Diablo 4 Best Barbarian Build: Skills, Passive, Gear & More

The barbarian in Diablo 4 is a class that is easily one of the most accessible classes for players. Capable of doing ludicrous amounts of damage and also being tanky enough to clear dungeons, the barbarian is sure to be a favourite pick for a lot of solo players, and this is our pick for Diablo 4 best Barbarian build.

Our pick for Diablo 4 Best Barbarian Class is a bleed whirlwind build. We find this to be the most damage output while also keeping sustain in mind, especially in high-level dungeons. Players will find themselves spinning around, killing everything in their paths with this build.

Active Skills

A quick note before we get into the active skills. Barbarian has a status called berserking with the following effects: Increases your damage by 25% and your movement speed by 30%. Now onto our picks for active skills for Diablo 4 Best Barbarian Build.

Skill	Type	Effects	Upgrades	Points Allocated
Lunging Strike	Basic	Fury Generate: 9 Lucky Hit: 50% Lunge forward and strike an enemy for 30% damage	Enhanced Lunging Strike	1
Whirlwind	Core	Fury Cost: 25 per second. Lucky Hit: 25% Rapidly attack surrounding enemies for 24% damage	Enhanced Whirlwind, Furious Whirlwind	5
Challenging Shout	Defensive	Cooldown: 25 seconds. Taunt enemies and gain 48% damage reduction for 6 seconds.	Enhanced Challenging Shout, Tactical Challenging Shout	5
Rallying cry	Defensive	Cooldown: 25 seconds Bellow a rallying cry, increasing your movement speed by 30% and resource generation by 40% for 6 seconds, and nearby allies for 3 seconds.	Enhanced Rallying cry, tactical Rallying cry	1
War Cry	Brawling	Cooldown: 25 seconds Bellow a mighty war cry, increasing your damage dealt by 15% for 6 seconds, and nearby allies for 3 seconds.	Enhanced War Cry, Power War Cry	1
Wrath of the Berserker	Ultimate	Cooldown 60 seconds Explode into rage, knocking back surrounding enemies and gaining Berserking and unstoppable for 5 seconds. For the next 10 seconds, dealing direct damage with basic skills grants Berserking for 5 seconds.	Prime Wrath of the Berserker, Supreme Wrath of the Berserker	1

Lunging Strike

Lunging Strike is a great skill that allows you to have some movement on the battlefield. As the name suggests, you can lunge at an enemy and strike them. This skill is great for Fury regeneration and will allow for a lot of resource management.

In the very far late game, this skill may be less useful but up until level 80 Lunging Strike is pretty important, especially for the fury regeneration.

Whirlwind

This is the core skill for this barbarian build and is your most essential skill by far. Whirlwind allows you to spin, using your weapon to deal damage in a circular path. This will do massive amounts of damage, especially when paired with all the buffs Barbarian has.

Moreover, Enhanced Whirlwind will take care of some fury problems by allowing you to gain 1 fury each time Whirlwind will deal direct damage to an enemy, or 4 fury against elite enemies. Notably, this is especially helpful in dungeons where enemies are densely packed.

Furthermore, Furious Whirlwind allows you to inflict bleed on enemies for 5 seconds, dealing 40% of your base damage if you’re using a slashing weapon. Essentially just more damage upon the already super hard-hitting skill.

Challenging Shout

Being a class that likes to be in between enemies and likes to take on armies by itself, the player might be subject to taking a lot of damage. For this reason, the addition of Challenging Shout is perfect for reducing incoming damage by almost half at max level to allow for prolonged carnage at the player’s hands on the battlefield.

Furthermore, Enhanced Challenging Shout further helps the player by making Barbarian gain 20% bonus Maximum HP. More HP and damage reduction make for a great combo, giving you extra survivability in the late game.

Additionally, Tactical Challenging Shout is a great skill for resource management. It allows you to gain 3 fury each time you take damage. A skill perfect for a character that puts itself in the midst of combat in harms way. This allows for a very daring and fun play style for the players.

Rallying Cry

Rallying Cry is a general buff that allows you to gain 30% movement speed, a valuable asset when the player is running around spinning and attacking enemies. It also grants 40% resource generation, which pairs well with the buffs discussed earlier that give extra fury. All this paired together makes for a very efficient build.

Furthermore, Enhanced Rallying Cry grants the player the status of Unstoppable. This means the players would not be affected by movement-impairing attacks used on them by their foes.

Moreover, Tactical Rallying Cry makes the player regenerate 20 Fury. Additionally, it also makes the player boost their already boosted resource generation by a further 20%.

War Cry

Yet another buff in the active skill rotation, providing a 15% damage increase for the player for 6 seconds, and the skill works on allies as well, providing them with a 3-second damage increase instead.

Additionally, Enhanced War Cry gives the player the status of berserking Increasing their damage by 25% and their movement speed by 30%. The stacking of all of these buffs can cause a huge power spike for the Barbarian and can be exceptional in high-level dungeons.

Moreover, Power War Cry makes you gain an additional 10% damage increase if there are at least6 enemies nearby, making for a total of 25% damage boost.

Wrath of the Berserker

Finally, the ultimate skill is Wrath of the Berserker. One of the best skills in the game for Barbarian. This ability makes the player gain the status of Berserking, it makes the player unstoppable the Prime upgrade also makes the skill provide Movement speed and Fury regeneration. It just does it all.

More important, however, is the upgrade Supreme Wrath of the Berserker. This skill provides a 25% damage bonus each time 50 fury is used up when Wrath of the Berserker is active. So every two whirlwind uses boosts damage by 25% for 10 seconds.

Adding every buff together, this build makes the player a force that cannot be stopped. Extreme amounts of damage while having very good resource efficiency and reduction is a combination that cannot be passed up.

Passives

Core Passives

Skill	Effect	Points Allocated
Pressure Point	Lucky Hit: Your Core skills have up to a 30% chance to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.	3

Brawling Passives

Skill	Effect	Points Allocated
Booming Voice	Your shout skill effect durations are increased by 24%.	3
Raid Leader	Your shouts also heal allies for 3% of their max HP per second.	3
Aggressive Resistance	Gain 3% damage reduction while Berserking.	1
Prolific Fury	While Berserking, Fury generation is increased by 18%.	3

Weapon Mastery Passives

Skill	Effect	Points Allocated
Pit Fighter	You deal 3% increased damage to close enemies and gain 2% distant damage reduction.	1
No Mercy	You have 9% increased critical chance against immobilized, Stunned or Slowed enemies.	3
Hamstring	Your bleeding effects Slow enemies by 10%.	1
Thick Skin	Each time you take direct damage, gain 0.4% of your Base HP as Fortify.	1
Counteroffensive	While you have fortified for over 50% of your maximum HP, you deal 12% increased damage.	3

Ultimate Passives

Skill	Effect	Points Allocated
Heavy Handed	While using two-handed weapons, you deal 15% increased critical strike damage.	3
Tempered Fury	Increase your maximum Fury by 3	1
Invigorating Fury	Heal for 9% of your maximum HP every time you spent 100 Fury	3

These are our choices for the passives for Diablo 4 Best Barbarian Build. We mostly focus on damage increase and fury management for the build to work.

Key Passive

Unbridled Rage-Effects

• Core Skills deal 135% increased damage but cost 100% more fury.
• This passive is the reason we recommend the upgrades that allow for more fury generation.
• The damage increase is way too good to be worried about the extra Fury cost, so we recommend this.

Gear

Here is our recommendation for the gear to be used in this build:

Unique Items

Armor	Type	Effects
Rage of Harrogath	Chest	+Physical Damage +Physical Critical Strike Chance against Elites +Damage Reduction from Bleeding Enemies +Thorns Unique Effect: Lucky Hit: Up to a 20 -40% chance to reduce the Cooldowns of your Non-Ultimate Skills by 1.5 seconds when you inflict Bleeding on Elites.
Gohr’s Devastating Grips	Gloves	+Attack Speed +Lucky Hit Chance +Fury on Kill +Ranks to Whirlwind Unique Effect: Whirlwind explodes after it ends, dealing 16 – 26% of the total Base damage dealt to surrounding enemies as fire damage.
Temerity	Pants	+Potion Charges +Potion Drop Rate +Lucky Hit: Chance to Heal +Healing Unique Effect:  Effects that Heal you beyond 100% Life, grant you a Barrier up to 40 – 80% of your Maximum Life that lasts for 8 seconds.

Legendary Armor and Weapons

Gear	Type
Runic Skullcap of Disobedience	Helm
Warlord Boots of Grasping Whirlwind	Boots
Penitent Hammer of The Dire Whirlwind	Weapon
Flammard of Berserk Ripping	Weapon, Main Hand
Conceited Serpent’s Bite	Weapon, Off-Hand
Demon blade of Limitless Rage	Two-Handed Slashing Weapon
Bold Chieftain’s Circle	Ring 1
Edgemaster’s Choker	Amulet
Ring of Echoing Fury	Ring 2

The notable thing in the weapons is that they should be swords in the main and offhand so that we can proc the skill that makes our whirlwind do bleed damage.

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Aspects

Legendary Aspects	Location of application	Effect
Aspect of Disobedience	Helm	You gain 0.25 – 0.5% increased armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage. Going up to a total of 25 – 50%.
Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind	Boots	Whirlwind Pulls enemies to you every so often.
Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind	Bludgeoning Weapon	Whirlwind’s Critical strike chance is increased by 3-8% for each second it is channeled for a total of up to 9-24%.
Aspect of Berserk Ripping	Dual-Wield Weapon 1	Whenever dealing direct damage while Berserking, inflict 20-30% of the Base damage dealt as additional Bleeding Damage over 5 seconds.
Aspect of Limitless Rage	Slashing Weapon	Each point of Fury you generate while at maximum Fury grants your next core skill 1-2% increased damage for up to a total of 15-30%.
Conceited Aspect	Dual-Wield Weapon 2	Deal 15-25% increased damage while you have a Barrier active.
Edgemaster’s Aspect	Amulet	Skills deal up to 10-20% increased damage based on you available primary resource when cast, the more Fury the player has the more damage.
Aspect of Echoing Fury	Ring 1	Your Shout Skills generate 2-4 fury per second while active
Bold Chieftain’s Aspect	Ring 2	Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, It’s cooldown is reduced by 1-1.9 seconds per nearby enemy for up to a total of 6 seconds.

Gems

Gem	Gear	Effect
Emerald	Weapon	+12% critical strike damage to vulnerable enemies
Ruby	Armor	4% maximum HP
Skull	jewelry	+250 Armor

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Stat Priority

• Main Stat: Strength
• Attack Speed Bonus
• Critical Strike Chance
• Critical Strike Damage
• Attack Damage
  • Damage against Bleed
  • Damage against enemies with movement-impairing effects on them
  • Damage against close enemies
  • Damage against distant enemies
  • Damage against elites
  • Damage against Healthy enemies
  • Damage against Injured
  • Damage against knocked-down enemies
  • Damage while Berserking
  • Damage while fortified
• Vulnerable Damage

Paragon Board

Below is our guide on how to level up your paragon board to mid-max the build. These paths are our recommendations for Diablo 4 Best Barbarian build.

Starting Board

We’re going to be starting from the right side, ascending up towards the glyph. At the glyph, we’re going to use Exploit that’s going to give us 1% increased damage to vulnerable enemies for every 5 dexterity that we purchased. After this, we ascend to the second board, grabbing the rare nodes on the way.

Weapon Master Board

In the second board, we’re going to be headed right once more and getting the Rare Glyph where we are going to be getting Marshal, which will grant a +25% bonus to all magic nodes within range. Additionally, after casting shout skills, the active cooldown of other shout skills will reduce by 1.2 seconds.

Decimator Board

In this board, we will head right, get the rare glyph, and head straight north onto the fourth board. In this glyph, we’ll be using Disembowel, which will provide us with the following effects.

• For every 5 Willpower purchased within range, you deal 3.0% increased Bleeding damage
• Killing a Bleeding enemy has a 10% chance to reduce the Cooldowns of your Non-Ultimate active Cooldowns by 1 second

Warbringer Board

With this board, we are going to head straight north and then take a right to get to the top from where we’ll go left to get the rare glyph where we’re going to be getting Territorial with the following effects:

• For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal +3.0% increased damage to Close targets
• You gain 10% Damage Reduction against Close Enemies

Blood Rage Board

After heading up from the fourth board, we will finally get to the fifth and final board of the paragon. Here we head straight north to get the rare glyph where we’ll be getting Wrath. Wrath provides the following effects:

• For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, Core Skills deal +4.5% increased Critical Strike Damage.
• Skills that Critically Strike generate 5 Fury

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, we’ve covered our pick for Our pick for Diablo 4 Best Barbarian Class is a whirlwind bleed build that tears through enemies while being tanky at the same time. To summarize, our preferred build is the whirlwind bleed build, where we feel everything comes together and works really well.

We start off by getting the bleed skill upgrade for Whirlwind, and then the rest of the passives help us out by giving us more damage against bleeding enemies. We also get a passive that allows us to slow enemies, inflicted by bleed. This is further buffed by the fact that we have a passive that allows us to do more damage against slowed enemies.

Keeping all this in mind along with the fact that the fury regeneration on this build is excellent. This truly is the best build for Barbarian. That being said, this concludes our guide, Diablo 4 Best Barbarian Build. We hope you find this guide helpful, and we await your comments letting us know how you’re enjoying the game so far.

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