Season 29 Tier List: Solo Speed GR Rankings

Solo Speed GR clearing is all about balance. A fast build that is weak is pointless if you can only clear GR 80 in 1 minute. A slow build that can clear insanely high GRs is also meaningless if you can never clear faster than 10 minutes for a rift. You want a powerful build that can still clear rifts efficiently. When you factor in the time it takes to generate rift keys, you should aim for a clear time of between 2 and 5 minutes with your build. These are the builds that are optimized for pushing high rifts quickly to farm the most efficient experience for paragon levels.

With Patch 2.6.7, several items that modify Rend were buffed, bringing forth this build as the top Barbarian build and one of the top S-Tier builds overall. In the past couple of seasons and on non-seasonal, this build has dominated the leader boards for Barbarian while also being relatively easy to play, making it an excellent build for players looking to pick up Barbarian for the first time.

Thanks to a powerful new legendary that enables Fist of the Heavens to automatically cast while on a mount, the AoV set will be far and away the best for speed farming. This build is giving Crusaders all of the speed farming power that they've been asking for over the years.

In Patch 2.6.9, Demon Hunters gained the new Gears of Dreadlands set (GoD), which is based around using generators. The set, combined with some substantial buffs to supporting items has led to the Hungering Arrow generator build using the new set, which is far and away the strongest Demon Hunter build in the game. This build offers the highest baseline movement speed and a play-style similar to the Whirlwind or Rend Barbarian builds, which makes it great for both speed and pushing.

Now that Wave of Light is the most powerful Monk build once again, it should also prove to be the fastest and most efficient build. Screen-clearing damage that is powerful enough to push the highest GR levels is hard to beat.

After some large buffs this season, the Bone Spear Necromancer should return as one of the best speed builds for the class, but only while solo. In groups you have several more options, including some of the most efficient builds in the game such as in Rat Runs as a Singularity Mage Necro.

With Season 29, the Angry Chicken build has been massively buffed for Witch Doctors. You can now run around as an angry, exploding chicken and wreak havoc on rifts at an insane pace. This will be far and away the fastest Witch Doctor build this season.

Meteor Wizards will dominate all content in Season 29. The build is simply too powerful, fast, and durable to not play in basically all forms of content.

Class	Build
Monk	LoD Wave of Light Monk
Wizard	Tal Rasha Meteor Wizard
Monk	Inna Mystic Ally Monk
Demon Hunter	GoD Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter
Crusader	Aegis of Valor Fist of the Heavens Crusader
Demon Hunter	Unhallowed Essence Multishot Demon Hunter

Class	Build
Necromancer	Masquerade Bone Spear Necromancer
Demon Hunter	Marauder Sentry Demon Hunter
Barbarian	Wrath of the Wastes Rend Barbarian
Crusader	Akkhan Condemn Crusader
Witch Doctor	Arachyr Angry Chicken Witch Doctor

Class	Build
Demon Hunter	Impale Demon Hunter
Barbarian	Horde of the Ninety Savages Frenzy Barbarian
Witch Doctor	Mundunugu's Regalia Spirit Barrage Witch Doctor