News Tag: Diablo 4 Hotfix

With Season of Blood in full swing, players are still perfecting their game-breaking builds. Therefore, experience and gold coins are urgently needed resources. The recent return of some events provides Diablo 4 players with the opportunity to gain more experience and gold coins in a short period.

Mother’s Blessing

The first part is a new activity. The popular Mother’s Blessing event is returning to Diablo 4 for a limited time. This event starts on November 20th at 10am PST and runs until November 27th at 10am PST.

During this time, players will receive a 35% increase in gold and experience points in Seasonal and Eternal Realms across all four World Tiers. Also, this boost stacks, so players can use it with Elixirs and Experience Urns to maximize their gains.

This 35% experience multiplier is actually pretty huge. Because one way they made leveling up faster in Season 2 was actually to make the experience multiplier, specifically multiplied by your World Tier experience.

So, just like in World Tier 4, you get a 200% experience increase when you get other percentage increases. This is also one way they upgrade after entering World Tier 4, so it won’t feel much slower than previous upgrades. So if you add up all the experience buffs, this will make you level up ridiculously fast.

Because one week after the event ends, Abattoir of Zir will be released. So I think they want people who haven’t reached level 100 to get there quickly. If you want to make alts, I highly recommend investing your time this week to get as many alts to level 100 as possible. Because there’s no better time than this.

And with the appearance of Abattoir of Zir, the difficulty becomes extremely difficult. You’ll need a lot of Diablo 4 Gold to re-roll, and this event will double your gold by 35%. Therefore, this is also the best way to earn coins in D4.

Now you can earn gold and experience by completing many activities. Of these, I recommend you complete Whispers of the Dead first, as it provides a lot of experience. They will give you the most gold, but not multiplied by 35%. You may earn over 10 million gold in World Tier 4 Whispers, maybe even more.

Living Steel Buff

Now, the second part is the hotfix that has been released to the live game. This is a huge buff to Living Steel drops.

Because it has increased the number of Living Steels in Living Steel Chest in World Tier 3 from 1 to 2, and there is an additional chance to drop 1-2 additional Living Steels. Then World Tier 4 Living Steels has been increased from 3 to 5. There is then an additional chance to drop an additional 5 Living Steels. This means you can get up to 10 Living Steels. So this is a pretty ridiculous buff to Living Steels drop.

Living Steel is a material used by players to summon Grigoire. More specifically, players need two Living Steels to spawn a World Tier 3 boss, and 5 Living Steels to spawn a World Tier 4 boss.

This means that you can gain a lot of resources to challenge Duriel by killing Grigoire. But Living Steels will completely limit you. Because Helltide is a limited event, you can’t do this all the time. This will only create a greater obstacle to continued acquisition of Living Steels.

The buffs brought by the new hotfix will be of great help. One of the biggest buffs is that you can get five Living Steels just by opening a Living Steel Chest. This means that every Living Steel Chest you open to give you enough resources to kill Grigoire once.

Now you can also try your luck on Grigoire and get the two resources needed to summon Duriel. So sometimes five Living Steels can actually give you a full ongoing battle, and then you’ll have a chance to double the reward.

Final Thoughts

So I think this is actually one of the best changes since Season 2 was released. They also fixed an issue with Living Steel Chest not spawning correctly. So I highly recommend dedicating a lot of time to farming at least the week of the 20th to the 27th. This is absolutely huge for progress.

If you also enjoy playing Eternal Realms, these enhanced resources, especially the 35% gold multiplier, will be very important to you, even if you just want to test the alt at the end or beginning of the season.

So whether you’re a season-only guy or a rotation guy, the buffs this week can be pretty ridiculous. But that's all I want to say. Come join us now!

Diablo 4 patch 1.2.2’s Hotfix addresses several issues in the game, but mainly the changes and buffs to Living Steel during Helltides. In addition to this, Living Steel Chests now generate correctly with this hotfix.

Hotfix Changes

Here you can see that it has increased World Tier 3 Living Steel Chest from 1 Living Steel to 2 Living Steels per chest. There has also been a corresponding increase in World Tier 4, from 3 Living Steels to 5 Living Steels. In addition to this, you have an additional chance to get 5 additional Living Steels drops.

With Hotfix, Living Steel has gained 66%. So this is actually insane for your gear materials and Living Steel income.

Basically, in Living Steel Chest, 1 Living Steel will cost 60 Cinders, and in the 75 Cinders box, there will be 1 Living Steel.

As you can see here, the values are almost the same. But obviously, when you use 150 Cinders boxes to go up, you still only get one Living Steel. The cost of Diablo 4 Gold and time to open these boxes will rise sharply.

So if you have a lot of Cinders left during Helltides, you can try opening the 75 Cinders box, but there’s absolutely no need to continue spending time on that.

This change is also great for now, as dual-character farming in Helltides may no longer be necessary. For example, you could focus your Cinders on one character but be completely outside of its scope. That’s about 600 more Cinders than you’ll have available when you open the chest. But after Hotfix, your Living Steel may be higher than your Varshan Materials.

New Method

Early in the season, I made a guide on how to get 300 Cinders every 10 minutes. Although this method still works for now, I will improve it.

First, let’s start with the highest density area, which is the area with the highest Cinders farmed per minute. As you can see, there is often a very high density of Cinders farming areas in Diablo 4. But there is no point in just staying in that dense area and continuing to farm. Because the regeneration speed of mobs is not that fast.

So, ideally, you can rotate between two high-density areas and control when mobs respawn. But it’s not a big deal here, so there’s absolutely no need to strictly plan your route in Helltides.

In the previous method, we could easily get 300 Cinders every 10 minutes. It’s probably higher now because the equipment has gotten better and players have become more skilled at farming.

Now you can also throw this method into the mix of running your Helltides and killing monsters, which is definitely doable.

I found this to be a rule of thumb. If there is an event that covers many areas and is actually a big event. These are very useful when it comes to Cinders per minute, and they won’t actually slow you down. Whatever you currently get, just ignore them. Some of them will actually increase this speed.

So if you see a big event that covers a lot of ground, be sure to stay for that event and try to complete it. Because this usually has a few more avenues to farm Cinders than smaller activities.

Now another pro tip is actually doing Legion Events that pop up in Helltides. If you’re lucky, the monster density here is actually insane, and monsters respawn pretty quickly.

It took me about 5 minutes to complete Legion Events and farmed about 350 Cinders, which is really insane.

As you can see here, we also have 75 Cinders boxes in Legion Events. So you can actually take Cinders you’ve earned while clearing out everything else. You can actually get an extra copy of Living Steel here.

But like I said before, there is absolutely no need to open all 75 Cinders boxes. Because after Hotfix, you will have enough Living Steels.