News Tag: Diablo 4 Season 8

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!

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!

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!

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!

Although there are many powerful builds available for each Diablo 4 class, some builds are more suitable if you want to challenge or farm specific tasks and dungeons. At least, The Pit, one of the most difficult dungeons, is not something that all builds can handle.

The Pit, full name of The Pit of Artificers, is a random dungeon with 150 floors. The higher the level, the more difficult it is. Of course, the more Diablo 4 Gold, gear, or other loot you will get. To complete a level of The Pit, you must kill as many monsters and bosses as possible within 15 minutes.

Based on this, we will take Rogue class as the protagonist this time to tell you how to craft Poison Trap Spam, a Rogue build, in order to handle the difficult content of The Pit.

Skill Selection

Generally speaking, mastering the relevant class skills is the most important prerequisite for crafting any builds, because the builds cannot function without skills.

Damage Skills

For Poison Trap Spam, first make sure to bring your Sturdy to provide damage reduction so that minimize the damage caused by enemies in The Pit. Next, equip Caltrops and upgrade them to Methodical Caltrops if possible. This type of skill can create a trap area, effectively chilling enemies in the area to slow down their movement speed.

Dance of Knives is the main Rogue skill for this build to damage enemies. This skill is a new Rogue skill that appeared in DLC Vessel of Hatred. Once launched, it has been welcomed by the majority of Rogue players.

As a practical physical damage skill, Dance of Knives has continuous mobility and excellent damage output. It allows you to guide the throwing knives to attack surrounding enemies, consuming a charge per second, allowing each throwing knife to cause 70-94% damage, and the faster the attack speed, the more damage it causes. You will even gain additional movement speed and dodge chance when channeling the skill.

Agility Skills

Of course, in addition to the evasion bonus provided by Dance of Knives, you should also equip your Poison Trap Spam Rogue with some nice defensive skills that can further improve its evasion and agility attributes, such as Smoke Grenade and Poison Trap.

In fact, these two skills can also cause considerable damage to enemies on their own - as the most agile class in Diablo 4, most of Rogue’s skills are very flexible. Poison Trap can create a poisonous trap to poison the enemy, and Smoke Grenade can throw a smoke mixture at the enemy to stun them for a few seconds. They can also be further upgraded to:

• Enhanced Poison Trap
• Countering Poison Trap
• Subverting Poison Trap
• Enhanced Smoke Grenade
• Countering Smoke Grenade
• Subverting Smoke Grenade

In addition, the concealment effect provided by Concealment skill is also very helpful for completing The Pit of Artificers. After entering the stealth state, you have 5 seconds to shuttle between enemies and deal damage without being discovered, but if you are attacked during this period, the stealth state will be invalid.

In order to ensure that the above Rogue skills you added can be better used in The Pit battle through Poison Trap Spam Rogue Build, it is also necessary to equip other important passive skills, such as:

• Alchemical Admixture
• Close Quarters Combat
• Exposure
• Momentum
• Precision
• Victimize

Some of them can increase the damage caused by your active skills, some can provide speed or dodge assistance, and some can make vulnerable enemies lose more health when attacked, which is very useful.

Gear Selection

After completing the skill matching, it is time to work hard to farm the right gear to continue to improve your build. If you want to improve the damage output ability of the build first, then Bands of Ichorous Rose is definitely your best choice.

This item is actually the latest Rogue exclusive item launched in Season 8, which can be worn by you as gloves. Bands of Ichorous Rose increase the maximum number of Poison Traps you can cast by 4, and they always deal full damage within 3 seconds, increasing damage by 50 - 100%. Other specific buffs include:

• + [18.5 - 27.5]% Chance for Poison Trap to Cast Twice
• + [10.5 - 15.0]% Attack Speed
• + [3.0 - 5.0]% Maximum Poison Resistance
• + [41.5 - 55.0]% Poison Resistance

For Legendary Aspect, we recommend Aspect of Arrow Storms. A reliable offensive aspect, Aspect of Arrow Storms gives your ranged skills a 36% chance to rain arrows that deal continuous damage to enemies.

Class-Specific Mechanic

Each class in Diablo 4 has a specific mechanic that helps you enhance your character in the most class-specific way. For Rogue, this mechanic is Specialization, which allows you to choose one of three passive bonuses to enhance yourself, and you can switch at any time, even in combat, which are:

• Combo Points
• Inner Sight
• Preparation

The one that makes Poison Trap Spam Rogue Build more powerful in The Pit is Inner Sight. It allows you to mark random enemies, and hitting these enemies will fill the corresponding progress bar, and once it is full, you will get unlimited energy.

That’s all for this time. If you are playing Rogue class and are not satisfied with the existing builds, you might as well give this build a try!

When you plan to farm rarer loot in Diablo 4, you need to enter the more difficult game content and challenge the bosses. In the past, these bosses were mainly endgame bosses, but after entering Season 8, not only their overall mechanism has been adjusted, but also their names have been changed to lair bosses.

All lair bosses are divided into 3 levels according to their challenge difficulty and the value of the loot they provide, from low to high, they are Initiate, Greater, and Exalted. Although Initiate lair boss is easier to deal with, since there are up to 5 bosses on this level, the total amount of loot in the end is also very considerable.

Based on this, this time we will introduce you to how to find these five Initiate lair bosses, as well as the specific reward list after defeating them, to help you get more and better items in Season 8.

1. Grigoire

The full name of this boss is Grigoire, The Galvanic Saint. Before Season 8, you had to collect the corresponding summoning materials to challenge him or other lair bosses, but now these materials have been replaced by lair keys - you can enter the battle directly, but only lair keys can guarantee that you can get loot by opening the hoard after the battle.

The keys required for Grigoire are 12 Living Steel. After ensuring that you have enough materials and unlocking Torment difficulties, go to Dry Steppes, south of the capital Ked Bardu, where the boss is in Hall of the Penitent.

The key to fighting Grigoire is sufficient lightning resistance. To do this, you can exchange Elixir of Lightning Resistance II to increase this resistance if you have enough Diablo 4 Gold. After that, pay attention to avoid the boss’s lightning attacks and summoning minions in the battle. Here are all the uniques that Grigoire may drop:

• Barbarian: Twin Strikes, Rage of Harrogath, Battle Trance, The Butcher’s Cleaver, Unbroken Chain
• Druid: Earthbreaker, Insatiable Fury, Hunter’s Zenith, Waxing Gibbous, The Butcher’s Cleaver
• Necromancer: Ebonpiercer, Howl from Below, Greaves of the Empty Tomb, The Butcher’s Cleaver, Path of Trag’Oul
• Rogue: Saboteur’s Signet, Word of Hakan, Grasp of Shadow, Shroud of Khanduras, Bands of Ichorous Rose
• Sorcerer: Flameweaver, Staff of Lam Esen, Iceheart Brais, Axial Conduit, Hail of Verglas
• Spiritborn: Protection of the Prime, Peacemonger’s Signet, Ring of the Midnight Sun, Loyalty’s Mantle
• General: Penitent Greaves

2. Beast In The Ice

In fact, all the basic operating mechanisms of Initiate lair boss are almost the same. What needs extra attention is the specific lair keys required, the location of appearance, the combat mode and the final loot will be different.

Beast in the Ice can be found in Glacial Fissure located in Desolate Highlands, Fractured Peaks, south of Kyovashad. The required keys are 12 Distilled Fear. From the name of the boss, you know that you need enough ice resistance to fight it. For this, you need to equip Elixir of Cold Resistance II in advance.

In addition, during the battle, the boss will generate ice areas of various shapes, and direct attacks are mainly frontal. You only need to keep these two points in mind to avoid damage. After the battle, there is a chance to obtain the following Uniques:

• Barbarian: Ancients’ Oath, Hellhammer Hellhammer, Ring of the Ravenous Ring of the Ravenous, Mantle of Mountain’s Fury
• Druid: Storm’s Companion, Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps, Stone of Vehemen, Gathlen’s Birthright
• Necromancer: Ring of Mendeln, Mutilator Plate, The Unmaker, Indira’s Memory
• Rogue: Windforce, Eaglehorn, Beastfall Boots
• Sorcerer: Gloves of the Illuminator, The Oculus, Starfall Coronet, Strike of Stormhorn
• Spiritborn: Harmony of Ebewaka, Scorn of the Earth, Wound Drinker
• General: Fists of Fate, Tassets of the Dawning Sky, Paingorger’s Gauntlets

3. Echo Of Varshan

This boss appears in Malignant Burrow in the north of Hawezar near Tree of Whispers. Unlocking his hoard requires 4 Malignant Hearts as keys.

Before starting the battle, you can obtain Elixir of Shadow Resistance II in advance to increase your shadow resistance to ensure your health. The unique items available after the battle are:

• Barbarian: Fields of Crimson, 100,000 Steps, Gohr’s Devastating Grips, Ring of Red Furor
• Druid: Mad Wolf’s Glee, Vasily’s Prayer, Greatstaff of the Crone, Airidah’s Inexorable Will
• Necromancer: Bloodless Scream, Deathless Visage, Deathspeaker’s Pendant, Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul
• Rogue: Condemnation, Eyes in the Dark, Skyhunter, Writhing Band of Trickery
• Sorcerer: Staff of Endless Rage, Esu’s Heirloom, Raiment of the Infinite, Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop
• Spiritborn: Craze of the Dead God, Ring of the Midday Hunt, Ring of Writhing Moon, Sunstained War-Crozier
• General: Frostburn, Mother’s Embrace

4. Lord Zir

After you have 12 Exquisite Blood, you can go to Fractured Peaks in Kyovashad to find The Darkened Way and enter from the entrance to challenge this boss. The trick to fighting Lord Zir is to maintain shadow resistance while avoiding Elite Bloodseeker and blood orbs he summons as much as possible.

• Barbarian: Arreat’s Bearing, Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus, Overkill, Ugly Bastard Helm, Bane of Ahjad-Den
• Druid: Wildheart Hunger, Fleshrender, Mjölnic Ryng, Malefic Crescent
• Necromancer: Cruor’s Embrace, Blood Artisan’s Cuirass, Lidless Wall, Kessime’s Legacy, Sanguivor, Blade of Zir
• Rogue: Scoundrel’s Kiss, Asheara’s Khanjar, Pitfighter’s Gull, Assassin’s Stride
• Sorcerer: Fractured Winterglass, Esadora’s Overflowing Cameo, Sidhe Bindings, Okun’s Catalyst
• Spiritborn: Wushe Nak Pa, Band of First Breath, Jacinth Shell
• General: Razorplate, Temerity, Yen’s Blessing

5. Urivar

This boss can be found in Fields of Judgement at any Torment difficulty level - Fields of Judgement is located in Teganze Plateau subzone of Nahantu. The corresponding lair keys are 4 Judicator’s Mask.

In addition to the usual gold, XP and the following unique items, defeating Urivar will also give you Betrayer’s Husk, which is required to unlock the final boss Belial’s Hoard.

• Barbarian: Twin Strikes, Rage of Harrogath, Battle Trance, The Butcher’s Cleaver, Unbroken Chain
• Druid: Earthbreaker, Insatiable Fury, Hunter’s Zenith, Waxing Gibbous, The Butcher’s Cleaver
• Necromancer: Ebonpiercer, Howl from Below, Greaves of the Empty Tomb, The Butcher’s Cleaver, Path of Trag’Oul
• Rogue: Saboteur’s Signet, Word of Hakan, Grasp of Shadow, Shroud of Khanduras
• Sorcerer: Flameweaver, Staff of Lam Esen, Iceheart Brais, Axial Conduit
• Spiritborn: Protection of the Prime, Peacemonger’s Signet, Ring of the Midnight Sun, Loyalty’s Mantle
• General: Penitent Greaves

We hope that this information we have provided can help you in your Diablo 4 Season 8 boss farming progress, so that you can get the loot you want as soon as possible!

Before May 6, you might have been mainly busy advancing the game and leveling up your characters in Diablo 4 Season 8 so that you could enter the endgame and fight those powerful lair bosses as soon as possible. But with Berserk crossover event going live on May 6, it should become your new goal.

Although it is a bit regrettable that your character does not have exclusive crossover missions and battles, it also means that you can work hard for both the event and the season during Berserk crossover event, thereby earning more Diablo 4 Gold in two ways.

However, if you want to get gold and other event rewards (such as exclusive cosmetics) through this crossover event, you must earn enough Behelit during the event, a special event token, to redeem rewards in the event Reliquary system.

Based on this, we will introduce you to all Behelit farming channels and the subsequent reward redemption steps based on the content settings of Season 8.

Complete Apparition Incursions Event

In general, Behelit will be dropped by all enemies and bosses in the game, and the higher the enemy/boss’ boarding, the more Behelit will be dropped. In other words, the more enemies and bosses appear in the area or mission, the more worthwhile it is for you to challenge.

For this reason, the exclusive event Apparition Incursions of Season 8 should be your priority. This event not only has many Apparition enemies, but also brings two Apparition bosses and a Belial’s lesser form in the final stage of a single event. Defeating them will not only reward the usual gold and XP, but also Behelit you want, and more importantly, the boss power.

This event is randomly refreshed on the map every 5 minutes. After finding them according to the time and mark, you can participate in it with your teammates at any time. Special enemies with Belial’s green mark will appear in the corresponding area of ​​the event. After killing them and filling the corresponding progress bar, the boss will appear.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the rewards mentioned above, you can also get the seasonal currency Spectral Ash by completing this event. This item can be used to upgrade any boss power you have obtained, making your combat power stronger.

Running Helltides

The second thing we want to introduce to you is Helltides. The operation mechanism of this event is very similar to Apparition Incursions, but the difference is that it has been available in every Diablo 4 season since its launch.

Helltides also runs every five minutes, and each one lasts for 55 minutes. During this period, you can find these Helltides events and complete them according to the burgundy sword-shaped marks on the map.

During Berserk crossover event, the rewards provided by the event naturally include many Behelit, and you can also farm its exclusive currency Aberrant Cinders in Helltides. This item can be used to open Tortured Gifts you have obtained, or other special chests to get more loot.

It is worth noting that Aberrant Cinders you collect are only applicable to the current Helltide event, and they cannot be accumulated for chests obtained through other Helltides. This means that you must consume all Aberrant Cinders you have got within 55 minutes, otherwise it will be wasted.

If you want to earn more Behelit through Helltides, it is recommended that you first collect enough Baneful Hearts during the event to summon Blood Maiden boss multiple times. Although Helltides can provide many bosses, farming Blood Maiden is the most efficient.

Complete Legion Events

This series of events is also one of the most popular resource farming channels in Diablo 4. Like the several events already introduced, Legion events will refresh on the map at fixed time intervals. After completing or skipping the pre-campaign, you can open this event through Tree of Whispers.

However, the special thing about opening Legion event is that if you want to refresh it in certain specific locations, you must clear the fortresses here in advance, namely:

• Fractured Peaks - Kor Dragan Stronghold
• Dry Steppes - Temple of Rot Stronghold
• Hawezar - Crusader’s Monument Stronghold
• Kehjistan - Alcarnus Stronghold

In addition, Legion event is a multiplayer event in terms of the number of participants, so after going to the location where the event is refreshed, you can find other players wandering around and team up with them to complete the challenge. Or if you already have a reliable team of friends, you can also enter the challenge directly.

When you and your teammates work hard to kill the enemies and bosses in the event, you will get the treasure chests containing gear, crafting materials, runes, and Behelit as loot.

How To Redeem Rewards With Behelit?

Behelit is closely related to the new Reliquary, which is a new form of battle pass launched in Season 8, and will set up a dedicated Reliquary system for crossover events. Once you have enough Behelit, you can redeem it in Berserk Reliquary tab in Ritualist’s Reliquary menu.

Like Berserk crossover event itself, Behelit also has an expiration date. To avoid wasting it due to missing the redemption period, it is recommended that you redeem it as soon as you earn Behelit, and don’t wait until the last day to do so.

If you haven’t earned enough Behelit in Diablo 4 Season 8 yet, but are interested in Berserk crossover rewards, try the above method as soon as possible! Good luck!

On April 29, the highly anticipated Diablo 4 Season 8 was finally officially launched. In addition to the new theme, new boss and new seasonal power as always, the difference (and also one of the highlights) of this season is that it also brings a crossover event with Berserk! You can get Diablo 4 Gold and various game items with Berserk characteristics by playing it.

Although most types of games have become accustomed to creating heat for themselves and partners through cross-border linkage in recent years, the very popular Diablo 4 has rarely done so, so the crossover with Berserk will definitely receive extra attention from you.

However, it is a bit regrettable that since the crossover event started on May 6, it does not seem to have received good reviews from players. In fact, Diablo Immortal also carried out this crossover, but the performance it brought was far better than that of Diablo 4.

Interestingly, at the same time, Diablo 4 team recently announced another cooperation plan on social media, that is, it will cooperate with an interesting candle production company from the United States, Cantrip Candles, to launch a batch of impression scented candles with the atmosphere of Diablo 4.

Combined with the unsatisfactory performance of Berserk crossover event, although the cooperative candles are products outside the game, if its commercialization is successful enough, it may also give Diablo 4 some inspiration to modify it before the end of Berserk crossover to enhance your Diablo 4 Season 8 crossover event experience. Based on this, we will introduce the relevant situation to you.

Diablo 4 x Cantrip Candles

This interesting candle company comes from Hollywood, California, USA, and its team itself is composed of a group of players who like TTRPG - the company’s main products are the scented candle inspired by Dungeons and Dragons.

It is expected that this cooperation with Diablo 4 will first be inspired by the atmosphere of the entire game and Sanctuary, and a themed candle with rosemary and citrus notes, as well as a little roasted persimmon and pepper smell, will be launched as the main product. Later, character-themed candles may be launched based on classic characters such as Mephisto or Lilith.

It is worth noting that in addition to candles, Cantrip Candles also produces fun products such as atmosphere sprays, wax melts and customized matchboxes, so when this cooperation is in the middle and late stages, you may have the opportunity to see Diablo 4 in-game books such as Neyrelle’s Horadric chronicles being materialized into other fragrance products.

Diablo 4 x Berserk

In contrast, this crossover event focuses entirely on in-game cooperation. The basis for the cooperation between Diablo 4 and Berserk is that although one is a game, and the other is a comic, they are both full of strong fantasy and dark and bloody styles. Berserk-style combat and appearance can be well combined with your Diablo 4 character.

This crossover event has officially started on May 6 and will last until June 3. The crossover content is divided into two parts, one is the free rewards related to the new Reliquary battle pass system, and the other is the various sets sold in the in-game store.

The free rewards require you to kill elite enemies to earn special tokens called Behelits, which unlock four rewards: a Brand of Sacrifice death marker and tattoo, as well as a cosmetic backpiece and mount trophy. Unlocking all four rewards also nets you a free Berserk-themed nameplate. The in-game store offers four different armor sets and a pet pack, each for 2,800 platinum, and a mount pack for 2,500 platinum.

Why Is Berserk Crossover Disappointing?

Given Berserk’s popularity, this crossover event should have done well, but finally it’s hard not to feel like it was just a pure cosmetic selling. The lack of new playable content or quests is a constant push to get cosmetic items.

Although some rewards are free, the process of earning Behelits to get them is honestly very boring, because it only corresponds to one battle after another that lacks depth and strategy, and even if you finally get the reward, you won’t feel any sense of accomplishment. As for the store gift packs, they are even more insincere - you can get less platinum for free.

Even more embarrassing is that Diablo Immortal, which launched Berserk crossover at the same time, not only launched the theme rewards, but also brought a new Nosferatu Zodd boss battle, and allowed you to gain new power to fight through Behelit-themed Legendary gems, which is much more playable than Diablo 4.

Collaborative Candles And Berserk Crossover

To be honest, the two don’t seem to have much to do with each other at first glance, but candles will be launched during Berserk crossover event, and perhaps you can expect subsequent candle products to have some Berserk features.

In addition, the source of criticism for Diablo 4 Berserk crossover event is that it only wants to induce you to consume, but if the market performance of candle products is good, Diablo 4 may also change its strategy before the end of the event, allowing you to more easily obtain Berserk crossover event rewards.

Although Diablo 4 is considered having performed boring since the beginning of 2025, no matter which cooperation it is, they have just begun, and you should have expectations for them. Even if it really performs poorly, it is not too late to criticize it at that time!