In Diablo 4 Season 15, defeating bosses and elite monsters generally grants Renown, while seasonal content provides additional rewards. If you use an AFK build and find a location where bosses and elite monsters can spawn endlessly, you can theoretically earn Renown without doing anything. And this is entirely possible. Diablo 4 Season 15 Dark Citadel Infinite Renown Farming | Solo Warlock Method and Recommended AFK Builds Dark Citadel There is a location in Diablo 4 where you can farm endlessly spawning monsters. To get there, first enter Dark Citadel, specifically its first wing, Enclave of Strife. As you progress through Enclave of Strife, you will encounter a barrier that requires two players to pass, meaning you cannot complete this section alone. You can register your party in the group finder as a team looking for other players to run Dark Citadel with, then wait for someone to join. Once another player joins, continue clearing Dark Citadel. Further ahead, you will encounter a branching path where the party must split into two groups, with each group clearing a separate route. Eventually, you will reach the wing's treasury. Open the chests there and collect Diablo 4 items inside. After Reaching the Treasury Opening the treasury chests is a crucial milestone because, from this point onward, you no longer actually need your teammates. You can ask your teammates if they are interested in farming Renown indefinitely and invite them to stay, or ask them to leave. Alternatively, if you don't like playing with strangers, you can contact a friend or guild member for help. However, it's best not to kick someone directly from the party. Keep in mind that simply leaving the party will not work. If you leave after reaching this point, your character will be teleported back to Dark Citadel lobby, preventing you from continuing the process. Therefore, leaving the party is not a viable option for this farming method. Once you have sorted out your teammates or decided to continue as a group, proceed further. After a while, you will find a gateway. It will appear on your minimap and can also be identified by a circular pattern on the ground. This is where AFK Renown farming takes place. How To AFK Farm Renown? Under normal circumstances, once you reach the gateway, you need to kill the continuously spawning elite monsters and collect a certain type of crystal they drop. Once enough crystals have been collected, the gateway becomes active and transports you to the next section of the dungeon. However, this farming method does not require you to activate the gateway. Instead, simply stay near the gateway without interacting with it. As long as you remain in the area, the game will continue spawning elite monsters to attack you. These monsters grant seasonal Renown when killed. If you use a build that automatically clears nearby enemies without requiring any button presses, you can simply stand still and AFK while the monsters continuously spawn, die, and generate seasonal Renown. You can even collect the crystals if you want, as doing so will not affect the farming process. As long as you don't interact with the gateway, it will remain inactive. Just remember not to proceed to the next section of the wing, or the automatic elite monster spawns will stop. How To AFK Farm Renown in Diablo 4? Warlock Solo Wall-Phasing Method Besides the party-based approach, you can also complete this farming method solo, provided you play a Warlock. Currently, there is an exploit involving Warlock's Rampage ability or its jumping mechanics. By using Demonic Smash variant of Rampage together with Vanguard Shard and Infernal Fragment, you can use Rampage to pass through walls in the game, including those inside Dark Citadel. This means players using this Warlock setup don't need to find a party or deal with teammates. Simply use Rampage to pass through the walls one by one until you reach the gateway. Once there, the process is identical to the party-based method: stay near the gateway and let the monsters spawn continuously to farm Renown indefinitely. However, Warlock does not seem to have a true AFK build at the moment. Although some builds only require a single button press, they are not completely hands-free. If a genuinely AFK Warlock build becomes available, that should be your first choice. Otherwise, you may need to press a few buttons manually to keep farming Renown. Recommended AFK Builds This farming method works best with builds that offer genuine hands-free functionality. Here are some recommended options: Zero Button Storm Companions Druid Minion Necromancer Oadin Paladin AFK Blizzard Sorcerer Warlock also has a One Button AFK build that can be automated with a macro. Spiritborn has a similar build, but it requires constant movement, so it is not recommended for this method. Helltide AFK Farming Helltide AFK farming is another common solo Renown farming method in Diablo 4 Season 15. You simply need to find a suitable spot and stand there. There are no specific build requirements. However, Helltides move from one region to another every hour. Once Helltide moves away, Renown farming stops. This means you cannot truly AFK for extended periods, whereas Dark Citadel method allows Renown to keep accumulating continuously. If you don't want to put any effort into building a dedicated AFK character, Helltide farming is another option. Higher Renown means more Renown reward caches. These caches are one of the important sources of Diablo 4 Season 15 Prime Evil Shards. Meanwhile, the farming process also generates various additional loot, including keys, gear, Runes, and crafting materials. This way, you can keep earning rewards without wasting any of your time.

Just one month after its global launch, Aion 2's structural problems began to surface. While it boasts a progression system capable of enticing MMORPG enthusiasts to invest hundreds of hours, its over-reliance on repetitive dungeon runs, numerical hurdles, and resource accumulation in actual gameplay constantly wears down players' patience. The misalignment between Combat Power and Item Level, the cyclical reuse of Expedition dungeons, and the endgame's depth failing to provide long-term motivation all contribute to the increased pressure of late-game progression, creating growing obstacles for ordinary players in team play, gear development, and competitive experiences. Expedition Cycle: Same Dungeons, Higher Difficulty Aion 2 Endgame Problems Explained Repetitive Dungeons, Rising CP Requirements, and Costly Gear Progression Aion 2's PvE progress is quite linear: reaching a specified Item Level unlocks a new Expedition, you farm gear, and then move on to the next stage. However, the problem is that while progress continues, truly new content is scarce. Krao Cave and Draupnir offer weapons and armor in the 700 Item Level range, while Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island follow in the 1400 range. Later in the game, these dungeons return in hard mode: Krao Cave Hard and Draupnir Hard unlock at 2600 Item Level, while the hard versions of Urugugu and Vakron require 2700 Item Level. This means players are repeatedly challenging familiar dungeons and bosses, only with higher HP and damage. The new difficulty doesn't introduce many new combat mechanics to relearn, making Aion 2's late-game PvE content feel monotonous. Aion 2 Krao Cave Combat Power Inflation and Rising Grouping Barriers If dungeon reuse diminishes player interest, then the continuous inflation of Combat Power further exacerbates the pressure on ordinary players to find groups. Although Item Level is the system-set entry standard for dungeons, in actual group formation, players often prioritize Combat Power. Besides equipment, permanent benefits such as Stigma level, Arcana cards, pet Genus Insight, and wing collection bonuses also affect CP, and these growth items cannot be fully reflected in Item Level. Therefore, even if two characters have the same Item Level, their CP can differ by tens of thousands. Faced with a large number of group applications, it's difficult for team leaders to individually assess character configurations and actual combat power. Filtering by CP becomes a more time-efficient option. However, as this practice gradually becomes the norm, CP transforms from a combat power reference into a de facto group entry threshold. More importantly, this threshold is constantly rising. Early Crow Cave or Draupnir Hard groups might have required around 140K CP, but this has gradually increased to 150K, or even 160K. The dungeons themselves haven't changed, but the standards players need to meet are getting higher and higher. Clerics are one of the few classes that relatively easily get group opportunities because the team's need for healers sometimes takes precedence over numerical filtering. For other classes, whether they can enter a dungeon often depends not only on actual combat ability but also on whether the character's CP on their stat sheet meets the team's expectations. This selection process creates a cycle: early adopters continuously improve their combat power, leading to higher entry requirements for their teams. Later entrants then need to invest more time and resources to keep up with the ever-changing entry standards. The Cost of Equipment Enhancement and Increasing Time Investment A major driver of CP inflation is the cost of equipment enhancement. Equipment enhancement in Aion 2 often requires repeated attempts, each operation consuming a large amount of Kina. For example, enhancing a low-level piece of equipment from +1 to +2 can theoretically cost millions of Kina, equivalent to the gains from several Expeditions. Skilled players might complete a dungeon in six to seven minutes, while average players typically need eight to ten minutes. To accumulate the funds needed for one enhancement, players often need to run dungeons continuously for tens of minutes. Equipment progression has gradually become a cycle of exchanging game time for Kina, and then using Kina to advance enhancement progress. Meanwhile, Kina is also a fundamental resource for in-game Marketplace trading, equipment crafting, and repair. As players' demand for equipment enhancement and crafting materials continues to increase, its consumption also expands, further driving up the price of market materials. For players unwilling to invest more time, choosing Aion 2 Kina for sale has gradually become an option for catching up on gear progression. Ludra Raid Returns: Higher Barriers Don't Solve the Problem of Insufficient Endgame Depth Aion 2 Ludra Ludra was the first true raid in the global version of Aion 2. It was briefly available during the global early access phase, but was subsequently withdrawn and reworked due to players clearing it with gear far below design expectations. Upon its return, Item Level barrier increased from approximately 2,700 to 2,800/3,000. This adjustment itself sends a signal: the development team has a low tolerance for being cleared too quickly, and raising the barrier is the most direct way to slow it down. However, for a player base that has already repeated the same Expedition dozens of times, the 3,000 Item Level in Ludra Hard mode is not a new challenge, but rather an arithmetic barrier built upon enhancement probabilities, Ariel Fragment accumulation, and Kina reserves. Once this barrier is crossed, the raid's content consumption rate is likely to far exceed the rate at which it is reached. The discussions in the community about quitting the game after completing raids point to this very dilemma: the depth of the endgame content is insufficient to match the high entry barrier. In short, the core problem facing Aion 2 is not just the slow progression, but the relatively limited new content players can experience after investing a significant amount of time to increase their combat power. If future updates continue to primarily rely on raising the numerical threshold to extend the progression, it will likely be difficult to truly retain ordinary players.