HIGHEST Damage BARBARIAN WHIRLWIND Build ｜ Diablo 4 Best Barbarian AOE (Level 50+ Levelling Build)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I

want to show you my Barbarian high DPS

Whirlwind build. So enemies just randomly

spawned as I was starting to make this

video. So this build is going to focus on

one skill, and that is the Whirlwind

skill, and we're not going to have any

other abilities that do damage, and we're

just going to have shouts and cries to

buff our Whirlwind, and we're just going

to be spinning around like, like one of

those spinning tops. Destroying

everything. So for the talent tree, we

have Bash fully specced out for stunning

the enemy and building Fury. We have

Whirlwind fully specced out, and I like to

go for this one, Violent Whirlwind. After

2 seconds of doing Whirlwind, you'll get a

30% damage buff. Or if you don't like

that, you could go for, uh, Bleeding. If

you have a slashing weapon, Whirlwind also

inflicts 40% of its base damage as

bleeding. So do you prefer more damage up

front, or do you prefer bleeding? It's

kind of up to you really. And then I skip

Almost— yeah, skip everything else in that

tree. And in this tree, we get 1 point in

Rallying Cry because I ran out of points,

and 5 out of 5 points in Challenging

Shouts. I think Challenging Shouts is more

important than Rallying Cry. Rallying Cry

just increases your resource generation

and your movement speed, but Challenging

Shouts gives you extra defense and maximum

life, which I think is pretty important.

Also, Challenging Shouts is good for

Thorns, which is also going to play a part

in this build. While Challenging Shouts is

active, gain Thorns equal to 30% of your

maximum life. And also we gain 199 thorns

and also gain 33 thorns for each 166 bonus

maximum life you have. And also our thorns

are going to do bleed damage. I also have

an aspect that increases our thorns by

like 1,000 when we're berserking, so the

enemies basically just destroy themselves

whenever they hit us. And then obviously

War Cry increases our damage for 21% and

also gives us berserking for 4 seconds,

which is going to buff our thorns. And if

there's at least 6 enemies around when you

cast War Cry, you'll get an additional 10%

damage. And we also have War Cry grants

you 4 seconds of Berserking. And yeah,

that one which I just said earlier. And

then buffing the cries, we're going to

increase the durations by 24%. So I guess

I can show you the thorns on these enemies

as they've decided to attack us. If I do a

War Cry, if I do a War Cry, look how

much damage the thorns do. I'm not even

doing anything, I'm just standing here and

I've basically wiped out this pack of mobs

by just standing here. And also

Challenging Shout increases how much

damage your thorns do. So look at this,

it's crazy. I've got self-healing which

heals me for each enemy that stands near

me. I've got these thorns that are

basically doing my job for me, and you

don't even have to do anything. So I think

it's really funny. It's probably the

funniest build I've ever tried on Diablo 4

so far. And then we get some random

percentage damage buffs like Pit Fighter,

increase your damage by 9% if there's

enemies close to you, uh, increase 3%

critical strike against crowd-controlled

enemies, and then deal 23% increased

damage against injured enemies. And then

we get, um, Wrath of the Berserker, which

is going to give us Berserking increased

damage, blah blah blah. And then also for

our key passive, we're going to buff

Berserking, give it us an extra 25%

damage. Now for the aspects, I've gone for

a mixture of defensive aspects and things

that could help Whirlwind. There's not

really any aspects— well, 2, but they're

not very good. There's one aspect that

pulls enemies towards you periodically,

which I found to be pretty useless because

the enemies are going to be trying to jump

on you anyway. And then the second

Whirlwind buff is— where is it— this

one increases your Whirlwind critical

strike chance by 3% for each second it's

channeled, up to 9%. So I'm not even

equipping it because I have better Sacred

Gloves. Because it's just a 9% crit—

critical chance increase. I don't really

care that much about it. So for the head

aspect, each point of Fury generated

whilst at maximum Fury grants 19 Fortify.

So if we're just going to do Bash because

we're fighting a boss and Whirlwind's not

very useful, then we're just going to be

doing Bash and we'll be at max Fury. So

that's going to build us Fortify whilst we

fight that boss. And then for my chest, I

got this sacred thing, and every time we

do a bleed attack on the enemy, it's going

to have a 34% chance 34% chance of

reducing our non-ultimate cooldowns. And

if you remember, the thorns are now going

to do bleed damage, so we will be doing

bleed damage to a lot of mobs. So that's

going to reset our cooldowns much faster.

And then this one, Lucky Hit, 16% chance

to freeze enemies for 2 seconds. Now I

don't really think Whirlwind actually can

trigger this because I've never seen it.

It seems to be only Bash that triggers the

freeze. I don't know why, but Whirlwind

for some reason doesn't have a very good

chance of triggering this. Otherwise we

would just Whirlwind into a mob and then

they'd all get frozen non-stop, which I've

never seen that, so I don't know. And then

this one gives us a 1,500 damage barrier

when we damage elites, and this one's

going to leave behind a trail of frost

which is going to freeze enemies as well.

And then here we have skills deal up to

40% increased damage based on available

resources. And this one is like a buff

that does more damage if we're at max

Fury. So for every Fury point we have,

we're going to deal an extra 0.2% damage.

So that's just in case we're up against a

boss or like an elite, a tough mob that

Whirlwind is not very useful against.

This one, Thorns damage dealt has a 20%

chance to deal damage to all enemies

around you. Another AOE helper. For the

Thorns ability. This one has an 8% chance

to stun distant enemies and 40% increased

damage to stunned enemies. This one,

whilst berserking, deals fire damage

around us for 139 damage. And this one

gives us 996 Thorns whilst berserking.

And this one will heal us whilst there's

enemies around us. So this playstyle

involves just spamming all your shouts and

relying on Thorns to do some damage for

you. I basically just wiped out this

entire group by doing nothing. So for the

playstyle, what you want to do is if

there's a big pack of mobs you can see up

ahead, then you want to spam all of your

shouts. Activate War Cry, Challenging

Shout, Rallying Cry. This will give you

all of your resource generating buffs and

extra damage dealing buffs and

survivability buffs. And you just go in

there, build up some fury at first, or

maybe pre— before you go into, go into the

fight, maybe build up some fury beforehand

on a few single mobs, and then just go in

and hold down your Whirlwind button. And

that's basically it. The entire gameplay

is just hold down Whirlwind and then spin

around, keeping an eye on your health.

You should be quite safe because you'll

have things like the Fortify staff, the

Barrier staff, and you also have

self-healing from all of the mobs around

you. You'll be healing every second. This

has to be one of the best ways to clear

large amounts of enemies. I was playing a

Rogue for quite a while, and the way you

do it with a Rogue is basically just put

down some traps, poison traps, Twisted

Blades, and then dash away, and then try

not to get hit by the enemies and wait for

your traps to come off cooldown. And

coming from that to just spamming

Whirlwind and destroying everything around

me feels so satisfying. This feels so much

better. I just, I love the Barbarian class

so much more than the Rogue. The Rogue is

okay, I guess. It's fun vanishing and

using traps and stuff, but nothing can

compete with just having a massive weapon

and spinning it around and destroying

everything that's around you. I mean,

look at this absolute chaos. I just went

into this— it's not even a boss, it's just

like a load of mobs that spawned and the

Hellgate portal that spawned mobs as well.

And then I just whacked on all my

warcries, held down Whirlwind, and prayed

for the best, and everything just kind of

gets destroyed around you. The only

problem is when you're up against one

target like a boss or the Butcher boss,

your single target damaging ability is not

that great. I mean, you could put some

other spell on your tooltip like Death

Blow, Hammer of the Ancients, but I didn't

really want to do that because I'm

supposed to be only using Whirlwind. So

the only thing you can do really is spam

Bash until they die and then maybe do a

Fury to increase your Bash damage. Bash

does quite a lot of damage once you've got

Berserking going and Warcries going, so

it's not too bad. It's just kind of boring

because you're just standing there holding

down Bash when Whirlwind is a lot more

interesting. It does make my computer lag

as well because so much is going on.

There's so many enemies on the screen

getting damaged, all these numbers

everywhere. It does lag my system a little

bit, but that's fine. I did manage to take

down the Butcher using it. I had to swap

out Fury with Iron Skin to give myself a

bit more defensive capabilities. And I

took down the Butcher by just spamming my

cries, keeping Iron Skin on, and just

holding down Bash. And I managed to take

him down bit by bit. Oh, here's the, the

Butcher bit. I did manage to record it.

So I think this is one of the most fun

builds and most fun ways to play this

game. I feel like 80% of the time you'll

be in dungeons fighting against large

groups of enemies, and Whirlwind is a

great AoE attack. I'm not sure if I'd say

it's better than Hammer of the Ancients.

I'm going to go back to Hammer of the

Ancients and then compare the 2 abilities

as abilities to build a skill tree around.