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Upheaval Leveling Guide

Barbarian

Season 15

Leveling

Cliptis

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By Cliptis

Updated on Sep 25, 2026

Sep 25, 2026

Build Overview

If you're looking for a great starter build, without the use of Earthquakes, this is the build for you. It is a mobile build, utilizing Lunging Strike to proc defenses, offenses and runes. All this building up to an Upheaval that will melt all the enemies in front of you.

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

Good Mobility
Area of Effect Damage
Great Use For Boss Powers

No Quakes

Build Variants

Level 36-70

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Equipment

Level 36-70

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Helm

Battle-Mad Aspect

Chest armor

Aspect of Accursed Touch

Gloves

Aspect of Anger Management

Pants

Aspect of Heavenly Strength

Boots

Aspect of Booming Voice

Amulet

Heavy Hitting Aspect

Ring 1

Vehement Brawler's Aspect

Ring 2

Bold Chieftain's Aspect

Bludgeoning weapon

Crushing Aspect

Dual wield weapon 1

Accelerating Aspect

Dual wield weapon 2

Edgemaster's Aspect

Slashing weapon

Aspect of Inner Calm

Equipment Priority

+12

Even though during the early stages of leveling Resistances and Armor aren't as important. Once you start moving into Penitent, you'll need to start adding these in.

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

Talisman

Level 36-70

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SealUnique Charm

Fer of MasterySet Charm

Phoba of MasterySet Charm

Phoba of Practiced TechniqueSet Charm

Mlor of Practiced TechniqueSet Charm

Fer of Practiced TechniqueSet Charm

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Skills & Rotation

Level 36-70

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Primary

Secondary

Technique

Barbarians! If you enjoy or have wanted to play Upheaval this is the leveling guide for you! We're taking a classic core skill and reinventing it for season 11
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This will be your starting Variant.

For Gear at these levels you just take any item that is an upgrade and has an aspect on it. Any legendary gear will gain additional stats over Yellow gear so those are always upgrades even if the Aspects don't affect your build.

At level 10

Tempering unlock. As long as you can afford it putting Elemental Surge on as many weapons as you can greatly increases your damage, even with rare temper manuals.

Enchanting Fury Per Second and Fury on Kill

Skill Tree

Level 36-70

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Available

0 (0)

Spent69 (14)

Leveling Path

Mercenaries

Level 36-70

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Frequently Asked Questions

Gearing How-to

During leveling on all classes, there are certain affixes (stats on gear) that will always make your journey a smooth one.

Main stat Regeneration i.e. Fury, Mana, or Spirit. This affix can be found on Helmets, Chest Pieces, Pants and Boots.
Lucky Hit: Chance to Restore Primary Resources. This affix can be found on Weapons, Gloves and Jewelry Tempers.
Resource Cost Reduction. This affix can be found on Weapons, Gloves and Jewelry Tempers.
Movement Speed. This affix can be found on Boots, Amulets and Tempers for both.
Weapons. These will be the items you will need to change the most. In almost all cases, it will be worth taking increased damage per second on a weapon even over an Aspect. This only matters on the Weapon your skill is currently using. If it’s a weapon slot you are not currently using for Barbarian or Rogue, then aspects will be more important.
Defenses. The best thing you can do during the leveling process is add Maximum Life to any piece of gear to help with Survivability. If you have something like Armor, or Damage Reduction they are great supplements but Maximum Life will out pace everything.

Leveling Walkthrough Document

Season 12 Leveling Strategy

Testing and Research Documents

Changelog

10-Mar-2026 updated and optimized for Season 12

Comments

FierceBlade•7d ago

Where did you get Groundstomp from? I couldn't see it either in the Items beeing granting it (Either im blind or don't know the items) or in the skilltree.

Cliptis

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•4d ago

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