Barbarian Builds

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Honestly, things will die so fast you won’t need much more. Leap into battle pulling mobs towards you, cleave them all in a sweep and whirlwind the rest into disaster. For those left, send them to oblivion with critical hits and sheer overpowering force. All while gaining lifesteal.

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I build for maximum damage mitigation while still being able to dish out large amounts of damage.

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This build is meant to played as a tanky disruptor on a competitive team. Plenty of stuns and slows to keep the enemy team occupied while your nuke finishes them off.

Use the stuns and spears to keep them inside of your earthquake for an easy kill.

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Balanced for momentum and mobs. Runes on War Cry + Frenzy + Revenge gives some health regen/bonuses. Frenzy and Whirlwind (at movement speed) through packs to get Fury up. Passives increase criticals and decrease control impairing effects – Unforgiving ensures you never run out of Fury!

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Improved Version of Berserker receives more fury through more critical dmg. Passive heals through shouts.

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I’ve noticed a lot of builds with WAY too many damage abilities. This build has you proc lots of health regen, so you can easily tank and stay alive to let your ranged dps hammer away. Rotation: WC then BR just before engaging, always keep 6 second heal from frenz up, TS when needed, WW at full rage

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Built for survival

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All skills builds fury, Ground Stomp and Leap Atack for crowd control and better movimentation. Earthquake for a better field against tougher enemys. Keep the fury always full is the key.

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+45% Crit chance with maces/axes and all abilities active. All abilities focused on crit and AoE synergy. Leap pulls enemies together, revenge and overpower increase crit chance, whirlwind restores massive life.

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This build utilizes the barbarians skills of war cry to raise resistances and armor and revenge to regenerate health to add survivability in case of being attacked but focuses on the use of skills to keep the mass of enemies stunned while he can wack away at helpless enemies with cleave and HOTA.

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I build for survival ability, damage and to be fast at the mobs.

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regen, item drop, and lots of AOE damage. Hopefully the build links correctly the other 3 that i submitted glitched out and the skills got changed.

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Massive amounts of AOE and single target damage.

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This Build is Made to maxamize the barbarians magic finding skills while generating an insane amout of fury in the quickest time possible. With Wrath of the Berserker and the Thrive on Chaos Rune and selected skills with a Mighty Weapon you will gain 12+ Fury per Hit. Extending Berserker Greatly.

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Pull enemies close with leap/stomp, earthquake and shout then cleave away. If that gets too hairy leap away or spam slam to make room and stun your way to freedom.

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I saw Gerganon’s spec and I liked where he went with it, stun-lock Barb….mmmmm…delicious. So I tweaked it a bit to allow for a little health regen and extra mobility. Check his out after mine, it’s also very good.

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This build utilizes Revenge in tandem with Overpower. Currently the Skill Calculator does not have Elective Mode, so I was unable to list Overpower and Revenge as the left and right click mouse buttons. But they are the primary attacks of this build.

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Doing max Dps while staying at max Fury,
Using Hammre of the Ancients only for finishing of enemies.
Having Heal Rune on Overpower for some heal at least.

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pvp

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War cry up, Leap in (with stun), earthquake (no fury cost) , stomp (30 fury boost), Fury is up to atleast 105, Spam Hammer (with stun per kill),
Frenzy away whatever is left (8% life boost per kill).

Passives: Brawler, superstition, and Animosity.
For damage boost, ranged defense, fury support

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Good def… Good Dmg…. Good build!!

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stun=safe

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1/ Get mad
2/ Get buffed
3/ Get in close
4/ Wreak havoc

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A 100% anti-caster build with heavy focus on snares and single target DPS.

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Use with mace or axe, suitable as defensive build. Just a fast Warcry and Battle Rage at start of the battle, then use Revenge and Berserker when available, you have a Wirlwind that generate 15 fury and 1% life on crit.

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Max critical hit chance.

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1 – Use furious charge with additional fury rune – to generate the most fury you can.
2 – Buff with Battle Rage as soon as you charged – to have (chance..) 15 fury on crit .
3 – Choose a primary fury generator, frenzy bash cleave, what you like most.
4 – Use Revenge when active – to have addition

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1h mace + Shield

Use Hammer of the Ancients with Birthright and Threatening Shout with Grim Harvest to maximize Magic finding.

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Focused on Support for Allies & Call of the Ancients. As well as cleaving support.

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Cleaving, Smashing, Criticals, High Damage, & Berserker’s Wrath.

It’s what the name is.
INCREDIBLE HULK.

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High Attack Speed, High Movement Speed, AOE STUN, CRITS, DAMAGE. (made this one like a Dota Hero.)

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Mostly an AoE build which generates a lot of health to keep you up close and personal for longer to deal more damage. Relies on guaranteed damage and not crits. SURVIVABILITY*

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Build just for boss fight. Start with Warth, to make sure, boss hates you most.
Shouts can replaced with threatening.
Depends on boss’s attack(Phy/Magic), passive and war cry are different.
If the boss is fast attack speed, and imm stun, the Revenge with Provocation will be better.

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Most for crits

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Build con more crit% and good speed attack

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This is a pvm build, should keep you safe with high res and life steal. You could use seismic slam instead of ww.

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Designed for soloing mass amounts of mobs.

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1. keep war cry and battle rage up
2. run to strongest mob
3. taunt if mob(s) are not attacking you
4. revenge if active
5. Overpower if of cooldown!
6. all above doesn’t aply? spam frenzy.

rince and repeat in that order ;)

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Massive AOE, Cleaves & Destruction, Damage, Crits, While generating Fury, As well as durability for his Berserk Wrath skill.

Incredible Hulk.

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Use frenzy as your auto attack to build fury along with ground stomp to stun while you whirlwind through them and seismic slam. Made for PVE, large amounts of AOE dmg.

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Mostly AOE abilities, leap for mobility.
With the little knowledge i have, i made a build which at least sounds logical to me.
Leap pulls mobs, ground stomp to stun and pull the rest, earthquake or revenge if i need health and follow with ww, which also leech health on crit.

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The Goal of this build is only to go berserk almost all the time. Therefore this build creates a lot of fury with critical dmg.

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ground stomp is used to stun all opponents around you therefore stoping them from causing damage to you barbarian. Use rend every 4-6 seconds to weaken your opponents with bleeding, this way you can pick them out with rend.

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This build is mainly focused on farming for gear and gold. It is designed to do maximum damage to large groups of mobs. I will be rolling a build similar to this as my first then tweeking from there. The spec will also be tweeked depending on difficulty level.

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kill mobs asap

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Considering all skills this set is best for rushing through hordes of monsters with ease without loosing means to survival.

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Built for survival

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Focuses: AOE, DMG % Increase, Crit, Lifesteal.
Designed for clearing through large mob packs but still viable for single target fights.

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Leap in Battle Rage, Wrath, Overpower, Bash it Final Hammer of the Ancient all is increased damage… might one shot? haha

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Keep enemies stunned all times whilst you apply the burn

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Frenzy to AoE bash followed by AoE spells

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AOE, Single target damage, protection, and regenaration. Spam hammer for CC, use overpower to aoe and regenerate, and use ignore pain and wrath for tough groups. the top build on this site has a problem, because of Valor system u cant change skills and use war cry and battle rage always, so no use.

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my most of the attribute points i take to the life, i cry with the 3 shouts and after with ground stomp,ancient spear and threatening shout i stun,slow enemies and pull bak enemies to myself to attack me so the other players can attack freely.Doubled duration shouts, 85%damage reducation,life regene

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I am more of the PVE Builder I like to make builds that can survive waves of monsters, in this build I have made the Barbarian reliant on hitting the enemy to survive, sustain damage with the reduce of certain cool downs, and uses either two one handed Mighty weapons or a single two handed Mighty.

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Taunt enemies and reflect damage.

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Tank build with crowd controls and party perks : grabing, slowing, tanking .

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I haven’t had the privileged opportunity to play in BETA but here is a build I think would be fun to play around with, it relies on procs and crits for massive bursts of damage.

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Pull enemies in with Ground Stomp and Leap Attack, then demolish them with a combination of Cleave, Rend, and Earthquake. Battle Rage and Brawler have the potential to increase damage by 60%.

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If enemies are attacking other players, you’re not doing your job. Leap Attack and Ancient Spear put you where the enemies are, Cleave quickly gives you fury, Threatening Shout makes enemies attack you, and everything else keeps you alive.

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Cleave has a wide arc and can hit more than one enemy, with Rupture it’s makes enemies killed by it explode.Leap Attack covers distance and Ground Stomp gives damage, both are your chances to stun.Inspiring Presence doubles the 3 shouts duration so they can be up 100% of the time.

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aoe large grps of adds

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bored bout pve?try this

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Just a fun way to play barbarian and you don’t even need max level!

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this is an improved version of my (stun and gun) barbarian! I have changed him to focus on dealing as much damage as you can while your opponents are stunned. You can deal a MAX of 33K damage while your opponents are stunned (with the best weapons). perfect for groups!

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Mass Amounts of damage!

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Focusing on having Wotb Last as long as possible and getting bonus from having high fury (berserker rage)

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A variant of the “Tank” build with more damage but no 1% regen per 60 secs.

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In many games I run in headfirst without a thought which is why the Barbarian suits me, only to realize that was the worst idea ever. At this point I panic and hit every button i can hoping to escape with my life or if i realize the end is nigh upon me, do as much damage as i possibly can.

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Lots of life steal and health regen. This guy would be tough to kill.

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Maximizes on all “additional damage” increases to send Weapon Throw’s potential through the roof.

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Guess @ Inferno for FUN if it is as hard as they say. Huge D, DR and Leech
First WotB for 60% dodge + more. Leap in for extra 300% Def and cast Ignore for 65% DR with Leech. Now you can Rend for extra Leech and damage and spam cleave and seismic until buffs gone and repeat. Needs DPS and Summon sup

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The purpose of this build is to maintain WotB via its rune, by gaining Fury on critical hits with the help of Battle Rage and other skills which synergize well.

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