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<blockquote data-quote="DaveDash" data-source="post: 6890110" data-attributes="member: 6786202">The whole premise that the Bear Totem Barbarian can out damage a Berserker Barbarian because of Reckless Attack _ Polearm Mastery is highly flawed and only valid in theory land - not real game land.The real answer to this question is &quot;It depends&quot;.Running Tyranny of Dragons as is for example - it's filled with large numbers of trash mobs that for the most part do 90% B/P/S damage (in fact the whole Premise of 5e is to keep using low level trash mobs through-out the campaign). Meaning that Polearm Mastery is almost a bit of a wasted feat in this module, because our Barbarian can one or two shot a lot of these trash mobs and thus get the bonus attack from GWM regardless (which is doing higher damage than PAM).Then for those Dragon Fights he can frenzy and has no issues. The Bear Totem extra resistance is also almost wasted anyway because the Barbarian has the most hitpoints out of anyone in the part regardless of primal path, and it's not the Barbarian staying power that matters in these fights - it's the staying power of the other party members which dictates the success or failure of the combat.So white room theory and maths is all fine and dandy, but the real world answer is much more complicated than that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DaveDash, post: 6890110, member: 6786202"] The whole premise that the Bear Totem Barbarian can out damage a Berserker Barbarian because of Reckless Attack _ Polearm Mastery is highly flawed and only valid in theory land - not real game land. The real answer to this question is "It depends". Running Tyranny of Dragons as is for example - it's filled with large numbers of trash mobs that for the most part do 90% B/P/S damage (in fact the whole Premise of 5e is to keep using low level trash mobs through-out the campaign). Meaning that Polearm Mastery is almost a bit of a wasted feat in this module, because our Barbarian can one or two shot a lot of these trash mobs and thus get the bonus attack from GWM regardless (which is doing higher damage than PAM). Then for those Dragon Fights he can frenzy and has no issues. The Bear Totem extra resistance is also almost wasted anyway because the Barbarian has the most hitpoints out of anyone in the part regardless of primal path, and it's not the Barbarian staying power that matters in these fights - it's the staying power of the other party members which dictates the success or failure of the combat. So white room theory and maths is all fine and dandy, but the real world answer is much more complicated than that. [/QUOTE]

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