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The question would have to be... How does the Wild Stalker Ranger's rage and rage powers stack up with Barbarian?
Ripped directly from the PRD:
Rage of the Wild (Ex): At 4th level, a wild stalker gains the rage ability as the barbarian class feature, but its barbarian level is considered to be his ranger level –3. This ability replaces hunter's bond.
Rage Powers: At 5th level, a wild stalker ranger gains a single rage power, as the barbarian class feature. He gains another rage power each five levels after 5th (to a maximum of four rage powers at 20th level). This ability replaces the ranger's second, third, fourth, and fifth favored enemy abilities.
Wild Talents (Ex): At 6th level, a wild stalker can either take a rage power, or gains a +2 insight bonus into any one of the following skills: Acrobatics, Climb, Perception, Stealth, Survival, or Swim. The wild stalker can gain one of these two benefits again every five levels after 6th (to a maximum of 4 times at 20th level). This ability replaces the ranger's second, third, fourth, and fifth favored enemy abilities.
For that matter, what if I chose to be an Urban Barbarian? Also ripped from the PRD
Controlled Rage (Ex): When an urban barbarian rages, instead of making a normal rage she may apply a +4 morale bonus to her Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. This bonus increases to +6 when she gains greater rage and +8 when she gains mighty rage. She may apply the full bonus to one ability score or may split the bonus between several scores in increments of +2. When using a controlled rage, an urban barbarian gains no bonus on Will saves, takes no penalties to AC, and can still use Intelligence-, Dexterity-, and Charisma-based skills. This ability otherwise follows the normal rules for rage.
Can someone explain how this would work to me? I'm having some trouble puzzling this out right now. Is it as I suspect and all the Wild Stalker does is stack with the normal Barbarian's rages, then thusly modified by Controlled Rage?
Actually, while I'm over here...
Uncanny Dodge (Ex): At 2nd level, a wild stalker gains uncanny dodge as the barbarian's class feature. This ability replaces the ranger's combat style feat.
Does that completely replace the combat feats, or just the one at 2nd level?
It seems to me that the Wild Rager was not checked for typos and bad wording before UC was sent to print.
Yes, all it does is give you more rage rounds per day. Check out my post over here for clarification on what happens to combat style feats and what else Wild Stalker is missing.