Walking Arsenal Barbarian Abattoir of Zir Build (Season 2)

This is a Season 2 Walking Arsenal endgame build for Barbarian in Diablo 4 (D4) that utilizes Overpower and Berserking with Death Blow's high base damage to defeat elites and bosses in one blow. Read on for the complete list of Vampiric Powers, Skills, and Aspects you need and how to play the build for Season 2 and Abattoir of Zir (AoZ).

Walking Arsenal Build Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Strengths

High Burst Damage

This build can deliver devastating damage, particularly to bosses when properly utilized. Overpower can be frequently activated in this build, resulting in massive damage spikes.

Competitive Build Even Without Shouts

This build does not rely on the meta triple shout combination but can still deliver the same performance, if not better. It is a fun and refreshing build that can take on contents of the highest difficulty.

Build Weaknesses

Lacks Consistency in Terms of Damage

One of the cons of this build is the lack of damage consistency when you use the wrong attack to trigger a guaranteed Overpower proc. This can result in a huge DPS loss, which will require you to wait or build up the Overpower proc once again.

Relies on One Defensive Skill for Survival

Sadly, the Barbarian only has one other option for defensive skills if the shouts are taken out of the equation. This will require you to play safer and build more defensive stats in order to take on enemies that can hit hard.

Walking Arsenal Build Overview

Build Summary

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Summary		Skill Progression		Vampiric Powers
Aspects & Affixes		Gems		Paragon

Skills

Aspects & Uniques

Stats & Gems

Build Overview and Summary
Walking Arsenal		Tier: Focus: PVE Playstyle: Solo and Party
Active Skills
Passive Skills

Build Overview and Summary
Walking Arsenal		Tier: Focus: PVE Playstyle: Solo and Party
Aspects and Uniques
Doombringer (One-Handed Sword) Harlequin Crest (Helm) The Grandfather (Two-Handed Sword) Tibault's Will (Pants) Overkill (Two-Handed Bludgeoning) Ring of Red Furor (Ring) Aspect of Disobedience (Chest) Ghostwalker Aspect (Boots) Edgemaster's Aspect (Ring) Earthstriker's Aspect (Gloves) Aspect of Encroaching Wrath (Amulet) Weapon Master's Aspect (Gloves)

Build Overview and Summary
Walking Arsenal		Tier: Focus: PVE Playstyle: Solo and Party
Stat Priorities			Recommended Gems
・Cooldown Reduction ・Overpower Damage ・Critical Strike Chance ・Strength ・Movement Speed ・Damage Reduction ・Maximum Life ・Damage while Berserking			Ruby (Weapon and Armor) Diamond (Jewelry)

The Walking Arsenal build maximizes the high base damage of Death Blow by primarily focusing on Berserking and Overpower. With the Season 2 update, Overpower now has a base multiplicative value, which will let you deal a tremendous amount of burst damage with proper set-up.

Overpower and Berserking

This build utilizes certain skills and aspects to achieve almost permanent Berserking, such as Combat Lunging Strike, Violent Upheaval, and Warrior's Death Blow.

For Overpower, the build has guaranteed procs through different methods such as Earthstriker's Aspect, Bone Breaker Paragon Node, and Blood Boil Vampiric Power.

On top of all this, you'll have other Paragon Nodes, Skills, Aspects, and Uniques that will boost your overall damage and survivability to ensure that you can conquer the highest tier of Nightmare Dungeons and the strongest Uber Bosses.

Walking Arsenal Build Breakdown

Skill Progression

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Summary		Skill Progression		Vampiric Powers
Aspects & Affixes		Gems		Paragon

Active Skills

Skill		Upgrade Path
Lunging Strike (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Lunging Strike	Combat Lunging Strike
Upheaval (5 Points)	→	Enhanced Upheaval	Violent Upheaval
Death Blow (5 Points)	→	Enhanced Death Blow	Warrior's Death Blow
Iron Maelstrom (1 Point)	→	Prime Iron Maelstrom	Supreme Iron Maelstrom
Iron Skin (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Iron Skin	Tactical Iron Skin
Ground Stomp (1 Point)	→	Enhanced Ground Stomp	Strategic Ground Stomp

Passive Skills

Walking Arsenal Passives
Imposing Presence (3 Points)	Swiftness (3 Points)	Aggressive Resistance (3 Points)
Thick Skin (1 Point)	Defensive Stance (3 Points)	Counter offensive (3 Points)
Pit Fighter (3 Points)	Concussion (1 Point)	Heavy Handed (3 Points)
Brute Force (3 Points)	Wallop (3 Points)	Martial Vigor (1 Point)
Walking Arsenal (1 Point)

Skill Progression Breakdown

Recommended Skill Progression
Lv.2	Lv.3	Lv.4	Lv.5
Lunging Strike	Enhanced Lunging Strike	Upheaval	Enhanced Upheaval
Lv.6	Lv.7	Lv.8	Lv.9
Violent Upheaval	Combat Lunging Strike	Ground Stomp	Iron Skin
Lv.10	Lv.11	Lv.12	Lv.13
Enhanced Iron Skin	Tactical Iron Skin	Upheaval	Upheaval
Lv.14	Lv.15	Lv.16	Lv.17
Upheaval	Enhanced Ground Stomp	Strategic Ground Stomp	Death Blow
Lv.18	Lv.19	Lv.20	Lv.21
Enhanced Death Blow	Warrior's Death Blow	Death Blow	Death Blow
Lv.22	Lv.23	Lv.24	Lv.25
Death Blow	Death Blow	Iron Maelstrom	Prime Iron Maelstrom
Lv.26	Lv.27	Lv.28	Lv.29
Supreme Iron Maelstrom	Upheaval	Swiftness	Swiftness
Lv.30	Lv.31	Lv.32	Lv.33
Swiftness	Imposing Presence	Imposing Presence	Imposing Presence
Lv.34	Lv.35	Lv.36	Lv.37
Aggressive Resistance	Walking Arsenal	Aggressive Resistance	Aggressive Resistance
Lv.38	Lv.39	Lv.40	Lv.41
Heavy Handed	Heavy Handed	Heavy Handed	Brute Force
Lv.42	Lv.43	Lv.44	Lv.45
Brute Force	Brute Force	Wallop	Wallop
Lv.46	Lv.47	Lv.48	Lv.49
Wallop	Thick Skin	Counter offensive	Counter offensive
Renown Skill Points (Lv50 Onwards)
R1	R2	R3	R4
Counter offensive	Pit Fighter	Pit Fighter	Pit Fighter
R5	R6	R7	R8
Martial Vigor	Martial Vigor	Martial Vigor	Defensive Stance
R9		R10
Defensive Stance		Defensive Stance

Technique Slot

The best-in-slot Weapon Expertise for this build is the Two-Handed Axe Expertise, as you will be able to consistently benefit from the damage bonus. This is made possible by the Exploit Glyph present in your Paragon set-up, which will make all enemies Vulnerable as long as they take damage from you.

Arsenal System and Techniques Guide

Best Vampiric Powers

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Summary		Skill Progression		Vampiric Powers
Aspects & Affixes		Gems		Paragon

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Summary		Skill Progression		Aspects & Affixes
Gems		Vampiric Powers		Paragon

Vampiric Power Cost	Effect Explanation
Metamorphosis 2 2 2	When you Evade you turn into a cloud of bats, becoming Unstoppable for 4 seconds. Enemies along your path take 160% Physical damage and are inflicted with Vampiric Curse. This grants higher survivability through access to Unstoppable, which will trigger Tibault's Will for additional damage increase and Fury. In addition, this also goes well with Prey on the Weak power to make enemies Vulnerable.
Blood Boil 0 0 6	When your Core Skills Overpower an enemy, you spawn 3 Volatile Blood Drops. Collecting a Volatile Blood Drop causes it to explode, dealing 60% Physical damage around you. Every 20 seconds, your next Skill is guaranteed to Overpower. This will allow you to deal AoE Physical damage when striking with Overpower Damage but, more importantly, this will allow you to have more Overpower procs.
Anticipation 0 1 0	Your Ultimate Skills gain 20% Cooldown Reduction. Your Ultimate Skills gain 12% increased damage for each nearby enemy affected by your Damage Over Time effects. This will not only increase the damage of Iron Maelstrom, but also allow you to use it more often. Together with the Supreme Iron Maelstrom, Strategic Ground Stomp, and Cooldown affixes, this Vampiric Power will significantly lessen your ultimate's downtime.
Ravenous 3 0 0	Lucky Hit: Up to a 20% chance to increase your Attack Speed by 40% of your Total Movement Speed for 6 seconds. This power is great to have, so you'll be able to quickly and seemlessly swap between skills.
Sanguine Brace 0 1 1	When you kill an enemy, Fortify for 6% of your Base Life. While you have more Fortify than half of your Maximum Life, you gain 8% Critical Strike Chance. This power will add survivability through Fortify. This will also provide you with a consistent increase in Critical Strike Chance, as you can easily attain Fortify for more than 50% of your Maximum Life.
Total Pacts Required 5 | 4 | 9

Aspects and Affixes

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Summary		Skill Progression		Vampiric Powers
Aspects & Affixes		Gems		Paragon

Best Weapons

Weapon	Aspects and Affixes
Two-Handed Mace	Overkill Death Blow creates a shockwave, dealing (24-38)% of its Base damage to enemies. Enemies who die to this effect also reset Death Blow's Cooldown. ・+X% Overpower Damage (Inherent) ・+X% Physical Damage ・+X% Overpower Damage ・+X Ranks of Death Blow ・+X% Critical Strike Chance Against Injured Enemies
Two-Handed Sword	The Grandfather Increases your Critical Strike Damage by (60-100%). The other properties of this weapon can roll higher than normal. ・+X% Critical Strike Damage (Inherent) ・+X% Damage ・+X Maximum Life ・+X All Stats ・Ignores Durability Loss
One-Handed Mace	Earthstriker's Aspect After swapping weapons 8 times, your next non-Basic Attack will Overpower and deal (30-50)% increased Overpower damage. ・+X% Overpower Damage (Inherent) ・+X% Damage While Berserking ・+X% Overpower Damage ・+X All Stats ・+X Strength
One-Handed Sword	Doombringer Lucky Hit: Up to a (15-25)% chance to deal Shadow damage to surrounding enemies and reduce their damage done by 20% for 5 seconds. ・+X% Critical Strike Damage (Inherent) ・+X% Core Skill Damage ・+X% Damage ・+X Lucky Hit: Chance to Heal ・+X% Maximum Life

Best Armor

Equipment	Aspects and Affixes
Helmet	Harlequin Crest Gain (10.0-20.0)% Damage Reduction. In addition, gain +4 Ranks to all Skills. ・+X Maximum Life ・+X% Cooldown Reduction ・+X% Resource Generation ・+X All Stats
Chest	Aspect of Disobedience You gain (0.25-0.50)% increased Armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to (66)%. ・+X Maximum Life ・+X% Damage Reduction ・+X% Damage Reduction While Fortified ・+X% Total Armor
Gloves	Weapon Master's Aspect Your Weapon Mastery Skills have an additional Charge. Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy with a Weapon Mastery Skill has up to a (37-55)% chance to Stun them for 2 seconds. ・+X Ranks of Upheaval ・+X% Critical Strike Chance ・+X% Attack Speed ・+X% Overpower Damage
Pants	Tibault's Will You deal 20-40% increased damage while Unstoppable and for 4 seconds after. When you become Unstoppable, gain 50 of your Primary Resource. ・While Injured, Your Potion Also Restores 20% Resource (Inherent) ・+X% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies ・+X Potion Capacity ・+X% Damage ・+X% Maximum Resource
Boots	Ghostwalker Aspect While Unstoppable, and for 4 seconds after, you gain (10=25)% increased Movement Speed and can move freely through enemies. ・+X Max Evade Charge (Inherent) ・+X% Movement Speed ・+X% Berserking Duration ・+X% Damage Reduction While Injured ・+X All Stats

You have the option to replace your Helmet and equip the Godslayer Crown. This pairs well with the Iron Maelstrom, as you will instantly Stun enemies on the skill's first hit. This synergy will allow you to group enemies and finish them off with a single Death Blow.

If you don't have access to The Grandfather, you can use a Two-Handed Sword embued with the Edgemaster's Aspect. The best affixes to go with this would be Strength, All Stats, Overpower Damage, and Damage while Berserking.

Best Jewelry

Jewelry	Aspects and Affixes
Amulet	Aspect of Encroaching Wrath After spending 100 Fury, your next Weapon Mastery Skill deals (82-100)% increased damage. ・+X% Resist All (Inherent) ・+X% Cooldown Reduction ・+X% Ranks of All Weapon Mastery Skills ・+X% Ranks of The Brute Force Passive ・+X% Movement Speed
Ring	Ring of Red Furor After spending 100 Fury within 3 seconds, your next cast of Hammer of the Ancients, Upheaval, or Death Blow is a guaranteed Critical Strike and deals 10-30% bonus Critical Strike Damage. ・+X% Resist All (Inherent) ・+X% Fire Resistance (Inherent) ・+X Strength ・+X% Attack Speed ・+X Maximum Fury ・+X% Resource Generation
Ring	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. ・+X% Resist All (Inherent) ・+X% Element Resistance (Inherent) ・+X% Overpower Damage ・+X% Critical Strike Chance ・+X% Damage While Berserking ・+X Maximum Life

Best Gems

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Summary		Skill Progression		Vampiric Powers
Aspects & Affixes		Gems		Paragon

Gem Type	Effect Explanation
Royal Ruby (Weapon)	+24.0% Overpower Damage This build focuses on Overpower procs, which makes additional damage to Overpower highly valuable for burst damage.
Royal Ruby (Armor)	4.0% Maximum Life Having a higher Maximum Life means higher survivability, but since Overpower also scales with your maximum life, this will increase your defensive and offensive capabilities alike.
Royal Diamond (Jewelry)	5.0% Resistance to All Elements Extremely valuable since resistances are now crucial to survive elemental attacks from enemies.

If you have specific resistance affixes in your Chest and Boots, you can replace the Diamond gems slotted in your Jewelry and go for more specific resistances coming from Amethyst, Emerald, Ruby, Topaz, or Sapphire gems.

You will be able to gain a total of around 21.5% resistance to all elements at World Tier 4 if you decided to equip Royal Diamonds in all your Jewelry slots.

Paragon Board Setup

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Summary		Skill Progression		Vampiric Powers
Aspects & Affixes		Gems		Paragon

Starting Board (Exploit)

The Starting Board features multiple offensive and defensive node. For this build in particular, it's best to focus on the defensive nodes in order to increase survivability when taking on Abattoir of Zir dungeons.

• Exploit (Glyph): Great Glyph that will enable you to apply Vulnerable to enemies while also being able to deal additional damage to them.
• Iron Strength (Rare): Gives Armor and maximum HP for increased survivability.
• Tenacity (Rare): Provides Armor and Strength to further improve defensive capabilities.

Decimator (Dominate)

The Decimator is a great board to take due to the Vulnerable and Overpower damage multipliers, both of which will be heavily used by this build. This board also has a considerable number of Willpower nodes, which is great for slotting in the Dominate Glyph for an even greater increase in Overpower damage.

• Dominate (Glyph): Valuable Glyph that will remarkably increase Overpower damage.
• Demolish (Rare): Synergizes with the Exploit Glyph placed in the Starting Board due to the extra damage against Vulnerable enemies.
• Arrogance (Rare): Increases survivability through Strength and Damage Reduction from Vulnerable enemies.

Bone Breaker (Territorial)

The Bone Breaker is an exceptional board to get more Overpower damage and uptime through various nodes. Since this board heavily relies on Overpower damage, it is easily one of the best options.

• Territorial (Glyph): Increases defensiveness through Damage Reduction from Close enemies while also increasing damage to them.
• Vigor (Rare): Gives Strength and Damage Reduction while Healthy, which is great to avoid getting killed in a single shot.
• Brutality (Rare): Provides Strength and good Overpower damage.
• Bludgeoner (Rare): Grants Two-Handed Blungeoning and Overpower damage increase.
• Bulwark (Rare): Synergizes well with Sanguine Brace Vampiric Power for more toughness with Fortify.

Blood Rage (Ire)

The Blood Rage board is one of the best offensive boards due to the presence of its Legendary Node. This will give you additional multiplicative damage that scales with your Damage while Berserking. The damage multiplier can reach insanely high numbers that will take your damage output to the next level.

A common misunderstanding about the Blood Rage Legendary Node is that you need to kill Bleeding enemies to activate the damage multiplier; however, note that the Bleeding condition is only applicable to the additional 5 seconds of Berserking. You'll get the damage multiplier straight as it is.

• Ire (Glyph): Absolutely needed to increase the damage multiplier given by the of the Blood Rage Legendary Node.
• Enraged (Rare): Further increases Damage while Berserking stat and also makes Berserking longer.
• Grit (Rare): Solely taken for the Strength since this build doesn't use Bleeding.
• Revel (Rare): Also acquired for the Strength since this build can't take advantage of Bleeding damage.

Warbringer (Crusher)

The purpose of the Warbringer board is primarily to house the Crusher Glyph. This is one of the best boards for this due to the presence of Strength nodes and how close the Glyph Slot is to the Board Attachment Gate.

• Crusher (Glyph): Provides extremely valuable damage multiplier to Overpower damage as well as a notable damage increase while using Maces.
• Conditioned (Rare): Grants Strength and additional Resistance to all elements, which is valuable against Elites with unique affixes.
• Raw Power (Rare): Gives Strength and additional Physical damage increase.

Carnage (Tears of Blood)

The Carnage board is one of the best boards to house the Tears of Blood Unique Glyph due to the presence of remarkable Rare Nodes that will increase both your damage and survivability. Make sure to take every Core node within the Glyph's radius to maximize the damage increase coming from the Tears of Blood.

• Tears of Blood (Glyph): An outstanding offensive Glyph that can literally double your damage. This Glyph will be the focus of the entire board.
• Fierce (Rare): Gives the precious Damage while Berserking stat, which is increased by the Tears of Blood Glyph.
• Brash (Rare): A valuable node that will provide Damage Reduction from Close enemies, which will often be taken advantage of in this build.

Walking Arsenal Playstyle

Walking Arsenal Build Tips
Recommended Openers and Rotations Continuously Swap Weapons Keep an Eye for Guaranteed Overpower Icons

Recommended Openers and Rotations

Trash Mob Opener and Skill Rotation

Boss Opener

Continuously Swap Weapons

To consistently gain guaranteed Overpower strikes through the Earthstriker's Aspect, you must continuously alternate between casting Lunging Strike, Upheaval, and Death Blow. Make sure to assign different weapons to these skills for them to count as swapping weapons.

You can assign these by going through the skill bar and scrolling down to each of the skill tooltips. There, you can determine which weapons your character will use when casting certain skills.

Also, always remember to use Iron Maelstrom, as these count towards your weapon swap stacks. Continuously swapping weapons will also lower Iron Maelstrom's cooldown due to Supreme Iron Maelstrom.

Keep an Eye for Guaranteed Overpower Icons

You can determine whenever you are guaranteed to Overpower by recognizing buff icons that relate to that. This buffs and debuffs section can be located at the top of your character's XP bar. Make sure to familiarize yourself with the guaranteed Overpower icons and time your heavy hits whenever they appear.

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