Thrust of Tattered Veils is unlimited per encounter. It procs on every crit you do with the bash. Since Carnage has a +1 ACC bonus per level and bash has as well, you end up with +32 bonus accuracy on carnage-bashs (+37 with Accurate Carnage) at lvl 16 which lets you crit a lot and trigger Thrust of Tattered Veils a lot. Now imagine Heart of Fury with its exponentially rising number of attacks the more enemies you can reach...

Edited June 20, 20187 yr by Boeroer

I registered here just to let you know this build works awsome.

 

It's squishy at first, but around level 8 it becomes all around great. You can take a punch, do damage and due to high intelligence and resolve you pass all conversation checks.

 

Also, it looks cool.

Thank you.

Is this build still viable in the current game? But maybe put con and res up a little bit early game? Might b my MC to go alongside dragon thrasher chanter(or paladin) depending on what u suggest. With wizard, Cipher, priest and either a ranger or druid

Edited August 2, 20187 yr by Stonebridge809

This build works like on day one. No changes to mechanics or so.

 

For not so experienced players I would recommend to lift CON a bit in the early game, yes. Although a barb with 3 CON has about the same endurance as a fighter with 10, his lower deflection makes it harder in the first few levels.  Raising RES is difficult because it's already at max (18). Maybe you meant DEX? 

 

Paladin or Chanter do both work. What you like better. 

Edited August 2, 20187 yr by Boeroer

Yea think I meant dex. But mainly con I'd lift a bit for few lvls. Do you have a ranged Cipher build? Or a tank ish frontline monk? Seen few builds but none that jump out at me. Thanks for reply. Love your guides

Thank you.

 

Nope, I only have offensive monks - one can be used as a sort of punchbag-tank later on. He's pretty powerful after some levels: The Monksterlasher.

 

Tanky monks are the Juggernaut and the Anvil. Both are in the build list here.

 

I don't have a ranged cipher either, sorry.

Edited August 2, 20187 yr by Boeroer

Is it certain abilities or the weapons listed in post tht help with the golden dragons dps?

Edited August 9, 20187 yr by Stonebridge809

Err... both.

I play a really similar Barbarian, just opted for unlaboled blade instead of bittercut. I did take some "offensive" talents (bloodthirst e.g.) instead of threatening presence.

It is a really fun build which does quite some damage if the unlabored blade proccs while HoF - or just when Autoattacking.

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btw. you can easily farm up the blade in the temple of skaen (if you opt not to search for the "daughter" beforehand - or want to use effigys resentment anyways). There are priests which keep healing themselves. so if you left one or two for your barb you can easily get the last 2 levels of the blade in this area.  I got the blade unlocked fully after doing the repairing the canons quest (the first Quest i always do in WM2) and the temple of skaen afterwards. This way you profit from a nice item (the blade starts pretty strong) for the wm2 quest, and when the blade gets dull you go somewhere else where it is easier to hit with it. You can also grab Ryonas Breastplate for a pally/monk/chanter and kill the Paladins after the canon quest. This way you have the recommended shield pretty early and the blade unlocked + a great armor for another character.

Also the enemy barbarians at the temple of wael have a high healthpool, so dealing 2.5k DMG+ solo is a thing there - by solo i mean the rest of your group runs away after only priests are left - behind a corner or something like that- fast forward, because it takes some time, but you want to clear the area anyways. Your priest can buff acc to speed it up a little.

 

just equip a normal shield instead of a shield with bash to not "waste" any damage dealt on another item.

 

I used a higher con though, but I can see that a lower Con works on this character as well.

 

unlabored blade is imho a great weapon for this build.

It also gives you 2 healing chain per rest which is complimenting your huge health regeneration with survival healing II/III and 25% healing from neck/belt ( i ran this as neck) and an dimensional shift which is totally awesome if you jump into enemy lines, use HoF and some enemies slip past you, you can then dimensional shift back and switch with your monk or another partymember if you need to. It's only 1 per rest, but it can certainly help for a messed up pull.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 27, 20206 yr by BlindDruid

If I gonna pick human - I won't gimp this build ? And if not - Dex 3 and Mig 19 for human would be optional (instead of Dex 4 and Mig 18 for elf) ?

Edited December 21, 20205 yr by Markovka

No, it would not gimp the build. A slightly different allocation of attribute points also won't have any noticable impact. 

Great build, currently using it for a first playthrough and loving it so far.

I'm only using the story companions and wondering what the optimal party comp would be? Currently running Eder - Tank, Durance - Priest off-tankish, Pallegina (Fire General Build), Aloth CC wizard, and just got Grieving Mother and put her in but no idea what to do with her.

Thanks.

Imo Hiravias is a better companion than Grieving Mother - but you can give her a hunting bow for example, fire some arrows and then use some cipher powers. Mind Control (Whisper of Treason, Puppet Master, Ring Leader) and also Amplified Wave are very good. 

Edited January 3, 20224 yr by Boeroer

On 1/3/2022 at 8:30 PM, Boeroer said:

you can give her a hunting bow for example, fire some arrows and then use some cipher powers

She can also be decent with that Blunderbuss from second DLC - each pallet has seperate focus gain and blinding cone is pretty cool.

Which talent should a solo pick merciless hand or second skin ?

This build wasn't intended for solo play, but I guess trying it wouldn't hurt.

Merciless Hand just gives a bit more crit damage which isn't very helpful in the really difficult fights (in which you won't crit a lot in the first place) - so I personally would go for Second Skin. At least that will give you some value in every fight.