Diablo Immortal: The Best AoE Damage Barbarian

Whirlwind Barbarian Skills and Equipment:

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Skills

1. Frenzy (primary skill)

2. Whirlwind

3. Wrath of the Berserker

4. Chain Spear (PvM) or Ground Stomp (for PvP with Pit of Ursus essence)

5. Undying Rage (defensive) or Sunder (offensive buff)

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Main Hand

Fallowed Field - Whirlwind now can channel as long as you are alive, causes low self damage, and moves at full speed.

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Off-Hand

Sundered Legacy - Wrath of the Berserker now burns enemies, increases movement speed, and has a reduced cooldown.

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Main Hand 2

Riddlerue - When Frenzy deals a critical hit your attack speed is increased for a short duration.

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Off-Hand 2

Steel Lamprey (PvM) - Chain Spear now heals you for 5% of the damage it causes when it hits an enemy.

Oncoming Brutality (PvP) - Frenzy gives a damage increase that stacks with a short duration.

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Helmet

Lasting Hate - Wrath of the Berserker now also has a greatly increased duration.

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Shoulders

Weight of War - Whirlwind now gives a stacking increase to your critical hit chance.

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Chest

Shackled Fate (PvM) - Chain Spear now summons a Spirit of the Ancients that repeatedly casts Chain Spear.

The Gathering (PvP) - Whirlwind now also repeatedly draws in nearby enemies causing loss of control.

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Legs

Buried Talons (PvM) - Chain Spear now also increases your damage for a duration every time it hits an enemy.

Pit of Ursus (PvP) - Causes Ground Stomp to create a ring of rock that prevents enemies from entering or exiting it while also increasing your damage and lowering enemies damage inside the ring.

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Recommended Sets

1. Grace of the Flagellant (4-6 Set) - Increases your channeled skill damage (2 set), deals damage every time you hit an individual enemy 5 times (4 set), and gives a 4% chance to damage and stun enemies with a 40 second cooldown (6 set).

2. Vithu's Urges (2-4 Set) - Increases beneficial effects duration by 30%. This gives full uptime on Wrath of the Berserker without The Coming Storm shoulders which allows you to use the Weight of War shoulders for increased critical hit chance.

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Best Curse

1. Atrophied - Continual damage causes a dark field to appear underneath enemies that deals damage over time.​

2. Wired - Creates a surge of lightning on kill that jumps between enemies with a medium length cooldown.

3. Ghosted - Summons a minion to take some of your incoming damage and increases your attack and movement speed.​

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Best 5 Star Legendary Gems

1. Roiling Consequence - Increases your critical hit chance and causes critical hits to burn enemies.

2. Golden Firmament - Causes a ranged wind damage attack and increases your evasion rating.

3. Seeping Bile - Gives a 4% chance to poison enemies on hit and slows enemies movement speed (great for fast attacks).

4. Frozen Heart (should be switched to for PvP) - Gives a life shield for a medium duration and chills enemies.

5. Maw of the Deep - Used at high ranks to deal damage, gain a damage buff, draw in enemies, and stun enemies.

6. ​Starfire Shard (PvP)- Used for PvP to deal damage and stun enemies inside the Maw of the Deep legendary gem effect.

7. Void Spark - Deals AoE damage that's extremely effective in dungeons and the new PvP map.

8. Blood-Soaked Jade - Gives a damage increase and a significant boost to movement speed. It's one of the best 5 star gems at high ranks for damage and one of the weakest 5 star gems for damage at lower ranks.​

 

Best 2 Star Legendary Gems

1. Pain Clasp - Gives high increased damage against enemies with a continual damage effect on them.

2. Viper's Bite - Poisons enemies on cooldown and triggers the damage increase on Pain Clasp (same with Seeping Bile).

3. Mother's Lament - Increases your critical hit chance and causes a blood spike that makes enemies bleed.

4. Fervent Fang - Gives enemies a stacking damage taken increase when they are hit by an attack.

5. Igneous Scorn (PvM only) - Combined with Roiling Consequence and Mother's Lament to deal damage on critical hits.

Note: Igneous Scorn is the lowest priority 2 star gem on the list and should eventually be replaced with a 5 star gem.

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Best Starter 1 Star Legendary Gems

1. Entropic Well - An excellent 1 star legendary gem that increases your skill damage and attack speed.

​2. Berserker's Eye - Increases your damage and critical hit chance but also increases your damage taken.

​3. Everlasting Torment - Deals damage over time on crits which triggers the damage increase on Pain Clasp.

Note: These three gems can be replaced once you can afford higher resonance two star gems or five star gems.​

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Best Familiars

1. Legendary Duskprowler - Look for a Duskprowler with 170+ Resilience and Savior which provides a cheat death. The 170+ Resilience lowers the cooldown of Savior but can be skipped to make the Duskprowler more affordable.

2. Any Savior Familiar - Look for any familiar with great skills and Savior which gives a cheat death. Savior can be used to buy time for your other cheat deaths like the Undying Rage Barbarian defensive skill and the Gladiator paragon.

3. Rare Duskprowler - Relentless Strikes is the next best skill and gives a chance to cast the Duskprowler shield twice in 3 seconds. Innervate which gives a chance to reset the player's skill cooldown, Steel Hide which gives a chance to block, Tenacity which lowers the cooldown of the shield, and Precision which gives the shield critical hit chance are also desirable.​​

4. Magic Duskprowler - Duskprowler shields are hard to replace so a rare ability or magic Duskprowler is the budget option.

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Regular Gems

Prioritize Tourmalines for added damage in red sockets and Citrines for Potency which increases harmful effects durations in yellow sockets. You should use your highest refinement Aquamarines and Sapphires which give increased armor and armor penetration in blue sockets. You can also combine all of your Rubies which give life and Topazes which give resistances into one Ruby and one Topaz and socket one of each into your equipment for higher refinement. Gems give refinement based on their quality and refinement increases the main stats of the item the gem is socketed in.

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Gem Notes

The new Colossus Engine legendary gem isn't included in the recommendations because it would take about rank 8 until it would be an upgrade over other more easily accessible options. The Viper's Bite and Seeping Bile legendary gems deal high continual damage and should be used to trigger the damage increase on the Pain Clasp legendary gem. You can optionally use Everlasting Torment which deals continual damage on critical hits as a budget option until you can afford a rank 4+ Seeping Bile. Seeping Bile only has a 4% chance to proc but it triggers frequently with the very fast attack speed of Whirlwind. Golden Firmament is a new strong legendary gem that has wind damage, increased evasion rating, and triggers Firestorms for increased wind damage when combined with burning damage. Roiling Consequence and Mother's Lament both give increased critical hit chance and work well with Igneous Scorn and Everlasting Torment which deal damage on critical hits. You should also consider rolling critical hit damage on every piece of gear with Reforge Stones when using Roiling Consequence and Mother's Lament. Igneous Scorn should eventually be replaced with a 5 star legendary gem for much higher resonance at high gear levels. One of your lowest priority gems should also be switched to the defensive Frozen Heart legendary gem in PvP for a large absorb shield which improves your defenses and chills enemies.​

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That's all for the Whirlwind Barbarian Guide. You can view a strong PvP Barbarian build here PvP Demoralize Barbarian.​

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