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During the developer livestream on April 24, the developers announced more details about Season 8, which will be released on the 29th, and also announced that a new patch 2.2.0 will be released. According to the data released, the patch is mainly focused on strengthening and weakening the six classes in the game appropriately, while fixing some problems in the system, so that Season 8 can bring you a more balanced Diablo 4 experience.
According to this livestream and other official news, both the new content of Season 8 and the changes brought by patch 2.2.0 have a great impact on the next development of the game. To help you prepare for these changes, we will introduce the main information for you.
Undoubtedly, one of the biggest changes in Season 8 compared to the past is the new battle pass system Reliquaries. This system changes the previous battle pass settings and allows you to receive rewards in the order you want, giving you more freedom in terms of benefits. Other loot and Diablo 4 Gold reward settings are also expected to be further optimized to improve your overall gaming experience.
Compared to the changes in the basic system, the pure new content is obviously more attractive to you, such as the return of the classic Diablo 3 boss Belial in Diablo 4, and the army of Apparition he brought-you will be able to experience the related Apparition Incursions event. In addition, the 24 boss powers that can be obtained and equipped are also very powerful, and some of them even come from terrible lair bosses like Lilith.
Another new event that is worth looking forward to is Berserk crossover that will be launched in Diablo 4 on May 6. During the event, you can get Behelits by defeating enemies and exchange them for more special event rewards, such as Hawks Destiny Back Trophy or Skull Knight’s Heraldry Mount Armor. And you can also exchange other new Berserk-related new armor and appearances with gold or event tokens in the in-game store.
In general, the focus of the 2.2.0 update is to make the game provide a more balanced gaming experience. On the one hand, the strength of each class is adjusted uniformly, and on the other hand, the boss mechanism is changed, so that the boss battle will not be too difficult for you while maintaining a certain challenge, and the loot provided can also match the difficulty, rather than too little or too much. For example, Duriel has a new combat mechanism, and Lord Zir can output more damage.
The adjustment of the 6 classes is mainly reflected in the changes to the damage and defense values of some major skills to make them more in line with the combat requirements of Season 8.
Barbarian
Druid
Necromancer
Rogue
Sorcerer
Spiritborn
No matter which class you decide to start with in Season 8, you must understand the basic gameplay of the class and adapt to these skill changes in order to better master the class. I hope you can achieve excellent results in the new season!
As you know, there are many items in Diablo 4. Some of them are gear that can be directly utilized, some are currencies with different functions, and some are actually raw materials for making more advanced items, such as Veiled Crystal.
In fact, material items like Veiled Crystal are not uncommon in the game. It is through various different recipes that you have the opportunity to synthesize and obtain more powerful and effective final products, unlocking more game content.
Based on this, this time we mainly introduce you in detail how to obtain Veiled Crystal and its main functions.
As we have mentioned, Veiled Crystal is a rare-level crafting material in Diablo 4, which can be used for enchanting, tempering, master-working, and imprinting legendary aspects on other gear items. Although these tasks also require other materials, Veiled Crystal is indeed indispensable.
In Season 8, Veiled Crystal actually has another important function, which is to be synthesized with other materials to unlock the lair boss hoard.
Most lair keys can be obtained by killing lower-level lair bosses, but the drop rate of keys belonging to high-level bosses is usually lower, so synthesizing through materials becomes a more stable method. Although the synthesis required are a lot of Diablo 4 gold, at least there is no gambling.
Transmute Mucus-Slick Egg:
Transmute Pincushioned Doll:
Transmute Sandscorched Shackles:
Transmute Shard of Agony:
In addition, to upgrade your gear through Veiled Crystal, you must travel to different locations. For example, weapons and armor upgrades require going to the blacksmith, while rings and amulets are related to the jeweler.
If you want to Imprint or enchant, you need to find an Occultist. Like the lair key, these functions also consume a lot of materials and gold, so you have to work hard on farming.
There are three main ways to get this material, namely direct farming, salvage rare or higher quality gear, and opening Whisper caches. We will introduce them one by one.
Considering the wide range of uses of Veiled Crystal and the high consumption of each production, its drop rate and quantity have been increased since Season 4, so you should get this item when you complete the battle in most quests.
However, if you want to do a large amount of farming at one time, clearing the dungeon should be a better choice. As you know, the main function of most Diablo 4 dungeons is to provide you with rich loot, not only crafting materials, but also gold and XP that are essential for playing the game.
In Season 8, it is recommended that you choose Helltides and Nightmare dungeons as the first choice for Veiled Crystal farming. Among them, Helltides has a high refresh frequency and a high density of enemies when they appear, which is very suitable for concentrated farming.
As one of the classic Diablo 4 dungeons, the nightmare dungeon is not so difficult overall, but there are many explorable contents, and farming can be completed easily.
You will intentionally or unintentionally obtain a lot of gear of different levels during the game. As your character level increases and your ability increases, the gear that provides you with basic combat benefits in the early stage will gradually be eliminated.
Since the value of this part of gear is not high, there is no need to sell it, but if it is not processed, it will waste storage space. At this time, you can travel to the blacksmith to salvage them. However, when performing salvage, please be sure to pay attention to the following tips:
This method is actually an indirect way to salvage items. When you complete Whisper bounties posted through Tree of Whispers, you will receive gold, XP, and Grim Favors as rewards.
Once you have enough Grim Favors, you can return to Tree of Whispers to redeem more rewards, including gear. Since completing Whisper bounties is an essential part of playing Diablo 4, you can fully utilize this opportunity while farming more Veiled Crystal.
With the above information, if you haven’t unlocked those higher-level lair boss hoards yet, it’s best to quickly collect Veiled Crystal synthesis keys to complete the related battles!
2.3.0 PTR has begun, it’s important to complete the main content of Season 8 as soon as possible to enjoy the new PTR!
Although the operation methods are similar, the names and specific functions of the seasonal powers of each Diablo 4 season are different. In order to quickly master them at the beginning of the new season, it is best to understand them in advance.
In fact, for several seasons, Diablo 4 has been criticized for being too homogeneous in seasonal power and lacking real innovation, so that the specific game experience has also declined. Therefore, Season 9 seems to intend to make changes to this.
According to the campfire chat held on May 22, it can be known that 2.3.0 PTR will be launched on May 27 to show you some of the main contents of Season 9 in the form of testing. Next, we will show you the relevant content of Season 9 seasonal power based on this.
You can call Season 9 seasonal power Horadric power like Season 7 witchcraft power or Season 8 boss power, but this power actually works by fusing three elements to allow you to output more spells.
The three elements are Catalysts, Infusions, and Arcana, each of which has its own purpose and contains multiple specific content with different powers, which we will introduce one by one.
Catalysts are the basis and main source of damage for your final customized Horadric Spells, and need to be activated through specific action bar skills - different skills correspond to different Horadric Spells slots.
This component can be upgraded, with level 20 being the highest level, and they will gain additional bonuses when you upgrade your Catalysts to level 10. All 5 Catalysts and their functions are as follows:
Catalysts are already quite helpful, but if you want to further improve your Diablo 4 gold farming efficiency with Horadric Spells in Season 9, you’ll need to continue to fuse the power of Infusions.
Infusions provide additional power and magic to existing Catalysts, and determine their damage type. Unlike Catalysts, Infusions gain a bonus when they reach level 5, allowing your Catalyst to remove special effects possessed by the enemy.
You can think of Arcana as a positive modifier that further improves Catalysts, including magic, rare, and legendary levels (I don’t know if it reminds you of boss power). Arcana can make your Horadric Spells more powerful by synergizing with Horadric Jewels that will be introduced to you later.
Magic Arcana:
Rare Arcana:
Legendary Arcana:
As we have already mentioned, Horadric Jewels can bring you more additional effects by combining with Arcana. However, first, these effects may contain negative effects; second, they cannot be farmed through combat and can only be crafted at Wayfinders.
Before crafting, you need to complete Horadric Strongrooms at Torment 1 and above to obtain Horadric Tomes, which can teach you how to craft Horadric Jewels.
In addition, crafting Horadric Jewels also requires Horadric Phials and gem fragments, and after crafting, they can only be embedded in jewelry. All craftable Horadric Jewels are expected to include:
As a source of Horadric Tomes, Horadric Strongrooms is a seasonal dungeon that will be added to the game in Season 9, similar to Rootholds in Season 7, and its random entrance can be found in the nightmare dungeon. Besides Horadric Tomes, it should also drop gold, XP, and more rewards.
The above is all the information introduced to you this time. You can fully test them in 2.3.0 PTR under the guidance to welcome the subsequent Season 9. I wish you a happy game!
According to the general ARPG gameplay and mechanism, after you create your current Diablo 4 Season 8 character, the first thing to do is to start the main quest in time and upgrade the character to the maximum level as soon as possible by completing them and other early game tasks.
The current maximum level of the character in Diablo 4 is level 60, but this does not mean that you have no room to become stronger after the maximum level. In addition to converting leveling builds into builds more suitable for the endgame stage, the game also launched Paragon board for you to utilize.
You can directly regard this mechanism as an endgame character progression system. After unlocking it, you can expand it and upgrade it by earning Paragon points to get more attribute bonuses it provides. The system can be upgraded to level 300.
It has to be said that level 300 is really too large a number. You may doubt whether it can really be upgraded to the maximum level? Next, we will introduce how to do this on Season 8.
As one of the most important and difficult endgame dungeons in the game, The Pit is not only a source of Diablo 4 gold, character XP, and gear, but also the only place to earn Paragon XP. But to upgrade Paragon to the maximum level, you need to know the necessary The Pit farming skills.
In fact, we have already mentioned this from the perspective of endgame experience at the beginning. From the normal campaign to the endgame, the difficulty and mechanics of the game will change, and you must adjust your combat plan to deal with them.
Different builds can enable the corresponding class to deal damage and defend in different forms. If you want to focus on farming Paragon XP in The Pit, we mainly recommend the following builds:
The common feature of these three builds is that they can deal a lot of damage in a short period, with fast burst power, so they can clear the enemy group with high efficiency, which is the best way to get Paragon XP in low-level The Pit.
In contrast, the other three classes lack this feature in terms of skills and available builds because of their different styles. Although this does not mean that they are not suitable for utilization in The Pit, they will be less efficient.
The Pit has 150 unlockable levels. The higher the level, the more challenging it is, and of course the more rewards. But if your character is not strong enough, or you just want to focus on getting Paragon XP instead of other high-level rewards, you can actually focus on the middle and low levels.
First of all, Paragon XP provided by this level of The Pit level is not small (of course, I don’t mean the part below level 20), which is enough for you to upgrade your Paragon board to a good level to cope with more difficult levels.
Secondly, if you die while playing a level that is beyond your capabilities, the current level timer will be increased by 30 seconds, the second death will be increased by 60 seconds, and from the third time onwards, each death will be increased by 90 seconds. This penalty effect will greatly slow down your farming progress, and it is not worth the loss.
Diablo 4 sometimes holds special limited-time events during which you can get XP boost opportunities - this type of event is usually referred to Mother’s Blessing. During Mother’s Blessing, you will gain more Paragon XP than usual when you fight at levels of your usual level.
If you have time, you can also do a little calculation within the range of levels you can handle to evaluate which specific level has the most efficient clearance time/Paragon XP ratio.
There is always more power in a team, especially if you are new to The Pit or are not very good at dealing with The Pit. If you have strong and reliable teammates in the team, you may even have the opportunity to challenge The Pit levels that are far beyond your capabilities, and gain more Paragon XP than playing alone.
Paragon nodes in the game include normal, magic, rare and legendary levels, which can provide you with different attribute bonuses and special effects, so that your character can continue to become stronger after the maximum level, and enough Paragon XP allows you to unlock more and rarer nodes until Paragon board is upgraded to level 300.
It is also worth noting that you can also find empty glyph slots in Paragon system. When you obtain glyphs through other channels and insert them, the effects of the nodes around their slots will be further strengthened.
These glyphs will also provide additional bonuses if you reach a certain primary attribute threshold through the nodes within the glyph radius. What’s more convenient is that you can always remove or reuse the glyphs in the slots according to the needs of different combat situations.
Although the method we provide should be useful, it still takes a lot of time and effort to upgrade your Paragon system to the highest level (level 300). So if you have free time, start working hard now! You will also get additional special rewards after reaching level 300!
For Diablo 4, regularly updating seasons is not only to give you a fresher gaming experience, but also to take the opportunity to make the game better by optimizing various aspects of the game mechanics.
Usually about halfway through the current season, the developers of Diablo 4 will hold a campfire chat to summarize the current season progress and give you a preview of the main content of the next season. However, this time the preview of Season 9 seems to come earlier than ever before.
At 11 am on May 22, the official held the latest campfire chat, which was less than a month after the launch of Season 8. Based on this, we will introduce you to the main information announced in this live broadcast to pave the way for your Season 9 experience.
Although the simultaneous launch of Vessel of Hatred and Season 6 last year amazed you with its rich content and high playability, the new seasons after that have been criticized by players for being too homogeneous, including the ongoing Season 8.
Take this season as an example. The biggest features of boss power and the return of Belial are indeed attractive, but the boss power mechanism itself is actually a variant of the old season power, without substantial innovation, and Belial boss battle does not bring any special mechanism.
And Apparition Incursions event, another major content of the eighth season, actually just forces you to repeat the same battle over and over again, and complete the upgrade and Diablo 4 gold farming by obtaining magic boss power - although this is important, the boring battle is indeed unbearable.
Therefore, it can be seen from the campfire chat that the development team seems to intend to change this situation starting from Season 9, and strive to ensure that you have the opportunity to carry out various activities in the future Diablo 4, rather than being trapped in a specific activity.
In Diablo 4, most PTRs are small “new seasons” that allow you to experience the gameplay of the next season in advance in the form of testing, and make corrections and adjustments in time based on your feedback and other players’ feedback, so that the new season will be more perfect when it is officially launched.
The core of this PTR 2.3.0 is Season 9, Sins of the Horadrim. PTR will be officially launched on May 27 and will last until June 3 (about a week like in the past), during which you can experience the new content that is now basically confirmed to appear in Season 9.
As an important source of your gold, XP and basic gear farming in Diablo 4, Nightmare Dungeon is a very important game mechanic. It has been running since the game was launched in 2023, and now it is time to make it better.
First, the dungeon itself will add an advanced mode called Escalating Nightmares, which allows you to challenge three nightmare dungeons in a row, and each dungeon will add new affixes that can increase both difficulty and rewards.
When you complete all the challenges brought by these three dungeons, you will usher in a final boss battle, but the premise is that you have obtained Strongrooms in challenges that require Torment 1 and above, and collected enough Escalating Nightmare Sigil from them to unlock the boss battle.
You may wonder what Strongrooms are, in fact, it comes from another update to Nightmare Dungeons. Season 9 will add a new micro-dungeon called Horadric Strongrooms to Nightmare Dungeons, and the entrance is hidden in Nightmare Dungeon.
Find the entrance and enter, and you can start collecting Horadric ‘attunement’ by killing enemies. This item can increase the number of rewards you get after killing the boss in this dungeon and unlocking its Strongroom.
This boss, like Belial from Season 8, is a return of an existing Diablo villain (old boss). The value of Astaroth is that when he appeared in the game in the past, his encounters were among the most interesting of all bosses.
In order to avoid the misunderstanding of “old wine in new bottles”, the developers said in the chat that they would not let Astaroth simply integrate into the existing boss ladder directly, but would try to find ways to integrate bosses in different ways to make the main content of the final boss battle more innovative.
Well, Diablo 4 does not seem to intend to abandon the representative mechanism of seasonal power just because of the dissatisfaction of players. To be honest, what you are tired of is not the mechanism itself, but the fact that different powers in different seasons always play the same form in the end in actual battles.
For this reason, the development team said that compared to the boss power or witch power that can be used directly after unlocking, Season 9 Horadric Spells will allow you to customize this power yourself and create your own Horadric Spell in a form similar to build.
Since neither PTR nor Season 9 has been launched yet, it is still impossible to judge the practicality of this mechanism. However, at least from the design concept, it is indeed more creative than the existing seasonal power and worth looking forward to.
In addition to the above three core contents, it is expected that Season 9 will continue to optimize each class on the basis of bringing new content, so that they can ensure it maintains balanced class strength while fitting in with the theme of the new season.
If you are interested in the changes in Season 9, please experience and evaluate it immediately when PTR 2.3.0 is launched. I wish you a happy game!
In general, if you choose Barbarian as your class in Diablo 4, it seems that you will attack enemies in a “brute force but slow” way. Although some Barbarian skills are true, in fact, this class can also achieve quick wins with other skills and related builds.
After entering Diablo 4 Season 8, the seasonal event Apparition Incursions is a worthy priority event, because it provides you with the opportunity to farm Diablo 4 gold and magic boss power through many ordinary enemies and Apparition bosses. And if you complete it at a higher difficulty, the loot will be more.
On this basis, if you want to clear enemies in the event more efficiently while playing as Barbarian, or complete other Season 8 dungeons faster, it is recommended that you craft and utilize Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build.
In fact, this build is not a new Barbarian build. It has already appeared and played a role in previous seasons. The operating mechanism of this build is to improve the character’s versatility, damage and survivability through 3 Shouts, then let Iron Skin increase defense value, and generate additional Fury through Call of the Ancients.
After entering the eighth season, the reason why Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame is worth re-activating is that the skill Gohr’s Devastating Grips has been reworked this season, allowing Whirlwind Barbarian to have new winning ideas besides Nature or Earthquake, and more efficiently!
Based on combining the best skills, this build can achieve high damage value, larger attack range in battle, and more effectively attack distant enemies by closing the distance between them, and can produce reliable synergy with Runewords.
As for the shortcomings, on the one hand, the operation process of the entire build is highly repetitive, which is a bit dull compared to other more fancy builds; on the other hand, the effect is poor when fighting single bosses. But at least for Apparition Incursions, this build is still very useful.
Almost all Diablo 4 builds are crafted with active skills as the core, and then passive skills and gear are used to further enhance these active skills that can output damage. For Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame, it is recommended that you choose the following skills:
Active Skills
Passive Skills
After choosing and mastering the above skills, you need to cast them in a fixed order during the battle, and then repeat the whole process until all enemies are dead:
Skills are the foundation of the build. If you want to use them to deal with more difficult battles, especially Torment 4 with top difficulty, you must farm more precious gear to further improve your various attributes. The gear that’s best for Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame includes:
The above gear is basically dropped by completing boss battles, so it’s really tricky to collect. You can replace some of them according to your actual situation, but it has to be said that it may reduce the lethality of the build.
Any season’s exclusive power is worth paying attention to and using, not to mention that in Season 8, these powers that originally belonged to powerful bosses are so attractive! To maximize the effectiveness of the build, it is recommended that you equip the following 4 boss powers:
This power is triggered when you use your core skill Whirlwind, dealing damage and debuff to enemies. It is worth noting that since Whirlwind is actually always active during combat, this boss power will also always be active.
You can deal fire damage to enemies when you trigger Earthquakes, and this modifier power can further increase your fire damage.
In addition to the debuffs caused by the main power Wandering Death’s Chest Beam, Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley will multiply this effect for five seconds.
Gives you a bonus to your critical strike chance.
Once you’ve completed Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build as described above, you should actually be strong enough to handle most of Diablo 4 Season 8 content, even Torment 4 difficulty! Good luck!
Whenever you enter the world of Diablo 4, the first step is to create a new character and choose a class for it. After that, all the skills, appearances, unique items and more that you can utilize often depend on your class.
On this basis, game builds that mainly rely on skills and gear to craft will naturally vary depending on the class. And when the game changes seasons, the strongest builds for each class will also change due to changes in bosses or adjustments to dungeon mechanisms.
Based on this, this time we will use Season 8 as the background to introduce to you which build is suitable for each of the 6 classes in Diablo 4 as the mainstream build of the season.
Compared to other Spiritborn builds, Quill Volley will focus more on damage output, and at the same time have reliable tank capabilities and high mobility. But to enjoy these benefits, you must pair it with rarer gear.
For this reason, in fact, before completing the craft of this build, you need to go through very hard battles to accumulate enough Diablo 4 gold and gear to complete Quill Volley. But the advantage is that it can help you get higher combat efficiency than others after entering the endgame.
To do this, you’ll need the following skills and gear for this build:
Active Skills
Gear
If you want to quickly clear enemies as a Sorcerer in Season 8, and complete most of the seasonal missions and endgame dungeons with maximum efficiency, then Lightning Spear is still the best choice.
As its name suggests, this build mainly outputs power through Lightning Spear and Aspect of Splintering Energy. On the other hand, you can also match it with the appropriate seasonal power boss power in addition to gear to make this build more powerful.
Gear
Boss Powers
Compared to the best builds of the first two classes, Barbarian’s Call of the Ancients may has be forgotten by you for a long time, but it has to be said that after the mechanism of adjustment in Vessel of Hatred last year, it can now play a good effect in Season 8.
This build mainly increases the damage of the build by maximizing the duration of the core skill Call of the Ancients to help you deal with Torment difficulty and the single boss in it. However, due to the characteristics of the skills, this build is not suitable for fast gold farming.
Active Skills
Gear
For this class, the focus of builds selection this season is still blood-oriented. Both Blood Spear and Blood Wave can play a good role, but they actually have different advantages and disadvantages. You can decide which one to choose based on our introduction.
This build mainly uses the main skill Bone Spear and the unique item Indira’s Memory to play a role. It not only has a large enough damage range, but also guarantees overpowers. At the same time, Indira’s Memory can also change the visual effects of the skill, making the battle more enjoyable.
As for the shortcomings, the problem with Blood Spear is that it relies too much on essence during utilization. You must devote your energy to provide a stable source of essence for it. In addition, the freedom of choice when assigning skill points to appropriate skills is low.
This build can output stable and powerful damage through the skill Blood Wave, easily dealing with groups or single enemies, and the gameplay is simple and easy to understand, suitable for most players. As for the shortcomings, it is mainly reflected in the fact that collecting blood orbs is very time-consuming.
For Rogue, we recommend that you choose Death Trap as the core build in Season 8. Combining the skill of the same name with the armor Scoundrel’s Leathers, this build will allow you to easily defeat enemies through continuous teaming and gain a lot of cooldown time through the game loop.
Active Skills
Gear
You might be wondering, why the hell is Cataclysm again? But it has to be said that classics are timeless. As a veteran build for a veteran class, Cataclysm is your best choice when you are in trouble as a Druid in Diablo 4.
This build mainly revolves around the key skill Cataclysm and extends its duration and power by matching it with appropriate gear and runes to cope with most game content.
Active Skills
Gear
If there are any of the above builds that you think are good and correspond to the class you are playing, then why not complete it and use it in battle? Try it now!
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