Highest Damage BARBARIAN Build ｜ Diablo 4 Best BARBARIAN DPS Build (Level 50+)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to show you the best

Barbarian build I have ever tried so far.

So I initially chose Barbarian because I

wanted to do like a sword bleed build,

and I did level up to around level 45

using bleed skills. But then I got this

really cool mace from a dungeon and

decided to try out some hammer and

pulverizing mace gameplay. And oh my God,

this build is so good. So this build isn't

exactly a very defensive build. It focuses

on AOE stunning, AOE bashing the ground,

and causing massive earthquakes. With the

gear I have and the aspects and the

talents I have, I can do like 300% damage

on stunned enemies with this build.

There's so many damage buffs if you get

them all stacked up on top of each other

at the right time and you stun the enemy.

I think I took a third of a boss's health

in one hit once, doing like 35,000 damage.

I think this build blows any kind of bleed

build out of the water. Okay, as for the

talents, obviously we need 5 out of 5

Bash. And Bash is really good because

every 4 hits you stun the enemy. So if

you've got a quick weapon, you'll be

stunning the enemy constantly, which is

really important. It's really good to be

able to stun the enemy a lot because we'll

be doing extra bonus damage against

stunned enemies. And then we also improve

the Bash with these ones. And then next we

get Hammer of the Ancients. It's going to

be our main core skill. Hammer of the

Ancients deals massive damage in an area

around you, and we also improve this. So

we're mainly going to be spamming Bash.

So we stun lock the enemy, build up a lot

of fury, and then once we get to max fury,

then we'll just unleash it all with a

Hammer of the Ancients. Now for crowd

control and defensive capabilities, we'll

have maxed out Ground Stomp, which stuns

enemies all around you for 4 seconds, and

also improve that and enhance it. And then

we'll also get Iron Skin, max that out and

also improve it, and this will just give

us a barrier that can give us a bit of

survivability, because without

survivability we'll just be a glass

cannon, and the build is already kind of

glass cannon-y, so we need some defenses.

And we also get 15% additional max life.

We also have War Cry, which is going to

improve your damage even more. This gives

you a buff of like 18%. You can fill it

out more if you have more points left

over, and then also improve Enhanced War

Cry and Power War Cry for extra bonus

damage. Also got some Swiftness for extra

movement speed. And then we also need a

Weapon Mastery skill because one of our

aspects buffs our Weapon Mastery by like

200%. So Death Blow is really good if you

can get all of the damage bonuses stacked

up on each other. You can do like 30k

damage. I've actually nearly 2-shot a boss

before using Death Blow, and sometimes I

1-shot elites with it if you can stack up

all of the damage multipliers. It's a

really cool ability, and if you kill the

enemy using it, it resets its cooldown.

Now for the ultimate, I didn't actually

get any ultimates because I ran out of

space on my toolbar. I used to have Call

of the Ancients and I used to depend

heavily on that to help me, but with this

build I don't really feel like I need it

anymore. We do max out the Heavy Handed

and Two-Handed Weapons talent, so we get

increased critical strike damage,

overpowers deal 45 increased damage, and

skills using bludgeoning weapons deal 10%

increased damage. So that's good because

we're going to be using maces and

two-handed maces if that's your most

powerful weapon. And then for the key

passive, we have Unbridled Rage, which

makes the core skill, which is our Hammer

of the Ancients, it's going to make that

do 135% increased damage. So it's going

to do insane damage. I've done like 15,000

damage with it. And because I have an

aspect— I'll show you my aspects in a

minute— I have this aspect that makes

Hammer of the Ancients do 50% of its base

damage and spread that out as an AOE. So

it's really good. Okay, now we get on to

the interesting bit, the aspects. So

aspects really help you with your build,

and I have— I think I have all of the best

aspects for this build that focuses on

stunning enemies, doing massive damage on

stunned enemies, and also creates extra

AOE with Hammer of the Ancients. So let me

show you my ancients— I mean, my aspects.

Okay, so let me show you my aspects. On my

helmet, I have that immunity bubble that

you get early on in the game. It's

actually originally on amulets, but I took

it off the amulet because I got a

different amulet and I put it onto my

helmet. Don't actually know how else you

can get this aspect. You can't really get

it from a dungeon. I think it's only from

that one item. So this basically makes a

big bubble around you for around 4.5

seconds, makes you completely immune, and

it can trigger every 90 seconds. So it

actually triggers quite a lot and it's

very helpful in increasing your

survivability, especially against bosses.

I really found the immunity bubble to be

very helpful. On my chest piece, I have

Lucky Hit, up to a 35% chance to gain 285

Fortify whenever you deal direct damage.

So that also— these 2 pieces increase your

defensive capabilities. And then on my

hands, I have Deal 5% Increased Damage

for Each Second You Stand Still, up to

30%. So this is really interesting, and

this is actually an aspect you can get

from a dungeon. Let me show you. Aspect of

Inner Calm. I got it from the Wraithwind

Wilds in Scosglen. And this is such a cool

aspect because, I mean, it increases your

damage by 30% as long as you stay still.

You can see it buffed on myself here—

damage increased while standing still.

And if you move, it disappears. And then

when you stand still, it starts stacking

up— 5, 10, 15, 20,

25, 30. You can also see it here. So look

at my attack power. And then I start

standing still and it starts going up and

it starts increasing the amount of damage

you do. Now you might be thinking, isn't

it kind of weird you're just standing

there? Aren't you supposed to be dodging

and moving around and rolling? And yeah,

I guess so. With a lot of classes you're

going to be mobile, but with my build and

this playstyle, you're mainly going to be

standing still, taking all the hits in the

face like a legend, like a tank, and using

your bubbles and your healing and your

stuns and your shields to make sure you

don't die and make sure you can just stay

still and benefit from that 30% damage

buff, which is just huge. Uh, okay, next

we have Iron Skin. This just improves your

Iron Skin shield thing, which is, um,

it's down here. Yeah, Iron Skin will give

you a barrier that absorbs 70% of your

missing life, and it gives you fortify and

defensive shields kind of capability. So

this is just going to buff that and give

you 12% damage reduction. Not very

interesting. Next we have on our boots,

critical strikes gain 15% movement speed

for 1 second. Kind of self-explanatory,

not very interesting either. On our amulet

we have distant enemies have 8% chance to

be stunned for 2 seconds when they hit

you. So archers and spellcasting NPCs will

get stunned if they keep shooting at you.

And the next bit is really important. You

deal 50%— 57% increased

damage to stunned enemies. That is huge.

So you do like an extra 57% damage when

you stun your enemies, and that's really

good because we're going to be stunning a

lot. Now on our ring, we have, uh, an

improvement to Ground Stomp, our area

stun, which is this one. Ground Stomp

makes like an earthquake appear around

your character. So creates an earthquake

damaging enemies for 686 physical damage

over 4 seconds while standing in the

earthquake. You will also deal 13%

increased damage. So usually the stun

doesn't actually damage the enemy by much

or at all, but with this we're going to do

like 686 damage whilst also stunning them

whilst also getting a 13% increased damage

buff while standing in the earthquake. So

yeah, that's pretty good. Okay, our second

ring has a really cool aspect. I think you

can get it from a dungeon. Let me check.

Yeah, it's called Aspect of the Expectant,

unlocked from Underroot in Scosglen, and

it means you can attack enemies with a

basic skill, and when you do that, it

increases the damage of your next core

skill by 5%, up to 30%. I mean, this is

just insane because you'll be spamming

your basic skill Bash a lot anyway, and

it's going to build up that 30% real

quick. So every time you hit, 5% is going

to take like 6 hits. After 6 hits, you'll

have a 30% boost to your damage on your

next Hammer of the Ancients. You can see

it buffed on me now. I've got that buff,

I've got this buff which is on my main

weapon— I'll show you in a minute— and

I've got this buff from standing still. I

don't know how many percentages our damage

has been buffed by now, but it's like 112%

or something. Including the standing in

the earthquake bit. So on our 2-handed

mace, another really cool weapon I got

from some dungeon, it's called Dread Mace

of Limited Limitless Rage, and the aspect

on it is really cool. So this aspect, it

says each point of fury you generate

whilst at maximum fury grants your next

core skill 2% increased damage up to 30%

damage. So you see the fury when it's at

max 100, if you keep using your basic

attack bash whilst you have over 100 Fury,

it will count each point of Fury as an

extra 2% of damage, and that will stack

up, up to 30%. And that's— it's kind of

hard to get that because it means you're

not going to be able to use your Fury

until you've built up that 30%.

But what you can do is just find a few

mobs and just use them to spam Bash

on to build up the 30%, and then go into

the next engagement. If you think the next

engagement is going to be hard, or if

there's like a big elite or a big boss,

you can stack that up for a massive

attack. Next we have Hammer of the

Ancients aspect. This is really cool as

well, and you can get it from a dungeon.

It's called Aspect of Ancestral Force from

Sunken Ruins in Scosglen. It makes your

Hammer of the Ancients deal 32% of its

damage outwards to enemies, but my one is

stronger for some reason because I got it

on a special weapon, I guess. But my one

actually does 50% of its damage to

enemies. So imagine you do like 10k damage

with Hammer of the Ancients, it will then

spread out 50% of that damage, so you do

5k damage all around you against all the

enemies around you. So that is amazing.

Sometimes I crit like 15,000 damage with

Hammer of the Ancients, and then that does

50%, 7.5k damage outwards to everything

that's around me. The AOE damage with

Hammer of the Ancients using that aspect

just becomes insane. Okay, next we have

this one I don't know the name of, but it

says after swapping weapons 10 times,

your next attack will overpower and deal

50% increased overpower damage. So we've

actually got, uh, Bash is being done with

dual wielding, and then Hammer of the

Ancients is done with bludgeoning with our

two-handed mace, and then Death Blow is

actually done with our sword. So we're

going to be swapping our weapons a lot,

and it builds up that 10 stacks pretty

quickly. And you'll see at the bottom

stack up, and then your next overpower—

your next attack will actually be an

overpower and deal 50% increased overpower

damage. So that's really good as well.

And then on our two-handed sword, we've

got this really cool aspect as well.

After spending 100 fury, your next weapon

mastery skill deals 200% increased damage.

So this is just insane as well because,

because by the time you've built up over

100 Fury and then used Hammer of the

Ancients to trigger the Weapon Mastery

200% damage buff, you're gonna have so

many damage multipliers. I think we're

gonna be at nearly 400% increased damage

by the time you stack that up and then use

a death blow. You're probably gonna

one-shot or two-shot kill the enemy and do

like 30 K damage. It is insane. So I've

kind of lost count, but we've got this

buff, 30% increased damage by spamming

basic skills, and then we've got this

buff, another extra 30% damage by,

um, generating Fury after we have over 100

Fury and getting another 30% damage

multiplier. And then this one, by standing

still, an extra 30%. So that's 30, 30,

30, 90% bonus damage. And then if we

do a ground stomp by standing in the

earthquake, we get an extra 13% increased

damage. So that's like 103 damage— 103%

bonus damage so far. And also don't

forget, against stunned enemies we do an

extra 57% damage,

so that is an extra 160% bonus

damage so far. And then after we spend 100

fury, next weapon mastery skill, which

Death Blow is a weapon mastery skill,

that's an extra 200% damage. So that's

like 360% damage

multiplier. You're gonna one-shot

everything. Now I don't remember exactly

which talent points I got, but I'm pretty

sure we have some talents that do

increased damage to vulnerable and stunned

or crowd-controlled enemies. So it's

probably going to be like 400% damage

multiplier at this point. So getting these

multipliers isn't that easy, especially if

you're under attack by a lot of enemies,

taking a lot of damage. This is how the

playstyle, the strategy will work. Oh

yeah, I forgot War Cry. This is going to

give us an extra 18% damage for 6

seconds. So what did I say? 360% damage

plus like 18 we're at 378% damage

multiplier, which is insane. Okay, so

here's the strategy for the playstyle. So

in the beginning, if you haven't fought

anything, we have obviously zero fury and

we're kind of vulnerable because we need

to stack up fury and build fury by just

spamming Bash and hoping we survive long

enough to build up enough fury. So to help

you survive, you've got Iron Skin that's

going to decrease the amount of damage you

take, and you can absorb damage. And

you've got the immunity bubble from your

helmet, which will protect you for like 4

seconds. That triggers every 90 seconds.

And you've also got your ground stomp,

which will stun the enemies around you so

you can control them a bit more whilst you

build up that important fury. And also

Warcry will kind of stun them for like

half a second or something. Okay, so the

playstyle strategy is like this: we're

gonna rush in and trigger our immune

bubble and our shields to survive and do a

stomp and build up fury by spamming bash

and then do a Hammer of the Ancients and

maybe a death blow and a war cry if

there's still some people surviving. So we

go in, we trigger the immune bubble like

that, build up, gather, gather them

around, do an Iron Skin, do a stomp,

Hammer of the Ancients spam a bit more,

maybe a War Cry, execute. 18,000 damage!

Now that's what I like to see. And then

finish off anyone who's still standing

around like that. Now you kind of need to

do the, the attacks in that order or a

similar order to build up all of the buffs

you're going to need, otherwise you won't

get maximum damage. Also try and stay

still as much as you can because that'll

give you 30% extra damage. So stun them,

Hammer Ancients, Death blow that will

usually destroy basically anything and

almost kill any elites as well. So I'll

show you again. Run in— lagging a bit

here— stun them. Hammer of the Ancients,

12k damage. Oh, 15k damage!

You see the damage we're gonna do? We just

destroy everything. Look, they all turn

into mush like a mountain of mushed up

guts and stuff and whatever, because we

just pulverize them into the ground. Look

at this, just like a mushy goo of

whatever's left of them. Go in again,

next group of enemies. Go in there, build

up some fury, build up some standing still

bonus, put on your shield, maybe heal a

little bit, stun them. Hammer of the

Ancients, death blow. Hammer of the

Ancients. You build up fury really quickly

after a while as well, after you start,

um, revving up your attacks like that.

Put your shield on.

Sometimes you will get attacked a lot and

you'll be spamming your potions and

shields, but that's just how this

playstyle works. It's a bit of a glass

cannon, but you should be safe with your

shields and stuff and your stuns. See,

watch this. Stun them, Hammer of the

Ancients to wipe them all out. Completely

obliterated them.

Sometimes I do forget to use Warcry,

which is kind of annoying. It's hard, you

got a lot of things to remember, it's kind

of hard. So yeah, Hammer of the Ancients.

You'll be spamming your potions a lot, by

the way, but it's okay. 21k damage! Oh my

God, you just do so much damage,

it's insane. If you get them all buffed up

right with Warcry as well, did like 30k

damage against the boss. Oh, 20k damage

with Hammer of the Ancients. It's just a

really fun build. The AoE is insane and

the single target damage is also insane

with, um, Death Blow.