Leveling is going to be super fast in Diablo 4 Season 5. Every class is viable and every class is going to be faster than ever this season. Read our Diablo 4 Season 5 leveling tier list, we have ranked the best classes and builds for leveling.
Diablo 4 Season 5 Best Leveling Build - D4 Season 5 Leveling Tier List
Leveling efficiently allows you to reach the maximum level and access the full endgame powers and gearing systems sooner than others. This gives you a temporary power advantage. Having builds that can consistently level quickly allows you to gear alternative characters easily to try different Classes or builds later in the season. Moreover, a powerful leveling build gives you confidence and battle-flow early on, which carries momentum and competitive spirit into higher challenge levels. Without further ado, let's check gear and skills for each best Diablo 4 Season 5 leveling build.
S Tier
Firewall Hydra Sorcerer placed in the S-tier as the absolute best D4 S5 leveling builds. Both Firewall and Hydra skills received damage buffs this season, making the build even more powerful. Firewall damage increased by 44% and Hydra damage increased by 10% from previous patches. The playstyle focuses on clearing large packs of enemies with the wide-reaching Firewall AOE damage over time. Hydra provides additional sustained damage while Firewall burns everything down. Enchantress is taken early for orb generation and additional damage buffs. It transitions smoothly into either another Fire build like Fireball or the lightning-focused Chain Lightning starter set build. The large buffs make this a great first season for Sorcerer leveling and power progression.
Gear & Aspects
Helm: Aspect of Concentration
Armor: Juggernaut's Aspect
Gloves: Aspect of Control
Pants: Aspect of Might
Boots: Ghostwalker Aspect
Amulet: Storm Swell Aspect
Ring: Serpentine Aspect, Conceited Aspect
Skills
Defensive: 1 Teleport
Conjuration: 5 Hydra
Defensive: 1 Ice Armor
Defensive: 1 Flame Shield
Basic: 1 Fire Bolt
Mastery: 5 Firewall
A Tier
Minion Necromancer is one of the D4 Season 5 best leveling build. The playstyle involves summoning and scaling multiple minions through skills and passives to do the majority of damage. Very high damage output even while leveling, your minions will be dealing a lot of damage to clear content quickly. Strong survivability due to tanky summons drawing aggro away from you. The minions can act as meat shields while leveling. Your summons do the majority of fighting for you so it's less hands-on than some other leveling builds. Most of the skills and passives directly carry over when respecing into an endgame summoner build. Overall, minion builds are safer, more relaxed and comfortable to level with compared to direct damage builds.
Gear & Aspects
Helm: Aspect of Hardened Bones
Armor: Aspect of Occult Dominion
Gloves: Aspect of Inner Calm
Pants: Juggernaut's Aspect
Boots: Aphotic Aspect
Amulet: Aspect of Reanimation
Ring: Aspect of Grasping Veins, Aspect of Frenzied Dead
Skills
Curse: 4 Decrepify
Corpse: 1 Corpse Explosion, 2 Corpse Tendrils
Summoning: 1 Golem, 1 Raise Skeleton
Core: 1 Blight
Books of the Dead
Skeletal Warriors: Defenders (2)
Skeletal Mages: Shadow (1)
Golems: Blood (2)
Barrage Rogue is always a strong leveling choice, placing Barrage Rogue in the A tier on our Diablo 4 Season 5 leveling rankings. Barrage Rogue was one of the best builds in the previous season as well, and it remains highly viable for leveling in Season 5. It can also play Flurry Starter set transition.The core damage skill is Barrage, which fires multiple arrows in a cone. It has good AoE for packs and can "shotgun" single targets up close. Barrage works well from both ranged and melee distances, requiring maneuvering. Skills like Puncture apply Vulnerable for damage buffs while generating resources. Movement skills like Dash and mobility from Dark Shroud keep clearing smooth. Combo Points and Consuming Shadows provide good energy sustain for spamming Barrage.
Gear & Aspects
Helm: Aspect of Might
Armor: Umbrous Aspect
Gloves: Aspect of Elements
Pants: Juggernaut's Aspect
Boots: Aspect of Slaughter
Amulet: Aspect of Branching Volleys
Ring: High Velocity Aspect, Rapid Aspect
Skills
Agility: 1 Dash
Imbuement: 1 Shadow Imbuement
Agility: 1 Shadow Step
Subterfuge: 5 Dark Shroud
Basic: 1 Puncture
Core: 5 Barrage
B Tier
Upheaval Barbarian has good buffs then transition into WW. For leveling, they actually matter something. It is recommended as one of the stronger leveling builds for Barbarian in Season 5. Upheaval, the core skill, has received a 15% damage buff which makes it very powerful for leveling. Upheaval relies on skills like Bash, Rallying Cry, Leap and Charge for mobility, fury generation and buffs. The playstyle involves generating fury and then clearing large groups of enemies with Upheaval's ranged frontal cone attack. A two-handed slashing weapon is prioritized for maximum Upheaval damage. Other weapons are used as stat sticks. It transitions well into endgame builds like Whirlwind Barbarian once level 50-60 is reached. May benefit from starter set if it includes the retaliation aspect, which synergizes with Upheaval's stun.
Gear & Aspects
Helm: Aspect of Might
Armor: Juggernaut's Aspect
Gloves: Aspect of Sundered Ground
Pants: Aspect of Numbing Wrath
Boots: Ghostwalker Aspect
Amulet: Aspect of Inner Calm
Ring: Bold Chieftain's Aspect, Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment
Weapon: Bludgeoning Weapon
Slash Weapon: Edgemaster's Aspect
Dual-Wield Weapon: Aspect of Anger Management, Earthstriker's Aspect
Skills
Defensive: 1 Rallying Cry
Brawling: 1 War Cry
Defensive: 1 Challenging Shout
Ultimate: Call of the Ancients
Basic: 1 Lunging Strike
Core: 1 Upheaval
Unfortunately, Druid is on the last tier on this D4 Season 5 leveling tier list. Pulverize Druid is not the strongest leveling build overall in Diablo 4 Season 5 but it is one of the strongest for the Druid. Comparison to Sorcerer, Druid always fought short. Even though they did buff the Pulverize by quite a lot which received about double damage buff and Pulverize was already one of the strong leveling builds for the Druid. High area of effect damage from Pulverize and Poison Creeper skills. Pulverize hits in a wide circle in front of the player, while Poison Creeper deals damage in a wide area around the player. This allows for good mob clearing potential while leveling. Strong single target damage from Pulverize's Overpower mechanic and Wolves companion skill. Once you're in World Tier 4 and you're established with your build, Pulverize is pretty good for that.
Gear & Aspects
Helm: Aspect of Might
Armor: Juggernaut's Aspect
Gloves: Aspect of the Ursine Horror
Pants: Aspect of Mending Stone
Boots: Ballistic Aspect
Amulet: Shockwave Aspect
Ring: Aspect of Retaliation, Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast
Skills
Defensive: 1 Earthen Bulwark
Ultimate: 1 Grizzly Rage
Wrath: 1 Trample
Companion: 5 Poison Creeper
Basic: 1 Wind Shear
Core: 5 Pulverize
Spirit Boons
Deer (Wariness)
Eagle (Scythe Talons, Swooping Attacks)
Wolf (Packleader)
Snake (Obsidian Slam)
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