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Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build and best skillsDiscover how to create the best Bleed Barbarian build in Diablo 4
Discover how to create the best Bleed Barbarian build in Diablo 4
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In this guide, we break down how to make the best Bleed Barbarian build inDiablo 4, covering the Skills, Technique, Aspects, Stats, Gems, and Malignant Hearts that you’ll need. This guide is current as of Patch 1.1.0, but we’ll continue to add and change bits as future updates arrive.
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Best Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build
Bleed is an incredibly strong status effect in Diablo 4, inflicting huge damage over time on your enemies. We’ve capitalised on that power with this Bleed Barbarian build, which allows us to deal huge damage to single targets to melt Elites and Bosses with ease.
Best Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build skills
Below, you’ll find a full list of all skills that you should get for our Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build, in order:
Lunging Strike
Lunging Strikeis your basic skill and Fury Generator for our Bleed Barbarian build, but it’s also surprisingly mobile thanks to the titular lunge that lets you move quickly around a pack of enemies.
Rend
Rallying Cry
Rallying Cryis one of your main Shouts on this Bleed Barbarian build, offering massive 30% Movement Speed and 56% Resource Generation boosts for six seconds. Enhanced Rallying Cry is absolutely key, though, offering the Unstoppable effect that allows you to break free of any Crowd Control effects on your character.
For the final upgrade, we opted for Tactical Rallying Cry for the increased Fury Generation, which is highly important for making any Barbarian build feel consistent in higher-level content.
War Cry
Charge
Chargeis a strong opener for combat, launching your Barbarian into a crowd of enemies and dealing damage to anything in your path.
Wrath of the Berserker
With the upgrades, you’ll also get extra Movement Speed, Fury Generation, and damage while Wrath of the Berserker is active. It’s an excellent Ultimate to use when you’re getting overwhelmed, giving you plenty of significant buffs that can change the tide of a tough fight.
If you’re unsure how to use these skills effectively, follow the attack pattern below:
Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build: Best Technique
The Barbarian has access to a unique class mechanic called Weapon Expertise, which allows you to gain experience with various weapon types and unlock passive bonuses that affect weapons of that type. However, Barbarians can also select a Technique, which allows you to take one of these passives and apply it to all weapons, regardless of their type.
Below, you’ll find the best Weapon Technique for our Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build:
This makes all of your attack skills inflict Bleed damage, allowing you to spread the effect even more and get the most out of Bleed effects from passives such as Hamstring and Cut to the Bone, and any Gear Aspects and Affixes that synergise with bleed damage.
Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build: Best Aspects
Below, you’ll find the Aspects that we’d recommend using for this Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build:
Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build: Best Stats
Gear also has randomly-rolled stats, known as Affixes, that grant passive bonuses. It’s important to hunt for Gear with Affixes that complement your build, so that you can make the most of core synergies that boost your damage.
Below, you’ll find the Affixes that you should hunt for with this Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build:
While we wouldn’t recommend doing so until later levels, when your equipped Gear has more longevity, you can head to the Occultist to reroll Affixes. It’s worth noting, though, that this becomes very expensive after your first reroll. You’ll also need to use Fiend Roses, which are a rare resource that you can only gather in Helltides, which unlock on World Tier 3 and 4.
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Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build: Best Gems
Gear in Diablo 4 often has Gem Sockets, into which you can put Gems for more passive bonuses that act similarly to Affixes. Each Gem has three potential bonuses, and the one you get depends on the type of Gear into which you insert it.
In Weapons, you should useAmethyststo boost your damage over time effects. This will directly increase the damage you deal with Bleeding, which is a clear winner for this Bleed Barbarian build.
In Armor, we’d recommend usingRubiesto increase your maximum Life. Barbarians are notoriously tanky, but extra Life will drastically improve your survivability on World Tier 3 and 4 content.
With increased Life, don’t forget toupgrade your Healing Potionsso that you can quickly boost back up to full health during combat. Of course, you might need to gather rare materials, such asCrushed Beast Bones,Grave Dust, andPaletongue, before you can purchase these upgrades.
For Jewelry, you should usually useSkullsto boost your armor stat. However, the new Malignant Hearts will take this slot in Season 1, which you can learn more about in the section below.
Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build: Best Malignant Hearts
Below, we’ll list the best Malignant Hearts for the Bleed Barbarian:
That wraps up our Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build guide. If you’d like to check out another class, take a look at ourDiablo 4 Twisting Blades Rogue build,Bone Necromancer build,Corpse Explosion Necromancer build,Lightning Sorcerer build,Fire Sorcerer build, andStorm Druid build.
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