Nice one, Paul! Man, I've had a build concept on the back burner that uses several of the same ideas. I was planning on trying to develop that one once the CB Event is over, but now it may not be worth pursuing. You hit this one out of the park! I love the focus on regeneration, the backstory, and the tactics. Pretty simple/streamlined, but none the worse for that. Well done, easy +1.

heh, well Nord lore dovetails so well with Beowulf, Old English, Germanic and generally Norse stuff (which I love anyway) that it's a real treat for me to work with what the devs have done.  Redguard lore I know very little about, but a Hammerfell-set TES VI would be pretty cool!

I figured I better hurry up and get this posted before the pages start to fill up with Event builds :P.  Thank you!  Sorry to be a build-stealer - that's happened to me a few times.  But hey, by now so many of the combinations have been done, it just takes a different tone or emphasis to set your build apart.  Go for it, I say!

Yeah. I checked out your Pit Fighter. You maxed Juggernaut and reached 100 in HA. If you add the bonus of juggernaut, well fitted, the passive armor of getting 100 in HA on top of your armor rating, that is a lot of mitigated damage. After reading that I never took up RB again. You dont need to dig deep into block. Just take a point in Shield Wall to get the QR. It can be handy, if you control the usage so you just dont proc QR all the time.

Sure, "a lot" of mitigated damage, but some was getting reflected at least.  And anyway, it's going to be just about the last perk a character will take, especially for a build like the Pit Fighter that isn't working on a ton of skills.  Spend a perk point, get a bit of free, passive damage - granted, I wish it was more, but free, passive damage was what that character was focused on. 

I've done the Quick Reflexes dip lots of times, which is one reason I avoided it here.  This character has a sizeable health pool, regen, good protection from light armor, and Slow Time, plus the benefits of superior 2-handed weapon reach, damage, and the Sweep perk.  Didn't feel like I was missing much from the Block tree. :)

Fair enough. QR gets really OP (and therefore boring) when a player uses it all the frigging time.

Paul, you're definitely one of my favorite builders on here.  Making a Nord Barbarian build two and a half years after release that brings something new to the table is pretty amazing, and the incorporation of such a fantastic, lore-friendly background really puts it over the top.  Well done, sir.

"All right you primitive screwheads, listen up!" **Brandishes Bloodskal Blade** "This is my Boom Stick!"

This has the conciseness and brevity of a Fallout build, what with the three skill choices (arcane smithing hardly counts as a perk tree "investment" imo). Gotta love focused builds. If I had to choose one thing about your builds that stand out the most- its the consistency in your ability to evoke that primal Man V.S. The World quality of role-play. The only thing I would alter in this build, is emphasize the need for a huge mane of red hair and a shock of red beard, and max the body size slider. Then I'd feel sufficiently masculine to ditch the leather helm.     

"The Bloodskal Berserker gives a restless kind of play style that gets you roving across Skyrim and Solstheim, battling anything that crosses your path, with the knowledge that your strength and power – though shunned by others – will see you through fight after fight."

I'm often reminded of reading Robert E Howard when I read/play your builds.   

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