Diablo 4: “Don’t even need weapon damage”

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Many players are busy working on their builds in Diablo 4 right now. A now well-known barbarian expert has taken his favorite class to his chest and created a ridiculously powerful Thorn build. He even kills enemies without touching his mouse and keyboard.

Who is the player?

  • Rob2628 is a streamer and expert on the Barbarian in Diablo 4. He reached level 100 in the test before the release.
  • Also in Early Access, Rob reached level 100 before most of you could even play. Both times he used the popular Whirlwind build for Barbarian.
  • Now the specialist has put together a new build that relies entirely on thorns and relies on enemies simply killing themselves on you while you watch.

    • This is the build: Rob built the build around the Thorns mechanic. Thorns reflect damage back to enemies that attack you. The aim of the build is to be able to take as much as possible, take little damage yourself and multiply incoming damage to enemies.

    The build doesn’t show up at all in the Diablo 4 tier list. There barbarians are more likely to play with Whirlwind or Mangle. As Rob explains, however, he can completely do without some of the otherwise important stats.

    He doesn’t really need attack power or offensive stats on his weapons and jewelry. More life and especially thorns are more important. And that works excellently, as he shows in the video. Even if he takes his hands away and just watches:

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    Build uses items that most of you ignore

    At the core of the build are a few items that most of you would probably ignore. They are very special and, outside of these exact builds, don’t do much. The items include:

  • Needle Fire Aspect (Weapon) – Deals Thorn damage around you, the most important weapon for this build, Rob says.
  • Aspect of Tranquility (Weapon) – Makes you stronger when standing still. So the build almost asks you to stand around AFK.
  • Razor Plate (Chest) – A unique item that has no stats whatsoever other than armor and thorns. Something most players tend to fret about dropping.

    • Rob hasn’t quite finished building, as he says himself. He first has to see which useful values ​​can all be present on the parts. He didn’t quite expect it to work so well.

    He even tried the build in PvP and it was probably a real nightmare for his opponents. Values ​​such as more life and armor are particularly important. Armor is the most important defensive stat anyway.

    I found out with my Blizzard build that you can have a lot of fun with off-meta builds:

    Diablo 4: Blizzard build for the Sorceress in World Tier 3 Lightwatch gameplay

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    A German player for necromancers even recreated a similar build (via GameStar). Here, the huge, summoned golem can “dish out” just as nasty as Rob’s barbarian.

    Although the build doesn’t even show up in the tier lists, some fans in Rob’s chat are sure that the thorns will be nerfed soon. That’s apparently what’s happening with the popular Barbarian Whirlwind build right now, although there may have been a bug here:

    Diablo 4: PoE player defeats the toughest boss on hardcore – Build is too strong, will be disabled

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