HOrc Barbaian Questions

[HarryCrumb]

I've finally bit the bullet and decided to turn my dwarven barbarian into a half-orc. I have a few questions regarding my new build and would love the help of a DDO guru! I will be doing a 18 Barbarian / 2 Fighter split for the two feats (stunning blow and improved sunder) and haste boosts. Feats are pretty straight forward: THF / GTHF / ITHF / IC: Slashing / Imp. Sunder / Stunning Blow / Barbarian PL / Cleave / Power Attack. I will be maxing strength and constitution then dumping the rest into other random stats.

GEAR
Head: Epic Red Helm
Chest: Epic Mari Chain
Gloves: Epic Claw
Bracers: Epic Claw
Goggles: Tharnes
Cloak: HP GS
Boots: Madstone
Rings: Shintao / FB
Neck: Shintao
Belt: FB
Weapon: ESoS and a bunch of beaters
Trinket: Litany / Greater Bold

1. Is the Orcish Great Weapon Aptitude line worth taking?
2. Assuming a bard is in the party (to cancel out the +1 damage from Greater Bold Trinket), what trinket will be most beneficial to use: Litany of the Dead or Greater Bold Trinket?
3. Is the Orcish Fury line worth taking?
4. I plan on taking the half-orc extra boost enhancements (bringing me up to 8 damage and haste boosts), is taking the barbarian extra boosts overkill?
5. I will be using a 36 point build, allowing me to max constitution and strength. What stats would you suggest I dump the rest of my points into and why?

Any advice/criticisms would be much appreciated!

[smithj_2020]

Split rest points into dex and wis or reflex and will saves.

Only take first orcish fury, you will want to go orcish action boost III to have access to orcish power rage line for that raging strength, barb and orcish power attack lines, barb Con, the regular barb rage enhancements. Fighter strength of course. I have the same build 2 PL barb I'll get on later and list my enhancements

[Ragnar7]

1:No, I think there are better choices.
2: I think with ESoS on low fort/non-electric immune mobs the bold trinket is probably better. Litany is nice if your Strength is odd and also makes it easier to use silver flame pots.
3: I agree with Smith 1AP isn't bad for 1st tier, but 2nd tier is only below 25% health. I don't think you'll be low enough on health for long enough for that it will do much after 1st tier.
4:No, in difficult content you will need all the boosts you can get. The 3rd tier is also a prerequisite for Orc power rage 2, which is great.
5: I would say look at your what your stats will be with gear at 20 and try to get them all to be 11+ for silver flame pots and put the rest in charisma for intim(which I know you use at times) or dex for slightly less spell damage.

To me the most important orc enhancements are the extra action boosts,power rage, two-handed damage, and of course Strength/toughness.

[mroks28]

I've finally bit the bullet and decided to turn my dwarven barbarian into a half-orc. I have a few questions regarding my new build and would love the help of a DDO guru! I will be doing a 18 Barbarian / 2 Fighter split for the two feats (stunning blow and improved sunder) and haste boosts. Feats are pretty straight forward: THF / GTHF / ITHF / IC: Slashing / Imp. Sunder / Stunning Blow / Barbarian PL / Cleave / Power Attack. I will be maxing strength and constitution then dumping the rest into other random stats.

GEAR
Head: Epic Red Helm
Chest: Epic Mari Chain
Gloves: Epic Claw
Bracers: Epic Claw
Goggles: Tharnes
Cloak: HP GS
Boots: Madstone
Rings: Shintao / FB
Neck: Shintao
Belt: FB
Weapon: ESoS and a bunch of beaters
Trinket: Litany / Greater Bold

1. Is the Orcish Great Weapon Aptitude line worth taking?
2. Assuming a bard is in the party (to cancel out the +1 damage from Greater Bold Trinket), what trinket will be most beneficial to use: Litany of the Dead or Greater Bold Trinket?
3. Is the Orcish Fury line worth taking?
4. I plan on taking the half-orc extra boost enhancements (bringing me up to 8 damage and haste boosts), is taking the barbarian extra boosts overkill?
5. I will be using a 36 point build, allowing me to max constitution and strength. What stats would you suggest I dump the rest of my points into and why?

Any advice/criticisms would be much appreciated!

For gear wise on this build i went
Weapons: ESOS

Armor: EMari

Helm/Cloak/Boots: Abishai ( if you would rather have madstone and dragon helm swap those out but abishai cloak is the best cloak for just about any toon)

Bracers/Gloves: Claw

belt/ring: FB

neck/ring: shintao

goggles: GS45HP ( Thanes for when you are not tanking)

Trinket: Litany PLIS or Brawns Spirt

If you want more dps i would use
Red dragon helm
Gem of facets
bracer/cloak/boots- Abishai

Feat wise you are good although i did take mine differently:
THF x3
Toughness ( Replacing with IMP Sunder is not a bad idea though helps the party more)
PL: Barb
Power Attack
Cleave
Stunning Blow
IC: Slashing


for your questions
1. No
2. Litany
3. only if you dont have any other places to spend it otherwise no
4. Take them all
5. int for skill points ( intim + balance = max), otherwise it does not matter.


Mroks Ova: Orien

[Ivan_Milic]

You know orcish fury doesnt stack with rage spell?

[Habreno]

You know orcish fury doesnt stack with rage spell?

Good point.