Ancients - Summon Barbarian Endgame Build Guide

This guide is work in progress and more updates are coming in as we get more information closer to the Lord of Hatred launch.

Barbarian loot drops at the bottom of the planner

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BUG NOTES

• There is currently a bug with Aspect of Anger Management overriding the damage from Battle-Mad Aspect so it has been changed on the planner for now. Earthstriker's Aspect has been moved to the boots slow and Aspect of Heavenly Strength will be on the pants until it's fixed.
• Crusher is currently not working for Two-handed Maces. Replace with Challenger

Arsenal Selection

This build will be running on a Two-handed Mace set up. Depending on the variant Mighty Throw or Leap will have your Two-handed Mace selected as your weapon assignment.

• If you would like to learn how to set your weapon selection watch this video: How to Select Weapons video

Leveling Guide: Ancient Leveling Guide

Ancient Leap Rotation

• Start with Rallying Cry to generate Fury and summon Madawc
• Use Leap and hold down the key-bind for it.
• • With Chainscourged Mail hold down Leap and Rallying Cry only until you find a big pack of monsters or an Elite.
• Use Leap, Rallying Cry, Challenging Shout, War Cry, Iron Skin at the same time.
• Cast Call of the Ancients to reset your cooldowns of all of the above by utilizing Aspect of Apogeic Furor.

Ancient Push Rotation

• Start Rallying Cry and spam it.
• Start with Call of the Ancients
• Use War Cry and Challenging Shout to activate Marshal
• Use Mighty Throw to take 10 seconds off of Call of the Ancients cooldown.
• Use War Cry and Challenging Shout to activate Marshal
• Cast Call of the Ancients
• Use War Cry and Challenging Shout to activate Marshal
• Use Mighty Throw to take 10 seconds off of Call of the Ancients cooldown.

Repeat this cycle. It takes time to get the timing and practice down. See notes for specific breakpoints.

Build Overview

If you would like a complete overview of how the Barbarian works use this video guide: Barbarian Deep Dive

This build relies on the power of Ancients you summon to do all the damage for you. With all variants, other than the Push variant, you are using Highlander Call of the Ancients to have a 2 second cooldown on Call of the Ancients. You pair this with Aspect of Apogeic Furor and it allows you to reset your cooldowns of all of your skills, and have constant uptime. Each skill also summons an Ancient, so the faster we cast our skills, the more Summons we have.

For the Push variant, we are relying on specific Cooldown breakpoints and Mightiest Mighty Throw to swap from Highlander Call of the Ancients to Empowered Call of the Ancients. This gives us more Summons which is more damage. It works because Mightiest Mighty Throw now becomes an Ultimate skill, so it also activates Aspect of Apogeic Furor. This has a very strict rotation which will require some practice.

Because most of these variants are not running Melted Heart of Selig, they can be a bit squishy at times, however you can stand away from your enemies, cast your Ancients and still kill everything.

Arsenal Selection

This build will be running on a Two-handed Mace set up. Depending on the variant Mighty Throw or Leap will have your Two-handed Mace selected as your weapon assignment.

• If you would like to learn how to set your weapon selection watch this video: How to Select Weapons video

Fury Management

The only Fury spender in this build is Rallying Cry. If you run out of Fury it's ok, it's not going to stop Summons from spawning. It means you just don't get the Ancient from Rallying Cry. This will only be an issue in the Push variant because of Crown of Lucion. To solve this issue.

• Chance to Restore Primary Resources as an affix will be activated by your Summons
• • You will need it on both Dual-wield weapons and your Two-handed Slashing weapon.
• If this isn't enough, you can add Resource Generation onto your Amulet temper.

Defense (Non-Selig)

• Take all defense nodes inside the Paragon board first. All Maximum Life, Resistances, and Armor nodes.
• You can use glyphs like Ire or Territorial to help keep yourself alive.
• Make sure all your gear has Maximum Life on it and you can then add Resistances, and Armor as needed.
• Life on Hit is a great option for you, but it will only heal you when you hit with Leap

If you want to learn how to set your defenses up, watch this video: How to avoid getting one-shot video

Offense

If you want to learn the basics about Multipliers watch this video: Additive vs. Multiplicative Damage video.

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Early post 70 loot filter (All 850 items, in T1):

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Mid game loot filter (Torment 4 to 8):

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Late game Loot Filter (Torment 8 to 12):

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Boss Loot Tables Barbarian & General Pools

• Gohr's Devastating Grips - Grigs
• Mantle of Mountain's Fury - Urivar
• Paingorger's Gauntlets - Grigs
• Might of Qual-Kehk - Grigs
• Shard of Verathiel - Varsh
• Overkill - Varsh
• The Relentless Heart - Beast
• Fields of Crimson - Lord
• Twin Strikes - Lord
• Dark Stalker's Medallion Duriel
• 100,000 Steps - Duriel
• Emblem of Staalbreak - Andy
• Ancients' Oath - Andy
• Hellhammer - Andy
• Ramaladni's Magnum Opus - Butcher
• Razorplate - Duriel
• Nomad's Longing Heart - Harbinger
• Ring of the Ravenous - Beast
• Ugly Bastard Helm - Harbringer
• The Third Blade - Asteroth
• Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty - Bartuc
• The Open Eye of Gorgorra - Bartuc
• Arreat's Bearing - Bartuc / Astaroth
• Hooves of the Mountain God - Astaroth
• The Third Blade - Astaroth
• Crown of Lucion - Astaroth
• Battle Trance - Astaroth
• Ugly Bastard Helm - Astaroth
• The Butcher's Cleaver - Butcher
• Ring of the Ravenous - Beast
• Signet of Pelghain - Beast
• X'Fal's Corroded Signet - Lord

• 30-Apr-2026 updated and optimized for Season 13
• 3-May-2026 updated all weapon tempers and added 3 diamonds to weapons