Diablo 4 Season 5: Looking Forward To The Launching Of Season 6 And Its Expansion

Although Diablo 4 can be considered a stand-alone game, it can actually be played online and has some in-game transactions. The developers have made a lot of money from players through the battle pass, limited-time skins, and mounts launched each season. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call this game a “semi-stand-alone game”. However, this part of the transaction is not transparent to players because these developers deliberately confuse their value, making it difficult for players to figure out how much money they have wasted on these contents. Recently, Consumer Protection Cooperation Network (CPC) coordinated with European Commission to publish a set of guidelines specifically for virtual currencies in games, with the aim of protecting children and people who are susceptible to gambling temptations, as well as providing a more transparent player experience and complying with EU consumer protection laws. The virtual currency here does not refer to in-game currencies such as Diablo 4 gold or POE 2 currency, but refers to currencies such as FIFA 25 Points and Diablo 4 Platinum. In-Game Virtual Currency Principles CPC Network lists the following non-exhaustive key principles that CPC expects video game companies and gambling operators to follow when offering in-game virtual currency: 1. Product value display should be clear and transparent. 2. Practices that conceal the cash required for in-game digital content and services should be avoided. 3. Practices that force consumers to redeem unwanted in-game virtual currency should be avoided. 4. Consumers should be provided with clear and understandable pre-contract information. 5. Consumers’ right of withdrawal should be respected. 6. Contract terms should be fair and written in simple and clear language. 7. Game design and gameplay should respect different consumer vulnerabilities. These terms are intended to make the value of in-game virtual items more intuitive and understandable, and also to prevent developers from secretly manipulating and inflating the value of virtual items. And players as consumers have a right of withdrawal. These provisions are not laws, but a set of guidelines agreed upon by national authorities within the alliance that regulate gambling activities. This means that if a gaming company does not follow these guidelines, anyone who sues the company will have the support of national authorities and is likely to win. So the effect is immediate. Will Diablo 4 Be Affected? Undoubtedly, yes! Aside from the transactions between Diablo players, the game publisher has also introduced a currency called Platinum in the game. It is different from Diablo 4 Gold. It is a “premium currency” specifically used to unlock passes or limited skins. For example, it takes 1,000 Platinum to unlock a season pass, which is about 10USD, but the developers of Diablo 4 will not show you this when you intend to unlock the pass. And this is exactly the opacity that CPC wants to eliminate. Game developers must clearly mark the value of their virtual products. And because of the existence of this clause, “Should avoid forcing consumers to invest in unwanted game virtual currency.” Players will be able to unlock these in-game contents directly with cash, rather than exchanging cash for Platinum in the game and then using them to unlock in-game virtual items. The key point of virtual currency is that it can distinguish the value you actually get from the amount you have to use. Since digital assets can be freely distributed, while companies benefit from people using currency for short-term consumption, they actually prefer you to use and recharge virtual currency as much as possible because this is the driver of their ongoing revenue. Therefore, people not making frequent consumption and becoming conservative with virtual currency will hurt the revenue of game publishers. These provisions will effectively combat situations where in-game items cost $6 to unlock, but you can only redeem $5 of virtual currency. Diablo 4 often faces this problem in Platinum, where the 1,000 Platinum pack is too little to unlock most skins, but the 2,800 Platinum pack will leave some Platinum to entice players to continue consumption to “not waste”. In other words, this clause will combat the practice of game developers forcing consumers to consume. What Should Diablo 4 Do? In order for game publishers to avoid being investigated by state laws due to Consumer Protection Act, any electronic games or other content released should be reviewed and modified if necessary. These new key principles will bring significant changes to many existing games because they target practices that are currently common in the market. If the developers of Diablo 4 fail to complete the review and transformation in time, they may face a fine of up to 4% of their annual turnover. In any case, this is a good thing for players. This new clause does not affect the exchange of Diablo 4 Gold and items between players, but mainly targets the publishers of the game. Currencies such as Platinum will not disappear in a short time, because the value of these virtual currencies is not fixed and can be manipulated by game developers at will. However, publishers, including Diablo 4, should mark the real product value below the virtual items. If this policy is implemented smoothly, we can predict that other game manufacturers, including Diablo 4 developers, will use the trick of “using virtual currency is more favorable than using real money” to attract players to exchange their virtual currency with real money. The actual results of these new guidelines remain to be seen. All companies need some time to adjust, and the changes should happen in the next period. Perhaps we will see these changes in Season 8. Although this only applies to players in Europe, once there is a clear and mature set of rules regarding in-game virtual items, it will be beneficial to all consumers.

For MMORPGs, builds are one of the most efficient tools that players can use in battle, and this is also true in Diablo 4 series. A good build will effectively combine the skills, weapons, equipment and other elements available to your game character, allowing you to exert your greatest strength in battle and kill enemies faster. In Diablo 4 series of games, Rogue has always been a popular class. It is mainly popular with players for its excellent mobility and flexibility, and the class also has many powerful weapons that can be obtained and used through Diablo 4 Gold. Based on these characteristics, you will find that this class has many builds for you to use in battle. The most classic of them is Twisting Blades Build. In fact, this is not a new build that appeared in the sixth season, but it has appeared in previous seasons, but now it has undergone various updates and optimizations from players, making it more powerful and easier to use in Season of Hatred Rising. With that in mind, we’re going to show you how to use Rogue’s Twisting Blades Build in Season 6. The Right Skill Upgrade Order If you want your Twisting Blades Build to be successful before reaching the endgame, you need to unlock the right skills, and it’s best to upgrade them in a specific order from level 1 to 50. Here’s the best skill upgrade order for the first 10 levels: 1. Puncture 2. Enhanced Puncture 3. Twisting Blades 4. Enhanced Twisting Blades 5. Improved Twisting Blades 6. Fundamental Puncture 7. Shadow Step 8. Dash 9. Twisting Blades 10. Twisting Blades If you want to be a Rogue player who can become more powerful by using Twisting Blades Build, you should master these skills using reputation points. Doing so will make it easy to enter the endgame phase of the game with this build, regardless of whether you’re playing the campaign while upgrading. For Season 6’s Twisting Blades Build, the core skill is of course Twisting Blades, which is the skill you use most often when dealing damage to enemies, and you can also use Shadow and Poison Imbuements to enhance Twisting Blades. However, it is worth noting that you also need Puncture to obtain energy for power Twisting Blades. In addition, for optimal mobility, you need to make reasonable use of Shadow Step and Dash skills. They not only allow you to cross the battlefield but also weaken enemies and increase your critical hit chance. The Most Suitable Specialization Option If you know something about Rogue class or you have always been a Rogue player, you will know that this class has an exclusive enhancement mechanism, which is Specialization. In Diablo 4, there are three unique Rogue Specializations for you to choose one of them to equip to further enhance your build. If you want to match it with Twisting Blades Build, we recommend that you choose Combo Points Specialization. This way, when you use Twisting Blades Build, your basic skills will generate combo points. Once you have three points, you can consume them with core skills to gain additional combat benefits. If you cast Puncture three times after this, you can easily use Twisting Blades to destroy groups of enemies. Puncture also helps you keep yourself supplied with energy during combat. Because of the unique role of Combo Points Specialization, we recommend repeating some skills in the following rotation order so that your entire combat process is more coherent and effective: Poison Imbuement Shadow Step Puncture x3 Twisting Blades Shadow Imbuement Dash Puncture x3 Twisting Blades After you use Poison Imbuement first, which affects Shadow Step, once you rush into a group of enemies, remember to use Puncture three times to accumulate combo points before casting Twisting Blades with Imbuement. Then use Shadow Imbuement to make the enemy vulnerable. Then cast a Dash to slash enemies in your path, and repeat Puncture and Twisting Blades to use Combo Points Specialization ability. Finally, repeat the entire process until all enemies are defeated. Best Legendary Aspects With Twisting Blades Build, you can obtain many excellent Legendary Aspects through dungeons to further improve the power of this build. Aspect of Corruption-Renegade’s Retreat: Allows you to be more lethal to vulnerable enemies when using Imbuement skill. Bladedancer’s Aspect-Jalal’s Vigil: This aspect causes Twisting Blades to detour for a short time after returning to you, and each hit can also gain a certain percentage of the return damage. Vengeful Aspect-Inferno: Can cause further damage to vulnerable enemies, and has a chance to create Arrow Storm at the enemy’s location, causing physical damage for a short period. Aspect of Arrow Storms-Howling Warren: Uses Marksman and Cutthroat skills to cast Arrow Storm on enemies, causing corresponding damage. Aspect of Unstable Imbuements-Whispering Vault: Allows you to cause an explosion while using Imbuement skill and applies Imbuement effect to deal the same type of damage. Best Twisting Blades Build For PVP Mode Regarding PVP mode, we recommend that you use Twisting Blades Build for PVP Fields of Hatred. Here, this build is mainly centered on single-target damage, especially Twisting Blades, which always works against a single enemy. So it will be very suitable for dealing with relevant PVP modes. While Twisting Blades Build performs well in PVP, you can also try using Barrage Builds. Compared to Twisting Blades Build, they will perform better in this fast-paced environment. Hopefully, after understanding the above content, you will have a clearer idea of ​​how to use Twisting Blades Build in Season 6. If you still have any confusion, you can enter iGMeet Discord to discuss with other online players and have a chance to win game prizes through the giveaway channel. Thank you for reading.

In Diablo 4 DLC Vessel of Hatred, players will need special Items and Equipment to Kill Enemies more efficiently and advance the game’s Plot and Quests while they are on various Adventures and Battles. In fact, Tenets of Akarat scattered throughout Nahantu are such a key Item. Tenets of Akarat are similar to Altars of Lilith. Only by finding and collecting most of Tenets of Akarat can players increase their Reputation in the new Zone of ​​the game. From then on, you can get some Diablo 4 Gold and Skill Points. However, unlike Altars of Lilith, players need to solve some related Puzzles to start looking for and getting Tenets of Akarat, and Attribute improvements they provide are time-limited, not permanent. Based on this, we not only provide players with how to solve 4 Tenets of Akarat Puzzles, but also provide the specific Locations where 10 main Tenets appear, so that players can find them more quickly in the game. What Is Tenets Of Akarat Puzzle? As mentioned earlier, although Tenets of Akarat and Altars of Lilith have some similarities, their differences are also worth players’ careful handling. One of them is that when facing Tenets of Akarat, players cannot directly claim it and solve it, but need to Release Tenets from Mephisto’s Black Ichor. In order to Release Tenets, you will face 4 Tenets of Akarat Puzzles, which are: Activating all 3 Statues in time Destroying Ichor with your Attacks Defeating Enemies that spawn from Statue Matching Statues in Background Although there are four Puzzles, fortunately, players only need to solve one of them at a time to continue the game process, rather than facing four Puzzles at the same time. Among them, Puzzle of Activating all three Statues in time is more common and easier. How To Solve Tenets Of Akarat Puzzle? 1. Activating All 3 Statues In Time To complete this Puzzle, you first need to find 3 Lion Statues near Tenets, and then Activate them in time before they go out. Players will have plenty of time to find Statues, so they can plan their future actions. After completing all the steps, Tenets can be Released from Ichor. 2. Destroying Ichor With Your Attacks Solving this Puzzle means that after the player Kills all Enemies around Tenets, some golden balls will appear on the game interface. This means that you still need to continue Attacking Tenets itself. If Health Bar appears, use your Basic Skills to Attack it until Tenet is Released. 3. Defeating Enemies That Spawn From Statue Some Tenets will have Red Lion Statues near them. After activating these Statues, numerous Shades of Hatred will appear. Killing them can effectively Release Tenets. 4. Matching Statues In Background This Puzzle and the associated Tenets are the hardest to find. There are three Lion Statues in hard-to-reach places on Map that light up in a specific order. Players need to find a way to get around these Statues and Activate them in the order they light up to Release associated Tenets. Five Hills Tenets Of Akarat After introducing Tenets of Akarat Puzzle, the next most important thing is to know where Tenets usually appear. In fact, Tenets usually appear in groups of five, and each group is concentrated in the same Zone. Five Hills is the first Zone. 1. Lower Kurast In the lower district of South Of Kurast, there is a dilapidated building. Enter it and you will find a Tenet inside. However, before you can get it, you need to Kill surrounding Enemies and then Attack Black Ichor to Release Tenet. 2. Vale Of Long Mists There is a Putrescent Larder Dungeon in the middle of Five Hills Zone, and there is a stream to the west of Dungeon where players can find a Tenet. Here you need to Activate Red Lion Statues to Release Shades of Hatred, and then Defeat them to Release Tenets. 3. Clouded Forest There is an Ancient Ruin located both east of Feeding Grounds Dungeon and in the southeast corner of Five Hills where players can find a Tenet. 4. Reflection’s Edge Find Glowing Lion Statues on Map, then Activate matching Lion Statues nearby to Release and obtain Tenets. 5. Tangles The last Five Hills Tenet is hidden in a bush east of Samuk Waypoint. Looking around bushes will reveal a pit with Tenets inside. However, to Release Tenets, you need to find all three Lion Statues near Tenets and Activate them in time. Seven Stones Tenets Of Akarat Another set of Tenets is located in Seven Stones Zone. Finding them still requires players to have good patience and keen observation. 6. Resting Void There is a Cave in Seven Stones Zone, northeast of Razak’s Descent Dungeon. Players can find Tenets in the north of this Cave. Here, players need to Activate three Lion Statues in time to Release Tenets. 7. Spiritcall Forest There is a Jungle northeast of Samuk Waypoint, next to a small waterfall, where Tenets are located. Tenets can be Released by looking for Glowing Lion Statues behind Tenets and Activating them in a specific order. 8. Spiritcall Forest There is a ruin just south of Chakir Mini-Zone Stronghold, where a Tenet is hidden. Players need to find and Activate Lion Statues before they go out to Release Tenet. 9. Nether Valley Near the northernmost end of Seven Stones, players can find a Tenet among a large Zone of ​​vines and rocks. Activate Red Lion Statue and Kill Shades of Hatred to Unlock Tenets. 10. Nether Valley There is a large pit in the northwest of Murmuring Spiral Dungeon that contains 10th Tenet, hidden under some vines. Release Tenet by clearing out surrounding Enemies and Attacking Black Ichor. That’s the solution to Tenet Puzzle and where the 10 main Tenets appear. If you want to know more about Tenets of Akarat, you can join iGMeet Discord. 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Hello, everyone. I hope you can upgrade items during the leveling process in Diablo 4 Season 4. The following information in this guide will be useful for you before you reach World Tier 4. If you start to your endgame build tinkering, I will explain what tempering is and how to use it in the game. We will also discuss enchanting your gear. When it comes to Tempering or Enchanting the gear you own, investing in Diablo 4 Gold will make your gear even more perfect. And lastly, I will share with you my logic when it comes to the order of upgrading mechanics. Make sure to check out this last chapter of this passage so you don’t waste tons of gold in the process. So let’s get into it. How Tempering Works in Diablo 4? First, what is tempering? Diablo 4 Season 4 changed a lot of stuff around the loot stats and upgrading items. One of such changes is the addition of tempering, which is a new system of upgrading your items. Prior to Season 4, you would find loot with all the stats already available on the item. And then you would just change one single stat through the enchanting process and upgrade the item to make the stats higher. In Season 4, however, you drop items with less amount of stats available on them than before. Rare items have 2 Affixes, 3 legendaries, and 4 Uniques but then you can add powerful Affixes on an item with tempering. So what tempering does is basically add up to two new powerful affixes to item. However, before you reach World Tier 4 and start dropping in Ancestral item Rarity. You will be able to add only one Affixes. The number of times you can temper an item is limited. And depends on Rarity of the item. Early items will have a limit of three attempts and then we have Ancestral items which drop at World Tier 4. And those allow us to temper 5 times. Important to note is that tempering can be done only for rare and legendary items. Uniques cannot be tempered also bear in mind that when you roll tempered Affixes, you do not have an option to keep the old one. The new Affixes always override the old one. And so there is a risk factor here, especially when you are on your last temper attempt available. So starting the tempering process, you have to go to Blacksmith and click the first tab. The process does not cost any gold but requires a couple of materials. You will get tons of necessary materials as you play the game. I salvage most of my rares and Legendaries I also temper a lot so far. And I was never short on materials for tempering my gear. Whenever I wanted to change my stuff during the leveling process, besides materials, you also need manuals, which are a list of few stat outcomes for tempering. One of the Affixes from the manual will be randomly added during the tempering process. You find manuals by just simply playing the game. They drop just like any other loot. These manuals have different Rarities. And these Rarities is impact the range of values of the stats available with the manual. Basically, the higher Rarity of manual, the better the stats possible manuals are also split into six categories. And these categories work like categories of aspects. Every item type has different possible tempering categories. So for gloves, you can add a utility or offensive category. For pens, you have only defensive or utility categories and so on. The good thing is that once you find the manual, it’s unlocked permanently. So you don’t need to search for it again and again, which is neat. Enchanting in Diablo 4 Season 4 Now let’s briefly discuss enchanting your items. Enchanting is a process which modifies one Affixes available on your gear. To this process cannot change the row-based stats of item like damage dealt on weapons or base armor on gloves. Affixes to be changed are marked with dots and are located under this horizontal line. To enchant your item, you need to go to the occultist and click on the fourth tab. Once you put the item you want to enchant, you can click the icon in the top right corner of enchanting window. To see the potential outcomes of the process. This is super useful to help you understand what stats you can actually get and what are the ranges. When you enchant any item, you get three choices, two new stats and an option to retain the initial Affixes. The enchanting process takes few materials and a substantial amount of gold, the tricky case that every time you enchant the same item. The cost of the process increases, the price of gold can reach insane amounts. So be mindful of it. Upgrading Gear Efficiently During Leveling And let me explain the thought process I use for upgrading any item that I want to use. I think applying this logic may save you a lot of gold during the leveling process. Since we can modify our gear a lot in Season 4. I look mainly for Legendary item drop with good base row power and two out of free stats that are fitting my build. I don’t care for Legendary Power since I can change it easily now with Codex of Power. By the way, the aspects are now permanently unlocked when salvaging an item. And the highest value salvaged will be always available in a Codex of Power, not just the lowest base value like before. I also don’t need perfect free out of free stats because I can swap out one Affixes with an enchanting process. I will always start the process of tinkering an item with tempering. This is because we have a limited number of tempering attempts and the stats available through the tempering process are particularly powerful for build crafting. So if we don’t get the stat from the manual that we wanted with tempering, the item is potentially a bust. This is especially the case for weapons and other item types with offensive category manuals available on them. They are game changers for items, at least for my build. So now let me give you a specific example to showcase this process. I am playing a Frozen Orb build with my Sorceress. Let’s say I found gloves that I want to use that have two good stats on them. First, I go to Blacksmith for tempering. On gloves I can put stats from either utility or offensive category, I found a manual from offensive category called Frost Finesse which has amazing damage boost potential for my build. Especially cold damage and vulnerable damage are very good stats for me. Since Frozen Orb has a 40% chance to make enemies vulnerable and is, of course, cold-based skill. So if I don’t manage to get either of these stats with tempering. I would not use those glows. Similarly to weapons, I want to get a specific stat in tempering that gives me a chance to cast Frozen Orb twice. So by not enchanting nor swapping Legendary Powers first. I potentially save a lot of gold on an item that I wouldn’t use, anyway. But let’s say, I get the tempering that I wanted. I start with the enchanting process to try to get the first start on gloves to improve my build. In case I have bad luck and enchanting gets too expensive. I have done three options. First, I can settle for the sub powerful stat. Next, I can just continue investing gold or I can just stick to gloves that I already have. And lastly, if I get the stats that I wanted on the item. I swap the legendary power to the one I want. Modifying legendary powers should be done last. As it involves no RNG and it’s quite an expensive process to begin with. These are my detailed instructions on how to do Tempering, Enchanting and Upgrading Gear in Diablo 4. I hope these are useful to you.