Savage Frenzy Barbarian Guide

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. Gather the full Horde of the Ninety Savages set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. The full Horde of the Ninety Savages set
2. Create a level 1 Barbarian and gamble for Band of Might
3. The Undisputed Champion
4. Depth Diggers
5. Mortick's Brace and Nemesis Bracers
6. Goldwrap
   
   

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

1. Two-Handed Mighty Weapons to get Bastion's Revered
2. Mighty Weapons to get Oathkeeper
3. Create a level 1 Demon Hunter and upgrade Swords to get In-geom
4. Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.
   
   

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

• Act 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
• Act 2: Gloves of Worship
• Act 3: Avarice Band
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny (for your follower)
  

6. There is one final required piece to piece to acquire, The Flavor of Time. With amulets being so expensive to gamble and craft, we'll have to search for it to drop in Nephalem and Greater Rifts. It can drop on any class so try to group up with friends when possible to share your loot!

7. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:

• Oathkeeper
• Band of Might
• Squirt's Necklace

• Simplicity's Strength is the highest flat damage gem in the game if you are using any sort of Primary Skill. That's what we do, so this one is a no-brainer as it also provides an insane amount of healing thanks to our high Attack Speed.
• Bane of the Trapped is the most common damage gem, and as we are a melee character, the rank 25 effect will slow all enemies within 15 yards providing us a flat 1.6 damage multiplier.
• Bane of the Stricken is very useful in this build due to our high Attack Speed breakpoints allowing us to stack it quickly. It is used as RGK and in the Solo Push variant.
• Other popular choices are Boon of the Hoarder for Torment farming and Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard for a shield in combination with Squirt's Necklace for double damage, toughness & insane healing. On a fresh season you can start out with a Bane of the Powerful as well.

• Frenzy is your main damage dealer. The 15% Attack Speed you gain to Frenzy per stack (up to 10 times with Bastion's Revered) is additive with itself but a separate Attack Speed multiplier overall and does not diminish the effect of Attack Speed rolls on gear.
• Battle Rage Bloodshed and Threatening Shout Falter have their effectiveness doubled by the Horde of the Ninety Savages (2) Bonus increasing our overall damage significantly.
• War Cry also has its effectiveness doubled by the Horde of the Ninety Savages (2) Bonus giving us an even larger defensive buff.
• Most Builds Variations also use Wrath of the Berserker as an overall stat boost and to gain Crowd Control immunity. You want to pair this skill with Boon of Bul-kathos and complementary cooldown items like In-geom.
• The last skill slot is very situational. Most builds use Furious Charge for mobility and to activate Band of Might or a resource spender like Rend for Focus & Restraint.

• Rampage is the strongest Barbarian passive there is with its 25% buff to total Strength. It provides a massive boost to both offense and defense (Armor).
• Berserker Rage since you are almost always at full Fury with your fury generating/fast attacking Frenzy.
• Boon of Bul-kathos helps achieve 100% Wrath of the Berserker uptime.
• Other damage options include Brawler, Ruthless, Berserker Rage or Nerves of Steel as a defensive touch.

¹ Add a bit of Vitality if you feel too squishy (a total of 750,000 Life is recommended).

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

1. The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
2. Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25.000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10.000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
3. Guardian's Jeopardy (3) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
4. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
5. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
6. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
7. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

With these in mind, let’s get into our recommendations for this build.
Select Follower

Stack your Frenzy up to 10 times with your Bastion's Revered. Bastion's Revered will make Frenzy chain to up to 10 nearby enemies. This is your only damage dealing skill!

All other skills are there to buff your toughness, damage and movement speed. Keep up most buffs with cooldowns like Wrath of the Berserker, Battle Rage and War Cry. Use Furious Charge or Ground Stomp to keep Band of Might and Focus & Restraint buff. These stun abilities can also be used to proc the Horde of the Ninety Savages (2) Bonus to deal more damage, especially when timed with the Convention of Elements rotation. Use Threatening Shout Falter on elites and on the Rift Guardian as well as trash pulls especially if you play in a group.

This build can be played in Hardcore but is not particularly HC friendly. Make sure to always use Band of Might and run Nerves of Steel.

Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• Bastion's Revered allows you to get 10 Frenzy stacks, doubling the (4) and (6) Bonuses for 60% damage reduction and 10,000% increased damage.
• Bastion's Revered chains damage instances can proc Area Damage and Bloodshed. Furthermore, every chain damage instance can critically hit.
• When the game refers to Shouts, it refers to the skills from the Tactics category: War Cry, Threatening Shout and Battle Rage.
• Enemies take double damage only from Barbarians using the Horde of the Ninety Savages (2) Bonus and only when they are affected by a Fear, Freeze or Stun. Make sure to understand Crowd Control Resistance!
• Horde of the Ninety Savages (2) Bonus doubles the effectiveness of Shouts. Effectiveness doesn't include base buff effect duration nor range. As the term effectiveness is rather blur and only refers to specific effects, let's take a closer look at what we get in practice:
• For Battle Rage, every number except duration and range is doubled.
• War Cry
  • Base effect of 20% Armor bonus gets buffed to 40%.
  • Hardened Wrath 5 second Armor bonus gets buffed to 120%.
  • Charge! is not affected and still generates 50 Fury.
  • Invigorate's Life % and Life Regeneration are doubled.
  • Impunity grants 40% All Resistance.
  • Veteran's Warning Dodge Chance is buffed to an impressive 60%.
• Threatening Shout
  • Base effect of 20% Reduced Enemy Damage is buffed to 40%.
  • Demoralize Taunt and Terrify Fear duration both get doubled.
  • Intimidate 60% Movement Speed Slow becomes a tremendous 90% Slow.
  • Grim Harvest Health Globe spawn chance goes from 15% to 30%.
  • Falter 25% additive damage buff becomes a 50% buff.

• When Dual Wielding, you gain a +15% additive Attack Speed bonus. The Attack Speed calculation looks like this for each Weapon:

APS = Base Weapon Speed * IAS on Weapon * ( 1 + ( Additive Attack Speed ) / 100 )
APS RGK Mighty Weapon : 1.3 * 1,07 * ( 1 + (10 + 25 + 15 + 7 + 7 ) / 100) = 2.28
APS RGK Pig Sticker :  1.6 * 1.07 * (1 + ( 10 + 25 + 15 + 7 + 7 ) / 100) = 2.63

• Now your Weapons alternate with each Frenzy hit. For in-depth Attack Speed mechanics check out this post by Northwar!

• A great offensive skill that has been reworked a lot in the past due to multiple bugs like double dipping some damage multipliers such as Elite damage and Physical Elemental damage.
• Horde of the Ninety Savages (2) Bonus further enhances Battle Rage.
• Releases a 20 yard wave around your character every second.
• Does not proc Area Damage and diminishes its effectiveness.
• The damage is calculated from a sum of the critical hits performed during the last second.
• The damage wave itself is not further amplified by any damage bonus, including Physical Elemental damage, as its damage calculation is based off of your hits, which are already buffed.

• Gives 35% damage reduction.
• Has a 4 seconds duration for a 4 seconds internal cooldown.
• Has approximately 10% chance to proc when hit.
• Stacks with Ignore Pain.
• Does not provide Crowd Control Immunity.