News Tag: Diablo 4 Season 7

The 2.2.0 PTR, which allows you to experience and test Season 8 in advance, has officially ended on March 18. From now until April 29, how to make Season 8 better is the work of Diablo 4 developers. All you have to do is to continue to work hard in Season 7 to ensure that there are enough Diablo 4 Gold and other necessary resource reserves when the next season comes.

Therefore, in order to improve the quality of your remain Season 7 journey, Diablo 4 has added patch 2.1.4 for you immediately after the end of PTR. This patch focuses on enhancing your Diablo 4 experience, optimizing the performance of devices in visual effects presentation while eliminating some bugs in Season 7 that have been bothering you. Although this is just a regular patch, it has made thoughtful optimizations for different aspects of the game. If you can understand each of the items, you will adapt to its benefits more quickly.

Device-Related Changes

The most important and eye-catching change in patch 2.1.4 is the addition of Intel XeSS 1.3 and frame generation support. If you use Intel graphics cards to play games, this is great news because it means that as a Diablo 4 PC player with the right hardware, you can get smoother frame rates and clearer visuals. This is actually by taking advantage of Intel’s AI-enhanced up-scaling technology to give you better image quality without sacrificing performance.

In the past, if you have been running Diablo 4 on Intel Arc GPUs, you may feel that the game has always lagged behind other games of the same type in this regard, but the arrival of patch 2.1.4 will definitely change this situation. Frame generation can create additional frames to smooth the game, and when used with XeSS, it can also keep the game picture clear and detailed enough when FPS rises.

Another device-related optimization content is the implementation of default resolution scaling, which allows Diablo 4 to adjust the internal resolution automatically to better match the hardware you are using. For example, if you play Diablo 4 on a weak system, this new feature can automatically help you keep the device and the game consistent in performance without having to adjust the settings yourself; if you play on good devices, you will also notice a clearer image.

Major Bugs Fixed

This 2.1.4 patch fixes not only the bugs related to the new content in Season 7, but also fixes some long-standing problems, and strengthens some slightly insufficient classes appropriately, ensuring that your Diablo 4 class experience is better and the game environment is fairer.

Treasure Goblins Event Bugs

Although March Of The Goblins event ended on March 11, the 6 goblins available for hunting in the event still exist in the game and you may still encounter them. However, there was a bug related to the goblins before, that is, when they appeared in Headhunter zones in Season 7, the relevant prompt sound was not clear enough.

So in patch 2.1.4, the team fixed and redesigned it so that when you encounter goblins in Headhunter zones, you can now hear their movements more clearly to track them, ensuring that you don’t miss their drop rewards such as gold, runes, and unique items.

Druid Class Improvements

Before the release of patch 2.1.4, if you relied on Boulder projectiles to fight as a Druid, you would find that your attacks were inexplicably destroyed by Cocoons. Fortunately, this problem has been resolved and you will have a better experience in Construct encounters.

Other Bugs Fixed

Other bugs that have been fixed include Inquisitor teleporting back to town in some cases and you can’t rename gear after turning off the adult language filter. Now they all work properly. If you are careful enough, you will also notice some minor quality of life and visual effects improvements, such as improved textures and lighting in some areas of the game world.

In addition, patch 2.1.4 also introduces stability improvements. This feature can be easily overlooked because it runs quietly in the background, but it is very important for the normal operation of a MMORPG like Diablo 4. The improvements brought by patch 2.1.4 now ensure that the game has fewer random crashes and freezes.

Gameplay Changes

Gameplay improvements are also important, which means that Season 7 will be remembered long after it is over. Specifically, such changes mainly include class balance: in addition to Druid-related bug fixes mentioned above, the damage of Barbarian’s Whirlwind skill has been increased by 8%, and Sorcerer’s Chain Lightning has been reduced by 5% to make the game’s class play more balanced.

Other gameplay updates include:

• Enemy scales at higher world tiers are now adjusted to provide you with a more consistent challenge.
• Elite monsters in nightmare dungeons now have predictable health values, ​​to avoid extreme situations as before.
• The item drop system has been adjusted to reduce the repetitiveness of unique item drops, allowing you to better track recently obtained unique items and reduce the probability of receiving the same item.

With the above information, you should have a preliminary and comprehensive understanding of patch 2.1.4, so now you can continue to enjoy Diablo 4 Season 7 with confidence!

Even if you are a player who has been playing Diablo 4 since the first season in 2023, you probably can’t say for sure that you know all aspects of this game, because the game will be updated regularly in addition to fixed content, and new seasons will be released every 3-4 months, which always contain new content, so you have to always explore them.

For example, in the ongoing Season 7, there are as many as 25 new season power witch powers available! Therefore, even if this season has been going on for more than a month, it may be difficult for you to understand each of them based on your exploration progress in the game. Although your single character can only equip 6 witch powers at most, you can only choose the ones that suit you best after understanding the role of each power.

Based on this, at the halfway point of the seventh season, we will bring you a comprehensive and grand introduction to the full collection of Season 7 witch powers.

Witch Powers Overview

The 25 witch powers include 7 Eldritch Powers, 7 Psyche Powers, 7 Growth & Decay Powers, and 4 Lost Powers, and you can learn them in different ways. The powers in the four schools all have one unique power, and the rest are normal powers, and the 6 powers you can equip include 5 normal powers and one unique power.

Each witch power focuses on a different type of gain, some can increase your output damage, and some are mainly for defense or healing. It is worth noting that in Season 7, in addition to the most important Diablo 4 Gold, the currency you can farm also includes the seasonal Restless Rot-which can be used to upgrade witch powers to make them more powerful. Fortunately, this currency is not difficult to farm in the current season.

All 4 Schools Of Witch Powers

Next, we will give you a detailed introduction to the combat effects of the 25 powers in the four schools. It is worth noting that most witch powers have additional effects, but they need to be upgraded to a certain level before they can be activated.

1. Eldritch Witch Powers

This school includes 7 powers:

• Doom Orb: Allows you to generate an energy ball that will cause fire damage to enemies that come into contact with it.
• Abyssal Resonance: Can form an explosion by consuming the corresponding resources, causing the enemy to suffer shadow damage, and the damage effect can be stacked up to 3 times.
• Firebat Servants: Generate a fire bat every two seconds to cause fire damage to the enemy.
• Hex of Flames: Can continue to inflict additional damage to the enemy while causing damage.
• Purging Touch: Mainly suitable for dealing with seasonal enemies-Headrotten.
• Shaken Soul: Can cause vulnerability to the enemies.
• Wave of Woe: Can cause shadow damage to the enemy and continue to reflect the damage to the surrounding enemies of the same type.

2. Growth & Decay Witch Powers

This school includes 7 powers:

• The Cycle: When dealing damage to an enemy, there is a 15% chance that a flower will grow from the ground. Enemies that are close to this flower will be poisoned within 5 seconds, and your teammates that are close to the flower will be healed for 6% of their maximum health. The flower will wither after being used.
• Aura of Siphoning: Summons an aura of decay that deals poison damage to enemies every second.
• Decay Augmentation: Increases your damage output over 5 seconds, and the type of damage depends on your class.
• Grow: After use, your teammates or minions will be affected by dark magic, grow larger, and deal extra damage to enemies.
• Hex of Whispers: Continue to bring additional shadow damage the next time you deal damage, and then Hex of Whispers will jump to another enemy to continue the effect, up to 6 times. But this power can only be applied once every 5 seconds.
• Poison Frog Servant: Allows you to summon a poison frog servant that attacks and poisons enemies over 3 seconds, and explodes violently when the frog dies, dealing poison damage to nearby enemies.
• Soul Harvest: Allows you to drain the life force of nearby enemies while your other skills are on cooldown, increasing your primary attribute by 3% for each monster.

3. Psyche Witch Powers

This school includes 7 powers:

• Vengeful Spirit Servant: Spawns a Vengeful Spirit Servant every 19 seconds, after which all damage you take will be borne by it.
• Aura of Lament: When you first attack an enemy, slow the primary target and other nearby enemies by 70%, and allow each enemy in range to give you 3 primary resources per second. If the initial enemy dies, Aura of Lament continues to pass to another nearby enemy.
• Aura of Misfortune: Gives your nearby enemies a chance to have their attacks interrupted, but has no effect on bosses.
• Force of Will: When you kill an enemy, the damage of your next Suppression will be increased, up to 100%.
• Hex of Shattering: Reduces the damage dealt to you by enemies within 5 seconds.
• Life Link: Links your life with 3 nearby enemies, and the damage you take is shared with them as physical damage, allowing them to share your life loss. However, this effect does not apply to PVP, as it is not possible to link with enemy players.
• Twilight Warding: Generates a barrier for you that lasts for 5 seconds and absorbs 100 points of damage.

4. Lost Witch Powers

Note that this school only includes 4 powers, and its role is to enhance the powers of the other three schools:

• Piranhado: When the enemy is affected by Hex and an Aura-type witch power, it can summon a piranha and pull the enemy towards it, causing fixed physical damage to the enemy within 12 seconds.
• Aura Specialization: Enhances the effects of all Aura-type powers.
• Breath of the Coven: Increases your movement speed for 10 seconds when you use other powers to deal damage or apply crowd control effects.
• Hex Specialization: Enhances the effects of all Hex-type powers.

This list-type guide should provide enough references for you to choose sorcery powers. If you have already equipped 6 powers, you can also make purposeful changes according to the guide to experience more Diablo 4 gameplay. Have fun!

Once you enter the endgame stage in Diablo 4, it means that you will begin to face endless darkness and more mysterious evil, because there are more terrifying bosses and more difficult dungeons here. Of course, the number and rarity of rewards you get after completing various endgame tasks are also incomparable to the early tasks.

In order to ensure that your Diablo 4 endgame experience is good in any season, Diablo 4 will occasionally add new content to the endgame with the launch of new seasons, such as Infernal Hordes added in the 1.5.0 update of Season 5.

After being added to the game, the event was very popular, so it has continued to the current seventh season. However, after two seasons, some details of Infernal Hordes have also been adjusted, so if you have not played Diablo 4 after Season 5 or have not paid attention to update notifications in time, you may encounter some troubles when farming Infernal Hordes after entering Season 7. So we will bring you some help.

Infernal Hordes In Season 7

As one of the most important endgame activities in Diablo 4 at present, although Infernal Hordes is designated as an end-game activity, in fact, you can enter Infernal Hordes as long as you are in Torment difficulty when getting Infernal Compasses.

When running Infernal Hordes, your main goal is to clear all waves of enemies without running out of resurrections and defeat Fell Council to collect as much Burning Aether as possible to redeem Spoils of Hell chests - which contain Diablo 4 Gold, gear, and various summoning and crafting materials.

Each single wave has an associated 60-second timer during which the wave will spawn various events and demons that you need to fight. Although they can all be difficult, Infernal Hordes do not require you to eliminate all enemies before the timer runs out. You just need to survive as long as possible during the wave and obtain as much Burning Aether as possible through combat.

Since the difficulty of Infernal Hordes now scales based on the overall difficulty level of the current season, Infernal Compasses are no longer craft-able in Season 7 and are now purely drops; the number of waves you may encounter is now randomized between 6, 8, or 10; and Abyssal Scrolls have been removed from the game.

How To Farm Loot In Infernal Hordes?

As a large, full dungeon, to get the most out of Infernal Hordes, you must understand all the steps involved, including entry, combat, and rewards.

How To Enter This Dungeon?

Just like you need to collect keys to enter Nightmare dungeons and Season 7 Rootholds dungeons, you need to obtain Infernal Compasses as keys to enter Infernal Hordes. This item drops from Whisper caches, Helltide chests, Nightmare dungeons, or Infernal Hordes encounters.

We recommend running Infernal Hordes, killing bosses, and opening chests while you’re doing Whisper event, so you can quickly get multiple Infernal Compasses in a single run. While you could previously craft Infernal Compasses with sigil dust, this is no longer possible in Season 7.

How To Get Burning Aether?

In Infernal Hordes, it’s not about how many enemies you can kill, but rather collecting as many Burning Aethers as possible, since they’re the only ones you can redeem for loot. To do this, you need to learn how to maximize the chances of Burning Aether drops through related events and Infernal Offers.

First, at the end of each wave, three Infernal Offers will appear in the center of the room, and you can choose one. Each Infernal Offer will provide a boon and a bane, and the effects will last until you finish running Infernal Hordes. Although the effects are random, you’ll keep encountering repeated boons or banes later on, and by stacking them, you may get unexpected results.

Secondly, Aether events are the main source of Burning Aether, and this type of event can be divided into static encounters and summon enemy types. Static encounters are randomly generated in waves in the four corners of Abyssal Verge, and you can find them with red dots on the map, while summon enemy types are randomly generated in the room you are in based on your location.

Aether events usually appear on the mini-map as dynamic circles at the moment they are generated and then continue to flash in the form of small flame icons. After completing the battle, the dropped Burning Aether will appear on the mini-map as a blue dot, which you can pick up. If you have a pet, such as Dorian The Raven, it will automatically pick it up for you.

Final Boss Fell Council

After clearing all waves of enemies, you still have to complete the final battle with Fell Council. In this encounter, you need to face three resurrected random council members at the same time (there are 5 members in total). Every time you defeat a member, the battle will escalate, the enemies will become more powerful, and begin to be able to clear the room, and all members have their own unique action combinations and damage types, which you must deal with carefully.

After completing this final battle, you will be able to obtain different types of Spoils of Hell chests, namely Spoils of Greater Equipment chest, Spoils of Materials chest and Spoils of Gold chest. The most valuable one is the first one, which can give you some rare unique items.

In short, Infernal Hordes is one of Diablo 4 Season 7 endgame events that is very worthwhile for you to cultivate. If your character level cannot handle it, it is recommended that you speed up your Season 7 upgrade pace! Good luck!

In addition to the seasonal mechanics and powers that are new to you, each season of Diablo 4 will upgrade and adjust some of the inherent mechanics when it goes online to ensure that these contents can adapt to the changes in the game, to ensure your basic game experience.

But it is difficult to satisfy everyone, and the ideas of developers may not always be correct, so some adjustments may not be welcomed and recognized by you in the end. For this reason, players usually criticize and reflect these “meaningless” changes in the game community or other social media, hoping that Diablo 4 can make relevant changes.

However, not every time Diablo 4 will actively respond to your demands. For example, in the recent 2.2.0 PTR for Season 8, the reduction in the drop rate of boss loot has been widely discussed, and no developer has yet said that this practice will be cancelled; and the long-standing problem of the weakening of the presence of Nightmare dungeons in Diablo 4 has existed since Season 6 and has not been resolved yet. Therefore, this time we will focus on these two issues and analyze what the next steps of Diablo 4 may take in the future.

2.2.0 PTR Reduces The Drop Rate Of Boss Loot

The PTR was launched on March 11 for a week and is now coming to an end. Like most of the PTRs launched for the new season of Diablo 4 in the past, the 2.2.0 PTR shows you the various new seasonal mechanisms that will be launched in the eighth season in the future, as well as some adjustments to the inherent game mechanisms.

Although the new seasonal power-boss power, and the return of the classic boss Belial from Diablo 3 have been well received and expected, other adjustments may not satisfy you. Along with the changes in the boss-related mechanisms, the corresponding loot system has also been changed in the PTR, that is, the loot drop rate has been greatly reduced.

Regarding the issue of loot drop rates, the fact is that you may never agree with the developers: you should always want to get as much Diablo 4 Gold as possible through combat, and the developers may be very stingy with the loot in order to force you to extend the game time or make you have to activate the premium battle pass.

That is why you will unfortunately find that Season 8 is expected to slow down your game progress by changing the loot system, but on the other hand, this behavior is actually a response to the previous players’ perception of the endgame’s difficult reduction. That is why Diablo 4 thinks this approach is absolutely reasonable.

According to the performance of the PTR, if no other adjustments are made later, after Season 8, it is expected that the drop rate of legendary items will be reduced before you upgrade to level 60, and the drop rate of ancestral legendary items will be even lower (even if they are already rare). To make matters worse, the boss system, which has been extensively reworked in Season 8, has even nerfed the chances of loot dropping for you by more than 91% - Torment 4’s drop rate has dropped by 91.7%.

In the past, when you were farming bosses in Diablo 4, you could get six unique items from the corresponding loot pool each time you defeated a boss. However, starting in Season 8, not only will you only get five unique items in total, but besides two of them being guaranteed to come from the boss, the other three are random, so after working hard to complete the boss battle, you are more likely to get some garbage items.

In addition, if you think that team battles can alleviate this, you are wrong. According to the performance of the 2.2.0 PTR, you can see that the loot drop rate in the four-player cooperative mode has even become worse! You and your three teammates may have received a total of 24 unique items from four kills in the past. Now each group is only guaranteed two.

Nightmare Dungeons Should “Go Back To The Past”

Nightmare dungeons used to play an integral role in the endgame content of the game, providing more challenging built-in quests where you could get higher-level loot, more Diablo 4 Gold and XP, and upgrade glyphs. However, somehow, starting with Season 6, the place to upgrade glyphs became The Pit, and Nightmare dungeons were further reduced to an area where only late-game materials could be cultivated.

At the beginning of the launch of Season 6, some players expressed dissatisfaction and concerns about this change. However, now that Season 7 is about to pass the halfway point, this situation has not changed, and even the item drop rate in the new seasonal dungeon Rootholds has been criticized.

In fact, you may have discovered that this change to Nightmare dungeon is one of Diablo 4’s attempts to explore how to upgrade the endgame content, and on the other hand, it is to make you focus more on The Pit. It’s not that The Pit is bad, but The Pit’s system is a timer. Although it can cater to faster character construction, paying too much attention to it will inevitably make people feel that it destroys the balance of the game.

Interestingly, some people think that maybe Diablo 4 can try to unify Nightmare dungeon and The Pit to form a new dungeon with both hordes of demons and a final boss, fully guaranteeing all your related item farming needs. Although I don’t know how the game developers view this suggestion, it is an indisputable fact that Nightmare dungeon is in urgent need of adjustment.

I believe you will find that whether it is the change in the boss loot drop rate or the content related to Nightmare dungeon, it is actually one way that Diablo 4 tries to fully upgrade the endgame. After all, players think that the endgame content of Diablo 4 has always been unsatisfactory recently. Although these methods are not all right, it is normal to encounter obstacles in the way forward. At least Diablo 4 is trying to make changes for you, right?

Hey, if your progress in Season 7 is slow, then I think your priority now is not to rush to preview Season 8 through the 2.2.0 PTR, but to return to Season 7, which is still in full swing, and let your character fully complete all the tasks that can be rewarded, so that this season can play all its due role here, and ensure that you have enough resource reserves when Season 8 arrives.

There are so many types of resources in Diablo 4 and the corresponding most suitable farming methods, so that it may be difficult for you to explore every corner in Season 7 now. After all, the season is barely halfway through. However, among all resource farming methods, repeatedly challenging bosses should really be your first choice, because this method provides the most and most precious resources in the game at present.

Although each season has its own unique content, the good news is that most Diablo 4 bosses are universal and you can always use them to earn a lot of Diablo 4 Gold or other more surprising items. Although some of them are very challenging, what’s the saying? There is always a reward for every risk! However, in order to minimize the danger of high-difficulty bosses, this time we will introduce you to the most efficient tactics for farming Duriel, one of the high-level bosses in Diablo 4 Season 7.

How To Summon Duriel?

Yes, there are some annoying Diablo 4 bosses represented by Duriel. Not only are they difficult, but they also require you to provide specific summoning materials to summon them in order to unlock related encounters. Duriel King of Maggots first appeared in D2, and in D4, he is an Uber boss. To summon him, you need 2 Mucus-Slicked Eggs and 2 Shards of Agony. They are obtained as follows:

• Mucus-Slicked Eggs: First complete the optional objectives in Tree of Whispers in Hawezar to collect Malignant Hearts, then go to Malignant Burrow, summon Echo of Varshan, and defeat Varshan at Torment 1+ difficulty to have a chance to get this item.
• Shards of Agony: First you need to get Torture Chests of Living Steel by playing Helltide event, and get 5 Living Steel this way to summon Echo of Grigoire in Hall of Penitent and defeat him (also in Torment 1+ difficulty).

Although the other boss encounters related to these items are also difficult, the good thing is that the drop rate of Duriel’s summoning materials after victory is 100%. In addition, I need to remind you separately that, first, in order to save time and energy, you can concentrate on farming summoning materials so that Duriel can be summoned continuously; second, if you want to summon Tormented Duriel, you need 6 Mucus-Slick Eggs and 6 Shards of Agony.

Where Is Duriel?

After collecting enough summoning materials, it’s time to go looking for Duriel. He is in Gaping Crevasse dungeon in Kehjistan near the capital Gea Kul. But remember to switch worlds before leaving, because this dungeon is only for level 50 players at any Torment level. If you can, it is recommended that you get Elixir of Poison Resistance II from the alchemist, which is very useful for defeating Duriel.

How To Defeat Duriel?

The confrontation with this boss can be divided into two stages. In the first stage, you face some soldiers following him, which is not worth mentioning. The second stage is the official boss battle.

1. Clear The Dungeon

Gaping Crevasse is full of Duriel’s followers and disciples, but as long as you can get here, it means that you have at least completed the main campaign, the character level has reached 50 or above, and the Torment difficulty has been unlocked, so it is very easy to deal with these enemies. After clearing it, please go to Pestilent Altar and sacrifice the summoning materials you hold here to summon Echo of Duriel and officially start the boss battle.

2. Official Boss Battle

Duriel’s biggest feature is his fast speed and multiple deadly abilities, such as Claw Slash, Poison Pool, etc. For this reason, you must drink the previously recommended Elixir of Poison Resistance II before the battle begins to ensure that your health will not be greatly damaged at the beginning.

Next, please quickly deal with the two Pangs of Duriel minions to prevent them from causing additional harassment to you during the battle. Once you’re done, walk your character straight to the edge of the cliff to limit Duriel’s movement and focus his attacks in one direction, while sitting down and continuing to launch fatal attacks on him to kill him, preventing him from going underground and triggering the more difficult second stage.

But if you are unlucky enough to enter the second stage of Duriel boss battle, don’t worry too much, just leave the notch on the edge of the cliff to kill the newly spawned minions and wait for Duriel to return and defeat him. After that, you can get the loot he brings, including items common to all classes and unique items exclusive to each class.

If you think the above guide is useful and you haven’t concentrated on farming Duriel boss in Season 7, then act quickly!

As you know, each Diablo 4 season has its own seasonal powers and mechanics, and sometimes there will be updates and upgrades in basic mechanics and gameplay. This means that no matter what base class you played in the previous season or what universal builds you used, you need to adjust them in time according to the latest situation after entering the new season.

Take Druid’s Shred Lacerate Druid Build as an example. Not long ago, we showed you how to make this build maximize the benefits of the season by making full use of the limited witchcraft power of Season 7 to help your endgame. This time we will show you how another Druid build that is somewhat similar to Shred Lacerate and equally powerful can work in Season 7, that is Crit Lacerate.

How Does Crit Lacerate Druid Build Work?

As its name suggests, Crit Lacerate mainly uses Lacerate as its main damage output method. However, although this skill is very lethal, it also has a relatively long cooldown. Therefore, most builds centered around this skill need to focus on reducing the cooldown in order to better utilize Lacerate in addition to ensuring their own damage output. Crit Lacerate Druid Build is no exception.

The key to reducing the cooldown of Lacerate in this build is NaguXan Runeword and Flickerstep: the former guarantees crit and suppression, and is activated by keeping companion skills activated, while the latter allows you to reduce the cooldown of Lacerate while dodging enemies.

On this basis, if you want to fully unleash the power of this build, you should try to keep six companions from various summoning skills active at all times, and cast Lacerate when they are on cooldown. While Lacerate is on cooldown, you should trigger Flickerstep by dodging enemies, while using Blood Howl and Debilitating Roar to increase your character’s survivability.

Why Choose Crit Lacerate?

Overall, Crit Lacerate Druid Build isn’t the best build in Diablo 4 Season 7, but it’s unmatched in terms of attack speed when fighting groups, making it a great choice for clearing dungeons like Helltides, Kurast Undercity, or Infernal Hordes.

However, where this build really shines is when it comes to clearing Pit Pushing Tier Lists, where enemies are often packed into a small space, and the build can instantly clear large groups of enemies with Flash Step and other AOE effects from key skills.

In fact, if you use this build well, it can become one of the most effective builds for your Druid character to explore Pit, helping you get as much Diablo 4 Gold or whatever other resources you want in this type of dungeon as possible.

How To Assign Skills?

For Crit Lacerate Druid Build, in addition to the ultimate skill Lacerate, other skills and their coordination are also important, and you need to give them different skill points according to the importance of each skill, as follows:

Basic Skills

• Enhanced Maul (1/5)

Core Skills

• Heart of the Wild (3/3)
• Predatory Instinct (1/3)
• Digitagrade Gait (3/3)
• Iron Fur (3/3)

Defensive Skills

• Innate Blood Howl (1/5)
• Innate Debilitating Roar (1/5)
• Backlash (3/3)
• Ancestral Fortitude (3/3)
• Vigilance (3/3)

Companion Skills

• Ferocious Wolf Pack (1/5)
• Poison Creeper (1/5)
• Brutal Ravens (1/5)
• Feral Aptitude (3/3)

Wrath Skills

• Neurotoxin (1/3)
• Toxic Claws (3/3)
• Envenom (3/3)

Ultimate Skills

• Supreme Lacerate (5/5)
• Defensive Posture (3/3)
• Catastrophe (3/3)
• Natural Fortitude (3/3)
• Quickshift (3/3)
• Heightened Senses (3/3)

Key Passive Skills

• Ursine Strength

How To Choose Spirit Offerings?

After completing the basic composition of the build through skills, it is also important to choose the most suitable Spirit Offering to make the build gain more bonuses. For Crit Lacerate Druid Build, Eagle and Wolf Spirits are more suitable.

These two Spirit Boons can provide 40% critical damage and 35% increase in the duration of the ultimate skill, respectively. Since Lacerate will continue to attack for the duration, and each attack may cause a critical hit, these two buffs will bring you more damage buffs in combat.

• Deer Spirit-Gift of the Stag
• Eagle Spirit-Avian Wrath
• Wolf Spirit-Calamity
• Snake Spirit-Masochistic
• Spirit Bond-Eagle Spirit-Iron Feather

Best Paragon Boards & Glyphs

When choosing and building Paragon boards and glyphs for this build, it is recommended that you focus on improving critical chance and damage, as well as other options that can make the build’s stats better, such as:

• Start-Spirit
• Ancestral Guidance-Dominate
• Lust for Carnage-Shapeshifter
• Heightened Malice-Fang and Claw
• Survival Instincts-Outmatch

It is worth noting that when you use this build in Pit, it is best to continue upgrading Paragon glyphs and follow the following order:

Leveling Order To 15

• Spirit
• Dominate
• Shapeshifter
• Fang and Claw
• Outmatch

Leveling Order to 46

• Spirit
• Dominate
• Shapeshifter
• Wild
• Outmatch

I believe you should have noticed that Fang and Claw was replaced by Wild in two different situations. This is because the damage bonus of Fang and Claw is good in the early stage, but the legendary ability of Wild can bring you more benefits in high Pit levels.

Best Runewords & Gems

In addition to the essential NaguXan Runeword, in fact, if you can insert a second Runeword for this build, the build can bring you more benefits. For this, it is recommended that you give priority to the following options:

• IgniQuax: It can greatly increase the damage of skills by consuming spirit, and it is very useful to help trigger Ancestral Guidance.
• FeoQuax: The advantage is similar to IgniQuax, but it’s triggering is more troublesome.
• NeoMot: It can provide you with more defense.

As for gem selection, it is recommended that you fill all remaining armor slots with Sapphires and use Emeralds in your weapons to increase critical hit damage, while filling resistance with jewel slots can bring you to the armor cap of 1000.

If after reading the above, you can’t wait to use Crit Lacerate Druid Build in the game for combat and dungeon exploration, then act quickly! Good luck!

Although it has been almost two years since the release of the first season of Diablo 4, and during this period, strong competitors such as POE series have appeared in the game market, this cannot reduce your curiosity and enthusiasm for Diablo 4, a game from the classic ARPG series.

In fact, one of the main reasons why Diablo has always maintained a good reputation among the player community from the beginning to the latest Diablo 4 Season 7 is that it can keep up with the times, especially Diablo 4, which is not only a season setting that always brings you surprise, but in fact it even launched its first DLC in October last year, which was also well received.

Of course, playability is certainly an advantage, but another reason Diablo 4 is worth trying is that the game benefits it provides you are really good - let us ignore the problem of too low drop rate of some seasonal items for the time being, and focus on the rich content of battle passes, especially those exquisite cosmetics.

What Is The Battle Pass?

In order to motivate old players to actively participate in the new season and attract new players to try it, Diablo 4 will set up a free battle pass and a premium battle pass at the beginning of each season. Their reward tracks are basically the same, but the premium reward content will be richer: Besides more Diablo 4 Gold, mounts and other items, it even includes all free battle pass rewards.

However, the premium level rewards do not provide any content that increases your character’s ability, they focus on appearance, improving your gaming experience from another perspective by providing cosmetics or some premium currencies. What free battle pass and premium battle pass have in common is that make your character upgrade faster and more smoothly at the beginning of the new season.

Most battle pass reward content will find ways to reflect the current season theme, helping you upgrade while allowing you to more intuitively feel your participation and completion in this season, encouraging you to stick to the end - it is estimated that it takes 75 hours of game time to complete each battle pass. If the reward is not attractive enough, you may find it difficult to stick to it.

It should be noted that there is actually a third level, accelerated battle pass, which allows you to skip the first 20 levels of the premium pass. In addition, all your Diablo 4 battle pass progress is shared between platforms and will not be restricted by device or platform.

Season 7 Battle Pass

In order to give you a more intuitive understanding of the superiority of the battle pass, we have listed all the current Season 7 battle pass rewards for you:

Free Battle Pass Rewards

• 20 Smoldering Ashes
• 6 Armor Basics
• 5 Weapon Transmogs
• 1 Mount Trophy
• 1 Title
• 1 Town Portal

Premium Battle Pass Rewards

• Free Battle Pass Rewards
• 12 Armor Transmogs
• 19 Weapon Transmogs
• 4 Headstones
• 5 Emotes
• 2 Mounts
• 2 Mount Armors
• 5 Mount Trophies
• 2 Titles
• 700 Platinum
• 2 Town Portals
• 3 Emblems

Accelerated Battle Pass Rewards

• Premium Battle Pass Rewards
• 20 Tier Skips
• 1 Emote (for all classes)

Developers Say That The Battle Pass Should Be Reformed

From the first season to now, Diablo 4’s seasonal battle pass mechanism has been running normally without any major adjustments. Although it is not obvious what is wrong with this, Rod Fergusson, one of the responsible persons, said not long ago that this mechanism is actually a bit “outdated”.

As you know, one key to the success of a game is whether it can retain players, and Fergusson believes that in order for Diablo 4 to do this, it is necessary to innovate the game mechanism in a timely manner, give players more autonomy, and ensure that you can always explore Diablo 4 with great freedom.

As for how to make the future battle pass mechanism do this, Fergusson said that he thinks the similar system in Call of Duty MW2 is very good. Although the system does not be adopted by the latest game in the series, which is Black Ops 6. This system of Call of Duty allows you to prioritize the rewards you want most according to your needs, instead of only being able to receive rewards in order like the current Diablo 4 battle pass. Maybe we will see such a battle pass in Diablo 4 Season 8 in the future.

More Gorgeous Cosmetics

As the most attractive part of Diablo 4 premium battle passes, if various accessories or skins can become more gorgeous, it will inevitably increase your impulse to unlock premium battle pass.

In this regard, Fergusson believes that the appearance provided by Diablo 4 battle passes in the past is somewhat too plain. It’s not that plainness is bad, but as you can see in the game, Diablo 4’s art style has a strong Gothic color. If your character can wear exquisite clothes that match this style, it will definitely enhance your gaming experience.

Or there is another possibility, in Season 7 and later games, the frequency of crossover events will be increased, and the character images of other works will be rewarded to you as new skins, just like the recent TMNT event in Call of Duty BO6. At least, the previous cooperation between Diablo 4 and World of WarCraft proved that D4 can do crossover events well.

Although Fergusson and other Diablo 4 leaders have not confirmed whether there will be initial changes to the battle pass and the appearances available to characters in Season 8, at least from their attitude, it all seems to be on the way, and Diablo 4 will definitely get better in the future.

In order to fully mobilize your enthusiasm for the game, Diablo 4 will regularly launch some events with generous rewards to attract you to participate. Sometimes these events will even appear in Diablo 4 as a way to celebrate and embellish various real festivals, such as the winter event Slay Ride To Hell held in Season 6 last year to warm up for Christmas.

The main event content of Slay Ride To Hell is to require you and the players of the entire game community to work hard to hunt goblins in your respective games, and then distribute rewards to each player based on the hunting performance of the entire community. Perhaps because the event brought a lot of popularity to Diablo 4 at the end of 2024, Diablo 4 decided to hold a similar event called March of the Goblins again in the recent Season 7.

Compared with Slay Ride To Hell and all the goblin-themed events held by Diablo 4 in the past, the mechanism of March of the Goblins has changed. So ensuring you get the most rewards within the time limit, here are the best ways to farm the event rewards.

Overview Of March Of The Goblins

March of the Goblins takes place from March 4 to 11, 2025. It’s worth noting that while the event is limited-time, the six goblins available for hunting will remain in Diablo 4 permanently, and you can always fight them to earn Diablo 4 Gold or other prizes, but they will appear more often during the event.

The six goblins have different rarity, so the rewards they drop for you vary. The hardest and most valuable reward from the mythical purple Fancy Old Fedric, which not only gives you a Mythic Unique item but also a Resplendent Spark that can be used to craft another item!

In addition, if you plan to wait for other players to work hard to advance the event and bring you rewards, as you did in Slay Ride To Hell, you’re making a big mistake. The reward settlement track for this March of the Goblins is no longer universal for the entire community, but is purely a personal progress settlement. If you want to get the rewards you like, you must rely on your own efforts. The higher your event reputation, the more loot you will have by killing goblins.

How To Start March Of The Goblins?

If you have not participated in Slay Ride To Hell in Season 6, or even if you are a complete Diablo 4 novice and have no idea about goblin-related events, don’t worry, we will provide you with the most comprehensive help.

First of all, to start this goblin event officially, after logging into the game, let your character go to Kyovashad and look for Altar of the Goblin statue - it is in front of Idania’s Rings & Amulets shop and will be marked on the mini-map with a white badge icon.

By hovering your mouse over the statue, you will be informed of the level of goblins that can be tracked and what rewards you can get after killing different goblins. After that, you can start your goblin hunting journey in all areas within the game map! It is worth noting that if you reach goblin Level 10 during the event, you will receive a goblin chest in addition to the dropped rewards, which contain rare prizes such as Resplendent Spark and runes.

Best Goblin Farming Locations

Given that the event is limited in time and goblins don’t appear easily, if you want to make the most of farming for the items you need for this event, it is best to try to go to areas where Goblins have a higher probability of appearing, such as Nahantu area.

Once here, you will find that the western areas are most densely goblins distributed here, and Chakhir stronghold at Torment 1 difficulty can even spawn five to seven goblins at a time. As you can imagine, if you farm goblins in this stronghold at the higher Torment difficulty, there will be more goblins.

In fact, in addition to increasing Torment difficulty level, there should be more goblins when there are active Headhunt zones or Helltides in Nahantu. These special events with timers always provide you with excellent opportunities for farm items, including goblins.

In addition to Nahantu, the northwest area of ​​Ked Baru is also a good place to farm. When you come to the beach here, you can even find at least three to five goblins picking up scattered gold coins. At this time, you can attack them by surprise! However, it is recommended that you hunt when the small goblin icons appear in a large number on the mini-map, because when goblins appear scattered among other enemies, the farming efficiency is relatively low.

After trying all the above methods, you can continue to generate shrines in dungeons such as Fractured Peaks and Sarat’s Lair, because these shrines are likely to attract treasure goblins to gather. However, the tricky thing is that this method requires a lot of backtracking, so it is best to use it as your last choice for goblin farming.

Finally, I would like to remind you that: first, the 6 new goblins introduced by March of the Goblins are all randomly generated, and it is not possible to farm specifically for one of them; second, in order to ensure that other players will not steal the fruits of your labor while hunting goblins, please disable PVP mode and cross-platform games before starting the event.

The above is the guide we provide you to playing March of the Goblins. Before the event starts, log in to the game and start your goblin hunting journey!

From the first season to the current seventh season, Diablo 4 has been focusing on its own updates while always listening to the opinions and voices of players, hoping to make Diablo 4 better and better through this “cooperation”.

Based on the current playability of the game and the overall feedback from players, you will find that Diablo 4’s efforts have not been in vain, and it does occupy a very high position among all ARPGs. But this does not mean that Diablo 4 is perfect, and it still needs to be upgraded in many aspects.

Among them, in addition to those that can be gradually adjusted with the change of seasons, there is actually a feature that has been called for by players for a long time but has not been added to the game so far, that is, loot filters.

What Is Loot Filter?

When you explore and fight in Diablo 4 or other similar RPGs, as long as you win, you can get rich loot. In Diablo 4, the usual loot includes Diablo 4 Gold, gear and various props of different rarities, and seasonal items limited to the current season.

But as your level and the level of various dungeons or quests you can challenge increase, the loot you get after victory will increase. On the one hand, this will make your game screen full of these items very inconvenient, and on the other hand, it will make you feel dazzled and unable to pick up the most important loot in time. At this time, loot filters are particularly important.

The usual filter will mark the rarity of all loot for you, allowing you to classify them intuitively to decide which ones are necessary and which ones can be directly discarded. This not only saves time but also helps you better manage your inventory space.

Why Should Diablo 4 Have Loot Filters?

Diablo 4’s original content was very rich, and with the update of seasons and the expansion of Eternal Realm, the game’s volume has become larger and larger, and the loot after battle has become more and more. If loot filters are not added early, the player’s gaming experience will probably start to decline from Season 7.

In addition, many games of the same type have this feature, such as Path of Exile 2, one of Diablo 4’s strongest competitors. The first part of this game has been often compared with D4, and the second part of the early access launched in the second half of last year has attracted many ARPG players-it also has a loot filter function.

So if Diablo 4 does not add this feature in time, it is likely to lose to POE 2 in the competition. But from another perspective, in fact, Diablo 4 can completely learn from the design ideas of POE 2’s loot filters.

Reference POE 2 Loot Filters

Each loot filter in Path of Exile 2 has unique advantages, but their main purpose is to make it easier for you to find specific loot, for example, they will color-code items according to their rarity so that you can quickly sort a bunch of items.

This allows you to decide in a short time which items are worth picking up and which are not, and sometimes the filter will even add an audio prompt when a very unique item is dropped. There are currently 3 loot filters in POE 2, namely:

• Neversink Lite loot filter
• Cyberion loot filter
• Morkaz Strict loot filter

What Is The Attitude Of The Game Developer?

Not long ago, Diablo 4 released a Q&A video with game designer Aislyn Hall on YouTube, in which the question whether the game will add loot filters in the future was asked. Hall did not directly answer “yes” or “no”, but gave his own opinion.

In fact, Hall believes that if this feature is added, it is likely that you will give up poorer items more frequently in future games. Although this can improve your loot pickup efficiency, it will cause you to lose some low-level items that can be used for sale and recycling, which may not be conducive to your accumulation of gold. Hall’s considerations make sense, but given the strong demand for loot filters from Diablo 4 endgame players, loot filters may eventually be available in late Season 7 or Season 8.

How To Get Loot In Diablo 4 Season 7?

Loot filters work only if you have the ability to get a lot of loot, otherwise this feature will be useless. Therefore, we will also provide you with some additional tips for loot farming in Diablo 4 Season 7, some of which are actually universal in all seasons.

Clearing Dungeons

Diablo 4 has many types of dungeons, such as regular nightmare dungeons or Season 7-exclusive Rootholds. These dungeons will set up a lot of challenges and enemies for you, and clearing them will drop a lot of loot.

Complete The Main Quests

Completing the main quest not only unlocks new plots for you but also allows you to get the loot by completing some minor battles during this period. Although the rewards from this method may not be as generous as other methods, the main quest is what you have to complete, so why not get some benefits through it?

Defeat The World Bosses

Diablo 4 has a lot of bosses, some are regular, some only appear in the endgame or Torment difficulty, and you can fight them every season (except for the seasonal boss). But no matter which kind of boss, you will get a lot of loot from them, including unique items.

I hope the information we provide you can help you. Thank you for reading.

For a massive ARPG like Diablo 4, the smooth running is inseparable from the coordination of various mechanisms and systems in the game, because only when they are closely linked to each other can your character be able to upgrade and fight normally in the game. Therefore, you cannot ignore any of these mechanisms, and you should pay attention to its changes in time with the change of seasons, such as runes.

Runes are actually new features added in DLC, but they have quickly been well received by players. In Diablo 4, they can play their respective roles by being inserted into the slots of your weapons or armor, thereby further expanding your possibilities for creating builds and enriching your gaming experience. In order to ensure the availability of runes, Diablo 4 will regularly add new runes to the new season after the DLC, and the recent Season 7 is naturally the same.

How Do Diablo 4 Runes Work?

You can actually think of runes in Diablo 4 as special items, and all slottable runes can be divided into Ritual runes and Invocation runes, which bring new modifiers that can affect all Diablo 4 classes in different ways. In addition, specific runes can be combined to form Runewords that provide additional effects, bringing you more unexpected combat bonuses.

What Is The Overflow Mechanism Of Runes?

Activating Invocation runes requires you to generate offerings for them, but sometimes you may generate too many, and then the overflow mechanism will come into play. This mechanism applies an additional bonus to the effect of the summoning rune, temporarily increasing the power of these runes for a short period to ensure that your excess offerings are not wasted.

Rune Rarity

Ritual runes and Invocation runes can be paired arbitrarily to provide you with greater flexibility in the use of runes. In addition, the power of runes will increase as the rarity increases, and the rarity levels from low to high are magic, rare and legendary. In fact, the rich levels also further expand the possibilities of rune pairing.

How To Farm Runes?

After unlocking the Runeword in the DLC campaign, you can get the loot by defeating bosses, farming Whispering chests or strongholds, etc. These loots include runes in addition to the common Diablo 4 Gold, but the best way to farm runes is Undercity activity.

As for the unlocking of Runeword, it can be done by completing the quest received from Ormus in the council hall of Kurast Undercity. In addition, you can also find tributes in Undercity and other activities to increase the rune rewards you get after completing the quest.

How To Create Runeword?

Creating a Runeword requires a Ritual rune and an Invocation rune, as well as a piece of equipment with two slots. Then, add the runes to the slots to create a Runeword successfully, thereby expanding the effects of the two runes. Available equipment usually includes helmets, chest armor, leg armor, and two-handed weapons.

Ritual runes will generate offerings for you when activated, with the number generated depending on the rune type and rarity. Once the required number of offerings is reached, Invocation runes will begin to take effect, and these effects are very diverse, ranging from single-target skills to area-of-effect skills, which can maximize the enhancement of your equipment.

What New Runes Are There In Season Of Witchcraft?

When the rune system was first launched, there were 28 Invocation runes and 17 Ritual runes. With the arrival of Season 7, three new runes have been added to the game, namely Chac, Igni and Nagu. Chac is an Invocation rune, while Igni and Nagu are Ritual runes. The specific modifiers they provide are as follows:

• Chac: Casts Lightning Bolt on nearby enemies. Requires 20 offerings.
• Igni: Passively stores offerings every second, and it grants you stored offerings as long as you cast any skill other than basic skills. A total of 25 offerings are generated.
• Nagu: This rune generates offerings for you as long as the summon is active, and each additional summon generates more offerings. You can generate up to six summons for a total of 100 offerings.

Best Uses

As you can see from their use, Chac rune is great with any class that can generate offerings quickly, automatically casting Lightning Bolt whenever you reach the required threshold for this rune. If this rune is affected by the overflow mechanic, it can also cast more Lightning Bolt.

On this basis, Igni rune works perfectly with Chac rune, as long as you can stack a lot of offerings over time, and continue to cast Lightning Bolt while casting non-basic skills. This attack mode allows you to stack up to 500 offerings to fully utilize the overflow bonus to clear enemies.

Nagu is probably the best rune for summoning classes such as Druid and Necromancer, as they can always maintain the maximum number of summons required to generate the most offerings. In fact, you can also pair new runes with old ones to create some new and powerful Runewords, which may further enhance the strength of your usual build.

Of course, the premise for enjoying the benefits of Season 7’s new runes is that you must not only understand them but also understand how the entire Diablo 4 rune mechanism works. So we hope that this guide we provide can really help you, and I wish you a happy new season!