Diablo 4 Boosting

It feels like the blink of an eye since Diablo 4 Season 14 launched; given the game's update cycle, it is time to look ahead to the new season! With that in mind, 3.2.0 PTR has finally been officially announced.

Diablo 4 3.2.0 PTR aims to test the reliability of upcoming Season 15 content and identify areas that may require adjustment. If you want to get a head start on preparations, take a look at our detailed preview of 3.2.0 PTR.

Diablo 4 3.2.0 PTR duration

This PTR will launch on August 4 at 10:00 AM PDT and run for one week, concluding on August 11. During this period, you can choose to focus entirely on PTR, or continue diving into Season 14 while setting aside some time to test the new features coming in the next season.

As for the final release date of Diablo 4 Season 15, it is expected to land sometime during the last week of August or the first week of September.

Please note that PTR content does not represent the final state of Season 15; further adjustments will be made based on player feedback during the testing phase.

Special item: Soul Splinters

Diablo 4 will introduce a new item type called Soul Splinters in 3.2.0 PTR; these are tentatively expected to be seasonal items.

These items can be socketed into jewelry. Depending on the type, they provide resistance to Physical, All-Attribute, or Elemental damage, along with other unique bonus effects.

Each type of Soul Splinter comes in five rarities: Common, Magic, Rare, Legendary, and Unique, with higher rarities offering superior bonuses. While splinters of any rarity can drop during combat, you can also upgrade lower-tier splinters using Horadric Cube.

Regarding how to obtain Soul Splinters, they are likely acquired by farming new Season 15 combat activities, such as Challenge Dungeons or Overland Ambush we will detail shortly.

What are Challenge Dungeons?

Diablo 4 Season 15 will define new Overland zones across Sanctuary. While exploring Overland, special portals will spawn randomly, transporting you to the newly added Challenge Dungeons.

This dungeon features three difficulty levels, meaning you can adjust the internal difficulty to earn greater rewards without changing your global Torment tier.

The entry-level Challenge Dungeons are expected to match your currently selected Torment difficulty, with difficulty scaling up from there; the most dangerous Challenge Dungeons will be three tiers higher than your current Torment level.

Each Challenge Dungeon you trigger will feature formidable bosses; you must defeat them to fully clear the dungeon, exit, and continue your overall progression.

It is worth noting that Challenge Dungeon experience in Diablo 4 3.2.0 PTR is designed to test underlying systems; the final experience arriving in Season 15 promises to be more exciting and varied.

Overland Ambush

Aside from Challenge Dungeons, this is another potential new danger in Diablo 4 that can trigger randomly while you explore the open world.

Before an Ambush begins, a pop-up window will notify you that a powerful enemy squad has targeted you, giving you 30 seconds to decide whether to fight or flee.

To fully experience the new mechanics and earn more loot, we don't recommend always avoiding ambushes. However, if you're worried about handling the challenge, you can buy Diablo 4 items on IGGM in advance!

Further changes to Mythic crafting mechanics

A signature feature of Diablo 4 Season 14, Mythic crafting has undergone several revisions since its debut in 3.1.0 PTR. The game plans to retain this feature for Season 15 with additional optimizations.

In 3.2.0 PTR, Horadric Cube gains the ability to craft specific Unique items directly into their Mythic versions, eliminating randomness, though requiring more crafting materials. The previous option to craft random Mythic items remains available.

Regarding Mythic crafting at The Jeweler: while previously limited to craft specific gear using set recipes, Season 15 will allow you to select a specific gear slot and craft a random new item for it.

Mythics created via direct upgrades in Horadric Cube will bear a special tag, and you can equip only one such item at a time. There are no limits on the number of random Mythic items you can craft via Horadric Cube or The Jeweler.

Based on these changes, the 12 Iconic Mythics you know well will receive brand-new, unique versions, something never before seen in Diablo 4.

In other words, Iconic Mythic items will no longer hold an exclusive, singular status; you will be able to obtain them more easily through crafting.

All-new Legacy Uniques

Building upon Diablo 4's existing unique items, Season 15 3.2.0 PTR introduces nine new Legacy Uniques. Inspired by Diablo 1, 2, and 3, four of these are universal (usable by any class), while five are restricted to specific classes.

Please note that these Legacy Uniques will only appear in the game after the official launch of Diablo 4 Season 15; they cannot be unlocked or used during 3.2.0 PTR. We are mentioning them here simply as a sneak peek.

Additionally, the combat effects of these Legacy Uniques will not be identical to their counterparts in previous Diablo titles; they have been modified to suit Diablo 4's gameplay mechanics.

All-new charms

Previously, Diablo 4 charms were categorized into Set, Unique, and Legendary rarities. However, during 3.2.0 PTR, not only can you acquire 16 new Unique Charms, but every Unique Charm also has a corresponding Mythic version.

Rebirth feature

If you play in Eternal Realm alongside Seasonal Realm, you likely have well-developed Eternal characters, though their assets do not carry over to Seasonal Realm.

To strengthen the connection between these two realms, Diablo 4 Season 15 introduces Rebirth feature, allowing you to transfer an Eternal character directly into Seasonal Realm.

Upon conversion, the character's level resets to one, though you retain your class, name, and various cosmetic items that do not affect gameplay progression.

You must transfer Eternal character's original gold and gear to your Eternal stash beforehand; otherwise, you risk losing items, and Rebirth function will not work correctly.

That covers the new content planned for Diablo 4 Season 15, which you can preview in 3.2.0 PTR. This update is more substantial and looks more exciting than Season 14, let's wait and see how it actually plays out!

Players, as you progress through Diablo 4 Season 14 towards endgame, you'll inevitably start calculating whether your gear is sufficient to allow your character to one-shot bosses. After reading countless build guides online and in communities, you'll find that the universally sought-after Flawless Horadric Diamond is indeed a valuable item.

This rare gem specifically provides bonuses to your gear, so you'll often see it socketed in Weapons, Armors, and Jewelry during endgame runs or in the gear of top players.

So, just how important is Flawless Horadric Diamond in Diablo 4 Season 14, and should we acquire and use it?

Flawless Horadric Diamond Bonuses

As mentioned above, Flawless Horadric Diamond is designed to enhance your Weapons, Armors, and Jewelry, but its specific effects differ across these three gear types.

Weapon

For Weapons, Flawless Horadric Diamond provides a 28% All Damage Multiplier, a multiplicative boost. This is incredibly powerful for your build, especially if your damage-dealing skills aren't particularly strong yet.

Compared to the slightly weaker Horadric Diamond's 24% All Damage Multiplier, the extra 4% might just be enough to sustain your necessary damage output in endgame or high-level pits.

Armor

Armor, on the other hand, gains +60 All Stats from Flawless Horadric Diamond. For builds focused on specific stats, this saves a significant amount of time and effort, providing the desired stat strength.

Jewelry

If your build lacks elemental resistance and you have Flawless Horadric Diamond, you can socket it into Jewelry for a powerful +625 Resistance to All Elements, essentially solving your survivability issues in Diablo 4.

If you have the three types of socketed equipment mentioned above, along with three Flawless Horadric Diamonds, even if it doesn't instantly make you a top-tier build, it won't hinder your damage output, defense, or survivability in Diablo 4 Season 14.

Is crafting it easy?

To craft a Flawless Horadric Diamond in Diablo 4, you need at least 25 million Diamond Fragments.

This is because you must start with the basic 25 million Diamond Fragments, gradually crafting Royal Diamonds, and then combining ten Royal Diamonds into one Grand Diamond - this is the only way to obtain Grand Diamonds.

You need to use Horadric Cubes to combine five Grand Diamonds into one Horadric Diamond, and finally combine five Horadric Diamonds into one Flawless Horadric Diamond.

Additionally, this crafting process will consume 7,500 Forgotten Souls and 250 million Gold.

You can calculate how many resources you'd need to accumulate to obtain a single Flawless Horadric Diamond with such a high resource consumption; crafting it isn't as simple as it seems.

If you make a mistake in any resource allocation, you'll ultimately fail to obtain the gem. It's much faster to simply buy Diablo 4 Flawless Horadric Diamond from IGGM.com.

How to farm crafting materials?

Smart Diablo 4 players discovered a good way to repeatedly obtain Diamond Fragments as early as Season 14's launch: utilizing Escalating Nightmare Dungeons system, considered high-risk but high-reward by players, to efficiently acquire crafting materials.

Before starting to farm, you need to ensure that Branching Pathways node in your War Plans is unlocked; otherwise, subsequent strategies will be completely ineffective.

Once Branching Pathways is unlocked, you can choose affixes related to Diamond Fragments when entering specific levels of Escalating Nightmare Dungeons.

The first and second tiers don't require much attention, and you shouldn't spend too much time in these dungeons, as the third tier is where this farming method truly shines.

Diamond Reserve and Dark Omen are the affixes we need, and you must choose them both from Escalating Nightmare Dungeons in the third tier.

With this, you can freely open chests and fight Dark Omen-related bosses in Escalating Nightmare Dungeons, because they'll give you all Diamond Fragments you want!

While you can get a significant amount of Diamond Fragments at once, to reach the 25 million goal, you need to continue this strategy.

You need to go to another dungeon in Diablo 4 that isn't an Escalating Nightmare Dungeon, and then teleport back to an Escalating Nightmare Dungeon with Diamond Reserve and Dark Omen affixes.

The rest of the process is the same as before; you can freely obtain Diamond Fragments from chests and bosses. Focus your attention; this farming cycle won't take much time, though waiting for Diamond Reserve can be a bit tedious.

Once you have 25 million Diamond Fragments, crafting a Flawless Horadric Diamond won't be difficult.

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The Necessity of Pursuing a Flawless Horadric Diamond

Horadric Diamond's bonuses across all three equipment types are quite impressive: it gives Weapons a 24% All Damage Multiplier, Armor +40 All Stats, and Jewelry +500 Resistance to All Elements.

Frankly, even without a Flawless Horadric Diamond, the bonuses from it in Diablo 4 Season 14 are already quite good.

However, if you can master the farming methods for the materials needed for a Flawless Horadric Diamond, and you really want to go further in Season 14 endgame, then Flawless Horadric Diamond is your best choice.

After all, such a powerful boost would likely require a significant investment of resources to compensate through other means, possibly more than the time and effort needed to synthesize a Flawless Horadric Diamond!

In Diablo 4, pursuing a Flawless Horadric Diamond isn't about following the trend; it's about knowing how worthwhile the boost it provides is.