As one of the key new mechanics in Diablo 4 Season 10, Chaos Armor plays a crucial role in every class build. By providing enhanced versions of existing unique items that can appear in different gear slots, it significantly expands the variety and power of your gear, enabling greater synergies and more flexible character customization than ever before.
Unsurprisingly, with such powerful gear, its drop rate is low. But don't worry! Here, we'll share several effective methods and locations for farming Chaos Armor in Diablo 4 Season 10. We'll even explain how many items you can earn per hour for each method, allowing you to choose the farming method that's best for you. Let's take a look!
How Does Chaos Armor Work?
Chaos Armor grants all the properties of any unique item, but the values vary. Furthermore, the unique stats of such items are always 120% of their original maximum value. Therefore, it's an enhanced version of a Legendary item.
These Chaos Armors are only available in five armor slots: Helm, Chest Armor, Gloves, Pants, and Boots. They also always come with at least one Greater Affixes, a boosted stat with a star. This allows us to combine items that weren't previously possible.
For example, you can equip two Amulets, one in Boots slot and the other in Pants slot. Similarly, you can place Boots in Chest Armor or Gloves, or Gloves in Boots slot, and the stats of these items will always be increased by 20% above their maximum value.
So, the principle is simple: combine items so they're not in their respective slots to guarantee the maximum stat boost.
How To Farm Chaos Uniques?
You can obtain Chaos Unique items wherever Chaos Rifts spawn - that is, wherever you see an arm sticking out of the ground.
These Chaos Armors have a very low drop rate and can be found from Legion Events, Helltides, The Pit Bosses, Nightmare Dungeons, and more. There's also a very small chance of obtaining them by gambling with Purveyor.
Here, we'll share several methods that guarantee Chaos Armors, each of which will grant you at least two items each time.
1. Upgrading Urn Of Chaos Armor And Opening Greater Infernal Cache
First, after completing Seasonal Reputation, you can spend Reputation Points to unlock a reoccurring chest: Greater Infernal Cache. This unique Reputation Cache contains a large amount of Diablo 4 gold, gear, Infernal Warp, and an Infernal Hordes Compass.
Here's the key: if you upgrade Seasonal Blessing - Urn of Chaos Armor before opening the cache, you'll get a guaranteed Chaos Armor drop.
It's crucial to understand how to upgrade this Seasonal Blessing. If it's not maxed out, you'll need to temporarily transfer points from other Blessings to this one before opening the chest. This can be done almost for free. If you don't do this, the 100% drop chance won't apply, and you might not receive Chaos Armor.
2. Completing Nightmare Dungeons With Chaos Rifts Affix
Secondly, the easiest place to farm Chaos Uniques is in Nightmare Dungeons with Chaos Rifts affix. Chaos Rifts will undoubtedly spawn there, offering several rewards.
It's also worth noting that after deactivating Chaos Rifts, you'll receive a 30-second buff. While these rewards are usually useless, they can sometimes yield buffs for the seasonal currency, Infernal Warp, which can then allow you to collect a significant amount of Warps, sometimes exceeding 3,000 at once.
On T4 difficulty, we played two one-hour battles in Nightmare Dungeons. Finally, we get 8 Chaos items per hour, including random drops from Chaos Rifts and seasonal chests opened during dungeon runs.
Frustratingly, after killing monsters, Infernal Warp always drops on the ground behind us, requiring us to go back and pick it up to collect it, which is a hassle. The developers still haven't given the game a hack-and-slash quick looting system that allows us to quickly run and collect all the dropped currency.
3. Running Infernal Hordes And Defeating Bartuc
Once you reach Torment 3-4 difficulty, farming Infernal Hordes becomes your goal. After completing all Chaos Waves, you have a chance to summon Bartuc boss, but the prerequisite is to spend 666 Aether. To do this, you need to have 10 waves, or at least 8 waves, of Infernal Compasses, which drops from the reward cache in Tree of Whispers.
Regardless, as long as we kill Bartuc boss before T3, we have a chance of obtaining Chaos Armor. After T3, the chance of receiving armor from the boss is 100%, and sometimes two items will drop at the same time.
On T4, we ran Infernal Hordes for an hour and a half, averaging 9 Chaos items per hour.
How To Choose The Right Difficulty?
Finally, you might also be wondering which difficulty is most efficient for farming Chaos Armor. After all, upgrading from T1 to T4 takes up to 10 hours of game time. Is it really wise to just go straight to the highest difficulty, Torment 4?
To be honest, there's no specific drop rate percentage for Chaos Armor in Diablo 4 Season 10. The difference between Torment 1 and Torment 4 lies in the amount of loot and the guaranteed drop rate, not the inherent drop chance of specific item types.
In Torment 4, the loot you earn from activities like defeating bosses increases significantly, increasing your chances of obtaining Chaos Armor. Furthermore, certain Torment tiers guarantee a Chaos Armor drop from Bartuc boss, and Torment 4 has a significantly higher guaranteed drop rate than Torment 1.
However, you still need to consider which difficulty level your character is best suited for. After all, unexpectedly dying in Torment 4 and losing all your hard-earned seasonal currency and loot is significantly less desirable than the low drop rates in Torment 1.
Therefore, to maximize your chances of obtaining Chaos Armor, you should aim for the highest Torment tier you can afford. This strategy ensures you receive more loot, takes advantage of guaranteed drops from activities like Bartuc fight, and experiences rarer and more valuable events like Mythic Chaos Rifts.
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