In the latest patch 1.1.1, Diablo 4’s endgame gives you some power fantasy that the game lacks. With this simple change, Blizzard managed to make Diablo 4’s endgame a lot more interesting.

In patch 1.1.1, the creature density of Nightmare Dungeon and Helltide was greatly increased. This indirectly alleviated a lot of our complaints. Of course, I still wish we had more endgame events, but this is a first step in the right direction!

Perfect Power Fantasy

First, let’s talk about the most obvious aspect, which is dungeon fun. One of the main fun factors of a game like Diablo 4 is the power fantasy and how the game makes you feel.

Before the patch, if you weren’t playing Sorcerer and trying to survive, Nightmare Dungeon would most likely bore you. And the complete loop is to walk for a while, reach a group of 6-7 mobs, kill them and harvest Diablo 4 Gold that drops, then move on.

Also, it makes the game’s evil forces feel a little flat, which is a shame. But luckily, the character designs and models are great, evoking that sinister, dark feeling.

Now, after the patch, I’m running another Nightmare Dungeon, and I’m having even more fun with it. Hordes of enemies rushed at me, and I smashed and sliced them furiously. It starts to give you the power fantasy you want in a game of this type. Not only does this help in that regard, but it also makes dungeons more engaging, since there’s less walking and more smashing.

Earning XP Easier

Another important aspect is earning XP from Nightmare Dungeons. This means that the more monsters you kill, the more XP you receive.

Though I’m still a little disappointed that they nerfed XP gain of Nightmare Dungeons at the start of Season 1. But it’s a welcome change that offsets our previous XP loss. Of course, it would be even better to increase monster density and gain XP from preseason. But it’s a step in the right direction for the game.

One thing I really hope Blizzard doesn’t do is change the drop rate for Diablo 4 Items. Because killing more monsters also means we get more loot. If you get more loot, you have more opportunities to level up. You’ll also get more Diablo 4 Gold because you have more stuff to trade and you have more resources to upgrade your items.

Cinders Drop Rate Increased In Helltide

Moving on to another major endgame event, Helltide. Before the patch, I usually had to ride around for a while, find a bunch of mobs, kill them, collect Cinders, and move on.

Now, once we enter Helltide, there is a horde of demons rushing towards us. We no longer have to wander around on mounts and struggle to find monsters to kill.

Also, I tested how long it took me to get 250 Cinders. It took me about 20 minutes. It took me about 30-40 minutes to get these Cinders before patch 1.1.1 came out. So it’s quite possible that Blizzard increased the drop rate of Cinders.

Now, Helltide gets interesting, with a massive demonic invasion charging and destroying the land. We could get that power fantasy by jumping right into the middle of monster hordes and smashing them into pieces.

So overall, I’m happy with this patch. It improves the player's experience and feel in the game. And the two main endgame events, Nightmare Dungeon and Helltide, are now even more interesting in patch 1.1.1. So what are your thoughts on the increase in monster density? Are you satisfied with the patch? I want to know your opinion. See you in the game.

Have you finished your Diablo 4 campaign and wondering what to do next? Here I will tell you what you should know before entering the endgame game and what enhancement build items you can end up getting through the endgame.

Level 50, Capstone Dungeon And Nightmare Difficulty

First, if you haven’t reached level 50, this should be your first goal. You can try some dungeons and side quests until you reach this goal.

Once you’re ready, head to Kyovashad in Fractured Peaks, and enter the castle. The first one you’ll face is Capstone Dungeon. This dungeon is a challenging area. There’s a powerful level 50 boss here, known as Curator, that needs to be completed before you can get into Nightmare Difficulty.

You must be level enough to pass this dungeon. You can choose Boosting service, which will allow you to complete the upgrade faster and see Curator.

Once complete, you’ll be able to access Nightmare Difficulty at World Tier Statue. This opens up additional endgame events and higher-level item drops to make your character even more powerful.

Helltide

Helltide event is an hour-long regional event in Diablo 4, unlocked after you reach Nightmare Difficulty.

Filled with powerful demons and monsters, you can collect currency called Cinders to exchange for items in chests during Helltide. Each chest is specific to a specific item type, with a different cost associated with the chest type.

The area is full of challenging enemies. Their powerful attacks can quickly reduce your health to zero, and death will cost you half your Cinders. You may want to spend the money as you earn it until you feel confident in your ability to survive. Helltide region is also the only source of Forgotten Souls, which is usually found in reward chests and used for crafting.

Renown

Renown is a new system in Diablo 4 where players can earn rich rewards by completing missions in each region. There are two reward paths. One is an account-wide benefit that can be obtained at one time. The other is Diablo 4 Gold reward that can be earned with every new character.

Required tasks include simple requirements. Such as discovering new areas of the map and waypoints leading to longer objectives. Such as a series of different quests that can be triggered by finding non-player characters and finding items in the game world as the item drops.

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Also, finding Altar of Lilith will give you additional rewards. The developers have confirmed that you only need to find them once to earn these perks.

Lastly is Stronghold, a demon-infested area of the map with the lowest level of monsters. They can be a real challenge, but they offer the highest single Renown rewards. It’s worth taking the time to clear them all, as doing so can reveal new Waypoints, Dungeons and Side Quests.

Tree Of Whispers

Tree of Whispers is a Bounty-based system that provides a currency called Grim Favors for completing various quests. Check out the map and you’ll see the various Bounty highlighted, along with the rewards offered and the time left to complete each one.

We must complete bounty tasks before the timer expires, so be careful before entering a potentially long task that is due soon. Once you have 10 Grim Favors, you can redeem them in Tree of Whispers for bonus chests, which can contain legendary, uniques, gems, materials, and Nightmare Sigils.

Nightmare Dungeons

Regarding Nightmare Sigils, these are tokens that can be found in Helltide and Tree of Whispers reward caches. They’ll be stored in your consumable inventory, and you can choose to take unwanted Sigils and craft new ones at Occultist in town.

To activate Nightmare Dungeons, right-click on Sigils and head to the highlighted dungeon. Nightmare Dungeons contain many powerful enemies. Playing in groups is therefore beneficial, as player revives do not count towards your total revives. So find a team to play with for the best chance of success.

Outro

Looking ahead, Blizzard announced that they already have two expansion packs in the works. As the next Seasons approaches, it looks like the game will be getting more and more content updates. I hope you found this useful and that you enjoy the game as much as I do!

After the course of playing the last couple beta weekends of Diablo IV, it has gotten an amazing amount of love and incredible player feedback.

Players absolutely love the first 25 levels and the game truly exceeded most people’s expectations. But the official Diablo 4 team releasing a video all about the endgame. I have to say this has got me more excited and hyped up than ever.

The endgame is surely something we don’t have a lot of information about and diving into this head first is truly refreshing and leaves me just wanting more.

Paragon Board

They started discussing as your character grows in power, you will flesh out all of your talent trees and eventually cap out on your skill points available. After around level 50, you’ll be heading into Paragon Board to dive into an incredibly deep and crucial part of Diablo 4’s endgame.

Now, a lot of choices players make are usually grounded upon skills and builds depending on what class they actually select and play. And this can push them into playing a wide variety of different roles in Diablo.

But with the Paragon Board isn’t as simple as that you’re going to have a lot more in-depth customization giving you an incredibly wide variety of options to make a character that truly fits your preferred play style.

Now, an amazing addition to the Paragon Board to help even more with customization is the fact that you can actually rotate the board itself and start in the direction that you want to specifically go down. Like if you want more dexterity, pieces, boons or glyphs, you can base your past upon those, allowing every single Paragon Board to be different in their own way with having thousands of customization options for each character you dive into near the endgame.

Codex Of Power

They also speak about how one of my favorite systems personally is the Codex of Power on how when you complete a dungeon, you gain that Legendary Aspect permanently inside your codex, giving you the minimum aspect value for that legendary.

And it easily allows you to select that Legendary Power and imprint it onto any great piece of gear you find out in the open world, allowing you to continue running the same build that you’re currently playing or even try out new builds very easily by collecting a nice variety of legendaries for your class overall.

I absolutely love the fact that it gives you the opportunity to test out a wide variety of builds as you level up instead of having to go out there and farm legendaries and pray to the RNG gods that you get the aspects that you need to even start and consider playing a brand new build. With this system, you simply go out to farm the dungeons and start mixing and matching playstyles all on the go. If you are lucky, you can also farm a lot of Diablo 4 Gold.

Nightmare Dungeons

Now, everybody knows that a massive part of the Diablo franchise is its incredible dungeons that you can dive into. Each one can feel like they have their own story, full of monster families, different bosses and objectives to bring you almost an endless amount of fun, no matter the dungeon that you are running.

Now, once you advance to World Tier 3, you will get access to Nightmare Sigils, which then you could use to activate a Nightmare Dungeon that you might have run previously in your current playthrough. It’s going to make the dungeons significantly harder by adding affixes, adding different mobs and boss types and amplifying the intensity of the dungeons significantly.

We even got a first look at one of the affixes in the dungeon, which is called the Hellgate Affix. They showed that periodically throughout the dungeon, a Hellgate will actually spawn inside and a bunch of monsters and minions will actually be poured out of it from various regions throughout the Sanctuary, while you’re actually trying to handle everything else going on in the dungeon.

I know a lot of people won’t be too happy about me making the statement. But it seems a lot like Mythic Plus Dungeons in World of Warcraft. Personally, I think if they’re going to try to make Diablo a bigger franchise and cater to a wider audience, they need to do something to add more re-playability and a lot of these MMO aspects they are introducing into the game.

I think they are definitely going to help for the long-term health of Diablo 4. What I mean is I think it’s phenomenal that they already have over 120 dungeons in the game at launch and any one of them can become a Nightmare Dungeon once you acquire the Nightmare Sigil, making it very difficult for you as the player to run the same dungeons over and over again, leaving it very hard to become boring and repetitive.

Helltide

Moving on, we also got a brand new first look at some of the Helltide zones and gameplay that are involved in them. This is a feature that unlocks when you start heading into the endgame and it transforms an entire region into a Helltide event that players can group up or go solo to defeat even more powerful monsters and complete objectives to acquire Shards of Hatred.

As a player, you then take these shards to go and purchase rewards and unlock caches that are found all throughout the Helltide event areas. That can give you very powerful loot and rewards. It makes the entire region changing into something completely different from it was before, bringing you new challenges and new opportunities and getting loot upon completion. And I truly believe it’s going to bring even more players than it had in the past.

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Whispers Of The Dead

They also explained that the Whispers of the Dead system is also a massive feature in the endgame as well.

If you play Diablo 3 or a lot of MMOs or pretty much any game in general nowadays, these pretty much work as daily quests or for you Diablo players out there bounties.

So, what you’re going to do is go out in the open world, travel all around completing these events, objectives and quests, laying these monsters whatever. Then, you return to the trio Whispers to turn in for a variety of words for your character to claim and earn.

My Thoughts

My personal biggest anticipated feature is the PVP. We even got more details at first look at the Fields of Hatred. For those of you that don’t know, the Fields of Hatred are PVP based zones and I am incredibly excited for PVP in general in a game like Diablo 4.

Now, similar to Helltide zones and events, the Fields of Hatred allow you to collect shards for you to collect and turn in for great rewards. Now, it isn’t going to be as easy and simple by grabbing the shards and turning them in, though you are going to need to take the shards and purify them before you can actually turn them in for a reward. The big catch is that you can get killed by other players while you have the shards and they can steal all of your loot for themselves.

One of the craziest thing is that other players will actually know that you're attempting to purify the shards, so definitely be ready for more engagement when you're looking to finalize collecting all your rewards in the PVP zone.

Now, I personally think this is an absolutely phenomenal addition to Diablo game in general with the fact that you can increase your player power and get exclusive rewards strictly through PVP if you want to. This gives you the freedom to play and decide how you want to progress all with your own choice.

They also did explain that Diablo 4 is a live service game and they're constantly going to be giving update dates with expansions, battle passes, cosmetics and stuff like that. I absolutely love that they are increasing the size and play of Diablo overall significantly. They are adding tons of group play and exploration as well as open world events to make the world feel alive and active and this isn't even all the features inside of Diablo 4.

I personally think that Diablo franchise needed something big and massive to make a return and a big comeback after Diablo Immortal issues and all these features. And brand new aspects they are implementing into the game I think are truly going to change the game for the better and revolutionize the franchise as a whole.