Giant Barbarian Build Advice for SoT

[CupTurtle]

Hello all,

I'm thinking about building a Leshy Giant Instinct Barbarian. Strength of Thousands allows for a free archetype with a class feat every 2 levels starting at level 2. So I'm considering going with the Druid Archetype, but concerned about the lack of heavy armor and being too squishy. Any advice on the build below would be appreciated!

Only built through level 12 cause I don't want to get ahead of myself.

Str 18 Dex 12 Con 16 Int 8 Wis 12 Cha 12
Ancestry: Leshy, Fungus Leshy 1st: Harmlessly Cute 5th: Leshy Superstition, 9th: leshy Keepsake
General Feats: Level 3: Toughness, Level 7: Fleet, Level 11: Canny Acumen
Class Feats: Level 1: Raging Intimidation, Level 2: Sudden Charge, Level 4: Acute Scent, Level 6: Giant Stature, Level 8: Attack of Opportunity, Level 10: Silencing Strike, Level 12: Titan Stature
Skill Feat: Level 1: Trick magic Item, Level 4: Terrifying Resistance, Level 6: Titan Wrestler, Level 8: Battle Cry, Level 10: Cat Fall, Level 12: Intimidating Prowess
Free Archetype Class Feats: Level 2: Druid Dedication, Flame Order, Level 4: Basic Druid Spellcasting, Level 6: Basic Wilding - Poison Resistance, Level 8: Advanced Wilding - Fire Resistance, Wild, Level 10: Advanced Wilding - Order Explorer, Stone Order, Level 12: Order Spell

[The Raven Black]

I would take Sudden charge before Raging Intimidation.

If you are open to a rather strong build change, for a big nova of damage, I would go Magus MC at level 2 and Spellstriker at level 4. With Wizard as the free archetype obviously. Though that would mean rearranging the initial stats a bit to get the Magus dedication.

BTW, why don't you take Grasping reach for your Leshy feat ?

[CupTurtle]

The Raven Black wrote:

I would take Sudden charge before Raging Intimidation.

If you are open to a rather strong build change, for a big nova of damage, I would go Magus MC at level 2 and Spellstriker at level 4. With Wizard as the free archetype obviously. Though that would mean rearranging the initial stats a bit to get the Magus dedication.

BTW, why don't you take Grasping reach for your Leshy feat ?

Magus is an interesting idea. Leshy has a negative to intelligence so I'd maybe have to consider going with something like gnoll instead. Wizard would let me get away with lower dex and heavier armor too. But you can't do any spells or recharge spellstrike while raging

I could take grasping reach! I sort of just thought giant barbarian would end up with enough reach at the end of the day.

[The Raven Black]

Magus MC cannot recharge spellstrike in combat anyway.

[CupTurtle]

Gotcha. Yeah so I guess my two options would be a gnoll barbarian with Wizard archetype or leshy barbarian with druid archetype