Mighty Throw – Barbarian Build for Diablo 4 (Season 11)

Build Introduction

Welcome to the comprehensive guide for the Mighty Throw Barbarian for Diablo 4! If you miss the old Diablo game’s “Throwbarian” style builds, then this is the build for you. Thanks to some new unique items, big damage, and a semi-ranged playstyle, this build brings all the fun of tossing tons of weapons around and crushing demons all around you with the safety of not having to be totally in melee, getting hit in return. With that, let’s take a look at how to set up this “Throwbarian” build!

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

The Third Blade

Tibault’s Will

Ugly Bastard Helm

Bane of Ahjad-Den

Required Aspects (Non-codex)

Aspect of Herculean Spectacle

Aspect of Delayed Extinction

Aspect of Earthquakes

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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Suggested Skill Bar

Mighty ThrowHammer of the AncientsWhirlwindWrath of the BerserkerGround StompWar Cry

Follow the points allocated in the image shown above for the complete 71 point build. The additional 12 skill points are completed using the Renown system.

Barbarian Class Mechanic – The Arsenal System

The Barbarian can wield four weapons simultaneously as well as choose a weapon expertise to use as their Technique allowing them to gain that weapon’s bonus even if they’re wielding another weapon type. Finally, the Barbarian can assign its skills to use different weapon types shuffling between Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapons, Two-Handed Slashing Weapons, and Dual-Wield Weapons.

For the Mighty Throw build, we will be using the Two-Handed Axe in our Technique slot for the bonus damage against Vulnerable Damage.

We will want to assign our Mighty Throw skill to use our Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon so we can benefit from Wallop

Whirlwind can be assigned to anything as we’re only using it to empower our Mighty Throw

Hammer of the Ancients can only use a Bludgeoning Weapon so we have no choice here

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Gear, Stats, Gems, and Runes

The following sections will cover all systems that are critical if you want to improve the power of your character and move towards the highest difficulties in the endgame of Diablo 4.

Legendary Aspects

Below you will find all of the best-in-slot Aspects found on Legendary items that are important for this build. Remember that all Legendary powers can be added into your Codex of Power once you salvage the items. You can still find some aspects through dungeons though they will always be at the minimum power level. To get the most out of this system, combine these Aspects with the right stats.

Gear Slot	Gems	Aspect / Unique	Aspect / Unique Power
Helm	Grand Ruby	Ugly Bastard Helm	– Casting Wrath of the Berserker causes you to explode dealing [X]Fire damage. While Wrath of the Berserker is active your direct damage is converted into Fire. You deal x[40-60%] increased Fire damage
Chest	Grand Ruby	Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind	– Whirlwind pulls enemies to you every [6-3] seconds
Gloves	N/A	Bane of Ahjad-Den	– Every 6 seconds, your next Mighty Throw detonates its pulses instantly as fire damage and deals [200-300%] increased damage
Pants	Grand Ruby	Tibault’s Will	– You deal [10-20%] increased damage while Unstoppable and for 5 seconds after. When you become Unstoppable, gain 50 of your Primary Resource
Boots	N/A	Relentless Berserker’s Aspect	– Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy with a Core Skill has up to a [15-35%] chance to extend the duration of Berserking by 2 seconds. Double this duration if it was a Critical Strike
Amulet	Grand Diamond	Aspect of Encroaching Wrath	– After spending 100 Fury, your next Weapon Mastery or Brawling Skill within 8 seconds deals x[40-80%] increased damage
Ring 1	Grand Diamond	Bold Chieftain’s Aspect	– Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its active Cooldown is reduced by [10-30%] per nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 70%
Ring 2	Grand Diamond	Ring of Red Furor	– After spending 100 Fury within 5 seconds, your next Non-Channeled Core or Weapon Mastery skill cast within 5 seconds is a guaranteed Critical Strike and deals x[50-80%] increased bonus Critical Strike Damage.
Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon	Igni and Qax Runes OR Grand Emerald	Aspect of Delayed Extinction	– Mighty Throw and Steel Grasp now gain multiplicative damage instead of Cooldown from Cooldown Reduction and their damage is increased by another x25%. Additionally, Weapon Mastery skills gain [15-35%]x bonus damage.
Two-Handed Slashing Weapon	Cir and Xal Runes OR Grand Emerald	Aspect of Herculean Spectacle	– Mighty Throw deals x[25-45%] increased damage and hurls an additional 2 weapons
Dual-Wield Weapon 1	Grand Emerald	The Third Blade	– Your Weapon Mastery skills are now also Core Skills that have 100% Cooldown Reduction but cost Fury, dealing [50-70%] of normal damage.
Dual-Wield Weapon 2	Grand Emerald	Aspect of Earthquakes	– Ground Stomp causes an Earthquake that deals [X] Physical damage over 4 seconds. While standing in Earthquakes and for 4 seconds afterwards, you deal x[20-60%] increased damage. Your Earthquakes deal x[20-60%] increased damage.

To see how this build compares to the others on our site, you can check out our Endgame Tier List.

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Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Below are the affixes to prioritize on gear. Each line of affixes is listed in order of importance. Tempering Manuals and their recommended affixes are provided in the second column, and the bolded yellow affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. Be sure to check our Tempering and Masterworking guides for more details about these topics.

Slot	Gear Affixes	Tempering Affixes
Helm	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Strength 3. Maximum Life 4. Resistance to All Elements	Mighty Throw Pulse Size Brute Innovation
Chest	1. Maximum Life 2. Strength 3. Resistance to All Elements 4. Armor	Mighty Throw Pulse Size Brute Innovation
Gloves	1. Overpower Damage 2. Ranks to Core Skills 3. Attack Speed 4. Critical Strike Damage	Critical Strike Damage Worldly Finesse
Pants	1. Maximum Life 2. Strength 3. Resistance to All Elements 4. Armor	Mighty Throw Pulse Size Brute Innovation
Boots	1. Movement Speed 2. Strength 3. Ranks to War Cry 4. Resistance to All Elements	Movement Speed Natural Motion
Amulet	1. Strength % 2. Ranks to Heavy Handed 3. Ranks to Brute Force 4. Cooldown Reduction	1. Weapon Mastery Cooldown Reduction Weapon Mastery Efficiency
Rings	1. Resistance to All Elements 2. Overpower Damage 3. Strength 4. Attack Speed	Wrath of the Berserker cooldown reduction Ultimate Efficiency — Barbarian
Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon	1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Overpower Damage 4. Fury On Kill	Chance for Mighty Throw to deal double damage Weapon Augments
Two-Handed Slashing Weapon	1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Overpower Damage 4. Fury On Kill	Chance for Mighty Throw to deal double damage Weapon Augments
Dual-Wield Weapons	1. Strength 2. Overpower Damage 3. Maximum Life 4. Critical Strike Damage	Ranks to Wallop Vehement Augments

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

Below, you will find information about the various Uniques and Mythic Uniques that are useful to this build. Moreover, if you are interested in target farming Mythic Uniques, check out our How to Farm Mythic Uniques guide.

Uniques

Below you will find the useful uniques for this build.

• The Third Blade – This unique one-handed sword essentially “turns on” this build and normally allows you to spam Mighty Throw with no cooldown, stopped only by our Fury. Due to Aspect of Delayed Extinction that won’t quite be the case, as you will be forced to wait the cooldown of 12 seconds no matter what, but you gain an absolutely massive amount of power for doing so.
• Bane of Ahjad-Den – This causes your Mighty Throw to detonate all of its pulses instantly every 12 seconds for up to 600% more damage. Since we must wait 12 seconds because of Aspect of Delayed Extinction this lines up perfectly. Every throw will trigger Bane’s explosion.
• Ugly Bastard Helm – This helm grants us a large damage bonus while we’re berserking and converts all of our direct damage to fire and then adds another multiplier to all fire damage dealt. This improves both Mighty Throw AND the effect of our new unique Bane.
• Tibault’s Will – These unique pants are still strong today even though they are past their glory days of seasons 2 and 3. They are one of the only pants with a built in damage reduction, granting us some damage reduction while Unstoppable. Most importantly for this build however, they give us a great way to generate resources quickly to spam our throws
• Ring of Red Furor – This ring has been powerful since its introduction but has been coming back into the limelight with recent seasons. This build takes advantage of its guaranteed critical strike and overpower to make sure those land on absolutely massive mighty throws buffed by Bane and Delayed Extinction.

Mythic Uniques

These are the chase rare items in Diablo 4. They have a very low drop rate from most content and a slightly higher drop rate from Tormented Bosses in Torment 1 and beyond. We will be listing only the ones useful to this build. If a mythic unique is not listed here, it is not useful to this build but may be useful to other setups. Let’s take a look.

• Harlequin Crest – The infamous “Shako” helm. For this build its additional ranks of skills, armor, and cooldown reduction provides more than any other helm. The cooldown reduction helps with Shouts and Wrath of the Berserker. However notably, this doesn’t affect Mighty Throw ‘s cooldown because of Aspect of Delayed Extinction but it will add to its damage multiplier in a big way.
• Shroud of False Death – An extremely powerful chest that grants +1 to all passive skills which grants more fury, more damage, more movement speed and everything you could want as a Barbarian. If you’re lucky enough to acquire one of these items replace your normal chest with it immediately. The stealth bonus is also nice while you’re waiting for your next big Mighty Throw cooldown.

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Gems and Runewords

Listed below are the best gems to socket into gear for each slot type.

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Ruby for increased Overpower Damage	Grand Ruby for increased Strength	Grand Diamond for increased All Resistances OR Grand Skull for Armor

Runes

Runewords return from Diablo 2 in Vessel of Hatred! You are limited to two Runewords across your gear and it requires two sockets in the same item. So this limits creating Runewords by combining two Runes to either Helm, Chest, Pants, or Two-Handed Weapons. We generally recommend them in both of your Two-Handed Weapons for Barbarian. Let’s jump in.

Rune Name	Rune Effects
Cir	Gain 300 Offering: Cast 5 Skills then become Exhausted for 3 seconds.
Xal	Requires 300 Offering: Cooldown, 3 seconds. Gain 20% Maximum Life for 6 seconds
Igni	Gain 25 Offering: Stores offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a Non-Basic Skill to gain the stored Offering
Qax	Requires 400 Offering: Cooldown 1 second, Casting a skill other than a Basic or Defensive spends all of your primary resource and increases your damage by up to 100% for 1 second.

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Paragon Board

We recommend using the following Legendary Nodes and Glyphs to truly take this build into the endgame. Note that each glyph’s information and radius listed below is for the level 100 version. As a reminder, glyph’s reach their maximum radius at level 46 and unlock their Legendary Bonuses at level 45. Let’s take a look!

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Season 11 Mechanics

Divine Gifts

As you complete the season journey and fight across Sanctuary you will earn the ire of the lesser evils. Defeating them will grant you corrupted essences which you can then purify into Divine Gifts. There are 8 of these in total and you will have four Purified and four Corrupted allowing you to modify various content and get different boons and reward as a result. For this build our recommended setup is below:

Purified

• Essence of Lies
• Essence of Pain
• Essence of Screams
• Essence of Sin

Corrupted

• Essence of Squalor
• Essence of Shadows
• Essence of Anguish
• Essence of Hellfire

Sanctification

Season 11 brings a new way to “Finish” an item called Sanctification. Any item of item power 750 or higher can be Sanctified, but BE WARNED: Sanctification will make it so that you cannot alter the item any further so it should always be the final step in the crafting process! It provides many powerful options to enhance your builds. While there are no bad outcomes with all Sanctification bonuses providing some power, there are some options that provide larger bonuses than others, so we recommend the follow options if you’re fortunate enough to acquire them:

• Adding %Strength
• Adding Cooldown Reduction
• Adding Aspect of Bul-Kathos as an additional aspect
• Adding Ranks to Weapon Mastery Skills

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Mercenaries

As you play through the campaign in Vessel of Hatred, you will unlock various NPC Mercenaries who can join you on your quest to slay demons. Each Mercenary has their own small talent tree that will give them bonuses and skills to help you. Additionally, you can assign a Mercenary that you don’t take with you as a reinforcement to jump in when you activate certain skills. Let’s take a look at how we want to set this up for this build

We hire Raheir, the Shieldbearer

• Core Skill: Ground Slam
• Core Skill Passive: Raheir’s Aegis
• Iconic Skill: Bastion
• Iconic Skill Passive: Inspiration

Our Reinforcement Mercenary will be Varyana, The Berserker Crone

• Opportunity Skill: War Cry
• Reinforcement Skill: Bloodthirst

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

This new Mighty Throw setup is all about one big throw that detonates whatever is in front of you thanks to the new unique, Bane of Ahjad-Den We want to follow this rotation:

• Maintain Wrath of the Berserker with as much uptime as possible for its damage buffs and berserking
• Move through packs with Whirlwind and to spend Fury for Ring of Red Furor and Aspect of Encroaching Wrath as well as trigger Violent Whirlwind
• Use Hammer of the Ancients on big groups to spend Fury and trigger Ring of Red Furor and Aspect of Encroaching Wrath and to trigger Violent Hammer of the Ancients
• Keep your War Cry up right before you’re able to throw for its damage amplification
• Every 12 seconds with the buffs from Ring of Red Furor, Banished Lord’s Talisman, Violent Whirlwind, and Violent Hammer of the Ancients unleash a Mighty Throw that will nuke the whole screen

Runeword Synergy

• Cir grants us a ton of offering for spamming through our shouts and whirlwind while we’re setting up our big throw.
• Xal uses this massive offering to give us a life sustain buff allowing us to live to set up our huge nuke
• Igni builds 25 offering every 0.3 seconds until we cast a non-basic skill. Lucky for us our Shouts and Mighty Throw are all non-basic skills and this triggers constantly for us.
• Qax spends our resources to allow our next Mighty Throw to do huge damage

Which Elixir Should You Use?

Visit the Alchemist in any main town to craft helpful Elixirs that increase stats, and experience gain for 30 minutes. Make sure to forage plants and pick up the necessary crafting materials during your adventures; they randomly spawn around the world. Use an Elixir providing any Resistance you need most, or Elixir of Destruction II for the extra overpower damage to make your throws hit even harder.

Return to the Alchemist again every 5 to 10 levels to upgrade your potion. The extra healing is essential to survival.

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Season 11 Updates

For a comprehensive look at what’s new in Season 11, its mechanics and theme, new leveling activities, and other changes, check out our comprehensive Season Hub.

Let’s take a closer look at what changed in Season 11 for this setup:

• Bane of Ahjad-Den changed to every 6 seconds from every 12 seconds, and damage bonus reduced from 400-600 to 200-300.
• Damage per 10 Points of Strength changed from 1% to 1.1%
• Blood Rage damage increased from 45% to 60%
• Decimator increased from 20% to 25%
• Weapons Master damage increased from 30% to 45%
• Bone Breaker now occurs every 6 seconds instead of every 12.

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Obol Gambling

A final point on acquiring gear is using your Obols to target farm specific slots instead of randomly spending them on random drops. Similar to Kadala in Diablo 3, you can use Obol vendors in town to try and get what you’re missing. With the expansion when a level 60 Character spends Obols, all gear from that vendor will be 750 item power, the highest non-ancestral power allowing you to fill out gear with the affixes or Legendary Aspects you need while also having a small chance to grant Ancestral item power 800 gear.

Check out our Obol Gambling Tool Guide HERE.

Changelog

• December 4th 2025: Updated for Season 11
• September 20th 2025: Chaos Armors updated
• September 17th 2025: Updated for Season 10
• June 28th 2025: Updated for Season 9
• May 2nd 2025: Updated rune recommendations
• April 25th 2025: Reformatted and updated for Season 8
• March 25th 2025: Tooltip correction for some weapon tempers
• January 19th 2025: Tooltip updates and Seasonal section updated for Season 7
• January 13th 2025: Guide updated for Season 7