News Tag: Diablo 4 Season 8 Endgame

Most of the time, whether the endgame is substantial and attractive enough should be one of the most important factors in evaluating the quality of an ARPG. It not only includes most of the playable content of the game, but also brings you a special combat experience due to its high challenge.

Taking Diablo 4 as an example, the endgame stage of the game has always been committed to upgrading, and new content will be added as the season changes. However, because its endgame difficulty is higher than the regular content, it also requires your character level high enough, so you will need to grind for a long time before entering, or you will not be able to handle the tasks properly.

In order to prevent you from encountering this situation in the future Season 8, this time we will introduce you to some of the content and related mechanisms that will appear in Season 8 in advance to help you prepare as best as possible.

Diablo 4 Endgame Overview

After you have finished reading the main storyline and completed the relevant campaigns in Diablo 4 Season 8, you can go deep into the more mysterious and dark places in Sanctuary, which is the endgame part. Here you will encounter more powerful bosses and enemies than before, but at the same time, the game is more playable and rewards more Diablo 4 Gold.

In order to ensure that the endgame is always attractive, Diablo 4 will bring new mechanisms to the endgame part in almost every new season, so that you can have a better endgame experience. What you have to do is to do everything you can to improve your character level and ability, earn gold and better gear to meet these challenges.

Endgame And Difficulty Level

Since the launch of DLC Vessel of Hatred, the difficulty level of Diablo 4 has undergone a new change-replacing the original world tier system. Now you will encounter a total of 8 difficulty levels in the game. The first four belong to the “basic part”, from low to high, they are normal, hard, expert, and penitent. After that, you can challenge the more difficult Torment difficulty, which has four levels, namely T1, T2, T3 and T4.

Although this difficulty level is more complicated and may cause you to encounter more difficulties, the rewards it brings will also increase with the increase of difficulty level, that is to say, if you can complete your endgame content at a high level of Torment difficulty, you will get more loot than you think! This is very worthwhile! Of course, the premise is that you must ensure that you can handle the high difficulty.

In addition, if you want to unlock Torment difficulty, first ensure that your Diablo 4 Season 8 character level reaches 60, then start farming one of the endgame content Pit, and complete 20 levels of challenges in it to unlock Torment 1. After that, the number of Pit challenge levels required to unlock T2-T4 are 35, 50 and 65 respectively.

What Is The Playable Content Of Diablo 4 Endgame?

Sometimes the game will add some seasonal content to the endgame based on the theme of the current season and other reasons, or playable dungeons limited to DLC, such as Realmwalkers & Seething Realms in Season 6, or Dark Citadel & Kurast Undercity in Vessel of Hatred, and Tree of Whispers, which was re-emphasized in Season 7.

But let’s get back to the point. This time we are mainly here to help you with your Diablo 4 Season 8 endgame journey, so we will introduce you to those fixed endgame content and the limited gameplay of Season 8.

Killing World Bosses

The world boss in Diablo 4 is a powerful enemy type that will appear randomly in the open world and refresh in a designated area every once in a while. Since it is more difficult than killing ordinary enemies, it is generally safer for you to challenge them in a team. In addition to the regular rewards, sometimes some extremely rare gear or mounts may drop after killing them.

In Season 8, these bosses will be featured in a new seasonal event, Apparition Incursions. The event will bring 10 Apparition bosses (including Belial’s lesser form), which are minions of the ultimate boss Belial. After killing any of them, you can gain the boss power possessed by that boss.

Killing Lair Bosses

Season 8 upgrades the original endgame boss mechanism to lair bosses, and lair bosses are further divided into three levels: initiate, greater, and exalted lair. In the past, if you wanted to fight endgame bosses, you had to collect summoning materials in advance to summon them, but lair bosses do not require you to do so. However, it is worth noting that if you want to get loot by killing Season 8 lair bosses, you need to farm special keys to open the hoard corresponding to each boss.

Farming Dungeons

This should be your main way to earn game resources in the endgame stage. It is expected that the dungeons that will still exist in Season 8 mainly include Nightmare Dungeons, The Pit Of Artificers, and Infernal Hordes.

Among them, Nightmare Dungeons are like upgraded versions of ordinary dungeons - unlocking them requires you to consume Nightmare Sigil to transform ordinary dungeons, and Nightmare Sigil will also bring positive/negative affixes to the unlocked dungeons.

The Pit is a timed multi-level dungeon that requires you to kill as many enemies as possible within the specified time to fill the progress bar, and then you can find random bosses through the portal and kill them to get master rewards.

As for Infernal Hordes, its main function for you is to farm unique items by letting you kill enemies and fight against Fell Council - Season 8 has added a new batch of unique items for each class, you are worth the effort.

The above is all the information we provide for you to prepare for the Season 8 endgame journey. We will continue to bring you more information about Diablo 4 Season 8, so don’t miss it!

It has to be said that as a new class that debuted in the first Diablo 4 DLC Vessel of Hatred last year, Spiritborn attracted the attention of most Diablo 4 players at that time, and also made them devote a long time to developing Spiritborn builds in DLC and Season 6.

Later, with the launch of Season 7, as the power of witchcraft became the core of the season, Spiritborn was also properly weakened because it was too powerful before (although this is normal), and the popularity of this class gradually declined. However, this does not mean that Spiritborn is not worth using. In fact, it and some related builds still have excellent performance even in the more difficult endgame stage.

Season 8 is expected to be released on April 29th. In order to ensure that you can get a wonderful experience by playing Spiritborn at that time, we will bring you an introduction to the idea of ​​using Rake Spiritborn Build in the endgame based on the actual test in the 2.2.0 PTR that ended not long ago.

Why Should You Try This Build?

As the name suggests, the main reason this build is effective and powerful is because of the core skill Rake. The strong damage value of this skill and Vigor consumed by each stack of Ferocity allow you to cast Rake freely through careful gear matching and using Duelist’s Aspect to form a powerful AOE effect in combat - this will be perfect for clearing out groups of enemies in Infernal Hordes or Pit and satisfying your need to get a lot of Diablo 4 Gold at one time, not to mention other more precious loot.

Of course, no build is truly perfect, and Rake Spiritborn Build has some shortcomings in terms of survivability. Fortunately, this can be solved by adjusting it according to the needs of specific Diablo 4 events, such as equipping legendary aspects and potions with better defense.

How To Allocate Skills?

Generally speaking, the ability point allocation of this skill just needs to follow the idea of ​​relying on Jaguar skills and passive skills, as follows:

Basic Node

Thrash is the basic ability in this build, but the appearance of Vigor generation will reduce its usage rate. Therefore, it is recommended that you put a point into the ability and then enhance Thrash to unlock the next skill node.

• Thash 1/5-Enhanced Thrash

Core Node

Rake is undoubtedly the real core.

• Rake 5/5-Enhanced Rake, Rampant Rake
• Vigorous 3/3
• Balanced Exertion 3/3
• Velocity 3/3

Focus Node

As the main skill of this part, Vortex will gather enemies, making them more vulnerable to Rake skills, and Ravager will further enhance Rake.

• Vortex 1/5-Enhanced Vortex, Replenishing Vortex
• Ravage 5/5-Enhanced Ravager, Replenishing Ravager
• Focal Point 1/3

Defensive Node

As the only defensive skill of Rake Spiritborn Build, Counter Attack can gain a stronger passive effect by stacking dodge chance.

• Counter Attack 5/5-Enhanced Counter Attack, Reinforced Counter Attack
• Endurance 3/3
• Perserverence 3/3
• Fueled 3/3

Potency Node

This build has no skills that apply to the potency node, but several passive skills in the cluster can increase the damage output of the build.

• Brilliance 3/3
• Acceleration 3/3
• Potent 3/3
• Furnace 3/3

Ultimate Node

• Hunter 5/5-Harmonious Hunter, Exhalted Hunter
• Resolution 1/3
• Spiritual Attunement 2/3
• Supremacy 3/3

Key Passive Node

For this build, the key passive choice depends on the mercenary you use. If using Aldkin, Vital Strikes would be a better choice, but if using Subo, Prodigy’s Tempo is the best choice.

Best Spirit Hall

Rake Spiritborn Builds are better with Eagle as the first Spirit Hall, as it increases your clearing speed with movement buffs, while allowing Jaguar skill to make all skills Eagle skills while benefiting from acceleration and brilliance passives. In fact, many Spiritborn builds are worth doing this.

As for the second slot, it is recommended that you choose Jaguar Spirit, so that you can not only stack Ferocity on kills but also increase the maximum stack Ferocity by 1, further improving the lethality of this build.

How To Choose Legendary Aspects & Unique Items?

If you want to make this build more indestructible, you must get as much suitable legendary aspects and unique items for it as possible.

Best Legendary Aspects

According to the way Rake Spiritborn Build works, in addition to the indispensable Duelist’s Aspect, you can further obtain and equip Aspect of the Crowded Sage and Aspect of Assimilation. These two aspects can make the build more tanky and provide benefits such as strengthening and healing while increasing the chance of dodge. If you want to further improve this build, the following aspects are also good:

• Wind Striker’s Aspect
• Aspect of Wild Claws
• Blood Boiling Aspect
• Aspect of Potent Exchange

Best Unique Items

The three recommended for general unique items are:

• Banished Lord’s Talisman: Grants levels to all core skills in the build and increases the damage of critical strike casts.
• Mother’s Embrace: Infinitely extends the uptime of Rake through resource return and grants it important stats, such as attack speed and critical strike chance.
• Peacemonger’s Signet: Causes you to gain Resolve every time you gain Ferocity (the only way to gain Resolve for this build) and makes it easier to survive in combat.

Also, while this build does not require Mythic Uniques to work, Nesekem the Herald, which can stack suppression and critical strike damage and provide movement speed bonus, is worth having.

Season 8 will add boss powers as new seasonal powers, and if you can combine them with Rake Spiritborn Build, I believe you will have the opportunity to get a better combat experience as a Spiritborn in the Season 8 endgame!