Season 1 is coming to Diablo 4, what are going to be the best starting classes? Having a good starting character in Diablo 4 can greatly impact your gameplay experience. Today, we’re taking a look at predictions for Diablo 4 season 1 best class and builds. 

Diablo 4 Best Season 1 Class - D4 Season 1 Tier List & Ranking

Each character class in Diablo 4 has unique abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. By choosing the best D4 season starter that aligns with your preferred playstyle, you can quickly grasp the basics of combat, skills, and character progression. You know how it goes with all these games when they do a ladder reset or a season reset, you've got those best first class. Like in Diablo 2, it's the Sorceress so you can teleport around and zoom around and get your account up and running. For Diablo 3 a lot of people thought it was the Demon Hunter to run around with multi-shot, mass AOE clearing and getting your Paragon up to snuff as fast as possible and then branching out from there. In this Diablo 4 season 1 tier list, we talk about the best season starter as the first class.

A Tier

-Barbarian

The Barbarian is going to be a really solid Diablo IV season starter. You can't go wrong with Whirlwind since it has a few different styles, it's super consistent. Then you've also got the Hoda style which can help you push up a little bit higher and be a little bit tanky, so you would probably start out with the Whirlwind variant, get a speed farming build rolling and then crush through and be able to progress pretty fast. Now the Barbarian is a little bit clunky during the initial leveling process so we can't quite go S for this D4 season 1 tier list. But it is definitely going to be very solid and it's probably going to be one of the better season starters. Just because the Whirlwind is so consistent and it's so great at running through and speed farming content. Barbarian is either the number one or number two best Diablo 4 season 1 class in terms of popularity or people picking their first class.

-Druid

The Druid is going to be a little bit similar to Barbarian. Honestly, Druid is a really good class in the end game and it can really push up content very well. It is a little bit gear reliant because you need some good drops to get that are really going to help you spike up and get things rolling. Also, it can be even a little bit more clunky than Barbarian when you're talking about that 1 to 60 or 70 initial leveling process, so we can't quite go S for Druid even though it might be S overall. It's honestly a similar story to the Barbarian. It's going to be a little bit more clunky though so we would put it behind the Barbarian for this Diablo IV Season Starter tier list, but it's definitely solidly in the A tier still and Druid is going to be a great pick to start off off with in season 1.

-Rogue

Rogue is going to be a little bit of a hot take but Rogue could be the best Diablo IV season 1 starter, so we put Rogue above Barbarian. Rogue is powerful sooner but the Barbarian's going to be a little bit easier to play and it's going to out scale the Rogue eventually at level 80-85 somewhere in there in the 80. So it's tough, depends on how you want to view it. The Whirlwind is probably going to be able to farm faster and easier, so we'll probably squeeze Rogue right there in between the Barb and the Druid but all three of them are very solid season starting classes, the Rogue is going to be by far the D4 best season 1 class in the 1 to 70 process, but the Barb and the Druid will eventually outscale the Rogue a little bit when you get up to around 85 to 90.

B Tier

-Sorcerer

Sorcerer is a decent option, that’s why we put it in the middle. It's not going to be horrible, you've got teleport, you've got the barriers for toughness. If you're playing on Hardcore, it would actually probably be an S for starting out because you get the cheat death and you can stay safe. But if you're just talking in general, it's probably right here in the middle in B. It's not going to be amazing and it's not going to be awful in the F tier. You've got some viable builds, you've got your ice shards and your mobility and some stuff to get around and you could even do certain things like double hydra for boss fights in the early game if you want like a lazier build. But the problem is it's just too slow and isn't going to do enough damage to justify, not going something more meta like ice shards. If you get ice shards or an arc lash or a lightning sorc, it can be pretty good in the leveling process and also Sorcerers probably have the best basic ability. They've got the arc lash that can help you level and it's probably the best ability in the game from like 1 to 30. Because you just run around with your basic arc lash doing the AOE with a generator and you can definitely clear your content very well in the early game. So it's almost low A as a season starter for most players out there, but overall the Sorcerer is going to be solidly in the B tier.

C Tier

-Necromancer

Necromancer is very notably lacking in mobility, so going to be a little bit clunky but that narrative will change. Necromancer can be played in a lazy easy way throughout the leveling process with the minions. When you do get it up and running it is going to do a ton of damage with the different bone skills that they've got at their disposal and they can climb decently high in end game content and help you push. Necro is going to be below Barbarian and Druid um as far as a season starter, we’re going to go C for the Diablo 4 season 1 ranking. It’s not terrible but it's going to be lagging a little bit behind some of the other classes.

Conclusions

That is the ranking for Diablo 1 season 1 best starting class as of right now. Maybe in 2 or 3 weeks, we'll have to revisit this D4 season 1 class tier list, but we don't think we will. Blizzard's going to keep things mostly similar for season 1. But if Blizzard does change things and all of a sudden, we get crazy balance patches such as Whirlwind gets nerfed again or Druid gets slammed with nerfs or Necro and Sorc get a bunch of crazy buffs, they go way up the board. Maybe they give a Necromancer a mobility ability so Necro goes all the way up into A. However, we’re 90% sure that this will mostly be relevant all the way up to season 1.