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Using Alchemists Fire to maintain rage is a stroke of genius.

"Sure sex is great... I would imagine" That shit killed me fr 🤣🤣🤣

Piggybacking on the ‘always use reckless attack’, it is important to use armor, but not for AC, but for adamantine properties. Adamantine negates critical hits on you, which will be more often when every attack on you is at advantage.

I would love to see a mini series on the role-playability of each class, their strengths and weaknesses as role playing characters and how best to play them, and some tips on how to get the most out of your abilities in a role playing scenario.

I'm gonna multiclass my barbarian into alchemist artificer to make a meth dealer

I now have the urge to make a barbarian. Very nice, as usual man.

I would justify a rogue-barian flavor wise as an executioner, who knows exactly where to land his axe to get a quick and painless death. It’s works good enough in my opinion

"Look I'm more into Feat than Quinten Terantino, why did I write that" I cannot stop laughing at this, it is known, but damn that one got me!

On the bear-barian, remember that you can spend your spells to heal your wild shape, so don’t feel like you need to cast first then charge in if it doesn’t suit your style or the scenario

Bearbarian is busted - Kalshtar Bearbarians have resistance to damage while raging. Not a type, not most types, just *damage resistance*.

I'm glad to see there is easier ways to keep rage. When I played my Barbarian, my friend who was a wizard would just set me on fire and watch me rage. That way if an enemy gets too close, I could set them on fire too.

1:19 or attack an enemy with a javelin

“Set yourself on fire!” That’s so metal!!! 🔥🤘

The Bugbear, polearm master and sentinel build is insane

2:44 Unless the beholder just, you know, looks at you with its giant antimagic eye. And potions are magical items, so they won`t work in the antimagic field. That`s literally the whole point of a beholder.

I’d like to say that you should at least buy adamantine armor so your reckless attacks don’t cause you to get hit by a crit

I have a high elf barbarian with mage hand to carry their maul, since it is within the 10lbs limit. Also puts mage hand on throwing axes for a returning effect.

We need one for paladins and every class

I'm currently building a fighter, and the potions section here had some good stuff. I'm doing Polearm Master with variant human (and will get Sentinel asap), but I'm doing Battlemaster fighter for the superiority dice with tripping people when they enter the range and their speed drops to zero. So they stay on the ground for their turn. and then I get advantage.

A “DM” I have played with, gave my Barbarian boots of speed, and a cloak that casts blur, and a ring that allows him to regain hit points…. Now every encounter is either the Barbarian kills everything while the party watches, or a monster appears that just happens to undermine all the Barbarian’s strengths. I’ve actually started “forgetting” some of the strategies possible with this character, just to give the other players a chance to participate in a meaningful way.

3:36 you can disable the downside of reckless attack by playing as a Wildhunt Shifter because their shifting feature makes it so within 30ft of you enemies can't benefit from advantage to hit you

The alchemists fire tip was super helpful. Gonna use that

One of my favorite feats for Barbarians is the fell handed feat. What the fell handed feat does is give you a +1 to hit with axes and hammers, and if you attack with advantage and the lower of the two damage dice hit you knock enemies prone. The feat also does other stuff, but those are the parts which really matter.

A barbarian charging at you on fire sounds pretty scary.

Finally, a D&D channel to support my crippling addiction to making characters spontaneously! .... and will never get to use. I am the DM 😔

I have been watching your vids for a while and I’m starting my first D&D campaign EVER and I’m playing a barbarian. Perfect timing my man lol thank you!!

Simic Hybrid/Path of the Beast Barbarian. It's so much fun. You get so many options. Ray-like fins and grappling appendages fit so well with beast barb it's insane.

All I could think in this video is "yo is that spider dance?"

Potion of Speed does have the round loss effect of haste, it just happens on round 11 by which point the combat is likely over.

Hey! My Conan O’Brien comedic barbarian feels attacked

This is one of the best videos I've seen on barbarians. Thank you for the ideas sir!

I did not know about many of these feats and combos. Most excellent information, good sir! Cheers!

Barbarian/Alchemist is a good combo too. Make your own magic items, make your own potions (using spell slots that you can't use while raging), make your Alchemist fire... And the best part is using magic tinkering to play the DOOM OST when you rage.

Hats off for just starting the video and getting right into the topic of the video. No 2 min summary and explanation. No stupid in video ad. Just to the point. Love it.

One great combo is the polearm master/sentinel build with a 10ft reach weapon while being a bugbear. On your turn you can step 5ft back and still hit them, then if they get closer they enter your reach again. It's best if they need to get past or to you and they can't get more than 10ft to your sides.

Awesome video! Definitely learned a lot that I'll be using! I multiclassed my barbarian with draconic sorcerer which so far has been fun! Got that extra free AC bonus, plus I'm able to now apply mage armor to myself with a couple range and speed spells.

I just sent this to both my barbarian teamates... Amazing job and hilarious

Imagining a raging war hammer wielding barbarian charging you WHILE ON FIRE is terrifying

Great video! I'm still not sure what to make in the full game but barbarians sounds like a lot of fun!

I took my like away to add it back for the Feet joke. Fucking genius mate.

“Once the juice is loose... THAT’S ALL SHE WROTE!” Brennan Lee Mulligan on concentrating on Potion Spells

I used that great weapon/polearm/sentinel combo with a tortle fighter..i was an iron wall nothing on foot or low flying made it past me to the party. plus if it was something big and scary i would use my attacks then my movement speed to move back 5 ft

Looking forward to a video on each of the other classes :)))

Thank you for some useful advice. Keep up the great work

I am using these now! Its awesome keep them coming .

This is so helpful... But what got me more on this Video was the Spyro Theme song in the background hahaha

Instant Sub/Like! The Tarantino joke made me spit coffee all over my desk!!

currently playing a level 18 barbarian, im so hyped for capstone. i do have a belt of storm giant strength, but a 24 strength to fall back on in antimagic situations is incredible

Every barbarian rages supreme as long as the DM controlled npc doesn't cast calm emotions.

I actually just made a level 4 Leonin AG Barb with GWM, this is just making me more excited to use him

2 years later and this is still the guide for all barbarians, and I'm a Ranger sniping from way off in safety like a wimp.

I played a tortle bear totem barb/ champion fighter/ moon druid with a cloak of displacement, and had the gwm,polearm master and sentinel feats(used charger as well to turtle slide into people) that man was disgustingly dangerous in an enclosed space

There's also subclasses like Path if the beast which is fun to use when raging with the tail, claws, and mandible which all have different abilities if you choose one of them during your rage. My favorite being tail since I could use my reaction to roll a 1d8 and add it to my a.c. which was always fun.

Love these multiclass ideas. And those feats are amazing. 👍🏼👍🏼

😂 oh my God, that little line you slipped in 1:51 got me good! "Sure sex is great, Iwouldimagine, but!"

Here's an alternative solution to dealing with flying enemies, jumping. A path of the Beast barbarian with the Jumping option of their Bestial Soul feature, with advantage on strength checks you can get some huge athletics skill rolls and jump surprisingly high, you just need to get in close enough to make one of your attacks, but rather then attacking you use it to grapple. Again with advantage on your athletics checks and high strength there are very few things you won't be able to grapple. Grapple reduces a creature's movement speed to 0, a flying creature with 0 speed can't fly anymore and they begin to fall. Sure you might take some fall damage as well when you both hit the ground, but who cares, you're raging. Even if the creature can hover and doesn't fall, you're still grabbing on tight so you can stay in the grapple and keep hitting them with your claws. I also did this with a Rabbitfolk from the fey creatures UA (though that should soon become an official option) for that extra hop of jump distance. If you wanna get REALLY nasty take a few levels of rogue, like suggested here, and take expertise in athletics. At that point you can wrestle dragons to the floor.

The alchemists fire is also good for re-rolling saves against nasty charm/domination effects that try to shut you down.

I cannot believe I’ve never thought about the alchemists fire thing before…. This changes *everything*

Having Snape as a friend is a boon for a barbarian. He gives great advice and makes great consumables.

6:40 I loved how the barbarian was looking for any other target after dealing with a kobold and simply went for you.

My new players have been learning well but the barbarian will love this one. Genius as always.

Okay, the information you give is good, but the real reason I listen is your voice and your sense of humor. Both are awesome.

About to play a barbarian/hex blade and never thought about portions.. dude ty

the feats superimposed on the feet nearly fucking killed me

Shop merchant gag had me rolling

now I can just imagine a barbarian poring alchemist fire on himself then raging and charging into battle as a flaming demon.

Love your videos... they work really well with BG3

Another good tip is to take the readied action outside of combat specifically for the dash action because barbarians need to be up close and personal with whatever their fighting, and taking the dash action before anyone even rolls initiative means that the barbarian can run right up to whatever he wants to stick his axe in then still have their movement on their own turn making it great for gap closing.

Speaking as someone currently playing a centaur barbarian, that Potion of Speed idea would be downright INSANE if I tried it. XD

Tiefling Bear Totems can theoretically use that double half damage to take one tick of fire damage each turn to maintain their rage.

The Tarantino gag had me creased

One fun trick about Barbarians is that they're possibly the best class for grappling, thanks to their high HP, getting advantage on Strength checks while raging, and an extra attack to get multiple attempts or to make sure you can maintain your rage. You do have to build around it a bit - 2-handed weapons aren't great for grappling - but it can be real handy, especially against more mobile enemies. For extra spice, multiclass into rogue for expertise in Athletics, giving you a very difficult to contest grapple.

I was playing with a half-orc 5th level Bear-Totem barbarian + 4th level Fighter battlemaster reckless attack every turn with -5 attack +10 dmg from Great Weapon Master possibly with action surge for 4 attacks in the same turn if by some reason I missed, I could use the "precision" maneuver and add a 1d8 to the attack and if I hit, I could use some other maneuver that added 1d8 dmg plus some other nice effect If something needed to die, it was not hard do 100+ dmg in one turn

The idea of a pissed off barbarian pouring alchemist fire on itself and running at me is honestly terrifying 😳

Sadly, Sneak attack only works with a finesse or ranged weapon, while Reckless attack only works on an attack that uses strength. Loved the rest of the video!

I kind of like the idea of being able to punch yourself in the face to maintain rage. It’s such a dumb jock way to psyche yourself up 😂

ooo this is great news. my current character is a rune knight fighter/barbarian. definitely going to put more levels into barbarian now that my fighter side is decent after seeing this. 👍🏼

Fave barb multiclass I've tried was a BarbLock with armour of agathys, because after casting it and raging for resistances, it took the enemy a lot of hits (and a fair bit of cold damage) to actually break through the temporary hit points

"Rogue-barian", you say? Well, you just earned a sub. Now, if I can only find a game to wreck...

5:19 love that dog sound : ) !!!

Thank you for the video.

Fairly new to dnd but my first character was a dragonborn barbarian he was awesome great vid bud 👍

I am mostly sure Halberds are applicable to each of the feats mentioned. There is also the tough feat which is +2 hp per level. If you rolled solid stats taking all of these could give your DM a healthy challenge for balancing future encounters, keep in mind it wouldn't be possible until 12 at the earliest and an average of 16

I'm about to get into playing d&d for the first time and I chose barbarian class, so this is going to be very helpful :>

man great video! you got the goods.

You could go Scourge Aasimar, use Radiant Consumption and take 2 or 3 damage radiant damage on the end of your turn and do extra radiant damage per level.

Great sword with slasher feat is one of my favourite combos,if you crit an opponent has disadvantage which counters advantage from reckless attack.

For dex barbarians, there is the scimitar of speed for even more attacks on top of a potion of speed.

I multiple classed into monk as a barbarian and its been a blast punching, biting, kicking and having 45 movement and massive jump distance that its crazy

One character I will never forget was my Glaive wielding Battlerager Barbarian, Multi Champion fighter. Polearm Master, Great weapon master, Sentinel, Great weapon fighting style, improved critical hit. Wearing the cloak of displacement and striking with a +1 Glaive. He was an absolute unit.

That fighter comment is very brave for someone within action surge range.

very good tips here! I'm playing a barb myself right now, who's whole stick is that he's a disgruntled town guard who really just wants to fing die but won't (he's a zelot because Ilmater thinks he'll find his way) and he's got a combination of polearm master (his trusty halberd is his main weapon) and tavern brawler (he's all about fighting dirty and going for nutshots and just smacking people with barstools, just last session i beat a wizard to death with his own spellbook) so what i like to do is rage, use great weapon master to be a threat to protect my squishies and then i smack with the halbard, move in, punch and do a bonus action grapple with advantage. alot of the time I have trouble keeping rage after that so fing lighting myself on fire is the perfect tip, depending on how the DM rules it it might even hurt whoever I'm grappling XD

I'm playing a Bugbear (long arms racial feature gives him reach) barbarian in a friend's game, and his main weapon is a halberd and has both sentinel and Polearm master. With a 15 foot reach (20 foot when someone casts enlarge), he can stop people in their tracks from far away, spend all his attacks on them, then just take a 5 foot step back. Wash and repeat. One of our better tactics is for him to stand near the center of the group, while enlarged, and he can cover a MASSIVE area around him and hit anything within that 9x9 square. Plus being able to melee anything flying within 20 feet of you.

"...I would imagine..." You EFFING WIN!! 🤣😂😘

Dude, please keep doing these for the other classes

Feets/feats joke was gold and alchemist fire was a beautiful 😍 👌

RP-ing a barbarian is also so fun! I look down on puny civilized fools, I am here for glorious battle and my morality is centered around what's good for my clan 😊

Thanks for the tips

In our previous session last week, we got a new party member who’s playing an Ancestral Guardian Barbarian. After learning how her Ancestral Protectors trait worked, my Armorer Artificer immediately cheesed the enemy by making use of my thunder gauntlets in combo with her ghosts. My ability gave it disadvantage if it attacked anyone but me, and her ghosts did the same for her. So no matter who it attacked in the party, it had disadvantage. (Enemy’s best bet would still be to go for her since the protectors trait also gives any ally attacked aside from the barbarian resistance to the damage if the disadvantage attack manages to land)