Diablo 4: All Stats Explained

Stats in Diablo 4 are the building blocks for your character builds and overall power. Without these stats, you’re just flailing weapons around and casting spells without them doing anything! Increasing your stats determines how much HP and armor you have, your skill damage, and other miscellaneous buffs, all contributing to growing your character! If you want to learn more, continue reading to find a comprehensive list of every stat, from core to utility stats, in Diablo 4.

All Main Core Stats in Diablo 4 Explained

There are four main core stats you’ll find in Diablo 4:

• Strength
• Intelligence
• Willpower
• Dexterity

Each has unique values and bonuses, which help with your character builds and secondary stats. While every stat is valuable, your character will benefit more from one or two specific ones. The main reason for this is that, alongside each skill’s default stats, you’ll gain bonus perks depending on your class.

For example, below is the list from the point-of-view of a Sorcerer:

• Strength – Increases armor
• Intelligence – Increases skill damage and elemental resistance
• Willpower – Increases resource generation, healing received, and Overpower damage
• Dexterity – Increases critical strike chance and dodge chance

While the next list shows the stat perks for a Rogue:

• Strength – Increases armor and resource generation
• Intelligence – Increases critical strike chance and elemental resistance
• Willpower – Increases healing received and Overpower damage
• Dexterity – Increases skill damage and dodge chance

With this in mind, a Sorcerer benefits more from increasing stats like Intelligence and Willpower, while a Rogue wants to boost Dexterity and Strength.

These four stats also help influence your offensive, defensive and utility stats. Let’s talk a walk through these, shall we?

Offensive Stats in Diablo 4

You can find all kinds of offensive stats, from weapon damage to stats effect damage. Below is a quick summary of some you’ll find:

• Weapon damage – Your base damage
• Weapon speed – Your base attack speed
• Critical Strike Chance – Odds of dealing bonus damage
• Critical Strike Damage – The percent of bonus damage you deal
• Overpower Chance – Odds of dealing Overpower damage
• Overpower Damage – The percent of Overpower damage you deal
• Vulnerable Damage – Percent of bonus damage dealt to vulnerable enemies
• All Damage – Overall damage percent increase
• Damage vs – Percent of bonus damage dealt to enemies with specific status effects
• Thorns – Damage dealt to enemies that attack you

Related: What is Overpower Damage in Diablo 4? – Answered

On top of this, particular classes will have unique traits that strengthen your skills and weapons! You can also hover over a skill in the skill menu for more details of your bonuses.

Defensive Stats in Diablo 4

Alongside offensive stats that increase your damage, you’ll also find defensive ones that boost your armor and elemental resistances:

• Maximum Life – Your health points
• Potion Capacity – Your health potion carrying capacity
• Life Regeneration – Health points regenerated per second out of combat
• Armor – Your total armor rating
• Armor contribution – Percent of total damage mitigated by armor
• Dodge Chance – Your odds of dodging incoming attacks
• Barrier bonus – Percent of barrier generated from passive barrier effects
• Resistance – Percent of various elemental resistances
• Damage Reduction – Percent of damage reduction from specific enemy types

Related: Diablo 4 Barrier Generation Explained

While your armor stats and perks primarily influence this, your skills will also heavily influence the passive bonuses you get from defensive stats!

Utility Stats in Diablo 4

Utility stats in Diablo 4 are a little different from the other stat categories. These vary from class to class, but there are some similarities that each character has:

• Maximum Skill Energy – The resource you need to cast spells! Examples include mana, energy, and essence.
• Skill Energy Cost Reduction – Reduces your skill costs
• Regeneration – How much skill energy you’ll regenerate per second
• Movement Speed – How quickly you run
• Lucky Hit Chance Bonus – Increase odds of triggering lucky hits effects

Related: All Unique Items in Diablo 4

The specifics of these stats are based on your class alongside armor, weapon, and skill perks!

PVP Stats in Diablo 4

You’ll find two main PVP stats in Diablo 4 – damage reduction and armor contribution. While damage reduction reduces the total damage enemy players deal to you, armor contribution determines how much of your armor mitigates that same damage.

Diablo 4 is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. To learn more about the game, check out how to get Abstruse Sigil in Diablo 4, or click the Diablo IV tag below to browse our entire content collection!