14/6 Barbarian bezerker/radient cleric

[supp3nhuhn]

Methinks you might've missed the "barb life" part of the OP...
He's doing this for the barbarian past life from TR, either for the passive bonus or for completionist feat.

In order to do that, the majority of his levels have to be barbarian.

Oh ya, sry thought barb life was just that he got mighty angry and wanted to vent in game.

Yep, completionist. So need barb heavy levels.

Edited op to human, added cleave and extend at the cost of stunning blow. (not sold yet on extend vs stunning blow.). Changed stats to make sence and plan on simple tripple poss falchon

You could drop gthf to get stunning blow back, it mostly adds glancing blows while twitching which doesn't work now anyways.

I'd also go for 7 levels of cleric for the level 4 spells, especially fom and divine power. The latter mainly because with extend it would last for maybe 2/3rd a rage as opposed to the clickie.
Would cost you one dr and indomitable will, the latter being largely offset by your immunity to holds under fom.

Sry for not getting the completionist attempt at first and good luck with that

I guess he is not planning to cast anything... this build relies on the healing aura of the new cleric PrE (Radiant Servant).

Btw, does it work under the effect of barbarian rage?

Yes, you just can't start it but it ticks on while raging.

[Varr]

at higher level you will always be raged, which means you will never be able to cast

Not sure what I'm missing.......instead of hitting rage button as I come out of a rage between battles, why can't I hit lesser restore, heal, heal, heal, heal, divine power, divine might, haste, aura, rage? 18 second cycle running to next fight. While as a barb you Can be permanent raged, I wasn't aware you had to be.

I'm guessing the aura will be more damage mitagation from the frenzy than strong healing, expect the between rages, rage dismisses To be necessary to stay aliveif self sufficent.

[Thrudh]

I'd suggest an 18/2 barbarian/rogue with UMD and heal scrolls...

or

go halfling 18/1/1 barbarian/fighter/wizard and get the dragonmarks

or

Do a 12/6/2 fighter/barbarian/rogue...

Then use a LR +3 to respec to 9/9/2... then TR...

A 14/6 barbarian/cleric seems pretty tough in my opinion... Maybe okay as you've laid it out in the end, but how will the middle levels look? You going to rush to get radiant servant and then be a 8/6 barbarian/cleric in Gianthold with only a few rages? Or go slow on cleric, and be a 11/3 barbarian/cleric in Gianthold with a bit of SP for a few cure moderates (but only when not raging).

But... it's not a final build, it's only temporary (for you that probably means a few weeks, for me it would be 6 months)... so have fun with it, I'd say!

[Visty]

I'd suggest an 18/2 barbarian/rogue with UMD and heal scrolls...

or

go halfling 18/1/1 barbarian/fighter/wizard and get the dragonmarks

or

Do a 12/6/2 fighter/barbarian/rogue...

the problem with those builds is that you cant heal the vicious damage while beeing raged
the 14/6 version can do that

[Crazyfruit]

The radiant servant (@ level 6) is being significantly changed in an upcoming patch and might ruin your build concept. See the lammania board release notes for more details

[Visty]

The radiant servant (@ level 6) is being significantly changed in an upcoming patch and might ruin your build concept. See the lammania board release notes for more details

Enhancements

Radiant Servant

* The Radiant Servant's Positive Energy Burst and Positive Energy Aura granted abilities have been swapped. (Positive Energy Burst is now granted at tier one, and the aura is granted at tier two).
* Radiant Servant Positive Energy Aura no longer stops working or changes its values when you attack or perform other actions. It is no longer affected by the Extend Spell metamagic.
* Positive Energy Aura now affects a number of targets equal to Caster Level.
* Positive Energy Aura no longer eats spell absorption charges.



for those too lazy to search^^

[BlackSteel]

for a heavy TR life (4 + mil exp needed) I cant see this build being anything but agony.

I'd recommend a 18/2 barb/rogue instead if you feel u MUST multiclass.

Or if you really just hate the class, do 11 or 12 cleric levels, and eat a +3 heart when you hit 20 to give yourself a majority of barb levels. At least that way you can power your way thru alot of content with BB.

But if you're just primarily worried about the damage that barbs take, and not having a good way to self heal. Thats rubbish. Its easy to spend a fortune on pots, but its also not hard at all to not spend a dime, and do very very well. I'm currently 2.6 million exp into my 3rd TR on my barb (mostly fighter atm, archon build for fighter PLs before going back to barb, but I play him exactly like a barbarian) and I've yet to drink a single repair or cure potion. Not one. The ones that drop in chests I sell to the venders. And I've soloed normal-Elite content for a majority of my play time. Only partying when a guildee wants to do the same content I'm running.

As a barbarian, your biggest asset when leveling up is being able to kill a monster before it even gets to swing at you or get in range. 1-2 hits dead. As such, a vast majority of your healing can be attained out of combat via a parked hireling. Additionally things like a con op accessory, the blademart docent, and the dq bracers can proc you additional HP. Some of my favorite runs to do is to hit lvl 18 and start doing Monastery of the Scorpion. B/c of the health procs, and the temp HP at start given by Greater Heroism, its common to actually end the quest (solo on normal or hard) without having taken a single point of damage since all of it was bufferred by temporary HP (which I've seen up to +85 temp HP so far with all 3)


If this was just a build to try on a new character, I'd say give it a whirl, as 1.9 mil exp is almost trivial to hit. But can only see such a build being a lackluster performer when farming exp in amrath for that multiple TR. granted 12 barb levels isnt much different that 16 or 17 barb levels.

I'd recommend a pure barb, or a 18/2. altho with the 18/2 you're not going to get to play around with FB3 much before TR'ing again. But you'll be alot less squishy prior to hitting lvl 18, since if you exclude levels 18-20, theres no reason not to have evasion.

[Varr]

**** dman ****, that guts my idea.

Hehehe, self healing is nothign to me.........it is the abiltiy to do mroe things that one dimentional dps with some stuns. It doesnt please me. Many love barbs, i jsut dont and need to break one to make my playing it enjoyable.

[supp3nhuhn]

You could put the points from wisdom and charisma into intelligence, pick up insightful reflexes instead of empower healing and go 18 barb / 2 rogue for a great trapmonkey with trapsaves rivaling pure rogues and human versatility instead of skill boost for very viable disarm and search.
Would even have enough points to spare to max umd on top of that.

[MrCow]

To answer a question before it might be asked due to the change in Radiant Servant, Positive Energy Burst can't be used while raging.

[Varr]

So much for being creative on this one. Back to 1 rogue 2-10 ranger 11-20 barbarian. Ah well, was a great service all the ideas in this thread though, thanks for all the help guys. Esp the key link killing this toon before trapped into it.