The expert Rob is known for building strong and sometimes totally absurd builds in Diablo 4, especially for Barbarians. He has now discovered a new build that literally causes infinite damage. The game can’t display so much anymore. Rob is sure: This will never make it to the game.
What kind of build is this?
- Blizzard is currently testing the changes of Season 6 on the PTR. Anyone can participate on PC, look for bugs, and give feedback.
- New features include rune words that are new to the game and changes to classes. There are new Paragon nodes and modified skills.
- Rob2628, a Diablo and especially Barbarian expert, is actively testing here and has created a thorns build for Barbarians that accumulates more and more damage. To infinity.
This is what makes the build so strong: At the moment, there seems to be a faulty interaction between two passive skills of the Barbarian on the PTR: Tough as Nails and Barbed Carapace. Tough as Nails is already in the game, while Barbed Carapace will come as a new skill with Season 6:
- Tough as Nails increases your thorns damage, and when you hit enemies, they bleed for part of the damage.
- Barbed Carapace boosts your thorns proportionally for every 25 rage spent, and you deal thorns damage to enemies you move through.
This combination already enables strong thorns builds. If you have accumulated more than 30 ranks of Tough as Nails through completion and other options, the damage continues to stack – to infinity. Why this is the case is not entirely clear.
How you build the rest of the build is relatively unimportant as long as you have as much thorns damage as possible and build on health points and attack speed. Everything else is irrelevant since thorns cannot critically hit anyway.
Rob uses a “Spin to Win” build in his video and shows how he only gets the infinity symbol displayed after a 40-digit number. By the way, such a number is called a sextillion. You can find the build here on d4builds. According to Rob, the build comes from a Chinese player who showed him the build.
“Wizards are still stronger”
The expert is sure that this build will never leave the PTR. Aside from the obviously faulty interaction between the two passive effects, Barbed Carapace alone is much too strong, says Rob:
Even the basic thorns build is being changed because this passive has more than one broken interaction. In AoE scenarios, for example, they tick multiple times.
Previously, Rob found a build with which he can kill bosses without using his hands. However, Rob says that wizards are still stronger on the PTR – even with all this crazy Barbarian action.
Season 6 will be released on October 8, 2024, together with Vessel of Hatred and will bring numerous changes to classes and content, including a level squish: You will level up only to level 60, after which there is Paragon for all characters in the realm. However, one change is not well received: Diablo 4 removes a small detail that became legendary through Diablo 2, disappointing fans: ‘Over 20 years of nostalgia’
