The Gauntlet is the newest endgame activity in Diablo 4. The main goal of this activity is to achieve the highest score within a specific time limit. So you need to ensure that you strike a balance between the damage that you’re dealing and your movement speed. A high damage output will help you obliterate enemies easily, while a high movement speed will help you move in and out of rooms swiftly. With that in mind, here are a few builds that have the potential to do very well in the Gauntlet in Diablo 4.
Charge HoTA Barbarian
This unique build empowers you to tackle all the challenges in the game, whether facing bosses or delving into dungeons, with unparalleled efficiency. By incorporating both Charge and HOTA, you maintain the devastating power of HOTA’s massive hits while still benefiting from the agility and versatility of Charge. If you can manage to balance your movement speed stat and the Shrine buffs within the Gauntlet in Diablo 4, this build can take you to the top of the Weekly Leaderboard effortlessly.
Ball Lightning Sorcerer
This build uses Ball Lightning support by the Gravitational Aspect for very high and consistent DPS at close range. It’s also worth noting that the Ball Lightning Sorcerer will never deal a huge chunk of damage in one single hit. Instead, it will deal a moderate amount of damage in a single hit, but it will deal multiple hits in a short span of time! In addition, this build has a lot of movement speed. If you can manage your mana efficiently, you will have a lot of fun playing with the Ball Lightning Sorcerer in the Gauntlet.
Bone Spear Necromancer
This build is all about raising your Critical Strike Chance with various passives, skill upgrades, and Aspects so that you can consistently get Critical Strikes on enemies. As you do, you’ll also activate bonus effects such as additional Bone Spears, faster Essence Regeneration and Movement Speed, and more damage across the board for all of your Bone skills. Interestingly enough, this build doesn’t rely on Unique Diablo 4 Items that much, so you don’t need to farm Duriel to make the most out of it.
Penetrating Shot Rogue
The Penetrating Shot Rogue is a Ranged build heavily focused on Critical Hits and massive damage – enemies can’t hurt you if they’re dead. Utilizing an Imbuement-buffed Penetrating Shot to act as both a Single Target Boss crusher and an AoE pack annihilator, this build is a simple, elegant answer to what is most fun in an ARPG: deleting enemies from existence with one click. It’s highly likely that the Penetrating Shot build will be one of the few Rogue builds on the Weekly Leaderboard in Diablo 4.
Pulverize Druid
The Pulverize Druid build focuses on dealing huge damage and tanking through enemy crowds, ensuring that you’re able to soak up whatever the legions of Hell throw your way. This will also deal huge AoE damage if you get the Shockwave Aspect, so keep an eye out for this on Legendary drops at all times. Druids possess high damage output alongside high defense potential.
That concludes the list of the best builds for the Gauntlet in Diablo 4. For now, these builds will dominate the Weekly Leaderboard in Diablo 4. However, as the days progress, players might figure out new builds that work better in the Dungeon.