Ultimate Barbarian BLEED Build - Bleed Stacking Playstyle Guide

Hello, welcome back to a new video. Today

I'll be showing you my Barbarian bleed

build. So this build focuses primarily on

bleeding skills and abilities, and we're

going to be using dual wielding and bleed

attacks to destroy our enemies. So one of

the main principles of this playstyle is

we gather a mob of enemies, a group of

enemies, and we stun them using Ground

Stomp, and then we'll start slashing at

them to build up some fury. And then once

we've built up some fury, we'll do a Rend,

and that allows us to kite around the

enemies and let the bleeding effects do

damage whilst we basically run away like a

coward. Okay, so first of all, I'll show

you my talent tree and I'll show you

exactly what talents I have to make a

really cool bleed build Barbarian. At

level 34, you do have enough talent points

to be able to get all the way to the end

of the talent tree and get some of the

cooler talents and abilities at the end of

the tree. So first of all, you want to get

yourself 5 out of 5 Flay. This is like a

basic attack that helps you build up Fury

and also inflicts bleeding damage on your

enemies. And that will also allow you to

get Enhanced Flay, and I decided to get

Battle Flay as well. Battle Flay is good

because it makes your enemies take 10%

increased bleeding damage, which is good

because we want to focus on doing bleeding

damage. These other abilities like Frenzy

Bash, Lunging Strike aren't very useful

for this kind of playstyle. I thought

Frenzy would be good since we're dual

wielding, but it's not very good. So next,

for our second main ability that we're

going to be spamming a lot, it's going to

be Rend, and this uses up Fury. We build

up Fury by spamming Flay. And once you

have enough Fury, then we spam Rend until

we run out of Fury. Rend is really good

because it does a lot of damage in a wide

area in front of you, and it inflicts a

lot of bleeding damage to basically all

enemies nearby to you. And I also got

Enhanced Rend and Violent Rend because

it deals more damage, increased damage to

vulnerable enemies. And then for crowd

control, I got 1 point in Ground Stomp.

This is really good because you want to

stun your enemies whilst you build, build

up some Fury and apply some Rend so they

bleed. And I also got the 15% additional

maximum life, which is very useful because

you're going to be taking a lot of hits.

You need to gather your enemies around you

whilst you spam bleeds on them, and you

need to be able to survive that. And then

next we go down to the next part and we'll

get Kick. 1 point in Kick. You could put

more points, I guess, later on, but 1 is

good enough. I really like Kick because

you can kick a group of enemies and they

go flying out in front of you, and if they

hit a wall or something, they get stunned

as well. So if you need a bit of breathing

room, Kick can give you that. We also get

Swiftness, which is good, increases your

movement speed by 12%. And then going

down, we get, uh, 3 out of 3 Pit Fighter,

9% increased damage to close enemies,

also good to do extra damage. And we also

get Hamstring. This is very useful, slows

enemies by 30% when they're bleeding, and

this allows you to kite them. You can

basically kite a big mob of enemies by

hamstringing them, letting the bleed tick

down damage, and just lets you run away

and avoid taking damage whilst they take

damage. And then we have our ultimate

skill, Call of the Ancients. It's really

good. It summons 3 ghost warrior things

and they do insane damage. One does a

whirlwind AOE, the others do something

else like some kind of— oh, it says here

spins in a whirlwind, Korlik leaps at

enemies dealing 661 damage, swings his

weapons in frenzy, Mad, Mad Whack

upheaves the ground. So you get 3 summons

that do really good damage. If you're kind

of low on health and don't have any

potions, you're trying to kite enemies,

you can kite the enemies whilst letting

these summons, Call of the Ancients, do a

lot of damage for you and take out a lot

of enemies for you whilst you retreat a

little bit. And we also have 3 out of 3

points in Duelist because we're using

one-handed weapons to do dual wielding,

and this increases your attack speed by

9%. I did try out this build using

two-handed weapons but for some reason

dual wielding one-handed weapons always

did way more damage and way more DPS when

I was fighting bosses. The health went

down way faster when I was dual wielding,

so I don't know why they seem to be better

than using two-handed. And I'm getting

attacked. And I maxed out Call of the

Ancients with Prime Call of the Ancients,

gain 10% bonus attack speed and 10%

increased damage, and Supreme Call of the

Ancients, basically just buffing your

Ancients. And then finally I got Unbridled

Rage. Now I really like Unbridled Rage

because it makes your core skills deal

135% increased damage, but at

the cost of costing 100% more fury. So if

you remember, Rend is actually a core

skill, and usually it only takes about 30

fury and it will do some decent damage.

But with this Unbridled Rage it will do

135% more damage, which is way more

damage. Okay, it does cost 100% more fury,

but think of it this way: instead of

having to spam, uh, Rend 2 times,

you only have to spam it once. And

basically applying it once is the

equivalent of applying it 2.5 times if you

didn't have Unbridled Rage. It just means

you do more damage with Rend, but it will

take you slightly longer to build up

enough Fury to be able to cast Rend.

Okay, so here is the main principle and

the concept of the playstyle. You want to

gather a load of enemies and then stun

them like that, and then apply some Rends

and basically run away whilst the bleeding

ticks down, does a lot of damage for you.

And you can do some kicks too here and

there if you want to get, get them out of

the way if they're getting too close to

you. I'll show you again here. You want to

run around, stomp them, ground stomp,

stun Apply some Rends and then dodge

out of the way whilst the bleeding does

damage. And whilst you're running around

like an idiot like this trying to avoid

being hit, you're basically waiting for

Ground Stomp to recharge and come off

cooldown so you can stun them again like

that and do a few Rends.

Now if you're really getting in trouble,

you can call the Ancients and they'll

basically just mop up everything for you

easy peasy whilst you run around. And keep

spamming Rend. And whilst you have Call of

the Ancients, uh, your Fury builds up

really quickly, so you can spam Rend quite

a lot easily. I find this build to be

really good if you want to kite. And

kiting— sometimes you're forced into

kiting. I'm pretty sure you know what

kiting means, but just in case, kiting is

when you're running away from the enemy

trying to avoid being hit whilst you let

your powerful abilities recharge. And

sometimes you don't have a choice because

there's so many damn enemies, you run out

of potions, you're not really strong

enough to fight them all face to face. So

you're running around waiting for things

like Call of the Ancients to recharge so

you can summon them again and destroy

everything in the room whilst you don't

take any damage. And you can also do a few

bleeds here and there to do extra damage

whilst you kite them around in a circle.

And using this tactic has really helped me

in some difficult parts of the game. Even

against some bosses. So as you know, it's

very important when fighting bosses that

you have to stay mobile and avoid the AoE

attacks. And it's really useful to have

bleed attacks ticking damage on them

whilst you focus on being able to move out

of the way of damage. So you can just

stack up bleed effects on the boss and

then run around him avoiding his AoE

attacks, and it was a pretty effective way

of damaging bosses whilst keeping yourself

safe. For example, as you can see in this

boss, I'm affecting able to apply some

bleeds, do damage, whilst also remaining

mobile and getting out of the way of his

AoE and dodging some of his basic attacks.

See how I'm able to hide behind this

pillar whilst letting the bleed do damage

for me whilst I hide behind the pillar?

It's a pretty effective strategy. It's

also pretty useful when you're in a very

small confined area. You don't really have

any potions left, or you're really weak

and nearly dead, and you've got a very

strong enemy, maybe an elite chasing you,

and you don't really feel strong enough to

face it face to face. So what you can do

is you can kick it into a wall, stun it,

apply some bleeds, and then back away

whilst the bleed damage kills the enemies

for you whilst you run away and stay safe.

So yeah, maybe it's a cowardly way to

play, but the core mechanics of this build

and playstyle are to stun, apply bleeds,

run away, stay safe, don't get hit too

much. Because when you're playing on

harder difficulty level on World Tier 2

like me Sometimes you'll be in a dungeon

and you'll be running out of potions,

things look pretty bad, and you don't

really have much of a choice but to play

it safe and be a coward. I actually

managed to solo this dungeon, which I

didn't even realize it was a dungeon until

I finished it. This is a level 35 dungeon

and I managed to solo it at level 33 or

34. I guess it's kind of a cheesy way to

play the game because you're just using

your stuns to keep the enemy back whilst

they bleed and then let Call of the

Ancients do the heavy hitting for you. So

I hope you like my bleeding barbarian

build. If you have any suggestions to

improve it, I would like to hear. Thanks

for watching and goodbye.