Bash Barbarian Endgame Build Guide - D4 Maxroll.gg (2024)

This is a well-rounded dual-wielding setup that is ideal for speedfarming, as it offers a good balance of damage, defense, and mobility. Ramaladni's Magnum Opus is a competitive option for Bash, especially for speedfarming because:

• It acts as a separate damage multiplier that gets even stronger with investment in maximum Fury.
• Dual-wielding inherently has an attack speed advantage, even more so with One-Handed Sword Expertise. Effects like Undying and Hectic scale better with increased attack speed.
• Has great synergy if used with Melted Heart of Selig.

Gear

• This build can be played with Two-Handed Mace as well. Make the following changes:
  • Drop Ramaladni's Magnum Opus. Take a Legendary One-Handed Sword with stats that mimic the other dual-wield weapon shown in the above planner. The other slot should ideally be changed to a One-Handed Sword as well, but the difference is minimal.
  • Switch Earthquake to the One-Handed Sword (from Ring). Run Bold Chieftain's here instead, or Elements.
  • Harlequin Crest can technically be used in either setup, but has more value when paired with Two-Handed Mace.

Skills

• Use Strategic Rallying Cry in place of War Cry in higher tier content where having Unstoppable becomes more relevant.
• Alternatively, Steel Grasp can be dropped and triple Shouts can be played instead.

Paragon

See below for the selected Paragon Boards, Paragon point allocation, and the correct Glyphs you should use for the Bash Barbarian. Note: The Paragon Boards below are the final setup with no steps.

Level 15 Glyphs required: Ambidextrous, Exploit, Ire, Marshal, Rumble, Territorial, Undaunted

• If playing Two-Handed Mace:
  • Replace Ambidextrous with Might.
  • Remove points from Core Reserve and Hungering Fury clusters on Warbringer.
  • Allocate them to Brawn and Restorative on Decimator, or use them to fix Resistances (Cold Conditioned).

Use Wrath of the Berserker and then dump Fury with Power Kick for a damage spike.

Paragon

Similar playstyle to that of the Double Swing Twisters build. This uses Yen's Blessing for essentially permanent uptime on a Shout of our choosing (Challenging Shout for high tier Pit, Rallying Cry for speedfarming).

Gameplay

• Use Leap (set to Two-Handed Sword) to:
  • Activate and refresh Berserking.
  • Apply Bleed.
  • Activate Paingorger's Gauntlets.
  • Benefit from Bul-Kathos, Earthquake, and Rumble.
• Use Challenging Shout or Rallying Cry (depending on content) whenever it is off cooldown. While it is on cooldown, it will refresh itself with Yen's Blessing as long as an action is being performed (using a skill, evading).
• Use Bash (set to Two-Handed Mace) as main damage skill.
• Use Charge to group enemies against terrain and as a source of Unstoppable.
• Use Call of the Ancients against Elites and Bosses whenever it is off cooldown.
• Use Hammer of the Ancients:
  • After Critically Striking with Combat Bash 4 times.
  • No more than once every 5 seconds. This skill is only used for the 1.3x damage multiplier provided by Violent Hammer of the Ancients.

Gear

• If running Challenging Shout, take ranks of this skill on the Chest Armor. Otherwise, choose Strength / Maximum Life.
• If running Challenging Shout, temper Crowd Control Duration on either Chest Armor or Pants to increase its duration. Otherwise, choose ranks of Concussion.
• Temper Leap Cooldown Reduction on Amulet and adjust skill ranks as necessary. Ideally, it should have a 4 second cooldown or less when combined with Giant Strides.
• Critical Strike Damage and Vulnerable damage are both good choices on weapons; choose whichever gives the best value when tempering, or based on the current quality of gear.

Paragon

• Why Revenge Glyph:
  • 9% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies from Brash.
  • Damage multiplier from Strategic Challenging Shout.
• Why Rumble Glyph:
  • Damage multiplier from Leap + Bul-Kathos combo.
• Why Bleed nodes:
  • Two-Handed Sword Expertise from Leap / Charge.

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