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I‘m going to be showing you the Hydra control Sorceress build and this is a build that primarily focuses on using the Hydra skill as its main source of damage, but also maintains control of the battlefield via the Blizzard and Frozen Orb skills.
First up, let’s take a look at the Hydra skill.
This is a conjuration skill that is our primary means of DPS and it’s going to attack enemies wherever you summon on the battlefield for a certain amount of time, independent of your actions. So, you’re free to go about other things while it attacks them.
Enhanced Hydra / Invoked Hydra
If you take the Enhanced Hydra upgrade, it’s going to deal further damage, and the Invoked Hydra upgrade will increase its attack speed when you critically strike, allowing it to deal more damage.
Something that can make this build even more powerful is the Serpentine Aspect.
If you get this aspect on a legendary piece of gear, it’s going to allow you to summon two Hydras at once, which will double your damage with Hydras or if you get it on a two-handed weapon like a staff for instance, it will actually allow you to summon two extra Hydras.
You’ll be able to summon three, and that’s what you’re aiming for. So, look to get this aspect on your staff and use the Occultist to slot it there if you can.
Next, let’s take a look at the Blizzard skill.
This is a Mastery skill, and this Blizzard has a huge area of effect on the battlefield and it deals damage to enemies and continues to pour ice down onto the battlefield that continues to chill enemies over time.
Enhanced Blizzard / Wizard Blizzard
We’re going to take the Enhanced Blizzard upgrade here as well as a Wizard Blizzard upgrade, which decreases the cost of Frozen Orb while Blizzard is active because we’re going to be using Frozen Orbs and horrible Wizard is active.
But also remember that you can summon multiple Blizzards at the same time, and they stack. If you throw out your Hydras and then cast a bunch of Blizzards, you’re going to be able to freeze enemies a lot more quickly than if you just throw one Blizzard. So, make sure you throw out several Blizzards before you switch to Frozen Orbs.
Additionally, your position is really important for this because enemies will walk towards your Blizzard if you’re standing on the other side of it.
So, make sure you try and keep the Blizzard between yourself or multiple Blizzards between yourself and the enemies so that they have to walk through your Blizzard in order to get to you.
Next, we come to Frozen Orb, which is our core skill.
This skill is perfect for dealing with groups of enemies and able to spam it while your Blizzard is coming down and your Hydras are already out. Because it’s going to allow you to do an attack that will also deal damage and freeze enemies on top of the Blizzard that’s chilling them away as well.
Enhanced Frozen Orb / Greater Frozen Orb
If you take the Enhanced Frozen Orb upgrade, it increases the explosion damage, which is great for this build and the Greater Frozen Orb upgrade adds Vulnerable to enemies hit by this.
Vulnerable increases the damage that enemies take by a base of 20%. You can increase this through bonuses on your gear, so you should be looking for those. But this is great and in order to deal with them even more quickly.
There is also a note about Frozen Orb: because we are maxing out Frozen Orb for this build, we’re taking it all the way up to five points and it’s going to be the primary means that we deal damage with our character while the Hydras are the primary immune the build uses damage. But they do it kind of passively after you put them out.
This is the way we’re going to be doing. You’re going to put this skill in your enchantment slot because when you have it in your enchantment slot, it has a chance to cast whenever you use a non-basic skill. So, you can actually cast this for free sometimes when you’re using your other abilities.
Moving on to other abilities we use in this build, the next one is Teleport. This is a defensive skill that allows you to teleport forward in a direction and get away from enemies most of the time.
Most Sorceress builds are going to have this ability in them because it allows you mobility and positioning, so you can get away from enemies, get your Blizzards back up, get your Hydras back out and start casting Frozen Orb again at a safe distance when enemies were on top of you before.
Shimmering Teleport
You can upgrade this a couple of times and take the Shimmering Teleport upgrade to give you damage reduction for five seconds after you come out of that teleport.
But you generally don’t need it with this build because you have a lot of survivability, anyway. But if you want more protection, you can absolutely do that.
When it comes to our basic skill, we have Frost Bolt here. This deals all cold damage and slows enemies.
If you don’t upgrade this skill at all or put anything into the passive abilities of this skill, it’s basically there for a backup with your out of Mana completely and you don’t have anything else you can do, so you can still get to tax off. But you definitely won’t use it that much because the way this build is set up it should absolutely wipe everything out.
Frost Bolt is a lot better in boss areas where you just don’t have the Mana to sustain all these spells constantly and you’ll need it to attack losses.
Lastly, we come to Inferno, which is our ultimate skill, which means it has a very long cooldown.
Prime Inferno
When you upgrade this to Prime Inferno with a Prime Inferno upgrade, it will actually pull enemies towards the center of it, which is great for this build.
Cast Inferno, group enemies up, then throw your Frozen Orbs in their cast Blizzard down on top of them. They’re going to freeze really easily in a nice little ball for you. In that Frozen Orb, all those flows in orbs explode. They’re going to deal damage all over those enemies that you’ve grouped up really nicely.
So, that wraps up our active skills. But I want to talk about one passive skill that’s really good for this build and just generally Sorceress builds in particular, which is Glass Cannon.
This passive skill increases the damage that you deal by six percent per point, but increases the damage you take by three percent. This is really good because Sorceress has good mobility with Teleport and they have a lot of Barriers they can do and things like that.
Generally speaking, the best defense is a good offense here. If you wipe enemies out quickly enough, they can’t touch you. So, getting that extra damage is actually very good for this build and I highly recommend taking glass cap.
Talking about legendary aspects for this build that are good for this, the first one is Aspect of the Protector.
This gives you a Barrier whenever you attack an Elite enemy for 10 seconds every 30 seconds. This is great on just about any build in the beta particularly good here.
If you get the Conceited Aspect as well, this allows you to deal increased damage when you have a Barrier active. Sorceress has Ice Armor also that can give them a Barrier so if you slotted that somewhere, you can get a Barrier on command besides the Aspect of the Protector. But this is good whether you have Ice Armor or you have Aspect of the Protector or bow.
Finally, you have Aspect of Deflecting Barrier and this is while you have a Barrier active, there’s a 20 chance to ignore incoming direct damage from distant enemies.
So, this allows you to shrug off some damage when you have a Barrier up, which is going to be a lot of the time if you have something like Ice Armor and Aspect of the Protector. But it’ll still happen pretty frequently with Aspects of the Protector.
Other legendary aspects that are really good for this build are Aspect of the Umbral, which restores Mana whenever you crowd control an enemy. This is really good because you’re constantly crowded controlling enemies in a big group with Blizzard and Frozen Orb. So, you’ll get that Mana back, allowing you to keep your thing going.
Another aspect that’s really good for this build is Aspect Of Control that allows you to deal more damage to a Immobilized, Stunned or Frozen enemies because you’re constantly freezing enemies with this build. This is just more damage for you to have.
As you can see, some skills in this build require Diablo 4 Gold to upgrade. Therefore, you must prepare enough gold when making this build.
Although Diablo 4, as the latest in Diablo series, has attracted more attention from players than Diablo 1-3, this does not mean that the first three games have lost their merits - in fact, they have a community of players who are always enthusiastic about them.
In Diablo 3, there is a special event called Darkening of Tristram. It is also called Anniversary Dungeon. It is a limited-time event in Diablo 3. It has been held regularly every January since 2017, allowing you to revisit the original 16 levels in Diablo 1.
At present, although Diablo 3 is still running and very active, since Diablo 4 has temporarily established its core position in Diablo series, it is difficult to say whether Diablo 3 will stop launching new seasonal content in 2025 and beyond.
Therefore, as a popular event in Diablo 3, perhaps it is time for Darkening of Tristram to change its position and appear in Diablo 4. This will not only avoid the possibility of not being able to continue to experience the event after Diablo 3 stops updating, but also add new ways for you to farm Diablo 4 Gold.
Based on this, we will reasonably speculate what benefits Darkening of Tristram will bring after combining with Diablo 4.
This event recreates most of the events, monsters and levels of the original game in Diablo 3. Among them, bosses include Butcher, Skeleton King, Arch-Bishop Lazarus and The Dark Lord (Diablo). In addition, the monsters in Anniversary Dungeon are basically the same as those in D1, with only slight adjustments. Some of them still have the old abilities, while some do not.
The dungeon is 16 levels deep and is divided into 4 sections, like the original game. Any character can enter the dungeon and earn the associated achievements and gold, as long as your level 1 character completes it in one go. It’s worth noting that the dungeon also gives you a lot of XP, giving your new character the opportunity to reach level 30 by completing the dungeon on Normal difficulty.
It’s worth knowing that Tristram has appeared in every previous mainline Diablo game. In Diablo 2, you’ll find the town infested by demons after passing through a portal, and many characters from Diablo 1 have either been killed or corrupted. You’ll need to fight the possessed blacksmith and escape to safety after managing to rescue Deckard Cain.
In Diablo 3, however, the game actually starts in New Tristram, a second settlement located west of the original town. Although you can still visit Old Tristram by exploring the wilderness, it’s full of zombies, and old fountains, buildings, and other things that are decaying and abandoned. If you’ve been playing since the days of Diablo 1, exploring old Tristram might be a sad experience, but it’s actually a highlight of the game developers left in Diablo 3.
In Diablo 4, however, you are taken to a nightmarish town by Mephisto, and you as the player will eventually find that it’s all an illusion, or a creepy version of Tristram. So it would be great if Diablo 3’s Darkening of Tristram could be moved into Diablo 4 and explored.
Essentially, Tristram’s assets already exist in Diablo 4, so if you want to truly experience Darkening of Tristram in it, all you need is a dungeon to host it. Based on this, you can go to hell through a few levels and possibly get a special Diablo 4 version of Darkening of Tristram.
From the perspective of art style and aesthetics, Diablo 4 is more realistic and dark, close to the aesthetics of Diablo 1 and 2, while Diablo 3 is more vivid and cartoony, but the style of Darkening of Tristram event itself is darker. So in this sense, Darkening of Tristram is more suitable for Diablo 4 than Diablo 3.
Since you will encounter Diablo as the ultimate boss in Darkening of Tristram, but this boss does not appear in Diablo 4, it may make you feel inconsistent if you introduce Diablo in this way. However, Darkening of Tristram is just an event for nostalgia, so it may not be necessary to set Diablo in it the same as the final version.
Although Darkening of Tristram is also a good experience in Diablo 3, if Diablo 4 can inherit such a beloved traditional event, you can not only get a better activity experience in the new version but also be more aesthetically logical, and it will also help to connect Diablo 4 with the classic activities in the best way.
As the latest series that is booming, Diablo 4 needs to be constantly added with new content, and Darkening of Tristram can undoubtedly be an ideal way. But more importantly, it can help you better adapt to the new era represented by Diablo 4.
After the introduction, I believe you will want to experience Darkening of Tristram in Diablo 4 and feel the unique fusion fun between them. Look forward to it!
Since its launch, Diablo 4 has had 6 seasons and will still launch new seasons to attract the attention of new and old players. With 2025, Season 6 has also entered its end. I believe you must be preparing for Season 7. For this, the first thing you need to know is the new content and changes.
Undoubtedly, the first change in Season 7 that attracts your attention may be the skill and strength adjustment of each class and the change of the rune system. After all, they have a decisive impact on whether you can successfully obtain Diablo 4 Gold through battle. But in addition, you can also try to notice some smiling but interesting new content, such as new pets.
According to some of the news released so far, Diablo 4 Season 7 will launch explosive frogs as a new member of the pet system to echo the witchcraft powers introduced in the season. Based on this, we will introduce you to some of the latest news about explosive frogs.
As a fun existence in the game, pets are more than just a follower or decoration for you. In fact, their main function is to help you pick up useful items on the map. Although this function is not necessary to play Diablo 4, they can improve your gameplay efficiency. Currently, the items that Diablo 4 pets can pick up include:
So far, the four pets available in Diablo 4 are all furry canines, such as snow leopards and tigers. There is no doubt that this mammal pet type is cute in appearance, but if you want to know what it would be like to have an amphibian as a pet, Season 7’s exploding frog may satisfy you.
Since Diablo 4 will add witchcraft powers in Season 7, the new exploding frog pet will enhance your role-playing experience with its own unique charm. Although it may seem a bit jarring to have a frog pet following you around, they can give you a more immersive experience while using these new powers, giving these less-than-lovely-looking animals a chance to become popular.
When you use sorcery in Diablo 4 Season 7, one power, called Poison Frog Servant, will summon a frog that poisons enemies for three seconds. And these frogs explode when they die, causing instant poison damage to nearby enemies.
In fact, if Diablo 4 can launch a new pet every season, it may be a great help to the development of the game and your gaming experience. A new pet related to the theme of the new season will stimulate your extra interest and also give you more combat style options.
Although not every player may like pets, if a unique new pet is launched every season, at least those Diablo 4 players who like this feature can be more steadily retained. Season 7 is currently expected to be launched at the end of January, which is also the best time you will get the new exploding frog in the game.
Since Season 7 has not yet been officially launched, we still cannot confirm the exact method of obtaining the exploding frog, but it is very likely that you will need to complete Faithful Companion Priority quest in the game log, just like other Diablo 4 pets before.
To complete this quest, your game character can be at any level, so no matter how far you have progressed in your Diablo 4 adventure, you can start this quest immediately.
When the quest begins, you can use the waypoint to go to the northwest end of Kyovashad, the main city of Fractured Peaks, where you will find a well-behaved dog. After that, as long as you pet the dog and interact with it as prompted, you can complete the quest and unlock the pet system in Diablo 4.
Once you complete the quest, you will equip the obtained pet by visiting the wardrobe of any major city. After entering the wardrobe, a new pet tab will appear on the game’s customization screen, which will highlight your pet companions. Select and confirm the appearance to add them to your side. After that, you can interact with your pet using the “hello” expression.
Now go to Diablo 4 wardrobe and check the pet equipment interface. You will notice that there are three locked options on the menu, namely the canine Hratli, the tiger Natalya, and the snow leopard Alkor. If you want to get these pets in Season 7 except the exploding frog, you need to have Diablo 4 DLC Vessel of Hatred, and the specific companions you unlock depend on DLC version you own:
Recently, because of the launch of Path of Exile 2, Diablo 4 has also been caught in the fierce ARPG competition. Although it is certainly not enough to launch new pets alone to gain the upper hand in this competition, at least this can be one of the new season features to give Diablo 4 a new advantage and help it take the lead in the current ARPG ranks.
Season 7 is not far away from being launched, and I believe these interesting amphibians will meet you soon. I hope you can have a pleasant gaming experience on Season 7!
In the past 2024, Diablo 4 has had a very glorious period. It has provided players with 4 seasons of new content and activities, created the first DLC, and various improvements and system remakes, which have brought players very deep memories. But the game world is constantly developing, and players’ requirements for Diablo 4 are not here. They want the game to be more refined, with new features and some other major improvements, so that they can get a better gaming experience.
At this stage, we have summarized the 5 most needed features in Diablo 4 based on the points that players in the player community and some social media need to improve this game, and explained them. Although there is no guarantee that developers can make all improvements to them in the new year, it is still very worth looking forward to.
Since the release of Diablo 4, the most frequently used feature by players is Wardrobe or Armory in the game, which allows players to change their builds at any time. However, since each Class has a certain versatility, it is very complicated and confusing to change the character build frequently. So far, players have asked for this feature to be as simple and smooth as possible.
Fortunately, the developers have listened to this suggestion and improved this feature in the upcoming Diablo 4 Season 7. In the recently announced Campfire Chat; the developers have shown players the Armory feature and how it works - players will be allowed to save up to 5 builds and switch between them freely.
In addition, when you modify those saved builds, you will see the key attributes or gear missing from your build on the Loadout preview, so that you can easily identify the strengths and weaknesses of your build and make changes. In this case, not only will your build become more powerful, but Diablo 4 Gold you spend on it will also become more meaningful.
The developers provide players with a variety of unique mounts and armor sets in the in-game store, which you can obtain by completing battles or some tasks in the game. However, some seasonal collections cannot be carried over to the next season, which makes some players who love collections feel very depressed at the beginning of the new season because they have lost so many interesting collections.
So these players really want a milestone in Diablo 4 that allows these collections to continue in the season change. For example, completing Level 100 Pit can reward you with a very beautifully designed mount that appeared in the previous season, or completing a certain task can reward you with a previously used armor set. This not only increases the player’s collection inventory but also increases the player’s desire to explore more grinding activities.
The Gauntlet leaderboard that appeared in previous series games did not perform well in Diablo 4, so the developers removed it from the game. Currently, there is only one overall leaderboard in the game, which ranks according to the strength of the build. However, this will result in players only seeing the top few places occupied by Spiritborn, the favorite of last season, and no place for other classes at all.
This will cause players who use other classes to have no confidence in making their builds the best. But if the developers set up a dedicated leaderboard for each class in subsequent games, then players will pay more attention to the builds they use and have more confidence in honing them.
In the current Diablo 4, the boss provides players with most of the high-quality Diablo 4 Items in the game, but it is also one of the most difficult contents in the game, which requires players to use some combat strategies and powerful builds.
However, the drop rate of some loot is very small. If you want to rely on farming the boss to get the specified items, you will need to defeat the boss you have challenged repeatedly. This makes players often feel very boring in this process, especially for those who don’t play the game for too long.
So many players are expecting an increase in the high-quality loot that exists in Nightmare Dungeons, as players will challenge different enemies and encounter different combat mechanics in this activity, which will greatly increase the fun of exploration.
In Diablo 4, besides fighting some enemies is a kind of grinding, rolling to get Uniques with greater affixes is also a very risky grinding, because what you get from it depends entirely on your luck. It would be a terrible thing if you turned a Unique with powerful affixes and effects into a useless item with very bad affixes by rolling the dice.
So in order to reduce the level of risk faced by players here, the developers should adjust Uniques rolls mechanism as much as possible, so that the probability of useless affixes or affixes with poor effects appearing is as small as possible, which will also make players more willing to enhance their Uniques in this way.
The above are a few changes that players expect from Diablo 4, a game that will perform well in 2024, in the future game process. I believe that after the developers make appropriate changes to these features, more players will flock to this legendary game. Let’s wait and see!
Diablo 4, which has received unanimous praise from players in recent years, will usher in its seventh season in early 2025, which may include some new gameplay and new mechanisms. But what players are most concerned about is Uniques that can be used for different classes with the new season. According to the information currently leaked, in Season 7, you will encounter 8 Uniques, which will be applicable to 6 classes in the game.
You will be very surprised to find that from the currently known Uniques that will appear in Diablo 4 Season 7, none of them are applicable to all classes, and more importantly, it is not certain whether there will be a Mythic Unique among them. Because the new season is still in PTR stage, the feedback from players will greatly affect the changes in the game content, so many players are looking forward to their performance in the official season.
If you haven’t been to Season 7 PTR and have a taste of the new Uniques, but want to get a head start in the official season, this guide will be your best helper. It is worth noting that some of their properties and statistics may change over time.
As in previous seasons, each class in Diablo 4 Season 7 will get a new Unique, and Necromancers and Sorcerers are special, they have two. You may think that this is not fair to the other four classes, but here you need to remind you that these two Uniques are of the same type, so you can only choose one of them and cannot wear them at the same time.
In addition, you need to remind you that these Uniques can be farmed as loot in bosses or battles, just like Diablo 4 Gold. However, the specific loot list and drops may be released before the official season is released later, and we will continue to pay attention.
Now that we have an overview of Uniques in Diablo 4 Season 7, let’s take a look at what new Uniques will be assigned to each Class and what they do. Again, all the attributes and statistics provided to you here are subject to change and are subject to official release.
For Barbarian, a Class that places great emphasis on defensive capabilities and survivability, it will gain a chest armor called Mantle of the Mountain’s Fury in Season 7. This defensive Unique will allow Barbarian’s key skill Hammer of the Ancients to form a seismic line besides the original attack moves, which will damage the enemy and slow the enemy’s movement speed by 60%-80% for 4 seconds.
If you control Barbarian to cross this line after casting the seismic line, the earthquake on this line will explode, causing many damage to the enemy and increasing the enemy’s health consumption.
Like Barbarian, the multi-form Druid will receive an Amulet called Malefic Crescent in the new season, which will increase the critical damage of your Lupine Ferocity skill by 100%-150% when you cast continuous Critical Striking. Although Amulet has always been regarded as a defensive gear by players, I believe that this Malefic Crescent in Season 7 will definitely change your view of Diablo 4 Items in this category.
As just introduced, Necromancer received two Pants named Indira’s Memory and Kessime’s Legacy. The key difference between the two Uniques is the effect on the additional bone skill Blood Wave. Indira’s Memory will generate a Bone Prison at the end of this skill to trap the target enemy. At the same time, the damage output of your skills that can cause bleeding damage will also increase by 40%-80% in 8 seconds.
For Kessime’s Legacy, Blood Wave will form a wave on either side of you, then both waves will gather at your feet, pulling nearby enemies towards where you are standing before exploding. Each time Blood Wave hits an enemy, they take 5%-10% more damage from skills, up to 150%-300% cumulatively.
In addition, Indira’s Memory affects another blood skill called Bone Spear, which grants you 10% of your maximum health from each enemy you hit, and nearby corpses can be used as projectiles in subsequent skills.
For the mobility-focused Rogue build, you will use a new boot called Assassin’s Stride, which will always have a very powerful Shadow Imbued on your mobility skills, and increase the effectiveness by 40%-80%. Not only that, it will also give your Lucky Hit a 40%-80% chance of causing a free Shadow Imbuement explosion to elites or bosses with mobility skills.
This will allow Rogue builds to reduce gear that can cause Shadow Imbued as appropriate in D4 Season 7, and invest more Diablo 4 Gold in the flexibility and defense capabilities of the build, making it more balanced.
As the darling of last season, Spiritborn has been significantly weakened on the surface, but a new option has been added to Quarterstaff it can use, called Sustained War-Crozier. With it, Spiritborn Focus Skills will benefit from all upgrades, and your potential skill damage will be increased by 10%-20% for 8 seconds, up to 100%-200%.
For the new season, the lightning-focused Sorcerer will get some very nice buffs from two Uniques: Strike of Stormhorn and Okun’s Catalyst. In Strike of Stormhorn, your Ball Lightning will deal 60%-100% bonus damage when it hits splash, and has a chance to stun enemies for one second at max range.
If you cast Super Ball Lightnings, the bonus damage is higher, your chance of a Lucky Hit is increased, and most importantly, the stun duration is increased to 3 seconds. And with Okun’s Catalyst, Ball Lightning will form a static field around you, dealing heavy damage to all enemies within 40%-80% of Ball Lightning’s damage range. So as long as this static field is always active, you will have a very invincible effect.
The above are the 8 confirmed Uniques that will appear in Diablo 4 Season 7 and their effects. I hope you can explore more new game content in subsequent seasons and farm these powerful Uniques as soon as possible. I wish you a happy game!
If you are a loyal ARPG player or often pay attention to relevant information, you will definitely find that as the two most popular ARPGs recently, the competition between Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 is particularly fierce.
There is no doubt that the reason they can compete with each other must be because these two games have their own unique advantages. Although in terms of rough combat mechanisms, both require you to fight various enemies to obtain Diablo 4 Gold or POE 2 Currency required to play the game, there are still many differences in some game details.
Based on this, we will introduce to you the aspects in which these two games are superior to each other, so that you can choose the one you like more to experience.
In terms of the presentation of game stories, in fact, not only POE 2, but Diablo 4 is even better than most ARPGs on the market, and this mainly depends on the first-class cutscenes and character dubbing in the game.
Whether it’s the destruction of World Stone or the fall of Malthael, Diablo has a lot of legends to show from its inception to the present. And with the addition of Lilith in Diablo 4, you will be able to fully experience the battle of Mother of Sanctuary through beautiful cinematics and excellent voice acting, keeping you engaged throughout the campaign.
In contrast, Path of Exile 2 is more about piecing together the plot through environmental narratives and scattered dialogues. Although it has improved compared to POE 1 overall, it is still lacking compared to Diablo 4. So if you focus on the storytelling of the game, then Diablo 4 will be more suitable for you.
If you want to use your strategic thinking in the game to challenge the complex and interesting combat system, then POE 2 can definitely provide you with focused and satisfying gameplay.
Facing the battle of Path of Exile 2, you need to stay focused enough and have reliable operating skills, because a minor mistake can cause you to be crushed by the boss or blown up by the soldiers. Dodge rolling is the key to winning the battle.
The combat experience provided by Diablo 4 is relatively simple and may not meet your needs for challenges in the endgame stage. It is worth noting that level-scaling plays an important role in this experience in Diablo 4.
POE series has always been known for its complex passive trees, which allow you to fully explore and customize the abilities of your game characters, and this is even more true in Path of Exile 2.
It allows you to use highly personalized passive tree mechanisms to build a game character that reflects the style of play you want. Whether it is a Monk with a crossbow or a Sorceress with a huge two-handed mace, you have the freedom to build it as you wish.
In contrast, Diablo 4 will tie your game progress closely to Legendary Aspects and class identity. If you like a more open character building style, this may make you feel limited, so Diablo 4 will be slightly inferior to Path of Exile 2.
If you are looking for a more accessible and timesaving gaming experience, Diablo 4 will be more suitable for you than POE 2. After all, the former has long catered to most casual ARPG players with its simple mechanics and forgiving gameplay. Diablo 4’s mechanic design allows you to get a wonderful experience in a shorter game time, which is very suitable for time-constrained situations.
In contrast, Path of Exile 2’s mechanics are complex. Although it provides richer content, it also means that you may need to invest more time to fully immerse yourself in it. In POE 2, the campaign alone takes 45 hours to complete, and the endgame time is longer and more difficult. Therefore, Path of Exile 2 is more suitable for hardcore players and is not as friendly to new players as Diablo 4.
In terms of graphics and sound design, I believe that POE 2 can impress you with its detailed and exquisite environmental depiction and eye-catching audio design. For example, the realistic cracks when ice shards are broken, and the theme soundtracks are exclusive to each boss. And the overall exquisiteness of the game is also a big step higher than the first game, which greatly enhances your experience.
It can be said that POE series has never had such excellent graphics and sound effects, not to mention compared with most other ARPGs. Although Diablo 4 also provides undeniably high-quality visuals, in the end Path of Exile 2 is slightly better with its more realistic art style and satisfying audio.
If you are looking for a lot of end-game content that can provide long-term engagement, POE 2 can do it even during early access. From Breach, Ritual, Delirium, etc., POE 2’s end-game system has always been committed to ensuring that you always have a channel for progress by providing continuous content. In contrast, Diablo 4’s end-game content lacks sufficient depth, especially if you haven’t played Vessel of Hatred expansion.
Although both games have their own advantages, I believe you have discovered that POE 2 stands out in terms of the richness of combat content. But if you’re looking for a smoother casual gaming experience, Diablo 4 will be more suitable for you.
Rend Barbarian build is a very interesting and combat-effective build in Diablo 4. With the release of Vessel of Hatred and Season 6, Barbarian build strategies have improved significantly, making Rend Barbarian an extremely attractive option. The adjustments to the backend in the game bring new opportunities to all classes, especially in terms of the gameplay of Rend Barbarian build, further optimizing its combat performance.
To build an effective Rend Barbarian, players need to understand the class’s core skills and equipment mix, and this guide below will help you.
Rend Barbarian build differs from many other builds because it focuses on sustained damage. This means players need to pay special attention to ways to add Critical Strike and Vulnerable damage bonuses when building their characters. These two factors are crucial to improving overall damage output.
In addition, Hemorrhage Paragon node is equally important, it will increase the bleed damage based on Vulnerable damage bonus you increase. Gushing Wounds Key Passive can increase the same amount of bleeding based on the increase in Critical Strike damage. When you land a critical strike, you deal 70% additional bleed damage besides the normal damage.
In actual combat, Rend skill will be mainly used to cause bleeding damage, causing the enemy to gradually lose life, while Rupture skill can trigger fatal explosion damage when the enemy has begun to bleed. In this way, Rend Barbarian can enjoy the dual advantages of sustained damage and burst damage, especially when dealing with groups of monsters.
Barbarian’s Arsenal mechanic is a unique system in Diablo 4 that allows players to assign different weapon types based on skill requirements. This mechanism is particularly useful for buffs obtained through Passive Skills or Legendary Aspects, which are often associated with ‘Swapping Weapons’ and can improve the player’s combat capabilities.
In this system, using a specific type of weapon affects the weapon’s passive boost, which can be increased by up to 10 levels. In this way, players can choose the appropriate weapon type according to their needs to enhance the skill effect.
For example, if you assign all offensive skills to dual-wielded weapons, you can take advantage of dual-wielded weapons to gain extra damage output and attack speed in combat. Choosing a sword and a mace will allow you to provide higher damage when dealing with controlled enemies, and increase the chance of triggering Berserk when stunning the enemy.
For the Rend Barbarian build, we recommend you spending some Diablo 4 Gold to get the Two-Handed Axe. It increases your damage against Vulnerable enemies, and gives you more buffs. It can also increase your damage to Vulnerable enemies.
When using Rend Barbarian build in Diablo 4 Season 6, the following skill rotations are key to ensuring you cope with different encounters:
At the beginning of the battle, it is recommended that you first activate Shout skills to obtain buffs, thus triggering Berserking. Not only does Berserking significantly increase your attack speed, it also enhances your overall damage output, making you more potent in the coming battles. While these effects are in effect, you can pull enemies to you while making them Vulnerable by using Steel Grasp.
Next cast Rupture. This skill causes significant damage to enemies, especially when combined with active Shouts, gear, and some passives, and can significantly speed up resource generation. Once you have enough resources, you will cast Rend frequently to apply a powerful bleed effect to all surrounding enemies.
You can then use Rupture again to detonate the bleed effect, dealing massive explosive damage to the target while significantly increasing rack up instakills. At critical moments in combat, if the cooldown of the Call of the Ancients skill has reset, use it promptly to use Shout skills and Rupture more frequently. Additionally, by using Tec rune’s earthquakes, your overall damage output will be boosted even further.
Unlock the following Paragon Boards in the order indicated below:
The following Paragon Glyphs are the best Glyphs for Rend Barbarian build:
In Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred, Mercenaries were introduced. For Rend Barbarian build, Raheir’s Ground Slam and Bastion combos provide both offensive and defensive buffs. Not only that, these skills can also apply a slowing effect to the enemy, making it more difficult for the enemy to escape from your Rupture explosions, thus further improving your output capabilities.
As a Reinforcement, Aldkin is one of the best choices for this build. His Field of Languish works seamlessly with your Steel Grasp. When you use Steel Grasp to bring enemies closer, Field of Languish will significantly slow down those enemies and reduce the damage they deal to you.
Similar to many ultimate builds, in Diablo 4, in order to achieve optimal performance, Rend Barbarian build often needs to rely on some Uniques to improve the character’s output and survivability. It’s important to note that while some Earthquakes-related Aspects don’t require specific skills to be equipped directly into Action Bar, their true power lies in their synergy with TamTec Runeword combo.
To sum up, by mastering the core mechanics Rend Barbarian is built on, you’ll discover new fun in Diablo 4 Season 6 and tap into Barbarian’s full potential.
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