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It is a fact. The success of Diablo IV is beyond doubt, something that we could expect taking into account the quality that is used to offering the franchise and the loyalty of its millions of fans Worldwide. But also, the fourth installment of such a legendary saga has been released with a great promotional campaign that has also managed to attract players who have never played Diablo before.
Those more rusty with the franchise or playing a Diablo for the first time may be overwhelmed by the depth of the characters, but everything is easier when you know the potential of each of the five classes. This guide is intended to help you create your perfect Diablo IV character, assuming that the perfect class does not existbecause Blizzard is in charge of balancing everything.
The perfect Diablo IV character will be the one you decide and enjoy playing with, no more, no less.
⚔️ Choose your first class well
Diablo IV allows us to create and customize a character to face the horrors that plague their lands. We can choose between the five Diablo IV classes, experiment with their equipment, and select their talents and abilities to fight against the darkness, but we will have to choose a first hero:
- Barbarian: Barbarians have unmatched strength and carry a weapon for every occasion. They utter menacing war cries to shake the approaching hordes.
Diablo IV Barbarian Guide: Characteristics, Abilities and Builds
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- Necromancer: Necromancers are devious summoners who command vengeful hordes of the undead. They channel their essence and use bone, blood, and shadow to defeat their enemies.
Diablo IV Necromancer Guide: Features, Abilities, and Builds
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- Druid: Druids are wild shapeshifters that transform to fight alongside other creatures. They control the power of the earth, the wind, and the storm, unleashing the wrath of nature with devastating effect.
Diablo IV Druid Guide: Features, Abilities, and Builds
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- Rogue: Rogues are agile fighters specialized in close and long-range combat. They are capable of defeating any enemy with their imbued weapons and powerful combos.
Diablo IV Rogue Guide: Features, Abilities, and Builds
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- Magician: Wizards control the elements to ensure victory. Mastery of the forces of nature, they unleash lightning bolts, impaling their opponents with spikes of ice, and unleashing flaming meteor showers to obliterate any foe.
Diablo IV Sorcerer Guide: Features, Abilities, and Builds
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📖 Define your playstyle with the skill tree
Diablo IV’s skill tree offers various playstyles for each class through abilities that appear as the character levels up. Skill points are in a node schema and are obtained by completing missions and getting zone rewards. Each class has access to basic, primary, and ultimate abilities, as well as key passives and other types of abilities unique to their class, such as companion, melee, subterfuge, and more.
- Basic abilities: Choosing a basic ability will be one of the first decisions you will have to make. These abilities offer additional effects such as generating resources, increasing mobility, or adding utility to your character. They have no cooldown or resource cost, so they are meant to spam continuously.
- Main skills: More powerful than the basic ones, they deal a lot more damage, cost class resources and will be necessary to execute offensive combos with your character.
- Ultimate Abilities: These abilities require a cooldown after use, but they channel immense power and devastate everything in their path.
- Passive Skills: Unlocked at level 32, they drastically change how your other abilities work, so you can adjust your playstyle with a unified goal as you unlock them.
🎯 Hone your skills with the legend panel
The legend panel is unlocked upon reaching level 50 and it is an “endgame” system focused on character growth and designed to enhance it even more if possible. As your character continues his journey to level 100, he will receive legend points. These points can be used to unlock new nodes, more legend panels, or even Nightmare Dungeon Glyphs, which amplify the power of nodes on a given legend panel.
🔥 Increase your power with equipment and crafting
Equipment is worth everything in Diablo IV and is constantly changing at first as you earn it. Of all the characteristics that can appear in the objects, the most suitable and effective for your character will be everything that increases its main attribute (Dexterity, Strength, Intelligence, etc). Those objects that do not interest you, it will always be better to recycle them than to sell them.
- Legendary Items: These powerful items have the ability to enhance or modify your abilities and provide other useful bonuses to your character. If you get a legendary item with a bonus that interests you but the other characteristics don’t, then you can extract that bonus from it to apply it to another one that suits your character.
- unique items: These items can define your game and character build. They are truly unique and interesting to obtain, but can only be obtained in the Nightmare and Torment world levels.
- Skill Rank Bonuses: Some gear items may contain a bonus that increases certain skills when equipped, which will not only boost skills you already have unlocked, but can also trigger new skills from your class tree.
Diablo IV offers many options for modifying items using the craft. You can change bonuses, increase the power of items, exchange legendary bonuses, and add slots to equipment parts. You can also collect gems and forge augmentations of them that will enhance both your equipment and your weapons with those characteristics that interest you the most.
In short, taking advantage of these qualities will always depend on you. Just remember that Diablo IV is test, test and test until you are completely satisfied, even if it is for a short time, because you can always find something better…