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Nowadays, with the rise of the electronic game industry, in order to allow players to have a further gaming experience in an increasingly modern environment, various pure game-carrying devices have also emerged, such as PlayStation series, Xbox series, and Switch series.

The biggest difference between these devices and PCs and mobile terminals is that their only function is to allow you to play games, so their design does not need to consider too many other factors, and the gaming experience they provide is also more comfortable. Among them, Switch series is smaller and is a more portable device. Although this makes it unable to load large games like PS4/5, portability itself is a significant advantage.

Since the release of the first generation of Switch in 2017, the series has been enthusiastically sought after by players, and then the lighter and more fancy Switch Lite was launched in 2019. But no matter which one it is, it has been more than 5 years since now, so the birth of a new Switch is imperative-fortunately, Switch 2 will indeed meet you soon! The current release date is June 5, 2025.

Once the game console is released, it is bound to cause a carnival among players. If there are games that can be launched on the platform in the first batch at this time, it will definitely bring a wave of popularity to the game itself. As one of the most popular ARPGs in recent years, Rod Fergusson, one of Diablo 4 leaders, recently hinted that the game may get a Switch 2 port after Switch 2 is released.

So how feasible is the cooperation between Switch 2 and Diablo 4? Can this game console, which is still mainly characterized by portability, carry a game like Diablo 4 that requires a large amount of memory? Let’s analyze it.

There Seems To Be No Problem With The Hardware

Generally speaking, in order to run Diablo 4 smoothly and ensure that the picture quality and sound quality of the game are not compressed, large devices from PC or PlayStation series will be better. Because if the devices do not meet the requirements, it may even cause you to encounter freezes during the battle, so that you lose some Diablo 4 Gold due to bugs during the post-war settlement.

Fortunately, despite Switch series being a small game console, this aspect should not cause you too much trouble. In fact, Diablo 3 and Diablo 2: Resurrected have both been available on Switch in the past, and are expected to be playable on Switch 2 via backward compatibility.

From this result, if Diablo 4 is launched on Switch 2, there should be no technical problems such as lag caused by overload, but at the same time, another question is also in front of you, that is, can Switch 2 provide reliable online services? After all, Diablo 4 requires a network connection to run.

Can Switch 2 Provide Reliable Online Services For D4?

The portability of Switch series is reflected in all aspects, one of which is that it is mainly operated by inserting game cartridges. Usually, this only requires you to connect to the network for a while when you just start the game, and then you can play offline at any time and place without worrying about network problems.

The tricky thing is that although Diablo 4 does not require you to team up with other players all the time, it is a MMORPG after all, requiring you to stay online, and you will always meet other online players in the game. This is undoubtedly contrary to the design concept of Switch series.

Therefore, if Diablo 4 and Switch 2 want to achieve perfect cooperation, the latter must ensure stable online services. We will not talk about how well the first generation and Lite versions of Switch do in this regard, but as the latest product, Switch 2 should not be difficult to provide more stable online services while ensuring the basic advantages of the series, and it is said that Switch 2 does introduce more optimized content.

To be honest, from the player’s perspective, as long as you choose to experience Diablo 4, you can’t avoid the key issue of online services, which is not the advantage of Switch series. Therefore, based on ensuring network stability, it is a bit difficult to ask too much of Switch 2.

Can Cooperation Achieve A Win-Win Situation?

Not long ago, Diablo 4 released a roadmap for 2025. The game will bring Season 8 Belial’s Return on April 29, and will release new seasons at regular intervals after that. It is expected that the second DLC may be released next year-all this shows that the game is still determined to expand the number of players and influence.

As for Switch series, the new game console Switch 2 will maintain a high popularity for at least one or two years after its launch. Besides classic games suitable for playing on Switch (such as Animal Crossing: New Horizons or The Legend of Zelda series), many new games will also want to log in to Switch 2 and use the popularity of the game console itself to open up their own market.

Although Diablo 4 already has a large number of loyal fans, the expansion of the experience platform is always a good thing, which means that you can choose the way to play Diablo 4 more freely, and it will also attract a group of new players who focus on Switch.

On the other hand, if Diablo 4 is available on Switch 2 and does a good job in online services, other games similar to Diablo 4 and their fans will have more confidence in the development prospects of Switch 2 and will tend to cooperate with Switch 2 to expand the game library of Switch 2. Naturally, more players will be willing to choose Switch 2 as their first choice of gaming device.

However, all this will be gradually confirmed after the official release of Switch 2. Before that, all you have to do is manage your new character of Diablo 4 Season 8 well, or prepare to compete for the pre-order qualification of Switch 2! Good luck!

As a rich ARPG, Diablo 4 has its own huge item system, in which each item will play its own specific role to help you progress smoothly in the game. Among them, the rarer and more important items include unique items and legendary aspects.

These two types of items play different roles, but there is no doubt that they can both help your Diablo 4 battles. In order to ensure that you can make full use of these two item systems in each Diablo 4 season, the game will add new specific content to some seasons in addition to the universal unique items and legendary aspects.

There is less than a week left before the release of Season 8. In order to enable you to farm and use the new legendary and unique items in time, we will introduce them to you.

What Is Unique Item?

The main function of unique items is to provide effective assistance to your character through the four gear affixes they have, as well as some special powers that cannot be provided by other methods or items. Not only can make you get enough XP to complete the upgrade faster, but also earn a lot of Diablo 4 Gold.

Among all the unique items, there is a rarer one called Mythic Uniques or Uber Uniques. You can only get them by defeating Tormented Bosses (lair bosses in Season 8), and Duriel and Andariel among these bosses have twice the chance of dropping Mythic Unique items than other bosses. In addition, Ancestral Uniques have an item power 800 and at least one Greater Affix.

What Is Legendary Aspect?

You can think of Diablo 4 Legendary Aspect as a unique modifier. Its function is to significantly enhance the ability of your character by turning your equipped rare items into legendary items. There are currently two ways to get this type of item in the game. The first is the most traditional way: by completing quests or clearing dungeons, waiting for it to drop while killing enemies. You will also receive XP and gold as regular rewards in the process.

The second method is more like a shortcut, by obtaining Codex of Power to directly imprint the effects of the legendary aspect onto your gear. Although this method is easy, on the one hand, it does not include some really powerful aspect effects, and on the other hand its aspect effect value is always the lowest value.

Season 8 New Legendary Aspects And Unique Items

Since each season has its own exclusive seasonal power and mechanics, in order to allow your character to combine class skills, weapons, unique items and legendary aspects with these new mechanics after entering the new season, to play a better synergy, Diablo 4 sometimes adds new unique items and legendary aspects to some seasons.

Since there are 6 classes in the game, and each class has different characteristics, in addition to the universal Legendary and Unique Items, these classes have their own exclusive items. In Season 8, Diablo 4 adds a unique item and a legendary aspect to each class. Let’s take a look at what they do.

1. Barbarian

Unique Item: Bane of Ahjed-Den (Gloves)

This item detonates a pulse every 12 seconds, causing fire damage and 400-600% bonus damage to enemies when you use your next Mighty Throw. The corresponding affixes include:

• +4-6 Ranks of Mighty Throw
• +114-150% Critical Strike Damage
• +7-10 Fury Per Second
• +8-12.5% ​​Cooldown Reduction

Legendary Aspect: Aspect of Delayed Extinction (Offensive Aspect)

The effect is that your Mighty Throw and Iron Grip can gain damage multipliers, and the damage caused can be increased by an additional 125-250%.

2. Druid

Unique Item: Gathlen’s Birthright (Helm)

Allows your character in human form to use Nature Magic to deal 400-200 critical strikes to the enemy, and then you can also gain Anima of the Forest that lasts for 15 seconds. After injecting it, you will gain Perfect Storm and Earthen Might as key passive skills. The corresponding affixes include:

• Inherent: Anima of the Forest Grants 15% Attack Speed
• +10.5-15% Willpower
• +224-296 Armor
• +2-3 Ranks of Humanity
• +17.5-23% Movement Speed ​​While in Human Form

Legendary Aspect: Aspect of Impending Deluge (Offensive Aspect)

Storm Strike attacks twice as many enemies as it can, and increases the damage enemies take from other spells by 30-50% for 6 seconds.

3. Necromancer

Unique Item: Sanquivor, Blade of Zir (Two-Hand Sword)

Allows summons to deal damage to enemies while still being affected by Vampiric Curse. Consuming corpses also contributes a soul to Vampiric Curse, which can now stack up to 20 souls. Then have Army of the Dead release these souls, and each soul releases 15-25% more damage to enemies. The corresponding affixes include:

• Inherent: +60% Summoning Damage
• +32-50% Chance for Army of the Dead to Deal Double Damage
• +214-242 Intelligence
• +1,060-1,142 Maximum Life
• +2 Ranks of Skeleton Warrior Mastery, Skeleton Mage Mastery, and Golem Mastery

Legendary Aspect: Aspect of Service and Sacrifice (Offensive Aspect)

Skeleton Warriors explode on death, dealing 200-300% physical damage.

4. Rogue

Unique Item: Band of Ichorous Rose (Gloves)

Poison Trap deals full damage over 3 seconds, and all upgrades increase its effectiveness by 50-100%. The corresponding affixes include:

• Inherent: +4 Maximum Poison Traps
• +10.5-15% Attack Speed
• +3-5% Maximum Poison Resistance
• +41.5-55% Poison Resistance
• 18.5-27.5% Chance for Poison Trap to Cast Twice

Legendary Aspect: Aspect of Contamination (Offensive Aspect)

Poison traps deal 150-250% poison damage when they burst, and if the burst is a critical hit, you can continue to deal 20-40% poison damage for 5 seconds.

5. Sorcerer

Unique Item: Hail of Verglas (Helm)

Ice Shards not only expand two additional shards, but each time a shard damages an enemy, the actual damage you deal will increase by 1-1.5%, up to 50-75%.

• Inherent 1: 7.5% Maximum Cold Resistance
• Inherent 2: 50% Cold Resistance
• +10.5-15% Intelligence
• 13-17.5% Maximum Life
• +10.5-15% Attack Speed
• +4-6 Ranks in Ice Shards

Legendary Aspect: Shivering Aspect (Offensive Aspect)

Adds up to 35-55% more damage to enemies depending on how frozen or staggered they are and apply an additional 15% more Frozen effect.

6. Spiritborn

Unique Item: Sunbird’s Gorget (Amulet)

Pick up a Storm Feather and create a firestorm around you for 8 seconds, dealing 200-400% Fire damage every 0.5 seconds. The firestorm becomes 100% stronger for every 5 additional Storm Feathers picked up.

• Inherent: +30% Resistance to All Elements
• +16-25% Movement Speed
• +2-3 Ranks of Potent
• +2-3 Ranks of Furnace
• +2-3 Ranks of Acceleration

Legendary Aspect: Rip and Tear Aspect (Offensive Aspect)

Increases the damage of Rushing Claw by 10-30%, and will gain more enhanced effects, such as dealing more damage or providing healing, depending on the number of charges it has when it is cast.

The above is the relevant information we provide you about the new Legendary and Unique Items in Season 8. I hope it can be helpful to you. Thank you for reading.

With more and more games, movies, and anime, crossover events between them are no longer a new thing. When crossover events first appeared, it was certain that they would benefit both works, but now there are more factors to consider in order to make crossover events successful.

As one of the classic ARPG series, Diablo has not held many crossovers in general. This may be because the popularity of Diablo 1-3 in the past was very good, and there were not many anime or movies with a similar style to Diablo series. But in 2025, Diablo 4 may have its first crossover with the classic Japanese anime Berserk!

Not long ago, Diablo 4 announced its 2025 roadmap. Although most of the content seems unremarkable, it has to be said that the news that it will crossover with two IPs is really worth your excitement. What you didn’t expect is that the first crossover object was announced so quickly! This may mean that Diablo 4 has long been planning to hold a crossover.

Generally speaking, the new content that Diablo 4 crossover event may bring mainly includes new weapons or cosmetics, or limited events that can provide both Diablo 4 Gold and limited-time rewards. However, considering that you may not know Berserk and its derivative works, we will introduce you to the overview of the crossover event between Berserk and Diablo 4, and analyze whether this crossover can be successful on this basis.

Introduction To Berserk

Berserk is a popular comic work created by Japanese cartoonist Kentaro Miura in 1988, with a strong dark fantasy style-although the world view is not exactly the same, this style coincides with Diablo 4. Unfortunately, the original author Kentaro Miura died in 2021, but his friend and fan writer Kouji Mori did not let this work come to an abrupt end, but instead allowed the creation of Berserk comics to continue in accordance with his friend’s wishes and creative habits.

Since its birth, in addition to the basic comic original, Berserk has also launched two animation adaptations, a trilogy of animated films, three video games, a derivative novel, and even a collectible card game based on comic content. And Diablo 4 is not the first game it has cooperated with - the crossover with Dragon’s Dogma was also a great success.

Why Did Diablo 4 Choose Berserk For Crossover?

Except for the linkage with World of WarCraft, Diablo 4 rarely held crossovers with other works before (it and World of WarCraft even come from the same company), which shows that Diablo 4 has stricter requirements for crossover objects.

As a classic Japanese anime work, Berserk has a certain degree of popularity worldwide. Although it may not be as popular as Naruto or One Piece, it has its own exclusive audience, and the overall age of fans is older, which can match the fan group of Diablo 4.

The second is the specific story content of the two works. Berserk author Kentaro Miura draws inspiration from many works, and describes a series of stories with both dark and fantasy styles, with the adventure and growth of the protagonist Guts as the main line. In Diablo 4, as a player and “protagonist”, you also need to complete a series of adventures in this world starting with Sanctuary, and you will also face various powerful enemies.

In a sense, you as a Diablo 4 player and Guts as the protagonist of Berserk have certain similarities in fate, which means that when the two works hold a crossover event, you can play Diablo 4 by wearing Berserk-style armor or experiencing events that Guts may have experienced, and feel the trajectory of Guts’s fate.

Although “heat” is the main purpose of holding crossover events between various works, if they can be more closely matched in many aspects, then the crossover event is not just a tool to attract more players or fans, but a truly successful cooperation.

When Will This Crossover Be Launched?

First of all, Berserk’s crossover targets include Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal, as did the previous crossover with World of Warcraft. In the crossover event with World of WarCraft, Diablo 4 only launched some store accessories, while Diablo Immortal hosted more in-game events, such as unique challenges and boss battles, as well as free rewards.

Although the details of this crossover with Berserk are still unclear, judging from the trailer, you should be able to get the iconic weapons and armor used by Guts in Diablo 4. In addition, considering that the 2025 roadmap does not bring any surprises, and the industry competition pressure in the first half of 2025 is not small, the crossover between Diablo 4 and Berserk is likely to be different from World of WarCraft crossover, and will bring a lot of new playable content, rather than just providing accessories.

If Diablo 4 can really do this, it will definitely break the long-standing criticism of the dullness and boredom of the game by players, at least ensure that the playability of Diablo 4 rises to a new level during the crossover event. From this point of view, this crossover is definitely likely to be a great success, otherwise it would be a waste of Berserk’s very attractive story, right?

As for the release date of the crossover event, Diablo 4 has not yet announced it, but considering that Season 8 will begin on April 29, in order to continue the heat of the new season, the start date of this crossover event is likely to be May or June 2025. Before that, Diablo 4 should announce more relevant information, so let us wait and see!

From the moment you enter Diablo 4, you enter a game world with its own characteristics. Although it is virtual, when you play a role in becoming a part of this world, you must abide by the rules of this world, just like you need to abide by the law in the real world.

Of course, Diablo 4 does not prohibit you from killing your enemies, but if you want to complete certain events, you must do it according to the guidance of the system. For example, if you want to earn Diablo 4 Gold, you need to win the battle, and if you want to craft elixirs or incense, you must find an Alchemist to proceed-each mechanism and NPC has its necessity. And this time I want to introduce you to Occultists.

What Are Occultists?

Although Diablo 4 may increase or decrease the number of NPCs as the season changes, this is usually for those NPCs related to the main storyline. There is also a kind of NPC that is actually closely related to your life and battles in the game and will not be easily changed, such as Occultists.

Occultists are located in all the major towns of Sanctuary, marked on the map by a clover-like icon. If needed, you can find the nearest Occultist for help based on your location. Currently, the in-game services that Occultists can provide include:

• Imprint Aspects
• Salvage Nightmare Sigils and Infernal Compasses and Craft Nightmare Sigils
• Enchant Items
• Seasonal Crafting

It should be noted that since the release of DLC Vessel of Hatred, Infernal Compasses are no longer a craft-able item, but can only be dropped as a rare loot after completing the battle under Torment difficulties.

Unlocking Aspect Imprinting

When you first enter Sanctuary in Diablo 4 Season 8 and obtain Codex of Power Aspect by completing the first dungeon, you will automatically unlock Extraction and Imprinting quest. Completing it will unlock the aspect imprinting ability of Occultists.

As you know, you can earn gear and legendary aspects in Diablo 4 through combat or other means, and the latter exist to make the former stronger - in the form of imprinted aspects. These aspects can add different benefits to your gear based on their own characteristics, such as increased damage, class abilities, or passive effects. But you can only imprint specific legendary aspects on specific gear.

When you find items with higher aspect rolls, you can recycle these items. Recycling them will unlock specific rolls of aspect values ​​for you, and the legendary aspects and their associated power levels will be automatically stored in your Codex of Power, allowing you to apply legendary powers to the corresponding items an unlimited number of times. In addition, when a new power level is unlocked, it will directly replace the old one.

Aspects can be imprinted on other legendary items to overwrite their existing legendary aspects, or imprinted on rare items to upgrade them to legendary items (unique items cannot be modified). Although you can imprint legendary aspects on rare items, rare items will ultimately only have 2 affixes.

Unlocking Sigil Crafting

As you know, fighting in dungeons is one of the main gameplay of Diablo 4, and it is also the main source of your game resources and gold. The dungeons in the game include normal dungeons, as well as nightmare dungeons, The Pit of Artificers, and Infernal Hordes in the endgame.

The way to open the nightmare dungeon is to farm Nightmare Sigils to convert a normal dungeon into a nightmare dungeon. This item can be dropped by Tree of Whispers caches, world bosses, and monsters in Nightmare Dungeons, or it can be directly crafted at Occultists-prerequisite that you have completed Sigil Crafting quest.

Each Nightmare Sigil actually corresponds to a specific dungeon, and Sigils also come with Dungeon Afflictions that can customize the dungeon by affecting your or the enemy’s status and the surrounding environment, so you need to craft Nightmare Sigils according to your own abilities and needs. If you accidentally create an unwanted Nightmare Sigil, you can also convert it into Sigil Powder to craft new Sigils.

Enchant Items

Enchanting is essentially replacing a selected affix on a rare or legendary item with a randomly generated affix. Although this feature only allows you to replace one affix at a time, the affixes can be rolled over indefinitely until you find the affix effect you want most. However, the more times you roll, the more gold you need to consume, so it is recommended that you do your best.

Although Greater Affixes can only be obtained through combat drops, the item strength of the affix regenerated through enchanting is always better than the previous one. In addition, you can view the affixes that may be generated by a specific item to get a deeper understanding of which items are worth enchanting when optimizing a specific combination.

Seasonal Crafting

Usually when a new season is launched, Occultists will provide new sigils or items crafting services for that season to improve the seasonal content. Since Season 8 has not yet officially launched, it is not clear what changes will be made in this regard in this season.

The above is all the information we can provide about Occultists in Diablo 4 Season 8. It has to be said that they still play a very important role in the new season, so please be sure to pay attention to them!

Do you remember what it was like to experience Spiritborn class for the first time in Diablo 4 DLC or Season 6? New classes always bring you freshness, and it is normal that Spiritborn, which is different from the old class in every aspect, will be welcomed by players.

Although Spiritborn has been weakened to a certain extent since Season 7 due to design problems, this does not mean that it has become worse, but it is just not too superior to other classes to ensure the balance of the game. So you may be curious whether those Spiritborn builds that performed well in the previous seasons can still play a role in the upcoming Season 8? Based on this, this time we will take Touch Of Death Centipede Build as an example for analysis.

Touch Of Death Centipede Build

The design and use of this build is based on the high continuous damage effect brought by Touch of Death, and combined with Insatiable Aspect to trigger a huge explosion in battle to form a good clearing effect. This also makes this build not only able to deal with bosses, but also easily helps you complete Diablo 4 Gold farming in various dungeons, or complete other important tasks.

As the main skill of this build, Touch of Death has been adjusted according to the needs of the build. With just a simple operation, you can make this skill release a huge range explosion of poison to the enemy, causing the enemy to be infected with a large amount of poison damage. Even after Touch of Death is upgraded, it can ignore the cooldown by consuming Vigor, which means that as long as there is enough Vigor generated, you can use this skill continuously.

On this basis, if you can combine it with the passive skill Noxious Resonance, you can make your critical hits trigger poison damage on the enemy, causing damage within the range and eliminating the poison effect, forming a perfect match with Insatiable Aspect.

Since the combination of Touch of Death, Noxious Resonance and Insatiable Aspect is very compact, the role of the rest of the build is to enhance the damage value of the main skill Touch of Death or provide you with defensive capabilities. It is not difficult to set up overall.

Best Skills

In addition to the main skill Touch of Death and the key passive Noxious Resonance that we have already highlighted, other skills suitable for this build include the following:

Basic

• Rock Splitter: 1/5
• Enhanced Rock Splitter: 1/1

Core

• Vigorous: 3/3
• Balanced Exertion: 3/3

Focus

• Ravager: 1/5
• Enhanced Ravager: 1/1
• Measured Ravager: 1/1
• Mirage: 1/3
• Focal Point: 1/3
• Diminishment: 3/3
• Apex: 3/3

Defensive

• Armored Hide: 1/5
• Enhanced Armored Hide: 1/1
• Adaptable Armored Hide: 1/1
• Scourge: 1/5
• Enhanced Scourge: 1/1
• Adaptable Scourge: 1/1
• Endurance: 1/3
• Perserverance: 3/3
• Antivenom: 1/3
• Nourishment: 3/3

Potency

• Touch of Death: 5/5
• Enhanced Touch of Death: 1/1
• Poised Touch of Death: 1/1
• Resilient: 3/3
• Vehemence: 3/3
• Potent: 3/3
• Ravenous: 3/3
• Oppressive: 3/3

Ultimate

• The Seeker: 5/5
• Harmonious Seeker: 1/1
• Exalted Seeker: 1/1
• Resolution: 3/3
• Initiative: 1/3
• Spiritual Attunement: 1/3
• Supremacy: 3/3

You can also swap Rock Splitter for Vortex, if you can solve the resource generation problem. You’ll still need to invest two points in the basic skill category, though. Another thing to remind you about Spirit Hall selection is that the best Spirit Hall combination for this build is primary-gorilla and secondary-jaguar.

In actual combat, the gorilla buff provides damage reduction and turns all your other skills into gorilla skills, further stacking the damage buff. Jaguar Spirit Hall increases your maximum Ferocity and stacks it when you kill an enemy, so that it always remains in this state.

Best Gear & Stats

Touch Of Death Centipede Build requires you to obtain and use many unique items for it, because this makes the build more lethal and stronger by forming good synergies with other parts of the build. Among them, Harmony of Ebewaka is indispensable for almost every Spiritborn build.

Jacinth Shell can quickly recharge your skills, but this is based on the consumption of your health. Fortunately, because of the synergy effect of the centipede skills, the rest of the build contains a lot of health regeneration and recovery capabilities, so using Jacinth Shell will not cause any substantial loss of your health.

If you also have Yen’s Blessing, its special effect will allow you to use Armored Hide, Vortex, Ravager, and Scourge at the same time in rare cases, and activate both effects at the same time, thus increasing your survivability while also increasing your damage output.

To summarize, after using Focus, Sunstained War-Crozier Unique Quarterstaff will provide a very high damage bonus to Touch of Death, and Jacinth Shell and Yen’s Blessing can effectively reduce your skill cooldowns, making it easy to maintain the damage output of the build by frequently using all skills and gear.

• Helm: Harmony of Ebewaka
• Chest: Jacinth Shell
• Gloves: Fell Soothsayer’s Aspect
• Pants: Aspect of Binding Morass
• Boots: Yen’s Blessing
• Amulet: Insatiable Aspect
• Ring 1: Aspect of Unyielding Hits
• Ring 2: Starlight Aspect
• Weapon: Sunstained War-Crozier

How To Use This Build?

After crafting this build, to use it in combat, first have your character stay in Ravager mode as long as possible with the blessing of Jacinth Shell, and use Touch of Death to deal heavy damage to normal enemies, and use Scourge to deal with stronger enemies. In between using Touch of Death, it is best to use the ultimate skill The Seeker at the same time to apply multiple passive effects to deal with more damage.

In addition, Ravager can use Touch of Death to teleport you to the nearest enemy, which improves the overall mobility of the build. In fact, it is also necessary to use dodge or mount to increase the movement speed.

After our introduction, do you know how to give full play to the power of this build in Season 8? If the answer is yes, it proves that our work is valuable! Thank you for reading!

Under the mysterious story background and complex game system presented by Diablo 4, there are countless game characters, NPCs and game mechanisms. It is their existence that builds this ARPG, allowing you to read interesting game plots while having a smooth game experience.

When you play Diablo 4, in addition to the game plot itself, other gameplays are basically centered around the element of “battle”: you can get Diablo 4 Gold, gear and various items through battles, and these props will also help you complete the next more difficult battles. But in fact, there are some items that can provide gains that do not require you to defeat any enemies, but can be made by yourself, provided that you go to the corresponding NPC-Alchemist.

As one of the most important NPCs, Alchemist can provide you with services such as upgrading health potion, crafting elixirs and incense, which are very useful for improving your combat efficiency. Based on this, we will introduce to you in detail what they can bring to you in Diablo 4 Season 8.

What Is Diablo 4 Alchemist?

You can think of Diablo 4 Alchemists as a type of NPC in the game. They are located in the five main towns of Sanctuary, and are shown on the map as mortar and pestle icons, which can be used as a marker to find them.

Currently, the services that Alchemists can provide include healing potion upgrades, elixir crafting, transmutation, and incense crafting. However, it should be noted that all of these services require you to invest materials and gold, so if you want to make full use of Alchemists, be sure to prepare in advance.

Upgrading Health Potions

When your character reaches a certain level, an upward arrow will appear next to Alchemist icon on the city map to prompt you. At this time, you can find an Alchemist to further upgrade your health potions. Different health potions have different functions and require different amounts of crafting materials and gold to upgrade. In addition, you can also charge health potions by earning renown in Sanctuary.

• Weak Healing Potion-Level 1
• Tiny Healing Potion-Level 10: Requires 10 Bundled Herbs, 5,000 Gold
• Minor Healing Potion-Level 20: Requires 30 Bundled Herbs, 10000 Gold
• Light Healing Potion-Level 30: Requires 50 Bundled Herbs, 5,0000 Gold, 10 Angelbreath
• Moderate Healing Potion-Level 40: Requires 80 Bundled Herbs, 150,000 Gold, 20 Angelbreath
• Strong Healing Potion-Level 50: Requires 130 Bundled Herbs, 5,00000 Gold, 50 Angelbreath
• Greater Healing Potion-Level 60: Requires 200 Bundled Herbs, 1000000 Gold, 80 Angelbreath
• Major Healing Potion-Level 60: Requires 300 Bundled Herbs, 3,000,000 Gold, 90 Angelbreath
• Superior Healing Potion-Level 60: Requires 50 Bundled Herbs, 5,000,000 Gold, 100 Angelbreath

Crafting Elixirs

In Diablo 4, elixirs temporarily enhance your stats, and only one type of elixirs can be activated per battle. Although different elixirs enhance different stats, what they all have in common is that they all increase XP you gain after the battle.

Quest Elixir

• Elixir of Antivenin
• Elixir of Hollow Unmaking

Basic Elixirs

• Elixir of Cold Resistance
• Elixir of Fire Resistance
• Elixir of Lightning Resistance
• Elixir of Poison Resistance
• Elixir of Shadow Resistance
• Elixir of Iron Barbs
• Elixir of Fortitude
• Elixir of Resourcefulness
• Elixir of Destruction
• Elixir of Advantage
• Elixir of Precision

Advanced Elixirs

• Elixir of Advantage II
• Elixir of Cold Resistance II
• Elixir of Destruction II
• Elixir of Fire Resistance II
• Elixir of Fortitude II
• Elixir of Iron Barbs II
• Elixir of Lightning Resistance II
• Elixir of Poison Resistance II
• Elixir of Precision II
• Elixir of Resourcefulness II
• Elixir of Shadow Resistance II
• Profane Mindcage

What Is The Use Of Transmutation?

In fact, the main function of transmutation, which provides you with the opportunity to exchange summon items, should no longer apply to Season 8, because summon materials are no longer required to fight the lair boss in this season. So it may be temporarily abolished or given other functions.

Crafting Incense

Incense can be divided into three types by stat: core, resistance, and defensive. In each battle, you can choose one incense of the three types to activate respectively, providing different types of incense effects to improve combat efficiency.

It is worth noting that all incense effects can increase XP available to nearby players by 5%, and the duration is also 20 minutes. All effects are applicable to both team and single combat situations, and the incense effects will continue after the character dies.

• Ancient Times-Core: Increases 100 points of strength.
• Blessed Guide-Core: Increases 100 points of willpower.
• Queen’s Supreme-Core: Increases 100 points of agility.
• Sage’s Whisper-Core: Increases 100 points of intelligence.
• Spiral Morning-Core: Increases all attributes by 60 points.
• Desert Escape-Resistance: Increases fire, cold, and shadow resistance of all nearby players by 15%, and increases maximum resistance by 4%.
• Storm of the Wilds-Resistance: Increases lightning, cold, and poison resistance by 15%, and increases maximum resistance by 4%.
• Soothing Spices-Resistance: All element resistance +10%, all element maximum resistance +2%, armor +150.
• Spirit Dance-Defensive: Increases dodge chance by 5%.
• Reddamine Buzz-Defensive: Increases players’ maximum health by 750 points.
• Scents of the Desert Afternoon-Defensive: Increases thorns by 400 points.
• Song of the Mountain-Defensive: Increases armor for all nearby players by 300 points.

Overall, Alchemist mechanism is not complicated, but if you want to make the most of it in Season 8, you need to understand the specific effects of each potion, elixir, and incense, so work hard!

Since its official release in 2023, Diablo 4 has brought a roadmap for the next year in the first half of almost every year. In fact, the role of the roadmap is not only to show you what you can expect in the next few months, but also one of the most intuitive ways for players and industry insiders to evaluate the development potential of this game.

Generally speaking, the content of Diablo 4 roadmap will not list all the upcoming content for you in detail like the new season PTR summary, but will be more concise. For example, the 2025 roadmap released a few days ago on April 9 only introduces some new elements that have been added or are yet to be added in units of seasons.

To be honest, if Diablo 4 wants to attract more new players and retain old players in 2025, it should show the most eye-catching keywords in the roadmap. Although on the surface, the game developers did this, the players in the game community seem to have given a completely opposite view. Next, let’s take a look at what changes this game will bring in the second half of 2025 based on the 2025 roadmap released by Diablo 4!

Diablo 4 2025 Roadmap Content

Since the birth of Diablo 4, the resurrection and return of Lilith destined the game to be full of Hatred atmosphere, and the release of the 2024 DLC Vessel of Hatred once again emphasized this point-Mephisto is back again. In order to continue this feature of the game, the new season in 2025 and related seasonal power and other content will continue to emphasize the “Hatred” theme.

• Belial’s Return: As Season 8, which has been confirmed to be launched on April 29, this season will bring you up to 24 boss powers and new seasonal events and lair boss mechanisms through the return of Belial, one of the classic bosses in Diablo 3.
• Sins of the Horadrim: Season power may be Horadric power. In addition, the most important endgame dungeon in Diablo 4, Nightmare Dungeon, is expected to be reborn through this season, allowing you to participate in more events and quests in Nightmare Dungeon while hunting barons of Hell, thereby increasing Diablo 4 Gold farming opportunities available in this dungeon.
• Infernal Chaos: If you like exploring Infernal Horde in the endgame stage, then Infernal Chaos may become your Diablo 4 best content of the year! You will have the opportunity to encounter a more chaotic but interesting Infernal Horde and more advanced Infernal Waves here.
• Possibility of 2026: In addition to the uninterrupted seasonal updates, Diablo 4 is expected to release the second DLC in 2026. Previously, the game was originally planned to launch an expansion every year starting in 2024, but it was postponed due to low feasibility.
• Other details adjustments: First, support functions will be provided for your console keyboard and mouse to ensure that you can get a better game operation experience; second, the battle pass and seasonal journey systems in the game will be upgraded, giving you the opportunity to upgrade faster through the rewards they provide.

In addition, Diablo 4 officials also revealed that they may cooperate with other IPs in the future. Although the partners have not been made public, it has to be said that crossovers are always something you look forward to, and sometimes they can indeed bring a lot of popularity to the game in a short period.

What Do Players Think?

In general, after reading this Diablo 4 2025 roadmap, two voices emerged in the player community: pessimism and optimism. A considerable number of players said that from the roadmap alone, it can be seen that D4 is becoming more and more lackluster. It is true that at the beginning, various fresh seasonal powers and events can indeed provide you with freshness, but Diablo 4 seems to be “unprogressive” and increasingly dependent on this approach, so that today’s season updates seem to be repeating Season 1 in a new form.

It has to be admitted that this statement is not without reason. At least from the roadmap, Diablo 4 is indeed still moving forward in this way in 2025. However, from another perspective, more optimistic players believe that it is important to keep things fresh, but no matter which game is, it is impossible for every new season or new patch to present a completely different look from the past. Moreover, even if it is just the new season power and events, it is enough for you to experience for a long time.

If a game wants to make progress, the opinions of players must be referred to. Although the “pessimistic” view may seem a bit extreme to you, they are also telling the truth. Diablo 4 is not bad in ARPG now, but it has not made any breakthroughs for a long time. If the development team can listen to the suggestions of players and work hard to make changes, maybe you may experience more content than what is shown in the 2025 roadmap.

Response From The Development Team

Shortly after the 2025 roadmap was released, the heads of various Diablo 4 expressed their views on social media and related interviews, which in a sense was a response to the comments of players. Among them, Adam Fletcher, director of social and content marketing, said that this roadmap actually only revealed a small part. Since the game is still under development, as the progress progresses, you may actually unlock more surprises later.

Game director Brent Gibson claimed in an interview that the content shown in the 2025 roadmap is not only a regular update, but also a preparation for the launch of the second DLC. They want to make the main game and DLC as connected as possible. In order to achieve this, sometimes the regular seasons seem a bit ordinary. It has to be said that this approach makes sense. If the plot and gameplay of DLC are too different from the main game, it will seem a bit out of place.

In any case, Diablo 4 2025 roadmap can be successfully released, which at least shows that this game still has development potential. Maybe it can’t satisfy you all the time, but the development team is always committed to improving your gaming experience. This alone is worth your continued expectation.

Most of the time, whether the endgame is substantial and attractive enough should be one of the most important factors in evaluating the quality of an ARPG. It not only includes most of the playable content of the game, but also brings you a special combat experience due to its high challenge.

Taking Diablo 4 as an example, the endgame stage of the game has always been committed to upgrading, and new content will be added as the season changes. However, because its endgame difficulty is higher than the regular content, it also requires your character level high enough, so you will need to grind for a long time before entering, or you will not be able to handle the tasks properly.

In order to prevent you from encountering this situation in the future Season 8, this time we will introduce you to some of the content and related mechanisms that will appear in Season 8 in advance to help you prepare as best as possible.

Diablo 4 Endgame Overview

After you have finished reading the main storyline and completed the relevant campaigns in Diablo 4 Season 8, you can go deep into the more mysterious and dark places in Sanctuary, which is the endgame part. Here you will encounter more powerful bosses and enemies than before, but at the same time, the game is more playable and rewards more Diablo 4 Gold.

In order to ensure that the endgame is always attractive, Diablo 4 will bring new mechanisms to the endgame part in almost every new season, so that you can have a better endgame experience. What you have to do is to do everything you can to improve your character level and ability, earn gold and better gear to meet these challenges.

Endgame And Difficulty Level

Since the launch of DLC Vessel of Hatred, the difficulty level of Diablo 4 has undergone a new change-replacing the original world tier system. Now you will encounter a total of 8 difficulty levels in the game. The first four belong to the “basic part”, from low to high, they are normal, hard, expert, and penitent. After that, you can challenge the more difficult Torment difficulty, which has four levels, namely T1, T2, T3 and T4.

Although this difficulty level is more complicated and may cause you to encounter more difficulties, the rewards it brings will also increase with the increase of difficulty level, that is to say, if you can complete your endgame content at a high level of Torment difficulty, you will get more loot than you think! This is very worthwhile! Of course, the premise is that you must ensure that you can handle the high difficulty.

In addition, if you want to unlock Torment difficulty, first ensure that your Diablo 4 Season 8 character level reaches 60, then start farming one of the endgame content Pit, and complete 20 levels of challenges in it to unlock Torment 1. After that, the number of Pit challenge levels required to unlock T2-T4 are 35, 50 and 65 respectively.

What Is The Playable Content Of Diablo 4 Endgame?

Sometimes the game will add some seasonal content to the endgame based on the theme of the current season and other reasons, or playable dungeons limited to DLC, such as Realmwalkers & Seething Realms in Season 6, or Dark Citadel & Kurast Undercity in Vessel of Hatred, and Tree of Whispers, which was re-emphasized in Season 7.

But let’s get back to the point. This time we are mainly here to help you with your Diablo 4 Season 8 endgame journey, so we will introduce you to those fixed endgame content and the limited gameplay of Season 8.

Killing World Bosses

The world boss in Diablo 4 is a powerful enemy type that will appear randomly in the open world and refresh in a designated area every once in a while. Since it is more difficult than killing ordinary enemies, it is generally safer for you to challenge them in a team. In addition to the regular rewards, sometimes some extremely rare gear or mounts may drop after killing them.

In Season 8, these bosses will be featured in a new seasonal event, Apparition Incursions. The event will bring 10 Apparition bosses (including Belial’s lesser form), which are minions of the ultimate boss Belial. After killing any of them, you can gain the boss power possessed by that boss.

Killing Lair Bosses

Season 8 upgrades the original endgame boss mechanism to lair bosses, and lair bosses are further divided into three levels: initiate, greater, and exalted lair. In the past, if you wanted to fight endgame bosses, you had to collect summoning materials in advance to summon them, but lair bosses do not require you to do so. However, it is worth noting that if you want to get loot by killing Season 8 lair bosses, you need to farm special keys to open the hoard corresponding to each boss.

Farming Dungeons

This should be your main way to earn game resources in the endgame stage. It is expected that the dungeons that will still exist in Season 8 mainly include Nightmare Dungeons, The Pit Of Artificers, and Infernal Hordes.

Among them, Nightmare Dungeons are like upgraded versions of ordinary dungeons - unlocking them requires you to consume Nightmare Sigil to transform ordinary dungeons, and Nightmare Sigil will also bring positive/negative affixes to the unlocked dungeons.

The Pit is a timed multi-level dungeon that requires you to kill as many enemies as possible within the specified time to fill the progress bar, and then you can find random bosses through the portal and kill them to get master rewards.

As for Infernal Hordes, its main function for you is to farm unique items by letting you kill enemies and fight against Fell Council - Season 8 has added a new batch of unique items for each class, you are worth the effort.

The above is all the information we provide for you to prepare for the Season 8 endgame journey. We will continue to bring you more information about Diablo 4 Season 8, so don’t miss it!

In order for all Diablo 4 classes to survive and continue in every Diablo 4 season as much as possible, they need to have exclusive mechanics that are distinctive and powerful enough. As a new class born from DLC and Season 6, although now Spiritborn’s popularity seems to be not as high as it was at the beginning, the fact that it has not been replaced by a new class is enough to show its value.

The birth of this class not only brings the sixth new region Nahantu to Diablo 4, but also expands your class selection and enriches your combat style with its unique mechanics, such as its unique Spirit Hall mechanic. If you like this class very much and want to continue playing in Season 8, you may be curious whether the important Spirit Hall mechanic is still useful in this season? If it is useful, how to unlock it? Next, we will introduce it to you one by one.

What Is Spirit Hall?

Almost every Diablo 4 class has its own unique mechanic that provides additional ways to further customize your class and give you a combat experience that is unique to that class, and for Spiritborn, that mechanic is Spirit Hall.

Specifically, Spirit Hall includes four spirit guardians, namely Balazan the Centipede, Kwatli the Eagle, Wumba the Gorilla, and Rezoka the Jaguar. Each guardian can provide you with a primary effect and a secondary effect, which you can equip as needed (primary and secondary effects can come from different guardians).

When your character reaches level 15 as a Spiritborn, you can start completing Spirit Hunt questline, which not only helps you complete your early Diablo 4 Gold accumulation, but also activates your primary spirit guardian, and you can add secondary spirit guardians when you reach level 30.

The Role Of The Four Spirit Guardians

Each spirit guardian has different Primary and Secondary abilities, which we will introduce to you in detail below as a combat reference.

1. Balazan The Centipede

• Primary ability: When you hit an enemy with a centipede ability, you reduce their damage by 2.5% and slow them by 10%. This effect lasts for 3 seconds and can be stacked up to 8 times.
• Secondary ability: For every enemy you damage within 3 seconds, you heal yourself for 1% of the damage, up to a maximum of 5%.

2. Kwatli The Eagle

• Primary ability: When you cast an eagle ability, you gain 4 Storm Feathers of movement speed, and if you can throw up to 8 Storm Feathers in each remaining second, you can continue to deal 62 Lightning damage to the enemy and make the target vulnerable for 5 seconds.
• Secondary ability: For every 4 meters you move, your critical chance increases by 4%, and this buff resets 2 seconds after you complete a critical hit.

3. Wumba The Gorilla

• Primary ability: Hitting enemies with a gorilla skill also deals 100% more thorns and grants you a barrier equal to 5% of your maximum health, stacking up to 30% for 3 seconds.
• Secondary ability: Increases Resolve by 2.

4. Rezoka The Jaguar

• Primary ability: Every 15 times you use the jaguar skill on an enemy, you’ll launch an additional attack that deals 15% of the damage you’ve dealt them in the last 0.5 seconds.
• Secondary ability: Increases Ferocity by 1.

How To Unlock Spirit Hall?

As we’ve already mentioned, you can only unlock Spirit Hall mechanic and enjoy the benefits it provides after reaching the required character level and completing Spirit Hunt questline. First, when you reach level 15 you’ll receive a priority quest, The Sacred Hunt, which has three steps to solve.

1. The Sacred Hunt: Kehjistan

After the quest begins, you need to go to Gea Kul and talk to the messenger Tarka there. Tarka will tell you that foragers were brutally killed in Central Plateau, which may foreshadow the beginning of Sacred Hunt that all Spiritborn must undertake. After that, please follow the following steps:

• 1. Meet Tarka at Hakan’s Oasis
• 2. Speak to Ito
• 3. Find Tarka the Emissary
• 4. Find Tarka on the island
• 5. Inspect the strange creature tracks
• 6. Speak with Tarka
• 7. Enter the spirit portal

2. The Sacred Hunt: Sacred Hunting Grounds

After entering the spirit portal, you need to kill some enemies to fill a progress bar called Kill the Invaders. After that, the portal to Sacred Hunting Grounds will be fully opened. You can continue to advance the mission by following the steps below:

• 1. Speak to Tarka the Emissary
• 2. Ask for “Help” near the brazier
• 3. Complete Sacred Hunt
• 4. Hunt for The Beast
• 5. Survive the ambush - 60 seconds
• 6. Hunt for The Beast
• 7. Speak to Astral Tarka, the Emissary
• 8. Give “Thanks” near the brazier
• 9. Confront The Beast
• 10. Petition the spirit guardians against Nature’s Wrath

3. The Sacred Hunt: The Beast, Nature’s Wrath

When you find The Beast, Nature’s Wrath, it means the final battle is about to begin. After defeating him and getting the loot, you need to talk to Astral Tarka again and petition spirit guardians against Nature’s Wrath. Then Tarka will reward you with some gear and a Legendary Glaive, and you will also unlock Spirit Hall.

In fact, Spirit Hall also plays an important role in most Spiritborn builds, so it can be expected that it will still be a very important mechanism in Season 8. If you want to keep playing Spiritborn, please unlock it as soon as possible!

Although you may be a casual Diablo 4 player who doesn’t necessarily have to complete all battles and objectives, but just wants to wander and explore freely on the world map, to be honest, even so, you must ensure that your character level is maintained at a strong enough level, otherwise you may be killed by random enemies while enjoying the scenery. And if you want to be a real warrior, you more should complete the upgrade work as soon as the new season starts!

As time goes by, you are getting closer and closer to Season 8. In order to ensure that you can start your upgrade work as soon as you enter the season, you need to sort out a Season 8 upgrade plan based on the 2.2.0 PTR and all relevant information. Fortunately, we will save you time and bring you such a guide directly!

Complete The Main Quest Of Season 8

In this season, the demon Belial, who occupies a place in the entire Diablo series story, will return to the game as the ultimate boss (he last appeared in Diablo 3). Therefore, although the PTR did not make any announcements about the new story, it is foreseeable that the new main storyline of the game will revolve around him after Season 8 is officially launched.

According to the practice of Diablo 4, when you advance the main storyline, you will also encounter some minor battles related to the storyline. They are usually not very difficult, but they will provide XP, Diablo 4 Gold and some primary items as rewards, which should not be missed.

Farming Dungeons

There are many types of dungeons in Diablo 4, but they can be divided into two categories: permanent and seasonal. Usually, the unlocking method and loot of seasonal dungeons are determined according to the content of the new season. For example, Rootholds dungeon in Season 7 will provide Sigils from Silent chests and Whispers caches as one reward.

According to the known information, Season 8 does not seem to add seasonal dungeons, but it is not ruled out that there may be new changes after the official launch. If the exclusive dungeon of Season 8 really appears at that time, or Rootholds dungeon continues in a new form, you can definitely gain a lot of XP by cultivating this part of the dungeon.

In addition, permanent dungeons include campaign dungeons, quest dungeons, nightmare dungeons, and The Pit Of Artificers, which has a lot of randomness in its built-in content. Their farming methods will not change much because of the change of seasons. You only need to follow previous experience or relevant guides to complete them.

It should be reminded that some dungeons can be farmed repeatedly by resetting. Although the process is definitely boring, it is definitely the easiest and most effective way to quickly accumulate XP and gold in the early stages of the game.

Adjust The Difficulty Level In Time

In Diablo 4, whether it is a boss battle or other tasks, there are different difficulty levels, such as Torment difficulty 1-4. The higher the difficulty, the more XP and other rewards you will get in the end. However, this approach must be based on the fact that your character is strong enough. If you blindly challenge high difficulty, first, it is likely to cause the death of the character, causing irreparable losses; second, you may win by luck, but it takes too much time. In the same length of time, you may even complete many simple battles to earn more XP. So you must ponder it.

Get Boss Powers

As the seasonal power of Season 8, the combat gain brought by boss power should provide a lot of help for your new season XP farming work. After obtaining a part of the boss power, you can choose the most suitable main power and 3 modifier powers to equip according to your class skills or build to improve your combat and XP acquisition efficiency. In fact, in the process of killing bosses to obtain boss power, this form of combat will also provide you with XP as one of the rewards, so it can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Complete Apparition Incursions Event

This is a seasonal event in Season 8. The background story is that the ultimate boss Belial brought his minions into the game and started to do evil. What you have to do is to kill these 10 Apparition bosses and the last Belial’s lesser form.

Killing these bosses can not only get XP required for upgrading, but also the magic level boss power they carry, which will be useful for you to complete the next task. And the reward box obtained after killing Belial’s lesser form is expected to contain Obol, which can be used to upgrade equipment.

Make Full Use Of The Game’s Welfare Mechanisms

When each new season of Diablo 4 starts, the game will launch three exclusive reward systems namely battle pass, season journey, and season blessings. When you start playing Season 8, they will operate in different ways to ensure that you can get corresponding rewards for completing each part of the corresponding tasks, including XP.

Among them, the battle pass includes free, premium and accelerated. The specific rewards are different, but basically they are gradually unlocked as the game progresses; the season journey will set some corresponding tasks according to the main storyline of the current Season 8, which you can complete while using the first XP acquisition method we introduced; and season blessings is a binding gain exclusive to the characters in Diablo 4 seasonal realm, which will focus more on improving your quality of life, such as allowing you to get more XP by farming dungeons!

The above are some methods we brought to you this time to earn XP in Diablo 4 Season 8 to upgrade as soon as possible. I hope it can help you!