Whirlwind

The Whirlwind Barbarian is insanely strong and fast. This planner will teach you how to put together all the gear, skills and paragon boards for this iconic skill. This planner will also help you solve all your Fury Management issues, explain aspects that may be a little confusing and cover what weapons to set your skills to. There are several variations in the planner so read through.

The Barbarians this season will all be running some variation of the Melted Heart of Selig + Endurant Faith or Endurant Faith. While this is not a requirement it does make very tanky. The Melted Heart of Selig was changed, so you will no longer be "Immortal", but it is still the best defensive option. Each planner will have variants without it, but this will be your end-game version you're striving for.

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War Plans Setup: Video Guide

Leveling guide: Whirlwind Leveling Guide

Build Overview

This build runs relies on Rallying Cry to give us insane amounts of movement speed and Fury Generation. All the damage we use to increase Whirlwind also increases Tornado Whirlwind. We gain those damage increases from Mighty Roar War Cry, Damage Bonus Challenging Shout and Berserking Wrath of the Berserker. All of this combines together for some massive damage!

Variant Breakdown:

• Legendary is your starter build as you transition outside of your leveling build.
• Unique is your mid-game transitioning to your late game build.
• Mythic will be your entry level end-game build. This variant is where you transition into Melted Heart of Selig. This variant still runs Maximum Life.
• Selig is your final goal. Running Melted Heart of Selig eventually gives the most survivability and damage even though it runs zero Maximum Life.
• • If you find yourself dying with this variant because of Iron Skin adding Maximum Life you can replace it with Leap. You can take Arsenal Bonus Leap and Crusher for a little extra damage.

Defense Options

Set up #1 (Most Tanky):

• Aspect of Heavenly Strength on Amulet
• Rage of Harrogath on Chest
• Aspect of Berserk Ripping on Ring
• Full Throttle Wrath of the Berserker
• Aspect of Coagulation on Pants

Set up #2 (Less Tanky More Damage)

• Aspect of Heavenly Strength on Pants
• Rage of Harrogath on Chest
• Heavy Hitting Aspect on Amulet
• Full Throttle Wrath of the Berserker
• Aspect of Walloping on Ring (Pit Push) Aspect of Berserk Ripping (Farming)

Cooldown Option

This will not be as tanky as the set up in the Equipment section of the planner:

• Rage of Harrogath
• Raging Challenging Shout
• Full Throttle Wrath of the Berserker
• Aspect of Berserk Ripping on your Ring

Arsenal Selection

Your Arsenal selection will be Two-handed Mace.

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

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

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

Aspect Interaction

• Earthstriker's Aspect give you a damage bonus without swapping weapons. You just need to have the Overpower buff on to activate the second half of the aspect.
• Weapon Master give you a damage bonus without swapping weapons.
• Battle-Mad Aspect gives you damage bonus while you're Berserking you do not need to swap weapons.
• Blood Rage gains damage as long as you have Berserking active. Applying damage over time is not needed to gain the extra damage bonus.

Fury Management

Affixes

• Resource Generation will help increase the amount of Fury you gain and pairs really well with Rallying Cry.
• Fury Regeneration needs to be added onto the Helmet, Chest piece, Pants and Boots.
• Do not spam Whirlwind if you are not near monsters if you can't maintain Fury.
• You can also use Tempers that add Lucky hit chance to restore primary resources.
• If you do not have Ring of Starless Skies you can always add in a couple of Resource Cost Reduction affixes onto your Two-handed Weapons to mimic that effect.

War Plan Video

Loot Filters:

Early post 70 loot filter (All 850 items, in T1):

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Mid game loot filter (Torment 4 to 8):

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Late game Loot Filter (Torment 8 to 12):

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Gear Upgrading Resource

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Gear Upgrade Farming Method

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Boss Loot Tables Barbarian & General Pools

• 10-Mar-2026 updated and optimized for Season 12
• 30-Apr-2026 updated all tempers changed Ire to Cleaver, one handed weapon set to Axe / Ramaladni's Magnum Opus
• 1-May-2026 removed Crown of Lucion and replaced with Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty in Mythic variant
• 2-May-2026 updated all weapon tempers. Swapped Empowered Call of the Ancients to Highlander Call of the Ancients
• 3-May-2026 updated affixes and tempers across each variant. Added half diamonds to weapons for gems. Optimized all paragon boards across all variants for more damage and survivability.
• 7-May-2026 update for Limitless rage
• 8-May-2026 update gems and replaced all instances of All Damage Multiplier with Physical Damage Multiplier as they are part of the same bucket and Physical Damage Multiplier is the higher damage percent.
• 13th of May 2026 Updated for Patch 3.0.2
• 21-May-2026 Arsenal Integration has been added in. All skills have been assigned. added Bac + Ohm with Vulnerable War Cry and Exploit.
• 3-Jul-2026 Swapped Weapons Master board to Force of Nature. Updated Fury Management
• 5-Jul-2026 added in current live game set up with changes to Mythics. Use this section to prepare for Selig variant.
• 10-Jul-2026 replaced Wyrdskin with Fists of Fate due to a possible bug with Wyrdskin killing the user.