I agree with you as far as selecting a barbarian for PvP. Boulders are neat there. Junk for PvE though. Slam is on backstab timer and is kinda bad. End game, race simply does not matter. There's no barbarian on Blue with better stats than myself or Sckrilla. We're wood elves.
http://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:Sckrilla
http://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:Cecily