Rage does 2 things. #1 it increases your melee damage for each point of rage. #2 the barbarian does not naturally tick cool downs. Rather, when you kill an enemy, your rage value is subtracted from ability cool downs. So a barbarian in a big fight can quickly recover his cool downs by playing aggressively.
Rage does 2 things. #1 it increases your melee damage for each point of rage. #2 the barbarian does not naturally tick cool downs. Rather, when you kill an enemy, your rage value is subtracted from ability cool downs. So a barbarian in a big fight can quickly recover his cool downs by playing aggressively.