Diablo 4 Season 1 Class Tier List: Best Classes For Early, Endgame, Dungeons, Hardcore, Bosses, Malignant Hearts & More

Today, we’re presenting the Diablo 4 season 1 class tier list for patch 1.1 which was created by Wudijo. We want to give overall impressions of the state of balance between classes so that it may help you choose the best D4 season 1 class to play.

Diablo 4 Season 1 Best Class - Diablo IV Leveling, Endgame, Dungeons, Bosses, Malignant Hearts & More Tier List

We have different categories for our Diablo IV season 1 class tier list including early game leveling, endgame progression, build diversity, endgame nightmare dungeon push, endgame speed farming, Pinnacle bosses, easy-to-play, group utility, hardcore, and a special section for the season theme with Malignant hearts. Especially the last part here is obviously quite speculative because we have not seen them in action yet, we don't know most of the mechanics and there might be some things that either you know are busted or don't work properly. But for the most part, we have a pretty good understanding of where each of the classes lands in the D4 season 1 class ranking for different activities.

Diablo 4 Season 1 Early Game Leveling Tier List

Best season 1 class in Diablo 4 for 1-50 leveling without twink gear

S Tier

• Rogue: Great Mobility and damage, defense is not important in the early game

A Tier

• Sorcerer: All Around Solid 

B Tier

• Necromancer: Skellies, decent core skills, free damage with corpse explosions

C Tier

• Druid: Slow until companions come in to carry you

D Tier

• Barbarian: Slow start, always melee, crawling his way up. Ancients carry boss fights

Diablo 4 Season 1 Endgame Leveling Tier List

Best Diablo IV season 1 class for leveling 50-100, general gameplay all activities

S Tier

• Druid: Picks up the pace a lot

S Tier

• Rogue: Fast and furious

A Tier

• Barbarian: Good progression curve

B Tier

• Necromancer: Powerful but kind of slow

D Tier

• Sorcerer: Just weak and squishy

Diablo 4 Season 1 Build Diversity Tier List

Ranking D4 season 1 best class for build diversity, generally useful builds for various purposes.

S Tier

• Druid: Tornado, Lightning Storm, Pulverize, Shred, and tons of good options

S Tier

• Rogue: Everything gg

B Tier

• Barbarian: HOTA, WW, Krtos, Double Swing, Rent but lots of triple shout setups

B Tier

• Necromancer: Bone Spear, Infimist, Blood Lance, but some builds are just bad

C Tier

• Sorcerer: Blizzard, Ice Shards, Firewall, Ball Lightning, Chain Lightning but all use the same 3-4 defensive skills

Diablo 4 Season 1 Endgame Nightmare Dungeon Push Tier List

Diablo IV best season 1 classes that optimized high end.

S Tier

• Druid: Tornado, Lightning Storm, Pulverize, also bugged Bulwark build for now which is the best endgame build in Diablo 4 after nerf

S Tier

• Rogue: Rapid Fire, Pen Shot, Twisting Blades are quite tanky and or ranged

A Tier

• Barbarian: HOTA, WW, and Double Swing are very tanking

B Tier

• Necromancer: Bone Spear, Infimist, Blood Lance, super squish though

F Tier

• Sorcerer: No cannon, just glass

Diablo 4 Season 1 Endgame Speedfarming Tier List

Check the best D4 class season 1 that optimized endgame farming.

S Tier

• Druid: Shred flies, overall pretty fast class later

S Tier

• Rogue: Tons of movement speed, dash, and shadow step

A Tier

• Barbarian: Near perma 200% move speed later on

A Tier

• Sorcerer: Teleport is great, especially late game with more cooldown and skill ranks

C Tier

• Necromancer:  No mobility skills, many builds have delayed damage through Dots or minions

Diablo 4 Season 1 Pinnacle Bosses Tier List

Best Diablo 4 1.1 classes ranked for high-end bosses.

S Tier

• Druid: Blurred Beast is bugged gg, otherwise Tornado which is B

S Tier

• Rogue: Twisting Blades, Rapid Fire, and bugged Bursting Venoms for now make it trivial

A Tier

• Necromancer: Bone Spear has high damage, squishy but has Blood Mist

C Tier

• Barbarian: HOTA is very tanky but has low DPS, so needs to outplay lots of mechanics

D Tier

• Sorcerer: Blizzard is squishy, no damage until stagger but Flame Shield can cheese mechanics

Diablo 4 Season 1 Easiest Class Tier List

Read our D4 season 1 class ranking to see how difficult building and handling the char is going to be overall.

S Tier

• Druid: Most tools are straightforward to use and quite tanky class for Diablo 4 after patch 1.1

B Tier

• Rogue: Positioning, defense, and timing requirements lead to a high skill ceiling

B Tier

• Necromancer: Simple to play overall but can be squishy

B Tier

• Barbarian: Always melee, some builds require timing or buff stacking but are very tanky

D Tier

• Sorcerer: Requires timing and combing all available tools properly and super squishy

Diablo 4 Season 1 Group Utility Tier List

Our Diablo 4 1.1 class ranking after nerf is based on a support/buff perspective or overall party play.

S Tier

• Druid: Blood howl buffs, shared cyclone armor, debilitating roar, cc, vulnerability, and very tanky

A Tier

• Barbarian: Shouts, pulling, tanking

B Tier

• Necromancer: Decrepify, vulnerability, corpse tendrils

C Tier

• Rogue: Poison damage red., pulling with death trap, tons of cc, and vulnerability.

C Tier

• Sorcerer: Freeze, stun, vuln., pull with raiment

Diablo 4 Season 1 Hardcore Tier List

Best Diablo 4 patch 1.1 classes for hardcore in season 1 start.

S Tier

• Druid: Fortify, tons of defensive tools

A Tier

• Barbarian: Fortify, tons of defensive tools

B Tier

• Rogue: Don't get hit, lots of CC

C Tier

• Necromancer: Has fortify but no mobility at all is scary

D Tier

• Sorcerer: Flame shield but super squishy otherwise

Diablo 4 Season 1 Malignant Hearts Tier List

As for our Diablo IV season 1 class tier list is mostly speculation because we don't know how everything works, only class-specific class hearts.

A Tier

• Necromancer: Good for farming and the great feast can be a major DPS buff

B Tier

• Barbarian: Mostly a ton of defense

B Tier

• Rogue: Apothecary good rest is oof

C Tier

• Sorcerer: Omnipower is insane, sadly these builds are too weak, rest yikes

D Tier

• Druid: Two memes, maybe pull and unconstrained beasts are good