What are you wanting to do with the character? Protect your allies as the meat shield? Be as hard to kill as possible? HULK SMASH!?
Berserker with a Two-Handed weapon is your typical smashy type. Go in swinging, and don't stop swinging until your foes are all dead, or you are.
A weapon and shield World Tree Barbarian (I like the Warhammer for the Push mastery) is a great protector with a lot of ways to control the battlefield by pushing/pulling enemies around.
Wild Hearts give you a lot of versatility by choosing different animal aspects when you rage that you can tailor to each fight, letting you adapt to whatever gets thrown your way.
Zealots are kind of the all-rounders, with some self-healing, a little bit of extra damage, and a way to give and AoE advantage buff to your party.
I like the idea of the huge barbarian with a giant weapon, driven by fury and bathing in the blood of his enemies, so I guess I'll go for the Berserker with a two-handed weapon.
Do you recommend a Battle Axe with GWM or a Glaive with PAM? I suppose I'll use a Stone Goliath for increased durability and the farmer background.
Barbarians don't have an innate way to weaponize their bonus action, so I kind of like the Glaive with PAM and Great Weapon Master. Also, the Glaive has the Graze weapon mastery, which is realy good for your damage reliability.
Honestly though, I would probably carry both and switch to the Greataxe if you happen to have two enemies standing close enough for that fun Cleave mastery to proc. Otherwise, the Glaive is better for single targets.
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Hello everyone!! I'm going to start a 5.5 campaing with my friends. The campaign will take us from level 1 to 10.
I want to play a Barbarian for first time, but I'm undecided with the subclass. Maybe a PAM world tree or a GWM berseker?
We have a monk, light cleric and a hexblade warlock.
Could recommend a build and a subclass plz? Ty!!
2024 barbarians don't pick until level 3 you have time.
What are you wanting to do with the character? Protect your allies as the meat shield? Be as hard to kill as possible? HULK SMASH!?
Berserker with a Two-Handed weapon is your typical smashy type. Go in swinging, and don't stop swinging until your foes are all dead, or you are.
A weapon and shield World Tree Barbarian (I like the Warhammer for the Push mastery) is a great protector with a lot of ways to control the battlefield by pushing/pulling enemies around.
Wild Hearts give you a lot of versatility by choosing different animal aspects when you rage that you can tailor to each fight, letting you adapt to whatever gets thrown your way.
Zealots are kind of the all-rounders, with some self-healing, a little bit of extra damage, and a way to give and AoE advantage buff to your party.
Pick
First of all, thanks for the replies.
I like the idea of the huge barbarian with a giant weapon, driven by fury and bathing in the blood of his enemies, so I guess I'll go for the Berserker with a two-handed weapon.
Do you recommend a Battle Axe with GWM or a Glaive with PAM? I suppose I'll use a Stone Goliath for increased durability and the farmer background.
Do you think that's a good option?
Barbarians don't have an innate way to weaponize their bonus action, so I kind of like the Glaive with PAM and Great Weapon Master. Also, the Glaive has the Graze weapon mastery, which is realy good for your damage reliability.
Honestly though, I would probably carry both and switch to the Greataxe if you happen to have two enemies standing close enough for that fun Cleave mastery to proc. Otherwise, the Glaive is better for single targets.