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After diving deep into the endgame of Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred, you quickly discover that gold becomes absolutely critical and is devoured in staggering quantities - far beyond anything seen in previous Seasons. With individual costs routinely soaring into the hundreds of millions, conventional methods of acquiring gold feel utterly inadequate.

As a result, players desperately need a way to massively boost gold drops. And right now, there is indeed a method that can increase your gold drops by over 900%, and it revolves around Charm system.

Why is Gold So Scarce?

Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred introduces several new systems while also resetting and expanding some older ones, and every single one of them comes with substantial costs.

• Paragon Nodes: The fee to respec each node scales dynamically, eventually reaching up to 50 million gold per node.
• Masterworking: Landing the final masterwork upgrade on a piece of gear costs 10 million gold per attempt.
• Attribute Rerolling: Continuously rerolling a specific affix on high-tier gear can cost tens of millions of gold per roll.
• War Plans: The cost of resetting skill points at each node also increases dynamically, exceeding 50 million gold per node.

How to Boost Gold Drops?

While leveling through the campaign, Set Charms and Seals you find mostly provide bonuses for Generic sets, which only increase basic attributes. Once you enter the endgame, however, the loot pool becomes almost entirely dominated by Class Specific sets. Seals you obtain will roll affixes that almost exclusively benefit class sets, no longer offering enhancements for Generic sets.

The goal of this method is to use a very specific trick to once again obtain Seals in the endgame that provide bonuses for Generic sets. You first need to activate Charm effect of Practiced Technique. Its generic effect increases attack speed and movement speed, and the 3-piece bonus also provides an additional 25% gold drop.

In truth, the gold bonus this set can provide in the endgame far exceeds that figure - it can actually reach an increase of over 900% to your gold drop rate.

Practiced Technique Set

To unlock this absurdly powerful affix, you must first obtain Practiced Technique Set. You can acquire all three pieces simply by completing the main campaign.

You need to equip at least two pieces of the set to activate its 2-piece bonus. If you kept the third piece and equip it as well, the 3-piece bonus grants an extra 25% gold drop on top of that.

If you accidentally dismantled or discarded the set while leveling, you may need to create a new character and replay the campaign to obtain it again.

How to Obtain The Affix?

Once you have the set, the next step is to acquire a Seal with that overpowered affix, which is done through a recipe in Horadric Cube.

Among the hundreds of Rare or Legendary Horadric Seals that drop directly from monsters in the endgame, the specific Generic set gold affix you need is virtually impossible to find. However, you can obtain these affixes through Seal fusion recipe.

You need to prepare 3 Legendary Seals of the same rarity, place them inside Horadric Cube, and then use a recipe to transform the 3 Legendary Seals into a single new Seal with randomized affixes.

The new Seal created through this method draws its affix pool with a bias toward Generic set bonuses once more, rather than the class set bonuses that are so common in the endgame. This gives you a genuine chance to roll an affix that boosts Practiced Technique Set.

Simply repeat this process until you obtain a Seal with an affix that states: "If you have Practiced Technique Set equipped, you gain 911%-961% increased gold drop rate."

Difficulty Selection

Torment Tier difficulty in the game inherently provides a gold bonus. This bonus caps out at Torment 10, granting a base 300% increased Diablo 4 gold drop. Torment 11 and 12 do not increase this value any further.

Therefore, your final gold drop rate is: Torment difficulty bonus (up to 300%) plus that Seal affix bonus, totaling over 1200%. Apply this combined bonus to any gold-generating activity, and the returns become absolutely monstrous.

It is worth noting, however, that in order to equip the low-level Practiced Technique Set, you will lose the 5-piece class set bonus from your regular build, as well as any single Unique Charm you might have had equipped. This causes a significant drop in your character's overall power.

It is recommended to lower your game difficulty to Torment 10 first, since higher tiers do not offer additional gold gains, and there is no reason to sacrifice your clear speed on a higher difficulty.

Additionally, if you have the time, you can put together a dedicated speed-farming build specifically for gold. Whenever you need a massive amount of gold, swap into your gold-farming gear, rapidly rack up billions of gold, and then switch back to your regular combat equipment. You won't have to worry about gold for a very long time afterward.

With this method, you can amass billions of gold extremely quickly to cover the enormous costs of Paragon resets, affix re-rolls, and masterworking. However, this is likely a data vulnerability that the developers have overlooked, and they may fix it soon, so remember to take full advantage of this vulnerability until it's fixed.

Lord of Hatred has brought sweeping changes to every class in Diablo 4, with each skill tree undergoing a massive rework. Many builds players were once familiar with are now unrecognizable, some have vanished entirely, and entirely new ones have emerged in their place.

In Season 13, if you want to level quickly and transition smoothly into the endgame, choosing an efficient build is crucial. Below, let's look at the strongest leveling builds for each class in Season 13 so you can hit max level with ease.

Warlock

• Build: Dread Claw Warlock

Warlock is absolutely central to Lord of Hatred expansion, and since it's a new class, experimenting with any build feels fresh. From a leveling standpoint, however, Dread Claw Warlock is currently the best option.

In terms of gameplay, you'll frequently use Nether Step to dive into enemy packs. It serves as your primary mobility tool while also generating Shadow Form stacks.

Your core damage skill is Dread Claws, which can instantly clear everything in sight. For single targets and elites, you can lean on Profane Sentinel and use Terror Swarm to boost your clearing speed.

Although the build can be a bit complex to pilot, it's incredibly solid in every aspect, letting you breeze through the campaign and step into early endgame content.

Paladin

• Build: Wing Strikes Paladin

Anyone who played Paladin in Season 12 will sing praises about how smooth it feels. This class is nearly flawless in survivability, damage, and farming. Wing Strikes Paladin is, without a doubt, still the best leveling build for the class.

The core goal is to permanently maintain Arbiter form, allowing Wing Strikes to obliterate everything around you. Even if your gear lacks affixes that extend Arbiter form, you can effortlessly sustain it by continuously using Falling Star, Condemn, and Flash of the Blade Advance.

This build makes you practically unkillable, grants absurd mobility, and transitions perfectly into a variety of endgame builds - including the endgame version of Wing Strikes itself.

Rogue

• Build: Dance of Knives Rogue

Dance of Knives has once again become one of the fastest and most powerful leveling builds in the entire game, thanks to its extraordinary mobility, flexible imbue mechanics, and insane single-target damage against elites and bosses.

Combined with Dark Shroud, Dance of Knives Rogue can easily break the 200% movement speed cap. At the same time, it boasts excellent defenses through the damage reduction Dark Shroud provides. You simply spin and move at high speed, annihilating everything with Dance of Knives.

Sorcerer

• Build: Static Field Blizzard Sorcerer

Static Field Blizzard Sorcerer deals absurdly high damage and requires absolutely no Unique items or Legendary Aspects to get rolling, making it incredibly fast to set up. The gameplay is simple: cast Static Field Blizzard to deal damage, and pop Unstable Currents for burst against priority targets like bosses.

Static Field Blizzard is a damage-over-time skill, so avoid stacking Critical Strike Chance or any stats that improve Critical Strike Damage - they have no effect on this skill. Even so, without any other buffs, its base damage can exceed 10,000% of your weapon damage within 1.5 seconds, making it Sorcerer's strongest core skill this season.

Keep in mind this build cannot function before level 30. Until then, you can get by with any other build. Once you reach the early endgame, you can also keep using this build to farm items and Diablo 4 gold, given its outstanding performance relative to the investment required.

Spiritborn

• Build: Rock Splitter Spiritborn

Rock Splitter Spiritborn is a classic leveling build that delivers strong performance in both damage and survivability. Later on, you can leverage Rushing Claw and its variants to achieve permanent dodging, letting you zip across the map (while weaving in Rock Splitter between every other skill). This build is absolutely one of the fastest in the entire game.

Barbarian

• Build: Whirlwind Barbarian

Barbarian's core in Season 13 is Whirlwind, which becomes accessible as early as level 3. The gameplay is straightforward: use Lunging Strike to close the gap and generate Fury; cast whatever Shouts you've unlocked for bonus damage and movement speed; then hold down Whirlwind to spin and unleash massive damage.

This build dishes out terrifying damage right from the start, while Lunging Strike and Leap provide extra mobility, letting your character charge straight into packs and flatten everything.

Necromancer

• Build: Minions Necromancer

Minions Necromancer has always been one of the best leveling builds in Diablo 4, especially after the class resets in Season 13 polished minion management.

Early on, you'll invest points into Skeletal Mages and Skeletal Warriors. When your Ultimate unlocks, Army of the Dead is the natural choice. It deals increased damage and generates more corpses, helping you handle bosses efficiently. This minion build can carry you through the entire campaign all the way to level 70. It only starts to fall off once you push into higher Torment difficulties, but during the leveling phase, it's unquestionably one of the strongest and quickest builds to get going.

Druid

• Build: Stormclaw Druid

After its rework, Druid no longer feels as clunky as before. You can choose to summon companions or lean on damage skills to level up. Stormclaw Druid is the most efficient route, though the gameplay differs slightly between early and later stages due to the skills used.

In the early phase, you'll use Wind Shear to generate Spirit and apply Vulnerable, with Lightning Storm as your main killing tool. Companion skills are crucial here - you'll rely on them to handle single targets and provide crowd control.

Once you reach the mid-game, Claw replaces Wind Shear as your primary Spirit generator. All of this sets up Hero of the Storm at level 32, and it could transform Lightning Storm into a passive effect that follows you around. Combined with mobility skills, you simply keep moving to deal with everything around you.

While these are the best leveling builds for Season 13, the time it takes to complete the campaign can vary significantly due to differences in gear, movement speed, and other factors across characters. For each class, however, these builds represent the most efficient path.

With only 3 days left until release, all content for Diablo 4 Season 13 and Lord of Hatred has finally been officially revealed! Not only is there new content, but also significant optimizations to several regular mechanics!

While some new features are exclusive to Lord of Hatred owners, systemic changes are available to all Diablo 4 players, such as adjustments to the skill trees.

Different classes have different available skills and related builds, and this update includes further adjustments for Druid and Necromancer beyond the main changes.

Therefore, regardless of which class you want to play in Season 13/LoH, you must understand these changes to ultimately master the best skill tree setup and build crafting strategies. Below is a detailed guide.

What is the skill tree?

The skill tree is a progression system in Diablo 4 that allows you to unlock and upgrade active, passive, and ultimate skills using points earned during leveling.

While the system stops leveling your character after they reach the level cap, with Paragon board taking over, skills are the foundation of your crafting character and builds and cannot be replaced.

General changes to the skill tree

Season 13's skill tree changes can be divided into generic and Druid/Necromancer-specific changes, but the actual impact of these generic changes varies across different skill tree classes.

Firstly, all skill trees have been redesigned with reset/addition options, while existing passive skill nodes have been moved out, becoming more associated with legendary aspects or unique items.

To fill this gap, some legendary aspects that were previously similar to skills have been moved into the skill tree.

Based on this, you can think of the reworked Diablo 4 skill tree as primarily driven by active skills, with each active skill having three branches that can be unlocked by leveling up the skill itself.

The first two branches provide general trainer effects, while the last one introduces three additional variants, which may be based on legendary aspects or offer entirely new surprises!

These variations can even directly change skill categories, making it easier to create synergies with the corresponding types of effects from your acquired gear.

It's important to note that only two of the three skill variations offered by the third branch can be unlocked and used without Lord of Hatred. To maximize the impact of this new mechanic, it's best to acquire the new expansion immediately!

Overall, these changes strengthen the skill system through branches and variations while streamlining it through additions and removals, making skill unlocking and combination more efficient.

This way, even during the early stages of a season, when rare gear is scarce, you can leverage the skill tree to craft simple yet reliable builds, allowing you to farm more Diablo 4 gold than you could at the same stage in previous seasons.

It's also worth mentioning that, perhaps to better complement the new skill tree, the character level cap has been raised to 70 starting with Season 13, allowing you to gain more skill points.

Druid additional changes

In addition to the general changes mentioned above, Druid and Necromancer have received "extra attention."

As you know, Druid is a class that can gain different benefits through transformation. With this in mind, the game has added additional node switching functionality to some Druid skills.

More specifically, you can switch between different transformation forms at any time between the second and third branches as needed, simply by changing skill points, and this switching requires no consumption.

Of course, switching Druid nodes isn't without its limitations, as that would disrupt class balance. For example, some skills cannot be applied to multiple forms, or cannot be used to transform into a human based on the native Werewolf/Werebear skills.

Necromancer additional changes

This class includes multiple skill types: blood, bone, darkness, and summoning magic, and can utilize the unique mechanic, Book of the Dead.

This mechanic allows you to customize your minions' abilities and deployment methods, using them to deal more damage. Available minion types include skeletal warriors/mages and golems.

Each type of minion has two different upgrade paths and a sacrifice option. Sacrifice results in losing the minion but gaining permanent buffs.

Based on this, the new skill tree system incorporates these three types of minions, while the original Book of the Dead remains largely unchanged, but sacrifice can be used with minions active due to the corresponding skill.

As for the sacrifice skill itself, while it reduces the number of minions and damage, it's still quite effective for some support functions.

Detailed changes to the other 6 classes

Paladin is the only class that provides three enhancement options for each skill at the end of the skill tree, and most of the new variants are derived from these enhancement designs.

Based on this, the actual changes to Paladin are not significant; only some modifiers are entirely new. However, considering it's still a new class, this is quite normal.

After the Barbarian skill tree was reworked, you can specialize it to be more focused on single-target or AoE damage based on your preferences and needs. Many skill variants allow you to trigger fire damage more frequently.

As for Rogue, besides various new nodes and variants, the most prominent change to this class's skill tree is that Dance of Knives has been reworked and become a core skill.

One variant of this skill now directly replaces the throwing knife thrown while spinning with a grenade. This not only effectively turns it into a grenade skill but also gives it new synergies and more combo possibilities.

The core of Sorcerer skill tree changes lies in elemental switching, giving almost every skill the ability to switch elements. While this isn't unique to Sorcerer, the class does have many unique elemental synergy mechanisms.

Spiritborn, on the other hand, combines the reworked skill variant mechanics with a mix of Spirit Skill Tags, allowing skills to interact more deeply with the class's core mechanics, making Spiritborn skill system feel more cohesive.

As for Warlock, it's a completely new class that will only be available after Lord of Hatred opens, so the skill tree rework doesn't bring changes to it, but rather represents a completely new system.

In short, mastering the skills and skill tree setup of your chosen class will allow you to level up your character faster in the early season, complete progression, and lay a solid foundation for endgame. Wishing you all the best on your Season 13/LoH journey!

In the high-difficulty content of Diablo IV, death often comes in the blink of an eye. This becomes even more common once you push beyond The Pit level 100 and start tackling endgame activities modified by a Bloodsoaked Sigil.

You certainly want your build to perform better in terms of survivability and avoid getting instantly killed when surrounded by monsters. So let's take a look at all the defensive mechanics, stat requirements, and the most powerful survival tricks in Season 12.

Avoiding Damage

You might think that strong defenses let you absorb more damage, but in reality, the best defense is avoiding damage altogether.

The game features many mechanics designed as one-shot kills, such as specific boss abilities or AoE attacks in high-difficulty content. You could try to make your character tough enough to tank those hits, but that usually means sacrificing a great deal of DPS.

You need to learn to watch for and dodge ground-based AoE effects and explosions. For certain bosses, the most direct defense is to defeat them before they can land a fatal attack.

Note that since Season 11, many monsters trigger explosions or other effects upon death. Remember not to linger in those blast zones.

Damage Calculation

Damage reduction in the game stacks multiplicatively, in a reverse manner. You don't need to fully understand the complex formula, but you should remember that a single high source of damage reduction is far better than the sum of multiple low sources.

One 70% damage reduction is much more effective than two 35% damage reductions. This means you cannot stack various damage reduction sources to reach 100% immunity. Your goal is typically to push both armor and resistance-based damage reduction to around 70%, which will give you a very comfortable survival experience.

Defensive Stats

To build a solid defense, you first need to understand the various defensive stats in the game and how they work. Here are the most critical ones:

• HP: The most basic survival stat, representing your health pool.
• Recovery: How fast you restore health. Life on Hit is the most effective method.
• Barrier: An extra shield layered on top of your health; it is consumed before your health.
• Fortification: Builds up over your health like a barrier. When you lose health, Fortification automatically depletes itself to refill your health.
• Armor: One of the most important defensive stats in the game, reducing damage from most damage types.
• Damage Reduction: Reduces damage of any kind, you found the affixe on Diablo 4 items.

For most players aiming to tackle Tormented 4 difficulty content, here are some minimum defensive stat targets to consider. Note that these numbers are not absolute; actual requirements will vary depending on your class, playstyle, and ability to dodge.

• HP: At least 10,000.
• Armor: 15,000 recommended.
• Resistances: 3,000 to 4,000 recommended.

Armor generally takes priority over resistances. If your character's survivability feels lacking, it's usually because armor is below par, not resistances. 15,000 Armor provides roughly 68% physical damage reduction, while 4,000 in a given elemental resistance grants about 75% reduction against that spell school.

If you are a Strength-based class, Strength itself grants bonus armor, so your armor value will far exceed that of other classes - this is why they are naturally tankier. If you are an Intelligence-based class, Intelligence provides bonus resistances.

If one of your single resistances is particularly low, you can socket the corresponding gem in your jewelry slots. However, a more universal approach is to socket Diamonds to raise all resistances. If you are not a Strength-based class, you can also consider Skulls for physical damage reduction.

Beyond the core stats above, the following two factors can also greatly enhance your survivability:

• Cooldown Reduction: Many classes have skills that inherently grant damage reduction. Shorter cooldowns mean you can activate those damage-reducing skills more frequently.
• Movement Speed: Higher speed makes it easier to dodge ground AoE and explosions - this itself is a very effective form of defense.

Runewords

If you're struggling with survivability and want the fastest, simplest solution, the answer lies in Runewords. This approach is far more efficient than endlessly farming and Masterworking gear stats.

Que

Que generates a powerful barrier for you that lasts 3 seconds. All you need to do is pair it with a Rune that triggers easily and automatically to activate its effect, and you'll have an almost permanent barrier.

Mot

Mot rune is one of the strongest sources of damage reduction in the game. It creates five dark shrouds that spin around you, each providing 8% damage reduction, for a total of 40%. This 40% from a separate multiplicative multiplier is unmatched and dramatically improves your survivability.

Vex

Vex rune does not directly boost your survivability, but it grants ranks to all your skills. For certain classes, higher skill ranks mean more damage reduction.

Melted Heart of Selig

If you truly crave immortality - the ability to tank attacks that should not be survivable - there is one Mythic item that almost cheats the system to enhance your survivability: Melted Heart of Selig.

Its unique effect is "Damage taken from your health is redirected to your primary resource, and damage taken this way is significantly reduced." By pushing your build to minimize your health pool as much as possible, based on the percentage conversion principle, you can achieve a near-invincible state.

Almost every class and build can use this item. Currently, the strongest representative is HoTA Barbarian, but it also works well for Necromancers, Trap Rogues, and other builds that rely on resource generation for bonus damage. However, using it usually means losing a substantial amount of damage output unless your build can perfectly leverage a high resource cap to amplify damage.

In summary, building a tough character is not just about stacking health. A character with 20,000 HP but lacking damage reduction and recovery will be far less durable than one with only 10,000 HP but with properly balanced stats. Combine gear, attributes, and Runewords together, and your character will feel completely different.

It has been over a week since the launch of Diablo 4 Season 12, how has your experience been so far? While our current impressions may not be entirely comprehensive, they offer a genuine, real-time perspective.

This season centers around themes of blood and slaughter, with its seasonal gameplay revolving primarily around The Butcher and various Bloodied activities.

Given that the second DLC is slated to launch in just a month, Season 12 clearly serves as a transitional phase; however, this does not excuse the development team from delivering a quality experience.

Below, we present a comprehensive, real-time review of Season 12, evaluating its various gameplay features and their performance over the past week.

Are Slaughterhouses worth playing?

This newly added dungeon serves as one of the primary battlegrounds where you get to play as The Butcher. Once you have obtained a Slaughterhouse Key by clearing Helltides, simply select the key from your inventory and interact with the dungeon entrance on the map to enter.

While inside the dungeon, you can go on a rampage as The Butcher to earn loot. Other players can also enter the dungeon while it is active, which may lead to issues regarding loot distribution and competition.

First, it must be admitted that the ability to transform into The Butcher is genuinely fun, the experience is particularly enjoyable when using this method to level up your alternate characters.

However, the awkward reality sets in once the battle is over: compared to other endgame activities, the loot drops in Slaughterhouses are generally underwhelming. For instance, you must complete the dungeon six times just to earn a single skill point.

On the other hand, as you progress through the season, you can earn Slaughterhouse Keys more quickly by increasing your Reputation level; yet, the inherent lack of value in the dungeon itself ultimately renders this accelerated access somewhat pointless.

The Broiler lair boss battle

During Season 12, you can view The Broiler as a variant of The Butcher, specifically, a unique Lair Boss encounter or a distinct challenge phase related to him.

The primary drop obtained after defeating The Broiler is Fresh Meat, which can be exchanged at vendors for powerful Bloodied items. This special gear improves itself by acquiring unique affixes based on the tier of your current Killstreak.

From a visual standpoint, the arena design for this Lair Boss battle is excellent. Furthermore, beyond just Bloodied items, trading your Fresh Meat offers a chance to gamble for even rarer Mythic items.

While Slaughterhouses can indeed drop Fresh Meat, The Butcher lair boss battle surpasses them in every respect, both in terms of the quantity of drops and the sheer fun and value of the gameplay experience itself.

Bloodied and Blood-Soaked Sigils

The primary function of these two items is to allow you to earn greater rewards upon victory by increasing the difficulty of the enemies or the dungeon itself.

Specifically, Bloodied Sigils utilize exclusive affixes to guarantee that The Butcher will appear during the modified event; furthermore, the difficulty of all other enemies will be raised one tier higher than your current global difficulty setting.

Blood-Soaked Sigils operate similarly to Bloodied Sigils, with the key difference being that they elevate enemy difficulty to a level approaching Tier 100 of The Pit, provided, of course, that you have already unlocked that specific tier.

If you are keen on dedicating a significant amount of time to playing Season 12, the challenges presented by Bloodied Sigils will undoubtedly satisfy your appetite.

However, it is precisely this combination of high rewards and extreme difficulty that makes things a bit tricky, as some of the content appears to be designed specifically for builds centered around the powerhouse Paladin class or other high-tier characters.

This comes as unwelcome news for players who wish to challenge themselves but find their options limited by their choice of class or available gear. While Paladin is certainly fun to play, the experience loses its luster if you feel forced to choose it just to keep up.

Analysis of the current loot landscape

First off, Bloodied items, a signature feature of Season 12, are quite interesting in their own right. They become particularly appealing if you manage to roll additional boosts to various core attributes, as this allows for even deeper levels of optimization within your gear enhancement system.

In terms of gear drop rates, Season 12 is actually quite generous; provided you actively engage with the various gameplay activities, you stand a good chance of acquiring gear pieces featuring double, triple, or even more Greater Affixes.

However, an awkward issue arises when you attempt to further enhance this gear. For instance, when imprinting an Aspect onto a standard piece of gear that lacks Greater Affixes, the resulting numerical values consistently default to the lowest possible tier.

While this issue does not affect Mythics or gear pieces that already possess GAs, standard gear currently constitutes the backbone of most players' build-crafting efforts.

Consequently, this bug prevents players from making progress according to their plans during the early stages of the season.

Furthermore, if you attempt to claim Paragon points awarded as seasonal progression rewards, you will discover that they simply fail to register in your character's inventory.

Furthermore, this applies even if you managed to secure the Resplendent Sparks reward chest on the very first day of the season.

While some of these bugs were subsequently resolved, the launch day of Season 12 was indeed plagued by numerous issues, problems significant enough to have wasted your time and effort.

More importantly, as of now, the drop rates for various crafting materials, particularly items like Obducite, remain consistently low. This scarcity prevents you from further enhancing your acquired gear through mechanics such as Masterworking.

Summary

In terms of new gameplay mechanics, specifically the various design elements centered around The Butcher, Season 12 offers some rather innovative concepts.

However, regarding the ultimate rewards and overall balance, it falls short of expectations; consequently, content like Slaughterhouses is almost certain to be forgotten as the season progresses.

Additionally, the loot system suffers from unbalanced drop rates, and the early days of the season, were rife with bugs, a combination of issues that has severely dampened players' enthusiasm for the seasonal grind.

Most notably, Paladin class currently offers a far superior gameplay experience compared to the others, leading one to suspect that Diablo 4 is deliberately attempting to entice players into pre-ordering Lord of Hatred expansion. This sensation of being coerced into making a trade is truly unpleasant.

As a concise and focused transitional season, Season 12 should have aimed to delight players and build anticipation for the upcoming DLC; instead, it has erected various obstacles in their path.

The above constitutes our preliminary review of Diablo 4: Season 12, based on the current state of the game. Whether you choose to invest your time in playing remains entirely a matter of your personal preference. Regardless, we wish you the best of luck in the new season!

Crackling Energy Sorcerer was a massive favorite back in Diablo 4 Season 11. A quick look at the Sorcerer leaderboards in The Pit showed countless players mastering this build, and in Season 12, it remains one of the most dominant forces in the entire game. Its power rivals that of any top-tier setup, including Paladin.

This build offers incredible clear speed, making it a top-tier choice for fast farming. More importantly, it handles the increased difficulty introduced in Season 12 with ease. Its greatest strength lies in its phenomenal single-target damage. In short, it excels in every scenario and is a blast to play.

How Crackling Energy Sorcerer Works?

Esadora's Overflowing Cameo

This entire playstyle is built around one key item: Esadora's Overflowing Cameo. A Sorcerer has multiple ways to generate Crackling Energy, such as through the skill Ball Lightning or the passive Static Discharge. These energy orbs appear on the ground when monsters are defeated or when certain skills trigger.

Upon picking up Crackling Energy, you gain stacks, and your character becomes wreathed in arcs of lightning that automatically strike nearby foes.

When you reach maximum stacks while wearing Esadora's Overflowing Cameo, a cascade occurs, rapidly unleashing all stored energy. At this moment, every lightning arc focuses on the single closest target, delivering a continuous barrage of strikes ten times faster than normal.

This is the secret behind the build's incredible single-target damage. During boss encounters, you will witness their health bar vanish as you effectively channel all your area-of-effect power onto them.

As for groups, your clear speed is determined by how quickly you can chain through individual monsters. However, with constant Teleports to reposition, the efficiency is surprisingly fast in endgame, whether you're leveling or farming Diablo 4 gold.

How to Scale Your Damage?

The damage of Crackling Energy is boosted by global damage modifiers and specific bonuses to Lightning damage. However, the most significant and impactful way to scale it is by stacking skill ranks.

The discharge from Esadora's Overflowing Cameo benefits exponentially from your skill ranks. Therefore, the core of this build is to maximize this stat as much as possible.

Vex Rune

A previous bug prevented Vex Rune's bonus to skill ranks from applying to amulets, but this has now been fixed. Utilizing it to boost your skills effectively grants a massive 180% multiplicative damage increase, making the build even more formidable.

Core Skills

This build features three Core skills on its action bar simultaneously: Charge Bolts, Chain Lightning, and Ball Lightning. This strategy allows affixes on your weapon, offhand, and gloves that grant ranks to Core skills to benefit all three simultaneously, maximizing the return.

All Add Skills Level Affixes

When you have affixes that boost all skills, this multiplier applies to a wide range of abilities—the three Core skills plus various passives—making it incredibly potent. Ultimately, your total skill ranks can easily reach around 100, which translates to a 10 to 12-fold multiplier for Esadora's Overflowing Cameo's discharge.

Crackling Energy Sorcerer Skills

The following skills should be placed on your action bar:

• Teleport
• Chain Lightning
• Ball Lightning
• Charge Bolts
• Unstable Currents
• Lightning Spear

Beyond the action bar, skills like Familiar also require some of your skill points, as it can be triggered by your Ultimate, Unstable Currents. Other skills such as Ice Armor and Flame Shield are utilized through their enchantment effects.

Your primary method of dealing damage is to cast Ball Lightning frequently. Your Ultimate ability, Unstable Currents, randomly triggers various lightning skills, including Charge Bolts.

Charge Bolts serves as a vital AoE skill. When triggered, it fans out, dealing widespread damage and helping you rapidly clear packs of lesser monsters.

Lightning Spear contributes additional damage and, crucially, applies Vulnerable to all monsters it hits. Combined with Aspect of Shredding Blades, it deals even more damage to vulnerable enemies.

Crackling Energy Sorcerer Gear

While Esadora's Overflowing Cameo is absolutely essential for Crackling Energy Sorcerer, several other items can be swapped based on availability. Here are some of the key Uniques you'll aim for before acquiring Mythic items:

• Esadora's Overflowing Cameo
• Temerity
• Godslayer Crown
• Orsivane
• Raiment of the Infinite
• Galvanic Azurite
• Esu's Heirloom

Although the build doesn't carry active defensive skills on its bar, your character is far from fragile.

Orsivane is a core weapon for this setup. Besides granting ranks to Core skills, its unique property provides a significant damage reduction bonus as long as you have no defensive skills on your bar.

You can place defensive skills in your enchantment slots to gain their benefits for free.

• Ice Armor: Using a healing potion automatically grants a robust barrier.
• Flame Shield: Taking fatal damage or dropping to critically low health automatically triggers Flame Shield, protecting you from harm.

Temerity, the unique pants, allows you to generate a barrier simply by dealing damage. Given the high attack frequency from Crackling Energy, Lightning Spear, and your Ultimate, this barrier is almost constantly active, greatly enhancing your survivability. Any hit that isn't strong enough to eliminate you in one blow is quickly absorbed by this barrier.

Mobility

In addition to Teleport on your skill bar, you can socket a Jah Rune to gain a second Teleport charge, further boosting your movement speed through maps.

If you want to push speed to its absolute limit, you can swap to The Oculus. Its effect resets Teleport's cooldown whenever you strike an enemy with it, enabling a chain of endless teleports to instantly traverse entire zones. You can keep The Oculus in your inventory and equip it specifically for situations demanding maximum speed.

Crackling Energy Sorcerer is an incredibly versatile build and is exceptionally well-suited for tackling the challenging bosses introduced in Diablo 4 Season 12. If you enjoyed it in Season 11, you'll find it remains a powerhouse in Season 12, made even stronger by the fix to Vex Rune interaction.

Although Diablo 4 Season 12 offers a wealth of playable content, The Pit remains the top favorite among many veteran players. It not only provides valuable rewards but also delivers a unique, fast-paced pushing experience.

However, maximizing both the rewards and the enjoyment of The Pit hinges on one crucial factor: utilizing builds that excel at clearing enemies quickly and efficiently within the current season's meta.

Without such builds, reaching the higher tiers of The Pit becomes an incredibly difficult challenge.

In this guide, based on the current state of Season 12, we will recommend several builds designed to help you rapidly conquer more than 100 tiers of The Pit, even during the early stages of the season!

The Pit Overview

This Diablo 4 endgame activity is officially known as The Pit of Artificers. Once you reach level 60, you can initiate a run by consuming 3 Artificer's Stones.

Each entry into The Pit offers up to 150 tiers to unlock, subject to a 15-minute time limit. The faster you clear each individual tier, the more new tiers you will unlock for subsequent runs.

If your character unfortunately dies during combat, 30 seconds will be added to your timer; this time penalty doubles and stacks cumulatively with every subsequent death.

Regardless of how many tiers you ultimately complete, once the timer runs out, you will be able to claim your rewards, typically consisting of Legendary or Unique gear, as well as various crafting materials.

Non-Mythic Speed Paladin

As the name suggests, the greatest advantage of our first recommended build for pushing The Pit is immediately apparent: it allows for rapid progression without the need for Mythic items! After all, while Mythics are undeniably powerful, they can be quite difficult to acquire during the early stages of a season.

To craft this build, you must first equip Godslayer Crown and pair it with the appropriate runes. By utilizing Runes that help supplement your critical hit chance, specifically GAR Rune, you can synergize with the helm to pull all nearby monsters directly toward you.

This setup ensures that whenever you apply crowd control effects to enemies, the effect of the runes is triggered. By layering other complementary runes on top of this foundation, you can trigger these effects even more frequently, allowing you to execute multiple consecutive evasions.

Juggernaut Oath skill is an absolute essential, as it grants you increased damage against crowd-controlled enemies. Additionally, do not forget to select Aspect of Glynn's Anvil for your boots to ensure you can quickly stack your Resolve to its maximum capacity.

Finally, you must ensure that your gear includes affixes that reduce your evade cooldown whenever you deal damage; without this specific stat, the entire build will fail to function correctly.

The core damage rotation for this build involves first using Arbiter of Justice to perform an evade, immediately followed by an attack, then another evade, and another attack. As long as you maintain this rhythm, virtually all skill effects will trigger automatically.

Consequently, not only does this build have low requirements regarding gear rarity, but it also features a very low operational difficulty. Aside from The Pit, it is highly suitable for tackling most standard seasonal content.

Zealspin Paladin

It must be said that, even after undergoing several nerfs, Paladin continues to hold a dominant position in the current state of Diablo 4.

This build leverages a variety of synergistic effects to deal massive damage; furthermore, when paired with Arbiter, it allows you to cast spells and inflict damage upon enemies while simultaneously evading attacks.

In terms of combat style, it actually bears similarities to the previous Paladin build; however, Zealspin Paladin relies more heavily on Mythic gear.

First and foremost, Heir of Perdition provides a multiplicative damage bonus of up to 60%. Moreover, if you are tackling The Pit in a party, and other teammates are also wearing this specific piece of gear, this effect can stack even further.

As for the chest armor, we recommend Shroud of False Death; its exceptional affix, granting +1 to the ranks of all passive skills, is simply perfect. Amulet of Jacques' Fervor grants you an additional strike damage bonus of up to 20% for every stack of Fervor you accumulate.

Additionally, you should prioritize stacking cooldown reduction attributes on your gear to ensure that Arbiter remains active at all times.

If you feel this level of reduction is unnecessary for your playstyle, you are free to swap out these attributes to better suit your specific needs.

Evade Spiritborn

Historically, most Spiritborn builds have been renowned for their wide-area damage coverage and excellent movement speed, qualities that are immensely beneficial for clearing The Pit.

Building upon this foundation, Evade Spiritborn build stands out as a particularly exceptional performer in this regard. Therefore, if you plan to continue playing Spiritborn class in Season 12, this build is undoubtedly your top choice for all manner of speed farming activities.

Regarding Mythic gear requirements, this build calls for Shroud of False Death. For Spiritborn class specifically, this item's greatest benefit is that if you have not dealt any damage within the past 2 seconds, you gain Stealth and a 40% increase in movement speed.

The choice of Spirit Hall is a crucial element in enhancing the effectiveness of your class and its associated builds; specifically, Double Eagle Spirit Hall is the ideal choice for Evade Spiritborn.

With this setup, in addition to activating Evade, your Primary Spirit Hall allows you to simultaneously unleash a volley of storm feathers every time you cast Evade or Seeker.

Meanwhile, your Secondary Spirit Hall ensures critical hit triggers and provides buffs specifically tailored to capitalize on Vulnerable effects.

If possible, we recommend acquiring Loyalty's Mantle unique item to further boost the overall potency of your Double Eagle Spirit Hall setup.

The above represents our recommendations for several builds that strike an excellent balance between speed and damage while farming The Pit.

Feel free to further optimize these builds based on your own preferences, or experiment with other playstyles to discover new possibilities!

Thanks to Killstreak system in Diablo 4 Season 12, player leveling has become significantly faster. In previous seasons, if you were highly efficient, you could reach level 60 in about four hours. In Season 12, however, that time can be compressed to under two hours.

There's no real secret to it. If you can team up with other players to farm Helltides, you can achieve this too. So, once you hit this new starting line at level 60, what should you do next? Let's break down the steps you need to take from level 60 all the way into the endgame.

Initial Preparation

First, open your character sheet and confirm the leveling build you are using. Your core objective now is to enter Torment 1. To unlock this difficulty, you need to challenge The Pit and reach Tier 20 within the time limit. This is very straightforward and is something you might even accomplish before hitting level 60.

Once you've entered Torment 1, your primary goal is to get stronger quickly so you can start challenging the endgame boss encounters. It's crucial because only in Torment 1 and above do monsters begin to drop powerful Ancestral quality gear, which will give your build a significant power boost. Before you head off to face Lair Bosses, you can utilize your available resources for an initial power spike. 

Gambling for Gear

You can gamble using Murmuring Obols at Purveyor of Curiosities. Prioritize the equipment slots your build needs, focusing on trying to get a better weapon. If your luck doesn't pan out and you don't get the ideal Ancestral weapon, using the best weapon you currently have is perfectly fine. If you obtain a better chest piece, be sure to equip that as well.

Claim Season Rewards

Don't forget to open Season Journey interface and check your accumulated rewards. Through farming Helltides and leveling up, you've built up a substantial amount of Season standing. Claiming these rewards will provide you with a wealth of gear and Aspects, which is a tremendous help in the early stages of the endgame.

Upgrading Your Gear

Whether you obtained new gear through farming or gambling, you'll need to give it some initial refinement.

Aspects

Open your Codex of Power and see which offensive Aspects are essential for your build. If you find a legendary item with one of these Aspects, even if the item itself isn't high-level, you can extract its power and imprint it onto your current main weapon or jewelry. This will cause a qualitative leap in your damage output.

Tempering

Similarly, use Tempering to add additional affixes to your gear. You don't need to be perfect at this stage; just choose the options that suit your build's requirements. Stats like Movement Speed and Cooldown Reduction are consistently excellent choices.

Endgame Farming

Now that you have a foundational level of power, you can begin farming efficiently within the endgame activities. By rotating through the following methods, you'll find your character's power and Paragon level increasing very rapidly.

Helltide

Even in the endgame, Helltide remains incredibly valuable for farming. When you enter a Helltide zone, focus your efforts on Blood Maiden. Defeating her not only drops Living Steel, used to summon Grigoire, but also yields a large amount of experience and Murmuring Obols.

You can utilize the experience gained from farming Helltides to increase your Paragon level. Pushing this towards level 300 will dramatically empower your build.

Murmuring Obols & Tree of Whispers

Check Tree of Whispers bounties on the map and prioritize completing those that align with your farming route, such as events within Helltide or running Nightmare Dungeons. Completing 10 favors to claim your reward from the Tree provides another solid influx of gear and materials.

The Pit

Even at lower tiers, The Pit offers experience and the crucial opportunity to upgrade your Glyphs. Remember, activating and leveling up your very first Glyph can result in nearly doubling your damage output.

Kurast Undercity

The Kurast Undercity is another dungeon well worth farming. Depending on the tribute you use, it can produce a large quantity of Lair Boss materials, Runewords, Diablo 4 gold, and more.

Perfecting Your Build

Some builds require specific Unique items to function at their best. While any Unique has a decent drop rate in Torment difficulties, certain Uniques are restricted to the loot pools of specific Lair Bosses. This means you will probably need to farm them repeatedly.

This is where the boss materials you've been accumulating come into play (note: challenging the boss doesn't cost materials, but opening the boss's treasure chest does). Once you've gathered the required materials, you can team up with others in Torment 1 and 2 to rotate through summoning and defeating these bosses. You and your friends can trade materials you need with each other, which is the fastest way to collect the required gear. After you successfully obtain the necessary Unique items, you can begin fine-tuning your build according to your guide.

After completing this transition, you'll notice a massive leap in your character's damage. At this point, you can push the difficulty up to Torment 4 and challenge higher tiers of The Pit. Even after successfully reaching Torment 4, your build can continue to improve. By following the cycle outlined above, you can obtain more materials and better gear to push your build's damage to its absolute limit.

Hope this information helps you smoothly navigate the level 60 transition and allows you to experience the joys of the endgame content more quickly.

Necromancer players have plenty of reason to be excited. Golem Necromancer, already a strong build in Season 11, has nearly doubled its power in Season 12!

It currently stands as Necromancer's most powerful summoning build. It's easy to play, yet incredibly powerful, and holds its own against other top-tier builds in the endgame. Let's break down what enhancements it received and explore its core mechanics.

Golem Necromancer Mechanics

Golem Necromancer's damage reaches a qualitative leap thanks to the unique item, Gravebloom, which splits your Golem into three. Combined with Aspect of Fel Gluttony, your Golem unleashes explosive bursts of damage when using its skill. You can reduce the cooldown of this skill by consuming Corpses.

In Season 12, Golem Necromancer has received buffs in three key areas.

Bug Fix

The Chance to Hit Twice affix, added to Golems via Tempering, now correctly triggers Aspect of Fel Gluttony effect (previously bugged). This means the explosion from your Golem's skill now has a chance to trigger twice, effectively nearly doubling your damage output.

Passive Reworks

• Flesh-Eater: Previously required consuming 3 Corpses for a 40% damage bonus. Now, consuming just 1 Corpse grants a 60% damage bonus with a longer duration.
• Frailty: Previously, the damage bonus against cursed enemies ramped up to 40% over 4 seconds. Now, it provides an immediate 50% damage bonus.

Bloodied Affixes

Season 12 introduces Bloodied Affixes system, granting bonuses after chaining enemy kills. For Golem Necromancer, the most crucial affixes are:

• Cooldown Reduction per stack of Slaughter's Boon
• Increased Core Stat per stack of Slaughter's Boon

Golem Necromancer boasts a very simple rotation. You simply charge into packs, activate your Ultimate skill Soulrift to make all enemies Vulnerable, and let your Golem eliminate them.

Most of the time, your Golem handles everything, allowing you to continuously cast other skills to refresh its cooldown faster. As your gear and Paragon level improve, you can eventually just hold down Golem skill button!

Leveling (1-60)

During the 1-60 leveling process, Golem Necromancer isn't the most efficient for leveling. You'll want to use a different build for a smoother experience.

Early on, you can use Sever combined with Corpse Explosion for fast monster elimination. Sever is a ranged attack that helps you maintain kill streaks, granting bonus experience and more Diablo 4 gold.

Once you have more skill points, you can opt for Raise Skeleton. These minions deal decent damage and, more importantly, tank damage for you, significantly boosting your survivability.

Minion Choices:

• Skeletal Reapers: Help reduce the cooldown of your Ultimate skill.
• Cold Mages: Provide Energy regeneration for Sever.
• Blood Golem: Once unlocked, replace Corpse Explosion. Its passive provides a 50% damage bonus against single targets.

Leveling Skill Setup:

• Reap (Rank 1)
• Sever (Rank 5)
• Raise Skeleton (Rank 1)
• Corpse Tendrils (Rank 1)
• Soulrift (Rank 5)
• Golem (Rank 1)

Gear

Golem Necromancer isn't heavily gear-dependent; you can easily reach level 60 without specific Aspects. However, acquiring the following Aspects will significantly boost your efficiency:

• Aspect of Fel Gluttony
• Aspect of Frenzied Dead
• Shademist Aspect
• Aspect of Reanimation
• Reaping Lotus' Aspect

Endgame

Upon reaching level 60, you can immediately jump into Torment 1 difficulty. Your first task is to gamble for gear at Purveyor of Curiosities (using Murmuring Obols). You have two primary targets:

• Gravebloom
• Ring of Mendeln

Assuming you're not pursuing Mythic items yet, here's a target gear setup for Torment 4:

• Helm: Juggernaut's Aspect
• Chest Armor: Aspect of Hardened Bones
• Gloves: Aspect of Reanimation
• Pants: Blood Moon Breeches
• Boots: Aspect of the Cursed Aura
• Amulet: Aspect of Fel Gluttony
• Ring 1: Ring of Mendeln
• Ring 2: Sacrificial Aspect
• Weapon: Gravebloom
• Offhand: Aspect of Grasping Veins

Correspondingly, your skills need adjustments. Since Golem becomes your primary skill, Sever is no longer needed. You can replace it with Bone Prison. Bone Prison's enhancements can make trapped enemies Vulnerable and restore your Essence.

Endgame Skill Setup:

• Bone Prison: Enhanced Bone Prison and Ghastly Bone Prison
• Reap: Enhanced Reap and Acolyte's Reap
• Corpse Tendrils: Enhanced Corpse Tendrils and Blighted Corpse Tendrils
• Soulrift: Supreme Soulrift and Prime Soulrift
• Blight: (without enhanced options)
• Golem: (without enhanced options)

Paragon Board

Here are the key Legendary nodes you need to target:

• Cult Leader: This is your biggest damage multiplier source (+200% damage). You need to stack 100% Attack Speed to activate its bonus.
• Hulking Monstrosity: Your Golem deals 100% increased damage, and sacrificing minions grants additional damage bonuses.
• Frailty: Increases damage taken by Cursed enemies.
• Flesh-Eater: Consuming Corpses increases your damage.

As you gain more Paragon points, you'll gradually adjust your Paragon Boards, aiming to activate all Legendary nodes while unlocking as many Glyph sockets as possible.

Golem Necromancer is undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable builds in Season of Slaughter. It's rare to see a summoning build reach such heights of power. More importantly, it doesn't rely on Mythic items. With the correct gear and skills, Torment 4 presents no real challenge. As your Paragon level increases and you eventually acquire Mythic items, your damage will reach even greater heights.

Ladies and gentlemen, Diablo 4 Season 12 has finally begun! Before experiencing the new seasonal mechanics, acquiring unique items, and endgame content, the first thing you need to do is definitely level up.

Reaching the current level cap is a prerequisite for experiencing Torment difficulty content faster and participating in the active and booming seasonal economy. More importantly, many character builds cannot be fully utilized before high levels, so leveling up is also a necessary step to start optimizing your character and testing new powerful builds.

Next, we will try to guide you as concisely and clearly as possible on how to level up correctly and efficiently in Season of Slaughter. Whether you are playing solo or in a group, we will help you level your character from level 1 to 60 as quickly as possible. Now, let's get straight to the point.

Creating a Character & Choosing Difficulty

First, you need to create a character on Normal difficulty. Don't choose a character based on the current meta class or which class you think is the strongest this season; just choose one you like.

Please note that we recommend choosing Normal difficulty first. Starting with Season 11, you no longer receive a large number of skill points immediately upon character creation; instead, you need to accumulate them gradually through Season Journeys. This will result in your character being slightly weaker initially.

If you've heard that higher difficulties grant more XP, we can assure you that's complete nonsense. XP depends on how quickly you clear areas, nothing more. So either you set the difficulty higher than Normal and watch others level up while you're stuck, or you play Normal difficulty until around level 45.

Completing or Skipping the Campaign

Next, if you enjoy the campaign mode, start from level one. The game will guide you through a quest chain to earn extra XP. Of course, if you don't like the campaign mode, you can skip it in the character creation menu, but only if at least one character on your account has completed the campaign or reached a specific milestone. This allows new characters to jump straight into the late game and immediately acquire mounts.

Equipping Pets & Completing Quests

The first thing you should do is equip your pet from your inventory. These will help you collect Diablo 4 gold and materials, saving you a significant amount of leveling time. All players will receive the easiest pet by default.

Once you've made your selections, you can begin completing the first few quests of the seasonal campaign and progress until you unlock the reputation board. You'll need to gain a lot of quest XP from these campaign quests. Note that killing monsters and completing events unrelated to the quests themselves will reduce your efficiency, as the vast majority of XP comes from completing quests.

Therefore, you'll need to travel around and complete quests. You should be able to reach level 45 or 50 in about two hours, depending on your class choices, skill point allocation, and the equipment you find along the way.

Mercenaries

If you've completed the quests, you can hire a mercenary in The Den in Nahantu. If this is your first time playing, you'll also need to complete the level 15 key quest to unlock this feature.

However, I must clarify beforehand that if you don't own the Vessel of Hatred or pre-order the new Lord of Hatred expansion, you won't be able to use mercenaries, runes, or Nahantu region. So you can skip this section.

Next, in The Mercenary Den, we can choose Subo as our main mercenary, as he will highlight monsters on the map, helping you kill enemies faster and accumulate XP.

For the second mercenary, choose Varyana to increase attack speed, or you can choose Raheir as Reinforcement, who can help you deal with Crowd Control effects.

Seasonal Journey

Next, we need to complete the various chapters of Seasonal Journey.

Of course, our main purpose in doing this is not to obtain the negligible rewards in each chapter, but to gain extra skill points.

A reminder to returning players: starting with Diablo 4 Season 11, the developers removed Renown bonus from Altars of Lilith and moved all the important rewards to Seasonal Journey. Currently, the rewards from Altars of Lilith are negligible, even in the early game, so you can disregard them.

Seasonal Questline

Next, as with every season, the primary task in D4S12 is completing the main seasonal questline. This season's questline revolves around A Taste of Power. Players can become The Butcher and use The Butcher's unique abilities to acquire new Bloodied items and seasonal currency.

These seasonal quests are marked with leaves; prioritize completing these quest chains. All quests marked with leaf icons have the highest priority, as do Seasonal Journey chapter quests. It's worth noting that unlocking The Butcher's abilities significantly boosts character power, so the earlier you start progressing through the seasonal questline, the better.

Once you reach level 15, a Class Specialization Quest will appear, with different quests for each class. If this is your first time playing a class, you'll need to complete this quest.

Strongholds

For Strongholds, you should definitely farm them after you've leveled up somewhat, but before reaching level 60, because after level 60, the XP gained from Strongholds becomes negligible.

Crucially, the XP reward from Strongholds is the same across all difficulties, so this is especially significant for level 20 or 30 characters, but almost negligible for higher-level characters.

Since the XP reward is the same across all difficulties, it's recommended to choose Normal difficulty. You need to unlock almost all Strongholds because Legion events occur in Stronghold areas, and completing them will double your XP farming speed!

Elixirs & Incense

During leveling, there are some important consumables that will make your XP farming process much more efficient: Elixirs. It's worth noting that Elixirs don't appear at the beginning; they start dropping around level 10, and you can craft them. Therefore, in the early stages of leveling, you can and should gather herbs to craft elixirs to speed up your leveling process.

These elixirs provide a 5% experience bonus and certain attribute increases. You can only activate one elixir at a time, and the effect lasts for 30 minutes, persisting even after death.

Around level 50, in addition to elixirs, some incense will unlock. This provides a buff to you and nearby allies, lasting 20 minutes, but disappears upon death.

To maximize leveling efficiency, you can activate one elixir and up to three different incenses simultaneously; the experience bonuses from both can stack.

In short, with the right techniques, leveling isn't a long process. Don't get stuck on Hard difficulty - follow our leveling guide to unlock Torment difficulty and start farming Bloodied items to dominate Season of Slaughter!