Rage Fiend Barbarian! - D&D 5e Build
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Yeah I have made this one before many years ago.
Nulara Bone-Grinder, female Half Orc, 8 lvl totem of the bear barbarian and 12 lvl Fiend Warlock. Pact of the blade or maul in her case.
Background stripper.
She uses her heavy maul as both a weapon and she plants it into the ground for makeshift dance pole.
One thing to note with Barbarian that I've only seen one person talking about it: Alchemist's Fire. You put it on yourself. It lasts until you put it out. 1d4 damage is a small price to pay for keeping your rage up, lads.
A race with fire resistance makes that damage very negligible.
What if you attack youself with blowgun ?
Why not just punch yourself instead ah right 6 bludgeoning damage
Did exactly this on my giant barbarian. Needed the size category for some out of combat utility.
@@kongoaurius attacks against yourself are attacks not made against the enemy, but i guess if you are attacking enemies you don't need to keep rage up
The barbarians biggest weakness is that rage stops spellcasting.
- Me a spellcaster who likes to multiclass
I'll take D&D classes I'd never touch with a ten-foot-pole for 100 Alex.
Definitely gonna love the class that gives unarmoured defence and resistance to the most common damage types in the early game being a free dip for casters. Level 3 gives you a rage that resists everything except psychic. I’m fine with barbarians not allowing spellcasting
Unarmoured defence is just worse than armour, and rage is like mid?? You get so few uses @@theonethathungers5552
Buy your DM a pizza or a six pack, tell them you've got a cool idea for something atypical that really isn't that broken, you'll probably be able to play a Barbarian that can cast/concentrate during Rage. If you get rid of that restriction entirely it's still not a broken combo and spending all of your slots on Hellish Rebuke makes melee a lot of fun. I love the Fiend Barblock.
I personally like pairing Barbarian with Undead Warlock. Form of Dread is really versatile in both augmenting Rage for the big fights or replacing it for less deadly ones. And it really pairs well thematically with Zealot Barbarian in particular.
Totally agree with Undead Warlock. Im gonna pair it with Ancestral Guardian which also fits thematically and makes for a better tank imo.
I've thought about armor of agathys on barbarians for a while now. Glad to see someone actually good at optimizing finding something that works. As a side note I think this would be hilarious with ancestral guardian where if you *don't* attack thorns man you just have disadvantage, and also you delt 2d6 less.
Also, it's a really funny mental image to see this elemental barbarian get so angry he can't really control his powers and just becomes an ice block. (tomb) such a hilarious spell. always love it.
I do recommend using the article version over this because it is technically stronger. This is an old version. You also have the option to add some of your own spice if you want. There's a lot of room in this build to do a lot of different stuff.
Casting spells before you rage is something I really love. I’ve used it in some builds trying to translate triangle strategy characters into dnd.
That’s super cool! What characters have you tried doing it for so far?
what's a triangle strategy character?
@@DucksAndCatnip it’s a game
This build looks cool, and semi-efficient! Which is a new for barbarian!
I had a single target "build" idea with shifter+path of the beast, that gives us 4 attacks per turn. But it does take 2 turns setup
It's very effective! It's mid optimization!
if your DM is nice then maybe they'll let you combine the bonus action of the race and class into the same bonus action
It's kinda has 1 turn setup because you can make a BA attack with your longtooth shift in MPMM. So 4 attacks by turn 2
@@solarkhan484 yeah, but you need bonus action to rage. So whatever the case, you won't reach 4 attacks until turn 2
Yeah, 1 turn to set up. All 4 attacks by turn 2
Been playing a 5 barbarian zealot/ warlock fiend for over a year now. Made it because I was tired of people with no imagination saying barbarian and caster builds don't work. Ended having a ton of fun playing him.
So glad to see this build getting some love.
I played a Barbarian 6/Celestial Pact of the Chain Warlock 6 as a very effective tank. I was using grappling and shield master for effective battlefield control, and raging in combination with the Gift of the Ever living ones invocation maximized healing from the celestial feature on myself for obscene staying power.
The popular way to keep barb from falling off is switching to Paladin after Lv6, but this build is more interesting.
Zealot paladin smiiiiiiiite?
@@lordderppington4694 Smite is so OP because you just hit and guarantee damage. Other great stuff allows them to save after you have already wagered a spell slot.
@@jayrobitaille2402 yeah. There's a lot of little reasons it works well, as well as the big reason that smite can be used while raging. I've always loved the themeing of zealot barb with paladin as well. As they just go together so well thematically, also you can barb smite, and paladin smite, play an aasimar as well for the scourge bonus damage and just delete a fool.
xD, tf
Don’t forget about spells like mirror image and blink which additionally are great defensive options that don’t require concentration.
Such a cool and interesting build. Definitely makes barbarian that much cooler. Thanks for the video
This fits a character I want to play someday. The 8th child of the 8th child is always born with high affinity with magic. That's why he would have the stats of a half-elf. But he would go against his destiny and pick up weapon training insted. The magic inside him would still appaer in ways, like being a Path of the Wild Magic Barbarian.
I made a beast barb/fiend warlock 2 month ago for a one-shot my goal was to see how effective dual wielder barb can be.
This video showed where I can improve and I found it funny that people thought of the build first.
This build looks so fun! I tried once a barblock with the undead patron. The frightened condition helped to not get hit and graved touched added a d12 of damage on attacks
Depending on the campaign, Remove Curse is a fantastic Warlock spell that is often cast immediately after combat (in my experience), at which point your rage would be over anyway.
I was literally just researching how to make a fiend barbarian today and then this video comes out, very nice how the world works sometimes 😅
I quite like this build, I will try to do something similar for my Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3!
I know its not the point of your video, but it makes me happy when I hear you say things like "You run out of rage because it only lasts 1 minute" and then I think about the UA where rage now lasts for 10 minutes. Such a nice buff for barbarians. Same thing when you mentioned Brutal Critical and they just released a new UA that helps remedy this issue.
Also great that you can keep raging with your BA and dont loose rage when you are incapacitated only if you fall unconcious.
I'm using this build as a guide for my barb build. Was gonna try use sorcerer but this is better.
I’m currently playing a Barbarian/Cleric multi. We got a Ring of Spell Storing and gave it to the fighter so he can concentrate for me on Bless or other nice buffs while I’m Raging.
Thank you for your information video
Friend of mine is playing a Zeloth 5 / Fiend 3 with GWM, mask of many faces and beguilling influence, invisibility and go sneaky togheder with the rogue, can talk himself out of situation and in fight demolish the little one, every kill give HP and extra attack, insanely good
Nothing like a fun dip into barb to smooth out some features. Though, I wonder what a Divine Soul Sorcerer would look like given this treatment? My silly little brain has already gone over Conan the Librarian Wiz/Barb build, but I do always like new things. Thanks for another fun video!
You also could take shadow of moil as spell. if your rages run out, use that. resistance to radiant dmg and enemies get hurt more, when they choose to punch you
I made a similar build for a lv 10 1 shot. I only went 3 levels in Barb (as my table only has a few combats per rest and I wanted fire shield and higher level armour of Agathys)for ancestral guardian, to trade a bit of damage for some support for my party, and then went 7 in genie warlock to get a bit of extra damage and the mobility of flight. Pre cast armour of Agathys and fire shield, hit the boss and they either have to attack me and take 29 damage per hit or attack my ally for half damage and with disadvantage.
Another good video. To be fair, there is another Barbarian build you could theory craft about.
Basically this one you take your first level in Barbarian use the bonus feat to pick PAM. Then your second level you take a 1 level dip into Life Domain cleric. Next level you switch to Druid. I know you know the Life Berry trick. At this point you'll have 3 castings of 1st level spells.
If you decide to stay in Barbarian you take Zealot. Rage Beyond Death is really really good with Life Berry. After the fight just pop a berry and you good.
If you going to leave Barbarian then take Bear Totem. RAW you can wear heavy armor and get the damage reduction bonus from your Rage. Then your build is all about smashing stuff with a Pole Arm and getting the very nice Cleric spells. Battles where you don't Rage you can use spells like Spirit Guardians.
Both are pretty good, but I prefer to go back to Cleric to finish out the career. It's so good!
I have a great time playing my bear totem orc barbarian. He is our partys frontliner and allways gets buffed. Hes not really optimized, but at fifth level, he once dealt over 100 dmg in one round, haste, bless great weapon master, scored a crit which let me make my fourth attack. Next lvls will be fighter for action surge, so up to 6 attacks in an important moment. Battlemaster at lvl 8 to get more options to protect my party. Yeah, casters are more powerfull, but our wizzard and my barbarian allways watch out for the other, playing as a team, in combat and out of it, getting this great teambased moments.
For a tanky melee warlock Pact of the Chain and Gift of the Ever-Living Ones from Xanathars is hard to beat, regaining max hitpoints for any healing, including short rest hit dice rolls, is pretty huge!
Woooooo!
Reminds one a lot of the Barbalock by D4. The only real difference they used Genie Efrit.
I had the same idea for the barbarian I'm currently playing. I actually decided to take berserker barbarian/celestial warlock with pact of the chain because it allows me to get greater restoration to remove exhaustion and not waste a feat on polearm master for a bonus action attack (because I like to play half orc). Also pact of the chain gives maximised healing as an invocation (including on hit dice and cure wounds, and the cure wounds come back every short rest so do it before the rest) on a class known for having low ac. Also the celestial warlocks healing ability works while raging. Because level 14 isn't "great" for celestial subclass you can also dip into fighter for an action surge. 8berserker barbarian/9celestial warlock/3? fighter.
My favourite low level Barbarian tactic is going Ancestral Guardian and then using a Longbow or Crossbow.
You lose out on a lot of damage, but by staying at range, you can cripple one melee enemy completely by more than halving their damage output against your frontline.
About 2 years ago, I played in a Desert themed campaign as a Barbarian/Warlock. I went 2 levels of Barb, 3 levels of Marid Genie Warlock cuz my character worshipped Water.
The first ever Combat we were in was against a Chimera that got loose from an Arena. I ran at it, cast Armor of Agathys at 2nd level, and Raged. It took 30 points of Cold Damage as a result of attacking me 3 times before my thp went away.
At 6th level of Warlock I gained permanent resistance to Cold Damage and a Concentration-less non-spell flight that I could use as a Bonus Action. And Thirsting Blade helped me get Extra attack without too much additional delay. Then went another level into Barbarian and grabbed Zealot.
I had to come back to this video cos I had an idea about going Fathomless warlock for the bonus action effects. probably with Giant barbarian for the kraken flavour
Rage friend are Minotaur and Lava Monater , how cool is that Kobold hero
Alternative for race pick: Loxodon. Before the hardcore optimizers get grumpy, hear me out: Loxodon's natural armor can make you INCREDIBLY hard to hit, so when combined with Rage, Armor of Agathys, and Dark One's Blessing, you can just EAT damage and laugh. Yes, you lose an attack, but you are CHUNKY as hell
You also can grapple with your trunk and attack with your weapon!
I know I'm very late to the party here, but your AC using the Loxodon in this build would be a 14 (it doesn't stack with Unarmored Defense because they're two completely different AC calculations). That AC is a whopping -3 compared to just using half-plate and the same as not using any armor at all. You're actually massively squishier using the beeg elephant race
@@quetzalcoatlus1892 I'm saying if your Dexterity is 11 or less, Loxodon actually is better. Plus, Loxodon is underutilized as a race
Loxodon is better than unarmoured defence if dexterity is 13 or less.
Also, the AC scales with con, so if you've built a tank and have pushed con to 20, your AC as a loxodon is 17 regardless of dexterity.
@@lukenator115 "Loxodon is better than unarmored defense if your Dexterity is 13 or less"
Yes, but your Dexterity is 14 with this build and you don't even want to use unarmored defense because it sucks.
Otherwise, reaching 17 AC at a whopping 18th level by throwing away all your ASI at Con upgrades instead of getting useful feats or upgrading your main stat, rather than getting 17 AC at level 2-3 by buying half-plate is perhaps one of the worst advice I've ever heard regarding dnd 5E. Like, if I wanted to "build tank" as you say, which is a very poor way of building a Barbarian mind you, I could just do half-plate+shield and have 19 AC right at tier 1, and at that point I'd already be "tankier" than your build (I say "tank" because if you just wanted to build a character that's really hard to kill, any armor dipped caster will do that for you much easier. If you want a melee character that is very hard to kill, you can even do some Sorcerer 1/Forge Cleric X build with the Warforged race and not only that build is going to be so much more difficult to kill that in a game with both that character and the Loxodon Barb any encounter that minimally inconvenienced the Cleric would straight up kill the Loxodon, but the Cleric ALSO deals way more damage than that build). I suspect you've only ever played in no-optimization games, and there's nothing wrong with that, but that makes me think that your perceptions over what's strong or not in the game are so warped that I couldn't even convince you why your argument to me is so absurd both in a mathematical and practical level. What I heard you say was "Okay, but what if after self nerfing your race to switch from a mediocre 17 AC to a terrible 14 AC AND killing all your damage progression, you ALSO self-nerf all your ASIs in order to reach the initial pre-self-nerf AC at level 18, after a 17 AC stopped being even half-good 13 levels ago".
My favorite barbarian race has to be shifter. Making is so attacks can’t have advantage on you is so good with reckless attack.
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I've wanted to do a Barbarian/Fiend warlock because of Hurl Through Hell. But it would be such a high level build it defeats the purpose.
sypnotic static must be one of the best spells in dnd, right next hynaptic pattern
I always wanted to play a Plasmoid Giant Barb who Grows by a Bunch of other Slimes molding together with them… and Throws Slimes from His Body which return by… coming back
I think the rage resource management issue is possibly the most significant reason that Barb/Fighter is so good.
You can often choose to just be a fighter against smaller/weaker encounters.
Im still bear totem for the resistance all the way myself. I play as the tank when I barbie, not the damage nuke. My DM HATED my Barbarian. When you can mock the boss (who is a dragon) over the damage he deals to you it feels good lmao. I also have no qualms with forgoing attacks to save my party though. Grapple can also piss off some DMs sometimes lmao
10:38 but Pact of The Blade synergizes with magic weapons. You can make a magic weapon you find your Pact Weapon.
This is the problem with multiclassing. You end up having to choose between using your action to deal level 6 barbarian damage OR cast Fireball as a level 5 warlock. All the while your level 11 wizard is deciding whether to cast Mental Prison, Disintegrate or just warp reality again for breakfast.
I heard you say “don’t rage every encounter”, but intelligence is my dump stat, so I do believe I get a pass.
Out of spells? Angry? GOOD.
@ReadyLifeusa called it! 🍻
Doing something like this, but starting warlock mountain dwarf, and dipping barb for 1 or 2 levels after lvl5 so i could actually cast spells throughout my career
Note with eldrich smight you don't need to use a melee weapon for it and you can turn your pact weapon into a ranged weapon 11:48
But you loose rage damage and cant use reckless attack with it.
Ah yes, sHypnotic Static. My favorite spell
I put off reading the article. I wanted Kobold to introduce it.
Here is an interesting tech for races that remain conscious while resting you a could technically use a familiar with hands like a monkey to write a scroll whilst you remain inert for your long rest for DMs that are stingy with their downtime. While there is nothing in the rules to support this there is nothing to prevent it either correct me if I’m wrong but if you do make sure to provide specific wording.😊
The Barbarian feening for more rages
This sounds like a build I could translate to Bg3 I will try that it sounds fun. Unfortunate that Agatha is cold damage its a better damage type but I want to have a fire barbarian.
Duo with karlach with soul coins fire and ice combo
I mean most tables do at least 1 combat every 3 sessions or it's gonna be up to 4 combats per session, and most sessions are 1 at most 2 days each. Some are shorter and you might have like 1 day for 5 sessions which would be absolutely insane
Interesting, i play martials but i don't like barbarians. I like to dip in barbarian, but this an intriguing build to begin mainly barbarian.
I don't like Barbarians either normally but yeah, this is more interesting and you're picking more interesting spells you wouldn't normally do.
@@PackTactics kudos to you sir. Fastest clapback ever🤣. Now if I can get you to play a beast master or fey wanderer with a long bow....
@@karatekoala4270 Beast master has strong mounts so I would absolutely play Beast master. Even the original beast master is underrated.
This whole video can be summed up as "Now I know what you're thinking, but hear me out".
Really curious what a build using the reworked barbarian from UA8 would look like
It would be lower dpr but at least you have longer lasting rages.
@ Pack Tactics
Would you be willing to do a video on Warcaster VS Eldritch Adept: Eldritch Mind with a Ruby of the War Mage for caster Optimization?
I play Wizard, and I can't seem to explain it the way I think you would be able to.
What about a beast barbarian Undead warlock with the shifter race wildhunt sub race as a build the throw some rune knight fighter in there. Use armor of agathas for those temp hp then use wildhunt shifting for more temp hp and have less enemies having advantage on you
Hey kobold, I just recently started playing Artificer, and have quickly fallen in love with Vortex Warp, but I am curious for your thoughts on it.
I made a video about Vortex Warp!
Fuckin love barbarians
The concepts are interesting, but, when the majority of the levels are in warlock, you have to ask yourself: why are you not playing a warlock instead? There are ways for casters to get extra attack and strong defensive features apart from rage
because barbarian goes "Bonk!"
@@emilstvring7577 Friend, this is DnD. Nearly any caster can outbonk a barbarian if they so choose, unfortunately
@@limaTheNoob Because they are trying to fulfill a different roll/fantasy, than just playing the best character every single time.
@@lordderppington4694 and what exactly does having levels in this or that class have to do with the fantasy? You can achieve pretty much the same fantasy with whatever build you go for. Who's to say my pure warlock cannot have a tribal background or something? I don't see how the fantasy being aimed at matters as to what class to pick here as a base. Classes nowadays are pretty much fantasy-agnostic, just mechanical shells.
@@limaTheNoob well you see. If you play a barbariam, you want to go "raaaaaaaaaaaah!" And run into combat, and theow people around, and eat 32 opportunity attacks and go "oops" and so if you are lets say a pure warlock, you will have trohble embracing that fantasy.
You could try for hexblade and rush in and smite people, but you are locked to charisma, so you won't be good at throwing people aroubd, kr picking things up, or breaking doors or whatever. You could do eldrich blast with push, but that doesn't embody that same feel, you are blasting spooky eldrich beams at people, not grabbing them by the face and ragdolling. You could try to have a high stremgth warlock. But since none of the features scales with it you won't have the best time.
Yes everything can be reflavored. Yes you can make most classes do most things. But at the end of the day some people want to yell and reckless, and some people want a magical sugar daddy to let them BEAM. They do things in different ways and that's why classes exist.
My favorite version of a barbarian that I ever played was a barbarian that had access to spells And bardic Inspiration
All this selling-your-soul business could be averted by WotC just writing a martial class that doesn't suck.
My next barbarian will have an emotional support punching bag that he can pummel to keep rage going between fights 😅
Once again asking for a Video about Magic Stone pls.
There isn't much to say about it besides it being good and handing it to minions or npcs.
Look, it's discount Eldritch blast, that works in a pinch.
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Spirit guardians(likely from a feat/item not the class…)rage+multi-striking wildshape = fun times X-p potentially add a small unarmed strike dip
DM: you do How Many attacks? They do How much damage? And they… get hit by both getting in proximity, or staying there… huh… well… rip melee options…
hey @packtactics, i looked at the tabletop build, and i was wondering, would it be better to drop the last 2 levels of warlock, and instead go 2 levels in paladin?
PROS
+all arm and wep prof (good)
+divine sense(meh)
+lay on hands (meh)
+tunnel fighter (utterly busted), great weapon fighting (very good), defense (good)
+2 lvl 1 spell slots (meh)
tunnel fighter, while youre raging, is INSANE. you can use your bonus action to attack anyone who moves 5ft within your attack range (which is now 15ft, with a glaive), until the start of your next turn. and you can still use your reaction attack to stop someones movement, if you need to. which means, if you stop their movement, they decide to dash, to move up to you, you hit them 2 more times for it xD even without raging, its still pretty good with polearm master and great weapon master. Problem with it is, it takes a bonus action, so its useless your first turn, when you rage, but the next 5 turns can be very tasty.
CONS
-Mystic Arcanum (Force Cage, Teleportation Circle)
-Hurl through hell
You keep all your warlock spell slots, and of the same level. Only BIG loss is the one shot hurl through hell potential, but smites kind of make up for that, and with the extra consistent damage from tunnel fighter/great weapon fighting, it should more than make up the damage. or, you can just go defense and get as tanky as possible, with little to no damage output loss.
maybe i am wrong, but i feel this would add tankiness and extra options for longer fights
forcecage should just be better
I may not know much, but why are level 7 features from barbarian not taken? Advantage on initiative and half movement speed on entering rage sound quite nice. Am I missing something?
We want bigger damage increases because we're a main damage dealer.
What if you go barbarian 3/warlock x if you start at high level? You can get extra attack with lvl 5 warlock invocations and you get higher lvl spell slots sooner.
You're really bad at dpr for a very long time and you'll feel it.
@@PackTactics it's for a lvl 10 oneshot where the dm let's us multiclass 3 lvls max! How would you build it then? Thank you for responding :)
@@sasnokfrak5198 If you start at lvl 10 then go ahead.
I could be wrong, but I suspect most GMs that don’t allow level 1 feats, also probably prohibit optional player options like variant human and custom lineage.
The build still looks like it would probably be at least okay without level 1 Poll Arm Master though.
Huh, I was more under the impression that GMs that *do* allow level 1 feats frown more upon vumans and c lineage than those who don't as you'd start with two feats
XD WHAT, no it's the opposite
This is more like a melee fiend warlock build than a barbarian build. Most of the levels are in warlock, you concentrate on spells later on like darkness, fly and summon greater demon, so you don't even rage. Like you could do similar thing with putting 2-3 levels into fighter instead of 6 into barbarian and then the rest in warlock and getting the thirsting blade invocation and you're very similar to this build but get spells earlier.
You don't have to concentrate on summon greater demon if it's well placed. Anyways, the reason why you have those spells is so you have backup. And no you absolutely can't with 2-3 fighter levels because this has reckless attacks and extra attack. That's consistent advantage all the time.
@@PackTactics Extra attack can be replaced with thirsting blade invocation and reckless attack still has the downside of giving enemy advantage which makes you get hit basically every turn because of the very low 14 ac and I don't think rage is enough to save that. With the fighter, you'll not only be effective faster because of faster spell progression, but also because of eventual 8th (maddening darkness) and 9th level spells (true poly), higher ac with heavy armor and gives potential for even higher ac with magic item armors (which is also tankiness even if you decide to spellcast and concentrate), second wind out of combat which makes up for lower max hp (not that it matters that much with the constant temp hp), action surge, at level 3 subclasses rune knight (frost and cloud because of the low dc) or battlemaster. Don't get me wrong, I do like this build you show in the video, I love how it fits thematically, but I feel like it's an okay melee warlock rather than a good barbarian build.
What about a paladin hobgoblin 6(anything, really, i use devotion) sorcer 14(clockwork) for basicly everything
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Not sure, if it is just me, but the link tabletopbuild, doesn't seem to work, or it doesn't open a site up, that make it possible to read... although interesting build...
You can't assume DMs will hand out magic items. This is a big reason I choose casters over martials. It's a huge problem in some tables I've played at. When a class or build becomes DM dependent, it becomes less than viable build in my opinion.
If your in a combat longer then 10 rounds you should retreat.
the concern is never running out of rages mid-battle, the concern is running out of rages between battles becuase there is more than 10 rounds but less than 8 hours between fights in certain dungeons
Not always. Usually you can find out who won the fight mid way through or even the 1st or 2nd round. And if it's more than 10 rounds, it's usually just clean up. DMs usually skip clean up fights and default kills because they're kind of boring to play out..
What about feral instinct? Level 7
So table top builds, plan builds with the mindset you're playing optimal with friends. MEANING "pass without a trace" and ambushing everything. So it really wouldn't be needed.
My favorite thing about this video is how he pronounces synaptic static worse each time (it is sin-nap-tic stah-tic btw). It started sounding like synotic static and ended sounding like sin not esthetic.
why theres a balrog in thumbnail ?
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Hey, you made a mistake in the build, as is it's not legal on some levels. You gain ASI's as per the class progression, since there's no exception for them in the multiclass rules as there are for other things, especially since some classes gain faster ASI's (Fighter, for example). Thus going to barbarian 6 means you won't gain your second ASI/feat from levels until level 10(warlock 4), and your third at lv14 (warlock 8). Don't know if you want to make further changes to the build because of that, but figured you'd like the heads up.
I've actually been thinking about a Barbarian/Warlock multiclass for some time but what I came up with was a bit different.
I went with celestial warlock instead and took pact of the chain for the invocation "gift of the everliving ones," this basically makes you a hell of a lot more tanky especially while raging since you can bonus action heal yourself which is maximized due to the invocation, if you have 14 charisma you can restore 12 hit points each turn as long as you still have healing light dice.
As for the barbarian subclass the most thematic I guess would zealot, Bear totem obviously makes you a lot more tanky since it basically doubles any healing you gain but personally I would go with ancestral guardian to double down on the tanking aspect of this multiclass by encouraging enemies to attack you instead.
zelote + undead warlock . I think better . the TEMP HP is more reliable + the always on damage when you go PURRRR
Consider this though. You're dealing a great amount of damage. You can roll for temp hp a couple of times. Or Kill and get TECHNICALLY unlimited refill temp hp
I do find pretty silly the idea of the illiterate barbarin making spell scrolls... 😂
Ridiculous build idea: Twilight Guardian (It sounds stupid but hear me out)
- Tortle for Natural Armor (We’re dumping Dex, hang on tight)
- Str 16, Con 16, Wis 13, Cha 13
- Ancestral Guardian Barbarian 5 for Rage, Reckless, and the works
- 2-level cleric dip for ritual casting and Twilight Sanctuary (not a spell so you can use it while raging)
- 2-level Paladin dip for Divine Smite, then cleric all the way to the end for higher level smite slots
- Regenerating temp HP + damage resistance from rage = crazy hard to kill
- Ancestral protectors to impose disadvantage and halve the damage of attacks targeting anyone but you coupled with Twilight sanctuary means the rest of your party is even harder to kill than you are
- Unlimited advantage let’s you crit fish with divine smite
- Pick up polearm master for more attacks and tough for more HP (since the ancestral protectors feature requires you to hit, I would skip GWM so we can reliably apply the disadvantage)
We could let barbs renew a few rages with a short rest and let them start rage as a reaction.
While it’s _funny_ to say your barbarian build is MAD, it may not always be _fun_.
This build being MAD doesn't hurt the build at all because we pick spells that don't need a high score to be good and we pick spells that do AOE half on a save damage.
I love Barb but I think it has a bit of an identity crisis. Clearly the fantasy WotC has is a strong angry mortal front lining with damage and defense but I’d argue they don’t have any good options for any of these things. Their rage damage is abysmal and they have such a terrible limit on their rage. While resistance is nice I find in higher levels this quickly falls off as creatures can do many types of damage, and their unarmored feature sucks denying them AC. I like the giant subs but I’m not a fan of the become big features because it just gives enemies more spots to gather around you, which I know you could just play a bit more optimally but I have friends who want to live out the fantasy of bounding into the fray and smashing their foes, they feel discouraged because of how easily they get taken down. I understand WotC leaves it to the subs to spec more into defense or damage but I don’t think that’s an excuse for such lackluster base class abilities. Rage damage should add dice, d4s or d6s, unarmored should work with light armor or also add proficiency, and you should totally pick up more resistances as you go along.
Classes being bad are the fault of either the dm not playing a balanced game with 6-8 medium / hard encounters with 2 short rests in between, or the player not understanding how to pace their resource expenditure lol
If your barbarian is dying in one round before you can rage either you're really fucking up or your DM is an ass.
I wouldn't necessarily say so. Like I've seen a lvl 2 barbarian lose initiative to 3d6 wolves and get downed right away. It just happens. If the DM throws Intellect Devourers then I would lean on your side.
Day 1 of asking for Pathfinder2e or revised builds.
5e is trash...next
U get a *WHAT* STATIC?!