Furious Charge IK/Raekor Barbarian Speed Farming Variation

Last updated on Jan 08, 2024 at 09:00 by Deadset 13 comments
Build Variations Updated for Season 30, Patch 2.7.7 Main Build Solo Greater Rift Progression Nephalem Rift Farming
1.

Raekor Furious Charge Barbarian Speed Farming Variation

The Raekor Furious Charge Barbarian deals with Normal Rift farming excellently, and can only suffer minor setbacks during Bounty farming from single target boss bounties, where the build slows down. We have solo speed GR rankings and solo speed T16 rankings if you want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.

Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.

Active Skills
Left Mouse Button Furious Charge Icon Furious Charge Merciless Assault Merciless Assault Right Mouse Button Seismic Slam Icon Seismic Slam Rumble Rumble 1 Battle Rage Icon Battle Rage Ferocity Ferocity 2 Sprint Icon Sprint Marathon Marathon 3 Wrath of the Berserker Icon Wrath of the Berserker Insanity Insanity 4 Call of the Ancients Icon Call of the Ancients Together as One Together as One
Passive Skills
2.

Adapting Rotation

When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.

The build maintains both Wrath of the Berserker Wrath of the Berserker and Call of the Ancients Call of the Ancients up throughout the rift; and while Berserker needs to be cast on cooldown, the Ancients are very unlikely to die in regular Rifts — so only resummon if necessary. Charge Barbarians thrive in density, so try to aim your Furious Charge Furious Charges in the thickest of fights — usually oneshotting them and resetting the cooldown via Merciless Assault Merciless Assault. Your built up Fury reserves need to be dumped on priority, higher health targets through Boulder Toss Boulder Toss. As usual, reapply Sprint Sprint as soon as it runs out, and keep up Battle Rage Battle Rage throughout the runs.

3.

Adapting Skills and Passives

Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. The ability to cross over great distances faster and more efficiently takes precedence.

  • Furious Charge Furious Charge remains the main damage dealing skill, with all the runes at your disposal due to the Raekor 4-piece bonus. You can also retain Ancient Spear Ancient Spear Boulder Toss Boulder Toss as your Fury dump, or switch to Seismic Slam Seismic Slam Rumble Rumble for ease of AoE during speed farm.
  • Sprint Sprint Marathon Marathon is maintained between specs, as it both scales your damage due to the Standoff Standoff legendary bonus, and its movespeed properties fit the speed farming purposes nicely.
  • Battle Rage Battle Rage is present in the speed farming build as well, but the rune is swapped from the progression-oriented Bloodshed Bloodshed to the extra movement speed of Ferocity Ferocity.
  • Both Call of the Ancients Call of the Ancients Together as One Together as One and Wrath of the Berserker Wrath of the Berserker Insanity Insanity are still part of your skill lineup.
  • Rampage Rampage, Berserker Rage Berserker Rage and Ruthless Ruthless are still a solid foundation of your passive selection.
  • You can change the flexible fourth passive slot from progression staples like Nerves of Steel Nerves of Steel to the globe-consuming Pound of Flesh Pound of Flesh to further speed up your clears.
4.

Adapting Gear

Most of the gear from the Greater Rift progression build will still make sense for speed farming, but a few variations will be necessary in order to maximize your productivity and momentum during regular Rift clears.

The recommended 5 Immortal King / 3 Raekor set piece split, as well as the Ring of Royal Grandeur Ring of Royal Grandeur in the Cube, are maintained from the main progression build. The same applies to your amulet, The Flavor of Time The Flavor of Time, whose Pylon duration doubling powers retain usefulness across all difficulties, and the damage mitigation staple Band of Might Band of Might.

The recommendation for your second ring shifts from the timing-based damage bonuses of Convention of Elements Convention of Elements to the utility-oriented Avarice Band Avarice Band. This is an Act 3 cache legendary ring that increases your gold and health globe pickup radius as you pick up gold, stacking to the massive, half-screen circle of 30 yards — all for a generous 10 second duration. Its legendary power will greatly assist you in maintaining the movespeed bonuses of Boon of the Hoarder Boon of the Hoarder, as well as Pound of Flesh Pound of Flesh.

During speedfarming, where the multiple runes of Wrath of the Berserker Wrath of the Berserker that come from Mortick's Brace Mortick's Brace are overkill in many regards, the preferred bracers become Warzechian Armguards Warzechian Armguards, for the environment destruction speed buffs that are easily provided by the AoE of this build. The former favorites, the elite spawning Nemesis Bracers Nemesis Bracers, are still very valuable, but they can now be equipped on the follower while still getting their bonus via the Emanate mechanics. You should still equip them in groups, where you cannot have a follower with you. The Nemesis Bracers Nemesis Bracers value comes from the additional loot — not to mention progression — coming from the extra elite spawns. They let you finish standard rifts that much faster, and acquire the coveted GR keys in greater amounts.

Slot Pieces Stat Priority
Head
  1. Strength
  2. Socket
  3. Crit Chance
  4. Vitality
  5. Physical or Lightning Resistance (Secondary Stat)
  6. Pickup Radius (Secondary Stat)
Shoulders
  1. Strength
  2. Furious Charge %
  3. Area Damage
  4. All Resistance
  5. Health Globe Healing Bonus (Secondary Stat)
  6. Pickup Radius (Secondary Stat)
Torso
  1. Strength
  2. 3 Sockets
  3. Furious Charge %
  4. Vitality
  5. Physical or Lightning Resistance (Secondary Stat)
  6. Melee or Missile Damage Reduction (Secondary Stat)
Wrists
  1. Strength
  2. Critical Hit Chance
  3. Physical Damage
  4. Vitality
  5. Melee or Missile Damage Reduction (Secondary Stat)
Hands
  1. Strength
  2. Critical Hit Chance
  3. Critical Hit Damage
  4. Area Damage
  5. Physical or Lightning Resistance (Secondary Stat)
  6. Pickup Radius (Secondary Stat)
Waist
  1. Strength
  2. Vitality
  3. All Resistance
  4. Life per Fury Spent
  5. Maximum Fury (Important Secondary Stat)
  6. Life per Kill (Secondary Stat)
Legs
  1. Strength
  2. 2 Sockets
  3. Vitality
  4. All Resistance
  5. Life per Kill (Secondary Stat)
  6. Pickup Radius (Secondary Stat)
Feet
  1. Strength
  2. Vitality
  3. All Resistance
  4. Armor
  5. Pickup Radius (Secondary Stat)
  6. Health Globe Healing Bonus (Secondary Stat)
Amulet
  1. Socket
  2. Critical Hit Damage
  3. Critical Hit Chance
  4. Physical Damage
  5. Physical or Lightning Resistance (Secondary Stat)
  6. Melee or Missile Damage Reduction (Secondary Stat)
Ring #1
  1. Socket
  2. Critical Hit Chance
  3. Critical Hit Damage
  4. Area Damage
  5. Physical or Lightning Resistance (Secondary Stat)
Ring #2
  1. Socket
  2. Critical Hit Chance
  3. Critical Hit Damage
  4. Area Damage
  5. Physical or Lightning Resistance (Secondary Stat)
Weapon
  1. Socket (preferably from Ramaladni's Gift Ramaladni's Gift)
  2. High Weapon Damage
  3. Strength
  4. Damage %
  5. Area Damage
  6. Maximum Fury (Important Secondary Stat)

To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.

4.1.

Altar of Rites

The former Season 28 theme, the Altar of Rites, has been revised and re-added to Diablo 3 as a permanent character progression mechanic. — For virtually all builds and players of all skill levels — from casual to advanced — we recommend progressing through the Altar tree using the path outlined below. The suggested path is geared towards maximum quality of life first, then amplifying damage, and then mopping up the tree with defensive and edge case utility nodes.

Note that while they require reaching them with a Seal, Legendary Potion Powers are not part of the Seal cost system; Potions unlock with a separate resource called Primordial Ashes, obtained from salvaging Legendary or Set items of Primal (red bordered) quality. Upgrade them as soon as possible, and in the order shown below (courtesy of Caleko's Altar of Rites planner).

Altar of Rites Planner

You can read more on the Altar of Rites, Seals and Legendary Potion Powers in our dedicated Altar of Rites Mechanics guide.

5.

Adapting Gems

Bane of the Trapped Bane of the Trapped remains a universally desired damage amplification gem.

Boon of the Hoarder Boon of the Hoarder is a great speed farming inclusion, as it increases both your gold income (necessary for empowering GRs) as well as your movement speed (which directly affects the damage of Charge Barbs).

To maximize your damage and mobility, use Wreath of Lightning Wreath of Lightning in one of your jewelry sockets. Since the movement speed proc of the gem (from its level 25 property) feeds into the legendary effect of Standoff Standoff, the gem's inclusion squeezes the last bit of DPS possible into the build. If you prefer to have some extra defense in this slot (with a minor drop in overall damage), you can use Bane of the Powerful Bane of the Powerful for its balanced approach to damage amplification and mitigation.

5.1.

Season 30 Soul Shards

In Season 30, your helm and weapon sockets will be taken over by the supremely powerful Soul Shards. For this build, we recommend the following:

  • HelmFragment of Destruction with "When you apply a Mark of Destruction, you increase your movement speed by 5%" as its Rank 3 power. For optimization benefits, aim for Strength or Melee/Ranged Damage Reduction on its Rank 2 roll.
  • WeaponStain of Sin with "You gain an additional Rift Progress Orb when you kill an elite pack" as its Rank 3 power. For optimization benefits, aim for Elemental Damage Increase or Weapon Damage Increase on its Rank 2 roll.
Slot Gems
Jewelry
Helm
Torso and Pants
Weapon

For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.

6.

Adapting Kanai's Cube

Your Cube selections will remain untouched between the progression build and the speedfarming variation. Both Standoff Standoff and Vile Ward Vile Ward are retained as weapon and armor Cube choices respectively; these cornerstone legendaries dictate the damage of a Furious Charge-based build. Ring of Royal Grandeur Ring of Royal Grandeur is naturally required in a build that mixes between two big sets.

The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.

7.

Follower

The recommended follower for this build during standard rift farming for keys is the Enchantress due to her numerous utility bonuses, allowing you to smooth out your speed runs even further.

For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.

8.

Legendary Potion

The recommended potion for Charge Barbs during speed farming is Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid, as it allows you to break through Waller affixes — a great boon to a build that is highly dependent on mobility, and the only thing that can meaningfully slow you down in regular Rifts.

9.

Changelog

  • 08 Jan. 2024: Revised guide for the permanent addition of the Altar of Rites, and added Season-specific Soul Shard recommendations.
  • 13 Sep. 2023: Added Season 29 Paragon Cap and Gearing recommendations.
  • 22 Feb. 2023: Added Season 28 Altar of Rites recommendations.
  • 26 Aug. 2022: Added Season 27 Angelic Crucible recommendations.
  • 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
  • 09 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
  • 20 Jul. 2021: No changes required for Season 24.
  • 31 Mar. 2021: Revised gearing choices and added follower recommendation.
  • 18 Nov. 2020: Revised Fury spender default choice. Added S22 Cube recommendation.
  • 30 Jun. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
  • 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
  • 19 Nov. 2019: Guide revised and updated for Season 19.
  • 22 Aug. 2019: Changed Bracers recommendation to Mortick's Brace.
  • 13 May 2019: Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 17.
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