Not interested our main best Barbarian build in Diablo 4? Then here are some alternative best Barbarian builds for you to sink your mighty axe into, including both leveling and endgame during Season 4.
Diablo 4 has lots of powerful builds for Sanctuary’s most brawny warriors, the Barbarians, and many will see you safely through the game and into the vast endgame content. While we’ve already covered what we believe to be the best Barbarian build in Diablo 4 for both leveling and endgame, below we’ve included some alternative builds that are also very powerful in Season 4.
This way, you’ll have a choice when it comes to picking the best builds for the Barbarian in Diablo 4, especially when it comes to choosing a leveling build, or a build to tackle the endgame – which is where the game gets really interesting. Here’s our alternative best Barbarian builds in Diablo 4 Season 4.
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Best Diablo 4 Barbarian build for leveling
Diablo 4’s Barbarian has lots of mighty builds to use in the Season 4 current meta, but we found the Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian to be among the best when it comes to leveling.
Here are the skills you’ll need to select to craft this powerful build:
Level | Skill |
2 | Lunging Strike |
3 | Enhanced Lunging Strike |
4 | Hammer of the Ancients |
5 | Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients |
6 | Furious Hammer of the Ancients |
7 | Battle Lundging Strike |
8 | Rallying Cry |
9 | Enhanced Rallying Cry |
10 | Tactical Rallying Cry |
11 | Hammer of the Ancients |
12 | Hammer of the Ancients |
13 | Leap |
14 | Enhanced Leap |
15 | Add Two-Handed Swords to your Technique and select Power Leap |
16 | War Cry |
17 | Enhanced War Cry |
18 | Hamstring |
19 | Mighty War Cry |
20 | Hammer of the Ancients |
21 | Hammer of the Ancients |
22 | Booming Voice |
23 | Raid Leader |
24 | Raid Leader |
25 | Call of the Ancients |
26 | Prime Call of the Ancients |
27 | Supreme Call of the Ancients |
28 | Raid Leader |
29 | Booming Voice |
30 | Booming Voice |
31 | Rallying Cry |
32 | Rallying Cry |
33 | Rallying Cry |
34 | Rallying Cry |
35 | Unbridled Rage (Capstone Passive) |
36 | Aggressive Resistance |
37 | Prolific Fury |
38 | Prolific Fury |
39 | Prolific Fury |
40 | Pit Fighter |
41 | Pit Fighter |
42 | Pit Fighter |
43 | No Mercy |
44 | No Mercy |
45 | No Mercy |
46 | Heavy Handed |
47 | Heavy Handed |
48 | Heavy Handed |
49 | Thick Skin |
50 | Paragon begins |
1 – Renown | Counteroffensive |
2 – Renown | Counteroffensive |
3 – Renown | Counteroffensive |
4 – Renown | Guttural Yell |
5 – Renown | Guttural Yell |
6 – Renown | Guttural Yell |
7 – Renown | Tempered Fury |
8 – Renown | Invigorating Fury |
9 – Renown | Invigorating Fury |
10 – Renown | Invigorating Fury |
When choosing weapons and techniques from the Barbarian’s unique skills, the build favors two-handed swords and maces. Therefore, we’d recommend equipping one of those in your main hand and two smaller swords for your off-hand weapons.
Legendary Aspects
While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:
- Offensive Aspect of Ancestral Force – (Sunken Ruins, Scosglen)
- Edgemaster’s Offensive Aspect – (Oldstones, Scosglen)
- Offensive Aspect of the Expectant – (Underroot, Scosglen)
- Resource Aspect of Echoing Fury – (Sirocco Caverns, Kehjistan)
Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your build even more deadly.
We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects to your jewelry, this way, it can continue to serve you well into endgame
This build is a great one for bashing Lilith’s minions in the main campaign, but once you enter the endgame, it may be time for a build with more longevity.
Best Barbarian endgame build
Once you get past level 50 and have seen the ending of Diablo 4, things will then change as you’re into the endgame. This means the build you used to reach this point may no longer be adequate, and to really make the most of the Season 4 endgame content, you’ll need an endgame build.
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Sure, your current build will work, but endgame builds have a different meta to leveling builds and if you want the best, you’ve come to the right place.
Here are the skills you should focus on for another of the best endgame Barbarian builds in Diablo 4 currently, the Thorns Barbarian:
Active Skills | Passive Skills |
Frenzy | Outburst |
Wrath of the Berserker | Imposing Presence |
War Cry | Marital Vigor |
Rallying Cry | Tough as Nails |
Challenging Shout | Booming Voice |
Steel Grasp | Raid Leader |
– | Guttural Yell |
– | Unconstrained |
– | Counteroffensive |
– | Aggressive Resistance |
– | Pit Fighter |
Paragon Board
At level 50 you’ll gain access to the Paragon Board to continue building your character to level 100. Here are the boards you need to focus on to maximize the potential of the best endgame Barbarian build:
- Starting board
- Blood Rage board
- Decimator board
- Warbinger board
- Flawless Technique board
Glyphs
Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:
Choose at Level 15
- Exploit
- Territorial
- Revenge
- Imbiber
- Undaunted
- Marshal
Choose at Level 21
- Exploit
- Marshal
- Imbiber
- Territorial
- Undaunted
- Revenge
Legendy Aspects
As this is an endgame build, it pays to unlock as many Legendary Aspects for the class as possible. Try to unlock the following Aspects as soon as possible in Season 4 to take advantage of their buffs, as each will have its own use within an endgame build:
- Berserk Ripping – (Mournfield, Dry Steppes)
- Death Wish – (Penitent Cairns, Scosglen)
- Disobedience – (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)
- Echoing Fury – (Siroccos Caverns, Kehjistan)
- Ghostwalker – (Broken Bulwark, Scosglen)
- Inner Calm – (Raethwind Wilds, Scosglen)
- Iron Blood – (Forgotten Ruins, Kehjistan)
- Might – (Dark Ravine, Dry Steppes)
- Needleflare – (Yshari Sanctum, Kehjistan)
- Numbing Wrath – (Heathen’s Keep, Hawezar)
- Rapid – (Buried Halls, Dry Steppes)
You can also find Aspects by gambling with Obols or farming through Helltides and Nightmare Dungeons.
Endgame item build
Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Barbarian build in Diablo 4 Season 4:
Item name | Item type |
Steadfast Hood of Might | Helm |
Iron Blood Steadfast Tunic | Chest Armor |
Rapid Steadfast Gloves | Gloves |
Steadfast Pants of Numbing Wrath | Pants |
Ghostwalker Steadfast Boots | Boots |
Needleflare Dire Mace / Death Wish Battleworn Crescent | Main Hand |
Battle Axe of Inner Calm / Battle Axe of Beserk Ripping | Secondary Weapon / Offhand |
Edgemaster’s Amulet | Amulet |
Ring of Echoing Fury | Ring 1 |
Bold Chieften’s Ring | Ring 2 |
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