Heh. Yeah, I avoided the Barbarian for that reason in Diablo 2 for the longest time too. But despite being more boring than the other classes, in Hardcore he always lasted the longest. So once I started playing the Barbarian, it turned out that the class I had with the most characters ended up being Barbarians, because they were the only ones who survived. They did all die eventually in Hell difficulty of course, so even they weren’t invincible.
The little Undead kids from Act 3, in particular, were the Barbarian’s kryptonite.