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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragoslav" data-source="post: 6568779" data-attributes="member: 6690267">Having put these builds into play together, I can say that the synergy is amazing. We played two combat encounters, one either medium or hard difficulty, and one lethal encounter, separated by long rests. The maneuvers I chose were Rally, Goading Attack, and Riposte, but I never used Goading Attack, preferring to use Rally to keep our third player (a sorceror) on his feet.Everything worked exactly as I expected, to the point where I began to feel badly for the DM at how ineffective his monsters were against us. When he realized how unlikely hitting the Fighter was, he generally opted to have his monsters attack the Barbarian, which let me get an extra attack, although it was only one extra per round. We were outnumbered in each encounter, so prioritizing defense (to reduce the chance of one of the many monsters getting a lucky hit on me) was superior to prioritizing offense (the enemies generally went down in two hits, anyway).The Defense fighting style, for being only a +1 AC, actually ended up having a significant effect, as several times a monster missed me with an 18 versus my 19 AC.It worked well when we were outnumbered because, if the DM throws in a lot of enemies, they're probably going to have poor accuracy. That being said, I can see it working really well against fewer enemies or solo enemies, as well: they have fewer chances to hit your massive AC, and you get more off-turn attacks proportionally to the number of enemies.It was really fun. Repeatedly not getting hit is fun, making attacks off your turn is fun, I liked the imagery of two warriors fighting side by side against hordes of monsters, and encouraging enemies to not attack your teammates is fun. It really made me reconsider which class I wanted to play for our actual campaign (I had originally wanted to play a Paladin). At the very least, I'm going to buy a shield and longsword in addition to a great sword, and I'm probably going to pick up Sentinel at some point.</blockquote>

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