Rate My Lowbie Build: Level 7 TWF Occult Slayer Dwarven Barbarian

[GSilvermane]

Hello there folks!

I decided i'd try to solo my way to a TR without having to spend too much time in Elite or Hard modes. This is the build I have so far, designed specifically to counteract spell damage and provide mitigation. Let me know what you think, and any advice you might have is greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your time.

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Tymala Silvermane
Level 7 Chaotic Good Dwarf Female
(7 Barbarian) 
Hit Points: 155
Spell Points: 0 
BAB: 7\7\12
Fortitude: 9
Reflex: 6
Will: 3

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats          Modified Stats
(32 Point)       (Level 1)             (Level 7)
Strength             16                    16
Dexterity            16                    16
Constitution         16                    17
Intelligence         12                    13
Wisdom               10                    10
Charisma              6                     6

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 7)
Balance               4                     7
Bluff                 0                    -2
Concentration         0                     3
Diplomacy             0                    -2
Disable Device        n/a                   n/a
Haggle                0                    -2
Heal                  0                     0
Hide                  0                     3
Intimidate            0                    -2
Jump                  4                    13
Listen                0                     2
Move Silently         0                     3
Open Lock             n/a                   n/a
Perform               n/a                  n/a
Repair                0                     1
Search                4                    10
Spellcraft            0                     1
Spot                  2                     7
Swim                  4                    13
Tumble                n/a                   n/a
Use Magic Device      2                     3

Level 1 (Barbarian)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Fighting
Feat: (Automatic) Attack
Feat: (Automatic) Defensive Fighting
Feat: (Automatic) Dismiss Rage
Feat: (Automatic) Dwarven Stability
Feat: (Automatic) Dwarven Stonecutting
Feat: (Automatic) Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Dwarven Waraxe
Feat: (Automatic) Fast Movement
Feat: (Automatic) Heroic Durability
Feat: (Automatic) Light Armor Proficiency
Feat: (Automatic) Martial Weapon Proficiency (ALL)
Feat: (Automatic) Medium Armor Proficiency
Feat: (Automatic) Orc and Goblin Bonus
Feat: (Automatic) Poison Save Bonus
Feat: (Automatic) Rage
Feat: (Automatic) Shield Proficiency (General)
Feat: (Automatic) Simple Weapon Proficiency
Feat: (Automatic) Sneak
Feat: (Automatic) Spell Save Bonus
Feat: (Automatic) Sunder
Feat: (Automatic) Trip


Level 2 (Barbarian)
Feat: (Automatic) Damage Reduction


Level 3 (Barbarian)
Feat: (Selected) Two Weapon Defense
Feat: (Automatic) Trap Sense


Level 4 (Barbarian)
Feat: (Automatic) Uncanny Dodge
Feat: (Automatic) Uncanny Dodge (Dodge Bonus)


Level 5 (Barbarian)
Feat: (Automatic) Improved Heroic Durability


Level 6 (Barbarian)
Feat: (Selected) Dodge


Level 7 (Barbarian)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Weapon Bond (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Resistance (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Elemental Defense (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Parrying Bond (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Parrying Bond (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Parrying Bond (Rank 3)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Uncanny Dodger (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Uncanny Dodger (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Uncanny Dodger (Rank 3)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Awareness (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Awareness (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Guarding Bond (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Guarding Bond (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Guarding Bond (Rank 3)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Lessons of Travel (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Lessons of Travel (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Lessons of Travel (Rank 3)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Lessons of Nature (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Lessons of Nature (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Lessons of Nature (Rank 3)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Arcane Encumbrance (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Arcane Encumbrance (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Arcane Encumbrance (Rank 3)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Kinetic Bond (Rank 1)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Kinetic Bond (Rank 2)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Kinetic Bond (Rank 3)
Enhancement: Occult Slayer (Bar) - Constitution (Rank 1)

[cru121]

I guess if you don't plan to spend too much time in hard and elite dungeons, the build will do just fine.

I will post a counterproposal about how my previous barb looked like around level 7.

Race would be Human
Stats would be Str, Con
Feats would be Power Attack, Cleave, THF, Great Cleave
Weapon style would be two-handed fighting

AP would be distributed into all three barb trees. My priorities would be getting as many barbarian cores as possible. 11 AP in one tree, 11 AP in second tree, rest in third tree or human.

It may sound like you're giving away a lot of defense, but in return, you get lot of HP, heal amp, and low-hanging fruits from each tree.

I find HP and heal amp to be the most important defensive stats of a barb. Actually no, the most important is high mobility and huge damage. When you can run in, cleave twice to kill everyone in sight before they can react, you don't even need to heal. But if you do take damage, having a Cure Serious Wounds potion heal you for 50-60 HP is great.


Here are some comments for your enhancement selection

Weapon Bond (Rank 1)
Resistance (Rank 1)
Elemental Defense (Rank 1)
- cores are nice

Parrying Bond (Rank 1)
Parrying Bond (Rank 2)
Parrying Bond (Rank 3)
- parrying is OK

Uncanny Dodger (Rank 1)
Uncanny Dodger (Rank 2)
Uncanny Dodger (Rank 3)
- perhaps OK, though make sure your armor has high enough max dex bonus to support your dodge. If you are using medium armor, you might be able to reach max allowed dodge through items + ship buffs, saving AP and feat.

Awareness (Rank 1)
Awareness (Rank 2)
- why?

Guarding Bond (Rank 1)
Guarding Bond (Rank 2)
Guarding Bond (Rank 3)
- I like this one

Lessons of Travel (Rank 1)
Lessons of Travel (Rank 2)
Lessons of Travel (Rank 3)
- Do you have access to ship buffs? If yes, lessons of travel provides marginal benefit. If no, you're still probably better off using potions, or drinking a healing pot after combat.
http://ddowiki.com/page/Resist_Energy#Potions

Lessons of Nature (Rank 1)
Lessons of Nature (Rank 2)
Lessons of Nature (Rank 3)
- Why not drink a remove disease / neutralize poison potion?

Arcane Encumbrance (Rank 1)
Arcane Encumbrance (Rank 2)
Arcane Encumbrance (Rank 3)
- OK

Kinetic Bond (Rank 1)
Kinetic Bond (Rank 2)
Kinetic Bond (Rank 3)
- OK

Constitution (Rank 1)
- Spending AP on ability increases... you should have better options

[Kadrios]

#
Lessons of Travel (Rank 1)
Lessons of Travel (Rank 2)
Lessons of Travel (Rank 3)
- Do you have access to ship buffs? If yes, lessons of travel provides marginal benefit. If no, you're still probably better off using potions, or drinking a healing pot after combat.
http://ddowiki.com/page/Resist_Energy#Potions

Lessons of Travel is required for Kinetic Bond.

[unbongwah]

A couple of comments: Occult Slayer is considered far behind the other two PrEs in terms of DPS, particularly in epics; FB capstone (Storm's Eye) is insanely OP compared to the other two caps, IMO. And humans are preferred for barbs (and most builds, really), due to extra feat and racial Dmg boost. [Heal amp too, although barbs get plenty of that these days.]

That said, if you want to go the dwarf OS barb route, I say embrace the flavor and go full CON-based like this:

Kundarak Slayer
Barbarian 20
True Neutral Dwarf


Stats
               32pt     Level Up
               ----     --------
Strength        14       4: DEX
Dexterity       16       8: CON
Constitution    20      12: CON
Intelligence     8      16: CON
Wisdom           8      20: CON
Charisma         6      24: CON
                        28: CON

Skills
          1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
         ------------------------------------------------------------
Spellcr   1  1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1  11
Balance   2  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½     11
UMD       2     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     11
Jump                                                               1   1
Tumble    1                                                            1
         ------------------------------------------------------------
         12  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3


Feats

 1        : Two Weapon Fighting
 3        : Power Attack
 6        : Improved Two Weapon Fighting
 9        : Improved Critical: Slashing
12        : Greater Two Weapon Fighting
15        : Cleave
18        : Great Cleave
21 Epic   : Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic   : Armor Proficiency: Heavy
26 Destiny: Perfect Two Weapon Fighting
27 Epic   :
28 Destiny: Elusive Target
29 Destiny: Embodiment of Order
30 Epic   :
30 Legend : Scion of: Plane of Water


Enhancements (80 AP)

Occult Slayer (41 AP)

Weapon Bond, Resistance, Elemental Defense, Blank Thoughts, Force Ward, Mind Over Magic

Ear Smash III, Parrying Bond III
Knockout III, Guarding Bond III, Lessons of Travel III
Bond of Retribution, Arcane Encumberance III, Kinetic Bond III
Driving Force III
Bond of Destruction, Vampiric Bond III, Occult Metalline, One Spirit III

Dwarf (18 AP)

Dwarven Toughness, Dwarven Constitution, Dwarven Toughness II, Dwarven Constitution II

Axe Training
Axe Training
Dwarven Runes III, Axe Training
Axe Training, Throw Your Weight Around

Frenzied Berserker (14 AP)

Die Hard, Frenzied Toughness, Frenzy

Extra Rage III, Die Harder I
Extra Action Boost III, Sprint Boost I
Supreme Cleave III

Ravager (7 AP)

Furious Rage

Barbarian Power Attack III, Hardy Rage III


Destiny (24 AP)

Legendary Dreadnought

Extra Action Boost III, Constitution
Momentum Swing III, Imp. Power Attack
Critical Damage I, Haste Boost III
Anvil of Thunder
Advancing Blows, Devastating Critical
Master's Blitz, Headman's Chop

Twists of Fate (26 fate points)

Balanced Attacks (Tier 3 Primal)
Sacred Ground (Tier 3 Crusader)
Consecration (Tier 2 Crusader)
Unearthly Reactions (Tier 1 Magister)

TWF w/axes: for warhammers or picks, take the relevant Imp Crit feat and tweak enhs. Why Spellcraft? The extra Spellpower will boost the cold dmg from Scion of Water; but if you don't plan to take SoW (or intend to HTR first), then you can drop Spellcraft for something else.