Diablo 4 has significantly enhanced the power of plenty of Uniques in Season of the Infernal Hordes, making them an indispensable source for your builds. And the best channel to embrace those Uniques comes to overwhelming bosses who reside in the pinnacle of strength and pack a serious punch.
Each bosses in Season 5 own a loot table that you can check out to which of them are deserved to launch a hard battle to farm the required Unique.
But fighting these bosses is conditional. Players need summoning materials to challenge them, most of which keep a tight combination with endgame activities like Nightmare Dungeons that can be completed repeatedly.
This article will introduce these summoning materials in detail, with the circumstantial introduction and the location of them.
The Introduction Of Summoning Materials
Summoning materials refer to the necessary existence of fighting with pinnacle bosses. They are generally dropped in the late game, such as the event like Helltide and Nightmare Dungeons.
There are two states of every pinnacle boss that you have summoned, which are Normal and Tormented. Normal bosses drop one kill’s worth of loot and the odds of dropping a Mythic Unique is approximately 1.5%, while on the other hand, Tormented variants drop five kills worth of loot at the cost of consuming three times the materials. Moreover, the player’s Mythic Unique will be increased to 7%. Obviously, summoning Tormented in the same situation The boss is a bit more advantageous.
The Classification Of Summoning Materials
The following is a detailed summary of boss summoning materials, including where they drop and what bosses they can be summoned. Next up are some important materials for your reference.
Stygian Stones
Infernal Hordes activity serves as the best channel to get Stygian Stones, which remain rare drops from the resource chest in Tiers 7 and 8. Each entry into the activity will yield about two Stygian Stones.
Pit can be counted as another way to pick Stygian Stones, though the chance to stay relatively low.
Under normal circumstance, basically all Tormented variants of all pinnacle bosses can be summoned by Stygian Stones, and each summon will cost one Stygian Stone.
Exquisite Blood
Blood Maiden in Helltide remains super prime opportunity of dropping at least one vial of Exquisite Blood. The way to summon this boss is through sacrificing three Baneful Hearts at the boss’ summoning altar. Of course, in some World Events, players still have a chance to pick Exquisite Blood, but it’s not guaranteed to drop.
Tormented Lor Zir is always popular, as it is a great opportunity for players to get Fractured Winterglass Unique for Sorcerer. It will cost 27 Exquisite Blood samples in exchanging for the successful summon of Lor Zir. And his summoning altar is kept in Darkened Way dungeon in Fractured Peaks.
Distilled Fear
Serving as a promised drop from T21+ Nightmare Dungeons, Distilled Fear can be easily embraced by clearing the dungeon. At the same time, players can also easily find it in Treasure Goblins.
The condition to summon Tormented variant of Beast in Ice will cost 27 Distilled Fear. This boss can be summoned from Glacial Fissure dungeon in Fractured Peaks and pretty hard to deal with among those normal pinnacle bosses. So before you summon one, make sure you have the strength of your builds together with the potential of your character.
Living Steel
Living Steel always drops from Tortured Gift chests in Helltide. Standard chests provide players 1 Living Steel while Gift of Living Steel chest gives five times as much.
Gathering 27 Living Steels summons Tormented Grigoire, a fatal automaton resided in Hall of Penitent dungeon in Khejistan. Since it’s easy to collect Living Steel, this boss is also relatively easy to deal with.
Malignant Heart
Malignant Heart is very difficult to collect, which is commonly dropped from Whisper Caches. The items dropped from Whisper Caches are not fixed. Sometimes they are other parts of the body, such as head, hand, or bone. But don’t worry too much, because you can use these body parts to make a deal with Alchemist to exchange for Malignant Heart.
Of course, you can also catch the trace of Malignant Heart by fighting Elite enemies. But there is no doubt that the battle will be very difficult. It is recommended to upgrade the performance of your character and select appropriate items which are beneficial to attacking the weakness of the enemies by collecting relevant items, such as gears, sets and more.
Considering the difficulties of getting Malignant Heart, the required amount to summon Tormented Varshan is 15. And Varshan can be discovered in Malignant Burrow beside Tree of Whispers in Hawezar.items
Pincushioned Dolls
After defeating Beast in Ice, Pincushioned Dolls can be embraced as a promised reward. Six Pincushioned Dolls are required in exchange for summoning Tormented Andariel, who will be discovered in Hanged Man’s Hall within Kehjistan. Andariel is very difficult to defeat, and this battle is bound to consume a lot of players’ time and energy. Of course, there is another channel to get Boss Summoning Materials without launching tricky battle with those overwhelming bosses, and that is a deal.
Shards Of Agony
Shards of Agony serves as the loot for slaying Grigoire. Six stones are required to summon Duriel, a pretty tricky pinnacle boss located in Gaping Crevasse dungeon within Kehjistan.
That’s all about boss summoning materials. Hope you can collect relevant materials that are in need to summon bosses and further to earn big rewards. Thanks for reading.
