More top-tier Barbarian builds in Diablo 4: Leveling & endgame in Season 3

Not interested our main best Barbarian build in Diablo 4? Then here are some alternative best Barbarian builds for you to sink your mighty axe into, including both leveling and endgame during Season 3.

Diablo 4 has lots of powerful builds for Sanctuary’s most brawny warriors, the Barbarians, and many will see you safely through the game and into the vast endgame content. While we’ve already covered what we believe to be the best Barbarian build in Diablo 4 for both leveling and endgame, below we’ve included some alternative builds that are also very powerful in Season 3.

This way, you’ll have a choice when it comes to picking the best builds for the Barbarian in Diablo 4, especially when it comes to choosing a leveling build, or a build to tackle the endgame – which is where the game gets really interesting. Here’s our alternative best Barbarian builds in Diablo 4 Season 3.

Contents

• Best Alternative Barbarian leveling build
• Best Alternative Barbarian endgame build

Best Diablo 4 Barbarian build for leveling

Diablo 4’s Barbarian has lots of mighty builds to use in the Season 3 current meta, but we found the Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian to be among the best when it comes to leveling.

Here are the skills you’ll need to select to craft this powerful build:

Level	Skill
2	Lunging Strike
3	Enhanced Lunging Strike
4	Hammer of the Ancients
5	Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients
6	Furious Hammer of the Ancients
7	Battle Lundging Strike
8	Rallying Cry
9	Enhanced Rallying Cry
10	Tactical Rallying Cry
11	Hammer of the Ancients
12	Hammer of the Ancients
13	Leap
14	Enhanced Leap
15	Add Two-Handed Swords to your Technique and select Power Leap
16	War Cry
17	Enhanced War Cry
18	Hamstring
19	Mighty War Cry
20	Hammer of the Ancients
21	Hammer of the Ancients
22	Booming Voice
23	Raid Leader
24	Raid Leader
25	Call of the Ancients
26	Prime Call of the Ancients
27	Supreme Call of the Ancients
28	Raid Leader
29	Booming Voice
30	Booming Voice
31	Rallying Cry
32	Rallying Cry
33	Rallying Cry
34	Rallying Cry
35	Unbridled Rage (Capstone Passive)
36	Aggressive Resistance
37	Prolific Fury
38	Prolific Fury
39	Prolific Fury
40	Pit Fighter
41	Pit Fighter
42	Pit Fighter
43	No Mercy
44	No Mercy
45	No Mercy
46	Heavy Handed
47	Heavy Handed
48	Heavy Handed
49	Thick Skin
50	Paragon begins
1 – Renown	Counteroffensive
2 – Renown	Counteroffensive
3 – Renown	Counteroffensive
4 – Renown	‍Guttural Yell
5 – Renown	‍Guttural Yell
6 – Renown	Guttural Yell
7 – Renown	Tempered Fury
8 – Renown	Invigorating Fury
9 – Renown	Invigorating Fury
10 – Renown	Invigorating Fury

When choosing weapons and techniques from the Barbarian’s unique skills, the build favors two-handed swords and maces. Therefore, we’d recommend equipping one of those in your main hand and two smaller swords for your off-hand weapons.

Legendary Aspects

While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:

• Offensive Aspect of Ancestral Force – (Sunken Ruins, Scosglen)
• ‍Edgemaster’s Offensive Aspect – (Oldstones, Scosglen)
• Offensive Aspect of the Expectant – (Underroot, Scosglen)
• Resource Aspect of Echoing Fury – (Sirocco Caverns, Kehjistan)

Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your build even more deadly.

We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey. Instead, add offensive Aspects to your jewelry, this way, it can continue to serve you well into endgame

This build is a great one for bashing Lilith’s minions in the main campaign, but once you enter the endgame, it may be time for a build with more longevity.

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

• Lightning Bolt (Governing)
• Fortify Support (Turning)
• Resource Support (Turning)
• Swift Support (Turning)
  
• Reconstruct (Governing)
• Duration Support (Turning)
• Tactical Support (Turning)
• Safeguard Support (Turning)

Best Barbarian endgame build

Once you get past level 50 and have seen the ending of Diablo 4, things will then change as you’re into the endgame. This means the build you used to reach this point may no longer be adequate, and to really make the most of the Season 3 endgame content, you’ll need an endgame build.

Sure, your current build will work, but endgame builds have a different meta to leveling builds and if you want the best, you’ve come to the right place.

Here are the skills you should focus on for another of the best endgame Barbarian builds in Diablo 4 currently, the Thorns Barbarian:

Active Skills	Passive Skills
Frenzy	Outburst
Wrath of the Berserker	Imposing Presence
War Cry	Marital Vigor
Rallying Cry	Tough as Nails
Challenging Shout	Booming Voice
Steel Grasp	Raid Leader
–	Guttural Yell
–	Unconstrained
–	Counteroffensive
–	Aggressive Resistance
–	Pit Fighter

Paragon Board

At level 50 you’ll gain access to the Paragon Board to continue building your character to level 100. Here are the boards you need to focus on to maximize the potential of the best endgame Barbarian build:

• Starting board
• Blood Rage board
• Decimator board
• Warbinger board
• Flawless Technique board

Glyphs

Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:

Choose at Level 15

• ‍Exploit
• ‍Territorial
• ‍Revenge
• Imbiber
• ‍Undaunted
• ‍Marshal

Choose at Level 21

• ‍Exploit
• ‍Marshal
• ‍Imbiber
• ‍Territorial
• ‍Undaunted
• Revenge

Legendy Aspects

As this is an endgame build, it pays to unlock as many Legendary Aspects for the class as possible. Try to unlock the following Aspects as soon as possible in Season 3 to take advantage of their buffs, as each will have its own use within an endgame build:

• ‍Berserk Ripping – (Mournfield, Dry Steppes)
• ‍Death Wish – (Penitent Cairns, Scosglen)
• ‍Disobedience – (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)
• ‍Echoing Fury – (Siroccos Caverns, Kehjistan)
• ‍Ghostwalker – (Broken Bulwark, Scosglen)
• ‍Inner Calm – (Raethwind Wilds, Scosglen)
• ‍Iron Blood – (Forgotten Ruins, Kehjistan)
• ‍Might – (Dark Ravine, Dry Steppes)
• ‍Needleflare – (Yshari Sanctum, Kehjistan)
• ‍Numbing Wrath – (Heathen’s Keep, Hawezar)
• ‍Rapid – (Buried Halls, Dry Steppes)

You can also find Aspects by gambling with Obols or farming through Helltides and Nightmare Dungeons.

Seneschal Companion stones

To get the best out of the Seneschal Companion for this build, try to find and equip the following Governing and Turning Stones:

• Tempest (Governing)
• Efficiency Support (Turning)
• Breaking Support (Turning)
• Safeguard Support (Turning)
  
• Flash of Adrenaline (Governing)
• Duration Support (Turning)
• Tactical Support (Turning)
• Initiative Support (Turning)

Endgame item build

Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Barbarian build in Diablo 4 Season 3:

Item name	Item type
‍Steadfast Hood of Might	Helm
Iron Blood Steadfast Tunic	Chest Armor
Rapid Steadfast Gloves	Gloves
Steadfast Pants of Numbing Wrath	Pants
Ghostwalker Steadfast Boots	Boots
Needleflare Dire Mace / Death Wish Battleworn Crescent	Main Hand
Battle Axe of Inner Calm / Battle Axe of Beserk Ripping	Secondary Weapon / Offhand
Edgemaster’s Amulet	Amulet
Ring of Echoing Fury	Ring 1
Bold Chieften’s Ring	Ring 2

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