Walking Arsenal – Barbarian Build for Diablo 4 (Season 11)

Build Introduction

The Walking Arsenal comes back with a vengeance thanks to new synergies and a new unique designed around brawling! Do you like swapping weapons around around for huge damage and making the most use of the Arsenal system? If so, this is the build for you!

Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

Optional Uniques

Ugly Bastard Helm

Hooves of the Mountain God

Sabre of Tsasgal

Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus

Required Aspects (Non-codex)

Aspect of Earthquakes

Battle-Mad Aspect

Aspect of Anger Management

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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Skill Bar Setup for the Walking Arsenal Build (Order does not matter)

Bash Charge Kick Ground Stomp Wrath of the Berserker Leap

Follow the points allocated in the image above for the complete 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 our Walking Arsenal build, we will be assigning the following weapons to our skills.

• Leap assigned to our Dual-Wield Weapons
• Bash must use bludgeoning weapons, so we use our 2-Handed Bludgeoning Weapons
• Charge assigned to our 2-Handed Slashing Weapon
• Ground Stomp and Kick can’t be assigned to specific weapons so we ignore these assignments.

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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 or extract the item. 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.

Slot	Gems	Legendary Aspect / Unique Items	Aspect / Unique Effect
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 dealt is converted into Fire. You deal x[40-60%] increased Fire damage.
Chest	Grand Ruby	Aspect of Anger Management	– While above 50 Fury, you deal x[10-30%] increased damage and are Berserk but 3 Fury drains per second
Gloves	N/A	Veteran Brawler’s Aspect	– Each time a Brawling Skill deals direct damage to an enemy, your Charge, Leap, or Kick deals x[4-10%] increased damage for 5 seconds, up to x[20-50%]
Pants	Grand Ruby	Chainscourged Mail	– Casting a damaging Brawling Skill disables it afterwards. When all of these Skill that are on your Action Bar are disabled, they become re-enabled with their Cooldowns refreshed. Your Brawling Skills deal x[50-100%] increased damage for each disabled skill.
Boots	N/A	Hooves of the Mountain God	– Casting a Basic Skill while at Maximum Fury causes your Fury to increasingly drain until you run out, during which your Basic Skills now cleave dealing x[70-100%] increased damage.
Amulet	Grand Diamond	Aspect of Encroaching Wrath	– After spending 100 Fury, your next Weapon Mastery or Brawling Skill within 8 seconds deals x[50-80%] increased damage
Ring 1	Grand Diamond	Aspect of the Relentless Armsmaster	– Gain [35-75%] increased Fury generation and 15% reduced Fury cost to your skills while all damage bonuses from the Walking Arsenal key passive are active
Ring 2	Grand Diamond	Vehement Brawler’s Aspect	– Casting an Ultimate Skill increases your damage by [10-30%] for 8 seconds. Gain 2 additional Ultimate Skill Ranks.
2-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon	Igni and Lum or Grand Emerald	Aspect of Earthquakes	– Ground Stomp creates an Earthquake that deals [X] physical damage over 4 seconds. While standing in Earthquakes and for 4 seconds afterwards, you deal x[25-60%] increased damage. Your Earthquakes deal x[20-60%] increased damage.
2-Handed Slashing Weapon	Cir and Ohm or Grand Emerald	Battle-Mad Aspect	– Gain x[30-60%] increased damage and Berserking for 4 seconds after swapping weapons 8 times.
Dual Wield Weapon 1	Grand Emerald	Brawler’s Aspect	– Enemies damaged by Kick or Charge will explode if they are killed within the next 2 seconds dealing [X] damage to surrounding enemies.
Dual Wield Weapon 2	Grand Emerald	Sabre of Tsasgal	– You gain x[3-4%] increased damage for each damaging Skill you have equipped, and an additional x[9-12%] for 15 seconds when each of those skills is used.

To see how this build compares to the other builds on our site, you can check out our build tier lists.

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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	Ground Stomp Size Wasteland Innovation
Chest	1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Resistance to All Elements 4. Armor	Ground Stomp Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy
Gloves	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Strength 3. Attack Speed 4. Critical Strike Damage	Damage While Wrath of the Berserker is Active Berserking Finesse
Pants	1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Armor 4. Resistance to All Elements	Ground Stomp Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy
Boots	1. Movement Speed 2. Strength 3. Resistance to All Elements 4. Fury Per Second	Movement Speed Natural Motion
Amulets	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Attack Speed 3. %Strength 4. Ranks to Counteroffensive	Wrath of the Berserker Cooldown Reduction Ultimate Efficiency — Barbarian
Rings	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Attack Speed 3. Strength 4. Resistance to All Elements	Wrath of the Berserker Cooldown Reduction Ultimate Efficiency — Barbarian
2-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon	1. Strength 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Maximum Life 4. Fury On Kill	Chance for Kick to deal double damage Brawling Augments
2-Handed Slashing Weapon	1. Strength 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Maximum Life 4. Fury on Kill	Chance for Charge to deal double damage Brawling Augments
Dual-Wield Weapons	1. Strength 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Maximum Life 4. Overpower Damage	Damage While Wrath of the Berserker is active Berserking Finesse

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

Below you will find information on Uniques and Mythic Uniques that are useful for 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 unique items useful to this build to provide more damage for specific abilities or overall utility.

• Ugly Bastard Helm – An extremely potent helm that converts your direct damage to Fire and then gives you a large multiplier for all Fire damage. It does require Wrath of the Berserker to be active but that shouldn’t be an issue. Get this as soon as you can!
• Chainscourged Mail – The new unique in Season 11 allows us to rapidly chain through all of our Brawling Skills gaining massive damage bonuses on the way providing a new style of player. This unique is required to get things running smooth.
• Hooves of the Mountain God – While normally used for Basic builds, here it allows us to bash groups with relative ease.
• Sabre of Tsasgal – A one handed sword that rewards you for having a ton of different skills on your action bars. As we’re swapping between many damaging skills very quickly thanks to Chainscourged Mail, this is a perfect item for us to give us a large boost to our overall damage

Mythic Uniques

Here you will find the mythic unique items that are useful to this build. If an mythic unique is NOT listed here, it is not useful to this build and does not provide any meaningful increase or effect.

• Shroud of False Death – This mythic unique chest provides the powerful bonus of granting +1 to all passive skills which benefits this build tremendously. It also provides some large move speed and stealth bonuses while we’re moving between groups of demons. If you acquire this, replace your chest with it ASAP
• Melted Heart of Selig – This mythic got a rework in Season 11 and provides a powerful defensive boost making us take damage from our Resource first and drastically reducing it. It doubles your Fury pool but reduces your life by 75%. Since you’ll be taking damage from Fury first as well as granting a large resource generation bonus, this shoots your survival through the roof

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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 Diamond for Ultimate Damage	Grand Ruby for increased Strength	Grand Diamond for Resistances OR Grand Skull for Armor

For your jewelry, you can freely swap between Diamonds and Skulls based on your needs. Armor and Resistances no longer have hard caps you need to hit to reach your defensive potential. Instead you can now freely swap the gems between them depending on what you need the most. Are you dying to physical strikes? Use Skulls for more armor. Are you dying to elemental abilities light lightning damage or poison pools? Use Diamonds for more resistances. Always be sure to check your Toughness stat and use what works best for you!

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.

Runes	Rune Effects
Cir	Gain 300 Offering: Cast 5 Skills then become exhausted for 3 seconds
Ohm	Requires 600 Offering: Cooldown, 2 seconds. Invoke the Barbarian’s War Cry increasing your damage dealt by x15% for 6 seconds
Igni	Gain 25 Offering: Stores offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a Non-Basic Skill to gain the stored offering
Lum	Requires 5 Offering: Cooldown, 1 second. Restore 3.5% Primary Resource

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Paragon Board

We recommend using the following Legendary nodes and Rare Glyphs to truly take this build into the endgame. Note that each Rare Glyph’s information and radius listed below is for the Level 100 version. Keep in mind, Glyph’s reach their maximum radius at 46 and unlock their Legendary bonus at 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:

• %Strength
• Cooldown Reduction
• Attack Speed added to your 2-Handed Weapons
• Fire Damage (Due to Ugly Bastard Helm)

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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 Varyana, the Berserker Crone:

• Core Skill: Cleave
• Core Skill Passive: Hysteria
• Iconic Skill: Bloodthirst
• Iconic Skill Passive: Bloodlust

Our Reinforcement Mercenary will be Raheir, the Shieldbearer:

• Opportunity Skill: War Cry
• Reinforcement Skill: Crater

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

This build requires a bit of finesse to make sure we’re maintaining our Walking Arsenal buff. Let’s run our skills down.

• Use Ground Stomp to do damage and spawn earthquakes.
• Use Leap and Charge to move around and trigger two of the three buffs for Walking Arsenal
• Bash your foes for the 3rd buff of Walking Arsenal and to stun them and generate resources
• With all of your bonuses active Kick which will drain all of your fury thanks to Power Kick but give you a massive damage bonus starting the cycle all over again.
• Use Wrath of the Berserker as often as possible to keep the bonus from Ugly Bastard Helm active at all times

Runeword Synergy

Let’s take a moment to review our runes and how they interact with this build.

• Cir generates a massive 300 Offering after we cast 5 skills but then we become exhausted unable to benefit from this rune for 3 seconds. As we cycle through our skills rapidly, we can very quickly cast 5 skills and gain the effects of this rune.
• Ohm requires a massive 600 Offering to trigger, which is two cycles of Cir but when we do trigger this rune we get the bonuses from our class’ very own powerful buff War Cry which gives us 15% multiplicative damage for 6 seconds. Paired with Cir once we get going we should have this buff up nearly constantly gaining the benefit of our shout without needing to spend the talent points for it.
• Igni stores 25 offering every 0.3 seconds and then when you use a non-basic skill you gain the stored up offering. Our Brawling Skills and Wrath of the Berserker and Ground Stomp can all generate the stored offering from Igni whenever we want.
• Lum requires a measly 5 offering which grants us 3.5% of our primary resources back. The more offering it gets, the more resources it restores. This means with all of our bonuses active, once we spend all of our Fury with Power Kick we will get a large chunk of it back through this rune combo allowing us to continue the fight and build up to another Kick

Which Elixirs 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 the Elixir of Destruction which increases your Overpower damage. Craft the highest Elixir of Destruction you can.

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, please check out our Season Hub.

Here is a quick list of the changes this season that are relevant to this build:

• Damage per 10 points of Strength increased from 1% to 1.1%
• Blood Rage damage bonus increased from 45% to 60%
• Carnage damage bonus increased from 30% to 45%
• Weapons Master damage bonus increased from 30% to 45%
• Aspect of Anger Management now grants 10-30% increased damage and Berserking when above 50 Fury instead of only granting Berserking

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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 5th 2025: Updated for Season 11
• June 19th 2025: Updated for Season 9
• April 25th 2025: Reformatted and updated for Season 8
• March 31st 2025: Skill tree recommendations updated
• January 19th 2025: Tooltips and Seasonal sections updated for Season 7
• January 14th, 2025: Build updated for Season 7