Diablo 4 1.1.2 Patch: Enhancing Farming and Bug Fixes

Recently, everyone’s attention must have been focused on the upcoming Diablo 4 Season 9. Since players have been complaining about the boring endgame content, the developers have been working hard to bring more interesting challenge modes to players to win back lost players. And an important new feature launched in the latest Season 9 PTR may break the current bad situation of the endgame and bring new possibilities for Diablo 4 to regain its vitality. This is Escalating Nightmare Dungeons. Escalating Nightmare is an endgame activity that connects three Nightmare Dungeons with random attributes to increase the difficulty and obtain more generous rewards. In the end, players will start the final boss battle with Astaroth. In a new endgame battle full of challenging mechanisms, you will face Mephisto’s Acolyte and Amalgam. This battle will be a great test of your character build and strategy, but the rewards are definitely worth your struggle! How To Enter Escalating Nightmare? So how do you enter these Escalating Nightmare Dungeons? Let’s take a look! To start these dungeons, you need to prepare some Escalation Sigil. These Sigils can be dropped from Horadric Strongrooms. Sigil functions similarly to Infernal Hordes Compass, and it will automatically open the first Nightmare Dungeon in the series. After completing this dungeon, a portal will be generated that will teleport the player to the second dungeon. When we complete the last dungeon, players will be able to open a new boss battle through the portal. Horadric Strongrooms are another new feature added in Season 9 PTR, which is a kind of micro-dungeons in Nightmares and Escalating Dungeons. They offer limited-time challenges with powerful enemies and obstacles, and finally a boss battle. But taking the time to complete Strongroom is definitely worth it, because not only will you get a Horadric Cache and Horadric Attunement, but you will also have the chance to get a powerful Elixir. Even if you don’t need Elixir right now, it can still earn you a ton of Diablo 4 Gold, as these consumables are in high demand on the market. How To Run Escalating Dungeon? To get back to the point, you can get these Escalation Sigils from Horadric Strongrooms. Once you find Sigil, you can right-click on it like any other Nightmare Dungeon Sigil, and that will open Escalating Dungeon. However, unlike Nightmare Dungeon, Escalating Dungeon does not end after you defeat the first boss of the first dungeon. When you complete the first dungeon, you’ll get loot like in a normal Nightmare Dungeon. However, you’ll be teleported to the next dungeon via a pillar, and there are three dungeons in total, with an Astaroth boss fight at the end. Dungeon Affixes Also, it’s worth noting that the affixes in Escalating Dungeon are randomized each time, meaning that when you start a new dungeon, there will be new affixes. The number of both positive and negative affixes increases as you run the dungeon, and they stack as you progress, meaning that the first dungeon will have one negative and one positive affix, and by the third dungeon you’ll have three of each. I guess that’s where the name Escalating comes from. However, the difficulty doesn’t really change between dungeons, because if you have a good enough character to farm Torment 4 difficulty, you shouldn’t have any trouble killing monsters even in the third dungeon. Once you complete a dungeon, you’ll get similar loot to a normal Nightmare Dungeon. But at the end of the dungeon, there will be a pillar that you can click on to reach the second floor or the second dungeon of Escalating Nightmare. Also, this pillar will tell you the random affixes you’ll see in the next dungeon. Astaroth Boss Fight Once you complete the third dungeon, the pillars will reappear, but this time you’ll be taken to Astaroth’s Lair, where the final battle will take place. And, as we mentioned before, you can find Horadric Strongrooms in these Escalating Dungeons, just like in regular Nightmare Dungeons, and you can always tell which affixes will affect your current dungeon by looking at the map. In my experience, Astaroth boss drops a lot of loot, including a lot of crafting materials, such as Obducite. Additionally, there will be special affixes that affect Astaroth loot drops, however, these are random and you can’t change them as needed. Whether this will bring new fun to your dungeon runs or put us in a new cycle of endless farming is still unknown. But if you want to get an advantage in your dungeon runs, it is absolutely necessary to get some high-level gear and resources, and here are some iGMeet coupon codes that may help you! Final Thoughts That’s it, that’s all we know about Escalating Nightmare Dungeons in Season 9 so far. To be honest, running multiple Nightmare Dungeons in a row like this and having a special battle at the end is indeed an update that the community has been calling for a long time.  However, some people may worry that running multiple Nightmare Dungeons in a row will become awkward and boring, but some people think that Escalating Nightmare system should bring a breath of fresh air when running dungeons and greatly simplify the entire process. In any case, let us look forward to what this new season update will bring!

If you want to build a good set of builds for Barbarian in Diablo 4 Season 8, then Bane Of Ahjed-Den should be your first choice. This special glove is actually designed to improve Mighty Throw. With it, you can effectively improve your skills and enhance the power of Barbarian. Next, this guide will take you to learn how to get it and what to build to maximize its potential. As early as during PTR, the game’s developers promised to enhance the power of Barbarian, and the appearance of Bane Of Ahjed-Den just confirms the developers’ promise. It can bring significant improvements and upgrades to Mighty Throw. Affix List Bane of Ahjed-Den can be said to be a unique item specially built for Barbarian. After being enhanced, it is very suitable for some players who pursue burst damage and control. In addition to boosting the effects of his throws, he has some powerful Affixes, some of which are highly recommended for use with Fury-generated skills and cooldown management. 12.5% ​​Cooldown Reduction +6 to Mighty Throw +150.0% Critical Strike Damage +10 Fury per Second These Affixes can significantly increase the amount of damage dealt, providing a significant improvement in the player’s resource management, allowing them to use more powerful Mighty Throws more often. Unique Effect Your Mighty Throw detonates a pulse every 12 seconds, dealing Fire Damage to enemies, and also dealing 600.0% [x] additional damage. This damage greatly increases the power of your Mighty Throw, making it a powerful nuclear bomb. Mastering and timing this skill well can give you the ability to fight elite groups and bosses. How To Get Bane Of Ahjed-Den? As mentioned above, Bane Of Ahjed-Den is a Unique Item. You can't craft it directly in the game or get it with Diablo 4 Gold, but we have sorted out some effective farming methods to get it: Dropped From Boss Hoards Uber Bosses have a larger loot pool, which contains Bane Of Ahjed-Den we are looking for. Defeating certain bosses, such as Urivar and Lord Zir, can increase your chances of getting it. Urivar You can go to Fields of Judgement dungeon in Nahantu to fight Urivar. Like other ladder and lair bosses, it does not require collecting special items to summon it, but obtaining its treasure requires us to collect 12 Judicator’s Mask. Lord Zir In Season 8, we no longer need to collect 12x Exquisite Blood to summon Lord Zir. Instead, we need to use Exquisite Blood we have collected to open the loot dropped by defeating him. Lord Zir is in Ancient’s Seat dungeon in Fractured Peaks region of Sanctuary. Go there and fight him for a chance to get Bane Of Ahjed-Den. World Events Events such as Gathering Legions, Nightmare Dungeons, and World Boss encounters have the potential to drop Bane Of Ahjed-Den and some other Unique Items. Therefore, actively participating in these events is very helpful for you to collect items. Helltide Chests Helltide Chests are rewards for Helltide event. Collecting Aberrant Cinders during the event will help you get event rewards. There is a chance that Bane Of Ahjed-Den will drop in this treasure chest. Opening this treasure chest as much as possible can increase your chance of getting the item. But be warned, if you die during the event, you will lose half of your Aberrant Cinders. So, proceed with caution. Purveyor Of Curiosities Purveyor of Curiosities is also a good way to get it, by spending Murmuring Obols from NPCs. It has a chance to drop rare or unique gear, but the items obtained are random and you need to try multiple times to have a chance to succeed. Best Builds Putting Bane Of Ahjed-Den in builds that reduce cooldown can cause super-powerful damage. It is effective in the following aspects: Critical Hit-Focused Builds: The significant increase in critical hit damage enhances the burst potential, especially in elite or boss encounters. Throwing Weapon Builds: Bane Of Ahjed-Den can reduce the cooldown of skills, increase the peak damage, and cause damage in long-range melee. Fury-Hungry Builds: It helps increase Fury per second, thus increasing the damage of Ultimates and core skills. By carefully farming monsters and participating in activities, we can increase the probability of obtaining this Unique Item, which is a great help in enhancing Barbarian’s Mighty Throw. It is a good choice for some players who like long-range melee attacks and burst damage.

In October this year, with the simultaneous release of Vessel of Hatred expansion and Season 6, Diablo 4 has further optimized all aspects of the game, which can not only enhance your combat experience but also bring new possibilities to all classes in the game. As for Barbarian class, there are many builds available in Season 6, but Rend Barbarian Build is undoubtedly one of the most competitive and can be a powerful assistant for you to accumulate Diablo 4 Gold. Based on this, we will introduce you to the precautions for using this build from multiple aspects. Overview Of Rend Barbarian Build The biggest difference between this build and many other builds in Diablo 4 Season 6 is that it relies more on increased damage generated over time rather than directly causing damage to the enemy. Therefore, when using Rend Barbarian Build, you need to pay special attention to the type of damage scaling. The key to using this build is to find ways to increase critical hits and vulnerable damage bonuses. Additionally, Hemorrhage Paragon node increases the amount of bleeding you deal to enemies based on your vulnerability damage bonus, and Gushing Wounds key passive increases bleeding based on your critical hit damage. And as a bonus to this key passive, every time you deal a critical hit, you deal 70% more bleeding. Suitable Skills In Season 6, you will have approximately 72 skill points available with the new level 60 cap and grinding renown to invest in the skills needed to use Rend Barbarian Build. There are many active and passive skills that Barbarian can use in the game. The following are some of the more suitable ones: Active skills: Flay-Enhanced: 1 Rend-Enhanced, Violent: 5 Challenging Shout-Enhanced: 1 Rallying Cry-Enhanced, Strategic: 1 War Cry-Enhanced, Power: 1 Rupture-Enhanced, Warriors: 1 Steel Grasp-Enhanced, Fighter’s: 1 Call of the Ancients-Prime, Supreme: 5 Passive skills: Warpath: 3 Pressure Point: 1 Martial Vigour: 3 Imposing Presence: 3 Raid Leader: 3 Booming Voice: 3 Guttural Yell: 3 Aggressive Resistance: 3 Pit Fighter: 3 Slaying Strike: 3 Cut to the Bone: 3 Thick Skin: 1 Counteroffensive: 3 Concussion: 2 Wallop: 3 Gushing Wounds: Key Passive Best Skill Rotation Order When using Rend Barbarian Build in a serious encounter, it is recommended to release the appropriate skills according to a fixed order: Rallying Cry Challenging Shout Steel Grasp Rupture Rend Rupture Call of the Ancients First, when entering the encounter, you can make full use of the buffs of Shout skill and thus activate Berserking. After these effects take effect, you can then pop Steel Grasp to attract enemies and make them vulnerable, which also creates a lot of synergies that can bring benefits. Once you have the above settings and there are enough enemies nearby, cast Rupture immediately. Combined with active Shout, equipment and some passive skills, you will start resource generation and use Rend smoothly. And using Rend heavily can make all enemies nearby bleed heavily. After you use Rupture as much as possible, you can also use Rupture again to deal with explosive damage. In addition, you can use Call of the Ancients on its cooldown to deal with a lot of damage. And because of the reduced cooldown, your Shout skill and Rupture will also reset frequently. Earthquake of Tec rune will increase your damage output. Best Arsenal Setup As a Barbarian-exclusive buff mechanism in Diablo 4, you can use Arsenal to assign different weapons to different skills. In addition, it can also trigger passive skills or legendary buffs, which reward you for swapping weapons. It is worth noting that using a specific type of weapon will further affect the passive enhancement of that weapon. For Rend Barbarian Build, we recommend that you assign all attack skills to dual-wield weapons. For example, with a sword and a mace, you will get additional damage and attack speed bonuses, can hit those controlled enemies more accurately, and increase the chance of outputting damage and frenzy to stunned enemies. You can also add specific weapon types to your tech slots and apply their buffs to all of your weapons. For Rend Barbarian Build, we also recommend the two-handed axe, which makes all of your attacks deal more damage to vulnerable enemies, which goes well with this build. Best Paragon Boards & Glyphs Once you reach level 60 in Diablo 4 Season 6, skill points become a thing of the past, and Paragon points will help you continue to level up. In fact, Paragon system helps you choose upgrades from themed boards loaded with buffs, and each path is unique. So you can completely tweak this build with specific boards and glyphs to make yourself get a unique Rend Barbarian Build. As for the specific Paragon board’s progress, we recommend that you unlock them in the following order: Starting Board Blood Rage Warbringer Decimator Hemorrhage After determining Paragon board, you can choose the following Paragon glyphs for Rend Barbarian Build and match them with the corresponding Paragon board: Rumble Level 100 (Starting Board) Ambidextrous Level 100 (Blood Rage) Wrath Level 100 (Warbringer) Challenger Level 100 (Decimator) Ire Level 100 (Hemorrhage) How To Choose Mercenaries? I believe you will find that the mercenary mechanism introduced in DLC is an indispensable part of the build. For Rend Barbarian Build, as with most other Barbarian builds, Raheir should be your first choice of mercenary. Raheir has Ground Slam and Bastion which gives you both offensive and defensive buffs, with the bonus of slowing down enemies, making it harder for them to escape from your Rupture explosions. As for the second mercenary, I believe Aldkin would be the best choice for this build as a reinforcement. His Field of Languish to Steel Grasp can be bound to slow down enemies and reduce the damage of enemies you pull inward. If you want to increase the power of this build, you can pay more attention to the game giveaway information in iGMeet Discord to get some good equipment. Good luck!

The Lightning Strike Amazon is a powerful character build in Diablo 2 that focuses on lightning-based attacks to deal massive damage to enemies. This guide will walk you through the key aspects of the build, including skill allocation, gear choices, and general gameplay tips. 1. Skill Allocation: - Lightning Fury: Maximize this skill as it will be your primary attack. Lightning Fury unleashes bolts of lightning that bounce between enemies, making it devastating against groups. - Charged Strike: Invest some points in Charged Strike to enhance your single-target damage. It releases a powerful lightning bolt that deals substantial damage to a single enemy. - Power Strike: Allocate a few points to Power Strike for additional single-target damage. It enhances your basic attack with lightning damage. - Valkyrie: Summon a Valkyrie to aid you in battle. She will serve as a meat shield and deal damage, making her a valuable asset. 2. Attribute Distribution: - Strength: Invest enough points to meet the requirements of your gear. - Dexterity: Allocate sufficient points to achieve high accuracy. - Vitality: Place most of your points into Vitality for increased survivability. - Energy: Only add points to Energy if you are experiencing mana issues, but focus primarily on Vitality. 3. Gear Choices: - Weapon: Look for weapons with +skills, increased lightning damage, and increased attack speed. Runewords like 'Infinity' and 'Infinity Thunder' are excellent choices. - Armor: Opt for armor with bonuses to lightning skills, resistances, and increased life. - Helmet: Seek helmets with bonuses to skills, life, resistances, and mana. - Amulet: Prioritize amulets with +skills, lightning damage, resistances, and mana. - Rings: Look for rings with bonuses to skills, resistances, life, and mana. - Gloves: Choose gloves with bonuses to attack speed, lightning damage, and resistances. - Belt: Opt for belts with increased attack speed, life, and resistances. - Boots: Seek boots with bonuses to movement speed, resistances, and life. - Shield: Consider using a shield with bonuses to skills, resistances, and increased block chance. 4. Gameplay Tips: - Positioning: Keep a safe distance from enemies while using Lightning Fury to take advantage of its bouncing effect. This will help you clear groups of enemies efficiently. - Mana Management: Watch your mana pool carefully, as Lightning Fury consumes a significant amount of mana. Utilize mana potions or invest in items that increase mana regeneration. - Lightning Immune Enemies: Lightning Strike Amazons can struggle against lightning immune enemies. Carry a backup weapon with elemental damage of a different type, such as physical or fire, to deal with such foes. - Use Charged Strike Wisely: Save Charged Strike for single-target situations or tough enemies. It deals immense damage to a single foe, making it a valuable skill for boss fights. - Dodge and Weave: Maintain mobility and dodge enemy attacks by constantly moving. This will help you avoid damage and increase survivability. The Lightning Strike Amazon build in Diablo 2 offers a thrilling and powerful playstyle centered around lightning-based attacks. By maximizing key skills, selecting appropriate gear, and employing effective gameplay strategies, you'll be able to unleash devastating electrical damage upon your enemies. Have fun exploring the world of Diablo 2 as a formidable Lightning Strike Amazon!