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5e Fighter/Barb optimization - Battlemaster + shield master + rage
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<blockquote data-quote="Chryssis" data-source="post: 7446045" data-attributes="member: 6787279"><p>ya Strength OR dex, not Strength and Dex, therefore if you are going to attack with your finesse weapon and want to gain the rage benefit you need to use your strength. so example character using standard array . 13st+1 15dex+1 14con 8int 12wis 10cha. means you have +3+3 using dex, or +2+4 using strength and can either be unarmoured or wear studded leather or medium armor without any effect 12 +3 or 13-15 +2 so there is very little benefit to going dex. you'd be better off doing 16st 14dex 14con you'll end up with the same AC and your attacks will do +3+5 damage while raging better grapples/shoves raging or not all you lose is 1 to dex saving throw</p><p></p><p>if you are implying that you intend to use a finesse weapon using your strength then yes although you limit your damage die for the benefit of +3 to AC for 1 attack per round near the end of your playing career. you would be better served just taking an ASI and getting a permanent +1 to dex (or con if you are doing the naked barbarian thing). Only the Rapier would give you the d8 which is a little munchkiny for this style of build, and rapiers aren't necessarily readily available (or cheap at early levels) so you will likely end up using a shortsword or scimitar for a d6 for the first few levels anyways, unless you go battleaxe etc until lvl 5 and then your character magically decides he doesn't like smashing skulls anymore and wants to poke people in fleshy bits...might be a hard RP</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chryssis, post: 7446045, member: 6787279"] ya Strength OR dex, not Strength and Dex, therefore if you are going to attack with your finesse weapon and want to gain the rage benefit you need to use your strength. so example character using standard array . 13st+1 15dex+1 14con 8int 12wis 10cha. means you have +3+3 using dex, or +2+4 using strength and can either be unarmoured or wear studded leather or medium armor without any effect 12 +3 or 13-15 +2 so there is very little benefit to going dex. you'd be better off doing 16st 14dex 14con you'll end up with the same AC and your attacks will do +3+5 damage while raging better grapples/shoves raging or not all you lose is 1 to dex saving throw if you are implying that you intend to use a finesse weapon using your strength then yes although you limit your damage die for the benefit of +3 to AC for 1 attack per round near the end of your playing career. you would be better served just taking an ASI and getting a permanent +1 to dex (or con if you are doing the naked barbarian thing). Only the Rapier would give you the d8 which is a little munchkiny for this style of build, and rapiers aren't necessarily readily available (or cheap at early levels) so you will likely end up using a shortsword or scimitar for a d6 for the first few levels anyways, unless you go battleaxe etc until lvl 5 and then your character magically decides he doesn't like smashing skulls anymore and wants to poke people in fleshy bits...might be a hard RP [/QUOTE]
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