You're out of your mind. Their melee is going to tear you up, you miss the bash or they land a decent ground control with their next move and you're either dead or wimpied. The free round of melee on a failed sleep alone could potentially chew through 1/3rd of your health. You're certainly not blocking much in the way of melee with that weapon setup.

Just yesterday I had an assassin aiming at a mob bash locked for 8 rounds or so and their backfists alone were hurting more than I was hurting them. Anything that can dodge demands direct damage spam, if it can dodge and spellbane, yeah you need barrier.

Any class that doesn't get some kind of bash protection (except maybe paladin) is a class you more or less never want to bash as an A-P. You can get away with bashing storm giants at low levels if you're a fire giant, I suppose.

Question, was Cabdru before the 'dex changes'?