News Tag: Diablo 4 Upheaval Barbarian Build

The return of Belial and his Apparition corps in Diablo 4 Season 8 has brought a new shadow to the world of Sanctuary. These bosses are not only key to your continued seasonal journey, but also tied to the loot you can get in the new season, so completing a strong early build as soon as you enter Season 8 will definitely allow you to get ahead of others and enjoy the new season journey better!

Here, we will launch a strong season starting build for Barbarian players. This build not only has quite high single damage, but also has quite good survivability, which can help you enter the endgame faster. This is Upheaval Barbarian Build.

Skill Rotation

The main skills of this build are Lunging Strike and Upheaval. So we use Lunging Strike as a generator because it allows us to get close to the target more easily, and then use Bash to get Fortify effect and output damage. Upheaval is the core of this build, it is a ranged attack that causes a huge range attack in a frontal cone. Once we have 10 stacks of Upheaval, we will be able to attack enemies in a large area with a fairly high Fury cost. This is how this build works.

After that, you can continue to upgrade on the basis of level 23, so that you will be 100% capable of dealing with any challenge in Diablo 4, because then you will get the key passive skill.

For the remaining two skill slots, if you want higher mobility, you can use Charge, but if you want stronger fury and more damage, you can use Wrath of the Berserker.

Because we mainly use basic skills and Upheaval, Wrath of the Berserker will be very useful, allowing us to get fury and unstoppable effects for a short time.

Of course, Call of the Ancients is also a good choice, especially when Call of the Ancients pops up when opening a treasure chest to ensure that we can get the loot in time. You can also choose War Cry, Steel Grasp to close the distance to the enemy, or Mighty Throw, which also gains a buff. But how you want to play the rest of this build is completely up to you, and the above is just the basic framework to make this build work.

Legendary Aspects

There are 7 Legendary Aspects required for this build, all of which can be obtained by completing dungeons.

• Aspect of Might
• Aspect of Numbing Wrath
• Earthstriker’s Aspect
• Aspect of Inner Calm
• Aspect of the Expectant
• Edgemaster’s Aspect
• Rapid Aspect

And there are no mandatory unique items to complete this build, and you don’t have to wait for any specific Aspect to drop, which means that even if you start the game at level 1 and don’t have a lot of Diablo 4 Gold budget, you can complete this build without any pressure.

Skill Tree

If you have played this build before, you will have 12 skill points starting at level 1. You will then need to put 2 skill points into Bash and 3 skill points into Lunge Strike to get Battle Lunge Strike. You will then need to put 7 skill points into Upheaval to get Furious Upheaval.

After that, you have two choices. You can either max out Swiftness or Belligerence first, after which you will switch back and forth between launching Bash and Lunge Strike and upgrade both skills all the way to level 5.

Next, you will need to upgrade Pit Fighter and Slaying Strike. For the remaining 2 skill points, we put 1 skill point into Rallying Cry. If you are crowd controlled too much after that, take 1 skill point from the Belligerence skill to get Enhanced Rallying Cry. Finally, once you have Walking Arsenal key passive skill, go for it.

Arsenal System

Arsenal System is a unique mechanic for Barbarian Class in Diablo 4, which allows Barbarian to assign specific equipment to each attack skill and provide additional bonuses. Therefore, you need to choose the right skills to maximize the potential of this build. First, you need to make sure you use Lunging Strike when dual wielding, then use Upheaval when slashing with two hands, and Bash when bludgeoning with two hands, which will ensure that we always get all three bonuses of Walking Arsenal passive.

How To Level Quickly?

To reach the level cap quickly, the three activities you should first do are: Nightmare Dungeons to get our Legendary Aspects, Helltide, and Apparition Incursions.

When you reach level 1, the first thing you have to do is Apparition Incursions, and you have to do it all the time until you get Allek’s Talons Boss Power, which will increase the damage of our basic skills. That’s why you need to use Bash Cleave at this time, so that you can kill all the enemies in front of you with Bash, and then use Upheaval to clear the screen. This is the main game loop of this season’s starting build after you reach level 23.

Gear Stats

For the equipment stats of this build, you need strength and maximum life the most. If your weapon is really legendary, the third stat should be damage percentage.

You can still choose strength, max life or attack speed on rings, and you can choose strength percentage in amulets. But I don’t recommend it because you really only need damage, movement speed or attack speed.

That’s the gameplay of this Upheaval Barbarian build in Season 8, it’s very fun and easy to play. Whether it’s challenging bosses in the early stages or achieving fast upgrades, it can help you achieve it. In any case, the choice is yours. Looking forward to seeing you in the game!

In Diablo 4’s first expansion, Vessel Of Hatred, Upheaval has been properly adjusted to become one of the best core skills for Barbarian Class, making Upheaval Barbarian build the choice of many players who like powerful attacks, whether single-target or multi-target.

In Upheaval Barbarian build, you can not only cleverly combine the two most important abilities in the build, giving it huge damage potential and excellent survivability, but also combine multiple skills such as Combat Bash and Furious Upheaval to give it a powerful ability to suppress enemies.

It sounds attractive, doesn’t it? If you want to make the most of the best Upheaval Barbarian build in Diablo 4 DLC, you might as well read the following guide first, where you will pick out the skills and other gear that best suit your character.

Skills

At the level 60 cap and grinding renown added by Vessel Of Hatred DLC, you should have a total of 72 Skill Points to assign. Below are our recommendations for the best allocations, which you can change accordingly depending on your play style.

Active Skills

• Bash: 1
• Upheaval: 5
• Rallying Cry: 1
• Challenging Shout: 1
• War Cry: 1
• Call Of The Ancients: 5

Passive Skills

• Warpath: 3
• Pressure Point: 1
• Endless Fury: 2
• Martial Vigour: 3
• Imposing Presence: 3
• Belligerence: 3
• Raid Leader: 3
• Booming Voice: 3
• Guttural Voice: 1
• Aggressive Resistance: 3
• Prolific Fury: 1
• Pit Fighter: 3
• Slaying Strike: 3
• Thick Skin: 1
• Counteroffensive: 3
• Heavy Handed: 3
• Brute Force: 3
• Wallop: 3
• Key Passive: Unbridled Rage

Skill Rotation

Now that we know how all the skill points are allocated, let’s take a look at how you can use these active skills in real exploration. First, when you face a skirmish, you can cast three shout skills (Challenging Shout, Rallying Cry, and War Cry) to give yourself a series of offensive and defensive buffs.

This is very easy to do if you have Diablo 4 Items such as Bold Chieftain’s Aspect and Rakanoth’s Wake in your build, as they can greatly reduce the cooldown of your skills.

Then you can use Bash to generate fury, preferably ten times in a row, so that you will have a 120% damage increase, which will also give you an absolute suppression effect when casting the core skill, Upheaval. At this time, the key passive skill, Unbridled Rage will also start to work, consuming a lot of fury while causing more damage to the enemy.

In some low- to mid-level encounters, the above skills are enough for you to clear most of the enemies you face, and you can easily pick up Diablo 4 Gold and loot they drop. But if you encounter a more difficult encounter, you can use Call of the Ancients. Although it does not cause very much damage to the enemy when it is cast, the passive buff it provides you when it is activated can make you have a very high clearing efficiency at some critical moments.

Legendary Aspects

Among most of the items in Upheaval Barbarian Build, the most important and useful ones are Legendary Aspects that can provide various benefits. The following are Legendary Aspects we recommend for you to use and their effects. You can also adjust them accordingly according to your game style.

• Edgemaster’s Aspect: The skill deals up to 5% - 25% increased damage based on available primary resources at the time of activation, with the greatest effect occurring when primary resources are full.
• Accelerating Aspect: Critical attacks from core skills increase your attack speed by 10%-30% for 5 seconds.
• Aspect of Anger Management: When your Fury exceeds 55–40 you will enter Berserk mode, but your Fury will decrease by 2 every second.
• Bold Chieftain’s Aspect: Whenever you cast a shout skill, for every enemy near you within 6 seconds, the cooldown of this skill will be reduced by 10%-30%.
• Aspect of Limitless Rage: For each Fury Point you generate while Fury is at max, the damage of the following core skills increases by 1-3%，increases up to 15 times.

Mercenary

A new Mercenary mechanic has been added to Diablo 4 DLC, where you can choose two of four different Mercenaries to combine to help you explore. For Upheaval Barbarian Build, you can choose Raheir and Varyana. This combination not only provides you with some extra defensive capabilities but also allows enemies to be easily attracted to them.

Raheir’s skills such as Valiance and Bastion make it highly survivable and become your most solid protection. In addition, these skills can also provide you with Unstoppable in some emergency situations. But it is not just a tank attribute. Its Ground Slam skill can also provide you with some additional attack buffs to increase its practicality.

For Varyana, if you combine your Bash skill with its Ancient Harpoons, it is a very good Reinforcement Mercenary. This skill will allow you to attract enemies before using the three Shout skills effectively, so that you have enough time to adjust your own state, such as using tonics to increase your health. Most importantly, Varyana can effectively shorten the cooldown of all your skills, allowing you to attack the enemy continuously.

The above are some detailed information about skills, Legendary Aspects and Mercenary in the very popular Upheaval Barbarian Build in Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred DLC. I hope this guide can help you with your exploration. If you get stuck and need some Gold or Items during your exploration, you can participate in the regular lucky draws in IGGM Discord, which may make your exploration easier. I wish you a happy game!