River Tam: Halfling TWF Frenzied Berzerker with Evasion

[geoffhanna]

Tiny little girl, giant blood-dripping axes.

River Tam: Halfing Evasion Berzerker
Level 20 Neutral Good Halfling Female
(18 Barbarian / 2 Rogue)

The theme is the fictional character River Tam from the movie Serenity. In keeping with the theme, the tiniest possible girl would be Halfling while the largest possible axes would be Dwarven. I've played her up to level six and she's fun! She wears ritual-enhanced starter rags and looks very impressive dual wielding her giant axes.
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The constraints/goals:

• Halfling
• Two weapon fighter
• Dwarven axes
• Evasion
• Really amazingly spectacular crit damage (hoping!)

There was a bit of struggling over the loss of the barbarian capstone, but I think evasion will add more value than +2 STR. A THF build may want the splash damage booster but this is not a THF build.

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats          Modified Stats
(32 Point)       (Level 1)             (Level 16)
Strength             16                    20
Dexterity            16                    18
Constitution         16                    18
Intelligence          8                     8
Wisdom                8                     8
Charisma              8                     8

Tomes Used        
+1 DEX

The tome must be consumed before level 15. In other words, there's no rush

The Level 20 ability point goes into STR too.

Fo/Re/Wi Saves
11  6  6 barbarian 18
 0  3  0 rogue 2
 1  1  1 halfling
 4  0  0 CON
 0  4  0 DEX
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16 14  7
 
 4  0  3 rage
 5  5  5 resist item
 3  3  3 CON/DEX/WIS items
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28 22 18

Not liking the will save. May have to add to Willpower rage enhancement or throw in some Halfling Luck?

Hit Points                     AC   
218 barbarian 18               who cares, 
 12 rogue 2                    she's a barbarian 
 20 heroic durability
 20 draconic vitality
 80 CON
 30 GFL
 20 minos legens
 45 greensteel
 60 CON item                 
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505

Sure would like some more hit points. Stacked rages and frenzy will put me into the low 700's, but is that enough? The emergency backup plan is to forego Greater TWF @ 18 and instead take toughness and the toughness enhancements. But that will take a real hit point emergency, I want GTWF! There is a double-secret emergency backup plan too, but it is too painful to contemplate.

ToHit                   Damage
 18 barb18              2d8 base greensteel D.Axe
  1 rogue2                5 base greensteel D.Axe
  1 halfling             10 STR 
 10 STR                   3 STR item
  3 STR item              4 rage
  4 rage                  1 rage spell/clickie
  1 rage spell/clickie    1 frenzy
  1 frenzy                2 death frenzy
  2 death frenzy        4d6 greater vicious
 ==                       5 power attack
 37                       3 barb power attack III
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Damage does not include 1d6+3 sneak attack but I will get that now and then. Also does not include madstone effects although I intend to grind for the boots.

Crits will be X5! Hopefully I can acquire a bloodstone but even if not, I am really hoping the crits will be awe-inspiring!

                  Starting 
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 16)
Intimidate            3                    18
Jump                  7                    26
Balance               4                    23
Tumble                4                    11

[edit] removed Listen replaced with Balance.

Feats
Level  1 Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Dwarven Waraxe
Level  3 Two Weapon Fighting
Level  6 Power Attack
Level  9 Cleave
Level 12 Improved Crit: Slash
Level 15 Improved Two Weapon Fighting
Level 18 Greater Two Weapon Fighting

Really could use two more for Toughness and maybe Oversize TWF but oh well.

Projected enhancements through level 16 are as follows:

Enhancements at 16th level
Rogue Haste Boost I
Barbarian Damage Boost IV
Barbarian Improved Damage Reduction II
Barbarian Extend Rage III
Barbarian Extra Rage III
Barbarian Hardy Rage III
Barbarian Power Attack III
Barbarian Power Rage III
Barbarian Willpower I
Barbarian Frenzied Berserker III

I expect to finish off enhancements through level 20 with Barb CON III and whatever rage enhancers fit best.

This build created with the help of
Character Plan by DDO Character Planner Version 2.96 
DDO Character Planner Home Page
Thanks Ron!

[ryingar]

BTW she is from the Firefly series more specifically than the movie Serenity. You just don't get a good feel for the characters in the movie.

Whereas the movie is good, the series was great. But thanks to the clowns running fox at that time, they managed to air the episodes out of sequence, or override the show thanks to football, or just didn't air an episode at all. In other words they strangled the show and canceled it, just like what they did to Futurama. You can find all the episodes on hulu btw.


Cheers

[JayDubya]

neat concept.

I would consider getting rid of Cleave. That gives you a free slot for Toughness and all those delicious hitpoints.

If you find you need OTWF, you could look at switching to BattleAxes instead of Dwarven Axes. Just a thought.

I take it you're really keen on FrenzyIII or you would take a couple of fighter levels for the extra feats.

Lastly, DAxes have better base damage, but Khopeshs will have much better crit damage when you factor in strength, burst effects, etc

Luckily you can always swap those out.

[geoffhanna]

BTW she is from the Firefly series more specifically than the movie Serenity. You just don't get a good feel for the characters in the movie.

Whereas the movie is good, the series was great. But thanks to the clowns running fox at that time, they managed to air the episodes out of sequence, or override the show thanks to football, or just didn't air an episode at all. In other words they strangled the show and canceled it, just like what they did to Futurama. You can find all the episodes on hulu btw.

She did not get all blood-drippingly frenzied until the movie.

neat concept.

I would consider getting rid of Cleave. That gives you a free slot for Toughness and all those delicious hitpoints.

If you find you need OTWF, you could look at switching to BattleAxes instead of Dwarven Axes. Just a thought.

I take it you're really keen on FrenzyIII or you would take a couple of fighter levels for the extra feats.

Lastly, DAxes have better base damage, but Khopeshs will have much better crit damage when you factor in strength, burst effects, etc

Luckily you can always swap those out.

• Cleave is a pre-req for frenzied, and yes, need all III levels of frenzied berzerker.
• Swapping D.Axe for battleaxe ... ouch! is my double-secret emergency backup plan if the build just absolutely has to have the hitpoints. Ditto with the khopeshes, really the giant D.Axes are sort of the point.

Good thoughts though, and I definitely hope the ideas keep coming. I hate it when people post builds and then just defend them and ignore input.

[Robi3.0]

I think the lack of your builds ability to kill people with her mind does a huge injustice to the character of River Tam. Maybe a real River Tam build will be possible once psionics are put into the game.

That like nitpick aside I like the concept a lot. I actually have a halfling ranger that use D. axes she is pretty good fun as well.

[Noctus]

Just as a general mood-setter: