Advice from the experts.

[ShadowFox1978]

Just started my first barb and have her to level 6. So far I have taken Power attack, toughness, THF, and Im. THF. Just started thinking though, would it be better to take cleave and G. cleave then a second toughness in lieu of the 3 THF feats. I have a capped fighter and I love cleave and G. cleave. Guess the question is do yoy get enough damage from glancing blows to beat out cleave and g cleave. Especially once you consider and special properties of the weapon are added to cleave attacks.

Thank you for any feedback.

[Mhykke]

Just started my first barb and have her to level 6. So far I have taken Power attack, toughness, THF, and Im. THF. Just started thinking though, would it be better to take cleave and G. cleave then a second toughness in lieu of the 3 THF feats. I have a capped fighter and I love cleave and G. cleave. Guess the question is do yoy get enough damage from glancing blows to beat out cleave and g cleave. Especially once you consider and special properties of the weapon are added to cleave attacks.

Thank you for any feedback.


My advice: drop toughness feats. You'll get enough hit points being a barb, having a high con, and raging. If you're after the most damage (i'm guessing you are, since you're building a barb), go for the standard power attack, imp. crit, THF chain feats. Don't worry about cleave, you won't need it.

[Casta]

Cleave will get you more damage, if you spam it all the time as soon as the cooldowns up.

For most people who forget about it or just don't use it enough thf gets more damage. Thf also dose more damage against a single target, glancing blows will hit the mob your targeting.