Diablo 4 Season 5: Top 5 Rogue Build Strategies

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.

Well, the bad news came suddenly. The launch time of Season 8 was delayed by two weeks. Players may have to wait until the end of April to play. Fortunately, the patch 0.2.0 of Path of Exile 2 will be launched on March 20, and players will have rich content to play again. How should players spend the days when neither Path of Exile 2 nor Diablo 4 are updated? Why not go and farm the bosses again? BOSS Classification The boss battle in Diablo 4 can provide rich rewards. It is also the most reliable way for players to obtain unique items. There are 3 types of bosses in the game: Pinnacle Bosses Ladder Bosses or Summoned Bosses World Bosses These bosses have different difficulty levels and different rewards. Among them, the only Pinnacle Boss is Echo of Lilith, but she basically does not provide any rewards, just to show your strength. Pinnacle Bosses: Echo Of Lilith When your character successfully reaches World Tier 4, you will unlock the fight against Echo of Lilith. The boss fight is located in Echo of Hatred Capstone Dungeon in Nevesk, Fractured Peaks. Defeating her will earn you a title and a mount. No other unique weapons, materials, or even Diablo 4 Gold are available. This boss fight is very difficult, so you should bring your best gear. Learn More: How To Defeat Echo Of Lilith In Diablo 4 Season 7? Ladder Bosses Or Summoned Bosses In Diablo IV, there are a class of bosses that have different difficulty levels, from Torment I to Torment IV. To fight these bosses, you need to prepare their summoning materials. These summoning materials can be obtained from Whisper Caches, Elites, Treasure Goblins, World Bosses, and Hellborne. Fighting these bosses will drop unique items, and the higher the difficulty, the more items they drop. Each boss has unique drops, and you can check the boss’s loot list in advance to decide which bosses you want to challenge. Andariel, Maiden Of Anguish Summoning Location: Hanged Man’s Hall in eastern Kehjistan. Required Items: Pincushioned Dolls and Sandscorched Shackles. These two items can be collected by defeating The Beast in the Ice and Lord Zir. Andariel and Duriel are the bosses with the highest probability of dropping Mythic Uniques. If you plan to farm Mythic Uniques, these two bosses are your best targets. The Beast In The Ice Summoning Location: In Glacial Fissure. Along the border of Desolate Highlands in Fractured Peaks. Required Items: 12 Distilled Fear You can usually find them as drops from nightmare dungeons or world bosses. Duriel, King Of Maggots Summoning Location: in Kehjistan east of Gea Kul. Required Items: 2 Mucus-Slick Eggs and 2 Shard of Agony These two items can be collected by defeating Grigoire and Varshan. Echo Of Varshan Summoning Location: You can summon it in Malignant Burrow in the northeast corner of The Writhing Mire in Hawezar. Required Items: 4 Malignant Hearts In addition to random drops, you can get additional Malignant Hearts by killing Grotesque Debtors or offering Grim Favors to Tree of Whispers. Grigoire, The Galvanic Saint Summoning Location: in Hall of the Penitent along the eastern edge of Dindai Flats Required Items: 12 Living Steel Can be obtained from Tree of Whispers chests, World Bosses, Elite enemies, Tortured Gift in Helltide, etc. Lord Zir Summoning Location: Fractured Peaks, you can find the summoning location on The Darkened Way on the northern border of Gale Valley. Required Items: 12 Exquisite Blood Exquisite Blood can be obtained by defeating Elite enemies, opening Cache Rewards, or defeating World Bosses. World Bosses World Bosses appear every 3.5 hours. When you enter World Boss area, the event will automatically start. You will join a group of players to defeat World Boss. The battle lasts for 15 minutes. If the player fails to defeat World Boss within 15 minutes, it will flee with Grand Cache! Grand Cache is the most important reward for World Boss battle. In addition to gold, it also includes Legendary and Unique Items! World Boss has different stages. Every time the boss enters the next stage, the battlefield has a chance to drop many health potions. Every week, each Boss will drop a Grand Cache, but only one Grand Cache will be provided. Grand Cache contains a Legendary Item and a Unique Item. The number of rewards obtained by killing World Boss at different difficulties is different. Ashava, The Pestilent: Its attacks inflict poison, and other skills cause physical damage. Avarice, The Gold Cursed: As its name suggests, defeating it can earn you some Diablo 4 gold. Its attacks are very fierce, mainly causing physical damage, so watch its animations carefully. Wandering Death, Death Given Life: Wandering Death mainly causes shadow damage. There will be a short animation before the attack. Pay attention and you can avoid the damage. The above is a brief introduction to all the bosses in Diablo 4. Find some bosses you have never challenged. Use your different characters to challenge them again, which will bring you some fun. More importantly, after defeating these bosses, picking up the dropped items on the ground is always very stimulating and addictive.

In order to ensure the freshness and fun of the game, Diablo 4 always adds various new events or challenges in the new season, and sets generous rewards in them, so that you can earn enough Diablo 4 Gold for your character while carrying out exciting adventures. For example, in Season 7, which was launched on January 21st not long ago, besides the much-anticipated witchcraft power, it also brought you new challenges like Rootholds dungeon as a seasonal alternative to regular or nightmare dungeons. Because there are new challenges and bosses in Rootholds dungeon and better rewards, it is necessary to understand some of its mechanisms in advance before taking on the challenge to avoiding losses in the game. Based on this, we will provide you with a guide to exploring Rootholds. What Is Rootholds Dungeon? In fact, you can think of Rootholds as the nightmare dungeon of Season 7. While nightmare dungeons are still available in the new season, Rootholds are more worth the effort, as they have a much higher chance of dropping Diablo 4 Gold and other rewards than regular dungeons. And if you run Rootholds after unlocking at least Torment I, you also have a chance to get Ancestral Uniques. You need to find Rootholds before you can enter them, and to do this, you must first obtain a special item called Whispering Woods. However, this item is a bit tricky to get, and you can only find some after you complete seasonal Grim Favors and open Silent chests. And even more, unfortunately, the drops from Whispering Woods are not guaranteed, so if you are unlucky, you may need to complete several Grim Favors to get one. But since collecting Whispering Woods is the only way to enter Rootholds, make an effort to collect them and save them carefully. Where Is Rootholds Dungeon? When you have collected enough Whispering Woods as keys to enter Rootholds, you can activate them in your inventory and then activate regular dungeons into Rootholds just like you would nightmare dungeons. Once Rootholds appear, you can open the map in-game and teleport directly into that dungeon from your current location. These Rootholds will spawn anywhere on the map depending on your key, so be prepared. How To Explore Rootholds? If you’ve played Diablo 4 in the past and explored Infernal Hordes dungeon, everything about Rootholds may be familiar to you. After first entering Rootholds and going through the first passage, you’ll see several Enchanted Roots when you reach the surface. Each of these Enchanted Roots can act as a modifier to the root fortress, giving you a different difficulty level of Rootholds. Two of the four roots will give you easier modifiers, while the other two are more challenging. Usually you have to choose a modifier to further explore Rootholds, but it’s recommended to choose up to two if possible. Because if you choose a more difficult modifier, you can get more rewards after completing Rootholds. Next, after passing through the main gate, you should see certain points of interest on the mini-map, and approaching any of them you will find an Exposed Root as the source of a huge reward. Clicking on them will spawn a group of enemies in the game, and they will drop many unique items for you. And if you play Rootholds on Torment I difficulty or higher, you can also find Ancestral Uniques by clicking on Exposed Roots. It is worth noting that every enemy spawned by Rootholds is also Headrotten, so you can also get a lot of Restless Rot by clearing these dungeons - it is the exclusive currency of Season of Witchcraft. In fact, with enough Restless Rot, you can upgrade the witchcraft power or obtain the elusive unique witchcraft power for that season. After you successfully pass through Rootholds, you should encounter a gate with three additional modifiers, and choosing any two of them can further improve the rewards you get and increase the difficulty level, so you can fight all the way to the end. And if you want to get more loot, remember to interact with every Exposed Root you find. All Rootholds Dungeon Rewards After clearing each exposed root, you will go to the end of Rootholds and make Rootholds boss appear by touching the exposed root in the boss room. Most of the time, these bosses appear as headless shells, but sometimes bosses will grow a head, which you can get as a bonus after killing the boss with a head. These heads can be used to craft Occult gems, and after you put the gems in your jewelry slots, your character will get the final power boost, allowing them to break through as you enter higher Torment difficulties and Pit tiers. Even if the boss you encounter is a normal headless version, the amount of loot dropped after defeating them is still more than the normal Diablo 4 dungeon boss can provide. Rootholds dungeons have a lot of loot, from different levels of equipment to different levels of crafting recipes, which can help you complete the endgame more smoothly. Related: Diablo 4 Promotions & Giveaways Overall, Rootholds are fun, quick to complete, and one of the most rewarding Season Challenges in Season 7, so we strongly recommend you completing them as soon as possible. If you want to get more game props easily besides Rootholds rewards, you can participate in the first giveaway event for Diablo 4 Season 7 currently being held on iGMeet Discord. During the event, we will select 20 lucky players to share 3000 Andariel Materials, 5000 Duriel Materials and 5000 Malignant Heart. I believe you will have this good luck!

Diablo 4 has entered its sixth season, called Season of Hatred Rising. There are a lot of new content for players to explore in this new season, but the purpose of exploring the endgame will never change - farming some rare items. These rare items, also known as Uniques, will have higher attributes and some better affixes than the loot you get in some simple battles. And among Uniques, there is such a category of items that have more powerful effects, called Mythic Uniques. These Mythic Uniques are very difficult to obtain by defeating bosses in endgame activities, and you may even spend hours on an item. But fortunately, there is another way in the game that can get you out of the threat of RNG. That is to use Resplendent Sparks and some rare runes to make Mythic Uniques you want. There are several ways to farm Resplendent Sparks in the current season, so you can use it as your primary method of obtaining Mythic Uniques. This guide will explain the farming methods and uses of Resplendent Sparks to help you speed up the crafting process. How To Farm Resplendent Sparks? Echo Of Lilith After defeating Echo of Lilith or Uber Lilith for the first time in the current season, you will find a Resplendent Spark among the loot it provides. It should be noted that Uber Lilith is the boss that can be summoned when you complete Echo of Hatred quest when you first enter Torment difficulty. Of course, this also means that Uber Lilith is one of the most tough bosses in the game, so you need to prepare for it accordingly, such as using as much Diablo 4 Gold as possible to enhance the survivability or offensive capabilities of your build. Tormented Bosses Similarly, defeating any Tormented Boss for the first time will reward you with a Resplendent Spark. There are six different Tormented Echo bosses, each requiring different summoning materials to challenge. Like Echo of Lilith, you will also get Resplendent Sparks when you first defeat some Tormented Bosses. In the current Diablo 4 Season 6, you can challenge 6 different Tormented Echo bosses. Here you need to be reminded that these bosses require you to bring some Summoning Materials to the designated summoning location to summon them. The following are their required summoning materials and locations. Lord Zir Summoning Materials: 12 Exquisite Blood Summoning Location: Darkened Way in Fractured Peaks Varshan Summoning Materials: 4 Malignant Heart Summoning Location: Malignant Burrow in Hawezar Grigoire Summoning Materials: 12 Living Steel Summoning Location: Hall of the Penitent in Dry Steppes Beast In The Ice Summoning Materials: 12 Distilled Fear Summoning Location: Glacial Fissure in Desolate Highlands Duriel Summoning Materials: 2 Mucus-Slick Egg & 2 Shard of Agony Summoning Location: Gaping Crevasse in Kehjistan Andariel Summoning Materials: 2 Sandscorched Shackles & 2 Pincushioned Doll Summoning Location: Hanged Man’s Hall in Kehjistan Season Journey Rewards At the end of your Season Journey, you’ll receive a Resplendent Spark after completing the last chapter. And when you complete all the challenges, you’ll receive a Destroyer’s Cache, which contains a Resplendent Spark and other rare resources. Season Reputation Rewards Besides Season Journey Rewards, you can also increase your reputation with different factions in Sanctuary by completing certain seasonal objectives. Like Season Battle Pass, this reputation system also has a reward track, and when you reach high levels, you can get a reward package containing a Resplendent Spark. In the current Diablo 4 Season of Hatred Rising, you need to increase your Zakarum Remnants Reputation. You can increase your reputation by defeating Realmwalkers, completing Seething Realms, and consuming Seething Opals. Reuse Mythic Uniques The above methods can only obtain Resplendent Sparks once in a season. If you want to obtain it repeatedly, there is only one way, that is to reuse those Mythic Uniques you don’t need, because each Mythic Unique will provide you with a Resplendent Spark. As mentioned earlier, those Tormented Bosses may drop Resplendent Sparks, but at the same time, they may also drop some Mythic Uniques. Among them, Duriel and Andariel are the bosses with the highest drop rate. You can spend more time and summon materials on them. Because some Mythic Uniques are only applicable to a specific class, so when you get Diablo 4 Items in the loot that are not applicable to your build or character, you can completely reuse them. How To Use Resplendent Sparks? Once you have collected these very rare Resplendent Sparks, you can then craft Mythic Uniques at Blacksmith or Jeweler. At Blacksmith, you can spend 2 Resplendent Sparks and 50 million Diablo 4 Gold to craft one of the 12 Mythic Uniques of the season randomly. If you want to craft a specific Mythic Unique, you can only go to Jeweler and craft it using 2 Resplendent Sparks and different Runes. Here are the materials required to craft each Mythic Unique in Jeweler, excluding Resplendent Sparks. Andariel’s Visage: 6 Tam Rune & 6 Qax Rune & 6 Zan Rune Harlequin’s Crest: 6 Eom Rune & 6 Lac Rune & 6 Ton Rune Heir of Perdition: 6 Joh Rune & 6 Que Rune & 6 Gar Rune Melted Heart of Selig: 6 Vex Rune & 6 Thul Rune & 6 Tun Rune Nesekem, the Herald: 6 Yul Rune & 6 Wat Rune & 6 Tal Rune Ring of Starless Skies: 6 Ohm Rune & 6 Tzic Rune & 6 Cem Rune Shattered Vow: 6 Xan Rune & 6 Ner Rune & 6 Teb Rune Shroud of False Death: 6 Bac Rune & 6 Kry Rune & 6 Moni Rune Tyrael’s Might: 6 Lith Rune & 6 Feo Rune & 6 Tec Rune It should be noted here that, besides the above, other Mythic Uniques can only be obtained randomly through Mythic Unique cache in Blacksmith. The above are the methods and precautions for how to obtain and use Resplendent Sparks in Diablo 4 Season 6. I hope this guide can make your process of farming Resplendent Sparks easier, and you can get more Mythic Uniques to enhance your character. I wish you a happy game! If you have any experience exploring this new season, you are welcome to share it with many players in iGMeet Discord, which will definitely help some players who are stuck in the quagmire. In addition, you can also participate in a lottery here, and there are some summoning materials in the prize pool. The winners will be announced on October 28. I wish you good luck!