After a series of mediocre build options in recent years Diablo 4 seasons, the Barbarians have a bright future in Season 11. Despite losing access to the Chaos Armor when Diablo 4 Season 11 begins, the Barbarian class is poised to become a top contender in the meta thanks to its new Unique. Barbarian players looking for a fast, powerful build in the upcoming season have a clear choice, and it requires very little investment to get completely ripped.
Barbarians are usually known to rotate through shouts to buff themselves and take down enemies before unleashing powerful attacks. Most of the best Barbarian builds Diablo 4 use some combination of War Cry, Challenging Shout, and Rallying Cry with either single-target or AoE damage skills as the core of their hot bar. However, Diablo 4 Season 11 takes these essentials and strips them down to their bare bones for an S-Tier Barbarian build that's surprisingly fast while still being able to tank enemy punches.
LeapQuake Barbarians can quickly become broken thanks to a new Diablo 4 Season 11 unique
LeapQuake Barbarian has been around ever since Diablo 4 launched first, but has been very inconsistent in its usefulness from season to season. This build leans towards the mobility of the Leap skill to consistently reposition and Ground Stomp to spread Earthquake damage around the screen. With Aspect of Earthquake and Executioner's Aspect added to this build, players can add an extra AoE damage at the end of each jump. The only problem is Leap's cooldown, which is a non-factor thanks to the new Chainscourged Mail Unique in Season 11.
The Barbarian's New Chains courged Mail Unique Pants wear this construction
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Chainscourged Mail Unique Pants
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+65 All stats
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+457 Maximum lifespan
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8.8% cooldown reduction
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+3 to Brawling Skills
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Unique Accessory: Casting a damaging Brawling skill disables it afterwards. When all of these skills that are on your Action Bar are disabled, they will be reactivated with their Cooldowns updated. Your Brawling Skills deal 50-100%[x] increased damage for each disabled skill.
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At first glance, it seems like Chainscourged Mail's ability to disable Brawling Skills after they are used would put the barbarian at a disadvantage. However, if the player only has one damaging Brawling skill on their hot bar, this unique affix should allow it to be instantly reactivated. While players won't get much of a boost from having multiple skills disabled, the trade-off of being able to spam Leap without a cooldown far outweighs a temporary damage increase.
The key to making LeapQuake Barbarian so powerful i Diablo 4 Season 11 with Chainscourged Mail limits the number of damaging Brawling Skills equipped while increasing the chance for Earthquakes to trigger. To this end, barbarian players will want to invest in these skills:
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Jump
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Ground Stomp
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Rallying Cry
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War cry
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Challenging shout
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Call of the Ancients
The three shouts on the hot bar are there to fill their usual role of buffing the barbarian and debuffing enemies. Leap is the primary skill that players will want to spam, as it allows the barbarian to be much more mobile than ever before. Ground Stomp acts as a potential earthquake trigger with Aspect of Earthquakes on a legendary. The other earthquake trigger comes from the executioner's aspect, which creates an earthquake when the player overpowers an enemy.
Call of the Ancients is the ultimate skill of choice for this build, as it gives the barbarian additional AoE damage, as well as a 30% damage increase from its Prime upgrade. The battle loop in this build then becomes buffing and debuffing with Shouts, then constantly using Leap to move around the battlefield and avoid enemies while triggering Earthquake as much as possible to melt enemy health bars. While other uniques like Mantle of Mountain's Fury can help support this build, it only takes Chainscourged Mail to overpower LeapQuake Barbarians.
- Released
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June 5, 2023
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, In-Game Purchases, User Interaction
