HIGHEST Damage [Hammer of the Ancients] BARBARIAN Build ｜ Diablo 4 Barbarian AOE Build (Level 60+)

Oh, oh my God,

135,000 damage!

I think that's a new record.

So I wanted to show you my Barbarian

Hammer of the Ancients ultimate DPS high

damage build.

This build is absolutely insane.

I can easily do Tier 20 Nightmare Dungeons

at only level 63, and I've crit like

135,000 damage once before.

With the buffs stacked and using Hammer of

the Ancients.

So I'm going to show you my build.

This build just seems to be really great

at everything.

It's got amazing single target damage,

it's got amazing AoE damage, it's got

amazing defensive capabilities.

So let me show you the talent tree that I

have crafted.

First of all, you want to get Bash fully

specced out.

This is going to make you be able to stun

your enemies whilst you build up Fury, and

we've got Battle Bash, Enhanced Bash, and

5 out of 5 Bash.

And then we have obviously fully specced

out Hammer of the Ancients with Enhanced

Hammer and Furious Hammer of the Ancients,

which will do— this is such a good bonus

part of Hammer of the Ancients.

It gives you an extra percentage point of

additional damage for each point of Fury.

So we have a maximum of 131 Fury because

of item and gear.

So we do a Ham of the Ancients when we're

at full Fury, we're doing 131% extra

damage.

That is insane.

And you'll quickly see why the damage

multipliers and percentages start stacking

up with the gear we have.

Okay, so next we have— let me see, uh,

yeah, 5 out of 5 fully specced out Stomp,

Ground Stomp, and Enhanced Ground Stomp.

I didn't get this one because it's just

like cooldown stuff, fury generation, not

that important.

And then we got 1 point in additional

life, and then we got 5 out of 5 in Iron

Skin, fully specced out.

Iron Skin, really great for giving you a

barrier that fortifies yourself and gives

you some healing capabilities as well.

Says, um, Iron Barrier— Iron Skin's

barrier absorbs 16% more maximum life, and

also when Iron Skin is active, you heal

for the 10% of the barrier's original

amount.

So you can do really good self-healing

just by enabling Iron Skin.

And Iron Skin has a pretty short cooldown,

so if you're running low on potions, you

can just use Iron Skin to heal yourself

up.

And then we have, uh, another important

aspect of this build are the Thorns.

We're going to also think about Thorns.

So we want Outburst and Tough as Nails,

which will give you an extra 220 thorns

and bonus thorns depending on your maximum

life.

And also thorns are going to increase by

9% and also do bleed damage on the

enemies, which is good.

And then we have fully specced out

Challenging Shout, which is going to give

you 48% damage reduction plus 20% bonus

maximum life, plus you get more thorns

equal to 30% of your maximum life.

So more more thorns, more life, more

goodness and everything.

And then we have fully specced out War

Cry, which is going to give us a 21%

damage buff plus berserking for 4 seconds.

And if at least 6 enemies are nearby when

you cast it, you get an extra 10% bonus.

So that's like 21 plus 10, you got 31%

bonus plus 131 bonus from Furious Hammer

of the Ancients.

That's like 161% damage bonus so far on

Hammer of the Ancients.

And then we got Booming Voice, get extra

24% duration on our shouts.

And then we have Pit Fighter, increased 9%

damage to close enemies.

And also Slaying Strike, deal 23%

increased damage against injured enemies.

So if you're fighting injured enemies,

that's like an extra 23% plus this 9%,

that's like another 30%.

We're at like 210% damage multiplier so

far, and we haven't even gotten started

yet.

So for the ultimate skill, we don't

actually have an ultimate because I

prioritize having the cries and

challenging shouts over just having— I

don't really find Wrath of the Berserker

very useful.

It doesn't last very long, doesn't really

do much.

I never tried Iron Maelstrom because it

sounds kind of crap, and Call of the

Ancients is great, but I still prioritize

the challenging shouts and war cries.

So for key passive, we have Unbridled

Rage, which It's going to make our Ham of

the Ancients do an extra 135% increased

damage.

So we're like 350% increased damage so

far, but it does make it cost 100% more

Fury, which is fine.

It doesn't take us too much time to build

up Fury.

And then as for the Paragon board, now

that we're level 63, we can spec quite a

lot into the Paragon board.

I've started my second board.

My first board, for the glyph node, the

glyph socket, I've gone for the Mortal

Draw socketed glyph, which when leveled

up— I've leveled up Mortal Draw to like

level 8 or 9, says you'll get an extra

44.3% damage with skills that swap to new

weapons, and also an extra 18% chance to

do a critical strike.

So we'll be doing Bash with our dual

wielding weapons, build up Fury, and then

switch weapons over to the bludgeoning

weapon to do a Hammer of the Ancients.

We're going to get 44% damage increase, so

That's— we're already at like 360%

increased damage from the glyphs and the

Paragon board and the talents alone.

Now let me show you the gear, which is

going to even further increase our damage

percentages.

Okay, for the gear and the aspects of the

helmets, we have self-healing, so we heal

for 210 life per second depending on how

many enemies are around us.

And for the chest, we have a 34% chance to

reduce cooldowns whenever we inflict

bleed.

And we do bleed damage when we do thorn

damage because we got those skills in the

talent tree.

And then for gloves, we have a 16% chance

to freeze enemies for 2 seconds.

And you'd be surprised at how often this

actually triggers.

So we're going to be stunning the enemy

with Bash every 4 hits and also

potentially freezing them.

So we'll be stun-locking the enemy quite a

lot.

A lot of times I go up against big enemies

and they're just constantly getting frozen

or they're getting stunned and they don't

really have a lot of opportunity to hit

us.

But when they do hit us, we'll have this

barrier that we have on the legs.

Damaging an elite gives you a barrier of

1681 damage for 10 seconds.

Really good.

So we got great defensive skills and crowd

control abilities from these parts.

For the boots, we have a Trail of Frost

which can actually freeze the enemy as

well.

If they stand in it too long.

And we get an 8% damage buff to chilled

enemies.

And this is probably the most important

aspect if you're using Hammer of the

Ancients.

You have to have this aspect.

It makes Hammer of the Ancients do a quake

outwards for 72% of its damage.

So if you do a 10k damage Hammer of the

Ancients, it's going to create 7k damage

outwards around you in an AoE effect.

Without this aspect, Hammer of the

Ancients only hits maybe 2 or 3 targets

front of you.

Now it's going to hit every single thing

that is around you for 72% of the damage

that the initial Hammer of the Ancients

did.

So it's really cool because I've done like

100k crits with Hammer of the Ancients,

and then it radiates outwards and does

like 70,000 damage to anything around me.

So you have amazing AOE ability with this.

So for dual wielding, you have Earthquake,

Ground Stomp creates an earthquake doing

1,500 damage, and you deal an extra 11%

increased damage.

So we're like 400% increased damage so far

with, with the aspects and the skills.

And, um,

for the second dual wielding, we have

thorns deal an extra— has no— it has a 20%

chance to deal damage to all enemies

around you.

So if you are getting attacked and they're

getting hit by the thorns, there's a 20%

chance that— let me read it.

Yeah, there's a 20% chance that the

enemies getting damaged by thorns will get

damaged by you.

I don't know what that means.

It says 20% chance to deal damage to all

enemies around you.

I don't know what damage it's talking

about, but I mean, it does extra damage,

so it's pretty good.

For the, for the slashing weapon, uh, we

have distant enemies have 8% chance to be

stunned for 2 seconds, and also you do 40%

increased damage to stunned enemies.

So can you imagine, you— we're already

doing like 400% increased damage, and then

we do a stun which will increase our

damage by another 11%, and then to stunned

enemies we do an extra 40%.

We're doing like an increased 450% damage

so far.

And then on the amulet, when we stand

still, we will deal 7.5% increased damage

for each second to up to 30%.

So look, I move around and it'll go away.

But when I stand still, look at this

little buff down here.

7, 15, 22, 30.

Boom!

It took like 2 seconds to build up that

30% increased damage.

So we— I think we're like nearly at 500%

increased damage.

On the rings, we have gain 1,700 thorns

whilst berserking, which when triggering

Warcry, we're going to be berserking for 4

seconds, and it's going to increase our

thorns by 1,700 plus Battle Challenging

Shout increases our thorns by 30% of our

max life.

Our max life is 2,889, so it's like a

third of that.

We're gonna get an extra 1,000 thorns plus

1,700, so it's like an extra 2,800 thorns

by triggering these 2 shouts.

And if we look at our stats,

uh, we currently have 1,000— hold on,

yeah, 1,522 thorns.

So plus 2,000 700, we're gonna have 4,000

thorns.

And I've triggered it, triggered these

shouts and cries, and the enemies crit

themselves for like 15 to 20k damage just

by hitting me.

I can just stand there in a pack of mobs,

activate my cries, and just wipe out an

entire pack of mobs just by standing there

not moving or doing anything.

It's insane.

Also, we're standing still, so we're

increasing our thorn damage by an extra

30%.

And this ring increases the next core

skill damage by 30% by doing basic

attacks.

So we'll be spamming Bash.

Each Bash is going to build up 5% up to

30%.

That's another 30%.

So those are aspects.

Let me add up all of the percentages.

So we have the 131% additional damage if

we're using Hammer of the Ancients at max

damage.

So imagine we're just building up Fury to

max Fury.

To do the most powerful Hammer of the

Ancients.

We'll be doing 1% extra damage for each

percentage.

So that's 131% plus, plus 21% for the

Warcry, plus an extra 10% for Power

Warcry, plus

9% Pit Fighter increased damage to close

enemies, plus 23% on injured enemies.

Injured enemies are enemies that have less

than 35% of their life.

And then we have Unbridled Rage, which

will give us another 135% damage if we're—

yeah, basically 135% increased damage

whenever.

And then we go over to our aspects, we've

got an extra 11% when standing in Ground

Stomp Earthquake, and then an extra 30% if

we stand still for 2 seconds, and then an

extra 30%

Um, extra 30% every time we do a basic

attack, builds up 5% up to 30%, and then

an extra 40% on stunned enemies.

And then with the Paragon board, the glyph

socket will give us an extra 44.3% damage

when swapping weapons.

And obviously we're going to be switching

from dual wielding to our bludgeoning

weapon when we do a Hammer of the

Ancients.

So we're going to be switching weapons.

Oh my God, so that is 484% extra damage

when we're standing still building up some

bash, max fury, stunned enemy, standing in

earthquake.

All these add up to like nearly 500% extra

damage.

So imagine you do 100k crit plus 484%

we're gonna do like half a million damage.

Now I haven't seen those numbers yet

because I haven't stacked up everything.

You know, you're in the middle of a

battle, it is kind of hard to stand still

for 2 seconds and also build up max fury

and build up basic attacks and also

trigger— you have to make sure

everything's perfect and everything's

stacked up and everything's the right

situation.

But I think if you do everything properly,

you will get like 100 thousand million

crit damage, maybe.

So I want to try and show you what you can

do with this build.

As you can see, I'm just not doing

anything, haven't triggered anything, and

I'm wiping out this pack of mobs just by

standing here.

If I trigger both of my cries and rallies,

watch how much damage you do from the

thorns.

Oh my God, I'm critting them for like 4-5k

damage

just by using rallies and cries.

And that's basically nearly killed them,

and we'll just finish them off.

And I want to show you how much damage you

can do with Hammer of the Ancients once

you've stacked everything up.

So just get rid of these.

Now that was pretty weak because I didn't

have anything stacked up.

Okay, so you can see in this— I'll show

you some gameplay in this dungeon.

I'm doing a Tier 8 Nightmare dungeon, and

basically the playstyle is you're just

going to be spamming Bash on these easy

pack mobs.

They're just going to kill themselves on

my thorns.

And these big trees, they take a bit more

whacking.

But you don't even need Hammer of the

Ancients for these easy mobs until you get

to a big boss.

So I'll try using all of my abilities, see

how much max damage I can do.

Watch this.

Stun.

Okay, I didn't actually see the number pop

up because I think I just executed him.

We'll try again.

It's kind of hard to trigger everything at

the same time.

We gotta wait for cooldowns now.

That's 78,000 damage.

It's pretty good, not amazing.

Okay, there's some bosses over here.

See how much damage we can do against

these guys.

Uh, they're like the annoying thief guys

to keep freezing you and fearing you.

So try to do max damage.

Uh, it's hard to see the numbers, they

keep popping up.

30k non-crit, not amazing, but Okay,

they're just killing each other, killing

themselves on my Thorns.

It's hard to show you how much damage

Hammer of the Ancients is doing.

Yeah, 78,000, pretty good.

Didn't even have the Cries on or Ground

Stomp.

So as you can see, Thorns will do a lot of

the work for you, and then if they're

really tough and still alive, you can

finish them off with a Hammer of the

Ancients.

So do all our abilities here, stand still

for a bit.

Oh, oh my God,

135,000 damage!

I think that's a new record.

I don't think I've ever done more than 135

damage on a Hammer of the Ancients.

When they're below 35%, you will get that

bonus damage because they're injured.

So just wipe out these guys.

It's funny because now with this build and

this gear, I was struggling before.

I was struggling doing Tier 20 Nightmare

Dungeons.

Now I easily do Tier 20.

I need to get to Tier World 4 to do

Ancestral Nightmares, so I'll probably do

the Capstone Dungeon next.

I don't know if I can do the level 70

Capstone at only level 63.

I'm feeling like I could do it because I'm

feeling pretty overpowered, to be honest.

There is nothing in this game that is hard

anymore at this difficulty level.

I just steamroll everything.

It's amazing.

So I definitely need to step up to the

next level in the game to give myself a

challenge.

Watch me just destroy these guys.

Oh my God, I just killed them all with one

Hammer of the Ancients.

You see the damage output for AoE and

single target?

Is insane.

I had a Whirlwind build and that was great

for AOE as well, but against single

target, Whirlwind sucks and you're just

stuck with Bash and Whirlwind when you're

fighting bosses and it took ages to kill

the bosses.

But with this, Hammer of the Ancients

does— I mean, Whirlwind is never going to

do 135,000 damage against a single target.

There's just no way.

Even with Unbridled Rage and your buffs

on, you're gonna do At max, I saw I think

maybe 15 or 20k damage from a Whirlwind,

which is rubbish against a boss.

I'll tell you, Aegis is just standing

there spamming Bash.

So this is much better than a Whirlwind

build.

Maybe you would do like a Whirlwind plus

Hammer of the Ancients build, but then you

lose one slot on your toolbar, which is

kind of annoying because you want space on

your toolbar to do.

Oh my God, I did 100,000 bash damage!

Oh my God, bash just did 100,000 damage!

I can't believe that.

I can't believe how good my build is.

So just get rid of these guys.

I didn't even realize that guy was a boss,

like a mini boss.

Also, survivability is insane because

we're healing ourselves for every enemy

that's around us, plus we have Iron Skin.

In case we need a barrier plus a heal.

We don't even need to use potions.

Look, I haven't used a single potion.

This is just an absolute joke.

And then we also have Challenging Shout,

which increases our maximum health by 20%

and also gives us, uh, 48% damage

reduction.

So look at this, I'm just going to build

up my fury, my Standing Still ability,

Ground Stomp.

I don't even know how much damage that

was, but it seems like a lot.

There's just too many numbers.

I just wiped out 2/3 of this mini boss's

life.

The numbers come up so quick you can't

even see it sometimes.

So I want to show you the final boss of

this dungeon, see how much damage I can do

against it.

Just get rid of these guys.

Also, if we trigger both— I mean, both of

our rallies and cries increases our thorn

damage.

So more often than not, they end up wiping

themselves out on my thorns without me

even doing anything.

I'll show you how much damage the thorns

do against— I'll skip this little side

quest, don't really drop much anyway.

I'll show you how much damage the boss

will do on its own to itself on my thorns

without me doing anything.

Though I don't even have to engage these

mobs, it's just a joke at this point.

And you might be thinking, oh, you're only

doing tier 8.

Yeah, well, I can do tier 20 and it's

still just as easy.

I have to be a bit more careful because

sometimes I can get one-shot, or I guess

the problem is you get stun-locked.

I think I have an aspect or a gear slot

that gives me extra defenses when I'm

crowd controlled, but it's just annoying.

Sometimes you get frozen and stun-locked

and you can't do anything.

You get killed during the stun-lock.

Which is not great.

What's this guy doing?

Fiddling with his loot box.

Let's get rid of these skeletal constructs

quickly.

Oh, oh, there's no boss.

That was it.

Huh, okay, well, that was a bit

anticlimactic.

Let me pick up the stupid loot.

The annoying thing about controller is it

is— it can get hard.

Okay, I'm just going to switch to my mouse

to pick this stuff up.

So there's like a mini boss here.

Let me see what loot this is first.

I need to drop some, some stuff.

Drop this axe.

Uh, no, that sucks.

So I want to show you how much damage

thorns will do.

Let me drag this boss out of the bubble.

Is he gonna come?

Come on.

They just copied that fear thing from

World of Warcraft, didn't they?

Typical Blizzard.

Now watch how much damage my thorns do.

Oh my God,

he just did 30k damage on himself.

Look, he's taken out half, half of his own

life, and I'm just standing here.

And he's, he's getting frozen on my

chilled boots.

So you get frozen on my chilled boots, get

frozen from my gloves, and stunned by my

bash.

You don't even stand a chance, my guy.

You're dead.

That's what happens when you mess with me.

So I can't really show you against a tough

boss.

Maybe later.

Watch this.

Watch.

Oh, 15,000 damage on thorns.

9,000 damage.

That is insane.

Though we just stand here.

Oh, this is like a little boss here.

Okay, I'll try and wait for the cries to

come off cooldown.

He's gonna die, isn't he?

They die too quickly, that's the problem.

I don't want any of this loot.

Oh, there's a little boss.

Is that a boss?

No, it's not.

Trying to find some kind of mini boss or

something that's strong.

Yeah, I think that'll do it for today.

I hope you enjoyed this build and goodbye.