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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!

Gold is the most basic and important currency resource in Diablo 4. Whether you are in the early game or the endgame stage, whether you want to exchange for other items or repair damaged gear, you can’t do without it.

Therefore, when you enter a new Diablo 4 season, in addition to getting familiar with the new content as soon as possible, another important task is to start farming Diablo 4 gold (and XP), and there is no upper limit, the more the better.

However, it is worth noting that although there are many ways to get gold, it has always been difficult to say which one is the best gold farming channel until Season 9 brings you Escalating Nightmares.

What Are Escalating Nightmares?

Escalating Nightmares, also known as Nightmare Dungeon Escalations, is an “upgraded version” of the traditional Nightmare Dungeon launched in Season 9 based on Diablo 4.

This dungeon is a combination of three normal Nightmare Dungeons. Although the overall combat mode is similar to the normal version, it brings a new boss, Astaroth, and it can only be unlocked by obtaining Escalation Sigils.

In addition, each of the three dungeons will have their own positive and negative affixes, just like the normal Nightmare Dungeons, but all affixes will stack as you progress. This means that you will carry the affixes of the previous dungeon into the next dungeon.

After defeating the boss of each Escalating Nightmares built-in dungeon, you will see a special pillar in the arena, which will teleport you to the next built-in dungeon and show you all the affixes that will work in the next dungeon.

Farming Gold In Escalating Nightmares

Of all Nightmare Dungeon affixes that can be unlocked, the most important one is of course Horadric Strongrooms, because carrying it into the dungeon will have a chance to farm the high-rarity Arcana in Season 9 seasonal power Horadric Spells.

But in fact, the appearance of more Horadric affixes is also the reason why Season 9 provides the best gold farming method, because the positive effect brought by Horadric Gold Reserve affix can make you get tons of Diablo 4 gold in a short time!

When you fight in Escalating Nightmares after obtaining this affix, it will generate more gold chests for you than fighting in regular Nightmare Dungeons to quickly complete gold farming while exploring new dungeons and farming Horadric Spells.

It is worth noting that Season 9 also added another regular affix, Gold Find, which works when you get or find gold in any way. The amount of gold you get in the end will increase by 30%. If the two affixes can be used together, the effect will definitely surprise you!

How To Complete Escalating Nightmares?

Of course, even with the help of affixes, in order to successfully take away all the gold you get, you must complete all Nightmare Dungeon Escalations. If you fail due to character death in the middle of the process, everything will become a waste of talk.

Most of the enemies in Escalating Nightmares are not difficult to deal with, as long as you make sure your abilities and gear strength are equal to the current game difficulty level. The real danger is the final boss Astaroth in Torment 1+.

In order to complete this difficult boss battle, in addition to equipping the best gear possible, you also need to pay attention to the following guidelines:

• In the first stage of the battle, the mounted Astaroth will dismount and fight in the middle of the battle. It is best to kill and merge as soon as possible, otherwise it will be more troublesome to wait for it to revive.
• If you find that the boss is breathing, it means that he is shooting fireballs. You can use this as a sign to move in advance to avoid this attack.
• When the boss is wielding fire and slashing at you, try to avoid it by going around behind him.
• Astaroth sometimes drops an expanding ring of fire in the center of the arena. Don’t stand in it.
• In the later stages of the battle, the boss will place meteorites outside the arena. Avoid being hit by them by moving flexibly.

Other Gold Farming Methods Available

While activating relevant affixes and clearing Escalating Nightmares should be your primary gold farming method in Season 9, other reliable sources should not be ignored. After all, the more gold, the better in the game.

• Trade with other players: If you get duplicate or unwanted items while completing quests, you can also get gold by selling them to other players who need them.
• Complete the main quests: Advance the story without missing any gold rewards.
• Complete as many side quests as possible: You may trigger new side quests at any time, and they will also reward you with small amounts of gold.
• Complete major challenges such as Whispers bounties or Infernal Hordes: These challenges are the core gameplay of Diablo 4 and the main source of various resources.
• Possible Treasure Goblins event: Diablo 4 will hold this event from time to time. Killing goblins with gold affixes in it can quickly obtain a large amount of gold. Although it is not clear whether it will be held in Season 9.

If you happen to be in urgent need of gold, just refresh and complete Nightmare Dungeon Escalations, and start farming after trying your best to get gold-related affixes! I wish you success!

Although Barbarian’s performance was average among all classes when Season 9 was first launched, after the exclusive enhancements brought by patch 2.3.1, Barbarian can now be one of the first choices for your class to create a new character in S9.

However, if you plan to play a new character at this time, you will have nearly half a month less time to upgrade and earn Diablo 4 gold than others, so it is best to choose a Barbarian leveling build that is reliable enough to pass the time before reaching level 60.

Based on this, we will recommend and introduce Upheaval Barbarian Build to help you complete the upgrade based on Barbarian’s performance after the release of patch 2.3.1.

Overview Of Upheaval Barbarian Build

Both Barbarian class itself and most of the builds related to it are good at creating chaos through brute force, thereby interrupting the enemy’s attack and hitting back.

As for Upheaval Barbarian Build, it mainly relies on the main skill Upheaval to output high AOE damage in combat to quickly kill groups of enemies, and does not rely on gear or legendary aspects, which is suitable for new Diablo 4 players.

In fact, you can continue to strengthen Upheaval skill to make the entire build stronger to cope with the difficulty of early Torment outside the upgrade process. And in Season 9, this build is very suitable for clearing Horadric Strongroom.

The Most Suitable Skills

Upheaval Barbarian Build mainly outputs damage through several key Barbarian active skills and allows you to switch core damage skills according to the enemy type and the situation.

Generally speaking, Upheaval is the main damage skill of this build. On this basis, using Frenzy and Death Blow as needed can further improve your combat damage output.

If you encounter a more difficult enemy and want to output higher damage to deal with the opponent as soon as possible, you can also consider using Ground Stomp skill after Tactical upgrade.

When using this build, you first need to try your best to gather enemies, then work hard to accumulate Fury, and cast Upheaval through 2H Bludgeoning weapons, causing initial large amounts of damage with the help of passive skills and attributes.

It is worth noting that 2H Slashing weapons are better when using Death Blow, or you can replace Death Blow with War Cry to get more damage gains, and Challenging Shout can improve your survivability.

Of course, in order to improve the effectiveness of these active skills, passive skills are also indispensable. For this, you need to pay attention to the distribution of passive skill points:

• Endless Fury (3/3)
• Belligerence (3/3)
• Swiftness (3/3)
• Booming Voice (3/3)
• Pit Fighter (3/3)
• No Mercy (3/3)
• Duelist (3/3)
• Heavy Handed (3/3)
• Wallop (3/3)

The combination of the above active and passive skills should maximize the damage output of the entire build and the generation of Fury you need.

In addition, Furious Impulse can increase Fury generation, Invigorating Fury can help you maintain a good health state, and skills such as Thick Skin and Defensive Stance can help improve your survivability.

Weapon Utilization Strategy

Besides the types of weapons that are suitable for different active skills mentioned above,2H Mace is actually one of the best weapons for this build. It can bring Arsenal Expertise bonus to maximize the generation of Fury required for Frenzy.

This way, when you use Unbridled Fury, you can accumulate as much Fury as possible when casting Upheaval to maximize its damage through passive skills and legendary aspects.

Or you can choose a two-handed axe as your primary weapon. On this basis, change Ground Stomp’s upgrade from Strategic to Tactical, and allocates some skill points of Wrath of the Berserker to Pressure Point to gain additional Vulnerable damage.

Suitable Horadric Spells

No matter which build you craft or utilize in any Diablo 4 season, you should try to integrate the season-specific power into it as much as possible to immerse yourself in the characteristics of the current season and get unique benefits.

Season 9’s seasonal power is Horadric Spells. For Upheaval Barbarian Build, the choice of Horadric Spells is divided into early and late stages.

The choice of spells in the early stage has little effect, but Thunderous Particle is better with Celestial Surge. This is because Celestial Surge can gather enemies together faster in battle so that you can quickly eliminate them with your main skill, Upheaval.

As for the late Horadric Spells combination, if you plan to use Barbarian build based on Upheaval for a long time, Catalyst and Infusion recommend Smoldering Ember and Astral Pillar, which can gather enemies and make them vulnerable.

As for the late Arcanas, the following three should be the best choices:

• Bottled Wind: Generate more barriers to improve survivability and defense.
• Reactive Ooze: Generates more Fury.
• Pressurized Steam: Allows Astral Pillar to stun enemies.

Unique Items And Legendary Aspects

While this build doesn’t rely too much on gear for damage, if you can farm the right items, you’ll be able to take the build to the next level. For example, the following legendary aspects will help maximize the build’s damage:

• Aspect of Sundered Ground
• Aspect Of Limitless Rage
• Aspect Of The Expectant
• Edgemaster’s Aspect
• Aspect Of Inner Calm
• Aspect of Adaptability

In addition, some special unique items can also provide additional bonuses to the build and related skills based on their own characteristics to improve combat efficiency:

• Battle Trance: You can deal more damage in Frenzy state.
• Ugly Bastard Helm: Converts normal damage to fire damage and brings additional fire damage when you activate Wrath of the Berserker.
• Hellhammer: Deals more damage to burning enemies while burning them through Upheaval.

The above is what we bring to you about the plan to upgrade as quickly as possible in Season 9 craft Upheaval Barbarian Build. If you plan to experience Barbarian, it should be helpful to you!

If you are a die-hard Diablo 4 player, you will know that there are a variety of items in the game that can benefit you in different ways. Some of them are gear that can be upgraded and utilized directly after obtaining, and some are more special items.

It is worth noting that when Diablo 4 is updated with a season, sometimes new buff items are added for the new season. In Season 9, this item is undoubtedly Horadric Jewels.

But it should be noted that Horadric Jewels cannot be obtained directly through combat drops like Diablo 4 gold or unique items. Instead, you need to farm Horadric Phials and gem fragments separately and craft them to obtain them.

Among them, Horadric Phials has been introduced to you in other guides and is also a seasonal item in Season 9, but gem fragments are a regular Diablo 4 material that has existed for a long time.

In fact, before Season 9, although gem fragments can also provide you with attribute bonuses by being processed into gems, they are not so eye-catching compared to the role of other powerful gear. Now the emergence of Horadric Jewels has obviously changed this situation.

Based on this, we will explain to you in detail why you should increase your efforts to farm gem fragments in Season 9, as well as the relevant farming methods.

Detailed Introduction Of Gem Fragments

Generally speaking, after finding a jeweler in Diablo 4, you can consume existing gem fragments to craft gems, and then embed them into gear according to the corresponding gear type of the gem to obtain benefits. And the higher the gem level, the better the benefit provided.

But the tricky thing is that if you want to craft the highest level of gems, you need to collect 100,000 fragments of a specific type! This is undoubtedly a long and torturous farming process.

Although low-level gems also have a certain role, if you want to unlock new levels for all low-level gems embedded in all gear later, you also need to consume a lot of materials and gold. Therefore, you will not choose gems or gem fragments as the first choice when looking for buff items.

In order to avoid gem fragments being ignored as much as possible, other seasonal jewelry that can be crafted and inlaid with gem fragments has been introduced in other seasons of Diablo 4, such as Occult Gems in S7, but it seems that none of them are as good as S9 Horadric Jewels.

Gem Fragments And Horadric Jewels

First, to unlock Horadric Jewels in Season 9, you need to complete Horadric Strongrooms in Torment 1+ difficulties to obtain Horadric Tomes, and then consume it at Wayfinders to learn the crafting method of Horadric Jewels.

Next, you need to get enough Horadric Phials as the first material for crafting Horadric Jewels through the following methods:

• Kill elite enemies in the open world.
• Completing Helltides.
• Completing Nightmare Dungeons and Horadric Strongrooms.
• Unlock rewards in related systems by obtaining Horadric Knowledge.

The second Horadric Jewels crafting material is gem fragments, and we will introduce you to its specific acquisition method later. Now you need to know that crafting a Horadric Jewel consumes 45,000 gem fragments and 3,000 Horadric Phials.

It is worth noting that these 45,000 gem fragments must come from three different fragment types, which means you need to collect 15,000 fragments of each type.

Why Is It Suitable To Farm Gem Fragments In S9?

Although it is also a lot of work to earn gem fragments for Horadric Jewels, it is at least easier than crafting grand-level gems, and the role that Horadric Jewels can play in Season 9 is no less than that of high-level gems.

In addition, in Season 9, the chance of you getting gem fragments is also improved, because in addition to the existing farming methods, this season brings more affixes to Nightmare Dungeon in the form of Escalating Nightmares.

When clearing Escalating Nightmares, you need to complete three built-in nightmare dungeons connected together, each with a corresponding affix effect, and can be carried over to the next dungeon.

Horadric Gem Reserve affix among these affixes allows you to get more gem fragments than usual when clearing dungeons, thus completing the accumulation of materials for Horadric Jewels crafting faster. This was not possible in other seasons before.

All Gem Fragment Acquisition Methods

In addition to Escalating Nightmare Dungeons and the utilize related affixes already introduced, you can also obtain gem fragments in the following ways:

• Whisper Caches: After completing ten Tree of Whispers’ bounty tasks, you can exchange for random Whisper Caches. If you get a cache of materials, there is a chance to spawn gem fragments.
• Helltides: Loot drops after directly killing enemies and Helltide chests may provide gem fragments.
• Infernal Hordes: After killing the boss, utilize Aether obtained during this event to open Materials chests to get fragments for each type of gem as well as a ton of Obducite.

The above is the information about farming and utilizing gem fragments in Season 9. I hope it’s helpful to you. I hope you can craft Horadric Jewels you want as soon as possible!

July is about to be halfway through, and Diablo 4 Season 9, which was launched at the beginning of the month, is naturally in full swing. Although it did not bring more breakthroughs to Diablo 4 in 2025, it is still worthy of being your first choice for playing ARPG.

However, although the previous 2.3.0 PTR showed some problems, Season 9 was not fully adjusted when it was officially launched. Therefore, the first major patch of this season, 2.3.1, will optimize these issues and fix other bugs after it goes online on July 15.

Based on this, we will introduce to you what changes patch 2.3.1 will make to the seasonal content and class experience of Diablo 4 Season 9 based on known information.

Most Classes Are Generally Enhanced

As you know, based on the experience in the first half of the month, it is obvious that the best class in S9 should be Sorcerer or Spiritborn, and their main builds have become more powerful after combining with Horadric Spells.

In comparison, other classes are somewhat weak. If you choose to play them, you may encounter difficulties in accumulating Diablo 4 gold in the early stage, which will hinder your progress.

Therefore, in order to avoid this problem and ensure the overall balance of the game’s class experience as much as possible, patch 2.3.1 has enhanced all classes except Spiritborn. Some are aimed at skills, while others are gear represented by new unique items.

Barbarian

• Battle Trance: Lucky Hit Chance increased from 10% to 20%; Damage bonus increased from 15%-30% to 30%-60%.
• Double Swing: Damage increased from 66% to 85%.
• Hammer of the Ancients: Damage increased from 110% to 175%.
• Rend: Bleeding damage increased from 120% to 135%.
• Upheaval: Damage increased from 132% to 200%.
• Whirlwind: Damage increased from 52% to 76%.
• Barbed Carapace: Thorns damage increased from 100% to 120%.

Druid

• Pulverize: Damage increased from 150% to 175%.
• Greatstaff of the Crone: Claw, in addition to being a storm skill, casts damage by 100-250% with Storm Strike.

Necromancer

• Hulking Monstrosity Passive: Additional Golem damage sacrifice bonus increased from 35% to 60%.

Rogue

• Deathmask of Nirmitruq: Damage bonus increased from 70% to 100%.
• Breakneck Bandit’s Aspect: Damage increased from 25%-45% to 35%-55%.

Sorcerer

• Meteor: Impact damage increased from 120% to 140%.
• Aspect of Frozen Orbit: Frozen Orb damage increased from 30%-50% to 50%-70%.
• Aspect of Frozen Memories: Avalanche vulnerable damage bonus increased from 50%-75% to 75%-100%.

While Spiritborn remained unchanged in Season 9 of the base game, they have been buffed in Vessel of Hatred. If you have been playing DLC recently, you will notice the following changes:

• Aspect of Pestilence: Damage bonus increased from 35%-75% to 50%-90%.
• Payback: Damage increased from 125% to 150%.
• Razor Wings: Damage increased from 75% to 95%.

From the above, it can be seen that Barbarian has received the most enhancements. This not only makes up for the long-term lack of interest in this class in Diablo 4, but also may cause a new dominant class competition in the second half of Season 9.

Optimization Of Seasonal Content

The main seasonal content of Season 9 is Horadric Spells. It can be used as a buff to bring more exploitable power to your characters and builds. At the same time, the game also sets up items such as Horadric Phials & Knowledge to help you upgrade this power.

In addition to the new power, Sins of the Horadrim also brings new dungeons Horadric Strongrooms and Escalating Nightmares. They are not only worthy of being explored, but also your main source of loot in Season 9.

Overall, the above mechanisms are working well, but there are also some minor issues. In order to give you the best experience in Season 9, patch 2.3.1 has made the following optimizations:

• Arcana drops obtained through combat can be automatically picked up.
• Myriad Stone can provide a temporary attack speed bonus, which stacks with permanent attack speed sources.
• For Nightmare dungeons with Equipment Delve affixes, the channeling time of Horadric Artifact has been reduced from 0.75 seconds to 0.25 seconds. In addition, the channeling process is no longer interrupted when you take damage.
• The completion rewards of Legion activities include more recycled materials; if completed on Torment difficulty, more Forgotten Souls will be included.
• Completing Nightmare dungeons with Horadric Materials Reserve affixes and obtaining Horadric Chests will give more recycled materials and Forgotten Souls.

In addition, Forgotten Wisdom affix of Nightmare dungeons itself has also received exclusive adjustments. If you unlocked this affix while completing Escalating Nightmares, please note the following changes:

• Motes now grant XP to all members of the entire combat party, rather than just to the player who picked it up.
• The maximum number of Motes that can spawn throughout the dungeon has been increased, while the drop frequency of Experience Motes has been slightly reduced.
• Each Mote grants more XP.
• Motes no longer drop when summoned by other monsters.
• Motes will no longer drop through Horadric Strongrooms.

Major Bug Fixed

In addition to normal content optimization, major bug fixes are also one of the major features of the patch. Among the fixes that deserve your attention include:

• Fixed an issue where Astaroth’s voice lines were barely audible when you are beginning his boss fight.
• Fixed an issue where Horadric Gateways could unexpectedly disappear and reappear when you are doing A Wanderer, Into Flames quest.
• Fixed an issue where Visions of Pain and Beastmaster’s Bane Season Journey objectives and the requirements for Truths that Line Within quest were inconsistent with their descriptions.
• Fixed an issue where teammates could not see your Cosmic Anomalies.
• Fixed an issue where Horadric Phials were sometimes incorrectly listed as Horadric Wayfinders.
• Fixed an issue where Barbarian’s Iron Maelstrom skill would not consistently trigger Catalysts.
• Fixed an issue where Druid’s Nature’s Fury skill would not trigger its cooldown after gaining Catalysts.

Those are the main things to watch for in patch 2.3.1. It’s worth noting that after the patch is released until 10am on July 19, you can get Rogue transmog item Arbalest crossbow by watching any streamer play Diablo 4 for three hours on Twitch! Don’t miss it!

You may have discovered that Druid has not been sufficiently enhanced for several consecutive Diablo 4 seasons, so that his experience in the game is not as good as other classes, even in Season 9.

But this does not mean that Druid should be abandoned. At least, some players still like to play this class. Therefore, instead of complaining, you should find a way to make Druid play its power as much as possible.

To this end, in addition to mastering the basic class skills, you should also build your own Season 9 combat style as soon as possible through the best Druid leveling build in the early stage of the game, and Werebear Druid is a good choice.

Although Druid and this build will be partially limited by inherent mechanisms, fortunately, the addition of Season 9 seasonal power Horadric Spells can solve this problem well. Next, we will introduce the crafting plan of Werebear Druid to you in detail.

What Is Werebear Druid Build?

As the main class in Diablo 4, Druid can utilize 3 primary forms in combat, namely Human, Werewolf, and Werebear, and they all have their own unique skills. Werebear Druid build is undoubtedly based on Werebear form.

In contrast, the strength of this build is that it can output high damage, and the weakness is that it is slow, just like a real bear. But if your damage output is high enough, even if the speed is slow, it will not affect your Diablo 4 gold farming efficiency.

What Are The Best Available Skills?

Like all Diablo 4 builds, the available skills of Werebear Druid are divided into active and passive. They work differently and the skill point allocation scheme is different.

Active Skills

In general, the damage source skills of this build are mainly active skills Pulverize and Trample, and the overpower and critical hits derived from this can further amplify this damage. Of course, it’s also important to upgrade your active skills in time:

• Wild Maul (1/5): Knocks enemies down, making them vulnerable to extra damage from Pulverize. Later, reassign Pulverize to Fierce Claw to play a quick passive skill.
• Raging Pulverize (5/5): As a primary damage skill, it can deal extra damage to bosses and controlled enemies, and can apply overpower every 10 seconds.
• Innate Blood Howl (1/5): Transforms you into Werewolf form to restore health and sanity.
• Natural Trample (1/5): It gives you good mobility and area damage while also boosting your health.
• Brutal Poison Creeper (1/5): It can poison enemies and make them more vulnerable to critical hits.
• Supreme Grizzly Rage (1/5): Helps you enter full Werebear mode and gain additional bonuses.

I believe you should also have noticed that Innate Blood Howl brings you extra benefits through Werewolf form. This is because Druids don’t have to be limited to a single form, especially during leveling, and it’s important to combine them to achieve the best effect.

Passive Skills

The right passive skills can not only increase your damage and survivability, but also provide bonuses when fighting poisoned enemies:

• Heart of the Wild (1/3)
• Wild Impulses (3/3)
• Backlash (3/3)
• Ancestral Fortitude (3/3)
• Mending (3/3)
• Provocation (1/3)
• Neurotoxin (1/3)
• Envenom (3/3)
• Quickshift (3/3)
• Heightened Senses (3/3)
• Defiance (3/3)
• Natural Disaster (3/3)
• Ursine Strength

It should be noted that the passive choices of Defiance and Natural Disaster require you to obtain and equip Aspect Of The Ursine Horror, otherwise you cannot utilize them.

Spirit Boons

While these aren’t really a skill class, they’re Druid-specific buffs that only provide passive effects, so they’re only useful when paired with a good combination of skills. The best Spirit Boons for this build are:

• Deer: Gift of the Stag
• Eagle: Scythe Talons and Avian Wrath
• Wolf: Energize
• Snake: Masochistic

Which Horadric Spells Can Help With Weaknesses?

Horadric Spells include Catalyst, Infusion, and Arcana, which provide additional bonuses in different ways, and as you progress through Season 9, you’ll unlock more spells and get more spell combination options.

If you want to provide targeted assistance to Werebear Druid Build through Horadric Spells, the following are worth prioritizing in combat:

• Smoldering Ember Infusion
• Disintegrate Catalyst
• Reactive Ooze Arcana
• Bottled Wind Arcana
• Pressurized Steam Arcana

Best Gear And Legendary Aspects

First, when farming gear, since Werebear Druid will frequently trigger overpower in combat, you need to prioritize getting Maces that can enhance this effect. There are no fixed recommendations for other gear, just make sure they have the following types of affixes:

• Willpower
• Armor
• Life
• Overpower Damage
• Critical Strike Chance
• Critical Strike Damage
• Cooldown Reduction
• Attack Speed

As for legendary aspects, in order to maximize the power of your passive skills, the previously mentioned Aspect Of the Ursine Horror is naturally indispensable. Other aspects worth having include:

• Rabid Bear
• Shockwave
• Aspect Of the Changeling’s Debt
• Aspect Of Retaliation

They can greatly increase the power of Pulverize and enhance your survivability when you activate Grizzly Rage. Therefore, if you have the ability and time, it is best to farm all of them by clearing dungeons or killing bosses.

The above is the main way to craft the best Druid leveling build Werebear Druid in Season 9. If you insist on playing Druid in this season, this content should help you!

In any Diablo 4 season, the real challenge starts when you enter the endgame. This final stage not only means an increase in the quality and quantity of loot, but also more dangerous enemies.

Therefore, after entering the endgame, in addition to the information you already know about the current season, you should also master additional self-improvement abilities and knowledge to successfully pass the level.

It has been more than a week since Season 9 was launched. If you progress quickly enough, you should have entered or will enter the endgame of this season. Next, we will provide you with key suggestions to help you complete these endgame contents.

Farm Mythic And Unique Items

When facing stronger enemies, in order to ensure your own survival, in addition to improving your attack power, you should also improve your defense as much as possible from multiple aspects. For example, get stronger armor or improve your elemental resistance.

The first thing to do is to work hard to farm mythic and unique items, and in the process, you can also get more Diablo 4 gold to get more usable items for subsequent battles.

Some of these mythic or unique items are armor in themselves, while others can increase your defense and resistance through their affix effects or exclusive powers, improving your ability to fight dangerous bosses.

Craft Incense At The Alchemist

Incense is actually a craftable buff in Diablo 4. After utilizing it, you will gain the corresponding buff effect, which can be enjoyed by you and others around you who can access Incense.

All Incense in the game can be divided into Type I, Type II, and Type III, and the effects of each Incense are unique. Some of them can increase your armor or health to help you survive, such as Song of the Mountain or Reddamine Buzz.

Unlock The Best Paragon Nodes

When you are able to enter Diablo 4 Season 9 endgame, you should have reached the maximum level 60. After that, although you can no longer continue to become stronger through upgrading, Paragon board will provide you with additional ways to upgrade.

After that, you will get a Paragon point for each Paragon level you upgrade, up to level 300, which means you will get 300 Paragon points to unlock various nodes in Paragon system.

All nodes can be divided into four degrees of rarity: normal, magic, rare, and legendary, but all the main effect is to provide you with attribute/damage ability/defense ability bonus.

If you are confident in your damage ability, you can prioritize unlocking nodes that can ensure your survival. It should be noted that the path to unlocking Paragon nodes suitable for you will vary depending on your class.

Master Barrier Tricks

Barrier is also one of the status effects that can be utilized in Diablo 4. It can block damage for you for a certain period of time, and sometimes this effect can even affect NPCs.

More specifically, the barrier can absorb damage from all sources for a certain period of time, up to a certain amount of damage. The sources of the barrier include the skills of the three classes of Barbarian, Druid, and Sorcerer, as well as certain item affixes.

It should be noted that currently other classes can only obtain the barrier ability through related items. Don’t confuse barrier with immune, which only provide full protection in a certain area for a certain period of time and cannot be removed.

Another skill that needs to be introduced is Earthen Bulwark, which can provide barrier effects for Druids. As you know, Druids are the weak class in Season 9, so any available help should be valued.

This skill allows you as a Druid to summon protective rocks around you to form a barrier, absorbing a certain percentage of your damage for a short period of time. However, to fully utilize it, you need 300 offering, and the relevant runes can help you.

Utilize Horadric Spells & Jewels

As the exclusive power and item of Season 9, you should find ways to use Horadric Spells & Jewels to provide you with reliable assistance in all stages.

Among them, Horadric Spells uses three rich elements, Catalyst, Infusion, and Arcana, allowing you to create your own power with maximum freedom to protect yourself while attacking enemies.

Among them, the one that can bring you the protection is represented by Magic Arcana Bottled Wind. After summoning Catalyst, Bottled Wind will bring you a barrier, which is equivalent to 30% of your maximum health and lasts for 4 seconds.

On this basis, you can consume the obtained Horadric Phials and Gem Fragments to craft Horadric Jewels. Although the specific effects of different Horadric Jewels vary, except for possible negative effects, they can all increase your armor and elemental resistance, such as:

• Scornful Light
• Brilliant Sigil
• Horadric Crest
• Seal of Denial
• Horadric Crest

It should be noted that Horadric Jewels can only be socketed in jewelry and can only work after you equip Horadric Spells. In addition, you can only equip 1 Catalyst, 1 Infusion and 3 Arcanas in each battle.

The above are Diablo 4 Season 9 endgame survival tips we provide for you this time, I hope it can help your gaming experience. Thank you for reading.

After the nerfs in the first two seasons to achieve class balance, although now Spiritborn no longer has the outstanding advantages like it in Season 6 and DLC, it still shows extraordinary combat effectiveness in the latest Season 9 through new unique item.

According to the powerful thorn damage provided by Balazan’s Maxtlatl, you can output a lot of damage in Season 9 with the related Quill Volley, Rake or Poison Thorns Spiritborn builds, but the premise is that you can complete the character upgrade.

In fact, the utilization of most advanced builds and the unlocking of more game content are based on your character level reaching the maximum level. We have introduced you to several ways to upgrade in S9 before, and you should also master the appropriate leveling builds base on them.

Therefore, if you want to harvest more Diablo 4 gold and other rare rewards as a Spiritborn in the later stage of the game through more powerful builds, you need to master the appropriate leveling build in the early stage.

Evade-Centric Leveling Build

Unlike mature Spiritborn builds that emphasize thorns or poison damage, leveling builds focus on ending battles quickly to complete the upgrade, so Evade Spiritborn Build will be a suitable leveling choice.

This build is not only fast, but more importantly, it can well integrate the new power Horadric Spells brought by Season 9. And when you finish upgrading and transform to more advanced builds, the similarity between Evade and Rake Build will allow you to adapt faster.

Which Skills Should Be Chosen?

For Evade Spiritborn Build, the choice of active and passive skills is equally important. The focus of active skills is the rotation order, and the passive skills are the allocation of skill points.

Active Skills

First, you should unlock the following active skills for this build:

• Accelerated Thunderspike (5/5)
• Measured Vortex (1/5)
• Measured Soar (1/5)
• Reinforced Counterattack (1/5)
• Reinforced Concussive Stomp (1/5)
• Exalted Hunter (5/5)

The core idea behind this active skill set is to allow you to stab enemies and throw feathers while swiftly moving across the map, or more specifically, to utilize Evade and attack enemies while moving through Thunderspike.

The main damage skill is Storm Feathers, which you can activate when you reach level 15 and unlock Eagle as your main Spirit Hall. This skill causes you to fire feathers while evading, and Evade reset caused by Thunderspike will increase the frequency of feather firing.

This is exactly where Spirit Hall’s choice comes in. Eagle Spirit Hall is the best for this build, not only because it provides enough damage, but also because it can apply vulnerability to enemies, and your critical hit chance increases for every four meters you move.

If you want to focus on evading, you can also replace Concussive Stomp with other skills such as Armored Hide or Toxic Skin. You can also utilize Ravager in between attacks.

Related: Diablo 4 Season 9 Brings Some Quality Of Life Improvements To Players But There Are Still Some Shortcomings

Passive Skills

The rule of thumb for choosing passive skills for this build is to provide damage buffs and additional evade chance, and then it is best to upgrade them to the highest level in order of importance as soon as possible.

When allocating skill points to them, you can decide based on your actual combat needs, but if you want to ensure your survivability is reliable enough, prioritize the ultimate passive skill.

• Follow Through
• Mirage
• Unrestrained Power
• Apex
• Swift
• Brilliance
• Acceleration
• Vital Strikes

What Horadric Spells Should You Pair With The Build?

As an extra boost for Season 9, the right Horadric Spells can make the builds more powerful than usual. As you know, Horadric Spells include 3 elements, each with 10-20 options, and the ones suitable for Evade Spiritborn builds include:

• Infusion - Thunderous Particle
• Catalyst - Celestial Surge or Cosmic Anomaly
• Arcana - Invigorating Helix and Volatile Crystal

The combination of Thunderous Particle and Celestial Surge can help you quickly clear enemy-dense areas represented by Horadric Storerooms to farm gold and XP.

If you replace Catalyst choice with Cosmic Anomaly, it will reduce the clearing speed while increasing the sustainability of the build. Invigorating Helix and Volatile Crystal and most Arcanas can improve your survivability.

How To Choose Gear?

Since the main damage source of this build is Storm Feathers, in order to trigger it more frequently, you need to improve the basic skills mainly based on Thunderspike, and the following legendary aspects can do this:

• Aspect of Disobedience
• Aspect of the Moonrise
• Aspect of Adaptability

As for the choice of specific weapons or armor, please give priority to those that can provide the following attribute bonuses:

• Dexterity
• Cooldown Reduction
• Vulnerable Damage
• Crit Chance and Crit Damage
• Storm Feather Potency

Also, although this build does not need to be played by runes, if you have the time to farm runes, CirGar and Cem ritual runes will be good choices. They can increase the critical damage of the build and allow you to refresh Evade more frequently.

The above is all you need to know about the craft Evade Spiritborn Build. If you are playing Spiritborn in Season 9, you might as well follow the guide to practice it in the game!