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I've got an idea percolating in my head about a Dwarven Barbarian Invulnerable Rager, but I'm still too new to PF to really know how well the build will shake out. I was hoping to get a little feedback as to how you would go about drawing up this guy. I see him as a classic Beserker type, who does two-handed axes and utilizes armor spikes and over-run a lot.
Here's what I have so far :
Baliel the Ax-Mad
CN Deity: Gorum
20 point buy:
Str 17
Dex 14
Con 16
Int 10
Wis 10
Cha 7
Replacing Stability with Relentless
Replace Stonecunning with Rockstepper
IR 1 – Power Attack
IR 2 – Rage Power Overbearing Advance
IR 3 – Improved Overrun
IR 4 – Rage Power Renewed Vigor +1 Str
IR 5 – Spiked Destroyer
IR 6 – Rage Power Reckless Assault
IR 7 – Combat Reflexes
IR 8 – Rage Power Overbearing Onslaught +1 Dex
IR 9 – Extra Rage Power Lesser Beast Totem
IR 10 – Rage Power Beast Totem
IR 11 – Dazing Assault
IR 12 – Rage Power Come and Get Me +1 Con
IR 13 – ERP Greater Beast Totem
IR 14 – Rage Power Raging Brutality
Any advice you guys can give me as to a more efficient build? Order of powers? Different powers? I'd appreciate any build advice I can get.
Raging Vitality is useful to avoid the problem of instantly dying because your rage ends when you fall unconscious.
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IR 1 – Power Attack
IR 2 – Rage Power Overbearing Advance
IR 3 – Improved Overrun
IR 4 – Rage Power Renewed Vigor +1 Str
IR 5 – Spiked Destroyer
IR 6 – Rage Power Reckless Assault
IR 7 – Raging Vitality
IR 8 – Rage Power Overbearing Onslaught +1 Dex
IR 9 – Combat Reflexes
IR 10 – Rage Power Lesser Beast Totem
IR 11 – ERP Beast Totem
IR 12 – Rage Power Come and Get Me +1 Con
IR 13 – ERP Greater Beast Totem
IR 14 – Rage Power Raging Brutality
IR 15 – Dazing Assault
Does this make a more suitable, less dead type of barbarian?
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Does this make a more suitable, less dead type of barbarian?
Renewed Vigor, IMO, isn't worth it unless you have Superstition, and maybe not then.
Depending on groupmakeup, Superstition may be worth it to you as a replacment. It's downside is annoying, but doesn't apply to Lay on Hands or Channel Energy, just for example.
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So what then should I take in place of Renewed Vigor?
Serious question. Am never been Barbarian, so I got no clue how the rage powers will really work.
Well, you could speed up your acquisition of the Beast Totem stuff significantly. Alternately, I was quite serious in mentioning Superstition. It synchronizes well with Hardy, and is generally cool.
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Maybe grab Improved Critical?
From a survivability perspective, I'd personally rearrange things to get Beast Totem a bit sooner (maybe switching it and Reckless Assault, though if you did that I'd actually set it up as 6: Beast Totem, 10: Greater Beast Totem, 11: Reckless Assault, but that's just me). It provides a soid AC bonus that a Barbarian can make very good use of.
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That makes a lot of sense. I really appreciate the feedback.
I looked into the Superstitious chain. That sounds pretty substantial as well. I don't know that I'd be able to work it all in until really late in the game, but who knows? Poor guy may not make it that long. Not with his near-suicidal headlong rushes into the fray.