Diablo 4 Barbarian BuildChargeNado - Charge/DS

Pros

• Simple, just plow through !
• Leveling friendly (if Ancestral charge aspect is available through the Season Journey)
• Only 2.5 paragon boards to start pumping
• Extremely fun gameplay with Explosions and Tornadoes everywhere
• Only one required unique but still Uber unique scalable
• TORNADOES GO FLPFLPFLP

Cons

• Unstoppable mobs will be a pain
• Requires a good Defensive Chest armor (make sure to check out the recommended gear stats tab) to feel nice and cosy

Leveling BabyNado - Charge/DS UC (Leveling)

Uber ChargeNado - (Uber)

How do we put the build in motion ? To answer that we'll split the gameplay in 3 sections

Damaging Skills

Our main damage output will be performed through a clever self feeding combo of: Charge (Chooh Chooh !) :

• SET TO DUAL WIELD using Ramaladni's Magnum Opus (Unique sword), increasing damage done based off Current resource + any 1H mace to trigger Wallop 3/3 (Skill tree) and Concussion 3/3 (Skill tree)
• Ancestral Charge (Aspect) to summon a football defense line around us and make sure we don't miss any passengers
• Brawler's Aspect (Aspect) to tag mobs with a bomb creating on death explosions
• Battle Fervor 3/3 (Skill tree) will make our charge start berserking reliably
• Tibault's Will (Unique pants), charge giving us Unstoppable, we will be continuously generating resource and proccing the 40% damage boost as Charge's Unstoppable has NO duration

• Stunning mobs if they collide with a wall for free Double Swings thanks to Enhanced Double swing (Skill tree)

Double Swing (Clean up and Boss damage)

• DEFAULTS TO DUAL WIELD using Ramaladni's Magnum Opus (Unique sword), increasing damage done based off Current resource + any 1H mace to trigger Wallop 3/3 (Skill tree) and Concussion 3/3 (Skill tree)
• Veteran's Brawler Aspect (Aspect) to easily increase our next charge damage (double swing being able to hit twice multiple targets)
• Accelerating Aspect (Aspect) for a juicy attack speed boost
• Windlasher +Devilish Aspect (Aspect) to trigger Tornadoes, help with the cleanup and boost us thanks to Twister Glyph
• Berserking thanks to Furious Double Swing (Skill tree) for a +2 sec Berserk duration whenever we Double Swing.

Supporting Skills

To support the main damage combo, we will use our 3 shouts that you can pretty much launch before engaging every other pack of monsters.

• Rallying Cry : For a 7.5sec buff that gives us %resource gen, Unstoppable (proccing Tibault's Will and GhostWalker Aspect) and Bonus Movement Speed.
• War Cry : For a 7.5sec buff that gives us Berserking and a 15% Damage boost
• Challenging Shout : For a 7.5sec buff that gives us 40% DR
• WE ARE USING ECHOING FURY (Aspect) INSTEAD OF BERSERK FURY (Aspect), Berserk fury resource gained still doesn't count toward Devilish Aspect (thanks Blizz)

On demand Skills

In case of emergencies, some skills are better saved, in our case Wrath of the berserker is the one, here when to use it and why. Wrath of the Berserker

• (Best used at the start of the dungeon) allows you to start Berserking and doubles up your Berserking buff bonus, cumulated with the Unconstrained keystone passive, those 100% extra damage becomes 200%) for its 10 sec duration (and more !). So if the density feels nice, go and use it !

You will find In Depth details below regarding each mechanics this build is using.

Berserking

Our goal here is to maintain Berserking at all time, in order to do so we will use :

• Reliable Berserking sources to start berserking such as: Enhanced War Cry (Skill tree), Wrath of the Berserker (Skill), Battle Fervor 3/3 (Skill tree)
• Berserking extensions sources to keep berserking such as: Blood Rage (Paragon legendary node), Wrath of the Berserker (Skill) and Double Swing (Skill) itself thanks to Furious Double Swing (Skill tree)

Combining those will manage to always make you go angry.

Resource management

Your damaging skills must be used at max fury for bonus damage thanks to Ramaladni's Magnum Opus giving us bonus dmg for each point of fury you have. In order to reach that resource cap, it's very important to have:

• Flat fury gain sources such as: Fury on Kill (Paragon), Tuskhelm of Joritz (Unique Item), Thibault's Will (Unique pants) and Enhanced Double Swing (Skill tree)
• %Resource generation bonuses to multiply those sources (multiplicative with one another, so the more the merrier) such as: Rings affixes (Items) , Prime Wrath of the Berserker (Skill tree), Prolific Fury 3/3 (Skill tree), Willpower (Stat)

Critical hit

Critical Hit Chance is a damage mechanic that gives us a base chance (5%) to deal damage based off :

• (Multiplicative) Flat non scaleable x1.5 damage multiplier
• (Additive) %Critical Strike Damage bonus (Items/Paragon/Skill tree) such as Wrath Glyph (Paragon), Weapons Affix (Items), Grandfather (Unique)

• (Multiplicative) Other multipliers (Items/Paragon/Skill tree) such as the Flawless Technique board (Paragon)

  It is possible to increase your change to critical strike by using:

• Flat %chance increase (Gloves/Rings)

• Conditional %chance increase (Aspects, Gloves, Paragon)

Vulnerable

We'll rely on three ways to apply Vulnerable

• Exploit glyph (Paragon) which we combine with Outburst 1/3 (Skill Tree) and Tough as Nails 1/3 (Skill tree) dealing direct Thorn dmg to mobs hitting us, proccing the Glyph.
• Senechal Construct (Seasonal Schnitzel) giving us a chance to apply Vulnerable to damaged targets with Breaking Support (Tuning Stone)
• Kick despite not being its primary usage as Power Kick (Skill tree) empties our fury gauge it can still be considered.

Attack speed

Attack speed is a desirable stat for this build even if it doesn't affects Charge animation speed, we'll still use it for Double Swing and generating tornadoes

• CAP1 sources such as : Joritz (Unique Item), Gloves (Item)
• CAP2 sources such as : Accelerating Aspect (Aspect), Carnage (Paragon Legendary Node)

Max Health

Can be increased in two ways:

• Flat value Max Health sources such as : Maximum Life Affix (Items), Unique items
• %Max Health sources (multiplicative with one another, so the more the merrier) such as : Imposing Presence 3/3 (Skill tree), Unique items, Rubies (Gems), Paragon nodes (Paragon)

Armor

Armor caps out at 13500 armor vs lvl154 mobs (NM100). To reach that cap you can either increase your flat armor value (easy for barbs thanks to strength scaling and paragon nodes), or increase your %armor value (NOT multiplicative with one another) In order to increase our armor we are stacking:

• Flat value armor sources such as : Armor from Strength (Stat), Paragon node (Paragon), Armor ilvl (Items), Juggernaut's Aspect (Aspect)
• %armor sources such as : Legs/Chest/Amulet affixes (Items), Disobedience Aspect (Aspect)

Resistances

There are multiple ways to approach this but we'll go with the standard approach here:

• Main resistances - Fire/Lightning/Poison resistances capping: 3x60% singular resistance on Chest and boot (Items)
• Secondary resistances - Frost/Shadow resistances capping: ~=Rings/Amulet sub stat (Items), 2x30% gems + 1x5% Diamond Gem

Movement Speed

Movement speed starts at 100% and caps at 200% and can be increased in two ways:

• Static movement speed source such as : Boots/Amulet affix (Items), Swiftness 3/3 (Skill tree)
• Dynamic movement speed source such as : Berserking (Buff), Rallying Cry (Skill), Wrath of the Berserker (Skill), Ghostwalker Aspect (Aspect)

The season of the Construct gives us a new pet; the Senechal Construct or Schnitzel (thanks @Vlad); with two active abilities known as Governing Stones that you can each link with up to 3 passive abilities known as Tuning Stones.

The setup explanations can be found below Flash of Adrenaline : Player buffs are always desirable

• Tactical support : Lower the skill cooldown
• Duration support : Extends the buff duration
• Safeguard support : Gives us DR for the buff duration

Lightning Bolt : Named itself, very good since Tempest doesn't spread/multicast as expected.

• Breaking support : To give us a Vulnerable debuff source and break barriers
• Bleeding support : Bleed sources are always nice
• Multishot support : Moar lightning bolts !

We are valuing a ranged Damage over time here for it's continuous damage, multi targetting and utility capabilities.

Shaco Build is even better thanks to the %resource gen and the +4 skills which frees up a few skill points and reduces Charge cooldown even more

Melted Heart of Selig and Ring of Starless Sky You just achieved immortality and peak dps as damage you take with Selig will feed into Starless Sky.

• Drop Veteran Brawler's Aspect
• Drop Windlasher Aspect
• Swap Twister Glyph for the Brawl Glyph

Grandfather Always usable instead of Windlasher Aspect

• Put Accelerating 's Aspect on Ring
• Swap Twister Glyph for the Brawl Glyph

We're going for a pretty well optimized board focusing on two things:

• Getting the juicy nodes and glyph as soon as possible.
• Getting a lot of %Max Health and Flat Armor

Here's the rundown

1rst Board - Starter

Probably the most cost effective board for a Strength Glyph.

• Ire Glyph for the %Dmg while Berserking bonus
• As many magic and rare nodes as possible as their requirements are easy to get (especially early on)

2nd Board - Carnage

The best board for any Glyph giving %bonuses to Magic nodes as we can find %DR vs Close range and %Dmg while Berserking bonuses in range.

• Ambidextrous Glyph for the %Bonus to Magic nodes
• As many rare nodes as possible as their requirements are easy to get (especially early on) and are Berserking related

3rd Board - Blood rage

Absolutely mandatory for every barb Build as it provides us with %Dmg while Berserking and the Legendary Node scaling off the same stat

• No Glyph there as the pathing is horrendous and Rare nodes are related to bleed (which we won't use)
• Rotated board to access the nearby %Dmg while Berserking nodes
• Blood Rage Legendary Node as the damage bonus is too good to pass

4th Board - Warbringer

A staple for any Hota/Ramaladni build, compatible with Strength/Dext/Willpower and Magic nodes Glyphs with excellent pathing and rare nodes (Max fury/Fortify related), Elemental resistance focused when its design counterpart, the Weapon Master board is more focused toward Armor.

• Territorial Glyph (non maxed as we lack points) for the %Dmg and %DR vs close which we fully benefit from
• As many Magic/Rare nodes as possible as their requirements are very good to have later on and Max fury related

5th Board - Weapon Master

Staple for non Overpower builds, compatible with Strength/Dext/Willpower based Glyphs but especially Brawl and Weapon master as the bonus work on the armor AND %physical damage nodes, otherwise, very quick in&out pathing and interesting Rare nodes.

• Twister Glyph (fair investment) for the juicy %all damage increase after casting a tornado

6th Board - Decimator

All rounder board, best paired with Willpower/Dexterity Glyphs, good for Vulnerable damage and providing %Max life nodes, Legendary node is easy to access and a solid multiplier for any build (even better for Overpower ones)

• Exploit Glyph (minimum investment) for the %Dmg vs Vulnerable and Vulnerable debuff
• Couple of Magic and Rare nodes for Max Health and %Physical dmg along the way
• Decimator Legendary Node which is an easy to get x1.1 to x1.2 (with overpower) dmg mult on top of the Vulnerable debuff

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07/02/2024: Added the Uber version 29/01/2024 : Updated the Schnitzel skills 28/01/2024 : Final version 27/01/2024: Paragon board, Skill tree, aspects (more focus on Twisters) 23/01/2024 : Initial version