Help me build a barbarian

[cire87]

how should i gear then , clothing or light armor or medium armor ?

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

You should wear Shadowheart's underwear.

[101Asa]

Medium armor or light depending on if you want to be using things for unarmed. Get nice big heavy weapons.

[Snaef]

Whatever add up to the most AC, depends on your stats and the available equipment,...
There are some +2 ac bracers early on, that works unarmoured and stack with the barb. AC

[Kernest]

Clothing is the obvious choice, so that you get your AC from Unarmoured Defense, which is Con+Dex modifier.

That does leave you with 3 main stats to improve (STR, DEX, CON), but you can kinda bypass that by equipping the gloves that set your Dex to 18, which is higher than the average Barbarian should expect.

Or just leave Dex at 14 or something and wear the armguards that give +2 AC if you're not wearing armour.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

You should wear Shadowheart's underwear.

Well of course, but that's not barbarian specific...

[Kernest]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

You should wear Shadowheart's underwear.

Well of course, but that's not barbarian specific...

That makes me sick,

Now I'm gonna have to cry myself to sleep wearing Minthara's clothes...

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Kernest:

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Well of course, but that's not barbarian specific...

That makes me sick,

Now I'm gonna have to cry myself to sleep wearing Minthara's clothes...

I would but they're covered in blood.

Completely unrelated, Asterion's undergarments are still in a backpack where his body fell in my camp. I'm not going to touch them. I don't want to know where they've been.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Completely nekkie 'Barian is the only way to play.

[TyranntX]

Race wise, go with either Half-Orc or Dragonborn. Half-Orc for their brutal Critical and Dragonborn for a tad bit more resistances.

For for weapons, kill the Devil commander on the ship in the first act and grab his sword. it deals more damage than the great axe you start with AND it deals a bit of fire damage. this should carry through all of Act 1 and until you find a better weapon in Act 2 . find a heavy crossbow if you can, as you need to inflict damage in order to keep on raging, luckily ranged attacks count. If you cannot find a crossbow, pick up any javelins and hand axes you find and use them as throwing weapons.

For Armor, nothing. As a barbarian you get to add your constitution modifier to your AC on top of your dex, so long as you ARE NOT wearing armor. so there really isn't much difference between wearing clothes and being naked unless you find enchanted clothes that don't have any armor tags.

[wendigo211]

Since Barbarians have resistance to physical damage (Rage) and good HP, I'm of the opinion that they should have the lowest AC in your Party. That's not to say you don't want them to have a good AC, you just don't want it to be better than your spell casters who are concentrating on spells. That said, I think Adamantine Scale Mail is probably the best armor for them (Immunity to Critical hits, enemies get a -1 to attack after hitting you, and -1 to all damage recieved). Keep an eye out for items that grant static damage reduction and reciprocal damage as well, there are a few.

If you're going for a throwing Barb, then you probably want a high AC so you don't have enemies in melee range. In this case you probably want as good as you can get.

[cire87]

thanks

[Kernest]

Originally posted by TyranntX:

find a heavy crossbow if you can, as you need to inflict damage in order to keep on raging, luckily ranged attacks count. If you cannot find a crossbow, pick up any javelins and hand axes you find and use them as throwing weapons.

There is a nice "Returning Pike" you can buy (IIRC) in Act 1, that returns when thrown, I just don't remember exactly where off the top of my head.

But that's more for a throwing build. For maintaining rage, Heavy Crossbow will do until better options present themselves.

Originally posted by wendigo211:

I'm of the opinion that they should have the lowest AC in your Party. That's not to say you don't want them to have a good AC, you just don't want it to be better than your spell casters who are concentrating on spells.

IMO if the enemy is stupid enough to waste their action disengaging or taking an opportunity attack, let them.

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[𝔜𝔲𝔢]

Don't go with the crowd, stop being a sheep - who needs armor at all? You're a barbarian, not a silly fighter, so don't bother with clothes and go into battle naked! (that way poor Shadowheart can even keep her underwear).

[Tariff Mike Hawk]

clothing, very good AC bonuses when u multi class with monk