Having the highest damage will undoubtedly speed up your character leveling in Diablo 4 at launch, so we show you the Best DPS builds for Rogue, Barbarian, Necromancer, Sorcerer, and Druid!

Diablo 4 Launch Highest Damage Build for All Classes

Every one of these Diablo 4 Highest Damage Builds for Launch is easy to put together, insanely powerful, and can perform really well even before you get those legendaries that will take it to the next level, which is going to make them perfect for the launch.

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1. Rogue Highest DPS Build: Bow Rogue (S Tier)

With this penetrating shot Rogue, you'll be able to delete entire screens full of enemies with a single shot and it's going to feel amazing doing it, best part is you're using a bow so you can maintain your distance the entire time. Fortunately for the Rogue, its resource generates all the time whether or not it's basic attacking any enemies which is going to make it perfect for rounding up enemies before unloading your penetrating shot. The bow Rogue is the closest thing we have to a boson from days past, so if you found yourself craving that play style check this one out. The build will slow enemies create gaps and unload on them before they can reach you. It takes a little longer to feel really good than some of the other builds on this list thanks to its Reliance on its imbuement ability, but once everything starts clicking together it becomes one of the fastest screen clears of the bunch. On top of that it's one of the only true range builds on the list and one of the only bow builds in the game, so it's going to be really fun to see what kind of beast we can turn this into.  

Skills:

• Basic Skills: Forceful Arrow -> Enhanced Forceful Arrow -> Primary Forceful Arror, Stutter Step

• Core Skills: Penetrating Shot -> Enhanced Penetrating Shot -> Improved Penetrating Shot

• Agility Skills: Caltrops -> Enhanced Caltrops -> Disciplined Caltrops

• Subterfuge Skills: Concealment -> Enhanced Stealth - > Countering Stealth

• Imbuement Skills: Shadow Imbuement -> Enhanced Shadow Imbuement -> Blended Shadow Imbuement

• Ultimate Skills: Rain of Arrows -> Prime Rain of Arrows -> Supreme Rain of Arrows

Legendary Aspects:

• Accelerating Aspect

• Conceited Aspect

• Smiting Aspect

• Aspect of Cruel Sustenance

• Toxic Alchemist’s Aspect

Codex of Power:

• Fractured Peaks: Aspect of the Protector, Energizing Aspect, Eluding Aspect

• Scosglen: Aspect of Arrow Storms, Aspect of Inner Calm, Cheat’s Aspect, Aspect of the Expectant, Edge master's Aspect, Ravenous Aspect

• Dry Steppes: Rapid Aspect, Trickster's Aspect, Aspect of Unstable Imbuements, Aspect of Might

• Hawezar: Trickshot Aspect

• Kehjistan: Aspect of Corruption, Vengeful Aspect

2. Barb Highest DPS Build: Whirlwind Barbarian (A Tier)

The Barbarians saw a lot of people complaining about its power in the first beta, but honestly, we never felt that problem. This Whirlwind Barb chewed through enemies - the Butcher and Ashava like they were nothing. This Whirlwind Barb is going to be an incredibly simple and satisfying build style here, if you've ever wanted to be able to hold down a button and kill everything on the screen, this is the perfect build for you. We take Whirlwind as well as a few abilities that buff our Whirlwind to allow our Whirlwind to do Insane damage. Everything about this build is in service to the spin to win and it works out fantastically. The Whirlwind Barb along with many of the Builds on this list is shaping up to be one of the strongest endgames builds in the game, it's going to have amazing damage output thanks to being able to wear four different Legendary Weapons two of which are two-handed meaning that they get double the aspect's normal effect. Combine that with the fact that it's got some great damage mitigation abilities and passives the Whirlwind Barb is definitely going to be one of the community favorites. 

Skills:

• Basic Skills: Lunging Strike -> Enhanced Lunging Strike -> Combat Lunging Strike

• Core Skills: Whirlwind -> Enhanced Whirlwind -> Violent Whirlwind

• Defensive Skills: Rallying Cry -> Enhanced Rallying Cry -> Tactical Rallying Cry

• Brawling Skills: War Cry -> Enhanced War Cry -> Power War Cry

• Weapon Mastery Skills: Death Blow -> Enhanced Death Blow -> Fighter’s Death Blow, Pit Fighter

• Ultimate Skills: Call of the Ancients -> Prime Call of the Ancients -> Supreme Call of the Ancients

Legendary Aspects:

• Aspect of the Crowded Sage

• Aspect of Might

• Smiting Aspect

• Aspect of Berserk Fury

• Bold Chieftain’s Aspect

• Conceited Aspect

• Starlight Aspect

• Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind

• Dust Devil’s Aspect

Codex of Power:

• Fractured Peaks: Aspect of the Protector, Eluding Aspect

• Scosglen: Aspect of the Expectant, Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind, Ghostwalker Aspect

• Dry Steppes: Aspect of the Umbral, Rapid Aspect, Aspect of Berserk Ripping

• Kehjistan: Aspect of Echoing Fury

3. Highest DPS Sorc Build: Fireball Sorcerer Build (A Tier)

The sorcerer's class system is going to enable many build possibilities and you can swap skills in and out of it on the fly free of charge meaning you can lean into AOE or single Target damage anytime you want without any respect costs involved. Fire sorcerer is specialized in clearing the entire screen with a single ability, the ability we chose was the Fireball which does significant damage in a large area that area grows the farther you are from your Target also you can pair this ability with its enchantment which causes enemies to explode in a ball of fire upon dying. The Frost Nova ability is going to allow us to instantly freeze everything on the screen, this is especially handy when you consider all the damage multipliers that are unlocked the second we do this to our enemies, they are now Frozen, crowd-controlled, vulnerable, all of these things. So we can dip into multiple different types of damage multipliers for each of those statuses to absolutely wreck a screen full of enemies all at once and we do exactly that through gear passives and more. It can take advantage of a lot of easy-to-grab codex aspects to really crank up its demon-slaying power early on making it a fantastic launch letter build that can take you all the way to the end game.  If you like the idea of incinerating everything on the screen with a single Fireball or melting them with Inferno, this build might be as fun for you. 

Skills:

• Basic Skills: Frost Bolt -> Enhanced Frost Bolt -> Flickering Frost Bolt

• Core Skills: Fireball -> Enhanced Fireball -> Destructive Fireball, Devastation

• Defensive Skills: Frost Nova -> Enhanced Frost Nova -> Mystical Frost Nova, Glass Cannon

• Conjuration Skills: Hydra -> Enhanced Hydra -> Summoned Hydra

• Weapon Mastery Skills: Meteor -> Enhanced Meteor -> Wizard’s Meteor

• Ultimate Skills: Inferno -> Prime Inferno -> Supreme Inferno

• Passive: Esu’s Ferocity

Legendary Aspects:

• Smiting Aspect

• Conceited Aspect

• Exploiter’s Aspect

• Aspect of Binding Embers

• Everliving Aspect

• Aspect of Shattered Stars

• Serpentine Aspect

• Shattered Aspect

Codex of Power:

• Fractured Peaks: Aspect of the Protector, Eluding Aspect

• Scosglen: Edgemaster’s Aspect, Aspect of the Expectant, Aspect of Efficiency

• Dry Steppes: Aspect of Might, Aspect of the Umbral, torm Swell Aspect, Rapid Aspect, Elementalist’s Aspect

• Hawezar: Aspect of Three Curses, Aspect of Singed Extremities, Prodigy’s Aspect

• Kehjistan: Aspect of the Unwavering

4. Necromancer Highest DPS Build: Bone Spear Undead Army Necro (B Tier)

The Undead Army build is easily one of the funniest builds so far, it is crazy powerful and it has such a unique playstyle that it just really added to the fun of it all. The premise behind this build is to essentially build up a literal Army of the dead and make it as big and strong as we can. We combine the wrecking ball of an army with our bone spear ability - bone spear is going to be used to delete enemies at will while corpse explosion is going to be used as a follow-up to decimate everything that DARE stands in our path. This necro utilizes some really cool passives, we're going to be able to use corpse explosion to generate resources and lots of them. Whether it be to generate resources or to spend them on everything, we're doing feels good all the time. Meanwhile, anything that doesn't die to our bone spear and our corpse explosion gets mopped up by minions without us having to ask. All in all, the necro minion build looks to be one of the most unique in the game, while other classes can have a handful of minions following them around, with the necro you'll be able to have close to 20 minions following you at any time, these minions also distract enemies, which means when your army is up fully summoned most things will be attacking your army and not you, leaving you to rain down damage on them with your bone Spears and corpse explosions. If you ever found yourself missing the necro play style from Diablo 2, this is the class for you and if you've never tried a necro from Diablo 2 definitely give this one a go at some point.

Skills:

• Basic Skills: Bone Splinters -> Enhanced Bone Splinters -> Initiate’s Bone Splinters

• Core Skills: Bone Spear -> Enhanced Bone Spear -> Supernatural Bone Spear, Hewed Flesh

• Corpse & Macabre Skills: Corpse Explosion -> Enhanced Corpse Explosion -> Plagued Corpse Explosion, Grim Harvest

• Corpse & Macabre Skills: Corpse Tendrils -> Enhanced Corpse Tendrils -> Blighted Corpse Tendrils

• Ultimate Skills: Blood Wave -> Prime Blood Wave -> Supreme Blood Wave

Legendary Aspects:

• Aspect of Hardened Bones

• Aspect of Frenzied Dead

• Aspect of the Embalmer

• Aspect of Ultimate Shadow

• Blood Getter’s Aspect

• Tidal Aspect

• Viscous Aspect

Codex of Power:

• Fractured Peaks: Aspect of the Protector, Aspect of Torment

• Scosglen: Aspect of Inner Calm, Aspect of Reanimation, Requiem Aspect

• Dry Steppes: Splintering Aspect, Aspect of Potent Blood, Fastblood Aspect

• Hawezar: Fastblood Aspect

• Kehjistan: Hulking Aspect, Aspect of Grasping Veins

5. Druid Highest DPS Build: Pulverize Shapeshift Druid

This Druid is all-around build, it's a shapeshifting, earth-bending, Hulk-smashing, companion summoning, wrecking ball. With this build, we're going to take storm strike for some nice cleave damage that also applies a vulnerable debuff, it just feels great to have a bit of cleave in our basic attack. We'll be using it a lot to generate our spirit as a druid so it's really important to find a basic attack that feels good. For our core ability, we're going to lean on Pulverize, this is our Hulk smash ability, it's basically got a 12-second charge-up period where if you wait the full 12 seconds, it's a guaranteed overpower that can hit for insane amounts of damage usually this is enough damage to delete everything on your screen when you fire it off. We can complement this with a really satisfying defensive ability Earthen Bulwark, this does a bunch of things all at once it turns us into a walking explosion that detonates after a short time, and it also absorbs incoming damage for the duration all of these things make it perfect for pairing up with our pulverized attack because we want to walk into the middle of huge groups of mobs when we use our pulverize. The gameplay of the Druid is probably best described as a walking freight train, he's an Unstoppable Force deleting immovable objects, rounding up enemies while your pulverized charges, and then unleashing it to delete them all. 

Skills:

• Basic Skills: Storm Strike -> Enhanced Storm Strike -> Fierce Storm Strike

• Core Skills: Pulverize -> Enhanced Pulverize -> Raging Pulverize, Landslide -> Enhanced Landslide -> Primal Landslide, Heart of the Wild, Wild Impulses

• Defensive Skills: Earthen Bulwark -> Enhanced Earthen Bulwark -> Innate Earthen Bulwark

• Companion Skills: Ravens -> Enhanced Ravens -> Ferocious Ravens, Poison Creeper -> Enhanced Poison Creeper -> Ferocious Poison Creeper

• Ultimate Skills: Cataclysm -> Prime Cataclysm -> Supreme Cataclysm

Legendary Aspects:

• Aspect of the Crowded Sage

• Conceited Aspect

• Smiting Aspect

• Aspect of the Stampede

• Earthguard Aspect

• Shockwave Aspect

Codex of Power:

• Fractured Peaks: Eluding Aspect, Aspect of the Protector

• Scosglen: Aspect of Inner Calm, Edgemaster’s Aspect, Ballistic Aspect, Crashstone Aspect, Aspect of Quicksand, Aspect of the Expectant

• Dry Steppes: Rapid Aspect, Aspect of Mending Stone, Shepherd’s Aspect, spect of Retaliation, Aspect of Might

• Hawezar: Aspect of the Ursine Horror