Buy Diablo 4 Items

As you know, there are many items in Diablo 4. Some of them are gear that can be directly utilized, some are currencies with different functions, and some are actually raw materials for making more advanced items, such as Veiled Crystal.

In fact, material items like Veiled Crystal are not uncommon in the game. It is through various different recipes that you have the opportunity to synthesize and obtain more powerful and effective final products, unlocking more game content.

Based on this, this time we mainly introduce you in detail how to obtain Veiled Crystal and its main functions.

What Is Veiled Crystal?

As we have mentioned, Veiled Crystal is a rare-level crafting material in Diablo 4, which can be used for enchanting, tempering, master-working, and imprinting legendary aspects on other gear items. Although these tasks also require other materials, Veiled Crystal is indeed indispensable.

In Season 8, Veiled Crystal actually has another important function, which is to be synthesized with other materials to unlock the lair boss hoard.

Most lair keys can be obtained by killing lower-level lair bosses, but the drop rate of keys belonging to high-level bosses is usually lower, so synthesizing through materials becomes a more stable method. Although the synthesis required are a lot of Diablo 4 gold, at least there is no gambling.

Transmute Mucus-Slick Egg:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Malignant Heart
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

Transmute Pincushioned Doll:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Distilled Fear
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

Transmute Sandscorched Shackles:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Exquisite Blood
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

Transmute Shard of Agony:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Living Steel
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

In addition, to upgrade your gear through Veiled Crystal, you must travel to different locations. For example, weapons and armor upgrades require going to the blacksmith, while rings and amulets are related to the jeweler.

If you want to Imprint or enchant, you need to find an Occultist. Like the lair key, these functions also consume a lot of materials and gold, so you have to work hard on farming.

How To Get Veiled Crystal?

There are three main ways to get this material, namely direct farming, salvage rare or higher quality gear, and opening Whisper caches. We will introduce them one by one.

Farming In The Dungeons

Considering the wide range of uses of Veiled Crystal and the high consumption of each production, its drop rate and quantity have been increased since Season 4, so you should get this item when you complete the battle in most quests.

However, if you want to do a large amount of farming at one time, clearing the dungeon should be a better choice. As you know, the main function of most Diablo 4 dungeons is to provide you with rich loot, not only crafting materials, but also gold and XP that are essential for playing the game.

In Season 8, it is recommended that you choose Helltides and Nightmare dungeons as the first choice for Veiled Crystal farming. Among them, Helltides has a high refresh frequency and a high density of enemies when they appear, which is very suitable for concentrated farming.

As one of the classic Diablo 4 dungeons, the nightmare dungeon is not so difficult overall, but there are many explorable contents, and farming can be completed easily.

Salvage Gear

You will intentionally or unintentionally obtain a lot of gear of different levels during the game. As your character level increases and your ability increases, the gear that provides you with basic combat benefits in the early stage will gradually be eliminated.

Since the value of this part of gear is not high, there is no need to sell it, but if it is not processed, it will waste storage space. At this time, you can travel to the blacksmith to salvage them. However, when performing salvage, please be sure to pay attention to the following tips:

• If the power of the legendary item you salvage is what you lack, or its level is higher than the power you already have, after salvage, the item will add the corresponding power to your Codex of Power.
• After the item is salvaged, its appearance will be added to your wardrobe for transmogrification.
• Selling early items also earns gold, but early on, crafting materials are more scarce than gold, so salvage is preferred over selling.

Obtaining And Opening Whisper Caches

This method is actually an indirect way to salvage items. When you complete Whisper bounties posted through Tree of Whispers, you will receive gold, XP, and Grim Favors as rewards.

Once you have enough Grim Favors, you can return to Tree of Whispers to redeem more rewards, including gear. Since completing Whisper bounties is an essential part of playing Diablo 4, you can fully utilize this opportunity while farming more Veiled Crystal.

With the above information, if you haven’t unlocked those higher-level lair boss hoards yet, it’s best to quickly collect Veiled Crystal synthesis keys to complete the related battles!

2.3.0 PTR has begun, it’s important to complete the main content of Season 8 as soon as possible to enjoy the new PTR!

Although the operation methods are similar, the names and specific functions of the seasonal powers of each Diablo 4 season are different. In order to quickly master them at the beginning of the new season, it is best to understand them in advance.

In fact, for several seasons, Diablo 4 has been criticized for being too homogeneous in seasonal power and lacking real innovation, so that the specific game experience has also declined. Therefore, Season 9 seems to intend to make changes to this.

According to the campfire chat held on May 22, it can be known that 2.3.0 PTR will be launched on May 27 to show you some of the main contents of Season 9 in the form of testing. Next, we will show you the relevant content of Season 9 seasonal power based on this.

What Are Horadric Spells?

You can call Season 9 seasonal power Horadric power like Season 7 witchcraft power or Season 8 boss power, but this power actually works by fusing three elements to allow you to output more spells.

The three elements are Catalysts, Infusions, and Arcana, each of which has its own purpose and contains multiple specific content with different powers, which we will introduce one by one.

1. Catalysts

Catalysts are the basis and main source of damage for your final customized Horadric Spells, and need to be activated through specific action bar skills - different skills correspond to different Horadric Spells slots.

This component can be upgraded, with level 20 being the highest level, and they will gain additional bonuses when you upgrade your Catalysts to level 10. All 5 Catalysts and their functions are as follows:

• Astral Pillar - Astral Magic: Form an aether pillar that taunts enemies for 3 seconds, after which a piercing wave emerges from it to deal substantial damage to enemies until you create another aether pillar or get far enough away from them.
• Celestial Surge - Astral Magic: Awaken an Oracular Rune that creates a special area, and all nearby enemies are pulled into the area. A torrent of stars will then strike the area 20 times at random, dealing damage each time.
• Cosmic Anomaly - Astral Magic: Manifest up to 5 anomalies that emit particles that damage enemies over 4 seconds.
• Disintegrate - Arcane Magic: Form an arcane conductor and fire a continuous beam between you and it, dealing steady lightning damage over 8 seconds.
• Propulsion - Arcane Magic: Creates a blast of mana that deals damage and knocks back all enemies. Enemies hit by the collision will also take another hit.

2. Infusions

Catalysts are already quite helpful, but if you want to further improve your Diablo 4 gold farming efficiency with Horadric Spells in Season 9, you’ll need to continue to fuse the power of Infusions.

Infusions provide additional power and magic to existing Catalysts, and determine their damage type. Unlike Catalysts, Infusions gain a bonus when they reach level 5, allowing your Catalyst to remove special effects possessed by the enemy.

• Corrosive Vapor - Poison or Poisoning damage
• Glacial Nimbus - Cold or Frostbiting damage
• Nebulous Extract - Shadow or Corrupting damage
• Smoldering Ember - Fire or Burning damage
• Thunderous Particle - Lightning or Sparking damage

3. Arcana

You can think of Arcana as a positive modifier that further improves Catalysts, including magic, rare, and legendary levels (I don’t know if it reminds you of boss power). Arcana can make your Horadric Spells more powerful by synergizing with Horadric Jewels that will be introduced to you later.

Magic Arcana:

• Bottled Wind
• Invigorating Helix
• Jagged Bramble
• Luminous Gem
• Murky Essence
• Reactive Ooze
• Shifting Powder
• Tendrilous Bundle
• Tranquil Stone
• Volatile Crystal

Rare Arcana:

• Fractured Core
• Gleaming Conduit
• Potent Alloy
• Sapping Crux
• Siphoning Gizmo

Legendary Arcana:

• Bloody Charm: Grants your Catalysts a special execution against non-boss enemies at or below 10% health, +2% per level.
• Floaty Bobble: Grants Catalysts a flickering effect that allows you to be unhindered for 2.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.
• Frigid Heart: Grants Catalysts a freeze effect that lasts 3.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.
• Nightmare Orb: Grants Catalysts a fear effect that lasts 4.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.
• Pressurized Steam: Grants Catalysts a stun effect that lasts 1.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.

What Are Horadric Jewels?

As we have already mentioned, Horadric Jewels can bring you more additional effects by combining with Arcana. However, first, these effects may contain negative effects; second, they cannot be farmed through combat and can only be crafted at Wayfinders.

Before crafting, you need to complete Horadric Strongrooms at Torment 1 and above to obtain Horadric Tomes, which can teach you how to craft Horadric Jewels.

In addition, crafting Horadric Jewels also requires Horadric Phials and gem fragments, and after crafting, they can only be embedded in jewelry. All craftable Horadric Jewels are expected to include:

• Seal of Control
• Seal of Power
• Seal of Denial
• Horadric Crest
• Reverie Horn
• Scornful Light
• Tyrant Bane
• Liminal Echo
• Idol From Below
• Myriad Stone
• Spark of Creation
• Luminate Eye
• Brilliant Sigil
• Elemental Brand
• The Starflux

As a source of Horadric Tomes, Horadric Strongrooms is a seasonal dungeon that will be added to the game in Season 9, similar to Rootholds in Season 7, and its random entrance can be found in the nightmare dungeon. Besides Horadric Tomes, it should also drop gold, XP, and more rewards.

The above is all the information introduced to you this time. You can fully test them in 2.3.0 PTR under the guidance to welcome the subsequent Season 9. I wish you a happy game!

According to the general ARPG gameplay and mechanism, after you create your current Diablo 4 Season 8 character, the first thing to do is to start the main quest in time and upgrade the character to the maximum level as soon as possible by completing them and other early game tasks.

The current maximum level of the character in Diablo 4 is level 60, but this does not mean that you have no room to become stronger after the maximum level. In addition to converting leveling builds into builds more suitable for the endgame stage, the game also launched Paragon board for you to utilize.

You can directly regard this mechanism as an endgame character progression system. After unlocking it, you can expand it and upgrade it by earning Paragon points to get more attribute bonuses it provides. The system can be upgraded to level 300.

It has to be said that level 300 is really too large a number. You may doubt whether it can really be upgraded to the maximum level? Next, we will introduce how to do this on Season 8.

Actively Farming In The Pit

As one of the most important and difficult endgame dungeons in the game, The Pit is not only a source of Diablo 4 gold, character XP, and gear, but also the only place to earn Paragon XP. But to upgrade Paragon to the maximum level, you need to know the necessary The Pit farming skills.

Choose The Right Build

In fact, we have already mentioned this from the perspective of endgame experience at the beginning. From the normal campaign to the endgame, the difficulty and mechanics of the game will change, and you must adjust your combat plan to deal with them.

Different builds can enable the corresponding class to deal damage and defend in different forms. If you want to focus on farming Paragon XP in The Pit, we mainly recommend the following builds:

• Sorcerer - Lightning Spear Endgame Build: Mainly through Unstable Currents and Lightning Spears.
• Rogue - Death Trap Endgame Build: Constantly reset skills and gather enemies together for centralized elimination.
• Spiritborn - Quill Volley Eagle Endgame Build: It can deal with both AOE and single target damage, and is suitable for a variety of situations.

The common feature of these three builds is that they can deal a lot of damage in a short period, with fast burst power, so they can clear the enemy group with high efficiency, which is the best way to get Paragon XP in low-level The Pit.

In contrast, the other three classes lack this feature in terms of skills and available builds because of their different styles. Although this does not mean that they are not suitable for utilization in The Pit, they will be less efficient.

Don’t Stick To Challenging High Level

The Pit has 150 unlockable levels. The higher the level, the more challenging it is, and of course the more rewards. But if your character is not strong enough, or you just want to focus on getting Paragon XP instead of other high-level rewards, you can actually focus on the middle and low levels.

First of all, Paragon XP provided by this level of The Pit level is not small (of course, I don’t mean the part below level 20), which is enough for you to upgrade your Paragon board to a good level to cope with more difficult levels.

Secondly, if you die while playing a level that is beyond your capabilities, the current level timer will be increased by 30 seconds, the second death will be increased by 60 seconds, and from the third time onwards, each death will be increased by 90 seconds. This penalty effect will greatly slow down your farming progress, and it is not worth the loss.

Take Advantage Of XP Boost Opportunities

Diablo 4 sometimes holds special limited-time events during which you can get XP boost opportunities - this type of event is usually referred to Mother’s Blessing. During Mother’s Blessing, you will gain more Paragon XP than usual when you fight at levels of your usual level.

If you have time, you can also do a little calculation within the range of levels you can handle to evaluate which specific level has the most efficient clearance time/Paragon XP ratio.

Team Up To Complete

There is always more power in a team, especially if you are new to The Pit or are not very good at dealing with The Pit. If you have strong and reliable teammates in the team, you may even have the opportunity to challenge The Pit levels that are far beyond your capabilities, and gain more Paragon XP than playing alone.

Benefits Of Getting Paragon XP

Paragon nodes in the game include normal, magic, rare and legendary levels, which can provide you with different attribute bonuses and special effects, so that your character can continue to become stronger after the maximum level, and enough Paragon XP allows you to unlock more and rarer nodes until Paragon board is upgraded to level 300.

It is also worth noting that you can also find empty glyph slots in Paragon system. When you obtain glyphs through other channels and insert them, the effects of the nodes around their slots will be further strengthened.

These glyphs will also provide additional bonuses if you reach a certain primary attribute threshold through the nodes within the glyph radius. What’s more convenient is that you can always remove or reuse the glyphs in the slots according to the needs of different combat situations.

Although the method we provide should be useful, it still takes a lot of time and effort to upgrade your Paragon system to the highest level (level 300). So if you have free time, start working hard now! You will also get additional special rewards after reaching level 300!

For Diablo 4, regularly updating seasons is not only to give you a fresher gaming experience, but also to take the opportunity to make the game better by optimizing various aspects of the game mechanics.

Usually about halfway through the current season, the developers of Diablo 4 will hold a campfire chat to summarize the current season progress and give you a preview of the main content of the next season. However, this time the preview of Season 9 seems to come earlier than ever before.

At 11 am on May 22, the official held the latest campfire chat, which was less than a month after the launch of Season 8. Based on this, we will introduce you to the main information announced in this live broadcast to pave the way for your Season 9 experience.

Current Diablo 4 Performance

Although the simultaneous launch of Vessel of Hatred and Season 6 last year amazed you with its rich content and high playability, the new seasons after that have been criticized by players for being too homogeneous, including the ongoing Season 8.

Take this season as an example. The biggest features of boss power and the return of Belial are indeed attractive, but the boss power mechanism itself is actually a variant of the old season power, without substantial innovation, and Belial boss battle does not bring any special mechanism.

And Apparition Incursions event, another major content of the eighth season, actually just forces you to repeat the same battle over and over again, and complete the upgrade and Diablo 4 gold farming by obtaining magic boss power - although this is important, the boring battle is indeed unbearable.

Therefore, it can be seen from the campfire chat that the development team seems to intend to change this situation starting from Season 9, and strive to ensure that you have the opportunity to carry out various activities in the future Diablo 4, rather than being trapped in a specific activity.

What Will PTR 2.3.0 Include?

In Diablo 4, most PTRs are small “new seasons” that allow you to experience the gameplay of the next season in advance in the form of testing, and make corrections and adjustments in time based on your feedback and other players’ feedback, so that the new season will be more perfect when it is officially launched.

The core of this PTR 2.3.0 is Season 9, Sins of the Horadrim. PTR will be officially launched on May 27 and will last until June 3 (about a week like in the past), during which you can experience the new content that is now basically confirmed to appear in Season 9.

Comprehensive Upgrade Of Nightmare Dungeon

As an important source of your gold, XP and basic gear farming in Diablo 4, Nightmare Dungeon is a very important game mechanic. It has been running since the game was launched in 2023, and now it is time to make it better.

First, the dungeon itself will add an advanced mode called Escalating Nightmares, which allows you to challenge three nightmare dungeons in a row, and each dungeon will add new affixes that can increase both difficulty and rewards.

When you complete all the challenges brought by these three dungeons, you will usher in a final boss battle, but the premise is that you have obtained Strongrooms in challenges that require Torment 1 and above, and collected enough Escalating Nightmare Sigil from them to unlock the boss battle.

You may wonder what Strongrooms are, in fact, it comes from another update to Nightmare Dungeons. Season 9 will add a new micro-dungeon called Horadric Strongrooms to Nightmare Dungeons, and the entrance is hidden in Nightmare Dungeon.

Find the entrance and enter, and you can start collecting Horadric ‘attunement’ by killing enemies. This item can increase the number of rewards you get after killing the boss in this dungeon and unlocking its Strongroom.

New Boss Astaroth

This boss, like Belial from Season 8, is a return of an existing Diablo villain (old boss). The value of Astaroth is that when he appeared in the game in the past, his encounters were among the most interesting of all bosses.

In order to avoid the misunderstanding of “old wine in new bottles”, the developers said in the chat that they would not let Astaroth simply integrate into the existing boss ladder directly, but would try to find ways to integrate bosses in different ways to make the main content of the final boss battle more innovative.

Seasonal Power Horadric Spells

Well, Diablo 4 does not seem to intend to abandon the representative mechanism of seasonal power just because of the dissatisfaction of players. To be honest, what you are tired of is not the mechanism itself, but the fact that different powers in different seasons always play the same form in the end in actual battles.

For this reason, the development team said that compared to the boss power or witch power that can be used directly after unlocking, Season 9 Horadric Spells will allow you to customize this power yourself and create your own Horadric Spell in a form similar to build.

Since neither PTR nor Season 9 has been launched yet, it is still impossible to judge the practicality of this mechanism. However, at least from the design concept, it is indeed more creative than the existing seasonal power and worth looking forward to.

In addition to the above three core contents, it is expected that Season 9 will continue to optimize each class on the basis of bringing new content, so that they can ensure it maintains balanced class strength while fitting in with the theme of the new season.

If you are interested in the changes in Season 9, please experience and evaluate it immediately when PTR 2.3.0 is launched. I wish you a happy game!