12)		Inflict 150% weapon damage to all enemies within 8 yards and gain 5.0% Life for each enemy hit. Revenge has a 10% change to become active for a short time each time you are hit by an attack.
	Retribution	Increase damage to 255% weapon damage.
	Provocation	Increases the chance Revenge will become active for use to 31% each time you are hit by an attack.
	Grudge	Knocks enemies back 30 yards when Revenge is used.
	Vengeance is Mine	Gain 7 Fury each time Revenge is used and improve Life gained from each enemy hit to 12.0%.
	Best Served Cold	After using Revenge, your critical strike chance is increased by 27% for 10 seconds.

Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.

Skill Design

Revenge is a good skill to heal up when swarmed, as when surrounded by monsters, the chances of Revenge being usable becomes quite high. The amount healed is in percentages, so hitting 5 enemies will give you 10% of your total health at rank 1. The damage is also good with 150% of a very damaging yet slow weapon will make this skill useful to cause some havoc and heal up.

Synergies

No synergies with any of the passive skills are yet known.

Development

Revenge was first introduced in the BlizzCon 2008 demo as a Tier III skill in the Juggernaut Skill Tree, which did 100% weapon damage. The BlizzCon 2009 version was pretty much the same, but with increased damage.

Revenge was one of the preset skills for the Barbarian in the BlizzCon 2010 demo. Flux had this to say about its functionality:[1]

What happens with Revenge is that you put it on the 1-5 keys, and it stays grayed out/unusuable until you get into a fight. At some point during the battle, if you have enough Fury and you get hit, it activates. Then you can hit the hotkey to use it, and your Barb makes a kind of spinning back swing, like a counter in a fighting game.

...I didn’t actually need it during the demo with the Barb; I was never low on hit points and could have passed up 75% of the health globes I earned. But the whole game won’t be as easy as this demo, and with more points in Revenge, or perhaps with skill runes, the life leech might be raised (or the activation might be increased in frequency) up enough to make this a really valuable source of health.

Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Revenge became a level 12 skill.

Previous Versions

See the Barbarian skill archive for more details on previous versions of Revenge and other Barbarian skills.

In Other Games

The mechanic for this skill was probably inspired from Warrior skills in World of Warcraft, where you can only cast some skills if you've been hit in the last X seconds. With the restraints on the use of the skill, it's not strange that it is Fury free.

Media

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

References

BlizzCon 2008 Barbarian Game Play
BlizzCon 2009 Full Barbarian Skill Trees and Stats
BlizzCon 2010 Barbarian Hands-on Report
Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
Silva's Barbarian Runestone Effects -- IncGamers 6th Sep 2011
Barbarian Overview -- Diablo 3 Official 13th Sep 2011

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+<p style="text-align:center">Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.</p>
 ==Skill Design==

Fan-made Classes			Fan-made Skills [e]
• Alchemist • Arcane Warrior • Artisan • Aurian Mage • Bard • Channeller • Dragon Warrior	• Flagellant • Giant (U) • Hollow Man • Nomad • Onaga Manji • Phase Knight	• Ranger • Slayer (U) • Techpriest (U) • Telepath • Untainted (U) • Zealot	Dragon Warrior Skills • Bow and Throwing Skill Tree • Dragon Disciplines Skill Tree • Martial Arts Skill Tree	Untainted Skills • Divine Skill Tree	Aurian Mage Skill • Holy Power Skill Tree • Shadow Spells Skill Tree • Nature Forces Skill Tree
(U) = Unfinished				Untainted Skills • Divine Skill Tree