I might have agreed with this list had it been based on previous betas.
Not this latest one though. The Barb felt good - I was able to be mobile, keep myself in the fight, and had no issues with bosses. Not as mad dash insane as Rogue or Sorcerer but I could take a punch at least.
Barb is not unplayable or does so little dmg that it’s masochistic to play Barb. Barb is from my point ov view the weakest class right now in the up to level 20 test.
Personaly I’m no fan of DoTs because the enemys live far to long when they are already dead or you need to needlesly spend fury to kill them. The Barbs Bleed build works but it’s nothing to write home about on level 20 content.
Barb will for sure be better of later into the game but why should the way to the better place should be a terrible unfunf boring and sluggish way? I think a lot could’ve smoothend out by increasing the base dmg of some skill and reducing the scaling a bit to start out a bit stonger and don’t scale into the next 5 Nerfs… still while Rogue is beeing untouched 
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Nice! That is reassuring. I think itll be funny when everyone goes necro or sorc bc early game theyre top teir then when my barb finally gets to end game just demolishes haha
I definitely think the Barb is a sleeper. It’s the patient person’s class. Since D2, I’ve always started with a Barb - have to keep the tradition alive 
People said Barb will be top tier because he can wield 4 weapons for forever. Then again people forget that Barb SCHOULD be stronger then all other classes because of this but Blizz is nerfing Barb always the hardest so it’ll be mid tier untill you play that one Meta build.
Well, I mained a afflic lock for years, and I enjoy watching things die slow and painfully:)
I dont think the other core skills were far off. I seen vids of upheaval,WW and double swing doing ok. I mean we are not SSSS Tier Melee Rogues, but it was fluid at least.
Oh good, my build didn’t even make it on the bottom of the list.
Time to go feel sad until release.
Edit - " Storm Druid is a great choice for most content due to its smooth gameplay and strong clear speed. This build utilizes Storm Strike or Lightning Storm as very strong Basic Skill options"
Lightning Storm is a basic skill? Okay, writer.
This wasn’t a bug. If you stopped to read the tooltip on the Aspect before you actually crafted, the Aspect had a level requirement of 22 as well. This was intended.
Makes no sense, an aspect can roll with any magnitude at any level. Level should not be tied to aspects based on the item it came from. If I put it in a level 30 item, then everything would have been fine or if I found it at level 16 or if it was from the codex.
Nah, they off. Let me guess. Hydra build is S-Tier lol
Lol u cant have a tier list till season 1 starts cause at that time there will be numbers to back the list up.
Necro blood spec A tier going by this beta
Everything what they said is wrong, Ive found barbarian is ridiculously strong if you geared correctly, the cool down reduction is insane for ULT, you can literally one shotting everything with your ULT every 20-25 secs if you hit many monsters as you can to make cool down reduction ult down really fast.
Proof-positive that anyone using icy-veins is a moron.
And I didn’t follow any HOTS players adviced and i’m at 62% winrate. I like to follow and learn on my own is better. Following anyone’s advices are waste of time imo.
This is an outdated list from before the balance changes. Sorc does not have defenses anymore. Ice armor, teleport and freezing enemies is all that’s left.
Ignore this tier list.
There will be so many balance changes the first 6 weeks, and this was outdated the day they posted it. Play what you think you’ll have the most fun playing on launch. Classes will change quickly. Once any kind of leaderboard is part of seasons you can start looking at multiple sources for tier lists. Don’t trust just one source.
LOL no it’s not you liar.
And even if it were an outdated list, it’s laughably wrong for last beta anyway.
Laughable right now. Lets talk again if everyone had experienced endgame and level 100 chars.
|Sorceress|S-Tier|
|Necromancer|S-Tier|
|Rogue|A-Tier|
|Druid|B-Tier|
|Barbarian|B-Tier|
I think it neglects what we can surmise about endgame with all the datamining we have. Unless things have drastically changed, Barb and Druid will be S tier. Necro and Sorc A … tho Sorc could be another S if certain infinitely scaling possibilities still exist. Rogue will have no survivability and not much scaling seems possible so seems to be the worst.
For early game Druid and Barb are both F tier.
Here is that list, FYI:
S Tier - Barb, Druid
A Tier - Rogue
B Tier - Sorc
C Tier - Necro
This was more or less what people felt the meta endgame was going to be after the closed internal at 100. Barbs simply had absolutely insane defense and offense, combined with tons of stats and easy access to multiple legendary powers. Universally agreed upon that they, even after the slam changes, are still head and shoulders above the other classes at endgame.
Druid - Basically doesn’t really shine until midgame forward. The open betas did them no justice at all. At endgame, they had tons of fun builds and combos, but many of them had to be legendary enabled that you couldn’t see in open beta or the slam.
Rogues - Mid range. They are a solid all rounder. Tend to fall off a bit near endgame and become a bit squishy. Still a super solid class.
Sorc - Great start, average finish. Unfortunately for them the main problem was scaling and some degree of squishy. They have a nice variety of builds and potential setups, however I am not sure how they look now after the slam changes. I am more concerned for their defense.
Necro - Super strong early, fall off completely at endgame. Minions don’t scale. Just getting it out there now. CE nerf hurt their clear and in endgame they lack movement skills. Defense wise they are ok and they certainly have some neat stuff, but scaling they just didn’t seem to make it. Many at endgame found them to be slow and just boring.