Dust Devil Double Swing Endgame Barbarian Build Guide for Diablo 4 (Season 4)

Build Introduction

Welcome to the comprehensive endgame guide for the Dust Devil Double Swing Barbarian. This build utilizes high mobility, fast attacks, and screen-filling tornadoes to chop your way through The Pit, Uber Bosses, Nightmare Dungeons, and all other open-world content. We will walk you through everything you will need to cleave demons to bits and conjure powerful storms to clean up everything around you. With that in mind, let’s get rolling.

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

Required Uniques

Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus

Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Suggested Skill Bar

Double Swing Wrath of the Berserker War Cry Rallying Cry Challenging Shout Leap

Arsenal System and Weapon Selection

For this Double Swing build, we will be using 2-Handed Axe expertise for its bonus to Vulnerable damage. This was slightly reduced in Patch 1.4.0, but is still our best option for this build.

For this build, we do not have to worry about weapon selection assignment. Double Swing must use your Dual-Wield weapons Leap is not a core damaging skill for this build and is used almost entirely for mobility and to escape dangerous areas. Our other skills, Wrath of the Berserker, Rallying Cry, Challenging Shout, and War Cry do not have weapon assignments. As such you can largely ignore this mechanic for this build, but do keep it in mind for other builds you may want to try!

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 21 version.

Starting Board

Warbringer

Rotate this board three times before attaching it.

Carnage

Rotate this board twice before attaching it.

Decimator

Attach this board to the Eastern gate of the Carnage board. Rotate this board three times before attaching it.

Flawless Technique

Attach this board to the Southern side of the Carnage board. Rotate this board twice before attaching it.

Blood Rage

Attach this board to the Northern gate of the Carnage board. Do not rotate this board when attaching it.

To view the Paragon Board in its entirety CLICK HERE.

Gear, Gems, Elixirs, and Stats

The Season of Loot Reborn brings us an incredible shift in how gear and itemization are done. It is a major and will affect the game beyond Season 4’s confines. For further details, make sure to read our Tempering and Masterworking section below.

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 with Patch 1.4.0 all Legendary powers can be added into your Codex once you salvage or extract the item. You can still find some aspects through dungeons as you could in previous seasons but now you have the option to upgrade these affixes if you find a higher roll of that affix. Let us go over what aspects you will need.

Slot	Gems	Legendary Aspects / Uniques	Aspect / Unique Power
Helm	Royal Ruby	Aspect of Numbing Wrath	– Each point of Fury generated while at Maximum Fury grants [X] Fortify
Chest	Royal Ruby	Juggernaut’s Aspect	– Gain [X] Armor, but your Evade has a 100% increased Cooldown
Gloves	N/A	Accelerating Aspect	– Critical Strikes with Core Skills increase your Attack Sped by [10-25%] for 5 seconds
Pants	Royal Ruby	Aspect of Bul-Kathos	– Leap creates an Earthquake that deals [X] Physical damage over 4 seconds and provides [10-25%] Damage Reduction
Boots	N/A	Relentless Berserker’s Aspect	– Lucky Hit: Damaging an Enemy with a Core Skill has up to a [22-40%] chance to extend the duration of Berserking by 2 seconds. Double this duration if it was a Critical Strike
Amulet	Royal Diamond	Windlasher Aspect	– Casting Double Swing creates a Dust Devil that deals [X] damage to enemies in its path
Ring 1	Royal Diamond	Bold Chieftain’s Aspect	– Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its Cooldown is reduced by [1.0-2.0] seconds per nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds
Ring 2	Royal Diamond	Aspect of Giant Strides	– Reduces the Cooldown of Leap by [2.5-5] seconds per enemy hit, up to a maximum of 9 seconds. Hitting a Boss with Leap provides the maximum cooldown reduction.
2H Bludgeoning Weapon	Royal Sapphire	Aspect of Fierce Winds	– Your Shout Skills create 3 Dust Devils that deal damage to enemies along their path. Your Dust Devils are [5-20%] bigger and deal 1% increased damage for each 1% their size is increased
2H Slashing Weapon	Royal Sapphire	Devilish Aspect	– After generating 100 Fury, your next direct damage creates 3 Dust Devils that deal [X] damage to enemies in their path
Dual Wield 1	Royal Sapphire	Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus	– Skills using this weapon deal [0.2-0.4%] increased damage per point of Fury you have, but you lose 2 Fury every second
Dual Wield 2	Royal Sapphire	Aspect of Inner Calm	– You deal [5-20%] increased damage. Triple this bonus after standing still for 3 seconds.

Gems

Listed below are the best gems to socket into your items for each slot type

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Royal Sapphire for increased Vulnerable damage	Royal Ruby for increased maximum life	Royal Diamond for all resistances

For your jewelry it may be necessary to change the Royal Diamond for another gem for a specific type such as Royal Sapphire to ensure all of your resistances are capped at 70%

Which Elixirs Should You Use?

When in town you can visit the Alchemist to craft helpful elixirs which will provide a special effect and increase your experience gain. Crafting has been simplified in Patch 1.4.0, and there are fewer specific flowers to harvest; instead, almost all herbs in the world drop as Bundles of Dried Herbs, allowing you to craft the Elixirs you want. Some Elixirs cannot be crafted and only drop from things like Helltides or Nightmare Dungeons. 

For this Dust Devil build, we recommend Elixir of Advantage for the increased attack speed to spam more Double Swing and conjure even more Dust Devils to fill our screen and mop up every demon in sight. Craft the highest value Elixir of Advantage you can to get the most attack speed possible.

Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

With all of these new systems in mind, let us dive into what stats we want on gear, what tempers we would like, and what stat we would prefer to be pumped either through a Greater Affix or through Masterworking. Affixes that are bolded in yellow are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. The names of the tempering manuals you need to apply the affixes will be listed next to the affixes in parenthesis.

Slot	Gear Affixes	Tempering Affixes
Helm	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Maximum Life 3. Maximum Resource	1. Challenging Shout Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy 2. + Ranks to Concussion Barbarian Control
Chest	1. Maximum Life 2. Strength 3. Needed Resistance	1. Challenging Shout Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy 2. + Ranks to Concussion Barbarian Control
Pants	1. Maximum Life 2. Strength 3. Needed Resistance	1. Challenging Shout Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy 2. Stun Duration Barbarian Control
Glove	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Attack Speed 3. Strength	1. Damage while Berserking Berserking Finesse 2. Stun Duration Barbarian Control
Boots	1. Maximum Life 2. Strength 3. Needed Resistance	1. Mobility Cooldown Reduction Natural Motion 2. Stun Duration Barbarian Control
Amulet	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Critical Strike Chance 3. Maximum Resource	1. Resource Generation with Dual-Wield Weapons Weapon Attunement — Barbarian 2. Damage while Berserking Berserking Finesse
Rings	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Attack Speed 3. Fury on Kill 4. Needed Resistance bonus on ring implicit	1. Damage while Berserking Berserking Finesse 2. Resource Generation with Dual-Wield Weapons Weapon Attunement — Barbarian
2H Bludgeoning Weapon	1. Strength 2. Maximum LIfe 3. Fury on Kill	1. Dust Devil Size Sandstorm Augments 2. Damage to Close Enemies Natural Finesse
2H Slashing Weapon	1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Fury on Kill	1. Chance for Dust Devils to Cast Twice Sandstorm Augments 2. Damage to Close Enemies Natural Finesse
Dual Wield Weapon 1	1. Strength 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Fury on Kill	1. Dust Devil Size Sandstorm Augments 2. Damage While Berserking Berserking Finesse
Dual Wield Weapon 2	1. Strength 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Fury on Kill	1. Chance for Dust Devils to Cast Twice Sandstorm Augments 2. Damage While Berserking Berserking Finesse

Uniques and Uber Uniques

Below you will find information on Uniques and Uber Uniques that are useful for this build. Moreover, if you are interested in target farming Uber Uniques, check out our How to Farm Uber Uniques guide.

Unique Items

Below you will find the useful uniques for this build. As a reminder, beyond Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus there are not many useful uniques to this setup as most of our power comes from the tempering affixes. This may change in the future and this guide will be updated if it does.

• Tibault’s Will – This item is recommended for those wishing to go for a more offensive setup at the cost of some toughness since you will forgo Aspect of Bul-Kathos to use these.
• Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty – Similar to Tibault’s, we only equip this if we’re going for an offensive setup at the cost of some toughness since we’ll lose a solid source of Fortify in Aspect of Numbing Wrath

Uber Uniques

Here are the useful uber uniques for this build. If an uber unique is NOT listed, it is not used by this build in any meaningful capacity.

• Ring of Starless Skies – Our Uber Unique of choice should you be lucky enough to find one. If you do find it, you will replace the ring that uses Aspect of Giant Strides.
• The Grandfather – A powerful Uber Unique two-handed sword. This will replace your Two-Handed slashing weapon. If you find one you will move Devilish Aspect to your Dual-Wield weapon and replace Aspect of Inner Calm.
• Harlequin Crest – If you are fortunate enough to find one of these, you simply replace your helm with Aspect of Numbing Wrath and use the built-in damage and cooldown reduction as well as numerous ranks to all your skills for more power and survival.

Season 4: Loot Reborn

Unlike past seasons, there is no overarching theme for Season 4 as Blizzard is focused on the absolutely massive loot overhaul which is sure to change the game in big ways. There will also be reputation to be gained with the new Ironwolves during Helltides and this faction grants several tempering manuals and even a resplendent spark! Below we will list some changes relevant to the Double Swing Barbarian beyond the affix changes, tempering, greater affixes, and masterworking.

• Barbarian’s innate 10% damage reduction has been removed
• New Unique Item Twin Strikes (Unique Gloves) – After casting Double Swing 4 times, your next Double Swing will hit 2 additional times each dealing 10-25% increased damage.
• Aspect of Fierce Winds (New Affix) – Your shout skills create 3 Dust Devils and your Dust Devils are 5-20% bigger and deal 1% increased damage for each 1% their size is increased
• Dust Devils no longer have varying duration, speeds or movement patterns. They all behave consistently regardless of what created them. Additionally, the maximum number of Dust Devils that can be active at once is 15 and Dust Devils move more quickly and dissipate sooner.
• Unbridled Rage damage bonus reduced from 135% to 100%
• Two-Handed Axe Technique has been reduced to 10% from 15%
• Marshal Cooldown reduction reduced to 2 seconds from 4 seconds
• Blood Rage Damage increased by Berserking bonus reduced to 10% from 25% and now caps at 30%x damage.
• Windlasher Aspect Changed. Now casting Double Swing creates a Dust Devil that deals 0.35-0.5 (from 0.22-0.32) damage to enemies in its path, no longer requires casting Double Swing Twice.
• Devilish Aspect Changed. Now after generating 100 Fury, your next direct damage creates 3 Dust Devils that deal 0.4-0.6 (from 0.24-0.38) damage to enemies in their path
• Aspect of Fierce Winds – New Aspect. Whenever you use a Shout skill you create 3 Dust Devils
• Aspect of Giant Strides – Changed. Now reduces the cooldown of Leap by 2.5-5 (was 3-5) seconds per enemy hit up to 9 seconds. Hitting a boss with Leap provide the maximum cooldown reduction

Advanced Information

Below you will find every additional piece of information you need to know for a more in-depth look at this build.

Build Mechanics

This build uses Leap to jump into the fray and begin spamming Double Swing which will spawn a myriad of Dust Devils thanks to our aspects such as Windlasher Aspect, Devilish Aspect, Aspect of Fierce Winds, and our Tempered affixes. We use our Challenging Shout and Wrath of the Berserker as survival cooldowns and use War Cry to gain Unstoppable and avoid crowd control.

Berserking

Berserking is a way for us to gain damage, damage reduction, and resource generation. This is something we will be able to maintain an extremely high uptime on thanks to Battle Fervor in combination with Leap, as well as our key passive Unconstrained. Always keep in mind, that if you need to enter the Berserking state and don’t have Leap off cooldown, you can trigger it on demand via Wrath of the Berserker, which is our ultimate of choice.

Defensive Aspects

Our main defensive aspect is Aspect of Bul-Kathos since we will be leaping everywhere into packs and standing still to start swinging and generating our dust devils. Juggernaut’s Aspect is an amazing defensive option that provides us with all the armor we will need, and finally, we have high fortify through Aspect of Numbing Wrath as well as our damage reduction passive Aggressive Resistance while we’re Berserking.

Paragon

We recommend using these Legendary Nodes and Rare Glyphs to truly take this build into the endgame and further into The Pit. Note that each Glyph listed below is a max Level 21 version.

Rare Glyphs and Legendary Nodes	Effect
Exploit	– For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + [3.85%] increased damage to Vulnerable targets. – Additional bonus unlocked after 25 Dexterity points are purchased in the glyph’s range: When an enemy is damaged by you, they become Vulnerable for 3 seconds. This cannot happen more than once every 20 seconds per enemy.
Wrath	– For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + [15%] increased Critical Strike Damage. – Additional bonus unlocked after 25 Dexterity points are purchased in the glyph’s range: Skills that Critically Strike generate 3 Fury.
Twister	– For every 5 Strength purchased within range, your Dust Devils deal + [39.6%] increased damage. – Additional bonus unlocked after 40 Strength points are purchased in the glyph’s range: You deal x13% increased damage for 4 seconds after creating a Dust Devil
Marshal	– Grants + [125%] bonus to all Magic nodes within range. – Additional bonus unlocked after 40 Strength points are purchased in the glyph’s range: After casting a Shout Skill, the active Cooldown of every other non-Shout Skill is reduced by 2 seconds.
Ire	– For every 5 Strength purchased within range, you deal + [5.3%] increased damage while Berserking. – Additional bonus unlocked after 40 Strength points are purchased in the glyph’s range: While Berserking you take 10% reduced damage from Elites.
Ambidextrous	– Grants + [125%] bonus to all Magic nodes within range. – Additional bonus unlocked after 40 Strength points are purchased in the glyph’s range: You deal x8% increased damage while wielding One-Handed Weapons
Carnage	While Berserking, Critical Strikes increase your Attack Speed by +2% up to +16% for 6 seconds.
Decimator	Each time you make an enemy Vulnerable, your damage is increased by 10% for 5 seconds. Overpowering a Vulnerable enemy grants an additional x10% bonus for 5 seconds.
Blood Rage	Killing a Bleeding enemy has a 10% chance to grant Berserking for 5 seconds. Your damage is increased by x25% of your Damage While Berserking bonus.

Let’s break down each of these glyphs and nodes and where our Paragon Points are positioned in each of the boards we use. This part of the build is presented in order of importance. If you do not have enough Paragon Points for use in your Paragon Tree, just slowly work your way towards each step shown below.

Starting Board

1. We start by heading left to grab Tenacity and then heading up to unlock the glyph socket and slotting in Exploit
2. From here we will grab all the dexterity nodes to acquire the bonus and snag the rare node Raw Power and then head back to the start of the tree and grab Brawn and its surrounding rare nodes.
3. Finally we head out towards the top and connect the Warbringer board.

Warbringer

1. We start by moving left and grabbing Hungering Fury and its rare nodes for more maxium resource and Fury on Kill for sustain
2. We head back right and grab the glyph socket and slot in Wrath and grab enough dexterity nodes to unlock the bonus. We pick up Conditioned for toughness and Raw Power for more damage.
3. We head up from the glyph radius and grab Core Reserve and its surrounding rare nodes for more life and resource
4. Finally we complete the board and head right connecting the Carnage board.

Carnage

1. Perhaps the most important board and the most complex we start by rushing to the glyph socket and slotting in Twister
2. We grab as many strength nodes as possible including the rare nodes Brash and Fierce to increase the power of our Dust Devils
3. Next we will grab the board’s namesake and make our way to the Carnage node.
4. Now we will head north of the glyph radius and grab Enraged and its surrounding rare nodes before connecting the Blood Rage board at the top.
5. Once we’ve finished Blood Rage we will come back here and head from Carnage to grab Berserker and connect the Decimator board.
6. After finishing Decimator we will finish the Carnage board by running the points south and connecting the Flawless Technique board.

Blood Rage

1. We rush straight northward and grab Revel and unlock the socket slotting in Marshal
2. We grab enough strength nodes to unlock the secondary effect of our glyph and then we head north to grab Grit
3. Finally we wrap around and grab the board’s namesake Blood Rage and then head back to the Carnage board

Decimator

1. We rush towards the glyph socket and slot in Ire once its unlocked.
2. We want as many strength nodes for Ire as possible so we grab all of them in the radius and the rare nodes Arrogance and Demolish
3. We exit the radius right and grab the board’s namesake Decimator and then head back to the Carnage board

Flawless Technique

1. We rush down to the glyph socket and unlock it slotting in Ambidextrous
2. We snag enough strength including the rare nodes Heavy Blows and Brash and their surrounding rare nodes for stats. With that this rather simple board is finish and we are done with our paragon boards.

Tempering and Masterworking

The Season 4 update (Patch 1.4.0) introduces a rework for itemization. Tempering and Masterworking bring the biggest change to itemization since the release of Diablo 4, so make sure you understand the new systems explained in this section.

The amount of affixes on items has been changed to reflect its rarity: Normal Items have no affixes, Magic Items have 1 affix, Rare Items have 2 affixes, Legendary Items have 3 affixes, and Unique Items have 4 affixes. Upgrading a Rare Item to a Legendary Item by imprinting a Legendary Aspect from the Codex of Power will not add a third affix. Therefore, Legendary Items are superior to lower rarity items for a min-maxed character.

Greater Affixes are a newly added mechanic that increases the value of an affix by 50%. Ancestral Legendary Items and Unique Items can now drop with up to 4 Greater Affixes! Search for items with your preferred Greater Affixes to upgrade with Tempering and Masterworking.

Tempering and Masterworking is an important system, even mandatory in the endgame, for character progression. You are able to add 2 additional affixes on any Rare Item or Legendary Item, exclusive to the Tempering System. An Ancestral Legendary Item can have up to 5 total affixes! Unfortunately, Unique Items cannot be tempered to add affixes.

Masterworking uses new crafting materials found in The Pit to further enhance the stats of an item. These upgrades can be applied on an Ancestral Legendary Item that has its Tempering Slots filled out. Unique Items can be upgraded with Masterworking right away, as tempering does not apply to them. Each item has 12 upgrade slots. On upgrade Ranks 4, 8, and 12, a random affix is increased in value by 25%. Every other upgrade Rank applies a 5% increase to all affixes on an item. Attempt to apply the bonus 25% upgrade to your preferred affix multiple times by resetting the Masterworking Ranks to repeat the process.

Obol Gambling

A final point on acquiring gear in Season 4 and beyond 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 Patch 1.4.0 when a level 100 Character spends Obols, all gear from that vendor will be 925 item power, the highest in the game, allowing you to fill out gear with the affixes or Legendary Aspects you need.

Check out our Obol Gambling Tool HERE!

Changelog

• May 4th, 2024: Guide format updated, added season 4 changes and advanced information
• May 2nd, 2024: Updated recommended masterworking targets on specifc slots
• April 25th, 2024: Guide created