The barb has been terribly nerfed after energy revamp due to 2 abilities: bone shatter & predatory instincts.
1st (and only slight) What is the point of having predatory instincts if you can't even get energy out of your 300+ stamina regen? Plus, I don't even use a stamina pot in pvp so it shows how useless it is. The 15% evade is nice but not worth half the feat point consumption when that 300+ stamina is no longer converted into sprinting power.
(2nd and very major) That is bad, but not near as bad as what happened to bone shatter. This used to be an AMAZING combo removing stamina pots. This basically makes it so everyone in aoe area can't sprint but for the duration of their stamina pool cuz they will have nothing to gain stamia back with unless they had a good healer. So if you are fighting a lot of melee on the other team, bone shatter would be a great debuff curse so your team can sprint and theirs can't. Also in duals, I could remove stamia pots, place wrecks on soldiers, run away (they couldn't follow for long) come back with my stacks held via determination and finish them off with full life from zerker. That is no more folks. There is little way i can get a tank of me now. If you have arcane maradur, you will get speed buff but only if the opponent crits you and even still you will run out of energy way too soon compared to what it was like when theirs was cursed. Funcom needs to totally revamp the bone shatter or the barb is screwed to what it was. (. . .and why did funcom remove kb root and other things from barb and make conqs so op like they are the poor things, but different discussion entirely)
I have sent many petitions about this issue and emails with no action so I am depending on the community to help me here. Thanks for reading and plz only barb players respond. (even though that won't happen)