Mastering Diablo 4: Your Comprehensive Guide to Season 2 Endgame Builds

Diablo 4 Season 7 has made a radical change to the ultimate loot chase, with most activities’ rewards being adjusted and ultimate items being updated with a minor rework to Ancestral items. Ancestral items are more powerful variants of existing Legendary and Unique gear. Finding the right Ancestral items will skyrocket your character’s damage and overall survivability, and you’ll need these to conquer the highest Torment difficulties. While the power spike is so powerful, finding Ancestral items is more difficult than ever before. So here I want to explain what I think is the best way to get Ancestral items, also known as items with Greater Affixes, in Diablo 4 Season 7. Honestly, I think the best way to farm them is a little different than what most people say. Most people will say they’ll choose to start farming Ancestral items through Headhunt events, but in my experience, this is not the best way. Instead, the best approach is to run Roothold Dungeons, which is not only the most efficient way to farm, but it doesn’t require your character build to be very powerful, meaning you can try it even if you don’t have enough Diablo 4 Gold early in the game. Next, let’s talk about the specific steps to farming Ancestral gear in Rootholds. Getting Whispering Wood Sigils In order to enter these seasonal mini-dungeons called Rootholds, you need to have an item very similar to Sigils we used to enter Nightmare Dungeons, which are Whispering Wood Sigils. However, these Rootholds Sigils cannot be crafted, and you can only get these Sigils from the following two sources. The first is to farm Whisper Caches, which have a medium chance of dropping these Whispering Wood Sigils. And to get these Whisper Caches, farming the new Headhunt area is your best choice. Do not hesitate, you must enter Headhunt area, because another source of Whispering Wood Sigils is also mainly located in Headhunt area, these are Silent Chests. If you are an old player of Diablo 4 series, you will know that these chests require Whispering Keys to open, and you can get this key by gambling with Obols. Since the gambling mechanism has been greatly weakened this season, it is worth spending your Murmuring Obols on these Whispering Keys. In this way, you can open Silent Chests inside Headhunt area and have a chance to get a ticket to enter Rootholds. How To Improve The Chances Of Getting Ancestral Items? Assuming that you have opened Whisper Caches and Silent Chests and obtained Whispering Wood Sigils in them. Now entering Roothold Dungeons, you must do the following to maximize the chances of getting Ancestral Legendary and Unique items. Using Draught Of Whisper First, you should use a bottle of Draught of Whisper elixir, which is also a new seasonal elixir added in Diablo 4 Season 7, which will increase your chances of getting Forgotten Altar and Fugitive Head at the end of Rootholds. Yes, this elixir does not directly increase your chances of getting Ancestral items. Clearing Exposed Roots Rootholds will definitely spawn Exposed Roots throughout the dungeon, so be sure to pay attention to these during your run. Only by defeating the monsters that spawn near these Exposed Roots and clearing all Roots can you reach the final Headrotten boss. However, you will need to choose from at least one of the four Exposed Roots options to clear each time. Therefore, in order to maximize the chances of dropping Ancestral Legendary and Unique items, it is recommended that you always prioritize the options that can increase the number of major rewards you get from Exposed Roots. If you’ve already chosen these, and you have a choice left, you should choose the option to increase the number of Exposed Roots in the next section. If you’ve already completed all two steps, thus increasing the number of primary rewards and increasing the number of Exposed Roots, then you’re free to choose any other options you have left. If you follow our steps and make these choices, then you have a good chance of getting Ancestral items from Exposed Roots inside Roothold dungeon. Especially if you have a well-equipped Ultimate character, farming the dungeon itself isn’t very difficult, so you shouldn’t have trouble killing the monsters inside either. At the same time, clearing these Exposed Roots is also an excellent source for getting Draught of Whisper. Fortunately, the only criterion for moving to the next part of the dungeon is to hit all Exposed Roots. So, running the dungeon this way will allow you to advance your game progress in the shortest possible time and earn a lot of Diablo 4 Gold. Also, following this farming method, you don’t have to kill all the enemies at the end, you can just focus on killing the bosses as they will have a chance to spawn Fugitive Head, a seasonal currency that is essential for strengthening your character build, and Draught of Whisper increases the chance of this currency dropping. Outro As we mentioned before, I believe this is the best way and route to get Ancestral items this season, especially if you manage to find at least one reward, which can increase the number of main rewards you get from Exposed Roots in the dungeon. Of course, if you have any other experience with farming Ancestral items, don’t forget to share it! Hopefully, these tips can help you make your journey in Sanctuary a little smoother!

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!

It’s been more than a year since the initial release of Diablo 4, but you’ll find that the series still occupies a relatively top position in the ARPG market, with many enthusiastic fans. On this basis, with the end of the sixth season, the seventh season will officially arrive in late January this year. As the latest series of Diablo, Diablo 4 adopts a similar approach to the basic series in setting up the season mechanism, always focusing on resources, bosses and gear, and sometimes adding new season-limited events in the new season, so that you can experience the fun of farming new limited event items while accumulating Diablo 4 Gold. Among all Diablo 4 content that may be updated with the season, unique items are a relatively important one. They are always presented to you as clothing, armor, or weapons, and will provide you with extraordinary combat benefits after you equip them. In the upcoming Season 7, besides those inherent unique items, some new ones are expected to be added. Based on this, we will introduce these new unique items to you and ways to obtain them. Overview Of Diablo 4 Season 7 According to the released news, this season should be named Season of Witchcraft and will be officially launched at 10 am Pacific Standard Time on January 21, 2025 after the end of Season 6. In addition, like all previous Diablo 4 seasons, Season 7 should last for about three months, during which you need to create a new character on the corresponding server to access the limited-time content of Season 7. As its name suggests, the biggest feature of this season is 24 witchcraft powers divided into variant types, which you can use to deal with bosses in Season 7. However, it should be noted that although the witchcraft power of Season 7 cannot be transferred to other servers, you can always unlock the available cosmetics, pets or other types of rewards on your account. Another new change in Season 7 that is worth paying attention to is the addition of Armory. This mechanism will allow you to save your character’s builds, allowing you to see which of them is the most powerful or interesting, and switch between different builds to try without changing everything. In addition to the above, the new content of Season 7 also includes other quality of life updates, changes to larger affixes and class tasks, and new unique items that we will highlight for you next. What New Unique Items Will Season 7 Have? According to the information previously revealed by the game developers in the campfire chat, Season 7 will ensure that each Diablo 4 class will get at least one new unique item, and some professions will even get two. The specific types of these new unique items may include armor, amulets, staves and catalysts, including the following: Druid: Malefic Crescent Rogue: Assassin’s Stride Spiritborn: Sustained War-Crozier Barbarian: Mantle of the Mountain’s Fury Sorcerer: Strike of Stormhorn and Okun’s Catalyst Necromancer: Indira’s Memory and Kessime’s Legacy As a classic melee class, Barbarian will get Mantle of Mountain’s Fury, a new ancestral unique chest armor that can cause 50% Hammer of the Ancients after Barbarian launches an earthquake. The new unique ancestral amulet for Druid can increase all elemental resistance by 25%, effectively improving your defense-if you play Druid. In addition, Necromancer’s two new unique items need to be used with Blood Wave, Rogue’s new item is a pair of boots that can increase its movement skill by 100% in 2 seconds, and Sorcerer has obtained 2 items that can enhance its Ball of Lightning. The newly introduced class Spiritborn in DLC will get a unique long staff that increases the blocking chance by 40%. How To Get New Unique Items? Since Season 7 has not yet been officially launched, the most accurate method of obtaining new unique items is not very clear, but you can use the unique item acquisition method of the old season as a reference to prepare in advance. After all, except for possible new season-limited events or dungeons, other methods of obtaining unique items are always unchanged in some seasons. Purveyor Of Curiosities Before Season 6, Purveyor of Curiosities usually only gave you magic and rare gear that was completely useless in the endgame, but now they can not only drop legendary items faster but also have a chance to drop unique items for you. While this method is great, it requires that you always have enough Obol, so it is recommended that you focus on grinding Diablo 4 Artificer’s Pit, where you can even upgrade glyphs and obtain legendary items. Participate In Special Seasonal Events Almost every Diablo 4 season will launch a new limited event, and participating in these events will give you a chance to get some rewards after the end, which may include new unique items. Farm Nightmare Dungeons Nightmare dungeons mechanism should still exist in Season 7, so it is recommended that you farm high-level Nightmare Dungeons above level 40 to obtain legendary items, because these dungeons will have many enemies to fight, and the probability of dropping items will naturally be higher. Defeat New Bosses Season 7 is expected to add some new special bosses. Since unique items are relatively precious Diablo 4 items, some of them will most likely only be available to you through boss loot. In addition, if you want to accumulate as much gold as possible before Season 7 officially starts, so that you can gain a small advantage at the beginning of the season and get the above new unique items faster, then maybe you can try to participate in the relevant giveaway events held from time to time in iGMeet Discord. Good luck!

Diablo 4 Season 4 has a ton of endgame content for players to engage in to continue to strengthen their characters and refine their builds, as well as tackle the higher difficulty Nightmare Dungeons. One of these helpful endgame additions is Tree of Whispers. Players who are creating a Seasonal Character and skipping the major story can immediately access Tree of Whispers and start earning its rewards right away. Tree of Whispers is a significant source for acquiring Diablo 4 items and XP and even lets players choose the specific rewards they want. Today, we’re going to try to determine which of the three Whisper Caches you should choose from after you turn in Grim Favors in Tree of Whispers. Which Whisper Caches Will Give You More Benefits? The reason I wanted to discuss this topic is that D4 Gold is currently very scarce in Season 4, and farming Whisper Caches or Collections is one of the most efficient ways to acquire gold. Another way is to sell items for real money in exchange for gold on third-party sites or even in trade chat, but not everyone is willing to do that. As someone who hates Whisper farming, I started wondering if I could rank the different Whisper Caches from most to least gold. That way, I would always know which one I should pick to get the most gold possible. So I did a brief experiment and decided to share it with you all. Here, we’ll talk about how to actually run this method and disclaimers, test results, and my recommendations based on the results. So let’s get started. Farming Methods Tree of Whispers is shown as a red tree icon with a skull on the top of the east side of the map. Hovering over the icon will show a progress bar showing the player how many Grim Favors they have completed and how many more they need to complete getting the reward. Grim Favors are awarded when Whispers are completed. Whispers are small side activities made on the map with red or light red icons. Whispers are always cycling, and new Whispers will randomly appear on the map to replace existing or completed Whispers. We can also obtain Grim Favors by clearing Diablo 4 dungeons with red icons on the map, which usually provide more Grim Favors than any Whispers quest. It is important to note that after obtaining ten Grim Favors, the player cannot complete any additional Whispers until they return to Tree of Whispers. Whispers will still spawn during Helltide events and provide players with more rewards than usual. Upon returning to the tree, the player can choose from three reward caches, each of which focuses on a different weapon type, armor, or Collection of Chaos. Selecting a clearly labeled collection will give the player multiple high-end gear of that type, as well as various additional rewards. Additionally, Collection of Chaos still provides high-end rewards and randomly provides any type of item or gear. In summary, I farmed 2 or 3 regular Caches from the tree with a level 100 character. I also farmed 4 Greater Caches and treated them as a group. I calculated the average of the gold contained in each cache and ranked them. Again, Greater Caches are not separated, they are treated as one group. Disclaimer Secondly, I would like to offer the following disclaimer. I know that the sample size is too small to allow you to draw statistically significant conclusions between the groups, and I am pretty sure someone on Reddit has already done a similar check with a much larger sample size. No need to remind me of these facts, I know them, but I still wanted to test these numbers myself. Conclusion So, let’s get straight to the results. As expected, Greater Caches have the highest average gold content, with about 6.6 million gold per cache. Collection of Chaos is next, with an average gold content of 6 million. Then, lagging far behind, are the other non-Greater Caches, with average gold content between 2.8-3.3 million. It is likely that there is no actual difference between these caches in terms of gold content. But if we look at Greater Caches in detail, we can see that there is much more deviation here, and even some Greater Caches have gold content as high as 11 million. However, I must emphasize that the sample size here is small. Personal Recommendations So, based on this data, what kind of recommendations can I make for all your gold farmers? First, the obvious one is that if you can choose between Greater Caches and non-Greater Caches, choose Greater Caches without hesitation. Second, if Greater Caches are not offered, always choose Normal Chaos Cache. If that is not offered either, it doesn’t matter which Normal non-Chaos Cache you choose. Besides these recommendations, I have a few weaker recommendations. However, these recommendations are based on the fact that of the four Greater Caches I opened, I had a Greater Collection of Chaos, which dropped significantly more gold than the other Greater Caches. Based on this, I recommend that if someone offers you multiple Greater Caches, always choose Greater Cache of Chaos. I’m guessing that there may also be differences between other non-Greater Caches, but the low sample size prevents me from drawing any conclusions. However, I believe that further research in this area can make progress in the future. Furthermore, I suspect that choosing a non-Greater Chaos Cache might actually be better than choosing a Greater non-Chaos Cache, but that’s just a crazy thought. That’s it! Do you agree with these results? Do you choose Whisper Caches similarly? Hopefully, these test results and suggestions will shed some new light on this for you!