As Diablo 4 Season 5 approaches, the meta has shifted significantly with the latest round of balance changes and new content. Players are eager to dive back into Sanctuary and discover what's the best Diablo 4 class and builds to dominate Season 5. Based on the feedback from the S5 PTR, we've identified the top 5 most broken builds that are poised to shake up the endgame.

Diablo 4 Season 5 Best Druid, Rogue, Barb, Sorc & Necro - Top 5 Most Broken Builds After Buffs in  D4 S5

Season 5 is upon us in Diablo 4, bringing with it new challenges, rewards, and class & build changes. While the meta is still developing as players experiment in Season 5, certain builds have already risen to the top as clear frontrunners based on PTR testing and the buffs/changes introduced. If you're wondering which build you should go for the new ladder on Diablo 4, keep reading and we'll give you the top 5 predictions for the most broken D4 Season 5 builds for each class: Rogue, Druid, Necromancer, Sorcerers, and Barbarians, hope to help you have a good start on it but also to farm in the endgame.

#1. Diablo IV Season 5 Best Sorc Build - Chain Lightning Sorc Build 

What is going to be the top tier build for the Sorc? It's definitely going to be Chain Lightning if you are using PTR as a metric. With a brand new Axial Conduit pants, they're going to have this special unique ability where chain lightning is going to target the enemies and it's going to come back to you, spin around and then go back to the enemies, then spin around and consistently just have this little cycle. After it does the cycle, each time it does it, it drains mana from you and after it drains a total of 66 mana it's going to explode and do some crazy amounts of damage. These pants 100% are going to be the best pants for this build and you can hit for billions or even quadrillions, trillions of damage, it does crazy amounts of damage. This is probably one of the best Sorc builds going into Season 5.

Gears

- Weapons: Elementalist’s Aspect, Aspect of the Unbroken Tether

- Helm: Crawn of Lucion

- Armor: Mage-Lord’s Aspect

- Gloves: Aspect of Accursed Touch

- Boots: Aspect of the Orange Herald

- Amulet: Locran’s Talisman

- Rings: Ring of Starless Skies, Recharging Aspect

Skill Tree

- Basic: 1 Fire Bolt, 1 Arc Lash, 1 Frost Bolt

- Core: 5 Chain Lightning (Greater, Enhanced), 3 Devastation, 3 Elemental Dominance

- Defensive: 1 Teleport (Enhanced, Shimmering), 2 Ice Armor (Enhanced, Shimmering), 1 Flame Shield (Enhanced, Mystical, Shimmering), 1 Elemental Attunement, 3 Glass Canno

- Conjuration: 1 Ice Blades, 1Align the Elements, 3 Protection, 3 Mana Shield

- Ultimate: 1 Unstable Currents (Prime), 1 Coursing Currents, 3 Conduction, 2 Convulsions, 3 Electrocution, 1 Sourfire, 2 Warmth, 3 Fiery Surge, 1 Vyr’s Mastery 

#2. Diablo IV Season 5 Best Druid Build - AK47 Landslide Druid for S5 PTR

Druid finally has a DPS build in Season 5 Diablo 4 - the AK-47 Landslide Druid. Utilizing the buffed Landslide skill alongside new armor like Earthbreaker and reworked sets, this build enables Druids to unload unbelievable amounts of poison damage from range. Landslide was already in a solid spot before Season 5 changes. Its buffs to damage, area of effect and critical hit synergy have transformed it into a veritable swarm of deadly meteors. Pair this with tools like Poison Creeper for crowd control and additional critical hits, and Druids can rapidly melt even elite packs from safety.

What really propels the AK-47 Druid build above the rest is its unmatched damage potential and versatility. Landslide empowers Druids with ranged clear speeds on par with the top farming classes. Meanwhile, excellent mitigation through armor, resistances and defense layers like Fortify keep Druids alive through any content.

Between its amazing AoE poison damage, generous defenses and enormous room for growth, the AK-47 Landslide Druid is poised to dominate leaderboards and group play alike in D4 Season 5. For the first time, Druids have a build capable of outpacing all other classes in damage. Look for this nature-wielding machine gun build to reign over Sanctuary when Season 5 kicks off.

Gears

- Weapon: Aspect of The Aftershock

- Helm: Vasily’s Prayer

- Armor: Insatiable Fury

- Gloves: Aspects of Retaliation

- Boots: Aspect of Metamorphosis

- Amulet: Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt

- Rings: Subterranean Aspect, Earthbreaker

Skill Tree

- Basic: 1 Claw (Enhanced)

- Core: 5 Landslide (Enhanced, Primal), 1 Heart of the Wild, 3 Wild Impulses 

- Defensive: 1 Cyclone Armor, 1 Earthen Bulwark (Enhanced, Preserving) 

- Companion: 1 Poison Creeper (Enhanced, Ferocious), 3 Clarity

- Wrath: 1 Trample (Enhanced, Savage), 1 Mending, 3 Provocation, 3 Envenom, 1 Neurotoxin, 3 Crushing Earth, 1 Safeguard, 3 Stone Guard

- Ultimate: 1 Petrify (Supreme, Prime), 3 Natural Disaster, 1 Circle of Life, 3 Defiance, 3 Defensive Posture, 3 Quickshift, 1 Earthen Might 

#3. Diablo IV Season 5 Best Rogue Build - Barrage Windforce Rogue Build 

In Season 5, Barrage is looking really good with a brand new improved Windforce coming out into the game, adding a lot more stats to the build. - For starters, the newest change is really with Windforce, so the older Windforce had a bunch of stats that weren't really going to be utilized because you lost out on the ability to temper. So you would not be able to cast like the chance for barrage to cast two times, that's actually massive for all builds. But the old Windforce had a bunch of stats that were outdated, the new Windforce gives you more movement speed, more ranks to barrage and transfer barrage cast multiple times. 

- In addition to that, the unique power where it has the ability to do double damage doesn't knock back the enemies anymore, it’s really weird that it was even in there in the first place becauase if anything it should pull the enemies towards you because Barrage unlike Rapid Fire does not just shoot in a straight line, it fans out. So you want to get really close to your enemies if you want all the shots to register. But with Season 5 with Umbracrux just like with every Rogue build, this is going to be huge for the way that it works because you're going to be able to hit so many targets. 

- In addition to that, there is a new node with Tricks of the Trade, you get a duration of bonus damage versus like your next hit. So how it used to work is your Marksman skill or your Cutthroat skill would then grant the next attack. But in Season 5, it just works the whole time. When you have your inner sight up, you're going to get a bunch more damage with that legendary node but that one will probably be taken on most Rogue builds. 

- In addition to that just like the other classes, Crown of Lucion is very good locker and talisman's really good and Ring of Starless Skies. So all of this in combination with the brand new umber Umbracrux unique, it's going to give you a lot of damage. With the brand new unique dagger the Umbracrux, they did not mention any newer changes with this, so this is going to absolutely dominate for Rogue. 

Gears

- Weapon: Windforce

- Dual-Wield Weapons: The Umbracrux, High Velocity Aspect

- Helm: Crown of Lucion

- Armor: Umbrous Aspect

- Gloves: Aspect of Accursed Touch

- Boots: Rakanoth’s Wake

- Amulet: Locran’s Talisman

- Rings: Ring of Starless Skies, Aspect of Branching Volleys

Skill Tree

- Basic: 1 Puncture (Enhanced)

- Core: 5 Barrage (Enhanced, Advanced), 3 Sturdy, 3 Siphoning Strikes

- Agility: 1 Caltrops (Enhanced, Disciplined), 1 Concussive, 3 Trick Attacks, 1 Dash, 1 Shadow Step (Enhanced, Disciplined)

- Subterfuge: 5 Dark Shroud (Enhanced, Countering), 1 Smoke Grenade (Enhanced, Countering), 2 Agile

- Ultimate: 3 Innervation, 3 Second Wind, 1 Adrenaline Rush, 3 Haste, 1 Precision

#4. Diablo IV Season 5 Best Necro Build - Bone Spirit Necromancer Build

Season 5 Necromancer will vastly change to what we have in Season 4 right now. Minions will still be viable but hell they are pushing us hard to use bone prison more and especially bone spirit. Bone Spirit was already incredible in Season 4, but now with the latest changes it will be better than ever. 

Bone Spirit has received substantial buffs to damage, area of effect, critical hit chance, and most importantly - reduced cooldowns. This allows Necros to essentially maintain near-100% uptime of Bone Spirit, casting them in huge overlapping clusters that ravage groups of enemies. New legendaries were also added to further amplify Bone Spirit's power through bonuses like increased number of spirits and additional effects on hit. Combined with other buffed bone spells like Bone Prison and Corpse Lance for crowd control and secondary damage, Necromancers adopting the S5 Bone Spirit build will be true demons on the battlefield. The ability to spam spirits for massive range DPS while also controlling the flow of battle with other bone skills gives this build an incredible synergy that other Necro rolls cannot rival. It is undeniably shaping up to be the best and most dominant Necro build for Season 5.

Gears

- Weapons: Rune Blade of Serration, Lidless Wall

- Helm: Runic Skullcap of Concussive Strikes

- Armor: Runic Mail of Shielding Storm

- Gloves: Splintering Runic Gloves

- Boots: Loath Torturer

- Rings: Ring of Starless Skies, Prism Vow 

Skill Tree

- Basic: 1 Reap (Enhanced)

- Core: 9 Bone Spear (Enhanced, Paranormal), 2 Hewed Flesh, 3 Unliving Energy, 3 Imperfectly Balanced 

- Macabre: 1 Blood Mist (Enhanced, Ghastly, Dreadful), 1 Grim Harvest, 3 Fueled by Death, 1 Bone Prison (Enhanced, Ghastly)

- Corpse: 1 Corpse Explosion (Enhanced, Blighted), 1 Corpse Tendrils, 3 Reaper’s Pursuit, 3 Serration, 3 Compound Fracture, 3 Evulsion, 2 Necrotic Carapace，5 Bone Spirit (Enhanced, Dreadful)

- Curse: 1 Decrepify (Abhorrent, Enhanced), 3 Amplify Damage, 2 Death’s Approach

- Ultimate: 3 Memento Mori, 3 Stand Alone

#5. Diablo IV Season 5 Best Barbarian Build - Bash Barb Build

The classic Bash skills received significant buffs due to Season 5 changes. Skills like Overpower now deal much higher damage. Combined with new items like Crown of Lucidity and Ring of the Starward Skies, Bash Barbs can effortlessly stack huge Fury pools for unparalleled output. Early PTR testing reveals just how broken the new Bash build has become. With mediocre gear and no Legendary powers socketed, direct damage already peaks in the billions. As full optimization of gear like Shard of Hate and other new items is achieved, damage scaling appears limitless. Perhaps most notable is the build's versatility. Bash excels at all contents - single target bosses die within seconds, while dense packs vanish in fiery whirlwinds. Its balance of offense and defense through War Cry makes everything easy. Most importantly, no other class or spec can currently match Bash's high damage potential while also maintaining its safety. Other builds may compete on damage meters, but none have the same ease of destructive power and survivability that Bash Barbarian possesses.

Come Season 5, expect leaderboards to be dominated by the red cyclone of fury. With unmatched damage, utility and defenses now within reach, Season 5 belongs to the unstoppable bash.

Gears

- Weapons: Aspect of the Moonrise, Aspect of Inner Calm

- Dual-Wield Weapons: Rapid Aspect, Shard of Verathiel

- Amulet: Locran’s Talisman

- Rings: Aspect of Adaptability, Ring of Starless Skies

- Helm: Crown of Lucion

- Armor: Undying Aspect

- Gloves: Paingorger’s Gauntlets

- Boots: Hectic Aspect

Skill Tree

- Basic: 5 Bash (Enhanced, Combat)

- Core: 1 Hammer of the Ancients (Enhanced, Violent)

- Defensive: 1 Rallying Cry (Enhanced, Strategic), 3 Martial Vigor, 2 Imposing Presence, 1 Challenging Shout (Enhanced, Tactical), 1 Tough as Nails, 1Outburst 

- Brawling: 1 War Cry (Enhanced, Power), 2 Raid Leader, 3 Booming Voice, 3 Aggressive Resistance

- Weapon Mastery|: 1 Steel Grasp (Enhanced, Fighter), 3 Counteroffensive, 1 Thick Skin

- Ultimate: 3 Wallop, 3 Brute Force, 3 Heavy Handed

- Key Passive: 1 Unconstrained