Diablo 4 Stats for Beginners

As you jump into Diablo 4 it is important to understand how different stats interact with different classes. This guide will give you a beginner overview on each of the stat values in Diablo 4 and how they interact with each class. For a full guide on how to optimize stats for each class check out our in-depth class stat guides!

Core Stats

The four core stats in Diablo 4 are Strength, Intelligence, Willpower, and Dexterity. Each class receives different variations of these 4 as starting stats.

• Barbarian: Strength 10, Dexterity 8, Intelligence 7, and Willpower 7
• Rogue: Strength 7, Dexterity 10, Intelligence 7, Willpower 8
• Sorcerers: Strength 7, Dexterity 7, Intelligence 10, Willpower 8
• Necromancer: Strength 9, Dexterity 7, Intelligence 12, Willpower 8
• Druid: Strength 9, Dexterity 7, Intelligence 10, Willpower 10

What do Core Stats Do?

Core stats give the following defensive bonuses to all classes

• Strength: +1 Armor Per Point
• Intelligence: +0.05% Resistance per point
• Willpower: +0.1% Healing Received and +0.25% Overpower Damage per Point
• Dexterity: +0.025% Dodge Chance

Each class then receives additional unique bonuses from each stat point.

• Barbarian

  • Strength: Increases Skill Damage +0.1% per point
  • Willpower: Increases Resource Generation +0.1% per point
  • Dexterity: Increase Critical Strike Chance +0.02% per point
• Sorcerer

  • Intelligence: Increases Skill Damage +0.1% per point
  • Willpower: Increases Resource Generation +0.1% per point
  • Dexterity: Increases Critical Strike Chance +0.02% per point
• Druid

  • Intelligence: Increases Resource Generation +0.1% per point
  • Willpower: Increases Skill Damage +0.1% per point
  • Dexterity: Increases Critical Strike Chance +0.02% per point
• Rogue

  • Dexterity: Increases Skill Damage +0.1% per point
  • Strength: Increases Resource Generation +0.1% per point
  • Intelligence: Increases Critical Strike Chance +0.02% per point
• Necromancer

  • Intelligence: Increases Skill Damage +0.1% per point
  • Willpower: Increases Resource Generation +0.1% per point
  • Dexterity: Increases Critical Strike Chance +0.02% per point

How to Increase Core Stats

Players can increase their characters core stats in a number of ways

• Each time your character’s level increases you will get +1 to each core stat
• Altars of Lilith can grant +2 to individual stats when discovered
• Jewelry and armor can roll with net increases to certain stats

Defensive Stats and Buffs

Players can increase the defensive stats listed below through Armor, Gems, and Buffs applied by abilities. The defensive Buffs and stats include:

• Armor
• Max Life
• Resistances
• Damage Reduction
• Dodge Chance
• Healing Received
• Bonus Fortify
• Barrier Potency
• Close and Distant Damage Reduction

For more on Defensive Stats and how to maximize them check out our Defensive Stats and Buffs Overview!

Offensive Stats

Players can increase their offensive stats by equipping powerful Weapons, Jewelry and Armor that provide increases to the stats listed below.

• Attack Speed
• Weapon Damage
• Critical Strike Damage
• Critical Strike Chance
• Damage to Distant, Close, Healthy, and other enemies
• Fire, cold, shadow, etc. damage % increase
• Core Skill, Basic Skill, etc. damage % increase
• Vulnerable damage % increase
• Overpower Damage

Check out our Attacking and Damage overview to learn more about how to maximize these stats!

Utility

While offensive and defensive stats provide measurable increases to your attack and defense they are not the only stats in the game. There are tons of utility stats that can be increased to grant your character impressive bonuses.

Lucky Hit Chance

A Lucky Hit can apply a number of on-hit effects and can trigger on any attack. These special effects can come from skills, passives, or items. These special effects can be class specific such as the Rogue’s Lucky Hit proc triggering an arrow storm from the Arrow Storm legendary aspect, to general gear affixes like a % chance to knockback an enemy when a Lucky Hit is triggered.

Each Lucky Hit has a base proc chance when tied to a skill, and a base proc chance when tied to an item. This chance can be further increased across all Lucky Hit effects by increasing your net Lucky Hit Chance. This net increase is a stat that can roll on Rings, Gloves, and Wands.

Cooldown Reduction

Very simple and similarly found in other games cooldown reduction decreases the cooldowns of your respective skills. The higher your cooldown reduction the faster you can cast devastating abilities. You can get cooldown reduction on Helmets, Amulets, and Focus/Shield/Totem. Cooldown reduction stacks multiplicatively from different sources.

Resource Cost Reduction

Reduces the cost to cast resource-consuming abilities. This stat will be renamed depending on your class, so for barbarians, it will be called “Fury Cost Reduction.

Skill Ranks

Items can roll with a point increase to skills. This will save you valuable skill points and allow you to really maximize your build. So keep a lookout for items that increase points in the skills you want.

Movement Speed

A percentage increase to movement speed can be found as an affix on items. However, it is worth noting that your net increase to movement speed cannot exceed +25%. The only exception is through Legendary Aspects and abilities that buff movement speed, but even with these there is still a cap at +200%.

Shrine Buff

This unique stat can be found on boots and will increase the duration of shrine buffs.

Control Impaired Duration Reduction

A chest armor stat that reduces the duration of all crowd control effects applied to your character.

Unique Implicit Stats

These can be found on high level legendary Boots and Pants. These stats are listed separately and can include:

Boots improve the Evade Skill

• Evade grants 40% movements speed briefly
• +1 Max Evade Charge
• Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown by 1 Second

Pants Buff the Healing Vile

• Your Potion Also Restores 30% Resource
• Your Potion Grants 30% Movement Speed
• Your Potion Also Grants 30% Maximum Life as Barrier

Crowd Control Duration Buff

This stat increases the duration of crowd control effects on all enemies including Slow, Daze, Chill, Stun, Freeze, Imobilize, Taunt, and Knock Down. It can roll on Amulets, Off-Hand Items, and Helmets

Thorns

This offensive stat deals damage to enemies when they hit you. This damage is increased by your primary core stat. Thorns can roll on Pants, Amulets, Shields, and Chest Armor. Thorns can also be boosted by Skills and Passives.

Conclusion

This wraps up our guide on all things stats in Diablo 4! If you’d like to know more about the different defensive and offensive buffs, stats, and effects found within Diablo 4 check out our Defensive Stats and Buffs Overview and our Attacking and Damage Overview!