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#1 Lawolf Sep 25, 2008 14:16:17	Barbaric Fighter You are a savage warrior of the wild. CLASS TRAITS Role: Defender. You are very tough and have great ability to contain enemies in melee. Power Source: Martial. You have become a master of combat through endless hours of practice, and your own sheer physical toughness. Key Abilities: Strength, Charisma, Dexterity, Constitution Armor Training: Cloth, leather, hide [b]Weapon Proficiencies: Simple melee, military melee Bonus to Defense: +2 Fortitude Hit Points at 1st Level: 15 + Constitution score Hit Points per Level Gained: 6 Healing Surges: 10 + Constitution modifier Trained Skills: From the class skill list below, choose three trained skills at 1st level. Class Skills: Athletics (Str), Endurance (Con), Intimidate (Cha), Nature (Wis), Perception (Wis) Class Features: Combat Challenge, Fighter Weapon Talent, Savage Fury, Iron Hide Barbaric Fighter Class Features Combat Challenge As fighter Two Handed Weapon Talent You gain a +1 bonus to attacks with two handed melee weapons. Savage Fury While you are bloodied you gain a bonus to damage rolls and saves against fear effects equal to your Charisma modifier. In addition, the first time you become bloodied each encounter you gain temporary hit points equal to one-half your level plus your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). Iron Hide As long as you are wearing light or no armor and you are bloodied you gain resistance 2 to all damage. This resistance increases to 4 at 11th level and 6 at 21st level. Barbaric Fighter Powers As fighter
#2 Lawolf Sep 26, 2008 11:43:25	Any thoughts?
#3 sillen Sep 26, 2008 16:42:58	Right, as I mentioned I'd like to see bows in the weapon profencies. I have trouble invisioning the primitive hunter/gatherer backgrounds I imagine most barbarians would have, without the bow as a hunting tool. Also I think the temporary hitpoints might be a little too good, atleast at heroic level. At paragon and epic it might be okay though. Overall I think its a nice class and well done, I wonder how it will match up to the official barbarian once that gets released.
#4 Lawolf Sep 27, 2008 16:08:24	The bow was actually a relatively advanced weapon. As such I would assume most barbaric warriors who focused on the bow would have just been rangers. As it is, I see barbaric fighters using javelins and throwing axes as ranged weapons. As for numbers on the temp hp, a first level character will most likely gain 2 temp hp the first time they become bloodied each encounter. Their healing surge value will most likely be around 7. There is a paladin at-will power that grants you about 2-3 temporary when you hit an enemy. I'm not sure if this will provide a real significant health boost, especially considering that your AC will be 2-4 points lower than a regular fighter's.
#5 Krusk Sep 27, 2008 17:51:22	Personally i see the barbarian more as a striker than defender. The guy who runs in and deals boatloads of damage to the enemy while screaming and swinging an axe. (yours looks like a hgih hp striker to me) If you do want a defender role, give him some way to mark or sticky the enemies, similar to the paladin, swordmage, and fighter. Otherwise he is simply a guy with lots of hp, who is hard to kill, that deals less than striker damage, and the enemys run right around and beat on the wizards. I'd say no to light shields.
#6 Lawolf Sep 27, 2008 18:40:12	I personally see the barbarian as a striker as well. WotC I also think sees things this way as the are making the barbarian either a primal striker or defender (we will know within a month). That being said, I didn't want to make a whole new class, I just wanted to modify an existing one. Think of the Barbaric Fighter as a Tribal Protector, or a Woodland Guardian. Whatever name you choose to give it, just think of it as a fighter, but less civilized. As for the need for marking and stickiness, it has all the fighter abilities and powers (except combat superiority) to cover the marking, but yes, it won't be as sticky as the normal fighter.
#7 sillen Sep 28, 2008 5:46:42	Funny that, ranger would be the first class that I'd recommend if any of my players wanted to be a "barbarian" I just think stonage human before "Conan of Cimmeria" If it's just 2 HP its quite fine, but it seems like it has potential for a bit more. Anyway I think you did a good job.
#8 nerdfury_dup Oct 01, 2008 11:33:03	I would say this looks like a nice fighter variant overall, but for a defender your AC is going to be rather low. You are also making players have to make the difficult choice between Con and Dex for their secondary stat. I would suggest a name change too, Barbaric Fighter doesn't sound catching at all.