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In Season 4 ofDiablo 4, many changes were implemented to the upgrading and crafting system that allows for builds that were otherwise impossible before. One such character build that has risen to the spotlight this season is the bash barbarian, an overwhelmingly tanky build thatrelies on cooldown skills as opposed to fury resources. However, the setup’s main feature lies within the new tempering system.
Because bash is a basic skill, your main damage has no resource cost, allowing for infinite damage potential.The build relies heavily on stacking life and damage resistanceto reach absurdly high levels of survivability, enabling you to push further than ever intoDiablo 4’s Artificer’s Pit. This will be extremely important, as masterworking gear can push this build to even greater heights.
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Best Bash Barbarian Skills and Aspects
Which Skills To To Unlock
One of the greatest parts of this build is not having to worry about resource generation inDiablo 4, so we can invest in cooldown skills that can bolster bash or our defenses. Iron Skin is a fantastic defensive skill that grants an immense barrier that scales with your life, making it a perfect choice for this build. T
aking three shouts allows for an easy way to increase your damage or damage reduction with the click of a button.Steel Grasp will pull large groups of enemies in, allowing you to whack entire crowds with bash.
Tough as Nails 1/3
N/A
Unconstrained
As for the build’s aspects, you want to prioritize ones that bolster your basic attack and increase your defense. The most important aspects of this build will be placed on your two-handed weapons and amulet, improvingtheir effectiveness by 100% and 50%, respectively. The Rapid Aspect will increase the bash’s base attack speed, while the Aspect of the Moonrise will increase the bash’s attack speed again, as well as its damage.
you’re able to substitute certain legendary aspects to fit your playstyle, but I recommend sticking with these to start.
Helm
Iron Blood Aspect
Gain 5% Damage Reduction for each nearby bleeding enemy up to 25% maximum.
Chest Armor
Undying Aspect
When you cast a Skill, you heal for 2% Life. Double this bonus while below 50% Life.
Gloves
Paingorger’s Gauntlets
Damaging enemies with a Non-Basic Skill cast marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill’s damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing 100-200% increased damage.
Boots
Hectic Aspect
After casting 5 Basic Skills, one of your active Cooldowns is reduced by 2 seconds.
Two-Handed Mace
Aspect of the Moonrise
Damaging an enemy with a Basic Skill grants you 4% Attack Speed for 10 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Upon reaching maximum stacks, you enter a Vampiric Bloodrage, gaining 160% Basic Skill damage and 15% Movement Speed for 10 seconds.
One-Handed Sword
Edgemaster’s Aspect
Skills deal up to 20% increased damage based on your available Primary Resource when cast, receiving the maximum benefit while you have full Primary Resource.
Aspect of Inner Calm
Deal 10% increased damage. Triple this bonus after standing still for 3 seconds.
Iron Skin grants Unstoppable and 53% Damage Reduction.
Ring
Bold Chieftain’s Aspect
Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its Cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds per nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
Aspect of Adaptability
When cast below 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills generate 3 of your Primary Resources, once per cast. When cast at or above 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills deal 80% increased damage.
Some of these pieces of gear can be replaced with Uber Unique items once they have been found orpurchased with resplendent sparks. For example, you are replacing the Iron Blood Aspect with the Harlequin Crest Helm, which grants a flat 20% Damage Reduction and +4 ranks to all skills.
To increase your life even further, you could substitute the Aspect of Inner Calm withthe Doombringer One-Handed Sword, increasing maximum life by a percentage varying from 26% to over 50%. However, these items are not required unless you actively try to push into deeper tiers of the Artificer’s Pit.
Gear Tempering & Greater Affixes For a Bash Barbarian
Two legendary tempering augments are essential to enhance the build. The first is Barbarian Protection, which includes the +[1-2] to Imposing Presence. This passive increases your health pool by 6% per rank, so stacking this affix on gear pieces can drastically boost your Life stat.
The second one is Furious Augments, which includes the tempering affixBash Cleaves for +[82.5-210]% Damage. According to Blizzard, this tempering is bugged and has no set cap limit for its multiplicative damage scaling. However, they have no plans to change this until next season.
Greater affixes have a 1.5x multiplier to their max roll, making them incredibly important to flesh out a build’s true power. Focusingon gear with +1,310 Maximum Life greater affixeswill greatly scale your barbarian’s health pool, which can reach hundreds of thousands of hit points.
Masterworking your gear inDiablo 4will also heavily influence your stats, but ensure to reroll your gear until you get the 25% boosts in +[1-2] to Imposing Presence, Bash Cleaves for +[82.5-210]% Damage, and +1310 Maximum Life.
Bash Barbarian Paragon Board
According toRob2628on YouTube, the most complex part of this build is the paragon boards, as is the case with mostDiablo 4setups. While multiple versions of this build are tailored around specific content,they all primarily use the same rare glyphs. Focus on leveling the following rare glyphs within Nightmare Dungeons to maximize your power.
Starter
Exploit
For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal +7.9% increased damage to Vulnerable targets.
When you damage an enemy, they become Vulnerable for 3 seconds. This cannot happen more than once every 20 seconds per enemy.
Warbringer
Territorial
For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal +9.9% increased damage to Close targets.
Carnage
Ire
For every 5 Strength purchased within range, you deal +5.3% increased damage while Berserking.
Marshal
Grants a 125.0% bonus to all Magic nodes within range.
After casting a Shout Skill, the active Cooldown of every other Non-Shout Skill is reduced by 2.0 seconds.
Decimator
Undaunted
For every five willpower purchases within range, you deal 7.9% increased damage while Fortified.
This paragon board setup is unique because it involves acquiring as many additional maximum life nodes as possible. The more life nodes you unlock, the greater the effect they have. As such,the Bone Breaker paragon board is only taken for additional maximum life nodes, so no glyph is inserted. Stacking these life nodes with the buffs granted from tempering, you’ll break past 150,000 Life inDiablo 4.
