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5 months ago ::
Jan 16, 2013 - 5:33AM
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I'll be the devil's advocate and say you should take a Gouge and be a charge barb (assuming 4e). Then the monsters will need high ref and AC to avoid you. 
Doesn't really work, since Impaling Spear doesn't work with Howling Strike...
Which is saddening to lose 1d6 of damage. But if it increases your chance to hit by, say, 7. It might be worth it...
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5 months ago ::
Jan 16, 2013 - 5:37AM
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true, true. but you're also losing more than that, due to not using a Barbarian power (one of the class features triggers on them) - and it's 1/2/3d6  But in principle, yes. However, if you're not using Howling Strike, you might as well not be using a barb if you're charging.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 16, 2013 - 8:22AM
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true, true. but you're also losing more than that, due to not using a Barbarian power (one of the class features triggers on them) - and it's 1/2/3d6
But in principle, yes. However, if you're not using Howling Strike, you might as well not be using a barb if you're charging.
It wasn't meant as a serious comment at all. Just pointing out that if you hose a player in DnD there are often a lot of ways to get around it.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 8:54PM
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true, true. but you're also losing more than that, due to not using a Barbarian power (one of the class features triggers on them) - and it's 1/2/3d6
But in principle, yes. However, if you're not using Howling Strike, you might as well not be using a barb if you're charging.
It wasn't meant as a serious comment at all. Just pointing out that if you hose a player in DnD there are often a lot of ways to get around it.
Sorry for taking so long to post and say thanks for all the feedback, When I had posted I forgot to include math of any kind. So he is a fairly new DM so he did not understand what was balanced and what was broken. He seriously thought that barbarians where a broken class as I was the only striker in the party and he had no real knowledge of the role system and based all judgements on my character alone. I have talked to him and resolved the problem and I know for a fact I was being treated unfairly and was not just a "feeling". Also dispite no know the exact AC of the creatures I was missing on rolls such as 17+12 Vs Ac but hiting with rolls like 5+11 vs fort basicly limiting me to one reliable attack per encounter (besides my daily) via Brutal Slam. Anyways Thank you very much.
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5 months ago ::
Feb 08, 2013 - 3:49PM
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Hi I play a barbarian I do lots of dpr and am fairly tanky, however I am the only one in the party who is Vs AC. When I hit I tend to do chunks of the monsters hp killing them in about 1-2 rounds. My DM however did not like the fact that I was doing so well, in responce the only things we fight nowadays are monsters with unresonable AC hindering only me and no one else in the party. I am no longer having any fun as I cannot hit anything and am only good for skill checks.On the bright side the rest of my party is having a blast and all the monsters are a cake walk for them as they only have high AC. So I ask WHAT DO ????????
Sounds to me that your GM would rather shame a player than challenge a player, this also goes with making you look like the bad guy by the group.
Because you are a 1 or shot killer, I will throw mobs that you will not easily kill, unfortuntely their power level will make the rest of the party useless....and this is because you play this sort of character.
If damage and melee are your strongest points, why is your GM not taking advantage of your weaknesses?
Ranged attacks.
Magic.
Superior tactics.
Seems the GM is taking it personal and has not GM's for too long to realize this, or he is upset and not thinking too clearly and professionally.
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