In Season 3, you obtain the Seneschal Construct through the Season Questline, then collect Governing Stones or Tuning Stones to add attacks and augment them to support your build. Only certain Tuning Stones work with a particular Governing Stone. Look at the bottom of any Tuning Stone tooltip to see if it is compatible with your Construct's currently equipped Stones. Lastly, they can be leveled up by getting duplicates to max out their power. Check out our full Season 3 guide for more information.

Lightning Bolt - we can substitute this Governing Stone in for Tempest if we don't have it yet.

If we are missing any of the Tuning Stones attached to Tempest or Lightning Bolt, then we can run any of the follow Tuning Stones in place of the ones that are missing:

Reconstruct - This Governing Stone is a reasonable alternative to Flash of Adrenaline if you don't have that yet, or if you're more comfortable focusing on defense instead of DPS.

Safeguard Support - This Tuning Stones is a good option instead of Genesis if you don't have it.

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.

In the Technique Slot, the Two-Handed Axe allows us to gain a significant bonus to our damage against Vulnerable enemies. 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. Make sure to train your Two-Handed Axe expertise up to level 10 to gain the full bonus. You can do this by hitting monsters with a Two-Handed Axe. This should take less than an hour.

The Two-Handed Mace is our best option for Upheaval because many nodes, glyphs, affixes and skills provide synergy between Overpower and Two-Handed Mace.

Our Two-Handed Slashing weapon is the best option for Charge. We must select something other than the weapon that Upheaval is using, in order to satisfy the requirements of Earthstriker. We do not want to use One-Handed Weapons because they don't hit as hard, and don't benefit from Heavy Handed and Brute Force.

For Lunging Strike, we want to use our One-Handed Weapons because they are fastest, which allows us to generate Fury quickly.

This build recommends the Ultimate Passive skill Unbridled Rage, which doubles the cost of Upheaval from 40 Fury to 80 Fury . If you do not have very much Resource Generation or do not have Tibault's Will, then casting Charge will not give you the Fury you need to cast Upheaval. Until then, you will need to spam Lunging Strike when Charge and Upheaval are not available.

The base cooldown of Chargel] is 17 seconds, so we need to significantly reduce its cooldown in order to use it as a generator. The Legendary Aspect Bear Clan Berserker makes a big difference, as do Ranks of Charge on pants and Ranks of Brawling Skills on amulets. The affix Cooldown Reduction on amulets and helms helps too. Prioritize these affixes in order to make this build viable. If we stack enough of those bonuses, it's possible to reduce the cooldown of Charge to zero seconds.

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

Find the following Legendary Aspects either as a random drop or by gambling with Obols. If you find a legendary aspect that's a perfect roll, save it. In addition, if you find any of the aspects listed above or below at any quality, save it unless you already have one of that quality in your codex.

Acquire the following Unique items either as a random drop or by farming specific Boss drops.
Note: You cannot gamble Unique items with obols!

The following se can be farmed from from Duriel, King of Maggots, so when you're ready for that challenge, head on over to the Duriel, King of Maggots Boss Guide to learn more.

Banished Lord's Talisman is incredible for this build. It gives huge amounts of Overpower Damage, Resource Generation, and Critical Strike Chance, all of which we need. On top of that, it gives us another 2 ranks to Upheaval. None of those great affixes can usually be found on amulets. The best part, however, is the unique aspect, which gives us another source of guaranteed Overpower, and more than doubles the damage of any Overpower that also critically hits. However, if equipping this amulet means losing Cooldown Reduction and Ranks of Brawling Skills, it might slow down our Charge, and make this build less viable.

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.

Hardcore requires you to build into more defenses. Here are some tips to successfully navigate this build through potentially dangerous situations:

Learn all you need to know about how to scale this build into endgame.

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 a lot 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 Upheaval Barbarian is a unique build that feels both chill and explosive. Capable of destroying anything and everything with the click of a button, the only downside is its long reload time. Assuming you spend that reload time running from one pile of destruction to the next unexplored room, you don't really feel any drawbacks. Pray you land a Hellhammer, because this build is a real blast!

Written by Slothmaster
Reviewed by Wudijo and Snail