News Tag: Diablo 4 Season 8

There is only about half a month left before the end of Diablo 4 Season 8, and you should be busy participating in the various events of the second anniversary celebration. In fact, if you have invested enough time before, the content of this season should have been almost completed.

But in addition, since Season 8 brings a lot of seasonal boss powers, and you can only equip 4 types in each battle, it is very likely that you have not had time to fully experience the power of all boss powers until now.

It is worth noting that in S8, these boss powers can be well integrated with your builds, or new builds can be crafted based on power, thereby improving your Diablo 4 gold farming efficiency, which will also help your anniversary event experience.

Based on this, this time we will take Druid class as a representative and introduce you to the build that is suitable for it with Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs as the core.

Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs Effects

As a rare boss power, Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs can only be obtained after you defeat Urivar on Torment difficulty. As for the specific effects, like all other boss powers, there are two types of modifier power and main power:

• Main power: After casting the ultimate skill, you can continue to throw 4 bombs, causing 2,800% fire damage to the enemy, and also gain 15% cooldown reduction.
• Modifier power: For each enemy killed, the utilize cooldown of the ultimate skill will be reduced by 0.58 seconds.

However, in order to obtain this power and loot such as gold or gear, you must also obtain 12 Judicator’s Masks as lair keys to open the boss hoard before starting the battle. The source of this item is Tree of Whispers, world bosses and mercenary bartering on Torment difficulty.

Other Boss Powers That Go With It

As you know, you can equip 4 boss powers in each battle in Season 8, so for this build, in addition to Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs (main power), the other three suitable modifier powers are:

• Avarice’s Explosive Ore: After activating the main boss power, consume all main resources, increasing the damage to the main power by 0.20% for every 1 resource consumption.
• Wandering Death’s Chest Beam: Causes the main boss power to instantly execute non-boss enemies with less than 25.0% health, and you will also gain 25 main resources after the execution.
• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: For every 1% bonus to Shadow Resistance gained, the critical strike chance will also increase by 5%, up to a maximum of 50.0%.

Related Druid Build Skills

Since Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs is the key to the entire build, the unlocking of skills and the utilization of skill points need to form good combat synergy with the boss’s power while playing their own role. Specifically include the following skills:

Basic Skills

• Earth Spike-Enhanced Earth Spike-Wild Earth Spike
• Storm Strike-Enhanced Storm Strike-Wild Storm Strike

Core Skills

• Heart of the Wild
• Abundance
• Wild Impulses
• Predatory Instinct
• Iron Fur
• Digitigrade Gait

Defensive Skills

• Earthen Bulwark-Enhanced Earthen Bulwark-Innate Earthen Bulwark
• Cyclone Armor-Enhanced Cyclone Armor-Preserving Cyclone Armor
• Vigilance
• Ancestral Fortitude
• Backlash

Companion Skills

• Feral Aptitude
• Call of the Wild
• Clarity
• Nature’s Reach
• Humanity

Wrath Skills

• Hurricane-Enhanced Hurricane-Savage Hurricane
• Rabies-Enhanced Rabies-Natural Rabies
• Endless Tempest
• Mending
• Provocation
• Envenom
• Neurotoxin

Ultimate Skills

• Petrify-Prime Petrify-Supreme Petrify
• Defensive Posture
• Catastrophe
• Quickshift
• Heightened Senses

Key Passive

• Nature’s Fury

Of course, after determining and unlocking all these skills, you still need to release them one by one in a fixed rotation order to truly play the role that all skills should play. Among them, active skills usually bear the responsibility of output damage, while passive skills can further increase the amount of damage or other support bonuses.

The uniqueness of this build is that it can fully utilize and show the role of boss power on the basis of this conventional builds operation form, making this build more reliable than ordinary Druid builds in S8.

What Are The Most Suitable Gear?

After determining the skills and all boss powers, the next thing to do is to match the gear for your Urivar Druid Build. Although many gears need to be farmed by bosses many times before they drop, as Season 8 is coming to an end, you as a Druid player should have obtained quite a few.

• Helm: Vasily’s Prayer
• Chest Armor: Shroud of False Death
• Totem: Virulent Totem
• Sword: Sword of Inner Calm
• Gloves: Vehement Brawler’s Gloves
• Pants: Stormshifter’s Pants
• Boots: Rakanoth’s Wake
• Amulet: Amulet of the Changeling’s Debt
• Ring: Airidah’s Inexorable Will & Mjölnic Ryng

With The Power Of Mercenaries

Since the mercenary mechanism was introduced in Diablo, it should have become your indispensable combat assistant. In fact, they can also be crafted as one of the elements in builds.

Among all the 4 mercenaries, the most suitable main mercenary for Urivar Druid is Varyana. Once you’ve chosen her, unlock her skill tree in the order of Cleave-Hysteria-Bloodthirst-Bloodlust. As for supporting mercenaries, Raheir’s skill Bastion can help.

Although this build is strictly for Season 8, its idea of ​​using boss power can actually be used as a reference for all subsequent Diablo 4 seasons. Taking Season 9 as an example, the appropriate Horadric Spells may also help you craft new and unique Druid builds!

With the end of 2.3.0 PTR, it also means the end of Season 8 and the arrival of Season 9. In Diablo 4, the season change is always so fast, perhaps to avoid you getting bored after losing interest in the current season.

Of course, in the season change, Diablo 4 finally ushered in the second anniversary during Season 8. Most games will launch celebration events mainly to give back to players at this commemorative time, and Diablo 4 is no exception.

Based on this, we will introduce you to the main content of this anniversary celebration and give you some tips for a better gaming experience.

When Will The 2nd Anniversary Celebration Be Held?

The launch date of the game itself is June 1, 2023, but whether it is this year or last year, the celebration time is not completely fixed on June 1, but is held in a set interval within June.

This year’s commemorative event started at 10am PDT on June 3rd and will last until the 17th, about 2 weeks. Although the start time has been adjusted, the duration is basically the same as last year.

Last year’s first anniversary event was held together with the second anniversary of Diablo Immortal. The joint celebration of the two games made the atmosphere in the game more lively.

Although I don’t know why they were not promoted together this year, the time of the event overlaps. If you need it, you can also experience the limited-time new event in Immortal.

What Are The Content Of The 2nd Anniversary Celebration?

Last year’s Diablo 4 anniversary event included three parts, namely March of the Goblins (the celebration is also named after this), receiving gifts, and Mother’s Blessing. Although this year there are also three events, the content is different.

1. 2nd Anniversary Event Reliquary

As you know, the new content launched with Season 8 includes the new battle pass system Reliquary. Reliquary rewards set for special events usually require you to consume the relevant special currency to obtain them. For example, Behelits corresponding to Berserk crossover.

But the good news is that Reliquary rewards of this 2nd Anniversary can be directly redeemed by Diablo 4 gold! If you know enough about Diablo 4, you will know that this is indeed a big benefit. Because the drop rate of ordinary gold is much higher than that of special currency.

To show the grandeur of the celebration, 2nd Anniversary Event Reliquary provides many unique and beautiful cosmetics, including:

• Sunflame Lantern Mount Trophy
• Sunflame Sword Two-Handed Sword Cosmetic
• Sunraiser Sword Cosmetic
• Burning Dawn Banner Mount Trophy
• Burning Barbs Polearm Cosmetic
• Burning Dawn Bow Cosmetic

Until the end of the entire anniversary event, you can earn gold for reward redemption by completing seasonal tasks, clearing dungeons, or defeating bosses. It is worth mentioning that if you can collect all the above cosmetics within the specified time, you will also get The Burning Dawn Mount Armor.

2. Mother’s Blessing

In fact, this event is not limited to the anniversary celebration. Diablo 4 also holds it frequently, but this does not mean that it is useless. The loot bonus rate brought by Mother’s Blessing can have a great positive effect on your resource accumulation.

During this Mother’s Blessing, whether your character is a seasonal exclusive or in Eternal Realm, you will receive a 35% multiplier on XP and a 50% gold acquisition rate after the battle.

This will not only allow you to earn more gold in a short period, increasing the likelihood of earning all 2nd Anniversary Event Reliquary rewards, but also lay a solid resource foundation for the upcoming Season 9.

3. Gift Of The Tree Cache

As one of the main components of Diablo 4 endgame, Tree of Whispers will issue a series of bounty missions. These missions are spread across the game map, and you can complete them one by one within the specified time as needed.

After that, you will receive a special currency, Grim Favors, which can be exchanged for exclusive caches when you go to Tree of Whispers again. Open them and you may get rare gear!

In addition to the normal caches, the 2nd Anniversary will allow you to get an additional Gift of the Tree cache every time you exchange Grim Favors, which will appear when you open the normal caches!

Notes On Participating In The Celebration

To get enough Grim Favors to redeem more Gift of the Tree cache, you need to actively farm dungeons, bosses, and other daily events that are included in bounty quests. At the same time, these quests actually reward you with Diablo 4 gold, and the gold drop rate is increased due to Mother’s Blessing effect.

So you can focus on Tree of Whispers bounties and find the quests that drop more gold, so that you can fully utilize all the celebration events in a single battle!

Above is all about Diablo 4 2nd Anniversary. Please take the time to enjoy this celebration! Have fun!

Playing games seems to be just one of the simplest daily entertainments, but if you want to improve your gaming experience in all aspects, there are actually many related factors.

Take Diablo 4 as an example. From the game itself, the influencing factors include the richness and rationality of the playable content, whether the style and music are attractive enough; from other perspectives, it includes the configuration of devices and the operation settings.

Therefore, when you are looking for Diablo 4 game guides, in addition to teaching you how to craft builds or how to clear dungeons to earn more Diablo 4 gold, there will also be bloggers focusing on evaluating devices and different game settings.

Recently, Diablo 4 will usher in the 2nd anniversary celebration at the end of Season 8, and then Season 9 will be launched. Based on this, we will recommend you 6 new settings suitable for immediate application to help you improve the game’s operation smoothness from the end of Season 8.

1. Advanced Tooltip Compare

This setting compares the statistics of items side by side to highlight the differences in their attributes to help you determine which items are more suitable for your character. This is very necessary for you to improve your character’s strength efficiently.

Oddly, this setting and the next advanced tooltip information are turned off by default when you first enter the game. As a result, when you compare items, the tooltip only shows the main attributes, the equipment appearance, and the temper it may have.

But if you want to see advanced gear information such as attribute range or lucky hit rate, you must turn on the advanced tooltip compare setting. Since you need to change gear frequently during different battles, more gear information that can be directly seen and compared can help you understand your gains and losses when changing or upgrading gear.

2. Advanced Tooltip Information

You can think of this setting as a supplementary reference content for tooltip compare, because even if you know all the information about the corresponding gear through tooltip compare, you may not know how to upgrade the gear in a targeted manner next.

Based on this, this setting will utilize different colors to mark the specific circumstances in which your items may gain or lose properties and other modifiers. Although this function is not very meaningful after you enter the endgame, it is very useful when you are upgrading your character in the early stage.

3. Auto Pin New Quest

The function of this setting is that when you select a quest or a destination of a quest in the game log, the system will automatically place a map marker at the corresponding location, and then your mini-map will directly show you the route to the selected destination.

On this basis, it is recommended that you combine it with your HUD compass. This will cause an arrow to appear on the screen as a guide to move forward, so you don’t have to keep staring at the minimap. You can also further set the arrow to any color you think is eye-catching to make the guidance more clear.

After selecting a quest, the arrow will point toward the quest. All you have to do is open the quest menu and click on the corresponding quest. You will find a small arrow and a small line pointing to it, and follow the instructions to explore.

4. Player Highlights

When you enter a dungeon or other special area where enemies appear in groups or the surrounding environment is dark, you will find that you may not find your character! This is undoubtedly a big negative impact on your game experience.

The game takes this into account and launches player highlights and other related settings or features. Just turn on this setting and click Save Changes. When you return to the game, you will see a glow around your character, so that you will be able to easily see where your character is in any situation.

It is worth noting that the color of the character’s highlight light can be customized, so you can change it as needed, because the background color of different dungeons or scenes should also be different. In addition, the mouse can also be set to high-contrast highlights like the character. After all, when the battle is chaotic, it is less conspicuous than the character.

5. Screen Shake

When you encounter those enemies and bosses in Diablo 4 that are huge or good at utilizing explosive skills, or your builds have features such as super fast attack speed or super high attack power, then you may find that the screen will shake with certain effects during the battle.

This is actually because your screen shake setting is turned on. This special effect can provide a certain sense of reality in your battle. But to be honest, not every Diablo 4 player likes this, and sometimes it may cause additional lag, so you can turn it on or off according to your needs.

6. Force Move

This setting is more suitable for you to enable when you utilize PC to play Diablo 4, because under normal circumstances, when you control the character through PC, you always need to click different directions with the mouse, which is not troublesome, but it will make your hands tired.

After turning on the force move setting, no matter how you operate, even if you stay in the stopped position, you will still move. In this way, as long as you adapt to this function, both fighting in the game and daily exploration will become faster, and you will feel more comfortable physiologically.

There are many adjustable settings in Diablo 4, but the above 6 settings will have the most intuitive impact on changing your gaming experience, and they should still work in Season 9!

Because of the mediocre performance of Diablo 4 in the past two seasons, which has caused complaints from players, the game has brought news of the new season faster than ever before, and opened 2.3.0 PTR on May 27.

Although this may divert your attention, no matter what, the work at hand still needs to be done! Even if you have lost interest and confidence in Season 8, completing the reward tasks will lay a solid foundation for you to enter Season 9.

In order to restore the reputation of the season as much as possible before the end, Diablo 4 Season 8 also released patch 2.2.2 on May 27. The patch does not contain many changes, but Masterworking craft-related ones should be the most concerned.

Based on this, we will focus on Masterworking and introduce you to the main content of patch 2.2.2, as well as other details worth paying attention to.

What Is Masterworking?

First of all, you need to be clear that Masterworking is actually an endgame system in the game. You can utilize it to increase the value of affixes for specific existing items to make them more powerful because the 8-12 separate upgrade levels Masterworking provides.

It should be noted that Masterworking must be performed at the blacksmith, and the relevant craft materials must be farmed in important dungeons such as Nightmare Dungeons, Infernal Hordes, and Kurast Undercity.

What Changes Have Been Made To Masterworking In Patch 2.2.2?

In recent seasons, I don’t know if you have found that even if you have enough Diablo 4 gold and Obducite, the craft materials consumed for a Masterworking are indeed too much. Many players in the game community have also reported this problem and said that it even makes them not want to utilize Masterworking anymore.

But to be honest, this system is really useful for improving your game battle win rate and experience, because the gear upgraded by Masterworking is much more powerful than before, which can effectively solve battles that you could not deal with before.

Perhaps because the players’ resentment accumulated by Season 8 could no longer be ignored, through patch 2.2.2, the game reduced the number of materials required for Masterworking (excluding gold and Obducite as supporting consumables).

This way, you can perform Masterworking more times than before, and the crafting efficiency and combat efficiency will be further improved. However, it should be noted that this “reduction” is only for the number of materials, and does not mean that the difficulty of farming them or the number of drops will change.

What Else Are Included In Patch 2.2.2?

Although you may hope that Season 8 will be more interesting with a new patch, unfortunately, apart from Masterworking changes, the other patch contents are mainly to fix bugs and improve the player experience.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the screen reader not reading the decoration details in Reliquary menu.
• Fixed the screen reader repeating the classes supported by Reliquary decoration items.
• Fixed the screen reader reading the season journey goal as a score.
• Fixed the screen reader not working properly when viewing Steam friends.

Season 8 Content Adjustments (the following issues have been fixed):

• Progression could be blocked if you left the dungeon while Slay the Ghosts’ objective was active during Buried Hope quest.
• Stronghold shrine could become un-interactive when defeating Duz-Agur in Eriman’s Pyre using Avarice’s Explosive Ore, one of the main boss powers.
• Apparition of Kirma could shake during a jump attack, causing the boss’s attacks to malfunction.
• The teleport effect of Jah rune was not working when equipped with the main power Duriel’s Burrow.

Gameplay Adjustments (the following issues have been fixed):

• Grigoire’s Hoard Chest could sometimes be opened without defeating the boss.
• Captain Willcocks, a rare monster in Hawezar, could become invincible if damaged too quickly.
• Obducite could be accidentally dropped by a player and picked up by any other player.
• Raven of the Tree no longer interacts with you after closing reward selection without selecting a reward.
• In some cases, the lair boss chest does not open properly through interaction.

User Experience Improvements:

• Tree of Whispers icons for Ked Bardu on the map.
• Fixed an issue where the season journey objectives completed before unlocking the chapter were not displayed as completed.
• Fixed an issue where the game could freeze after double-clicking the create character option in the character selection menu.
• Fixed an issue where the attack wave counter in Infernal Hordes was not updated on time.
• Fixed an issue where Devout Champion achievement sometimes did not unlock properly.
• Now the party vote will no longer time out and fail if someone leaves the party during the vote.
• Other visual, performance, and audio fixes and improvements.

Finally, I want to mention that in fact, in addition to the gameplay itself, the performance of Berserk crossover event launched in Season 8 is far from what you expect.

Originally, crossover should be a win-win activity, but the excessive emphasis on crossover item trading and the lack of novel gameplay ultimately led to the low evaluation of Diablo 4 Berserk crossover.

Honestly, if Diablo 4 wants to reverse its evaluation and performance from S9, besides improving the quality and creativity of the season, it should change the purpose of development - don’t lose the trust of players for the sake of temporary benefits.

The above is the comprehensive patch 2.2.2 information brought to you. I hope it’s helpful to you and wish you a better experience in Season 8 and PTR!

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!