Check out the Top Diablo 3 Classes to Play

There’s never been a better time to join in on Diablo 3. Its newest update, Season 16, is slated for January, which is plenty of time to build your character. Diablo is a game of customized playstyles based on what you enjoy doing.

Are you someone who loves to brawl up-close, shoot things from afar, or manipulate powers? Within each of the Diablo 3 classes are subclasses, which lets you specialize in even more skills.

The specialization and fine-tuning of Diablo games is what keeps new players coming in.

Preface to Preferences

Before we discuss which class is best for what, we need to cover how Diablo 3 gameplay progresses. Unlike most Android Games, Diablo games are two layers of games: level grind and endgame grind.

How you level and the skills you use are different in for endgame.

In fact, it doesn’t really matter what skills you use while leveling unless you run across a legendary piece. Once you reach Endgame, then you have to switch to builds and playstyles that make sense. Legendary sets amplify specific skills that complement each other.

By the time you reach Endgame, though, you should have an idea of what build you want to pursue. It’s kind of a natural progression from character creation to level cap, experimenting along the way. You start to imagine your character’s ultimate form and pour all your time into realizing it.

Categories of Diablo 3 Classes

Rather than cover each individual class in-depth, we’re going to cover playstyles. There are 7 classes to choose from, each falling into two main categories: melee and ranged. Within these categories, you have subcategories of physical and magic.

Melee Classes

Get into the face of your enemy and mow down hoards of mobs with melee classes. You have Barbarian, Crusader, and Monk making up the main melee DPS. If you want pure face-smashing with delicious damage, go Barbarian.

If you want a mix of tanking and damage, go Crusader. For more agility and mixed move-sets, go Monk. Technically, all three of these classes can absorb or avoid damage up close.

Barbarians have the best splash damage, Crusaders have the best shield/reflect damage, while Monks have the best consistent damage. Again, all of these classes are going to kick butt and be successful while leveling.

You will have to consider which playstyle you’ll want to pursue during endgame. There’s no shame in deleting and restarting characters to try out each class. Better to do it early on when things start out slower than later and go through the climb again.

Ranged Classes

Ranged classes are all magical in their own right, but Demon Hunter is going to be shooting actually arrows. All of these classes excel at dealing damage, but can’t take much damage. With some exceptions, you’re essentially a “paper mage” or “glass cannon”.

If we had to pick a class that fares best in close quarters, it would be Demon Hunter. They can lay traps, turrets, and call upon pets to act as a shield. Demon Hunters also have great movement skills.

Then, you have the classic Wizard class. This is a pure glass cannon, with powerful offensive spells and conditions that help protect you. Wizards can teleport around, but they can’t really spam all their spells.

You’ll need to have great reflexes, planning skills, and balance aggression while playing ranged.

Summoners

While Demon Hunter can summon pets, they’re not a main source of damage. Witch Doctors are your hybrid class that can deal magic damage and summons creatures. It’s a tricky class because they are all about managing the battlegrounds, not flashy spike damage or agility.

A Witch Doctor is able to control waves of enemies and grind them down to a pulp. A skilled Witch Doctor will take little to no direct damage as they sit in the middle of hoards that are cursed and bled dry.

The Necromancer is all about power in numbers. They summon minions to form a physical barrier and reanimate all their kills. Necromancers are very adaptable, they can use corpses to heal and fire ranged attacks to chip away big enemies.

Inspired By Builds

As we mentioned, builds don’t really take off until you finished the level cap. That doesn’t mean you can’t get a feel for playstyles while you’re on the way. Watch footage and visit leaderboards to see what the top players are doing.

This is pretty standard practice for any MMO. You don’t have to play any cookie-cutter build, but you can see how each classes strengths play. This will allow you to exploit things like spam haunts, condition-stacking, and conal damage.

Some good examples of OP class builds:

  • Meteor Wizard
  • UE Multishot Demon Hunter
  • Bone Armor Necromancer
  • Whirlwind Barb
  • Rainment Shenlong Monk
  • Condemned Crusader
  • Helltooth Witchdoctor

Start Playing with Classes

We recommend starting a Seasonal character after you experiment with Diablo 3 classes on Normal. The reason being is that it takes longer to jump into a class and feel it out on Season mode. Having to grind at a slower pace makes it harder to switch to a new class and do it again.

No stash tabs, no Paragon levels, and level 1 starter gear gets old fast. With that said, All the content is still the same between both modes, so you won’t be missing out on Story content if you play Normal.

Think of Season 16 as a graduation goal while starting a new class. You’ll be geared up and ready if you start today. For more tips and guides like this one, be sure to visit Lateet’s Useful Tips blog.

Play how you want, get creative, and keep things interesting. Diablo 3 will never get boring if you stick to that.

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