Guys, in Call of Duty Black Ops 7, whether you're frustrated by the boss's meteor shower or constantly failing at the frozen Viking head phase, this guide will help you successfully challenge Totenreich boss fight, bringing you techniques you never thought possible.

Recommended Equipment

Primary Weapon

Here, we absolutely must choose a weapon with high damage, high rate of fire, and long-range shooting capability. Therefore, Vapr-XKG assault rifle is the first choice because of its high rate of fire, controllable recoil, and excellent long-range damage, making it the most stable overall.

Secondly, choose M34 Novaline marksman rifle. Its high single-shot damage is suitable for players who prefer burst fire.

Next, XM325 light machine gun is also a good choice for a primary weapon. Its large magazine allows for sustained fire, but the reload speed is a bit slow, requiring good positioning.

In addition, make sure to upgrade your primary weapon to Pack-a-Punch 3 and achieve the orange Legendary quality; otherwise, your damage output will be severely insufficient, turning boss battles into ammo hell.

Secondary Weapon

Dual-wielding M1911 pistols and appropriate attachments are highly recommended as secondary weapons. While this deals only moderate damage to the main boss, it's extremely fast at clearing hordes of zombies. It's best to upgrade these to Pack-a-Punch 3 as well.

Alternative secondary weapons include Ray Gun, Ray Gun Mark II, or Code 9 Pistol. Their main purpose is to allow you to use equivalent exchange when using Quick Revive, enabling you to revive yourself after being knocked down.

It's not recommended to spend a lot of points upgrading Jotunn Star Wonder Weapon to level 3, as it's not essential for boss battles.

Before entering real-time combat, to ensure your weapon setup is suitable, you can try different weapons in CoD Black Ops 7 Bot Lobbies to optimize your weapon's performance.

Field Upgrade

If you're playing solo, Frenzied Guard is the strongest choice. It restores all armor upon activation, maximizing your safety, and you don't have to worry about ammo usage.

If you're in team mode, you can choose Aether Shroud, but the zombie pressure isn't high. Frenzied Guard will still be very useful.

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If you're playing solo, Reign Drops will drop more supplies. Alternatively, choose Power Keg and Shields Up.

In co-op mode, you can replace Power Keg with Near Death Experience. This prevents you from losing skills when rescuing teammates or yourself, greatly reducing the chance of failure.

Gear and Killstreak Rewards

These are the two most crucial aspects. For tactical gear, use LT53 Kazimir to hold off the zombies in the first phase, allowing you to safely attack weak points. For lethal gear, use Frag Grenade.

Additionally, War Machine can be used to clear dense zombie hordes. Robots are randomly dropped during boss fights, but it's recommended to bring one as a backup.

Boss Fight Phase Breakdown

Phase 1: Ice Giant - Weakness Shooting

After the fight begins, zombies will spawn continuously and at a relatively fast pace. Drop LT53 Kazimir to attract surrounding zombies, then focus on shooting weak points. The giant will occasionally launch missiles and freeze areas. Pay attention to the minimap markers and avoid the frozen zones.

It's recommended to conserve ammo during this phase and only shoot weak points, otherwise the damage will be extremely low.

Robot drops may include War Machines or Death Machines. These deal very little damage to the boss itself, but are very useful for clearing zombies.

Phase 2: Frozen Viking Head Breakthrough

The giant will summon a rotating frozen Viking head. The conventional method is to charge and throw it using Josen Star Wonder Weapon, but the following two methods are simpler and more efficient.

First, War Machine method: Wait for the frozen Viking head to stop rotating and for its mouth to open and aim at you, then use War Machine to bombard its mouth. This will cause it to land, at which point you should unleash your full damage.

The second and most recommended method is to use Frag Grenade. Hold down the pin and watch for its eyes to turn red and its mouth to open. At that instant, throw a grenade into its mouth to knock it down instantly.

In single-player mode, you only need to deal with one rotating frozen Viking head. In co-op or cursed mode, there might be two or three heads, but these methods still work.

Phase 3: Dodging + Weak Point Shooting

The giant will freeze large areas. You need to run while holding Jotunn Star Wonder Weapon to avoid damage. Alternatively, activate the traps at the edge of the arena; you won't be frozen within that area.

The giant will also release a meteor shower. You must immediately hide behind pillars, sticking close to them, or you'll be instantly killed.

New weak points will appear on the giant's arms, chest, etc. Shoot during the intervals between attacks.

If you run out of ammo, kill zombies to get more. Pay attention to your armor value and try to use Frenzied Guard to restore armor.

Final Phase

When the giant's health is reduced to about one-fifth, it will forcibly drag you to the center of the arena and block off most of the area. Numerous rune-shaped projectiles will appear from the air, hurtling towards you at high speed.

It's best to activate Frenzied Guard for unlimited ammo, damage reduction, and armor regeneration. Use Shields Up as needed to further increase your armor. Keep moving and continuously shoot at the giant's remaining health.

As long as you don't stand still and lie down in time, you'll generally not fall. Finally, the robots will rush out to finish off the boss, and once the boss is dead, you've cleared the level.

That concludes the strategies and tips for Totenreich boss fight.

After diving deep into the endgame of Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred, you quickly discover that gold becomes absolutely critical and is devoured in staggering quantities - far beyond anything seen in previous Seasons. With individual costs routinely soaring into the hundreds of millions, conventional methods of acquiring gold feel utterly inadequate.

As a result, players desperately need a way to massively boost gold drops. And right now, there is indeed a method that can increase your gold drops by over 900%, and it revolves around Charm system.

Why is Gold So Scarce?

Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred introduces several new systems while also resetting and expanding some older ones, and every single one of them comes with substantial costs.

• Paragon Nodes: The fee to respec each node scales dynamically, eventually reaching up to 50 million gold per node.
• Masterworking: Landing the final masterwork upgrade on a piece of gear costs 10 million gold per attempt.
• Attribute Rerolling: Continuously rerolling a specific affix on high-tier gear can cost tens of millions of gold per roll.
• War Plans: The cost of resetting skill points at each node also increases dynamically, exceeding 50 million gold per node.

How to Boost Gold Drops?

While leveling through the campaign, Set Charms and Seals you find mostly provide bonuses for Generic sets, which only increase basic attributes. Once you enter the endgame, however, the loot pool becomes almost entirely dominated by Class Specific sets. Seals you obtain will roll affixes that almost exclusively benefit class sets, no longer offering enhancements for Generic sets.

The goal of this method is to use a very specific trick to once again obtain Seals in the endgame that provide bonuses for Generic sets. You first need to activate Charm effect of Practiced Technique. Its generic effect increases attack speed and movement speed, and the 3-piece bonus also provides an additional 25% gold drop.

In truth, the gold bonus this set can provide in the endgame far exceeds that figure - it can actually reach an increase of over 900% to your gold drop rate.

Practiced Technique Set

To unlock this absurdly powerful affix, you must first obtain Practiced Technique Set. You can acquire all three pieces simply by completing the main campaign.

You need to equip at least two pieces of the set to activate its 2-piece bonus. If you kept the third piece and equip it as well, the 3-piece bonus grants an extra 25% gold drop on top of that.

If you accidentally dismantled or discarded the set while leveling, you may need to create a new character and replay the campaign to obtain it again.

How to Obtain The Affix?

Once you have the set, the next step is to acquire a Seal with that overpowered affix, which is done through a recipe in Horadric Cube.

Among the hundreds of Rare or Legendary Horadric Seals that drop directly from monsters in the endgame, the specific Generic set gold affix you need is virtually impossible to find. However, you can obtain these affixes through Seal fusion recipe.

You need to prepare 3 Legendary Seals of the same rarity, place them inside Horadric Cube, and then use a recipe to transform the 3 Legendary Seals into a single new Seal with randomized affixes.

The new Seal created through this method draws its affix pool with a bias toward Generic set bonuses once more, rather than the class set bonuses that are so common in the endgame. This gives you a genuine chance to roll an affix that boosts Practiced Technique Set.

Simply repeat this process until you obtain a Seal with an affix that states: "If you have Practiced Technique Set equipped, you gain 911%-961% increased gold drop rate."

Difficulty Selection

Torment Tier difficulty in the game inherently provides a gold bonus. This bonus caps out at Torment 10, granting a base 300% increased Diablo 4 gold drop. Torment 11 and 12 do not increase this value any further.

Therefore, your final gold drop rate is: Torment difficulty bonus (up to 300%) plus that Seal affix bonus, totaling over 1200%. Apply this combined bonus to any gold-generating activity, and the returns become absolutely monstrous.

It is worth noting, however, that in order to equip the low-level Practiced Technique Set, you will lose the 5-piece class set bonus from your regular build, as well as any single Unique Charm you might have had equipped. This causes a significant drop in your character's overall power.

It is recommended to lower your game difficulty to Torment 10 first, since higher tiers do not offer additional gold gains, and there is no reason to sacrifice your clear speed on a higher difficulty.

Additionally, if you have the time, you can put together a dedicated speed-farming build specifically for gold. Whenever you need a massive amount of gold, swap into your gold-farming gear, rapidly rack up billions of gold, and then switch back to your regular combat equipment. You won't have to worry about gold for a very long time afterward.

With this method, you can amass billions of gold extremely quickly to cover the enormous costs of Paragon resets, affix re-rolls, and masterworking. However, this is likely a data vulnerability that the developers have overlooked, and they may fix it soon, so remember to take full advantage of this vulnerability until it's fixed.