The total AC bonus provided by half plate armor. Your Dexterity and Constitution modifiers need to total +7 to match Number of rages per day is limited, so try not to do so if you can avoidįor the Barbarian, but won’t do much good for you unless your abilities are Multiple times in the same encounter if you absolutely need to, but your Resistance to damage makes Barbarians exceptionally durable. The bonus damage isn’t huge, but it’s reliable and consistent.
Rage: Rage is the Barbarian’s defining classįeature. Weapons will get you a long way, but you get no tool proficiencies, and only Saves: Strength saves are fairly rare, butĬonstitution saves are common and typically very problematic. Optional Class Features are detailed below under Optional Class Features. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. RPGBOT is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Keep in mind that the state of the meta periodically changes as new source materials are released and this article will be updating accordingly as time allows. The advice offered below is based on the current State of the Character Optimization Meta as of when the article was last updated. We also won’t cover Unearthed Arcana content because it’s not finalized, and we can’t guarantee that it will be available to you in your games. We will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, in handbooks for official content because we can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.
RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance. Example Barbarian Build – Half-Orc Barbarian (Berserker).Hit points, resistance to damage, and Rage gives a wonderful bonus to damage.īarbarians don’t get much in the way of skills, so generally they’re stuck asĬombat monsters, but they function equally well as a Defender and a Striker,Īnd certain character options can even expand them into a limited SupportĪfter reading this handbook, I encourage you to read myīarbarian Subclasses Breakdown.
Barbarians are all about getting angry and dealing damage.