Battlemaster Skill Tree

BattleMaster Skill tree as of BlizzCon 2009.

The Battlemaster skill tree is a Barbarian skill tree themed with the finer aspects of combat, and has skills to reflect this.

Useful skill links:

• Skills - General skill design and mechanics.
• Barbarian skills - Barbarian-specific skill design.
  • Berserker Skill Tree - Berserker skills.
  • Juggernaut Skill Tree - Juggernaut skills.
  • Battlemaster Skill Tree - Battlemaster skills.
• Barbarian skill archive - Removed Barbarian skills.

Battlemaster skills

The Battlemaster tree focuses on creating barbarians whose main role in battle is to be good at combat on all levels, to tank to a certain extent and to maintain a good defense than barbarians of other builds. Also, like any skill tree focusing on any element of gameplay, it cannot be called a skill tree if it doesn't have signature skills that can actually kill. Luckily for us, the Battlemaster tree has a few cool skills that makes enemies easy to kill, like Hammer of the Ancients, Weapon Throw and Furious Charge.

Tier I

• Battle Cry
  • Active skill that is a battle cry giving armor to all nearby party members.
• Second Wind (required for Ignore Pain)
  • Passive skill that lowers damage taken when on less than 50% health.

Tier II

• Stubborn
  • Passive skill that reduces slowing effects.
• Enrage (required for Inspiration)
  • Active skill to increase Fury.

Tier III

• Hammer of the Ancients
  • Active skill creating a magic hammer to smash enemies.
• Ignore Pain (requires Second Wind)
  • Active skill reducing all damage taken and fury gained.

Tier IV

• Weapon Throw (requires Inspiration)
  • Active skill, throwing a weapon at an enemy, hurting and slowing it.
• Inspiration (requires Enrage and required for Weapon Throw)
  • Passive skill increasing crit chance and damage when landing a crit.

Tier V

• Furious Charge
  • Active skill charging an enemy, and anything in front of you.
• Retaliation
  • Passive skill that increase damage after successful block.

Tier VI

• Cripple
  • Passive skill that slows enemy movement and attack rate.

References

• Full Barbarian Skill Trees and Stats