Threatening Shout

Threatening Shout is a Tactics Barbarian skill unlocked at Level 17, which debuffs enemies around the Barbarian, making them deal less damage for a period of time.

This is one of the Barbarian's shouts.

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Background

Threatening Shout in action.

The Barbarian shouts threats at his enemies, demoralizing them greatly.

Skill Rune Effects

See the Threatening Shout rune effects page for a more thorough description of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

Icon	Name	Stats (Hover over)	Level Unlocked
	Demoralize	(Stats)	43
	Intimidate	(Stats)	23
	Grim Harvest	(Stats)	37
	Falter	(Stats)	28
	Terrify	(Stats)	57

Skill Design

This skill is a warcry, and a good one at that. If the Barbarian runs into enemies with really high damage, this skill is a life saver, making the fight that much easier. It is unknown if this warcry will affect bosses (highly doubtful since bosses always have more WAAAAGH than the characters).

Synergies

The following Barbarian passive provides a benefit to Threatening Shout, runed or not:

• Inspiring Presence - Doubles the duration of the Barbarian's Shouts always.

Development

Threatening Shout was introduced in the WWI 2008 gameplay video when Diablo III debuted, as a Tier III skill in the Berserker Skill Tree. This skill was available for play in the BlizzCon 2009 demo, but as Flux said:[1]

Another of the “sounds cool, but no reason to use it in this easy build” low level defensive skills.

Threatening Shout was still around for the BlizzCon 2010 demo as a Tier 4 skill, but there are no gameplay reports detailing any use of it.

Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, allowing skills to unlock steadily from levels 1 to 30. Consequently, all skill levels were adjusted and Threatening Shout became a level 9 skill.

Beta

The Diablo III Beta started in September 2011, and while it ran, all of the skills continued to undergo extensive iteration. Skill changes varied from changing the levels the skills are unlocked, to changes in resource cost, damage, and even function. A few skills were removed altogether, and a few new ones were added. Also, the entire skill system received an overhaul with the Beta Patch 13 update in February 2012, with physical runes replaced by rune effects that automatically unlock at various levels for the different skills.

Threatening Shout was dropped to level 1 for the beta, but was soon moved to level 2. With the Patch 13 changes, it was classified as a Defensive skill and moved to level 4. For the Beta Patch 14, it was re-classified as a Tactics skill and bumped to level 17, putting it out of reach of beta players.

Previous Versions

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

In Other Games

This skill is designed very much like Diablo II's Barbarian skill Battle Cry, except this skill only gives a reduction to damage while Battle Cry gave a reduction to enemy Defense as well. Shouts in Diablo III are very similar to the warcries in Diablo II, except having smaller statistical bonuses and requiring Fury to use.

Media

Threatening Shout can be seen in action on video here:

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

• Diablo III screenshots and pictures
• Threatening Shout specific gallery contents

References

• BlizzCon 2009 Full Barbarian Skill Trees and Stats
• Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report — IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
• Silva's Barbarian Runestone Effects — IncGamers 6th Sep 2011
• Barbarian Active Skills — Blizzard's Official Diablo III Site

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