INSANE BARBARIAN THORNS Build ｜ Diablo 4 Best BARBARIAN DPS⧸TANK Build (Level 70+)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to show you my ultimate

Thorns build for Barbarian, and this is

the best build, most fun build I've ever

tried so far. Basically all you do is

stack Thorns and then you just stand

around like this and let the enemies

basically take themselves out, and you

don't really have to do much. Your main

damage is going to be coming from relying

on the enemies hitting you and dealing

damage to themselves. By using thorns. So

go into the character tab and you can see

how many thorns you have by scrolling

down. And I have an absolutely insane

amount of thorns. I've got 14,156

thorns, and that's not even including

bonuses such as— we're going to have

bonuses like when we berserk, we're going

to increase our thorns by an additional

4,500. So I'll show you the talents

quickly. We have 1 point in Flay. Now we

choose Flay out of the other ones because

Flay is pretty good. It has this modifier

called Enhanced Flay where you have 15%

chance of making the enemy vulnerable for

2 seconds, and that's really good when we

use Hammer of the Ancients on a vulnerable

enemy. It does insane damage. And then we

have Combat Flay, which gives us 3% damage

reduction plus 311 thorns for

3 seconds, and that can stack up to 4

times. So 4 times 311 is like 1,200

extra thorns whenever we do Flay damage,

and also up to 12% damage reduction

when we stack up some Flays. Next, we're

going to max out Hammer of the Ancients

because that's going to be our main core

skill. In, in conclusion, I mean, in

addition to thorn damage, we're mostly

going to do Hammer of the Ancients damage.

And I've got, uh, 4 out of 5 points of

this coming from item contribution, so

maybe this is a bit unfair because I've

got a special piece of gear that gives me

extra points in Hammer of the Ancients,

which means I can put the 4 points I saved

into other things. And we'll max that out

with Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients and

Furious, so we get extra 1% additional

damage for each point of Fury we have.

And then here we have maxed out Iron Skin,

maxed out Challenging Shout for defensive

capabilities, max out Imposing

Presence for additional maximum life and

damage reduction against elites. Because,

because we're going to be standing there

just taking damage, letting thorns do the

damage for us, we need to be able to take

a beating. So we need to max out defensive

abilities like Iron Skin and additional

max life. And also this one's very

important Outburst going to give us an

extra 373 thorns and also gain 62

thorns for each 311 bonus max life we

have. So that's kind of a complicated

calculation. Basically, it's just going to

increase our thorns by even more. And then

Tough as Nails going to increase thorns by

another 9% and also give the thorns a

bleed effect. So when enemies hit you,

they will take an additional 10% of your

thorns as bleeding damage, so they'll be

bleeding themselves dry. And then

Challenging Shout gives us 20% bonus max

life, and this is also really good for

thorns. Whilst Challenging Shout is

active, your thorns equal 30% of

your maximum life. So it's like, so our

max life is currently 5,600, so 30% of

that is going to be added to our thorns,

which is like another 2,000 something.

And then going down to here, we have 1

point in War Cry, which is going to give

us bonus 15% damage bonus and also give us

Berserking. That's the most important

thing. We want the Berserking to trigger

when we use War Cry. And also, if at least

6 enemies are nearby, then we get an

additional 10% damage and also increase

the shout skill effect durations by 24%

and deals less damage.

Enemies— shout causes enemies to deal 12%

less damage. And also 9% damage reduction

whilst berserking. So you can see we're

taking all of the damage reduction skills

and buffs so we have more survivability.

And here we're just going to take Thick

Skin, so when we take damage we're going

to gain some base life as Fortify and also

increase damage reduction whilst we're

fortified, which we'll be getting

fortified from Iron Skin. As for the

ultimate, we're just going to get Call of

the Ancients because that's very useful

when there's a lot of enemies and you need

a bit of help. And we're going to get

Duelist because that increases our attack

speed. When using one-handed weapons. And

ignore that, that's just from gear. And

then for our key passive, we're going to

get Unbridled Rage: increase core skill by

135% damage. So that's gonna double

Hammer of the Ancients by more than 2x.

So as for the aspects, I've got some

really cool gear. Look at my gear, it's so

good. I've got so many unique ancestral

uniques that have such cool aspects on it,

and they're all maxed out to level 5. So

I've got some pretty maxed out gear. Have

a look at my head. My head is amazing. I

got 21% damage whilst berserking. We're

gonna be berserking all the time. And we

got 111+ life on each kill. So imagine we

wipe out a pack of enemies, that's just

gonna heal us. And 24 max fury, 720

maximum life, and we heal 52 life per

second for each close enemy. So 210 life

every second when there's a big mob of

enemies. And we're gonna be adding the

gems the green emerald gems to everything,

so it's another +250 thorns.

Now look at the chest. This is the best

chest I have ever picked up, especially

for a thorns build. As soon as I got this

chest, I knew I had to make a thorns

build. So look at this, it's called Razor

Plate. I don't remember where it drops,

it's just random drop I guess, but it

gives you an insane 9,456

thorns just by having this piece of armor

equipped. Okay, it doesn't have any other

stats. There's only one stat, and it's not

really— it's an aspect. Yeah, that is the

aspect. The aspect is you gain 9,400

thorns, and it doesn't have any affixes on

it. So you might be thinking, oh, it's

kind of crap, where's the attack power

bonuses or damage percentage multipliers?

There's none of that. It's just pure

thorns. And then I added 2 gems Emerald

Gems, plus 500 Thorns. So we've got a

total of 10,000 Thorns coming from this

one chest piece alone, and I definitely

think it's worth it. So for the hands,

we've got 4 ranks of Hammer of the

Ancients. Really good because we use that,

frees up some talent points. Crit strike

chance, attack speed, blah blah blah,

that's boring. Attack speed, basic attack

speed 15%. And then for the legs, we have—

the legs are pretty cool actually. While

injured, our potion also gives us a 30%

maximum life as a barrier. That's pretty

cool. It's like a 1,500 barrier. Plus we

get 21% healing received and a 31% potion

drop rate. This is insane because there's

just going to be potions flying out all

over the place. And, uh, 8% dodge chance.

And this is the good thing: 35% chance

to gain 1,600 Fortify whenever you deal

direct damage whilst Berserking, and we're

going to be berserking all the time. So

there's a 35% chance to gain a Fortify for

1,600 Fortify. That's insane. Plus 250,

250 Thorns, add more Thorns. And I got for

the affixes plus 900 Thorns. Had to reroll

a few times to get that affix. And then

for the boots, we have 75% movement speed

for 1 second, berserking duration plus

26%, 25% movement speed for 4 seconds

after killing an elite. 40% damage

reduction whilst injured, really good for

survivability if we're getting beaten up a

lot. 40% damage reduction, pretty good.

And as for the 2-handed mace, this is the

best bit. When we're berserking, we're

gonna gain 4,141 thorns. So we've already

got a base thorns of like, what is it,

uh, 14,000 thorns already. When we

berserk, we're gonna have 18,000 thorns.

Do you understand how many thorns that is?

That's nearly 20,000 thorns. And I've got

some pretty good affixes on this, like 60%

ultimate skill damage, 70% damage to close

enemies, 69% damage to injured enemies.

So if the enemies are close to us and

injured and vulnerable and we do an

overpower, that's like over 300% damage.

And we have gems bonuses to ultimate skill

damage, so our Call of the Ancients, it's

gonna do like +80% damage. And then for

the one-handed weapons, we have Basic

skills increase the next core skill by

30%, which is really good. And this one,

this is really good too. Thorn's deal—

Thorn's damage dealt has a 20% chance to

deal that damage to all enemies around

you. So let's say the enemy hits you,

takes Thorn damage of like 20k damage,

there's a 20% chance of that doing AOE 20k

to everything around it. And for the

affixes, we have vulnerability damage

bonus, damage to injured enemies, the

typical stuff. Basic skill damage. And

then for the 2-handed slashing weapon, we

have Hammer of the Ancients deals 90%— 96%

of its damage to all enemies around you.

So that's just going to make Hammer of the

Ancients this amazing AOE attack. As for

the amulet, this is really good as well.

We've got a barrier that absorbs 4,600

damage when we damage an elite. So that's,

um, pretty good. And we put some thorns on

it, 500 thorns. And Ring 1, we have The

cooldown of shouts reduced by 1.4 seconds

per enemy that's nearby, up to a maximum

of 6 seconds. So we reduce the— and then

for Ring 2, when we have a barrier active,

we're going to be dealing 20% increased

damage. And we're going to have quite a

lot of barriers because we've got the

Amulet Barrier. Iron Skin is also a

barrier. Steel yourself for gaining a

barrier that absorbs 70% of your missing

life for 5 seconds. So you've got Iron

Skin as a barrier. When you use that,

you're gonna have 20% extra damage plus

this Amulet Barrier. So it's pretty good

buffing the barriers. Could try re-rolling

this affix to get a Thorns bonus, but I've

got Thorns on nearly everything. The boots

don't have it, the legs have it, the arms

don't have it. Okay, I'm still working on

re-rolling affixes to get more Thorns.

It's just kind of expensive. Maybe you

could squeeze out an extra 1,000 Thorns if

you keep re-rolling affixes, maybe 1,500

Thorns. But I feel like at this point we

have enough Thorns. So as for the

playstyle, you basically just run into a

pack of enemies and trigger your defensive

capabilities like Iron Skin shouts, and

you just stand there really. Look, you

just stand here, they will do the work for

you. Keep an eye on your health because

you'll take quite a lot of damage. Just

standing here. Keep an eye on your

cooldowns, and once you've built up enough

fury, if there's anyone left standing,

you just whack them with a Hammer of the

Ancients. Make sure you do it when they're

vulnerable. So spamming Flay will make

them vulnerable, 15% chance of making them

vulnerable, and you can do some pretty big

damage with Hammer of the Ancients with

everything procced, like, uh Barrier, 20%

damage multiplier, the vulnerability,

injured, all that stuff you can do. I

think I did like a 250,000 crit on Hammer

of the Ancients once, which was pretty

cool. But most of the time, most of your

damage is going to be coming from Thorns.

Look, watch me just stand here and get

those barrier buffs. You know the Butcher,

that little elite mini boss that sometimes

randomly appears? I just stand there

hitting myself, buffing myself with

potions, and he basically just takes

himself out. He does so much damage to

himself just off my thorns, which is

pretty funny. I may want to do this little

mini event. I want to show you how much

damage the thorns do. Look, the thorns are

doing like 20k damage,

and I think it does more damage if they're

vulnerable. So if I make them vulnerable,

then they damage themselves on my thorns,

it does even more damage. I really like

this build because you get so many ranged

enemies that you don't have to worry about

because they'll just damage themselves

using thorns. Let's just stand

here. You also heal yourself for each

enemy that's around you, and you also heal

yourself for each enemy that dies, so

you're constantly self-healing. Iron Skin

also heals yourself, so you've

got so many ways to heal yourself, so many

ways to increase your defensive

capabilities whilst not really doing much.

I would like to say it's a great build for

lazy people who just stand there, don't

want to move too much. You know there's,

uh, aspects that increases your damage

dealt by 30% if you stand still?

Yeah, you could get that as well and just

stand there and do an extra 30% on your

Thorn damage. I would actually like to get

that, but I'm not sure which, which aspect

to replace. Maybe I'll replace my hand

aspect. Don't really care too much about

15% basic attack speed bonus.

Okay, there's the boss. Look, I'm just

gonna stand here. When you have Berserk

active— why is it running around me? Oh,

it's just killing itself. When you have

Berserk active, you do even more damage on

Thorns. What's it doing? Is it bugged

out? I think it was bugged out or

Okay, it did 42,000 damage to itself on

thorns. That's so funny. You can do such

huge damage just on thorns. This is a

Helltide. That is a Helltide, but it's not

showing the time, I think.

Yeah, I think it's a pretty entertaining

build. Also, I use dual wielding instead

of the two-handed weapon because it just—

it builds up fury faster and you're

attacking faster, so you've got a higher

chance of triggering vulnerability with

Flay, even though my

two-handed weapon probably does slightly

more DPS. So with these mobs, it's really

great when, you know, those spiders spawn

loads of tiny spiders. They're really

annoying. Well, they're not annoying.

Look at them. You don't even have to worry

about them. They just take themselves out

on the thorns. Really trying hard not to

say the K-I-L-L themselves works.

I don't think the algorithm would like

that, even though it's a game.

I mean, look at all this. You just become

like this AOE machine. You got Hammer of

the Ancients, you got thorns. Damaging

everything and also triggering that AoE

effect. So there's a 20% chance Thorn

damage does that damage to everything else

around it. So many things are happening

all at the same time. Oh, this is not

Helltide. Oh, watch this. Look, I'm not

even doing anything, I'm just standing

here. Every time something dies, we get

healed. That is so funny.

There's so many numbers popping up, you

can't even see your character anymore.

Let's just one-shot the spider.

What's this? More spiders.

I think Berserk also triggers when we do a

bleed, when we do bleed damage. I'm not

sure why, I can't remember. Why that

happens. I think it's one of

our aspects. Let me check my aspects.

Uh, I don't think so.

Look, I'm not even doing anything,

they're just destroying themselves.

I don't know why, but bleed attacks do

trigger berserking. Must be some kind of

talent.

Skill. It's a pretty good AFK build as

well. I'm just standing here, these

spiders sorting themselves out.

Yeah, I don't remember, but there's

definitely something that's making Berserk

trigger— I mean, bleed attacks trigger

Berserk. You could get Unconstrained

instead of Unbridled Rage. So when Berserk

is triggered, you increase its damage

bonus by 25%, which will give you more

Thorn damage. Then you'd lose the core

skill damage bonus. So I mean, you could—

we could try it like this, just, um,

respec, switch over to this. We do an

extra 25% damage whilst berserking. And

usually when I'm up against a really hard

pack of enemies, I would trigger

everything, run in, trigger both my

cries and shouts, trigger Call of the

Ancients. What is all this?

And sometimes the big monsters will just

kill them— nearly said it— they would just

destroy themselves. Watch this, look how

much damage Thorns will do now. Fifth— oh

my God, the Thorn's doing like 60,000

damage. 57,000. Yeah,

because don't forget, when you trigger War

Cry, you'll get Berserk, which will— I

don't even remember now. So Berserk

already increases your damage by 20% or

something, plus that key passive increases

it by another 25%, plus, uh,

Berserk also triggers our double-handed

weapon aspects, which gives us a bonus

4,000 thorns. And then, um, the

Challenging Shout gives us more thorns

equal to 30% of our max life. So, so fun.

I want to fight a big enemy that has a lot

of health. Ah, this is a boss, but he has

massive damage reduction. When you're up

against a boss that attacks really

quickly, they usually just wipe out their

own life. This one attacks kind of slow.

It's not doing a lot. This is more of a

tanky enemy.

But I've nuked bosses in Nightmare

Dungeons that attack rapidly just

by triggering my thorns. Watch this.

71,000 damage it just did to itself on

my thorns. This one's quite a tanky boss.

Might take a while. Gonna have to use

everything. Also, you want to build up

fury to max fury, then hit the Hammer of

Ancients when vulnerability is triggered,

that little purple glow. Trigger

everything at the same time— the shouts,

vulnerability. It's not triggering there.

I don't know how much damage that did.