Threatening Shout
Threatening Shout is a Tier III skill from the Barbarian's Berserker Skill Tree, which debuffs enemies around the Barbarian, making them deal less damage for a period of time.
Contents
Background
| Diablo III Skill [e] | |
|---|---|
| |
| Threatening Shout Active, 5 ranks | |
| Used by: | Barbarian |
| Shouts with great ferocity, reducing damage done by enemies within X feet by Y% for Z seconds | |
| Type: | Debuff |
| Quantity: | Spell Duration |
| Effect: | Circular AoE |
| School: | Physical |
| Fury cost: | Free |
| Cast time: | Instant |
| Duration: | None |
| Cooldown: | None |
| Synergies: | None |
| Requires: | N/A |
| Prereq of: | N/A |
The Barbarian shouts threats at his enemies, demoralizing them greatly.
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 (we highly doubt it since bosses always have more WAAAAGH than you).
Skill Rank Table
(legend (A) = Assumed)
- Rank: 1/5
- Shouts with great ferocity, reducing damage done by enemies within 24 feet by 50% for 12 seconds.
- Fury Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 2/5
- Shouts with great ferocity, reducing damage done by enemies within 24 feet by 60% for 15 seconds. (A)
- Fury Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 3/5
- Shouts with great ferocity, reducing damage done by enemies within 24 feet by 70% for 18 seconds. (A)
- Fury Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 4/5
- Shouts with great ferocity, reducing damage done by enemies within 24 feet by 80% for 21 seconds. (A)
- Fury Cost: Unknown
- Rank: 5/5
- Shouts with great ferocity, reducing damage done by enemies within 24 feet by 90% for 24 seconds. (A)
- Fury Cost: Unknown
Synergies
- None known.
Skill Rune Effects
- None known.
Development
Threatening Shout was first seen at the Diablo II announcement at WWI 2008 and is the only Warcry in the Berserker skill tree so far. It has changed multiple times since it's unveiling in WWI.
This skill is designed very much like the Battle Cry in Diablo 2, except this skill only gives a reduction to damage while Battle Cry gave a reduction to Defense as well. Warcries in Diablo 3 are very similar to the warcries in Diablo 2, except having smaller statistical bonuses and requiring Fury to use (assumption).
Threatening Shout was originally called "Terrifying Shout" and gave a damage bonus to the Barbarian's party. Later, this skill became Threatening Shout with the effects seen above, but higher stats at Rank 1.
Media
You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:
Threatening shout, ho!
Close-up of the shout.
References
| Berserker Skills [e] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier I |
Tier II • Sprint |
Tier III |
Tier IV |
Tier V |
Tier VI • Wrath of the Berserker
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