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In the current ongoing Diablo 4 Season 8, the most difficult boss to defeat is Belial, which is also one of the most important seasonal themes of this season. In this encounter, you need a build with strong single-target burst damage, super high mobility and solid survivability to cope with the two-stage battle of this boss. So before the challenge, you need to choose the best build that meets the above conditions, and spend Distilled Fear, Resplendent Sparks or Diablo 4 Gold as much as possible to upgrade the gear in the build to the extreme, so as to efficiently complete this battle task. In view of this, this guide summarizes several of the most suitable builds for defeating Belial and the gear options they need based on the current attributes of each class in D4 S8 and the effectiveness of each item. It is worth noting that the statistics here are based on the latest Diablo 4 patch, so they are likely to change as the game develops. Twisting Blades Rogue After many player tests and statistical calculations, Twisting Blades Rogue is a build with super damage capabilities in the current season. It can deal huge burst damage to enemies with its counterattack mechanism, and when you choose Shadow Clone as a secondary attack skill, it will further enhance the damage you cast. Not only that, the super high mobility, practical traps and dodge ability of this build can help you successfully eliminate Belial, a highly challenging boss, while protecting your own safety. But it is worth reminding you that it is best to use Shadow Clone before consuming Belial’s final health in the second stage of the battle, which will be more effective. Core Gear Bladedancer’s Aspect (Offensive Aspect) Aspect of the Expectant (Offensive Aspect) Condemnation (Unique 1H Dagger) Grasp of Shadow (Unique Gloves) Lightning Spear Sorcerer Of all Sorcerer builds that heavily focus on mana damage, the one that is most likely to successfully defeat Belial is the one that centers around Lightning Spear. It uses continuous auto-casting and focuses on crit stacking, giving Unstable Currents a very large burst window for very heavy AoE damage. In addition, its high survivability and mobility make it a good fit for this long encounter with a lot of harmful AoE damage in Arena. As a reminder, it is recommended to always keep your Teleport active to facilitate faster movement and evasion. Core Gear Gravitational Aspect (Utility Aspect) Aspect of Control (Offensive Aspect) Aspect of Splintering Energy (Offensive Aspect) The Oculus (Unique Wand) Raiment of the Infinite (Unique Chest Armor) Pulverize Werebear Druid Pulverize Werebear was very good in the first few seasons of Diablo 4 and has become one of the main skills that players focus on when using Druid class. Thankfully, Season 8 did not make any major changes to it, so it is still a strong build that can both attack and defend. The secondary skill you can choose for it is Grizzly Rage, because it can maximize the duration of your critical strike ability and strengthen the synergy of Fortify stat in the build. But try to use it in the second phase of the fight with Belial, because this time the excellent stun potential, tankiness and burst of this build will be at maximum, and it can easily defeat Belial. Core Gear Shockwave Aspect (Offensive Aspect) Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast (Offensive Aspect) Vasily’s Prayer (Unique Helm) Insatiable Fury (Unique Chest Armor) Bone Spear Necromancer Based on the feedback from many player communities and social platforms, the Bone Spear Necromancer build has become the best build in the game that can cast single-target damage, so it is also very suitable for fighting Belial without many helpers. Even the long vulnerability duration, high critical bonus and the secondary focus skill Corpse Tendrils, which can control corpses to help in combat, can successfully eliminate Belial before it becomes more dangerous. For rotation between skills, you can use Tendrils and Bone Storm to clear small monsters in the arena that may cause you some damage, and trap Belial in place, and then cast Bone Spears from a distance to cause unpredictable damage to it. Core Gear Splintering Aspect (Offensive Aspect) Aspect of Grasping Veins (Offensive Aspect) Lidless Wall (Unique Shield) Black River (Unique 1H Scythe) Dust Devil Barbarian When you add the powerful skill combination of Walking Arsenal and Dust Devil to a Barbarian build, you get a character with super high single-target damage. And when you spend more D4 Gold to keep your mobility high, Dust Devils will do more Overpower Damage to Belial. While this build itself doesn’t have any obvious shortcomings, you’ll still need to keep Walking Arsenal active and maximize the duration of Dust Devils while rotating skills, which may make your fight easier. Core Gear Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind (Offensive Aspect) Aspect of Limitless Rage (Offensive Aspect) Gohr’s Devastating Grips (Unique Gloves) 100,000 Steps (Unique Boots) Quill Volley Spiritborn While some of Spiritborn’s abilities and gear have been nerfed in Diablo 4’s Season 7 and Season 8, a build focused on Quill Volley ability, which lets you fire projectiles that can quickly penetrate enemies, can still give you an edge in encounters with Belial. And staying mobile during the skill rotation window or at the start of Phase 2 will give this build a significant increase in attack speed and critical chance, which is very useful for dealing high damage to Belial in a short period of time. Core Gear Rebounding Aspect (Offensive Aspect) Harmony of Ebewaka (Unique Helm) Rod of Kepeleke (Unique Quarterstaff) Ring of the Midnight Sun (Unique Ring) The above are the best builds for each class in Diablo 4 Season 8 that are very suitable for farming Belial, the ultimate boss of the current season. Hopefully, you can successfully deal with all the attacks of this boss and get the season rewards with the help of these reliable and super effective builds. Have fun playing!

Cataclysm Druid has always been the most powerful build in Diablo 4, and this hasn’t changed much since the departure of Witch Powers in Season 7. Season 8’s Cataclysm Druid Build is still S-Tier endgame build, and Druid players must be very happy that the game content has not changed in the past few months. However, because of the adjustments before each season, following season 7 Cataclysm Druid Build will not give you the best gaming experience, so you’d better learn how to build the season 8 Cataclysm Druid. Pros And Cons Pros Large area damage Farming Diablo 4 gold and advancing activities quickly Cons Need to pay attention to the duration of the buff High equipment requirements Cataclysm Druid Equipment 2 Handed Mace: Aspect of the Changeling’s Debt. Damage is increased when you poison an enemy with Ursine or attack a controlled enemy with Werewolf. Helm: Tempest Roar. Storm Skills will become Werewolf Skil. Chest: Shroud of False Death/ Mad Wolf’s Glee. If you do not damage any enemy for 2 seconds, you will become invisible and move faster. Gloves: Runeworker’s Conduit Aspect. Critical Strikes of Storm Skills will release Lightning Bolt to nearby enemies. Pants: Stormshifter’s Aspect/Aspect of Fevered Mauling/Juggernaut’s Aspect. When you cast Hurricane, your Shapeshifting Skills level increases by 5 levels. Boots: Rakanoth’s Wake/Stormshifter’s Aspect/Wildbolt Aspect. When you cast a skill that requires a cooldown, you will explode and cause fire damage to the surrounding area. Amulet: Aspect of Apogeic Furor/Aspect of Electrified Claws. Increases ultimate damage and resets its cooldown after reaching 10 stacks. Ring 1: Airidah’s Inexorable Will. Pulls enemies closer after using the ultimate. Ring 2: Mjölnic Ryng. Gains unlimited Spirit and increases damage after using Cataclysm. For a Cataclysm Druid Build to run smoothly, you need to maximize the duration of Cataclysm and reduce its cooldown. Tempest Roar, Mjölnic Ryng, Stormshifter’s Aspect, and Airidah’s Inexorable Will are a must. Mjölnic Ryng provides unlimited resources for the passive Endless Tempest, while Airidah’s Inexorable Will and Stormshifter’s Aspect reduce the cooldown of Cataclysm. Gems Weapon Gems: Grand Ruby increases Suppression damage. Armor Gems: Grand Sapphire increases Willpower damage. Jewelry Gems: Grand Amethyst for Shadow Resistance, Grand Ruby for Fire Resistance, Grand Sapphire for Cold Resistance. Runeword Igni + Xa: Stores sacrifices, increases maximum health. Bac + Yom: Yom can petrify enemies. Cataclysm Druid Skills Maul: Transforms into a bear-man and attacks the enemy in front of you. Enhanced Maul allows you to increase your Base Life by 3% after focusing. Pulverize: Transforms into a bear-man and strikes the ground, causing area damage. Enhanced Pulverize and Primal Pulverize suppress enemies and reduce their damage. Debilitating Roar: Transforms into a bear-man and roars, reducing enemy damage. Enhanced Debilitating Roar and Innate Debilitating Roar can increase your health and damage. Earthen Bulwark: Create a rock barrier over 3 seconds that absorbs damage. Enhanced Earthen Bulwark makes you unstoppable while the skill is active. Hurricane: Summons hurricane that damages nearby enemies. Enhanced Hurricane and Savage Hurricane can slow enemies and reduce their damage. Cataclysm: Ultimate skill, summons a storm that lasts for 8 seconds, knocks back enemies, and also damages them with lightning. Prime Cataclysm and Supreme Cataclysm can extend the duration of this skill and make enemies hit by lightning vulnerable. Ursine Strength: Key Passive. You need to release Hurricane and Earthen Bulwark first to stack the buffs, and then release Cataclysm after the buffs are fully stacked to burst out tremendous damage. If enemies are grouped together, you can destroy them instantly, so this build farms gold fast. Boss Powers Main Power Ashava’s Poison Breath: Hitting an enemy that is receiving damage over time will cause a large amount of poison damage to them. Secondary Modifiers Belial’s Eye Beams: Gain 2 seconds of invisibility after using the main power. Sinerat’s Flames: Elemental resistance increases the damage of that element. Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: Shadow resistance increases critical strike chance. Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs reduces ultimate cooldown, while Blackmailer’s Sabotage increases your survivability. Outlaw Sharpshooter’s Eye and Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley increase your damage. These Boss Powers can also be very useful. Mercenaries Mercenaries can only be unlocked if you own DLC. Main Mercenaries can fight and provide support, providing powerful buffs. Reinforcement Mercenaries only help you in certain situations. It's like you have extra skills, so they are very useful, and you can hire them using gold. Here are the recommended mercenaries: Main Mercenary: Varyana, Berserker Skills: Cleave, Recklessness, Whirlwind, No Escape Reinforcement: Raheir, Shieldbearer Reinforcement Ability: Crater Opportunity: Maul Elixirs Druids need survivability, and the armor and health boost provided by equipment alone is sometimes not enough, so you can make some elixirs with gold and materials. Hardcore players especially need them. Elixir of Fortitude: Increases maximum health by 10%. Reddamine Buzz: Increases maximum health by 650. Song of the Mountain: Increases armor. Blessed Guide: Increases Willpower. Soothing Spices: Increases resistance to all elements. Cataclysm Druid Build has high damage, strong survivability, and a relatively simple skill roll sequence, so even novice players can easily accumulate a lot of damage. I believe that players who have played Cataclysm Druid Build will find it difficult to get used to other Druid builds any more.

In the ongoing Diablo 4 Season 7 PTR, players will experience the changes brought by the new season to the game content in advance. Among them, the changes that players can feel most easily are the changes to each class. In Patch 2.1, we can roughly understand that most of the abilities of Spiritborn have been hit very obviously, but Rogue has improved some key attributes. This will not only change the player’s game style accordingly, but also have a greater impact on the development of subsequent builds. So this guide will give you a detailed introduction to the changes that Spiritborn and Rogue in Diablo 4 will undergo in Season 7, so that you can change your game style as soon as possible in the next season to face the new game content. Spiritborn Although Spiritborn has been hit very obviously overall, there are still improvements in some of its skills. For example, Enhanced Thunderspike, Vigor gain it provides you have increased from 5 to 7, which means that you will generate more and more Vigor in battle, and those skills that require Vigor when casting can be used continuously. In addition, Endurance will generate double Vigor! If you combine these two skills with skills that can deal super high damage with Vigor, you will be able to clear most enemies and easily get Diablo 4 Gold from them. For those skills that can deal damage, some improvements have also been made. For example, Thorns damage caused by Bastion has been tripled, which can make the enemy suffer a very painful movement process. After talking about the enhanced skills, let’s take a look at the nerfed parts. Legendary Aspects are the first. The three Legendary Aspects possessed by Spiritborn have been weakened to a certain extent. The most serious of them is Sticker-thought Aspect, which has been directly removed from the list, which greatly reduces Spiritborn’s ability in some battles. And Spirit Halls, which are very important to Spiritborn, have also been weakened. Centipede Primary Spirit Hall will increase Poison damage it casts next season, but the damage reduction will be reduced, and each hit will only have 2% damage reduction. Similarly, when Spiritborn uses Eagle Secondary Spirit Hall, the delay before reset is extended to 4 seconds, which means that the combo ability that this Class is proud of will be greatly affected. Among Uniques, some have been improved for the better, and some have been changed for the worse. For example, after you equip Band of First Breath, your Vigor will not spawn, but your damage ability will get some benefits from it. But Rod of Kepeleke is the opposite, and its critical hit damage has been weakened to insignificance. So players who like this Unique in the current season may need to change their builds in time. Rogue As I mentioned earlier, Rogue class has received a major upgrade in Season 7, not only gaining greater mobility but also integrating lethality and skill into more powerful gear, especially Assassin’s Stride Boots. With the help of these boots, your movement speed will increase by 100% after casting a movement skill! And the damage caused by Shadow Imbued with your movement skills will also be increased, which means that you can also cause incredible explosive damage to those Elites or Bosses while moving quickly. But I have to remind you that this kind of powerful Unique requires you to spend a lot of effort to cultivate it in the game. You can also get it directly by trading with suppliers or other players in the game. This means you may need a lot of Gold. If you want, you can participate in the regular draws in iGMeet Discord and get some emergency Diablo 4 Gold from it to make your exploration process easier. For Rogue’s Legendary Aspects, only two have received buffs. The first is Slice and Dice, which will allow Twisting Blades to cleave in the next season, and their return speed will increase by 45%. The other is Bitter Infection, which will increase the damage caused by Shadow Imbued by 50% and add a ticking sound to remind you of the countdown to the explosion. In addition to the above, Rogue’s active and passive skills have been significantly improved. For example, the extra damage caused by Twisting Blades lasts longer, Rain of Arrows allows you to deal instant damage and crowd control to enemies faster and more smoothly, Shadow Crash can stun enemies faster and more steadily, etc. Besides, Shadow Clone Unique has also received a very significant enhancement: it is triggered faster and more powerful. So in Season 7, you can be full of expectations for Rogue builds, because there are many possibilities waiting for you to try, and each build may become the best helper for you to pass the level. The above are some buffs and nerfs that Spiritborn and Rogue will get in Diablo 4 Season 7 according to Patch 2.1. If you are a lucky player in this PTR, I believe you should feel the effect of these changes. I hope you can build a strong Spiritborn or Rogue build in the next season to cope with game content of various difficulties. I wish you a happy game!

Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred DLC introduces a ton of enemies to defeat and loot to collect, and the roster of all-new bosses can demonstrate this point. No matter what class you have chosen, be it the debut Spiritborn or one of five previous classes, these overwhelming bosses serve as the ultimate test for your builds as you pushing forward the brand new campaign in the region of Nahantu in Sanctuary. This guide details each boss that is exclusive to Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred, along with the specific location that they nestle. Enkindled Judicator Enkindled Judicator serves as the first boss appearing in “Pursuit of Justice” main mission. It shows up in the burning ruins of Windswept Cabinas as bulking soldier. The primary weapon of this rookie boss is a big hammer. It’s slow to swing, but it hits hard. Also, watch out for its fire attack. Overall, it’s pretty easy to deal with. Abhorrent Manifestation Just like what its name has disclosed, this boss is designed as a terrifying horror. You will encounter it during “Enmity Rising” mission as you trespass Hollows part. Abhorrent Manifestation is primarily good at melee attacks. While it does less damage overall, it is noticeable that it is available to summon Minion Hollows for help. Nangari Deathworker You are gonna to meet Nangari Deathworker as you progress the quest of “Thrust into the Dark”. It features a giant Nangari, so it undoubtably excels in melee and AOE poison damage. If you want to win this fight easily, it is recommended to equip some necessary items that can offset this damage by spending some Diablo 4 Gold. Vesicator After slaying the first wave of Frothers, Vesicator will make an appearance in the form of a giant, hulking monstrosity of muscle and tentacles. You may encounter it on the radar of “The Heart of All Rot” quest. This monster is particularly excellent at attacking with its tentacled arms, which causes poison damage. In addition, it can also summon annoying Regurgitator minions to help him deal with some troubles. Awoken Dead On the way to complete “Fundament of Faith” mission, you can find this short and fat horror in Forgotten Chamber. In addition to some basic attack damage, Awoken Dead is also equipped with overwhelming lighting attacks to cast fatal damage. And Shambling Corpses will occasionally appear to help this boss. Ah Bulan, Mender Of Veils You may be surprised and astonished as you see this boss. Ah Bulan, Mender of Veils, is one of the most memorable bosses in Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred DLC. You will meet this four-legged beast in Spirit Realm in the period of accomplishing “Across the Threshold” mission. Armed with a spear and shield, Ah Bulan is good at both offense and defense. He is available to cast stomping attacks and has two powerful clones accompanying him to provide assistance at any time. Eidolon Of Julian Eidolon of Julian is encountered in the quest of “Living Memory”. After searching Buried Chamber, you are required to fight with this towering red spirit. Eidolon of Julian can summon mini-tornadoes that are designed to significantly hinder player eyesight while caught inside. Urivar In the questline of “Burning Crusade”, players are going to descend into Knight’s Encampment dungeon where nestles Urivar. Urivar is an armor-clad boss who excels in melee attacks. He also has his army of knights to summon. Priestess Of Hatred Priestess of Hatred nestles in a befouled Clearing in Hierophant Pyre. You are needed to defeat her in “The Way Out Is Through” mission. She features A vicious, grotesque monster. Despite its size, it moves and attacks pretty quickly. Of particular note is blood magic, which features a powerful beam that shining the battlefield. Dread Captain Players will come to Seta O-Akha in the period of completing “In His Footsteps” mission. You will then engage in a fight with Dread Captain. With a massive pillar holding in his hand, Dread Captain primarily attacks with ice damage. In addition, there will be a Water Watcher that casts poison attacks from distance to support Dread Captain. Harbinger Of Hatred In the end, here comes the last boss in Vessel of Hatred DLC - Harbinger of Hatred. And you witness the strength of it during finishing “All Good Things” mission in Domain of Mephisto. Harbinger of Hatred features A malevolent dragon-like entity. During the fight, waves of enemies will appear in a small arena. This demon has 2 stages. It is recommended to use Akarat’s buffs to effectively resist. Harbinger of Hatred, as the ultimate boss, is inherently challenging. If you are absent of defensive skills or builds that can keep you alive or heal, then it is recommended to lower the difficulty to World Tier 1. Also Read: Long-Term Diablo 4 Promotions & Giveaways - Real And Valid That’s all about all the bosses in Vessel of Hatred expansion. If you want to learn more, you can enter iGMeet discord, where offers tons of beneficial gifts from time to time in its Giveaway channel. Thanks for reading.