Best endgame builds for each class in Diablo 4 Season 1

The best endgame builds for Diablo 4 Season 1 will turn each class into a demon-slaying machine. Diablo 4 is all about the class builds, taking a character and combining abilities and items to create something special.

Endgame builds are the pinnacle of that, using the best items and abilities in the game to make the most powerful characters in all of Sanctuary. So, here are some of the best endgame builds for each class in Diablo 4 Season 1.

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Best endgame builds in Diablo 4 Season 1

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All in all, there are many great builds in Diablo 4, allowing for all kinds of playstyles. While you can play the game however you want, sometimes you just want the absolute best setup possible.

Coming in Season of the Malignant, there have been some changes made to the game that have altered some builds. Here are some of the best possible endgame builds in Diablo 4 Season 1:

• If you're currently levelling a character, check out our general best Barbarian build in Diablo 4.

Best Barbarian endgame build in Diablo 4 Season 1

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Although hit pretty hard in the Season 1 patch, Barbarians can still get a lot of power out of a Hammer of the Ancients build. This build will have your Barb putting out massive damage in an area around them, while also keeping themselves healthy and keeping enemies controlled.

Skills

The skills for this build are as follows:

Stats

As you might imagine, Barbarians tend to focus on strength when it comes to stats, and this build is no exception. The order in which you want to focus on your stats is:

• Strength
• Willpower
• Dexterity
• Intelligence

Strength, of course, will increase our damage output, but it's just as important to have high Willpower. This is to manage the huge Fury cost of using these skills alongside Unbridled Rage.

Items and Aspects

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Equipping the right Aspects for this build is crucial to its success. The Aspects of Giants Strides and Perpetual Stomping combine to give you near-infinite use of the Leap skill, and the Aspect of Bul-Kathos creates damaging earthquakes each time you use it.

For defence, equip the Aspect of the Iron Warrior, Aspect of Disobedience, and the Aspect of the Protector. With the barrier granted from Protector, you can also use the Conceited Aspect to get up to 25% extra damage with a barrier active.

As part of Season of the Malignant, you can also equip Caged Hearts with various effects. For this build, the Lionheart is a great choice, as it gives you a consistent 10% barrier generation, giving you even more time with that extra defence and damage.

• Here is our best Sorcerer build in Diablo 4 for levelling.

Best Sorcerer endgame build in Diablo 4 Season 1

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The fantasy of playing a Sorcerer is to have spells constantly whizzing around you, damaging anyone stupid enough to come close. The Ball Lightning build is an excellent way to do exactly that, with constant damage happening all around you.

Skills

The skills for this endgame build in Diablo 4 are as follows:

Stats

As a Sorcerer, your number one stat is always Intelligence. This governs the strength of your spells, as well as your mana regeneration. After Intelligence, Dexterity is your next port of call. This will give you more critical damage and, crucially, dodge chance, as you will be facing a lot of damage and need to avoid it at all costs.

The priority order of your stats is:

• Intelligence
• Dexterity
• Willpower
• Strength

Items and Aspects

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The core of this build is the Gravitational Aspect. This alters your Ball Lightning skill to make your lightning balls orbit around you. With this, you can cast the spell and walk through groups of enemies, mowing them down.

Another highly important Aspect is Binding Embers. This allows you to pass through enemies while Flame Shield is active, and immobilizes any enemy you walk through. Combine Ball Lightning and Flame Shield with these two aspects to saunter through hordes of enemies unhindered, destroying them all in the process.

Use the Frostblitz Aspect with Frost Nova for more burst damage against tougher enemies and bosses, and the Aspect of Control to deal even more damage to all of the enemies you are immobilizing and freezing.

The Caged Hearts in Season of the Malignant you want to use with this build is Picana to chain even more lightning damage between enemies, and the Tal'Rasha heart to increase your damage while using multiple elements.

• Our best levelling Rogue build for Diablo 4 is a great way to play when starting out.

Best Rogue endgame build in Diablo 4 Season 1

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Perhaps one of the most powerful endgame builds in Diablo 4, the Shadow Twisting Blades Rogue build is a surefire way to erase just about any group of enemies that stand in your way. If dashing through enemies and eliminating them at lightning speed is your thing, this is the build for you.

Skills

The Shadow Twisting Blades build, as the name suggests, makes primary use of the Twisting Blades skill. With some other skills and Aspects, the build around Twisting Blades turns it into a monstrous ability.

Here are the skills for the Shadow Twisting Blades build:

Stats

Stats are not the most important part of this build, but you will still want to focus on Dexterity. Dexterity will increase your damage output, so be sure to prioritise that. Otherwise, the stat order you should focus on is the following:

• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Strength
• Willpower

Items and Aspects

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The Aspect that makes this build work is the Bladedancer's Aspect. This alters your Twisting Blades, making it so that when your blades return to you, they orbit around you dealing damage to everyone nearby.

The Aspects of Unstable Imbuements and Corruption will power up your shadow and poison imbuements, which you will use to increase your damage against groups and single targets respectively.

Mangler's Aspect will work to daze vulnerable enemies, which you will make plenty of with Puncture, and Cheat's Aspect will make use of the tremendous amount of crowd control to neutralise enemy damage.

Furthering your crowd control in Season of the Malignant, you can use the Clipshot Caged Heart to give your many Cutthroat skills a chance to slow enemies down by 40%.

• For levelling or playing on the Eternal Realm, check out our best Necromancer build for Diablo 4.

Best Necromancer endgame build in Diablo 4 Season 1

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Despite its best efforts, the patch that kicked off Season of the Malignant did not destroy the Bone Spear build. It simply reduced it from the absolute best option to just one of the best endgame builds in Diablo 4. Bone Spear is exceptionally powerful, trading the Necromancer's army of the dead for powerful bone magic instead.

Skills

Here are the skills you should unlock for this build:

Stats

As is generally the case with Necromancer builds, Intelligence is your primary stat. You needn't worry too much about it until you start working on your Paragon Board, but where possible you should focus on Intelligence and all but ignore Strength.

The order you should focus stats is as follows:

• Intelligence
• Dexterity
• Willpower
• Strength

Items and Aspects

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The sole focus of this build is Bone Spear, so your gear choices need to be tailored towards improving the skill. A great example of this is Deathless Visage, a unique helm that makes Bone Spear create echoes as it travels, which explode and do damage after a short time.

Improve your Bone Spear even further with Splintering Aspect, which makes every target after the first that Bone Spear hits vulnerable, so they take more damage. Add the Aspect of Serration to improve your Ossified Essence passive ability and make Bone Spear do even more damage.

That is reliant on you having plenty of Essence, however, which is where the Aspect of the Umbral comes in. This Aspect grants Essence whenever you crowd control an enemy, which you can do with Decrepify and Corpse Tendrils.

Bone Storm will be used as a support skill in this build, and the Aspect of Shielding Storm makes it much more effective by giving you a barrier each time you damage an enemy with it. Add the Aspect of Disobedience in, which grants armour every time you do any kind of damage, and you become much tankier overall.

As for Caged Hearts, Decrepit Aura is a great choice. You will be using Decrepify to curse enemies for the debuff anyway, so this Caged Heart will continuously curse any nearby enemies for you.

• Get the most out of the Druid across the board with our best Druid build for Diablo 4 for levelling.

Best Druid endgame build in Diablo 4 Season 1

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The Werewolf Tornado build for Druids is about as intense and powerful as it sounds, making for a great endgame build in Diablo 4. This build does two things, and those two things are both in the name. It will make you a Werewolf with almost permanent uptime, and it will have you firing out Tornadoes like they are going out of fashion.

Skills

The skills for this build are pretty straightforward, as it is really the gear that brings it all together. Here are the skills you need for the Werewolf Tornado Druid build:

Stats

Willpower and Dexterity are your key stats here, as they will increase your skill damage and critical chance, which we will use a lot of. Strength does next to nothing for this build, so you can largely disregard it.

The skill priority order for the Werewolf Tornado build is:

• Willpower
• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Strength

Items and Aspects

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The items you equip are the heart of this build, making it a bit more difficult to attain. This is very much the case for one particular item: the unique helmet Tempest Roar. It is the only non-Aspect in the build, so everything else can be acquired from Dungeons. Tempest Roar can only be acquired randomly and on World Tiers 3 and 4, so you will have to rely simply on random chance to get it.

The reason Tempest Roar is so important is that it makes your Storm skills also count as Werewolf skills, meaning you can use skills like Tornado while in werewolf form. Pair this with the Dire Wolf's Aspect, which makes Grizzly Rage transform you into a Dire Werewolf instead of a Dire Werebear. As a Dire Werewolf, you can also use all of your Storm skills.

Next, we add Stormchaser's Aspect, Aspect of Retaliation, and Mighty Storm's Aspect to increase the damage of our Tornadoes, and Accelerating Aspect to increase the attack speed. This all ties into the other ability of Tempest Roar, which is that Storm skills have a chance to recover Spirit.

Put all of this together, and you can transform into a Dire Werewolf, spam Tornadoes and other Storm skills to your heart's content, and the more damage you do, the more Spirit you recover, keeping you in Werewolf form for longer.

To make things even more chaotic, for better or worse, you can equip the Caged Heart called Inexorable Force. This draws in distant enemies while your ultimate ability is active, and considering you should have near-constant uptime with Grizzly Rage, this effect could be potentially permanent too.

That is it for our rundown of the best endgame builds for Diablo 4 Season 1 - now get out there and take down the hellish hordes! For more, head to our Diablo homepage, or check out how to complete Diablo 4 Season A Prayer for Salvation.