The first ARC Raiders expedition window has been confirmed to start on December 17th and end on December 22nd. You need to submit items and coins to participate, with a minimum level requirement of 20.

Although the player community is not entirely satisfied with the rewards and gameplay of this expedition, fortunately, ARC Raiders doesn't force you to participate.

Of course, if you don't mind, using this opportunity to reset and maintain the game's cycle is also a good option.

In fact, we have already introduced a lot of information about completing the expedition in other articles, and this time we will provide detailed instructions on collecting the materials needed for submission.

What Is Expedition Preparation?

The period from December 17th to 22nd represents the final departure phase. Before that, there is an approximately 7-week preparation phase. All of these combined constitute a complete expedition.

The preparation work can be roughly divided into 6 stages. The first five stages require you to collect different items or a sufficient amount of currency. To do this, you must participate in enough battles over the 7 weeks, or craft some items in the workshop.

Part 1. Building Materials

This part of the expedition materials mainly consists of building components or materials, which can be found in most industrial areas on various maps.

However, some materials can be obtained directly by looting containers, while some rarer materials, such as Steel Springs, may require you to defeat specific ARC enemies. Here are all the materials required for Part 1:

• 150x Metal Parts
• 200x Rubber Parts
• 80x ARC Alloy
• 15x Steel Springs

Part 2. Metal Component Materials

This part of the materials includes:

• 35x Durable Cloth
• 30x Wires
• 30x Electrical Components
• 5x Cooling Fan

The rarest item here is Cooling Fan, mainly found in areas that were previously technology-related buildings. Although Durable Cloth is not very rare, it's not easy to farm, even in relevant medical or commercial areas.

In contrast, farming Electrical Components and Wires is much simpler; you just need to carefully search within buildings with electronic equipment.

It's important to note that there's always a risk of encountering other players trying to steal your loot in any building. Therefore, before collecting resources, you should also consider improving your character and existing gear through safe ARC Raiders services.

If you find collecting some materials too time-consuming, you can also obtain them directly from merchants or craft them in the workshop. However, crafting requires blueprints, which themselves require farming.

And on the one hand, not all items have corresponding blueprints, and on the other hand, low-rarity items don't really have crafting value. So ultimately, it depends on your combat power and resource inventory.

Part 3. Daily Items And Special Modules

This batch of materials is special; most are easily obtainable everyday items, but there's one rare component that will prove challenging. These are:

• 5x Light Bulbs
• 30x Batteries
• 20x Sensors
• 1x Exodus Module

The first three resources can be found by scavenging in abandoned vehicles and electrical or technological areas, but Exodus Module can only be obtained in Exodus zones.

In ARC Raiders, Exodus refers to the lost era of space travel, and more specifically, these zones include Acerra Spaceport, Rocket Launch Sites/Launch Towers, and Post-Calamity Housing/Avionics.

The tricky part is that these zones are often surrounded by many more dangerous ARC enemies, so you still need to be prepared to face them to complete this part of the material collection.

Part 4. Advanced Components

The expedition materials in this section can be found by entering the relevant areas, but it requires sufficient time, and some may be hidden in locked containers, requiring you to collect keys separately. These include:

• 5x Humidifiers
• 5x Advanced Electrical Components
• 3x Magnetic Accelerators
• 3x Jumper Impulse Units

The most difficult to find are Magnetic Accelerators, which only appear in Exodus zones or can be obtained by salvaging Queen Reactors. Additionally, Jumper Impulse Units only drop after killing ARC Jumper enemies.

Part 5. Collecting Items With Specific Total Coin Value

This collection task tests not your ability to collect specific items, but how to plan effectively to obtain different types of resources with varying total coin values:

• Combat Items - 250,000 coins
• Survival Items - 100,000 coins
• Provisions - 180,000 coins
• Materials - 300,000 coins

It's important to remember not to misinterpret the requirements: you need to collect items that meet the required coin value, not earn coins! If you mistakenly sell all your acquired resources for coins, you'll be the biggest sucker around.

If you have time and don't want to take risks, you can collect items by looting in safer areas. However, if you want to complete the collection quickly, you can prioritize challenging rare ARC enemies and dangerous missions.

How To Check Your Stash Value?

Among all the reset rewards from the expedition, the number of skill points depends on your stash value - the maximum is 5 points, corresponding to a stash value of 5 million.

We've already introduced the main methods for quickly farming this many coins in other articles, and this time we're bringing you another little tip: how to check your stash value.

If you're playing on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S, you can open your inventory by holding down LT/L2 button after entering the game, then press A/X button to select all items and view them.

If you're playing on a PC, you can not only follow the above method to perform similar operations on your PC, but you can also do so by changing the date on your computer.

The day after the first expedition departure window opens is December 18th. If you change your computer's time to this date in advance, you can immediately view the value of your inventory items in the game. While it's unclear if this is a bug, it does work.

That's all for this time. If you plan to participate in the expedition but haven't finished collecting resources, you need to speed up, because there's less than a week left before departure! Don't let your previous efforts go to waste!

Diablo 4 Season 11 is about to launch. Due to the increased overall difficulty of the new season, player survival has become more challenging, leading many players to search for guides and strategies, from methods for defeating World Bosses to optimal build recommendations for different classes.

As the launch date approaches, we've also been looking for suitable class builds for a smooth run. However, after reviewing numerous build guides, we've found that almost all strategies revolve around high damage and high output. This approach is indeed feasible; players can quickly defeat bosses on the map through overwhelming strength and then obtain the desired items and rewards.

Among these recommended items, we've noticed one item that's rarely mentioned: Temerity, this item has often been overlooked by players in previous seasons. But I believe that in Season 11, Diablo 4 Temerity can rise to prominence; everyone has underestimated its value.

Why Is It Underestimated?

Season of Divine Intervention has undergone many changes compared to its predecessors, from monster mechanics and difficulty to the item upgrade system. This means all players should proceed with greater caution.

Previously, we tended to charge into battle without much consideration for defense, especially in the endgame. This led to a continued bias towards attack power while neglecting defense in the new season.

However, based on our experience on PTR server, we believe this high-damage, low-defense playstyle needs to be changed. Survival has become more challenging; even with a defensive character build, players are still vulnerable.

After numerous trials, we discovered that Temerity is an excellent defensive item. It provides a significant defense boost without incurring excessive costs.

How To Obtain Temerity?

Temerity is a unique patch in Diablo 4, usable by any class. You can obtain it by summoning and killing the following monsters:

• Varshan
• Lord Zir
• Grigoire
• Echo of Duriel
• The Beast in the Ice
• Urivar

Alternatively, you can obtain it from chests dropped in Helltide Events.

Why Choose Temerity?

This item is incredibly powerful defensively, making it ideal for builds or classes that don't rely heavily on barriers. In other words, when your healing exceeds your maximum health, the excess is converted into a damage-absorbing barrier, essentially an extra layer of protection.

Even if you rely on barrier protection, its effect is still optimal, granting you an 8-second barrier, which is far superior to other equipment.

Especially with the recent upgrades to the healing system, healing effects have been enhanced. Healing effects are now essentially an attribute that can be applied to equipment, allowing you to use Temerity to convert all excess healing into a significant amount of barrier damage.

If you acquire this equipment early in the game and need a defensive boost, don't hesitate, equipping Diablo 4 Temerity is your best choice; its effects will surprise you.

This equipment was previously overlooked because the game's difficulty wasn't high enough, so its impact wasn't significant. However, with the increased difficulty of Season of Divine Intervention, I believe it will definitely stand out in the new season.

Many class builds in Season 11 are suitable for Temerity, especially Spiritborn, as it's one of the most vulnerable classes, particularly Legendary Nodes like Viscous Shield. In such cases, equipping Temerity provides an extra barrier protection.

How To Improve Temerity's Defensive Capabilities?

With the new season's updated defense mechanics and item upgrade system, we can optimize and enhance Temerity by adding appropriate affixes through Tempering and Masterworking. We can even use the newly added Sanctification system to give equipment a final boost, thereby maximizing Temerity's defensive capabilities.

Furthermore, with the reworked Fortify system in the new season update, stacking Fortify increases a player's Maximum Life, providing an additional benefit to Temerity's barrier protection.

Alternative Solutions

While Temerity isn't restricted to any class, some builds inevitably can't incorporate it into their gear because they require specific pants or unique skill attributes. For example, Rogues have Second Wind skill, and Necromancers have their own unique pants - Blood Moon Breeches.

In such cases, alternative methods are needed to obtain sufficient defensive capabilities. Runes do offer decent defensive benefits. In Diablo 4, runes' offensive output isn't particularly outstanding, often requiring a full set of runes to achieve the desired damage output.

However, some runes can provide unexpected defensive effects, such as Mot Rune, which grants a shadow from Rogue's Dark Shroud skill, providing up to 40% damage reduction.

In addition to these, there are some runes with slightly weaker defense, such as Xal, which increases your maximum health by 20%. Especially when your health is overflowing, it grants a huge amount of health over 4 seconds, but it requires Ritual Rune.

Other runes with defensive effects include:

• Que
• Wat
• Feo

While Season 11 may be more difficult than before, especially based on PTR server experience where some monsters seem to deal excessive damage, the developers have stated they will adjust the game balance in the live servers. Furthermore, due to adjustments to class skill mechanics, our characters are now stronger.

Therefore, we can invest more resources in defense, without having to spend as much time and effort on increasing damage output as before, while our map clearing and monster killing speed will not be affected. This is why I recommend using Temerity in Season of Divine Intervention.

I hope this information will be helpful as the new Diablo 4 season arrives. Have fun in the game!