The real glory of the build is in helping out during the ancients quest in public games. Every time the ancients are about to lose face to some would-be heroes, you throw up a portal to save your fellow barbarians.

i hear from a credible source MrLlama is going to be making an emergency guide on this build for the skeptics explaining the mechanics, the dps output, and the BiS setup

Is a infinity self wield better than dual shuta for barb port?

not at all. how are you gonna get the 200 fcr with an infinity self wield? 2x wiz or 2x suicide branch seems BiS at this stage of the build

My setup for portal barb, (current record 484 portals in a single run)

2x Wizard Spike socketed with 2x 7fhr/9str/9dex/10res jewels
3os 30frw diadem socketed with 3x 20/5 jewels (still looking for gg 2barb/30frw/20fcr/life/2os diadem)
Perfect double upped magefist
Perfect double upped Gorefoot (I've argued with many people for hours over which boots are better but I do prefer the +leap on Gorefoot)
Perfect cuirass enigma (I've seen many argue for other bases, but I prefer cuirass)
Perfect arachnid mesh (20frw/20fcr gheeds would be preferable, but I'm still looking for gg roll or perfect one)
10fcr/rep/life/mana/lightning res/all res ring
10fcr/str/life/all res ring
2barb/20fcr/100mana crafted amulet

Inventory is 18x tombs + torch + anni + 3frw/17mana small charm.

I'd like to replace my rep ring with a perfect sling, but this is what I'm working with atm.

This post was edited by Emiliaaa on Mar 12 2026 04:09am

just used my portal barb to drop a hot portal in hc

wow ! gozu !

Portal barb is a really fun build, I have to admit.

But what really bugs me is them patching dropbarb back in 1.13

Why? It was a really good pvp build and was probably one of the best pvp builds in the game. Kinda annoying when they nerf viable builds into the ground.

potal potal

mebabamewhirl^^

With great power comes great responsibility.

Portal Barb is the hero we deserve, don't turn him into a villain.

I think when you crash a game with a portal barb it closes the server instance so there's no risk of HC pking by disconnecting everyone, but there might be some sweet spot where the lag is enough to crash people's PC before the server, I think the main risk of hardware damage is playing offline where there's no safeguard