Can Animal Instinct Barbarians use improvised weapons like lets say and enemy if flying and in his rage he lobs a boulder up at it, or person he has grappled like a goblin? and if he can is there feats to mitigate the penalty?
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Can Animal Instinct Barbarians use improvised weapons like lets say and enemy if flying and in his rage he lobs a boulder up at it, or person he has grappled like a goblin? and if he can is there feats to mitigate the penalty?
While Raging? No, this still violates their anathema. And no, there are no Feats to mitigate this.
The Barbarian can use weapons normally when not raging, however, so you could just not Rage when fighting flying enemies until you can get some way to fly or jump high enough to get them with your unarmed attack (Sudden Leap is the Barbarian Class Feat for the latter).
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Oh boi, Kolette's threads were wild.Tell me about it, what a rush it was too! It almost makes me wanna try to help CB come back so we can have them pal around with Zapp.
Yeah, that would be- Oh, no... what is all of this blood doing dribbling out of my nose. Oh no... my brain is devouring itself.
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They have the best resistances and one of the highest Armor Class in the game. Their natural weapons can be combined with a shield to make them even more tanky.
Meanwhile, the Giant Barb is a glass cannon with AC so low they're constantly going to be critted by monsters. Dragon is awesome though.
How is Colette? Anyone have any news?
He was very present in the playtest... When he/she killed every party! Lol
For the life of me I can't figure out why people say that animal skin gives you almost the highest ac. It gets you expert proficiency in unarmored, which never goes higher so the feat only gets worse. It has a dex cap of +3, and only gives a +1 stat bonus, later +2, so eventually a +5 max to ac. That's what all armor eventually adds up to, and it doesn't take a status bonus to get there.
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For the life of me I can't figure out why people say that animal skin gives you almost the highest ac. It gets you expert proficiency in unarmored, which never goes higher so the feat only gets worse. It has a dex cap of +3, and only gives a +1 stat bonus, later +2, so eventually a +5 max to ac. That's what all armor eventually adds up to, and it doesn't take a status bonus to get there.
Unarmored does go to Master at 19th, the same level all Barbarians get Master in armor.
But more importantly, it also removes the AC penalty from Rage. Which makes it flatly better AC for Barbarians than just wearing armor, which is rather the point. It gives a pretty solid AC bonus in the sort term (getting it at level 6 is a straight +2 AC buff from then until 13th if you have Dex 16), and never falls behind, remaining +1 AC ahead of other Barbarians at all times.
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For the life of me I can't figure out why people say that animal skin gives you almost the highest ac. It gets you expert proficiency in unarmored, which never goes higher so the feat only gets worse. It has a dex cap of +3, and only gives a +1 stat bonus, later +2, so eventually a +5 max to ac. That's what all armor eventually adds up to, and it doesn't take a status bonus to get there.
I think you aren't taking into account Bracers of Armour, which allow Animal Barbarians to get an item bonus to AC whilst still being Unarmoured. They aren't getting to Champion AC, but they'll be noticeably better off than any other type of Barbarian when Raging.
What is the mechanical point of the animal instinct barbarian? The two stronger instincts, dragon and giant, give some significant boosts to a barbarian's damage output. But all the animal instinct does is entitle a barbarian to use... weapons that are a smidge worse than most martial two-handed weapons, while also locking a barbarian out of auxiliary weapons? At best, that is a sidegrade, when other instincts are actual upgrades.
Totally free hands. The animal babarian is not using a one handed weapon or a two handed weapon. They have both of their hands free.
That does allow them to Raise (but not wield) a shield, Grapple, Shove, Trip, Disarm without having to have a specialist weapon for it. What about Climbing?
I'm sure there are other things that can be found to do with their actions, Rage is a limit on this, but Moment of Clarity can help. Does your GM insist a healers kit requires 2 free hands?
Barbarians have some class feats that help with grappling.
Better AC than other Barbarians at higher levels. Though that is not a high bar to meet.
So it's just better than other barbarians, not higher than average across all martials. Gotcha.
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So it's just better than other barbarians, not higher than average across all martials. Gotcha.
It's higher than Rangers and Rogues as well at levels 6 to 10 (6 to 12 for Rogues), though admittedly behind them at levels 1 to 5 (and equal at 13+). And is the only Barbarian build that sacrifices no offense by using a shield, a potent defensive advantage.
It's not anywhere near as defensive as Monk or Champion, no, but it's a pretty defensive build all things considered. Something that can't really be said about most other Barbarian builds.
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Really hope they errata away stance using monks and animal barbarians being able to use shields, it totally goes against the concept
Really hope they errata away stance using monks and animal barbarians being able to use shields, it totally goes against the concept
From a concept point of view it does seems wrong for animal barbarians. But they really should give something back if they do - like making Animal Skin lower level or free.
BTW wizards can use and raise a physical shield as well.
Really hope they errata away stance using monks and animal barbarians being able to use shields, it totally goes against the conceptFrom a concept point of view it does seems wrong for animal barbarians. But they really should give something back if they do - like making Animal Skin lower level or free.
BTW wizards can use and raise a physical shield as well.
Wizards also can use weapons
Animal Barb with Monk Dedication should be pretty great once it nabs Flurry at 10. I would make a human and take the dedication with an ancestry feat, then use the class feat the next level to get flurry. That should give the hard hitting Barb a pretty decent action economy compared to other Barbs. Takes a while to come online though.
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And no more annoying alignment restrictions! Never thought how'd little I'd miss them 'till they were gone.
Animal Barb with Monk Dedication should be pretty great once it nabs Flurry at 10. I would make a human and take the dedication with an ancestry feat, then use the class feat the next level to get flurry. That should give the hard hitting Barb a pretty decent action economy compared to other Barbs. Takes a while to come online though.
I'd actually pick up Monk Dedication ASAP (i.e. level 2). Having Powerful Fist as a semi-decent alternative weapon whenever you can't rage for some reason is a good idea. And saves you from upgrading two items at the same time - Handwraps for Rage and a normal spare weapon for out of rage.
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And no more annoying alignment restrictions! Never thought how'd little I'd miss them 'till they were gone.
I've seen some pretty grossly OP bloodrager/paladin combinations in 1E, over there the alignment limitation served a purpose (for barbarians, at least..).
Now that we have a multiclassing system that's not so prone to level dipping to get the front-loaded goods, we don't need as many alignment restrictions anymore.