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Diablo 4 Build

Deathblow

presentationBarbarian
Season 11
End Game
Off-Meta
Cliptis
Creator
Updated on Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025

Build Overview

This build is designed around spending as much fury as you can to proc Banished Lord's Talisman. This is why you run the Crown of Lucion any other helmet would not be a good replacement for this. This build is very resource management heavy, and will require some time to learn the play style.

You will need The Third Blade in order for the build to work. It cannot work without it.

Please read through the How it works section of the planner and if you have further questions you can join me live on Twitch, YouTube, TikTok and X. If you have questions while I'm not live, join Discord. We have a team and community ready to answer all your questions! You can also check out Cliptis.com for a collection of all my How-To guides.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Insanely Tanky
  • Fast Attack Speed
  • Good Mob Control
  • No Quake
  • Very Gear Dependant
  • Very Gear Specific

Build Variants

This is an end game build. Death Blow builds require very specific gear to get them to work at peak performance. There are ways to substitute but it does not function like it normally would without them. You will need The Third Blade in order for the build to work. It cannot work without it.

Assigned Skills

Primary
5
1
Secondary
5
5
1
1
Technique

When choosing your Barbarian Weapon Expertise Technique, you do not have to be using the weapon of the Weapon Expertise Technique you chose.

Example:

  • Expertise chosen is Polearm - 15%(x) increased Lucky Hit Chance and you deal 15(x) increased damage while healthy
  • Arsenal Selection: Mace - Lucky Hit: Chance to gain 5 Fury when hitting an enemy. Double the amount of Fury gained while Berserking and you deal 15(x) Critical Strike Damage while Berserking.

With the above set up, you gain the Weapon Expertise Technique bonus of having your Arsenal Selection set to Two-Handed Mace, as well as the Weapon Expertise Technique bonus for the Polearm Technique.

Equipment

HelmCrown of Lucion
Chest armorUndying Aspect
GlovesAspect of Inner Calm
PantsTibault's Will
BootsYen's Blessing
AmuletBanished Lord's Talisman
Ring 1Ring of Red Furor
Ring 2Starlight Aspect
Bludgeoning weaponOverkill
Dual wield weapon 1The Third Blade
Dual wield weapon 2Ramaladni's Magnum Opus
Slashing weaponAspect of Earthquakes

These will be your caps

  • Wrath of the Berserker: Cooldown Reduction: 75%
  • Earthquake size: 100%
  • Number of Earthquakes: 10
  • Movement Speed: 200%
  • Critical Strike Chance: 100%
  • Attack Speed: A & B - 100% each

    Tempering and Enchanting are great ways to add Resistances and Armor early on, until you get your End Game gear.

Want to learn all about how to properly Masterwork? Watch this video: Secrets to increasing you damage video

Skill Tree

Available0 (0)
Spent59 (12)

Paragon Board

Divine Gifts

Andariel
CorruptedEssence of Screams
PurifiedEssence of Anguish
Azmodan
CorruptedEssence of Hellfire
PurifiedEssence of Sin
Belial
CorruptedEssence of Shadows
PurifiedEssence of Lies
Duriel
CorruptedEssence of Pain
PurifiedEssence of Squalor

Mercenary

How it Plays

Deathblow Rotation

  • Cast Frenzy five times to get to max stacks, adding stack number one from Sabre of Tsasgal.
  • Cast Death Blow adding stack number two from Sabre of Tsasgal.
  • Cast Wrath of the Berserker to add increased Fury generation and damage adding stack number three from Sabre of Tsasgal.
  • Cast Death Blow and continue casting, this will also add stack number four from Sabre of Tsasgal.
  • Repeat to maintain your buffs and timers.

How it Works

Deathblow Damage

  • This build will be running on a Two-handed Mace set up. This gives big damage hits, and allows the build to take advantage of Heavy Handed and Brute Force.
  • If you would like to learn how to set your weapon selection watch this video: How to Select Weapons video

Offense

  • Aspect of Inner Calm gives you a stacking damage bonus the more you stand still. Deathblow builds pull monsters into a corner, then stand still while attacking.
  • Aspect of Earthquakes increased your damage while standing in an Earthquake and for 4 seconds after you leave it. On top of that, it also increases your Earthquake damage as well.
  • Wrath of the Berserker will be a great source of extra damage as well 10 seconds of Unstoppable and Berserking. We will also be able to use this as a pull, to help group up monsters which increases the damage we do by keeping monsters within our cleave range from Overkill.
  • Aspect of Encroaching Wrath will grant extra damage to Death Blow after you spend 100 Fury.

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

Defense

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

Uniques

Key Build Piece

  • The Third Blade converts your Weapon Mastery skills into Core skills, removes the cooldown and adds a Fury cost. This is how you can cast Death Blow an unlimited amount of time as long as you have Fury.
  • Ramaladni's Magnum Opus removing this from your weapon slot, adding it into your armor will free up another weapon slot for tempers, it will also add additional damage. It removes having to search for the perfect aspect since that is the most important part of the Ramaladni's Magnum Opus. Note: This item has changed in Season 10 to effect all abilities now. The "Skills using this weapon" has been removed.
  • Ring of Red Furor will guarantee every hit of Hammer of the Ancients is a Critical Strike. Because the Crown of Lucion will make your Death Blow cost almost 100 Fury you'll Critical Hits every other attack.
  • Sabre of Tsasgal will add a damage bonus for each damaging skill you have on. Additionally you get more damage increases that stack each time you use one of those damaging skills. This bonus lasts 10 seconds, so you'll need to use them at least once every 10 seconds to take advantage of the buff.
  • Overkill gives your Death Blow it's only source of Area of Effect damage it will have. It does not increase the damage that Death Blow does, other than the affixes on the mace itself.

Mythic Uniques

  • The Grandfather has a Unique Aspect that doubles your Critical Strike Damage bonus. More importantly for this build it gives very high Maximum Resources. That will help scale your damage from Ramaladni's Magnum Opus. It's a great source of Max Life and the All Stats play a huge role in activating your Paragon Nodes.
  • Shroud of False Death adds +1 to all passives in the Skill Tree regardless of whether you have placed a point into that skill or not.

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Changelog

Updated and optimized for Season 11

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