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Whirlwind Leveling Guide

Barbarian

Leveling

Whirlwind

Verified

Season 11

By Cliptis

Updated on Dec 2, 2025

Dec 2, 2025

Build Overview

This will be the strongest Whirlwind leveling build out there. It's Fast, Fun and STRONG!

For a complete and comprehensive leveling strategy, watch this video: The Ultimate Leveling Guide (All Classes)

Strengths and Weaknesses

Very tanky
Easy early damage
Earthquakes

Build Variants

Level 1-25

Level 26-40

Level 41-60

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Assigned Skills

Level 1-25

Level 26-40

Level 41-60

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Primary

Secondary

Technique

This will be your starting variant. For gear at these levels you just take anything 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.

Your weapon selection will be Two-handed Mace for this set up.

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.
Elixirs unlock at level 10 and you gain an addition 5% experience.

Aspect & Uniques

Level 1-25

Level 26-40

Level 41-60

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HelmRelentless Berserker's Aspect

Chest armorAspect of Might

GlovesDeath Wish Aspect

PantsAspect of Numbing Wrath

BootsGhostwalker Aspect

AmuletAspect of Bul-Kathos

Ring 1Rapid Aspect

Ring 2Bear Clan Berserker's Aspect

Bludgeoning weaponEdgemaster's Aspect

Dual wield weapon 1Needleflare Aspect

Dual wield weapon 2Aspect of Inner Calm

Slashing weaponAspect of the Dire Whirlwind

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.

Chaos Perks

Level 1-25

Level 26-40

Level 41-60

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Chaos PerkEmpty

Skill Tree

Level 1-25

Level 26-40

Level 41-60

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Available

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Leveling Path

Mercenary

Level 1-25

Level 26-40

Level 41-60

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How it Plays

Whirlwind Gameplay Loop

Cast Lunging Strike to build Fury for Whirlwind
Use your Shouts on cooldown. Rallying Cry War Cry
Use Ground Stomp around multiple enemies to help reset the cooldown of Wrath of the Berserker
Cast Wrath of the Berserker to gain Unstoppable, Fury Generation and to pull all your enemies to you.

How it Works

Whirlwind Damage and Toughness

Defenses

Aspect of Might will proc the Damage Reduction by hitting an enemy with Lunging Strike. This has to happen once every 2 to 10 seconds, depending on how good your Aspect of Might is.
Aspect of Disobedience gives you armor by attacking enemies with any form of damage or by taking damage from enemies. You'll need to do damage at least once every 4 seconds to maintain the extra Armor it gives you.
Aspect of Numbing Wrath gives you Fortify for each point of fury you generate over max. If you have 100 Fury and you use Lunging Strike and it generates 10 Fury you'll gain 10 Fortify. Fortify gives you 15% Damage Reduction. If you combine Lunging Strike with Rallying Cry any damage you do, will generate Fortify for the extra Damage Reduction
To maintain all of your defenses, you'll need to cast Lunging Strike at least once every 4 seconds.

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

Offense

Edgemaster's Aspect increases the damage of your next skill cast based on how much Fury you have.
Aspect of Inner Calm gives you a pass buff to damage even if you are moving.
Vehement Brawler's Aspect gives you damage whenever you Cast your ultimate skill.
Needleflare Aspect is a fun combination with Death Wish Aspect until you find aspects to replace them.
Aspect of Earthquakes will give you additional damage for your Dust Devils when you stand inside of an Earthquake and for 4 seconds after you leave that Earthquake.
Bear Clan Berserker's Aspect will help reset your cooldowns of Ground Stomp, Warcry and Leap
Aspect of Anger Management will allow you to maintain Berserking all the time, as long as you're about 50 Fury.
Dust Devils will be your main source of damage with this build and will be generated from Whirlwind and Shouts.
Dust Devil's Aspect will cause Whirlwind to generate Dust Devils
Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind will increase your Critical Hit Chance as well as increase the damage that Whirlwind does.

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

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

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Leveling Walkthrough Document

Season 11 Leveling Strategy

Testing and Research Documents

Dungeon Aspects

Aspect of Might: Dark Ravine
Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment: Sirocco Caverns
Aspect of the Umbral: Champion's Demise
Ghostwalker Aspect: Broken Bulwark
Slaking Aspect: Maulwood
Relentless Berserker's Aspect: Hakan's Refuge
Aspect of Bul-Kathos: Light's Refuge
Edgemaster's Aspect: Oldstones
Aspect of the Expectant: Underroot
Aspect of Inner Calm: Raethwind Wilds
Aspect of Ancestral Echoes: Ancient Reservoir
Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind: Garan Hold

Important Dropped Aspects

Aspect of Incendiary Fissures
Aspect of Earthquakes
Dust Devil's Aspect
Aspect of Fierce Winds
Aspect of Anger Management
Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind
Bold Chieftain's Aspect