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With Season 11 launching soon, are you sure you've got a good grasp of the key content from the previews? Knowing your enemy is half the battle; mastering important information beforehand will help you adapt to the new season faster.

Of all the new mechanics, those related to gear upgrades have received significant changes in Season 11, including more consistent upgrade rates for gear affixes in Tempering and Masterworking, and the entirely new Sanctification.

Furthermore, this season also features new unique items for each class, just like before. Therefore, in Season 11, besides mastering the basic uses of these Uniques, you'll also need to learn how to enhance them using Sanctification - we'll show you.

Rogue - Death's Pavane

The biggest advantage of these unique pants for Rogue is that they allow for better use of the classic build Dance of Knives this season. This is because they give you a higher dodge chance when channeling Dance of Knives skill.

Furthermore, this gear provides up to 11% base critical strike chance and a movement speed bonus. This not only increases Dance of Knives skill level and agility damage, but it's also beneficial for other highly mobile Rogue builds.

However, we highly recommend using it to enhance Dance of Knives in Season 11. It allows you to obtain Dance of Knives items upon hitting enemies, granting a charge that increases skill damage by 20 times for 6 seconds.

More importantly, this damage can stack up to 3 times, meaning your final damage output from Dance of Knives skill, or your entire build, will be multiplied by 3, or 60 times. Combined with your base damage, you'll dominate the dungeon!

Note that many elite enemies have been buffed in Season 11. Therefore, to fully utilize your Dance of Knives build to counter them, you'll also need to buy Diablo 4 items that can coordinate with Death's Pavane.

Sorcerer - Orsivane

This one-handed mace might seem out of place for a Sorcerer on style, but it offers significant buffs, including increases to damage, maximum health, and core skill levels.

More importantly, it has a unique effect: for every defensive skill not on your action bar, your damage increases by 20-40%, and you gain associated enchantments.

Generally, a Sorcerer should have four defensive skills in combat, meaning this mace provides a 40x4, or 160x, damage multiplier - a huge boost.

While this effect might not match the overall DPS of the core skills provided by the various Sorcerer gear in Chaos Armor version of Season 10, the added enchantments make up for it.

Spiritborn - Path Of The Emissary

This new item is a pair of unique boots that increase your movement speed and core ability damage, and these damage effects are expected to stack (otherwise, the buff would be meaningless). It also increases core ability level and debuffs.

The boots' unique ability is that every 12 to 14 meters moved, you can summon a core ability from your Primary Spirit Hall:

• Quill Volley - Eagle
• Stinger - Centipede
• Rake - Jaguar
• Crushing Hand - Gorilla

This effect means you can utilize Spirit Hall mechanic to create more usable Spiritborn builds in Season 11, enriching the class's playability. For example, you can apply different debuffs to enemies.

Barbarian - Chainscourged Mail

This unique pair's special ability is that after casting a damaging melee ability, that ability is disabled. For each disabled ability, your melee ability damage increases by 50-100%. If all melee skills are disabled, they will be re-enabled, and their cooldowns will be refreshed.

Gear's basic functions include:

• + All Stats
• + Maximum Life
• + Brawling Skills
• Cooldown Reduction

When playing Barbarian, you should typically carry five melee skills, activating and cycling them one by one - all you need to do is keep tapping your skill bar.

Druid - Khamsin Steppewalkers

These unique boots increase your movement speed and crowd control duration, and provide a reduction in nature spell cooldowns, further granting you a 25% bonus to your enhanced attacks.

Their unique power grants a charge if you deal damage to at least 100 enemies with your storm ability. Subsequent defensive abilities will grant 1 second of maximum movement speed and Unhindered.

Unhindered means you can pass through enemies. Each charge grants an additional second of Unhindered, and enemies you collide with during the charge will be immobilized.

Therefore, you can add more skills or gear to stack bonuses that enhance stun effects, allowing you to better control enemies with Khamsin Steppewalkers and deal more damage in a short time.

Necromancer - Gravebloom

The value of this one-handed mace lies in its unique power, allowing you to summon three small golems, each dealing 40-60% of normal damage and gaining a 30% attack speed and 50% respawn speed bonus.

Furthermore, when the golems are at full health, they reduce enemy attack speed, and summoning a golem to attack twice grants Golem Mastery. This will be very suitable for the new Golem Necromancer Build in Season 11 craft.

Other gear benefits include:

• + Intelligence
• + Maximum Life
• + Chance for Golem to Hit Twice

Can Sanctification Enhance These New Gear?

As a brand new system, Sanctification allows your gear to be further enhanced after utilizing Tempering and Masterworking, but the final enhancement effect is random and cannot be modified after completion.

At first glance, this mechanism seems good, but the key issue is that if you randomly get a useless new affix, it can ruin the entire gear's value, wasting all your previous efforts to enhance it.

Therefore, from its launch on PTR to its end and even now, the player community has consistently been pessimistic about sanctification, and we also advise against hastily sanctifying new Uniques after acquiring them.

Based on this, we hope that after Season 11 launches, the development team can find a way to optimize this new mechanism, making it a true highlight of the new season, rather than just a filler feature.

That concludes our introduction. We hope this helps you choose and experience classes in Season 11! We wish you all the best on your new season journey!

Even as Season 10 draws to a close, you'll find many Diablo 4 players still enthusiastically farming various materials to upgrade their gear. You might wonder why, since these items and gear can only be transferred to Eternal Realm.

In fact, there are quite a few players who are keen on Eternal Realm, and due to the unique Chaos Armor mechanic, the number of people wanting to continue experiencing these powerful gears in Eternal Realm after Season 10 ends will probably increase.

Therefore, farming materials that can help upgrade gear in Masterworking system before Season 11 launches is indeed necessary. This time, we'll introduce how to farm Forgotten Souls in Season 10.

What Is Forgotten Soul?

It's a legendary crafting material that's indispensable when utilizing Masterworking mechanic to upgrade the affix value of your ancestral gear.

There are 12 available Masterworking levels. Gold and Obducite are always required during the upgrade process, while other required materials vary. The rarity of Forgotten Souls lies in the fact that they only serve Masterworking levels 9 and above.

However, it's important to note that items with the greater affix also require Forgotten Souls during levels 1-8 - in fact, only these types of items have the opportunity to continue upgrading after reaching Masterworking level 8.

Based on this, here are the required number of Forgotten Souls for each Masterworking crafting level:

• Level 1: 2 Forgotten Souls
• Level 2: 3 Forgotten Souls
• Level 3: 3 Forgotten Souls
• Level 4: 5 Forgotten Souls
• Level 5: 6 Forgotten Souls
• Level 6: 7 Forgotten Souls
• Level 7: 8 Forgotten Souls
• Level 8: 10 Forgotten Souls
• Level 9: 11 Forgotten Souls
• Level 10: 12 Forgotten Souls
• Level 11: 13 Forgotten Souls
• Level 12: 15 Forgotten Souls

How To Farm Forgotten Souls?

Although this item is relatively rare, it drops from quite a few sources, the most common being Legion Events, Helltides, and Infernal Hordes. We will introduce each one in detail.

Infernal Hordes

This method is introduced first because Diablo 4 is currently hosting Compass to Carnage event, allowing you to earn more Infernal Compasses than usual by playing the game, thus increasing your chances of unlocking Infernal Hordes.

This event will last until December 2nd. During this time, Infernal Hordes will feature more enemy hordes, and you can earn more Burning Aether by clearing Chaos Rifts, which can be exchanged for more rewards.

While this event doesn't provide an increase in Forgotten Souls drops, you'll likely focus on playing it until it ends, making Infernal Hordes your primary source of Forgotten Souls this week.

Legion Events

With one week remaining before Season 11 launches after Compass to Carnage ends, you should take full advantage of other gameplay methods to acquire Forgotten Souls, such as Legion Events.

These events, officially called The Gathering Legions, are limited-time events in Diablo 4 that only randomly spawn throughout Sanctuary after you complete or skip the base campaign.

Once Legion Events are activated, you need to complete a specialization objective within a time limit to unlock a boss. Defeating the boss completes the challenge and rewards you with various prizes, including Forgotten Souls.

These objectives might include:

• Slay Servants of Hell
• Complete mini-events
• Escort basins

The specific event you encounter and its specialization objective depend on the zone where the event is located. Note that areas marked with Strongholds need to be cleared before Legion Events will appear. All zones are as follows:

• Fractured Peaks - Kor Dragan Stronghold
• Dry Steppes - Norgoi Vigil
• Dry Steppes - Temple of Rot Stronghold
• Hawezar - Crusader's Monument Stronghold
• Hawezar - Haunted Wreckage
• Kehjistan - Alcarnus Stronghold
• Kehjistan - Dilapidated Aqueducts
• Scosglen - Carrowcrest Ruins
• Nahantu - Chakhir Stronghold
• Nahantu - Viz-jun

Legion Events have a group aspect; the more players gathered, the greater your chance of looting! Also, if a campfire icon appears within the event area after it starts, approach it to gain more XP.

If you are playing on Torment 4 difficulty, you will typically receive approximately 200 Forgotten Souls per completed Legion Event, which will be awarded as a loot chest or bonus chest.

Helltides

Helltides often coincide with Legion Events. If you're lucky enough to have both events in the same zone, you can acquire many Forgotten Souls in a short time!

As another limited-time event, Helltides refreshes every 5 minutes and lasts for 55 minutes each time, appearing as a red area on the minimap. It changes the appearance of the area and spawns new enemies.

During enemy kills and after unlocking specific chests, you have a chance to obtain the special currency, Aberrant Cinders. This currency can be used to unlock reward chests earned during Helltides, offering a chance to obtain Forgotten Souls.

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Note that Aberrant Cinders can only be used to unlock chests rewarded by the current Helltide and cannot be accumulated. To avoid wasting them, you need to consume them immediately after completing a round of Helltides.

Tree Of Whispers

This event is part of Diablo 4 endgame content and functions similarly to a bounty system. You'll unlock it after completing the campaign and begin completing its bounty missions to earn exclusive item Grim Favors.

Once you've accumulated 10 Grim Favors, you can return to Tree of Whispers and choose one of three collections as a reward. If you want to farm Forgotten Souls, prioritize the greater or ancestral collection.

Different bounty missions reward different amounts of Grim Favors; choose the more rewarding ones within your ability. If you accumulate more than 10 Grim Favors in a single run, the excess will be carried over to the next run's progress bar.

It's worth noting that Tree of Whispers missions typically spawn 5-7 within a zone, so you can choose to complete bounty missions simultaneously with Helltides or Legion Events in that zone to maximize Forgotten Souls farming efficiency.

While this guide is designed for Season 10, most of the content is expected to remain applicable after Season 11 launches. However, please note the minor changes due to the season update! Wishing you all the best at Sanctuary!