The Barbarian in Diablo 4 has a Hammer of the Ancients build, with which you can not only make the ground quake but also buff your friends with battle cries. We show you the build with all its aspects, talents, and Paragon, and explain how it works.

What kind of build is this? The Hammer of the Ancients, or short HotA, is a build with which you can slam your sacred hammer on surrounding enemies. Your attacks and allies in the party will also be buffed with battle cries. If you’ve allocated your skills correctly, you can easily reach damage numbers in the millions. Additionally, large groups of enemies or boss fights become a breeze.

Barbarian Hammer of the Ancients Build – Skills and Tips

These active skills you need:

• Leap Attack – Rank 1
  • Improved Leap Attack
• Hammer of the Ancients – Rank 5
  • Improved Hammer of the Ancients
  • Furious Hammer of the Ancients
• Stomp – Rank 1
• Battle Cry – Rank 5
  • Improved Battle Cry
  • Tactical Battle Cry
• Challenging Shout – Rank 5
  • Improved Challenging Shout
  • Tactical Challenging Shout
• War Cry – Rank 1
  • Improved War Cry
  • Strong War Cry

These passive skills you need:

• Pressure Point – Rank 3
• Thunderous Voice – Rank 3
• Raiding Command – Rank 3
• Swiftness – Rank 3
• Aggressive Resistance – Rank 1
• Fruiting Fury – Rank 3
• Ground Fighter – Rank 3
• Tough – Rank 1
• Counter-offensive – Rank 3
• More Helps More – Rank 3
• Stirring – Rank 3
• Unbridled Fury

Weapon Expertise:

• Expertise with Two-Handed Maces
• Expertise with Two-Handed Swords

This is how you play the build: If you find a large group of enemies, use your Leap Attack to get to your enemies. From here, you use Battle Cry, Challenging Shout, and War Cry. Now use “Stomp” and then your Hammer of the Ancients and stomp your enemies into the virtual afterlife.

Barbarian Hammer of the Ancients Build: Paragon and Glyphs

These Paragon Boards you need:

• Weapon Master
• War Bringer
• Decimator
• Bone Crusher
• Flawless Technique

These Glyphs you need:

• Exploitation – Start
• Marshal – Weapon Master
• Wrath – War Bringer
• Absorber – Decimator
• Territorial – Bone Crusher
• Undaunted – Flawless Technique

Hammer of the Ancients Build for Endgame: Legendaries, Gems & Values

These Legendaries & Uniques you need:

• Aspect of Stun Wrath (Pagan Bastion, Hawezar) – Helmet
• Relentless Aspect (Hakan’s Refuge, Kehjistan) – Chest Armor
• Aspect of Vengeance (Abandoned Mine, Kehjistan) – Gloves
• Recklessness – Unique (must be found) – Leg Armor
• Spirit-walking Aspect (Ruined Bastion, Scosglen) – Boots
• Vainglory Aspect (must be found) – Bludgeoning Weapon
• Aspect of the Eager (Deep Root, Scosglen) – H1
• Aspect of Ancestor Power (Sunken Ruins, Scosglen) – H2
• Aspect of Unbridled Fury (must be found) – Slashing Weapon
• Brave Aspect (must be found) – Ring
• Aspect of Resounding Fury (Shirokko Cave, Kehjistan)– Ring
• Blade Master’s Aspect (Old Stone, Scosglen) – Amulet

You can find the entrances to the dungeons on our interactive map for Diablo 4.

These hearts you should socket in Season 1:

• Common Heart – Focused Fury
• Wrath-filled Heart – Malicious Pact
• Wrath-filled Heart – Barber

An overview of all available hearts can be found here in our guide.

These gems you should socket:

• Armor: Amethyst
• Weapons: Emerald
• Jewelry: Skull

The best attributes:

• Strength
• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Willpower

The best secondary values:

1. Critical Hit Damage
2. Damage against injured and nearby enemies

More detailed tips for improvement can be found here:

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The Hunter offers in Diablo 4 with his Barrage build the ability to perform perfectly in melee and ranged combat and to be deadly. We show you a strong build along with Paragon and necessary skills here in our overview.

What kind of build is this? With this build, you are useful in all areas. Whether you are fighting tougher single opponents or entire groups, your skills make it possible. Important for this is “Pierce” and “Barrage.” Those are your two main attacks, which you additionally strengthen with infusions.

This build is especially worthwhile for hunters who do not want to limit themselves to one range and attack and crave variety.

This build comes from the site maxroll.gg and has been translated into German.

Hunter Build with Barrage – Skills and Tips

These active skills you need:

• Pierce – Rank 1
  • Improved Pierce
  • Fundamental Pierce
• Barrage – Rank 5
  • Improved Barrage
  • Advanced Barrage
• Smoke Grenade – Rank 1
  • Improved Smoke Grenade
  • Countering Smoke Grenade
• Dash – Rank 1
  • Improved Dash
  • Disciplined Dash
• Shadow Infusion – Rank 1
  • Improved Shadow Infusion
  • Mixed Shadow Infusion
• Cold Infusion – Rank 1
  • Improved Cold Infusion
  • Mixed Cold Infusion

These passive skills you need:

• Tough – Rank 3
• Refreshing Strikes – Rank 3
• Weapon Mastery – Rank 3
• Exploit – Rank 3
• Malice – Rank 3
• Precision Infusion – Rank 3
• Frosty Finesse – Rank 3
• Shadow Dive – Rank 1
• Engulfing Shadows – Rank 1
• Stimulus – Rank 3
• Adrenaline Rush – Rank 1
• Haste – Rank 3
• Precision

This specialization you need:

• Combo Points

This is how you play the build: You use your Dash to engage in battle. Now you use your Pierce until you have built up 3 combo points. If you are faced with a horde of enemies, always activate your Smoke Grenade first and then the Shadow Infusion and shoot into the crowd with your Barrage. This way you cause a lot of AoE damage.

Now you switch your position with Dash and activate your Cold Infusion and shoot again with Barrage at your enemies.

If you are fighting bosses, then you switch the rotation and activate Cold Infusion first and then Shadow Infusion.

Be aware that you also apply your mobile skills to your infusions. So first waste all your infusion charges with Barrage before moving away with Dash.

Hunter Barrage Build: Paragon and Glyphs

These Paragon boards you need:

• No Witnesses
• Uncanny Bounty
• Hunter Crafting
• Exploiting Weakness

These glyphs you need:

• Combat (Start)
• Exploitation (No Witnesses)
• Infusion (Uncanny Bounty)
• Distance (Hunter Crafting)
• Composed (Exploiting Weakness)

Barrage Build for Endgame: Legendarys, Gems & Stats

These legendarys & uniques you need:

• Fraudulent Aspect (Luban’s Rest, Scosglen) – Helm
• Aspect of Power (Gloomy Cliffs, Dry Steppes) – Breastplate
• Swift Aspect (Buried Halls, Dry Steppes) – Gloves
• Aspect of Disobedience (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan) – Leggings
• Greaves of Regret – Unique (must be found) – Boots
• Aspect of the Blade Master (Old Stone, Scosglen) – Crossbow
• Damnation – Unique (must be found) – Sword
• Aspect of Corruption (Refuge of the Defector, Kehjistan) – Sword
• Aspect of Diverging Salvo (Shadowfall, Hawezar) – Ring
• Aspect of the Expectant (Deep Root, Scosglen) – Ring
• Shadowy Aspect (must be found) – Amulet

You can find the entrances to the dungeons on our interactive map for Diablo 4.

These hearts you should socket in Season 1:

• Common Heart – Alluring Fate
• Wrath-Filled Heart – Abominable Apothecary
• Brutal Heart – Deception

An overview of all available hearts can be found here on our guide

These gems you should socket:

• Weapons: Emerald
• Armor: Topaz
• Jewelry: Skull

The best attributes:

1. Dexterity
2. Strength
3. Intelligence
4. Willpower

The best secondary stats:

1. Lucky Hit Chance
2. Critical Hit Damage
3. Damage against vulnerable, close, and enemies suffering from control loss

More detailed tips for improvement can be found here:

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The Druid offers in Diablo 4 with his Lightning Shred build the opportunity to be an unstoppable beast in melee combat. We show you a strong build along with Paragon and necessary skills here in our overview.

What kind of build is this? In this build, you throw yourself back into battle as a werewolf and shred through large hordes of enemies effortlessly and quickly, with an electrical twist of lightning. This build is particularly worthwhile for the type of players who want to engage in fast-paced and action-packed battles. We will now show you all the details of the build and explain how it works.

The build comes from the site maxroll.gg and has been translated into German.

Druid Build with Lightning Shred – Skills and Tips

These active skills you need:

• Storm Strike – Rank 1
  • Improved Storm Strike
  • Grim Storm Strike
• Shred – Rank 5
  • Improved Shred
  • Primal Shred
• Cyclone Armor – Rank 2
  • Improved Cyclone Armor
  • Preserving Cyclone Armor
• Blood Howl – Rank 1
  • Improved Blood Howl
  • Preserving Blood Howl
• Hurricane – Rank 1
  • Improved Hurricane
  • Natural Hurricane
• Grizzly Rage
  • Supreme Grizzly Rage
  • Superior Grizzly Rage

These passive skills you need:

• Heart of the Wild – Rank 1
• Overflow – Rank 3
• Wild Impulses – Rank 3
• Predator Instinct – Rank 3
• Toe Walker – Rank 3
• Power of the Ancients – Rank 1
• Vigilance – Rank 3
• Exposed to the Elements – Rank 1
• Endless Storm – Rank 3
• Nerve Poison – Rank 1
• Toxic Claws – Rank 3
• Poison – Rank 3
• Defensive Stance – Rank 3
• Determination of Nature – Rank 3
• Wolfish Ferocity

These Spirit Blessings you need:

• Spirit Blessing of the Stag
  • Suspicion
• Spirit Blessing of the Eagle
  • Sickle Claws
  • Stun Attacks
• Spirit Blessing of the Wolf
  • Fate
• Spirit Blessing of the Serpent
  • Masochistic

This is how you play the build: Before you engage in a fight, activate your Blood Howl, Cyclone Armor, Hurricane, and Grizzly Rage. Now use your Shred skill to quickly leap to your enemies. If you have no Spirit, then use Storm Strike to regenerate it. Now you rotate your skills in this pattern.

Druid Lightning Shred Build: Paragon and Glyphs

These Paragon Boards you need:

• Bloodthirsty
• Ancient’s Guidance
• Strengthened Malice
• Struck by Lightning
• Inner Beast

These Glyphs you need:

• Harvest – Start
• Werewolf – Bloodthirsty
• Territorial – Struck by Lightning
• Ripper and Claw – Strengthened Malice
• Spirit – Inner Beast

Lightning Shred Build for Endgame: Legendary, Gems & Stats

These Legendaries & Uniques you need:

• Wolfish Aspect – Ring 1 (must be found)
• Aspect of Vengeance – Ring 2 (Water’s Edge, Dry Steppes)
• Storm Claw Aspect – Amulet (Anica’s Claim, Shattered Peaks)
• Unique: Storm’s Howl – Helmet (must be found)
• Energetic Aspect – Chest Armor (Tenacious Barracks, Hawezar)
• Aspect of the Raging Werebeast – Gloves (Endless Gates, Hawezar)
• Aspect of Disobedience – Leg Armor (Hall of the Damned, Kehjistan)
• Storm-Transcending Aspect – Boots (Cathedral of the Crusaders, Kehjistan)
• Blade Master’s Aspect – H1 Weapon (Ancient’s Stone, Scosglen)
• Accelerating Aspect – Totem (must be found)

You can find the entrances to the dungeons on our interactive map for Diablo 4.

These hearts you should socket in Season 1:

• Wrathful Heart – Barber (World Tier 3)
• Brutal Heart – Vengeance (World Tier 3)
• Brutal Heart – Measured Heart (World Tier 3)

An overview of all available hearts can be found here on our guide

These gems you should socket:

• Weapons: Emerald
• Armor: Ruby
• Jewelry: Skull

The best attributes:

1. Willpower
2. Dexterity
3. Intelligence
4. Strength

The best secondary values:

1. Chance for Lucky Hit
2. Critical Hit Damage
3. Damage against wounded and nearby enemies as well as enemies suffering from loss of control

Further detailed tips for improvement can be found here:

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The necromancer has many talents in Diablo 4 that make him powerful, but one build even makes him the Grim Reaper. We will show you the Grim Reaper build for the Necro, what you need to pay attention to and how you can play with this build.

What kind of build is this? This build focuses on attacking many enemies with your Grim Reaper attack, generating corpses, turning them into deadly miasma, and then gathering enemies and repeating all of that.

In doing so, you honor the name of the Grim Reaper, as with your large scythe you can slice through many enemies and make them vulnerable. We will now show you the build in detail and explain what you need.

This build comes from MacroBioBio from maxroll.gg.

Necromancer Grim Reaper Build – Skills and Tips

These active skills you need:

• Bloody Harvest – Rank 1
  • Improved Bloody Harvest
• Grim Reaper – Rank 5
  • Improved Grim Reaper
  • Paranormal Grim Reaper
• Blood Mist – Rank 1
  • Improved Blood Mist
  • Gruesome Blood Mist
• Corpse Explosion – Rank 5
  • Improved Corpse Explosion
  • Infected Corpse Explosion
• Withering – Rank 1
  • Improved Withering
  • Abominable Withering
• Corpse Vines – Rank 1
  • Improved Corpse Vines
  • Infected Corpse Vines
• Bone Storm
  • Supreme Bone Storm
  • Superior Bone Storm

These passive skills you need:

• Undead Energy – Rank 1
• Out of Balance – Rank 3
• Wretched Flesh – Rank 3
• Blood Harvest – Rank 3
• Death Bringer – Rank 3
• Embrace of Death – Rank 2
• Chasing the Reaper – Rank 1
• Paralyzing Darkness – Rank 1
• Melancholy – Rank 3
• Horror – Rank 3
• Standing Alone – Rank 3
• Memento Mori – Rank 3
• Shadow Plague

Book of the Dead:

• Grim Reaper
• Cold
• Iron

This is how you play the build: First, use Withering on your enemies and then move through them with Blood Mist to generate corpses. Now use the Corpse Vines to gather enemies and then Corpse Explosions to trigger the deadly miasma.

Now move near the group of enemies and cast your Grim Reaper four times so that your enemies become vulnerable. If you have tougher enemies in front of you, also use your Bone Storm.

Necromancer Grim Reaper Build: Paragon and Glyphs

These Paragon boards you need:

• Carnivore
• Wither
• Smell of Death
• Bloodbath

These glyphs you need:

• Control – Start
• Blood Drinker – Carnivore
• Scourge – Wither
• Darkness – Smell of Death
• Harvest – Bloodbath

Grim Reaper Build for the Endgame: Legendaries, Gems & Values

These Legendaries & Uniques you need:

• Aspect of Explosive Mist – Helm (must be found)
• Aspect of Disobedience – Chest (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan)
• Aspect of Grasping Veins – Gloves (Corrupted Cave, Kehjistan)
• Aspect of the Protecting Storm – Leggings (must be found)
• Spirit Wielder Aspect – Boots (Ruined Bulwark, Scosglen)
• Infected Aspect – Two-Handed Sword (Akkhan’s Grasp, Hawezar)
• Aspect of Decay – Amulet (must be found)
• Aspect of Shadows – Ring (Downfall of the Champions, Dry Steppes)
• Blood-Soaked Aspect – Ring (must be found)

You can find the entrances to the dungeons on our interactive map for Diablo 4.

These hearts you should socket in Season 1:

• Filled with Wrath Heart – Malevolent Pact
• Common Heart – Dark Dance
• Common Heart – Sacrilege

An overview of all available hearts can be found here in our guide.

These gems you should socket:

• Armor: Amethyst
• Weapons: Emerald
• Jewelry: Skull

The best attributes:

• Intelligence
• Willpower
• Dexterity
• Strength

The best secondary values:

1. Critical Hit Damage
2. Damage to Wounded and Nearby Enemies as well as Enemies
3. Shadow Damage

For more detailed tips for improvement, check here:

Diablo 4: Damage Buckets determine how strong you are – This is how they work

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