Barbarian Changes Coming in Season 5

Here are some of the Barbarian changes coming in Diablo 4’s Season 5!

We’ve taken the data from both DonTheCrown‘s and Rob‘s Season 5 sheets and compiled them into actual class changes. Blizzard has confirmed these changes for Season 5 during the content creator roundtable, but the list is incomplete and we’ll need to wait until the official Season 5 patch notes to have a full list of all changes.

Main Stat Scaling

• Blizzard is adjusting main stat scaling in Season 5. Barbarians will receive 1% damage per 10 main stat. This is because Barbarians and Rogues have more item slots compared to other classes.

Key Passives

1. Unconstrained
   • Bonus damage reduced from 75%[x] to 35%[x], so it should read as 60%[x] on tooltip now.
2. Walking Arsenal
   • Bonus damage per weapon type used reduced from 12%[x] to 8%[x].
   • Bonus damage while all three bonuses are active reduced from 20%[x] to 10%[x].
   • Bonus Attack Speed while all three bonuses are active reduced from 20% to 10%.
3. Unbridled Rage
   • Bonus damage reduced from 100%[x] to 45%[x].
4. Gushing Wounds
   • When causing an enemy to Bleed, you have a chance equal to your Critical Strike Chance to increase the Bleed amount by 70%[x], then by 100%[+] of your Critical Strike Damage.
   • Overpowering a Bleeding enemy creates an explosion that inflicts 120% Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.
   • Potentially no longer scales with The Grandfather.

Tempering Affix Changes

1. Barbarian Protection has been removed.
2. Flay Duration: Moved back to Weapon from Utility.
3. Bash Temper reduced by 80% (from 105% to 20%).
4. Imposing Presence is down to 5% of Life (was 6%).
5. Close Damage Temper down from 85% to 55%.

General Unique Changes in Season 5

Frostburn

The affixes have been reworked:

• 8% Lucky Hit
• 10.5-15% Attack Speed
• 142.5-182.1% Fire & Cold damage
• Lucky Hit 40% to deal 2,000-4,000 Fire damage
• Lucky Hit 40% to deal 2,000-4,000 Cold damage
• Lucky Hit 20-60% Chance to Freeze enemies for 3 seconds

Flickerstep

The affixes have been reworked:

• Attacks reduce Evade Cooldown by 2.5 seconds
• Evade grants 30% Main Stat for 1.5 seconds
• 12.5-18% Main Stat
• 219-300% Ultimate damage
• 46.5-60% Light Resistance
• 8-12.5% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies
• Unique affix unchanged

Fists of Fate

The affixes have been reworked:

• 0.1-8.7% Attack Speed
• 0.1-8.7% Crit Chance
• 1-51.8% Lucky Hit Chance
• Lucky Hit: Up to 1-51.8% Chance to Apply a Random CC effect for 2 seconds.
• Unique affix unchanged

Barbarian Uniques

1. Fields of Crimson
   • Implicit changed to 130% Vulnerability Damage.
   • Strength: [198-270]
   • Damage to Bleeding: [406-550]%
   • Enhanced Rupture Explosion Size: [52-70]%
   • Rupture Cooldown Reduction: [16-25]%
   • Unclear if Unique Affix flat damage changed.
2. Battle Trance
   • Crit Chance: [6-8]%
   • Damage Reduction from Close: [8-12.5]%
   • Frenzy: [2-3]
   • Duelist: [4-6]
   • Unique affix increased from 35-45% to 35-55%.
3. 100,000 Steps
   • Implicit changed to Evade Grants Fury.
   • Movement Speed: [12.5-18]%
   • Movement Speed per Walking: [5-7]%
   • Damage to Stunned: [82.5-105]%
   • Ground Stomp Size: [46.5-60]%
   • Fury Gain changed to [50-100]
   • Cooldown changed to 10 seconds.