With the well-deserved success and general positive reception of Diablo 4’s second season, many players praise the quality-of-life changes, the new vampiric skill system and the addition of the world bosses.

Among these, Duriel is the most sought after, since his loot is the rarest and most powerful. The boss is a cakewalk for a decently built character. Of course, the premise is that you have to prepare a lot of Diablo 4 Gold to upgrade your character.

However, in order to summon him, players need to collect Living Steel from Helltides. And this can be a tedious task, especially when compared to the similar, but much more fun and player-friendly Blood Harvest.

So, in this guide, we’ll take a deep-dive into the mechanisms of how the new Living Steel chests operate, despawn and respawn, and how you can use this knowledge to your advantage and optimize how you farm Living Steel.

#1: The Cost Of Opening A Living Steel Chest

The average player would skip over this part of the guide, saying: what about the cost? It costs 300 Aberrant Cinders to open a chest. It’s that simple, isn’t it? No.

For some reason, even if it says that you need 300 Cinders to open a chest, you actually only need 280. In fact, you can open a Living Steel chest even if you have as low as 280 Aberrant Cinders on you.

#2: The Number Of Chests

There can be either 2 or 3 Living Steel chests up at the same time, and this number depends on which zone is affected by the Helltide.

If the Helltide is in Scosglen or Kehjistan, there will be 3 Living Steel chests present on the map at the same time. For any other zone, this number is only 2.

For example, this Helltide only affects the region of Kehjistan, therefore you’d expect 3 chests being there at any given time. Clear? Good.

So far, everything has been relatively straightforward, but there is an additional twist to the spawning of Living Steel Chests. And the understanding of this mechanism separates a decent Helltide farmer from an efficient one: the Living Steel chests, similarly to Mystery chests, respawn at another location on the top of the hour.

In practice, this means that at exactly at the top of the hour (for example at six o’clock 0 minutes, five o’clock 0 minutes and so on), the chests disappear from their original positions, and respawn somewhere else.

If you opened a chest before this reset, then you’ll get to open the newly spawned ones after the respawn. This doubles the number of chests you can potentially open during one Helltide, and dramatically changes the optimal farming method of Living Steel. Because ideally you’ll want to open all Living Steel chests before this reset, and all of them after the reset as well.

Now this is not always possible, since the Helltide can end at the top of the hour (in this case there is no respawn) or it can begin very close to the top if the hour, in which case there is simply not enough time to farm the required Aberrant Cinders before the reset.

Nevertheless, an experienced Living Steel farmer should always maximize the number of chests opened during Helltide by taking advantage of this mechanism.

Hopefully, this guide has been useful for you, and maybe you learned some tricks on how to make the grind for Living Steel just a little bit less painful.

Recently, the developers of Diablo 4 revealed that players can complete quests to earn specific caches by participating in the game’s famous endgame Helltides. Players can better control the use of skills through actual combat practice, and at the same time, they can find rare items that can be upgraded and constructed during the battle.

The Latest Information On Endgame Helltides

During Blizzard’s latest Diablo 4 livestream, their developers provided more details about the various endgame systems in the upcoming ARPG, one of which is Helltides.

Here parts of Diablo 4 world will be devastated by Hellstorm for a short period. The sky will then turn a strange blood red, and the surrounding environment will become terrifying and gloomy. More importantly, the enemies that players face will also become stronger.

Players can obtain corresponding loot by killing bosses in Helltide, and of course each loot will occupy a specific item slot. But players don’t have to worry about items being full, because players can win Cinders by killing specific monsters in Helltides, and this item plays a key role in unlocking the card slot position.

The item slots that each specific cache needs to occupy are also different. For example, the weapon cache is usually more expensive than the boot cache. But as long as the player has enough Cinders, he can get a more specific cache in the event.

Especially for those who are looking for specific legendary or unique items to complete their builds, Helltides seem like a great way for them to work out and acquire rare items.

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Get Specific Cache

According to Blizzard before, the area around the arena will only be affected by Helltides for about 1 hour, so players will need to quickly decide where they need to go first to get the specific cache in a short period, while also considering the issue of farming Cinders.

However, it is very risky if the player wants to greedily unlock as many caches as possible. Cinders will also disappear at the end of Helltides or after leaving the affected area. It is worth noting that, if monsters in Helltides kill players, they will lose nearly half of the Cinders collected here.

Players need to make full use of their time during this process to avoid being killed by monsters, and at the same time make corresponding plans in advance to get a more specific cache.

Even if the player did not get a more specific cache in the process, it is still very meaningful to challenge Helltides. Players can even get better loot than standard enemies if they can defeat more challenging monsters. Players can also find most of the advanced crafting materials needed to upgrade builds in Helltides, including abundant Diablo 4 Gold and rare equipment.

Server Slam & More Details

Exactly how Diablo 4’s Helltides will work is just one aspect of Endgame discussed by Blizzard during the stream. The team also delved into more details about Nightmare dungeons that players will want to run to acquire gear and upgrade their Glyphs, and further elaborated on what they received from the game’s recent public beta about the dungeon design. and career balance feedback.

Blizzard also announced that it will be offering a free Diablo IV “server slam” beta experience from May 12-14 for those interested in trying the game again before its official release.

It’s just that the player’s game progress in the beta version will not continue to the game after the official launch, but if the player can reach a certain level in the server slam beta version, they can also obtain special honors and rewards.

The developer of Diablo 4 says the game will launch on June 6, and plans to receive new seasonal content every three months. Each seasonal content will introduce new story content and game features as well as the battle pass, and Blizzard estimates that players will need approximately 80 hours to complete all tasks. Before the game starts, everyone still needs to wait patiently. Before the game starts, everyone needs to wait patiently, I believe the result will satisfy everyone.