What is a good AC for a Pure Barb?

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Those are all temporary, or do you have a pocket bard/arcane for displacement?

Fearsome is IMHO the most useful armor effect in the game.

I share this opinion. It is incredibly powerful at reducing damage taken. Even when they resist they get a -2 to hit, further increasing your effective defense, and much of the time when they fear they just stand around doing nothing because they get confused about their agro or pathing for some reason.

I rarely have to chase down monsters and when I do its fairly trivial to do so.