Choosing the best class in an RPG game like Diablo 4 is never easy. Even when we’re talking DPS only, it’s difficult to come up with the best one since millions of players have their own preferred playstyles, connections to the game, and lastly visual preferences. I know that I loved to play Wizards in games such as Diablo 3 and Dragon Age because of the sheer graphic effects that just make the game so much richer (RIP RAM).
Nevertheless, when all differences are taken into consideration we are still left with the task of pointing our finger at the best DPS class in Diablo 4. Hop in to learn more.
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Who is the Best DPS in Diablo 4?
The best DPS currently in Diablo 4 is the Rogue due to its almighty Twisting Blade build. This is a build that can deal massive damage and plenty of crits while not giving enemies a chance to properly fight back. We need to mention that you do need to be an advanced player with quick fingers if you want to execute this build properly as there are many skills to be used.
As you can expect the Twisting Blade skill is going to be the cornerstone of your damage output so make sure you rank it up as soon as you can. Naturally, there are a couple of more skills that make this build what it is and you need to think about them as well.
How Does the Twisting Blade Build Work?
While Twisting Blades are impaling your enemies for awesome AoE damage it’s important to get the skill upgrade (modifier) that also reduces active CDs per damaged enemy. That will allow you to spam most of your skills much more quickly. To get the most out of your Twisting Blade attack, get the Bladedancer’s Aspect. This Aspect gets your Twisting Blades to spin around you upon returning for additional damage. You can get the Bladedancer’s Aspect from a dungeon on the northeast of Scosglen that will appear after you have completed the Third Act.
Now if you’re wondering what are those skills you should be spamming along Twisting Blade it’s Poison Trap and Death Trap. Both traps activate after a second or so and they fulfill the necessary role of disabling your enemies and setting them up for the Twisting Blade nuke.
The key for this build to work lies in the skill upgrades of both the Poison Trap and Death Trap. For Poison Trap, choose the modifier that will knock down the trapped enemies while for the Death Trap, you need to take the skill upgrade that pulls all the enemies in when activated.
Twisting Blade build execution:
- Place the Poison Trap down.
- Place the Death Trap down.
- Use the Twisting Blade skill in the area.
- Repeat.
It really doesn’t matter that much if you place Death Trap or the Poison Trap first. The main thing is that you place them both before using Twisting Blade because the modifier from that skill reduces all active CDs (in this case the ones from both of your traps). Then you use the Twisting Blade and spam traps down as soon as they’re ready.
Since this is a Trapper build, you can also pick some other AoE skills that deal with AoE damage over time like Poison Imbuement, and use it in the area that you filled with traps. The build can work for both bosses and farming large numbers of enemies (as long as you’re careful enough and quick with your fingers).
This build does sort of make your character to be a glass cannon. Even though you can pick some skills that will allow you to be a bit more tanky, your main strategy is going to be to dodge enemy attacks and keep them knocked down most of the time.
What is the Best DPS Beginner Class?
If you are a new player in the Diablo franchise and you don’t wish to play on your keyboard like a mad pianist, we have a great beginner DPS build for you. This time it’s the Necromancer class that relies on both summoning a ton of minions and some pretty effective AoE blasts.
The build revolves around Blood Mist, Corpse Explosion, and Blood Surge. You’ll also need to get the Aspect of Explosive Mist Legendary Aspect which will allow Blood Mist to trigger explosions of nearby corpses. Each time a corpse explodes the CD of Blood Mist is reduced. Corpse explosion upgrades will give you the opportunity to boost exploding corpse damage so you can further buff this nuke.
What you’re basically going to do is have any minions of your choice (we recommend Skeletons) and with them following you, run into enemies and activate Blood Mist and Blood Surge. Blood Mist will keep you from the incoming damage while the Blood Surge will be exploding blood novas for damage killing the first enemies and starting that corpse explosion combo reaction. When you get skilled at this combo and detonate a lot of corpses the CD of Blood Mist will be so low that you will practically be able to keep it active most of the time and become virtually immortal.
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