Diablo 4 Carry Run

In the season change of Diablo 4, the build you use in the game will be divided into leveling builds and endgame builds according to different end goals. The criterion for judging the best leveling build is that your character levels up very quickly.

But unfortunately, even in Season 7, Barbarian still upgrades very slowly, which makes it very difficult to make the best Barbarian leveling build. However, due to its enhanced attack ability in the current season, you can enhance its killing speed and mobility through some of the build options you choose for it, making this build more powerful.

To cut down on the cost of time and energy spent on crafting your build, this guide will show you the right skills and gear to place in your best Barbarian leveling build, so that you can target farming for these specific items or attributes during the exploration process to achieve your goal of getting into the endgame stage faster.

Best Barbarian Leveling Build Overview

In fact, the best Barbarian leveling build in the current season is a variation of Bleed Thorns Barbarian build, which is more suitable for clearing regular enemies or monsters during the leveling stage rather than difficult boss encounters. And in the improved Barbarian build, the ability to clear large groups of monsters will be greatly increased, which is very suitable for leveling stages that need to farm a lot of experience points and Diablo 4 Gold.

Active Skills

As just introduced, in this best Barbarian leveling build, all you need to focus on is the damageability of Barbarian in the process of clearing enemies and maps, especially Thorns with a lot of continuous damage. So when you choose active skills for it, please prioritize skills that can cause more damage to Thorns, and then skills that can effectively control groups of enemies. Here are some active skills that can be recommended for you.

• Flay
• Rend
• Challenging Shout
• Rallying Cry
• Rupture
• Wrath of the Berserker

With the skill points you have, you only need to maximize Rend and Wrath of the Berserker, as they provide more and better benefits to your build. The rest of the skill points can be used to invest in your passive skills or upgrade them to higher levels to obtain any other active skills that are useful for your build.

Passive Skills

Again, when picking passive skills, you also need to focus on those that can increase your Thorns damage. The rest of you can choose passive skills in the order to improve offensive ability, defensive ability, and quality of life. Here are some passive skills recommended for you and some specific skill points.

• Endless Fury
• Imposing Presence
• Belligerence
• Outburst
• Tough as Nails
• Swiftness
• Thick Skin (1/3)
• Defensive Stance
• Counteroffensive
• Pit Fighter
• No Mercy
• Heavy Handed
• Gushing Wounds

Two passives to look out for here are Outburst and Tough as Nails, which can significantly increase your Thorns damage, especially when you have a lot of max health. Also worth mentioning is Gushing Wounds, which increases your bleed damage in proportion to your build’s critical hits, making it easier to get a one-hit kill.

But if you don’t care about critical hits, you can also replace it with Barbed Carapace, which will increase the damage of your already very powerful Thorns in your build.

Witchcraft Powers

Once you enter Season 7, you will be amazed by the 25 different Witchcraft Powers available to you this season. You can use them to make your build more powerful offensively and defensively, and for the current best Barbarian leveling build, you can choose from the following powers.

• Aura of Siphoning: It poisons all nearby enemies, and when upgraded, the siphon aura heals you when you deal damage.
• Shaken Soul: Eldritch power applies Vulnerability to enemies, and when upgraded, this effect is also applied by Psyche and Growth & Decay powers for half the duration.
• Aura of Misfortune: Slows down non-boss enemies. Upgrading it will increase your movement speed, potentially making you immune to attacks from nearby enemies.
• Hex of Whispers: Every 5 seconds, inflict a Hex of Whispers on the next damage dealt. The target takes shadow damage and passes Hex to another target.
• Soul Harvest: When you use the cooldown, you get a bonus Primary Core Stat for each nearby enemy.
• Vengeful Spirit Savant: Every some seconds, you summon a Vengeful Spirit that lasts for some seconds. This spirit absorbs all damage you take.

Since Occult Gems, another new Diablo 4 Items in this season, can only be crafted in the endgame, we won’t be covering the gems that can be put into an optimal Barbarian endgame build here.

Gear

Like the skills you choose for this optimal Barbarian leveling, the build you pick here will also be centered on increasing Thorns and Bleed damage. Here are the recommended items to put in each gear slot, but be aware that some Uniques and Legendary Aspects will require you to spend a lot of time and Diablo 4 Gold to farm.

• Aspect of Might - Helmet
• Aspect of Disobedience - Chest Armor
• Aspect of Anger Management - Gloves
• Undying Aspect - Pants
• Craven Aspect - Boots
• Aspect of Inevitable Fate - Amulet
• Aspect of The Umbral - Ring 1
• Aspect of Berserk Fury - Ring 2
• Needleflare Aspect - 2H Bludgeoning
• Aspect of Burning Rage - 1H Weapon 1
• Vehement Brawler’s Aspect - 1H Weapon 2

When you have all the above gear in your build, they will work perfectly with Witchcraft Powers you chose: you will always be Berserking and Fortified, and your movement speed will always be increased. More importantly, enemies will always be Vulnerable, which will make your other damage types more powerful.

That’s all the skills and gear options for making an optimal Barbarian leveling build in Diablo 4 Season 7. Hopefully, with the help of the items and skills in this guide, you can get through this very long stage faster and challenge the bosses in the endgame stage as soon as possible.

By the way, if your progress in D4 is very slow or even stagnant because of lack of gold or items, you can use the giveaway channel in IGGM Discord to get some gifts, which may make your exploration more comfortable. Have fun playing!

In Diablo Season 7, Witch Powers is the theme of this season. Occult Gems are also new items in Season 7. They can be used with Witch Powers to exert greater power.

Unlike Witch Powers, Occult Gems require players to collect materials to craft. And crafting Occult Gems does not require gold, but many fragments, and you also need to participate in Headhunts and collect Fugitive Heads. Occult Gems are more powerful than ordinary gems, and their performance is much better than traditional gems. Each Occult Gem can provide your character with high armor and other effect bonuses.

Occult Gems

There are three different types of mysterious gems:

• Magic Rarity
• Rare Rarity
• Legendary Rarity

The higher the rarity, the better the effect of these Occult Gems. At the same time, each gem can provide your character with 8% of all resistances and 160 armor. To make Occult Gems of different rarity, you need Occult Gems of the previous rarity as raw materials. Magic Rarity Occult Gems need Fugitive Heads to make.

If you want to make Occult Gems quickly, you need to participate in Headhunts a lot. Not only can you get Fugitive Heads in this event, you can also get a lot of fragments and Diablo 4 Gold.

Magic Rarity Occult Gems

1. Wicked Pact

Common Eldritch Powers are 25% more potent.

Requires:

• 1,000 Restless Rot
• 50,000 Amethyst Fragments
• 1 Fugitive Head

2. Heart Of Anima

Common Psyche Powers are 25% more potent.

Requires:

• 1,000 Restless Rot
• 50,000 Sapphire Fragments
• 1 Fugitive Head

3. Toadling’s Wish

Common Growth & Decay Powers are 25% more potent.

Requires:

• 1,000 Restless Rot
• 50,000 Emerald Fragments
• 1 Fugitive Head

4. Phantom String

Deal 15% increased Overpower Damage to Hexed enemies.

Requires:

• 1,000 Restless Rot
• 50,000 Skull Fragments
• 1 Fugitive Head

5. Elder Sigil

Agility, Corpse, Incarnate, Mastery, Weapon Mastery, and Wrath skills deal 25% increased direct damage to Hexed enemies.

Requires:

• 1,000 Restless Rot
• 50,000 Ruby Fragments
• 1 Fugitive Head

6. Vulture Talon

While you have an Aura active, DoT effects tick 50% faster.

Requires:

• 1,000 Restless Rot
• 50,000 Topaz Fragments
• 1 Fugitive Head

7. Pointed Finger

Summons deal 15% more direct damage to Hexed Elites.

Requires:

• 1,000 Restless Rot
• 50,000 Diamond Fragments
• 1 Fugitive Head

Rare Rarity Occult Gems

1. Killing Wind

While you have three or more Eldritch powers equipped, gain 15% Critical Strike Chance and 25% Movement Speed.

Requires:

• 75,000 Skull Fragments
• 1 Elder Sigil
• 1 Wicked Pact

2. Cornucopia

While you have three or more Growth & Decay powers equipped, generate 30% more Barrier and Fortify, and gain 30% more Thorns.

Requires:

• 75,000 Skull Fragments
• 1 Vulture Talon
• 1 Toadling’s Wish

3. Hungering Void

As you have an Aura active, pull Nearby enemies toward you every 8 seconds.

Requires:

• 75,000 Skull Fragments
• 1 Elder Sigil
• 1 Wicked Pact

4. Vile Phylactery

Fatal damage is prevented when you have a Summon Witch Power. You then gain a Barrier equal to 100% of your Max Life, and all Summon Witch Powers are disabled for 6 seconds. Occurs once every 75 seconds.

Requires:

• 75,000 Skull Fragments
• 1 Toadling’s Wish
• 1 Pointed Finger

5. Raging Enigma

Your Unique Witch Power deals 40% more damage.

Requires:

• 75,000 Skull Fragments
• 1 Wicked Pact
• 1 Phantom String

6. Spiral Coin

While you have three or more Psyche powers equipped, gain 30% Crowd Control Duration and 20% Lucky Hit Chance.

Requires:

• 75,000 Skull Fragments
• 1 Heart Of Anima
• 1 Phantom String

Legendary Rarity Occult Gems

1. Dust Stone

Enemies take 2.5% more damage for each Aura and Hex affecting them.

Requires:

• 100,000 Diamond Fragments
• 1 Toadling’s Wish
• 1 Phantom String
• 1 Hungering Void

2. Witching Hour

Every 1 second, the next Core skill you cast counts as an Eldritch Witch Power when you have three or more Eldritch powers equipped.

Requires:

• 100,000 Diamond Fragments
• 1 Pointed Finger
• 1 Phantom String
• 1 Killing Wind

3. Mind Wreath

While you have three or more Psyche powers equipped, your Defensive, Macabre, Trap Skills gain 20% Cooldown Reduction.

Requires:

• 100,000 Diamond Fragments
• 1 Wicked Pact
• 1 Pointed Finger
• 1 Spiral Coin

4. Voice Of The Stars

While you have an Aura active, your Ultimate is treated as all Witchcraft Power tags and deals 10% more damage.

Requires:

• 100,000 Diamond Fragments
• 1 Elder Sigil 1 Heart of Anima
• 1 Raging Enigma

5. Friend Of The Bog

While you have three or more Growth & Decay equipped, gain 8% more Primary Core Stats, 10% Max Life, and Unhindered.

Requires:

• 100,000 Diamond Fragments
• 1 Wicked Pact
• 1 Vulture Talon
• 1 Vile Phylactery

6. Moonlight Ward

For each rank of your Unique Witchcraft Power, gain 3% Damage Reduction and 0.5% Maximum Resistance to All Elements.

Requires:

• 100,000 Diamond Fragments
• 1 Heart of Anima
• 1 Elder Sigil
• 1 Cornucopia

It takes a lot of fragments to create Occult Gems. In addition to hunting monsters in Headhunt area to obtain fragments, you can also do Infernal Hordes quest and open the material box in this quest.

Many of the effects of Occult Gems are directly auxiliary to Witch Powers or are affected by Witch Powers. The two work together to exert greater power in Season 7. Choosing the right combination of Occult Gems and Witch Powers can greatly improve the efficiency of farming gold and defeating Bosses.

Players can first confirm which build they want to play in Season 7, then match Witch Powers for it according to the characteristics of the build, and finally choose Occult Gems based on Witch Powers. Occult Gems can only be placed in accessories, and only one can be placed at a time, so choose carefully. Don’t waste fragments to create an Occult Gem you don’t need.