Mighty Throw Barbarian Endgame Build Guide

Season 8 is the Season of Belial's Return. It allows you to tap into Boss Powers obtained from World, Event, and Lair Bosses throughout Sanctuary. The new seasonal mechanic, Apparition Incursions, is available at any difficulty level and gives you the opportunity to unlock a subset of these powers very early on. Various Apparition Monsters appear in these special timed events throughout Sanctuary. Defeating these monsters spawns 1 of 10 Apparition Bosses to hunt you down and defeating them grants you their Boss Power. After defeating the first Boss, continue the event for a chance to fight a second Apparition Boss, after which Belial himself joins the fray.

There are 24 Boss Powers available and the first time you defeat one of these Bosses, you claim their power for yourself. Boss Powers each have Main and Modifier effects to boost your build. 13 are available in all difficulties (from Apparition Incursions and World Bosses), while 11 can only be acquired in Torment 1 difficulty or higher from Lair Bosses and Lilith. You can equip 1 Main Power and 3 Modifiers, and all powers can be upgraded up to Rank 20, increasing the potency of both the Main and Modifier effect. You use Spectral Ash to upgrade these powers, dropped from Apparition Incursions and by defeating any Bosses. Boss Powers also scale with your Paragon Level, growing stronger as you progress.

Best-in-Slot Boss Powers

Alternate Boss Powers

• Lilith's Wind of Hate - As a Main Power, it can used in the later stages of the game if you're looking for serviceable Physical based damage wave that also consistently triggers our Modifiers.
• Hatred's Embrace's Haste - As a Modifier, this Power dramatically increases Critical Strike Chance until we get our endgame items.
• Flesh Reaper's Disruption - As an always active Modifier, it can used in any stages of the build as long as you think of tempering Crowd Control Duration (Chest). Given our permanent Vulnerable uptime this is a solid choice.

Skill Rotation

Mighty Throw having multiple archetypes with each their own specific gameplay, we'll explain those using below tabs.

Arsenal System

The Arsenal System allows us to use a specific weapon for every attack skill, with each weapon granting different bonuses. We also have what is called the Technique Slot. With this, we can use any weapon of our choosing to always reap the benefit from, regardless of which weapon we have equipped.

The Two-Handed Mace Expertise is our main weapon of choice; it gives a solid 15% Critical Strike damage multiplier, has one of the best weapon-based offensive Glyphs available to us Crusher and benefits from Wallop. For the purpose of this guide, Mighty Throw and Whirlwind should be set to this weapon.

In the Technique Slot, the Two-Handed Axe allows us to deal 10% more damage to Vulnerable enemies. This build naturally has high Vulnerable uptime thanks to Expose Vulnerability, so this is a no-brainer. Unfortunately, its secondary effect does not apply here - the limitation of the Technique Slot is that it does not allow us to benefit from the second bonus that is normally gained from reaching rank 10 with any weapon expertise.

Use the slider to see the progression steps. At around Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

You can have up to two Runewords in your setup, each consisting of one Ritual and one Invocation Rune. Socket them in Two-Handed Weapons if your build calls for them, otherwise place them into your Armor pieces to replace normal gems. The Mighty Throw Barbarian focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Poc + Qax - This Runeword gives us an incredible One-second lasting x2 damage modifier, which perfectly works for our Mighty Throw playstyle when lined up properly.
• Cir + Xal - Once again, a perfect fit as Cir gives exactly the requirement amount and syncs nicely with our playstyle (4 buffs + 1 Whirlwind before 1 Mighty Throw)

Alternative choices

If you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:

• Igni - Can replace any of the previously mentioned Ritual Rune but it might bring delays to your Runewords activation

To enable the Mighty Throw Barbarian to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. The green arrow ↑ indicates which affix is most impactful to Masterwork Crit, and it does not indicate how many Masterwork Crits you need on that particular affix. Keep in mind that certain stats, such as Armor, Resistances, Extra Size Tempers, Attack Speed, and more, have caps that may affect your priorities according to the items and Paragon points available at that moment.

Recommended Endgame Stat Thresholds

Item Progression Goals

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Mighty Throw Barbarian, take a look at this overview of the items used in the build. See below for further details about the different progression steps and variants. Some of your Skill Tree choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. Keep in mind that while we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the exact progression is different for everyone.

This section is designed to guide your Mighty Throw Barbarian from a fresh level 60 into the very late endgame using the variants Ancestral and Mythic. At the final step, you should be fully decked out with a great all-rounder build. From there, follow the other min/max variants if you want to optimize around certain activities such as Boss Killing, Pit Pushing, Speedfarming and more.

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.

How do I assign skills to the correct weapon?

Snapshotting?

Mechanics

Much of the information in this section has been carefully and thoroughly tested by Icytroll and is extracted directly from the Barbarian Compendium. This should be your main source for the most accurate and up-to-date explanations on all mechanics that pertain to the Barbarian class.

I thought Warrior Mighty Throw was nerfed ?

The Mighty Throw Barbarian is an absolute beast in pretty much all content. Here's why it is a great build:

• High damage output from its guaranteed Overpowers provided by Bash.
• High defense from multiple Damage Reduction, Maximum Life sources (Doombringer), as well as permanent Fortify and Barrier.
• High mobility with Rallying Cry and Shroud of False Death.
• Two distinctive "signature" playstyles, one of them being incredibly buffed in Season 8 through the addition of Bane of Ahjad-Den and Delayed Extinction.
• High Ultimate and Vulnerable uptime.
• Good synergy with the Season 8 Boss Powers, bringing a few interesting interactions and many multipliers.

Originally Written by snail

Currently Updated by Beatdropper