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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9781063" data-attributes="member: 7030563">The great thing with this build is if a different magic weapon drops you use that weapon.  You are not taking a feat that locks you into Trident.This is pretty much how all my martial builds are.  I will start out with a staff (Shillelagh-topple) or a Flail (Bludgeoning-Sap) or a Greataxe (Cleave) on a non-shield user and then whatever we find I transition to using that.The only thing here is if I was getting Shield master, I would probably lean towards a Sap weapon instead of a topple weapon but if I found a great topple weapon that is what I would use.Not a fan of this because it is kind of restrictive, the reason I like not choosing GWM is also the reason I like not choosing this.  For feats at level 6 on this build I like Mage Slayer here, or Heavy Armor Master or Sentinel.See but you are not really stuck on a Trident.  I mean a trident is fine until you find something better.  The piercer feat means you are stuck on Dagger, Spear, Javelin, Rapier, Short Sword, Trident or Morning Star though (anything I missed?).   That is a better selection than GWM (mostly because of Dagger, Javelin and Short Sword), but still not great.  Give up Piercer and you have everything with a lot more weapon choices.Since you a large number of masteries, you can even keep a non-magic Trident in your arsenal as a weapon for situational use (i.e. throw-topple).Also on a sword and board Tank I think you really should look at Sap at low level (at high level you can Sap with everything).  I think that is generally the best mastery for a character in heavy armor and shield.All that said I am picking here and the build as you described will certainly work if you like it.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" /></blockquote>

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