Barbarian has always been a powerful class in Diablo 4 series. Most players may remember him for the huge earthquakes he brings or his powerful two-handed axe, but Barbarian who relies on summons seems to be very rare.
Minion Barbarian relies on Call of the Ancients to summon Barbarian’s three ancestors to fight alongside him and uses his battle cry skill to provide various buffs to summons. Barbarian’s summons can cause a lot of damage to elite monsters and bosses, and this build can work well after matching with CD-reducing equipment.
Pros And Cons
Pros
- High single-target and area damage
- Handles all end-game content well
- Solid mobility
- Simple gameplay
- Farming gold quickly
Cons
- Inflexible
- Very dependent on equipment
- Frequent operation is required
Skills
- Lunging Strike: Dash forward, while causing bleeding and generating Berserk, it also has mobility.
- Rupture: Pierce the enemy, causing Overpower and bleeding effects to surrounding enemies, and triggering various equipment effects.
- Rallying Cry: Increases your and your allies’ movement speed and makes you unstoppable, while Strategic Rallying Cry increases the player’s health.
- War Cry: Greatly increases the character’s damage, and Enhanced War Cry can also put Barbarian into a berserk state.
- Challenging Shout: Taunts nearby enemies and gains a large damage reduction, which is a very important survival skill.
- Call of the Ancients: The ultimate skill and the core of this build. Summons 3 Ancients to fight for you.
- Unconstrained: Provides a large amount of Berserk damage bonus and allows Barbarian to maintain Berserk when the health is low.
The idea of releasing skills for this equipment is actually very simple, use Call of the Ancients as much as possible. Call of the Ancients as an ultimate skill has a 41-second CD time, so you need to use bleeding to trigger Rage of Harrogath and speed up CD of all your skills.
You first need to release Rupture to reduce the cooldown of the ultimate skill through bleeding and equipment effects. Then release Call of the Ancients, and use Rallying Cry and War Cry to increase the damage of your summons. The release of Lunging Strike actually requires your judgment.
Minion Barbarian takes into account both offense and defense. Whether dealing with bosses or groups of enemies, he is at ease. And the more enemies there are, the faster the cooldown of Call of the Ancients will be. Therefore, this build is very efficient whether it is farming Diablo 4 Gold or dealing with Helltide.
Equipment
- Helm: Ugly Bastard Helm improves resistance and lucky hit damage.
- Chest: Rage of Harrogath improves critical hit chance and health, and reduces skill CD.
- Gloves: Fists of Fate improves maximum health and critical hit chance and lucky hit chance.
- Pants: Arreat’s Bearing improves the damage of Call of the Ancients and reduces its cooldown.
- Boots: Relentless Berserker’s Aspect increases Berserking time.
- Amulet: Aspect of Apogeic Furor increases ultimate skill damage.
- Ring1: Vehement Brawler’s Aspect increases ultimate skill damage and level.
- Ring2: Aspect of Ancestral Charge increases summon damage.
- Main Hand: Executioner’s Aspect, every 4 seconds, your Overpowers can trigger earthquakes.
- Off-Hand: The Third Blade increases strength and Weapon Mastery Damage.
- Polearm: Aspect of Ancestral Echoes increases critical damage and maximum health.
- Two-Handed Mace: Aspect of Earthquakes increases Earthquake damage.
Minion Barbarian Endgame Build is very strict about equipment requirements. If you can’t get these equipment together, then this build will not work smoothly.
Many of the unique equipment plays a key role in this build. They will not drop in normal difficulty. Only in Torment 3 or 4 will they have a higher chance of appearing in boss or monster drops. Therefore, Minion Barbarian build is not suitable as a leveling build, while the required legendary aspects for this build are not high, and you can find them when farming dungeons.
Boss Powers
Main Boss Powers
Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley
This Boss Power is triggered when damaging a Vulnerable enemy, dealing a large amount of fire damage over 1.2 seconds, and dealing 40% more damage to Vulnerable enemies. Because Minion Barbarian has many ways to cause vulnerability, this Boss Power works well with it.
Grigoire’s Lightning Square
This is another good choice, and it will deal lightning damage to Barbarian after the core ability is released. It is not your main damage output skill, but more like a supplement to your Rupture.
Modifier
- Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: Increases critical hit rate, ensuring that every attack of Barbarian can trigger a critical hit.
- Beastmaster’s Training: Increases the damage of summons.
- Lilith’s Wind of Hate: By generating Blister Clone, you have more targets to trigger Rupture and Rage of Harrogath, and reducing the skill CD.
Mercenaries
Minion Barbarian’s summon skill is its main means of attack, so Mercenaries can give it more helpers, so players naturally cannot be stingy with gold.
- Hired: Subo
Subo’s Seeker skill is a very useful skill, and he can also stun enemies.
- Reinforcement: Varyana
Varyana, as a barbarian, can use Bloodthirst to help you trigger Rage of Harrogath and speed up skill cooldown.
Most of the difficulty of Minion Barbarian endgame Build lies in equipment collection, and its operation is very simple and easy to understand. And compared to Necromancer, the summons in Call of the Ancients are more violent and powerful than skeletons, which makes it very fun to play.
