Rend Rupture Endgame Barbarian Build Guide for Diablo 4 (Season 3)

Build Introduction

This is your comprehensive guide for building Barbarian who has studied the art of blood letting and weaponized it. This crazed warrior can strike a simple bleed against an opponent that will quickly end their life. Welcome to our Rend Endgame build. Using Rend and Rupture, we jack up the Bleed damage and take down whole groups of enemies, leaving them to bleed out and stagger behind you as move to the next pack, continuing your bloody onslaught.

Strengths and Weaknesses

To see how this build compares to the other builds on our site, you can check out our build tier list.

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Fields of Crimson

Ring of the Ravenous

Required Aspects (Non-codex)

Aspect of Limitless Rage

Aspect of Berserk Fury

Bold Chieftain’s Aspect

Wanton Rupture Aspect

Season of the Construct

Season 3 Patch Updates

The following list details all changes of Season 3 that may pertain to Barbarians.

Skills

• Flay
  • Damage increased by 10%.
  • Fury gain increased from 13 to 15.
• Enhanced Flay
  • Vulnerable duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.

Passives

• Gushing Wounds
  • Bonus bleed amount increased from 115% to 140%.
  • Overpower explosion damage increased from 70% to 85%.
• Weapon Expertise
  • Expertise leveling has been cut by 50%.

Aspects

• Aspect of Limitless Rage
  • Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

Seneschal Construct Companion Powers

The Season 3 theme introduces a Seneschal Construct Companion that can deal damage or provide support to complement your character. Equip the Seneschal with two Governing Stones to activate their abilities, and then link them to three Tuning Stones each to augment the abilities. There are 12 different Governing Stones and 27 different Tuning Stones that can be found in Vaults scattered across Sanctuary. Fuse together duplicate stones to level them up, increasing the potency of Governing Stones or adding augments to Tuning Stones.

Listed below are the general recommended Governing Stones and their linked Tuning Stones for Barbarians, ranked by importance.

1. Tempest: Electrically charge an enemy causing it to deal damage to themselves and 1 additional enemy each second over 5 seconds. If the enemy is killed, Tempest spreads to another enemy gaining 2 additional seconds and 20%[x] bonus damage. These bonuses are also applied if Tempest is reapplied onto the same enemy.
   • Evernight: The supported Skill grants you +4 to all Skills when used for 2.0 seconds.
   • Resource Support: Player gains an amount of Primary Resource when the supporting Skill first deals damage.
   • Efficiency Support: When the supporting skill deals damage, you gain Critical Strike Chance to the same targets hit.
   • Swift Support: The supported Skill gains 40% Attack Speed bonus.
2. Flash of Adrenaline: Administers a quick flash of adrenaline into the player, granting bonus damage for a duration.
   • Genesis: Increase the effectiveness of the supported Skill by 150%.
   • Safeguard Support: When used, the supported Skill grants Damage Reduction to you.
   • Tactical Support: Decrease the cooldown of the supported Skill.
   • Duration Support: Supported Skills have their durations increased.

Video Guide

The video below is intended to demonstrate gameplay as well as the overall build. Keep in mind that any updates or future patch changes will only be reflected in the written guide.

Skill Tree and Skill Bar

Skill Bar Setup for the Rend Build (Order does not matter)

Rend Flay Rupture Rallying Cry War Cry Charge

Follow the points allocated in the image above for the complete 58 point build. The additional 10 skill points are completed using the Renown system.

Priority Skills	Cluster
Flay Level 1, Enhanced Flay, Battle Flay	Basic Skill
Rend Level 5, Enhanced Rend, Violent Rend	Core Skill
Rallying Cry Level 1, Enhanced Rallying Cry, Tactical Rallying Cry, Imposing Presence Level 1, Martial Vigor Level 3	Defensive Skill
War Cry Level 1, Enhanced War Cry, Mighty War Cry, Charge Level 1, Enhanced Charge, Power Charge, Booming Voice Level 3, Raid Leader Level 3, Swiftness Level 3, Aggressive Resistance Level 3, Prolific Fury Level 3	Brawling Skill
Rupture Level 1, Enhanced Rupture, Warrior’s Rupture, Pit Fighter Level 3, Hamstring Level 1, Cut to the Bone Level 3, Thick Skin Level 1, Counteroffensive Level 3, Defensive Stance Level 3	Weapon Mastery Skill
Heavy Handed Level 2	Ultimate Skill
Gushing Wounds	Key Passives

Weapon Expertise – The Barbarian Specialization

Weapon Expertise is a set of benefits tied to which weapons you use as a Barbarian. To unlock your Expertise, simply hit Level 5 and the tab below will be made available. Simply by using a certain weapon type you will begin to gain ranks with that weapon as you fight. The ranks are from 0 to 10 and will level up moderately quickly as your character gains experience. Once your expertise hit rank 10, you will be maxed out on the benefit for using that weapon with your skills. Just a reminder, to swap your assigned weapon to the skill you are using go to your Skill selection list (not skill tree) and you will see the how to switch it (Middle mouse button on PC.) At Level 15, you will unlock the Masters of Battle quest. This quest will available in township of ‘Ked Bardu’ from the Forgemaster Gerti. Upon completing this quest you will unlock the Technique slots as seen below, this will offer you an additional permanent bonus from one of the weapons regardless of whether you have it equipped to a skill or not.

For the Rend build, we will be focused using the expertise of Two-Handed Sword for the bonus.

Weapon Selection

Barbarians have an unique mechanic in Diablo 4 where you can assign a weapon type to certain skills. This is a critical component for all builds to function properly, and failure to match your weapon to the proper skill may cause the build to perform poorly. For our Rend build, we will be assigning the following weapons to our skills:

• Flay – Slashing
• Rend – Slashing
• Rupture – Slashing

Paragon Points

We recommend using these Legendary Nodes and Rare Glyphs to truly take this build into the endgame. Note that each Rare Glyph’s information listed below is for the Level 21 version.

Rare Node	Effect
Disembowel	– For every 5 Willpower purchased within range, you deal +[8%] increased Bleeding damage. – Additional Bonus unlocked after 25 Willpower points are purchased in the glyph’s range: Killing a Bleeding enemy has a 10% chance to reduce the cooldown of your Non-Ultimate active skills by 1 second.
Bloodfeeder	– For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + [8%] increased damage to Bleeding targets. – Additional Bonus unlocked after 25 Dexterity points are purchased in the glyph’s range: You have +5% increased Critical Strike Chance against Bleeding enemies.
Blood Rage	– Killing a Bleeding enemy has a 10% chance to grant Berserking for 5 seconds. Your damage is increased by x25% of your Damage while Berserking bonus.
Exploit	– For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal +[8]% increased damage to Vulnerable targets. – Additional Bonus unlocked after 25 Dexterity points are purchased in the glyph’s range: When an enemy is damaged by you, they become Vulnerable for 3 seconds. This cannot happen more than once every 20 seconds per enemy.
Territorial	– For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal +[10]% increased damage to Close targets. – Additional Bonus unlocked after 25 Dexterity points are purchased in the glyph’s range: You gain 10% Damage Reduction against Close enemies.
Might	– Grants + [125%] bonus to all Magic nodes within range. – Additional Bonus unlocked after 40 Strength points are purchased in the glyph’s range: You deal x8% increased damage while wielding Two-Handed weapons.
Wrath	– For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + [15%] increased Critical Strike Damage. – Additional Bonus unlocked after 25 Dexterity points are purchased in the glyph’s range: Skill that Critical Strike generate 3 Fury.

Let’s break down each of these beneficial Nodes and where our Paragon Points are positioned in each of the Paragon Boards we use. This part of the build is presented in an order of importance, so if you do not have enough Paragon Points for use in your Paragon Tree, just slowly work towards each step.

Starting Board

1. Take the pathway up the right hand side of the board towards the open glyph slot.
2. Along route pick up the Rare Node Brawn, this will boost our flat damage and offer us an increase to Maximum Life.
3. Insert the glyph Territorial, and take the Dexterity nodes shown to get the bonus. This will help us fight against Close enemies.
4. Inside the Gylph radius we will take both Rare Nodes, Iron Strength and Raw Power.
5. Now move back down the board and take the Rare Node Tenacity for the Armor and increase to Maximum Life.
6. Finally, path towards the connection point at the top of the board and attach our next Paragon Board, Decimator.

Decimator

1. Head towards the open Glyph slot and pick up the Rare Node Destroyer. This Node and the two Magic Nodes chosen with it will increase our damage with Vulnerable Damage and Two-Handed Slash Damage.
2. Take the pathway left and pick up the Rare Node Brawn for the Physical Damage increases. Continue towards the left hand connection for use later.
3. Now head to the glyph slot and insert Disembowel. This glyph will increase our Bleed damage and the bonus will help with our non-ultimate Cooldowns.
4. Select the two Rare Nodes inside the glyph radius, Arrogance and Demolish. These will increase our damage to vulnerable enemies and increase our damage reduction while fighting them.
5. Now head towards the right hand side of the board and pick up the Rare Node Pillage, before you select the attachment point. This Node focuses on Vulnerable Damage increases.
6. Now attach our next Paragon Board, Blood Rage.

Blood Rage

1. Take the pathway towards the glyph slot and pick up the Rare Node Enraged and the Magic Nodes around it.
2. Take the Legendary Node Blood Rage.
3. Path towards the open glyph slot, picking up Grit along the way.
4. Now insert Might into the Glyph slot. This Glyph will boost the Magic Nodes within the radius and grants us more Two-handed weapon damage.
5. Inside the Glyph radius take the Rare Node, Revel, this node will grant you an increase in offenses to Bleeding Enemies.
6. Go back to the Decimator paragon board, and use the left hand connection point to attach the next board, Hemorrhage.

Hemorrhage

1. Along the path to the open glyph, pick up Grit.
2. In glyph slot and insert Exploit, for the increased damage to Vulnerable Damage and inflict Vulnerable states to enemies.
3. Be sure to take all the needed Dexterity nodes.
4. Take the other Rare Node Butcher for the increased to Physical Damage over time.
5. Now that path to the top of the board and attach the next board, Warbringer.

Warbringer

1. Head towards the open glyph slot, and insert Bloodfeeder and take the needed Dexterity for the needed bonus Critical Strike Chance against Bleeding Enemies.
2. Take both the Rare Nodes, Raw Power and Conditioned, for the Physical Damage boost and Resistances.
3. Now path to the left hand side connection point and attach our next Paragon Board, Carnage.

Carnage

1. Take the pathway to the open glyph slot, and insert Wrath. This glyph will increase our Critical Strike Damage and help us generate Fury from Critical Strikes.
2. Take the needed Dexterity nodes shown above.
3. Now take both Rare Nodes, Brash and Fierce, to increase damage while Berserking and increase our Damage Reduction against Close Enemies.
4. Path down and select the Rare node Enraged for the bonuses to Berserking.
5. This completes the Paragon Tree for this build.

Paragon Board images courtesy of d4builds.gg.

Mechanics and Playstyle

This build has a very simple yet rewarding gameplay loop. Round up a group of enemies and lead with Rupture which will buff our Attack Speed and leave blood pools on the ground. Next, we then strike them with Rend which is our main damage skill. As the enemies begin to bleed out, strike them down with Flay while using your shouts: War Cry and Rallying Cry. This will trigger us into a Berserking state and drive up our damage along with boosting our Fury Generation. Move to another pack of enemies using Charge, striking enemies with Rupture from your Ring of the Ravenous. Now use Rend again and keep moving to another pack. Keep this rotation going as you move pack to pack.

Berserking

This buff is almost always activated on our character due to our War Cry and its low cooldown timer. You just need to keep your bleeding rotations moving and your Cooldowns will be lowered with each of the bleeding enemies dying due to the bonus on Disembowel.

Bleeding

Our Bleed damage is stacked throughout our Paragon Tree, Rend and any of your attacks while Berserking will inflict a Bleed on the enemy, triggering our offenses and defenses to be buffed. If you run into an elite or a high life target, use Rupture to cause all of their Bleeding damage to occur at once. We also gain a neat bonus from Fields of Crimson when we use Rupture which will create a pool of blood that inflicts additional bleeding damage over 6 seconds.

Gear Choice and Stat Priority

As you begin to farm in World Tier 3 and 4, Rare and Legendary item drops will begin to appear with some regularity depending on your luck. We recommend saving the targeted Legendary items that have the needed Legendary aspects listed below. We also recommended to keep multiple copies of the build’s Aspects in your Stash for future upgrades.

As for the Rare items, you will need to inspect each one for targeted affixes for use in each specific slot and do your best to match the recommended rolls. We have listed our targeted Affixes in order of importance. Check the chart below and make note of what Affixes you are searching for when you see a Rare gear piece drop.

Season 2 Update (1.2.0): Critical Strike Damage and Vulnerable Damage affixes are changed to be additive with other damage increases. All additive damage increases of the same amount are equal in value, as long as their conditions are active.

Gear Slot	Targeted Affixes
Helm	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Basic Attack Speed 3. Ranks to Rupture  4. Needed Resistances
Chest	1. Damage Reduction from Close Enemies  2. Damage Reduction while Fortified 3. Damage Reduction 4. Maximum Life 5. Strength
Gloves	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Rank Up Rend 3. Strength 4. Physical Damage over Time 5. Attack Speed
Pants	1. Damage Reduction while Fortified 2. Damage Reduction from Close Enemies 3. Damage Reduction while Injured 4. Maximum Life 5. Strength 6. Berserking Duration
Boots	1. Movement Speed 2. Strength 3. Damage Reduction while Injured 4. Needed Resistances
Amulet	1. Cooldown reduction  2. Damage Reduction while Injured 3. Movement Speed 4. Rank Up Cut to the Bone 5. Fury Cost Reduction
Rings	1. Strength 2. Damage to Close Enemies 3. Critical Strike Damage 4. Core Skill Damage 5. Maximum Life
Weapons	1. Strength 2. Damage to Close Enemies 3. Core Skill Damage 4. Critical Strike Damage 5. Damage while Berserking 6. All Stats

Please note that these Affixes are the recommended picks, but that is simply our opinion. Other Affixes could certainly work instead of the ones listed above, but may not be optimal.

1. Ranks up to select skills.
2. Cooldown Reduction
3. Strength – this stat is a basic damage multiplier.

A final point on acquiring the right Affixes or Legendary Aspects, use your Obols to target farm them. Obols are awarded from many different activities in the game, you will always stockpiling them until you hit your maximum. Instead of just randomly spending them on a random pick, use them to target what you might be missing from this build. It is a great way to target a specific slot of loot and find what you need.

If you are interested in checking out a new tool for gambling Obols check out this link below from Icy Veins.

Legendary Aspects

Listed below are all the best-in-slot Aspects found on Legendary items that are important for the Rend build. Aspects from the Codex of Power can be used if you cannot find the proper Legendary drops, but they have weaker effects. Extract Aspects from lower level Legendary items and imprint them onto better Rare items with preferred stats. The endgame itemization goal will be to imprint Aspects with the best values Ancestral Rare items with Item Power above or as close to 800, then upgrade them through the Blacksmith. Each aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. Do your best to keep each aspect in the slot it was posted with.

Gear Slot	Legendary Aspect	Legendary Aspect Power
Helm	Iron Blood Aspect	Gain [2.0 – 4.0%] Damage Reduction for each Nearby Bleeding enemy up to [10 – 20%] maximum.
Chest	Aspect of Disobedience	You gain [0.6-1.1]% increased Armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to [36-66]%.
Gloves	Aspect of Berserk Ripping	Whenever you deal direct damage while Berserking, inflict [20-30%] of the Base damage dealt as additional Bleeding damage over 5 seconds.
Pants	Aspect of Might	Basic Skills grant 20% Damage Reduction for [2.0-6.0] seconds.
Boots	Relentless Berserker’s Aspect	Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy with a Core Skill has up to a [22-40%] chance to extend the duration of Berserking by 2 second. Double this duration if it was a Critical Strike.
Amulets (50% bonus)	Rapid Aspect	Basic Skills gain +[15 – 30]% Attack Speed.
Ring	Ring of the Ravenous
Ring	Bold Chieftain’s Aspect	Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its Cooldown is reduced by [1.0-1.9] seconds per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
Bludgeoning Weapon (200% bonus)	Wanton Rupture Aspect	Your Rupture does not remove the Bleeding damage from enemies. This can occur once every [30-40] seconds.
Slashing Weapon (200% bonus)	Fields of Crimson
Dual-wield weapon 1	Edgemaster’s Aspect	Skills deal up to [10- 20%] increased damage based on your available Primary Resource when cast, receiving the maximum benefit while you have full Primary Resource.
Dual-wield weapon 2	Aspect of Limitless Rage	Each point of Fury you generate while at Maximum Fury grants your next Core Skill [1-2%] increased damage, up to [15-30%] .

Uber Uniques

The chart below is our recommendation for Uber Uniques that will work within this build. However, all Uber uniques are extremely powerful and can shine in different situations. Good Hunting!

Uber Uniques	Recommended(Y/N)	Replaces
Andariel’s Visage	No
Harlequin Crest	Yes	Aspect of Might will be dropped
Melted Heart of Selig	No
Ring of Starless Skies	No
Doombringer	Yes	Edgemaster’s Aspect will be dropped
The Grandfather	Yes	Replaces Fields of Crimson
Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander	No

Gems

Listed below are the best gems to socket into gear for each slot type.

• Weapon: Royal Amethyst for the increase in Damage over Time.
• Armor: Royal Ruby for Maximum Life.
• Jewelry: Royal Diamond for All Resistances, however, certain bosses may require you to switch to their corresponding resistances.

Elixirs and Health Pots

Visit the Alchemist in any main town to craft helpful Elixirs that increase stats, and experience gain for 30 minutes. Make sure to forage plants and pick up the necessary crafting materials during your adventures; they randomly spawn around the world. Use an Elixir providing any Resistance you need most, or the Assault Elixir to increase Attack Speed.

Return to the Alchemist again when you reach Level 20, 30, 45, 60, 70, 80 and 90, to upgrade your potion. The extra healing is essential to survival.

To see how this build compares to the other builds on our site, you can check out our build tier list.

Changelog

• March 5th 2024: Updates for Patch 1.3.3
• February 5th 2024: Added Charge to build.
• January 21st 2024: Season 3 speculative changes.
• October 26th 2023: Build Revamped for Season 2.
• October 13th 2023: Build Adjusted to prepare for Season 2 launch.
• September 7th 2023: New format and build revamp.
• August 2nd, 2023: Patch 1.1.1 section added with build specific changes.
• July 18th, 2023: Guide updated for Season 1.