Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred features updates to gameplay and endgame systems. Players will notice the introduction of the new Torment difficulty system when logging in for the first time, which replaces the original World Tiers.

Now, ascending Torment tiers are key to exploring end-game content, while also providing a new way to adjust the challenge of the game to suit personal preferences. By clearing a T20 Pit dungeon, completing the campaign, and diving into higher difficulty challenges, players can unlock the most powerful gear in Diablo 4.

Welcome Back, Torment

Torment is an elective difficulty system introduced in Diablo 4. Players can unlock four Torment difficulty levels in the endgame. Each level significantly increases the challenge by increasing the monster’s damage and health and decreasing the player’s survivability.

Torment difficulty enables access to Ancestral items and can be master worked. Therefore, collecting a complete set of Ancestral gear becomes the key to dealing with the hardest Torment difficulties.

Torment Difficulty Tiers

Players will face four Torment difficulty tiers. As the difficulty increases, the health and attack power of all enemies will increase accordingly. In addition, higher Torment tiers also impose survivability debuffs on player characters.

Specifically, in Torment IV, for example, players need to double their armor and resistance in order to survive the endgame. While the effects of these curses can be mitigated through Paragon passives and gems, some top-tier gear may need to be played on Torment III or have higher difficulty to obtain and function.

Unlock Torment Tiers

Players need to unlock Torment Tiers by completing Pit, a timed dungeon located in Cerrigar. This endgame activity can be attempted after the campaign. Players must complete at least T20 Pit challenge. Higher difficulties require completing correspondingly higher Pit tiers to unlock. It’s unclear whether these unlocks are tied to accounts, but Pit tiers are.

Once T20 Pit is cleared, players can immediately begin experiencing the first Torment option. The pit tier corresponding to each torment tier can be used as an indicator to measure difficulty.

If your equipment configuration can easily handle T20 Pit, then you should also be able to handle the first Torment difficulty with ease. The difficulty increase from Torment I to Torment II is relatively small. You only need to strengthen the equipment with some Legendary aspects to pass the level smoothly.

The difficulty of Torment II is roughly equivalent to the level of T80-100 Nightmare Dungeons in Season 5. If your configuration is strong enough, you can survive this difficulty. Torment III’s difficulty is comparable to Wave 8 Infernal Hordes, which requires players to have an optimized setup.

The difficulty of Torment IV is comparable to T100 Pit in Season 5. The enemies here are more powerful than Torment III, and players must have the perfect optimal configuration to deal with them.

Torment Difficulty Rewards

While increasing the difficulty doesn’t significantly increase rewards like previous World Tiers, it does bring some extra rewards. The most obvious changes are the increased drop chances of Ancestral items and Diablo 4 Gold, which, aside from Mythic Uniques, is one of the best pieces of gear in the game.

Torment difficulties do affect the drop rate of Ancestral gear. As the Torment tier increases, the chance of obtaining these Ancestral gear also increases. In personal testing in the pre-release build, although there were not many Ancestral items obtained directly from monsters, the chance of obtaining Ancestral items through caches or activity clears increased significantly.

Additionally, in order to experience some of Diablo 4’s endgame content, specifically challenges such as Infernal Hordes and Dark Citadel, players will need to reach at least Torment I.

What Are Ancestral Items?

Ancestral items are more powerful variations of pre-existing Legendary and Unique gear. These Ancestral gears are available under Torment difficulties. The mechanics are now similar to previous seasons of Diablo 4, but Ancestral items are far more valuable than average Legendary. Its advantages are as follows:

• 800 Item Power: All Ancestral items have a base damage value of 800, which is the highest value in the game.
• Greater Affixes: Ancestral gear will have at least one Greater Affix, and random affixes will be boosted by 50%.
• Masterwork Limit: You can master an Ancestral item up to 12 times.

A fully upgraded Ancestral item may be twice as powerful as a regular Legendary, and even more powerful if you’re lucky enough to get multiple Greater Affixes. Uniques may also appear as Ancestral items and enjoy the same benefits. Mythic Uniques now always appear as Ancestral gear.

All Ancestral items you find will have at least a white asterisk Greater Affix, indicating that the attribute is more powerful than usual. Greater Affix will maximize its attribute values ​​and increase its strength by 50%. Legendary gear can have up to three Greater Affixes. Uniques can have up to four Greater Affixes.

Although you can directly participate in other activities in the game after the campaign is over, increasing the difficulty of the game is an indispensable step in order to obtain Ancestral gear. In addition, you can follow Giveaway channel in IGGM discord, which will release information about Diablo 4 related product gifts from time to time. Remember to be active in the discord group.