Best Diablo 4 Upheaval Barbarian build in Season 6

Best Arsenal setup for Upheaval Barbarian

Some Skills offer benefits when assigned to specific weapons and Legendary Aspects that boost power after swapping weapons.

These mechanics require Barbarians to assign different abilities to different weapons using the Skill Assignment pane. This is done by opening the character window, navigating to the Abilities tab, and selecting Skill Assignment.

For the Upheaval Barbarian, assigning both Upheaval and Bash to your Two-Handed Mace is the best option thanks to the bonuses from their skill enhancements.

Using different weapons also upgrades their Weapon Technique so swapping between them while leveling is a good idea for maxing out your potential power. You can assign one Weapon Technique which grants a permanent passive buff, regardless of the weapons you are using.

In this Upheaval Barbarian build, you should set your Technique Slot to the Two-Handed Axe. This will make all your attacks deal an extra 10% damage to Vulnerable enemies.

Best Upheaval Barbarian skill rotation

This is the best rotation for an endgame Upheaval Barbarian in Diablo 4.

• Challenging Shout
• Rallying Cry
• War Cry
• Bash
• Upheaval
• Call of the Ancients

Open encounters by casting your three shout skills to apply a series of offensive and defensive buffs. Keep these up as often as possible which should be quite easy thanks to some help from the Bold Chieftain’s Aspect and Rakanoth’s Wake; both of which work in tandem to significantly reduce cooldowns.

Use Bash to generate fury and focus on casting it 10 times to build up a 120% damage boost and a guaranteed Overpower when you finally cast Upheaval. As the name of the build suggests, this is your core damage skill. With the Unbridled Rage Key Passive, Upheaval will cost more Fury but deal increased damage.

Save Call of the Ancients for tougher encounters. It doesn’t offer a great deal of damage when cast but the passive buffs that the skill affords when active will greatly increase your overall effectiveness in a pinch.

Best Upheaval Barbarian Legendary Aspects

Tracking down these Legendary Aspects will be handy while you wait to get the Unique gear you need to run the endgame Upheaval Barbarian build.

Best Upheaval Barbarian Paragon Boards and Glyphs

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The right Paragon setup will make your Upheaval Barbarian a real menace.

Once you hit Level 60, Skill points become a thing of the past, and Paragon Points take over.

This system makes you pick upgrades from themed boards loaded with buffs. Each path is unique, but the upside is you can tweak your Upheaval Barbarian build with specific Boards and Glyphs to boost your build exactly how you want in Diablo 4.

Paragon Board progression

For your Upheaval Barbarian build in Diablo 4 Season 6, you should unlock the following Paragon Boards in the indicated order:

• Starting Board
• Blood Rage
• Decimator
• Bone Breaker
• Carnage

Best Glyphs

The Paragon Glyphs below are the best ones available for this particular build. We’ve outlined which Glyphs to slot into which of the above Boards.

• Ire Level 100 (Starting Board)
• Dominate Level 100 (Blood Rage)
• Challenger Level 100 (Decimator)
• Wrath Level 100 (Bone Breaker)
• Crusher Level 100 (Carnage)

Best Mercenaries for Upheaval Barbarian

For an endgame Upheaval Barbarian in Diablo 4, you’ll want to set Raheir and Varyana as your mercenary combo for some extra defense and an easy way to draw enemies in close.

Set Raheir as your Hired Mercenary. He offers a massive boost to survivability thanks to skills like Valiance and Bastion which also grant Unstoppable in a pinch. Ground Slam also gives some extra offensive buffs for some extra utility.

Varyana is an excellent Reinforcement Mercenary if you bind her Ancient Harpoons to your Bash skill. This will pull in enemies before you use your Shout skills and make their cooldowns far shorter.

Best Upheaval Barbarian gear and Runewords

The Upheaval Barbarian build in Diablo 4 Season 6 relies on a few Uniques as well as Aspects you’ll need to farm via item extracts. It can be a bit of a chore to set up but with the recommended gear and Runeword combinations below, this build should sing in the endgame.

Best Upheaval Barbarian PVP build for Diablo 4 Season 6

Good news. This Upheaval Barbarian build for Diablo 4 Season 6 works fantastic as-is in the game’s PVP.

It has some sturdy defense to withstand other optimized builds and it deals a boatload of damage. The one drawback is that you won’t benefit from the usual reduced cooldowns it generates in PVE. For this reason, you should time your Shouts more carefully.

Now that you know how to craft this top-tier Necromancer build, make sure to check out our guides for the Druid, Sorcerer, Rogue, Barbarian, and Spirtiborn. There’s also our Diablo 4 Class tier list so you can see where this build fits in the current meta.