A new player seeks feedback on a proposed build

[Baalsmistress]

Hi,

I've been playing a couple of months, mostly with spell-based classes, and I'm looking to make a melee toon now. I tend to be aggressive in play style, often described as a "dps tanker" in other games - ie. survive by using an HP buffer to last long enough to kill enemies before dying.

I picked barbarian because it seemed to best fit that playstyle, and this is what I've come up with as a plan. I'd welcome feedback and suggestions to avoid pitfalls along the way.

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Level 20 Chaotic Good Half-Orc Female
(20 Barbarian) 
Hit Points: 442
Spell Points: 0 
BAB: 20\20\25\30\30
Fortitude: 18
Reflex: 6
Will: 5

                  Starting            Ending          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats         Base Stats         Modified Stats
(32 Point)       (Level 1)          (Level 20)           (Level 20)
Strength             19                 26                   30
Dexterity            10                 10                   10
Constitution         18                 20                   22
Intelligence          7                  8                    8
Wisdom                8                  8                    8
Charisma              6                  6                    6

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Intelligence used at level 4
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 7
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 7

                  Starting            Ending          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills        Base Skills        Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)          (Level 20)          (Level 20)
Balance               2                 11.5                 11.5
Bluff                -2                 -2                   -2
Concentration         4                  6                    6
Diplomacy            -2                 -2                   -2
Disable Device       n/a               n/a                   n/a
Haggle               -2                 -2                   -2
Heal                 -1                 -1                   -1
Hide                  0                  0                    0
Intimidate           -2                 -2                   -2
Jump                  4                 24                   24
Listen                1                 22                   22
Move Silently         0                  0                    0
Open Lock             n/a               n/a                   n/a
Perform              n/a               n/a                   n/a
Repair               -2                 -1                   -1
Search               -2                 -1                   -1
Spot                 -1                 -1                   -1
Swim                  4                 10                   10
Tumble                1                  1                    1
Use Magic Device     n/a               n/a                   n/a

Level 1 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+2)
Skill: Listen (+2)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Barbarian Damage Boost I
Enhancement: Barbarian Sprint Boost I
Enhancement: Orcish Melee Damage I


Level 2 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Extend Rage I
Enhancement: Barbarian Extra Rage I
Enhancement: Barbarian Constitution I


Level 3 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Power Attack
Enhancement: Barbarian Hardy Rage I
Enhancement: Barbarian Power Attack I
Enhancement: Barbarian Power Rage I
Enhancement: Orcish Great Weapon Aptitude I


Level 4 (Barbarian)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Orcish Extra Action Boost I
Enhancement: Orcish Power Attack I
Enhancement: Orcish Strength I


Level 5 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Damage Boost II
Enhancement: Barbarian Extend Rage II


Level 6 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Cleave
Enhancement: Barbarian Frenzied Berserker I


Level 7 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Constitution II


Level 8 (Barbarian)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Extend Rage III


Level 9 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Listen (+2)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons
Enhancement: Barbarian Extra Rage II
Enhancement: Barbarian Hardy Rage II


Level 10 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Listen (+2)
Enhancement: Barbarian Damage Boost III
Enhancement: Barbarian Power Attack II


Level 11 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Power Rage II


Level 12 (Barbarian)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Barbarian Frenzied Berserker II
Enhancement: Orcish Strength II


Level 13 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Hardy Rage III


Level 14 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Damage Boost IV


Level 15 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Toughness
Enhancement: Barbarian Power Rage III
Enhancement: Orcish Power Rage I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I


Level 16 (Barbarian)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Toughness I
Enhancement: Barbarian Toughness II


Level 17 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Power Attack III


Level 18 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Greater Two Handed Fighting
Enhancement: Barbarian Extra Action Boost I
Enhancement: Barbarian Frenzied Berserker III
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II


Level 19 (Barbarian)
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)


Level 20 (Barbarian)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Balance (+0.5)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Listen (+1)
Enhancement: Barbarian Improved Damage Reduction I
Enhancement: Barbarian Might
Enhancement: Orcish Melee Damage II

Thankyou in advance for advice, suggestions, flames

BM

[Iron_Chest]

Your alignment could be changed to neutral, or chaotic neutral to avoid taking unholy damage later, but if you wanna use pure good weapons or role play, it's fine. Get the .5 off of balance, it's wasted. You don't need to max jump, you'll have plenty of strength for jumping. Spot is generally considered better than listen, even though you get full ranks in listen, you might wanna take spot to 11 instead. Swim is not needed at all, again you'll have the strength to swim fine, especially with a + swim item.

If I were you, I'd change it to neutral, drop balance to 11, pull jump down to 10 or so, get spot up to 11, and put the rest in swim or tumble (if anything is left, if not no biggie).

All of these are really personal preference though. Your barb is just fine as is.

[Adrian99]

Take the DR Boost enhancements as early as you can and use them during boss fights. It saves a lot of incoming damage.

[Angelus_dead]

Your alignment could be changed to neutral, or chaotic neutral to avoid taking unholy damage later, but if you wanna use pure good weapons or role play, it's fine.

Pure Good weapons are incredibly more important than lowering the already-low damage of rare Unholy attacks.

[ArloOne]

That build will work fine. I would also lean towards Chaotic neutral. Yes, at low levels it is nice to swing a PG greataxe....but, I would just try and get a Carnifex from Deleras. Use that until around 12th level. make a GS MIN II and you should be good to go.

Just my opinion.

Good Luck