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Hey, I've been looking around at having some fun making use of racial feats as the basis of certain builds, and I think I've found a fun one for half-orcs.
The character that is just too angry to die. Heres the general idea-
20pt buy-
Unbreakable fighter 1/barbarian (invulnerable rager) X
Str: 16
Dex: 14
Con: 18
Int: 08
Wis: 12
Cha: 07
Trait: berserker of the society
FCB: +1 round of rage.
feats-
1st- Ferocious Resolve
2nd- Endurance, Die hard,
3rd- Ferocious tenacity
5th- Tenacious Survivor
7th- Deathless Initiate
9th- Raging Vitality
11th- Combat reflexes
13th- Power attack
Rage Powers:
2- Superstitious
4- Renewed Vigor
6- Renewed Life
8- Fueled by Vengeance
10- DR increase (any other ideas for this power?)
12- Come and get me.
At level 13, assuming a +4 belt, you would have a con of 24 base. Which gives 144 hp. You have DR/7 and 50 rounds of rage. While raging, you can fight to -32, without being staggered. If an attack would kill you, you may spend rage rounds, reducing that damage by 11 for each round of rage spent to a minimum of 1. While negative, you gain +2 to hit/damage.
If you DO die, either running out of rage rounds, or getting hit while at -31, you remain around to be healed normally for 7 rounds.
In other words, when the chips are down, you can slap -18 damage on an attack minimum. And can spend an unlimited number of rage rounds to increase that reduction by a further 11 per rage round spent. This ability functions even against spells.
You are literally too angry to die.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for this idea? And while it may not be the most "optimal" build, lets keep suggestions in the same vein of the idea please!
At least one level of Samurai (or Swashbuckler with Deeds of Renown) for some Resolve/Unconquerable Resolve.
At least five levels of Reincarnated Druid. Lol.
The flesh wound rage power lets you say no to damage more than a DR increase, IMO.
You could take the Orc Atavism alternate racial trait and replace Orc Ferocity with "real" Ferocity.
4- Renewed Vigor
6- Renewed Life
These two don't seem to give you that much of a benefit. Unless I've missed something, the negative level from Tenacious Survivor is permanent and wouldn't be affected by Renewed Life.
As for "being too angry to die", both Deathless Frenzy and Greater Cult Totem allow you to postpone death by HP dmg for 1 round. Deathless Frenzy triggers when you fall below 0 HP, and Greater Cult Totem triggers when you would be Dying or Dead. So Greater Cult Totem has better synergy with Deathless Initiate/Diehard as it will then only trigger when you would actually die.
If you're not married to the Barbarian class, then there's also the Unkillable Vigilante talent that is active all day long and only triggers on death.
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Check out the Specialized Healer's Satchel if you're planning on going deep into the negatives. With it you can use a DC 20 First Aid check to heal a character up to 0 HP no matter what negative HP total they had before.
If you could somehow get the alchemist discovery of lingering spirit that would make your point of death 10 points lower. Not sure how you would be able to qualify since it requires 4 levels of alchemist. With an 8 INT those are going to be wasted levels.
If you'd like, you can borrow some ideas from my Flubberoid character. Has (effectively) 713 hp (average) / 990 (max) HP and dies around -52 HP. You can tweak it to fit whatever else you want in there. It is a Fighter (Viking) build.