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2.3.0 PTR for pre-testing the main content of Season 9 has been officially launched on May 27. If you have almost completed the progress of Season 8, it is time to enter the PTR and experience the new dungeons and new power Horadric Spells for a week.

Although Diablo 4 has brought almost no fundamental innovations or changes in recent seasons, there are always slight differences between different seasons. On this basis, in order to ensure the balance of the game environment, all 6 classes also need to be adjusted regularly.

Take the latest class, Spiritborn, as an example. Because it was considered too powerful shortly after its launch, it was weakened in Season 7, while other classes were appropriately strengthened to maintain the balance of class strength.

As the game progresses to Season 9, the previous adjustments may no longer apply. Based on this, we will introduce you to the nerfs and changes to classes and other related mechanisms that will be brought about in Season 9 based on 2.3.0 PTR and other information.

Barbarian

Of course, the PTR doesn’t blindly nerf every skill, affix, or other aspect of the game class. After all, balance means adding and subtracting in moderation. But in general, there are some major ability nerfs that you need to pay attention to, because this is related to the efficiency of your Diablo 4 gold farming.

For Barbarian, the first brunt of the nerfs is the skill War Cry, which has been reduced from 100% to 65%, and the glyph that can be paired with it, Wrath, which has been reduced from 160% to the lesser. Since they are the core components of many Barbarian builds, these nerfs mean that you will need to adjust your available Barbarian builds in the PTR or Season 9.

In addition, the attack effect of Bash, one of the main damage skills of the class, has been reduced. Although old patches have buffed this skill in the past, nothing is permanent in the game.

Druid

As a special ranged governing stone, Lightning Bolt can cause lightning damage to enemies by firing a special arc. Although it is not a Druid-only item, it is very effective for Cataclysm Druid builds - unfortunately, the effect of Lightning Bolt will also be reduced from 200% to 100%.

In addition, as one of the classes that can utilize specific overpower skills, Druid can form overpower domination on enemies through Werebear forms, but it is expected that the effect will also be reduced by half.

Changes To Other Classes

Comparatively, Barbarian and Druid have more changes and are more noteworthy. Adjustments to other classes include an overall reduction in overpower effects and Tempered damage. However, it is worth noting that the changes in Tempered damage include both enhancements and reductions.

• Rogue: The reduction in health damage after Stealth has reduced the additional damage that can be formed.
• Sorcerer: Lightning Spear’s damage has been reduced by 40%, and the skill effects of Hydra and Shocking Impact have been weakened.
• General nerfs (for all classes): The reduction of some Tempered damage, reduction of critical damage, basic skills, core skills and ultimate damage.

Nerfs Of Unique Items

At present, the specific nerf values ​​of all unique items that will be weakened are not very clear, but it is certain which items will be weakened, including general unique items and those exclusive to each class.

General:

• Banished Lord’s Talisman
• Locran’s Talisman
• Paingorger’s Gauntlets
• Rakanoth’s Wake
• Shard of Verathiel
• Yen’s Blessing

Barbarian:

• Arreat’s Bearing
• Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus
• Twin Strikes
• Ugly Bastard Helm

Druid:

• Mjölnic Ryng

Necromancer:

• Bloodless Scream
• Deathless Visage
• Indira’s Memory

Rogue:

• Condemnation
• Eaglehorn
• Eyes in the Dark

Sorcerer:

• Axial Conduit
• Esu’s Heirloom
• Fractured Winterglass

Spiritborn:

• Sepazontec

Implicit Affixes Weakened

In Diablo In Diablo 4, affixes are special magical properties. Each gear will have several affixes, or you can add additional affixes to your gear to make them more powerful.

Generally speaking, affixes in Diablo 4 are divided into three categories: offensive, defensive, and utility, which can provide different types of gains for gear, but the implicit affixes that come with gear cannot be changed or removed. In Season 9, it is expected that the implicit affixes of many weapons will be weakened, such as bows, crossbows, and some other long-handled weapons.

The above content is only part of the weakening reflected in 2.3.0 PTR for your reference. However, I want to tell you that the weakening is actually a normal change when Diablo 4 changes seasons. Listing it for you is just to facilitate your adjustment of your new season and PTR arrangements. Normally, they will not cause too much damage to your gaming experience.

In contrast, if you really want to adapt to the new season rhythm as soon as possible after the arrival of Season 9, you should familiarize yourself with the new content through PTR, such as the new dungeons Strongrooms and Escalating Nightmares, as well as the new bosses and new season powers.

The above is all the content introduced to you this time, you can utilize this as a basis to start your PTR exploration. I wish you all the best!

As you know, there are many items in Diablo 4. Some of them are gear that can be directly utilized, some are currencies with different functions, and some are actually raw materials for making more advanced items, such as Veiled Crystal.

In fact, material items like Veiled Crystal are not uncommon in the game. It is through various different recipes that you have the opportunity to synthesize and obtain more powerful and effective final products, unlocking more game content.

Based on this, this time we mainly introduce you in detail how to obtain Veiled Crystal and its main functions.

What Is Veiled Crystal?

As we have mentioned, Veiled Crystal is a rare-level crafting material in Diablo 4, which can be used for enchanting, tempering, master-working, and imprinting legendary aspects on other gear items. Although these tasks also require other materials, Veiled Crystal is indeed indispensable.

In Season 8, Veiled Crystal actually has another important function, which is to be synthesized with other materials to unlock the lair boss hoard.

Most lair keys can be obtained by killing lower-level lair bosses, but the drop rate of keys belonging to high-level bosses is usually lower, so synthesizing through materials becomes a more stable method. Although the synthesis required are a lot of Diablo 4 gold, at least there is no gambling.

Transmute Mucus-Slick Egg:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Malignant Heart
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

Transmute Pincushioned Doll:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Distilled Fear
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

Transmute Sandscorched Shackles:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Exquisite Blood
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

Transmute Shard of Agony:

• 5 Khazra Horn
• 9 Living Steel
• 4 Abstruse Sigil
• 15 Veiled Crystal
• 50,000 Gold

In addition, to upgrade your gear through Veiled Crystal, you must travel to different locations. For example, weapons and armor upgrades require going to the blacksmith, while rings and amulets are related to the jeweler.

If you want to Imprint or enchant, you need to find an Occultist. Like the lair key, these functions also consume a lot of materials and gold, so you have to work hard on farming.

How To Get Veiled Crystal?

There are three main ways to get this material, namely direct farming, salvage rare or higher quality gear, and opening Whisper caches. We will introduce them one by one.

Farming In The Dungeons

Considering the wide range of uses of Veiled Crystal and the high consumption of each production, its drop rate and quantity have been increased since Season 4, so you should get this item when you complete the battle in most quests.

However, if you want to do a large amount of farming at one time, clearing the dungeon should be a better choice. As you know, the main function of most Diablo 4 dungeons is to provide you with rich loot, not only crafting materials, but also gold and XP that are essential for playing the game.

In Season 8, it is recommended that you choose Helltides and Nightmare dungeons as the first choice for Veiled Crystal farming. Among them, Helltides has a high refresh frequency and a high density of enemies when they appear, which is very suitable for concentrated farming.

As one of the classic Diablo 4 dungeons, the nightmare dungeon is not so difficult overall, but there are many explorable contents, and farming can be completed easily.

Salvage Gear

You will intentionally or unintentionally obtain a lot of gear of different levels during the game. As your character level increases and your ability increases, the gear that provides you with basic combat benefits in the early stage will gradually be eliminated.

Since the value of this part of gear is not high, there is no need to sell it, but if it is not processed, it will waste storage space. At this time, you can travel to the blacksmith to salvage them. However, when performing salvage, please be sure to pay attention to the following tips:

• If the power of the legendary item you salvage is what you lack, or its level is higher than the power you already have, after salvage, the item will add the corresponding power to your Codex of Power.
• After the item is salvaged, its appearance will be added to your wardrobe for transmogrification.
• Selling early items also earns gold, but early on, crafting materials are more scarce than gold, so salvage is preferred over selling.

Obtaining And Opening Whisper Caches

This method is actually an indirect way to salvage items. When you complete Whisper bounties posted through Tree of Whispers, you will receive gold, XP, and Grim Favors as rewards.

Once you have enough Grim Favors, you can return to Tree of Whispers to redeem more rewards, including gear. Since completing Whisper bounties is an essential part of playing Diablo 4, you can fully utilize this opportunity while farming more Veiled Crystal.

With the above information, if you haven’t unlocked those higher-level lair boss hoards yet, it’s best to quickly collect Veiled Crystal synthesis keys to complete the related battles!

2.3.0 PTR has begun, it’s important to complete the main content of Season 8 as soon as possible to enjoy the new PTR!

Although the operation methods are similar, the names and specific functions of the seasonal powers of each Diablo 4 season are different. In order to quickly master them at the beginning of the new season, it is best to understand them in advance.

In fact, for several seasons, Diablo 4 has been criticized for being too homogeneous in seasonal power and lacking real innovation, so that the specific game experience has also declined. Therefore, Season 9 seems to intend to make changes to this.

According to the campfire chat held on May 22, it can be known that 2.3.0 PTR will be launched on May 27 to show you some of the main contents of Season 9 in the form of testing. Next, we will show you the relevant content of Season 9 seasonal power based on this.

What Are Horadric Spells?

You can call Season 9 seasonal power Horadric power like Season 7 witchcraft power or Season 8 boss power, but this power actually works by fusing three elements to allow you to output more spells.

The three elements are Catalysts, Infusions, and Arcana, each of which has its own purpose and contains multiple specific content with different powers, which we will introduce one by one.

1. Catalysts

Catalysts are the basis and main source of damage for your final customized Horadric Spells, and need to be activated through specific action bar skills - different skills correspond to different Horadric Spells slots.

This component can be upgraded, with level 20 being the highest level, and they will gain additional bonuses when you upgrade your Catalysts to level 10. All 5 Catalysts and their functions are as follows:

• Astral Pillar - Astral Magic: Form an aether pillar that taunts enemies for 3 seconds, after which a piercing wave emerges from it to deal substantial damage to enemies until you create another aether pillar or get far enough away from them.
• Celestial Surge - Astral Magic: Awaken an Oracular Rune that creates a special area, and all nearby enemies are pulled into the area. A torrent of stars will then strike the area 20 times at random, dealing damage each time.
• Cosmic Anomaly - Astral Magic: Manifest up to 5 anomalies that emit particles that damage enemies over 4 seconds.
• Disintegrate - Arcane Magic: Form an arcane conductor and fire a continuous beam between you and it, dealing steady lightning damage over 8 seconds.
• Propulsion - Arcane Magic: Creates a blast of mana that deals damage and knocks back all enemies. Enemies hit by the collision will also take another hit.

2. Infusions

Catalysts are already quite helpful, but if you want to further improve your Diablo 4 gold farming efficiency with Horadric Spells in Season 9, you’ll need to continue to fuse the power of Infusions.

Infusions provide additional power and magic to existing Catalysts, and determine their damage type. Unlike Catalysts, Infusions gain a bonus when they reach level 5, allowing your Catalyst to remove special effects possessed by the enemy.

• Corrosive Vapor - Poison or Poisoning damage
• Glacial Nimbus - Cold or Frostbiting damage
• Nebulous Extract - Shadow or Corrupting damage
• Smoldering Ember - Fire or Burning damage
• Thunderous Particle - Lightning or Sparking damage

3. Arcana

You can think of Arcana as a positive modifier that further improves Catalysts, including magic, rare, and legendary levels (I don’t know if it reminds you of boss power). Arcana can make your Horadric Spells more powerful by synergizing with Horadric Jewels that will be introduced to you later.

Magic Arcana:

• Bottled Wind
• Invigorating Helix
• Jagged Bramble
• Luminous Gem
• Murky Essence
• Reactive Ooze
• Shifting Powder
• Tendrilous Bundle
• Tranquil Stone
• Volatile Crystal

Rare Arcana:

• Fractured Core
• Gleaming Conduit
• Potent Alloy
• Sapping Crux
• Siphoning Gizmo

Legendary Arcana:

• Bloody Charm: Grants your Catalysts a special execution against non-boss enemies at or below 10% health, +2% per level.
• Floaty Bobble: Grants Catalysts a flickering effect that allows you to be unhindered for 2.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.
• Frigid Heart: Grants Catalysts a freeze effect that lasts 3.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.
• Nightmare Orb: Grants Catalysts a fear effect that lasts 4.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.
• Pressurized Steam: Grants Catalysts a stun effect that lasts 1.0 seconds, +0.4 seconds per level.

What Are Horadric Jewels?

As we have already mentioned, Horadric Jewels can bring you more additional effects by combining with Arcana. However, first, these effects may contain negative effects; second, they cannot be farmed through combat and can only be crafted at Wayfinders.

Before crafting, you need to complete Horadric Strongrooms at Torment 1 and above to obtain Horadric Tomes, which can teach you how to craft Horadric Jewels.

In addition, crafting Horadric Jewels also requires Horadric Phials and gem fragments, and after crafting, they can only be embedded in jewelry. All craftable Horadric Jewels are expected to include:

• Seal of Control
• Seal of Power
• Seal of Denial
• Horadric Crest
• Reverie Horn
• Scornful Light
• Tyrant Bane
• Liminal Echo
• Idol From Below
• Myriad Stone
• Spark of Creation
• Luminate Eye
• Brilliant Sigil
• Elemental Brand
• The Starflux

As a source of Horadric Tomes, Horadric Strongrooms is a seasonal dungeon that will be added to the game in Season 9, similar to Rootholds in Season 7, and its random entrance can be found in the nightmare dungeon. Besides Horadric Tomes, it should also drop gold, XP, and more rewards.

The above is all the information introduced to you this time. You can fully test them in 2.3.0 PTR under the guidance to welcome the subsequent Season 9. I wish you a happy game!

According to the general ARPG gameplay and mechanism, after you create your current Diablo 4 Season 8 character, the first thing to do is to start the main quest in time and upgrade the character to the maximum level as soon as possible by completing them and other early game tasks.

The current maximum level of the character in Diablo 4 is level 60, but this does not mean that you have no room to become stronger after the maximum level. In addition to converting leveling builds into builds more suitable for the endgame stage, the game also launched Paragon board for you to utilize.

You can directly regard this mechanism as an endgame character progression system. After unlocking it, you can expand it and upgrade it by earning Paragon points to get more attribute bonuses it provides. The system can be upgraded to level 300.

It has to be said that level 300 is really too large a number. You may doubt whether it can really be upgraded to the maximum level? Next, we will introduce how to do this on Season 8.

Actively Farming In The Pit

As one of the most important and difficult endgame dungeons in the game, The Pit is not only a source of Diablo 4 gold, character XP, and gear, but also the only place to earn Paragon XP. But to upgrade Paragon to the maximum level, you need to know the necessary The Pit farming skills.

Choose The Right Build

In fact, we have already mentioned this from the perspective of endgame experience at the beginning. From the normal campaign to the endgame, the difficulty and mechanics of the game will change, and you must adjust your combat plan to deal with them.

Different builds can enable the corresponding class to deal damage and defend in different forms. If you want to focus on farming Paragon XP in The Pit, we mainly recommend the following builds:

• Sorcerer - Lightning Spear Endgame Build: Mainly through Unstable Currents and Lightning Spears.
• Rogue - Death Trap Endgame Build: Constantly reset skills and gather enemies together for centralized elimination.
• Spiritborn - Quill Volley Eagle Endgame Build: It can deal with both AOE and single target damage, and is suitable for a variety of situations.

The common feature of these three builds is that they can deal a lot of damage in a short period, with fast burst power, so they can clear the enemy group with high efficiency, which is the best way to get Paragon XP in low-level The Pit.

In contrast, the other three classes lack this feature in terms of skills and available builds because of their different styles. Although this does not mean that they are not suitable for utilization in The Pit, they will be less efficient.

Don’t Stick To Challenging High Level

The Pit has 150 unlockable levels. The higher the level, the more challenging it is, and of course the more rewards. But if your character is not strong enough, or you just want to focus on getting Paragon XP instead of other high-level rewards, you can actually focus on the middle and low levels.

First of all, Paragon XP provided by this level of The Pit level is not small (of course, I don’t mean the part below level 20), which is enough for you to upgrade your Paragon board to a good level to cope with more difficult levels.

Secondly, if you die while playing a level that is beyond your capabilities, the current level timer will be increased by 30 seconds, the second death will be increased by 60 seconds, and from the third time onwards, each death will be increased by 90 seconds. This penalty effect will greatly slow down your farming progress, and it is not worth the loss.

Take Advantage Of XP Boost Opportunities

Diablo 4 sometimes holds special limited-time events during which you can get XP boost opportunities - this type of event is usually referred to Mother’s Blessing. During Mother’s Blessing, you will gain more Paragon XP than usual when you fight at levels of your usual level.

If you have time, you can also do a little calculation within the range of levels you can handle to evaluate which specific level has the most efficient clearance time/Paragon XP ratio.

Team Up To Complete

There is always more power in a team, especially if you are new to The Pit or are not very good at dealing with The Pit. If you have strong and reliable teammates in the team, you may even have the opportunity to challenge The Pit levels that are far beyond your capabilities, and gain more Paragon XP than playing alone.

Benefits Of Getting Paragon XP

Paragon nodes in the game include normal, magic, rare and legendary levels, which can provide you with different attribute bonuses and special effects, so that your character can continue to become stronger after the maximum level, and enough Paragon XP allows you to unlock more and rarer nodes until Paragon board is upgraded to level 300.

It is also worth noting that you can also find empty glyph slots in Paragon system. When you obtain glyphs through other channels and insert them, the effects of the nodes around their slots will be further strengthened.

These glyphs will also provide additional bonuses if you reach a certain primary attribute threshold through the nodes within the glyph radius. What’s more convenient is that you can always remove or reuse the glyphs in the slots according to the needs of different combat situations.

Although the method we provide should be useful, it still takes a lot of time and effort to upgrade your Paragon system to the highest level (level 300). So if you have free time, start working hard now! You will also get additional special rewards after reaching level 300!

For Diablo 4, regularly updating seasons is not only to give you a fresher gaming experience, but also to take the opportunity to make the game better by optimizing various aspects of the game mechanics.

Usually about halfway through the current season, the developers of Diablo 4 will hold a campfire chat to summarize the current season progress and give you a preview of the main content of the next season. However, this time the preview of Season 9 seems to come earlier than ever before.

At 11 am on May 22, the official held the latest campfire chat, which was less than a month after the launch of Season 8. Based on this, we will introduce you to the main information announced in this live broadcast to pave the way for your Season 9 experience.

Current Diablo 4 Performance

Although the simultaneous launch of Vessel of Hatred and Season 6 last year amazed you with its rich content and high playability, the new seasons after that have been criticized by players for being too homogeneous, including the ongoing Season 8.

Take this season as an example. The biggest features of boss power and the return of Belial are indeed attractive, but the boss power mechanism itself is actually a variant of the old season power, without substantial innovation, and Belial boss battle does not bring any special mechanism.

And Apparition Incursions event, another major content of the eighth season, actually just forces you to repeat the same battle over and over again, and complete the upgrade and Diablo 4 gold farming by obtaining magic boss power - although this is important, the boring battle is indeed unbearable.

Therefore, it can be seen from the campfire chat that the development team seems to intend to change this situation starting from Season 9, and strive to ensure that you have the opportunity to carry out various activities in the future Diablo 4, rather than being trapped in a specific activity.

What Will PTR 2.3.0 Include?

In Diablo 4, most PTRs are small “new seasons” that allow you to experience the gameplay of the next season in advance in the form of testing, and make corrections and adjustments in time based on your feedback and other players’ feedback, so that the new season will be more perfect when it is officially launched.

The core of this PTR 2.3.0 is Season 9, Sins of the Horadrim. PTR will be officially launched on May 27 and will last until June 3 (about a week like in the past), during which you can experience the new content that is now basically confirmed to appear in Season 9.

Comprehensive Upgrade Of Nightmare Dungeon

As an important source of your gold, XP and basic gear farming in Diablo 4, Nightmare Dungeon is a very important game mechanic. It has been running since the game was launched in 2023, and now it is time to make it better.

First, the dungeon itself will add an advanced mode called Escalating Nightmares, which allows you to challenge three nightmare dungeons in a row, and each dungeon will add new affixes that can increase both difficulty and rewards.

When you complete all the challenges brought by these three dungeons, you will usher in a final boss battle, but the premise is that you have obtained Strongrooms in challenges that require Torment 1 and above, and collected enough Escalating Nightmare Sigil from them to unlock the boss battle.

You may wonder what Strongrooms are, in fact, it comes from another update to Nightmare Dungeons. Season 9 will add a new micro-dungeon called Horadric Strongrooms to Nightmare Dungeons, and the entrance is hidden in Nightmare Dungeon.

Find the entrance and enter, and you can start collecting Horadric ‘attunement’ by killing enemies. This item can increase the number of rewards you get after killing the boss in this dungeon and unlocking its Strongroom.

New Boss Astaroth

This boss, like Belial from Season 8, is a return of an existing Diablo villain (old boss). The value of Astaroth is that when he appeared in the game in the past, his encounters were among the most interesting of all bosses.

In order to avoid the misunderstanding of “old wine in new bottles”, the developers said in the chat that they would not let Astaroth simply integrate into the existing boss ladder directly, but would try to find ways to integrate bosses in different ways to make the main content of the final boss battle more innovative.

Seasonal Power Horadric Spells

Well, Diablo 4 does not seem to intend to abandon the representative mechanism of seasonal power just because of the dissatisfaction of players. To be honest, what you are tired of is not the mechanism itself, but the fact that different powers in different seasons always play the same form in the end in actual battles.

For this reason, the development team said that compared to the boss power or witch power that can be used directly after unlocking, Season 9 Horadric Spells will allow you to customize this power yourself and create your own Horadric Spell in a form similar to build.

Since neither PTR nor Season 9 has been launched yet, it is still impossible to judge the practicality of this mechanism. However, at least from the design concept, it is indeed more creative than the existing seasonal power and worth looking forward to.

In addition to the above three core contents, it is expected that Season 9 will continue to optimize each class on the basis of bringing new content, so that they can ensure it maintains balanced class strength while fitting in with the theme of the new season.

If you are interested in the changes in Season 9, please experience and evaluate it immediately when PTR 2.3.0 is launched. I wish you a happy game!

In general, if you choose Barbarian as your class in Diablo 4, it seems that you will attack enemies in a “brute force but slow” way. Although some Barbarian skills are true, in fact, this class can also achieve quick wins with other skills and related builds.

After entering Diablo 4 Season 8, the seasonal event Apparition Incursions is a worthy priority event, because it provides you with the opportunity to farm Diablo 4 gold and magic boss power through many ordinary enemies and Apparition bosses. And if you complete it at a higher difficulty, the loot will be more.

On this basis, if you want to clear enemies in the event more efficiently while playing as Barbarian, or complete other Season 8 dungeons faster, it is recommended that you craft and utilize Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build.

Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build Introduction

In fact, this build is not a new Barbarian build. It has already appeared and played a role in previous seasons. The operating mechanism of this build is to improve the character’s versatility, damage and survivability through 3 Shouts, then let Iron Skin increase defense value, and generate additional Fury through Call of the Ancients.

After entering the eighth season, the reason why Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame is worth re-activating is that the skill Gohr’s Devastating Grips has been reworked this season, allowing Whirlwind Barbarian to have new winning ideas besides Nature or Earthquake, and more efficiently!

Advantages And Disadvantages

Based on combining the best skills, this build can achieve high damage value, larger attack range in battle, and more effectively attack distant enemies by closing the distance between them, and can produce reliable synergy with Runewords.

As for the shortcomings, on the one hand, the operation process of the entire build is highly repetitive, which is a bit dull compared to other more fancy builds; on the other hand, the effect is poor when fighting single bosses. But at least for Apparition Incursions, this build is still very useful.

Skills Selection And Rotation

Almost all Diablo 4 builds are crafted with active skills as the core, and then passive skills and gear are used to further enhance these active skills that can output damage. For Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame, it is recommended that you choose the following skills:

Active Skills

• Whirlwind - Furious Whirlwind - 1/5 - Core
• Rallying Cry - Tactical Rallying Cry - 1/5 - Defensive
• Challenging Shout - Tactical Challenging Shout - 1/5 - Defensive
• Iron Skin - Tactical Iron Skin - 1/5 - Defensive
• War Cry - Power War Cry - 5/5 - Brawling
• Call of the Ancients - Supreme Call of the Ancients - 5/5 - Ultimate

Passive Skills

• Key Passive - Unconstrained
• Offensive Passive - No Mercy, Pit Fighter Pit Fighter, Slaying Strike, Counteroffensive, Thick Skin
• Defensive Passive - Imposing Presence, Martial Vigor, Raid Leader, Guttural Yell, Aggressive Resistance
• Utility Passive - Booming Voice, Swiftness

After choosing and mastering the above skills, you need to cast them in a fixed order during the battle, and then repeat the whole process until all enemies are dead:

• Continuously release the core skill Whirlwind to drive more and stronger Dust Devils and Earthquakes to cause damage to the enemy.
• Selectively cast Shouts and Iron Skin according to the changes in the battle situation to extend your survival time.
• Utilize Call of the Ancients and its more powerful versions to improve resource generation.

Best Gear

Skills are the foundation of the build. If you want to use them to deal with more difficult battles, especially Torment 4 with top difficulty, you must farm more precious gear to further improve your various attributes. The gear that’s best for Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame includes:

• Helm - Ugly Bastard Helm
• Chest - Mantle of Mountain’s Fury
• Gloves - Fists of Fate
• Pants - Arreat’s Bearing
• Boots - Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind
• Amulet - Dust Devil’s Aspect
• Ring - Ring of Starless Skies and Bold Chieftain’s Aspect
• Main Hand - Aspect of Fierce Winds

The above gear is basically dropped by completing boss battles, so it’s really tricky to collect. You can replace some of them according to your actual situation, but it has to be said that it may reduce the lethality of the build.

Best Boss Powers

Any season’s exclusive power is worth paying attention to and using, not to mention that in Season 8, these powers that originally belonged to powerful bosses are so attractive! To maximize the effectiveness of the build, it is recommended that you equip the following 4 boss powers:

• Main: Wandering Death’s Chest Beam

This power is triggered when you use your core skill Whirlwind, dealing damage and debuff to enemies. It is worth noting that since Whirlwind is actually always active during combat, this boss power will also always be active.

• Modifier: Sinerat’s Flames

You can deal fire damage to enemies when you trigger Earthquakes, and this modifier power can further increase your fire damage.

• Modifier: Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley

In addition to the debuffs caused by the main power Wandering Death’s Chest Beam, Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley will multiply this effect for five seconds.

• Modifier: Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste

Gives you a bonus to your critical strike chance.

Once you’ve completed Whirlwind Barbarian Endgame Build as described above, you should actually be strong enough to handle most of Diablo 4 Season 8 content, even Torment 4 difficulty! Good luck!

Whenever you enter the world of Diablo 4, the first step is to create a new character and choose a class for it. After that, all the skills, appearances, unique items and more that you can utilize often depend on your class.

On this basis, game builds that mainly rely on skills and gear to craft will naturally vary depending on the class. And when the game changes seasons, the strongest builds for each class will also change due to changes in bosses or adjustments to dungeon mechanisms.

Based on this, this time we will use Season 8 as the background to introduce to you which build is suitable for each of the 6 classes in Diablo 4 as the mainstream build of the season.

1. Spiritborn - Quill Volley

Compared to other Spiritborn builds, Quill Volley will focus more on damage output, and at the same time have reliable tank capabilities and high mobility. But to enjoy these benefits, you must pair it with rarer gear.

For this reason, in fact, before completing the craft of this build, you need to go through very hard battles to accumulate enough Diablo 4 gold and gear to complete Quill Volley. But the advantage is that it can help you get higher combat efficiency than others after entering the endgame.

To do this, you’ll need the following skills and gear for this build:

Active Skills

• Quill Volley - Advantageous Quill Volley - 5/5 - Core
• Ravager - Measured Ravager - 1/5 - Focus
• Armored Hide - Reinforced Armored Hide - 1/5 - Defensive
• Vortex - Measured Vortex - 1/5 - Focus
• Scourge - Adaptable Scourge - 1/5 - Defensive
• The Hunter - Exalted Hunter - 1/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Harmony of Ebewaka
• Shroud of False Death
• Aspect of the Moonrise
• Duelist’s Aspect
• Yen’s Blessing
• Banished Lord’s Talisman

2. Sorcerer - Lightning Spear

If you want to quickly clear enemies as a Sorcerer in Season 8, and complete most of the seasonal missions and endgame dungeons with maximum efficiency, then Lightning Spear is still the best choice.

As its name suggests, this build mainly outputs power through Lightning Spear and Aspect of Splintering Energy. On the other hand, you can also match it with the appropriate seasonal power boss power in addition to gear to make this build more powerful.

Gear

• Cap of Disobedience
• Snowveiled Tunic
• Focus of Elemental Constellation
• Dagger of Engulfing Flames
• Storm Swell Gloves
• Everliving Pants
• Flamewalker’s Boots
• Amulet of Control

Boss Powers

• Ashava’s Poison Breath
• Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
• Torusk’s Rage
• Allek’s Talons

3. Barbarian - Call Of The Ancients

Compared to the best builds of the first two classes, Barbarian’s Call of the Ancients may has be forgotten by you for a long time, but it has to be said that after the mechanism of adjustment in Vessel of Hatred last year, it can now play a good effect in Season 8.

This build mainly increases the damage of the build by maximizing the duration of the core skill Call of the Ancients to help you deal with Torment difficulty and the single boss in it. However, due to the characteristics of the skills, this build is not suitable for fast gold farming.

Active Skills

• Bash - Enhanced Bash - 2/5 - Basic
• Ground Stomp - Tactical Ground Stomp - 1/5 - Defensive
• Rallying Cry - Strategic Rallying Cry - 1/5 - Defensive
• Challenging Shout - Enhanced Challenging Shout - 1/5 - Defensive
• War Cry - Power War Cry - 1/5 - Brawling
• Call of the Ancients - Supreme Call of the Ancients - 5/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Harlequin Crest
• Tyrael’s Might
• Aspect of Inner Calm
• Arreat’s Bearing
• Hectic Aspect
• Locran’s Talisman

4. Necromancer - Blood Spear And Blood Wave

For this class, the focus of builds selection this season is still blood-oriented. Both Blood Spear and Blood Wave can play a good role, but they actually have different advantages and disadvantages. You can decide which one to choose based on our introduction.

Blood Spear

This build mainly uses the main skill Bone Spear and the unique item Indira’s Memory to play a role. It not only has a large enough damage range, but also guarantees overpowers. At the same time, Indira’s Memory can also change the visual effects of the skill, making the battle more enjoyable.

As for the shortcomings, the problem with Blood Spear is that it relies too much on essence during utilization. You must devote your energy to provide a stable source of essence for it. In addition, the freedom of choice when assigning skill points to appropriate skills is low.

Blood Wave

This build can output stable and powerful damage through the skill Blood Wave, easily dealing with groups or single enemies, and the gameplay is simple and easy to understand, suitable for most players. As for the shortcomings, it is mainly reflected in the fact that collecting blood orbs is very time-consuming.

5. Rogue - Death Trap

For Rogue, we recommend that you choose Death Trap as the core build in Season 8. Combining the skill of the same name with the armor Scoundrel’s Leathers, this build will allow you to easily defeat enemies through continuous teaming and gain a lot of cooldown time through the game loop.

Active Skills

• Caltrops - Methodical Caltrops - 1/5 - Agility
• Shadow Step - Methodical Shadow Step - 1/5 - Agility
• Smoke Grenade - Subverting Smoke Grenade - 1/5 - Subterfuge
• Concealment - Subverting Concealment - 1/5 - Subterfuge
• Shadow Imbuement - Mixed Shadow Imbuement - 1/5 - Imbuement
• Death Trap - Supreme Death Trap - 5/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Harlequin Crest
• Scoundrel’s Leathers
• Crossbow of Apogeic Furor
• Sword of Artful Initiative
• Doombringer
• Trickster’s Gloves
• Eyes in the Dark

6. Druid - Cataclysm

You might be wondering, why the hell is Cataclysm again? But it has to be said that classics are timeless. As a veteran build for a veteran class, Cataclysm is your best choice when you are in trouble as a Druid in Diablo 4.

This build mainly revolves around the key skill Cataclysm and extends its duration and power by matching it with appropriate gear and runes to cope with most game content.

Active Skills

• Maul - Enhanced Maul - 1/5 - Basic
• Pulverize - Primal Pulverize - 1/5 - Core
• Earthen Bulwark - Preserving Earthen Bulwark - 1/5 - Defensive
• Blood Howl - Innate Blood Howl - 1/5 - Defensive
• Debilitating Roar - Innate Debilitating Roar - 1/5 - Defensive
• Hurricane - Savage Hurricane - 1/5 - Wrath
• Cataclysm - Supreme Cataclysm - 5/5 - Ultimate

Gear

• Tempest Roar
• Tyrael’s Might
• Runeworker’s Conduit Aspect
• Stormshifter’s Aspect
• Flickerstep
• Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt

If there are any of the above builds that you think are good and correspond to the class you are playing, then why not complete it and use it in battle? Try it now!

From an aesthetic point of view, Necromancer may be the most in line with the game style of all Diablo 4 classes: gloom, death and decay. In fact, this class also brings wonderful combat performance based on fully reflecting this style.

In the previous seasons, several blood-dominated Necromancer builds became popular and became mainstream, such as Blood Bone Spear, Blood Lance and more. Of course, they are still viable in Season 8, but I don’t know if you still remember Minion Endgame Build.

In addition to the available skills, Necromancer can also summon the army of the undead or golems to clear enemies through the class-exclusive mechanism Book of the Dead, and you can even further upgrade them. Minion Necromancer Endgame Build was born based on this.

Next, we will introduce to you how to make this build easier to utilize and increase the speed of clearing enemies after entering Season 8. Let’s take a look!

Build Overview - Pros & Cons

This build provides you with multiple damage multipliers and sources of sustained damage in combat, allowing you to farm Diablo 4 gold or other more valuable items in difficult endgame dungeons such as The Pit or Kurast Undercity.

This is primarily because the build can deal more damage to enemies through Blight, Skeletal Warrior Mastery, and Skeletal Mage Mastery, and then continue to increase the damage by upgrading Hellbent Commander and matching the right gear.

In terms of survivability, different skills can be used in different ways, such as:

• Blood Mist: Provides immunity and healing effects.
• Necrotic Carapace: Provides Fortify when you or your minions deal damage.
• Soulrift: Provides a short barrier effect by reducing the cooldown of the ultimate skill.
• Corpse Tendrils: Enemies affected by this skill are stunned and cannot damage you for the duration of the stun.

As for weaknesses, the main one is that since this build is an endgame build, it may only work in the late game and will not help you level up your character much. Other shortcomings include:

• No Golem: May weaken your tankiness, healing, and control effects.
• Some available items do not include maximum health or armor.
• Lack of Cursed Aura or Curse skill (can be compensated by Blood Moon Breeches)

Best Skills And Rotation

In addition to the available skills that have been introduced to you, this build needs to further combine more Necromancer skills and rotate them in a fixed order to maximize the effect of all skills. The best rotation order is as follows:

• 1. Attack the enemy with Blight while commanding your minions to continue attacking.
• 2. After the enemy corpse appears, activate Corpse Tendrils to pull multiple enemies to the corpse to stun other enemies. After that, the minions will randomly spread curses for you, slowing down and stunning the enemy.
• 3. Activate the ultimate skill Soulrift to damage the enemy and gain a temporary barrier.
• 4. When more corpses appear in the arena, release Raise Skeleton 5 times to summon a Skeletal Priest to enhance the attack power of you and your minions.
• 5. Get a temporary damage multiplier bonus through Flesh-eater.
• 6. Cast Reap once every 4 seconds to maintain the damage reduction effect, while also applying vulnerability to the enemy.

It is worth noting that when attacking an enemy through Reap, if the enemy dies, you will continue to gain the attack speed bonus, and even your minions can inherit the bonus from your attributes, causing more damage in combat.

How To Utilize Book Of The Dead?

This mechanic allows you to summon 3 types of minions, namely Skeletal Warriors, Skeletal Mages, and Golems, and each has 3 specializations, namely:

• Skeletal Warriors: Skirmishers, Defenders, or Reapers.
• Skeletal Mages: Shadow Mages, Cold Mages or Bone Mages.
• Golem: Bone Golems, Blood Golems or Iron Golems.

The best Book of the Dead utilize plan for Minion Necromancer Endgame Build is:

• Add an additional Skirmisher
• Each additional Shadow Mage can get 3% damage bonus
• Sacrifice Golem to gain critical damage multiplier

Skirmisher can be combined with Ring of Mendeln to provide more damage, and Skeletal Priests and Blood Orbs can not only heal your minions, but also prolong the survival time of Shadow Mages.

Best Gear

The main purpose of all the gear you need to add to this build involves maximizing the damage of your minions, as well as all sources of sustained damage, including:

• Helm: Heir of Perdition (+ Lucky Hit Chance & Critical Strike Chance)
• Chest: Shroud of False Death (+ All Stats & Maximum Health)
• Gloves: Aspect of Reanimation (+ Skeletal Mage Mastery & Intelligence & Armor)
• Pants: Blood Moon Breeches (+ Hellbent Commander & Critical Strike Chance)
• Boots: Blood Getter’s Aspect (+ Skeletal Warrior Mastery & Intelligence & Soulrift Duration)
• Amulet: Aspect of Occult Dominion (+ Hellbent Commander & Coalesced Blood & Intelligence)
• Ring 1: Aspect of the Great Feast (+ Intelligence & Attack Speed ​​& Summon Damage)
• Ring 2: Ring of Mendeln (+ Skeletal Mastery & Intelligence & Summon Attack Speed)
• Main Hand: The Grandfather (+ All Stats & Maximum Life & Maximum Resource)

Best Boss Powers

As a feature of this season, boss power is worth adding to all builds. You can carry one main power and three modifier powers for each battle. For Minion Endgame, the most suitable boss power is:

• Main: Lord Zir’s Blood Pool
• Modifier: Beastmaster’s Training
• Modifier: Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
• Modifier: Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley

The above is the combination and utilization method to make Minion Necromancer Endgame Build more powerful in Diablo 4 Season 8. If you need it, you can log in to the game to try it. Thank you for reading.

After entering Diablo 4, your Sanctuary battle journey officially begins! Whether you want to advance the main story first or want to clear the early dungeons to complete Diablo 4 gold accumulation, you can’t do without battles of all sizes.

Faced with this situation, in order for your character to complete the battle as quickly as possible while ensuring the health value, you not only need to increase the defense value, but also must do everything possible to improve your damage output ability, and eliminate the enemy by causing more damage at one time.

In fact, there are many ways to do this, but considering the differences between different Diablo 4 seasons, these methods also need to be adjusted regularly. Based on this, we will introduce you how to increase your damage by 100 times or more in Diablo 4 Season 8.

Source Of Damage Output

To find out the origin of a river, you must trace it back to the source along its flow path. If you want to know how to increase the damage of Diablo 4 characters, you must at least know where your damage comes from in the game.

There is no doubt that character skills are the most basic and important source of damage. In comparison, other methods are actually combinations or upgrades of various skills. When you create a new Diablo 4 Season 8 character, you can choose a class, and all the skills used in battle are exclusive to that class.

When you are familiar with all the skills and enter a deeper level of the game, you can follow the guide or explore craft class builds on your own, and combine items and gear to increase your damage output. In addition, mercenaries, summons or other class-specific mechanisms can also provide you with additional damage output.

Choose The Most Suitable Skills And Builds

There are currently 6 classes available in Season 8, each of which has its own strengths and can play a different role in battle. As a player, you must have the habit of playing ARPG or Diablo 4. Although new classes are more attractive, if you want to become a damage master as soon as possible in the new season, familiar classes will definitely be more suitable.

After mastering most of the practical skills, you should find that some skills can be used in a specific rotation order to hit the enemy without breathing time, which is more powerful than blindly casting high-damage skills. This is the prototype of builds.

After that, you can organize this rotation more systematically and match these items with your basic builds during the farming process, so that unique items or legendary aspects can become the icing on the cake and play their due value.

Farm Items At Torment Difficulty

As we have already mentioned, precious Diablo 4 items can help you improve your builds, but these items are not always 100% dropped, and the more precious and effective they are, the harder they are to get.

For this reason, if your ability allows, it is best to farm game items at high levels of Torment difficulty. This will not only increase the chance of getting relevant drops, but also accumulate rich combat experience and learn how to increase the damage value in specific battles.

Maximize Your Glyphs

Glyphs are also called Paragon glyphs, their existence itself is to strengthen your character. When your character reaches the maximum level 60, it can no longer be strengthened through upgrading. At that time, besides the builds and items, glyphs are the most powerful booster.

Glyphs are usually found in various places when you explore, and then they are inserted into special slots on each Paragon panel. They will provide you with significant bonuses based on the number of active tiles within their radius.

It is worth noting that you can continue to upgrade glyphs. The higher the level, the larger the radius of effect, which will have a greater impact on more active tiles on Paragon board.

Since the launch of Vessel of Hatred DLC last year, the way glyphs are upgraded has changed from relying on experience to depending on your level of The Pit. The Pit is one of the endgame dungeons with 150 tiers, and each completed floor can get different rewards.

After completing Artificer’s Mastery, you will get three opportunities to upgrade the glyph level, and if you do not die during the challenge, you will also get an additional upgrade attempt.

It is worth noting that the chance of upgrading a glyph depends on the level of the glyph and the level of The Pit you have completed. For example, completing The Pit tier 10 higher than your glyph level will give you a guaranteed upgrade. And when you complete The Pit tier that is much higher than your current glyph level, each subsequent attempt will give you a bonus upgrade opportunity.

Be Good At Utilizing Support Mechanisms

First of all, it is worth introducing the mercenary mechanism that debuted in DLC. This mechanism allows you to recruit two mercenaries and bring them into battle. One of them is the main one, and the other is a reinforcement, which will provide you with support in different combat situations.

There are currently 4 mercenaries in the game, namely Raheir, Varyana, Aldkin and Subo. They have different skills, suitable for different classes to carry, and they also have corresponding skill trees, which you can use to unlock and upgrade the mercenary skills.

In addition, all classes in Diablo 4 have their own unique mechanism to play combat effects in the most class-specific form. They are:

• Barbarian: Arsenal System
• Rogue: Specialization
• Sorceress: Enchantment System
• Druid: Spirit Boons
• Necromancer: Book of the Dead
• Spiritborn: Spirit Hall

Season 8 Boss Powers

Most Diablo 4 seasons have Season Powers, which are not only a feature of the season, but also one of the best ways to deal more damage - at least they are very useful in the corresponding season. In Season 8, this power is boss power.

Boss powers can be obtained by killing 24 bosses in the season. After that, in a single battle, you can choose a main power and 3 modifier powers to equip, combining all the mechanics and content mentioned above to further increase your damage and become more powerful.

These are the main ways to maximize your damage output in Diablo 4 Season 8. I hope it can inspire you! Have fun!

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!