An attempt at a Barbarian (Defender)

[Nymrohd]

I'll cross post this on the Wizard forums when they finally decide to get up.

 

[generalhenry]

yeah I know why, and it make sense...

but cha barbarian...


Over all over powered, but that's typical of first drafts.
Decent.

 

[Nymrohd]

Yeah I know I did not like the Cha but it was just the only thing that would make sense with warcries. My first draft had Str/Dex/Con, war cries based on Con, bleeds (ongoing damage) based on dexterity, and whirling frenzy was designed for hide armor.

 

[Nymrohd]

Edit

 

[generalhenry]

Yeah I know I did not like the Cha but it was just the only thing that would make sense with warcries. My first draft had Str/Dex/Con, war cries based on Con, bleeds (ongoing damage) based on dexterity, and whirling frenzy was designed for hide armor.

Str/Con/Wis are the stats I'd want to see.

 

[Nymrohd]

Wisdom on a barbarian? The original AD&D barbarian was a Str/Dex/Con class. I reserve Wisdom for shamans. The wise barbarian chieftain archetype is a barbarian/shaman imo.

Anyway I decided to edit it back to Str/Dex/Con. Still overpowered, but I would like it if people could point out exactly what I should nerf on him

Thanks in advance

 

[generalhenry]

Hit Points at 1st Level: 18 + Constitution score

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Barbarian Tenacity

is overkill

Sweeping Strike

only controllers get at will AOE, and even then much less damage

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note your dailies all need effects if they miss

Reckless Strike

heroic encounter powers are capped at 2[W]

 

[Nymrohd]

I was considering making Rages require you to expend a healing surge to activate (which would make all rage powers somewhat more costly at the same time).

I can see that sweeping strike is a bit OP though I want the 2h built to have a ready to use effect of that kind. After all blast 2 will most of the time hit two adjacent enemies. Maybe either scrape the Strength modifier or give the attack roll a -2
penalty?

Reckless Strike has a rather hefty penalty for a defender, especially considering the barbarian has less AC than Fighters and Paladins by far.

Another balancing tool I was considering was adding a penalty to rage powers; as in you need to expend hit points to use them (changing the keyword to Rage X, where X is the number of points?)

 

[Nymrohd]

Implemented several changes

 

[Nymrohd]

Ok this should do decently for the first 10 levels.