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2024 is coming to an end, which also means the arrival of Christmas holiday. As a Diablo 4 player, you must also plan to idle away the holiday in this game world full of unique dark elements. Based on this, in order to ensure that you can have a fulfilling holiday, Diablo 4 Season 6 has launched a new Slay Ride To Hell event for you to play. This Slay Ride To Hell event will start on December 17th PST and end on January 2nd. You need to hunt Treasure Goblins around Sanctuary in it to earn generous event rewards including Diablo 4 Gold. As a well-known enemy type in Diablo 4, the biggest feature of Goblins is that they will flee from you at full speed to avoid being knocked down. However, once you successfully catch up and kill them, they will also drop a lot of loot for you to collect. Based on this, we will introduce you to the specific rewards provided by Slay Ride To Hell event and the basic participation methods. How To Play Slay Ride To Hell? Since the event has not officially started yet, there are few major details about Slay Ride To Hell event, but according to the pictures provided by the game official, we can get some relevant hints. First of all, there seems to be a small activity area around Sanctuary, where Treasure Goblins will spawn and try to escape from you, and you need to try to catch up and kill them. During the event, each goblin you kill will help you reach different event levels. In addition, the number of Diablo 4 Treasure Goblins spawned throughout Sanctuary and Nahantu during the event will be more than that of a normal event, and the more Goblins killed by global players including you, the better the rewards all participating players can get. Once players collectively kill 5 million Treasure Goblins, the first tier of rewards will be unlocked. After that, more tiers of rewards will be unlocked when 10 million, 15 million, 25 million, and 40 million Goblins are killed, respectively. Slay Ride To Hell Event Rewards It is reported that this event includes five levels, and each level will give you rewards of different contents. The details are as follows: Tier 1: Goblin bag: 5,000,000 Goblins slain across Sanctuary Legendary weapons cache (includes 3 ancestral legendary items with a guaranteed greater affix) Legendary rune x1, random runes x2 Random Undercity tribute Tier 2: Goblin bag: 10,000,000 Goblins slain across Sanctuary Unique and legendary weapons cache (includes three ancestral) Legendary items and 1 ancestral unique (all with a guaranteed greater affix) Random Undercity tribute Legendary rune x1, random runes x3 Tier 3: Greater Goblin bag: 15,000,000 Goblins slain across Sanctuary Fruit of Harvest mount trophy Unique weapons (includes three ancestral legendary items and two ancestral Uniques all with a guaranteed greater affix) Undercity tributes of radiance x5 (united) Legendary runes x2, random runes x3 Tier 4: Greater Goblin bag: 25,000,000 Goblins slain across Sanctuary Harvest Mare’s Totem mount trophy Ancestral Uniques x3 (all with a guaranteed greater affix) Runes x6 (3 legendary, 2 rare, 1 random) Citadel coins Tier 5: Mythic Goblin bag: 40,000,000 Goblins slain across Sanctuary Resplendent Spark x1 Harvest Mare’s Barding mount armor Ancestral Uniques x3, ancestral legendary items x8 (all with a guaranteed greater affix） Runes x8 (5 legendary, 2 rare, 1 random) Tributes of ascendance x3 (united) Tributes of radiance x5 (united) Citadel coins x20,000 To claim these rewards, you’ll need to head to Kyovashad’s Goblin Square to get their stash after completing the corresponding levels. And if you own Vessel of Hatred expansion, you’ll even get more bonuses throughout the event. Other Holiday Events To Look Forward To It’s worth mentioning that during the upcoming holidays, besides the fun limited-time Slay Ride To Hell event, you can also enjoy the new Spiritborn class for free, which was added to the game with Vessel of Hatred DLC this October! If you haven’t gotten the expansion before, Spiritborn will be used free to you on Battle.net, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms from December 19 to January 3. A warrior from the jungles of Nahantu, Spiritborn can use powerful combos in battle and has poison and dark magic available. As one of the new features of Diablo 4, it also introduces new enemies, bosses, and various loot, including legendary aspects. In addition, Diablo 4 will once again host Mother’s Blessing event this holiday. From December 17th to January 2nd, you can take advantage of the effects of Mother’s Blessing event to gain more XP and Diablo 4 Gold at a faster rate, and it also applies to Seasonal and Eternal Realms, and will be available on each world tier. Of course, if you want to kill Goblins in Slay Ride To Hell more efficiently, you can get some helpful props through the game product giveaway information in iGMeet Discord. Good luck!

Barbarian in Diablo 4 Season 6 seems to be trapped in a tricky situation. Because when comparing with previous seasons, it is not obvious to witness enhancement of this class. But we can not deny the potential it owns. Although Barbarian may not establish himself as the greatest class for end-game content, there are plenty of great builds which can be equipped by Barbarian. If you haven chosen Barbarian as your class and are desperate to find the fantastic build for him. Here lies the 5 best builds for your reference. They are universally known as the top-tier for everyone’s favorite weapon-wielding berserkers. The actual utility of these 5 builds may be different for players depending on their play style preferences, and they all require specific gears to function. Conclusion Of 5 Best Barbarian Builds Dust Devil Double Swing Barbarian Mighty Throw Barbarian Thorns Barbarian Earthquake Barbarian Bash Barbarian 1. Dust Devil Double Swing Barbarian Build Dust Devil Double Swing Barbarian serves as a hack-and-slash build which features familiar Dust Devils that are overwhelmed on your screen and are available to slay almost everything along the way. However, Uniques of Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus are required to support this build. Dust Devils share some similarity of Legendary Aspects like Fierce Winds and Devilish Aspect. And this build will spawn plenty of Dust Devils to kill enemies that prohibit you. Some skills like Double Swing, Wrath of the Berserker, War Cry, Rallying Cry, Challenging Shout and Iron Skin can be employed to further enhance players’ strength who have selected this build, supporting you to wade bravely through the forces of Hell. 2. Mighty Throw Barbarian Build Mighty Throw Barbarian uses the skill of Leap to pounce onto enemies and generate Fury, and then Mighty Throw to clear enemies. By advantage of the power of The Third Blade, you are able to turn Mighty Throw into an unbelievable way to burn off Fury. To get Fury, you can enlist the power of two Shouts (Wrath of the Berserker/Rallying Cry). This build runs all three Shouts as well to keep you safe and powerful. Uniques like Tibault’s Will will promise you 50 Resource to help you deal with the enemies more easily. But you are lack of it, then Lunging Strike as a generator could also be counted as a good choice. Mighty Throw Barbarian is of fun and deal a ton of ranged damage. But it is unavoidable that this build has an obvious default that most of builds share, which is that it requires specific gear to work. 3. Thorns Barbarian Build Harlequin Crest serves as one of the most classic builds in Diablo 4, but it becomes a little complex in Season 6. Players are required to do some work to get additional Thorns to shred enemies. Moreover, other items like Harlequin Crest, and Razorplate are also essential to enhance the performance of this build. Because the stats that offered are well suited to this build. This build deals tons of damage to enemies by running all three Shouts, Steel Grasp, Bash and Hammer of the Ancients. Diablo 4 Season 6 has given it the trait of Barbed Carapace, which makes it a little different from the previous season. For every 25 Fury spent,Thorns Barbarian build offer players 10% more Thorns for 8s, up to 120%. To cause incredible damage, it is recommended to use Combat Bash to force Overpower and then perform Hammer of the Ancients. 4. Earthquake Barbarian Build Earthquake Barbarian serves as a simple but highly maneuverable build that is a lot of fun. Players can use Leap to invite Earthquakes and Ground Stomp to perform Vulnerable. The skills of three Shouts and Call of the Ancients can help you cause massive damage, and the equipment of Uniques or Mythic like Fists of Fate are necessary to deal extra damage. As for Unique items, Harlequin’s Crest can help reduce damage, and Tyrael’s Might helps increase the number of attacks with armor. Meanwhile, Locran’s Talisman can also be equipped to upgrade this build, and you can get them by spending Diablo 4 Gold. This build also grants us Dust Devils, which are designed to enlarge the demolishing radius of a Barbarian in Diablo 4. To enhance the power of Leap further, it is advised to embrace Aspect of Bul-Kathos, Aspect of Earthquake and Aspect of Giant Strides. 5. Bash Barbarian Build As its name disclosed, Bash Barbarian build is aimed to cause serious bash through single-target damage and lots of cleave damage. But the downside is that this build requires quite a bit of equipment, such as Shard of Verathiel, Paingorger’s Gauntlets, Harlequin Crest, Tyrael’s Might, Ring of Starless Skies and so on. The attack style of this build is very simple, using Steel Grasp to hit the enemy hard, and use Hammer of the Ancients to trigger Paingorger’s ability. Therefore, if you are affluent in various items, then this build can be viewed as a brilliant choice. The above are the five most recommended Barbarian builds in Diablo 4 Season 6. If you want to learn more about builds of other classes, welcome to enter iGMeet discord, where there will be many gifts in Giveaway channel. Thanks for reading.

If you have been playing Diablo 4 since Season 2, you must be familiar with Echo of Varshan. It has been the endgame boss of this game since then. Like other endgame bosses, Echo of Varshan will also provide you with some very useful loot for your endgame builds. But in fact, defeating Echo of Varshan is not a simple task. You need to collect some rare summoning materials and summon it at a designated location before you can start your fight with it. If you have not yet explored this terrible boss, this guide will show you how to summon it and take its loot smoothly. How To Find Echo Of Varshan? The first thing you need to understand is that Echo of Varshan will appear in World Tier 3 or World Tier 4, so your character must also reach this Tier to participate in the subsequent battle. Once your character and build are strong enough, you can head to Tree of Whispers Waypoint, and you’ll find a cave called Malignant Burrow behind a tree. In the cave, there’s a path that leads you to a small dungeon. At the end of the dungeon, there’s an altar, which is where you place your summoning materials. In Diablo 4 Season 5, you can fight two variants of Echo of Varshan - the standard variant and Tormented variant. For the standard Echo of Varshan, you’ll need to provide 2 Malignant Hearts in World Tier 3 and 5 Malignant Hearts in World Tier 4, while for Tormented Echo of Varshan, you’ll need to provide 15 Malignant Hearts and a Stygian Stone obtained from The Pit. These summoning materials all require you to fight a few battles to get them, so before you start farming for them, you’ll also want to make sure your build is strong enough to get through Sanctuary. If not, upgrade it as soon as possible using Diablo 4 Gold. How To Get Malignant Hearts? Currently, you can farm Malignant Hearts in a number of ways. The first is to perform Grim Favors, which will give you some Malignant Hearts from Tree of Whispers caches. In addition, every Grotesque Debtor that spawns around Whispers and World Bosses has a chance to drop some Malignant Hearts. When a Grotesque Debtor spawns, you will find a signal in the text bulletin at the top of the screen, which you can use to maximize your farming efficiency. Alternatively, you can find some Malignant Hearts in Helltide Chests, Infernal Hordes, or Nightmare Dungeons. How To Defeat Echo Of Varshan? Although Echo of Varshan is not the most challenging boss in the game, you still need to learn some combat skills and strategies before fighting it. Here are the things you need to pay attention to when fighting it. Enhance Shadow Resistance Before fighting, you need to know that Echo of Varshan will launch some arcane assaults on you, so you need to enhance some magical defenses accordingly. If you can’t reach 70% Shadow Resistance cap in your build, you can try to use Potent Elixir of Shadow Resistance to help you complete this defense build. Pay Attention To Your Position Between You And Boss During the battle, Echo of Varshan is very flexible and will appear near you unexpectedly and cause damage to you, so you need to pay attention to your position between you and the boss. The best position is to be behind Echo of Varshan so that its frontal attacks on you will not be effective. Pay Attention To Some Void Zones Besides arcane assaults, Echo of Varshan will also generate triangular void zones for you. These areas will adjust in real time according to the direction of the boss’s movement, and once you enter these areas, you will be very damaged. So you also need to pay attention to the direction of these areas. Initial Elite Adds During the battle, Echo of Varshan will also summon two powerful Elites to help it knock you down. At this point, you should focus on the two Elites, not the boss. Because they will also do a lot of damage to you and will cause your health to decline faster. Echo Of Varshan’s Loot When you use different classes, the loot you get from Echo of Varshan will also be different. You can refer to the following list for specific loot. However, it should be noted that not all Uniques will appear in a battle, but there is a chance to appear. The same is true for Mythic Uniques dropped by Tormented Echo of Varshan. In the change of endgame bosses drop rate in Season 5, all Tormented variants of Boss have only 7.5% chance to drop Mythic Uniques. If your goal is only Mythic Uniques and the build is strong enough, you can directly challenge Tormented Echo of Varshan. Barbarian: Fields of Crimson & 100,000 Steps & Gohr’s Devastating Grips & Ring of Red Furor Druid: Mad Wolf’s Glee & Vasily’s Prayer & Greatstaff of the Crone & Airidah’s Inexorable Will Necromancer: Bloodless Scream & Deathless Visage & Deathspeaker’s Pendant & Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul Rogue: Condemnation & Eyes in the Dark & Skyhunter & Writhing Band of Trickery Sorcerer: Staff of Endless Rage & Esu’s Heirloom & Raiment of the Infinite & Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop All Class: Frostburn & Mother’s Embrace About Mythic Unique Items Doombringer Grandfather Melted Heart of Selig Andariel’s Visage Harlequin Crest Tyrael’s Might Ring of Starless Skies The above is an introduction to some summoning methods, combat skills and loot for Echo of Varshan in Diablo 4 Season 5. Hopefully, this guide will make your battle with this boss easier. The next season and DLC for Diablo 4 will be announced soon. If you have any interest in them, you can discuss them in iGMeet Discord. In addition, you can also participate in a lottery and have a chance to win some summoning materials needed for the boss. The list of winners will be announced on September 18th. Good luck!

The much-anticipated update to Blizzard's iconic action-RPG, Diablo IV, is here, featuring significant balance adjustments to the Classes in a bid to enhance the gaming experience and maintain the health of the game. Addressing the community, the game developers have clarified their vision behind the latest changes: to ensure an even more enjoyable, better balanced gameplay experience across the board. The updates can be broadly divided into three categories: Reduction in Class Build Power: Some Class builds and synergies were identified as being excessively powerful, to an extent that it was affecting the overall health of the game. Therefore, their effectiveness has been significantly reduced in this update. A notable instance was situations where players could endure extraordinarily high damage for extended periods, which did not align with the intended combat design in Diablo IV. Boost in Skill and Build Effectiveness: The developers recognized that certain skills and builds were not performing as effectively as they had envisioned. In response to this, buffs have been introduced to bolster their strength, enhancing the gaming experience for users employing these tactics. Paragon Glyphs Tweaked: The Paragon Glyphs were found to be providing an excessive boost to player power. To ensure a balanced gameplay, their overall effectiveness has been toned down in the new update. Here’s the list of changes to all classes: BARBARIAN -- Some pretty huge hits to Whirlwind Barbs, especially Gohr’s, which was creating a zillion explosions with activation and de-activation 1.Challenging Shout (Skill) - Damage Reduction gained from Skill Ranks reduced from 4% to 2% 2.Bold Chieftain’s Aspect - Cooldown reduction per Nearby enemy reduced from 2.7-5.4 seconds to 1.0-1.9 seconds. Maximum Cooldown reduction from 12 to 6 seconds. 3. Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind - Increased Critical Strike Chance per second reduced from 5-10% to 3-8%. Maximum Critical Strike Chance bonus reduced from 20-40% to 9-24%. 4. Gohr’s Devastating Grips (Unique Legendary) - Explosion damage gained from Whirlwind reduced from 50-70% to 16-26%. Damage against wreckable objects no longer increases explosion damage. Explosion damage is only increased by the first 100 hits of Whirlwind. DRUID -- This one is a mix of nerfs and buffs. Lightning-based builds in particular got a little bit of a buff, but there are definitely a lot of nerfs in here as well, which I’ve already seen some Druid players complaining about. 1.Pulverize (Skill) - Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 33% to 25%. 2.Lightning Storm (Skill) - Damage increased from 32% to 40%. 3.Grizzly Rage (Skill) - Damage bonus increased from 5/10/15% to 6/12/18%. 4.Obsidian Slam (Specialization) - Kills required for bonus increased from 10 to 20. 5.Calm Before the Storm (Specialization) - Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 15% to 10%. 6.Electric Shock (Passive) - Damage bonus increased from 5/10/15% to 6/12/18%. 7.Shockwave Aspect - Damage reduced from 90-130% to 60-100%. 8.Crashstone Aspect - Critical Strike Damage reduced from 40-50% to 30-40%. 9.Lightning Dancer’s Aspect - Flat damage increased from .5-.6 to .7-.8. NECROMANCER -- Out of all the classes, Necro actually got the most buffs by far. Most of these are focused on minion buffs including damage buffs to both skeletons and Golems, including a huge swing on an Iron Golem skill. I guess they were underperforming compared to the other classes a bit. 1.Blood Lance (Skill) - Damage increased from 67.5% to 80%. 2.Army of the Dead (Skill) - Damage increased from 30% to 45%. Cooldown reduced from 90 to 70 seconds. 3.Blood Wave (Skill) - Damage increased from 90% to 120%. 4.Shadowblight (Passive) - Damage increased from 20% to 22%. 5.Grim Harvest (Passive) - Essence gained reduced from 3/6/9 to 2/4/6. 6.Serration (Passive) - Critical Strike Chance reduced from .5/1/1.5% to .3/.6/.9%. 7.Death’s Defense (Passive) - Maximum Minion Life lost in a single damage instance reduced from 75/60/45% to 60/45/30%. 8.Raise Skeleton (Specialization) - Skeleton Warrior attack damage increased by 10%. 9.Golem (Specialization) - Golem attack damage increased by 10%. 10.Blood Golem (Specialization) - Blood Golem Life drain damage increased from 40% to 90%. 11.Blood Golem Life drain healing from enemies hit increased from 4% to 5%. 12.Iron Golem (Specialization) - Iron Golem slam damage increased from 25% to 175%. Iron Golem shockwave damage increased from 30% to 40%. 13.Hulking Monstrosity (Paragon Board) - Golem Life and damage bonus increased from 30% to 40% Life. 14.Cult Leader (Paragon Board) - Golem Life and damage bonus increased from 30% to 40% Life. ROGUE -- A couple buffs here, but the main thing is the decimation of the extremely popular Twisting Blades build, which was already emerging as a strong favorite. Too strong for Blizzard’s taste, and it’s getting hammered pretty hard here. 1.Twisting Blades (Skill) - Advanced Twisting Blades Cooldown reduction per enemy hit reduced from .25 to .1 seconds. Advanced Twisting Blades maximum Cooldown reduction reduced from 3 to 2 seconds. 2.Rapid Fire (Skill) - Damage increased from 24% to 30%. 3.Dark Shroud (Skill) - Damage Reduction per shadow gained from Skill Ranks reduced from .8% to .4%. 4.Dash (Skill) - Enhanced Dash Critical Strike Damage bonus from 20% to 15%. 5.Caltrops (Skill) - Damage increased from 30% to 40%. 6.Concussive (Passive) - Critical Strike Chance reduced from 5/10/15% to 4/8/12%. 7.Repeating (Affix) - Maximum Minion Life lost in a single damage instance reduced from 75/60/45% to 60/45/30%. SORCERER -- Sorcerer was barely touched. Either they think it’s pretty balanced or they haven’t had much time to dig into its potential issues yet. But no destroyed builds via nerfs here. 1.Arc Lash (Skill) - Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 30% to 14%. Glinting Arc Lash Cooldown reduction reduced from .25 to .15 seconds. 2.Teleport (Skill) - Shimmering Teleport’s Damage Reduction duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds. 3.Aspect of Control - Bonus damage reduced from 30-40% to 25-35%. PARAGON BOARDS --  There are some huge, overall changes to Paragon Boards, where Blizzard thought that Glyphs were way, way too strong so they are getting somewhat slaughtered: 1.Rare Nodes - Player Attack Speed nodes reduced by 50%. Glyphs: 1.All Glyph Bonus scaling has been reduced by ~34%, except for the following: 2.Critical Strike Damage Glyphs’ Bonus reduced by ~66%. 3.Vulnerable Glyphs’ Bonus reduced by ~66%. 4.Glyphs' Bonus to Rare nodes reduced by ~50%. 5.Glyphs' Bonus to Magic nodes reduced by ~40%. 6.Glyphs' Bonus to Cold/Fire/Lightning/Non-Physical/Physical nodes reduced by ~62.5%. Most players are probably not even touching the Glyph system yet, so this is super hardcore speed levelers and their super builds, but I know many are not happy.