Seems to me the first ability should work with any weapon and the second, with any heavy such as a Maul or Polearm type weapon. Anyone playing Barb with anything other than Greataxe?
The "you get another attack as a bonus action if you crit or drop someone to 0" feature only requires a melee weapon, so a "great" weapon is not required. The -5/+10 ability requires a weapon with the Heavy property. And as best I can recall, it DOES work with the butt-end attack you can make with a polearm if you have the Polearm Master feat as well.
Greataxe was my standard weapon when I played a Barbarian, but we were running Yawning Portal and for some reason my DM let my Barbarian keep Blackrazor. What was I gonna do, get rid of it? That weapon is OP AF, especially when we were fighting giants :)
I am playing Half-Orc with a Great-Axe. Yet to make the great-axe work I have taken Savage Attacker feature that I buffed (+1/2 ASI DEX/STR, add half weapon die to re-rolled damage if lower than initial roll and grant 1 RR on Crit per S/L Rest).
So yeah, 2d6 is massively better, for sure if you consider picking up Heavy Weapon Fighting Style. d12 weapon should re-roll 1-4 and d10 1-3 IMHO because otherwise 2d6 gets more buffed by the style and it sits already on +0.5 higher average than 1d12.
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Seems to me the first ability should work with any weapon and the second, with any heavy such as a Maul or Polearm type weapon. Anyone playing Barb with anything other than Greataxe?
You are correct.
I don't play barbarians.
The "you get another attack as a bonus action if you crit or drop someone to 0" feature only requires a melee weapon, so a "great" weapon is not required. The -5/+10 ability requires a weapon with the Heavy property. And as best I can recall, it DOES work with the butt-end attack you can make with a polearm if you have the Polearm Master feat as well.
Greataxe was my standard weapon when I played a Barbarian, but we were running Yawning Portal and for some reason my DM let my Barbarian keep Blackrazor. What was I gonna do, get rid of it? That weapon is OP AF, especially when we were fighting giants :)
I use a Maul most of the time. I like the "look" of swinging a massive hammer and I like the 2d6 over 1d12.
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Yeah, I decided on a Goliath with a maul.
I am playing Half-Orc with a Great-Axe. Yet to make the great-axe work I have taken Savage Attacker feature that I buffed (+1/2 ASI DEX/STR, add half weapon die to re-rolled damage if lower than initial roll and grant 1 RR on Crit per S/L Rest).
So yeah, 2d6 is massively better, for sure if you consider picking up Heavy Weapon Fighting Style. d12 weapon should re-roll 1-4 and d10 1-3 IMHO because otherwise 2d6 gets more buffed by the style and it sits already on +0.5 higher average than 1d12.