Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred Campaign

Diablo 4 Season 10 is an absolutely insane season. Chaos Perks and Chaos Armor are changing the build strategy this season, bringing some incredibly high-damage builds.

Currently, Raven Druid is incredibly popular on the PTR, as it can easily reach 150 The Pit. However, its near-infinite damage is because of a bug, a fairly serious one that will probably be fixed soon. Here's a recommended normal but strong build: Ball Lightning Sorcerer.

Diablo 4 Season 10 primarily buffs Lightning-related abilities. This build was already considered a Tier A build in Seasons 8 and 7, and the new unique item for Season 10 Sorcerer, Galvanic Azurite, further enhances this build, making this build potentially Tier S in Season 10.

Pros And Cons

In Diablo 4 Season 9, this build's strengths lie in its high damage and fast farming speed. It's particularly effective in situations with many enemies, such as Infernal Hordes and Chaos Rifts. It also offers decent survivability. Besides being able to teleport away from monsters, you can also use Chaos Perk, Mana Shield, to boost your survivability.

This build is even highly effective against bosses, as the immunity phase for all lair bosses (including Lilith) has been removed. Now, you can instantly kill them with high damage without having to wait for them to transition. Just unleash all your Ball Lightning upon the boss, and they'll be swiftly annihilated.

On the downside, besides requiring some resource management and a relatively high number of skills to unleash, you'll also need Mythic items to maximize your damage.

Skills

• Lightning Spear (Rank 1): Enchanted Lightning Spear and Invoked Lightning Spear
• Ball Lightning (Rank 5): Enchanted Ball Lightning and Mage's Ball Lightning
• Ice Blades (Rank 1): Enchanted Ice Blades and Invoked Ice Blades
• Unstable Currents (Rank 5): Prime Unstable Currents and Supreme Unstable Currents
• Familiar (Rank 1): Enchanted Familiar and Invoked Familiar
• Chain Lightning (Rank 1): Enchanted Chain Lightning and Destructive Chain Lightning
• Teleport (Rank 1): Enchanted Teleport and Shimmering Teleport
• Enchantment Slots: Teleport and Familiar

In fact, most lightning-related skills are worth using in Season 10, so the above skill options are not the only choices, and you can even make all your skills with lightning skills. If you think there is a better skills match, you can also use Diablo 4 gold to reset them.

The main use of this skill set is to spam Ball Lightning at enemies. Once you're surrounded by Ball Lightning, you can repeatedly teleport among monsters to deal damage. Unstable Currents provides useful buffs like attack speed, while Ice Blades makes your enemies vulnerable.

Chaos Perks

• Mana Shield (Sorcerer Unique): Your maximum health is reduced, and damage you take is first applied to mana, then to health. If you haven't taken damage in the past 4 seconds, your mana regeneration is increased by 5,000%. Your maximum mana is increased by 200-400%, and your Intelligence can be used instead of mana.
• Advanced Techniques (Sorcerer Rare): Your base core skill level increases mana cost or cooldown by 10% and further increases damage by 10-20%.
• Power Siphon (Rare): Your core abilities deal increased damage, but your maximum resource is reduced.
• Mana-Infused Conjurations (Sorcerer Legendary): Your spells are empowered, increasing damage by 30% (multiplicatively), but each cast costs 5 mana per second. Ice Blade attacks create bursts of energy around the target. Lightning Spear attacks have a 10% chance of spawning static ball lightning.

Chaos Perks address Sorcerer's survivability issues. With the massive shield provided by Mana Shield, even with half your maximum physical resistance, virtually no monster can penetrate it, making you practically a tank.

Mana-Infused Conjurations, on the other hand, leaves static ball lightning on the field after you cast Lightning Spear, damaging nearby enemies. This improves your Diablo 4 item farming efficiency.

Equipment

• Helm: Heir of Perdition (Nagu and Ohm)
• Chest Armor: Shroud of False Death (Cir and Vex)
• Gloves: Aspect of Inner Calm
• Pants: Banished Lord's Talisman (Topaz and Topaz)
• Boots: Crown of Lucion
• Amulet: Aspect of Tenuous Destruction
• Ring 1: Galvanic Azurite (Skull)
• Ring 2: Ring of Starless Skies (Skull)
• Weapon: Aspect of Shredding Blades (Ruby)
• Offhand: Strike of Stormhorn (Ruby)

Since Season 10 Sorcerer is more survivable than in previous seasons, the armor requirements for gear are less stringent, allowing you to focus more on attack speed and critical strike, which can boost your DPS.

This gear set requires three Mythic unique items, which is a bit of a burden for most players. Heir of Perdition provides a significant DPS and critical strike chance boost, while Ring of Starless Skies reduces resource consumption. These two Diablo 4 items are practically essential.

Before you get Shroud of False Death, you can use Raiment of the Infinite as a replacement. The unique item that enhances Teleport and improves your farming efficiency somewhat.

That's the basics of this build. When using this build, be mindful of mana consumption. Besides the mana regeneration provided by Legendary Diablo IV runes and glyphs, you can also use Elixir of Resourcefulness II to supplement your mana. However, as long as you have Ring of Starless Skies, you're pretty much covered. Currently, reaching 100 The Pit with this build is no problem.

With Diablo 4 Season 10 update now released and PTR now open, players still in Season 9 shouldn't worry too much. Season 10 officially begins in about a month, so you still have plenty of time.

Each season begins with adjustments to unique items, skills, and more, and Season 10 will also introduce Chaos Armors. These changes will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the season's meta. Let's have a look at how these classes are affected in Season 10 and which ones will emerge as the best.

Spiritborn

Recommended Builds:

• Storm Feathers Spiritborn Build (Eagle)
• Crushing Hand Spiritborn Build (Gorilla)

Spiritborn players have been incredibly dominant in Season 9, with Spiritborn players currently reaching 140 The Pit. The other classes haven't been able to break past 120 yet.

The most significant change Spiritborn received in season 10 was a rework of Eagle Main Hall, making Primary Jaguar Hall no longer Spirit's only option in the endgame. They also modified Jaguar skills so that their bonus hits no longer benefit from Aspect of Plains Power. Eagle skills have become much more useful after the remake, not only releasing feathers when using Eagle skills and dodging, but also making the target vulnerable.

Hesha e Kesungi (Unique Gloves), Spiritborn received in season 9, pairs well with Chaos Perks. Hesha e Kesungi enhances Spiritborn's Gorilla skills, while A Beast Cornered and Marred Guard combine with the shield granted by Gorilla skills to provide a 180% damage increase and significant survivability. Overall, Spiritborn has a lot of options in Season 10.

Druid

Recommended Builds:

• Pulverize Poison Puddle Druid Build
• Fleshrender Druid Build
• Companion Druid Build

Pulverize Poison Druid performed well in Season 9, reaching over 100 The Pit. However, because of the bug, this wasn't its strongest form. After Season 10 fixes this issue, it will undoubtedly become even more powerful.

Fleshrender Druid can also reach over 100 The Pit. In Season 10, Fleshrender unique item has received a tweak. Casting defensive skills and auto-casting skills now triggers its effect, dealing damage to nearby poisoned enemies.

Season 10 Druid-exclusive Chaos Perk, Wild Transformations, enhances Druid's transform skills. Every time Druid transforms, Fleshrender effect is triggered, resulting in significant damage.

Another Druid build worth noting is Companion Druid. In Season 9, players used this build to reach 116 The Pit. In Season 10, two items enhance Druid's companions. One is Chaos Perk, Savagery, which increases the size of the companion and increases its damage by 60%. The other is Kilt of Blackwing (Unique Pants), which summons a raven when you activate a companion's ability. Together, these two items provide a significant boost to Companion Druid.

Sorcerer

Recommended Builds:

• Hydra Sorcerer Build
• Lightning Nova Sorcerer Build
• Charged Bolts Sorcerer Build

In Season 9, Hydra Sorcerer build was everywhere. It was a dominant build, and it was certainly good enough. Season 10 new unique item, Galvanic Azurite, is a ring that works with Ophidian Iris.

However, Hydra Sorcerer did receive some nerfs. After consuming mana, the damage granted by Serpentine Aspect is reduced to one-third of its original value, and the mana restored by Lucky Shot has been changed from a percentage to a fixed amount, which makes it incompatible with Chao Perk, Mana Shield. Mana Shield significantly reduces health, but damage prioritizes mana over health, leaving it with extremely high mana regeneration and maximum mana when undamaged.

On the other hand, in Season 10's adjustments, the developers enhanced many Charged Bolts-related gameplay. Since Lightning Sorcerer build was already quite powerful, Charged Bolts Sorcerer is also worth trying.

Necromancer

Recommended builds:

• Shadowblight Necromancer build
• Bloodwave Necromancer build

Bloodwave and blight still dominated Season 9. Bloodwave Necromancer has been strong for several seasons. It's efficient at farming Diabo 4 gold and has decent survivability, so it's no surprise that it's in this spot.

The build that's expected to become even better in Season 10 is Shadowblight Necromancer. This is because of the remake of Wither Legendary Node, which no longer focuses solely on damage over time. All Shadow damage now has a chance to deal 300% bonus damage. This, combined with Shadow Blight's passive's 450% damage increase and other damage-boosting effects, creates a formidable damage boost.

Rogue

Recommended Builds:

• Poison Trap Rogue Build
• Death Trap Rogue

Poison Trap Rogue dominated the top spots in The Pit in Season 9, but overall, Rogue's ceiling isn't as high as other builds. Twisting Blades Rogue was one of the best end-game builds in Season 9, but its base damage has been nerfed.

Rogue's unique item, The Orphan Maker, now deals extremely high damage after reloading, and attack speed reduces reload time. So, to take advantage of this unique item, you'll need to stack attack speed and constantly spam monsters. This may have some advantages when farming Diablo 4 items, but overall, Rogue hasn't received any impressive improvements (including Chaos Perks).

Barbarian

Recommended Builds:

• Mighty Throw Barbarian Endgame Build
• Rend Bleed Barbarian Build
• Flay Barbarian Build

Mighty Throw Barbarian was quite powerful in Season 9, and it hasn't been nerfed in Season 10, so you can still play it. While Bleed has received significant enhance in Season 10.

First, Dual Wield Specialization no longer requires a kill to gain the 30% bleed damage bonus. Second, One Turn Rupture Aspect has been enhanced, increasing its explosion radius and increasing the duration of all bleed effects. Barbarian's Chaos Perk, Single-Minded Fury, also increases bleed duration by 200%. This makes Bleed Barbarian build quite worth trying in Season 10.

Barbarian's new unique weapon, Saber Earth Seagull, increases damage based on the number of damage-causing abilities equipped. Overall, it's a versatile item that can improve most builds.

Class Rank

• Tier S: Druid and Necromancer
• Tier A: Sorcerer
• Tier B: Spiritborn
• Tier C: Barbarian and Rogue

Druid and Necromancer received various enhances, while Sorcerer enhanced its lightning gameplay from Season 9. However, both builds rely heavily on Diablo 4 items to function. Although Spiritborn received a reworked Eagle Main Hall, the improvements were modest. Barbarian and Rogue's enhances aren't mainstream.

The above is a brief evaluation of each class in Season 10. Although Sorcerer, Necromancer, and Druid seem to have great potential based on the current information, other classes also have new gameplay worth exploring.