Harbinger of Hatred serves as the ultimate boss and the transformation of Mephisto, Lord of Hatred in Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred DLC.
With the battle being consistently pushing forward, this wolf will grow into a powerful devil and become invulnerable in a short period. To achieve the genuine harm to final boss, your character is required to get assistance from Akarat.
This holy lion can offer your hand to demolish the avatar of Hatred and leave him indulging in the state of being temporarily weakened during this hardest boss fight of the campaign.
This guide details the method to defeat ultimate boss in Vessel Of Hatred DLC. To achieve this object, it is recommended to get some necessary items to level up your builds to the next stage by devoting some Diablo 4 Gold.
Harbinger Of Hatred Details
You will encounter Harbinger of Hatred on the radar of Tomb of Akarat when completing the quest “All Good Things” in Nahantu region.
It is a challenging boss that can not be defeated if you are absent of defensive skills or the items to keep you alive or heal your build. However, you can lower the difficulty to World Tier 1 to reduce the challenge.
Harbinger of Hatred reduces the battlefield to a circular area by using its tendrils and summons mountains of horde of Hollow monsters. And it also represents the signal that the last battle kicks off. Players must defend against the incoming horde attacks in this area.
Afterwards, Harbinger of Hatred will occasionally spit out the orb of Akarat’s power, capturing it to gain overwhelming holy attack and infinite resources briefly.
This is bound to be a long, hard battle which features multiple phases. If you stand in the wrong position, you will die almost immediately. Even for some experienced players, death may occur in an instant. Therefore, it is wise to enhance defensive skills, movement abilities that support you to avoid attacks immediately.
Harbinger Of Hatred Phase 1
Harbinger of Hatred is a wolf demon with giant physique, but also pretty fast movement speed. He emits new Hollows while casting waves of attacks.
Stay behind Harbinger of Hatred to avoid damage, especially when he launches a Ranger Wave attack.
When Harbinger of Hatred summons explosive AOE attacks from the air, please dodge as the circle shrinks. Try running around, supporting you to see the circle and dodge at the right moment. Otherwise, you will be attacked and most likely killed instantly.
The most important thing in the first phase is to collect the orb of Akarat’s power that Harbinger of Hatred drops, which is designed to help you launch powerful attacks - aim and hit the boss to stun it for a few seconds. During being stunned, it is an important opportunity for you to launch a counterattack.
Seize the chance and unlock passive skills to enhance your Ultimates as you can.
Harbinger Of Hatred Phase 2
The main skills in phase 2 are Tendril Onslaught and Empowered Tendril Smash to cast shockwaves, and the main method to deal with is to dodge.
At 50% health, the second phase begins and Harbinger of Hatred. will also gain a new attack. He will jump to the center of the arena and create a shockwave while shooting tendrils. Players are needed to dodge the shockwave and tendrils as fast as possible.
Also, tendrils have stronger versions in the later stages, the corruption tendrils. Be careful of those lingering beam of corruption or you will undoubtably be slayed in just one move.
When her health is around 25-30%, Harbinger of Hatred will once again form a circle around you and send out Hollows to fight you.
As Harbinger of Hatred’s health only remains 5/10%, Akarat will join the fight and grants you unlimited resources to resist large Hollows and elites and to demolish Mephisto’s avatar in the end.
Controversy Result
After the ultimate boss is defeated, Vessel Of Hatred DLC does not bring us a complete ending, because in the end Akarat’s mortal body is eventually being consumed by Mephisto’s corruption. This means that Mephisto has a new vessel. This also means that the fight with Mephisto is far from over.
This has also led to quite a controversial discussion about the ending of the entire expansion. One of the main reasons is that it never really completed its original setting.
The main background of Vessel Of Hatred DLC is Neyrelle venturing into the depths of Nahantu jungle with the aim of destroying Prime Evil Mephisto. This naturally corresponds to how Mephisto is truly defeated, without the ambiguous rebirth.
No matter what happened, what really matters is to defeat Harbinger of Hatred and expect more fantastic storyline in the later series.
That’s it for you on how to defeat the last boss - Harbinger of Hatred in Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred DLC. Whichever class and build you choose to face the ultimate battle with, hope you can achieve an excellent result. Thanks for reading.
