STRONGEST TANK BARBARIAN Build ｜ Diablo 4 Best BARBARIAN SELF-HEALING TANK Build (Level 50+)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I

want to show you my ultimate self-healing

defensive build, and as you can see, I'm

being completely destroyed and surrounded—

well, not destroyed because I'm not dying,

but I'm being attacked by a bunch of not

very nice people and they're doing no

damage. I mean, look at my health bar.

It's just taking a bit of damage and then

healing myself back up. And the main

strategy of this build is to focus on

defensive abilities, self-healing, and

barriers and fortification. So the great

thing about this build is that if you're

in dungeons, especially Nightmare

Dungeons, and you're surrounded by loads

of enemies, you keep getting stunned or

you can't move, you're still going to be

healing yourself and triggering barriers

and fortifications, and you're really

going to be very tanky and very tough

and survivable. So before I even show you

what kind of talents and aspects I have,

you can kind of see what's going on

already. So first of all, I've got this

thing that heals me for each enemy that's

around me. I'm gonna get healed for a

certain amount, and that basically just

keeps healing me. Look at my health, I

keep getting healed. And I swear I've done

dungeons where I barely even use any

potions because I don't need to. I just

keep healing myself. These barriers keep

triggering and they keep getting frozen.

So the reason why they're getting frozen

is because I have boots that leave behind

an icy trail. So when I walk around, it's

kind of freezing them. It doesn't slow

them down, but if they get stuck in it—

well, if they get— if they just stand

there inside of it, they will get frozen

like this, which looks pretty cool. That

frozen little animation looks so funny

with the spiky icicles. And then they get

stunned by the freezing thing, and they

can't even do any damage. I'm just tanking

them. I could go AFK go to the toilet and

I'd still be alive. So let's just, uh,

get rid of them for now like

that. So I'll show you my talents for the

ultimate self-healing Barbarian build.

It's kind of like a vampiric Barbarian

build, if you will. Okay, so first of all,

we have 5 out of 5 Bash, which will keep

the enemy stunned. Very important. Hammer

of the Ancients, great AOE hammer attack.

Very good. Doesn't really matter. That's

just like basic offensive abilities.

We're gonna have, uh, 3 out of our 4—

well, I mean 6. We've got, um,

2 offensive abilities out of 6 of our

slots, and one of them is the Call of the

Ancients. So the remaining 3 are going to

be all defensive abilities. Now we are

sacrificing a lot of DPS so we can keep

ourselves safe and healed But that is the

point of this build. We're going to have

AoE stun Ground Stomp maxed out and Iron

Skin maxed out, and also Challenging Shout

maxed out for damage reduction. Now this

is all really great, you know, Iron Skin

gives you a barrier, absorbs 70% of your

missing life, very good, and gives you

Fortify and also enhancing it. And the

Challenging Shout will give you a 48%

damage reduction, so you're going to see

over the course of this video that our

damage reduction percentage is just

insane. We also get 20% bonus maximum life

whilst Challenging Shout is active, so

that's good, 20% onto our total life. And

then we also have some buffs for shouts,

so shouts last 24% longer and also

shouts decrease the enemy's damage by 12%.

So we're all trying to, trying to reduce

the amount of damage we take and reduce

the amount of damage the enemies deal so

we can survive in these very difficult

nightmare dungeons where the enemies are

like 15 levels above us, which I'll show

you later. And then down here we have

nothing because, I mean, we've got some

defensive stuff like Thick Skin,

Defensive Stance, and then Call

of the Ancients, and also Unbridled Rage.

That stuff is okay and interesting and

everything, but it doesn't really matter

as much as what we're gonna have on our

gear. So I got some really cool aspects

for my gear that really helps with the

defensive tanking self-healing build.

Okay, so first of all, on our helmet we

have an aspect that grants 20% damage

reduction for 4 seconds whenever we do a

basic skill. And we're going to be

spamming Bash, which is a basic skill, a

lot. So we're basically going to have this

20% damage reduction basically every time

we're fighting. For the whole time because

we're constantly going to be using Bash

and it's going to re-trigger it. So I

don't know if you want to add this up as

we go along. Earlier I said we have

Rallying Cry which has 48% damage

reduction, so that's 48. And then, um,

where is it? 12% from shout skills

cause enemies to deal 12% less damage. So

we're at 60% damage reduction already.

And the 60% plus this 20% that we get from

this aspect, we're at now 80% damage

reduction from enemies. And then we got

our chest piece which says you gain 0.4%

increased armor for 4 seconds when you

deal any form of damage, stacking up to

40%. So obviously we're going to be

dealing damage all of the time when we're

fighting, so we're going to constantly,

nearly constantly have this 40% armor

buff. Which means our current armor is

4,000 plus 40%. That's going to give us

nearly 6,000 armor, and the armor is

currently giving us 45% damage reduction

at just 4,000. So we add on like another

20% for that bonus 40% addition. I think

we're gonna have like 65% physical damage

reduction just from our armor. So that's

65% plus the 80% I said earlier. We're at

like 145% damage reduction so far, and we

haven't even gotten to the good bit. The

gloves make us unstoppable when we are

crowd controlled or injured. And when

we're injured and stunned and everything,

we're going to be unstoppable, which means

we can just move freely if we're being

movement impaired. That's good for

movement. So for the legs, very good skill

here too. I've actually got a more

powerful version of this, but I don't have

enough Coiling Wards to apply it yet.

It's called Defensive Aspect of the

Protector, and it gives you a Barrier.

Every time you attack an enemy elite,

you'll get a barrier absorbing 1,320

damage every 30 seconds. That is just

insane. So that's like an additional 1,300

life on top of your already 2,500 life.

We're gonna have nearly 4,000 life. And

then on my boots, I have these very

special pair of boots that leaves behind a

trail of frost that chills enemies, and

you deal 8% more damage to chilled

enemies. It doesn't actually say in the

description, but when they stand in the

chill, they get frozen and stunned for a

few seconds after they've been in the

chilled bit for a bit. So that's also very

good for adding stuns. Also, this is a

very stun-heavy build. We've got Bash

stunning them, we've got Ground Stomp

stunning them, now we've got the Frozen

Ice stunning them too. So we're constantly

going to be stunning them and applying

barriers to ourselves. On my 2-handed

mace, I have a 30% attack speed buff, and

then we also have some damage buffs that

are not really important. For our

defensive build. This one does 40%

increased damage against stunned enemies,

really good because we're going to be

stunning all the time. And this one gives

you up to a 30% increased damage of your

next core skill by using basic skills,

good damage stuff. And another damage

thing, but the most important thing for

this build is this amulet, the Choker of

the Crowded Sage. This aspect is so cool,

you heal for 79 life per second for each

close enemy, up to 315 life per second.

So if you have loads of enemies around

you, you're going to be constantly healing

yourself for 315

life per second. You're going to be

ticking up. This is the best thing I've

ever discovered in this game, because if

you've got loads of enemies wailing on

you, they really can't do much to you.

Look at this small mob, mob of enemies.

There's no way they can do any amount of

damage that's even going to— I mean, look

how long they're taking to take down my

barrier. Even when they've taken down my

barrier, they're damaging me and I'm just

healing straight back up. This is so good

for dungeons, especially for saving

potions, because you don't have to use

your potions as long as you've got

barriers up and shields and you think you

can survive the damage. The risk is you

think you can survive the damage and heal

back up but it's a bit too much damage,

and they're just freezing themselves on my

ice right now. It's just so funny

seeing a bunch of enemies trying to kill

you and you, you don't even have to do

anything. Like, I can just stand here. I

took quite a beating just then and I'm

healing up. Look how quickly I'm healing

up. It's just healing and healing. And if

you need like a bit of a breather, just

stun them like that, and during the stun

you'll be healing. Put on your challenging

shouts, put on your shield, do whatever

you need to do. And during the time you're

shielded, you'll be healing all the time.

It's so nice. So I'll go into a Nightmare

Dungeon later and show you what it's like

up against actual tough enemies. Okay, so

I'm in a Tier 15 Nightmare Dungeon. You

can see the enemies are level 68, and

they're about 10 levels higher than I am.

And I'm just going to show you the

survivability of this style with the

self-healing. So I'm getting attacked

quite a lot here, and just notice my

health bar filling straight back up when I

stun them. And you don't just be standing

around taking hits because you're going to

be trying to clear the, the place and the

area. So you want to have your, your

rallying shout or challenging cry— I

forgot what it's called, I keep forgetting

the name of it. The problem is when you

keep getting stunned, um, you do take a

lot of damage and So as you can see, I'm

taking a big beating from this pack of

mobs, but I'm barely taking any damage.

I had to use some potions because my free

trial of Bandicam ran out. Limits at 10

minutes recording, so I was trying to sort

that out whilst getting attacked. Wasn't a

great display of the build, but usually I

wouldn't have had to use potions. So I'm

gonna go further down. Watch me destroy

this pack of mobs. I'm gonna use all my

abilities because if I don't, I will

actually die. But you can see how much

damage I take because I'm like 10 levels

below all of them. You're gonna have to

use some dodging and use some sneaky

tricks, like your ice, ice stun is gonna

help a lot. But the point is, I can

survive getting wailed on by all these

mobs, and they're 10 levels above me, and

I'm being self-healed. I am using potions

still just in case I need to. But the

point is I'm surviving this dungeon.

Um, nearly died. Okay,

it's not, it's not like a super magic

build, but come on, I'm surviving against

all these mobs and they're 10 levels above

me, and I'm being constantly, being

constantly stunned here. So if I do die,

it's because I'm being constantly stunned

by fears and that frozen thing.

So yeah, I am getting destroyed here, but

the point is, if I stun them all like

that— if they could just stop stunning me

so I can actually attack them, that would

be nice. You might have to run a bit so

you split them up and then use Call of the

Ancients. But the point is, I'm in a tier

15 dungeon, um, trying my

best to survive here and doing— I think

I'm doing a pretty good job. It's this

Dread Knight here that's causing me a lot

of problems.

So you can see my self-healing doing a

good job at keeping me alive, plus my,

plus my barriers.

The point of the barrier is to use it when

you're about 50% health. This guy keeps

healing them, which is kind of annoying.

Let me get rid of him first.

Should make it easier. So our DPS is not

amazing, but it's kind

of necessary because, okay, we could have

focused more on DPS, but then I don't

think we would have survived that

encounter because we would have just been

a glass cannon. So we survived that, and

you can see my health just regenerating

because I've got regen gear as well. And

then when we get near an enemy, we'll just

heal ourselves even more. You want to put

the challenging rallying shout cry thing

on as

you're going into the battle.

Does make it a lot harder when you keep

getting stunned, but I think that would

apply for most builds. Good thing is we

can stun them back, and if you stand

still, they will stand in your ice and

then they'll get frozen, hopefully.

Okay, maybe just get Call of the Ancients

to sort this guy out. He would be pretty

easy to kill, it's just he's doing a lot

of stuns and crowd control there.

Okay, so we'll move on to the next pack.

So I think you could agree and see how

this self-healing build is so good. I

really don't think I would have survived

that without the talents and the armor I

And then I've got— I've also got this buff

that makes the shrine buff last 24%

longer, which is very helpful. I don't

even know what that buff did actually.

So our damage is not amazing, but it's

still— it's good enough. Sometimes you do

some pretty good crits. I did like a

60,000 crit once.

But we're not trying to focus on amazing

DPS, we're just trying to focus on

survivability and

trying not to die whilst also crowd

controlling them.

So I definitely think my survivability in

these tier 15 dungeons went up a lot. I

mean, look at these guys, they can't even

kill me even if I go AFK. Well, actually,

they are about to kill me. The point is,

um, if maybe if there were less of them,

just by a few, I could have survived that

by going AFK. These guys—

this place is like Scarlet Monastery in

World of Warcraft, isn't it? I feel like

it's just like Scarlet Monastery, the evil

religious crusader guys who turn evil. I

mean, they're supposed to be good,

they're supposed to be fighting against

evil. Why are they my enemies? I don't

know. We should be on the same side.

But I think it's fun fighting these guys

instead of monsters all the time. So when

they have this big mob like this, the big

guy stunning you, this guy healing them,

It is quite challenging, but that's what

makes the game fun, isn't it?

Let's try run around circles.

It's so funny, this pack of strong

warriors look so scared of just me.

It's that, that healing guy is really,

really pissing me off. Sorry to

swear, but sometimes Hey,

that guy here is a healer. Maybe I'll get

some help.

Because you don't have a lot of damage

capabilities, it does take quite long when

you're doing these fights against a big

pack, especially in this cathedral place

where they've got healers and

they keep stunning you or fearing you.

Finally, I got the healer. Once you get

the healer down, it's a lot easier.

Okay,

sorted them out. So that is my build for

extreme survivability and self-healing. I

like to call it the vampiric barbarian

because it's kind of like you're sucking

the life out of your enemies. The healing

capabilities of this build is just really