D3 S28 Barbarian Fresh Level 70 Guide | 2.7.5

What three Legendary gems?

Your next goal should be getting at least L25 on your three most important gems. Just get rift keys and spam GR’s until you get them, and do the absolute minimum level you need to level them up. Get them and level them quickly – do not feel pressured to “maximize” your rift keys by inflating the difficulty.

Legacy of Dreams is mandatory, as mentioned in the basics segment! Level this up as much as you can.

Taeguk is godlike. It’s an extremely powerful gem that’s nearly mandatory on Channeling builds. Offense and defense piled into one. This is only good once you’ve transitioned into “whirlwinding only” – which you need Ambo’s Pride for. If you want more power for low investment, go for L25 Powerful, which doesn’t need the constant Whirlwinding.

Moratorium is something I heavily recommend early on as it covers your defenses. Esoteric Alteration is also an option that scales to the lategame..

Can’t ever go wrong with leveling up a Boon of the Hoarder for speedfarming.

Legendary Items in ALL SLOTS

LoD gets stronger with each legendary item you have equipped – so get to it! You should aim to get this done “passively” by natural item drops, but you can also craft items if you’re desperate.

Simply wear whatever junk you find eventually
replacing them with useful pieces as you get them!

Spending Blood Shards is “OK”, but only use Death’s Breath to fill up the slots if you’re absolutely desperate. You’ll get an item for each slot in no time (you can even craft them). Save your resources for finding SPECIFIC items that will greatly boost your power. We talk more about this in the next segment, refinement.

Ancients DOUBLE this bonus, and they’re a welcome boost to consider.

Defense Type & Gems

Barbs / Crusaders are STRENGTH classes (they get free Armor from STR). So, in the face of all this free armor, your prime defensive stats are ALL RESISTS > VIT.So try to reroll ALLRES on your gear if you need defense, and REMOVE AS MUCH ARMOR (it’s pretty useless as a rolled-in stat).

Slot in your best Diamonds on body and legs, as they give ALLRES.

Basic Rerolls

Since legendaries are a little expensive to reroll EARLY ON, try to make the most by REMOVING GARBAGE STATS, and getting anything “remotely usable”.

STR and VIT are your primary stats and are welcome everywhere, also, as mentioned above, ALL RESISTS are also very welcome.

First of all Barbarian has a special stat, Life Per Fury Spent, found in mighty belts and mighty weapons. This stat is pretty damn good and ideally you would want one of it rolled somewhere. Life per Hit is also okay if you find it here and there.

Rend% is found in Shoulders and Chest. Ignore Whirlwind%, it does nothing meaningful for us.

The Element% you want is PHYSICAL, found typically in Bracers and Amulet.

Remove useless stats

• Life Regeneration – garbage for any build.
• Attack Speed – it usually an endgame tune-up stat.
• Excess Resource Cost Reduction – Is a crutch, and only niche builds need it.
• Excess Cooldown Reduction – Only useful for an endgame “need”.
• Unused skill% – literally USELESS.
• Armor– Useless for us, take ALLRES or VIT instead.

Take better stats

• STR VIT – can’t go wrong with these. Your core stats!
• ALLRES Life% Great defensive stats.
• Sockets are essentially MANDATORY.
• Life per Hit – Great early game sustainability.
• CRIT Stats (CHC / CHD) – More for endgame, but I’d take this over garbage stats.
• Skill and Elemental% – that you use.

Here’s advice on how to spend your blood shards with Kadala, roughly in order of importance:

Lamentation – Belt: Improves rend by a lot. Nothing else to say.

Mantle of Channeling – Shoulder: Gives both offense and defense while channeling!

Goldwrap – Belt: Godlike defenses for Nephalem Rifts with Boon of the Hoarder. Great for farming.

Mortick’s Brace / Nemesis – Bracer: Great bracers overall. Morticks is a huge power spike in many aspects. Nemesis is an ultra farming helper for your follower.

Got some better fillers here like Aquila Cuirass – Chest, for some defense, and Hexing Pants – Legs for DPS and fury. There aren’t that important though.

Every piece of Wastes 6 can be found via
Blood Shards if you’re missing any. 

You can look for the other ‘unimportant’ things in the build preview after these (IE Ice Climbers, Gloves etc)

Here’s advice on how to get your weapons from Deaths Breath rare item upgrades (Kanai’s Cube Recipe: 25x Deaths Breath convert a rare into random legendary of same type), roughly in order of importance:

1h Mighty Weapon for Ambo’s Pride – as you can imagine, is the absolute most important item in the build. Rending on WW hit and shortening its DoT time is, in essence, cheating.

2h Axe for Messerschmidt’s Reaver – If you plan on using Wrath of the Berserker alot, this is an early game crutch that can greatly help with that. Used in tandem or in place of Zodiac. You can keep WoTB up without reaver later on, if you’re wondering…

Bul’Kathos Weapon Set is for when you need to transition into wastes set. You get them both from gambling on 1h Mighty Weapons as well.

You can reroll set items to another slot (example, Helm to Shoulders)
using DB’s FS’s in the cube. Just a reminder, if you want your Wastes 6.

Nothing else is really WORTH spending DB’s for, and would rather spend to try and get jewelry you might not have yet.

Rings and Amulets are tough to get from either BS or DB’s (due to the large amount of possible outcomes), but if you’re done getting your core items from these currencies – and you haven’t got your core accessories, it’s a viable way to spend them. Typically you’ll just find these as you grind – then use currency if you’re desperate. Anyway, if I had to rank the importance of your rings and ammys…

Band of Might is pseudo-core to the build simply because it shores up so much of our defense with a single item. It’s a huge boost to toughness.

Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac to start inching towards “100% Wrath of the Berserker uptime”.

Unity is a decent defensive option, but you need the follower immortality relic, and another Unity for the follower!

SKULL GRASP IS TRASH FOR THIS BUILD! We don’t actually do WW damage, it’s REND!

As an aside – Ring of Royal Grandeur and Avarice Band are BOUNTY ONLY rings (respectively ACT I and III), which DO NOT APPEAR FROM any other source. They, like any other bounty item, DO NOT DROP from monsters, gambling, upgrades or any other source outside of their respective BOUNTY CACHE.