I feel like going 1 handed with shield is really nerfing the Barbarian even more damage-wise than just going bear-heart. If the enemy can ignore you as a damage threat on the battlefield then you are failing as a tank. Why engage you at all?
Meanwhile a properly geared Berserker can do up to 120 damage per round with 4 attacks (not hasted) and with the Susser Greatsword can silence opponents and be resistant to physical damage. The best kind of tanking is killing your enemy quickly before they can do damage.
And you are right, with BearHeart - the extra elemental damage resistances have not panned out as being particularly useful on the battlefield. However, even long term your casters are the ones responsible for stopping AOE elemental attacks and any high damage directed Elemental attacks against you with Counterspell. So it doesn't have to be all you especially if you are soaking all the physical damage and rushing shit on the battlefield.
I had the same idea before t it have some flaws.
I i got destroyed but a cupple of enemys.
All paladins can literally one soot this build. Minthara for sure 6d8 radiant damage pff..... Ketheric for sure as hell.
And when your barbarian get one shooted then you are doing something wrong.
Second thing the idea of sussur great sword i like .
But if you dont have the initiative than its pointles.
I had a bug report about this. If your enemy have the initiative and you are hitting the emeny successful as soon as he started his second round he is loosing the silent status.
I mean wt... What's the point of this weapon.
Well i liked the idea to use sussur but 1 flaw here is the 2d6 wepon damage.We will have half orc and savage attack d12 and d10 wepon damage becomes much more better . Also not taking medium helmet is a death sentence in this game expecialy for barbarian's.
Of course everyone can say i saw on YouTube this and that yes i know. But to shove and use sneak in this game is broken.
And in this way even a wizard can kill everyone with one crossbow.
