In Diablo 4’s first expansion, Vessel Of Hatred, Upheaval has been properly adjusted to become one of the best core skills for Barbarian Class, making Upheaval Barbarian build the choice of many players who like powerful attacks, whether single-target or multi-target.
In Upheaval Barbarian build, you can not only cleverly combine the two most important abilities in the build, giving it huge damage potential and excellent survivability, but also combine multiple skills such as Combat Bash and Furious Upheaval to give it a powerful ability to suppress enemies.
It sounds attractive, doesn’t it? If you want to make the most of the best Upheaval Barbarian build in Diablo 4 DLC, you might as well read the following guide first, where you will pick out the skills and other gear that best suit your character.
Skills
At the level 60 cap and grinding renown added by Vessel Of Hatred DLC, you should have a total of 72 Skill Points to assign. Below are our recommendations for the best allocations, which you can change accordingly depending on your play style.
Active Skills
- Bash: 1
- Upheaval: 5
- Rallying Cry: 1
- Challenging Shout: 1
- War Cry: 1
- Call Of The Ancients: 5
Passive Skills
- Warpath: 3
- Pressure Point: 1
- Endless Fury: 2
- Martial Vigour: 3
- Imposing Presence: 3
- Belligerence: 3
- Raid Leader: 3
- Booming Voice: 3
- Guttural Voice: 1
- Aggressive Resistance: 3
- Prolific Fury: 1
- Pit Fighter: 3
- Slaying Strike: 3
- Thick Skin: 1
- Counteroffensive: 3
- Heavy Handed: 3
- Brute Force: 3
- Wallop: 3
- Key Passive: Unbridled Rage
Skill Rotation
Now that we know how all the skill points are allocated, let’s take a look at how you can use these active skills in real exploration. First, when you face a skirmish, you can cast three shout skills (Challenging Shout, Rallying Cry, and War Cry) to give yourself a series of offensive and defensive buffs.
This is very easy to do if you have Diablo 4 Items such as Bold Chieftain’s Aspect and Rakanoth’s Wake in your build, as they can greatly reduce the cooldown of your skills.
Then you can use Bash to generate fury, preferably ten times in a row, so that you will have a 120% damage increase, which will also give you an absolute suppression effect when casting the core skill, Upheaval. At this time, the key passive skill, Unbridled Rage will also start to work, consuming a lot of fury while causing more damage to the enemy.
In some low- to mid-level encounters, the above skills are enough for you to clear most of the enemies you face, and you can easily pick up Diablo 4 Gold and loot they drop. But if you encounter a more difficult encounter, you can use Call of the Ancients. Although it does not cause very much damage to the enemy when it is cast, the passive buff it provides you when it is activated can make you have a very high clearing efficiency at some critical moments.
Legendary Aspects
Among most of the items in Upheaval Barbarian Build, the most important and useful ones are Legendary Aspects that can provide various benefits. The following are Legendary Aspects we recommend for you to use and their effects. You can also adjust them accordingly according to your game style.
- Edgemaster’s Aspect: The skill deals up to 5% - 25% increased damage based on available primary resources at the time of activation, with the greatest effect occurring when primary resources are full.
- Accelerating Aspect: Critical attacks from core skills increase your attack speed by 10%-30% for 5 seconds.
- Aspect of Anger Management: When your Fury exceeds 55–40 you will enter Berserk mode, but your Fury will decrease by 2 every second.
- Bold Chieftain’s Aspect: Whenever you cast a shout skill, for every enemy near you within 6 seconds, the cooldown of this skill will be reduced by 10%-30%.
- Aspect of Limitless Rage: For each Fury Point you generate while Fury is at max, the damage of the following core skills increases by 1-3%，increases up to 15 times.
Mercenary
A new Mercenary mechanic has been added to Diablo 4 DLC, where you can choose two of four different Mercenaries to combine to help you explore. For Upheaval Barbarian Build, you can choose Raheir and Varyana. This combination not only provides you with some extra defensive capabilities but also allows enemies to be easily attracted to them.
Raheir’s skills such as Valiance and Bastion make it highly survivable and become your most solid protection. In addition, these skills can also provide you with Unstoppable in some emergency situations. But it is not just a tank attribute. Its Ground Slam skill can also provide you with some additional attack buffs to increase its practicality.
For Varyana, if you combine your Bash skill with its Ancient Harpoons, it is a very good Reinforcement Mercenary. This skill will allow you to attract enemies before using the three Shout skills effectively, so that you have enough time to adjust your own state, such as using tonics to increase your health. Most importantly, Varyana can effectively shorten the cooldown of all your skills, allowing you to attack the enemy continuously.
The above are some detailed information about skills, Legendary Aspects and Mercenary in the very popular Upheaval Barbarian Build in Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred DLC. I hope this guide can help you with your exploration. If you get stuck and need some Gold or Items during your exploration, you can participate in the regular lucky draws in IGGM Discord, which may make your exploration easier. I wish you a happy game!
