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Diablo 4 Build

Mekuna's HotA Barbarian Rank 1

Season 11

Barbarian

End Game

Mekuna

Creator

By Mekuna

Updated on Jan 12, 2026

Jan 12, 2026

Build Overview

Hammer of the Ancients melts everything that dares to come in your way, making Fury a deadly weapon and a infinite source of health. Well managed, this build is a limitless source of destruction, making your tower's climb smooth.

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This is a Tower/Pit pushing build that requires full gear to function properly.
I recommend using the Lunging Strike build to progress through T1–T4 and endgame content to farm the gear needed for this build.

Pit129 clear by [INF] Chainsama

Credits: [INF] Touming and Beatdropper

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strongest Barb build
Lots of Uniques

Gear Dependant
Need a lot of sanctifications

Build Variants

The Pit-Pushing variant of the build focuses entirely on reaching the highest pit levels. Not recommended for any other purpose.
Melted Heart of Selig and the Sanctification is mandatory to play this build.

Assigned Skills

Primary

Secondary

Technique

Skill Rotation

Press Call of the Ancients, Ground Stomp, War Cry and Mighty Throw whenever availlable for buffs
Spam Hammer of the Ancients to DPS mobs. Explode Earthquake for a big damage buff.
Press Frenzy each 3 seconds for Attack Speed buff.

Equipment

HelmHarlequin Crest

Chest armorMantle of Mountain's Fury

GlovesAspect of Earthquakes

PantsTibault's Will

Boots100,000 Steps

AmuletMelted Heart of Selig

Ring 1Ring of Starless Skies

Ring 2Aspect of Anger Management

Bludgeoning weaponAspect of Ancestral Force

Dual wield weapon 1Ramaladni's Magnum Opus

Dual wield weapon 2Sabre of Tsasgal

Slashing weaponThe Grandfather

Double Selig (Gear + Sanctification) is mandatory ! Without, you can go Battle Trance 'til you get both.
You're looking for Ring of Starless Skies sanctification on a two-handed weapon. If you don't have that, you can keep using Crown of Lucion for a bit more damage. Once you have it, Heir of Perdition can become a great option instead of Harlequin Crest, it's up to you and your luck on sanctification. Harlequin Crest stays as a solid option overall.

Sanctification

Sanctification lets you imbue your item with the power of the High Heavens. When you Sanctify an item, it can:

Add a random Legendary power
Upgrade an Affix into a Greater Affix
Add a special Sanctification Affix
Replace one of your Affixes with a Sanctification Affix (only Legendary items)
Add bonus Quality (5-25)

Masterworking

Masterworking (MW) upgrades the quality of an item. Each MW rank increases the base stats and all affixes by 1%, up to 25% at rank 25. Fully Masterworking an item gives an extra 50% upgrade to a random affix, which can even be a Tempering Affix.

Use the Masterworking menu at the Blacksmith. You can reset the final Masterwork, so feel free to reroll it until you hit one of the recommended stats for the extra 50% bonus.

Elixirs and Incenses

ElixirElixir of Advantage

Core IncenseAncient Times

Defensive IncenseSong of the Mountain

Resistance IncenseSoothing Spices

Skill Tree

Available

0 (0)

Spent59 (12)

Leveling Path

Paragon Board

Level all your Glyphs to 15 first, one by one.
Then take each Glyph to 46, also one by one.
Once all of them are 46, you can level them evenly to 100, the order doesn’t really matter at that point. Make sure to unlock all the Legendary Nodes first.