Helltides come back to Diablo 4 Season 6 and become even fiercer than ever. It serves as a channel for you to maximize your loot, farm endgame gear and level up quickly.

Whether you are a rookie or an experienced Diablo 4 veteran, it is vital to make full use of these demonic invasions to acquire game resources and gain experience.

Keep reading to get a deep known of more details about Helltides, with loot strategies, and the best farming locations being contained.

What Are Helltides In Diablo 4 Season 6?

Helltides serve as world events with time limitation, which occurs every hour in disparate zones across Sanctuary. It is overwhelmed with horrible enemies, powerful bosses, and unique loot opportunities and is signified with a dark red hue on your map.

Aberrant Cinders

In Diablo 4 Season 6, the primary currency you want to accumulate is Aberrant Cinders in Helltides, which will drop from enemies, chests, and special resource nodes.

Aberrant Cinders support you to unlock Tortured Gifts, the loot chests scattering throughout the zone.

It is noticeable that Aberrant Cinders are exclusive to current Helltide you are taking part in, which means they will can not be saved for future events. And if you are unfortunately being slayed during a Helltide, then you will lose half of your Cinders, which are unavailable to be recovered.

As to the way to claim more Aberrant Cinders, it is recommended to slay as many enemies as you can along the way and keep an eye and those packed area with tons of enemies to maximize your Cinder haul.

When Do Helltides Start?

Each Helltide lasts 55 minutes. And a new Helltide will begin 5 minutes later when the previous one concludes. Hover over Helltides icon on the map to check the remaining time and determine whether to participate in.

There are some critical indicators showing up during Helltides, and they are:

• Helltide Timer: Reminder of the amount of time left before the event ends.
• Aberrant Cinder Counter: Reminder the amount of Aberrant Cinder you have collected.
• Baneful Heart Tracker: Display the number of Baneful Hearts you’ve gathered, a rare currency for summoning Blood Maiden.
• Threat Meter: Threat level upgrades as you slay more demons. The higher the level, the more challenging the enemies and missions you face. If you hit Threat Tier 3, even more powerful elite bosses like Hellborns will spawn. Survival becomes more difficult, but the rewards become more alluring.

Best Helltide Farming Locations

Helltides rotate between a variety of areas in Sanctuary. Different farming locations offer different levels of difficulty and rewards. Here are the most common Helltide zones with affluent rewards to claim in Diablo 4 Season 6.

• Fractured Peaks: A snowy region packed with kinds of enemies.
• Scosglen: A dense forest with lots of demons to kill.
• Dry Steppes: A wasteland overwhelmed with dangerous mobs.
• Kehjistan: A desolate ruin with enemies lurking around every corner.
• Hawezar: Deserted ruins with dense enemies.
• Nahantu: Another zone you should pay attention to.

Tortured Gifts - Treasure Troves Of Helltides

Tortured Gifts serve as the treasure chests that require Aberrant Cinders to unlock. They are divided into different types, and each of them contains specific gear slots or rewards as follows:

• Tortured Gift of Weaponry: Offers weapons.
• Tortured Gift of Protection: Provides armor pieces.
• Tortured Gift of Jewelry: Grants rings and amulets.
• Tortured Gift of Mysteries: The most captivating type of all which will cost you 250 Aberrant Cinders to open. It drops drop multiple Diablo 4 Gold, Legendary items, Elixirs, and crafting materials as rewards.

While the exact contents of the chest are uncertain, the rewards can be huge. If you are desperate for Legendary of high rarity and Unique items that are suitable for your class, then do not miss them.

Accursed Rituals And Blood Maiden

Accursed Rituals are one of the most thrilling contents in Helltides and will be spawn Blood Maiden, a challenging boss with premium loot to drop.

To kick off Accursed Ritual, you are demanded to gather Baneful Hearts and head to an Accursed Ritual site and put them on the pedestals. It is a tough task to defeat her, but the rewards are quite alluring.

Threats In Helltides

Some challengeable threats contribute the main reason that players have been slayed and feel tricky to get through in Season 6, and they are:

Helltide Meteors

Every few minutes, Helltide Meteors will drop from the sky to cast enormous damage and leave burning craters in their wake. If you are distracted or stand still, then these meteors will quickly knock you down.

Helltide Assassins

Helltide Assassins are fatal bosses that patrol certain areas, and you can figure out their location by checking out the horned skull icon on your map. They are pretty menacing and can stun you and deal enormous amounts of damage.

Helltide Commanders

Helltide Commanders typically spawn at the end of specific Helltide events. Once they join forces with other elite enemies to attack, things can get really out of hand. So, make sure to clear out as many of them as possible in the later stages of Helltide.

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Other Sources Of Loot In Helltides

Besides Tortured Gifts and Accursed Rituals, there are other channels to claim loots like Diablo 4 Gold and health potions during a Helltide in Diablo 4 Season 6 :

• Helltide Events
• Screaming Hell Vein
• Damned Souls and Wretched Souls

The above is the sharing of Helltides in Diablo 4 Season 6. Want to know more contents in new season? Then enter IGGM discord, and there will be a lucky draw on November 11th in its Giveaway channel, where 5,000 Duriel Materials, 5,000 Andariel Materials, 20,000 Living Steel as well as 20, 000 Exquisite Blood will be distributed equally to 10 participants. Enter your favorite emojis and take part in! Thanks for reading.

It’s been well known that there have been some sort of secret levels in Diablo series since Diablo 1, secret hidden areas that you can access through a strange process. In Diablo 2, this would put you on a level where all the enemies were just cows. It was a pretty crazy thing and caused quite a stir on the internet at the time, at least.

In Diablo 3, this extended to Whimsyshire, an Easter egg level that was a direct homage to the previous Secret Cow Level.

As you can see, the developers tried to push the concept of hidden levels, with the visual theme and enemy theme being the exact opposite of how Diablo usually works, instead of scary evil demons, it’s just a bunch of colorful areas, which is a very interesting concept.

And considering that the base game of Diablo 4 has been out for over a year now and the developers still haven’t revealed the possibility of secret areas, it’s going to be quite a journey to find out if there is a Secret Cow Level in Season 6.

Here we will summarize all the progress on this topic, including how the player’s discoveries are connected to it reasonably, what this leads to, and some topics worth discussing. Let’s take a look!

How Did Secret Cow Level Work Before Season 6?

The recent breakthrough happened after Season 6 and the release of the expansion, and the new content introduced in the game reminded many players of the original three Relics and Cleansing process.

The three Relics in the previous game were Bloody Wooden Shard, Intricate Metallic Fragment, and Musty Tome, all of which came from killing cows. Specifically, if you kill 666 cows, you will get one of the above Relics, depending on the region you are in. Hawezar and Kejhistan will give you Bloody Wooden Shard when you kill the last cow, Musty Tome will drop from Scosglen or Fractured Peaks, and Metallic Fragment can only be found in Dry Steppes.

Then you have to go to Ked Bardu in Dry Steppes. The main town has a fountain, and to the east there are four bull statues. If you throw all the items into the fountain to cleanse and interact with each statue, then offer Relics to them. You will get an item called Strange Key.

A lot of players get stuck here for a long time before finding the next step. Actually, this Strange Key can open a place called Forlorn Hovel, which is located on the head of a bull to the east of Scosglen area. There is a secret seller here, and by spending your Diablo 4 Gold, you can get some key items that advance the level. Did you notice that this piece of the map looks a bit like cows? If you look from the top down, this is why so many people are looking for answers here, and they are correct.

If you have the key, then you can enter through this door and you will find a house filled with a lot of cows, and if you kill all of them, you will get Stamina Potion. This is not a noteworthy thing in itself, but considering the way the previous steps work, all assumptions are that this will lead to another step of Cow Level being unlocked, that is, this is where the clues are temporarily exhausted.

New Cow Level Clues

After nearly a year of nothing new to say about the mystery of Cow Level in the game, people just accepted the fact that, at least at that point, Secret Cow Level was simply inaccessible in Diablo 4 and that all the steps that could be taken had already been tried.

With the release of Season 6, data miners have discovered more steps that could eventually lead to Cow Level. Specifically, there’s an entire set of new Relics and a last reward, like Stamina Potion. All of Relics come from the new zone in this update, Nahantu, and are also much more complex than the original Cow Kill Counter. You can do it faster, though, if you know how.

Those new Relics are Rusted Old Bell, Gibbering Gemstone, and Crooked Staff.

Rusted Old Bell

Players must travel through Five Hills subzone, visiting 12 different bird statues before Rusted Old Bell appears as a drop from the last statue.

Gibbering Gemstone

Gibbering Gemstones can be obtained fairly quickly, and players only need to make a Thank emote in front of the three separate statues southwest of Kurast Docks.

Crooked Staff

This is one of the most difficult clues to get. To obtain Crooked Staff, players must defeat Elite Blood Lightning on the east side of Den in Great Shelf. The trick is that you can’t just defeat this fierce Lacuni and walk away with Relic. You have to completely reset your skills and abilities and disband your Mercenary, using only the basic attack skills that a level 1 character knows. If you want to make things easier, you can lower your difficulty level, as there are no negative effects on doing so.

How To Corrupt Relics?

Then, in contrast to the original Relics, you are not cleaning them; you are corrupting them. Doing this is also a process. It is recommended to do it on the normal difficulty level as well, and get rid of your Mercenary so that they don’t automatically kill the things you want to keep.

After that, you need to head to the location north of Ichorfall on the map to specifically get aggro from the enemies here called Cordycepic Zombie. Most enemies will lose aggro if you get too far from their spawn location, but these specific enemies will keep following you as long as you stay within their aggro range.

So basically you just have to slowly pull them from the first enemy on the map to the second identical enemy, and then take those two to the third.

If all three Cordycepic Zombies are following you, you need to gather them together and then kill them in the shortest time possible. You then have to throw all three Relics in your inventory onto their bodies and then Corrupt them. You’ll notice that after you do this, a kind of purple flame starts glowing from them, which means it was successful.

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Rusted Bardiche

You then need to take them to a brazier puzzle at a specific location on the map. They don’t look too interactable when you get here, but if you have the corrupted item, you can actually interact with them to give the item and receive Unusual Key at the end.

This allows you to break down a hidden wall in a cellar located at a specific location on the map. When you enter the cellar, click on the wall in the last room and you’ll find a hidden extra room full of murderous cows, as there are also a bunch of killed villagers next to them. Once you kill the cows, you’ll receive Rusted Bardiche.

So that’s the new step for potential Secret Cow Levels in Diablo 4, and it’s obviously tied to the previous Relics step. So in theory, if you have Stamina Potion and Rusted Bardiche, be prepared for any new developments, as you can pretty much do any future developments.

Is Secret Cow Level Still Possible?

Anyway, that’s as far as we can go for now. Now that you know everything there is to know about Cow Levels in Diablo 4, that brings us to another important topic, which is why there’s currently no Cow Level in Diablo 4.

Despite the worrying amount of data mining that seems to have revealed some clues, everything so far proves that Diablo 4’s secret level simply doesn’t exist, or at least if it’s coded to exist, we don’t have a way to access it yet.

As a player, we are now almost a year and a half past the release of the game, and while there are a lot of dangling clues and puzzle pieces that point to the existence of a Cow Level, functionally speaking, this often resonates throughout Diablo 4, especially the new stages.

Although they may want to expand Secret Cow Level into multiple expansions, making you actually pay for each expansion to actually get Cow Level. So who knows when we will actually get Cow Level? If we do get it, maybe it will be a year later, maybe it will be two years later, maybe we will never actually get Cow Level and it will just be a gimmick to rediscover the attention.

What do you think about this? Do you think it is possible for us to wait for the real Secret Cow Level in Diablo 4? If you have any related ideas, why not discuss it with like-minded partners in IGGM discord? More importantly, there are often some giveaways held here, and the latest one will be revealed on November 11th. If you want to join in, please leave your favorite reaction emoji here!

In Diablo 4 series of games, Paragon Board is a very important game mechanism. Because, after unlocking it, players can use the corresponding points to further unlock some board nodes, thereby effectively improving the various attributes of their game characters.

From the first season to the latest season Season of Hatred Rising, in order to make Paragon Board play a more comprehensive role in the game to help players fight, the game makers are constantly updating and optimizing it. But in Season 6, we found that not every update of Paragon Board brings benefits.

After actually experiencing the new Paragon Board mechanism in the new season, many players said that it has become more complicated to manage than in the past, which has hindered players to varying degrees whether they want to plan the use of their Diablo 4 Gold or want to further improve the proficiency of skill operations.

Therefore, we will give some improvement suggestions based on some shortcomings reflected by Paragon Board after the current update.

The Current Status Of Paragon Board In Season 6

When players upgrade their game characters to level 50 in Season of Hatred Rising, Paragon Board will be unlocked, and players will then receive some corresponding Paragon Points. These points can be used to fill in nodes on the board, thereby unlocking more other nodes related to abilities, attributes, and character characteristics in order to enhance the strength of the character.

Currently, there are several types of nodes in the game: Normal Paragon Nodes, Magical Paragon Nodes, Rare Paragon Nodes, or Legendary Paragon Nodes. However, through in-game testing, you will find that most nodes are just “fillers”, and their consumption of points is only to reach the useful nodes you want in the end.

Obviously, this not only makes the node upgrade process lengthy but also makes players feel that a considerable part of the points are wasted. After all, their consumption can only be exchanged for a few attribute upgrades.

And in terms of the rewards provided by Paragon Board, there are even considerable differences between different Classes. Some Classes have a lot of Rare Paragon Nodes, or Legendary Paragon Nodes to unlock, while others focus on trying to get Glyphs as hard as possible.

Of course, Glyphs also provide rewards or special buffs, but Glyphs are difficult to obtain, and it is also a hassle to determine which Glyphs are more worthy to obtain. Because they are arranged by level and alphabetically in the game, if you want to know what each Glyph helps, you have to check them one by one by hovering the mouse over each Glyph.

The entire process of collecting and using nodes in Season 6 is currently frustrating, complicated, and a waste of time. Because it hardly provides any substantial progress for players.

Improvement Suggestions

Based on the shortcomings reflected in the current situation, our main improvement suggestions for Paragon Board are to remove most of the points required for players to unlock nodes, making the path to earning nodes clearer and simpler. This will not only make it easier to earn nodes but also allow players to get more rewards faster.

Because in this way, players can achieve the same results as before with fewer nodes, and the relevant views of Paragon Board may also look more intuitive, logical, and simpler. It helps to solve the excessive Paragon Board workload that the original game brought to players.

The second suggestion is to redesign Glyphs, because the current related progress system can be said to be meaningless and can hardly provide effective help to players. The improvement idea we provide is to set Glyphs as the center of all unlockable nodes, and make Glyphs the final key content by gradually unlocking other nodes of different levels, making the entire system more logical.

In addition, the matching and connection between Classes and Paragon Board may also need to be fully redesigned. For example, Legendary Paragon Nodes should be applicable to each Class, and the benefits of using nodes should not be set too different from each other, to avoid an imbalance in the game experience between players of different Classes and affect the evaluation of the game.

Although Paragon Board in the sixth season Season of Hatred Rising is currently insufficient, it is not unchangeable. If the game makers listen to the feedback from players in time and make some effective improvements and optimizations for this mechanism, I believe Paragon Board can provide more help to players.

The above is the reflection of some shortcomings of the current Paragon Board mechanism and some improvement suggestions we have envisioned. If you want to know more related content, you can enter IGGM Discord. Today is the last day of the fourth giveaway event for Diablo 4 Season of Hatred Rising. Hurry up and participate!

As Diablo 4 enters Season of Hatred Rising, the difficulty of some enemies has also increased with the upgrade of the difficulty system in the new season, which may require you to learn more combat skills and strategies. But what will not change is that for some Uber Bosses, you still need to use some summoning materials to summon them, instead of waiting for your challenge in the arena.

Among all the summoning materials, Living Steel can be said to be very important. Not only because it is very rare but also because it can summon Galvanic Saint Grigoire, which can provide you with a lot of Uniques. This is a very powerful Boss added in the previous season. Of course, besides Uniques, this Boss will also reward you with Shards of Agony, which can be used to summon Echo of Duriel, which is more powerful but can also provide you with more loot. So Living Steel is the source of all your rewards, and its importance can be seen.

Although Living Steel is very difficult to obtain, this guide will tell you that it is very difficult to obtain. Here we will introduce you to multiple ways to farm Living Steel and tell you how to use it, striving to provide you with a one-stop service.

Farming Methods

Once you have passed all the experience and reached Torment 1, you can start farming Living Steel. Here is a suggestion for you: your farming efficiency will be higher in higher levels of Tormented difficulty. Living Steel mainly drops when you run some endgame activities, such as Kurast Undercity or Nightmare Dungeons exclusive to Season 6.

Of course, you may find that the drop rate of Living Steel in these dungeons is too low after your first run. If you don’t want to participate in the more tough challenges, you can only grind in these two dungeons multiple times to increase the probability of Living Steel dropping.

Or you can also find Living Steel in Tortured Gifts that appear in Helltide events, where the chance will be slightly higher. Once you’ve completed the main campaign, Helltides will appear on the map, and you can join them through a portal and defeat some enemies with a powerful build enhanced by Diablo 4 Gold.

After you defeat all the enemies and complete the events, you’ll earn the special currency in Helltides called Aberrant Cinders. You’ll need to use it to open Helltides Chests that may contain Living Steel, but don’t be sad if you don’t have the summoning material you want, because some of the powerful items in them are also very valuable and can be used to enhance your build and character.

If you want to do a targeted farming of Living Steel, you can use 250 Aberrant Cinders to get Tortured Gifts, which have a greatly increased drop rate of this summoning material, and you can even get 14 Living Steel at once, while other Helltides Chests can only give you 1-2 at most!

In addition, you can also specifically pick the time when Helltides appears in Kehjistan, because this is the only region with three Tortured Gifts. Once you enter this Helltide, spend 600 Aberrant Cinders to open all Tortured Gifts, and you can even get 42 Living Steel in less than an hour.

It should be noted here that you can only get this Tortured Gift after unlocking Torment Difficulties, which is also a prerequisite for participating in the endgame event.

Usage

Living Steel is used to summon Tormented Grigoire. You need to take these summoning materials to Hall of the Penitent in any Torment difficulties and find a summoning altar there. If you can’t find this special location, you can use Ked Bardu, the capital of Dry Steppes, as a landmark, which is just south of the capital.

It costs 12 Living Steel each time you summon Tormented Grigoire, and this cost does not increase with the increase of Torment difficulties. After you place the summoning materials, this Uber Boss will appear.

Here are some combat tips for you: First, if your Lightning Resistance cap is less than 70%, you need to equip an Elixir of Lightning Resistance II in your build to increase your resistance to magic damage cast by Grigoire. In addition, during the battle, try to go around it from behind to attack it, so that you can avoid a lot of frontal attacks.

When its health is only 40%, Grigoire will summon some small monsters to help it. At this time, your attack target should be changed to these small monsters, otherwise they will also be very deadly to you. After you successfully defeat it, you can pick up some very valuable loot and Diablo 4 Gold. The following is a list of loot it provides.

Loot - According To Class

Barbarian

• Twin Strikes
• Rage of Harrogath
• Battle Trance
• The Butcher’s Cleaver
• Unbroken Chain

Druid

• Earthbreaker
• Insatiable Fury
• Hunter’s Zenith
• Waxing Gibbous
• The Butcher’s Cleaver

Necromancer

• Ebonpiercer
• Howl from Below
• Greaves of the Empty Tomb
• The Butcher’s Cleaver
• Path of Trag’Oul

Rogue

• Saboteur’s Signet
• Word of Hakan
• Grasp of Shadow
• Shroud of Khanduras

Sorcerer

• Flameweaver
• Staff of Lam Esen
• Iceheart Brais
• Axial Conduit

Spiritborn

• Protection of the Prime
• Peacemonger’s Signet
• Ring of the Midnight Sun
• Loyalty’s Mantle

Of course, the higher Torment difficulties, the more items it drops, and it is more likely to drop Mythic Uniques. So if you can choose a Grigoire of the appropriate level to challenge according to the strength of your build. The following is a list of Mythic Uniques that Grigoire will provide.

Barbarian

• The Grandfather

Druid

• Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander

Necromancer

• The Grandfather

Sorcerer

• Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander

Spiritborn

• Nesekem, the Herald

The above is the farming method and some specific uses of Living Steel in Diablo 4 Season 6. I hope you can challenge Grigoire faster and more easily with the help of this guide. If you want to know about other Uber Boss battle strategies, you are welcome to join IGGM Discord to ask questions. You will definitely find the best answers there. And you can also participate in a lucky draw. The prize includes Living Steel we introduced today! The list of winners will be announced on November 4th. Wish you good luck!

So far, the season of Diablo 4 series of games has been updated to the sixth season. Usually, game developers always add some new mechanisms and game content to the new season, or update some modes of the old season and continue them to the new season.

Besides these changes, there are some fixed mechanisms in Diablo 4 that always exist. However, they will be updated accordingly according to the battle mode and boss settings of the current season, especially some inherent reward mechanisms, such as Season Blessings.

Season Blessings is an effective seasonal game mechanism that provides players with unlocking character gains and obtaining Diablo 4 Gold based on Classes and battle modes that players can use in the current season. So if you want to get ideal combat help in season 6 Hatred Rising through it, you must understand its new changes.

Based on this, we will introduce you to how to unlock and use Season Blessings in season 6 successfully.

Overview Of Season Blessings In The New Season

As a seasonal content formula in the game, Season Blessings allows players to participate in various seasonal game content to obtain relevant combat gains and other benefits in the corresponding season. So that they can advance the game progress of the current season more smoothly.

Season Blessings are only valid during the corresponding Diablo 4 Season. When a season ends, as your game character transfers to Eternal Realm, the previous season’s Season Blessings will disappear along with the season-specific functions. Each new season introduces new Season Blessings, and in Season 6, players have five Season Blessings to choose from:

• Urn of Aggression: +5% boost to XP from monster kills for each tier
• Urn of Curiosities: +10% chance to get double Purveyor of Curiosities items for each tier
• Urn of Spoils: +10% boost to the chance of receiving a legendary item from Spoils of Hell chests in Helltides for each tier
• Urn of Opals: +10% chance to get extra Seething Opals after completing Seething Realms for each tier
• Urn of Remnants: Boosts player Zakarum Remnants’ reputation gain by 10% for each tier

These Season Blessings can be unlocked by earning Smoldering Ashes in free Battle Pass. These Ashes can also be used to upgrade the effects of Season Blessings received, up to the fourth level. This means that if you have enough Smoldering Ashes, you can upgrade all Season Blessings to the highest level, further expanding their effects.

For example, when Urn of Spoils is upgraded to the highest level, players have a 40% chance to receive double items at Obol Vendor. This will help players achieve more achievements in Season of Hatred Rising faster.

Therefore, when obtaining these items, we recommend that you prioritize XP gain and Zakarum Remnants’ rewards. Because they can help you complete the game content faster, and it is very troublesome to obtain Zakarum’s reputation in other ways.

In addition, when the current season is about to end, don’t forget to exchange Season Blessings for Urn of Curiosities. Because if you want to get some of the most difficult seasonal journey rewards, you should also invest some points in Zakarum Reputation at the end of the game so that you can have effective Zakarum Reputation building at the end.

How To Unlock And Equip Season 6 Season Blessings?

Once you enter the game, you can see Season Blessings on Season 6 homepage of Diablo 4. Then find Season Blessings menu on the left side of the season screen. Clicking on it will pop up a new menu showing all the details of the five Season Blessings that players can choose this season.

However, if your game character is not level 45 and above, or if you have not upgraded Season 6 Seasonal Battle Pass to level 8 and above, you cannot open Season Blessings screen. This is because Season Blessings require Smoldering Ashes to unlock, and players can only do this after completing the required upgrades.

However, once you have completed the required upgrades and earned some Ashes through Season 6 Seasonal Battle Pass, you can open Season Blessings menu and select and obtain Season Blessings effects you want by providing Ashes.

As Seasonal Battle Pass progresses, players will earn more Ashes, which will allow them to further increase the power of Season Blessings through upgrades.

When Season 6 ends and characters are transferred to Eternal Realm, all current Season Blessings will be ineffective. This means that players can only use these five Season Blessings during Season 6.

These are the tips for unlocking and using Season Blessings in Diablo 4 Season 6. If you want to learn more, enter IGGM Discord, where the fourth giveaway event for Diablo 4 Season of Hatred Rising is currently underway.

This giveaway event runs from October 29 to November 4, and you can participate during this period. We will draw 20 lucky players on the last day, and each of them will receive Duriel Materials x 250, Andariel Materials x 250, Living Steel x 1000, and Exquisite Blood x 1000! Act quickly!

In Diablo 4, each profession has a unique mechanic that players need to unlock and upgrade to improve their combat capabilities. In Season 6, Barbarian class was unpopular, partly because of the nerfing of some key abilities and the out performance of other classes. Nonetheless, with the re-improvement of Arsenal Mechanic, resulting in significant changes to statistics and effects.

Players now have more opportunities to customize their Barbarian character to suit their personal play style. To take full advantage of this new system, players are advised to collect an extensive collection of melee weapons. If you don’t know how to unlock and use Barbarian’s Arsenal Mechanic yet, keep reading this guide and I’ll explain it to you.

How To Upgrade Barbarian Arsenal Mechanic?

When Barbarian character reaches level 15, Arsenal Mechanic is automatically unlocked, and a quest called Barbarian: Masters of Battle is triggered. This quest will start in Ked Bardu and needs to be completed there. After completing the mission, players will see all the different types of weapons and their associated rewards by visiting Expertise tab.

When unlocking Arsenal Mechanic for the first time, players will start at rank 1. To upgrade this mechanic, players must play with the corresponding type of weapon.

For example, when Barbarian switches weapons in the game, you’ll gain experience points with that type of weapon by hitting enemies. In order to speed up this process, you can also choose to use Diablo 4 Gold to obtain specific equipment or resources to improve your rank more efficiently.

This means that players will probably want to equip four different types of weapons at all times, as this will allow you to level up and receive four different bonuses at the same time. Although Arsenal System’s stats and effects have changed, its basic weapon swapping principles remain the same.

Assign Specific Equipment To Certain Skills

While there’s no absolute “right” or “wrong” way to choose a weapon, when assigning a skill, you should choose the weapon type that best suits that skill. The best weapon choice will depend on your game strategy and the class build you’re using. Each skill requires a different type of weapon to reach its full potential.

For example, combining Bash with a bludgeoning weapon can bring out the best results when facing different enemies. In addition, when the player activates a special skill, the system will auto-select the most suitable one from all the weapons currently carried to equip the character, so it’s important to maintain a diverse weapon mix.

With the introduction of Weapon Expertise menu, experimenting with your current weapons will be most helpful as you progress through the game. However, during this process, if you have a chance to obtain an Ancestral or Mythic Unique item, please be sure to pay special attention. For example, for players who use Doombringer, a high-quality one-handed sword may be one of the best options you can dream of.

When first starting your Barbarian journey, it is recommended not to rush into pursuing a specific type of gear. Instead, collect as many types of weapons as possible to make sure you take full advantage of all available Weapon Expertise class mechanics.

Now, Weapon Expertise menu is added to the game. In this menu, players can see seven different techniques, each with unique bonus effects. You can choose a technique from them and apply it to all skills, regardless of the type of weapon those skills use.

However, it should be noted that in order to upgrade these technologies, you must accumulate experience points by actually using the corresponding type of weapon, so please make sure that your equipment column contains at least one type of weapon of the corresponding type.

To improve your expertise, you can practice with training dummies or gain experience naturally by participating in regular battles. To assign a specific weapon to a skill to facilitate its upgrade, you need to go into Skill Assignment window and browse all the damage-dealing skills, hover over the weapon you want to modify, and select “Switch Weapon” option to make the adjustment.

It’s important to note that some skills may be limited to using a specific type of weapon, while skills like Walking Arsenal require the player to have a broader skill set, each of which can be equipped with a different type of weapon.

Additionally, weapons gain experience points when hitting an enemy, but not when killing an enemy. So if your attack kills in one hit, you will gain less experience from that attack. Additionally, combat in PvP mode does not provide any experience points.

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Bonuses

Early in the game, when you’re at rank 1, the rewards may not be significant, so you’ll need to work on getting each weapon expertise up to rank 10. Once you reach this goal, the rewards will become more generous and you will receive additional rewards. This is very important because as you progress through the game, you no longer need to rely on experience points to increase your abilities.

I believe that after reading this guide you must have a detailed understanding of Barbarian’s Arsenal Mechanic. Now enter the game and start operating. In addition, if you find that you are missing any required weapons during the game, you can follow Diablo 4 Season 6 giveaway that IGGM discord has been doing, and leave your favorite emoji to participate in the draw.

As Diablo 4 enters its sixth season, Barbarian class, which has strong survivability, is increasingly back in the players’ field of vision. But this does not mean that this class does not have a build that can provide a lot of damage, and Thorns Barbarian build is the best example. And in the new Season of Hatred Rising, this build has been improved and will perform better than before, and can even challenge some endgame content.

But what will not change is that any build requires you to build it carefully, so that the entire build will become strong enough. So in this guide, you will be introduced to the skill tree settings in Thorns Barbarian build and some gear choices in this build. If you are worried about how to build this build that can surprise you, then come and take a look!

About Thorns Barbarian Build

Unlike other popular Barbarian builds, Thorns Barbarian builds don’t use Earthquake and Dust Demon to stun enemies, but use Thorns to their full potential. This may be slower on bosses or endgame content, but it will allow you to survive tough boss encounters safely, and even run The Pit.

This build also requires the key passive skill Barbed Carapace, which gives you more Thorns to fire as you spend more Fury. This way, your Thorns will continue to spawn, and the damage you deal to enemies will continue. In addition, this key passive skill converts all Thorns damage into physical damage, and deals unpredictable damage to enemies that are close to you within 5 seconds.

Alternatively, you can combine Needleflare Horned Cudgel with Thorns, so that your fired Thorns will have more damage-dealing power. Overall, you should do your best to use the new Forgotten Souls in this season to re-roll your Enchantments or use some Diablo 4 Gold to make your key attributes powerful during your build.

Active Skills

For the skill tree of Thorns Barbarian Build, we still focus on enhancing the survivability of the build, because this is the biggest advantage of Barbarian Class. So the defensive skills Challenging Shout, Rallying Cry and War Cry are necessary.

Then you can choose the basic skill Flay to make enemies more vulnerable, and the 5% bleeding damage it casts can be used against most bosses, because they have no resistance to this element. Then you can choose the core skill of Upheaval to stun those vulnerable enemies so that they can be at your mercy.

For the final skill selection, Call of the Ancients is the wisest choice. Because this skill will greatly increase your damage ability and will also summon three Ancients to help you complete the battle, which is very necessary for Thorns Barbarian Build.

Skill Rotation

When using these skills, you should use Flay first to generate enough Fury, and most importantly, stack up Combat Flay. Next, you can use Upheaval to deal with enemies with high health or bosses. When these two damaging skills are on cooldown, you can protect yourself in this order: Challenging Shout, Rallying Cry, and War Cry. Finally, when the enemy’s health is low, you can use Call of the Ancients to finish the battle.

Runes

In this season, you don’t have to worry about Gems, but you do need to pay attention to the active runes on your build or gear. The right Runeword can allow you to trigger the skills or operations you want to perform smoothly, which will bring a lot of convenience to your exploration.

In Thorns Barbarian Build, the two Runewords you can choose are Lith (Legendary/Ritual) & Tec (Rune Invocation) and Yul (Legendary/Ritual) & Xal (Rare/Invocation). The former combination will provide you with Offering when you are stationary, which will allow you to use Earthquake more. The latter combination will provide you with Offering when your skills enter cooldown, which will give you 20% Maximum Life.

Combined with these two Runewords, your Thorns Barbarian Build has both high damage and high survivability. But here you need to be reminded that this is the most ideal state, and you can make appropriate adjustments according to your play style or habits.

Gear And Aspects

The first thing to note is that when choosing Gear and Aspects, we should focus on Thorns first, followed by Earthquake. Here are some of the build options you can choose, and their effects.

• Harlequin Crest (Helm): It helps you gain 20% Damage Reduction, and the level of all your skills increases by 4 levels.
• Razorplate (Chest Armor): It gives Thorns a 10% chance to deal 100%-200% additional damage.
• Aspect of Inner Calm (Gloves): It increases the overall damage you can currently deal by 5%-13%. This buff is doubled if you do nothing within 3 seconds.
• Aspect of Bul-Kathos (Pants): After you equip this aspect, Leap you use will trigger an Earthquake, and will deal 27-43 points of physical damage over 4 seconds. If you stand in an Earthquake, your Damage Reduction will increase by 10%-30%.
• Exploiter’s Aspect (Boots): This increases your ability to control enemies by 20%. It also increases your damage to enemies by 25%-45% when they are Unstoppable.
• Needleflare Aspect (Bludgeoning Weapon): This gives you a 25%-45% chance to use Thorns to deal extra damage to all enemies near you.
• Ancients’ Oath (Slashing Weapon): This gives you 207-270 extra damage to enemies very close to you and reduces your cooldown by 12-16%.
• Aspect of Elements (Dual-Wield Weapon 1): This increases your damage by 15%-35% for a group of damage types over a period of 7 seconds. Currently, only works on two groups of element types, one for Fire, Lightning and Physical, and the other for Cold, Poison, and Shadow.
• Doombringer (Dual-Wield Weapon 2): This Unique increases all your stats by 160 points, and your Damage Reduction by 10%. But the best part is that it gives your Lucky Hit a 25% chance to deal 900 Shadow damage to nearby enemies, which many enemies can’t resist.
• Aspect of Earthquakes (Amulet): Like Aspect of Bul-Kathos, it also triggers Earthquake, but this aspect can deal up to 167 - 287 physical damage.
• Bold Chieftain’s Aspect (Ring): When you use Shout skill, its cooldown will be reduced by 10%-30% as the number of nearby enemies decreases, up to a maximum of 50%.

The above are some skills and gear you can choose in Thorns Barbarian Build in Diablo 4 Season 6. It is still necessary to remind you that this guide is made for the construction ideas that the public expects. You can use this guide to combine your own game style to choose the most convenient construction for you.

If you have any ideas for other Barbarian builds that you want to share, you are welcome to come to IGGM Discord to discuss. You will also participate in a Season 6 exclusive lottery, and the prizes will include some very important summoning materials. The eventual results will be announced on November 4th. Wish you good luck!

As Season has been updated to Season 6, several Classes in Diablo 4 series of games are constantly being updated and improved. Both combat skills and usage mechanisms are getting better and better.

Among them, Necromancer is one of the more popular Classes, and its main gain mechanism Book Of The Dead that can be used in the game has also been further optimized in Season 6. This allows Necromancer players to accumulate more Diablo 4 Gold through battles in the game.

Based on this, we will introduce you to some information about Book Of The Dead and specific usage methods.

Overview Of Book Of The Dead

First of all, as a Class that can use Book Of The Dead, Necromancer effectively Strikes enemy in the game by allowing players to summon groups of Minions and quickly cause a lot of damage.

Since the game update, Necromancer has been continuously improved as a whole. Although it may not be as good as Spiritborn or Sorcerer to deal with damage, it is still a good heavy-hitting Class, especially after being helped by Book Of The Dead.

In season 6, although Book Of The Dead has not been changed much, the game developers have made some small optimizations to this mechanism in many details, making it more smooth for players to use.

Book Of The Dead mainly allows Necromancer players to customize their Minions to better deploy them in battle and cause more damage to enemy.

mechanism includes three types of Minions: Skeletal Warriors and Mages, and a Golem. Each type has three Variants to choose from, which include two upgrades (only one can be activated at a time) and Sacrifice.

Among them, Sacrifice will disable summoning of the corresponding Minions for some permanent benefits to the player.

How To Unlock And Use Book Of The Dead?

It is actually not difficult to unlock Book Of The Dead in the game. It will be automatically unlocked when Necromancer player reaches level 5. You can then see Book Of The Dead menu in the tab next to the character menu.

Below this menu are three sections detailing the available Minions, namely Skeleton Warriors and Mages, Golem. However, Golems are not available at level 5 and require the player to reach a higher level before they can be used.

At level 25, a unique quest called Call Of The Underworld will be unlocked, and you can then go to Fractured Peaks to learn a ritual to summon a Golem.

When you can successfully summon a Golem, besides directly gaining 30% of attributes, they will also gain all other benefits that your character has.

However, this is only one of Variant effects of Golem. If you want to choose to Sacrifice a Minion as a Variant, of course it is possible. However, if you do want to summon a Minion, you must equip it as one of your active skills.

In addition, if you want to summon Skeleton & Golem, you should have Skeleton & Golem skill on your skill bar. And the idea of ​​summoning skeletons is to have skeletons act as front line swarming Minions or back line artillery Minions, depending on whether they are Warriors or Mages. Golems are tank-type Minions.

If you want to make and use an ultimate Necromancer Build based on Book Of The Dead, you will have to understand the relevant data and how Minions work.

In addition, you already know that each of these Minion types has three Variants. In fact, these Variants will slowly upgrade as you advance in the game. During this period, you don’t need to do anything else to upgrade Book Of The Dead except Upgrading your own game character.

What Are The Specific Benefits Of Book Of The Dead?

Each Minion summon of a Book Of The Dead has three Variants, which can also be regarded as their own subtypes. Players can choose which Variant they need.

Among them, you can only choose one of Rewards brought by the two upgrades, but if you choose to Sacrifice, you will get a permanent improvement. In addition, each Minion has a summon limit, but if you can get some specific Diablo 4 Items in the game, you may get more summons.

When players fight World Bosses, Minions are automatically Re-summoned after respawning. Among them, skeleton Warriors behave very similarly to regular skeleton enemies, and they will Attack enemies at close range. In the initial stage, 4 can be summoned at a time.

skeleton Mages are ranged Minions. They can cast spells on enemies from a distance. In the initial stage, 3 can be summoned at a time.

If you want to use these Minions more specifically, you can try to combine them with some Necromancer Builds. You can decide how to use these Minions based on Builds you want.

Among all Builds that match Book Of The Dead, Bone Spirit Wave Build is a very popular choice. It Sacrifices all three types of Minions to gain a powerful combat power increase. You can try the most effective combination based on your play style.

The above are the specific methods and some suggestions for using Book Of The Dead mechanic in Diablo 4 Season 6. If you want to discuss more about the use of this mechanic with others, you can enter IGGM Discord.

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As a diverse class in Diablo 4 that can perform both ranged and melee attacks, Rogue is often overshadowed by high-damage classes such as Sorcerer or Necromancer, making it the choice of a few players. However, in the current Season of Hatred Rising, Rogue has been strengthened to enhance its mobility and survivability.

However, you will face some different situations in Diablo 4, such as leveling content and endgame content, and you will need to choose a different build. Or if you want to gain more combat experience in PVP content, you also need to change to a new build to face different situations.

So this guide will introduce you to the best build you should choose for Rogue based on the requirements in different content. This will help you to get into the game exploration faster and save some of the trial-and-error costs you spend on the build.

Best Leveling Builds: Barrage Rogue

First, during the leveling phase, when you need to level up quickly, Barrage Rogue is a splendid choice for clearing groups of enemies. It fires multiple arrows in a cone, which is great for clearing groups and close-range targets. Not only that, but the arrows will also bounce back, dealing a lot of damage to the remaining enemies.

Also, Barrage Rogue build is extremely mobile, so this build allows you to have both high damage and high survivability, especially if you infuse it with Shadow Imbuement, which will help you recover and cast extra burst damage.

Alternatively, you can choose to inject ‍Poison Imbuement, as it adds additional poison damage to enemies, which can be very helpful when dealing with some of the larger, tougher monsters with higher health.

If you want Barrage Rogue build to be a very strong melee build, then Flurry and Twisting Blades may be your first choice. But you need to be aware that Rogue is not very good in the melee, so you may need to use more Diablo 4 Gold in this build to make your character more defensive.

Best Endgame Builds: Dance Of Knives Rogue

Once you reach level 60 and unlock Paragon Board, you can switch the build you were using during the leveling phase to one that is suitable for the endgame content. Since the boss difficulty and exploration difficulty in the endgame content are much more difficult than the leveling phase, the requirements for the build will be more stringent.

The first thing to focus on is the damageability of the build, so Dance of Knives, which was added in Season 6, is your best helper because it can throw knives at enemies at a constant speed. Most importantly, the attack speed does not affect the speed of your throwing knives, but increases the base damage of your throwing knives.

Once you have enough movement speed, you are basically a perpetual motion machine. Once you have enough movement speed, you’re basically a perpetual motion machine - you can keep defeating enemies and then keep picking up Diablo 4 Gold that they drop.

Then there is the defense ability, so you can use Dark Shroud as your main defense skill to better protect you with the protective shadows it creates every time you take damage. And Dark Shroud also provides you with some very important attack speed gains.

Like Barrage Rogue build, you can also infuse Shadow Imbuement to give it super strong AOE damage, but for a single boss, you can use Cold Imbuement, as this makes the boss take cold damage and move slower.

Best PVP Builds: Rapid Fire Rogue

In PVP, your build is all about how to defeat the other player quickly with minimal strategy, so Rapid Fire Rogue build will help you a lot. In this build, the high burst damage arrows fired by Rapid Fire can easily make it easy to stand in a safe area and deal damage to a single target.

Besides Rapid Fire skill, you can also add Precision to your passive skills. This way, after consuming the maximum stack of Precision, you will gain a special move - your Critical Strike Damage will be greatly increased.

It is worth mentioning that Barrage Rogue build used in the leveling stage is also very suitable for PVP mode, but if you want to perform more like an assassin in this mode, you will definitely like Shadow Step Rogue build.

This Shadow Step Rogue build emphasizes mobility and burst damage. It will let you use Shadow Step to attack enemies from behind. But unfortunately, since the cooldown time of this skill is too long, it is better to place some items that can reduce the cooldown time in your construction before you use it.

As a build that uses poison damage and fast attacks to make the enemy vulnerable, Andariel’s Rogue is also very suitable for you to use in PVP mode because it has high mobility and continuous damage output.

But the reason it is not the best build is that you need to spend a lot of time and Diablo 4 Gold to get Andariel’s Visage or Andariel’s Visage Aspect to make this build most effective, because these two items are very important for the buff of Poison Novas.

The above is the best build you can choose for Rogue, the buried Class, according to different requirements in Diablo 4 Season 6. We sincerely hope that Rogue will perform better in this season, because this Class is very friendly to some novice players.

If you have questions about the build in this new season, you are welcome to come to IGGM Discord to ask questions or communicate with other players. I believe you will definitely find your favorite answer here. Not only that, you can also participate in a lottery event here, in which there will be some summoning materials required by bosses, such as Andariel Materials and Exquisite Blood. The winners will be announced on October 28. Good luck!

With the continuous update of season, except for the newly added Class Spiritborn, the five major Classes in Diablo 4 series of games have also received some updates in Class mechanics and content. If you want to know more about Class you are playing, you must know about these updates.

The corresponding situation of the five Classes and the new mechanics they have obtained are: Druids have Spirit Boons, Necromancers have a Book of Dead, Rogues can Specialize, Barbarians have an Arsenal of weapons. And Sorcerers have Enchantments.

If you are a Sorcerer player, you will find that Enchantments mechanism can bring you a lot of benefits in battle. This can not only help you increase the probability of winning Boss and get more Diablo 4 Gold, but also further broaden your combat style and enrich the game experience.

Based on this, we will introduce how to use this mechanism for the majority of Sorcerer players.

Sorcerers Enchantments Overview

A new mechanic for Sorcerers Class, Enchantments are a powerful addition to Sorcerers Class without requiring much in the way of items or conditions to activate them.

They allow Sorcerers to activate additional passive buffs by equipping spells to two unique slots, and every skill available to Sorcerers gets its own unique Enchantment effect.

This process is simple, but the benefits are huge. It also allows Sorcerers to customize their Builds with more skills, gear, and paragon points, further leveling up their combat abilities.

Enchantments also let you customize your Build with a Runewords-like system that triggers unique effects, based on your slotted skills, when assigned.

How To Unlock Sorcerers Enchantments In Game?

Players can only unlock Enchantments in-game when they reach level 15. Not only that, you also need to have the right of access to them, which can only be obtained after completing Legacy of Magi quest. Players can complete this quest in the southwest area of Fractured Peaks.

If you want to unlock Enchantments mechanic as soon as possible, it is imperative that you complete this quest, otherwise it will be useless even if your game character is well above level 15.

After completing quest and successfully unlocking Enchantments, the unique passive skill effect of each ability will appear below its normal effect description. Players can hover over ability to view passive skill effect it provides after Enchantment. Even currently locked skills can be viewed.

In addition, the player’s second and final Enchantment slot can be unlocked at level 30. Once unlocked, you can activate two Enchantment effects, forming a highly customized and interactive system that can completely subvert your previous Build and exert unlimited power in future battles.

How To Open Enchantments Menu?

In order to better view and use Enchantments mechanic, players need to fully understand the relevant menu of Enchantments. If you want to check your Enchantments, first open Character and Inventory screen, then switch to “skills” menu.

In this menu, you can see all items you’ve acquired with skill points, as well as Enchantment effects associated with each skill. In addition, each Sorcerer ability comes with a passive Enchantment that only activates when placed into one of two unlockable slots.

However, if you want to check these slots, you need to click skill Assignment option first, because Sorcerer Enchantments do not have their own menu like the new mechanics of other Classes.

Once clicked, the screen will display all skills that the player currently has equipped, which can be dragged to a new position on the action bar at any time. In addition, at this time, two orbs will appear at the bottom of the screen, just above skill Bar.

Some people simply call them Enchantments “menu”, but they are actually just an addition to skill Assignment screen. Once you unlock Enchantment slot, these two orbs are where you place skills to activate their unique passive buffs.

Sorcerers Enchantments Passives And Synergies

Sorcerer’s Enchantments are present on every single Spell in Sorcerer’s Wheelhouse, but can only be used if a skill point is assigned to the corresponding Parent ability.

In addition, skill points granted by equipment do not count towards this part, and skill does not have to be a skill that Sorcerer uses in regular Rotation. As long as you use skill points for a skill, you can insert the relevant Enchantments.

Enchantments mechanism can help players enhance various Sorcerer Builds, and the specific benefits depend on how you insert Enchantments to Stack with other benefits your character has.

For example, if you want to occasionally Chill enemies while using Lightning Builds, or gain benefits by Hitting Chilled Foes, you can assign Frost Bolt to Enchantment slot to add Chill to other attack modes.

This is just one example of how to use Enchantment. Players can explore more combat possibilities in the game to find the most suitable play style.

That’s all you need to know about using Sorcerer Enchantments in Season of Hatred Rising. If you want to share more ideas about playing Sorcerer Class, you can enter IGGM Discord to communicate with other players.

In addition, the second giveaway event for Diablo 4 Season 6 is being held here. The event will draw 20 players on October 28, each of whom will receive 100x Duriel Materials, 100x Andariel Materials, 500x Living Steel and 500x Exquisite Blood. Hurry up and get involved!