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Diablo 4 Season 9’s Barbarian is perhaps the biggest unlucky guy this season. He has been greatly weakened and is far less powerful than before in terms of damage. But this is nothing for players who love Barbarian, because they will always explore the potential of Barbarian.

Lunging Strike Barbarian is the best Barbarian build so far. It performs well in farming gold, monsters, bosses and The Pit, and the key is that it is fun enough.

Pros And Cons

Lunging Strike Barbarian is a build that relies on Season 9 Barbarian unique equipment, Hooves of the Mountain God, because this unique item can mostly increase the damage of basic attacks. Therefore, its biggest disadvantage is that it relies on Diablo 4 items to run.

And when this build can run smoothly, you can feel that this build is not only tank enough but also has a fast attack speed and high damage, which can take you to smoothly destroy all enemies from Torment 1 to Torment 4.

Lunging Strike Barbarian Skills

• Lunging Strike Rank 5: Enhanced Lunging Strike and Battle Lunging Strike
• Ground Stomp Rank 1: Enhanced Ground Stomp and Strategic Ground Stomp
• Wrath of The Berseker Rank 5: Prime Wrath of The Berseker and Supreme Wrath of The Berseker
• War Car Rank 1: Enhanced War Car and Power War Car
• Challenge Shout Rank 1: Enhanced Challenge Shout
• Rallying Cry Rank 1: Enhanced and Strategic Ground Stomp
• Technique: 2-Hand Axe

Lunging Strike is the core of this build as a basic skill and the main damage output skill of this build.

The order of skill release is:

• 1. Wrath of The Berseker
• 2. War Car, Challenge Shout and Rallying Cry
• 3. Lunging Strike (continuous use)
• 4. Ground Stomp (resets Wrath of The Berseker)

In short, you need to use some skills to increase damage and defense before using Lunging Strike, Lunging Strike can trigger the damage increase provided by Hooves of the Mountain God, and finally use Ground Stomp to reset other skills when your rage is insufficient. When releasing this set of skills, you need to be careful not to let your fury reach zero.

Lunging Strike Barbarian Gear

Legendary Lunging Strike Barbarian Gear

• Helm: Wildbolt Aspect
• Chest Armor: Aspect of Might (Ruby)
• Gloves: Edgemaster’s Aspect
• Pants: Undying Aspect
• Boots: Hectic Aspect
• Amulet: Aspect of Adaptability (Idol From Below)
• Ring 1: Vehement Brawler’s Aspect (Myriad Stone)
• Ring 2: Rapid Aspect (Willbreaker)
• Bludgeoning Weapon: Aspect of the Moonrise
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Aspect of Anger Management (Moni + Xan)
• Slashing Weapon: Aspect of Earthquakes
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Exploiter’s Aspect (Cir + Ceh)

Unique Lunging Strike Barbarian Gear

• Helm: Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty
• Chest Armor: Rage of Harrogath (Ruby)
• Gloves: Paingorger’s Gauntlets
• Pants: Tibault’s Will
• Boots: Hooves of the Mountain God
• Amulet: Aspect of Adaptability (Idol From Below)
• Ring 1: Aspect of Inner Calm (Myriad Stone)
• Ring 2: Ring of Red Furor (Willbreaker)
• Bludgeoning Weapon: Aspect of the Moonrise
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Shard of Verathiel
• Slashing Weapon: Aspect of Earthquakes
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus

Mythic Lunging Strike Barbarian Gear

• Helm: Crown of Lucion
• Chest Armor: Rage of Harrogath (Ruby)
• Gloves: Paingorger’s Gauntlets
• Pants: Tibault’s Will
• Boots: Hooves of the Mountain God
• Amulet: Aspect of Adaptability (Idol From Below)
• Ring 1: Aspect of Earthquakes (Myriad Stone)
• Ring 2: Ring of Starless Skies (Willbreaker)
• Bludgeoning Weapon: Aspect of the Moonrise
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Shard of Verathiel
• Slashing Weapon: The Grandfather
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus

Gear is the core of this build, and you can switch it up based on what you have. Better gear will give you more damage. You need to make sure your gear reaches the upper limit of 1,000 armor and the resistance of each element is 75%. Also, try to reduce the CD time of Wrath of The Berseker.

The Diablo 4 Runes equipped on the weapon can be adjusted as needed. Recommended rune combinations are:

• Moni and Xan
• Ahu and Xan
• Cir and Ceh
• Cir and Thul
• Ahu and Thul

Glyph Leveling Priorities

At different levels, it is recommended that you use the following glyphs as farming targets. After you reach the maximum level, you should farm The Pit as soon as possible to upgrade the glyphs.

Level 15

• Ambidextrous
• Wrath
• Challenger
• Revenge
• Marshal

Level 46

• Revenge
• Wrath
• Marshal
• Ambidextrous
• Challenger

Horadric Spells (Wrath Of The Berserker)

Catalyst: Disintegrate

Infusion: Nebulous Extract

Arcana:

• Reactive Ooze: Improves resource acquisition
• Bloody Charm: Executes enemies
• Fractured Core: Disables enemy resistance auras

Disintegrate can help Barbarian gather monsters and improve your farming efficiency. The choice of Infusion is not that important. Nebulous Extract can make the damage of the enemy you hit become 90% of the original, which is equivalent to providing you with 10% damage reduction. Arcana are some classic choices, and their main function is to let you farm faster.

The above is some basic information about Lunging Strike Barbarian build. It can successfully reach level 100 The Pit and its damage is the highest among all barbarian builds, and this build is also very tank, so you can also play it in hardcore mode.

Diablo 4 Season 9 is a good choice for new players, as the season lasts longer, the Sorcerer and Necromancer, two of the most popular classes for new players, are both very powerful, and the season power is more interesting than Season 8.

Here are some useful quality of life tips for new players, some of which may not be noticed by veteran players, and they can improve your game experience in various aspects.

No.1 Infinite Sprint

Mounts are a very important part of Diablo 4, and with them you can travel faster. No player should want to experience the feeling of running slowly on two legs in a vast map, and when you unlock a mount, everything becomes much faster.

But the developer has some quirks, which he likes to add cooldowns to everything, even the player’s horse. Mounting, horse sprinting, and dismounting attacks all have cooldowns, which greatly affects the game experience.

In fact, the cooldown reduction affixes on your equipment are also very effective for these parts. You can use some Diablo 4 gold to re-roll the affixes on your equipment here at Occultist to get the CD reduction effect. Then you can sprint infinitely because its CD time is less than its sprint time.

No.2 Change Gems And Runes

Gems and runes in Diablo 4 are very important. Gems can provide precious resistance and attributes. In Endgame, stacking resistance to the upper limit is a basic requirement for most builds. Otherwise, you will be defeated by monsters easily at high difficulty. Attributes determine how much damage you can do. The attributes required for each class are as follows:

• Druid: Willpower
• Necromancer: Intelligence
• Rouge: Dexterity
• Spiritborn: Dexterity
• Sorcerer: Intelligence
• Barbarian: Strength

Some players will go to the jeweler to inlay and replace their gems, but in fact you don’t need to go that far. You can drag your gems to your equipment at any time in the equipment interface, which will directly replace them without additional gold. You can also directly replace Diablo 4 runes on your equipment in this way.

No.3 Improve Experience Gain

At the beginning of Season 9, you may have heard that other players have reached the maximum level in one day, while you were still doing the main quest. How did they level up so quickly? Many players may have this question because when they reach level 55, the leveling speed will become very slow.

The game provides players with many ways to level up quickly:

• 1. EXP Elixir and Incense
• 2. Team up to get EXP bonus
• 3. Nightmare Dungeon and Hadetile

Use these three methods together, and your leveling speed will become very fast. Don’t stop using Elixir and Incense during your leveling up. They can provide you with about 10% bonus, but note that the duration of Incense is 10 minutes shorter than Elixir. Teaming up with other players can allow you to get another 10% experience bonus.

In previous seasons, farming Nightmare Dungeons and Helltide can give you a lot of experience. If you go to Forgotten Wisdom Nightmare Dungeon, you will also get an additional 15% XP bonus. With these experience stacking bonuses, the time you reach the maximum level will be greatly shortened.

No.4 Finding Materials

There are many materials in Diablo 4, such as gem fragments, nest boss materials, materials for making elixirs, etc. All this junk fills up your backpack, but there are always some Diablo 4 materials that you don’t have when you need them.

At this time, you can hover your mouse over the material you need, and you can see how to farm it. Another way is to search for the material you need in the materials tab, and then see how to get it in the same way.

No. 5 Armory

Each class has many builds. When you come to the endgame, you may want to try other builds. Then you can try to use the armory to save your existing builds. You can keep up to 5 different builds. You can quickly switch your skills, weapons and glyphs, and you don’t need to use Diablo 4 gold to reset skills. But some parts require you to adjust manually, such as equipment gems, seasonal content, etc.

No.7 Boss Teleport

If you have challenged a boss once, you can see the icon of the boss on the map. If you plan to challenge it again, you don’t need to navigate to this area and run it again. You can click its icon and teleport directly to it. If this is a lair boss, you can also see if you have enough materials when you click on the icon, without having to check your backpack.

The above are some simple tips about quality of life in Diablo 4 season 9. Although they will not improve your strength, they can save you time. Although the developers have been adding some features to optimize the quality of life in each update, I don’t know when they will add the most important feature, the loot filter.

Dear Diablo 4 fans, at the beginning of the new season, I believe you are all in a state of gold shortage, so there is no doubt that farming gold has become the goal of almost every player in the early stage of the game, after all, it determines how we perform in the endgame.

But if you want to farm enough gold, it would be bad if you only know how to farm gold itself. I mean, you have to know that completing tasks, opening Whisper Caches, and killing bosses and monster groups can indeed bring you some benefits, but in the end it is very limited.

So how can we improve the efficiency of farming Diablo 4 gold? In fact, you can farm some high-value items, especially Uniques and Mythic Uniques, and then sell them in exchange for gold, which is much more cost-effective than simply farming gold. After all, there is too much demand for these Unique items, and you can easily sell them at a high price!

Next, here we go, let’s talk about what I think is the best way to earn gold in Diablo 4 Season 8 at the moment.

Farm Runes And Sell Them

As I mentioned before, we won’t be farming gold directly, but something else, and that’s Runes. These Runes are slottable items that can be used both to enhance equipment and as a currency to craft specific Mythic Unique items.

So what we have to do is farm Runes and then sell them on external sites for money, so that we can accumulate a large number of D4 gold coins. In order to do this, we need to get a lot of Rare or Magic runes.

Use Tribute To Increase Rune Drop Rate

In order to increase the chance of getting runes, we need to collect Tribute of Harmony. Tribute is a valuable resource in Diablo 4 that not only unlocks powerful Legendary Aspects for equipment, but also improves the rewards of dungeons, making our returns more lucrative. We can sacrifice Tribute to Undercity Spirit Brazier to have the final boss of the dungeon drop runes for us. So if you have a lot of Tribute of Harmony, you can use them in Kurast Undercity to get a lot of Rare or Magic runes.

By the way, while there is currently no foolproof way to farm Tribute, here are some effective strategies to increase the chance of Tribute drops:

• Defeat Torment Boss: After defeating these bosses, you can not only get Tributes, but also get key materials to unlock other boss drop chests, Lair Boss Keys, forming a virtuous circle.
• Challenge Nightmare Dungeons and Infernal Hordes: These activities not only get Tributes, but also provide other valuable rewards, such as Masterworking Materials.
• Explore the Sanctuary: Although the drop of Tributes brought by this is completely random, increasing your game time and exploring different areas can increase your chances of finding it.

Defeat Lair Boss

Back to the topic, in addition to farming Kurast Undercity, Lair Boss will also drop a lot of Rare or Magic quality runes, and they are guaranteed to drop. It shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to defeat a boss, and once you’ve learned all of their moves, beating them becomes very easy.

Completing Apparition Incursions

Apparition Incursions are the seasonal boss challenge events added in Season 8, introducing new bosses and boss powers. And Incursions are similar to Legion events, they greatly increase the density of monsters in a specific area and rotate continuously, so here you can not only get runes, but also earn a lot of money by killing monsters.

Transmutation Runes

Now here comes the trick. When you have accumulated a lot of Rare or Magic quality runes, you can go to the Alchemist and transmute them. Transmutation is very useful because by transmuting three identical Rare runes, there is an 85% chance of creating a new Rare rune, but the most important thing is that this process has a 15% chance of giving you a random Legendary rune. This is what we want.

Thus, you can use up all your Rare runes and transmute them. If you repeat this process enough times, you will get a lot of Legendary runes. Don’t underestimate this 15% conversion rate, little by little it adds up to a lot!

Similarly, you can transmute your Magic runes. This conversion has a 15% chance of giving you a Rare rune. So hopefully after all these conversions, you’ve managed to find some Legendary runes.

Price And Sell Them

If you’re really lucky, you might find some runes worth hundreds of millions of gold. Now you just need to sell them.

You can sell your runes by advertising them in some chat rooms. But we recommend that you don’t just sell them randomly, it will only waste your efforts. You can check the approximate price of your runes before selling them, so that you can sell them as soon as possible without losing too much money. Of course, if you want to sell the runes immediately, you can lower the price slightly, I’m sure many players who need them will contact you!

So far, I’ve sold my own runes this way and made hundreds of millions of gold. Of course, you can also make more gold by selling other Greater Affix items, it’s up to you. But if you just want to have fun, I recommend not doing this, because they tend to be very important in the late game. If you may need to spend more money to exchange them later, it is obviously not worth it.

For these reasons, I think runes are the most expensive and easiest to sell consumables in Diablo 4, and you can earn endless gold by constantly farming runes and selling them. That’s it, I believe this is currently the best way to earn gold in Diablo 4 Season 8. Try it out and let us know if you succeed! See you next time!