Barbarian skills

This page lists all Barbarian skills. This page is a quick listing; follow the links to the individual skill pages for full discussion of every skill, including first hand reports, Blue quotes, skill rune information, and numerous screenshots and other images.

Useful skill links:

Skills - General skill design and mechanics.
- Skill runes - The huge skill customization and improvement system.
Barbarian - a melee-oriented class with great physical powers.
- Fury - The Barbarian's energy resource.
- Barbarian skills - A list of all the Barbarian's active skills.
  - Shouts - Skills that buff the player or debuff monsters.
- Barbarian passives - A list of all the Barbarian's passive skills.
Barbarian skill archive - Removed Barbarian skills.
Barbarian traits - Passive skills in Diablo III were called traits for a while before reverting back.

[edit] Active Skills

Click to the individual skill pages for more details about these skills including numbers, screenshots, Skill Rune information, blue quotes, and much more.

[edit] Primary

Name	Level	Description

Bash
(database)
Primary

1

Generate: 8 Fury per attack

Brutally smash an enemy for 165% weapon damage with a 20% chance to Knockback.

Cleave
(database)
Primary

3

Generate: 5 Fury per attack

Swing your weapon in a wide arc to deal 140% weapon damage to all enemies caught in the swing.

Frenzy
(database)
Primary

11

Generate: 3 Fury per attack

Swing for 110% weapon damage. Frenzy attack speed increases by 15% with each swing. This effect can stack up to 5 times for a total bonus of 75% attack speed.

[edit] Secondary

Name	Level	Description

Hammer of the Ancients
(database)
Secondary

2

Cost: 20 Fury

Call forth a massive hammer to smash enemies directly in front of you for 325% weapon damage. Hammer of the Ancients has a 1% increased Critical Hit Chance for every 5 Fury that you have.

Rend
(database)
Secondary

5

Cost: 20 Fury

A sweeping strike causes all nearby enemies to Bleed for 700% weapon damage as Physical over 5 seconds.

Seismic Slam
(database)
Secondary

12

Cost: 30 Fury

Slam the ground and cause a wave of destruction that deals 240% weapon damage and Knockback to targets in a 45 yard arc.

Whirlwind
(database)
Secondary

20

Cost: 10 Fury

Deliver multiple attacks to everything in your path for 145% weapon damage.

[edit] Defensive

Name	Level	Description

Ground Stomp
(database)
Defensive

4

Generate: 15 Fury

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Smash the ground, stunning all enemies within 12 yards for 4 seconds.

Leap
(database)
Defensive

8

Generate: 15 Fury

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Leap into the air, dealing 85% weapon damage to all enemies within 8 yards of your destination and slowing their movement speed by 60% for 3 seconds.

Sprint
(database)
Defensive

16

Cost: 20 Fury

Increase movement speed by 40% for 3 seconds.

Ignore Pain
(database)
Defensive

22

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Reduces all damage taken by 65% for 5 seconds.

[edit] Might

Name	Level	Description

Ancient Spear
(database)
Might

9

Generate: 15 Fury

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Throw a spear to pull an enemy back to you, briefly slowing the target's movement by 60% and dealing 185% weapon damage.

Revenge
(database)
Might

13

Revenge has a 15% chance to become active each time you are hit.

Inflict 220% weapon damage to all nearby enemies. You heal 5.0% of your maximum Life for each enemy hit.

Furious Charge
(database)
Might

21

Generate: 15 Fury

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Rush forward knocking back enemies and inflicting 195% weapon damage to enemies along the path of the charge.

Overpower
(database)
Might

26

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Deal 165% weapon damage to all targets within 9 yards. Landing a Critical Hit has a chance to lower the cooldown by 1 second.

[edit] Tactics

Name	Level	Description

Weapon Throw
(database)
Tactics

14

Cost: 10 Fury

Hurl a throwing weapon at an enemy for 130% weapon damage and Slow the movement of the enemy by 60% for 2 seconds.

Threatening Shout
(database)
Tactics

17

Generate: 15 Fury

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Shout with great ferocity, reducing damage done by enemies within 25 yards by 20% for 15 seconds.

Battle Rage
(database)
Tactics

22

Cost: 20 Fury

Enter a rage which increases damage by 15% and Critical Hit Chance by 3% for 120 seconds.

War Cry
(database)
Tactics

28

Generate: 20 Fury

Cooldown: 20 seconds

Unleash a rallying cry to increase Armor for you and all allies within 50 yards by 20% for 60 seconds.

[edit] Rage

Name	Level	Description

Earthquake
(database)
Rage

19

Cost: 50 Fury

Cooldown: 120 seconds

Shake the ground violently, dealing 2000% weapon damage as Fire over 8 seconds to all enemies within 18 yards.

Call of the Ancients
(database)
Rage

25

Cost: 50 Fury

Cooldown: 120 seconds

Summon the ancient Barbarians Talic, Korlic, and Madawc to fight alongside you for 15 seconds. Each deals 60% weapon damage per swing in addition to bonus abilities.

Talic wields a sword and shield and uses the Whirlwind skill.
Korlic wields a massive polearm and uses the Cleave skill.
Madawc dual-wields axes and uses the Weapon Throw skill.

Wrath of the Berserker
(database)
Rage

30

Cost: 50 Fury

Cooldown: 120 seconds

Enter a berserker rage which raises several attributes for 15 seconds.

Critical Hit Chance: 10%
Attack Speed: 25%
Dodge Chance: 20%
Movement Speed: 20%

[edit] Passive Skills

Passive skills replaced Traits during late game development in 2011. A few Traits were simply changed to passive skills, but most are all new. See the Barbarian traits page for a full list of those old passives.

Name	Level	Description

Pound of Flesh
(database)
Passive

10

Increases the chance of finding a health globe by 25% and you gain 100% additional Life from health globes.

Ruthless
(database)
Passive

10

Critical Hit Chance increased by 5%. Critical Hit Damage increased by 50%.

Many skills and runes rely on Critical Hits to trigger their effects.

Nerves Of Steel
(database)
Passive

13

Your Armor is increased by 100% of your Vitality.

Weapons Master
(database)
Passive

16

Gain a bonus based on the weapon type of your main hand weapon:

Swords/Daggers: 15% increased damage
Maces/Axes: 10% Critical Hit Chance
Polearms/Spears: 10% attack speed
Mighty Weapons: 3 Fury per hit

Berserker Rage
(database)
Passive

20

You inflict an additional 25% damage while at maximum Fury.

Inspiring Presence
(database)
Passive

20

The duration of your shouts is doubled. After using a shout you regenerate 2% of your maximum Life per second for 60 seconds.

Your shouts are:
Battle Rage
Threatening Shout
War Cry

Bloodthirst
(database)
Passive

24

Gain 3% of all damage done as Life.

Animosity
(database)
Passive

27

Increases Fury generation by 20% and maximum Fury is increased by 20.

Fury is used to fuel your most powerful attacks.

Superstition
(database)
Passive

30

Reduces all non-Physical damage by 20%. Whenever you take damage from a ranged or elemental attack, you have a chance to gain 3 Fury.

Tough as Nails
(database)
Passive

30

Increases Armor by 25%.

Thorns damage dealt increased by 50%.

No Escape
(database)
Passive

35

Increases the damage of Ancient Spear and Weapon Throw by 10%. In addition, a Critical Hit with Ancient Spear resets the cooldown while Critical Hits with Weapon Throw have a chance to return 14 Fury.

Relentless
(database)
Passive

40

While below 20% Life, all skills cost 75% less Fury and all damage taken is reduced by 50%.

Brawler
(database)
Passive

45

As long as there are 3 enemies within 8 yards, all of your damage is increased by 30%.

This skill is affected by your characters: Skill Level (set to 1 for example above)

Juggernaut
(database)
Passive

50

The duration of control impairing effects on you is reduced by 20%. In addition, whenever a Stun, Fear, Immobilize or Charm is cast on you, you have a chance to recover 15% of your maximum Life.

Unforgiving
(database)
Passive

55

You no longer degenerate Fury. Instead, you gain 2 Fury every 1 seconds.

Boon of Bul-Kathos
(database)
Passive

60

The cooldown on your Earthquake, Call of the Ancients, and Wrath of the Berserker skills is reduced by 30 seconds.

This skill is affected by your characters: Skill Level (set to 1 for example above)

[edit] Skill Distribution

A useful player-made chart showing when the Barbarian gains access to skills, passives, and rune effects.

Barbarian skill progression. Stats as of May 5, 2012.

[edit] Development

All character skills underwent considerable changes during development, with perhaps the biggest change coming before BlizzCon 2010 -- skill trees were removed (but the tiers remained), and passive skills were separated out from the skill listing and renamed Traits. The second big change occurred when skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, allowing skills to unlock steadily from levels 1 to 30; also, traits were renamed back to passives. Finally, the Beta Patch 13 introduced a new categorization system, which placed each skill into one of 6 (fairly arbitrary) new categories for each class.

See the Barbarian skill archive for the full list, with descriptions, of all active and passive skills that have been removed from the game during development.

[edit] Details

The Barbarian's skills and skill trees were first seen at BlizzCon 2008 as a mix of active and passive skills (mostly passive), with only a few enabled and many showing nothing more than vague descriptions in the skill trees. The Barbarian had 6 active skills (out of 18) in his Berserker Skill Tree, 6 active skills (out of 18) in his Juggernaut Skill Tree, and 5 active skills (out of 17) in his Battlemaster Skill Tree.

For BlizzCon 2009, the list of the Barbarian's passive skills had greatly shrunk, but the active skills were mostly just shuffled around. The Barbarian also gained four new active skills: Spirit, Wrath of the Berserker, Bloodthirst, and Weapon Throw.

The updated Barbarian tree-less skills list at BlizzCon 2010 removed all earlier passive skills (they became Barbarian traits) and changed around a number of active skills as well. The Barbarian lost Battle Cry, Onslaught, Bloodthirst, and Enrage; but also gained Rampage, War Cry, Ancient Spear, Rend, and Call of the Ancients.

With the skill system overhaul revealed in the July 2011 Press Event, the Barbarian's active skills were mostly just shuffled around, but he also gained Overpower and lost Rampage and Taunt. Soon after, he gained the passive Tough as Nails.

A large number of passives were removed for the beta; the Barbarian lost 8. After that, the list of skills was pretty well set, even if their levels weren't. The Barbarian's Leap Attack was renamed Leap, and he gained the passive Nerves Of Steel.

[edit] References

Full Barbarian Skill Trees and Stats — 27th Aug 2009
Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report — IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
Kastigar's Really Big Barb thread — IncGamers 8th Aug 2011
Barbarian Overview — Blizzard's Official Diablo III Site

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[edit] Active Skills

[edit] Primary

[edit] Secondary

[edit] Defensive

[edit] Might

[edit] Tactics

[edit] Rage

[edit] Passive Skills

[edit] Skill Distribution

[edit] Development

[edit] Details

[edit] References