Diablo 4 Red Dust

Diablo 4 Season 11 is about to launch. Due to the increased overall difficulty of the new season, player survival has become more challenging, leading many players to search for guides and strategies, from methods for defeating World Bosses to optimal build recommendations for different classes.

As the launch date approaches, we've also been looking for suitable class builds for a smooth run. However, after reviewing numerous build guides, we've found that almost all strategies revolve around high damage and high output. This approach is indeed feasible; players can quickly defeat bosses on the map through overwhelming strength and then obtain the desired items and rewards.

Among these recommended items, we've noticed one item that's rarely mentioned: Temerity, this item has often been overlooked by players in previous seasons. But I believe that in Season 11, Diablo 4 Temerity can rise to prominence; everyone has underestimated its value.

Why Is It Underestimated?

Season of Divine Intervention has undergone many changes compared to its predecessors, from monster mechanics and difficulty to the item upgrade system. This means all players should proceed with greater caution.

Previously, we tended to charge into battle without much consideration for defense, especially in the endgame. This led to a continued bias towards attack power while neglecting defense in the new season.

However, based on our experience on PTR server, we believe this high-damage, low-defense playstyle needs to be changed. Survival has become more challenging; even with a defensive character build, players are still vulnerable.

After numerous trials, we discovered that Temerity is an excellent defensive item. It provides a significant defense boost without incurring excessive costs.

How To Obtain Temerity?

Temerity is a unique patch in Diablo 4, usable by any class. You can obtain it by summoning and killing the following monsters:

• Varshan
• Lord Zir
• Grigoire
• Echo of Duriel
• The Beast in the Ice
• Urivar

Alternatively, you can obtain it from chests dropped in Helltide Events.

Why Choose Temerity?

This item is incredibly powerful defensively, making it ideal for builds or classes that don't rely heavily on barriers. In other words, when your healing exceeds your maximum health, the excess is converted into a damage-absorbing barrier, essentially an extra layer of protection.

Even if you rely on barrier protection, its effect is still optimal, granting you an 8-second barrier, which is far superior to other equipment.

Especially with the recent upgrades to the healing system, healing effects have been enhanced. Healing effects are now essentially an attribute that can be applied to equipment, allowing you to use Temerity to convert all excess healing into a significant amount of barrier damage.

If you acquire this equipment early in the game and need a defensive boost, don't hesitate, equipping Diablo 4 Temerity is your best choice; its effects will surprise you.

This equipment was previously overlooked because the game's difficulty wasn't high enough, so its impact wasn't significant. However, with the increased difficulty of Season of Divine Intervention, I believe it will definitely stand out in the new season.

Many class builds in Season 11 are suitable for Temerity, especially Spiritborn, as it's one of the most vulnerable classes, particularly Legendary Nodes like Viscous Shield. In such cases, equipping Temerity provides an extra barrier protection.

How To Improve Temerity's Defensive Capabilities?

With the new season's updated defense mechanics and item upgrade system, we can optimize and enhance Temerity by adding appropriate affixes through Tempering and Masterworking. We can even use the newly added Sanctification system to give equipment a final boost, thereby maximizing Temerity's defensive capabilities.

Furthermore, with the reworked Fortify system in the new season update, stacking Fortify increases a player's Maximum Life, providing an additional benefit to Temerity's barrier protection.

Alternative Solutions

While Temerity isn't restricted to any class, some builds inevitably can't incorporate it into their gear because they require specific pants or unique skill attributes. For example, Rogues have Second Wind skill, and Necromancers have their own unique pants - Blood Moon Breeches.

In such cases, alternative methods are needed to obtain sufficient defensive capabilities. Runes do offer decent defensive benefits. In Diablo 4, runes' offensive output isn't particularly outstanding, often requiring a full set of runes to achieve the desired damage output.

However, some runes can provide unexpected defensive effects, such as Mot Rune, which grants a shadow from Rogue's Dark Shroud skill, providing up to 40% damage reduction.

In addition to these, there are some runes with slightly weaker defense, such as Xal, which increases your maximum health by 20%. Especially when your health is overflowing, it grants a huge amount of health over 4 seconds, but it requires Ritual Rune.

Other runes with defensive effects include:

• Que
• Wat
• Feo

While Season 11 may be more difficult than before, especially based on PTR server experience where some monsters seem to deal excessive damage, the developers have stated they will adjust the game balance in the live servers. Furthermore, due to adjustments to class skill mechanics, our characters are now stronger.

Therefore, we can invest more resources in defense, without having to spend as much time and effort on increasing damage output as before, while our map clearing and monster killing speed will not be affected. This is why I recommend using Temerity in Season of Divine Intervention.

I hope this information will be helpful as the new Diablo 4 season arrives. Have fun in the game!

Diablo 4 Season 11 is significantly more difficult than previous seasons, with monsters dealing more damage, which may impact character leveling.

Also, you might not want to take too much time on the campaign, so here are some of the most reliable leveling builds for every class this season.

Evade Spiritborn Build

This build revolves entirely around Accelerated Thunderspike, and each time you evade, Spiritborn automatically fires a large number of feathers, dealing area damage.

You don't need to aim at enemies, and simply dive into the monster horde and use the high-frequency evades to automatically clear them. The evasion also allows you to move quickly across the map while attacking, making it extremely efficient.

Defensively, Evade provides invincibility frames, allowing you to avoid damage while dealing damage, making it very safe. This build primarily relies on evasion cooldowns, requires minimal resource management, and is very easy to play.

You only need to adapt to this dodge-centric playstyle, which may feel different from other class-specific builds. Its transition to endgame is also very smooth, as you can continue to develop this build, using it as the core for endgame content, or seamlessly transition to other top-tier endgame builds like Quill Volley Spiritborn using resources accumulated during leveling.

Firewall Sorcerer Build

This leveling build primarily uses Firewall and Hydra as its core damage skills. Firewall's continuous damage and Hydra's multi-headed attack can quickly melt enemies.

After casting Firewall and summoning Hydra, you can move freely or cast other skills, allowing DoT effects to automatically deal with monsters, making it particularly suitable for dealing with groups of monsters and elite enemies. This indirect damage method provides a stable output environment even when your gear is poor in the early game.

The transition of Firewall Sorcerer build to endgame is also clear. Because it focuses on fire damage, it can be transitioned to Hydra build, and you only need to slightly adjust your Diablo 4 items. Alternatively, you could transition to Crackling Energy Sorcerer endgame build, which utilizes the new season mechanics and enhancements, and might be the strongest Sorcerer build this season.

Dance Of Knives Rogue Build

While Rogue's strength in endgame is relatively average, its high movement speed makes it one of the fastest-leveling classes. Dance of Knives Rogue is its most classic leveling build, used by Rogue players almost every season.

Dance of Knives is a continuous spinning attack, utilizing high-frequency AoE attacks, making Rogue very efficient at clearing mobs and very fun to play. Rogue's high mobility allows for repositioning during the spin to dodge monster attacks. Dance of Knives has good base damage and effects and doesn't rely on items, so it's quick to build in the early game.

The ideal goal for this build in endgame is to transition into Death Trap Rogue build. This is a classic build with high burst AoE damage, allowing for a smooth transition from Dance of Knives build.

Minion Build Necromancer Build

One of the defining features of Necromancer build is its summons, which serve as both primary damage dealers and defenders. Necromancer gains Skeleton Mages from level one, making for a smooth start.

Furthermore, with summons fighting at the front, Necromancer can safely command and cast support skills from the rear, reducing survivability pressure. Skeleton Mages' ranged attacks are effective in handling various situations. However, due to the class's characteristics, movement speed is slow, but its advantages are simplicity and safety.

Minion Build Necromancer can be perfectly transformed into one of the newest and strongest builds of the season - Golem Necromancer - at endgame. This build is built around the new and unique item Gravebloom, boasting an extremely high damage cap and capable of challenging levels 110 and above in The Pit, making it one of the most fun builds in Season 11.

HOTA Lunging Strike Barbarian Build

This is a hybrid build that utilizes Fury displacement and small-area attacks provided by Lunging Strike to handle single enemies, and Hammer of the Ancients for high-damage area-of-effect burst damage to clear dense groups of monsters.

The official release in Season 11 significantly buffed Barbarian's core skills, Paragon Legendary nodes, and primary stat scaling. This means that from level 1 to the endgame, Barbarian's base damage and scaling are better. You can flexibly focus on one of the two skill builds depending on the gear and effects you acquire.

At endgame, you can transition to either the pure HOTA build or the pure Lunging Strike build, depending on your gear and preferences.

Companion Druid Build

With the removal of Season 10 Chaos Perks, Druid's strength has returned to normal. However, the relative weakness of basic skills and early legendary effects has slowed down early-game monster clearing efficiency and pace.

You can choose Companion Druid build, playing like a Necromancer in the early game. However, this build isn't viable from the start, and you'll need more meticulous planning of your skill path and gear choices, and the experience might not be as smooth as other classes.

While leveling is weaker, Druids can still rise to prominence in the mid-to-late game after acquiring key legendary and unique items. You can switch to Pulverize Druid in the endgame.

Finally, when choosing your class and build, besides The Pit level, you should consider your personal preferences. Because if you're very familiar with the leveling process, the difference in leveling time between the fastest and slowest builds might only be 10-20 minutes. The important thing is whether you can obtain the necessary items during this process.