Charge Bleed Barbarian

This is a variation on the typical Charge/Rend build that relies heavily on the effects of the Fields of Crimson two-handed sword and the Ring of the Ravenous. You also wan’t to equip Tibault’s Will as soon as possible. For the best synergy, you should manually set all of your attack skills to use your two-handed sword.

X’Fal’s Corroded Signet is not 100% required, but its unique effect and other affixes are very desirable for the build. If you don’t equip X’Fal’s, you should use a weapon technique other than Polearm, since you will not be reliant on lucky hit chance.

Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty is always a good barbarian helm. Until you have one, a legendary helm with your choice of defensive aspect will suffice. Note that you won’t be using your basic attack often with this build, so Disobedience and Might are of minimal use. Crowded Sage might be a better choice.

A large part of your attack power comes from the Blood Rage legendary paragon node, so your top priority for item affixes should always be Damage While Berserking, followed by Strength and enough All Stats, Dexterity, or Willpower to fully activate all of your rare nodes. With the Juggernaut’s aspect, you won’t need %Armor on more than one item to reach the armor cap, so focus on maxing out your elemental resistances.

NOTE: If you’re playing in Eternal or using a Seneschal configuration that doesn’t include Fortify Support, you may want to replace the Iron Blood affix on your amulet with Numbing Wrath, or else alter your choice of passive skills.

You will almost always open by using Charge. Try to position yourself to hit as many enemies as possible and push them into terrain. As long as you’re hitting multiple targets, Charge will have little or no cooldown time and can be used repeatedly until everything is dead. Aiming for the farthest enemy in a pack helps ensure you hit everything. In confined situations (like a vault trap room), your Ancients from Ancestral Charge cover a wide area and will continue moving past the point where you stop, and can thus be used to deal damage at range without moving yourself into danger.

If Charge is on cooldown, or you’re facing a tougher target, use Rupture to heal yourself and inflict AoE bleeding damage. Rupture has the highest chance to trigger explosions from your X’Fal’s ring, so it’s a good idea to pull enemies in with Steel Grasp before Rupturing. Steel Grasp also helps maintain berserking and is your only reliable way to make enemies vulnerable.

You will only normally need to cast Rend vs. bosses. Use Rupture to create a blood pool under the boss, Rend until your fury is depleted, then Charge to regain fury.

Because you can reliably gain fury by killing enemies and using Charge, you won’t normally need to use your basic skill to generate resource, but Lunging Strike is useful as a gap closer and a quick way to take out individual, soft targets,

Wrath of the Berserker should be reserved for when you need to be Unstoppable.