Hero Siege Top DPS - What Actually Drives Damage Rankings

“Which class does the most damage” has no stable answer in Hero Siege, and the reason is worth understanding before you read any DPS ranking — including this page.

Why do DPS rankings disagree with each other?

Two variables move the answer more than class choice does.

Character level. A long-running Steam community balance thread makes the point explicitly: some characters are far stronger at low levels but the order changes at high level. Its author argues high level is what matters, since getting from 1 to 150 takes only a few hours.

The current patch. That same thread was written around a mana system change that, in the author’s words, “changed pretty much everything”. Damage rankings in Hero Siege are downstream of systems changes, not just class tuning.

So a DPS list is a snapshot of one level band under one patch. Two lists can both be right and still disagree.

What did the community high-level ranking look like?

From the Steam balance discussion, as an example of how such a list reasons rather than as current-season fact:

• Demonspawn was placed first despite the author calling its global damage “really meh” and its armour capped at 75% without a movement skill — the placement came from a systems interaction, not raw damage.
• Samurai was rated really strong post-mana-update: a full-ranged character with melee stats, and the author notes almost nobody plays it.
• Paladin was grouped as very safe and strong: mid-range, divine shield and holy nova, with no real weakness.
• Amazon and Marksman were rated as high-DPS ranged characters made safe by a jump with invincibility frames, differing mainly in full-range versus mid-range damage.
• Pyromancer was described as balanced rather than overpowered — good damage, genuinely fragile.

Notice what that list rewards: survivability and safety frames, not peak damage numbers. The top entry is there because of how it interacts with a system, and the highest-damage classes are described as fragile.

How should you use a top-DPS list?

Treat raw damage as one input. The pattern above suggests two more useful questions:

1. Can you stay alive at range? Movement skills with invincibility frames appear repeatedly in the reasoning for high placements.
2. What does the current patch reward? A systems change reordered this list once and will again.

For a current-season view, the Season 10 build tier list is more useful than any class DPS ranking, because it ranks the archetypes people are actually running.

A note on this page’s sources

The rankings above come from a community discussion thread from an earlier patch era, not from Season 10 testing. They are included to show how experienced players reason about damage, not as a current ranking. Nothing here should be treated as this season’s order.

Use the Season 10 tier list for current archetypes and the class roster for damage-type context. The class guides for Demonspawn and Amazon explain two names from the historical ranking, while the physical Samurai build shows how a reviewed current source frames one of the others.

Next step

Read the Season 10 tier list for current archetype placements, and weigh survivability alongside damage — the community reasoning above consistently ranks safe characters above fragile ones with higher numbers.