Diablo 4's open beta is about to begin. Fortunately, thousands of players were already finding their way through last weekend's closed beta. Players only had three days to play Diablo 4 last weekend and only had access to three of the game's five classes, but YouTube, Reddit, and many other places are already flooded with clips and stories of the broken build.

The king among them must be the Frost Sorcerer, a Diablo 4 spell-caster class that has drawn criticism for being a bit too powerful, including from Blizzard itself (opens in new tab), and with good reason. Players have already managed to put together all sorts of guides for assembling ice-wielding magic builds that will shatter beta bosses.

Most of the builds revolve around the sorcerer's ice blade ability, especially around generating as many ice blades as possible at once. For example, the Frost Sorcerer build by a Reddit user named Truckermouse (opens in new tab) uses the passive ability Ice Blades (which spawns an additional blade for every 20 seconds spent on cooldown) to turn every combat encounter into some sort of nightmarish ice turning it into a mixer.

Combine this with the active abilities Ice Blades and Ice Armor, and you're essentially an unkillable Mr. Freeze. If you don't believe me, another user on Reddit, annexpectedreboots (open in new tab), used a similar Ice Blades build to annihilate one of the toughest bosses in the beta in 20 seconds.

So it's no wonder that Blizzard explicitly called for some nerfing to Sorcerer's Frost ability. But don't worry. Just because ice skills are easily abused doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to sorcerers if you want to bulldoze through Beta. Ingenious players are building super-powerful builds for each class in the Diablo 4 closed beta.

For example, there is a Barbarian build that managed to do 26K damage in one hit using personal buffs and an aspect that converts excess rage into damage (opens in new tab).

Or, if you want to be a sorcerer but think frost is too fancy for you, go down the path of fire, find a Legendary that can summon multiple hydras, and walk away from the game at that point, not knowing better. You have ascended.

Rogues are not to be outdone, but instead of hitting the "Make 'Em Cold" button on every enemy, you need to master and use quite a few different skills: Heartseeker, Rapid Fire, Dash, Dark Shroud, Shadow Combining skills like Imbuement with the appropriate set of Legendaries can bring everything to a quick death. This is a rogue build, using all of these and the Combo Point Specialty to do 2K damage with Rapid Fire.

This isn't the only overpowered build players encountered in the closed beta; when Diablo 4's open beta kicks off tomorrow (opens in new tab) at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 4pm GMT, it will feature the following builds not available in the closed beta The Necromancer and Druid classes will be accessible. It won't be long before players will be crafting reckless bone-based and vegan builds to supplement the builds they found last weekend.