How to become a sucessful and exceptional barbarian in inferno difficulty

The aim of this guide is to help people who are struggling with progressing through inferno difficulty level. If you chose barbarian class and after finishing hell, just entered inferno with not that good nightmarish/hellish gear, you will die. You will die a lot. All the other difficulty levels before Inferno are a complete faceroll, roflstomp (call it whatever you want) - you can do them with minimum effort put into 'theorycrafting'. As for the inferno itself - completely different story, here you have to strive for perfection because of the gear barrier (jump between hell and inferno is SO MUCH HIGHER in terms of damage you receive Diablo 3 accounts and the damage you need to deal) that the highest difficulty of diablo 3 is. Champions with arcane, molten, plague or fire chains buff shall be your bane, and you will cry out loud and run for your life if you see them. You will pray to whatever god you believe in that you don’t get all of these buffs on one champion at the same time…

But that does not mean that you still can’t be successful at playing barbarian in inferno. There are more barbarians out there than you think, that already killed Diablo, cleared inferno and have it on farm (yup, including act IV champions).

So, what am I doing wrong? – You may ask. Diablo is the kind of game in which the gear of your character is essential, maybe even more important than skill and knowledge of your class. If you don’t have good enough gear, no matter how good you are, you just won’t be able to carry Diablo 3 item yourself through some boss , champion or even add pack.

Thus, first of all you need to understand the concept of farming and gearing.  Here is how it works:

The further you progress through acts, the better gear you get. So inferno act IV drops the best gear in the whole game. You won’t be able to obtain 1k+ dps weapon by farming butcher endlessly on inferno act I. If you want to find out more about how to farm inferno gear, check out my other guide that you can find HERE.

Now, back to barbarian guide. Even if you get good gear, you still need to be able to play your class and understand its basic mechanics, advantages and disadvantages. In other words, you also need to have cheap diablo 3 gold chosen good, viable build - if you want to be successful, that is. 

Barbarian can wield one handed weapons (he can also dual wield them), shields and two handed weapons. The latter is not viable, unless you want to die constantly. Despite 25% additional passive DMG reduction, that other classes are lacking, barb is still INSANELY squishy if you do not play him the right way . Don’t get me wrong, wielding big and badass 2h sword is awesome. I always dual wield in all the games I play – but unfortunately, at this moment in time it is just not worth it. Using 2h might be viable or even better once you get good gear and have the whole inferno on farm. But if you just entered inferno and still have not best in slot gear, one handed weapon along with shield is a way to go selling Diablo 3 account. You need to be tanky. Barbarians can’t kite mobs or burst them down like other classes. You need to go in, smash things and survive. Still, you can’t just stack vitality on its own along with tank stats. If you do that, you will be having problems as well. You need to balance out all stats, and now I will try to help you do that.

First of all, the most vital part of your build – the abilities itself.