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The following sections cover all systems that are important if you want to improve the power of your character in the endgame of Diablo 4.
Legendary Aspects
Each Aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. Do your best to keep each Aspect in the assigned slot. Remember to salvage Legendary Items with higher Aspect values to unlock them in the Codex of Power, and then imprint them onto gear pieces with the preferred affixes.
| Slot | Gems | Legendary Aspect/Unique | Aspect / Unique Power |
| Helm |  Grand Ruby |  Ugly Bastard Helm | – Casting  Wrath of the Berserker causes you to explode dealing [X] Fire damage. (We do not care about this line)While Berserking, your direct damage dealt is converted into Fire. You deal x[80-100%] increased Fire damage |
| Chest | Grand Ruby |  Mantle of Mountain’s Fury | –  Hammer of the Ancients also forms a seismic line that deals its damage and slows enemies hit by [60-80%] for 4 seconds. Earthquakes it passes through explode for their total damage and are consumed |
| Gloves | N/A |  Fists of Fate | – Your attacks randomly deal 1% to [200-300%] of their normal damage |
| Pants | Grand Ruby |  Aspect of Bul-Kathos | –  Leap creates an Earthquake that deals [X] Physical damage over 4 seconds. (We do not care about this line)While standing in Earthquakes and for 4 seconds afterwards, you gain [10-25%] increased Damage Reduction. |
| Boots | N/A |  Aspect of Concussive Strikes | – Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy has up to a 20% chance to Daze them for 2 seconds. You deal x[5-25%] increased damage to Dazed enemies |
| Amulet |  Grand Skull |  Vehement Brawler’s Aspect | – Casting an Ultimate Skill increases your damage by [10-30%] for 8 seconds. Gain 2 additional Ultimate Skill ranks. |
| Ring 1 | Grand Skull |  Bold Chieftain’s Aspect | – Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its active Cooldown is reduced by [10-30%] per nearby enemy up to a maximum of 70% |
| Ring 2 | Grand Skull | Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment | – Your Shout Skills generate [5-12] Primary Resource per second while active |
| Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon |  Yul &  TecOR  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[10-25%] increased damage. Your earthquakes deal x[20-60%] increased damage |
| Two-Handed Slashing Weapon |  Tam &  GarOR Grand Emerald | Aspect of Incendiary Fissures | – Your Earthquakes deal x[40-60%] increased damage and their damage is converted into Fire |
| Dual Wield Weapon 1 | Grand Emerald | Aspect of Elements | – Gain x [15-35%] increased damage to a set of damage types for 7 seconds. This effect alternates between 2 sets: Fire, Lightning and Physical; Cold, Poison and Shadow. |
| Dual Wield Weapon 2 | Grand Emerald | Executioner’s Aspect | – Your Overpowers will spawn an Earthquake every 4 seconds that deals [X] Physical damage over 4 seconds. Your Earthquake damage is increased by 5% for every 100 Strength you have up to a maximum of 200% |
To see how this build compares to the other builds on our site, you can check out our build tier lists.
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. Maximum Life 3. Strength | 1. Earthquake Size  Barbarian Innovation2. Ground Stomp Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy |
| Chest | 1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Armor | 1. Earthquake Size Barbarian Innovation 2. Ground Stomp Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy(Note: Mantle of Mountain’s Fury is a build enabling unique, you need this item to make this build work. We are listing the stats and tempers here while you work to acquire it. Replace your chest with it ASAP) |
| Gloves | 1. Attack Speed 2. Strength 3. Ranks to Hammer of the Ancients | 1. Hammer of the Ancients Size Brute Innovation 2. Critical Strike Damage Worldly Finesse |
| Pants | 1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Needed Resistance | 1. Ground Stomp Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy 2. Earthquake Size Barbarian Innovation |
| Boots | 1. Movement Speed 2. Maximum Life 3. Strength | 1. Movement Speed Natural Motion 2. Earthquake Size Barbarian Innovation |
| Amulet | 1. % Strength 2. +Ranks to  Counteroffensive3. + Ranks to  Heavy Handed | 1. Ground Stomp Cooldown Reduction Barbarian Strategy 2. Damage While Berserking Berserking Finesse |
| Ring 1 | 1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Lucky Hit: Up to a [X%] chance to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds | 1. Damage to Close Enemies Natural Finesse 2. Call of the Ancients Cooldown Reduction Ultimate Efficiency — Barbarian |
| Ring 2 | 1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Attack Speed | 1. Damage While Berserking Berserking Finesse 2. Call of the Ancients Cooldown Reduction Ultimate Efficiency — Barbarian |
| 2-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon | 1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Critical Strike Damage | 1. Chance for Earthquakes to Cast Twice Wasteland Augments 2. Damage While Berserking Berserking Finesse |
| 2-Handed Slashing Weapon | 1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Critical Strike Damage | 1. Damage to Close Enemies Natural Finesse 2. + Ranks to Heavy Hitter Vehement Augments |
| Dual Wield Weapons | 1. Strength 2. Maximum Life 3. Critical Strike Damage | 1. Damage to Close Enemies Natural Finesse 2. + Ranks to Heavy Hitter Vehement Augments |
Uniques and Mythic Uniques
Below you will find information on Unique Items and Mythic Unique Items that are useful and recommended for this setup. If a Mythic Unique is not listed here, it is NOT recommended and won’t benefit this specific build in any way.
Uniques
- Ugly Bastard Helm This helm grant us a massive multiplier to all fire damage we deal while we’re berserking. Thanks to Aspect of Incendiary Fissures our Earthquake are also converted to fire damage and shattering them via the next unique means they’re fire damage as well. This unique is not exactly a must have, but you are much much weaker without it.
Mantle of Mountain’s Fury the MUST HAVE unique to play this setup. Not only does it grant us some extra Hammer of the Ancients damage but it enables said hammer to detonate our Earthquakes for their total damage instantly compiling all that massive damage over time into one huge explosion that clears screens. You need this ASAP to make this build work.- Fists of Fate even with its change in Season 8 to no longer trigger random Crowd Control effects, it still causes Vulnerable and helps our damage out by a lot. Make sure you’re wearing one that’s at least 250% or more on its Unique Power, this will make it on average, increase our damage by 25% and up to 50% with a maximum 300% roll. A powerful unique.
Mythic Uniques
Ring of Starless Skies – This amazing ring helps rid us of our need to really worry about resources and lets us spam cast Hammer as much as we want while also providing a large damage increase for doing so. If you’re lucky enough to grab this must have ring, replace your Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment ring with it as you won’t have any issues with resources after equipping it.
Harlequin Crest – The infamous Shako. With a huge armor bonus, 20% damage reduction, huge cooldown reduction and +4 ranks to all skills, this item is still extremely powerful providing us full uptime on shouts and our ultimate skill 
Call of the Ancients as well as granting a bit more damage through the ranks to hammer which aren’t as potent as previous iterations of the build but do add more damage none the less.
Gems and Runes
Below you will find the details about why we’re using the gems we are as well as which runes we want to combine for runewords in Vessel of Hatred. Let’s jump in.
Gems
| Weapon Gems | Armor Gems | Jewelry Gems |
| Grand Emerald for increased Critical Strike Damage | Grand Ruby for increased Strength stat | Grand Skull for increased Armor |
Make sure you are maintaining 70% in all resistances and 1000 armor. If you have enough armor but are lacking a resistance, consider dropping a Grand Skull for another gem of whatever resistance you are lacking such as 
Grand Sapphire for cold resist.
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.
| Rune | Rune Effect |
 Tam | Gain 25 Offering: Cast a Non-Channeled Core Skill |
| Gar | Requires 25 Offering: Cooldown 1 second, Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25% |
| Yul | Gain 50 Offering; Cast a skill with a Cooldown |
 Tec | Requires 50 Offering; Cooldown 1 second, Evoke the Barbarian’s Earthquake, dealing damage to enemies within |
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 Patch 2.0 when a level 60 Character spends Obols, all gear from that vendor will be 750 item power, the highest non-Ancestral in the game, allowing you to fill out gear with the affixes or Legendary Aspects you need.
Check out our Obol Gambling Tool Guide HERE.
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