Quote Originally Posted by RumbIe View Post
Hi. First love the build and I'm excited t try a barb. Never did one before except an FVS split that was self healing but poor dps. Now after the updates I'm ready to jump on board this beast. So I started and am level 5 right now and mowing through stuff. I'm THF with mauls and ogrish war axe as well as a great axe of lacerating and maul of aerating. Against champs I take a beating, but on elite its to be expected I guess. I usually survive through it and can pot back to full and move on.

So a couple of things. First I'm 3rd life and while I have no war hammers on this life (mostly 2 handed weapons from prior fighter lives) I will go as you have built. I have a raiders reward box, but I'm not sure if it's worth it for the CITW hammer or not and I may save it for another life and focus on maybe a cormeyean crafted and the TF one with assorted stuff from the ah until I get there.

- I didn't have a +5 dex tome. Only +4 so I needed to bump dex. So I took from Con and figured why have an odd con number and went con 16. That allowed me to bump dex to 15. Way more than I needed, but I could potentially grab twf, gtwf and itwf sooner. Is that what you would do? Grab them sooner since I'll have the dex earlier? So I'd have dex 15 at level 7 so after 7 I could get twf. Worth doing it or stay thf till 20?

- I kept STR at 18 and tossed 2 into CHA because my last few toons I've leveled have been CHA based and I'm used to. Plus can't hurt UMD right. Maybe I should have went Int for Know the Angles, but what's done is done.

- I'm not a completionist so I have that feat free. Was thinking Great Cleave. How often are you using IC pierce on most questing? Is it worth having over GC? I mean I don't want to add buttons to my hotbar just for the sake of it

- How much does 2 melee power give/do? Was thinking of dropping a WF (just one) for Heavy Armor Prof. Wouldn't that be a big help? If so which WF would you drop and when would you take heavy armor? If 2 melee power makes a big difference then I'll keep all 3 WF. It's just at lower levels when I get a melee power bump I don't see much change.

Thanks
If you are not a completionist you can definitely get heavy armor proficiency with that extra feat. It's a totally viable choice to boost a little bit more your magical and physical resistance. I'd keep all the weapon focuses.