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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 580858" data-attributes="member: 78">Power Attack and Cleave are both great feats.  At lower levels the combination allows to cut through your unworthy foes.  At higher levels, you'll still probably drop foes often enough to get extra attacks from Cleave occasionally, and Power Attack becomes really good.  Many monsters tend to have low AC, but good offense.  Girallons and Mind Flayers fall into this category, although their offensive abilities are very different.  Power Attack helps remove these dangerous monsters quickly.Extra Rage is very useful at lower levels as well.  It also helps when multiclassing as a fighter X, Barb 1 can rage 3 times per day.Spring Attack is also a fun feat.  A barbarian's greater movement rate let's him spring attack to greater effect.  With his greater strength and HP but low AC, he's often better trading shots on a 1 to 1 basis.  A 2 weapon or multi-limbed enemy loses his extra attacks which provide most of his damage.  A sword and shield fighter probably has a good enough AC to make your iterative attacks chancy, and will have little problem hitting your lightly armored, no shield character with his secondaries.  Therefore, spring attack lets you pit your one big attack versus a single attack that's probably weaker.  However, spring attack requires lots of feats that probably wouldn't be much use, and can be unfriendly to the rest of the group.  If there is no other tough fighter type in the group, then using spring attack can expose the weaker group members to enemy attack.Strength and Con should be the best stats.  Which one is more important depends on who else is in the group.  If you don't expect much healing (no cleric, or a death type one) and expect to receive most of the damage, then Con might be best.  On the other hand, with other fighting characters (even mean combat rogues) or a cleric, you can probably invest the most in Strength and still not die.Human or Half Orc are good races.  Dwarves are probably 3rd best.  1/2 orcs are damage machines with a big strength score.  On the other hand, a human will have the extra feat which is a big help.  Even the extra skills are good.  Dwarves get the nice +2 versus spells, extra Con, and other racial bonuses. Dwarf barbarians will be very hard to kill.</blockquote>

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