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Although Diablo 4 Season 9 Sins of the Horadrim is still a week away, players can’t wait to prepare for the best builds to choose and make in the new season based on the previous Public Test Realm. Among them, Barbarian build with strong damage and solid defense has become the center of discussion.

With this Season Update, Barbarian build is more balanced than before and should suit more players’ play styles. So in this guide, we will introduce you to some of the best Barbarian builds worth trying in Diablo 4 Season 9 based on exploration strength, skill synergy ability, and overall stability.

1. Kick Barbarian

First of all, it should be noted that Overpower mechanic of Barbarian in Season 9 has been greatly weakened, which has affected skills such as Kick and Blow, but Kick Barbarian can easily clear some low- and medium-level enemies with a high burst damage and control ability, whether it is a group or a single enemy.

Not only that, as long as your positioning level is high enough, you can have excellent knockback synergy, and the newly added Hooves of the Mountain God Unique will reduce your dodge cooldown time, thereby further increasing mobility.

Of course, the most important thing is that Kick can also be perfectly adapted with Earthquake-based skills, so that it can cause serious damage to monsters or bosses on the spot. Although this build cannot allow you to successfully complete high-tier challenges, it is very suitable for you to effectively farm a large amount of XP and Diablo 4 Gold in the early and mid-term.

2. Lunge Strike Barbarian

Looking at the current player community and social media, there are very few guides recommending Lunge Strike Barbarian builds. Although it is centered on the basic skill Lunge Strike, it is probably one of the best Barbarian skills at the moment because it comes with a super strong bleeding damage effect.

In this build, you can combine Lunge Strike with Rage of Harrogath and any gear that can provide you with attack speed bonuses, and invest a lot of D4 Gold to maximize its effectiveness. In this way, the entire build can continuously output high damage and even remain effective in the endgame.

Overall, there are not many complex requirements to make a mature Lunge Strike Barbarian build. You only need to focus on crits and Fury accumulation in the passive skill tree, so this is also the only Barbarian build that is very suitable for beginners to try in the current season. The best thing is that you don’t need a large number of options to complete the challenge in the heavily modified Nightmare Dungeon.

3. Bash Earthquake Barbarian

If you value your character’s defensive abilities over offensive ones, you can try Bash Earthquake Barbarian, a variation of Earthquake archetype that will allow you to survive longer in some battles.

The mechanics of this build are also very simple, stacking some defensive attributes and statistics to ensure that your knockback effect is always available, thereby triggering the synergy of all offensive gear related to Earthquakes to achieve the purpose of sustained damage.

Compared to the previous two builds, Bash Earthquake Barbarian may be slower in leveling, but the safety and stability it can provide you can successfully complete boss encounters or fight against elite monsters, even if you explore alone.

3. Whirlwind Earthquake Barbarian

This build perfectly combines Whirlwind playstyle with Earthquake, which has excellent crowd control capabilities, which will give you a more comfortable gaming experience, whether you want to level up or complete high-difficulty challenges.

The name of this build demonstrates the skill rotation you need to make: use Earthquake to stun all enemies, and then use Whirlwind to cast follow-up damage on them. Or you can trigger Earthquake in a loop while moving, and then trap enemies in the center of the arena at different angles, and finally kill them all.

Although its overall burst power is slightly inferior to the best Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian build, it is less dependent on high-level and high-quality gear, and has a higher tolerance rate for Diablo 4 new players, so it is also very suitable for you to try in the early and mid-game.

5. Hammer Of The Ancients Earthquake Barbarian

Once you combine Earthquake with Hammer of the Ancients, a skill that has performed well in Season 9 PTR, any challenge in the endgame will no longer be a problem. Its Flicker technique and high-quality gear can work well together to cause devastating explosion area damage.

So in the choice of build options, you may want to focus on those that can trigger Earthquakes quickly and accurately, so that the duration and burst potential of the damage cast will be maximized. Here I would like to recommend Mantle of Mountain’s Fury, which is very suitable for you to use in high-tier Nightmare Dungeons.

However, it is important to note that the maximum effectiveness of HotA Earthquake Barbarian build will only be stable at level 105 and above, so farming loot and Diablo 4 gold in the early game may not be the best option. And this build is very dependent on HotA, which requires you to spend a lot of time to obtain it.

Although there is less than a week left before the release of the new season of Diablo 4, developers generally do not make major changes to the game content, so you can feel free to try all Barbarian builds just introduced. If the developers make some changes to specific items or skills in the future, we will continue to pay attention and push them to you in time. I wish you a happy game!

Every time you enter a new Diablo 4 season, you need to change your class and build selection according to their characteristics and other details while learning about the new content and gameplay as soon as possible.

This is because different classes can fully play their strengths for different seasonal gameplays, and the game will also strengthen or weaken each class to varying degrees due to seasonal changes to ensure game balance.

Although some players like to play their favorite/new classes first at all times, if you want to get enough Diablo 4 gold as soon as possible at the beginning of the season, the dominant class will be more suitable for you.

Based on this, we will list the class rankings suitable for Season 9 for you from low to high based on the performance of the 6 known Diablo 4 classes.

No.6 Druid

To be honest, this class has been silent in Diablo 4 for several seasons, and it seems that this classic class is being forgotten by the developers. On this basis, it was still weakened in Season 9, which has to be said to be another blow to all Druid fans.

Even Cataclysm Build that can make Druid fully play its role has become a bit mediocre in Season 9 due to the drastic weakening of overpower. But if you insist on playing this class, it is recommended that you utilize Epilepsy Petrified Druid Build or Poison Pool Druid Build.

No.5 Rogue

Perhaps the newly added unique item Deathmask of Nirmitruq helm will make you think that it can make Rogue shine again in Season 9, but just like Druid’s Rotting Lightbringer, although they bring more builds possibilities, the overall efficiency is not high.

Take Deathmask of Nirmitruq as an example. On the basis of the weakening of the comprehensive Rogue mechanism, the utilization of this item requires too many resources, which requires too much of your farming ability at the beginning of the season.

If you are already a skilled Rogue player or can get extra resources through other means, then you can try to experience Rogue through this unique item craft new build, otherwise Death Trap Build will be more reliable, or simply choose a better class.

No.4 Barbarian

From the overall performance of 2.3.0 PTR, Barbarian can clear more than 90% of the layers of The Pit through Berserking and Bleed abilities, which is undoubtedly a reliable boost for your resource farming after entering the endgame.

Although these abilities may be weakened in the official S9, in general, the basic skill strength of Barbarian has been improved. Therefore, for insurance, you can also continue to utilize the classic Earthquake/Whirlwind Build in S9.

Among all the enhanced basic skills, Lunging Strike is the one that deserves more attention. Its function is to cause more damage to the enemy by quickly closing the distance with the enemy, which is suitable for craft more interesting melee builds.

No.3 Necromancer

As the third in this ranking list, most of the classic builds of Necromancer can continue to play a role in the new season due to the overall enhancement of skills and mechanisms, such as Bone Spear or Blood Wave.

As you know, due to the ability to summon minions in battle, Necromancer itself and most of the available builds have strong group combat power, and the clearing speed is also ahead of other classes.

Since the core content of Season 9 includes two new dungeons, Horadric Strongroom and Escalating Nightmares, and they are also the source of many key items, Necromancer’s abilities will be useful for farming in them.

No.2 Sorcerer

Since the launch of 2.3.0 PTR, Sorcerer, has attracted more attention, even though it is not the best class of Season 9, and this is entirely because of Hydra Build. This build has appeared in the past, but its performance in Season 9 will obviously be better.

As a summoning skill, Hydra can summon a three-headed hydra in battle to cause fire damage to the enemy, and you can continue to combine other types of skills to output more different types of damage to the enemy and attack the enemy from multiple angles.

The reason why this class did not become the first place may be that the subsequent games will weaken it because of the excessive strength of Hydra Build. But to be honest, this is not necessary because Hydra Build has not yet reached the point of destroying the balance of the game.

No.1 Spiritborn

As a new class that has only been released since DLC, Spiritborn has caused heated discussions in Diablo 4 player community with its fresh abilities and outstanding strength from the beginning. Although it has been weakened since Season 7, its charm remains undiminished.

The main damage output types of this class are thorns and poison damage, and the unique item Balazan’s Maxtlatl added in Season 9 allows you to output more of these two types of damage through related skills.

Based on this, you can choose to craft new Spiritborn builds, or continue to utilize Quill Volley Build, both of which can be very good at clearing dungeon enemies and even solving bosses, making your Season 9 battle easier.

The above rankings are only based on existing information, and there may be more changes in Season 9. Perhaps the weaker classes at the beginning of the season will also have the hope of becoming reliable in the latter stages!