To quickly accumulate game resources in Diablo 4 series, farming in various dungeons should be the most effective way. In the past few seasons, various normal dungeons, nightmare dungeons and Helltides have provided you with a lot of Diablo 4 Gold, and in Season 7 you can also do this by exploring Rootholds.
As a new event in Season of Witchcraft, Rootholds can not only provide you with good equipment and resources but also let you experience the new Diablo 4 combat fun. Fortunately, it is not difficult to clear these dungeons. But before entering and farming these dungeons, you need to reserve enough Roothold Keys.
Roothold Keys are also called Whispering Wood sigils. You can start synchronous farming after starting the main quest of Season 7, but it will become more and more difficult to obtain these keys in the later stages of the game. Based on this, we will provide you with a way to obtain Roothold Keys and tell you how to find Rootholds dungeons later.
How To Get Roothold Keys?
Based on the current Season 7 situation, the best way for you to get Roothold Keys is to farm Whispers in Headhunt areas of Sanctuary. Headhunt areas are represented by teal icons in the area on the world map, and function very similarly to Helltides, meaning they are only active for a short time, and once the timer expires, they end and a new one spawns somewhere else.
All Headhunt areas will give you multiple Tree of Whispers bounties, and completing them, as well as killing monsters and completing events in the area, will give you other regular rewards, including Whispering Wood sigils, which are keys to enter Roothold dungeon.
The drop rate of Whispering Wood sigils is very low, and you may need to consume several hours collecting them in Headhunt area, and you may only end up with a few keys, or even none at all. Although the drop rate seems to be improved on Torment I difficulty, it is still difficult if you want to farm in large quantities.
Opening Silent Chests
Once you get some locked Silent Chests in Headhunt zone, opening them has a chance to drop Whispering Wood sigils and some loot for you, but you need to get Whispering Keys to open them. These keys can be obtained by opening Whisper Caches in Tree of Whispers, or use Obols to exchange at Purveyors of Curiosities in the main town.
What Is Roothold Dungeon?
You can actually think of Rootholds as the nightmare dungeons in Diablo 4 Season 7. While the regular nightmare dungeons are still there in this season, Rootholds are a better choice for Diablo 4 Gold farming because of their higher loot drop rate. And if you run Rootholds after unlocking at least Torment I you will have a chance to get better rewards, such as Ancestral Uniques items.
But to enter Rootholds, you not only need to get the keys Whispering Wood sigils that we have already introduced to you, but also need to work hard to find its exact location.
Where Are Rootholds?
Once you have enough Roothold Keys, also known as Whispering Wood sigils, you first need to activate them in your inventory, just like you did with nightmare dungeons. Once you have converted a normal dungeon into a Roothold, you can open the map and teleport directly into that dungeon from your current location.
Roothold dungeons can spawn anywhere on Diablo 4 map, depending on which key you use, so be prepared to make sure you can handle any Roothold, as the rules vary from one Roothold to another.
How Do You Navigate Rootholds?
Once you enter the dungeon and make your way through the first passage, you will see several magical roots as you reach the surface, each of which can act as a modifier to adjust the difficulty of the current Roothold.
There are usually two easier modifiers and two more challenging options. You must select at least one modifier to explore further in a Roothold, but it is recommended to select up to two if possible, and the rewards you receive after completing the current dungeon will be greatly increased if you select the more difficult modifiers.
As you make your way through Rootholds, you should come across another gate with three additional modifiers, picking any two of which will further increase the difficulty level and boost your completion reward as you fight your way to the end. You’ll also get more loot if you interact with each Exposed Root you encounter.
It’s worth noting that every enemy spawned in a Roothold is also Headrotten, which means that in addition to the normal rewards, you can also earn a lot of Season 7’s special currency, Restless Rot, by clearing Roothold dungeons - enough Restless Rot can allow you to upgrade the witchcraft powers you already have, or gain more unique witchcraft powers.
The above introduction should be enough to help you find Rootholds smoothly, but if you want to get a lot of game items from it, you’ll have to invest a lot of time of Roothold Keys farming, as the drop rate of keys is very low. So here’s hoping you can collect enough Roothold Keys as soon as possible. Good luck!
