Welcome to our updated D4 Season 1 Tier List for the 1.1.2 patch. Here we're going to be ranking the Diablo IV classes from No.1 to No.2 in three different importantly separated categories: Nightmare Dungeon Tier Push, Single Target DPS, and Speed Farming. 

D4 1.1.2 Season 1 Tier List - Best Class & Builds for DPS, Dungeons, Speedfarm

We've properly settled into a few balance changes from patch 1.1.1 for Diablo 4 and had a bit of time to adjust to our current atmosphere of the game, so we figure it is a good time to update you all in the power rankings of all the classes and various activities at the moment see where your class ranks, maybe let it influence future alts that you might want to make, whatever you want it for really here it is. We know patch 1.1.2 is out now, but no balance changes are in that, so it doesn't affect anything that we're talking about here.

Diablo 4 1.1.2 Season 1 Best Speedfarming Class & Builds Ranking

Speed farming is just killing through content in the open world, doing things like Helltied, grinding legendaries, or doing nightmare dungeons, that are only 10 or so levels above you maximum with some actual pace of them, those types of activities that you'll just most commonly be spending your time doing really; 

• 5 - Barbarian: Whirlwind

At the bottom here is going to be Barbarian. Barbs have been on a real wild roller coaster through the lifetime of Diablo 4 so far, at the start Whirlwind was the most busted thing in the entire game until it got nerfed, but it was still very good. Then people discovered Hammer of the Ancients builds and they were really really strong and then those got nerfed as well. Now there's a new Dual Swing Barbarian Build popping up recently, but as far as speed farming, the king for barbarian is still Whirlwind which is still in a solid spot realistically. The only issue is that this build has a somewhat limited move speed due to the nature of Whirlwind - you can spin while you're moving, but you can only move so fast, you don't have movement abilities, you don't have particularly fast movements because Whirlwind also slows you down. So while it is good at clearing this content out and doing it relatively speedily, it is technically physically the slowest on the list.

• 4 - Druid: Werewolf Tornado

Druid might be a bit of a controversial choice but to put it simply there is really just a last place for this category, then everything else is sort of just a big Clump that you could argue around the order a fair bit. Druid has incredible speed farming builds but the fastest speed farm build is different from the best pushing build, which is different from the best sniper dungeon pushing build, which is different from the best Uber Lilith build, so we felt that we had to dock the slightest point just for the fact that you have to use three builds to be the most effective at the three activities.

• 3 - Necromancer: Bone Spear

Necromancer's speed clear is great, obviously, this is more about Bone Spear than any other build is that's just the top dog here. Really it just destroys enemies like they're nothing, and the only thing keeping this one from a higher spot is actually pure genuine movement speed itself, killing fast is great but in a world where multiple classes have builds that can one-shot the screen. The one that is technically the worst is that moves the slowest thus getting to enemies slower and killing things slower.

• 2 - Sorcerer: Blizzard

Sorcerer is fantastic at this specific activity, if you enjoy speed farming doing content of this nature sorcerer is a fantastic choice for it especially when you consider things like teleport in the way that many Sorc builds work around that. It just adds so much movement and the ability to skip over terrain, you do so much damage as well because Sorc is basically just a glass Cannon of the highest degree. Even after the recent patch which helped a bit out defensively but just not enough, we still see Sorcerers dying all the time. But because Glass Cannon is sort of exactly what you want when you are farming non-threatening content, it works fantastically for Speed farming.

• 1 - Rogue: Twisting Blades

Rogue has so many builds with so many different functions and they're all so fantastic, but the best speed farming build by far is just pure twisting blades. It's the only rogue build that just requires no setup at all before it can actually start blasting off. And being a rogue, it's just general movement speed is nearly capped consistently, on top of having access to Dash and also Shadow step within most builds, your actual speed with those is just insane on a rogue. And when you have that speed while doing enough damage to wipe the screen and a couple of abilities, that is the description of the ultimate speed farmer, absolutely no doubt about it Rogue wins this category.

Diablo 4 1.1.2 Season 1 Best Nightmare Dungeon Push Class & Builds Ranking

Then we have nightmare dungeon pushing which is specifically pushing high-end nightmare dungeons, going for things like a Tier 100 clear most notably, so essentially just the raw high-end ability to maximize both offense and defense enough to complete one of those without issues. This category will be weighed a bit harder in the overall rankings, as of course, it is probably the most important one.

• 5 - Barbarian: Whirlwind

Again though it is relatively interchangeable with sorcerer here honestly, we put Barbarian at the bottom simply because while it does have clear times on Tier 100 dungeons in Season 1 with multiple builds, those being Whirlwind and variations of double swing for the most part. We've not seen one that is under 15 minutes in Season 1 which is slow, there's nothing wrong with completing a Tier 100 slowly if you're able to complete a T100 that's impressive all on its own. But when we are comparing all the classes who all are able to clear T100, the two biggest questions are how comfortable is it and how long it takes, Barb did not seem overly comfortable to kill it in that time nor was it overly fast by any means.

• 4 - Sorcerer: Ice Shards

We just mentioned the two main things if all classes can clear Tier 100s how fast and how comfortable, the sorcerer managed to clear a Tier 100 nightmare dungeon at level 89 while playing around Hydra and just trying to stay out of the way which is an incredibly impressive feat maybe slightly smudged by the use of a conduit trying on the boss, but incredibly impressive nonetheless. And of course, if you can do that at level 89, you can do it at level 100. But when you think about the sorcerer experience though honestly, level 89 is a lot like level 100 and they still die way too easily in a T100 dungeon either way. In the speed farming section, they're just built as glass cannons, they do so much damage that they can clear a tier 100 nightmare dungeon really quickly at level 89, but they take so much damage that they can get one shot by a random corpse bow in a tier 50 nightmare dungeon at level 100, so the trade-off here is speed when successful is nuts but the actual Comfort the reliability the consistency is non-existent, and we weigh that factor very highly for this.

• 3 - Necromancer: Bone Spear

Necromancer has a number of good options going right now, but the actual fastest and most comfortable run of Tier 100 that we've seen since the season started is the Shadow damage Blood Mist build about 6.5 minutes which isn't bad at all time-wise. But also incredibly comfortable with an actual clear relying on Bone Storm and Blood Mist combined with the auto core skill, and Malignant heart for poles and explosions, it's just extremely solid unless Necromancer gets not only quick but safe clears a tier 100 in a solid time. The only reason it's three here is because the other two are simply better than this.

• 2 - Rogue: Twisting Blades

There are a number of actually strong viable Rogue builds, but Twisting Blade seems to just edge them out just that little bit in every area due to the lack of the required setup to get your damage popping off properly. Rogue is the fastest time we have seen from our research at a 4 minute 20 seconds - blazing fast smoking hot speed, but the comfort level is a bit lacking. Rogue has a lot of Mobility and a number of ways to break crowd control and dodge. And while that lets you avoid damage, it also puts a lot of onus on player skill to do so, that is a core part of Rogue. It also adds an element of player error possibility. To put it simply, in any case, Rogue is totally top-tier, it's very debatable.

• 1 - Druid: Lightning Shred

We go with Druid for our number one nightmare dungeon pushing for a number of reasons. Druid's fastest time that we found was 4 minutes 30 seconds, so it's only 10 seconds slower than the fastest Rogue, but Druid has so much tankiness that it can build around with the comparison of comfortability between the two runs is nuts. Note to mention we are looking at a Tornado Druid build right now but Pulverized builds have also cleared tier 100 super early in the season, and there are also Earth and Bulwark builds that can let a level 84 player genuinely complete a tier 100 nightmare dungeon just because of the damage direction while injured combo with a barrier being as massive as is.

Diablo 4 1.1.2 Season 1 Best DPS Class & Builds Ranking

Then we have the third category which is single target damage, the most notable activity where this matter is Uber Lilith and always has been, but we now also have the Echo of Varshan fight which we can farm for gear as a single Target encounter too, so our activities in this category have basically doubled this season. Also, there's a single Target whenever you do bosses in a nightmare dungeon but you wouldn't change your build to do the boss of a nightmare dungeon that would be absolutely terrible to actually function with, and you could also argue World bosses too but like who makes a build around a six-hour timer two-minute activity maybe if we had to build load-outs but that's a separate conversation entirely. The easiest way to measure that of course is to look at the fastest kill times on Uber Lilith that each class has achieved season. 

• 5 - Sorcerer: Blizzard

The slowest at number 5 is the sorcerer, they got gutted a fair bit with some changes to the control aspect that hurt a lot as well as other changes in 1.1, the winning build here though is Blizzard and the fastest kill that We've seen is 2 minutes and 57 seconds which is absolutely not bad, but it's much worse than it was before the Season 1. It should also say something that the best skills used for the single Target fight are also the area of effect skills, so what else do you really need to know about the single Target damage with glass honestly?

• 4 - Barbarian: Whirlwind

Barbarian isn't doing too bad actually up to a 1 minute and 50-second kill with Mulligan Hearts involved, even after the Nerfs in 1.1 before the Season started. The killer is of course a whirlwind build but using Penitent Greaves, as well as well as using the Barber heart and dark dance heart together to cause massive pops of damage and get the job done quickly. We do want to point out here that this kill was 1 minute 50 seconds, the next kill is only 6 seconds faster than that and the one after that is only four seconds faster than that one, so it's all very close in the middle of this grouping.

• 3 - Druid: Tornado

With the Tornado build, Druid was typically the strong hardest way to do it without abusing any bugs before the season as well, just now with hearts involved and everything around that, it gets really quite strong and the end result is a 1 minute 44 second Lilith kill right in the middle.

• 2 - Rogue: Twisting Blades

With a 1 minute and 40 second Lilith kill, this is continuing the usage of poison twisting blades going with combo points now and the new funky edition of using Fists of Fate as gloves to apply loads of stagger to the bar of the boss and get more stuns for faster kills. But it still doesn't get the number one slot quite.

• 1 - Necromancer: Bone Spear

The number one goes to Necromancer with a ridiculous 47 seconds Uber Lilith Kill by a consistent little speedrunner as well. They're running bone spear but they had a theory that seems to actually be paying off and working that using bone prison at specific moments in the fight can sort of cut down the immunity time of the boss, it will stop her from phasing at certain points and so they got their kill down to 47 seconds.

Finally then with all that, let's just go over quickly the average ranking between all of them, we are going to weigh pushing higher tier nightmare dungeons more than the other two categories as that is where this type of stuff matters most to the average player and so the end result is going to be Barbarian in the fifth slot, Sorcerer in the Fourth slot, Necromancer in third place even though its overload showing was absolutely sublime, Druid in second place mostly just killing it because of build variety allowing them to have good choices for every activity type, and then Rogue in first place above all.