Converting my 3.5 Frenzied Berzerker to Pathfinder, tips welcome!


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So, I'm playing in a game that is ready to switch to Pathfinder.

Right now, my character is a dwarven barbarian 2 / fighter 4 who was about to dive into Frenzied Berzerker.

However, now that we're in Pathfinder, I figure I'll just do the rest of his levels in Barbarian, and do the "two handed fighter" variant for the fighter levels.

I don't want to change too much of what I've already done, but the DM said I could change some thing due to Pathfinder's new options.

Anyway, he uses a Greataxe and has a nifty magic one, so I'd like to keep that. He's specialized in it, but that doesn't need to stay.

I want to avoid the Beast Totem (or any totem, really) rage powers because it doesn't fit the flavor of a Battlerager (in my opinion), but I'm having trouble trying to decide on which rage powers to get going forward.

Any tips are welcome!


Now from what I remember of the Battlerager, he fought with his armor alone. I made an NPC BR a month ago with the WF spiked armor, improved crit spiked armor, etc. Barb 2, weapon master 4. Eventually get Gloves of Dueling so you will get an additional +2/+2. You will get +1/+1 from WeaponMaster and an additional +1/+1 every 4 lvs.

Get improved grapple, etc and its on...


You probably get more out of Weapon Master Fighter than Two Handed Fighter (attack bonuses give percentage damage increases, so they generally beat out damage bonuses).

The issue almost all melee classes in Pathfinder (other than the mobile fighter at level 11, beast totem barbarian at 10 and two handed fighter at level 19) have at higher levels is that their standard action attacks don't really matter.

You don't want beast totem and the other two fighter ACFs aren't really in reach for someone who is just dipping fighter. So the best thing to do is find something better to do with your standard actions than attacking.

There are some decent magic items which require standard actions (although not so much at low level). You will of course want a giant hide armor (or multiple). Dancing Weapon is good. Greater horn of blasting maybe. Robe of scintillating colors. Dirty trick and grapple are also options.

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