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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!

In general, if you choose Barbarian as your class in Diablo 4, it seems that you will attack enemies in a “brute force but slow” way. Although some Barbarian skills are true, in fact, this class can also achieve quick wins with other skills and related builds.

After entering Diablo 4 Season 8, the seasonal event Apparition Incursions is a worthy priority event, because it provides you with the opportunity to farm Diablo 4 gold and magic boss power through many ordinary enemies and Apparition bosses. And if you complete it at a higher difficulty, the loot will be more.

On this basis, if you want to clear enemies in the event more efficiently while playing as Barbarian, or complete other Season 8 dungeons faster, it is recommended that you craft and utilize Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build.

Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build Introduction

In fact, this build is not a new Barbarian build. It has already appeared and played a role in previous seasons. The operating mechanism of this build is to improve the character’s versatility, damage and survivability through 3 Shouts, then let Iron Skin increase defense value, and generate additional Fury through Call of the Ancients.

After entering the eighth season, the reason why Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame is worth re-activating is that the skill Gohr’s Devastating Grips has been reworked this season, allowing Whirlwind Barbarian to have new winning ideas besides Nature or Earthquake, and more efficiently!

Advantages And Disadvantages

Based on combining the best skills, this build can achieve high damage value, larger attack range in battle, and more effectively attack distant enemies by closing the distance between them, and can produce reliable synergy with Runewords.

As for the shortcomings, on the one hand, the operation process of the entire build is highly repetitive, which is a bit dull compared to other more fancy builds; on the other hand, the effect is poor when fighting single bosses. But at least for Apparition Incursions, this build is still very useful.

Skills Selection And Rotation

Almost all Diablo 4 builds are crafted with active skills as the core, and then passive skills and gear are used to further enhance these active skills that can output damage. For Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame, it is recommended that you choose the following skills:

Active Skills

• Whirlwind - Furious Whirlwind - 1/5 - Core
• Rallying Cry - Tactical Rallying Cry - 1/5 - Defensive
• Challenging Shout - Tactical Challenging Shout - 1/5 - Defensive
• Iron Skin - Tactical Iron Skin - 1/5 - Defensive
• War Cry - Power War Cry - 5/5 - Brawling
• Call of the Ancients - Supreme Call of the Ancients - 5/5 - Ultimate

Passive Skills

• Key Passive - Unconstrained
• Offensive Passive - No Mercy, Pit Fighter Pit Fighter, Slaying Strike, Counteroffensive, Thick Skin
• Defensive Passive - Imposing Presence, Martial Vigor, Raid Leader, Guttural Yell, Aggressive Resistance
• Utility Passive - Booming Voice, Swiftness

After choosing and mastering the above skills, you need to cast them in a fixed order during the battle, and then repeat the whole process until all enemies are dead:

• Continuously release the core skill Whirlwind to drive more and stronger Dust Devils and Earthquakes to cause damage to the enemy.
• Selectively cast Shouts and Iron Skin according to the changes in the battle situation to extend your survival time.
• Utilize Call of the Ancients and its more powerful versions to improve resource generation.

Best Gear

Skills are the foundation of the build. If you want to use them to deal with more difficult battles, especially Torment 4 with top difficulty, you must farm more precious gear to further improve your various attributes. The gear that’s best for Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame includes:

• Helm - Ugly Bastard Helm
• Chest - Mantle of Mountain’s Fury
• Gloves - Fists of Fate
• Pants - Arreat’s Bearing
• Boots - Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind
• Amulet - Dust Devil’s Aspect
• Ring - Ring of Starless Skies and Bold Chieftain’s Aspect
• Main Hand - Aspect of Fierce Winds

The above gear is basically dropped by completing boss battles, so it’s really tricky to collect. You can replace some of them according to your actual situation, but it has to be said that it may reduce the lethality of the build.

Best Boss Powers

Any season’s exclusive power is worth paying attention to and using, not to mention that in Season 8, these powers that originally belonged to powerful bosses are so attractive! To maximize the effectiveness of the build, it is recommended that you equip the following 4 boss powers:

• Main: Wandering Death’s Chest Beam

This power is triggered when you use your core skill Whirlwind, dealing damage and debuff to enemies. It is worth noting that since Whirlwind is actually always active during combat, this boss power will also always be active.

• Modifier: Sinerat’s Flames

You can deal fire damage to enemies when you trigger Earthquakes, and this modifier power can further increase your fire damage.

• Modifier: Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley

In addition to the debuffs caused by the main power Wandering Death’s Chest Beam, Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley will multiply this effect for five seconds.

• Modifier: Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste

Gives you a bonus to your critical strike chance.

Once you’ve completed Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build as described above, you should actually be strong enough to handle most of Diablo 4 Season 8 content, even Torment 4 difficulty! Good luck!

Whenever you enter the world of Diablo 4, the first step is to create a new character and choose a class for it. After that, all the skills, appearances, unique items and more that you can utilize often depend on your class.

On this basis, game builds that mainly rely on skills and gear to craft will naturally vary depending on the class. And when the game changes seasons, the strongest builds for each class will also change due to changes in bosses or adjustments to dungeon mechanisms.

Based on this, this time we will use Season 8 as the background to introduce to you which build is suitable for each of the 6 classes in Diablo 4 as the mainstream build of the season.

1. Spiritborn - Quill Volley

Compared to other Spiritborn builds, Quill Volley will focus more on damage output, and at the same time have reliable tank capabilities and high mobility. But to enjoy these benefits, you must pair it with rarer gear.

For this reason, in fact, before completing the craft of this build, you need to go through very hard battles to accumulate enough Diablo 4 gold and gear to complete Quill Volley. But the advantage is that it can help you get higher combat efficiency than others after entering the endgame.

To do this, you’ll need the following skills and gear for this build:

Active Skills

• Quill Volley - Advantageous Quill Volley - 5/5 - Core
• Ravager - Measured Ravager - 1/5 - Focus
• Armored Hide - Reinforced Armored Hide - 1/5 - Defensive
• Vortex - Measured Vortex - 1/5 - Focus
• Scourge - Adaptable Scourge - 1/5 - Defensive
• The Hunter - Exalted Hunter - 1/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Harmony of Ebewaka
• Shroud of False Death
• Aspect of the Moonrise
• Duelist’s Aspect
• Yen’s Blessing
• Banished Lord’s Talisman

2. Sorcerer - Lightning Spear

If you want to quickly clear enemies as a Sorcerer in Season 8, and complete most of the seasonal missions and endgame dungeons with maximum efficiency, then Lightning Spear is still the best choice.

As its name suggests, this build mainly outputs power through Lightning Spear and Aspect of Splintering Energy. On the other hand, you can also match it with the appropriate seasonal power boss power in addition to gear to make this build more powerful.

Gear

• Cap of Disobedience
• Snowveiled Tunic
• Focus of Elemental Constellation
• Dagger of Engulfing Flames
• Storm Swell Gloves
• Everliving Pants
• Flamewalker’s Boots
• Amulet of Control

Boss Powers

• Ashava’s Poison Breath
• Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
• Torusk’s Rage
• Allek’s Talons

3. Barbarian - Call Of The Ancients

Compared to the best builds of the first two classes, Barbarian’s Call of the Ancients may has be forgotten by you for a long time, but it has to be said that after the mechanism of adjustment in Vessel of Hatred last year, it can now play a good effect in Season 8.

This build mainly increases the damage of the build by maximizing the duration of the core skill Call of the Ancients to help you deal with Torment difficulty and the single boss in it. However, due to the characteristics of the skills, this build is not suitable for fast gold farming.

Active Skills

• Bash - Enhanced Bash - 2/5 - Basic
• Ground Stomp - Tactical Ground Stomp - 1/5 - Defensive
• Rallying Cry - Strategic Rallying Cry - 1/5 - Defensive
• Challenging Shout - Enhanced Challenging Shout - 1/5 - Defensive
• War Cry - Power War Cry - 1/5 - Brawling
• Call of the Ancients - Supreme Call of the Ancients - 5/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Harlequin Crest
• Tyrael’s Might
• Aspect of Inner Calm
• Arreat’s Bearing
• Hectic Aspect
• Locran’s Talisman

4. Necromancer - Blood Spear And Blood Wave

For this class, the focus of builds selection this season is still blood-oriented. Both Blood Spear and Blood Wave can play a good role, but they actually have different advantages and disadvantages. You can decide which one to choose based on our introduction.

Blood Spear

This build mainly uses the main skill Bone Spear and the unique item Indira’s Memory to play a role. It not only has a large enough damage range, but also guarantees overpowers. At the same time, Indira’s Memory can also change the visual effects of the skill, making the battle more enjoyable.

As for the shortcomings, the problem with Blood Spear is that it relies too much on essence during utilization. You must devote your energy to provide a stable source of essence for it. In addition, the freedom of choice when assigning skill points to appropriate skills is low.

Blood Wave

This build can output stable and powerful damage through the skill Blood Wave, easily dealing with groups or single enemies, and the gameplay is simple and easy to understand, suitable for most players. As for the shortcomings, it is mainly reflected in the fact that collecting blood orbs is very time-consuming.

5. Rogue - Death Trap

For Rogue, we recommend that you choose Death Trap as the core build in Season 8. Combining the skill of the same name with the armor Scoundrel’s Leathers, this build will allow you to easily defeat enemies through continuous teaming and gain a lot of cooldown time through the game loop.

Active Skills

• Caltrops - Methodical Caltrops - 1/5 - Agility
• Shadow Step - Methodical Shadow Step - 1/5 - Agility
• Smoke Grenade - Subverting Smoke Grenade - 1/5 - Subterfuge
• Concealment - Subverting Concealment - 1/5 - Subterfuge
• Shadow Imbuement - Mixed Shadow Imbuement - 1/5 - Imbuement
• Death Trap - Supreme Death Trap - 5/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Harlequin Crest
• Scoundrel’s Leathers
• Crossbow of Apogeic Furor
• Sword of Artful Initiative
• Doombringer
• Trickster’s Gloves
• Eyes in the Dark

6. Druid - Cataclysm

You might be wondering, why the hell is Cataclysm again? But it has to be said that classics are timeless. As a veteran build for a veteran class, Cataclysm is your best choice when you are in trouble as a Druid in Diablo 4.

This build mainly revolves around the key skill Cataclysm and extends its duration and power by matching it with appropriate gear and runes to cope with most game content.

Active Skills

• Maul - Enhanced Maul - 1/5 - Basic
• Pulverize - Primal Pulverize - 1/5 - Core
• Earthen Bulwark - Preserving Earthen Bulwark - 1/5 - Defensive
• Blood Howl - Innate Blood Howl - 1/5 - Defensive
• Debilitating Roar - Innate Debilitating Roar - 1/5 - Defensive
• Hurricane - Savage Hurricane - 1/5 - Wrath
• Cataclysm - Supreme Cataclysm - 5/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Tempest Roar
• Tyrael’s Might
• Runeworker’s Conduit Aspect
• Stormshifter’s Aspect
• Flickerstep
• Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt

If there are any of the above builds that you think are good and correspond to the class you are playing, then why not complete it and use it in battle? Try it now!

From an aesthetic point of view, Necromancer may be the most in line with the game style of all Diablo 4 classes: gloom, death and decay. In fact, this class also brings wonderful combat performance based on fully reflecting this style.

In the previous seasons, several blood-dominated Necromancer builds became popular and became mainstream, such as Blood Bone Spear, Blood Lance and more. Of course, they are still viable in Season 8, but I don’t know if you still remember Minion Endgame Build.

In addition to the available skills, Necromancer can also summon the army of the undead or golems to clear enemies through the class-exclusive mechanism Book of the Dead, and you can even further upgrade them. Minion Necromancer Endgame Build was born based on this.

Next, we will introduce to you how to make this build easier to utilize and increase the speed of clearing enemies after entering Season 8. Let’s take a look!

Build Overview - Pros & Cons

This build provides you with multiple damage multipliers and sources of sustained damage in combat, allowing you to farm Diablo 4 gold or other more valuable items in difficult endgame dungeons such as The Pit or Kurast Undercity.

This is primarily because the build can deal more damage to enemies through Blight, Skeletal Warrior Mastery, and Skeletal Mage Mastery, and then continue to increase the damage by upgrading Hellbent Commander and matching the right gear.

In terms of survivability, different skills can be used in different ways, such as:

• Blood Mist: Provides immunity and healing effects.
• Necrotic Carapace: Provides Fortify when you or your minions deal damage.
• Soulrift: Provides a short barrier effect by reducing the cooldown of the ultimate skill.
• Corpse Tendrils: Enemies affected by this skill are stunned and cannot damage you for the duration of the stun.

As for weaknesses, the main one is that since this build is an endgame build, it may only work in the late game and will not help you level up your character much. Other shortcomings include:

• No Golem: May weaken your tankiness, healing, and control effects.
• Some available items do not include maximum health or armor.
• Lack of Cursed Aura or Curse skill (can be compensated by Blood Moon Breeches)

Best Skills And Rotation

In addition to the available skills that have been introduced to you, this build needs to further combine more Necromancer skills and rotate them in a fixed order to maximize the effect of all skills. The best rotation order is as follows:

• 1. Attack the enemy with Blight while commanding your minions to continue attacking.
• 2. After the enemy corpse appears, activate Corpse Tendrils to pull multiple enemies to the corpse to stun other enemies. After that, the minions will randomly spread curses for you, slowing down and stunning the enemy.
• 3. Activate the ultimate skill Soulrift to damage the enemy and gain a temporary barrier.
• 4. When more corpses appear in the arena, release Raise Skeleton 5 times to summon a Skeletal Priest to enhance the attack power of you and your minions.
• 5. Get a temporary damage multiplier bonus through Flesh-eater.
• 6. Cast Reap once every 4 seconds to maintain the damage reduction effect, while also applying vulnerability to the enemy.

It is worth noting that when attacking an enemy through Reap, if the enemy dies, you will continue to gain the attack speed bonus, and even your minions can inherit the bonus from your attributes, causing more damage in combat.

How To Utilize Book Of The Dead?

This mechanic allows you to summon 3 types of minions, namely Skeletal Warriors, Skeletal Mages, and Golems, and each has 3 specializations, namely:

• Skeletal Warriors: Skirmishers, Defenders, or Reapers.
• Skeletal Mages: Shadow Mages, Cold Mages or Bone Mages.
• Golem: Bone Golems, Blood Golems or Iron Golems.

The best Book of the Dead utilize plan for Minion Necromancer Endgame Build is:

• Add an additional Skirmisher
• Each additional Shadow Mage can get 3% damage bonus
• Sacrifice Golem to gain critical damage multiplier

Skirmisher can be combined with Ring of Mendeln to provide more damage, and Skeletal Priests and Blood Orbs can not only heal your minions, but also prolong the survival time of Shadow Mages.

Best Gear

The main purpose of all the gear you need to add to this build involves maximizing the damage of your minions, as well as all sources of sustained damage, including:

• Helm: Heir of Perdition (+ Lucky Hit Chance & Critical Strike Chance)
• Chest: Shroud of False Death (+ All Stats & Maximum Health)
• Gloves: Aspect of Reanimation (+ Skeletal Mage Mastery & Intelligence & Armor)
• Pants: Blood Moon Breeches (+ Hellbent Commander & Critical Strike Chance)
• Boots: Blood Getter’s Aspect (+ Skeletal Warrior Mastery & Intelligence & Soulrift Duration)
• Amulet: Aspect of Occult Dominion (+ Hellbent Commander & Coalesced Blood & Intelligence)
• Ring 1: Aspect of the Great Feast (+ Intelligence & Attack Speed ​​& Summon Damage)
• Ring 2: Ring of Mendeln (+ Skeletal Mastery & Intelligence & Summon Attack Speed)
• Main Hand: The Grandfather (+ All Stats & Maximum Life & Maximum Resource)

Best Boss Powers

As a feature of this season, boss power is worth adding to all builds. You can carry one main power and three modifier powers for each battle. For Minion Endgame, the most suitable boss power is:

• Main: Lord Zir’s Blood Pool
• Modifier: Beastmaster’s Training
• Modifier: Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
• Modifier: Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley

The above is the combination and utilization method to make Minion Necromancer Endgame Build more powerful in Diablo 4 Season 8. If you need it, you can log in to the game to try it. Thank you for reading.

After entering Diablo 4, your Sanctuary battle journey officially begins! Whether you want to advance the main story first or want to clear the early dungeons to complete Diablo 4 gold accumulation, you can’t do without battles of all sizes.

Faced with this situation, in order for your character to complete the battle as quickly as possible while ensuring the health value, you not only need to increase the defense value, but also must do everything possible to improve your damage output ability, and eliminate the enemy by causing more damage at one time.

In fact, there are many ways to do this, but considering the differences between different Diablo 4 seasons, these methods also need to be adjusted regularly. Based on this, we will introduce you how to increase your damage by 100 times or more in Diablo 4 Season 8.

Source Of Damage Output

To find out the origin of a river, you must trace it back to the source along its flow path. If you want to know how to increase the damage of Diablo 4 characters, you must at least know where your damage comes from in the game.

There is no doubt that character skills are the most basic and important source of damage. In comparison, other methods are actually combinations or upgrades of various skills. When you create a new Diablo 4 Season 8 character, you can choose a class, and all the skills used in battle are exclusive to that class.

When you are familiar with all the skills and enter a deeper level of the game, you can follow the guide or explore craft class builds on your own, and combine items and gear to increase your damage output. In addition, mercenaries, summons or other class-specific mechanisms can also provide you with additional damage output.

Choose The Most Suitable Skills And Builds

There are currently 6 classes available in Season 8, each of which has its own strengths and can play a different role in battle. As a player, you must have the habit of playing ARPG or Diablo 4. Although new classes are more attractive, if you want to become a damage master as soon as possible in the new season, familiar classes will definitely be more suitable.

After mastering most of the practical skills, you should find that some skills can be used in a specific rotation order to hit the enemy without breathing time, which is more powerful than blindly casting high-damage skills. This is the prototype of builds.

After that, you can organize this rotation more systematically and match these items with your basic builds during the farming process, so that unique items or legendary aspects can become the icing on the cake and play their due value.

Farm Items At Torment Difficulty

As we have already mentioned, precious Diablo 4 items can help you improve your builds, but these items are not always 100% dropped, and the more precious and effective they are, the harder they are to get.

For this reason, if your ability allows, it is best to farm game items at high levels of Torment difficulty. This will not only increase the chance of getting relevant drops, but also accumulate rich combat experience and learn how to increase the damage value in specific battles.

Maximize Your Glyphs

Glyphs are also called Paragon glyphs, their existence itself is to strengthen your character. When your character reaches the maximum level 60, it can no longer be strengthened through upgrading. At that time, besides the builds and items, glyphs are the most powerful booster.

Glyphs are usually found in various places when you explore, and then they are inserted into special slots on each Paragon panel. They will provide you with significant bonuses based on the number of active tiles within their radius.

It is worth noting that you can continue to upgrade glyphs. The higher the level, the larger the radius of effect, which will have a greater impact on more active tiles on Paragon board.

Since the launch of Vessel of Hatred DLC last year, the way glyphs are upgraded has changed from relying on experience to depending on your level of The Pit. The Pit is one of the endgame dungeons with 150 tiers, and each completed floor can get different rewards.

After completing Artificer’s Mastery, you will get three opportunities to upgrade the glyph level, and if you do not die during the challenge, you will also get an additional upgrade attempt.

It is worth noting that the chance of upgrading a glyph depends on the level of the glyph and the level of The Pit you have completed. For example, completing The Pit tier 10 higher than your glyph level will give you a guaranteed upgrade. And when you complete The Pit tier that is much higher than your current glyph level, each subsequent attempt will give you a bonus upgrade opportunity.

Be Good At Utilizing Support Mechanisms

First of all, it is worth introducing the mercenary mechanism that debuted in DLC. This mechanism allows you to recruit two mercenaries and bring them into battle. One of them is the main one, and the other is a reinforcement, which will provide you with support in different combat situations.

There are currently 4 mercenaries in the game, namely Raheir, Varyana, Aldkin and Subo. They have different skills, suitable for different classes to carry, and they also have corresponding skill trees, which you can use to unlock and upgrade the mercenary skills.

In addition, all classes in Diablo 4 have their own unique mechanism to play combat effects in the most class-specific form. They are:

• Barbarian: Arsenal System
• Rogue: Specialization
• Sorceress: Enchantment System
• Druid: Spirit Boons
• Necromancer: Book of the Dead
• Spiritborn: Spirit Hall

Season 8 Boss Powers

Most Diablo 4 seasons have Season Powers, which are not only a feature of the season, but also one of the best ways to deal more damage - at least they are very useful in the corresponding season. In Season 8, this power is boss power.

Boss powers can be obtained by killing 24 bosses in the season. After that, in a single battle, you can choose a main power and 3 modifier powers to equip, combining all the mechanics and content mentioned above to further increase your damage and become more powerful.

These are the main ways to maximize your damage output in Diablo 4 Season 8. I hope it can inspire you! Have fun!

It’s been almost a month since the launch of Diablo 4 Season 8. How far have you progressed in the game? According to the richness of this season, if you play almost every day during this period, then it shouldn’t be long before you encounter the ultimate boss Belial!

As the main villain of the entire Diablo series and one boss of Diablo 3, Belial’s return in D4 has caused discussion in the game community since the relevant news was released, which will also make you look forward to the duel with him even more.

Before Season 8, in order to unlock this difficult boss battle, you must collect the relevant summoning materials in advance to summon the boss. This season has reformed this mechanism, changing the summoning materials to lair keys that unlock the boss hoard after the battle.

In other words, without these keys, you will not be able to get Diablo 4 gold or exclusive unique items after the battle, even if you win! For Belial, his exclusive lair keys are Betrayer’s Husk. To ensure that your final boss battle is worthwhile, we will introduce you to the way to obtain this “key”.

What Is Betrayer’s Husk?

In fact, you should have known before Season 8 was launched that the endgame boss was changed to lair boss in this season, and the summoning material was also changed to lair keys - this new Diablo 4 item can be used to open the boss hoard.

All lair bosses are divided into three levels: Initiate, Greater, and Exalted. Killing low-level bosses can obtain the hoard keys of high-level bosses, so that you can kill high-level bosses and take away their boss power while obtaining relevant loot. And Betrayer’s Husk is the keys of the final boss Belial in Season 8.

How To Get Betrayer’s Husk?

Since this lair key determines whether you can get the most important boss loot of this season, its drop channel is not single, but not all farming methods are equally efficient and reliable. Next, I will introduce them one by one.

Kill Belial’s Base Form

As the only Exalted lair boss in the game, Belial’s lair key Betrayer’s Husk will not drop directly by defeating other Greater bosses, but will randomly refresh Belial’s Belial’s base form when you open the hoards of other bosses. You can only get Betrayer’s Husk by defeating him.

Or you can also have a chance to get this key by completing the exclusive event Apparition Incursion in Season 8. When you refresh the event on the map, enter it and start killing ordinary Apparition enemies to fill the relevant progress slots.

Once this progress bar is filled, you will encounter two random Apparition bosses in the current event. After defeating them, you can encounter Belial’s base form while harvesting the corresponding boss power, and then you can start Betrayer’s Husk farming.

It is worth noting that Betrayer’s Husk seems to only drop under Torment difficulty. Lair boss battles only appear in Torment difficulty, but Apparition Incursion can be experienced at any difficulty, so if you want to get Betrayer’s Husk through this event, make sure the difficulty setting is Torment 1 and above.

Open Whisper Caches

After entering Season 8, Tree of Whispers is still your main way to obtain key resources such as gold and XP, and the ultimate reward Whisper caches also have a chance to bring you the lair keys you need.

Once you enter the endgame and find Tree of Whispers, it will issue you a series of bounties that will earn you different amounts of Grim Favors. After every ten Grim Favors you accumulate, you can return to Tree of Whispers to redeem Whisper caches.

Opening these caches may earn you gear for your class, or even better legendary items, but in Season 8 you’ll also have a chance to get the rare lair key Betrayer’s Husk.

Although the chance of dropping Betrayer’s Husk is low, since completing Tree of Whispers is a task you should complete in all Diablo 4 seasons, it’s a good idea to give it a try without wasting your time.

Claim Season Journey Rewards

This season, all the benefits are still with you! In addition to the new battle pass system updated as Reliquaries, season blessings and season journey will bring you relevant rewards at any time based on your game progress.

Season 8 journey includes multiple chapters, each with a different number of objectives for you to complete. Greater lair caches in the rewards after completion have a chance to bring Betrayer’s Husk or other lair boss keys, and the chance is slightly higher than Whisper caches.

• Chapter I: Required Objectives-3; Total Objectives-3
• Chapter II: Required Objectives-3; Total Objectives-3
• Chapter III: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-4
• Chapter IV: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-5
• Slayer: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-5
• Champion: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-5
• Destroyer: Required Objectives-5; Total Objectives-7

The Specific Function Of Betrayer’s Husk

After obtaining this item, please travel to Palace of the Deceiver dungeon, located in Kehjistan under any Torment difficulty, then find boss Belial and start the battle (this dungeon can only be unlocked by completing questline The Lord of Lies).

After winning the fight, consuming two Betrayer’s Husks will unlock Belial’s hoard, which will give you the chance to pick any other lair bosses’ loot, as well as a possible ancestral unique.

The above are all Betrayer’s Husks farm methods. Perhaps the game will add other playable content to help you get these lair keys before the end of Season 8. Let us look forward to it together!

No matter how many resources you have accumulated at the end of the previous Diablo 4 season, facing the new season that requires you to re-farm in all aspects, these remaining resources should not be enough for you to complete your new season character, and you must continue to work hard to get more Diablo 4 gold or XP.

Since its launch on April 29, you will find that Season 8 provides a lot of new loot, such as equippable boss powers and new unique items for different classes. Of course, this also means that you need to complete new battles to obtain them.

Because of the difficulty setting of the game content and the adjustment of the lair boss mechanism, farming in Season 8 is now more difficult, especially after unlocking and entering Torment difficulty. Based on this, we will introduce you to 7 related tips to improve your resource farming efficiency.

1. Complete Apparition Incursions

This event is a seasonal event in Season 8, as a reflection of the demon army of the ultimate boss Belial in specific gameplay. This event brings 10 Apparition bosses, and two of them will randomly spawn after you kill normal Apparition enemies in each event. After killing the boss, Belial’s secondary form will appear.

This event will last for the entire season and will refresh every 5 minutes, so you can repeatedly farm it to maximize the gold and XP it can pass. In addition, you will also gain corresponding boss powers after killing Apparition bosses, which will help shape your early game builds.

2. Upgrade To The Maximum Level 60

After gaining some basic boss powers through Apparition Incursions, you should be able to handle most of the early game content, so you can upgrade to level 50 by completing them, and then continue to upgrade to level 60 by completing Nahantu strongholds in DLC.

Follow this strategy to complete the upgrade, you will not only unlock Torment difficulty as soon as possible, but also smoothly deal with more endgame dungeons and events after that, to earn more precious items you need.

3. Helltides And Infernal Hordes

Helltides is a bit like a permanent version of Apparition Incursions, providing you with a lot of loot every season since its launch. You can start running this event as long as you unlock Torment difficulty. Completing it and defeating the main bosses such as Blood Maiden will earn you XP or items that can also gear up.

It is worth noting that running Helltides will also drop Infernal Horde Compasses for you. This item can be used to open Infernal Hordes, after which this event will spawn multiple waves of enemies. You just need to complete these waves and defeat Fell Council without exhausting all your resurrections to get the reward.

4. Run Kurast Undercity

The first thing you need to know is that you can only enter Kurast Undercity and complete the related challenges if you have DLC Vessel of Hatred, but it has to be said that it is indeed one of the best ways for you to earn lair boss keys, gold, gear and XP in Season 8.

As a limited-time level, you need to farm and consume tribute to open Kurast Undercity challenge and get loot. Different types of tribute will also give you different loot after the battle, so you must choose carefully in order not to waste the opportunity to fight - fortunately, the value of these loot is very good.

5. The Pit Of The Artificer

This should be the most difficult Diablo 4 endgame dungeon, with 150 levels, and the difficulty and the quantity and quality of loot will increase layer by layer. And The Pit is extra special in that it is also the way for you to unlock the difficulty of Torment (complete 10 levels of The Pit to unlock Torment 1).

In fact, the most intuitive benefit of farming in The Pit is that you can get a lot of XP in a short time, so that your character can complete the upgrade as soon as possible. In addition, completing The Pit tasks within the specified time is also the only way to upgrade glyphs in the game and embed them into Paragon board.

6. Farming Bosses

Except for the early Apparition bosses, the truly valuable bosses in Season 8 are mainly lair bosses that you will encounter after entering the endgame. They can provide stronger boss power and better loot, and can start the battle without summoning materials.

It is worth noting that in order to open the corresponding hoard after the boss dies and take away the rewards, you need to obtain lair keys in advance. All lair bosses are divided into three levels. Killing low-level bosses can drop high-level keys. In addition, Tribute of Titans in Kurast Undercity can also be used for farming lair keys.

7. Equip Mythic Uniques

There is no doubt that as one of the best buff items in the game, Mythic Uniques can bring a qualitative leap to your character and quickly become powerful to cope with higher levels of Torment difficulty. But you must also work hard to get them.

In Diablo 4 Season 8, the main ways to obtain Mythic Uniques include defeating bosses and crafting. The higher the boss level, the greater the possibility of dropping. As for crafting, you need to have Resplendent Sparks as the main material.

There are two sources of Resplendent Sparks. The first is to get a direct drop by defeating Lilith at Torment 1-4 difficulty (although this is difficult); the second is to earn Spectral Ash by killing lair bosses to increase your seasonal reputation levels, then final reputation reward includes a Resplendent Spark.

If you can master the skills and builds of the character class, and fight hard on the above 7 occasions, I believe you will soon get enough game resources! Have fun!

Although there are many powerful builds available for each Diablo 4 class, some builds are more suitable if you want to challenge or farm specific tasks and dungeons. At least, The Pit, one of the most difficult dungeons, is not something that all builds can handle.

The Pit, full name of The Pit of Artificers, is a random dungeon with 150 floors. The higher the level, the more difficult it is. Of course, the more Diablo 4 Gold, gear, or other loot you will get. To complete a level of The Pit, you must kill as many monsters and bosses as possible within 15 minutes.

Based on this, we will take Rogue class as the protagonist this time to tell you how to craft Poison Trap Spam, a Rogue build, in order to handle the difficult content of The Pit.

Skill Selection

Generally speaking, mastering the relevant class skills is the most important prerequisite for crafting any builds, because the builds cannot function without skills.

Damage Skills

For Poison Trap Spam, first make sure to bring your Sturdy to provide damage reduction so that minimize the damage caused by enemies in The Pit. Next, equip Caltrops and upgrade them to Methodical Caltrops if possible. This type of skill can create a trap area, effectively chilling enemies in the area to slow down their movement speed.

Dance of Knives is the main Rogue skill for this build to damage enemies. This skill is a new Rogue skill that appeared in DLC Vessel of Hatred. Once launched, it has been welcomed by the majority of Rogue players.

As a practical physical damage skill, Dance of Knives has continuous mobility and excellent damage output. It allows you to guide the throwing knives to attack surrounding enemies, consuming a charge per second, allowing each throwing knife to cause 70-94% damage, and the faster the attack speed, the more damage it causes. You will even gain additional movement speed and dodge chance when channeling the skill.

Agility Skills

Of course, in addition to the evasion bonus provided by Dance of Knives, you should also equip your Poison Trap Spam Rogue with some nice defensive skills that can further improve its evasion and agility attributes, such as Smoke Grenade and Poison Trap.

In fact, these two skills can also cause considerable damage to enemies on their own - as the most agile class in Diablo 4, most of Rogue’s skills are very flexible. Poison Trap can create a poisonous trap to poison the enemy, and Smoke Grenade can throw a smoke mixture at the enemy to stun them for a few seconds. They can also be further upgraded to:

• Enhanced Poison Trap
• Countering Poison Trap
• Subverting Poison Trap
• Enhanced Smoke Grenade
• Countering Smoke Grenade
• Subverting Smoke Grenade

In addition, the concealment effect provided by Concealment skill is also very helpful for completing The Pit of Artificers. After entering the stealth state, you have 5 seconds to shuttle between enemies and deal damage without being discovered, but if you are attacked during this period, the stealth state will be invalid.

In order to ensure that the above Rogue skills you added can be better used in The Pit battle through Poison Trap Spam Rogue Build, it is also necessary to equip other important passive skills, such as:

• Alchemical Admixture
• Close Quarters Combat
• Exposure
• Momentum
• Precision
• Victimize

Some of them can increase the damage caused by your active skills, some can provide speed or dodge assistance, and some can make vulnerable enemies lose more health when attacked, which is very useful.

Gear Selection

After completing the skill matching, it is time to work hard to farm the right gear to continue to improve your build. If you want to improve the damage output ability of the build first, then Bands of Ichorous Rose is definitely your best choice.

This item is actually the latest Rogue exclusive item launched in Season 8, which can be worn by you as gloves. Bands of Ichorous Rose increase the maximum number of Poison Traps you can cast by 4, and they always deal full damage within 3 seconds, increasing damage by 50 - 100%. Other specific buffs include:

• + [18.5 - 27.5]% Chance for Poison Trap to Cast Twice
• + [10.5 - 15.0]% Attack Speed
• + [3.0 - 5.0]% Maximum Poison Resistance
• + [41.5 - 55.0]% Poison Resistance

For Legendary Aspect, we recommend Aspect of Arrow Storms. A reliable offensive aspect, Aspect of Arrow Storms gives your ranged skills a 36% chance to rain arrows that deal continuous damage to enemies.

Class-Specific Mechanic

Each class in Diablo 4 has a specific mechanic that helps you enhance your character in the most class-specific way. For Rogue, this mechanic is Specialization, which allows you to choose one of three passive bonuses to enhance yourself, and you can switch at any time, even in combat, which are:

• Combo Points
• Inner Sight
• Preparation

The one that makes Poison Trap Spam Rogue Build more powerful in The Pit is Inner Sight. It allows you to mark random enemies, and hitting these enemies will fill the corresponding progress bar, and once it is full, you will get unlimited energy.

That’s all for this time. If you are playing Rogue class and are not satisfied with the existing builds, you might as well give this build a try!

For you, playing Diablo 4 should have two main purposes. One is to get a unique experience as a player by playing the game, and the other is to gradually grow in the game to defeat increasingly powerful opponents and dominate the game world.

No matter which aspect you value more, in fact, you must work hard to make your character stronger and stronger in the game. To do this, in addition to earning enough Diablo 4 Gold and XP, you also need to constantly update and upgrade the items you are equipped with.

Among all Diablo 4 items, Unique and Mythic Unique items are undoubtedly the rarest and provide the best benefits, so they are your popular farming targets in every season. Based on this, we will introduce you to the best gameplay to farm them in Season 8.

Why Farm Uniques?

Diablo 4’s unique items can be divided into multiple types such as weapons, armor and jewelry. Each has four affixes and an exclusive power, which can provide your character with skills or stats bonuses to help you fight against powerful enemies.

Although most Diablo 4 endgame content can theoretically drop unique items through combat, in order to improve farming efficiency, you need to selectively find available combat. In fact, some bosses will focus on dropping Uniques exclusively to a certain class.

1. Farming Lair Bosses

Endgame bosses should be the main source of unique items, even if they are renamed lair bosses. When you unlock Torment difficulty in Season 8, you can challenge these bosses at any level of Torment difficulty to obtain the desired Uniques or Mythic Uniques.

Undoubtedly, as the final boss of this season, Belial has the highest chance of dropping Mythic Uniques, and each of the other lair bosses can provide you with a specific source of Unique items - the exception is Duriel and Andariel, who share the same loot list as brother bosses.

However, if you want to take away the loot after winning the lair boss battle, you must collect the lair keys of the corresponding boss in advance before the battle, otherwise you will miss the loot because you cannot open the boss hoard, wasting the opportunity to fight.

2. Gambling At Purveyor Of Curiosities

This Uniques farming method does not require you to prepare for the battle nervously, just ensure that you have a sufficient inventory of Murmuring Obols. Obols are a special currency that can be dropped after completing most of Diablo 4 content. Its main use is to help you exchange benefits at Purveyor of Curiosities.

However, this gambling will not guarantee that you can get the unique items you want, which means that you may waste a lot of Obols without getting a good return. Therefore, this method can only be regarded as a fun, and it cannot be used as your main source of Uniques.

3. Participate In Helltides And Tree Of Whispers

Helltides is a special endgame event that refreshes on the map every 5 minutes and lasts for 55 minutes each time. After appearing, all Helltides will be marked with a burgundy symbol, and you can go to the corresponding location according to the symbol to complete it.

Tree of Whispers is also an endgame event, which will bring you some bounty tasks. Completing these tasks can get random collectibles, and Grim Favors for exchanging more Tree of Whispers rewards.

During Helltides, you can get gold, XP and Aberrant Cinders by killing enemies and bosses in the event. Aberrant Cinders can open Tortured Gifts you previously obtained through Tree of Whispers collectibles, which may contain Uniques, but the drop rate is not stable.

4. Farming In Infernal Hordes

Although Infernal Hordes is also an endgame event, you can start participating as long as you unlock Torment difficulty. This event will generate multiple waves of enemies. All you have to do is to complete these waves and defeat the subsequent Fell Council without exhausting all resurrections.

In the process of completing the above content, you will collect an in-game currency called Burning Aether, which can be used to exchange for Spoils of Hell chests. Opening these chests will give you a chance to get gear, gold, crafting materials, and most importantly, Uniques and Mythic Uniques.

It is worth noting that in order to enter Infernal Hordes, you need to get enough Infernal Compasses. Before Season 8, this item could be crafted by collecting materials, but now the mechanism has been adjusted and they can only exist as random drops.

To do this, you need to first complete The Eyes of the Enemy in Infernal Hordes questline to get the first Infernal Compass to open Gates of Hell, and then farm more by completing other Infernal Hordes tasks.

The above are all the ways to farm unique items in Diablo 4 Season 8. Considering that all methods will not drop 100%, you must persevere and fight in various events! You have worked hard!