Season 15 tier list for controller play (input wanted!)
Hey everyone,
with the upcoming new season 15 for D2R RotW I was looking to find my personal starter build and while doing so came across some iterations that needed to be taken into consideration when choosing a build that works well on controller.
Hence I figured this might be relevant to other people on the one hand and I would greatly profit for my upcoming choice of starter build.
I will update the list based on the following discussion on suitable starters:
Amazon:
Javazon seems do be a very nice pick. Mix of dmg (phys/light) makes leveling solo viable and its scaling nicely into endgame. Controller auto-aiming is working great from what I hear.
Elemental bowazon (frost/fire) works well on controller. For a mana hungry build (frost side), the ability to automatically use potions from your inventory is nice feature. I don't notice any controller issues specific to the build, as opposed to general situations where controller lacks a bit (teleporting, quickly grabbing items from the floor when mobs are around, etc.) . I've got no comment on how it works for ladder start though.
Assasin:
Trapsin Works quiet well with controller. Placement of traps is peanuts and the build scales very nicely into the endgame. Lightning immuned are dealt with by corpse explosion mostly. Can use Fireblast or WoF or Kicks for lightning immunes. Death Sentry isn't always reliable. You can always skip them with MB + CoS though.
Bladesin is really strong. Works great on controller.
Barbarian:
Throw-barb works really well with auto aim and is great for p1.
Whirlwind works well as long as you’re not close to walls and controllers.
Druid:
Wind-Druid is kinda lackluster for controller due to the auto-aiming preventing a skilled placement of the nados to get the most out of them.
Necromancer:
Fishymancer works well, he's just kinda slow.
Paladin:
Hammerdin is quote on quote obviously good 😄 not sure about details yet, will add them, once i get more!
Sorceress:
Nova Sorc plays great on controller.
Some combination of Orb/Ball/Lightning/Nova (pick 2) is ok, tele still sucks though. Hydra is ok but sometimes it's frustrating because you can't place them passed the fire immunes that are rushing you.
FB/Meteor/Hydra sorc: Works well ~95% of the time. Sometimes I’ll be locked onto a target that’s behind a pillar or something random and hold down the FB/Hydra button and… crickets. Just blank stares all around. This is so irritating. It’s especially irritating when the game chooses to highlight said target that I can’t attack after I’ve already killed a few others in the vicinity.
Warlock:
Bowlock is very independent from gear. A detailed guide can be found here
Firelock plays well.
Fire away more classes and specs that work/dont work well with controller so we extend the list.
Thank you in advance ❤️