Season 15 Week 1 Guide Updates & Thoughts
Season 15: Hell's Legacy was released a week ago! With that in mind, it's time for the Maxroll Team to share their Season 15 Week 1 thoughts, findings, and guide updates!

Updated Tier Lists
Of course, the Maxroll Team followed the game very carefully and updated our Tier Lists accordingly!

Updated Build Guides
Since the Season 15 start, the Maxroll Team has worked hard to keep updated Build Guides for every Diablo 4 class with all the information discovered live!
Find all the Build Guides and search for your favorite here!
Barbarian
To absolutely no one's surprise, it's another Season of spinning, and if you were to ask the average Barbarian what they're playing, it's more than likely Whirlwind. Not much needs to be said about it at this point, since it's been dominating the speedfarm meta for several seasons now and somehow seems to get even better as time passes. If you're looking for something different, though, there's actually a lot of old favorites that have gotten buffed significantly this Season, such as Hammer of the Ancients and Upheaval. Even Leapquake has made a return, although it is admittedly a shell of its former pre-expansion self. For high Tower clears, it's certainly looking like Flame Charge will take the crown again, as we're finally starting to see players put up times at the start of week 2.
— Snail
Druid
Season 15 had a lot of changes for Druid, with nerfs to powerful sets like Storm Shepherd. The new Runewords Griefed the Druid community with another infinite damage bug, which Blizzard promptly addressed in a hotfix. All in all, builds like Lacerate are performing well, just like other high performers like Tornado, Shred, and Landslide. The class needs a bit of love to be tuned correctly, but that does not hinder you from clearing everything in the game with ease.
— Avarilyn
Necromancer
For Necro's it's just another season of Blood Wave... Or is it? The changes to the Rathma set has seen a massive boost to Minion builds, especially Mage Minions. Whether you're going full sweat mode with Singularity, or enjoying a more laid back play style, minion builds of all types are enjoying a super easy Seasons Journey and pushing experience.
Paladin
You might have heard rumblings about Paladin being the weakest class, but contrary to belief, it's got a ton of fast and fun builds that easily shred endgame content in Season 15. We've been having a blast with the familiar Retribution/Thorns-based builds like Shield of Retribution and Shield Charge, but there's been quite a few surprises as well, including Fist of the Heavens, Auradin, and Divine Lance. Truth be told, you can pick almost any skill right now and it's gonna feel great, and this is arguably the Season to login to Paladin if you haven't recently.
— Snail
Rogue
The Rogue has remained extremely balanced, with multiple builds performing well. The same outliers as we had in Season 15 continue to perform the best, with Poison Penetrating Shot being at the top, and Cold Rain of Arrows being just behind it, which are currently topping the Tower Leaderboards. Poison Builds in general is the flavour of the month due to various Imbuement Potency buffs, and the new powerful Abyssal Splinter of Hellfire. However, due to certain bugs, not all Poison-related issues were addressed, and the builds are performing slightly worse than we expected based on the 3.2.1 patch notes.
— Avarilyn
Sorcerer
Sorcerers are playing with Fire(wall) for one more Season. The Pyromancy-only restriction that was placed on the build did little to reduce its overall damage, but, unfortunately, the build became even clunkier than before. Luckily, Phoenix Runeword came at the last moment to save it, almost bringing the build back to the Season 13 level, where everything on the screen evaporated the moment your little toe touched the Ring of Fire. Other builds, such as Blizzard/Ice Spikes and Meteor received nice little buffs and can competently clear endgame, but in raw DPS, they are still far behind Firewall.
— Northwar
Spiritborn
Spiritborn enjoyers have much to look forward to this season: All in all, the entire class moved up by a decent amount going into Season 15 while offering a lot more variety. After two seasons of uncontested Counterswarm dominance, the Tzic bug is finally gone, with many buffs across all skill archetypes to compensate, and the massive Spirit Hall tag issues that plagued the class since 3.0 have been addressed. This led to Rod of Kepeleke-based builds making a huge comeback, with Stinger even moving up all the way to S-tier! Unfortunately, some build types like Potency skills (Payback, Razor Wings) and thorns are still dragging behind despite recent buffs, and hopefully get more dev attention in the future.
— Wudijo
Warlock
Warlock is just as strong as we thought it would, if not stronger. Multiple Tower 150 builds with a lot of wiggle room to change your builds for easier speedfarming or super tanky setups. While Blazing Scream and Hellfire in general are at the forefront of the meta, there are a lot of interesting options across the other archetypes of Abyss and Minions. Just remember, for Stone of Jordan enjoyers, your highest resistance needs to match your damage type, which can be hard with certain combinations of splinters.
What's Up Recently?
Future Plans
We hope you'll enjoy the Season of Hell's Legacy with the aid of our Season 15 update. Our focus for the start of Season 15 is to make sure our Build Guides are solid with all the new item updates, new features, and mechanic changes. We're continuing to work on more updates for D4Planner!
If you haven't already, head over to our Discord to stay up to date with our content development.
Written by: Avarilyn
Contributions by: Maxroll D4 Team



