Diablo 4 Barbarian

Diablo 4 Barbarian Skills List

Tier List of the Best Skills to use for the Barbarian Class in Diablo 4. This includes each Basic, Core, Defensive, Brawling, Weapon Mastery, Ultimate, Key Passive Skill and Passives.

Best Barbarian Skills To Use

We rank the Hamstring (Passive), Pit Fighter (Passive), and Unbridled Rage (Passive) as among the Best Barbarian Skills and Passives to use.

Weapon Mastery Passive

Your Bleeding effects Slow enemies by {20% / 40% / 60%} .

Weapon Mastery Passive

You deal x {3% / 6% / 9%} increased damage to Close enemies and gain {2% / 4% / 6%} Distant Damage Reduction.

Key Passive Passive

Core Skills deal x135% increased damage, but cost x100% more Fury.

Challenging Shout

Defensive Active

Taunt Nearby enemies and gain {40% / 42% / 44% / 46% / 48%} Damage Reduction for 6 seconds.

While Challenging Shout is active, gain x20% bonus Maximum Life.

While Challenging Shout is active, gain Thorns equal to 30% of your Maximum Life.

While Challenging Shout is active, you gain 3 Fury each time you take damage.

Defensive Active

Bellow a rallying cry, increasing your Movement Speed by +30% and Resource Generation by x {40% / 44% / 48% / 52% / 56%} for 6 seconds, and Nearby allies for 3 seconds.

Rallying Cry grants you Unstoppable while active.

Rallying Cry grants you 10% Base Life as Fortify. While Rallying Cry is active, you gain an additional 2% Base Life as Fortify each time you take or deal direct damage.

Rallying Cry generates 20 Fury and grants you an additional x20% Resource Generation.

Brawling Active

Bellow a mighty war cry, increasing your damage dealt by x {15% / 16.5% / 18% / 19.5% / 21%} for 6 seconds, and Nearby allies for 3 seconds.

War Cry grants you Berserking for 4 seconds.

War Cry grants you 15% Base Life as Fortify.

If at least 6 enemies are Nearby when you cast War Cry, your damage bonus is increased by an additional x10%.

Wrath of the Berserker

Ultimate Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 40%

Explode into rage, Knocking Back surrounding enemies and gaining Berserking and Unstoppable for 5 seconds. For the next 10 seconds, dealing direct damage with Basic Skills grants Berserking for 5 seconds.

While Wrath of the Berserker is active, gain +20% increased Movement Speed and increase Fury Generation by x30%.

While Wrath of the Berserker is active, every 50 Fury you spend increases Berserk's damage bonus by x25%.

Fury Cost: 25 per second

Lucky Hit Chance: 25%

Rapidly attack surrounding enemies for {17% / 19% / 21% / 23% / 24%} damage.

Gain 1 Fury each time Whirlwind deals direct damage to an enemy, or 4 Fury against Elite enemies.

While using a Slashing weapon, Whirlwind also inflicts 40% of its Base damage as Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

After using Whirlwind for 2 seconds, Whirlwind deals x30% increased damage until it is cancelled.

Aggressive Resistance

Brawling Passive

Gain {4% / 7% / 10%} Damage Reduction while Berserking.

Counteroffensive

Weapon Mastery Passive

While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, you deal x {4% / 8% / 12%} increased damage.

Key Passive Passive

When causing an enemy to Bleed, you have a chance equal to your Critical Strike Chance to increase the Bleed amount by 115% of your Critical Strike Damage bonus.
Overpowering a Bleeding enemy creates an explosion that inflicts 70% Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

Imposing Presence

Defensive Passive

Gain x {5% / 10% / 15%} additional Maximum Life.

Invigorating Fury

Ultimate Passive

Heal for {3% / 6% / 9%} of your Maximum Life for each 100 Fury spent.

Defensive Passive

Damage Reduction against Elites is increased by {3% / 6% / 9%} .

Weapon Mastery Passive

You have + {3% / 6% / 9%} increased Critical Strike Chance against Immobilized, Stunned, or Slowed enemies.

Brawling Passive

While Berserking, Fury Generation is increased by x {6% / 12% / 18%} .

Weapon Mastery Passive

Each time you take direct damage gain {0.4% / 0.8% / 1.2%} Base Life as Fortify.

Walking Arsenal

Key Passive Passive

Dealing direct damage with a Two-Handed Bludgeoning, Two-Handed Slashing, or Dual Wielded weapons grants x10% increased damage for 8 seconds.
While all three damage bonuses are active, you gain an additional x15% increased damage.

Defensive Active

Steel yourself, gaining a Barrier that absorbs {50% / 55% / 60% / 65% / 70%} of your missing Life for 5 seconds.

Iron Skin Barrier absorbs 20% more of your Maximum Life.

Iron Skin also grants 15% Base Life as Fortify. Double this amount if cast while below 50% Life.

While Iron Skin is active, Heal for 10% of the Barrier's original amount as Life per second.

Brawling Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 66%

Cooldown: {17.0 / 16.0 / 15.0 / 14.0 / 13.0}

Leap forward and then slam down, dealing {33% / 36% / 39% / 42% / 46%} damage and Knocking Back surrounding enemies on impact.

If Leap doesn't damage any enemies, its Cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds.

Enemies damaged by Leap are Slowed by 70% for 5 seconds.

If Leap damages at least one enemy, gain 40 Fury.

Call of the Ancients

Ultimate Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 30%

Call upon 3 Ancients to aid you in battle for 6 seconds.

While Call of the Ancients is active, gain +10% bonus Attack Speed and x20% increased damage.

Each of the Ancients gains additional power:

Fury Generate: 4

Lucky Hit Chance: 30%

Requires Dual Wielded Weapons

Unleash a rapid flurry of blows, dealing {22% / 24% / 26% / 28% / 30%} damage with each pair of hits.
If Frenzy hits an enemy, its Attack Speed is increased by +20% for 3 seconds, up to +60%.

While Frenzy is granting +60% bonus Attack Speed, it also generates 3 additional Fury.

While Berserking, your other skills gain +5% Attack Speed for each stack of Frenzy you have.

You gain 8% Damage Reduction each stack of Frenzy you currently have.

Hammer of the Ancients

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Requires a Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon

Slam your hammer down with the fury of the Ancients, dealing {50% / 55% / 60% / 65% / 70%} damage to a concentrated area.

Gain x3% more Fury for 5 seconds for each enemy damaged by Hammer of the Ancients, stacking up to 10 times.

Hammer of the Ancients deals x1% additional damage for each point of Fury you had when using it.

After Overpowering with Hammer of the Ancients, you deal x30% more damage for 5 seconds.

Fury Generate: 12

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Lunge forward and strike an enemy for {33% / 36% / 39% / 42% / 45%} damage.

Lunging Strike deals x30% increased damage and Heals you for 2% Maximum Life when it damages a Healthy enemy.

Lunging Strike also inflicts 20% Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

Critical Strikes with Lunging Strike grant you Berserking for 1.5 seconds.

Brawling Passive

Your Shout Skill effect durations are increased by {8% / 16% / 24%} .

Ultimate Passive

Lucky Hit: Skills using Bludgeoning weapons have up to a {10% / 20% / 30%} chance to Stun enemies for 3 seconds, or up to a {15% / 30% / 45%} chance when using a Two-Handed Bludgeoning weapon.

Cut to the Bone

Weapon Mastery Passive

Your Bleeding effects deal x {5% / 10% / 15%} increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

Basic Skills generate x {5% / 10% / 15%} more Fury when using Two-Handed weapons.

Expose Vulnerability

Weapon Mastery Passive

Dealing direct damage with a Weapon Mastery skill causes your next Core Skill to make enemies Vulnerable for {1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0} second.

Brawling Passive

Your Shout Skills cause enemies to deal {4% / 8% / 12%} less damage for 5 seconds.

Lucky Hit: Your Core skills have up to a {10% / 20% / 30%} chance to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Brawling Passive

Your Shouts also Heal allies for {1% / 2% / 3%} of their Maximum Life per second.

Weapon Mastery Passive

You deal x {8% / 16% / 24%} increased damage against Injured enemies.

Brawling Passive

Movement Speed is increased by + {4% / 8% / 12%} .

Key Passive Passive

Increase Berserk's maximum duration by 5 seconds and increase its damage bonus by +35%.

Brawling Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 33%

Cooldown: {17.0 / 16.0 / 15.0 / 14.0 / 13.0}

Become Unstoppable and rush forward, pushing enemies with you and then swinging through them dealing {25% / 28% / 30% / 32% / 35%} damage and Knocking them back.

Enemies who are Knocked Back into terrain by Charge take 60% damage and are Stunned for 3 seconds.

Damaging enemies with Charge makes them Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Reduce Charge's Cooldown by 3 seconds if it Knocks Back an enemy into terrain.

Weapon Mastery Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Attempt a killing strike, dealing {120% / 132% / 144% / 156% / 168%} damage to enemies in front of you.
If this kills an enemy, its Cooldown is reset.

Death Blow deals x100% increased damage to Bosses.

If Death Blow damages at least one enemy, gain 20 Fury.

If Death Blow damages at least one enemy, gain Berserking for 3 seconds.

Defensive Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 33%

Cooldown: {16.0 / 15.0 / 14.4 / 13.6 / 12.0}

Smash the ground, dealing {10% / 10% / 11% / 12% / 13%} damage and Stunning surrounding enemies for 3 seconds.

Increase Ground Stomp's duration by 1 second.

Reduce the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 1 second for each enemy damaged by Ground Stomp.

Ground Stomp generates 40 Fury.

Weapon Mastery Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Cooldown: {10.0 / 9.5 / 9.0 / 8.5 / 8.0}

Requires a Slashing Weapon.

Skewer enemies in front of you, dealing 13% damage, then rip your weapon out, damaging enemies for their total Bleeding amount and removing all Bleeding damage from them.

Ripping your weapon out of enemies during Rupture causes an explosion that deals 70% Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

Hitting at least 1 enemy with Rupture Heals you for 18% of your Maximum Life.

Hitting enemies with Rupture increases your Attack Speed by +30% for 5 seconds.

Fury Generate: 13

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Requires Bludgeoning Weapon

Bash the enemy with your weapon, dealing {30% / 33% / 36% / 39% / 42%} damage. After bashing enemies 4 times, your next Bash will Stun for 1.25 seconds, this increases to 2 seconds if using a Two-Handed weapon.

Damaging a Stunned enemy with Bash grants you 20% Base Life as Fortify (150% to Bosses). Double this amount when using a Two-Handed weapon.

Damaging a Stunned enemy with Bash generates an additional 3 Fury, or 4 Fury if using a Two-Handed weapon.

After Critically Striking 4 times with Bash using a Two-Handed weapon, your next Core or Weapon Mastery Skill will Overpower.

Lucky Hit Chance: 30%

Requires Dual Wielded weapons

Sweep your weapons from opposite directions, dealing {50% / 54% / 57% / 61% / 64%} damage with each weapon. Enemies caught in the center are damaged by both.

If Double Swing damages a Stunned or Knocked Down enemy, gain 25 Fury.

Casting Double Swing while Berserking grants 2 additional seconds of Berserking.

Hitting an enemy with both hits of Double Swing makes them Vulnerable for 2 second.

Fury Generate: 13

Lucky Hit Chance: 50%

Requires a Slashing weapon

Flay the enemy, dealing {5% / 6% / 6% / 6% / 7%} damage and inflicting {40% / 44% / 47% / 51% / 54%} Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

Flay has a 15% chance to make the enemy Vulnerable for 2 seconds. Double this chance when using a Two-Handed weapon.

When Flay deals direct damage to an enemy, they take x10% increased Bleeding damage from you for the next 3 seconds.

When Flay deals direct damage to an enemy, you gain 3% Damage Reduction and [X] Thorns for 3 seconds. This stacks up to 4 times.

Ultimate Active

Lucky Hit Chance: 24%

Activate three times to attach chains to each of your weapons and perform an attack:

Iron Maelstrom gains +30% increased Critical Strike Chance and deals x40% increased Critical Strike Damage

Dealing direct damage to an enemy after swapping weapons reduces Iron Maelstrom's Cooldown by 1 second.

Lucky Hit Chance: 33%

Requires a Slashing Weapon

Cleave enemies in front of you, dealing {12% / 13% / 14% / 16% / 17%} damage and inflicting {96% / 106% / 115% / 125% / 134%} Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

Dealing direct damage with Rend extends the duration of Vulnerable on enemies by 2 seconds.

Direct damage with Rend grants 4 Fury per enemy hit, up to a maximum of 20 Fury.

Rend deals x12% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

Lucky Hit Chance: 20%

Requires a Two-Handed weapon

Tear into the ground with your weapon and fling debris forward, dealing {70% / 77% / 84% / 91% / 98%} damage.

Upheaval has a 20% chance to Stun all enemies it damages for 2.5 seconds.

Dealing direct damage to an enemy with a Skill that is not Upheaval causes your next cast of Upheaval to deal x5% increased damage, stacking up to 10 times.

If Upheaval damages at least 2 enemies or a boss, you gain Berserking for 2 seconds, increased to 3 seconds if it damages at least 4 enemies.

Weapon Mastery Active

Charge Cooldown: {11.0 / 10.0 / 9.0 / 9.0 / 8.0}

Lucky Hit Chance: 25%

Cooldown: 11 seconds

Thow out a trio of chains that deal {23% / 25% / 28% / 30% / 32%} damage and Pull In enemies.

Steel Grasp also makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

If Steel Grasp damages an enemy, gain Berserking for 2 seconds.

Steel Grasp gains 1 additional Charge.

Brawling Passive

When a Brawling Skill damages at least one enemy, gain Berserking for {1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0} seconds.

Ultimate Passive

Your Overpowers deal x {15% / 30% / 45%} increased damage when using a Two-Handed weapon.

Defensive Stance

Weapon Mastery Passive

Increase the Damage Reduction gained while you are Fortified by an additional + {2% / 4% / 6%} .

Ultimate Passive

Attack Speed is increased by + {3% / 6% / 9%} while using One-Handed weapons.

Furious Impulse

Ultimate Passive

Each time you swap weapons, gain {2.0 / 4.0 / 6.0} Fury.

Ultimate Passive

While using Two-Handed weapons you deal x {5% / 10% / 15%} increased Critical Strike Damage.

Defensive Passive

Gain X Thorns. Also gain 10 Thorns for each 50 bonus Maximum Life you have.

Brawling Passive

Reduce the duration of Control Impairing Effects by {6% / 12% / 18%} .

Ultimate Passive

Increase your Maximum Fury by {3.0 / 6.0 / 9.0} .

Defensive Passive

Increase your Thorns by + {3% / 6% / 9%} . When enemies hit you, they take an additional 10% of your Thorns as Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

Ultimate Passive

Your Skills using Bludgeoning weapons deal x {5% / 10% / 15%} increased damage if the enemy is Stunned or Vulnerable.

Brawling Active

Charge Cooldown: {13.0 / 12.0 / 11.0 / 10.0 / 9.0}

Lucky Hit Chance: 40%

Cooldown: 17 seconds

Throw a powerful kick that deals 18% damage and Knocks Back enemies in front of you. Enemies who are Knocked Back into terrain take an additional 70% damage and are Stunned for 3 seconds.

Damaging enemies with Kick makes them Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Kicked enemies deal 54% damage to enemies they collide with while being Knocked Back. Enemies damaged this way are Knocked Down for 2 seconds.

If Kick damages an enemy, it consumes all of your Fury and deals an additional 20% damage per 10 Fury spent. Kick no longer Knocks Back enemies.

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