The Why.
Communion of Scribing + Bladeforged=The ultimate in self healing melee.
Barbarian=Beat Stick.
Flexibility.  With this base build I can run any Epic Destiny and Enhancement combo.  ANY.  Shadow Dancer, Draconic or Magister and Occult Slayer?  No problem.  No reason to be afraid, like a run away teenage girl in a Tijuana donkey show for the first time.  I am currently on ETR number 5.  How do other people level up Arcane sphere destiny's for ETR when there entire build hinges on Divine Crusader?

The How.
1. Blade forged-Requires that you take Level 1 as the mandatory Paladin.  I then took 14 Levels of Fighter (or any class that does not restrict alignment). At this point Alignment must be Lawful Good. NOT good.

2. Use a LR1 Heart to remove the 1 Paladin level ending up with a Fighter 15 Pure Blade forged Lawful good.  Getting better.

3. Just happened to have a TR Timer Reset from my last Otto's box collecting dust (not really needed if you can wait)  Ate it.

4. Spent $7.99 in the store and bought a True Neutral alignment change token. Ate it.  Almost done.

5. Use the LR20 from Enhancement pass, flipping every class level from Fighter to Barbarian.  Done.

Base stats- The only 2 stats that matter for a Barbarian should be STR and CON.   I have run 2 stat setups.  Not much different except Skills.

Str-16-18
Dex-10-8
Con-18-18
Int-12-10
Wis-10-8
Cha-12-8

All Level ups into STR or CON depending on preference.  CON builds are very nice but fall behind in DPS unless you are a Dwarf with “Throw your weight around”.  Stick with STR.

Skills
The whole reason for 12 Int
UMD, Repair, Conc, Jump 10, Balance. All are "off Class" except for Jump. Yay.

Feats-
Power Attack
Cleave
Great Cleave
IC:Slashing
2HF
I2HF
G2HF

Epic Feats
Overwhelming Critical
Stunning Blow 
Adamantine Body


Epic Destiny Feats
P2HF
P2WF (Double Strike)

Enhancements
The Core of this build is Communion of Scribing.  This will cost 11 AP to set up, 12 if you max out Repair systems.  Communion is the "be all, end all" of self healing.  I average 770 hp for 25 sp.
Bladeforged tree
1 AP for Core 1
4/5 AP for Repair systems
6 AP for Communion

All other Enhancement choices are up to you.  I have run so many different Enhancement setups that I cannot list them all.  Here are some of my favorites.

Ravager
Core enhancements are all good but the cap stone sucks due to the Constitution modifier requirement.  Stupid.
T1-  Hardy Rage, Barbarian Power attack
T2- Action boost Melee power
T3- Slaughter
T4- Laughter
T5-  ALL OF THEM.

Occult Slayer
Core-  Not extremely awesome however, the Capstone is awesome and under rated for a CON build.  Not many mobs can break 80+ SR.

T1- Extend Rage, Ear Smash
T2- Knock out, Guarding Bond
T3- Bond of Retribution*, Kinetic Bond
T4- Driving force
T5- Bond of Destruction*, Seekers Strike

Frenzied Berserker
Core- All are good, (death) Frenzy and Capstone
T1- Extra Rage, Power Rage
T2- Sprint Boost.  Zerg, Zerg, Zerg.
T3- Supreme Cleave
T4- Meh.
T5- Focused Wrath

Best Enhancement setup for me is
Ravager 43 AP  (all in)
OC 12 AP (Bond of Retribution)  With 2200 hp, 50% is nothing.
FB 14 (Supreme Cleave and Frenzy)
BF 11 (Communion)

Gear
Item set up should be very flexible.  To each, there own.

Drawbacks. 

1. Rage. I need to use Dismiss Rage whenever the incoming burst damage is more than pots or Barbarian healing can handle. No problems so far with 12 Rage charges between shrines. Communion takes care of me 100% of the time I am not Raged.  I can hit Dismiss Rage, Communion and Rage again within 3 seconds.

2. AC is not great unless you invest which takes away from DPS.  100 is plenty.

3. No Evasion vs. Cetus builds. 

4. No Dodge while Improved Uncanny Dodge is on cool down.  Adamatine body.

5. No social skills. This is a play style thing for me.  This is why I run with higher INT.

6. Seach and Spot suck also. HHoES is twice as hard without it.  Again, play style.

7. PRR is not equal to a Vanguard Paladin or Fighter. 90 is enough for me.

By no means is this a highly tuned machine like Monkchar, Zeus, Wolfies, Cetus or some of the FOTM builds kicking around. Seems elementary compared to these other builds but BFB maximizes flexibility and allows for user testing that other cut/paste builds do not.
Anti TR? Yup. I am the type of player that keeps an large stable of ponies. I have 8 main toons and 9 mules. I can HTR others. After this much investment he will not get a HTR, just ETR's.

Isnt it just simple to get new turn in cloack, put on 30 amp gloves and 20 amp tod ring, roll a pure human barb that has ap better spent anyways and just...
You know go in and kill stuff.
Since with bf you need to spend points lose either criti rage or berserker capstone, drop rage for heals and uhm.

Sorry i just dont see it as money, time, and whatever well spent considering how dumb barb selfheal is alrdy atm in ddo

Did you try a modern barb yet?

Lelouch wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2015 at 12:15am:


This.

Skimping on DPS so that you can focus on an inconvenient and expensive burst heal seems quite silly. It works if you insist on being WF barb for some reason, but it's clearly not optimal.

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Blood strength? 

Do you know that barbs are smashing solo speed run records, such as EE WGU  at 19 minutes?  The guy who did so used zero heals outside of blood strength.  Do you realize how CRAZY 19 minutes is, even compared to the last update with OP paladins? 

Recon on a barb just seems like a really, really bad idea.  If you want people to take your build seriously, show us a screenshot or video of your build doing something that normal builds can't.

Red Sox H8 Yankees wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2015 at 9:18pm:


lol, this is golden

5 Foot Step wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2015 at 11:33pm:

i love how you keep posting the word inferior and asking people to beat that time, when you cant fucking do it. 

Red Sox H8 Yankees wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2015 at 9:28pm:

Maybe.. cuz you're a bladeforged?

Rubbinns wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2015 at 7:53am:


I have, but I don't do videos.

Rubbinns wrote on Apr 4^th, 2015 at 12:58am:


Honestly rubi, you dont need to be a fucking pro to play barb properly, its rather easy, couple macros for boosts and just run around spaming cleaves.
For fucks sake you can even make a twitch macro while haste/nonhaste boosting.


3foot doesnt need to provide a video of a class that autocompletes ee content in speedy times imo to prove how broken it is
And after dominating in horns on ee as lv 24 barb with lv 4 gear in some slots, im pretty sure that bf is a big fail

Lelouch wrote on Apr 4^th, 2015 at 2:45am:

has more to do with someone calling a person's build inferior and then asking others to beat a time that is not his own.

Red Sox H8 Yankees wrote on Apr 4^th, 2015 at 11:29am:

Bladeforged sucks ass. Deal with it.

Red Sox H8 Yankees wrote on Apr 5^th, 2015 at 6:24pm:


IF your on cannith, can ask my buddy to send you couple alchemical picks.

But keep in mind, its way better to use esos and swap feat for piercing when 28.
At least how i do it, since i didnt want to make 2 alchemical picks.
Some use gsteel and saw some use dnips til 24 when they swap to thforged.
You can use a lv 22 base tho as well, leveling with picks isnt a issue.

Also, not being rude or anything, but will you really do a bf barb?
IF ye, can you put a pscreen here so that i got a thing to laugh at after work for next 4-5 months