Barbarian skills

This page lists all Barbarian skills. This page is a quick listing; follow the links to the individual skill pages for full discussion of every skill, including first hand reports, Blue quotes, skill rune information, and numerous screenshots and other images.

Useful skill links:

• Skills - General skill design and mechanics.
  • Skill runes - The huge skill customization and improvement system.
• Barbarian - a melee-oriented class with great physical powers.
  • Fury - The Barbarian's energy resource.
  • Barbarian skills - A list of all the Barbarian's active skills.
    • Shouts - Skills that buff the player or debuff monsters.
  • Barbarian passives - A list of all the Barbarian's passive skills.
• Barbarian skill archive - Removed Barbarian skills.
• Barbarian traits - Passive skills in Diablo III were called traits for a while before reverting back.

Active Skills

Click to the individual skill pages for more details about these skills including numbers, screenshots, Skill Rune information, blue quotes, and much more.

Primary

Icon	Name (Hover over for latest stats)	Level Unlocked
	Bash (View Stats)	1
	Cleave	3
	Frenzy	11
	Weapon Throw	17

Secondary

Icon	Name (Hover over for latest stats)	Level Unlocked
	Hammer of the Ancients	2
	Rend	5
	Seismic Slam	12
	Whirlwind	20
	Ancient Spear	26

Defensive

Icon	Name (Hover over for latest stats)	Level Unlocked
	Ground Stomp	4
	Leap	8
	Sprint	16
	Ignore Pain	22

Might

Icon	Name (Hover over for latest stats)	Level Unlocked
	Overpower	9
	Revenge	13
	Furious Charge	21
	Avalanche	20
	Ancient Spear	61

Tactics

Icon	Name (Hover over for latest stats)	Level Unlocked
	Threatening Shout	14
	Battle Rage	22
	War Cry	28

Rage

Icon	Name (Hover over for latest stats)	Level Unlocked
	Earthquake	19
	Call of the Ancients	25
	Wrath of the Berserker	20

Passive Skills

Icon	Name (Hover over for latest stats)	Level Unlocked
	Pound of Flesh	14
	Nerves of Steel	21
	Weapons Master	32
	Inspiring Presence	44
	Berserker Rage	60
	Bloodthirst	60
	Animosity	60
	Animosity	60
	Superstition	30
	Tough as Nails	30
	Relentless	40
	Brawler	45
	Juggernaut	50
	Unforgiving	55
	Boon of Bul-Kathos	55
	Earthen Might	64
	Sword and Board	66
	Rampage	68

Skill Distribution

A useful player-made chart showing when the Barbarian gains access to skills, passives, and rune effects.

Barbarian skill progression. Stats as of May 5, 2012.

Development

All character skills underwent considerable changes during development, with perhaps the biggest change coming before BlizzCon 2010 -- skill trees were removed (but the tiers remained), and passive skills were separated out from the skill listing and renamed Traits. The second big change occurred when skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, allowing skills to unlock steadily from levels 1 to 30; also, traits were renamed back to passives. Finally, the Beta Patch 13 introduced a new categorization system, which placed each skill into one of 6 (fairly arbitrary) new categories for each class.

• See the Barbarian skill archive for the full list, with descriptions, of all active and passive skills that have been removed from the game during development.

Details

The Barbarian's skills and skill trees were first seen at BlizzCon 2008 as a mix of active and passive skills (mostly passive), with only a few enabled and many showing nothing more than vague descriptions in the skill trees. The Barbarian had 6 active skills (out of 18) in his Berserker Skill Tree, 6 active skills (out of 18) in his Juggernaut Skill Tree, and 5 active skills (out of 17) in his Battlemaster Skill Tree.

For BlizzCon 2009, the list of the Barbarian's passive skills had greatly shrunk, but the active skills were mostly just shuffled around. The Barbarian also gained four new active skills: Spirit, Wrath of the Berserker, Bloodthirst, and Weapon Throw.

The updated Barbarian tree-less skills list at BlizzCon 2010 removed all earlier passive skills (they became Barbarian traits) and changed around a number of active skills as well. The Barbarian lost Battle Cry, Onslaught, Bloodthirst, and Enrage; but also gained Rampage, War Cry, Ancient Spear, Rend, and Call of the Ancients.

With the skill system overhaul revealed in the July 2011 Press Event, the Barbarian's active skills were mostly just shuffled around, but he also gained Overpower and lost Rampage and Taunt. Soon after, he gained the passive Tough as Nails.

A large number of passives were removed for the beta; the Barbarian lost 8. After that, the list of skills was pretty well set, even if their levels weren't. The Barbarian's Leap Attack was renamed Leap, and he gained the passive Nerves Of Steel.

References

• Full Barbarian Skill Trees and Stats — 27th Aug 2009
• Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report — IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
• Kastigar's Really Big Barb thread — IncGamers 8th Aug 2011
• Barbarian Overview — Blizzard's Official Diablo III Site

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