Diablo 4 Season 15 Barbarian Tier List – Every Build RANKED! transcript

Wanders, Barb Nation, season 15 is almost here, and I wanted to give you a tier list today that will get you set up with some of an idea of what is going to be coming during season 15. We don't have the final patch notes, and when we get those patch notes, I'll be traveling for BlizzCon, and I won't be able to do a video. So, I wanted to get this out so you'll have something to go off of. We'll change the mobileics tier list once the final notes are out and we have a much better idea of what is changing and what's not changing.

So, if you do want to keep up with it, check the link in the description of the video for the mobile profile. Before we hop into this, we have just launched the brand new Barbarian Hub on the website clipus.com. This is a completely free website with nothing to sign up for. It is just all of my content really nicely organized. And if you're playing a barbarian this season, this will have the tier list, leveling guides, endgame guides, videos, how-tos, everything that you need to know about the barbarian.

And hopefully in the future, as the site builds, we'll be able to add in more classes, so you'll be able to go here for all of your needs. Jumping back into the tier list, just know all of these builds, you will be able to run through Tormat 12 on any of them. So, if your favorite builds don't make it to the top of the list, don't worry. you can still play them and they can still get you through the highest tournament tiers that are out there.

At the very bottom, we're going to be looking at kick, which is honestly one of my favorite builds to play, but it just lacks that little bit of punch that you need in order to start pushing. You won't be able to level up your glyphs too high with it. So, we're going to put it down here at C tier. Then unfortunately the Broarian build, the ancients build is been drastically reduced in power. Again, this is just proposed.

We don't know what the final notes are going to be, but on the test realm, it was definitely lacking some punch. [snorts] The speed farming version of this was actually very fun still to play, and it still flew through Torment 12 content as fast as you possibly could go. So, there is that. If you're looking to get back into the Bros, you can still play that. Bash was a little bit weaker this time than it was in the season 14 test realm.

So, I'm not too sure what the difference was, but we're going to put it down here in B tier. It is still fun. It's swinging around a big base. So, if you like the bash play style, this will definitely be able to take you through Torment 12. Fle is kind of here. I'm going to put it down in B until we get into the actual season. The splinters will give it some increased damage, so we may be able to bump it up once we start getting some transfigurations on, but we'll have to see how that goes.

Death Blow, unfortunately, the only ability that I was looking forward to trying with Death Blow was the [snorts] weapon swap build with Whirlwind, and it was not working with Death Blow. It worked with every other weapon mastery build, just not Death Blow. The fast cast version of death blow is still very fun, but the limited radius that it has makes it really hard to farm with and also really hard to push the pits with.

Frenzy is going into a tier. Now, the frenzy version that we played was the long range frenzy. We're throwing our weapons and those are doing damage. It has a very small radius because some of the interactions just aren't working with it. However, it still did quite a bit of damage. The single target damage wasn't too bad, and we were able to push a little bit further than the other basic skill builds. Lunging strike is also going to go here.

And this was actually very surprising. Lunging strike was the worst of the basic skill builds, and now it actually was the best of the basic skill builds. That unfortunately is due to a double dipping interaction with Ramladney and projectiles where dust devils are getting a double dip from that massive multiplier that is coming from Ramladney. We're waiting on the final notes to see if maybe this won't actually be sitting here and we're going to bump it back down.

There's a couple different skills that are waiting and pending on that which we'll talk about in just a second. I'm going to be putting Hammer of the Ancients in A. On the test realm, people had this hitting for in the quadrillions of damage. The version I believe was not super tanky and it was not very easy to play. So, in order to get everybody just as a very realistic setting, I'm going to put it into a if it does end up clearing 150, which I don't think it's going to be very close to doing that.

We may bump it up a little bit. Maybe it'll get through 140 somewhere close to that. We'll help to see hopefully. But I know that this one, if you run the Celic version, it mutes the damage quite a bit. If you run the life version and you get touched, you die. So there's there's going to be kind of a give and play and the different play styles of Hammer the Ancients, but it is hitting very very hard. Next is going to be Mighty Throw.

I played the fast cast version of Mighty Throw and it was very fun. mighty throw you have to stop in order to cast. So, the damage is definitely there. We were able to push relatively high into the pits and it does relatively well on bosses, but because of the speed, we're definitely going to keep it in a and just the overall top end power. Double swing is the other one that is interacting with ramaladis and dust devils.

You can put Dust Devils onto Double Swing and it did quite a bit of damage. I was very surprised. We ran into Torment 12 Mefisto and it just absolutely dropped him. And on the test realm, I know it's very easy to think, okay, well, you have all of the gear you need. It's super easy to get really, really crazy strong builds that you'll never actually have in the live realm. I don't ever put the time in. I have to test 14 plus different builds and we have limited time.

So, I find any piece of gear that's going to get my character up and running, I put it on and I go hit some stuff with it, and if it's functional, then we can bring it into the live season. So, I'm very surprised with this. I'm I'm pretty excited about Double Swing because I do like the interaction that it has. Next up was actually the most surprising, and I did put out an entire video on this one particular skill, and that's going to be upheaval.

Upheaval is something that people have been asking for to be in the meta for a very long time. This is potentially S tier depending on the interaction from Ramladney. Again, we're waiting on that. This could potentially clear pit 150. We're going to leave it in a cuz again, you have to stop and cast, which if you're pushing pits, that definitely is something that you just grab a big group of monsters, you stop, and then you let everything die.

However, the speed from that stop animation doesn't make it the best farming ability. But I do believe this is going to go pretty high into the pits and could potentially be a very fun clearing build that has never been really in the meta for pit pushing really ever. The next thing we're going to talk about is going to be Rend. And this is the Rend Leap version. Again, I'm going to put this in a there is some potential for it to stay as an S tier build.

It is currently there. There were some pretty big changes proposed for the ring of Ravenous. So, I'm going to leave this adjust in a [snorts] we had some people that told me that they had some really great success and it felt fine, but I also did test it out and the damage definitely felt muted quite a bit. So, we're going to leave that right there. Now, no joke, no surprise, we're going to be putting whirlwind as the S tier build.

And I understand that this is the third season in a row that it has been there, but that is definitely not a bad thing. It's great that we have something that is really great for farming, that is very strong for pit pushing, that is just very enjoyable and easy to put together. It would be great to see some of the other builds make it up. And like I said, we may end up just like this. So that is more builds that are coming up into the S tier ranks.

So having that same consistent reliable farming build is really really great cuz before we had earthquakes that was what you used to farm with because that was a big area of effect. But there's nothing else in the barbarian kit other than the ancients that has just that big widpread sweeping fast farming ability. So having whirlwind up here is something that we definitely don't want to see change. having other builds come up and having those be on par would be great.

But then eventually if they're all on the same, we don't need a tier list and this video would be useless, which for me would be personally would be awesome. We're going to put those all back down and then we're going to leave charge right up at the top. Charge is currently on the live servers clearing pit 150 and tower 150. And there's not really much that's going to be changing. It won't really be gaining any extra power, but it's not really losing much power either.

So, you should still see flame charge up there in the higher ranks of the pit. But that's it. That's the tier list for the barbarian. I'm pretty excited to see what they're going to announce at Blizzcon. And again, once the final patch notes have dropped, we've made it through BlizzCon. Everything will be updated again. Let me know what builds you're most excited about playing in season 15 in the comments. I'm pretty excited to hop into this.

This season, we're going to do a giveaway in Discord. So, if you want to hop in, the Discord link will be at the top of the description of the video. I'm going to be grabbing three people and we're going to be leveling. This is going to start from the launch of the season. And make sure that you're in for a long haul because we're going to take this. I'm going to go straight to Tournament 12 on day one of the season, but at least to level 70.

So, you're going to have to have at least a couple hours because it's going to be launch depending on the party and who's with us, whether they're brand new to leveling or not. Give yourself at least 5 to 6 hours to play if you want to sign up and come and do these runs with me. All you do is you're just going to come over to the giveaway channel and you just click on participate. And on Sunday, right after BlizzCon, the final ceremonies, we're going to actually be doing the drawing and it'll pop up in Discord.

I won't be live streaming. So, this will be a Discord only event because I will still be in California and I won't be able to actually be live, but if you want to do that, it's going to be incredibly fun. The other thing that we want to talk about, the event that we're doing, and this is the final week to join up. We're going to be ending the giveaways and the events on Sunday. This is your seasonal leveling groups. These are super fun to do.

We are pairing up people with just a random group of four. You get to go out in the season and explore together, learn all the new content, trade gear. It's really, really fun. And I'm telling you, if you've never played Diablo I with people, it changes around the way that the game feels. It's super fun. People are very friendly, very welcoming. We have about 55 people in Q already. And we have already done several different groups.

So, we have about 16 groups already set up. So, if you want to hop in on the fun, make sure you get in on this. Click on the announcements channel. It will describe where everything is for you. And if you're having any issues, you can always make sure you just ask me in the Discord server. That's all I got for you today. Hopefully you found this video helpful. If you did, make sure you share with your friends. Thank you everybody for watching.

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