Diablo 4 Season 10 Tier List - Best Class & Builds (2.4.0)

Season 10 of Diablo 4, also known as the Season of Chaos (or Infernal Chaos), is set to bring dramatic shakeups to the class and build meta. With the upcoming PTR and official patch notes, players can expect new chaos perks, reworked uniques, and sweeping buffs and nerfs that will push many builds into new territory. Here’s a comprehensive look at what’s changing, which classes are rising, and the top builds to watch.

What's New in Diablo 4 Season 10?

Season 10 introduces the Infernal Hordes mechanic, a focus on chaos armor (with items like the Affidian Iris amulet now available on other slots), and chaos perks that redefine build strategies. This means you can equip powerful effects in new slots, opening up your amulet for more offensive options and shifting the meta dramatically.

Lightning is poised to be a major theme thanks to the new lightning ring, but fire-based skills like Fireball have also received substantial buffs. Hydra has been nerfed, but its new seasonal power and synergy with mana-focused perks make it unexpectedly powerful. Many basic skills and AoE-centric abilities (like Fireball, Lightning Spear, Frozen Orb, and Blizzard) are now much more viable for dealing with hordes.

New chaos powers, like Mana Shield and A Beast Cornered, allow for wild max-mana scaling or low-life, high-barrier playstyles. These powers can supercharge builds that scale off mana or benefit from missing life, adding a new layer of strategy and build diversity.

How the Season 10 Changes Affect the Meta?

The chaos armor system lets players equip unique items in non-traditional slots (for example, moving an amulet unique to pants or gloves), which means more flexibility and potential for stacking powerful effects. Chaos perks (unique, legendary, rare, and magic) provide additional build customization and can dramatically increase damage, survivability, or resource generation.

Hydra builds, for example, lost some raw power with the Serpentine Aspect nerf, but can now use Mana Shield to reach up to 15,000 max mana, which more than makes up for the lost scaling. Build-defining powers like Mard Guard and A Beast Cornered enable new low-life, high-damage strategies.

Other builds, such as basic attack builds and many AoE skills, are now much stronger due to the ability to stack new seasonal effects and benefit from higher resource pools. Lightning builds in particular stand out due to new gear like Galvanic Azerite and buffs to Crackling Energy and Lightning Spear.

Diablo 4 Season 10 Class Tier List (2.4 PTR)

With all the reworks, buffs, and new chaos powers, the meta is shifting. Here’s where each class is expected to land:

S Tier

• Sorcerer: Bolstered by Mana Shield chaos perk, massive mana scaling, and the ability to move key uniques to new slots. Hydra, Fireball, Charge Bolts, and Lightning Spear are all strong.

• Druid: Multiple viable builds including Spiritborn, Pulverize, Poison Puddle, Flesh Render, and Companion Druid. Wild Transformation chaos power and new gear options like Kilt of Blackwing push Druid to the top.

• Necromancer: Shadow Blight and Bloodwave remain strong, especially with new chaos perks and the ability to stack darkness skills for huge damage bursts.

A Tier

• Rogue: Twisting Blades still sits at the top for Rogue, but changes to Azure Wrath and chaos perks slightly reduce last season’s dominance. Grenade and reload mechanics could bring new playstyles.

• Barbarian: Bleed builds and Mighty Throw are stronger due to expertise changes, new unique gear, and reworked aspects. Sabre Earth Seagull offers new ways to stack damage.

Diablo 4 Season 10 Build Tier List (2.4 PTR)

Top S Tier Builds

Hydra Sorcerer (Mana Shield)

Despite nerfs to Serpentine Aspect, the Mana Shield chaos perk allows Hydra builds to scale to unprecedented levels by leveraging massive max mana. With chaos uniques now available in multiple slots, players can combine effects like Affidian Iris and Fractured Winterglass for potent conjuration mastery and damage buffs. The only caveat is the change to lucky hit resource generation, making mana sustain the main challenge, but high intelligence and chaos perks help offset this.

Fireball Sorcerer

Fireball’s damage nearly doubled this season, making it exceptional for clearing hordes. Endless Rage on chaos pants maxes out Fireball’s chance to cast twice, freeing up other gear slots for survivability or additional offense. This build excels in horde farming and can be built for comfort or maximum damage, depending on gear choices.

Spiritborn Druid

Spiritborn remains a top contender, especially with the new chaos perks—A Beast Cornered and Mard Guard—providing huge bonuses for low-life play. The new eagle power allows for more flexible skill usage and massive storm feather output, making the build faster and more effective.

Flesh Render & Companion Druid

Flesh Render gains new power with the ability to trigger from autocast skills, enabling defensive skills to create huge explosions. Companion Druid benefits from new unique items and chaos perks that turn companion skills into core skills, boosting their power and summoning huge flocks of ravens for devastating attacks.

Shadow Blight Necromancer

Shadow Blight gets a huge bump in potential damage thanks to changes in the Wither node and stacking blighted aspects. Chaos perks can create chaotic bursts that deal shadow damage and critical strike, stacking with all the new bonuses for potentially trillion-damage hits.

A Tier Builds

Twisting Blades Rogue

Twisting Blades remains Rogue’s strongest build, with new chaos perks adding interesting mechanics like random imbuments and the potential for double hits. However, nerfs to Azure Wrath and changes to lucky hit scaling slightly reduce its ceiling compared to last season.

Mighty Throw & Bleed Barbarian

Barbarian gets access to new gear and aspect reworks that make bleed and mighty throw builds more consistent and powerful. The Sabre Earth Seagull unique provides a way to scale damage with multiple offensive skills, and expertise changes make bleed builds more reliable.

Charge Bolts Sorcerer

Charge Bolts is now heavily supported through chaos perks, aspect reworks, and gear like Staff of Lamessin and Acidor’s Overflowing Cameo. Damage buffs and more consistent targeting make Charge Bolts a strong alternative to Hydra.

Honorable Mentions & Build Diversity

Lightning-based Sorcerer builds will see more play due to buffs and new gear like the Galvanic Azerite ring. Blizzard, Frozen Orb, and Incinerate Sorc builds are also much improved. For Druids, poison and pulverize builds benefit from bug fixes and chaos perks, while the new wild transformation offers unique hybrid play.

Necromancer’s Bloodwave build gets a boost from overpower damage bonuses, and Blight Necro benefits from the ability to stack darkness skills for massive shadow damage.

Rogue’s new reload mechanic and grenade builds could become sleeper hits, while Barbarian’s new expertise and aspect changes open up new bleed-oriented strategies.