Are unconventional builds possible in D4?

[DAK]

I was reading up on Diablo 4, but it's not clear to me how much build diversity you have. In Diablo 2, there were many viable unconventional builds, which were entirely in line with the class's design. To name a few:

- bear sorceress
- melee sorceress
- tankazon
- ranger paladin
- shout barbarian

Is something like that possible in Diablo 4 as well? Or will the barbarian always swing axes and sorceress always cast spells?

[N1ck0]

Sarcasm is always music to my ears.

[N1ck0]

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[D-Black Catto]

shout barbarian is one of the valid way you can build your barbarain, tho shouts here are just buffs and debuffs, not damage dealing abilities

barbarian has four weapons at all times, two handed slashing, two handed bashing, and two one handed weapons that can be slashing or bashing; whether you chose to focus on one of them or make a build centered around swapping them mid combat is up to you

barbarian has some ranged damaging abilities, tho most his skill are in melee

there are also many other choices like do you want to focus on crowd control or single instance damage, or do you like damage over time, critical or overpowered, perhaps both, you can also make a nice build centered around dealing retaliation damage etc. the options are many

sorcs can fight in melee, sorc weapons are daggers, staves and wands. for sorc main dilemma is not ranged vs melee, but ice vs fire vs lightning

tbh you should just go on wiki and read about various skills and paragon boards and see how they work, the rpg system in this game is different from other arpgs

or just play the game and learn on the go. ignore trolls in this forum, they are alts of a single person who keeps getting banned all the time, tbh. better to ask on blizzard forums or diablo 4 subreddit

[N1ck0]

Hey, I'm not trolling man. I'm just finding the troll quite funny with his sarcasm.

To answer OP's question:

I always play unconventional builds, never follow any guides. It's viable with good gear that interacts with your main skills, even for Tier 4 Endgame.

BUT, it may get difficult against some Uber Bosses. Try to boost your HP and Resistances as much as possible.

But at worst, you'll only maybe need to co-op with someone for the more difficult Endgame challenges.

So yeah, unconventional is viable, as long as it's still coherent to some degree.

[Trip]

You can literally run any build in world tier 1. You can probably auto attack without assigning skills and win by picking your ewuip by "green arrow better hurr durr"

World tier 2 isn't much harder, and exists as something to make you wait through as you level up.

WT3 lasts till you get a sacred legendary for each item slot for season journey.

WT 4 is when the game "starts" and you can still use pretty much any build you want up to about nightmare dungeon 60 or infernal hordes 3.

After that you start whittling down what skills, aspects, and equips work.

By the time you get pit 150 or infernal 8 you have an extremely limited number of builds and paragon board/glyph selections that work. Unconventional builds quickly fall by the wayside, even if they are often very fun.

[Grampire]

Originally posted by Trip:

By the time you get pit 150 or infernal 8 you have an extremely limited number of builds and paragon board/glyph selections that work. Unconventional builds quickly fall by the wayside, even if they are often very fun.

I think it's worth pointing out that unconventional builds have always had a ceiling - really every build does. It's just that games like D2 didn't have content that really pushed your build that hard. There were no 150 pit and infernal horde tier 8's to go for.

So really this isn't much different than other Diablos. Though, I will admit there's still less build diversity in D4 than it's predecessors.