Best Wild Heart?

[Fluffykeith]

Title says it all

What’s the best (and worst) choices for Wild Heart Barb?

[Detective Costeau]

Personally I think the resistance to all non-psychic damage Bear Heart gets is pretty hard to argue with. Simple, but it works.

[KRON]

Bear is probably the best - resistance to all damage(except psychic) and double the carrying capacity as a passive are just too good.

Elk is good, too, with its increased movement speed.

[seandeven]

I concur with Bear being the strongest Bestial heart. I do enjoy Eagles mobility and Diving Strike.

The aspects are the real question what animal aspect? I say Wolverine or go with Chimpanzee for the laughs.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Bear if you want a tank, tiger/eagle if you need damage (tho you could just pick beserker for that)

[Gwonbush]

Elk aspect is my general go-to aspect. Extra move speed on your entire team is pretty decent.

[Fluffykeith]

Originally posted by Gwonbush:

Elk aspect is my general go-to aspect. Extra move speed on your entire team is pretty decent.

I didn’t realise that the move bonus from Elk affected your whole team?

[Detective Costeau]

Have to agree with the recommendations for Elk aspect as well. Bearheart with Elk aspect is my go-to Karlach build if I''m not trying something unusual.
And yes, Elk affects your whole team. Like a paladin's auras, but a much larger radius.

[Kappa]

I like Eagle with Stallion ( and the other depends my playstile ).
The leap attack is also awesome!

[Axetwin]

Early on Bear is a life saver. But I think when your party strength reaches a point where you don't need the defenses Tiger might start to out pace it. Then you get a cleave on demand that inflicts bleed, which synergizes well with Wolverine which gives you extra accuracy and damage against bleeding targets.

[Pat Fenis]

Tiger - tiger - wolverine is the endpoint, requires levels and gear. Probably want another build to get there, the tiger cleave is weak without a bunch of strength and the other aspects to back it up.

[The Many]

Originally posted by Kappa:

I like Eagle with Stallion ( and the other depends my playstile ).
The leap attack is also awesome!

Yeah, this combo is super fun and you get lots of act 1 gear that supports it.

-Haste Helm (3 turns Momentum buff @ start of combat)
-Fleet Fingers (free jump after dashing)
-Linebreaker Boots (gain Wrath buff after dashing)
-Moondrop Pendant (immune to attacks of opportunity when below 50% HP)
-Crushers Ring (increased movement speed)
-Ring of Jumping (free cast of enhanced jump per short rest)
-Hammarhraft (1d4 lightning damage AoE on jumps; procs on diving strike - remember to toggle off when not fighting to avoid friendly fire)

So every turn you can bonus dash to a high point, diving strike an enemy, then jump right back up to where you were for free thanks to the fleet fingers. There's no save or anything for the knocking prone effect on diving stirke - if the attack hits (which it almost certainly will thanks to reckless strike), and the enemy can be knocked prone, then it's guaranteed to happen.

Prone enemies can't make attacks of opportunity obviously, but even in the event that you miss, you are either outright immune to AOOs when below 50% HP, or enemies have disadvantage on them when you're above 50% HP. So no matter how the rolls go you should have no trouble jumping back to the point you just dived off of to do it all again next turn.

Stallion adds further synergy to the bonus dash meaning you consistently get a huge chunk of temp hit points every single turn.

I cannot overstate how fun this loop is to play. It's how I've built Karlach and it's just hilarious watching her leap across the length of the entire screen screaming every single turn.