Diablo 4 has you dishing out some pretty ridiculous damage in the late game, as you take on more and more challenges to become as powerful as you can possibly be. I consider it a win if I deal over a million damage to one of my enemies, but that's nothing compared to a bunch of Diablo 4 streamers that are managing to dish out billions of damage with relative ease.
It all started with Diablo 4 streamer Moxys, who started posting clips of themselves dealing over 1.8 billion damage with a single strike (thanks Kotaku). That's pretty impressive, but it was quickly topped by another streamer by the name of IBoilerUp, as fellow team member Echohack shared a screenshot of them dealing over 2 billion damage via their Twitter account. Given how quickly the record was broken, we may see clips of damage well over 2 billion damage being shared pretty soon.
If you're wondering how these streamers are accomplishing these momentous feats, it's all down to a ridiculously powerful Druid build that players have recently discovered. It's called a Shred Druid build and Moxys has kindly put together a video of how to actually make one yourself if you're up for terrorising some poor, helpless demons.
To sum it up, the damage essentially falls down to a number of things, one of them being the Aspect called Stormclaw which turns between 20 to 45 percent of the damage dealt by a Critical Strike with the Shred ability into Lightning Damage. By using the Waxing Gibbous axe to ensure 100 percent of attacks are Critical Strikes, coupled with Shred's ability to deal 100 percent vulnerable damage, enemies that are vulnerable to lightning are essentially being hit with a four-time multiplier on top of the rest of the damage they receive, leading to the ridiculous numbers we see in these clips.
Moxys explains the build far better than I can here, so you can check out their YouTube video here if you want to know more. You can also follow them on Twitch if you like watching people break video games, along with fellow streamer IBoilerUp who does a similar kind of thing and recorded a similar amount of damage. All I know is that if I'm a demon in Diablo 4 and see a Druid running towards me, I'll be running in the opposite driection for dear life.