It appears to be, yes, as flanking strike is being removed.
Definitely excited to try this one. I think a skill like Warcry is perfect for providing added versatility to melee-oriented blademaster builds by allowing both offensive and defensive nodes and giving you the choice depending on what gaps you need to plug.
As a big fan of melee I think this new skill (and hope all changes on other skills) will make me love the beastmaster!
It stuns mobs baseline, that’s pretty defensive to me, as is the freeze on the Jormun’s Wrath node.
Im confident everyone will love it - it is a cool, usefull skill that adds many options - dont worry.
Baseline it has knockback too if you want it to be this defensive.
All the yelling! XD
WHAT?
Still hasnt touched Primalist and Acolyte. And still planning to keep it that way 
Checks out - LE is a game for gramps.
Looks like a solid skill, I’m not a fan of knock back though so good to see a way of speccing out that!
The shout barb was one of my favorite D2 builds. If it does decent damage and has a very fast cast speed, I would love to build around this. The cold spec seems great.
The variety of spec is great too. The idea of speccing it to support a melee build is neat as well.
WHAAAAAAAAATTTTTT. SORRY I CANT STOP MY WARCRY!!! lmao
We all hope that it has a cool sound!
Sound Teaser now! 
True berserk generally is forgoing defense and breath of eterra is a healing ability, but my main gripe with the primality is he is not as tanky as I would like him or his minions aren’t. Its a either or situation. So I was hoping I could get some res or more armor… something to make him be able to take some hits if you focus on your minions.
Tbh, i am not sure what you are talking about.
Primalist has insane defenses available to him, especially beastmaster.
But since they talked about some more defense changes in the patch preview, there will be a slight shakeup.
Beastmaster can get an aweful lot of damage reduction, especially if you go low-life.
Thinking about this and I know we’ll get our answer in a day or two but…I really hope this skill is in the lower half of the passive tree so other specs can get it. The Yormun freezing version would be very thematic with some Shaman builds.
Nah, its listed as beastmaster skill which usually means its above the halfway line. If it was accessible to all they usually tag it as a Primalist skill. Assuming since flanking strike is going bye bye that its taking that location.
Edit: Nothing to see here
That’s the plan. 
That has never been the case.
Warcry is obtained by spending points on Beastmaster passives, so we call it a Beastmaster skill.