The Summoner Barb feels like a Necromancer in Barbarian form—unleashing 12 powerful Ancients who tear through everything. This build deals up to 20+ billion damage, clears all content including Torment IV bosses, and is fueled by insane cooldown reduction loops via Rupture and Lucky Hit mechanics.
⚔️ Core Skills & Gameplay Loop
• Call of the Ancients: Your main summon, empowered with multiple boosts.
• Rupture (Core Skill): Spammable with Third Blade weapon, causes bleed and Overpower.
• Shouts:
• Rallying Cry: Fury generation.
• War Cry: Enables Berserker King.
• Challenging Shout: Damage reduction.
• Lunging Strike: Optional opener for bonus damage.
• Gameplay Loop:
Call of the Ancients → Rupture → Cooldown Reduction → Shout → Rupture → Repeat
🧱 Key Gear & Aspects
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Item |
Effect |
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Third Blade |
Makes Rupture a core skill, spammable. |
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Rage of Harrogath |
60% Lucky Hit chance to reduce cooldown on bleed. |
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Fists of Fate |
Boosts Lucky Hit to ~100% chance. |
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Arreat’s Bearing (Pants) |
Empowers Ancients (Korlic = Earthquakes, Talic = Dust Devils), +74.7% Cooldown Reduction. |
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Ugly Bastard Helm |
Adds fire damage scaling via Madawc, increases Fury generation (Prolific Fury). |
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Executioner’s Aspect |
Earthquakes deal +200% damage, spawn more from Overpower.
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Bullova of Ancestral Echoes |
Boosts summon damage up to +68%. |
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Vehement Brawler’s Loop |
Increases ultimate skill damage. |
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Vulgar Chain of Apogeic Furor (Amulet) |
Up to +135% ultimate damage. |
🔧 Important Note: Get Greater Affix Strength on Diablo 4 weapons and amulet—essential for scaling Earthquake and summon damage.
🧠 Paragon & Glyph Setup
✅ Must-Have Glyphs:
• Wrath: +Critical Strike Damage (important for Summons).
• Rumble: +Earthquake Damage and Strength.
• Challenger: More Strength scaling.
🔁 Key Paragon Board:
• Heavy Hitter: Boosts Ultimate, Earthquake, and Dust Devil damage.
• Blood Rage: +Damage while Berserking.
• Executioner: Polearm bonus damage (Rupture weapon).
• Bone Breaker: Triggers Overpower every 12s.
• Decimator: Vulnerable hits = 40% bonus.
• Force of Nature: Earthquake +200% damage, requires “Damage to Close” stacking.
🔧 Tempering Targets
• Damage While Berserking (Goal: 450%).
• Heavy Hitter Ranks: Boost your ultimate skills.
• Cooldown Reduction on Call of the Ancients.
• Damage to Close Enemies (Goal: 500%).
🌀 Boss Power Synergies
• Grigoire’s Lightning Square: Helps spam Rupture.
• Lilith’s Wind of Hate: Rupture the spawned Blood Blisters for more CDR.
• Beastmaster’s Training: +150% Summon Damage.
• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: +50% Crit Chance if needed.
🧙 Mercenary Choice
• Varyana: +Attack Speed (transfers to summons).
• Raheir: +Provoke for damage reduction.
🎯 Stat Goals Checklist
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Stat |
Target |
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Strength |
~4,000 |
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Lucky Hit Chance |
100% (via Fists of Fate) |
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Critical Strike Damage |
150%+ |
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Damage While Berserking |
450% |
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Damage to Close |
500% |
🧨 Final Tips
• Use Rupture 6x → trigger Vortex via rune (Poc Kry) to group enemies.
• Rupture always Overpowers → Earthquakes → more damage loops.
• Summons inherit everything: Attack speed, Crit, CDR, etc.
• You can start this build at level 1 and scale all the way to endgame.
🏁 Conclusion
The Summoner Earthquake Barb is arguably Season 8’s most fun and satisfying Barbarian build. With massive scaling potential, minimal mythic dependence, and wild synergy between gear, skills, and Paragon, this is the Barbarian’s answer to the Necromancer’s pet army.
Try it. Rupture. Summon. Earthquake. Repeat. 💥
