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In Diablo 4, unique items are an integral part of every build. The biggest difference between these unique items and other items is that they have some unique affixes. Some unique items are very versatile and can appear in every build, while some unique items are only particularly useful for a certain class.

Ugly Bastard Helm Unique is a very suitable helmet for Barbarian. It allows your Barbarian to get a damage boost in Berserking and deal a lot of fire damage to the enemy. Even if this helmet is not used as a core equipment for your Barbarian, it can also appear in its builds as one of Barbarian’s powerful aids.

Ugly Bastard Helm

• [10.0 - 85.0]% Fire Resistance.
• + [2 - 5] to Prolific Fury (Barbarian Only).
• [8.0 - 12.5]% Wrath of the Berserker Cooldown Reduction.
• + [1 - 3] to Aggressive Resistance (Barbarian Only).
• Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% Chance to Deal + [605 - 6,750] Fire Damage.
• “When you cast Wrath of the Berserker, it creates an explosion around you that deals Fire damage. Your direct damage dealt is converted into Fire damage When you Berserking.”
• “[80 - 100]% [x] increased Fire damage.”

Ugly Bastard Helm Many of the unique armor mods are tailored specifically for Barbarians, which explains why Ugly Bastard Helm has been one of the best Barbarian helmets for several seasons.

Ugly Bastard Helm increases Barbarian’s fire damage and converts some of the damage dealt by Barbarian while Berserking to fire damage, which makes the damage dealt by Barbarian while Berserking also increase by Ugly Bastard Helm’s affix value of “[80 - 100]% [x] increased Fire damage.” Ugly Bastard Helm grants Barbarian the ability to deal area damage, which makes farming Diablo 4 Gold and clearing nightmare dungeons faster for Barbarian.

In contrast, items like Crown of Lucion lack uniqueness in their affixes. While it has many good affixes, it lacks a dominant direction, which makes it difficult for any build to fully benefit from its full bonuses.

Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty is also a helm specifically designed for the Barbarian. All the attributes of this helm are designed to increase Barbarian’s damage while Berserking. Godslayer Crown is more versatile than Crown of Lucion and can be used in multiple builds. However, the damage increase brought by these two helmets to Barbarian is not as good as that of Ugly Bastard Helm.

How To Get Ugly Bastard Helm?

When the player unlocks Torment 1 Difficulty, you may find this unique item in any monster drop or in any treasure chest. Generally speaking, you can try to get Ugly Bastard Helm through the following ways:

• End game bosses
• Kurast Undercity
• The Pit
• Purveyor of Curiosities
• Infernal Hordes

Purveyor of Curiosities and End game bosses are the best ways for you to get Ugly Bastard Helm. You can choose to gamble here at Purveyor of Curiosities. Purveyor of Curiosities will provide players with a random version of the optional equipment. If you are lucky enough, you can bet on an Ugly Bastard Helm. In any case, this probability is much higher than opening treasure chests and farming monsters. After all, the most you can get through these two conventional methods is still ordinary equipment and Diablo 4 gold.

A better way than Purveyor of Curiosities is to farm bosses. You need to check the boss’s item drop table before farming End game bosses, and you will find that Ugly Bastard Helm Unique helmet is lying among Lor Zir’s drops. After understanding this, you just need to focus on this boss and kill it repeatedly.

Every time you summon Lor Zir, you need to offer 12 Exquisite Blood. So you have to prepare some in advance.

Barbarian Builds Suitable For Ugly Bastard Helm

Although Ugly Bastard Helm is very versatile for Barbarians, there are always some builds that have better choices in helmet selection. Ugly Bastard Helm is the ultimate choice for some builds, while some builds just use it as a transition to Mythic Unique gear. They will later choose Mythic Unique gear to replace Ugly Bastard Helm. Mythic Unique gear is rarer than Unique gear and is usually more powerful.

Builds that need Ugly Bastard Helm as a transition:

• HoTA Barbarian
• Rend Barbarian
• Thorns Barbarian
• Upheaval Barbarian
• Earthquake Barbarian
• Mighty Throw Barbarian

Builds that rely on Wrath of the Berserker:

• Whirlwind Barbarian
• Double Swing Barbarian
• Bash Barbarian
• Rupture Barbarian

When Barbarian casts Wrath of the Berserker, he can enter Berserking state to increase his output greatly. The disadvantage of this type of build is that it lacks AOE damage and is very dependent on Wrath of the Berserker. Ugly Bastard Helm not only reduces the cooldown of Wrath of the Berserker, but also provides Barbarians with a certain AOE ability, which improves the efficiency of Barbarian in clearing monsters, participating in seasonal activities and farming gold, so it is irreplaceable in these builds.

Learn More: How To Defeat Echo Of Lilith In Diablo 4 Season 7?

The above is all the information about Ugly Bastard Helm. Even if Barbarian player does not plan to use this unique item, you can also get one as a collection. It’s fun to let your Barbarian deal fire damage occasionally.

No matter which season of Diablo 4 you are in, including DLC, you must choose a suitable build for the class you are playing, and you will also need to adjust and upgrade the available builds after entering the endgame phase to cope with the more difficult content in that phase.

The current Season of Witchcraft is one of the best seasons in the history of Diablo 4 series, and it is worth your effort to create better builds for it. It is worth mentioning that Necromancer has a good upgrade and endgame performance in this season, so you may want to know what build you should use in Season 7 endgame when playing this class.

Choose Blood Surge Build As Your Endgame Build

Necromancer’s abilities in Season 7 still allow you to destroy groups of enemies easily and single-target bosses to obtain Diablo 4 Gold or other more precious loot drops. And if you can combine these class skills with the new witchcraft powers brought by the current season, your available builds will be even stronger.

Necromancer summons have a lot of built-in support. They can act like tanks to reduce the damage done by enemies to you, while dealing damage to eliminate enemies, or focusing on a single boss with you. On this basis, if you want to better deal with the endgame content of Season 7, it is recommended that you give priority to Blood Surge Build.

What Skills Are Needed To Blood Surge Build?

The key to whether builds work lies in the specific role of the skills you choose for it, and whether these skills can have a good synergy relationship. For Blood Surge Build, it is recommended that you consider the skill matching problem from the following aspects.

Basic Skills

Reap as a basic ability not only allows you to deal some close-range area damage to enemies through Blood Surge Build, but also when the enemy is hit, you will gain a damage reduction buff yourself, while further restoring your lost essence. Although Reap is not the main damage output force in this build, a variety of practical functions can make it better to serve other skills.

Core Skills

As the name of the build represents, Blood Surge is the core and highlight of this build. This skill double attacks the enemy by consuming essence, specifically first it deals damage by drawing blood from the enemy, then you can cast blood nova by using the blood to deal second wave of damage.

It is worth noting that the amount of damage dealt by nova increases with the amount of blood you draw from the enemy, so the more enemies surround you, the stronger you can use this ability to become.

Another core skill worth having is Blight, which deals burst of damage after being released, and then immediately brings a new round of damage. The second round of damage comes as a filthy area on the ground that continues to deal damage.

Defensive Skills

The class characteristics of Necromancer will cause you to be surrounded by enemies most of the time. Although your damage output is not weak, in order to be safe, it is recommended that you equip the appropriate defensive skills to prevent getting into trouble. Based on this, Blood Mist is a good defensive choice, which will give you a few seconds of immunity, during which you can not only deal damage to enemies regularly but also heal your maximum health at a fixed percentage.

Ultimate Skills

The best ultimate skill for Blood Surge Build is undoubtedly Soulrift. It damages nearby enemies for a short period and allows you to absorb souls through Soulrift while you have Essence, gaining a temporary barrier.

AOE Options

If you want to give your Blood Surge Build more AOE options, you’d better use Corpse Tendrils. This skill can pull enemies to the corpse you used to cast skills, stun them and deal damage. Corpse Tendrils work well with the overall build because it can move enemies to other locations, allowing you to use equipment to eliminate them, and you can also use it to gain a little defense. It is worth mentioning that it works well with Blight, one of the core skills.

What To Pair With Gear?

If you plan to use Blood Surge Build in Diablo 4 Season 7 endgame, Indira’s Memory and Cruor’s Embrace are definitely two pieces of gear that you can’t miss, as they both have effects that help improve Blood Surge and general blood ability. Without them, you’ll need to look for other gear that meets your specific needs or provides Blood Surge bonuses.

As for other gear, you’re free to choose, according to your needs. For example, if you feel you want to improve your character’s durability, then gear with good armor effects, high resistances, and maximum health will be better, but if you want to output more damage, then you need to look for gear that provides attributes such as damage bonuses and resource management.

How To Choose Aspects?

The choice of aspects depends on what kind of additional supplements you want to get for your Blood Surge Build. For example, Aspect of Hardened Bones can provide you with additional durability by reducing damage, while Blood-bathed Aspect will give you a second nova when you use Blood Surge, but the final damage output will be reduced and there will be a delay before the nova goes out. It is recommended that you should get Blood-bathed Aspect first, and then consider other options.

The above is what we provide for you, what you should do when using Blood Surge Build in Diablo 4 Season 7 endgame, and the relevant precautions. Hopefully, you can use this content to become a powerful Necromancer in the new season!

It is very necessary to level up your character as quickly as possible when playing Diablo 4 Season 7, not only because a lot of seasonal content is only available to high-level characters, but in fact a higher level usually means that your combat power is mature enough to deal with those late-stage bosses that can drop more Diablo 4 Gold.

However, the main leveling strategies also vary for different Diablo 4 classes, because the skill effects and applicable gear/unique items are different between classes. Among them, Barbarian, a brutal warrior, can not only roam the battlefield while causing a lot of damage to the enemy, but also easily use a variety of powerful weapons, and even use the armory system to switch between different types of weapons according to the situation.

Therefore, if you want to level up quickly when playing this class, the most important thing is to choose a powerful build and find the right gear or aspects. Based on this, we will provide you with a Barbarian leveling guide for Season 7 from these perspectives.

Best Barbarian Build

To level up, you first need to have enough XP, which is usually earned by killing enemies in combat. So if you can find an optimal Barbarian build for yourself, your combat efficiency will increase significantly, and you will naturally be able to level up faster. To do this, you need to choose the best skills for your Barbarian build.

Basic Skills

For the basic skills, it is recommended that you choose Lunge Strike. Fury, not mana, is the power that provides Barbarian with skills in combat - mana is full at the beginning, but Fury is not, so you need to choose a basic skill that can accumulate Fury for your other skills, which is Lunge Strike. In fact, for Season 7, Lunge Strike is a key part of most good Barbarian builds, because it provides mobility and Fury generation, which is very suitable for endgame.

Overall, Lunge Strike is designed to be used at any level. You can use it to further close the gap between you when approaching the target, or use it to pounce on nearby enemies outside the effect area to avoid the opponent’s attack. In addition, this skill performs well in both offense and defense, and can also help you attach to Treasure Goblins.

Core Skills

The first important core skill is Upheaval, which can damage enemies in a cone in front of you by consuming Fury. To activate it frequently, all you have to do is use your equipment and passive skills to generate as many Furies as possible, so that you can even have a chance to become an AOE powerhouse who survives to the end.

Then you may want to ask how to generate Fury? This leads to the second core skill introduced to you, Shouts. For this skill, you should unlock Rallying Cry and War Cry. The former can increase your movement speed and Fury generation rate, and the latter will increase your damage output.

The ideal way to cooperate between them is to use War Cry to fight elites and bosses when you have prepared many Furies through Rallying Cry. And the cooldown time for Shouts skills is not too long, so you can usually use them multiple times in a big battle.

Additionally, it’s recommended that you unlock Challenging Shout to round out Shouts if you can. While it’s not required, it has the added benefit of reducing the damage you take while the skill is active - although it also draws enemies towards you.

Ultimate Skills

Wrath of the Berserker is the ultimate skill that works best with a Barbarian build. When you use it, you gain increased damage and movement speed from Berserking, and gain Unstoppable, which removes and prevents you from being affected by debuffs that limit your movement.

Afterwards, you can further improve your abilities and passives and add them to your Barbarian build. For example, you can choose Pit Fighter to increase your durability, or Swiftness to increase your movement speed.

Best Gear

The best weapon type for a Barbarian is undoubtedly a two-handed weapon, which allows you to deal the most damage to enemies when using builds. As for other gear, it is recommended that you focus on looking for types that increase Fury generation, maximum health, movement speed, and Upheaval damage, such as Hellhammer for Upheaval buffs, Banished Lord’s Talisman for Overpower buffs, and Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty for Berserking buffs.

Best Aspects

While the choice of aspects is relatively free, if you want to maximize your best Upheaval Barbarian build, Bold Chieftain’s Aspect is better because it helps you use Shouts more often. Another aspect you need is Aspect of Sundered Ground, which guarantees that your next Upheaval will suppress the enemy within a 20-second cooldown.

Other Choices

If you want to get a temporary boost in combat, Elixir of Advantage, which can increase your attack speed, is worth considering. Don’t forget the role of gems, such as you can use emeralds in your weapons for critical hits, rubies in your armor for strength, and enhance your armor defense by choosing skulls in jewelry.

Once you have completed your Barbarian build through the above, and matched it with the best gear or aspects, I believe you can complete your Barbarian upgrade faster in Season 7, and successfully defeat more enemies! Wish you good luck!

In Season of Witchcraft, Sorcerer class has become another powerful choice for players to explore the end-game content with the help of multiple official enhancements. Lightning Spear Sorcerer stands out with its high lightning damage and efficient clearing ability, making it an excellent choice for players to farm maps, clear high-level nightmare dungeons and The Pit in the endgame.

Skills

The core idea of Lightning Spear Sorcerer is to trigger Lightning Spear at a high frequency to form continuous damage covering the entire screen. Its burst potential comes from two key mechanisms:

• Aspect of Splintering Energy: Lightning Spear’s critical hit will release additional arcs, causing huge damage based on the critical damage bonus to the target and 5 surrounding enemies. With the bonus of dual-wielding staves, this effect can provide nearly huge damage increases.
• Unstable Currents: After it is turned on, the attack speed is greatly increased, and there is a chance to summon a Lightning Spear with each hit. With the high Cooldown Reduction affix, you can summon Lightning Spear at a high frequency, causing high damage to the enemy.

Skill Configuration

• Core output: Lightning Spear + Charged Bolts + Frozen Orb (triggering random Conjuration).
• Defense skills: Ice Armor (damage reduction + mana recovery), Flame Shield (emergency escape).
• Support skills: Ice Blades (reduced cooldown + triggered vulnerability). You can also enchant Teleport (enchantment slot automatically casts) and then achieve the effect of Telestomp with Raiment of the Infinite.
• Ultimate skill: Unstable Currents

Lightning Spear Sorcerer has high damage but low defense, so players need to pay attention to their health at all times. As long as you practice a little, you can quickly find the fixed order of Lightning Spear Sorcerer skill release. Since Lightning Spear Sorcerer is very good at dealing large-scale damage, it is one of the best choices for farming Diablo 4 Gold and clearing nightmare dungeons, both in the early and endgame stages.

Witchcraft Powers

In addition, the season-exclusive Witchcraft Powers further strengthen the strength of the genre. Here are some recommended Witchcraft Powers for you:

• Piranhado (Lost Power): It can gather enemies into a pile to maximize the chain effect of lightning.
• Aura of Siphoning (Growth and Decay Power): provides critical treatment in continuous output to make up for the survival shortcomings of Sorcerer.
• Aura Specialization (Lost Power): increases the scale of the aura and increases the damage of Critical Strike.
• Soul Harvest (Growth and Decay Power): provides you with attribute amplification.
• Hex of Shattering (Psyche Power): applies a debuff to the enemy, reduces their damage, and ensures your own survival.
• Hex of Whispers: (Growth and Decay Power): causes additional shadow damage to the enemy, and periodically contacts the control you are under.

Essential Equipment

• Fractured Winterglass: When a Frozen Orb explodes, there is a certain probability of performing a random Conjuration, and a lucky hit triggers an additional Frozen Orb, forming a virtuous cycle of control and damage.
• Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop: Superimposes ice, fire, and lightning damage, providing up to 75% independent damage increase, which is the core multiplication area for late-stage output.
• Raiment of the Infinite: After enabling Teleport, you can pull monsters to your side and trigger stun, a perfect AOE skill.

Lightning Spear Sorcerer still relies more on Diablo 4 items. You can go to nightmare dungeons to explore or fight bosses, and you can get equipment and gold, materials and other items through these methods.

Affix Priority

• Attack: Critical Chance (at least 100%), Critical Damage, Cooldown Reduction, Attack Speed.
• Defense: Barrier Generation, Armor (upper limit 1000), Elemental Resistance (Prioritize Electric Resistance and Poison Resistance).
• Special Affixes: It is recommended to select Frost Augments — Frozen on the weapon to increase the frequency of random conjuration.

How To Make Lightning Spear Sorcerer More Powerful?

Players can force Lightning Spear to target specific targets by quickly fine-tuning the mouse pointing, increasing single-target damage by 50%.

Drink Elixir of Precision and Elixir of Resource at the beginning to maximize the critical strike and mana recovery efficiency respectively and then switch to Elixir of Fortitude to deal with high-pressure scenarios.

Mercenaries can protect the safety of Lightning Spear Sorcerer. It is recommended that you use gold to hire Varyana and Raheir. The former provides area damage, and the latter casts a shield when the player is seriously injured, greatly improving the fault tolerance rate.

Advantages And Disadvantages

Advantages

• Clearing efficiency: The combination of Lightning Spear and the monster gathering skill can instantly evaporate the enemies on the entire screen, making it the first choice for quickly clearing nightmare dungeons and Helltides.
• Mobility: Enchanted teleportation and high movement speed affixes allow Sorcerer to shuttle through the battlefield like lightning.
• Survivability: The dual protection of Ice Armor and Aura of Siphoning, with a significant risk of sudden death.

Disadvantages

• Single: When facing bosses and high-level elite monsters in The Pit, you need to rely on operations to make up for the lack of burst.
• Equipment: You need to collect key unique equipment such as Fractured Winterglass and Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop, and the equipment requirements are relatively high.

Best Useful Scenarios

• Quickly clear low-level nightmare dungeons (below T50)
• Harvest Helltides events
• Quickly clear seasonal theme events Headhunts

Lightning Spear Sorcerer has received some adjustments and enhancements in Season 7:

• Witchcraft: Fixed the abnormal mechanism of Purging Touch and strengthened the enemy search logic of “Piranhado” to make monster gathering more stable.
• New Runes: Tam+Gar combination, providing a permanent 25% critical strike chance, further reducing the pressure of equipment matching.

As players develop Occult Gems in depth, more variants may appear in the future. For example, with Friend of the Bog Occult Gem, the damage of the summon can be increased to a new threshold, and even the challenge of The Pit can be tried.

Lightning Spear Sorcerer is not only an efficient endgame build but also brings sensory stimulation to players. Whether it is a novice in the early farming Gold, or veterans delving into extreme output, this genre can provide a unique combat experience. As the season progresses, its potential is still being tapped.

In order to ensure the normal operation of the game and to bring you a better experience during the validity period of the current season, Diablo 4 will regularly release patches of varying sizes. Since the latest Season 7 was released on January 21 this year, it will also usher in patch 2.1.2 on February 18.

In fact, the news of this patch update was announced by Diablo 4 at the 2025 DICE Summit in Las Vegas not long ago. At the summit, the game developer also stated that although the previous DLC Vessel of Hatred had a good response, there should be no new expansion in 2025, which obviously broke the previous statement that Diablo 4 would focus on annual expansion.

But you don’t have to be frustrated because this actually shows that Diablo 4 development team will work hard to make the new DLC have better quality, rather than rushing to launch a product full of bugs. And while you won’t be able to play the new expansion in 2025, Diablo 4 season you can experience will get more attention from the game developers and become better, just like the benefits brought by this patch 2.1.2.

Patch 2.1.2 Overview

According to known information, patch 2.1.2 will be released on both PC and consoles after the server maintenance is over. The patch is said to fix some stability issues that began to appear in Diablo 4 during Season of Witchcraft, such as the problem of requiring twice Diablo 4 Gold to open certain special portals, and problems related to Armory loadout and Party Finder windows will also be solved in patch 2.1.2.

In addition, you will also have the opportunity to get some new experience content through this update, such as the new nightmare dungeon affix, which will make Season 7 Forgotten Altars appear more frequently. And if you like Season 7’s new pet Dorian the Raven, you will find that after the release of patch 2.1.2, you can even pet your new partner, although this may make him feel annoyed.

It is worth noting that a change made to Druid’s Lacerate skill in Diablo 4 in the previous 2.1.1 update was controversial because it prevented Druid from moving while channeling the skill, so you might have hoped that 2.1.2 would fix this problem. Fortunately, further improvements to Lacerate skill are indeed in progress, which means that Druids using Lacerate will work just as they did before the release of patch 2.1.1. In addition, patch 2.1.2 will also fix the unique power rolls of certain amulets, such as Malefic Crescent and Fractured Winterglass.

Patch 2.1.2 Specific Changes

In fact, this update is not only for Season 7 but also Vessel of Hatred expansion has received some adjustments. After all, it has been online for less than half a year and is still not stable enough.

About Vessel Of Hatred

Mainly fixes a few notable bugs, such as Bloodhorn boss at the end of Forgotten Remains dungeon becoming unkillable when you transition to the second phase of the fight, or Portable Anvils created by Scroll of Forging becoming un-interactable with other interactable objects if placed near other interactable objects.

About Season Of Witchcraft

In terms of basic updates to the game content, patch 2.1.2 adds a new nightmare dungeon affix to the season to ensure that you can spawn Forgotten Altars more frequently, thereby unlocking the required lost witchcraft powers faster, but this affix only exists as an option for nightmare dungeon marks during Season 7.

Other content includes the changes we already mentioned for Dorian the Raven, and the tooltip for Decayed Enhancement will be adjusted from referring to “Effect” to “Power” to indicate that decayed enhancement works specifically on witchcraft powers, rather than something else that witchcraft powers modifies. And of course there are ongoing adjustments to Druid’s Lacerate skill.

Overall Bug Fixes

Bug fixes are also divided into different areas, including:

Accessibility:

• Fixed an issue where screen readers could not read the social filter button.

Season 7:

• Fixed an issue where the counter did not correctly display the progress of Harvest Whisper.
• Fixed an issue with Ritual effect when Hex of Whispers clears Roothold.
• Fixed an issue with the unique Coven Crate not always granting unique items.
• Fixed an issue with rewards caching when you complete the fourth chapter of the seasonal journey.
• Fixed an issue where your group Seasonal Journey objectives would reset after defeating Lair Boss in a non-group.
• Fixed an issue where Exposed Roots could fail to spawn while you were doing a Shepard bounty in Headhunt zone.
• Fixed an issue where Headhunt HUD timer would not be removed after you teleported from Headhunt zone to Infernal Hordes.
• Fixed an issue where monsters could spawn in towns near an active Headhunt zone in some cases.

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue where the unique power rolls of Fractured Winterglass, Malefic Crescent, and Arreat’s Bearing would not benefit from higher-level affixes and could result in rolls lower than expected.
• Fixed an issue where the impact warning visual effect for Ashava’s Slam attack would not display correctly.
• Fixed an issue where Druid’s Wolves would not properly apply the enhancements applied by upgrading with Ferocious Wolf Pack.
• Fixed an issue where the damage dealt by Ring of Mendeln would not scale correctly with all the bonuses it should.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes an Echo attack could immediately lead to another attack during a Pit boss encounter.
• Fixed an issue where Echo of Lilith could repeatedly use Death from Above if Lilith was Staggered immediately after landing.

It goes without saying that both the DLC and Season 7 will be better with patch 2.1.2, allowing you to continue to enjoy the unique ARPG experience that Diablo 4 brings!

With the continuous update of the season, Diablo 4 will not only launch new classes from time to time but also update and upgrade the classic classes that appear in almost every season, to balance the strength of each class and ensure your gaming experience.

Therefore, when you enter a new season, even if you choose to play the same class as the previous season, you should pay attention to adjusting your strategy in the choice of build. For example, in the latest Season 7, if you choose to be a Druid, it is recommended that you give priority to Druid Cataclysm Build when entering the endgame stage.

Based on this, we will introduce you how to craft this build and why it is recommended.

Why Is Druid Cataclysm Build Good?

Since Season 7 introduces the witchcraft power, you should choose builds that can synergize well with it in order to give full play to your maximum power in this season, and Druid Cataclysm Build can do this completely, and this build also allows you to earn more Diablo 4 Gold or special seasonal currency by killing Season 7’s seasonal enemies more efficiently.

In addition, since this build can deal huge area damage, it will give you great clearing and farming potential, as well as defensive skills that are enough to resist powerful enemies, making your Diablo 4 endgame journey smoother. In fact, such a build that effectively combines offense and defense will make it easy for you to complete dungeons and world quests.

What Skills Should Be Paired With This Build?

The key to making this build work is to keep Cataclysm active for as long as possible and use it as much as possible. For this purpose, it would be nice if you can have some gear or special items that can help reduce the cooldown of skills.

Basic Skills

Maul is probably the most suitable basic skill for this build, as it helps you generate spirit and provides you with continuous protection in battle. When you hit an enemy with Maul, it will increase your durability by strengthening a percentage of your maximum health, and the additional strengthening of this skill will also come in handy when you are facing a group of stronger elite enemies.

Core Skills

For this type of skill, it is recommended that you first choose Pulverize, because when other skills that use spirit are on cooldown, this skill allows you to deal area damage to enemies when you in the gap. In other words, when other skills are on cooldown, Maul and Pulverize can guarantee your damage output while also providing a certain amount of defense, so that you don’t just rely on ultimate skills.

As another core component of this build, Hurricane can cause damage in the surrounding area, and it will become more useful after unlocking Enhanced Hurricane and Savage Hurricane. Among them, Enhanced Hurricane slows down the speed of enemies affected by the skill, while Savage Hurricane reduces the damage caused by enemies affected by the skill.

Defensive Skills

There are two defensive skills worth equipping. One is Earthen Bulwark, which will provide you with a shield by absorbing a certain percentage of your maximum health for a short period. If you can, it is recommended to unlock more points in Enhanced Earthen Bulwark to make this skill more unstoppable.

The second good defensive skill is Debilitating Roar, which can reduce the amount of damage dealt by nearby enemies, thus helping your allies in battle, especially when they play a more fragile class like Sorcerer. If you combine this skill with Enhanced and Innate Debilitating Roar, you will get more defense and stronger damage output when you activate them.

Ultimate Skills

The ultimate skill Cataclysm can push back enemies and hit them with lightning in the form of a storm to deal damage. If you want to make this skill more powerful, you can choose Prime Cataclysm in the skill tree to increase its duration and Catastrophe to increase the damage you deal after casting this skill. Finally, don’t forget to unlock passive skill Ursine Strength to enhance your Maul and Pulverize skills.

Best Gear & Aspects

Airidah’s Inexorable Will is a must-have for this build, as the ultimate cooldown reduction it has pulled enemies towards you, allowing you to take more damage when you use your ultimate.

Or the ring Mjölnic Ryng, which gives you extra points of Endless Tempest and gives you infinite spirit, extra movement speed, and increased damage when you use Cataclysm. In general, all the gear that increases willpower, maximum health, cooldown reduction, and overwhelming damage are great.

As for aspect choices, Stormshifter’s Aspect will buff your Hurricane and Shapeshifter skills, Aspect of Apogeic Furor will increase your ultimate damage, or Runeworker’s Conduit Aspect will increase the storm and lightning damage you deal.

If you want to harness the power of gems, use Rubies in weapons for suppressed damage, Sapphires in armor for willpower, and Occult gems in jewelry. For Druid Cataclysm Build, Voice of the Stars is a must-have Occult gem that can enhance your ultimate skill. Or you can choose other gems that can increase resistance as needed.

The above is what we introduced to you, the necessity and precautions of using Druid Cataclysm Build in Diablo 4 Season 7 endgame. I hope the info can help your gaming experience. Thank you for reading.

Whether you are playing the DLC or any related season, farming for gold or items should be one of your main tasks in Diablo 4. After all, only by accumulating enough supplies can you have the opportunity to make your game character continue to improve, to pass the level after defeating the boss successfully.

Undoubtedly, the better quality items and more Diablo 4 Gold will always appear after you win the boss battle, especially those bosses in the endgame stage or only appear after unlocking Torment difficulty. Their death will mean that you will get a lot of wealth in the game.

However, depending on the class you play, the specific content of the loot dropped by each boss is actually different, and some of these items may help you better deal with other bosses. Therefore, in order to pass the current Season of Witchcraft successfully, it is necessary to understand the loot dropped by different bosses in the season.

Based on this, we will first introduce you to the 5 main bosses and their reward lists.

What Do You Need To Know Before You Start Boss Fight?

The rough categories of all the loot aren’t actually very different, although the specifics vary, so the first thing worth knowing is the unique items. Since the launch of Vessel of Hatred, unique items have become increasingly important, especially in recent seasons, after they have been upgraded. So while their special effects are largely unchanged compared to the past, their affixes are much stronger than before, allowing you to use them to improve your odds even against Torment 4 difficulty.

It’s worth noting that you have to reach Torment 1 difficulty to start collecting materials and fighting bosses, and to do this you also need to complete the level 20 Pit so that you can unlock the higher Diablo 4 game difficulties. To do this, you need more powerful gear and solid builds, as well as effective unique items to help you destroy dungeons.

All Diablo 4 bosses currently have a high chance of dropping uber uniques, or mythic uniques, but if you’re really unlucky, you can use Resplendent Spark dropped by the first boss you kill to craft a special item.

Loot Drops From 5 Bosses

1. Varshan

This boss has been around since Season 1 and can be considered an old friend. In Season 7, he was one of the bosses in Torment 1 and was relatively easy to fight. In the past, he would reward you with Malignant Hearts after killing Elites, Grotesque Debtors, and completing Whispers’ Grim Favors, but in the new season, his death will give you the following items:

• Sorcerer: Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop, Staff of Endless Rage, Esu’s Heirloom, Raiment of the Infinite.
• Druid: Airidah’s Inexorable Will, Mad Wolf’s Glee, Vasily’s Prayer, Greatstaff of the Crone.
• Barbarian: Ring of Red Furor, Fields of Crimson, 100,000 Steps, Gohr’s Devastating Grips.
• Necromancer: Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul, Bloodless Scream, Deathless Visage, Deathspeaker’s Pendant.
• Rogue: Writhing Band of Trickery, Condemnation, Eyes in the Dark, Skyhunter.
• Spiritborn: Sunstained War-Crozier (new), Craze of the Dead God, Ring of the Writhing Moon, Ring of the Midday Hunt.
• All classes: Frostburn, Mother’s Embrace.

2. Grigoire

You will encounter this boss during Torment 1. After opening the treasure chest obtained from Helltides, you may get Living Steel, which can be used to summon Grigoire. Fortunately, the battle with him is not very difficult.

• Sorcerer: Axial Conduit, Flameweaver, Staff of Lam Esen, Iceheart Brais.
• Druid: Earthbreaker, Insatiable Fury, Hunter’s Zenith, Waxing Gibbous, The Butcher’s Cleaver.
• Barbarian: Unbroken Chain, Twin Strikes, Rage of Harrogath, Battle Trance, The Butcher’s Cleaver.
• Necromancer: Path of Trag’Oul, The Butcher’s Cleaver, Ebonpiercer, Howl from Below, Greaves of the Empty Tomb.
• Rogue: Shroud of Khanduras, Saboteur’s Signet, Word of Hakan, Grasp of Shadow.
• Spiritborn: Protection of the Prime, Peacemonger’s Signet, Ring of the Midnight Sun, Loyalty’s Mantle.
• All classes: Penitent Greaves.

3. Lord Zir

If you want to meet this boss, you need to have obtained Exquisite Blood by killing the world boss, completing the legion event, or defeating Helltide blood maiden boss in advance to summon him.

• Sorcerer: Okun’s Catalyst (new), Fractured Winterglass, Staff of Endless Rage, Iceheart Brais, Raiment of the Infinite, Esadora’s Overflowing Cameo.
• Druid: Malefic Crescent (new), Mjolnic Ring, Wildheart Hunger, Fleshrender, The Butcher’s Cleaver.
• Barbarian: Arreat’s Bearing, Ramaladni’s Magnus Opus, Overkill, The Butcher’s Cleaver.
• Necromancer: Kessime’s Legacy (new), Cruor’s Embrace, Blood Artisan’s Cuirass, Lidless Wall.
• Rogue: Assassin’s Stride (new), Scoundrel’s Kiss, Asheara’s Khanjar.
• Spiritborn: Jacinth Shell, Wushe Nak Pa, Band of the First Breath.
• All classes: Yen’s Blessing, Razorplate, Temerity.

4. Beast In The Ice

This boss requires Distilled Fear to summon, which can be easily obtained by running nightmare dungeons with nightmare sigils and farming them.

• Sorcerer: Strike of Stormhorn (new), Gloves of the Illuminator, The Oculus, Starfall Coronet.
• Druid: Storm’s Companion, Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps.
• Barbarian: Mantle of Mountain’s Fury (new), Ancients’ Oath, Hellhammer, Ring of the Ravenous.
• Necromancer: Indira’s Memory (new), Ring of Mendeln, Mutilator Plate.
• Rogue: Windforce, Eaglehorn, Beastfall Boots.
• Spiritborn: Scorn of the Earth, Wound Drinker, Harmony of Ebewaka.
• All classes: Fists of Fate, Tassets of Dawning Sky, Paingorger’s Gauntlets.

5. Duriel

Although this boss is more difficult to deal with, he is also twice as likely to drop uber uniques and mythic uniques as other bosses. However, to summon him, you need to defeat Grigoire and Varshan first to obtain Shards of Agony and Mucus-slick Eggs.

• Sorcerer: Flamescar, Blue Rose.
• Druid: Tempest Roar, Dolmen Stone.
• Barbarian: Azurewrath, Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty.
• Necromancer: Black River, Blood Moon Breeches.
• Rogue: Cowl of the Nameless, Scoundrel’s Leathers.
• Spiritborn: Sepazontec, Rod of Kepeleke.
• All classes: Godslayer Crown, Flickerstep, Tibault’s Will, X’Fal’s Corroded Signet, Soulbrand, Banished Lord’s Talisman.

If there is a loot you want to get first, you can choose to fight the boss that will drop the item first, but it is not recommended to fight a high-difficulty boss too early, because your character may not be strong enough at that time, which will cause you losses. I hope you can improve yourself quickly to defeat all bosses. I wish you success!

As you know, in order to keep the game fresh and attract new players, Diablo 4 always adds new mechanisms when launching new seasons, or adjusts and updates some existing game content. In the recent Season 7, the representative of the new mechanism is witchcraft power (lost witchcraft power is one of them), and the past Runeshards have been given a new name-Artificer’s Stones.

No matter which of them, they can provide you with additional benefits in Diablo 4 Season 7, allowing you to get a better gaming experience, so it is necessary to know how to get and use them in the current season. Based on this, we will introduce them to you one by one.

What Are Artificer’s Stones?

In Season 6 and older seasons, there is an item called Runeshard, which is one of the must-have items for you to enter the endgame. After storing enough Runeshards, it can help you further improve your game character in the endgame. In Season Of witchcraft, Runeshards are called Artificer’s Stones.

You can farm Artificer’s Stones by participating in limited-time events in the game, such as Legion events and World events. But the limited-time feature may make you feel tricky, so you also need to know other more common ways to obtain Artificer’s Stones.

How To Get Artificer’s Stones?

The first way is to complete a bounty mission called Whispers of the Dead through Tree of Whispers, which is actually the core of Season 7. After successfully completing these missions, you will get extra XP, Diablo 4 Gold, and Grim Favors, among which Grim Favors can be exchanged for Whisper Caches - some treasure chests contain many Artificer’s Stones.

Other Season 7 activities that can earn Artificer’s Stones include completing dungeons. Whether it’s Nightmare, Helltide, or Kurast Undercity, exploring and fighting in them will reward you with Artificer’s Stones. In addition, Infernal Hordes also allows you to find Artificer’s Stones after obtaining high-level loot or material loot, or defeating Fell Council can also do it.

It’s worth mentioning that if you use the consumable potion Seething Opal of Torment during the game, it will help you increase the chance of all relevant enemies dropping Artificer’s Stones for you for 30 minutes.

What Do Artificer’s Stones Do?

The only use of this item in the game is to open Pit of the Artificer. This pit is actually an endgame dungeon that will bring a lot of rich loot. Completing it will upgrade your Paragon Glyphs and unlock Torment difficulty for you-Torment difficulty will increase the challenge of Diablo 4 endgame while giving you the opportunity to obtain rare loot.

To open Pit of the Artificer, head to Cerrigar in Scosglen region, where you’ll find a portal called Artificer’s Obelisk, and to interact with the obelisk you’ll need enough Artificer’s Stones.

What Are Witchcraft Powers?

They’re special combat perks exclusive to Season 7, similar to the vampire powers from Season 2. You can acquire and equip a total of 6 witchcraft Powers, and upgrade them to make yourself stronger, but before that you need to know how to acquire them.

How To Get Lost Witchcraft Powers?

To do this, you actually have to complete a series of quests. First you have to talk to Gelena in Gea Kul, and by interacting with her you’ll officially start the season to get the first set of quests: find the source of the rot, and then go to Tree of Whispers with Gelena.

There are four altars in the game, namely Altar of the Eldritch, Altar of the Psyche, Altar of Growth, and Forgotten Altar. Each altar will grant you the witchcraft power associated with its name, and Forgotten Altar will grant you the lost power.

It should be noted that unlike the other three altars located in Tree of Whispers, Forgotten Altar that can bring lost power is located in the dungeon, and their generation is random. After finding Forgotten Altar, you can collect Restless Rot to exchange for the lost power you want if you can.

How To Upgrade?

It is easier to upgrade the lost witchcraft power than to find them. Go to the inventory and select the witchcraft tab. When you select the power you want to upgrade, consume the corresponding amount of Restless Rot. In addition, you can equip and replace your witchcraft power according to the combat effect you want to achieve, and use up to six at a time.

In fact, after completing the task of unlocking the witchcraft power, you can use the power you have obtained to continue the seasonal world quest to unlock more available powers. In addition, although the chances of finding Forgotten Altar are not very high, at least you will find that the dungeon it is located in is easy to clear, especially if you have obtained the witchcraft power provided by the other three altars next to Tree of Whispers.

I hope that after our introduction, you can successfully obtain these two game contents in Season 7. Wish you good luck!

Most Diablo 4 seasons will introduce a new mechanism that is only available in that season in conjunction with the new main storyline of the current season. These mechanisms generally provide you with special powers as your seasonal combat assistants in various ways to help you get a unique combat experience in the new season.

For the recently launched Diablo 4 Season Of Witchcraft, this new mechanism is the power of witchcraft. Although other new content has been introduced in this season, none of them are as attractive as the power of witchcraft. However, if you want to get these powers, you must first complete a pre-quest called Poison in the Roots, and then you can start to obtain these unique witchcraft skills to enhance your character by collecting Grim Favors and Restless Rot.

Based on this, we will introduce you how to solve this task in step-by-step order.

Step 1: Solve The Brazier Puzzle

When you have collected enough Grim Favors through the main quest of Season 7, you can go to Tree of Whispers to start Poison in the Roots quest. Once there, you’ll see three witches trying to perform a ritual, which will allow your character to begin gaining witchcraft power, but the ritual can’t be completed without your help.

It’s worth noting that talking to Gelena in Tree of Whispers not only opens Poison in the Roots but also allows you to make Occult gems with her - provided you have enough materials for making them. But before that, completing the quest is the top priority.

The entire ritual looks like a circle of three braziers and three twisting snakes assembled by the witches, and your first step is to light the braziers around the circle in the order of the old names of Tree of Whispers. The witches will say part of the old names in the correct order, as follows:

• Bottom Left Brazier: Ayh
• Bottom Right Brazier: Yew
• Top Brazier: Oun

After all the braziers are lit correctly, some enemies will appear around, and defeating them in time will drop Diablo 4 Gold and open the next step of the quest for you. Fortunately, these enemies are not very difficult.

Step 2: Get And Use Nangri Blood

In addition to the enemies mentioned above, you will also need to kill the writhing snakes quickly in the ritual circle the moment you light the last brazier. When they die, they will drop an in-game item called Nangri Blood, as well as health potions that can help you fight other subsequent enemies.

After obtaining all three bottles of Nangri Blood, you need to walk along the ritual circle to any of the braziers you just lit and sprinkle Nangri Blood you have along the way as you continue to walk around the circle. Immediately afterwards, as the flame of one of the braziers goes out, the area begins to rumble, which means that Nangri Blood has begun to work.

Next, the real ritual will begin, as you have completed all the steps required to start it. However, to enter the last part of Poison in the Roots quest, you must still resolve a fierce battle.

It is worth noting that the use of Nangri Blood does not need to be selected in advance from the inventory, you can directly scatter it around the ritual circle.

Step 3: Complete The Ritual

As Nangri Blood spreads, enemies that spawn in the area will try to disrupt the purification ritual. All you have to do is kill them to prevent them from entering the ritual circle and contaminating the ritual. These enemies will continue to spawn until the gray bar in the ritual circle is exhausted. You can adjust your attack and defense strategies based on this progress bar.

Since these enemies spawn from all directions, you must try to get as close to the ritual circle as possible to kill any enemies in time. For this reason, it is recommended that you try to use skills that can attack in a large area so that small waves of enemies can be eliminated before they get close to the ritual circle. The class that is most suitable for this stage should be Necromancer, because they can use minions to create obstacles for enemies.

As the progress bar enters the final stage, ordinary enemies will begin to give way to more dangerous elite monsters. Since they have unique properties and abilities, and these abilities will appear randomly, you need to be fully prepared before they arrive.

Fortunately, you don’t have to consume extra energy to protect the witches in the ritual circle, because they will not be attacked by enemies, so you don’t have to worry about them dying throughout the ritual. At the end of the ritual, a small boss will appear, spawning and commanding more remaining minions until the gray progress bar in the ritual circle becomes empty, at which point all enemies will immediately die and drop rewards for you, which also means the successful completion of the mission.

In addition to the normal rewards, you will also receive a Legendary Cache, which contains good loot, and may even contain a new unique item or other powerful gear in Season 7. If you talk to the witch again next, they will hint that you may encounter more rituals later.

In the following season journey, you can exchange more witchcraft power by giving more Grim Favors to these witches, and continue to advance the main storyline of Season Of Witchcraft to get more rewards by finding and completing more main quests. Good luck!

In order for an ARPG to continue to run, in addition to having a sufficiently attractive gameplay, it must also update the main storyline on time to ensure that the game has a “developing” background world. As one of the most popular ARPGs in recent years, the main storyline of Diablo 4 not only continues the dark style of Diablo series but also updates with the update of the season.

Therefore, in the latest Season 7, completing the main storyline mission can not only bring you Diablo 4 Gold as a reward but also allow you to read the latest Diablo 4 main storyline. However, since the main storyline is coherent, and Season 1 was launched two years ago, you may have forgotten the previous main storyline.

Based on this, we will lead you to review the main storyline outline of each Diablo 4 season from the beginning, as well as the seasonal feature mechanisms related to these stories. In fact, this may also trigger your outlook and thinking about Season 8.

Season 1 Season Of The Malignant

Season 1 takes place shortly after Lilith is defeated. A new demon lord, Varshan, rises and seeks to corrupt Sanctuary, using Malignant Hearts. From a story perspective, Season 1 isn’t anything too special. However, Malignant Hearts in that season allowed you to use special abilities to enhance your character, which was very popular at the time.

Varshan still exists in Diablo 4 as Echo of Uber boss, and Malignant Hearts reappear as rings, so you can still interact with them in Season 7.

Season 2 Season Of Blood

As a new power available in Season 2, the vampire powers are not only cooler but also provide you with more benefits. In the main story, although Wanderer will be infected by the vampire curse, they not only do not turn to darkness, but are able to use vampire powers to deal with the villains.

Season 2 also adds a new vampire boss, Lord Zir. Although he was defeated in Season 2, he still exists in the game as an Uber boss, and the vampire threat still exists in Sanctuary because they are still quite popular as an enemy.

In fact, Season 2 is very important to Diablo 4 from a main story perspective, because the plot of Wanderer immunity to the vampire curse makes you suspect that they are Nephalem - which is also hinted by Mephisto in the DLC Vessel of Hatred.

Season 3 Season Of The Construct

In Season 3, after you discover the treasure vault of the ancient wizard Zoltun Kulle, a new seasonal enemy, many of Zoltun Kulle’s robot “constructs” will become possessed and begin to do evil. You will then need to team up with a small robot spider called Seneschal Companion to fight these threats. When Kulle’s constructs are destroyed, your Seneschal Companion will go back to sleep again.

As a unique mechanic in Season 3, Seneschal Companion was only a short-lived addition, but now that pets and mercenaries exist, you’ll realize that they’re somewhat similar to Seneschal Companion, so why not bring it back?

Season 4 Loot Reborn

This season has very little content and new game mechanics, with the main purpose of returning to the basics. The loot system has been completely overhauled in terms of mechanics, and the story tells a side story about the legendary mercenary group by reconnecting Wanderer with Iron Wolves.

Season 5 Infernal Hordes

Season 5 offers a new endgame mode called Infernal Hordes, in the form of a challenge room that allows you to get more gold and more powerful items by killing enemies, and the mode still exists in Diablo 4.

While this season does not provide you with new powers to use, it adds a new quest line in terms of the main storyline, that is, Lilith’s followers try to redeem themselves by joining forces with Wanderer. This story not only leads to the prologue content of Vessel of Hatred, but is also the first seasonal questline that can be played in Eternal Realm.

Season 6 Season Of Hatred Rising

Since this season was released at the same time as the DLC, the seasonal story it provides only serves to provide background, and most of the main story is concentrated in the DLC. However, it is worth mentioning that you can fight new monsters Realmwalkers in Season 6, and they also make Helltides more interesting.

Season 7 Season Of Witchcraft

Season 7 adds witchcraft powers as your seasonal assistant, similar to vampire powers in Season 2, allowing you to craft or enhance some new builds through these spells to improve your combat effectiveness.

In terms of the main story, the story of Season 7 continues the end of Vessel of Hatred expansion. In this season, you will find that Mephisto’s minions are trying to corrupt Tree of Whispers to retaliate against those humans who oppose Hell. This is reflected in the new gameplay of the season, that is, you need to fight in Headhunts to get back Fugitive Heads.

Through all the existing plots, you already know that Prime Evil has taken over Akarat’s body, so in the 8th season or other updates, you may need to start hunting Mephisto because of Akarat. Let’s look forward to the follow-up development together!