Diablo 4 Chaos Perks

Diablo fans, with the 2.5.0 PTR concluded, the release of Season 11 is drawing ever closer, and it's time to prepare.

Through the 2.5.0 PTR, we learned about some potential changes in Diablo 4. While the core gameplay remains the same, many important gear mechanics have been completely overhauled, such as Tempering and Masterworking, the new Tower event, a brand-new season system, and a series of class balance adjustments.

Here, we review and summarize the changes that occurred during the PTR, especially the performance of each class in Season 11, and rank the relative strength of the current strongest builds.

However, we must make a disclaimer: the above content is based on PTR, meaning that many things are likely to change or be adjusted before the official release. Nevertheless, this will still give you a general understanding of the powerful builds the developers plan to create and the high-level gameplay that will emerge in the new season.

Furthermore, since The Tower replaced The Pits as a new endgame event in Season 11, the new standard for measuring strength in this class tier list will no longer be The Pits, but The Tower.

The Tower operates very similarly to The Pit, even sharing the same difficulty level, and it comes with its own complete leaderboard system. This means we can at least see the specific strength of different classes through data.

6. Rogue

First, let's start with the lowest completion record on the Tower leaderboard, which belongs to Rogue.

Rogue is currently in a very awkward position. Frankly, I think Rogue is the class most likely to receive significant changes after the release of Season 11, because in the early PTR, Dance of Knives build was too powerful, almost breaking the game balance and completely crushing the top events of The Pits and The Tower.

And this powerful force stemmed from the new legendary item centered around Dance of Knives, Death's Pavane. However, the official patch fixed this issue, which is why Dance of Knives build performed poorly in most subsequent dungeon events.

In the PTR, the strongest Rogue build is Death Trap Rogue, with the highest clear count on The Tower Leaderboard being 94 floors. The Trap Rogue build has held the top spot for several seasons, so seeing it replace Dance of Knives' dominance is truly regrettable.

That said, I've seen some top players experiment with various skill combinations, such as Heartseeker and even Twisting Blades. Therefore, Rogue still has a chance to avoid being forever stuck in Death Trap.

5. Sorcerer

Next, let's talk about Sorcerer class, currently the most efficient tower clearer, with a clear level of 103. However, Sorcerer is also in a somewhat awkward position now. Teleport Enchantment mechanism has been completely nerfed, so you can no longer have the super-fast teleportation ability as before.

In addition, Sorcerer's actual damage output was significantly inflated by Chaos Perks last season. Now that Chaos Powers have been removed, Sorcerer's strength has dropped considerably.

However, on the other hand, we've gained a brand new and unique piece of equipment for Sorcerer: Orsivane. This equipment is incredibly powerful, granting any defensive skill not on the skill bar a corresponding enchantment effect.

Furthermore, these off-skill defensive skills also receive a damage bonus, allowing Sorcerers to reduce reliance on actual defensive skills on the skill bar and enabling some very interesting playstyles through enchantments.

But these benefits cannot compensate for the loss of Chaos Perks, nor can they undo the overpowered Teleport Enchantment. Therefore, compared to before, Sorcerer is currently in a more difficult position.

Currently, the best-performing Sorcerer build on Tower Leaderboard is Crackling Energy & Lightning Spear. This is a classic Sorcerer build, featuring numerous lightning bolts streaking across the screen, piercing enemies, and significantly boosting Crackling Energy damage with Esadora's Overflowing Cameo enchantment. Combined with Galvanic Azurite Unique Ring, it generates even more energy, further enhancing its damage.

In addition, Frozen Orb build also looks competitive, and with the rework of Sorcerer's exclusive Diablo 4 items, the potential damage of Frozen Orb can be greatly increased.

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4. Necromancer

Next in fourth place is Necromancer, whose highest clear time is also a level 103 tower, but about 7 seconds faster than Sorcerer's record. Therefore, currently, these two classes are very close in strength.

Last season, Necromancer's Blood Wave build performed exceptionally well, mainly due to its exclusive Chaos Perks, which allowed its ultimate ability to be converted into a core ability. However, with the removal of these Chaos Perks, the relative strength of Blood Wave build has decreased.

Currently, Necromancer build, centered around Shadowblight passive ability, dominates the leaderboard and has maintained considerable strength for several seasons.

However, a new build is emerging: Golem Necromancer. This build utilizes Necromancer's new and unique item - Gravebloom - which replaces your single Golem with three smaller Golems. These smaller Golems deal up to 60% more damage and have a 30% bonus attack speed. Furthermore, it speeds up Golem respawns.

But frankly, the most crucial element is that one of the affixes grants Golems a chance to attack twice, which is vital for boosting the build's damage output; combined with two Golem Mastery points, this build has received a significant boost in Diablo 4 Season 11.

3. Druid

Next up is third place today, Druid build that cleared 105 floors of the tower.

For Druid builds, Cataclysm has been consistently strong over the past few seasons, sometimes even ranking among the best builds in its class. Its core gameplay revolves around the concept of Snapshotting.

Snapshotting involves pre-preparing and activating a series of buffs that increase the damage of your next skill, then waiting a specific time to apply these buffs to a long-duration skill, repeating this process over and over. Therefore, you can permanently activate all buffs to enhance a single skill.

The main reason Cataclysm builds consistently rank among the top Druid builds is the rework of Melted Heart of Selig. It now provides a 3% bonus to maximum resources based on your primary attribute. This synergizes with Druid's Ancestral Guidance Paragon Node, allowing you to increase damage after expending resources. More importantly, when casting an ultimate skill, each Spirit you possess increases ultimate skill damage by 1%.

With the new Melted Heart of Selig and its mechanics, you can easily acquire approximately 10,000 resources. Combining these two points, it's easy to understand why this build is so powerful.

2. Spiritborn

Next is Spiritborn, whose highest clear record on the leaderboard is 109 floors, achieved using Evade Eagle Spiritborn build.

This Evade Eagle build has consistently been among the top builds in Spiritborn class since its inception. However, it excels more at fast farming than high-intensity endgame activities, as it progresses extremely quickly throughout the overall game content.

Regardless, its damage output is the highest of all builds in the class. This is partly because it's the only top-tier Spiritborn build that can effectively utilize Aspect of Unyielding Hits. This aspect provides a weapon damage bonus based on your total armor value. Furthermore, due to the redesigned armor system, this build easily achieves extremely high armor values ​​in the late game.

1. Barbarian

Finally, currently ranked number one is Barbarian. But before delving deeper into this section, we must state that the current Barbarian build will not be released in PTR for the live version.

Barbarian is the only class to have cleared more than 109 floors on the Tower Leaderboard, with a current highest clear count of 124 floors. The main reason for this is similar to the Druid situation we discussed earlier.

Barbarian benefits immensely from the reworked Melted Heart of Selig. Furthermore, the class's biggest advantage is that each point in primary attribute translates into an additional 3% of maximum resource value. Since Barbarian has four weapon slots, two of which are two-handed weapons, it can achieve the highest primary attribute damage of any class.

In addition, it has two sources of damage bonuses that are not capped. The first bonus applies to most Barbarian builds: Ramaladni's Magnum Opus, a unique one-handed sword that grants a damage bonus based on current resource value when using abilities. From a few hundred resources to tens of thousands from Melted Heart of Selig, this significantly increases the damage bonus.

The other key bonus is Hammer of the Ancients ability itself, which is why HOTA Barbarian build far surpasses other builds on PTR. This skill provides additional critical strike damage and critical strike chance for every 10 resources you have at the time of casting, currently with no cap. This means thousands of resources can flood into this enhancement, and it can be amplified to an astonishing degree.

It is this combination that allows the Hammer of the Ancients build to easily reach T124. While this build won't be as dominant as before after the official release of Season 11, it will probably remain a mainstream build.

In any case, the above is a summary of the performance of each class in PTR, ranked according to their leaderboard results in Tower endgame event. But will their performance in Diablo 4 Season 11 be the same? Only time will tell!

Even as the youngest class in Diablo 4, Spiritborn has been around for over a year, resulting in numerous powerful builds created by players, who update these builds according to the season.

Different Spiritborn builds have different strengths; some focus on single-target damage, while others help you level up faster. However, for quickly clearing multi-layered endgame events like The Pit, Rake Spiritborn build is the most reliable.

Based on this, we'll show you how to craft this build in the still-running Diablo 4 Season 10 and utilize it to progress quickly within The Pit, farming more rewards.

Rake Spiritborn Build Overview

This build relies on a variety of unique items and Spiritborn-specific mechanic, Spirit Hall, to function. It excels at dealing AoE damage, making it better suited for dealing with groups of enemies rather than single bosses.

However, because it requires multiple damage-dealing gear, this build cannot be paired with enough armor, resulting in a lack of defensive capabilities.

Another tricky aspect of Rake Spiritborn Build is the need for precise timing of triggering various effects to maximize the value of skills and gear, making it somewhat difficult to use.

However, once you overcome these challenges, you can deal primary damage by triggering Jaguar's Spirit Hall multiple times per second, then utilize the stacking buffs from various gear to further increase damage output.

Building upon this, choosing Eagle as the secondary Spirit Hall increases clearing speed. Through continuous dodging and instant repositioning, you can quickly unleash burst damage, even in Torment 4 difficulty, rapidly clearing large groups of monsters.

As an additional reminder, the skill choices for this build in Season 10 can largely follow the strategies used in previous seasons, primarily including the following skills:

• Rake
• Ravager
• Armored Hide
• Vortex
• Toxic Skin
• The Hunter

Which Gear Is Needed?

As we've already mentioned, this build is gear-intensive, so you'd better follow our recommendations for farming and equipping Diablo 4 items, and don't easily change your item lineup.

Let's start from top to bottom, beginning with the helmet. Fortunately, Season 10 introduced Chaos Armor, so just choose the best Spiritborn-available Chaos Armor you can get - don't forget to add affixes that provide damage and agility boosts.

As for the chest armor, Razorplate is actually an essential item for the entire build to function. It can be obtained by farming the boss Lord Zir, and equipping it increases your Thorns damage.

For the gloves slot, we recommend Aspect of the Moonrise, which allows you to increase your attack speed by dealing damage to enemies. Combined with the massive damage from your abilities, you'll become a high-speed monster-killing machine on the field.

Here's a list of more gear pieces and the corresponding affixes or Masterworking effects:

• Pants - Harmony of Ebewaka (Chaos Armor version): Provides all attributes, movement speed, and damage reduction with advanced affixes.
• Boots - Hesha E Kesungi: The affix needs to increase the gorilla's skill level and attack speed, and reduce ultimate skill cooldown.
• Weapon - Aspect of Wild Claws: Ensures free damage and extra hit chance trigger.
• Amulet - Aspect of Adaptability: The affix needs to increase resource bonuses.
• Ring 1 - Aspect of Redirected Force: The affix needs to increase dexterity, maximum health, and overpower damage.
• Ring 2 - Aspect of Unyielding Hits: The affix needs to increase dexterity, elemental resistance, and damage, and reduce resource consumption and skill cooldown.

Besides the gear pieces mentioned above, another essential item is Rod of Kepeleke.

As a Spiritborn-exclusive quarterstaff, this gear's Chaos Armor version receives a 0.90% critical strike damage boost, allowing it to unleash even greater power when paired with other gear.

Best Chaos Perks

As another core seasonal mechanic of Season 10, every build available in that season should have a best Chaos Perks combination (maximum 4 can be combined.).

Combined Strikes

For Rake Spiritborn build, the core perk should be Combined Strikes. It allows core abilities to not only attack multiple times but also deal a 40% damage boost.

While this perk also increases the core ability cooldown by 10 seconds, the core ability cooldown is reset when the basic ability attacks for the third time based on Rod of Kepeleke.

This allows you to continuously unleash wide-area core abilities, combining damage and attack speed boosts to quickly clear enemy groups.

Brawn Over Brains

This perk instantly grants you 200% increased maximum health, 100% increased healing received, and 125% overpower damage. The downside is a 25% reduction in maximum resistances, with armor providing a maximum damage reduction of 60%.

While the reduced resistances make you more vulnerable, enemies will practically never get close, as your survivability and damage output are significantly increased, allowing you to eliminate enemies before the resistance debuff takes effect.

Unstable Power

This perk unleashes chaotic magic on your basic abilities, guaranteeing a Critically Strike and Overpower effect, while increasing damage output by 50-100%. However, there is a 3-second cooldown on this power.

Combined with Rod of Kepeleke, your core abilities are treated as basic abilities, thus guaranteeing all your spells will crit.

Back Off

When you cast any skill, this perk reduces damage taken by nearby enemies by 30% while increasing your damage to all other enemies by 100-200%, making it suitable for ranged combat.

Based on this, as long as you maintain a mid-to-long range from enemy groups and ensure accurate positioning, you can deal double damage to all enemies.

Practical Effect Of This Build

Pit of the Artificers is a timed endgame event that requires you to kill a sufficient number of enemies within 15 minutes to summon a boss. Only after killing the boss is a level completed, so speed and damage output are crucial.

While Rake Spiritborn Build is somewhat lacking in dealing with single-target bosses, our recommended crafting strategy is sufficient until level 140. After that, if you want to use this build to delve deeper into The Pit, you will need to upgrade your gear and affixes.

And it's not just effective at The Pit, Rake Spiritborn Build also performs well in clearing Infernal Hordes, which also have timed and progress bar mechanics, or in the high-monster-density Season 10 Chaos Rifts.

In short, whether you want to delve deeper into The Pit or farm more loot through Infernal Hordes after Compass to Carnage event begins, Rake Spiritborn Build will be very useful!