Season 28 Tier List: Solo Speed Torment 16 Rankings

While solo speed GR farming is all about balance, t16 is a much lower threshold, and your build priorities change heavily. Almost every build in the game can clear t16 with very little effort when set up correctly, meaning speed is the biggest factor. You want builds with screen-clearing damage patterns that allow you to clear quickly. You will always have the damage, but the build has to bring the speed.

For t16 content, you will either be doing bounties or greater rift key farming in nephalem rifts. Bounties require less killing, so usually you will value dashes and blinks more, but rifts will value large range AoE more because of the higher density of enemies throughout the rifts. Realistically, both of these activities just want builds that are extremely fast and do huge AoE damage.

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.

With some new power coming in from a helpful class power this Season, the Akkhan Crusader is looking to be the new best speed option, allowing you to consistently nuke enemies down without ever needing to stop moving.

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's 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.

Witch Doctors received some much-needed changes in Season 20 with the addition of the Mundunugu's Regalia set. This set uses Spirit Barrage to deal massive AoE damage, and has proven to be the most powerful Witch Doctor build to date by far, potentially being used in the group meta for non-seasonal as a trash clearing build. This build did receive some substantial nerfs in Season 21 by reclassifying the phantasms to not be pets anymore, but this build was already so far ahead of every other Witch Doctor build that it should have no trouble retaining its spot as the fastest and most efficient build for Witch Doctors.

Meteor Wizards will dominate all content in Season 28. 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
Monk	Inna Mystic Ally Monk
Demon Hunter	GoD Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter
Demon Hunter	Unhallowed Essence Multishot Demon Hunter

Class	Build
Wizard	Tal Rasha Meteor Wizard
Necromancer	Masquerade Bone Spear Necromancer
Barbarian	Wrath of the Wastes Rend Barbarian
Monk	Patterns of Justice Tempest Rush Monk
Necromancer	LoD Singularity Mage Necromancer
Witch Doctor	Mundunugu's Regalia Spirit Barrage Witch Doctor

Class	Build
Crusader	Akkhan Condemn Crusader
Barbarian	Leap Quake Barbarian
Demon Hunter	Impale Demon Hunter
Barbarian	Horde of the Ninety Savages Frenzy Barbarian
Wizard	LoD Frozen Orb Wizard
Wizard	Tal Rasha Frozen Orb Wizard
Crusader	Aegis of Valor Heaven's Fury Crusader
Crusader	LoD Bombardment Crusader