Barbarian - Questions about Rage

[CaptGrim]

In all honesty, 700 hitpoints is way overkill, your more of a marshmellow than a barb. If you get yourself ~400 or so pre-rage then your doing just fine. It would free up a bunch of feats to be used for more useful feats. Including adding a few of the 2Hand Feats for those times you need the extra damage. Or can free them up for things like CE, Cleave/GCleaver, Stunning Blow, etc.

lol just posted my build...couldn't agree more

[Samadhi]

Intimidate works awesome. Intim with shaken effect (-2 to their skills, attack, saves) is great as well. Would be fun to play for sure. I would try to work in cleave/gcleave since that seems to be the problem with most intim builds (holding agro on multi mobs for the lapse in Intim).

GL and HF

That's pretty much how I built my barbarian. High DR, intimidate + shaken enhancement, cleave and great cleave (and high halfling saves that more than compensate for my intimidate size penalty).

Of course, this is situational, and you still need to be able to do the DPS when needed. But generally speaking that is not a problem for a barbarian