Wrath of the Wastes — Barbarian

Barbarian Build C · by eRnstl · 604 Views

Wrath of the Wastes for the Barbarian: tier C, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 3 variants.

At a glance

Class: Barbarian
Tier: C
Season: S39
Main skill: Ground Stomp
Items: 13
Cube powers: 4
Updated: 25.08.2026

Equipment

Helm Helm of the Wastes
Shoulders Pauldrons of the Wastes
Amulet Hellfire Amulet
Chest Cuirass of the Wastes
Gloves Gauntlet of the Wastes
Bracers Mortick's Brace
Belt Lamentation
Pants Tasset of the Wastes
Boots Sabaton of the Wastes
Ring 1 Focus
Ring 2 Restraint
Main Hand Ambo's Pride
Off Hand Doombringer

Active Skills

Ground Stomp Wrenching Smash

Whirlwind Wind Shear

Rend Bloodbath

Battle Rage Swords to Ploughshares

Ancient Spear Rage Flip

Wrath of the Berserker Arreat's Wail

Passive Skills

Rampage

Berserker Rage

Brawler

Ruthless

Kanai's Cube

Weapon The Furnace

Armor Mantle of Channeling

Jewelry Band of Might

4th slot (Season 39) Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Stat Priority

Strength
Pickup Radius
Critical Hit Chance
Area Damage
Vitality
All Resistance

Legendary Gems

Bane of the Stricken Rank 150

Taeguk Rank 150

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Regular Gems

Helm Diamond

Armor Diamond

Weapon Emerald

Helm of the Wastes

Helm

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Socket

✦ All Resistance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Rend Damage

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Healing Bonus

Cuirass of the Wastes

Chest Armor

✦ Strength

✦ All Resistance

✦ Rend Damage

✦ Melee Damage Reduction

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Socket

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Physical Damage

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Life %

Tasset of the Wastes

Pants

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Socket

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Armor

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Healing Bonus

Hellfire Amulet

Amulet

✦ Physical Damage

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Gold Find

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Socket

Focus

Ring 1

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

Restraint

Ring 2

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Gold Find

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

Ambo's Pride

Main Hand

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Strength

✦ Area Damage

✦ Damage %

✦ Socket

Doombringer

Off Hand

✦ Strength

✦ Physical Damage

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Socket

Gameplay

The configuration

This setup is stored as a complete build — gear, skills, runes and all four cube slots work together and are not assembled from individual statistics.

Set: Wrath of the Wastes
Rating: tier C across all classes
Kanai's Cube: The Furnace, Mantle of Channeling, Band of Might, Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
Skills: Ground Stomp (Wrenching Smash), Whirlwind (Wind Shear), Rend (Bloodbath), Battle Rage (Swords to Ploughshares), Ancient Spear (Rage Flip), Wrath of the Berserker (Arreat's Wail)
Passives: Rampage, Berserker Rage, Brawler, Ruthless
Variants available: Speed farming, GR push, Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts

Use the variant switcher above to move between the versions. What changes between them is spelled out below — read it before you rebuild.

What the set does

This build wears Wrath of the Wastes. These bonuses apply once the matching number of set pieces is equipped — the damage multiplier hangs on them, not on the individual stats of the pieces:

2 pieces: Increase the damage per second of Rend by 500% and its duration to 15 seconds.
4 pieces: During Whirlwind and for 3 seconds after, you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
6 pieces: Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind and Rend damage is increased by 10,000%.

How the variants differ

Measured against the push version. Anything not listed here stays the same:

Speed farming: swaps in skills Furious Charge (Dreadnought), Sprint (Rush), Ignore Pain (Mob Rule); gems Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard.
Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Furious Charge (Dreadnought), Sprint (Rush), Ignore Pain (Mob Rule); cube Messerschmidt's Reaver, Goldwrap, Ring of Royal Grandeur; gems Boon of the Hoarder.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Bane of the Stricken, Taeguk, Bane of the Trapped) belong in the jewellery slots — that is the only place their rank counts, and the only place they keep growing when you upgrade after a Greater Rift.

The remaining 8 sockets are filled with Diamond: the multiplier already comes from the set and the legendary powers, so one more base stat does more there than another effect would.

On the season theme

Shades of the Nephalem spawns a shadow clone of your class at every shrine and pylon that fights along for one minute. Activate shrines inside the pull, not on the way there. The fourth cube slot is already filled in every variant above.