Diablo 4 Season 5: How To Make Your Twisting Blades Rogue Endgame Build More Powerful? - Skills & Recommended Aspects

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!

When you’re building a strong build in Diablo 4, you’ll probably want Uniques, which are gear with a lot of interesting passive affixes that can provide some very helpful buffs to your build, such as improving your survivability or combat ability. Usually, some Uniques can only play a major role in specific builds, but there are also some Uniques that are suitable for multiple Class builds because of their universal power and high flexibility. Ugly Bastard Helm is one of them. While this helmet is suitable for most builds, it has a huge buff to Berserking’s damage ability, so it will be more suitable for your Barbarian, especially if you are preparing to enter the endgame stage of Diablo 4, it will make your entire build have unstoppable damage ability. Given the power of Ugly Bastard Helm, you may need to get the specific affixes and unique effects of this helmet from this guide, as well as the effective methods of farming this unique, so that you can make an optimal Barbarian build as soon as possible. About Ugly Bastard Helm First, let’s take a look at the specific effectiveness of this helmet. When you use it in a non-Barbarian build, you can only get a 10%-85% increase in fire resistance. Although this will give you a certain increase in your defensive capabilities, it is not worth spending a lot of Diablo 4 Gold and energy for a non-Barbarian build to get a piece of gear with fire resistance, so it is not recommended here. But if you put this helmet in a Barbarian build, in addition to this fire resistance, your Aggressive Resistance will also increase by 1-3 levels to enhance the defensive capabilities of Barbarian build, which is already very solid. Not only that, although Ugly Bastard Helm is a defensive gear, your Prolific Fury will also increase by 2-5 points, and your Wrath of the Berserker skill cooldown will be reduced by 8%-12.5%, which will greatly enhance your damage ability and help you clear enemies faster. With the help of this Unique, the lack of damage in Barbarian build that was previously criticized by Diablo 4 players has been improved to a certain extent in Season 7. On top of that, if you use Lucky Hit in combat, you will have a 40% chance to deal 605-6,750 points of increased fire damage, which is something that users of this class could not imagine before. Although many gear exclusive to the Barbarian build in this season will provide it with strong fire damage buffs, the buffs it provides are directly applied to the original skills such as Prolific Fury or Wrath of the Berserker, so its buff value will be directly reflected in your combat and metadata. In contrast, Crown of Lucion provides a very small bonus, as there are few builds that can fully match it to take advantage of it. In addition, Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty and Godslayer Crown, although they can be used by many builds, the clearing speed bonus they provide is relatively small, so they are not suitable for use in the endgame. How To Farm Ugly Bastard Helm? While Ugly Bastard Helm is a Unique that will drop from any fight you have in Torment 1, this Legendary Unique Item is most commonly dropped from some endgame boss encounters, Kurast Undercity, The Pit, Purveyor of Curiosities, and Infernal Hordes. Of these, Purveyor of Curiosities and endgame boss encounters allow you to target this Ugly Bastard Helm for farming, because you can do targeted farming by looking at the loot list of the bosses or gambling for Caps at Purveyor of Curiosities. Unfortunately, Purveyor of Curiosities has been nerfed in the current season, so the best way to target this Unique effectively is to challenge Lord Zir in different Torment Tiers, which requires you to use some Diablo 4 Items to summon it. In the current season, Lord Zir can be summoned in Ancient’s Seat dungeon at any Torment difficulty, located in Darkened Way in Fractured Peaks. You need to have collected enough Exquisite Blood by completing Legion Events or defeating World Bosses, Helltide Blood Maiden, or Treasure Goblins. Each summoning of Lord Zir costs you 12 Exquisite Blood, so you need to get as many materials as possible from the above events so that you can quickly challenge Lord Zir at higher difficulties, which will increase the drop rate of Ugly Bastard Helm. Once you have collected all Exquisite Blood, you can place it in Bloodied Altar at a different Torment difficulty to complete the summoning of this boss. During the battle, you should stand in the corner as much as possible and prioritize killing the minions summoned by the boss, to ensure your own safety in order to obtain the final loot and Diablo 4 Gold. The above is the working principle and farming method of Ugly Bastard Helm, which is very important for Barbarian builds in Diablo 4 Season 7. I hope that you can use the more effective farming methods introduced in this guide to get this extremely useful gear into your Barbarian build quickly. I wish you a happy game!

With the start of the new Lunar Year, Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening event has returned to the Sanctuary. This is a limited-time event that celebrates Lunar New Year with a series of in-game rewards and buffs, allowing the fiery New Year atmosphere to spread to the game. Lunar Awakening Event Overview Just like last year, Lunar Awakening event will be available in Seasonal and Eternal Realms. This event starts at 10am PST on February 4 and lasts for 2 weeks until 10am PST on February 18. During this event in Diablo 4 Season 7, all Shrines in the Sanctuary will be transformed into snake-themed Lunar Shrines, which not only have new appearances, new icons on the map, but these Shrines will also be affected by a phenomenon that gives them amazing powers. Activate any of these Shrines to earn 100% extra XP for 2 minutes and gain enhanced powers. They are charged with earth energy that manifests as radiant light. Once activated, these Lunar Shrines unleash Miserly Spirits, bringing rewards and the coveted Ancestral Favor Reputation. There are a total of 10 Ancestral Favor Reputation Levels to earn during this event, with rewards including Diablo 4 Gold, Resplendent Spark, and 6 different Lunar-themed cosmetic rewards to unlock, including the new Trag’Oul’s Consort mount. Once you’ve cleared all Reputation Levels, you can continue to earn additional rewards in the form of Unceasing Gifts from the Ancestors caches and collect event cosmetics at Ked Bardu. Lunar Shrines Effects In addition to special enemy drops, these Lunar Shrines grant 100% extra XP for 2 minutes and unique type-based enhancements. Artillery Shrine: Casters have a chance to summon a Holy Bomb. Blast Wave Shrine: Each explosion summons a chain of bombs. Channeling Shrine: Increases attack speed and a chance to reset cooldowns. Conduit Shrine: Summons frequent, powerful lightning strikes. Greed Shrines: Chance to summon a Treasure Goblin, killing them can net you some nice loot. Lethal Shrine: Chance to instantly execute the monster hit, causing surrounding monsters to be terrified. This includes elites, but not bosses and other players. Protection Shrine: Reflects all damage you take, with the amount of damage reflected proportional to level and difficulty. Luckily, these Lunar Shrines can be found throughout dungeons and open world areas, offering lucrative opportunities to collect rare items and speed up your progress. Event Rewards As we said before, during the event, your Ancestral Favor Reputation will increase as you activate Lunar Shrines and kill enemies. This lets you redeem Unceasing Gift from the Ancestors rewards, including six Lunar-themed cosmetics, crafting materials, and a coveted new mount. Additionally, Tejal’s shop has Lunar Awakening Cosmetics and Armor sets for sale, such as Dragon of the Lonely Moon Mount armor and Scholar of the Lonely Moon outfit available for Sorcerer class. Since opportunities are limited, you’ll want to grab them before February 18, 2025. In addition to the rewards, the event also lets you accelerate your character progression. This is prime time to level up quickly and optimize your build to better prepare for the endgame grind of Diablo 4 Season 7. However, Weapon Transmogs, Tattoos, and Mount Trophy offered by this year’s Lunar Awakening event are exactly the same as last year, so if you participated in Lunar Awakening last year, the only new thing for you is the new mount. The new mounts look like a mix of the horses from Crypt Hunter Pack and last year’s event horses, but at least there’s something to earn in the game. To be honest, event rewards like this are more worth the player's time, rather than effortlessly logging into the event to get free cosmetics from the store like Halloween event. After all, a prize that is available to everyone is equal to a prize that is owned by no one. Also Read: How To Get Dorian Pet Which Has Special Season-Specific In Diablo 4 Season 7? Season 7 Patch 2.1.1 Notes In addition, a new patch for Diablo 4, Patch 2.1.1, will be available on the same day as Lunar Awakening event begins. The patch brings quite a few bug fixes, most notably: Increased frequency of Forgotten Altars spawning More Raven of the Tree in Headhunt areas Additional UI elements for tracking progress in Headhunts 2 new Whisper Bounties UI tweaks New button in Armory to easily remove gear Adjustments to Armory locations in multiple cities Diablo 4 Season of Witchcraft is a welcome change for fans of the action RPG, whether you’re a die-hard fan of the D4 series or just want to take a break from Path of Exile 2 map. While there are inevitably some issues with the new season, the release of the latest Patch 2.1.1 will make your life smoother, whether you’re still unlocking Witchcraft Powers or working on getting the perfect gear combination. The above is all the content of the recent Diablo 4 Season 7 update. As long as you can seize the opportunity of this Lunar Awakening event, you can not only get a lot of rare theme prizes but also help your character to upgrade quickly and survive better in the danger-ridden shelter.

As Season of Hatred Rising draws to a close, it’s time to unveil Diablo 4 Season 7. As all Diablo fans know, the new season revolves around Witch Powers, so you might be wondering what the storyline is like in Season 7 and how the season mechanics work in the new season. Don’t worry, you’ll have all of these questions answered here! Storyline In Season of Witchcraft, Tree of Whispers is missing some heads. This is a big deal, and our mission is to discover who stole the heads and why. As the storyline progresses, you’ll work with The Coven. In return for your help, they’ll grant you powers of your own, which you can then use in Season of Witchcraft. If you’re a new player who’s just gotten interested in Season 7 and is just getting into the game, you may not know that Tree of Whispers is an ancient tree with heads. All players can come to the tree itself for help, but it will ask you to provide it with something in return, maybe a bunch of Diablo 4 gold, maybe a top-tier item. Who knows? It is well known that no one can get away with trading with Tree of Whispers  - until now. So who exactly released these heads from Tree of Whispers? And what are the escaped heads trying to accomplish after being freed from the tree? In fact, these stolen heads are scattered all over Sanctuary, causing chaos and spreading strange rot, taking over the bodies of living people. Headrotten occurs when the heads in the tree try to graft themselves into already living creatures to take back life. And your task is to hunt down the renegade heads in Tree of Whispers before they further spread madness to the creatures of Sanctuary. Witch Powers During Season of Witchcraft, you will work with different witches to help solve the mystery of the missing heads. Hawezar Witches are a coven of witches who choose to serve Tree of Whispers in exchange for its power. At this time, hatred is spreading throughout Sanctuary, and it has launched its first successful attack on Tree of Whispers. While the tree still stands on the surface, it is definitely broken from the inside. You will work with the coven of witches and strengthen their powers to deal with the approaching threats to finally solve the mystery. In return for your help, the witches will offer you their Witch Powers. And in this season, you will be able to utilize four major categories of Witch Powers. Eldritch Powers Ouna has Eldritch Powers, which are closely related to the cycle of life and death. Eldritch Powers are forms of damage that witches deal directly to enemies in the form of Fire damage, Burning damage, Shadow damage. Psyche Powers Gelena has Psyche Powers, which are defensive and debuff abilities that manipulate the mind and spirit. A portion of the damage you take will be shared with the linked target as physical damage, and they protect you in combat. Growth & Decay Powers As Caidin is used to dealing with disease and familiars, he has access to Growth & Decay Powers, which decay your enemies and heal you in combat. For example, if you choose to use a Fire Sorcerer build, and decide to have Exploding Frogs help you in some way. Then this power is something you absolutely cannot miss. It allows you to gain new powers and optimize your build in a unique way. Lost Witch Powers During the adventure, you can also find Lost Witch Powers. This is a special Witch Power that exists outside the scope of traditional Witch Powers. As players progress through the storyline and complete Whisper objectives, they will earn seasonal currency. Unlike the traditional Diablo 4 Gold, this seasonal currency can only be used to obtain Witch Powers, as well as upgrade your Witch Powers. Let’s take Eldritch Powers as an example, which features an ominous orb of pure Eldritch energy, Doom Orb, that surrounds you and burns enemies with fire damage. Doom Orbs become more powerful as you level them up and kill enemies, and eventually explode. Doom Orbs will fire at enemies even if there are no enemies nearby. Witch Doctor Elements Returns There are indeed some fan-favorite characters returning in Season of Witchcraft. Players who love Diablo series will remember some of these powers from D3, especially Witch Doctor. And Firebats will return from Diablo 3. People who played Witch Doctor also remember Hex Skill, Toad of Hugeness. However, it was redesigned in Season 7 as Poison Frog Servant. Imagine a murderous pet frog that will follow you through Sanctuary, which is really weird. Of all Witch Powers, though, players may be most excited about Piranhado. This is actually a water cyclone with piranhas in it that will tear your enemies to pieces. Headhunts However, to fully experience Witch Powers, players need to unlock and upgrade their various powers by performing Headhunts. As the game progresses, Tree of Whispers have detected Fugitive Head. When they interact with other monsters in Sanctuary world, they will horribly corrupt that monster into a new headless form. In worse cases, they will attach themselves to the monster and turn into a new Boss-like entity. They have more humanoid features, but are much more powerful. These will be new encounters that you have never seen before. When you perform various Whispers in the area, if you can see Briars on the map, this will indicate that there is a Headrotten there. If you successfully knock out one of Headrotten and obtain a Fugitive Head, you can return it to the witches, which will give you a special seasonal slot as a reward. Whisper Objectives & Coven Reputation In addition to this, there will be new Whisper objectives for the new season. You may have the opportunity to help a Bewitched Frog, or there may be a Lost Wisp that needs to find its way home. As you engage these Whispers, you will earn Reputation with the witches, as well as seasonal currency that you can use to unlock and upgrade Witch Powers. Armory System Features This time, Diablo 4 developers finally paid attention to player feedback, and they added a long-reflected feature in Season 7, Armory System. When you save a build in Armory, it will take a snapshot of everything currently on your character, including Skill Tree, Paragon Boards, Glyphs, and all your equipment. Players will be able to access Armory UI from any major city, which means you will be able to pursue multiple different builds on a class at the same time. This can be very cool when upgrading, especially when entering the later stages of the game. If you want to enrich your Armory in the new season and provide more diverse options for your build, then keep an eye on the giveaways in the iGMeet discord, where if you are lucky enough, you may be able to get what you need! In short, the arrival of Diablo 4 Season 7 not only brings a series of new content to players, but more importantly, the update and return of some special features also make this new season more interesting. In any case, let us look forward to whether S7 can help Diablo 4 maintain its position as the top MMO game!