The Best Diablo 4 Whirlwind Barbarian Build

Apr-20-2024

 

 

    Do you enjoy playing with barbarians, but struggle to find powerful structures? This article brings you the best Diablo 4 Whirlwind Barbarian build and provides a detailed analysis of the building's skills, gears, advantages and disadvantages, and more. But this build will also change with version updates, and we will continue to update it.

 

 

Build Overview

    In Diablo 4, the barbarian's Whirlwind is a powerful active output skill that attacks enemies through rapid rotation, causing extensive damage. Players can activate this skill by holding down the right mouse button to continuously attack nearby enemies. Different skill points and gears combinations can further enhance its output effect, making it the core skill for image cleaning and output.

 

    Although the barbarian's Whirlwind skill is known for its powerful output and control abilities, in order to maximize the potential of this skill, players need to carefully choose skill points and equipment combinations.

 

Skill Bonus

    The basic skill is Whirlwind, which comes with a charge effect. This not only helps players chase enemies, but also provides an advantage in displacement. At the same time, this skill can increase attack speed, thereby replenishing anger to a full rage state more quickly, stacking up damage buffs, and increasing damage output. We need to upgrade it to the highest level of 5/5 to achieve maximum damage output.

 

Auxiliary skills: Use Rallying Cry, Challenging Shout, War Cry to gain additional movement speed, resource generation, defense, and damage bonuses, which are crucial for Whirlwind as they can improve its survival rate and output ability in combat.

 

Core skill: Wrath of the Berserker is the core skill of Whirlwind, which can significantly increase damage output when in a full rage state.

 

 

Skill Tree

Lunging Strike 1/5 → Enhanced Lunging Strike → Battle Lunging Strike

Whirlwind 5/5 → Enhanced Whirlwind → Furious Whirlwind

Pressure Point 3/3

Rallying Cry 1/5 → Enhanced Rallying Cry → Tactical Rallying Cry

Imposing Presence 3/3 → Martial Vigor 3/3

Challenging Shout 1/5

War Cry 1/5 → Enhanced War Cry → Mighty War Cry

Booming Voice 3/3 → Raid Leader 3/3

Aggressive Resistance 3/3 → Prolific Fury 3/3

Pit Fighter 1/3 → No Mercy 3/3

Hamstring 1/3

Thick Skin 1/3 → Defensive Stance 3/3

Wrath of the Berserker → Prime Wrath of the Berserker → Supreme Wrath of the Berserker

Tempered Fury 1/3 → Invigorating Fury 3/3

Heavy Handed 3/3

Unbridled Rage

 

 

    If you're not sure how to use these skills effectively, follow the attack pattern below:

1. Use Lunging Strike to build your Fury, if needed.

2. Activate Rallying Cry, War Cry, and Challenging Shout.

3. Activate Whirlwind and use it until all enemies are dead, or your Fury is depleted.

4. Use Lunging Strike to generate more Fury, and then Whirlwind again.

5. If you're in a particularly tough fight, use Wrath of the Berserker and then repeat the above to quickly destroy any enemies.

 

Gears Recommendation

    In terms of weapons, the main weapon choose a sword or axe with a faster attack speed to optimize the output frequency of the Whirlwind. Core damage affixes are recommended to be placed on two handed weapons to increase damage output; Second hand weapons should be selected with additional damage bonuses, such as elemental damage or critical strike damage bonuses. The selection of armor focus on improving survival ability and critical hit rate, while considering the bonuses of movement speed and attack speed. Jewelry such as rings and necklaces should choose options with health, resistance, and critical damage bonuses to improve survival and damage output. The belt can be chosen with an additional critical hit rate or attack speed bonus. Shoes can be equipped to increase movement speed, in order to better locate and avoid attacks; Choose gloves with attack speed and critical damage bonuses to enhance the efficiency of Whirlwind.

 

Aspects

Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind (Legendary - random drop): Whirlwind peiodically pulls enemies to you.

 

Aspect of Berserk Fury (Legendary - random drop): You gain 3 Fury per second while Berserking.

 

Aspect of Berserk Ripping (Mournfield - Dry Steppes): Whenever you deal direct damage while Berserking, inflict 20-30% of the base damage as additional Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.

 

Rage of Harrogath (Unique Chest - random drop): Lucki Hit: Up to a 20-40% chance to reduce the cooldowns of your non-Ultimate skills by 1.5 seconds when you inflict Bleeding on Elites.

 

Aspect of Limitless Rage (Legendary - random drop): Each point of Fury you generate while at Maximum Fury grants your next Core skill 1% increased damage, up to a total of 15%.

 

Gohr's Devastating Grips (Unique Gloves - random drop): Whirlwind explodes every 2 seconds and after it ends, dealing 16-26% of the total base damage dealt to surrounding enemies as Fire damage.

 

Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind (Garan Hold - Scosglen): Whirlwind's Critical Strike Chance is increased by 3-8% for each second it is channeled, up to 9-24%.

 

Aspect of Disobedience (Halls of the Damned - Kehjistan): You gain 0.25-0.5% increased armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to 15-30%.

 

Edgemaster's Aspect (Oldstones - Scosglen): Skills deal up to 10% increased damage based on your available Fury when cast, receiving the maximum benefit while you have full Fury.

 

Aspect of the Expectant (Underroot - Scosglen): Attacking enemies with a basic skill increases the damage of your next Core skill by 5-10%, up to 30%.

 

Penitent Greaves (Unique Boots - random drop): You leave behind a trail of frost that Chills enemies. You deal 7-10% more damage to Chilled enemies.

 

Bold Chieftain's Aspect (Legendary - random drop): Whenever you cast a Shout skill, its cooldown is reduced by 1-1.9 seconds per nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.

 

 

The Mechanic and Characteristics of Whirlwind

    The damage of Whirlwind comes from weapon damage, so choosing a high damage melee weapon is very important. This skill will consume rage points, so players need to pay attention to managing rage points. Whirlwind also has a snapshot mechanic, which captures the current damage bonus when releasing a skill and lasts the entire skill process.

 

Matching method

    To maximize the output of Whirlwind, players usually choose talents and gear that increase attack speed, critical hit rate, and damage. There are two mainstream routes: Rage and Blood. The former focuses on increasing attack speed, while the latter focuses on causing more bleeding damage.

 

Add Points to Post Build

    In the later stages of the game, the Build of Whirlwind Barbarians will focus on enhancing the damage output of Whirlwind. By assigning core passive talents such as "Destruction Axe" and obtaining damage bonus affixes on high-level gears, Whirlwind can maintain strong performance even in advanced pincer insect caves.

 

Whirlwind Barbarian Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

You can clear dungeons +10 level even on Torment difficulty level;

It’s great for killing both normal and Elite monsters, and even deals with bosses in quite a reasonable amount of time;

This build works on both softcore and hardcore. Its advantage is a good DPS damage;

To pull enemies around allows you one of the aspects;

It also supports the team very well;

The ability to kill enemies and still move.

 

Weaknesses

Survivability dependent;

Gear dependent;

May feel quite repetitive;

Low single target damage.

 

    In short, mastering the mechanic and combination of Whirlwind will greatly enhance the barbarian's combat power in Diablo 4. By constantly trying and adjusting to find the most suitable skill and gears combination, players will be able to better enjoy the fun of the game.