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Diablo 4 Build

Pure Whirlwind

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

Build Overview

The PURE Whirlwind Barbarian relies only on the damage from Whirlwind It does not get damage from Lucky Hit or Earthquakes. The Earthquakes are only used to buff Whirlwind Damage. It is designed to clear Torment 4 overworld activities such as Helltides, Nightmare Dungeons, The Undercity and more.

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
  • Fun to Play
  • Very Mobile
  • Can be gear dependant

Build Variants

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

HelmAspect of the Iron Warrior
Chest armorAspect of Grasping Whirlwind
GlovesAspect of Inner Calm
PantsJuggernaut's Aspect
BootsWildbolt Aspect
AmuletConceited Aspect
Ring 1Bold Chieftain's Aspect
Ring 2Dust Devil's Aspect
Bludgeoning weaponAspect of Earthquakes
Dual wield weapon 1Vehement Brawler's Aspect
Dual wield weapon 2Aspect of Fierce Winds
Slashing weaponAspect of the Dire Whirlwind

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.

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

Pure Whirlwind

1) Start with Rallying Cry to generate fury from Tibault's Will
2) Use Whirlwind and hold down the key-bind for it.
3) Your Shouts should not be used all at once. Guttural Yell in your Skill Tree reduces damage that
enemies do when they are effected by Shouts.
4) Use Iron Skin when you take heavy damage.
5) Do not spam Whirlwind, make sure there are monsters around that you can hit or you will run out of Fury.
Fury is generated through Glyphs, Abilities, and Taking Damage

How it Works

Pure Whirlwind Damage

This build will be running on a Two-handed Mace set up. That means your Two-handed Mace will be selected for Whirlwind. This will allow you to take advantage of Heavy Handed and Wallop

Defense

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

Offense

  • Whirlwind will be your main source of damage with this build.
  • Many sources of your damage will rely on having a lot of resource generation.
  • Resource Generators: Rallying Cry, Wrath of the Berserker, Wrath,
    Aspects that run off Fury
  • Conceited Aspect gives you increased damage while you have a Barrier. We will be getting Barrier from Iron Skin
  • Vehement Brawler's Aspect gives you damage whenever you Cast your ultimate skill.
  • Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind will give you additional Critical Hit Chance and Critical Strike Damage as long as you are Channeling Whirlwind.
  • Aspect of Earthquakes will give you additional damage for your Whirlwind when you stand inside of an Earthquake and for 4 seconds after you leave that Earthquake. With Igni sometimes the Earthquake will not be underneath you, so you'll need to Whirlwind over the Earthquake to gain your buff.

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

Rune Combinations

Overworld Content (Nightmare Dungeons, Helltides, Hordes e.t.c)

  • Bac + Lum
  • Igni + Tec

Pit Pushing Runes

  • Bac + Tec
  • Igni + Thul

Uniques

  • Gohr's Devastating Grips will make Whirlwind explode every three second. This is reduced by .2 second every time Whirlwind lands a Critical Strike. With enough Attack Speed and Critical Hit Chance you can explode and gain extra damage every one second, instead of three.
  • Tibault's Will is both offensive and defensive at the same time. It does provide Damage Reduction as well as the Unique Aspect gives you increased damage whenever you become Unstoppable. You'll gain the Unstoppable buff from Wrath of the Berserker, Iron Skin and Rallying Cry. This damage increase lasts for the entire duration of your Unstoppable buff, and then stays active for 5 seconds after. This also restores 50 Fury every time you use it while you are NOT Unstoppable. If you are already Unstoppable and you use and ability that grants Unstoppable it does not restore and Fury.
  • Ramaladni's Magnum Opus is an incredibly strong unique if build correctly. It increases your damage by up to .5% per point of Fury you have. The Unique Aspect is the most important part of this weapon, followed by the Maximum Resources. On build that get close to 400 Fury this weapon offers 200% increased damage.
  • Rage of Harrogath has a chance to reset your Cooldowns every time you apply Bleed from Whirlwind.

Mythic Uniques

  • Ring of Starless Skies adds damage to all of your abilities after you spend primary resources.
  • Heir of Perdition will be a great source of critical strike chance as well as a big source of multiplicative damage.

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Information Resource

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Changelog

Optimized and updated for Season 11

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