It’s been almost a month since the launch of Diablo 4 Season 8. How far have you progressed in the game? According to the richness of this season, if you play almost every day during this period, then it shouldn’t be long before you encounter the ultimate boss Belial!
As the main villain of the entire Diablo series and one boss of Diablo 3, Belial’s return in D4 has caused discussion in the game community since the relevant news was released, which will also make you look forward to the duel with him even more.
Before Season 8, in order to unlock this difficult boss battle, you must collect the relevant summoning materials in advance to summon the boss. This season has reformed this mechanism, changing the summoning materials to lair keys that unlock the boss hoard after the battle.
In other words, without these keys, you will not be able to get Diablo 4 gold or exclusive unique items after the battle, even if you win! For Belial, his exclusive lair keys are Betrayer’s Husk. To ensure that your final boss battle is worthwhile, we will introduce you to the way to obtain this “key”.
What Is Betrayer’s Husk?
In fact, you should have known before Season 8 was launched that the endgame boss was changed to lair boss in this season, and the summoning material was also changed to lair keys - this new Diablo 4 item can be used to open the boss hoard.
All lair bosses are divided into three levels: Initiate, Greater, and Exalted. Killing low-level bosses can obtain the hoard keys of high-level bosses, so that you can kill high-level bosses and take away their boss power while obtaining relevant loot. And Betrayer’s Husk is the keys of the final boss Belial in Season 8.
How To Get Betrayer’s Husk?
Since this lair key determines whether you can get the most important boss loot of this season, its drop channel is not single, but not all farming methods are equally efficient and reliable. Next, I will introduce them one by one.
Kill Belial’s Base Form
As the only Exalted lair boss in the game, Belial’s lair key Betrayer’s Husk will not drop directly by defeating other Greater bosses, but will randomly refresh Belial’s Belial’s base form when you open the hoards of other bosses. You can only get Betrayer’s Husk by defeating him.
Or you can also have a chance to get this key by completing the exclusive event Apparition Incursion in Season 8. When you refresh the event on the map, enter it and start killing ordinary Apparition enemies to fill the relevant progress slots.
Once this progress bar is filled, you will encounter two random Apparition bosses in the current event. After defeating them, you can encounter Belial’s base form while harvesting the corresponding boss power, and then you can start Betrayer’s Husk farming.
It is worth noting that Betrayer’s Husk seems to only drop under Torment difficulty. Lair boss battles only appear in Torment difficulty, but Apparition Incursion can be experienced at any difficulty, so if you want to get Betrayer’s Husk through this event, make sure the difficulty setting is Torment 1 and above.
Open Whisper Caches
After entering Season 8, Tree of Whispers is still your main way to obtain key resources such as gold and XP, and the ultimate reward Whisper caches also have a chance to bring you the lair keys you need.
Once you enter the endgame and find Tree of Whispers, it will issue you a series of bounties that will earn you different amounts of Grim Favors. After every ten Grim Favors you accumulate, you can return to Tree of Whispers to redeem Whisper caches.
Opening these caches may earn you gear for your class, or even better legendary items, but in Season 8 you’ll also have a chance to get the rare lair key Betrayer’s Husk.
Although the chance of dropping Betrayer’s Husk is low, since completing Tree of Whispers is a task you should complete in all Diablo 4 seasons, it’s a good idea to give it a try without wasting your time.
Claim Season Journey Rewards
This season, all the benefits are still with you! In addition to the new battle pass system updated as Reliquaries, season blessings and season journey will bring you relevant rewards at any time based on your game progress.
Season 8 journey includes multiple chapters, each with a different number of objectives for you to complete. Greater lair caches in the rewards after completion have a chance to bring Betrayer’s Husk or other lair boss keys, and the chance is slightly higher than Whisper caches.
- Chapter I: Required Objectives-3; Total Objectives-3
- Chapter II: Required Objectives-3; Total Objectives-3
- Chapter III: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-4
- Chapter IV: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-5
- Slayer: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-5
- Champion: Required Objectives-4; Total Objectives-5
- Destroyer: Required Objectives-5; Total Objectives-7
The Specific Function Of Betrayer’s Husk
After obtaining this item, please travel to Palace of the Deceiver dungeon, located in Kehjistan under any Torment difficulty, then find boss Belial and start the battle (this dungeon can only be unlocked by completing questline The Lord of Lies).
After winning the fight, consuming two Betrayer’s Husks will unlock Belial’s hoard, which will give you the chance to pick any other lair bosses’ loot, as well as a possible ancestral unique.
The above are all Betrayer’s Husks farm methods. Perhaps the game will add other playable content to help you get these lair keys before the end of Season 8. Let us look forward to it together!
