Finally it’s here Diablo III, after 12 years since Diablo II came out we finally have the next installment in the Diablo franchise. I’m going to talk about the classes in Diablo III and hopefully help you discover the Diablo III best class that you would like to use for your long quest to level 60.
Classes
Diablo III has 5 classes they are Barbarian,Demon Hunter, Monk, Witch Doctor, and Wizard. Diablo III only has the one returning character from Diablo II and that is the Barbarian. I’m going to give you a brief overview of the Diablo III classes which will help you decide which class is best for you.
Barbarian
– The barbarian is primarily a tanking class which will take lots of damage but more importantly will give high attacking type damage, has strong self buffs and strong self-healing abilities.
– You have 3 attack options 1 handed weapon plus shield, two-handed weapons, and dual wield. Weapon and shield gives you the added defense of the shield and not much of a damage difference than dual wield. Two-handed has powerful attacks with slower rate of attack and slower fury regeneration and dual wield gives you plus 15% attack speed bonus.
– Barbarian has nearly 40 skills to choose from with some of the best being rend, revenge, whirlwind, earthquake, and cleave. Cleave is a unique ability, which no other class has abilities like. It does very solid damage costs no fury and generates fury for your stronger abilities. You can also add runes to your skills to make them much stronger.
– Barbarian does have a couple of good buffs and the self-healing is good when you have it with a rune (10% of your max health when using a rune) but only has one party healing and that is war cry which adds 50% to party life and regenerates at 470 per second.
– The barbarian does not have much in the way of ranged abilities which is the barbarians main weakness. Barbarian does have ancient spear but because of the 10 second cool down makes it not worth equipping. Seismic slam has decent range but it has a fury requirement which means u can only use it a few times. Weapon throw cost fury to use and weapon throw is weak anyways.
– One of the barbarians main strengths is abilities to stun its opponents. Ground stomp stun’s its opponents for 4 seconds with a 12 second cool down, while rune leap can stun an opponent for 3 seconds with only a 10 second cool down.
Conclusion
The barbarian is the only surviving character from Diablo II and is the primary tanking class. The barbarian has great abilities and great self buffs and has no problem mowing down hoards of dungeon creatures. If you like to hack and slash this is defiantly the character for you to use. With limited ranged abilities this charter is great in player vs. environment but not so much for player vs. player, where mobility is a huge issue. I hope you enjoyed my review on the Diablo III best class.