Diablo 4 Codex of Power - All Barbarian Legendary Aspects

Diablo 4’s Barbarian has a wealth of fun bonuses in the Codex of Power. As you complete dungeons, you’ll unlock more and more of these affixes. Then, you can place them on the legendary items you unlock, replacing a generic power with something more suitable to your build. This will be a key strategy if you want to tackle the most difficult content in the game. Barbarian has a wealth of Legendary Aspects built around Leap, Charge, Bleeding, and Berserking.

If you’re curious where all of this Diablo 4’s class Legendary Aspects unlock, we’ve got you covered. A few of these appear much later in the game. Depending on what build you’re aiming for, some are certainly better than others.

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Barbarian’s Legendary Aspects in Diablo 4’s Codex of Power

Completing dungeons in Diablo 4 will unlock a variety of Codex of Power entries for all the classes in the game. However, it can often be confusing where you need to go to unlock specific Legendary Aspects for this class.

If you’re looking to play a Barbarian, you’ll want to think about what kind of build you’re going for. Whether you want to spam Leap, Whirlwind, or gain buffs for swapping weapons, the Codex of Power in Diablo 4 has exactly what you need.

Barbarian Aspects

• Aspect of Tempering Blows (Defiled Catacomb, Fractured Peaks): After swapping weapons 6 times, gain 4 Fortify.
• Slaking Aspect (Maulwood, Fractured Peaks): Lucky Hit: You have up to a 30% chance to gain 20 Fury when Rend deals direct damage to at least one Bleeding enemy.
• Aspect of the Protector (Lost Archives, Fractured Peaks): Damaging an Elite grants you a barrier, absorbing up to 330 damage for 10s. Only triggers once every 30 seconds.
• Earthstriker’s Aspect (Maugan’s Works, Hawezar): After swapping weapons 10 times, your next attack will Overpower and deal 30% increased Overpower damage.
• Aspect of Retribution (Abandoned Mineworks, Kehjistan): Distant enemies have a 8% chance to be Stunned for 2s when they hit you. You deal 20% increased damage to Stunned enemies.
• Aspect of Deflecting Barrier (Lost Keep, Hawezar): While you have a Barrier active, there is a 7% chance to ignore incoming damage from Distant enemies.
• Aspect of Anemia (Kor Dragan Barracks, Fractured Peaks): Lucky Hit: Direct damage against Bleeding enemies has up to a 20% chance to Stun them for 2s in Diablo 4.
• Aspect of Disobediance (Halls of the Damned, Kehjistan): You gain 0.25% increased Armor for 4s when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to 25%.
• Aspect of Might (Dark Ravine, Dry Steppes): Basic Skills grant 20% Damage Reduction for 2s.
• Aspect of the Expectant (Underroot, Scosglen): Attacking enemies with a Basic Skill increases the damage of your next Core Skill for 5%, up to 30%.
• Aspect of Bul-Kathos (Light’s Refuge, Hawezar): Leap creates an Earthquake that deals 16 Physical damage over 4 seconds. While standing in Earthquakes, you gain 5% increased Damage Reduction in Diablo 4.
• Aspect of Ancestral Force (Sunken Ruins, Scosglen): Hammer of the Ancients quakes outwards, dealing 32% of its damage to enemies.
• Rapid Aspect (Buried Halls, Dry Steppes): Basic Skills gain 15% Attack Speed.
• Aspect of Berserk Ripping (Mournfield, Dry Steppes): Whenever you deal direct damage while Berserking, inflict 20% of the Base damage dealt as additional Bleeding damage over 5s.
• Eluding Aspect (Caldera Gate, Fractured Peaks): Becoming injured while Crowd Controlled grants you Unstoppable for 4s. Has a 40s cooldown in Diablo 4.
• Aspect of Ancestral Echoes (Ancient Reservoir, Hawezar): Lucky Hit: Damaging enemies with Leap, Upheaval, or Whirlwind has up to a 40% chance to summon an Ancient to perform the same Skill. Can only happen once every 5s.
• Ghostwalker Aspect (Broken Bulwark, Scosglen): While Unstoppable and for 4s after, you gain 10% increased Movement Speed and can move freely through enemies.
• Wind Striker Aspect (Shivta Ruins, Kejistan): Critical Strikes grant 8% Movement Speed for 1s, up to 6s in Diablo 4.
• Aspect of Inner Calm (Raethwind Wilds, Scosglen): Deal 5% increased damage for each second you stand still, up to 30%.
• Aspect of the Umbral (Champion’s Demise, Dry Steppes): Restore 1 of your Primary Resource when you Crowd Control an enemy in Diablo 4.
• Relentless Berserk’s Aspect (Hakan’s Refuge, Kehjistan): Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy with a Core Skill has up to a 22% chance to extend the duration of Berserking by 1s. Double this duration if it was a Critical Strike.
• Aspect of Numbing Wrath (Heathen’s Keep, Hawezar): Each point of Fury generated while at Maximum Fury grants Fortify.
• Aspect of Perpetual Stomping (Charnel House, Dry Steppes): Damaging an enemy with Kick or Ground Stomp resets Leap’s Cooldown in Diablo 4.
• Death Wish Aspect (Penitent Cairns, Scosglen): Gain 20 Thorns while Berserking.
• Aspect of Unrelenting Fury (Hallowed Ossuary, Fractured Peaks): Killing an enemy with a Core Skill refunds 10% of its base Fury cost. Can only happen once per Skill cast.
• Needleflare Aspect (Campaign, Kehjistan): Thorns damage has a 20% chance to deal damage to all enemies around you.
• Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind (Garan Hold, Scosglen): Whirlwind’s Critical Strike Chance is increased by 5% for each second it is channeled, up to 20% in Diablo 4.
• Iron Blood Aspect (Forgotten Ruins, Kehjistan): Gain 2% Damage Reduction for each Nearby Bleeding enemy up to 10% maximum in Diablo 4.
• Aspect of the Iron Warrior (Carrion Fields, Dry Steppes): Iron Skin grants Unstoppable, and 10% Damage Reduction.
• Aspect of the Relentless Armsmaster (Calibel’s Mine, Scosglen): Gain 20% increased Fury Generation while all damage bonuses from the Walking Arsenal Key Passive are active.
• Veteran Brawler’s Aspect (Heretics Asylum, Kehjistan): Each time a Core Skill deals direct damage to an enemy, your next Charge or Leap deals 15% increased damage, up to 225%.
• Aspect of Shared Misery (Oblivion, Hawezar): Lucky Hit: When you hit a Crowd Controlled enemy, there is up to a 30% chance for that Crowd Control effect to target another unaffected enemy in Diablo 4.
• Edgemaster’s Aspect (Oldstones, Scosglen): Skills deal up to 10% increased damage based on your available Primary Resource when cast, giving the maximum benefit when you have full Primary Resource in Diablo 4.
• Aspect of Echoing Fury (Sirocco Caverns, Kehjistan): Your Shout Skills generate 2 Fury per second while active.
• Brawler’s Aspect (Haunted Refuge, Hawezar): Enemies damaged by Kick or Charge will explode if they are killed within the next 2s, dealing 40 damage to surrounding enemies.

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Players can typically look forward to new Aspects throughout the various seasons of Diablo 4 content. The purposes can vary, ranging from specific builds to more generic power upgrades for a class. In Season 4 for example, each class received a Legendary Aspect that fit a specific build or archetype. As more of these are added to the game, we’ll update this list accordingly.

Recent seasons added a new way to unlock Legendary Aspects as well since there aren’t always new dungeons to add. In this case, you’ll unlock them via Extraction. This means players will have to break down legendary items that have the ability, and that will add them to the Codex of Power. In this case, it’s the Dust Devil power Aspect of the Fierce Winds.

• Aspect of Fierce Winds (Salvaged from Legendary items): Your Shout Skills create 3 Dust Devils that deal 57 damage to enemies along their path. Your Dust Devils are 5-20% bigger and deal increased damage for each percent their size increased.

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A few of these abilities really stand out to me as potentially powerful. I like combining Veteran Brawler’s Aspect with any other Leap abilities. Veteran Brawler makes your Core Skills increase the damage of your next Charge or Leap. While it doesn’t need it, using this with Aspect of Perpetual Stomping to ensure Charge or Leap are always off cooldown is fun.

Making foes bleed as a Barbarian in D4 can be powerful with these affixes. Codex of Power abilities like Iron Blood Aspect (2% DR for each nearby bleeding enemy) goes fantastic with Aspect of Berserk Ripping. It makes your direct damage deal bleeding damage while berserking. This will keep you tanky for much longer.

There are so many great options for Codex of Power entries for Barbarian. Just keep an eye out for which you want to use in Diablo 4 when the game launches on June 6, 2023.