Diablo 4 Barbarian BuildEarth Shatter Upheaval Deathblow Leveling Build

Do your barb quest for the Weapon Technique slot once available at level 15. Set it to 2H Axe for the best boost in DPS mid/late game.

Make sure to set Upheavel to 2H Mace & Death blow to 2H Sword!

Damaging Skills

• Upheavel, you'll want to spam this skill as much as possible to maintain your Berserk uptime ( also it's your main source of DPS ) protip: you can evade to animation cancel upheaval for better speed clearing.
• Deathblow, cycle this skill in between every Upheavel, you'll not only do a huge chunk of damage but will also receive a nice boost to your fury. It's important to swap between these attacks so you proc Earthstrikers.
• Lunging strike, if your Deathblow does not get its reset then use this skill in its place.
• Iron Maelstrom, Simply use this when you don't like the look of the enemies currently on the screen.

Supporting Skills

• Iron Skin, this skill is our main Defensive. We gain a powerful damage reduction buff as well as Unstoppable which will break us out of and make us immune to Crowd Control**.
• Ground Stomp A good source of damage reduction,) but more importantly, you can get huge CDR on your ultimate when you use this.

Defenses & Utility

• Armor cap is variable depending on your level, however, a general rule of thumb is that you'll want your physical damage reduction to at least reach 85% in the tooltip (hover over armor in stat sheet) Endgame cap is 9000 armor this is the maximum you'll require.
• Resistances cap at 70% and you'll want to aim to have them all capped, bare in mind that as you move up in world tier you'll receive a handicap to these resistances, so be sure to check the regularly.
• For utility stats, you want to stack as much Cooldown reduction as possible the cap is 75% but it's very unlikely we'll get close to it.
• Movement speed caps at 200%, remember to take into account dynamic sources of movement speed like Berserking or Rallying cry so that you don't over cap.

06/05/24: Updated for season 4