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I played through Diablo 4 and was even invited into the closed beta, so I’m going to share some of the things I’d wish I’d known sooner before playing the game. So, you can hopefully have a more enjoyable experience with a little less confusion.
Let’s go over world restrictions first because it will be tempting to right away just start exploring The World of Sanctuary and doing side quests, dungeons and world events. But it’s actually not in your best interest to do that because the main story quest line will actually unlock features of the world. That’ll make your gameplay much better.
For example, the quest Donan’s Favor in Act 2 unlocks your ability to purchase and ride a mount. Since Diablo 4 features the largest playable area out of any of the previous games, traversing the world will take more time and mounts will make that exploration much easier.
You also need to be at least level 36 for this quest, so make sure you’re actually destroying monsters and not just running by to complete your quests.
We’re on the topic of leveling. Here are some tips to level faster. Always, use an elect mixer for five percent bonus XP. Some of these are going to speed up your leveling by buffing you to deal 20% increased damage against Demons or a flat Critical Strike Chance increase, which can be quite helpful.
There’s a lot more than this, but these are just some examples. Also, make sure to choose World Tier 2 when you start because you get an increased 20 percent XP. You’ve also got 15 percent more Diablo 4 Gold at the cost of enemies being more challenging.
It’s absolutely worth it to go straight to World Tier 2. The difference in difficulty is really like choosing easy or normal. And I would wager anyone can handle World Tier 2 from the start and if for some reason, you want to change to World Tier 1 because it’s too hard, or you accidentally chose World Tier 1 and want World Tier 2, you can change World Tier anytime at Kyovashad’s World Tier Statue, which is Northeast from the Waypoint.
Another way to level faster is to play with friends. You get an added bonus XP per person at your party. With one party member, it’s a five percent increase. Two is eight percent and three is eleven percent and the max party size is four players. So, there is no further bonus after that.
And not only do you get to keep that XP bonus, but monsters die faster when more players are attacking them, of course. If we add all three of the past three leveling tips together, that’s a combined 36% increased XP gain from all sources. So, if you want to maximize your experience gains, this is the way.
When it comes to which activities provide the most XP, make sure to clear strongholds, dungeons and quests as well as world events for bonus XP upon completion. And don’t forget to view your region progress and claim your bonus XP, Diablo 4 Gold and skill points. To advance your region progress, you can discover areas, complete side quests and other activities.
Moving on to gear. Make sure to salvage your non-legendary items that you want to transmog at the Blacksmith and make sure not to sell them. If you sell items, you won’t be able to transmog them in the future and you also miss out on the salvaging materials you could have gotten.
Diablo 4 Gold can be easily acquired through world events, dungeons and advancing through region progress, you’ll need the salvaged materials to upgrade and imprint your items in the future. But if you’re running low on gold, it’s absolutely fine to sell items to just be aware that you won’t get the transmog for that item that you sold.
What’s more, make sure you don’t sell or salvage your Legendaries. You want to extract their affixes at the Occultist in order to save the Aspects for later. You never know when you’ll want to try a different build and when you do. You’ll be glad you extracted that Legendary affix in the form of an Aspect rather than selling it.
Speaking of Legendary Aspects, they can only be imprinted once. Once you imprint an Aspect on an item, you can’t extract it again and imprint it on another item. So, be careful when you decide to imprint a powerful Aspect on an item. It will be the only time you can do that and then you’ll need to find an item with that affix again or get it added to your codex of power.
This is a really important tip here: Aspects imprinted on weapons will have double their value compared to other item slots and amulets will have an extra 50 percent compared to other item slots. So, make sure the best Aspect you have for your build goes into one of those two item slots.
For example, the Pulverized Werebear build relies on Shockwave Aspect, which causes Pulverize to create a Shockwave that travels forward, dealing 90 to 130 percent of its damage to targets in the path.
If you look at this tool tip that Aspect is on an amulet and it’s getting that 50% extra value, making the affix deal 135 to 195% damage instead. It’s an important one to remember, and it’s a big reason why Barbarians are so strong late game. They get four weapons that are all getting double value from Legendary affixes.
While we’re on the topic of gear, I would recommend to avoid just equipping any item that shows a green number.
Now, just because an item shows that it gives you more armor doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an upgrade. If you’re accustomed to Diablo 3 telling you your damage toughness and recovery increase in decreases, this can kind of trick you because by default Diablo 4 only shows how much armor you’re gaining on gear or how much more damage a weapon is dealing.
But the affixes on items can be much more powerful than just armor or damage. Make sure you’re getting your primary stat, increase damage based on being close range or distant and plus, skill ranks depending on your build.
In the options menu, you’ll need to enable Advanced Tooltip Compare and Advanced Tooltip Information so that you can more easily compare items and see the whole picture. With this enabled, you’ll get a summary of properties you’re gaining and losing if you switch items, which is very helpful in determining if an item is an upgrade.
Next up, you need to know what your class’s primary stat is.
Depending on your class, your primary stat will give you increased ability damage, which is really important and a certain stat will provide absolutely no primary benefit for you. Strength is the Barbarian’s primary stat, Dexterity for the Rogue, Intelligence for both the Sorcerer and Necromancer and Willpower for the Druid. Strength provides no bonus for Sorcerer nor Intelligence, any primary bonus for Barbarian.
There are also secondary bonuses which all stats provide, which are the same for all classes. Strength increases Armor. Intelligence increases Elemental Resistances. Willpower increases Resource Generation and Dexterity increases Dodge Chance.
You can also increase all your stats permanently by finding Altars of Lilith. Each one increases a stat by two and increases your maximum health or max Obols.
Fractured Peaks has a total of 28 of these Altars of Lilith, which adds up to a meaningful amount of stat increases, which also apply to all characters you make in the future. So, it’s worth seeking them out, especially if you plan on making future characters. They’re going to be much stronger earlier on now.
When it comes to choosing skills, it’s easy to want to just try them all out. But there are only six skill slots total, unlike in Diablo 2 where you could hotkey as many as you want.
So, you’ll want to focus on putting your skill points into synergies and skill upgrades more than choosing as many skills possible. I found that it was almost always better to put a single point into a skill and then go straight for that skill upgrade rather than putting a second point into that same skill, which only makes it modestly stronger. Keep that in mind when choosing where to put your skill points.
Now, before deciding on a build, the Keyword Search tool is super helpful to easily identify which skills go together.
For example, if you’re making a poison build, you can search by poison to see which skills go together or by the overpower Keyword. You can also search by fire, cold and so on and your options for search are going to change, depending on what class you play.
When it comes to getting around in Diablo 4, you can click anywhere on the map to place a pin and a red path will lead you to that destination.
This is helpful for guiding yourself to a specific quest you’re interested in, or perhaps a specific point on a map, and it’s very easy to just place that pin and be on your way.
Also, when you hover over an item in your inventory, it’s very easy to mark it as junk. Next time at a Blacksmith or a vendor, you can select salvage or sell all junk to get rid of those items with just a single click.
And finally, on our last tip, you can click the entrance of a dungeon and some instances to be teleported back outside to the entrance of the dungeon.
You can also select this action on your emote wheel to teleport out even faster. This is helpful if you don’t want to go back to town with the town portal, but instead either run the dungeon again or be back in the wilderness near where the dungeon is located.
Although the second Diablo 4 DLC, originally scheduled for 2025, has been delayed to 2026, if you are a new player, the first DLC, Vessel of Hatred, plus the existing seasons are enough for you to play for a long time.
Generally speaking, DLC is not a mandatory choice for you to play Diablo 4. You can play the seasons of the base game smoothly without it, but you can’t experience the classes or other mechanisms exclusive to the expansion.
But it must be said that Vessel of Hatred’s exclusive content can sometimes make your regular season experience easier and more interesting, making you choose to get the expansion, especially in Season 9.
So what exclusive content of this DLC performs well in Season 9 and is recommended for you to get it? We will introduce it to you.
As you know, Diablo 4 added the sixth class, Spiritborn, to the game when the DLC and Season 6 were launched simultaneously last year, but it was actually exclusive to the DLC, not directly added to all game content.
Of course, if you are not a new class fan or game blogger, you can save this investment and continue to play other old classes. But when you enter Season 9, you will find that Spiritborn is indeed stronger than most classes in that season.
When it was first launched, this class showed a relatively prominent advantage. With the power of skills such as Quill Volley and gear such as Rod of Kepeleke Unique, it showed amazing lethality in DLC and Season 6.
Although in Season 7&8, the development team weakened Spiritborn appropriately due to its overly prominent advantages, in S9, perhaps because the new Spiritborn unique items work well with the season mechanism, this class once again showed an unstoppable momentum.
As the main reason Spiritborn is so difficult to replace in Season 9, the main affix effects and combat functions of Balazan’s Maxtlatl are:
The fact that you’re using Balazan’s Maxtlatl right now has been nerfed by the patch doesn’t stop it from working reliably with already powerful Spiritborn abilities or builds, such as:
More importantly, Balazan’s Maxtlatl and related builds are more than enough to get you through most of the endgame content in Season 9, especially when clearing the new Nightmare Dungeon Escalations.
Take Quill Volley Spiritborn Build as an example. AOE damage from this build combined with Balazan’s Maxtlatl’s Thorns + Poison can quickly kill many enemies, earning countless Diablo 4 gold, as well as rare other loot in a short time.
Since the release of Vessel of Hatred, you’ll find that many Diablo 4 builds will start to add Mercenaries to their lineups. This mechanic first appeared in Diablo 2, and it’s still reliable after being introduced to D4.
Diablo 4’s mercenary mechanic allows you to set up a primary mercenary and a reinforcement mercenary for yourself, the former providing main support in battle, and the latter only appearing briefly after a trigger and using a onetime skill.
These triggers are usually tied to your actions in battle, such as controlling an enemy or using a specific skill. So you need to choose the right combination of the following four mercenaries as your helpers according to the characteristics of your class or builds:
And in Season 9, especially in Nightmare Dungeon Escalations, since you have to complete three built-in dungeons and kill the final boss Astaroth, your builds must have enough durability, and the support of mercenaries can do it.
The combination of primary mercenaries and reinforcement mercenaries can make the dungeon clearing process, especially the final boss battle, easier, allowing you to get cover when you are attacked by Amalgam of Hatred and Astaroth himself at the same time.
If you don’t have Vessel of Hatred DLC and can’t get the support of the mercenaries, although the reliable character strength and rare gear should also help you complete the battle, the risk is higher and the process will be more difficult.
Among all the lair bosses in Season 9, Urivar and Harbinger of Hatred are exclusive bosses that can only be challenged if you have Vessel of Hatred. Defeating them can get new unique items or regular gear.
Although the loot they provide can also be obtained by challenging other bosses, more bosses mean you have more farming options and higher loot drop rates.
In addition, the hoard of the lair boss must be unlocked through the relevant keys, and these keys can only be dropped by killing other bosses. So if you can’t unlock Urivar and Harbinger Of Hatred, it may affect your challenge of other bosses.
In general, you can play Diablo 4 normally without DLC, but it does add more valuable details to your overall experience. So if your budget allows, it’s a good idea to get Vessel of Hatred now!
Usually in any game type, except for the occasional popular game, most of the time the competition is formed by several top-level games in the type. In ARPG, the most intense competition in recent years undoubtedly comes from Diablo and Path of Exile series.
After Diablo 4 was launched in 2023, it seems to have more advantages, but since POE 2 was launched at the end of 2024, although it is still at early access stage, it still took away a lot of attention.
For Diablo 4, what’s worse is that the plan for the second DLC has also been postponed to 2026. Therefore, in 2025, Diablo 4, which has entered a flat period, has to face the competitive pressure from Path of Exile 3.26 and the continuous large patches of POE 2.
Coincidentally, the release time of Diablo 4 Season 9 is just between POE 3.26 and POE 2 patch 0.3.0 (not yet released). Based on this, we will analyze how Diablo 4 should deal with this crisis.
Although players have complained about the lack of novelty for several consecutive seasons, Diablo 4 still has not changed the basic mode of new season power + new boss + season-limited dungeon.
Fortunately, with a solid content foundation, the overall performance of Season 9 is not too bad even so: Horadric Spells brings new exploitable power, and Escalating Nightmares and Horadric Strongrooms provide more Diablo 4 gold farming options.
On the other hand, this season also optimizes the class experience as much as possible by adding new class-specific unique items and related patches, although there are still weak classes.
Based on the above and other performances, Season 9 may not be novel enough for Diablo 4 itself, but at least it is not a terrible season. However, it is hard to say for Path of Exile 1&2.
In the past, the first game of Path of Exile usually maintained a relatively stable league update frequency, but because of the focus on the development of POE 2, after the release of 3.25 league in July 2024, 3.26 was repeatedly postponed until June this year.
Fortunately, the returning Mercenaries of Trarthus league brings a lot of new content. Although there are bugs and QoL problems that make you dissatisfied, it is also a qualified Path of Exile league.
POE 2 early access was released at the end of last year, and patch 0.2.0 was launched in April this year-in fact, it had already fought with Diablo 4 Season 8 at that time, and the competition also included Last Epoch Season 2 at the same time.
Since 0.2.0 brings a lot of new content and a new class, Huntress, it poses an enormous threat to Diablo 4 Season 8, but it does not have an absolute advantage.
The reason 0.3.0, which will be launched around August 29, may be more worrying for Diablo 4 is that POE 2 will use this patch to launch Druid as a new class.
As a classic ARPG class category, most games will add Druid, and Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 1 both do so. Since the latter has many classes, Druid’s popularity seems to be higher in Diablo 4.
The tricky thing is that in recent seasons, for some reason, Diablo 4 has always intentionally or unintentionally ignored the development of Druid. Whether for fun or strength, you may not want to play this class in Season 9.
On the contrary, POE 2 had planned to launch Druid as a new class before 0.2.0 patch was launched, but it was abandoned because it was not yet perfected. Therefore, the new class in 0.3.0 is likely to be Druid.
Compared with POE 1, there are not so many existing classes in POE 2, and Druid is a new class, so it will definitely receive more attention. And given the average performance of this class in D4 S9, the focus shift from Druid fans will put pressure on D4 to lose players.
At last year’s Gamescom, POE 2 showed a 13-minute Druid game video. With the development and improvement of the game, POE 2 should show more related content at this year’s Gamescom, and the exhibition time is just before the release of 0.3.0 patch.
It can be imagined that if Path of Exile 2 Druid gameplay shown at that time is attractive enough, the next few months will be enough for Diablo 4 to “headache”.
Since the roadmaps of major games are fixed for the current year, Diablo 4 cannot add more new seasons or DLCs to compete with POE 2, but at least it can add new limited-time events to the existing Season 9 as an attempt.
In addition, according to the time calculation, Diablo 4 will launch Season 10 in September-October. At that time, it can optimize Druid to attract fans who have been diverted, or innovate the season mechanism to compete with Path of Exile 2.
To be honest, the competition between games is endless. No matter which side should not be troubled by the temporary lag, the important thing is to always focus on improving the quality of the game to retain loyal players.
In Diablo 4, there are not only a variety of ways to obtain gear, but also a variety of mechanisms to continue to improve the role of gear. Only when your gear is getting better and better, your builds and even characters can be strong enough to cope with the endgame.
In Season 9, the endgame content worth challenging mainly includes challenging lair bosses, Infernal Hordes, Pit of the Artificer, and two new dungeons. The ways to optimize gear are mainly Tempering and Masterworking.
Among them, the operating principle of Masterworking is to upgrade by consuming related materials to make the affix effect of gear stronger. However, as the progress deepens, the affix that can be enhanced is random, which may lead to unsatisfactory results of your gear enhancement.
So is this mechanism still worth utilizing in Season 9? We will introduce it to you.
Masterworking is an endgame crafting system in Diablo 4 that increases the value of existing affixes on specific gear through 8-12 separate upgrade levels, which can be performed at the blacksmith. Gear that can be made stronger in this way must be one of the following three types:
Based on this, items below level 800 can only be upgraded to level 8 through Masterworking, and items at level 800 can be upgraded to level 12. If it is below level 750, it is not suitable for Masterworking because the value is not great.
In general, the materials consumed for Masterworking include Diablo 4 gold, Obducite, Veiled Crystal and more, which will vary depending on the type and level of gear, but gold, Veiled Crystal and Obducite are required.
Most events and challenges in the game will drop gold, and the main sources of Obducite farming include:
Veiled Crystal can be obtained through:
Once you have enough materials, each level of Masterworking will increase the effect of all affixes of the item by 5%; every four levels will increase the effect of a random affix of the item by 25% - the required materials include:
It is precisely because of this “random” effect that the deeper Masterworking effect, the greater the risk. If the affix that is enhanced happens to be the least useful for the gear, you will lose a lot.
If you are not satisfied with the random affixes that are enhanced on the item after upgrading to Masterworking level 4, you can also re-roll the dice later by resetting the level.
Open the Blacksmith’s Masterworking tab and select the Reset Masterworking Ranks option to complete the level reset operation. The materials consumed in this process are:
Although the consumption is not small, if the current dice roll result is not good, you’d better reset the level as soon as possible. Of course, subsequent dice rolls are also not guaranteed, but at least you have gotten rid of a poor result.
Alternatively, you can choose to send unused Masterworked gear to the blacksmith for salvage, and all materials consumed when upgrading it except gold will be returned to you 100%.
Typically, a level 800 gear will have a 45% increase in all affixes, and its best affix may be increased by 75%, but if this 75% increase is eventually applied to a garbage affix, it will be a nightmare.
The higher the rarity of the gear, the greater its role in builds, and the more effort you put into it at the time, but a bad Masterworking dice roll result may make everything meaningless.
Although the risk is high, once successful, Masterworking can make your gear sufficient to cope with all endgame content and bosses, and help craft better builds, so this risk is worth taking.
Even if the final effect is not good, you can recover by resetting, although this will consume more of your efforts to farm gold and related materials.
Or, for safety, you can just keep Masterworking level of the gear at level 3 and not try the random dice roll afterwards. But this way, you will lose the opportunity to try to have top-level gear.
In general, although random affix enhancements are annoying, there is a minor possibility of enhancing the strength of your Diablo 4 gear to your surprise. Even if the risk is great, it is recommended that you continue to utilize Masterworking.
The above is the content about Diablo 4 Masterworking introduced to you this time, as well as the relevant suggestions on whether you should continue to utilize it in S9. I hope it will be enlightening and helpful to you. Thank you for reading.
In addition to seasonal content, Diablo 4 sometimes adds some new fixed mechanisms as optimization content for the entire game when updating the season. The closest and most representative one is the lair boss in Season 8.
This mechanism changes Diablo 4 gameplay, which has always required specific summoning materials to fight the relevant endgame boss to a direct challenge, but you must have lair keys to unlock the hoard that provides loot after the boss dies.
After entering Season 9, although you no longer need to kill lair bosses to obtain boss power, they are still the main source of Diablo 4 gold, Unique and Mythic gear. However, it is precisely because of this that not all lair bosses are worth challenging.
Based on this, this time we will introduce you to the bosses that are worth solving first in S9 according to the loot rarity, in order from high to low.
As a boss that returns to the game through D4S8, Belial first appeared in Diablo 3 and was eventually retained in Diablo 4. Although the threat he brings to you may not be as great as the new boss Astaroth in Season 9, he is still the first choice for farming Mythic items.
Although this boss is only at the initiate level, defeating him in Season 9 will give you a chance to obtain two new unique items through his hoard: Druid’s Rotting Lightbringer and Spiritborn’s Balazan’s Maxtlatl.
What’s more gratifying is that due to the low level, it is not difficult to obtain his lair keys or defeat him. It is more reliable if your shadow resistance is high enough.
Urivar has an even higher chance of dropping new unique items for you than Varshan, because his hoard may include Rotting Lightbringer, Balazan’s Maxtlatl, Barbarian’s Hooves of the Mountain God and Rogue’s Deathmask of Nirmitruq at the same time.
But the reason why he ranks behind Varshan is that you can only encounter him if you have Vessel of Hatred DLC, and his battle difficulty will be higher.
During the battle, Urivar will summon knights to continuously shoot fire at you according to the established trajectory, which requires you to have enough fire resistance, otherwise it will be difficult to defeat him.
As one of the classic Diablo 4 bosses, Andariel is still powerful after the game adds the lair boss mechanism and is classified as a greater level, so you can’t take her lightly.
Andariel can provide Season 9 loot including Shroud of False Death, Heir of Perdition, and Harlequin Crest, suitable for all classes. Pincushioned Dolls, which unlock her hoard, are obtained by defeating Lord Zir.
The danger of Andariel’s boss battle is that it includes a long battle line including 3 stages. During this period, she will use various powerful magic attacks. You must try to predict her actions as much as possible while ensuring that your resistance to multiple elements is maximized.
The loot list of this boss in Season 9 is basically the same as Andariel, and the battle process also has 3 stages. The difference is that Duriel is more difficult, so it is better to directly choose Andariel.
In all stages of the battle, Duriel will continue to attack you. Once you are hit, you will be poisoned or unconscious, making it easier to attack again. Therefore, facing Duriel, you must not only have the highest poison resistance, but also be fast and flexible enough to dodge every attack.
This boss is also exclusive to Vessel of Hatred. The challenge difficulty and loot provided are basically the same as Andariel and Duriel, so its priority is below the first two bosses.
Since the source boss of its lair keys is Urivar, if you decide to farm Urivar and get enough Abhorrent Hearts, then challenging Harbinger of Hatred may be a good option.
The main loot provided by this boss is the new unique items Hooves of the Mountain God and Deathmask of Nirmitruq. Its challenge difficulty is not high, and you can deal with it by mastering the boss’s attack pattern, but it is precisely because of this that repeated farming may become boring.
The common point between these two bosses is that they cannot drop new unique items, and the rarity of other loot is also relatively ordinary. Although the difficulty is not high, there is no need to waste time on them.
If your character strength is not enough for the time being, you can farm them to get temporary universal gear, but to be honest, their main role in Season 9 is to provide you with lair keys to unlock hoards of other bosses.
Only by obtaining enough corresponding lair keys can you get the final reward through lair bosses in Diablo 4, and different lair key drop channels are also different.
That’s the best order to challenge lair bosses in Diablo 4 Season 9, along with other information you should know. Thank you for reading.
In addition to the newly available Horadric Spells, the biggest highlight of Diablo 4 Season 9 should be Escalating Nightmares and the miniature dungeons Horadric Strongrooms hidden in them through related affixes.
Among them, Horadric Spells are the main gold farming assistant, the two new dungeons are the best sources of Diablo 4 gold in Season 9, and Horadric Strongrooms can also help you get more Horadric Arcana.
But to fully clear Horadric Strongrooms to maximize its value, you need to master some additional and more targeted tips instead of treating it as a regular Diablo 4 dungeon. Based on this, we will bring you relevant help.
First, to enter the dungeon, you need to get Nightmare Sigils with the associated affix to unlock Escalating Nightmares, and then follow the direction of Horadric Wayfinder to find the portal to Horadric Strongrooms.
There are usually guards at the portal, defeat them and choose Horadric Pillar buffs to continue to explore Horadric Strongrooms. After that, all you have to do is kill enemies to collect more attunement, so that the quality of the chests you finally get is better.
So, in fact, improving the clearing of Horadric Strongrooms is how to increase the attunement value you can get, which is closely related to your combat efficiency.
This choice is related to what benefits you can get in Horadric Strongrooms, and it cannot be changed later, so you must treat it carefully, especially those pillars that provide both benefits and disadvantages.
Generally speaking, if you can, it is recommended that you give priority to those pillars that only provide benefits. Although the benefits from the pillars which have both of buffs & debuffs may be better, they will also bring more dangers and cause additional losses.
Based on this, pillars that increase the frequency of enemy appearances or bring more Swiftness Motes will be the safest choice. They allow you to kill more enemies faster, farm a large amount of attunement in a short period of time, and these pillars have almost no negative effects.
In addition to Horadric Pillar, you will also encounter interactive shrines in dungeons. They work similarly to pillars, but the difference is that pillars provide you with additional benefits besides spawning enemies, while shrines can only increase the number of enemies.
If the pillars in Strongrooms you have currently unlocked provide wonderful benefits, then it is recommended that you don’t pay too much attention to shrines. Otherwise, you can consider activating shrines as appropriate.
If the first two tips are about the enemy settings, then the next thing you need to consider is the improvement of your own strength - the stronger your character is, the more enemies you can kill in the specified time and range.
Unless you are very good at playing a certain class, we recommend that you choose to play classes with additional advantages in advance in any Diablo 4 season based on the PTR or other information.
For Season 9, Sorcerer, Spiritborn, or the 2.3.1 patch-enhanced Barbarian are all good. On this basis, the following builds should play a greater role in Horadric Strongrooms:
S Tier
A Tier
B Tier
Among them, the reason why S tier builds are the top builds for clearing Strongrooms is mainly because they all have powerful AOE damage characteristics, which can clear a large number of enemies faster and allow you to gain more attunement.
As you know, the game difficulty levels of Diablo 4 include Standard and Torment, each of which includes 4 levels. Although you can enter Horadric Strongrooms at any difficulty, it is true that the dungeons above Torment 3 are the most valuable.
Because only when you enter the dungeon at Torment 3 or 4 difficulty, the available Horadric Pillars may spawn an additional demon boss with Tier 3 attunement, which can be defeated to gain a large amount of attunement.
This boss may be an elite enemy or a Butcher that appears randomly in the dungeon. Although it is more challenging, more attunement means that everything is worth it.
In the process of clearing the dungeon, you will get regular rewards such as gold, as well as special Horadric Arcanas and attunement.
More Arcana can enrich your Horadric Spells and builds, and enough attunement can improve the quality of Grand Horadric Cache you finally get.
After opening this cache, you will get Horadric Phials and Horadric Tomes, which will help you upgrade spells and craft Horadric Jewels, giving your Season 9 character more combat benefits.
If you haven’t obtained all Arcanas yet, or are short of basic resources such as gold, please follow the above suggestions to clear more Horadric Strongrooms as soon as possible! Good luck!
As you know, Diablo 4 will launch a new season every 2-3 months. Each season has its own new main storyline and related tasks (complete the tasks to advance the storyline), in addition to a series of seasonal mechanisms that can only be experienced in the current season.
For you personally, you may feel that this season is “over” after completing all the main content, but in fact, to truly experience all the seasonal mechanisms, you need to continue to invest more time.
In addition, each season the game will launch new welfare systems such as seasonal journey and seasonal blessings. You need to utilize new gameplay and build more battles to obtain the rewards brought by these systems to avoid waste.
In this way, you will inevitably have a question, that is, after completing the main content, what methods should be used to fully utilize the gameplay and rewards of the current season until the next season arrives?
Next, we will recommend you a few good ways to continue killing time in Diablo 4 Season 9 for this content.
Compared to other ARPGs of the same type, Diablo 4’s PVP gameplay seems to be relatively easy to be ignored, probably because the game has a rich number of PVE dungeons and events, and the team experience is also very good.
But in fact, the game’s PVP mode is also worth trying, especially when you are tired of the classic PVE content. Winning in PVP can not only get Diablo 4 gold and PVP gear, but also understand your shortcomings and continue to strengthen your character.
Generally speaking, the best zone to start PVP battles in Diablo 4 is Fields of Hatred. In addition to regular drops, you can also earn zone-specific currency Red Dust by winning PVP battles to exchange for exclusive mounts and mount armor.
Whether you decide to shift your focus to PVP gameplay or continue to farm resources in PVE events, the utilization of builds is a key factor in determining your win rate and the amount of rewards you get.
A build is composed of your class skills and multiple types of items, so there are countless combinations and ways to play it. Even if the build you use at the beginning of Season 9 is enough to support you to complete the main story, it may not help you complete all the seasonal goals.
Therefore, if you want to complete your seasonal journey and seasonal blessings before the end of the season, and expand your Paragon board by exploring more levels of The Pit as much as possible, you should continue to farm more gear or runes and other items.
The more and rarer items you get, the more possibilities you will have for crafting builds, and in the process of farming, you will also understand what kind of skill rotation + gear combination can optimize builds through combat experience.
In fact, this accumulation of builds crafting experience will not only help you complete Season 9 and get rewards, but also enable you to gain combat advantages faster in the next season or DLC.
As you progress deeper into the season and strengthen your character, you will tend to farm more rare gear, especially Mythics, which are one of the best assistants for you to optimize builds.
Although you may give up working on gear of this type because it cannot be carried over to the next season, all Season 9 Mythics you get can be used in Eternal Realm, making your farming experience in this realm easier.
Since Diablo 4 does not have a class conversion mechanism, you cannot experience the gameplay of different classes with the same character, but can only create new characters to choose new classes.
In order not to delay your main line progress, it is generally not recommended to create multiple characters at the beginning, because this will distract your attention, and in the end each character will not be strong enough, but you will not be able to get truly useful character experience.
But if you have completed the main line and other major content of Season 9 with the current character, you can create a new character according to your preferences, and complete the same seasonal events in different forms through related skills and builds.
In addition, if you get new Mythics through the previous suggestion, they can not only be saved to Eternal Realm, but also stored in your Seasonal Realm stash, allowing all your characters in the current season to utilize.
It should be noted here that Diablo 4 also has a hardcore gameplay, which is different from the character stash between the normal mode. The suggestions we give are all for the normal mode.
If you plan to give yourself a “vacation” before the next season arrives, instead of playing all the time, you may want to know when to start your vacation.
In addition to ensuring that all the main content of the season is completed, you can first use the completion of the seasonal journey as a reference standard. You need to get enough Smoldering Ashes in Season 9 to unlock all seasonal journey objectives rewards.
The second is to explore as many The Pit as possible. This dungeon has a total of 150 floors. Completing all floors and killing the pinnacle lair boss Belial will also allow your character’s Paragon level to reach the maximum level.
But to be honest, this is difficult to do, so if you want to take a break after completing the main line and seasonal journey, you can do it at any time. If you want to continue to struggle, please follow our suggestions!
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