In Season 4, the Season Theme revolves around helping out the Iron Wolves. Compared to past themes, this one does not offer any borrowed power as the entire game has been redesigned with new itemization and crafting options, increasing player power substantially across the board. Instead, you can gather reputation similar to the Vampire Bounty Board from Season 2 to unlock rewards that supercharge your leveling journey to 100 with extra items, crafting materials and eventually even a Resplendent Spark to craft an uber unique.

We recommend to follow the seasonal questline until you unlock the reputation system, check which rewards suit you most and then follow your regular leveling path. To learn more, check out our full Season 4 guide for more information.

The general gameplay rotation with this build is .

Rupture allows us to take advantage of high enemy density and avoid waiting for enemies to slowly bleed to death. This skill is best used on a boss after stacking enough Bleeds to kill them. The other time to use this skill is when we have piled up a large number of enemies in a small area. Enhanced Rupture creates one AOE of Bleed damage for each enemy hit by Rupture. The Bleed damage of a single AOE is comparable to Rend, and if multiple enemies are hit, there will be multiple AOEs. The explosion AOE is much larger than the initial hit, so it's not uncommon to hit 4 or more enemies, and cause 4 AOEs that each hit 10 or more enemies.

The Barbarian Weapon Technique slot allows the player to choose a Weapon Expertise Effect that applies to all of their attacks, regardless of which weapon they are using. We select Two-Handed Axe Expertise. Make sure to use a Two-Handed Axe while leveling up in order to level up the Two-Handed Axe Expertise all the way to level 10.

Once we switch from the Rend leveling build with Walking Arsenal to the endgame build with Gushing Wounds, we no longer have a reason to swap weapons. At that time, we assign our Two-Handed Slashing Weapon to all of our offensive abilities because of the many bonuses we get from Expertise.

Slaking allows us to passively generate Fury when hitting enemies. This is particularly effective in AOE situations. In addition, the affix "Resource Cost Reduction" Efficient weapons has a huge impact on our efficiency by reducing the Fury cost of Rend to around 20. Ideally, we'll be able to spam Rend without needing to use Flay to generate Fury.

We depend on shouts for much of our functionality and survivability. To reduce the cooldowns of our shouts, we use Bold Chieftain and Rage of Harrogath. This is highly effective in AOE. It's even possible to get 100% uptime on all three of our shouts when hitting enough enemies at once.

These solutions depend on Lucky Hits, and the more enemies we hit, the more chances we have to trigger those effects. Unfortunately, Rend has a very small area of effect. It's important to get "Rend Size" tempering affix on weapons to help solve these problems.

Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 when they reach level 15!

We need to level up our Glyphs to increase their power and activate their Additional Bonus with surrounding nodes. Glyphs have a radius of 3 by default, this increases to 4 at Glyph level 15. Complete Nightmare Dungeons to obtain Glyph experience.

Note that there are some Glyph position swaps and a few adjustments to surrounding Paragon nodes once they reach level 15. See the last two steps in the Paragon progression above for details. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build.

When you start diving into the Endgame, you don't have all the tools available to achieve the final build versions. Let us guide you through different progression points to give you a smooth transition from our Leveling Guides to the final build version.

Starting at level 50, we'll need to take a few steps to bring this build fully online. we'll need to start collection all of our aspects. Third we need to fight tough bosses to target farm our Uniques. Finally, we should farm Nightmare Dungeons to level up our glyphs.

Unlock the following Aspects from Dungeons if you haven't already added them to your codex by salvaging a Legendary item with that Aspect

Find the following Legendary Aspects either as a random drop or by gambling with Obols.

Acquire the following Unique items either as a random drop or by farming specific Boss drops.

If you're lucky enough to obtain the following Uber Uniques, they're useful for the build

Follow the build's gearing progression from level 50 to 100, including the changes that need to be made as you obtain Legendary Aspects and Uniques.

Learn about the important build scaling mechanics and stat weights.

Choosing the right stats for your gear can make or break your build. You won't always find perfect stats (also known as affixes or modifiers) though, and you may need to make a tough choice between two good pieces of equipment. Use the following list of priorities to compare your gear and pick the best.

This build benefits the most from the following consumables:

Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.

The Rend Barbarian is a tough and versatile fighter that rewards patience and scales very well with endgame gear. When we get Rage of Harrogath and Ring of the Ravenous, this build really takes off. Rend and Rupture deal devastating damage while Rallying Cry, War Cry and Challenging Shout make us unstoppable killing machines.

Written by Slothmaster

Reviewed by Snail