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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveDash" data-source="post: 6889700" data-attributes="member: 6786202">Again, I used to think Bear Totem was awesome, but I don't now. The actual time that resistance comes in handy is rare. Usually it's other party members who are low on HPs who desperately need the fight to end NOW rather than the Barbarian. 90% of damage you're taking is standard B/P/S - at least in my experience.Meanwhile you've had to spend a feat to get *comparable* damage to the Berserker.  Once you have it, you're arguably better than the Berserker Barbarian for most fights during the day, but still behind by a bit when he Frenzies for that BBEG fight. Having said that, our Berserker Barbarian kills quite a bit using GWM and thus procs the extra attack.Then as you get higher and higher levels you start running into a lot of fear and charm....Another thing to consider is once magic items start coming your way you have to pray to the DM for a magical Halberd or some such thing. I don't think there's many magic weapons I've seen in Tyranny of Dragons OR Princes of the Apocalypse that would benefit a PAM wieldier. Whereas I've seen at least one +1 two handed weapons in both modules (Greataxe and Greatsword). It's pretty handy having a Barbarian with a magic weapon when fighting certain monsters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Now granted, I do fully admit that exhaustion (or more than one level of it) is really bad. Really bad. In our game my Cleric is more than happy to burn a 5th level slot on the Berserker Barb so he can frenzy at least twice a day (disadvantage on skills isn't a big deal - half movement is getting kinda bad though). It's worth it based on the insane damage he can do especially with GWM.</blockquote>

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