Diablo 4 Boosting

Diablo 4 fans are undoubtedly familiar with Torment difficulty system in the open world. From Torment 1 to Torment 4, each tier represents a significant increase in your character's power.

The difficulty difference between each tier is substantial; with each increase, enemy strength nearly tenfold. Therefore, by the time you reach T4, the monsters are exponentially more difficult than your initial encounters, creating a rather steep progression curve.

What's Wrong With The Current Torment Difficulty System?

If Diablo 4 continued to provide highly challenging content, it would be fine. However, the problem is that there are currently only four Torment difficulty levels. T4 is the final difficulty level in the open world, with no higher challenges to overcome.

Once you adapt to T4, the game becomes increasingly easier because your power increases, but enemy strength no longer increases. Ultimately, experienced players with superior builds can easily wipe out all enemies.

This situation creates two main problems.

First, the vast difference in Torment levels requires players to acquire gear that provides dozens of times the damage boost just to barely handle the current enemies. This is why current Paragon boards and glyph nodes increasingly focus on pure damage increases rather than interesting support nodes.

Second, once we reach Torment 4, everything becomes incredibly easy; the only thing we can continuously pursue is faster map clearing speed and faster movement speed. So, since the current dominant farming builds can instantly kill all enemies and loot all Diablo 4 items, why would we need to play other builds? The existence of slower builds is also meaningless, as there's no higher level of challenge to challenge them, and their sustained damage output has no chance to be realized.

These problems not only reduce the original customizability of mechanics like Paragon, because all the difficulty-increasing mechanisms require players to blindly pursue damage, but also stifle build diversity.

Therefore, for various reasons, the developers recently hinted that they plan to add more Torment difficulties in Diablo 4 Season 11 and subsequent season updates, potentially increasing the number from the current four to ten.

But will these changes really solve the problem? Why is increasing the difficulty levels reasonable in the current situation? What impact will it have on endgame content? Let's discuss this together.

What Are The Benefits Of Increasing Torment Levels?

First, if implemented correctly, increasing Torment difficulty levels can solve both problems simultaneously.

Because instead of setting four vastly different difficulty levels, it's better to adjust to ten smaller levels, reducing the damage multiplier of each level from ten times to two times. This makes the leveling curve smoother, meaning you can steadily improve even without gear that provides a significant damage boost.

At the same time, Paragon nodes can return to their role as practical support characters, rather than purely damage dealers, making the entire Diablo 4 gear system healthier.

The bigger benefit, however, is that more Torment tiers make sense for slower builds. They were designed to trade speed for higher damage bonuses, so the Torment difficulty adjustment will give them a greater advantage.

This is the right way to create build diversity, allowing different builds to find the most suitable development method and tier based on their own strengths and weaknesses, rather than forcing all builds to desperately chase movement speed.

New Torment System Predictions

Next, let's propose some ideas on how the new difficulty system will actually work. These are just preliminary ideas, but I think they show potential.

Let's assume they add a total of 10 Torment tiers in Season 11, from T1 to T10. For clarity, we'll associate them with The Pit tiers. T1 unlocks at The Pit tier 10, T2 at tier 20, T3 at tier 30, and so on, up to T10 at tier 100.

This would create a smoother difficulty curve and make it easier to control. You won't encounter insurmountable obstacles, but rather a steady climb.

What's even more interesting is that content and rewards will gradually unlock as you progress through your Torment level; not everything is available in Torment 1. These tangible progress milestones provide players with a greater sense of accomplishment as they advance.

We've also made some predictions about the content unlocks for each level, for reference only:

• T1: The starting point at level 60. The Pit unlocks at this stage. You can also find common unique items, low-level boss materials, and standard items suitable for beginners, but not enough to build a core gameplay mechanic.
• T2: Dark Citadel unlocks at this stage to help players adapt to the endgame system.
• T3: Nightmare Dungeon Escalation unlocks at this stage. It guides them to try higher difficulties and understand the game mechanics.
• T4: Higher-ranking bosses will unlock, such as Andariel, Duriel, and Lord Zir. These bosses drop powerful and unique gear that can define a build.
• T5: The Tower will unlock. The Tower is competitive endgame content with leaderboards. By Torment 5 difficulty, players will have enough experience to understand the mechanics and its importance.
• T6: Belial unlocks here. This is currently the last boss in Diablo 4 and one of the most difficult fights in the game, but it drops top-tier unique items.
• T7: Expansion content may unlock here, including new systems, new events, and legendary Temper Manuals, creating another progression stage.
• T8: Special elite monsters spawn here. These elite monsters are enhanced, possess auras and special affixes, and drop legendary gems based on previous season abilities. This gives you new build options to pursue.
• T9 & 10: Represent even higher difficulty challenges. Not all builds can reach these difficulties, but if you do, you'll receive season-exclusive rewards, allowing players to still have something to strive for at the peak.

Item Power And Rewards Scaling

In addition, here's a suggestion related to Torment difficulty: incrementally increase item power in the late game.

Currently, all Ancestral Unique Items drop the same strength at Torment difficulty. This setting was intended to make it easier for players to select loot in the early stages of the game, but it also resulted in loot drops being too mixed and random. If players wanted to obtain specific items, they could only rely on RNG or buy safe Diablo 4 items from the online store.

What if item strength increased with Torment difficulty? The increase wouldn't need to be huge; a natural progression mechanism for loot strength would suffice. Challenging higher difficulties would yield better base items. This would make item farming more interesting.

Furthermore, the current reward increase from challenging higher Torments is negligible. A 10x increase in difficulty only yields a 10% to 20% increase in rewards, which is clearly disproportionate.

Therefore, increasing Torment levels and smoothing the difficulty curve would significantly improve the chances of obtaining gold, XP, Greater Affix, and material drops with each Torment challenge. While the increase may not be substantial, it is stable and significant.

In short, the current Torment difficulty system has obvious flaws. The four levels with drastically increased difficulty, the bottleneck at T4 difficulty, and the stifling of build diversity all negatively impact the player experience. Therefore, adjusting the Torment difficulty levels in Season 11 might truly solve these problems, allowing different builds to find their optimal level with a reasonable difficulty curve and reward scaling, thus enhancing player enjoyment.

With Season 11 launching soon, are you sure you've got a good grasp of the key content from the previews? Knowing your enemy is half the battle; mastering important information beforehand will help you adapt to the new season faster.

Of all the new mechanics, those related to gear upgrades have received significant changes in Season 11, including more consistent upgrade rates for gear affixes in Tempering and Masterworking, and the entirely new Sanctification.

Furthermore, this season also features new unique items for each class, just like before. Therefore, in Season 11, besides mastering the basic uses of these Uniques, you'll also need to learn how to enhance them using Sanctification - we'll show you.

Rogue - Death's Pavane

The biggest advantage of these unique pants for Rogue is that they allow for better use of the classic build Dance of Knives this season. This is because they give you a higher dodge chance when channeling Dance of Knives skill.

Furthermore, this gear provides up to 11% base critical strike chance and a movement speed bonus. This not only increases Dance of Knives skill level and agility damage, but it's also beneficial for other highly mobile Rogue builds.

However, we highly recommend using it to enhance Dance of Knives in Season 11. It allows you to obtain Dance of Knives items upon hitting enemies, granting a charge that increases skill damage by 20 times for 6 seconds.

More importantly, this damage can stack up to 3 times, meaning your final damage output from Dance of Knives skill, or your entire build, will be multiplied by 3, or 60 times. Combined with your base damage, you'll dominate the dungeon!

Note that many elite enemies have been buffed in Season 11. Therefore, to fully utilize your Dance of Knives build to counter them, you'll also need to buy Diablo 4 items that can coordinate with Death's Pavane.

Sorcerer - Orsivane

This one-handed mace might seem out of place for a Sorcerer on style, but it offers significant buffs, including increases to damage, maximum health, and core skill levels.

More importantly, it has a unique effect: for every defensive skill not on your action bar, your damage increases by 20-40%, and you gain associated enchantments.

Generally, a Sorcerer should have four defensive skills in combat, meaning this mace provides a 40x4, or 160x, damage multiplier - a huge boost.

While this effect might not match the overall DPS of the core skills provided by the various Sorcerer gear in Chaos Armor version of Season 10, the added enchantments make up for it.

Spiritborn - Path Of The Emissary

This new item is a pair of unique boots that increase your movement speed and core ability damage, and these damage effects are expected to stack (otherwise, the buff would be meaningless). It also increases core ability level and debuffs.

The boots' unique ability is that every 12 to 14 meters moved, you can summon a core ability from your Primary Spirit Hall:

• Quill Volley - Eagle
• Stinger - Centipede
• Rake - Jaguar
• Crushing Hand - Gorilla

This effect means you can utilize Spirit Hall mechanic to create more usable Spiritborn builds in Season 11, enriching the class's playability. For example, you can apply different debuffs to enemies.

Barbarian - Chainscourged Mail

This unique pair's special ability is that after casting a damaging melee ability, that ability is disabled. For each disabled ability, your melee ability damage increases by 50-100%. If all melee skills are disabled, they will be re-enabled, and their cooldowns will be refreshed.

Gear's basic functions include:

• + All Stats
• + Maximum Life
• + Brawling Skills
• Cooldown Reduction

When playing Barbarian, you should typically carry five melee skills, activating and cycling them one by one - all you need to do is keep tapping your skill bar.

Druid - Khamsin Steppewalkers

These unique boots increase your movement speed and crowd control duration, and provide a reduction in nature spell cooldowns, further granting you a 25% bonus to your enhanced attacks.

Their unique power grants a charge if you deal damage to at least 100 enemies with your storm ability. Subsequent defensive abilities will grant 1 second of maximum movement speed and Unhindered.

Unhindered means you can pass through enemies. Each charge grants an additional second of Unhindered, and enemies you collide with during the charge will be immobilized.

Therefore, you can add more skills or gear to stack bonuses that enhance stun effects, allowing you to better control enemies with Khamsin Steppewalkers and deal more damage in a short time.

Necromancer - Gravebloom

The value of this one-handed mace lies in its unique power, allowing you to summon three small golems, each dealing 40-60% of normal damage and gaining a 30% attack speed and 50% respawn speed bonus.

Furthermore, when the golems are at full health, they reduce enemy attack speed, and summoning a golem to attack twice grants Golem Mastery. This will be very suitable for the new Golem Necromancer Build in Season 11 craft.

Other gear benefits include:

• + Intelligence
• + Maximum Life
• + Chance for Golem to Hit Twice

Can Sanctification Enhance These New Gear?

As a brand new system, Sanctification allows your gear to be further enhanced after utilizing Tempering and Masterworking, but the final enhancement effect is random and cannot be modified after completion.

At first glance, this mechanism seems good, but the key issue is that if you randomly get a useless new affix, it can ruin the entire gear's value, wasting all your previous efforts to enhance it.

Therefore, from its launch on PTR to its end and even now, the player community has consistently been pessimistic about sanctification, and we also advise against hastily sanctifying new Uniques after acquiring them.

Based on this, we hope that after Season 11 launches, the development team can find a way to optimize this new mechanism, making it a true highlight of the new season, rather than just a filler feature.

That concludes our introduction. We hope this helps you choose and experience classes in Season 11! We wish you all the best on your new season journey!