Alright, let’s talk about switching up your character class in Diablo 4. I ran into this myself not too long ago.
So, I’d been hammering away with my Barbarian for a good while. Got decently leveled, geared up a bit. But you know how it is, sometimes you see another class doing cool stuff and get that itch. I was watching some Necromancer gameplay, all those skeletons and explosions, and thought, “Man, I gotta try that.”
My first instinct was to check my current character’s options. I figured there must be some button somewhere, right? I opened the character sheet, looked through all the stats and equipment slots. Nope. Then I checked the main menu options while logged in, maybe something in settings? Nothing there either. I even went to the Wardrobe, thinking maybe it was tied to appearance changes somehow. Still no luck.
It felt weird, like I was missing something obvious. So, I spent some time just clicking around different menus, talking to various NPCs in town, hoping maybe there was a quest or a special vendor I needed to find. Searched Kyovashad high and low. Nada.
The Realization Kicked In
After poking around in the game for probably 20 minutes and finding absolutely zero options to respec my class (you can respec skills easily, but not the fundamental class), I finally gave up looking inside the game itself.
Turns out, after a bit of searching around (just asking friends and checking forums, you know how it is), the answer is pretty simple, maybe a bit frustrating depending on how you look at it:
- You straight up cannot change your character’s class once it’s created.
- Once you pick Sorcerer, or Rogue, or whatever, that character is locked into that class forever.
So, What Did I Do?
Well, the only way to actually play a different class was the old-fashioned way:
- I had to log out from my Barbarian.
- Went back to the main character selection screen.
- Hit the ‘Create New Character’ button.
- Went through the whole creation process again – appearance, name, and this time, I picked Necromancer.
- Started fresh at level 1 in the Fractured Peaks prologue area.
Yeah, that’s really it. No magic button, no special vendor, no hidden quest. If you want to play a different class in Diablo 4, you gotta roll a new character from scratch. A bit of a grind to level up again, sure, but that’s just how Blizzard set it up this time around. So now I’ve got my Barbarian and my Necromancer, just gotta switch between them from the main menu.
