Season 5 Best Barbarian Builds for Leveling and Endgame

This lists the best Season 5 Barbarian builds in Diablo 4 (D4). Read on to see the best leveling and endgame builds to use for the Barbarian class!

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Build Summary

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Summary			Skill Progression
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Build Summary
Upheaval Leveling Build
	Focus: Leveling, Farming
Good AoE damage and clearing Excellent Life, Fury, and Berserking sustain Relies on Overpower for damage

This build utilizes many Overpower sources for Upheaval to sudden bursts of damage while having good life recovery and permanent Berserking up time.

The build has been adjusted for the new aspect and skill changes that came with the Season 5 Patch 1.5.0 update to ensure a smooth leveling with the Barbarian class!

Season 5 Leveling Guide

Skill Progression

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The build uses the utility from all three shouts to gain defensive and offensive bonuses and additional Fury generation from our Legendary Aspects to gain near-permanent Berserking uptime. This makes Unconstrained our go-to Key Passive for even more damage damage while Berserking.

We'll use Upheaval as our primary damage source along with the shout's great utility. We power it up with Overpower effects and Lunging Strike to quickly close the gap between enemies to trigger weapon swaps.

Technique Slot

Weapon Expertise
Two-Handed Axe Expertise	When using any Weapon: 10% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

The Two-Handed Axe Expertise is the best offensive expertise, giving another damage multiplier to our Overpowered Upheavals.

However, while this build does not have any source of inflicting Vulnerable, you can get a chance to inflict Vulnerable with a Glove, Ring, or Amulet affix.

Arsenal System and Techniques Guide

Best Aspects and Affixes

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Aspects and Affixes		Gems		Playstyle

List of All Gear Aspects
Head	Aspect of Might
Chest	Aspect of Disobedience
Gloves	Aspect of Anger Management
Pants	Aspect of Numbing Wrath
Boots	Ghostwalker Aspect
Amulet	Blood Boiling Aspect
Ring	Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment
Ring	Bold Chieftain's Aspect
Two-Handed Mace	Earthstriker's Aspect
Mace 1	Edgemaster's Aspect
Mace 2	Aspect of the Expectant
Two-Handed Sword	Aspect of Sundered Ground

Our most important aspects are Aspect of Anger Management and Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment, which gives us permanent Berserking up-time along with some Fury per Second affixes on gear.

Our offensive aspects allow Upheaval to deal multiple instances of Overpower damage, dealing a sudden burst of damage. We can access Overpowered Upheavals by switching weapons with Upheaval and Lunging Strike or every 20 seconds with the Blood Boiling Aspect and Aspect of Sundered Ground.

Stat and Affix Priorities

Priority	Stats and Affixes
1	・Strength ・Ranks of Upheaval ・Maximum Life ・Overpower Damage ・Armor
2	・Movement Speed ・Resistance ・Fury per Second
3	・Attack Speed ・Cooldown Reduction ・Critical Strike Chance ・Critical Strike Damage

Strength is a very efficient stat as it increases both our damage output and Damage Reduction, thus making it the highest-priority stat. Then, you'd want Ranks of Upheaval and Overpower Damage for harder hitting core skill.

For our defenses, we get as much Maximum Life, Armor, and Resistance in our gear. Getting more than 50% resistance to certain elements may greatly assist in clearing the Capstone Dungeons. Other offensive stats can be considered as lower priority since investing early on survival is more beneficial.

Best Gems

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Armor	Jewelry	Weapons
Ruby Max Life	Diamond All Resist	Ruby Overpower Damage

We'll get some generic defenses in Maximum Life and Resistance from our Armor and Jewelry gems. Then, we'll also use Ruby gems to get more damage multiplier along with Overpower, which is the main damage multiplier of our build.

List of All Gems

Build Playstyle and Tips

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How to Play the Upheaval Leveling Build
Use Rallying Cry and Other Shouts
Use Lunging Strike and Upheaval
Unleash the Overpowered Upheaval
Use Call of the Ancients for More Damage

Use Rallying Cry and Other Shouts to Generate Fury

With the two shout related Legendary Aspects on our rings, we can consistently generate Fury to sustain Berserking and benefit from its damage and movement speed buff. Always use Rallying Cry at the start of an encounter, then continuously use the other shout skills before the current shout skill's buff duration expires to keep the Fury generation active.

Alternate Between Lunging Strike and Upheaval

Since the build mainly revolves around the Earthstriker's Aspect, which guarantees Overpower after switching weapons eight times, we want to alternatively switch weapons as fast as possible by using Lunging Strike and Upheaval.

Unleash Your Overpowered Upheaval

After gaining guaranteed Overpowered procs through the Blood Boiling Aspect and Earthstriker's Aspect, make sure that the next skill that you will use is Upheaval or your overall DPS will significantly fall off. This can be determined by certain icons found on top of your character's XP bar.

Use Call of the Ancients for More Damage

For bosses or certain elite encounters, we can use Call of the Ancients to increase your single target DPS or quickly clear a large mob of normal and elite enemies.

Best Barbarian Endgame Builds

We are currently revamping the endgame builds for Diablo 4! Stay tuned as we work on bringing a better set of builds and improving your experience using our guides in the future.

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