Diablo 4 Kurast Undercity

Each class in Diablo 4 Season 11 has new unique items, often leading to entirely new builds or playstyles. Barbarian's new unique item, Chainscourged Mail, allows for a continuous jumping playstyle.

Infinite Leap Barbarian build is more like a speed farming build. It's not particularly powerful, but it's very fun. it allows you for quick completion of content like Helltide, Dungeon, and Infernal Hordes through endless jumping.

Leap Barbarian Gameplay

The core of Infinite Leap Barbarian build relies on the unique effect of Chainscourged Mail. Its effect is that when you cast a damaging melee skill, that skill is disabled. Once all melee skills in your skill bar are disabled, they are reactivated, and their cooldowns are refreshed. For each skill disabled, your melee skill damage increases by 50-100%[x].

This means that if you only have one high-damage melee skill, you can use it infinitely. These pants make leapquake builds a breeze, and among all the new unique items in Season 11, it's definitely one of the top-tier items.

Leap Barbarian Gear

• Helm: Harlequin Crest (Ruby+Ruby)
• Chest Armor: Aspect of Bul-Kathos (Ruby+Ruby)
• Gloves: Vehement Brawler's Aspect
• Pants: Chainscourged Mail (Ruby+Ruby)
• Boots: Wildbolt Aspect
• Amulet: Melted Heart of Selig (Diamond)
• Ring 1: Bold Chieftain's Aspect (Diamond)
• Ring 2: Ring of Starless Skies (Diamond)
• Bludgeoning Weapon: Brawler's Aspect (Igni+Tec)
• Slashing Weapon: Aspect of Earthquakes (Neo+Ohm)
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Ramaladni's Magnum Opus (Ruby)
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Sabre of Tsasgal (Ruby)

Chainscourged Mail is the core starting gear for this build. To effectively utilize its unique effect, you cannot have other Brawling skills in your skill bar.

Harlequin Crest provides all skill levels and attributes, offering a significant damage boost. Melted Heart of Selig is one of the best mythic items in Season 11, providing abundant resources and survivability, making it ideal for Barbarians.

Wildbolt Aspect increases Leap Ranks, perfectly complementing this build, while Aspect of the Earthquake is the core of its damage output. It causes Barbarian's Leap to trigger Earthquakes, dealing high damage and providing substantial damage reduction.

Vehement Brawler's Aspect increases the area of effect of your Leap, which is crucial for fast farming.

Other Diablo 4 items, such as Ramaladni's Magnum Opus and Sabre of Tsasgal, provide damage amplification for Leap and Earthquake, enhancing your gameplay experience. Finally, since Leap is affected by attack speed, remember to stack it as much as possible when crafting equipment.

Leap Barbarian Skills

Active skills

• Leap: Enhanced Leap and Power Leap
• War Cry: Enhanced War Cry and Power War Cry
• Challenging Shout: Enhanced Challenging Shout and Tactical Challenging Shout
• Rallying Cry: Enhanced Rallying Cry and Tactical Rallying Cry
• Wrath of the Berserker: Prime Wrath of the Berserker and Supreme Wrath of the Berserker:
• Ground Stomp: Enhanced Ground Stomp And Strategic Ground Stomp

Talents

• Pressure Point
• Warpath (Vessel of Hatred)
• Tempered Fury
• Martial Vigor
• Outburst
• Tough as Nails
• Booming Voice
• Aggressive Resistance
• Battle Fervor
• Prolific Fury
• Pit Fighter
• No Mercy
• Slaying Strike
• Hamstring
• Thick Skin
• Defensive Stance
• Counteroffensive
• Heavy Handed
• Wallop
• Brute Force
• Unbridled Rage

Leap is the primary movement and damage skill. If you have a 100% Lucky Hit Chance, you can efficiently trigger its effects. As long as you can hold down Leap skill, you can perform consecutive jumps. Combined with or using dodge to adjust your position, you can achieve high-speed movement and clearing mobs.

With only one Brawling skill, all three Shouts skills - War Cry, Challenging Shout, and Rallying Cry - can be used. They provide damage amplification, rage generation, and reduced damage taken.

Wrath of the Berserker grants Barbarian Berserking and Unstoppable status and increased damage. Ground Stomp is used to refresh ultimate skill cooldowns and manage rage issues. You also need to use Dominate Glyph in conjunction with Ground Stomp to ensure the Overpower effect on enemies is always up.

The ideal choice for Technique is Polearm, as it provides Lucky Hit chance and extra damage to wounded enemies. A Two-Handed Mace is also a strong alternative, offering slightly higher damage and faster animation speed.

Glyphs

Here are some recommended glyphs:

• Marshal: Provides cooldown reduction for non-Shout abilities.
• Blood Rage: Increases damage after killing a bleeding enemy.
• Challenger: Amplifies other glyph nodes, increasing damage against elite enemies.
• Carnage: Provides attack speed.
• Weapons Master: Restores Fury.
• Warbringer: Consuming Fury grants Fortify effect.

Divine Gift

Divine Gifts are a Season 11 mechanic. Corrupted Divine Gifts increase the game's difficulty, while Purified Divine Gifts provide some buffs, but overall, they don't offer the same significant improvement as Chaos Perks.

Corrupted Divine Gift:

• Essence of Sin
• Essence of Shadows
• Essence of Squalor
• Essence of Hellfire

Purified Divine Gift:

• Essence of Screams
• Essence of Pain
• Essence of Sin
• Essence of Lies

Other Items

• Elixir of Resourcefulness: Saves resource consumption.
• Ancient Times: Increases Strength by 25.
• Reddamine Buzz: Increases maximum health.
• Soothing Spices: Increases all elemental resistances and armor.

Infinite Leap Barbarian build is quite fun, but it might not perform very well in high-difficulty content like The Pit. On T4 difficulty, you can farm all content comfortably - especially if you enjoy a fast, spam-heavy farming playstyle

It's a tradition in Diablo 4 to equip each new season with its own unique seasonal power. While not every new power is fun or useful enough, they do reflect the season's theme to some extent.

In Season 10, Chaos Perks were a hit with players due to their powerful abilities, which puts even more pressure on the upcoming Divine Gifts mechanic - if it doesn't perform as well as Chaos Perks, it could ruin Season 11.

Therefore, this article will focus on this mechanic, explaining its operation to analyze whether it's worth paying attention to and experiencing.

What Are Divine Gifts?

As the seasonal power for Season 11, Divine Gifts actually has two systems: Corrupted and Purified. Equipping Corrupted increases both the difficulty and rewards of subsequent games, while Purified only provides additional buffs.

Defeating the four bosses - Duriel, Andariel, Azmodan, and Andariel - in this season will reward you with two Corrupted Essences from each. Find Angel Hadriel, who will purify these essences, transforming them into equipable Divine Gifts.

Corrupted slots corresponding to these Corrupted Essences will unlock immediately after defeating the boss. However, to unlock their Purified slots, you must unlock higher ranks in Season Reputation system. The required ranks are as follows:

• Duriel: Rank II
• Andariel: Rank IV
• Azmodan: Rank VI
• Belial: Rank VIII

In addition to Corrupted and Purified slots, Divine Gifts can also be placed in the slots corresponding to each boss to unlock exclusive rewards. You can then earn XP by repeatedly farming these bosses or other related enemies to upgrade existing Divine Gifts.

How To Obtain Divine Gifts?

Four key bosses will appear in different game events or dungeons. Defeating them, converting them through Hadriel, and ensuring your reputation level meets the requirements will allow you to equip a full Divine Gift.

Therefore, to enjoy this seasonal mechanic, you must be strong enough to defeat all four bosses. Some are easier, while others may require you to equip better Diablo 4 items to beat them.

Each boss can provide up to two Divine Gifts (before conversion, they are Corrupted Essences). Each Divine Gift consists of three parts: boss reward, Corrupted effect, and Purified effect.

It's worth noting that if you obtain the boss reward after unlocking Purified stat, its contents will be doubled. The rewards will continue to increase as Divine Gifts are upgraded.

Duriel

This boss will appear in Helltides. The corresponding essence and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Pain:

• Boss Reward: Can drop socketable items.
• Corrupted Effect: The boss will ambush you more frequently and has a 100% chance of breaking your barrier or empower itself.
• Purified Effect: If you take damage, you will briefly gain maximum barrier value every 20 seconds.

Essence of Squalor:

• Boss Reward: You can encounter Maggots while farming Helltide; killing them will drop Experience Globes.
• Corrupted Effect: Maggots spawn from falling meteorites, consuming 1 Health Potion per attack.
• Purified Effect: Gain 1 Health Potion every 20 seconds.

Andariel

This boss will appear in Kurast Undercity. The corresponding essence and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Anguish:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more Obols by clearing dungeons.
• Corrupted Effect: You may encounter Manifestations of Anguish in dungeons; they will reduce your movement speed by 70% when they get close.
• Purified Effect: Grants a 30% movement speed increase.

Essence of Screams:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more Salvage materials by clearing dungeons.
• Corrupted Effect: May encounter Agonized Souls, causing you to lose 12% of your maximum health per second.
• Purified Effect: Grants a 20% increase in resistances.

Azmodan

This boss will appear as a World Boss. The corresponding essences and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Sin:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more keys to play other events.
• Corrupted Effect: You will be in a Vulnerable state when fighting all World Boss enemies.
• Purified Effect: Armor effectiveness increased by 20%.

Essence of Hellfire:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more lair boss keys.
• Corrupted Effect: Triggers a meteor shower attack when fighting all World Boss enemies.
• Purified Effect: Your direct damage has a 10% chance to stun the enemy for 1 second.

Belial

This boss will appear in The Pit. The corresponding essences and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Lies:

• Boss Reward: Gain additional upgrade opportunities in The Pit.
• Corrupted Effect: The boss will fire beams at you, causing you to lose 10% of your maximum health per second.
• Purified Effect: You can recover 1% of your maximum health per second.

Essence of Shadows:

• Boss Reward: Gain more gold by clearing The Pit.
• Corrupted Effect: The boss's phantom attacks can stun you for 3 seconds or knock you back.
• Purified Effect: Enter an Unstoppable state once every 12 seconds of being affected by crowd control effects.

How To Maximize The Effect Of Divine Gifts?

As you can see, Divine Gifts buffs or rewards corresponding to different bosses, have highly limited effects, usually only suitable for use in specific events.

Therefore, we recommend that you prioritize defeating the bosses corresponding to the buffs you want to unlock their Divine Gifts, based on your needs or playstyle. Then, while farming other bosses, acquire enough XP to upgrade existing gifts.

What Is The Relationship Between Divine Gifts And Sanctification?

If you've been following Season 11, you should know that Sanctification is the final mechanism for upgrading gear - once completed, the gear cannot be modified.

The relationship between this mechanism and Divine Gifts is that when you fight the relevant boss for the latter, if you win, you may receive an invitation to travel to Heavenly Forge to begin Sanctification. Unlocking this forge requires completing Season 11 main quest.

Afterward, to complete Sanctification, you need to consume Heavenly Sigils, which can be farmed by completing various endgame events.

While completing Sanctification isn't difficult, especially for players already in the endgame, the reward - a gear upgrade - is randomized and cannot be changed afterward, making this mechanism less appealing to players.

That concludes our introduction. We would be honored if you found it helpful in preparing for Season 11!