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Thanks to the rapid development of social media, it's now possible to communicate with the creators of your favorite games directly! Some games even host exclusive panel discussions to gain a deeper understanding of player opinions.

For Diablo 4, this event is Sanctuary Sitdown - or, until August of this year, you might have been more accustomed to calling it Campfire Chats.

Regardless of the name, the two events' purpose remains to provide a platform for communication between the development team and players.

So, what is the purpose of this Sanctuary Sitdown, and how will you participate? What will it reveal about the future development path of Diablo 4? We will provide you with an introduction and speculation.

Basic Information About Sanctuary Sitdown

The event will begin at 11:00 AM PDT on August 14, 2025. It will feature a host, members of Diablo 4 development team, and players joining Sanctuary Discord to engage in discussion and answer questions from players in the channel.

This event is expected to focus on discussing and answering questions about Season 10 and its PTR. If you're interested and would like to ask the developers questions by participating, please follow these steps:

• 1. Register/log in to your Discord account.
• 2. Join the official Diablo Discord server.
• 3. Find and click "Interested" on Sanctuary Sitdown Event page.

It's important to note that the specific content of Season 10 that will be discussed during Sanctuary Sitdown is currently unknown, and the players' questions that will be answered will be random, making the duration of the event uncertain.

How Is Sanctuary Sitdown Different From Campfire Chats?

While this isn't the first time Diablo 4 has held a Sanctuary Sitdown, developers are more accustomed to using Campfire Chats to communicate with you before the launch of a new season in the past.

Campfire Chats are typically broadcast live on Twitch or YouTube, allowing you to watch the live stream or replay it even if you don't have an account. However, due to platform changes, Sanctuary Sitdown on Discord not only requires a platform account but also doesn't offer replays.

This means that if no participants record the livestream content, you won't be able to view the interview content without participating in Sanctuary Sitdown.

As for the changes in live content, Campfire Chats will be more focused on "interviews," allowing the development team to directly inform you about changes related to the new season and PTR, such as possible new content and changes to Diablo 4 gold drop rates.

However, Sanctuary Sitdown will clearly place greater emphasis on communicating with you and other players, answering valuable player questions to share Diablo 4's plans and development schedule for the new season, allowing you to feel more engaged.

Is Sanctuary Sitdown A Good Or Bad Form?

To be honest, this change in communication format has both advantages and disadvantages. On the positive side, Sanctuary Sitdown can raise the barrier to entry and ensure that players who participate are genuinely interested in game development.

This will ensure that questions received during the event are more targeted and valuable, avoiding interruptions from "guest" users and improving the effectiveness of the event.

However, the increased barrier to entry may also discourage some players from participating, and the inability to replay the event livestreams will deprive players of sufficient access to the new season's changes.

Given the mediocre performance of recent seasons, you might even consider this a "cop-out" strategy for Diablo 4: while avoiding more public feedback, the selected questions may already be predetermined.

What Might Season 10 Look Like?

While the livestream hasn't yet begun, it's clear that Season 10 will be the focus of discussion. However, the change in format also means that the season may lack sufficient content for developers to discuss, necessitating the use of Q&A to fill the time.

Currently known information about Season 10 primarily includes Chaos Powers, Infernal Hordes update, new pets, and more IP collaborations announced in the 2025 roadmap.

Therefore, we anticipate that Season 10 will not differ significantly from the previous two or three seasons in terms of overall season mechanics, continuing the same formula of new season power, dungeon updates, and other new events.

As the final Diablo 4 season in 2025, you might have hoped that S10 would deliver truly compelling new content, like S6, which launched at the same time last year, such as a new class or dungeon.

However, Season 6 was able to do so primarily because it launched alongside the first DLC.

Considering that the second DLC will launch sometime in 2026, likely not far from the end of Season 10, a lackluster performance for Season 10 as a transitional season is entirely acceptable.

In fact, rather than innovation, addressing long-standing shortcomings is more important for the current Diablo 4 regular season, such as increasing loot drop rates, further improving class balance, and adding player leaderboards.

Overall, we expect Sanctuary Sitdown to offer only a few details about Season 10 and PTR, with no surprise announcements expected unless they discuss the development progress of the next DLC.

However, if you have the time, you can definitely participate. While there are some requirements, it's not difficult to do. If your question is selected, it's a great experience! Good luck!

As Diablo 4 Season 9 progresses into the mid-to-late stages, some classes and builds' special advantages from the beginning of the season are becoming less pronounced, giving you a wider range of options if you're looking to play a new character.

For example, at the start of Season 9, Sorcerer's strongest build is undoubtedly Hydra Build. This is because the enhanced Hydra skill, combined with the new unique item, Ophidian Iris, boosts both resistance and damage output.

However, if you're looking for more versatile Sorcerer builds, that's entirely possible. In fact, with the right combination, the classic Ice Shards Sorcerer Build remains powerful in Season 9.

Below, we'll provide some tips for crafting and utilizing this build in Diablo 4 Season 9.

Choosing The Right Skills

Although the names might seem contradictory, Flame Shield is indeed the first skill that makes sense for this build. This skill, by engulfing you, deals 40% burning damage per second to nearby enemies, granting you immunity.

The second skill to introduce is undoubtedly the core skill, Ice Shards. It fires five shards, each dealing 36% damage to enemies and an additional 25% damage to frozen enemies. If you enchant it, the ice shards will automatically fly towards frozen enemies.

These two skills, when used in conjunction with Teleport, further increase the overall build's mobility and activate the effects of the ring Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop:

• + [12.5]% Resistance to All Elements
• + [5.0]% Resistance to All Elements
• + [57.0 - 75.0]% Non-Physical Damage
• + [7.0 - 8.0]% Lucky Hit Chance
• + [2 - 3] to Potent Warding
• [8.1 - 8.8]% Cooldown Reduction

If you're interested, you can also replace these two skills with other ice skills, such as Frost Nova or Ice Blades. In fact, every ice skill in your skill list will help you gain damage bonuses from your passive skills.

However, if you want to build this build with the lightning skill Unstable Currents, you must ensure you have sufficient rare gear and consume materials such as Diablo 4 gold, Veiled Crystal, and Obducites to upgrade their affixes through Masterworking.

Overall, if you're looking for a more scalable build, a Flame Shield + Ice Shards + other ice skills combination is enough to complete an Ice Shards Sorcerer build. With a well-defined skill rotation, you can achieve adequate resistance and a decent damage multiplier.

In addition, with this build, aside from Ice Shards skill, you don't need to worry about enchantments; you can mix and match any ice skills. However, if you use a defensive ice skill, you'll need to activate it more frequently.

As for passive skills, you can unlock them according to the following recommendations if you have enough skill points:

• Devastation (1/3) - Core
• Elemental Dominance (3/3) - Core
• Glass Cannon (3/3) - Defensive
• Precision Magic (3/3) - Conjuration
• Align the Elements (3/3) - Conjuration
• Mana Shield (3/3) - Conjuration
• Protection (1/3) - Conjuration
• Inner Flames (1/3) - Mastery
• Devouring Blaze (3/3) - Mastery
• Permafrost (1/3) - Ultimate
• Hoarfrost (3/3) - Ultimate
• Icy Touch (3/3) - Ultimate
• Frigid Breeze (3/3) - Ultimate
• Avalanche (3/3) - Key Passive

How To Choose Gear?

In addition to the already mentioned Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop, other essential gear for this build includes Helm Hail of Verglas, Shroud of False Death, and Fist of Fate, providing the following benefits:

Helm Hail of Verglas:

• +7.5% Maximum Cold Resistance
• +50.0% Cold Resistance
• + [4 - 6] to Ice Shards
• + [10.5 - 15.0]% Intelligence
• + [10.5 - 15.0]% Attack Speed
• [8.1 - 8.8]% Cooldown Reduction

Chest Armor Shroud of False Death:

• 224 Armor
• Inherent: +1 to All Passives
• +160 All Stats
• +333.0% Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth
• +800 Maximum Life
• 11.1% Resource Generation

Gloves Fists of Fate:

• + [0.1 - 8.7]% Attack Speed
• + [0.1 - 8.7]% Critical Strike Chance
• + [1.0 - 51.8]% Lucky Hit Chance

Among the benefits of these three items, in addition to the various stat-boosting, resistances and the unique buff to Ice Shards, the lucky hit chance bonus is worth mentioning. It allows you to freeze enemies more frequently in combat, boosting the damage of your core abilities.

For two-handed weapons, Aspect of Piercing Cold is probably the best choice. While it reduces the damage of Ice Shards, it allows you to simultaneously attack and pierce multiple enemies, increasing the damage of your entire build through more flexible control.

Other gear worth acquiring includes:

• Conceited Focus
• Azurewrath
• Iceheart Brais
• Boots of the Bounding Conduit
• Ring of Starless Skies
• Amulet of Shredding Blades

Horadric Spells Worth Adding

As a Season 9 power, no Season 9 build should miss out on the new buffs Horadric Spells offer. For Ice Shards Sorcerer builds, the following Horadric Spells are particularly useful:

• Arcana - Bottled Wind: Summon a Catalyst to grant you a barrier equal to 50% of your maximum health for 4 seconds.
• Arcana - Tranquil Stone: Summon a Catalyst to grant you Unstoppable effect for 5 seconds.
• Horadric Jewel - Seal of Power: Increases armor by 120 points and resistance to all elements by 6%.

Of course, to obtain Horadric spells, you'll need to diligently farm Horadric dungeons and earn Horadric Phials by playing other regular Diablo 4 events, upgrading these spells to become more powerful.

In short, if you're looking to explore build possibilities beyond Hydra as a Sorcerer in Season 9, Ice Shards are a great option! Have fun!

Aside from leveling up, acquiring and equipping gear is one of the primary ways to increase your combat effectiveness in Diablo 4. Therefore, your ability to progress effectively after entering the endgame is heavily influenced by the strength of your gear.

For this reason, Diablo 4 offers a variety of ways to enhance gear, such as upgrading affixes through Masterworking or embedding runes into gear to enhance it.

Although runes were first introduced to Diablo 4 via Vessel of Hatred DLC, they quickly gained popularity and played a significant role in most subsequent seasons. Below, we’ll explain the main methods for farming runes in Season 9.

About Runes

Besides being embedded into gear as enhancements, runes are also a currency for crafting specific Mythic Unique items. Furthermore, if you insert one Rune of Ritual and one Rune of Invocation into a two-slot piece of gear, they form a Runeword.

Furthermore, the utilization of runes is not unlimited. For more information, please refer to the following guidelines:

• You must obtain Vessel of Hatred expansion to farm and utilize runes.
• A single rune has no effect unless combined with other runes to form a Runeword.
• You can equip up to two Runewords at a time.
• You cannot equip the same rune twice.
• Runes can be stacked and traded.
• You can find runes on your character’s Socketable tab.
• If you wish to remove your runes, you can do so from a Jeweler.

One important thing to note is that if you want to sell excess gear to other players for Diablo 4 gold, be sure to check if the gear has runes attached to it before completing the trade. Otherwise, you will not be able to retrieve the runes separately once the trade is completed.

Also, Mythic Uniques that can be crafted from runes are typically determined by the rune’s nature, not randomly. If you have too many of the same rune, you can consume them to craft additional random runes.

How Do Runewords Work?

Runewords are actually a pair of linked Rune of Ritual and Rune of Invocation, which work together to trigger the desired gear bonus. Rune of Ritual generates offerings, which empower Rune of Invocation and trigger its effects.

Which Mythic Uniques Can Runes Be Used To Craft?

If you only have Resplendant Sparks, you can only use them to craft random Mythic Uniques. However, if you can combine Resplendant Sparks with runes at Jeweler, you can craft exclusive Mythic Unique you want!

How To Farm Runes In Season 9?

Before you start farming runes, you must complete Fundament of Faith chapter in DLC campaign; otherwise, runes won’t drop in-game.

Defeating All Bosses

Diablo 4 has multiple bosses to defeat in any season. World bosses in Season 9 are relatively easy to defeat and drop common rewards like gold or runes. While the rarity isn’t usually high, the quantity is still quite good.

Also, the lair bosses included in the endgame content, while more difficult to defeat, have a higher chance of dropping runes and a higher rarity. However, to obtain their loot, you must farm lair keys in advance to unlock boss hoards.

Also, if you own Vessel of Hatred, you’ll also receive runes from the first time you defeat campaign bosses in this DLC after the start of each season - but only once per season.

Farming Kurast Undercity

This dungeon was released with DLC, making it the primary dungeon for farming runes. Kurast Undercity is timed; upon entering, a countdown begins. Once the timer expires, you’ll be teleported out, regardless of how much loot you’ve collected.

However, you can extend your farming time by killing as many enemies as possible in the dungeon, earning more rewards. Alternatively, you can earn special tributes by completing other Diablo 4 events to increase the chance of rune drops:

• Tribute of Mystique: Offer it to Undercity Spirit Brazier to earn Magic Runes at Attunement Rank 1 (usable at all difficulty levels).
• Tribute of Harmony: Offer it to Undercity Spirit Brazier to earn Magic Runes at Attunement Rank 1 (usable only in Torment difficulties).

Obtaining Augment Caches

Starting in Season 6, you can begin hiring mercenaries. In addition to assisting you in battle, you can also gain additional benefits by improving your relationship with them.

For example, if your relationship with Aldkin reaches Rapport VIII, you can find an Augment Cache at Bartering vendor in Mercenary zone, The Den. Opening it has a chance of receiving Shattered Prisms, gems, or runes.

Reforging Runes

If you have too many low-level runes, you can reforge them at Jeweler to obtain a random new rune. Three runes of the same quality have a chance of being randomly converted into a higher-quality rune.

• 4,000 Gold + 3 Magic Runes: 85% chance of generating a Magic Rune, 15% chance of upgrading to a Rare Rune.
• 4,000 Gold + 3 Rare Runes: 85% chance of generating a Rare Rune, 15% chance of upgrading to a Legendary Rune.
• 4,000 Gold + 3 Legendary Runes: Generates a new Legendary Rune.

That’s all we have to say about runes farming in Season 9! We hope it helps you with your rune accumulation!

Diablo 4 features a rich item system. These items not only support you in completing more challenging battles and quests, but also serve as your goal for diligent farming to advance in the game.

While theoretically, the more of any item, the better, the different mechanics and gameplay of each season indicate that each season has a set of items that deserve your priority farming and stockpiling as much as possible.

For Season 9, these items primarily include lair keys for each lair boss, runes, and Obducite. Even as the season nears its midpoint, these items remain your primary consumables for character enhancement.

Based on the recent Diablo 4 Season 9 performance, we’ll provide a detailed explanation of why and how to farm Obducites.

About Obducites

This item is essentially an upgrade material for gear. Masterworking allows you to upgrade your gear by Obducites from rank 1 to 4 at a blacksmith, making gear affixes stronger. It is only applicable to Ancestral Legendary and Unique Items.

Obducites aren’t the only consumable items for Masterworking from ranks 1 to 4, Diablo 4 gold, Veiled Crystal, Rawhide, and Iron Chunk are also essential. However, aside from gold, the demand for Obducites increases the fastest with rank.

Therefore, when you first start farming gear that can be upgraded by Masterworking, you’ll need a large amount of Obducites to upgrade it as quickly as possible. Therefore, it’s recommended that you make Obducites your primary item farming target in Diablo 4 Season 9.

How To Farm Obducites?

Initially, you could only obtain Obducites by running The Pit, but this was too limited and could potentially hinder your gear upgrade progress. Therefore, after Season 6, Obducites’ farming sources have become much more diverse.

Escalating Nightmares

Although this dungeon was released after Season 9, it’s essentially a chain of three regular Nightmare dungeons, which have been one of the primary Obducites farming locations since Season 6.

While Diablo 4 Obducites can typically be dropped by any enemy in a Nightmare dungeon, Escalating Nightmares is unique in that it grants combat buffs or debuffs to the next built-in dungeon by dungeon affixes before you enter it.

As a result, if you acquire Obducite-related affixes, or the affixes simply increase the amount of loot you receive before entering Escalating Nightmares, you’ll be able to obtain more Obducites than before.

However, to access this dungeon, you must obtain Escalation Sigils. The first Escalation Sigil can be obtained by completing the seasonal questline, and the more require clearing Horadric Strongrooms at Torment 1-4 difficulty and opening the caches obtained.

Horadric Strongrooms

This seasonal built-in dungeon not only drops items that unlock Escalating Nightmares, but also a small number of Obducites. The entrance to a Strongroom will typically appear randomly while exploring a Nightmare dungeon.

After unlocking a Horadric Strongroom, you’ll need to use your Wayfinder to locate the dungeon’s portal entrance and defeat the surrounding guards to enter. The higher the difficulty and Wayfinder level, the faster you’ll find the portal.

In the dungeon, you’ll need to activate a Horadric Artifact Pillar and kill the enemies that appear to trigger the ritual. Afterward, continue clicking the artifact pillar in the new room to spawn more waves of enemies, earning more rewards, including Obducites.

In addition to loot, you can also collect Horadric Attunements during battles to redeem them for more rewards. Defeating the dungeon boss will grant you a Grand Horadric Cache, which can also yield Obducites.

Kurast Undercity

As one of Diablo 4’s main dungeons, Kurast Undercity was released with Vessel of Hatred expansion, so using it to farm Obducites requires you to own this DLC.

This dungeon is also unique in that it’s timed, and the higher the difficulty and level, the shorter the time. However, if you manage to kill Afflicted Monsters, you can restore the time in varying increments.

However, to access this dungeon and farm Obducites, you need to get Tribute of Refinement to unlock it. Fortunately, this item can be obtained by clearing Nightmare dungeons and Infernal Hordes.

Infernal Hordes

Infernal Hordes is a wave-based survival mode culminating in a unique boss battle. Your goal is to complete all waves and defeat Fell Council without using up all your resurrections, while also collecting Burning Aether to redeem Spoils of Hell chests.

These chests may contain gear, gold, and various crafting materials, including Obducites. To obtain sufficient Obducites through Infernal Hordes, you must slay more demons and collect more Burning Aether.

Each Infernal Hordes encounter has a 60-second timer, during which various events and demons may spawn. You don’t need to eliminate every demon on-screen before the timer expires; instead, you simply need to survive all the waves while collecting Burning Aether.

Because of the interconnectivity of unlocked items, you can actually run all the above dungeons or events continuously to maximize your Obducite farming efficiency within the limited timeframe.

This is the main information about Obducites farming in Diablo 4 Season 9. We hope it helps you enjoy the game!

Perhaps because the season mechanics themselves haven’t been particularly innovative, this year’s Diablo 4 seems to be making a habit of adding extra events during the seasons to keep you playing.

For example, there was March of the Goblins event in Season 7 back in March, Berserk crossover during Season 8, and Gift of the Tree event in Season 9 a few weeks ago.

While there’s no confirmed update for Season 10 yet, Diablo 4 is bringing March of the Goblins back to Season 9 to ensure you have enough Diablo 4 gold, gear, and items to start the next season.

With only a day or so left until the end of the event, if you’ve only recently started playing or haven’t achieved the desired results due to poor strategy, we’ll provide a guide for you.

March Of The Goblins Overview

This event first appeared as part of Diablo 4’s first anniversary celebration last year. Its engaging gameplay and generous rewards proved so popular among players that it’s been retained as one of Diablo 4’s “flash events.”

The six goblins available for hunting during the event are actually permanent in-game. You can encounter them during regular adventures or quests, and winning battles will still earn you gold or other rewards. However, they appear more frequently during the event.

The rarity and rewards dropped by each of the six goblins vary, ranging from common but essential gold and crafting materials to precious Mythic and Resplendent Sparks. The more, the better, so don’t miss out on even the goblins that offer more modest rewards!

The reward tracks for March of the Goblins event are entirely based on your personal progress, so if you want to earn your desired rewards, you must rely on your own hard work and cannot rely on the help of other players—who might even rob you of your loot.

How To Get Started?

Log in to Diablo 4 during the event, travel to Kyovashad, and then find Altar of the Goblin statue in front of Idania’s Rings & Amulets shop, marked by the white badge icon on the minimap.

Hovering your mouse over the statue will display the level of goblins you can track and the rewards you’ll receive for killing different goblins. From there, you can begin your goblin-hunting adventures across all areas of the game map!

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What Tips Can Help You Get Rewards More Efficiently?

Generally speaking, even the rarest goblins are not too difficult to kill in Diablo 4. The tricky thing about them is that they flee quickly once spotted, making them difficult to catch. With that in mind, we offer the following suggestions.

Memorize All Goblin Characteristics

If you already have a lot of rewards from some goblins and don’t want to waste time on them, or if you want to farm specific goblins, it’s important to remember their physical characteristics. Otherwise, you might end up wasting time tracking the wrong goblin type.

After Season 7 update, the current goblin colors and drop rewards for March of the Goblins event are:

• Odious Ector (Green): Crafting materials.
• Gilded Baron (Yellow): Enormous sums of gold.
• Glittering Prym (Diamond): Gem fragments, runes, and Undercity Tributes.
• Curious Murl (Purple): Murl’s Bag of Obols.
• Gelatinous Syrus (Blue): Splits into multiple goblins when killed, then drops legendary gear, gold, boss lair keys, and elixirs.
• Fancy Old Fedric (Mythic Purple): A Mythic and a Resplendent Spark.

The two goblins that are easily confused are Curious Murl and Fancy Old Fedric, both of whom are purple. The difference in their colors can only be distinguished when you get close to them. However, because of the very low spawn rate of Fancy Old Fedric, you should be unlikely to encounter him.

Always Monitor Your Mini-Map

Goblins will be indicated on your mini-map with a unique icon when they appear, allowing you to find them more quickly and avoid being lost in the midst of swarms of enemies.

Make Helltides To Be Your Primary Farming Location

While goblins can spawn anywhere during March of the Goblins, Helltides is a better choice because the enemy spawn density is generally higher during this event, making it more likely that you’ll encounter goblins.

However, be aware that you may encounter other, more dangerous enemies during an active Helltide, hindering your goblin-hunting progress. Therefore, be vigilant while utilizing powerful gear to protect yourself.

Another good goblin farming location is Fields of Hatred PvP location. If you prefer not to encounter too many or too powerful actual players there, you can reduce your chances of encountering enemy players by disabling cross-play.

Activate Nearby Greed Shrines

Shrines are a special buff mechanic available in Season 9, and there are several types of shrines, one of which is Greed Shrines. They can spawn anywhere in the game, and activating them provides the following buffs for 30 seconds:

• Hit enemies and drop gold.
• You can automatically pick up gold from a greater distance.
• Gives a movement speed bonus.

If you encounter and activate Greed Shrines while killing goblins, not only will you receive the above buffs, but they will also increase the chance of goblin spawns. Combined, this event promises countless rewards!

This concludes our guide to March of the Goblins, hoping to help you maximize your progress and rewards before the event ends! Have fun!

In Diablo 4, there are not only a variety of ways to obtain gear, but also a variety of mechanisms to continue to improve the role of gear. Only when your gear is getting better and better, your builds and even characters can be strong enough to cope with the endgame.

In Season 9, the endgame content worth challenging mainly includes challenging lair bosses, Infernal Hordes, Pit of the Artificer, and two new dungeons. The ways to optimize gear are mainly Tempering and Masterworking.

Among them, the operating principle of Masterworking is to upgrade by consuming related materials to make the affix effect of gear stronger. However, as the progress deepens, the affix that can be enhanced is random, which may lead to unsatisfactory results of your gear enhancement.

So is this mechanism still worth utilizing in Season 9? We will introduce it to you.

How Does Masterworking Improve Gear?

Masterworking is an endgame crafting system in Diablo 4 that increases the value of existing affixes on specific gear through 8-12 separate upgrade levels, which can be performed at the blacksmith. Gear that can be made stronger in this way must be one of the following three types:

• Legendary items with 2 Tempers applied
• Unique items
• Mythic Unique items

Based on this, items below level 800 can only be upgraded to level 8 through Masterworking, and items at level 800 can be upgraded to level 12. If it is below level 750, it is not suitable for Masterworking because the value is not great.

What Preparations Are Needed For Masterworking?

In general, the materials consumed for Masterworking include Diablo 4 gold, Obducite, Veiled Crystal and more, which will vary depending on the type and level of gear, but gold, Veiled Crystal and Obducite are required.

Most events and challenges in the game will drop gold, and the main sources of Obducite farming include:

• Nightmare dungeons
• Spoils of Materials chest from Infernal Hordes
• Using Tribute of Refinement in Kurast Undercity
• Mercenary’s Den by bartering for Masterworking Cache

Veiled Crystal can be obtained through:

• Salvaging rare, legendary, unique, and mythic gear at the blacksmith
• Tree of Whispers Cache Rewards
• Legion Events Cache Rewards
• Infernal Hordes Cache Rewards
• Elite Monsters Cache Rewards

Once you have enough materials, each level of Masterworking will increase the effect of all affixes of the item by 5%; every four levels will increase the effect of a random affix of the item by 25% - the required materials include:

• 2,250 Obducite
• 180 Rawhide
• 180 Iron Chunk
• 100 Veiled Crystal
• 25 Coiling Ward
• 25 Abstruse Sigil
• 25 Baleful Fragment
• 15 Forgotten Soul
• 3,000,000 Gold

It is precisely because of this “random” effect that the deeper Masterworking effect, the greater the risk. If the affix that is enhanced happens to be the least useful for the gear, you will lose a lot.

Resetting Masterworking Ranks

If you are not satisfied with the random affixes that are enhanced on the item after upgrading to Masterworking level 4, you can also re-roll the dice later by resetting the level.

Open the Blacksmith’s Masterworking tab and select the Reset Masterworking Ranks option to complete the level reset operation. The materials consumed in this process are:

• 30 Iron Chunk
• 30 Rawhide
• 20 Veiled Crystal
• 5 Forgotten Soul
• 5,000,000 Gold

Although the consumption is not small, if the current dice roll result is not good, you’d better reset the level as soon as possible. Of course, subsequent dice rolls are also not guaranteed, but at least you have gotten rid of a poor result.

Alternatively, you can choose to send unused Masterworked gear to the blacksmith for salvage, and all materials consumed when upgrading it except gold will be returned to you 100%.

Risk Of Random Affixes

Typically, a level 800 gear will have a 45% increase in all affixes, and its best affix may be increased by 75%, but if this 75% increase is eventually applied to a garbage affix, it will be a nightmare.

The higher the rarity of the gear, the greater its role in builds, and the more effort you put into it at the time, but a bad Masterworking dice roll result may make everything meaningless.

Should Masterworking Be Utilized In S9?

Although the risk is high, once successful, Masterworking can make your gear sufficient to cope with all endgame content and bosses, and help craft better builds, so this risk is worth taking.

Even if the final effect is not good, you can recover by resetting, although this will consume more of your efforts to farm gold and related materials.

Or, for safety, you can just keep Masterworking level of the gear at level 3 and not try the random dice roll afterwards. But this way, you will lose the opportunity to try to have top-level gear.

In general, although random affix enhancements are annoying, there is a minor possibility of enhancing the strength of your Diablo 4 gear to your surprise. Even if the risk is great, it is recommended that you continue to utilize Masterworking.

The above is the content about Diablo 4 Masterworking introduced to you this time, as well as the relevant suggestions on whether you should continue to utilize it in S9. I hope it will be enlightening and helpful to you. Thank you for reading.

In addition to seasonal content, Diablo 4 sometimes adds some new fixed mechanisms as optimization content for the entire game when updating the season. The closest and most representative one is the lair boss in Season 8.

This mechanism changes Diablo 4 gameplay, which has always required specific summoning materials to fight the relevant endgame boss to a direct challenge, but you must have lair keys to unlock the hoard that provides loot after the boss dies.

After entering Season 9, although you no longer need to kill lair bosses to obtain boss power, they are still the main source of Diablo 4 gold, Unique and Mythic gear. However, it is precisely because of this that not all lair bosses are worth challenging.

Based on this, this time we will introduce you to the bosses that are worth solving first in S9 according to the loot rarity, in order from high to low.

1. Belial

• Lair keys: Betrayer’s Husk

As a boss that returns to the game through D4S8, Belial first appeared in Diablo 3 and was eventually retained in Diablo 4. Although the threat he brings to you may not be as great as the new boss Astaroth in Season 9, he is still the first choice for farming Mythic items.

2. Varshan

• Lair keys: Malignant Hearts

Although this boss is only at the initiate level, defeating him in Season 9 will give you a chance to obtain two new unique items through his hoard: Druid’s Rotting Lightbringer and Spiritborn’s Balazan’s Maxtlatl.

What’s more gratifying is that due to the low level, it is not difficult to obtain his lair keys or defeat him. It is more reliable if your shadow resistance is high enough.

3. Urivar

• Lair keys: Judicator’s Mask

Urivar has an even higher chance of dropping new unique items for you than Varshan, because his hoard may include Rotting Lightbringer, Balazan’s Maxtlatl, Barbarian’s Hooves of the Mountain God and Rogue’s Deathmask of Nirmitruq at the same time.

But the reason why he ranks behind Varshan is that you can only encounter him if you have Vessel of Hatred DLC, and his battle difficulty will be higher.

During the battle, Urivar will summon knights to continuously shoot fire at you according to the established trajectory, which requires you to have enough fire resistance, otherwise it will be difficult to defeat him.

4. Andariel

• Lair keys: Pincushioned Dolls

As one of the classic Diablo 4 bosses, Andariel is still powerful after the game adds the lair boss mechanism and is classified as a greater level, so you can’t take her lightly.

Andariel can provide Season 9 loot including Shroud of False Death, Heir of Perdition, and Harlequin Crest, suitable for all classes. Pincushioned Dolls, which unlock her hoard, are obtained by defeating Lord Zir.

The danger of Andariel’s boss battle is that it includes a long battle line including 3 stages. During this period, she will use various powerful magic attacks. You must try to predict her actions as much as possible while ensuring that your resistance to multiple elements is maximized.

5. Duriel

• Lair keys: Shard of Agony

The loot list of this boss in Season 9 is basically the same as Andariel, and the battle process also has 3 stages. The difference is that Duriel is more difficult, so it is better to directly choose Andariel.

In all stages of the battle, Duriel will continue to attack you. Once you are hit, you will be poisoned or unconscious, making it easier to attack again. Therefore, facing Duriel, you must not only have the highest poison resistance, but also be fast and flexible enough to dodge every attack.

6. Harbinger Of Hatred

• Lair keys: Abhorrent Hearts

This boss is also exclusive to Vessel of Hatred. The challenge difficulty and loot provided are basically the same as Andariel and Duriel, so its priority is below the first two bosses.

Since the source boss of its lair keys is Urivar, if you decide to farm Urivar and get enough Abhorrent Hearts, then challenging Harbinger of Hatred may be a good option.

7. The Beast In The Ice

• Lair keys: Distilled Fear

The main loot provided by this boss is the new unique items Hooves of the Mountain God and Deathmask of Nirmitruq. Its challenge difficulty is not high, and you can deal with it by mastering the boss’s attack pattern, but it is precisely because of this that repeated farming may become boring.

8. Lord Zir/Grigoire

• Lair keys: Exquisite Blood/Living Steel

The common point between these two bosses is that they cannot drop new unique items, and the rarity of other loot is also relatively ordinary. Although the difficulty is not high, there is no need to waste time on them.

If your character strength is not enough for the time being, you can farm them to get temporary universal gear, but to be honest, their main role in Season 9 is to provide you with lair keys to unlock hoards of other bosses.

Lair Keys Farming

Only by obtaining enough corresponding lair keys can you get the final reward through lair bosses in Diablo 4, and different lair key drop channels are also different.

• Betrayer’s Husk from Mini Belial.
• Shard of Agony from Varshan and Grigoire.
• Pincushioned Doll from Beast and Lord Zir.
• Abhorrent Heart from Urivar.
• Malignant Heart, Living Steel, Distilled Fear, Exquisite Blood, Judicator’s Mask from Dungeons or other world events.

That’s the best order to challenge lair bosses in Diablo 4 Season 9, along with other information you should know. Thank you for reading.

As you know, Diablo 4 will launch a new season every 2-3 months. Each season has its own new main storyline and related tasks (complete the tasks to advance the storyline), in addition to a series of seasonal mechanisms that can only be experienced in the current season.

For you personally, you may feel that this season is “over” after completing all the main content, but in fact, to truly experience all the seasonal mechanisms, you need to continue to invest more time.

In addition, each season the game will launch new welfare systems such as seasonal journey and seasonal blessings. You need to utilize new gameplay and build more battles to obtain the rewards brought by these systems to avoid waste.

In this way, you will inevitably have a question, that is, after completing the main content, what methods should be used to fully utilize the gameplay and rewards of the current season until the next season arrives?

Next, we will recommend you a few good ways to continue killing time in Diablo 4 Season 9 for this content.

Try PVP Gameplay

Compared to other ARPGs of the same type, Diablo 4’s PVP gameplay seems to be relatively easy to be ignored, probably because the game has a rich number of PVE dungeons and events, and the team experience is also very good.

But in fact, the game’s PVP mode is also worth trying, especially when you are tired of the classic PVE content. Winning in PVP can not only get Diablo 4 gold and PVP gear, but also understand your shortcomings and continue to strengthen your character.

Generally speaking, the best zone to start PVP battles in Diablo 4 is Fields of Hatred. In addition to regular drops, you can also earn zone-specific currency Red Dust by winning PVP battles to exchange for exclusive mounts and mount armor.

Optimize Or Explore More Builds

Whether you decide to shift your focus to PVP gameplay or continue to farm resources in PVE events, the utilization of builds is a key factor in determining your win rate and the amount of rewards you get.

A build is composed of your class skills and multiple types of items, so there are countless combinations and ways to play it. Even if the build you use at the beginning of Season 9 is enough to support you to complete the main story, it may not help you complete all the seasonal goals.

Therefore, if you want to complete your seasonal journey and seasonal blessings before the end of the season, and expand your Paragon board by exploring more levels of The Pit as much as possible, you should continue to farm more gear or runes and other items.

The more and rarer items you get, the more possibilities you will have for crafting builds, and in the process of farming, you will also understand what kind of skill rotation + gear combination can optimize builds through combat experience.

In fact, this accumulation of builds crafting experience will not only help you complete Season 9 and get rewards, but also enable you to gain combat advantages faster in the next season or DLC.

Get More Mythics For Eternal Realm

As you progress deeper into the season and strengthen your character, you will tend to farm more rare gear, especially Mythics, which are one of the best assistants for you to optimize builds.

Although you may give up working on gear of this type because it cannot be carried over to the next season, all Season 9 Mythics you get can be used in Eternal Realm, making your farming experience in this realm easier.

Play New Characters With Different Classes

Since Diablo 4 does not have a class conversion mechanism, you cannot experience the gameplay of different classes with the same character, but can only create new characters to choose new classes.

In order not to delay your main line progress, it is generally not recommended to create multiple characters at the beginning, because this will distract your attention, and in the end each character will not be strong enough, but you will not be able to get truly useful character experience.

But if you have completed the main line and other major content of Season 9 with the current character, you can create a new character according to your preferences, and complete the same seasonal events in different forms through related skills and builds.

In addition, if you get new Mythics through the previous suggestion, they can not only be saved to Eternal Realm, but also stored in your Seasonal Realm stash, allowing all your characters in the current season to utilize.

It should be noted here that Diablo 4 also has a hardcore gameplay, which is different from the character stash between the normal mode. The suggestions we give are all for the normal mode.

Ultimate Seasonal Achievements

If you plan to give yourself a “vacation” before the next season arrives, instead of playing all the time, you may want to know when to start your vacation.

In addition to ensuring that all the main content of the season is completed, you can first use the completion of the seasonal journey as a reference standard. You need to get enough Smoldering Ashes in Season 9 to unlock all seasonal journey objectives rewards.

The second is to explore as many The Pit as possible. This dungeon has a total of 150 floors. Completing all floors and killing the pinnacle lair boss Belial will also allow your character’s Paragon level to reach the maximum level.

But to be honest, this is difficult to do, so if you want to take a break after completing the main line and seasonal journey, you can do it at any time. If you want to continue to struggle, please follow our suggestions!

Among the various types of Diablo 4 battles, boss battles are probably the most dangerous but also the most rewarding. Although the amount of loot they provide may not be comparable to various dungeons, the rarity is definitely higher.

For Season 9, except for the newly added Astaroth boss, you have already fought other bosses many times in the past seasons. However, since various mechanisms are adjusted almost every season, you can’t continue to apply the same tactics in S9.

In order to ensure that you can survive Season 9 boss battle as much as possible, this time we will bring you an updated Uber Lilith, also known as Echo of Lilith’s boss battle strategy.

How To Unlock This Boss Battle?

The unlocking conditions of this boss battle require you to obtain Echo of Hatred quest in the quest log. The end of the dungeon represented by this quest is where Uber Lilith is located.

To get this quest, you must first complete all the main storylines of the current season, and then complete Capstone Dungeons so that the game difficulty can be set to world tier 4 (also the most difficult world tier), and then it will be unlocked.

Next you will see the logo of the quest on the map, travel to southwestern Fractured Peaks, and you will find the quest entrance next to Nevesk waypoint.

Entering the dungeon, you can first get Diablo 4 gold or other drops by killing some ordinary enemies. When you reach the end, you will face Lilith.

How To Prepare For Lilith?

As one of the most dangerous boss battles in the entire Diablo 4, no matter which season you encounter Uber Lilith, you must be fully prepared before starting the battle.

Sufficient Character Level

First, you must make sure that your character level meets this boss battle requirements. If you are already at the maximum level, your Paragon board should be as complete as possible.

Suitable Class And Build

You need to craft a strong enough build to utilize in battle according to the class you play. The most important thing is that you’d better add seasonal power Horadric Spells to the build, which can bring benefits to your entire Season 9 journey as an additional help.

If you are not confident in your operation level, you can choose those classes that have an advantage in S9 as the first choice when choosing a class, such as Necromancer or Spiritborn, and make up for your own shortcomings with their outstanding advantages.

Targeted Gear

When equipping gear, in addition to ensuring that their level and rarity are high enough, it is best that they can also have the effect of targeting Echo of Lilith, especially since the boss battle has actually been adjusted many times after the season change.

At present, Lilith’s damage mechanism is not only deadly in itself, but also may add an effect that can increase damage to all its Blood Orb skills. If you want to successfully avoid Lilith’s Blood or Void Orbs, you need to ensure that the movement speed is high enough.

Therefore, when choosing gear, please first pay attention to those boots or amulets with movement speed affixes, such as boots with Tumbling implicit modifier, which can give you 100% movement speed after you dodge for one second.

In addition, defensive skills with immune effects such as Flame Shield can help you get out of trouble, and Elixir of Shadow Resistance II can further improve your defense, because Lilith’s main damage type is shadow damage.

Although you can challenge this boss when the difficulty is World Tier 4, but if you want to get better drops, it is best to start the battle in Torment 1.

Specific Battle Process

This boss battle is divided into two phases. At the beginning of each phase, Echo of Lilith is full of health, but the coping strategy is different.

Phase 1

Throughout Phase 1, the boss will continuously release Blood Blisters and generate Blood Orbs around it, or wave abilities like Double Waves or Triple Waves. You need to make sure you are at the edge of the boss’s attack range to avoid these attacks.

Near the end of this phase, Lilith will summon Oppressors to assist her. Fortunately, these enemies are not difficult to deal with, so you should be able to transition to Phase 2 relatively smoothly.

Phase 2

As soon as this phase begins, the boss will immediately create 4 Blood Pools and continue to generate Blood Orbs that will debuff you. Keep alert and avoid them.

Next, Lilith will begin to destroy different parts of the boss’s platform. As she begins to destroy, you must stay on the platform until Blood Veins penetrate the remaining intact parts of the platform.

Once you see Blood Veins disappear, quickly move away from the platform that is about to be destroyed. The boss will then pull you towards her after the platform is destroyed, so be sure to pay attention to her movements.

As each part of the platform is destroyed, you will continue to reduce the boss’s health until everything is “zero”, and you have succeeded!

Uber Lilith Boss Battle Rewards

When you defeat this boss for the first time in Season 9, you will receive a Resplendent Spark. In addition to the usual gold and common items, Lilith can also drop Reins of the Bloody Liquid Steed - this is the only way to drop this mount.

That’s all about fighting Uber Lilith in Season 9. If you haven’t encountered her yet, this guide should help you be more prepared!

Although some people always complain that Diablo 4’s seasonal content lacks creativity, for loyal players, it is also fun to repeatedly explore Sanctuary with the help of different seasonal powers.

In Season 9, you can get Diablo 4 gold and seasonal power Horadric Spells by working hard to clear new dungeons, and use them to strengthen yourself to deal with more difficult content. But this also requires you to invest a lot of time and experience.

In order to allow you to get more items through other easy ways while doing this more difficult Season 9 resource farming, Diablo 4 recently launched a new event Gift of the Tree based on Tree of Whispers.

So what benefits can this event bring, and how to participate? We will introduce it to you.

Basic Information About The Event

Gift of the Tree officially started around July 16 (the exact time varies depending on your time zone) and will last until 1pm on the 22nd, which is not a long time. So if you want to make full use of it, you must hurry up.

As a buff event, Gift of the Tree mainly allows you to get an extra Chaos Cache when you complete Tree of Whispers bounty task and hand in a group of ten Grim Favors to exchange for random cache rewards, so as to get more loot.

This buff effect not only looks sacred in appearance - a white tree, but also makes you feel “blessed by God” in practice, because Chaos Cache can open any type of item, whether it is ordinary gold or rare Ancestral items.

It is worth noting that there is a player achievement in Diablo 4 that can be completed, which is Chaotic Whispers achievement that can be unlocked by obtaining 10 Chaos Caches. If you haven’t got it yet, Gift of the Tree period is definitely the best time.

How To Participate In Gift Of The Tree?

In fact, the completion of this event is completely based on Tree of Whispers event, so your main task is to complete the bounty tasks issued by Tree of Whispers step by step, or Whispers.

When you complete the main campaign and interacting with Tree in Hawezar, you can unlock one of the endgame mechanisms, Tree of Whispers. After that, it will release a series of scattered Whispers through the map. The specific task types include:

• Participate in world events
• Clear the playable dungeons in the season
• Kill bosses
• Other specific quests

Generally speaking, the difficulty of these quests is not too high. You will get Grim Favors as a reward for each completed Whisper. When you collect 10, you can bring them back to Tree of Whispers or Raven of the Tree and choose one of the three caches as the final reward.

All Whispers are identified on the map by icons with pink, light pink, and red borders. The darker the color, the more Grim Favors you’ll get from completing that bounty (and the harder it will be, of course):

• Light pink icon: 1 Grim Favor
• Pink icon: 3 Grim Favors
• Red icon: 5 Grim Favors

Best Completion Strategy

Since Whispers are scattered all over the map, it’s likely that you’ll complete some of them while completing other quests or challenges, such as killing a certain number of enemies in a certain area.

After that, it’s best to group quests in the same area together as a whole, depending on the requirements of the remaining Whispers, and complete them in a specific time period to improve efficiency.

If your character is powerful enough that you decide to farm quests that provide more Grim Favors, you can complete Helltides directly. The area of this event is not only densely populated with enemies, but also has the best Whispers quest: Defeat Blood Maiden.

Gift Of The Tree Rewards

The three regular Tree of Whispers caches only give you specific types of gear rewards, but Chaos Cache provided by Gift of the Tree is universal, containing random items from other reward caches, and may even contain rare unique and mythic pieces of gear.

Also Read: Diablo 4 Season 9 Obducite Farming Guide: How To Get It Efficiently With An Unfixed Bug?

The Value Of Gift Of The Tree

The significance of this event is not only to bring new vitality and rewards to Season 9, but more importantly, to make the regular endgame event of Tree of Whispers attract your attention again, and to avoid the imbalance of participation in different game events as much as possible.

And if you want to focus on farming materials or unique items, Gift of the Tree also provides you with an easier way than clearing dungeons. Especially if you are a new player, you will have the opportunity to complete early resource accumulation faster.

The above is the main information about the participation of Gift of the Tree and the rewards you can get. If you don’t want to miss it, log in to the game and complete the task immediately!