I know what I am talking, people will say it isn't a power combo, but it totally is. If you gave me a third legacy like soul of the mountain, fires of adversity, space, man nearly any legacy on top of this build and I could easily have put up 300+ numbers. I still had like 3-4 I blew through, so I probably could have hit around a margin of 221-230 if I really grinded him out; my margin was around 3-4 for 1. Cranial isn't going to work amazing for you since alot of forms/people will purposely prep and enlarge, but that actually helps your melee against them with dodge, so its kinda a win-win... you also have lash for those people, and most really big shapeshifter forms have shit dex and are therefore easier to lash. I found eyejab worked decently enough, it doesnt seem largely size-based; i'd hit it at a 2/3 margin at around 85% in the skill (it's damned hard to increase). Your bread and butter is going to come from drum, at 22 str that drum can pack a serious pounce, when you top it off with chilling to supplement using shittier armor b/c of gates, and throw on bloodthirst, it's easy to hit 60-70 damroll. If you get a buddy dwarf with forgemaster, you're talking 70-80 damroll while still fully optimizing gates of the forge at a 20% dam redux just based off armor + stoneskin. Add stoneskin + resis and literally DEMOLISHES turn into injure-maul. Utilize bloodthirst ALOT, it turns a bash vuln gnome into something UNBASHABLE even by PC's with greeting. Trust me on this. Have fun :)