Looking for the best Diablo 4 Barbarian build? Depending on your playstyle, the options in Diablo 4 can be a little polarising. Diablo 4 Barbarian is one of the most exciting classes because dual-wield and two-handed weapons are viable, allowing you to create completely different builds to suit your taste and style. We’ve investigated all options, and this Diablo 4 Barbarian build is a bleed-based character, utilising the passives of the dark fantasy game to boost bleed damage, crits, and your bleeding capabilities.
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Diablo 4 best bleed build
The best Diablo 4 bleed build is:
Starting off with Rend and its variants, we want to use them to stack damage on your enemies, so using debuffs such as Bloody Weapons, which increases your bleed damage by 20%. This is further boosted by increasing your base damage, so using a weapon with Deadly Grip increases your overall bleed damage by 30%. The first level of Rend also increases your bleed damage by 15% which will stack with your focus on that bleed stat. Then, at higher levels, where it costs Fury, we can take advantage of the passive Critical Strikes, which grants +25% crit chance and increases your crit damage by 25% when you have a one-handed weapon. This boost is even greater as we’re using a one-handed weapon.
Focusing on that bleed stat, the second and third level innate passives of Rend maximise your bleed effect. The second, Thirst for Blood, increases your bleed damage to 18% of your total damage inflicted per hit, and the third, Blood in the Water, causes your bleed damage to stack up to 150% of your damage inflicted divided amongst enemies hit with the attack. These will be game-changing picks.
With your main attack covered, we can shift our focus to two-handed weapons. Two-handed weapons are unvaryingly viable in Diablo 4, but the skills of the Barbarian provide little in regards to crowd control, damage, and debuffs, so it can be difficult to find the best weapon for a two-handed build. That said, the Diablo 4 endgame weapons in these newer games, particularly those from the higher Diablo 4 Reaper of Souls and Immortal Reach max level runs, can be absolutely game-changing if you happen across the right weapon. If not, you can craft any of the weapons, including the Diablo 4 Secret Gem weapons, and your crit damage will always be high due to the +25% crit chance granted by the Critical Strikes passive.
This brings us to the final passive, Bloodbath. This grants you a 30% bleed damage bonus, and you gain a 15% chance on a successful melee hit to reset your cooldowns. This will be your game-winning passive as it’s made with stacking bleed damage in mind, and will enable you to rend enemies in double quick time.
To recap, the best Diablo 4 Barbarian build for a bleed-based character is:
Use Rend for bleed effect, its variants to increase damage to terrifying levels, buff your bleeding stats with the passives of the dark fantasy game, use two-handed weapons to empower your attacks and potential, finish with the Bloodbath passive for added damage and cooldown resetting. Ripping through enemies with piles of bleeding enemies at your feet… that’s what bleed is all about, and this will get you there in no time.
Diablo 4 endgame content
There’s plenty to come in the endgame of Diablo 4. You can proudly display all your Diablo 4 trophies and achievements with the new Diablo 4 Hall of Fame system. On top of that, there’s the Diablo 4 Lost World, a fittingly hellish addition to the popular RPG game, looking to ramp up the difficulty once more with a twist on old challenges.
If you’re looking to continue expanding your collection of gear, we’ve got every attribute and what it does in Diablo 4. We also have a guide on how to get more Diablo 4 Blood Keys, Bloodstones, and Unfortunate Belts, along with all the Diablo 4 Ubersava preparations and the best Diablo 4 Ubersava builds for the new evening of suffering coming to the hellish game.