Diablo 4 - Barbarian is DEAD - HUGE Nerfs Breakdown - Season 1 Best Build for Barbarians？

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I

just finished downloading and updating the

game with the new Season 1 Patch 1.1, and

I went into a few dungeons and oh my god,

my Barbarian build is completely broken.

And I feel like Barbarian as a class has

just been completely nerfed into oblivion.

So my Barbarian build was heavily

dependent on making enemies vulnerable and

doing massive vulnerability bonus damage

to vulnerable enemies. So I have this

Paragon glyph socket which gives me 30.9%

vulnerable damage to enemies. And the most

important thing about this glyph socket is

enemies make themselves vulnerable when

they attack me and get damaged by my

thorns. So I'd run into a mob of enemies,

they'd all attack me and trigger

vulnerability on all of them, and then I'd

smash them in the face with the Hammer of

the Ancients and do like a million damage

with all of my gear. My gear Look at my

gear. I've got +40% vulnerable damage on

my weapons. I've got plus vulnerability

damage affixes on nearly all of my gear.

Look at this, apart from this one because

I just actually got this new weapon and I

dismantled my previous weapon because now

vulnerability is just kind of rubbish.

At one point I had about +200% vulnerable

damage with my previous weapon. It's gone

down to 136 now because I'm starting to

shift out of a vulnerability-based build

because I don't know what they've done

with the new patch, the new updates.

They've completely nerfed vulnerability.

Maybe that was because it was just way too

overpowered before and it was letting

players like me do insane damage, but now

it's just kind of— it's kind of an

obsolete build now. My build, look at my

build, it's just kind of rubbish now.

I'll show you later in the video how crap

my build plays with the new patch. But

basically my build was reliant on spamming

Lunging Strike to trigger Berserking, and

then I maxed out Hammer of the Ancients

obviously to do maximum damage with that.

And then I had some shouts like

Challenging Shout and also War Cry and

also Iron Skin for some defensive

capabilities. And I had stuff like the

shouts maxed out and this stuff, 23%

increased damage to injured enemies, and

Thick Skin and, uh, Wrath of the Berserker

to get maximum damage bonuses. But after

the new patch, I'm going to have to

rethink my entire build and see what else

works better because this just doesn't

really work anymore. Just when I thought I

was getting really good at the game and

really starting to steamroll my way

through a lot of Nightmare Dungeons doing

crazy damage, they just had to nerf

everything, didn't they? Okay, so I'll

show you quickly what it looks like when I

try a Tier 52. Hold on, get my

controller. When I try a Tier 52 Nightmare

Dungeon, which I was able to do not

easily— I wouldn't say I was able to do it

easily. I had to play very carefully and

skillfully to be able to clear a Tier 50+

Nightmare Dungeon, but I was still able to

clear them. But now it's completely

impossible. Also, my defensive

capabilities seem to have been completely

nerfed into the ground because now I'm

getting like— I'm getting destroyed by the

first packs of enemies near the entrance

of a Nightmare Dungeon. Watch this. So I

go in, I would just kind of just ignore

those few, try and run into a group, do my

shouts. I wouldn't use Wrath of the

Berserker because I won't really need to.

Usually I wouldn't need to unless it's

like a really tough enemy. And yeah,

I'm getting completely destroyed here.

Had to just use 5 potions, I think. But

you look at the numbers, you see that 500k

crit I just did? That would have been a

1.5 million crit. I was easily doing 1

million crits with Hammer of the Ancients

on a vulnerable enemy with my Berserker

buff stacks and stuff like that. I think

they nerfed something, so when you stack

Berserker Rage and a bunch of other buffs,

um, it used to be able to do crazy damage.

Now it doesn't. You see, I just crit for

60,000 damage. That's so rubbish. I'm

level 97. I used to do 60,000 crits back

when I was level 30, so I feel like I'm

doing the damage I was doing 50 levels

ago. These numbers are so bad.

So yeah, uh, look at this. When I go in,

I got Berserker Rage trigger this one.

You need to wait until I get them

vulnerable as well. Vulnerable. It just

did 138,000 damage. I'm really struggling

on just these easy pack of mobs, which I

really normally shouldn't be struggling on

these. I'm really having to like duck

and dodge, be careful with my potions.

I'm gonna die now. I think I survived.

How am I struggling on the entry entrance

mobs? I just don't get it. I was not

having this much difficulty on

these basic mobs before the patch, and now

my build and my class is completely

and I'm just really struggling to do any

damage. It's crazy. I can't believe

they've nerfed Barbarian so much. I don't

know what it's like for the other classes

because I only play Barbarian. I have a

level, level 50 rogue, but I haven't

played it in a while. I'm surprised I'm

still alive. How am I still alive? How

much health do I have? 800 life.

Oh my God, that was lucky.

Oh, I have to free prisoners. Okay. Yeah,

look at the numbers. You might be

wondering why is my basic attack only

doing 300 damage. I'll show you my gloves.

I got these gloves. Look how long it's

taking to kill this guy. Look at my

gloves. I got these gloves. It says your

attacks randomly deal 1% to 270% of their

normal damage. So sometimes my basic

attacks will do over 200% damage, and then

sometimes it'll just do like 1% damage.

Kind of a random effect, but it's, it's

fun. But it means sometimes your basic

attack's gonna do Absolutely no damage.

So this is like an elite strong guy.

I think my highest crits now, highest I've

seen, is probably like 400k, when before

those were over a million, nearly 2

million. I think I'm gonna die. I don't

have any potions. Yep,

dead again.

I think it said in the patch notes they,

they nerfed vulnerability damage by 40% or

something like that. So before I was doing

200% bonus damage to vulnerable enemies,

and now, uh, not that

much, I guess. I don't know what else

they've nerfed for Barbarian. I think

maybe they nerfed the thorns damage as

well.

It's just not great.

If I can actually clear a level 52, tier

52 Nightmare Dungeon, I'd be amazed

because I'm just really struggling here.

I'm gonna see if I can get another million

crit damage Hammer of the Ancients, but I

really doubt it's gonna happen. Burning

through my potions so quickly as well. I

feel so much weaker after the patch

compared to before the patch. I was like a

wrecking ball before the patch.

The game just feels so much slower now

compared to before.

I guess this is intended because they

wanted to tone down the amounts of damage

people were doing. My new build idea now

is I want to get like an execute-focused

build. Been working on this new second— I

mean, new two-handed axe. It has, uh,

plus 26.9%

chance to execute non-elites. I want to

try and increase that number so I can

randomly execute things. Oh, that's quite

a good crit, 400k. Maybe if I do it on

injured enemy, then it will do way more.

See if I can take this guy this time. Oh,

500k crit! That would have been a million

crit before the patch. That would

have been like 1.8 million, I think,

pre-patch.

I hate it when these guys heal themselves

because my damage is so bad without

vulnerability.

300k. The vulnerability thing only

triggers every 20 seconds, so in between

the 20 seconds, my DPS is completely

pants. Just kind of waiting for the

vulnerability to trigger again.

Oh, there it goes. Uh, 400k. What was that

second one? Sometimes the numbers don't

show up very clearly or at all.

Now he's injured. I don't think I can even

do a million crits anymore.

Imagine I die. Oh, I just wasted my fury.

Don't you hate it when they teleport right

before you— I mean, right after you spend

all of your resources?

So the game has become a lot less fun for

me personally. I don't know what it's like