In our tier list for Season 4 “Fresh Prey” (“Loot Reborn”) in Diablo 4, we show you which classes and builds are the strongest in the endgame. Additionally, there is a brief description of what the builds can do and what makes them so good.
What are the best classes in Season 4? Currently, Barbarians have proven to be the absolute rulers of the rankings. They are so strong, that other classes get quite annoyed with them. However, in the tier list, Hunters are approximately on par with them. Blizzard is actively pushing out buffs.
Who creates the tier list? We obtain our data from maxroll.gg, where the list is created with tests and mathematics. The experts behind the data are Wudijo, Northwar, Facefoot, Chronikz, Raxxanterax, and Chewignom. One of them showed the strongest builds in Season 4 for each class after the PTR.
The tier list includes all endgame activities in Diablo 4. For PvP, speed grinds, and the fastest way to level 100, the builds are not always the best suited.
What does “S” to “F” mean? In the tier list, the builds are categorized with letters. In this case, “S” stands for the best builds, while “F” marks the worst.
S Tier: The best builds and classes in Season 4
The builds in this tier are the absolute best you can play. They have almost no weaknesses and perform better than anything else in every content. Here and there, there may be a small weakness, but it usually isn’t enough for other builds to come out ahead.
S-Tier: Heartseeker Rogue
The Heartseeker build emerged in Season 4 due to the possibilities of itemization and focuses on enhancing the base skill Heartseeker through other skills and multiplicative aspects. Shadowstep and Dash provide you with nimble movement. The Hunter’s “Inner Eye” is suitable for efficiently utilizing energy.
S-Tier: Rapid Fire Rogue
The Rapid Fire build is well-suited for any situation that you want to tackle from a safe distance. Rapid Fire rains arrows down on your enemies and is particularly effective against bosses. You also quickly take out mobs when you upgrade the Rapid Fire skill with an aspect that causes arrows to bounce.
S-Tier: Penetrating Shot Rogue
The Penetrating Shot Rogue is a relatively easy-to-understand, powerful build that scales well into the endgame. With the playstyle, you shoot from a distance at your enemies while your other skills make you more nimble. You fire a powerful arrow with your core skill, the “Penetrating Shot,” which you can make even deadlier with infusions.
S-Tier: Andariel’s Puncture Rogue
The Andariel’s Puncture Rogue is a special build that made its way back onto the tier list in Season 4. The build revolves around the Uber Unique “Andariel’s Visage,” which the bosses Duriel and Andariel can drop. As a skill, you use the Blade Storm and combo points to increase your attack speed while leveraging poison damage from the Uber helm.
If you are just starting with the class, you can find our tips for leveling quickly as a Hunter in Diablo 4 here.
S-Tier: Shadow Minion Necromancer
The Shadow Minion Necromancer combines his army of undead with enormous shadow damage over time. Your skeleton mages, which become shadow mages in this build, throw themselves into battle while you push them with skills from the background. For that, you use Corpse Tendrils to stun opponents and “Pest” to deal shadow damage.
S-Tier: Bone Spirit Necromancer
With the Bone Spirit build, you focus on your critical hit chance and deal massive damage when you push it to the max. You summon a bone spirit that tracks down enemies and clears them from the battlefield with an explosion. Nearby enemies also take damage from this. With Corpse Tendrils, you make enemies vulnerable and pull them together, while Bone Prison locks them in. This makes it easier to wipe out entire mobs.
S-Tier: Thorns Barbarian
The Thorns build offers a unique variant of the melee-oriented playstyle for which the class is known. While other Barbarians storm into battle and shred their enemies with Whirlwind, this build takes a more relaxed approach and utilizes thorns for damage. The base skill here is the Bash.
S-Tier: Bash Barbarian
With the new crafting system, the Bash build experiences a surge in Season 4. The skill receives a larger area of effect and greatly benefits from the aspects “Adaptability” and
“Moonrise,” which first need to be unlocked. With Bash, you then clear everything in your way.
S-Tier: Flay Barbarian
For the Flay build, you need the affix “+% damage against vulnerable targets,” which you can obtain on Hunters and Sorceresses. Therefore, you have to play one of the classes and unlock the recipe for Hardening. With “Flay,” the Barbarian relies on bleed damage, and with the crafting system “Hardening,” you extend the damage temporally. The ability “Flay” is especially strong against single targets, making the build best suited for bosses and high dungeon levels.
If you are just starting with the class, you can find our tips for leveling quickly as a Barbarian in Diablo 4 here.
S-Tier: Firebolt Sorceress
The Firebolt Sorceress relies on the Flameweaver gloves you can get from Grigoire. In this build, you play your firewall and shoot fire bolts at enemies. If you hit the same enemy with multiple fire bolts triggered by the gloves, the damage gets significantly higher. The specific build is primarily geared towards single targets, making it well-suited for bosses and in the dungeon.
If you need a brief overview of Season 4 “Fresh Prey,” you can watch a video here:
A Tier: Strong Builds for the Endgame in Season 4
These are our recommendations: Here we provide you with a small selection of builds that have been placed in A-tier and that we find particularly noteworthy. Most of them are well-suited for beginners.
A-Tier: Minion Necromancer
If you are looking for a build that almost plays itself, the Minion build is the right one. With Season 4, the companions are buffed, and the survivability of your minions increases significantly. You play with skeleton warriors, skeleton mages, and golems, and thanks to “Army of the Dead,” you summon unpredictable skeletons that sweep your enemies away with explosions.
If you are just starting with the class, you can find our tips for leveling quickly as a Necromancer in Diablo 4 here.
A-Tier: Werewolf Tornado Druid
The build is based on the Tornado skill in combination with Werewolf skills. The Werewolf Tornado Druid becomes particularly strong through the “Storm Roar” unique, a headgear for the Druid. The ability of the headgear ensures that your storm abilities are also werewolf abilities.
A-Tier: Hurricane Druid
With this build, you harness the power of a hurricane around you, dealing damage to nearby enemies over several seconds. It is well-suited for endgame content but depends on the two new crafting systems in Diablo 4 to extract the maximum. Once you fully utilize its potential, you extend the duration of the hurricane and deal enormous damage.
If you are just starting with the class, you can find our tips for leveling quickly as a Druid in Diablo 4 here.
A-Tier: Ball Lightning Sorceress
The Ball Lightning build has been a big favorite since Season 2 and is still one of the best in the game. While you need certain legendaries, the build is easy to play from there: Ball lightning circles around you and sizzles everything that comes too close. The build is perfect for any content and in its variant as an Electric Whip build, it was last the strongest build on the leaderboards.
A-Tier: Frozen Orb Sorceress
The Frozen Orb Sorceress unleashes an endless barrage of frozen orbs to decimate enemies from a distance. With ease, you melt dense mobs with the build in hellish floods and events in the open world of Sanctuary, but it also performs well in Nightmare Dungeons. The build also works quite well without uniques.
A-Tier: Blizzard Sorceress
As a Blizzard Sorceress, you summon as many snowstorms as possible, which generate ice spikes that impale enemies. You depend on the corresponding Glacier aspect, but then you have a build available that can deal good damage and can also take a hit thanks to Ice Block. Only for speed farming are Blizzard Sorceresses not particularly useful.
If you are just starting with the class, you can find our tips for leveling quickly as a Sorceress in Diablo 4 here.
Other Builds in A-Tier:
- Twisting Blades Rogue
- Barraging Rogue
- Blight Necro
- Bone Spear Necro
- Wind Shear Druid
- Trampleslide Druid
- Whirlwind Barbarian
Each of the builds listed here can easily carry you through the endgame and achieve many levels in the dungeon – probably even level 200. You will just need to exert yourself a bit more than with the S-Tier builds.
B-Tier: The solid mid-range
In the B-Tier, there are some builds that are somewhat experimental but also simply have significant weaknesses in certain content – for example, against bosses or when farming. However, they are strong in other areas. B-Tier builds are weaker than those in higher tiers but still useful, especially in groups.
B-Tier Builds for Druids
B-Tier Builds for Sorceresses
B-Tier Builds for Necromancers
B-Tier Builds for Rogues
B-Tier Builds for Barbarians
C-Tier: The weakest builds in Season 4
C-Tier Builds
- Shadow Step Rogue
- Flurry Rogue
- Chain Lightning Sorceress
- Blood Lance Necro
- Blood Surge Necro
- Sever Necro
- Storm Claw Druid
- Shred Druid
- Boulder Druid
With C-Tier builds, you will probably still progress relatively well. Do not let the rank discourage you: The builds are fun, you just won’t be able to play at the top
. Since Season 4 does not have a seasonal mechanic that fundamentally influences your power like the vampire powers or the petty lord, it primarily depends on the inherent strength of the class in this season. Changes here mainly come through patches from Blizzard. In the overview, you can find all information and content about Season 4.
