Season 8 is bringing changes to the Barbarian class, reinforcing its core fantasy: hitting enemies with big weapons. The focus this season is on making weapon-based attacks feel stronger and impactful, reducing reliance on the class’ magical elements.
New Unique & Aspect: Mighty Throw Gets a Power Boost
A new unique & aspect will improve the skill 
Mighty Throw, making it a devastating but less frequently attack.
- Bane of Ahjed-Den (Unique Gloves)
- Boosts Mighty Throw damage with instant Fire damage every 12 seconds.
- Will deal 400-600% increased damage when detonating.
- Affixes: Adds cooldown reduction, Fury regeneration, and critical strike damage.
- Aspect of Delayed Extinction
- Converts Cooldown Reduction into multiplicative damage for Mighty Throw and Steel Grasp.
- Additional 125-250% damage boost.
Both this unique and the aspect will interact with each other, making Mighty Throw a very heavy final hit on your enemies. While you will not be able to activate Mighty Throw that often, it will be a great finishing move.
Skill Updates: Heavy-Hitting Core Skills Get Buffed
Double Swing: 
Twin Strikes unique now allows additional hits for 3 seconds instead of just one boosted hit.
Whirlwind: Base damage increased from 24% to 32%, and Whirlwind explosions (
Gohr’s Devastating Grips) now scale with Whirlwind’s damage.
Steel Grasp: Damage increased by 400%.
Ground Stomp: Base damage nearly doubled (80% → 140%), though Tactical Ground Stomp‘s bonus damage has been toned down.
Legendary Aspects and Unique Items Balancing
- Whirlwind Aspects:
Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind will offer more critical chance, and Dust Devil’s Aspect receives an additional power: hitting enemies with Dust Devils increases damage from all other sources by 25% for 3 seconds. 
The Third Blade received an update. - Previous: Your Weapon Mastery Skills are now also Core Skills that have no Cooldowns but cost Fury, dealing 50 – 70% of normal damage. Their Fury costs are reduced by 5 for any additional Charges the Skill would have had.
- Now: Your Weapon Mastery Skills are now also Core Skills that have 100% Cooldown Reduction but cost Fury, dealing 50 – 70% of normal damage.
Ring of Red Furor: Bonus critical strikes now apply to all non-Channeled Core & Weapon Mastery skills.
With these updates, Season 8 is looking to be a strong return to the Barbarian’s roots. Current Season 8 PTR testing shows that Barbarian is very powerful! If no drastic changes are made, we can expect great melee damage, devastating weapon strikes, and new popular high-damage builds.
