Diablo 4 comes with a series of emotes you can use to have some fun while playing, especially with friends or in PvP. You can taunt an enemy you just defeated, say “hello” to random players, or even just say goodbye to an NPC after finishing their quest for the sake of roleplaying.
Emotes are optional, but they are fun, and you can use them to express yourself to other players in the world. For people playing Diablo 4 mostly solo, like me, it’s a feature that’s easy to miss, and I only found it when I accidentally pressed the wrong key during a fight.
Here’s how to use emotes in the game.
How do you emote in Diablo 4?
You should be able to use emotes anytime in any character, but a side quest in the main hub of Kyovashad—which I skipped—will introduce emotes officially:
- Trigger the emote wheel by pressing E on keyboard or the Up button on the D-Pad on controller.
- Choose the emote you’d like to use and press the confirm button to do it.
There are a total of three emote wheels in Diablo 4 at the time of writing, which leaves plenty of room to store one for all kinds of situations.
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To switch between emote wheels, use the middle mouse wheel on PC or the controller bumpers on consoles.
How to add a new emote in Diablo 4
There are some emotes that by default are not included in the main emote wheels, but they can easily be added in.
- Bring up the emote wheel in Diablo 4.
- Choose Customize.
- Pick an emote you’d like to add to the wheel and drag it to a spot.
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The steps above allow you to customize your chat wheels with the available emotes and shortcuts in Diablo 4. You can use them to greet fellow players throughout the world now, so enjoy being social and friendly among the demons around you.
All emotes in Diablo 4
Here is the full list of Diablo 4 emotes upon release:
- Help
- Sorry
- Hello
- Thanks
- Point
- Yes
- Wait
- Wave
- Follow
- Cheer
- Bye
- Taunt
A few extra emotes are available if you pay for them, such as the Wings of the Creator emote, which comes with the Diablo 4 Ultimate edition. In the Shop, you can buy additional emotes in accessories bundles from 800 to 1,000 Platinum, the game’s premium currency. Some emotes you can purchase this way are:
- Poor Yorick (Necromancer only), part of the Duality Manifest bundle.
- Arise! (Necromancer only), part of the Death Throes bundle
- Aberrant Ocululs (Sorcerer only), part of the Elder Symbology bundle.
- Power Unleased (Sorcerer only), part of the Sorceric Binding bundle.
- Easy Money (Rogue only), part of the Weights and Measures bundle.
- Wolfsong (Rogue only), part of the Tools of the Hunt bundle.
- “To War!” (Barbarian only), part of The Lion’s Share bundle.
- The Nine Tails (Druid only), part of the Atonement Measures bundle.
Any of these bundles may rotate out of the Diablo 4 shop upon refresh time, and other emotes might be released after that. For now, you have plenty of emotes to use even without spending more money.
