BEST Season 2 BLEED Barbarian Leveling Guide

The FASTEST Leveling build for Season 2 Barbarians from level 1-50. After Level 50 you can deviate to any core skill you prefer! The power of rend in the early levels is the foundation of this build. Rend has the highest fury return while leveling of all the skills and the Season 2 Damage Multiplier Rework heavily favors damage over time. This makes rend an even stronger option if you do choose to pursue it past level 50. IMPORTANT Watch Video for Level 1-15 FAST Alternative!

Call of the Ancients > Challenging Shout > Steel Grasp > Rend > Iron Skin when Challenging Shout buff drops > Ground Stomp > Rend > Rend > Repeat

Vulnerable uptime: You gain this by using Steel Grasp into Rend.

Berserk Uptime is gained from Steel Grasp

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This build has 0 hard requirements for aspects or stats on gear.
The priority in season 2 will be the following:

1. Vampiric Powers - Accursed Touch and Flowing Veins have priority.
2. Defensive Aspects
3. Offensive Aspects
4. + Ranks to Rend Gloves
5. Health and Damage Reduction Rolls on any item
6. Cooldown Rolls on Helm/Neck

Uniques

If you get a Razorplate, take Outburst and Tough as Nails skills. Drop any free points you can spare or select as the next skill ups in the talent guide.
Oathkeeper is viable in this build as well. You can let it replace skullbreaker.
Many other uniques are viable, these just stand out the most in leveling. Use any additional uniques you get at your own discretion. Make sure to read what they do!

Lunging Strike vs Iron Skin

This is a 7 skill build for versatility. Keep lunging strike instead of Iron Skin unless you are facing dense elite packs or bosses. It will be the survivability boost you need to get through all tough content without having to respec!

When to Drop Rend

Once you hit level 30 its ideal to check your aspects, vampiric powers, legendary gear drops, and normal gear drops. After level 30 it is safe to swap your core skill off of Rend. It is ideal to swap to whatever your current gear drops/vampiric powers lean to instead of Rend. Keeping Rend is safe until level 50, then you should look for a mid-end game build!

Paragon Board

This built isn't meant to sustain beyond the mid game level. Once you get to the first paragon board or slightly after, search for a proper mid game build to transition in to!