Barb Tank?

[Boombastic]

with recently picking up VIP for 3 months, and having stockpiled enough TP for lvl 7 vet status, I have been mulling over making a barbarian tank. Could I get some community opinions on what race/feat/enhancements will help me whilst leveling?

[smithj_2020]

Well most barbs you See are Horc, simply because Horc has the best STR...and STR enhancements to max barb dps.

Dwarf is another good one because of the CON enhances and can increase your hp total while maintaining very good dps.

So either horc or dwarf, max str and con, use whatever you got left into wisdom to up your will save a lil...

Feats:
THF Line
Toughness
Cleave
PA
IC: Slashing

Those would be the feats to take....

Enhance would be:
Extended Rage II
Extra rage I
Hardy Rage II or III
Power Rage IV
FB III
Barb Might
Barb Toughness IV
Racial Tough III
Barb Con II
Orc Str II (if orc)
Orchis Fury I
Barb PA II
ALong those lines for enhances

[HalfORCastrator]

I'd say human for heal amp is better than dwarf. Although Dwarf is nice to use Dwarven axes without a feat, also goes well with 2hf feats.

If I wanted an option to make my barb a more efficient tank I'd go 18/2ftr for Improved Sunder and Shield Mastery.

[Arshan]

If you are THF, splashing 2 fighter on a barb is killer in my opinion because loosing that tasty capstone is real sad.
However, i assume that on a barb thoughness is not mandatory (it is for a tank though), but improved sunder eventually is.
Overall, the best barb wont be able to get some bosses anyway, while stalwart can, but even a non thougnessed barb can tank horoth normal/hard with some heal amp.
Thus issue is do you want to use a shield.

If you want to tank, i'd prolly go dwarf then, TWF base, 18 barb 2 ftr Dwarven axes, so you can take improved sunder (dwarven tactics <3) and shield mastery, more HP thanks to dwarf racial enhancement and +2 con...

Makes sense, not necesseraly what i would like to roll though

[smithj_2020]

Human has heal amp but if you get DT armor and just get 10% and 20% with hip that's enough heal amp to tank. Until you grind and get your claw gloves then your set,ore ho's on a tank te better side your going to be getting whacked as a barb due to the AC