Diablo 4In the Barbarian Skills Guide see your enemies being driven before you.
barbarian, Diablo 4It is one of the classes you can choose from. They may seem silly and mean, but these warriors are also brave and unwavering in even the toughest situations. Here is our Diablo 4 Barbarian Skills overview guide to help you with the various abilities you can unlock.
Diablo 4 Barbarian Skills Guide
Diablo 4 Barbarian Skills use anger as a resource and tend to be dependent on the Arsenal system. Basically, your abilities may sometimes require a certain type of weapon or weapon combination (eg batting, slashing, two-handed or two-handed). Therefore, it's up to you to equip the ones you need or trade them accordingly. Additionally, Diablo 4 Barbarian Skills can be categorized as general use (grey), bleeding (red), shouts (blue), crowd control (yellow), and recharged charges (purple).
In any case, the classes in the game use tiers/groupings for each Skill and ability unlocked when you spend enough Skill points. We list them in the following sections, subdividing them by connected nodes/upgrades. Likewise, you can check out our separate article on Barbarian abilities/perks.
Diablo 4 Barbarian Basic Skills
The Basic Barbarian Skills Guide is always available. They do fairly low damage, but bread and butter are your abilities while generating rage.
lunging strike (any Arsenal weapon) – Dash forward and hit a target.
- Enhanced – When you hit a healthy enemy (i.e. 80% HP or more), it deals more damage and heals you.
- Combat – Causes Bleed damage.
- Combat – Critics cause berserk (i.e. +25% more damage and +15% movement speed; lasts for five seconds).
Bash (tattoo weapon) – Hit a target with your weapon; your fourth Bash will stun the enemy (duration increases if you use a two-handed weapon).
- Enhanced – Damaging a stunned enemy grants a percentage of your base life as a buff (i.e. take 10% reduced damage).
- Combat – Generates extra rage.
- Combat – Critical hits with a two-handed weapon cause the next Core or Weapon Mastery skill to become dominant (i.e. bonus damage based on your current life and fortified life).
Frenzy (two-handed weapons) – Unleash a few hits that can also increase attack speed.
- Enhanced – When you gain 60% bonus attack speed, you generate extra fury.
- Combat – Increased attack speed for other Skills in each Frenzy stack if you're going crazy.
- Combat – Damage reduction for each active stack of Frenzy.
Flay (reaper) – Deal damage and cause bleeding.
- Enhanced – Chance to make an enemy vulnerable (i.e. take more damage).
- Direct damage from Battle – Flay also causes increased bleed damage.
- Combat – Direct damage from Flay grants you damage reduction and spikes.
Diablo 4 Barbarian Core Skills
Basic Skills (and those in later tiers/groups) cost rage. They are quite reliable in battle. You will unlock it after spending at least two Skill points.
Whirlwind (any Arsenal weapon) – Quickly attack surrounding enemies; channeling talent
- Enhanced – Gain rage when Whirlwind deals direct damage; extra anger from the elite.
- Furious – Whirlwind also deals some of your base damage as bleeding if you're using a slashing weapon.
- Severe – Increased damage after using Whirlwind for two seconds; lasts until cancelled.
Hammer of the Ancients (two-handed bludgeoning weapon) – Smashes your hammer to the ground to deal AoE damage.
- Enhanced – Gain more rage for each damaged enemy; Stacks up to 10 times.
- Furious – Deals bonus damage for each rage point you use.
- Violent – Overpowering with Hammer of the Ancients deals bonus damage.
upheaval (two-handed weapon) – Slam the ground with your gun and blast the debris forward.
- Enhanced – Chance to stun all enemies.
- Furious – Dealing damage with any of his other Skills causes his next Upheaval cast to gain bonus damage; Stacks up to 10 times.
- Fierce – Dealing damage to enemies causes going berserk.
double swing (two-handed use) – Sweep your weapons from opposite directions; Enemies caught in the center take damage from both weapons.
- Enhanced – Gain rage if Double Swing damages a stunned or knocked down enemy.
- Furious - Using Double Swing while going berserk increases its duration by two seconds.
- Violence – Apply vulnerable to a target hit by both weapons.
makes (slash weapon) – Makes a front slit that causes damage and bleeding.
- Enhanced – Direct damage from Rend extends vulnerability.
- Furious – Deals direct damage with Rend, rage (20 rage maximum).
- Fierce – Increased damage against defenseless enemies.
Diablo 4 Barbarian Defense Skills
Guide to Barbarian Skills Defensive Skills are used to get out of a dead end. They will either protect you or provide crowd control capabilities. Also, they don't need a specific Arsenal weapon. Spending at least six Skill points allows you to choose from these options.
Ground Stomp – Deals AoE damage and stuns enemies.
- Advanced – Increases duration.
- Strategic – Decreases the cooldown of your Ultimate Skills for each enemy hit by Ground Stomp.
- Tactic – Generates Fury.
rally cry – Increases movement speed and resource production of your character and allies.
- Improved – Grants unstoppable while active (i.e. effects that break control are removed and prevented).
- Strategic – Grants some of your base life as a boost and some bonus when you take or deal direct damage.
- Tactical – Grants Fury and additional resource production.
Iron Skin – Gain a barrier that absorbs some of your lost life.
- Enhanced – Barrier absorbs 5% more of your maximum life.
- Strategic – Grants some of your base life as a boost and doubles the amount if you are below 50% HP.
- Tactic – While active, it gradually heals for a percentage of the barrier amount.
Challenge Shout – Taunts nearby enemies and grants damage reduction.
- Advanced – While active, gain bonus max HP.
- Strategic – While active, gain spikes equal to half your max HP.
- Tactical – While active, gain rage each time you take damage.
Diablo 4 Barbarian Fighting Skills
Fighting emphasizes reaching the peak of combat or using abilities that can increase your melee prowess. These are Barbarian Skills that become available when you spend 11 Skill points.
Kick-start (no specific weapon required) – Kick and knock back enemies in front of you; Those who bump into terrain features will be stunned.
- Improved – Kicking makes enemies vulnerable.
- Mighty – Kicked enemies damage other enemies when you knock them back; causes them to fall to the ground.
- Power – Consumes all your rage to deal extra damage for every 10 rage spent; no longer causes kickback.
War cry – Increases the damage done by you and your allies.
- Enhanced – Also grants frenzy.
- Mighty – Grants a percentage of your base life as a buff.
- Strength – The damage bonus is further increased when there are six or more nearby enemies when using War Cry.
Charge (any Arsenal weapon) – Be unstoppable while dashing forward; Pushes enemies and knocks them back.
- Enhanced – Those pushed back to terrain properties are also stunned.
- Mighty – When you hit an enemy with Charge, they become vulnerable.
- Power – Reduces Offense cooldown if you knock enemies back into the terrain.
Leap (any full Arsenal weapon) – Jump forward and hit the ground; Knockback enemies upon impact.
- Enhanced – Reduces Leap's cooldown if it's not dealing damage to enemies.
- Mighty – Damaged enemies are also slowed.
- Power – Gain rage when Leap damages at least one enemy.
Diablo 4 Weapon Mastery Barbarian Skills Guide
Weapon Mastery Skills are devastating spells that can help turn the tide of any battle. These can be selected after spending 16 Skill points.
Rend (mincer weapon) – Skewer enemies to deal damage based on the total amount of bleeding, then remove all bleeding damage.
- Enhanced – Causes an explosion that inflicts bleeding damage.
- Fighter's – Hitting an enemy increases your attack speed.
- Warrior's – Hitting an enemy heals you for a percentage of your maximum health.
deathblow (any full Arsenal weapon) – Attempt a lethal attack; If you manage to kill an enemy with this move, the cooldown is reset.
- Enhanced – +100% more damage against bosses.
- Fighter's – Gain rage if Deathblow damages at least one enemy.
- Warrior's – Deathblow goes berserk if it damages at least one enemy.
Steel Grasp (no specific weapon required) – Throw chains and pull enemies.
- Enhanced – Makes enemies vulnerable.
- Fighter's – Damaging an enemy causes a frenzy.
- Warrior's – Earn additional cost.
Diablo 4 Barbarian Ultimate Skills
In Diablo 4, Ultimate Skills are Skills that really make the difference, inflict massive damage or enhanced effects. You can only choose one Ultimate Skill after spending at least 23 Skill points.
Call of the Ancients (no specific weapon requirement) – Summon a trio of Barbarian Ancients to temporarily assist you. Korlic makes Leap and Frenzy; Talic makes a Whirlwind; Madawc does Upheaval.
- Prime – While active, gain bonus attack speed and damage.
- Supreme – Korlic gives you extra rage if he damages enemies with Frenzy; Talic slows enemies hit by Whirlwind; Madawc has a chance to stun opponents with Upheaval.
Iron Maelstrom (A full arsenal of weapons must be equipped) – Can be activated three times to chain your weapons and perform attacks. Weapons that hit with two-handed clubs inflict an AoE slam and stun; two-handed slashing weapons create a frontal rift with bleeding effect; two-handed weapons swing around you.
- Prime – Increased critical chance and critical damage.
- Supreme – Dealing direct damage to enemies after switching weapons reduces Iron Maelstrom's cooldown.
Wrath of the Berserkers (no specific weapon required) – Grants berserk and unstoppability; Basic Skills make you go crazy.
- Prime – Increased movement speed and rage while active.
- Supreme – Increased damage for every 50 rage you spend while this Skill is active.