Diablo 4 is Blizzard's new entry in the legendary slasher RPG series with an isometric camera. After the events of Diablo 3, 60 years have passed: the heavens have closed their gates, and humanity has been left to its own devices and has fallen into decline.
Guide to character classes in Diablo 4: who to play?
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Diablo 4 is a role-playing game with multiple classes that players can choose to take on the relentless armies of Hell. Each of these iconic classes focuses on powerful hero archetypes that can use mighty abilities to control the battlefield and tear enemies apart. Blizzard has announced five playable classes that have appeared in previous games: The Barbarian, Rogue, Sorcerer, Druid, and Necromancer.
This page includes a brief overview of each of the main classes, their strengths and abilities, as well as playstyles and combat. Be sure to research each class to learn even more about them, including skill trees, legendary equipment, and aspects that can change their abilities to form special builds.
List of Diablo 4 character classes - which one to choose?
Below is a list of all confirmed classes that you can play:
Barbarian
First appearing in Diablo 2, the battle-hardened warrior known as the Barbarian uses overwhelming offensive power to carve a bloody path across the battlefield, tearing apart demons with a variety of one-handed or two-handed swords, axes and maces, and polearms.
Barbarians are for players who enjoy fast, close fights, preferring to jump into the thick of the fight and use overpowering melee attacks to slash, slash, and destroy everything in range. Their ability to deal with ranged threats is rather limited compared to most classes, and can be easily overwhelmed if their skills aren't used effectively to clear large groups.
Barbarians use their core skills to generate Rage, which is then used to trigger core skills to deal incredible damage and can supplement them with a few defensive skills to boost their survivability in the thick of battle. Their unrivaled skills can turn barbarians into unstoppable juggernauts, summon ancient heroes along with them, or use all the weapons in their arsenal at once.
Robber
Unseen since the very first Diablo, the Rogue is a master of agile combat and nimble moves, slicing and dicing enemies with unmatched speed or launching ranged attacks with a shower of arrows. The rogue can switch between swords and daggers for quick close-quarters strikes, and bows or crossbows for accurate long-range shots.
The Rogue is a great choice for those who value trickery and deceit, relying on traps, poisons, and the shadows themselves to cunning and thwart enemies at every turn before scything them down with killing blows. They lack the stamina of other melee oriented classes and must rely on careful use of additional skills and mobility to avoid being overwhelmed and should never stand still for long.
Each of the Rogues' core skills, whether ranged or melee, generates energy that can be spent on core skills to quickly incinerate enemies with a flurry of attacks that can reveal vulnerabilities in enemies, allowing the class to deal even more damage while additional dexterity and subterfuge skills can be used to outrun or outmaneuver enemies. Their ultimate skills can summon shadows to fight side by side or deal heavy damage to enemies caught in a certain area with traps or arrows.
Enchantress
Another returning class from Diablo 1 and 2, the Sorceress is an iconic magical user who uses the elements of fire, lightning, and ice to tear demons apart. Using mystical staves or sticks in combination with accessories, they can focus on a specific element or swap between all three to cause chaos and carnage on the battlefield.
Sorceresses are a suitable choice for those who prefer the magical arts as well as a high risk, high reward character. They can deal massive damage from a distance and take down demons without even getting close, but they will need to carefully control the battlefield to avoid taking damage due to their low health and armor.
While their core spells have no cost, the Sorceress will require mana to unlock their core skills, which regenerate over time. Depending on their specialty, sorcerers can summon lightning to leave behind crackling energy to quickly restore a person, or blast enemies with ice to slow and eventually freeze opponents, or even summon meteors or fire-breathing hydras to incinerate demons over time. . Their ultimate skills can set fire to an area in a spinning hell, seal the Sorceress in a protective ice cocoon, or unleash a torrent of various lightning attacks.
Necromancer
First debuting in Diablo 2, the Necromancer uses dark magic to fight fire, summoning death and the undead to battle Hell itself. Able to muster an army of skeletons and golems to fight side by side, or rely entirely on his own curses, the Necromancer can go into battle with scythes and swords, or hinder enemies from a distance using daggers and staves.
The Necromancer is a decent choice for those who enjoy a challenging and slightly unorthodox play style. While the Necromancer is capable of using specializations to fight alone, a key component of the class is the ability to raise an army to fight alongside you with different specializations and spare enemies to hasten their demise. On their own, however, necromancers can swarm easily and have limited defensive or maneuvering skills.
Necromancers have two main resources - Essence, which regenerates slowly and is used to power most basic skills, and corpses, which either come from the slain or are generated from skills. Their core skills revolve around using bone spells to create spears and defensive walls, darkness spells to curse and weaken enemies, blood spells to increase survival and sacrifice, and summoning skills to create a customizable army of the dead.
Druid
First introduced in the Diablo 2 expansion, the Druid is a shape-shifting class that uses the elements as well as various feral forms to deliver powerful strikes. Their elemental spells can ravage the battlefield for a period of time, allowing them to tear apart enemies in bestial form while storms thwart enemies.
Druids are a great class for those who prefer a hybrid playstyle, mixing melee damage with ranged elemental attacks to counter different threats. They can switch to Werebear form to absorb damage with increased resilience, or to Werewolf form to absorb damage quickly.
Druids can boost their attacks with elemental fortitude, allowing their attacks to have additional effects based on the element. However, their shapeshifting form has certain limitations, as they will only have a few minutes to unlock certain skills before reverting to human form. However, they can also strengthen their survival skills by calling on other animals to help them in combat.
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