Diablo 4 Best PvP Class for Solo & Group - PvP Class Tier List & Ranking in Diablo IV

Even though players can’t able to participate in player versus player in the open beta, it is looking to make a return along with the official launch of Diablo IV in June. Based on the strengths and weaknesses of each class, and a set of criteria, today we’ll show you a PvP tier list in Diablo 4, which ranks the strongest and best PvP classes for both solo and group play. 

Diablo 4 Best PvP Class for Solo & Group - PvP Class Tier List & Ranking in Diablo IV

The Diablo 4 PvP tier list by Lon Measley ranked all five classes with their supposed performance in the upcoming PVP zone - Fields of Hatred and concluded the best D4 class for solo and group play, as well as the relatively weaker one. The basic skill system and mechanics of each class are based on the beta data, they may be tweaked in the live game.  

D4 PVP Tier List Ranking Criteria

The criteria to review these classes in PvP are based solely on their mechanics and utility rather than pure damage numbers.

- Whether they have easy-to-land attacks

- How much burst potential do they have

- Mobility, crow control, unstoppable (breaking CC)

- Whether the classes have other forms of status effects

- Group utility in terms of synergy with other classes

- Whether the class suits the Fields of Hatred, which are going to be the PvP zones

1. Sorceress/Sorcerer - S Tier in Solo & Group

The first class to talk about is Sorceress, this is not only one of the best classes during D4 beta but also will be extremely powerful and versatile in PvP for solo and group. It has a very low cooldown Teleport, which not only is a mobility spell but also breaks CC, and that makes you unstoppable you can even lower the cooldown to as low as around 5 seconds. Frost Nova looks to be a really powerful PVP ability because not only of its low cooldown, but you can also get two charges through a legendary power and the AOE stun on a low cooldown can even grant vulnerable, making it perfect for setting up on enemies, whether it be solo play or during group play. In terms of the attack that the Sorcerer has, many of them are indeed suited for PvP, because they are very easy to hit with or very fast traveling or cover a large range. Things like Hydra is a very powerful summon that breathes fire through its heads, and damage increases with the number of heads, and it can kill enemies from a distance and crowd control. Other Conjuration spells like Ice Blades, after you conjure them, actually automatically seek out targets while you are able to cast your own spells simultaneously. Even if the Ice Barrier Enchantment ends up getting changed, the Sorcerer still has some defensive abilities like Ice Armor, which gives you a barrier, and the Deep Freeze, which not only makes you invulnerable for a few seconds but will also damage and chill enemies around you. 

2. Druid - B Tier (Solo), A Tier (Group)

Moving on to the Druid, which is probably the weakest class during the beta, but is also the only class that did not have this class mechanic unlocked, which means when it is unlocked when the game goes live, the Druids should become significantly stronger. Currently, the Druid is assigned a B tier for solo play but an A tier for group play. One of the core problems that the Druid has is attacks not being super spammable, they would need some more spirit regen. A lot of their attacks feel slow, not only in terms of casting them but when they activate. If an enemy has mobility skills or high movement speed or even just using boots that grant true charges of evade, they should be able to pretty easily dodge out of a lot of the attacks from Druids, but one thing that the Druid does kind of have going for it is the ability to lock down the targets and immobilize them or stun them. The Vine Creeper is a reliable AOE immobilized that'll surely be great for group play and in addition to that, Petrify offers an AOE stun, all these spells will work great for group play and for the PVP Fields of Hatred play style, especially which again contesting specific small areas. The Druid also has several ways to make targets vulnerable in an AOE, the Druid spells are generally a bit slow and difficult to land, which can definitely be alleviated by having these AOE stuns and immobilizers, not to mention the Druid is actually a great class to have other party members support and set up same with the Sorcerer's Frost Nova or other forms of CC. His Landslide reliably and basically deals these guaranteed crits, and Pulverize with its guaranteed overpower, the Druid can actually still do tons of burst damage. Its primary stat is willpower, which not only increases your skill damage directly, but also increases overpower damage, so it's kind of a double increase in your damage.

3. Barbarian - B Tier in Solo & Group

The next one Barbarian is given a B tier based on those PvP criteria. The Barbarians seem to have the highest potential to scale with gear given that, they're not only able to equip four weapons but that two of those weapons are actually two-handers, meaning that they're actually worth a lot more in terms of their stats as well as legendary powers strengths, so depending on how the scaling works out, the Barbarian could actually end up becoming one of the highest scaling characters and just out damage and perhaps out survive all the other classes based on their sheer strength and sheer numbers alone, but if we don't consider their super high scaling ceiling and judge their viability based on class mechanics, the Barbarian is not that powerful for PVP. A lot of their abilities are not that easy to land and kind of slow to cast, including their mobility abilities like Charge and Leap, as well as CC abilities like Kick and Ground Stomp. As for group utility, the Barb has traditionally been quite a good character for that because of their shouts, but they can actually be somewhat overrated for that because you have to note that both Rallying Cry and War Cry while powerful only last for half the duration on party members. Their effects seem to be not that great, especially in the face of what characters like the Sorcerer can do.

4. Rogue - A Tier (Solo), C Tier (Group)

The melee Rogue can potentially have problems going up against and brawling with characters like the Barbarian and melee variants of the Druid, but besides that potential weakness, the Rogue is simply insane for PVP not only with its mobility skills like Dash and Shadow Step, both of which have short cooldowns, Dash even having two charges and Shadow Step allowing you to not only move around the battlefield but also to actually teleport behind your target, meaning that it actually basically guarantees a melee hit, if you want to follow it up with that and not only that but Shadow step also allows the road to becoming Unstoppable and break CC. There are many unstoppable triggers available for Rogue, giving the class three buttons to break out a CC, even against a Sorcerer with double Frost Novas, if they have Shadow Clone up, they should have more than enough CC breaks to stay on top of that target. Another strength of the Rogue is not only really high damage and burst damage through stacking cooldowns, as well as the Shadow Clone but also by being able to generate energy really quickly passively without even necessarily having to use any basic abilities. In terms of the Rogue's range abilities, they seem fine as well and can be imbued and amplified with the damage cooldowns and they're also fairly fast traveling or have a large enough range to hit enemies with. Rogue has great versatility in terms of being able to spec melee or ranged or even be a hybrid, but the aspect that Rogue might be a bit weaker at compared to the other classes is group utility.

5. Necromancer - C Tier (Solo), B Tier (Group)

Necromancer was one of the strongest classes in the beta, but the aspects that make it good in PVE do not translate well or are even somewhat antithetical to PVP, like his minions. If your minions are going to be dying more easily, that could mean that you will be somewhat corpse starved and there have been reports of minions starting to become more squishy at higher levels or difficulties, which will even be more significant and more of a case at higher levels during PVP. Even though you can choose to sacrifice them for a personal buff in the Book of the Dead, that could make the Necro stats wise quite strong, but in terms of tanking damage or focused firing enemies, you could actually command your skeletons to do in the previous iterations of the Nerco, you can't do that anymore in Diablo 4. Not only can you not control which targets the skeletons are attacking or your golem as well, but players are also just going to ignore them and just try to damage your character unless it's like some sort of AOE spreadability. Something else that makes the Necromancer really good in PVE is the ability to generate corpses, which is kind of a free-ish resource by killing monsters you can get these corpses that you can then use on your abilities, but in PvP, there doesn't seem to be really any good ways to generate corpses if there aren't really any groups of monsters around, so you'll probably have a more difficult time generating corpses. Another potential weakness of the Necromancer is the lack of mobility, they literally have no mobility abilities. 

Overall, the Sorceress class seems to be the best option to start in PvP when Diablo IV officially releases, whether you tend to play solo or group, we'll update the latest news with the schedule of the D4 launch and present more builds for different classes, cheap D4 gold and items will be offered as well.