| aggathax |
I'm dreaming up a Barbarian that skips Power Attack until the later levels. To make up for that, I need to up my early level attacks and damage. I'm also not interested in the beast totem line with Pounce as its capstone, because the payoff is a bit too delayed - I'm starting at 1st, and want to have fun with my guy now, not later.
To that end, I've came up with a few ideas, aiming at max ownage at level 3/4:
Razortooth Halforc lvl4:
Spoiler:
Take the feat Razortooth for the bite attack, as the ferocity racial ability is pretty useful for staying upright (in conjunction with the accelerated drinker trait), and saves me from taking a bunch of feats that are situational: Endurance, Diehard, and/or Raging Vitality (this one is more useful at higher levels, imo). Take Fiend totem at Lvl 2, Step Up at lvl 3, and Lesser Elemental Rage at 4. At 4th Lvl, assuming STR 18 pre-rage and a nothing fancy greataxe, we can do this with a full attack while raging
+10 1d12 +9 + 1d6
+5 1d8 + 3 + 1d6
+5 1d4 + 3 + 1d6
Sorcerous Barbarian lvl3:
Spoiler:
Looking to entry into dragon disciple at later levels. Human, with Magical Lineage trait for enlarge person, Magical Knack for the Sorcerer class; spend feats on Still Spell and Combat Reflexes. Take Reckless Abandon as your rage power. At level Three jump into Sorcerer and we spend round one with a Stilled Enlarge person effective for 3 minutes. UMD will come in handy later on. We're assuming 18 str and 16 dex, and we will be playing with a Lucern Hammer for the tasty 3d6 damage with reach after we Still Spell enlarge ourselves on round 1. For the third level feat, take Stand Still to dominate that battlefield.
Enlarged, with 4 AoO a round:
+9 3d6 + 10
Anyone else have other builds? I just really really hate missing with my melee attacks.