Diablo 4 Helltide farm

Diablo 4 Season 10 will officially end on December 9th, but some players are still exploring the game and struggling with Uber Lilith.

Frankly, Season 10 has removed the immunity phase for each boss, significantly reducing the difficulty of defeating Uber Lilith. If you're having trouble killing it, you might just be lacking a suitable boss-killer build. Many builds can achieve this, such as Flay Barbarian build described below.

How To Play Flay Barbarian?

Main Skills

Flay is the primary damage source skill in this build. It stacks high amounts of Bleed by attacking enemies. You can easily stack billions of Bleed damage on Lilith.

Rupture is primarily a utility and finishing skill. Its role is no longer the main damage source. After gathering a large number of enemies and stacking Bleed, repeatedly using Rupture can quickly clear the area.

Additionally, when a boss's health is low, Rupture can quickly kill it. However, relying entirely on Rupture for damage in boss fights can be very painful, while Flay provides a much better experience.

Rage And Resource Management

One of the core mechanics of Flay Barbarian Build is maintaining a high level of rage. This is because Locran's Talisman provides Critical Strike Damage based on current rage. Therefore, keeping rage full is crucial.

The effects of Yul and Lum Runewords allow you to use skills with cooldowns to regenerate rage. Ring of Starless Skies reduces resource consumption; this combination allows you to focus on rage management during combat, as your rage will be continuously generated.

Defense

The core defensive skill of this build is Iron Skin, and its enhanced Tactical Iron Skin can be used when health is below 50%, providing healing and a shield. Aspect of the Iron Warrior further enhances the effects of Iron Skin.

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Flay Barbarian Build Skills

Active skills

• Flay (Rank 5): Enhanced Flay And Battle Flay
• Iron Skin (Rank 1): Enhanced Iron Skin And Strategic Iron Skin
• War Cry (Rank 1): Enhanced War Cry And Power War Cry
• Rupture (Rank 5): Enhanced Rupture And Warrior's Rupture
• Steel Grasp (Rank 1): Enhanced Steel Grasp And Warrior's Steel Grasp
• Wrath of the Berserker (Rank 5): Prime Wrath of the Berserker And Supreme Wrath of the Berserker

Passive skills

• Pressure Point
• Warpath (Vessel of Hatred)
• Endless Fury
• Tempered Fury
• Belligerence (Vessel of Hatred)
• Martial Vigor
• Booming Voice
• Swiftness
• Pit Fighter
• Slaying Strike
• Cut to the Bone
• Thick Skin
• Counteroffensive
• Heavy Handed
• Gushing Wounds

Flay Barbarian Build Equipment

• Helm: Harlequin Crest (Ruby+Ruby)
• Chest Armor: Hooves of the Mountain God (Ruby+Ruby)
• Gloves: Locran's Talisman
• Pants: Ramaladni's Magnum Opus (Ruby+Ruby)
• Boots: Rage of Harrogath
• Amulet: Aspect of the Iron Warrior (Diamond)
• Ring 1: Ring of Starless Skies (Diamond)
• Ring 2: Aspect of Adaptability (Diamond)
• Bludgeoning Weapon: Wanton Rupture Aspect (Lith+Tec)
• Slashing Weapon: Aspect of the Moonrise (Yul+Lum)
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Shard of Verathiel (Emerald)
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Aspect of Earthquakes (Emerald)

Chaos Perks

• A Beast Cornered: Gains increased damage and reduces damage taken as health decreases.
• Raging Chaos: Gains Berserking while not Healthy, and core abilities deal fire damage.
• Accelerating Chaos: Lucky Strike: Deals damage to enemies with a chance to trigger a Chaos Burst and reduce ability cooldowns.
• Mard Guard: Combines with A Beast Cornered, grants greater survivability when below half health.

How To Defeat Uber Lilith?

Uber Lilith is the most powerful boss in Diablo 4, but unlike other bosses, she doesn't provide a wealth of Diablo 4 items. While she appears to have a one-hit kill mechanic, in reality, aside from platform collapses, she doesn't have any truly lethal abilities. All her damage can be avoided through positioning and understanding the mechanics.

If your gear doesn't meet the above requirements, or you lack mythic items, you can try challenging Uber Lilith, but your damage will definitely be significantly lower, making it impossible to kill her before her phase transition.

Before challenging her, ensure your armor and elemental resistances are at their maximum, and your movement speed is at least 155%, which is crucial for dodging mechanics. You must have at least one ability that provides an unstoppable state. If you're using a Flay Barbarian build, War Cry and Wrath of the Berserker both provide unstoppable.

Remember to always prioritize dodging mechanics (especially waves), with damage output being secondary. When she releases waves, remember to stand at the bottom of the arena, and during the platform running phase, stay close to the edge to maximize your safety zone.

Note that when you reach the bottom or top of a platform, Lilith will perform a pull; you must use an unstoppable ability at this moment, otherwise you'll be pulled back to the center of the arena, making you extremely vulnerable to death. Keep moving throughout, especially when dealing with the triangular waves; remaining stationary is tantamount to death. However, if your damage output is high enough, you can definitely kill her before she transitions to her next phase.

This concludes the basic introduction to Flay Barbarian build and some key points for defeating Uber Lilith. If you consistently fail to defeat Lilith, it's best to upgrade your gear and damage before attempting the challenge again.

For the past year, Diablo 4 has been updating its new seasons in a similar format: a unique seasonal power/mechanic, along with some related new enemy types and bosses, and optimizations to existing mechanics.

While this has become a formula, you still always hope for more fun in the next season. Several seasons have indeed achieved this, such as the still-unfinished Season 10, which won over many players with its Chaos Armor.

Therefore, as the final Diablo 4 season following in 2025, you can't help but have high hopes for Season 11. However, based on the information available, it may not necessarily perform better than Season 10.

Next, we will analyze why this conclusion is reached and whether it will negatively impact Diablo 4's development in 2026.

How Are Divine Gifts Performing?

Conceptually, this system is very cool, especially when you first equip these gifts. However, as you progress through the game, once you unlock all the gifts, you'll find it almost impossible to interact with the system anymore.

This isn't to say that gifts are useless, but rather that these passive upgrades only work silently, lacking many opportunities to interact with other mechanics or the combat itself - as seasonal mechanics, they should have a more noticeable presence.

Changes To The Gear Upgrade System

As the most notable change in Season 11, Tempering and Masterworking make the upgrade results of Diablo 4 items and related affixes more consistent. The game also introduces Sanctification as a way to further enhance items.

Overall, this change to enhancing affixes is a good thing, as you can directly choose the affixes you want. While being able to enhance only one affix might feel unsatisfying, at least it doesn't mean your weapon's strength has decreased.

Expanding the range of affix effects makes the upgrade system more interesting, giving you more incentive to re-roll and get the highest attribute for the enhanced affix.

Sanctification deserves separate attention. It allows your gear to randomly gain a bonus, but afterwards, your gear cannot be changed in any other way. The problem is that the chance of getting a valuable bonus is low.

Therefore, you might think it's great at first, but if you're unlucky, it could ruin one of your gears. To avoid this, you have to invest a lot of time playing the game to get multiple copies of the same gear just in case.

But this defeats the purpose of Tempering and Masterworking system optimization: the effort saved on affix rolling is ultimately wasted on sanctification.

Monster Combat Changes

While Season 11 makes monsters behave more intelligently in the early game, you'll encounter a variety of new enemy affixes in endgame. This not only makes the game look more cluttered but also requires more dodging and positioning to avoid these affixes.

Furthermore, after Season 11 is implemented, you only have a maximum of four potions during combat. But honestly, there are so many potions dropped in the game that you almost never have a chance to use them all.

If the above two points raise some concerns, the addition of lesser evils enriches the basic combat of Season 11. In The Pit, you can directly click on Belial to summon hordes of elite monsters, avoiding unnecessary running around.

Furthermore, Helltides will be occupied by Duriel, where you'll encounter new Duriel-themed monsters. You can utilize the seasonal Divine Gifts mechanic to enhance them and obtain more reward drops.

As the first entirely new boss added since Diablo 4's release, Azmodan boasts a massive size and a design clearly rooted in Diablo 4 aesthetics, making it one of the biggest highlights of Season 11.

Is The Tower Good Enough?

While this dungeon is brand new, those who have experienced 2.5.0 PTR will know that The Tower's gameplay itself offers little innovation, being quite similar to The Pit. Its real appeal lies in the return of the leaderboard.

However, frankly, very few players will actually reach the top of the leaderboard to obtain exclusive rewards, so your focus should be more on re-playability.

If a comparison must be made, The Tower is better in terms of map layout and monster spawn points, but its weakness lies in the final boss, Tower Guardian, which takes up too much time, especially if your builds lack single-target damage.

This leaves you no time to clear Pylons' shields to gain their buffs. While you can choose not to add them, this weakens the overall appeal of The Tower.

Interestingly, if you've played Greater Rifts in Diablo 3, you'll find it similar to The Tower, but the former rewards you with Bane of the Stricken gem.

This gem, when socketed into an amulet or ring, grants your enemies a damage debuff, increasing the more you attack, which is very helpful for builds lacking single-target damage.

Therefore, The Tower could easily adopt this mechanism, implementing a similar buff in the dungeon, or even adding a new Pylon based on it.

Healing Mechanism Update

The change in Season 11 to turn fortify into healing mechanics was essentially a good idea, but unfortunately, it didn't truly change the gameplay. If you're instantly killed or enemy damage is too high, even a large amount of healing won't help.

While the newest season seems to always be the best in Diablo 4, considering all the changes, if Season 11's content remains largely unchanged after launch, its brilliance might not surpass Season 10.

However, if we only evaluate a single season, Season 11 is far from being below average, so it's unlikely to make you lose interest in Diablo 4 in 2026, especially considering the new DLC coming next year!