While progressing through the Nightmare Vaults in Diablo 4 Season 3, I'm confident that you aspire to improve your Tuning Stones. Thus, our goal is to continue through these Vaults and explore the most effective methods for upgrading your stones.
Start with just doing the Tier. You're at Tier 31, and you will notice that it gets you 9 Turning Stones. Then you do Tier 34, that gets you 10, and in Tier 35 gets you 8, and then Tier 36 gets you 9 again. It makes you curious whether the difficulty of the Tier actually matters.
Experiment With Difficulty Levels
What you do is you go back to the nightmare World Tier 3 difficulty and run a bunch of Tier 1s and Tier 2s. You end up getting 5 to 7 Stones. The reason it’s 5 to 7 is because with the Ancestral Vaults, you get the extra 10 chest piece and a large number of Diablo 4 Gold that’ll give you 1 to 3 stones as well. So, really, it doesn’t matter what difficulty you’re on.
Stone Collection Insights
It makes you realize that whenever you pick up a Tuning Stone, regardless of the difficulty or how you get that stone or how long it took you to get that stone, it’s always going to be a +10 progress towards that rank for that stone.
Efficient Stone Leveling Strategy
If you want to upgrade your Tuning Stones purely, this isn’t a leveling guide for your character. This is just for leveling your Tuning Stones. All you want to do is have the lowest difficulty that you can breeze through. That’s either going to be Tier 1 or Tier 21, depending on what level you are.
Choose The Right Difficulty
For your character, at Level 80, the monsters at Tier 21 are going to be Level 75, and the monsters at Tier 1 are going to be Level 54. So, for you, with the character rank difference, you’re going to easily go through. If you’re Level 60, you won’t really be able to breeze through Tier 21, so you’ll just go down to Tier 1, where the monsters are 6 levels behind your character, and you can defeat in a very short time.
Time-Efficient Stone Gathering
This ends up being a lot quicker than going through any other Vault at your character’s level or normally recommended. Going through a dungeon 10 levels higher than your character so you can get the most XP because when your character was doing the Tier 1 and Tier 2 Vaults, it took you anywhere from 2 to 1/2 minutes to clear it. So, you're getting 5, 6, or 7 Tuning Stones per 2 and 1/2 minutes.
Comparison Of Vault Times
When you’re doing the Tier 21, Tier 22 Vaults, that took a little less than 4 minutes, like 3 minutes and 45 seconds. You’re getting anywhere from 8 to 11 Tuning Stones in less than 4 minutes. You have some data, so you can see with the Pearl of Warding. Each time you do a Nightmare Vault that’s Tier 21 or higher, you use 3 Wings. That gives you the 30 blessings from Zoltun Kulle, and every time you finish that dungeon, you either match what you had when you started or you gain more Pearl of Warding.
It’s not going to be good for leveling. You’re going to get barely any experience because you’re going to be so many levels higher than the monsters that you’re fighting. But if you get to Level 100 and you still need some Tuning Stones to complete, definitely do this method. Or if you just want to try a build and you have to level up one of the Tuning Stones, you think this will be the best method.
