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Well keep in mind Vurgil, Barbs usually don't have the AC a fighter will have, unless Zurok spent extra skill points or got a feat to change that you should be able to take the damage he deals out if you have armor that is fortified, reinforced, or has DR of some kind, use a shield instead of a two hander for the bonus AC or attack methods, and sunder/disarm is your best friend.

I agree with the disarm been a trouble, but even with this the massive strenght(my strenght is 24 mod +7, and it goes to 34 mod +12 with the rages) of the barbarian gives a lot of massive damage what makes a DR not so great at all and the trip with a DC 25(now its 26 to 28 depending on buffs) with vertigo +4 makes the fight between both classes a "who hits first have the advantage" because the shield DR of the fighter goes down when hit by trip( I think so...), a normal char with full balance skill in lvl 8 have a +11 grad and a mod between +2 and +6 what gives a maximum of +17(of course without magical improves) so DC 28 is at least a chance of 55% to fail in the test so its really an advantage to the barbarian even against chars prepared against trip those without balance skill fail with a 95% of chance(only because a 20 in the dice is always a success)

a fighter have many advantages too, i'm speaking here about the barbarian ones so Im not saying that the barbarian is better than any DPS class im here just to share about my char and to hear about the others share experiences is everything :p thx for that drakiis and vurgil lets have our training brawls at the tavern anytime auhhuahuahuahua

ill bring my lvl 19 so i can kill every one who messes with you

hahahaha we will really need u there Phaq!!!

There is a lot of things you can do with your toon and its based on your own unique play style. Conventinal wisdom is not always the best answer. I have a level 14 fighter that is basicly an itmitank he has a 38 armor class before buffs and a 27 strength with a 1 min +8 clicky 7 times and a 31 intimidate skill. Now here is the interesting part I took Kensia fighting enhancement I and II. This gives him dps type damage output while using a tower shield. I didnt invest in the traditional combat skills because I found for me they were very difficult to use effectively in a major combat situation. I chose rather than invest in trip and sunder to invest in a parylyzing weapon that renders most opponets as helpless if not more so than trip. The so called experts would totally advise against this kind of build because its to diversified but I challange you to find a more effective fighter at that level.
What I'm driving at is experiment with your toon and see what works for you its different for everyone.

also what works for pvp doesnt always work for pve and vise versa

"Conventinal wisdom is not always the best answer" from StValentine <<< thats what I think too and thats my objective posting here... There is always something "different" or "unconventional" that mostly will work better than conventional stuff... Sharing them between KGB members will always give us a new perspective or point of view from things that we could have not seen making us stronger... We gain some extra eyes and brains hahuahuahu

haha, and zuork once i get my fighter level the same as you barb well try it again, im just working on get vurgil ( my level 10 wizzy) to level 11