Barbarian Rend Build with Wrath of the Wastes

This mobile, DoT-based Barbarian build utilizes the Wrath of the Wastes set for its Rend-empowering aspects, and adds a slew of synergistic legendary items into a single, adaptable and very lethal package. The build is designed with Greater Rift solo progression in mind. For more information about how this build performs on the ladder, please refer to our Solo push rankings.

This build also comes with its own speed farming variation, which features a build similar to the present one, but with alterations to fit a speedfarming playstyle.

The basic skill setup of the Wastes Rend Barbarian is displayed below. Read the dedicated Skills page for detailed information on choices, alternatives and build customization.

Active Skills
Ancient Spear Rage Flip Whirlwind Wind Shear 1 Rend Bloodbath 2 Ground Stomp Wrenching Smash 3 Battle Rage Swords to Ploughshares 4 Wrath of the Berserker Insanity
Passive Skills
Berserker Rage Brawler Ruthless Boon of Bul-Kathos

The required gear setup for the Wastes Rend Barbarian for GR solo pushing is listed below. Check the Gear page for detailed information on choices, alternatives, gemming, Kanai's Cube and Paragon distribution.

• Helm: Helm of the Wastes
• Shoulders: Pauldrons of the Wastes
• Gloves: Gauntlet of the Wastes
• Chest: Cuirass of the Wastes
• Belt: Lamentation
• Pants: Tasset of the Wastes
• Boots: Sabaton of the Wastes
• Bracers: Mortick's Brace
• Amulet: Hellfire Amulet of Strength
• Ring 1: Convention of Elements
• Ring 2: Band of Might
• Weapon 1: The Slanderer
• Weapon 2: Little Rogue

Season 27 comes with the theme of Angelic Crucibles — consumable items that empower Legendary items with perfected Ancient-level stats, as well as infuse them with one of three unique, powerful, class-specific abilities at random. For this build, we recommend aiming for the Wrath of the Berserker Sanctification, which adds the following power to your build:

• Wrath of the Berserker Sanctification: Hitting enemies generates stacks of Tempest Rhythm. Activating Wrath of the Berserker consumes 50 stacks of Tempest Rhythm and startles enemies within 16 yards, causing them to take 2% increased damage per stack for 20 seconds. Max 50 stacks.

Use Angelic Crucibles on an item that crosses over most (if not all) variants of a build, and is also an item that is relatively harder to perfect than other slots (since sanctifying an item maximizes its stats). In the case of this build, a good candidate for Sanctification is the omnipresent Lamentation belt, or the (hard-to-perfect) Pauldrons of the Wastes shoulder.

You can read more on Angelic Crucibles and the sanctification process in our dedicated Angelic Crucible Mechanics guide.

• Legendary Gem 1: Bane of the Trapped
• Legendary Gem 2: Taeguk
• Legendary Gem 3: Bane of the Stricken

• Weapon Slot: Ambo's Pride
• Armor Slot: Mantle of Channeling
• Jewelry Slot: Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac