The BEST Barbarian Leveling Build In Diablo 4 - Diablo 4 DEFENSIVE TANK Barbarian Build (Level 50+)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to show you my ultimate

leveling up build for Barbarian to do

Nightmare tier dungeons. And I've been

doing it tier 16 and 17 dungeons,

and this means the enemies are like level

75. And as you can see, I'm only level 57

and I'm able to do these dungeons. Okay,

not super easily, but with some cheesing

and some patience and tactics, I can

actually do tier 15, 16, and sometimes

even 17 Nightmare Dungeons. Now I'm going

to show you my build. It is a highly

defensive build, and we're going to be

going for a lot of the defensive

capabilities so that we have the highest

chance of survival in these Nightmare

Dungeons. Okay, so first of all,

we've got 5 out of 5 Bash. I really like

Bash because it stuns the enemy every time

you hit them 4 times. So on the 4th hit,

it's going to stun them, and we have

Improved Enhanced Bash stunning an enemy

with Bash will grant you 10% base life as

Fortify. So this is really good. So every

time you bash them and stun them, you're

going to get some defense and 10% base

life will be fortified. And we also have

Combat Bash. After critically striking 4

times with Bash using 2-handed weapon,

next core or weapon mastery will be an

Overpower. So that's really good because

usually we'll be doing some bashing and

then we'll use Hammer of the Ancients,

which is a core skill, and that's going to

do bonus damage. So next we're going to

have Hammer of the Ancients. This is a

really good high damage AoE attack, and

it's really good. And we also get the

improved versions of Hammer of the

Ancients to do bonus damage. And we've got

1 point in Pressure Point. This makes your

core skills have 10% chance to make

enemies vulnerable. Making the enemies

vulnerable, very good for extra damage.

Now for the defensive skills, this is the

defensive skills part of the skill tree.

And we have basically everything in this

skill tree apart from Rallying Cry, which

would increase your movement speed by 30%.

And that's actually quite good. I might

look into choosing that as well, but that

means I'd have to get rid of either the

AOE stun or Hammer of the Ancients, and

then our DPS would just be nothing. And

that's kind of like too much defensive

abilities. We need some DPS, otherwise

it's going to take all day. So we've got

Ground Stomp, self-explanatory. We've got

AOE stun, and we improved it so we have an

extra second of stun. And I've got some

buffs, and it actually stuns for a total

of 4.47 seconds. So self-explanatory,

we can stun everyone that's around us.

Really useful if we need to escape or

maybe stun lock them, because we already

have Bash. We're going to be stunning them

a lot, and then add that to Ground Stomp.

We're basically like a stun locking

barbarian at this point. With loads of

stuns, and we improve the stun as well.

And we also have Iron Skin. This is really

important if you want to survive, because

without any barriers or shields, you're

just going to get nuked in like 5 hits if

you're doing Tier 16 or 17. So Iron Skin

is going to give you a barrier that

absorbs 70% of life missing for 5 seconds,

and Fortify. And we're also going to

improve that— Enhanced Iron Skin,

Strategic Iron Skin, and also Challenging

Shout. I really like Challenging Shout

because it reduces the amount of damage

you take by 48%, and also it gives you

a 20% bonus max life boost. And we didn't

get these because I ran out of points and

I don't really care about Thorns. And then

next we have, um, I improved the shouts

by getting Booming Voice. Shout skills

last for an extra 24%, and shout skills

cause enemies to deal 12% less damage. So

not only are we taking 48% less damage

with Challenging Shout, we're also taking

an extra 12% less damage and also less

damage from Iron Skin. So we're taking a

lot less damage actually. With your shouts

on and the shields, you'll barely take any

damage, which will give you time to build

up fury and do some DPS. And by the time

the shouts and shields have worn off, you

can do an AoE stun and maybe run away to

let the cooldowns reset. So I didn't

really get any of these skills in Weapon

Mastery because they're not really that

useful when you're trying to be defensive.

I did get Thick Skin, so each time you

take direct damage you'll get base life

fortify, and Defensive Stance. I don't

know why these defensive capabilities are

in the Weapon Mastery section instead of

the defensive, defensive skills section.

You'd think it would be in the defensive

skills section, but it's not. Anyway, I

got Defensive Stance and Counter

Offensive, and then I got Hammer

of the— I mean, Call of the Ancients,

which spawns a bunch of ancient ghosts.

And they're really helpful because maybe

there's too many enemies, you would just

die straight away. So you need to run away

from them and just let the Call of the

Ancients do the work for you. And as you

can see, I maxed out Call of the Ancients.

Some of my cheesiest cheese tactics are

when there's too many enemies, I can't

really survive very long, too many DPS,

so I just spawn Call of the Ancients, and

I stand back to let them do some damage

and soften the enemy up a bit, maybe

reduce their numbers a bit before I go

back in. Or I just run away until this

cooldown resets and then do it again. So

for the key passive, I have Unbridled

Rage, which increases your core skill

damage by 135%, which is going to affect

Hammer of the Ancients. So that is my

build. As for my gear, I have Iron Skin

aspects, which grants Unstoppable and an

extra bonus 10% damage reduction. I have

this chest which has you gain 0.4%

increased armor for 4 seconds when you

deal any form of damage, and this actually

stacks up to 40%. So you gain increased

armor of 40% whenever you're doing damage,

and that stacks up really great for making

your armor even thicker. And this one

doesn't really matter, it's just like a

random thing because I couldn't find

anything defensive for it. It just creates

a dust devil that does about 800 damage.

It's not very useful. And this one's

really useful. On my legs I have this

barrier. When you damage an elite enemy,

you get a barrier that protects you for

909 damage for 10 seconds. So obviously

that's really good. 900 damage is quite a

lot of damage, including your Iron Skin

and your shouts. You're barely going to

take any damage in the first 10 seconds of

engagement. So this is an interesting pair

of boots I randomly looted. It leaves

behind a trail of frost and chills the

enemy. It doesn't slow them down, but if

the enemies stand in the chilled area for

long enough, they will get frozen, and

it's kind of like an extra stun. And you

deal 8% more damage to chilled enemies.

So it doesn't really work because I'm in

the town right now. Maybe I can show you

by going out of the town. Okay, so as you

can see, I'm inside of a Tier 15 Nightmare

Dungeon, and you can see the ice effects.

It leaves behind this trail of ice which

looks really cool, and enemies will chase

you and they'll get stuck in the ice. And

if they're in the ice too long, they'll

get frozen. So it's a really cool ability.

I just randomly looted it. I don't know

where you can unlock this aspect from.

And then on my main weapon, got basic

skills gain 30% attack speed. We've got,

uh, some random effects that don't really

matter. Hammer of the Ancients now does

50% of its damage outwards. And I also got

this, which gives you 200% damage increase

to your weapon mastery skills, which is

kind of useless because I don't have any

weapon mastery skills anymore. But I used

to have Death Blow and it used to do

insane damage, so I might change this one.

This one is like more damage stuff,

so Attacking enemies with basic skill,

you increase your core skill— next core

skill by 5%, up to 30% damage.

And this is for Overpower. Swapping

weapons 10 times will increase by 30%

damage. And this one, 57% increased

damage to stunned enemies. So we've got a

mixture of damage dealing aspects and

defensive aspects. Okay, so this being a

Tier 15 and I'm only level 57, the enemies

are gonna be at least 10 or 12 levels

higher than me, so it's going to be pretty

challenging. I'll show you the playstyle

on this pack of mobs. So what you want to

do is first whack on Challenging Shout,

or whatever it's called, Rallying Cry, I

forgot now, and you'll be pretty tough.

And then you can do some DPS, stun them,

do another Hammer of the Ancients, and you

can actually take them down pretty easily.

Oh, they're only level 68, so they're

about 10 or 11 higher— 10 or 11 levels

higher than me. So we'll do an Iron Skin

And do another Ground Storm. So we can

handle these mobs fairly effectively. Do

another— I really need to learn what the

name of that skill is. Challenging Shout.

Yeah, Challenging Shout, very useful. And

we also have health regen on some of our

gear, so we don't have to waste a potion

by wasting it. I mean, to stand around for

a bit, let our health regen. Take out some

of these mobs. And if you need some help,

just get Call of the Ancients. Soften up

the enemy a bit, distract them a bit.

And yeah, we can take on these enemies and

they're like 10 levels higher than me.

It's a pretty good leveling guide. It's a

very highly defensive leveling build.

Okay, your DPS is not going to be off the

charts, but you're going to be able to

survive in these very difficult dungeons,

which is the whole point of the game

really— survivability. Is more important

than DPS, because it doesn't matter if you

can do loads of DPS if you end up dying

really quickly and you can't even actually

do the DPS because you're dead all the

time, which is what I discovered. I had to

switch my high DPS build to a more

defensive build.