Diablo 4 Season 6 Tier List – Best Classes & Builds to Launch Vessel of Hatred

The Tier List for Season 6 in Diablo 4 shows you the best builds for all classes in the end game. We provide you with a short description as well as links to recreate it.

Which is the best class in Season 6? As things currently stand, the Spiritborn will probably top the list as a new class, closely followed by Hunter and Wizard. However, each class has at least two strong builds, the differences are hardly noticeable.

Here’s how we created the list: We refer to data from Diablo expert and build theory crafter Rob as well as assessments from other experts, such as maxroll.gg, here in particular wudijo. The experience of our own experts at MeinMMO has been incorporated for a better classification.

The Tier List covers all endgame activities for Diablo 4, with the Pit serving as a benchmark. The builds are not always best suited for PvP, speed grinds and level builds.

Please note that the list is currently based on very short tests and a lot of theory crafting. There will definitely be changes in the coming weeks.

What do “S” to “F” mean? In the Tier List the builds are categorized by letters. In this case, “S” represents the best builds while “F” denotes the worst.

S Tier: The best builds in Season 6

The builds in this tier are the absolute best you can play. They have almost no weaknesses and are better than anything else in any content. There is a small weakness here and there, but usually not enough for other builds to overtake.

Touch of Death Spiritborn

Do you want to poison enemies with a giant millipede and then make them explode? Then this build is just right for you. Touch of Death relies on high damage over time (“DoT”), which you can detonate at once with various skills and legendarys for a multiple of its damage.

An alternative to the touch build is the Stinging Swarm Spiritborn (via d4builds.gg). Except for the main skill, it uses the same abilities and is a little weaker, but much easier to play.

Spike Volley Eagle Spiritborn

The best entry-level build for anyone who wants to play Spiritborn. You throw feathers that explode upon impact and then return, similar to the hunter’s screw blades. Although the main damage comes from the eagle, you use gorilla and jaguar as ghosts for more defense. For the build to work, you only need one legendary power from the codex: the Rebounding Aspect. From there the build only gets stronger and stronger.

Dance of the knife hunters

After barbarians, hunters now also have a “Spin2Win” build: Dance of the Knives is one of the new skills from Season 6. You spin wildly in circles and throw knives at surrounding opponents. With the appropriate items you have a high chance of evasion, i.e. strong defense, you can always pull enemies in and, compared to other builds, almost no resource problems. The build only becomes really strong with good equipment.

Bone Spirit Bloodwave Necromancer

For this build, you’ll need the Bloodcrafter’s Cuirass Unique, which will summon a free Bone Spirit whenever you collect enough Blood Orbs. You create these balls using a blood wave. Big advantage: Maximum HP increases your damage, which makes the build strong in attack and extremely tanky at the same time.

Lightning Spear Wizard

Despite several nerfs, it is still one of the strongest builds in the game: you shoot lightning spears that bounce off you and enemies and become increasingly stronger. To do this, use Frozen Orb to reset the cooldown on Lightning Spears through Shattered Winter Glass.

Due to the nerfs and new options, this build is most likely the one that will drop out of the S tier later.

A Tier: Strong builds for the endgame in Season 6

Builds in the A-tier are usually slightly weaker than the S-tier builds, but through constant improvement and refinement the category changes frequently, especially at the beginning of the season. However, these builds offer you a little more choice for your playstyle and in many cases are not as dependent on individual items.

Earthquake Barbarian

You stomp on the ground and make the earth shake. Literally: The Earthquake build is your ultimate power fantasy if you want to play as a colossus. The idea is that you create earthquakes and draw enemies into your area of ​​effect to destroy them. You move as little as possible and are simply the center of the carnage.

Powerful throwing barbarian

Barbarians finally have a decent long-range build: you throw your weapons around eagerly and destroy opponents who are unlucky enough to be in the flight path. The aim of the build is to strengthen the Mighty Throw, the new skill, as much as possible without sacrificing too much defense. Disadvantage: You absolutely need the unique “The Third Blade”.

Companion Druid

If you want to be the alpha of your own pack, the companion build is your chance. You send wolves, ravens and poisonous vines at your opponents and attack as a werewolf yourself. A new passive in Season 6 makes the build so strong this season, but only if you use your cooldowns. Strong boss killer, a little slow at times when farming. By the way: Wolves and ravens also form symbioses in real life.

Landslide Druid

With the landslide build you change your form frequently to benefit from different bonuses. The main skill Landslide becomes a damage over time effect on the ground with the unique ring Earthbreaker and has a chance to create additional landslides when cast multiple times.

Rocksplitter Thorn Spiritborn

“Stop beating yourself up” is the motto of the Thorn build for Spiritborn. You use the gorilla’s power to get tons of shields and blocks and build thorns. To do this, you summon a ghost jaguar and benefit from the jaguar’s attack speed and resource generation. For the ultimate build, however, you need the right rune word with which you can use the necromancer’s aging.

Crushing Hand Spiritborn

With this build you are basically an angry silverback, hitting the ground wildly. But instead of just threatening it, you crush everything around you. Although you use gorilla skills, your spirits are the centipede and jaguar to increase your attack speed and reduce damage taken. To work, the build only needs the Unyielding Aspect (important: not the Unyielding Hit Aspect).

Heartseeker Hunter

After a few nerfs, the Heartseeker Hunter works a little differently in Season 6: You now strengthen the basic skill with the Shard of Verathiel and provide area damage via the Punish passive. In itself a very classic build with a main attack and several buffs.

Screwblade Hunter

A fast-paced play style: You stab your daggers into an enemy, sprint through as many enemies as possible and tear the weapons away from the original target. Along the way, the blades destroy pretty much everything they touch. A Melee build for everyone who wants to feel like ninjas.

Minion Necromancer

The Minion Necromancer combines his army of undead with massive shadow damage over time. Your skeleton mages, who become shadow mages in the build, throw themselves into battle with your golem while you push them with skills in the background. To do this, you use corpse vines to stun enemies and “plague” to deal shadow damage.

Reaper Necromancer

The ideal build if you want to personally sweep through the demons as the Grim Reaper. Reaper summons a spectral scythe, making enemies vulnerable when hit. Together with the new passive ability Affliction, you increase your damage inflicted even further. The build works completely without uniques and is easy to build with the codex. Ideal for beginners.

Soul Rift Necromancer

The new Soul Rift ability does exactly what the name suggests: you rip the souls from your opponents and use them to create essence using the right unique. You spend it on a bone spirit, which then ensures more resource generation. You then use a rune word to trigger overwhelm almost continuously, which accounts for your main damage.

Chain Lightning Wizard

Your chain lightning bolts jump back and forth between you and a single enemy or between multiple enemies, releasing crackling energy. With every jump the lightning becomes stronger. You simply let your lightning bolts jump and in the meantime run to the end of the dungeon.

Ball lightning wizard

One of the favorites of many magicians for many seasons: you let several ball lightnings float around you and attract enemies to you with the robe of the infinite. So you have the enemies comfortably tied to you and fry them with your lightning balls.

B Tier: The solid midfield

In the B tier you will find builds that are partly experimental or have weaknesses with certain content. Some of them are strong against mob groups but useless against bosses. The builds here are weaker than in higher tiers, but they have great potential, especially together with other players who can leverage their weaknesses.

C Tier: Off-meta builds for more choice

With builds in the C tier you can still master the endgame without any problems, but you just won’t get quite as far as with builds in higher tiers. The idea here is builds that are a little more flexible and offer more choice without having to completely sacrifice strength. If you’re just looking for fun and just want to slaughter a few demons, you can access this without hesitation.

F Animal: Stay away!

We generally advise against the builds in this tier. As things currently stand, you won’t really get very far with them and it’s usually not worth investing gold or time in them – unless you really want to play them. They might be good enough to reach the endgame, but after that they’ll struggle.

All Season 6 content is free, but many builds are only really strong with rune words – and you can only get them if you own Vessel of Hatred. Our overview shows what you have access to if you don’t buy the expansion: Season 6 and Vessel of Hatred appear at the same time – What can I play for free, what costs money?