With never-ending evil to slay, countless skills to master, nightmare dungeons, and legendary loot, Diablo IV is the ultimate action RPG experience. Explore a shared world where players can gather in towns to trade, team up to fight world bosses, or descend into PVP zones to test their skills against other players as you start the campaign alone or with friends.
With that being said, Diablo IV has five classes and each has its own preferred playstyle. So read on and decide.
Classes available in Diablo IV Beta
1. Barbarian
Players who want to inflict a lot of damage in melee range and be able to swap between different weapon types easily should choose the barbarian character.
Compared to other classes in Diablo 4, they are much more focused on dealing physical damage, and their attacking and protective manoeuvres are fairly simple.
Due to their special class mechanic, the Arsenal system, Barbarians can equip and swap about four weapons at once, including the main hand, off-hand, bludgeoning, and slashing weapons, allowing for better customization. By doing this, you can freely assign particular equipment to certain skills based on your needs.
For instance, bash is best used with a bludgeoning weapon to slow and deal significant damage to targets, but if you want to lengthen the period of the daze caused by this ability, you should transition to a two-handed bludgeoning weapon.
It’s also important to note that when you use the ability, the finest weapon in your loadout will be equipped right away.
A wide variety of melee weapons should be prepared in order to take advantage of the Barbarian class’s diversity in build options because each weapon the Barbarian uses has a corresponding expertise stat that levels up their ranks accordingly. For instance, using a one-handed axe will be helpful if you want to increase your Critical Strike chance.
2. Sorceress
The Sorceress is a traditional high-risk, high-reward character because, despite their vulnerability, they inflict excellent Elemental damage by using their powers to summon fire, ice, and lightning. However, beyond this, fire spells aren’t able to influence the battleground as effectively in the early game. Fire spells work well with the burning status affect when clicking harm over time. However, in frigid periods, where crowd management skills really flourish, the opposite is true.
What you have here is a collection of abilities that, depending on how many Stacks are gathered, can either fully or partially paralyse your adversaries, making them extremely effective against bosses. Last but not least, you have lightning spells that are evenly matched in terms of inflicting respectable damage and influencing battles in your favour. A ball of energy that is left behind when some skills are assaulted as crackling energy either deals harm to foes or restores your own Mana.
The Enchantment System, a special character feature for sorceresses, alters how a talent functions. There are a number of active skills combined with specific enchantment spaces. If you choose to put a skill in an enchantment spot, it will lose its ability to be triggered and change into a supplementary inactive benefit. For instance, you can use meteor to ignite the earth briefly while dealing heavy fire damage to numerous targets.
3. Necromancer
Renowned Summoner Necromancer frequently summons the dead to fight alongside him in combat. Similar to Barbarians and Rogues, they have access to a broad range of weaponry, including blades, daggers, wands, and, more significantly, sides that only they can use.
Corpses, which are produced by the death of foes or other magical powers, are another beneficial resource. You can even use the popular body explosion, which is a fan fave.
Necromancers can be handled in one of four different ways: Bone, Darkness, Blood, or the Legion. One of the most noteworthy abilities is bone jail, which ensnares multiple foes and can be used in combination with offensive-based skills. Bone skills mainly concentrate on inflicting physical harm while devouring the essence resource.
Darkness uses harm over time, making it the best option for those looking to torment opponents who defy them. Blood gives The Necromancer the ability to transform into a ravenous vampire, restoring their own life. Blood Surge is a noteworthy technique that not only consumes enemy HP but also increases their strength. An explosion will soon follow to inflict more damage.
The Book of the Dead, a special class mechanic for necromancers, allows them to further modify their undead troops, including Skeleton Warriors, Skeleton Mages, and Golems.
For instance, Skeleton Warriors can transform into defenders who deal less damage but are skilled tanks, or into skirmishers who deal less damage but keep a higher health reserve.
In addition, you have the option of sacrificing a particular companion to enhance your construct permanently.
4. Rogue
The Rogue can choose to move quickly and stealthily, giving them the advantage in battle. They can also choose to retreat if the situation becomes too dangerous.
They are incredibly flexible because, unlike Barbarians, they can rapidly transition between combat and ranged weapons like knives, swords, and opponents.
Although Rogues initially don’t inflict as much damage, they’ll let you keep a safer distance from your enemies, reducing the likelihood that you’ll get struck frequently.
Rogue in Diablo 4 can be compared to the Amazon and Demon Hunter from Diablo 2 and Diablo 3, respectively.
Talent specialisations, the rogue’s distinctive feature, are broken down into three categories: inner sight, preparation, and combo points, each with its own mission path.
However, keep in mind that it is still unknown whether you can use all three specialties at once or whether you must use one at a time.
Additionally, since the maximum level for the testing is level 25, preparation hasn’t been tried because it becomes accessible at level 30.
Basic rogue skills can be used to accrue combo points, which can then be used with core skills to activate extra effects. While this is going on, monsters can be defeated using inner sight, which lets you strike designated foes to build up a gauge that will give you access to limitless energy for a short while. The rogue’s versatility doesn’t stop there, though, as they can also give other attacks special abilities like Poison Shadow and Coal. These are typically added to base skills and abilities that inflict harm to a large number of foes, like rapid fire.
5. Druid
Druids have the Uncanny power to transform from their human shape into a werebear or wearable. Druids can now immediately change when using their Beast-themed abilities before carrying out the associated actions, in contrast to Druids in Diablo 2. Please be aware that your new shape will only be active for a brief period of time before you perform another motion. This character is also an expert user of magic, but they focus on using Earth and Storm spells to neutralise adversaries while destroying bad forces.
For instance, you can use crushing below to reduce a target’s overall light output by a specific proportion. In contrast to Diablo 2, Druids have companions that are immediately recruited to battle on their behalf. They do, however, each have a set of attack companion abilities that can harm particular targets. According to preliminary information, the druid’s special class feature is connected to the need for special treasure that should be presented to spirit creatures. Doing so will confer various passive benefits depending on the type of spirit. Although the number of kinds is unknown, each one can provide up to six passive offensive and protective benefits.
