Diablo 4 DLC: How To Build Powerful Spiritborn? - Evade Spiritborn Build Guide

Diablo 4 needs gold at all times, especially when players come to the endgame, re-roll affixes for weapons, or make elixirs or forge legendary ancestor equipment, all of which require gold. Therefore, preparing a farming gold build is necessary for every class.

Rushing Claw Spiritborn build is a very suitable endgame build for farming gold. It has powerful attacks and fast movement speed, and can kill many enemies efficiently and safely.

Pros And Cons

Pros

• High damage and fast attack speed
• Great mobility
• Can exert control on groups of monsters

Cons

• Very weak when dealing with single enemies

Skills

• Counterattack: Dodge all direct attacks for 3 to 6 seconds after activating the skill.
• Armored Hide: Become unstoppable and gain 100% block for three seconds.
• Scurge: Summons insects to bite enemies, causing fear, slowing and poisoning to enemies.
• The Hunter: Ultimate. Summons a jaguar that zips across the battlefield, striking enemies in the area.
• Toxic Skin: Becomes unstoppable for 5 seconds, and your attacks inflict poison damage.
• Rushing Claw: Inflicts a short range strike on enemies in your path.

In combat, The Hunter lets you get out of a crowd or get to where you want to go. Counterattack and Toxic Skin need to be active at all times, allowing you to dodge attacks and continuously inflict poison on nearby enemies. Armored Hide lets you become unstoppable to avoid crowd control, and Scourge is used to inflict crowd control on enemies. Rushing Claw is your primary damage dealing skill, and all other skills buff it.

Spirit Hall Choice

Primary Spirit Guardian: Gorilla

• When Gorilla is cast, enemies hit take 100% Thorn damage, gain Barrier for 3 seconds, and all skills become Gorilla skills.

Secondary Spirit Guardian: Jaguar

• Maximum Ferocity increases by 1. Whenever you kill an enemy or damage a boss, you gain 1 stack of Ferocity.

Spirit Hall is the class mechanic for Spiritborn, who can choose up to two Spirit Guardians. Gorilla and Jaguar increase your survivability and damage.

Equipment

• Helm: Menacing Aspect (Moni + Kry)
• Chest: Aspect of Disobedience (Grand Emerald)
• Gloves: Fell Soothsayer’s Aspect
• Pants: Aspect of Temporal Incisions (Grand Emerald)
• Boots: Duelist’s Aspect
• Amulets (50% bonus): Aspect of Unyielding Hits (Grand Skull)
• Ring: Aspect of Plains Power (Grand Skull)
• Ring: Wound Drinker (Grand Skull)
• Weapon (200% bonus): Aspect of Redirected Force (Yul + Vex)

Rushing Claw Spiritborn Build has very low equipment requirements, most of which are Legendary Aspects. After you get enough Resplendent Spark, you can go to The Jeweler to build two Ancestral Mythic Uniques to go further.

Shroud of False Death (Chest Armor) has the effect of turning you invisible if you don’t attack within 2 seconds, and the next attack after you enter stealth mode will increase the damage. The required materials are as follows:

• x2 Resplendent Spark
• x6 Bac
• x6 Kry
• x6 Moni
• 5000 Diablo 4 Gold

Harlequin Crest (Helm) has the effect of giving you 20% damage reduction and +4 levels for all skills. The required materials for this helmet are as follows:

• x2 Resplendent Spark
• x6 Eom
• x6 Lac
• x6 Ton
• 5000 Gold

Boss Powers (Season 8)

Main Power

• Lilith’s Wind of Hate: When you cast a skill, a spike wave within 2 seconds will attack other enemies, causing physical damage. Each time an enemy is hit by Lilith’s Wind of Hate, the damage they receive will increase, and this effect can be stacked up to 5 times.

Modifier

• Andariel’s Flaming Skull: Increases the amount of damage you deal to enemies over time by 20%.
• Sinerat’s Flames: Higher elemental resistances deal more elemental damage,and up to 25%.
• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: Higher Shadow Resistance increases critical strike chance, andup to 50%.

Season 8’s Boss Powers provide powerful damage bonuses to this Build, and Lilith’s Wind of Hate not only damages enemies, but also increases the damage of your other skills. Makes you clear monsters and farm gold faster!

Mercenaries

Players with Vessel of Hatred can hire mercenaries to help you in battle. The following are recommended mercenaries:

Raheir: A defensive warrior with a large shield that can slow enemies and block damage to you.

• Core Skill: Ground Slam
• Core Passive: Raheir’s Aegis
• Iconic Skill: Bastion
• Iconic Passive: Inspiration

Varyana Reinforcemen: Varyana’s class is Barbarian, and her support skill can increase your attack speed.

• Opportunity Skill: Rushing Claw
• Reinforcement Skill: Bloodthirst

Elixir

Elixir can increase your skill damage for a period of time, or increase your survivability. You can find an Alchemist to consume some gold and materials to make elixirs, but some elixirs can only be dropped in Helltides or Nightmare Dungeons.

The following are recommended elixirs:

• Elixir of Precision: Increases critical hit rate and critical hit damage within 30 minutes.
• Elixir of Advantage: Increases attack speed and lucky hit chance within 30 minutes.
• Elixir of Resourcefulness: Increases maximum resources and reduces resource consumption within 30 minutes.
• Elixir of Fortitude: Increases your maximum health within 30 minutes.

Rushing Claw Spiritborn Build is the best farming build for Spiritborn, with low equipment requirements and high efficiency in farming monsters. You can use this build to complete event quests, and it is also fast to complete Helltides and Dungeons.

Barbarian has always been a powerful class in Diablo 4 series. Most players may remember him for the huge earthquakes he brings or his powerful two-handed axe, but Barbarian who relies on summons seems to be very rare.

Minion Barbarian relies on Call of the Ancients to summon Barbarian’s three ancestors to fight alongside him and uses his battle cry skill to provide various buffs to summons. Barbarian’s summons can cause a lot of damage to elite monsters and bosses, and this build can work well after matching with CD-reducing equipment.

Pros And Cons

Pros

• High single-target and area damage
• Handles all end-game content well
• Solid mobility
• Simple gameplay
• Farming gold quickly

Cons

• Inflexible
• Very dependent on equipment
• Frequent operation is required

Skills

• Lunging Strike: Dash forward, while causing bleeding and generating Berserk, it also has mobility.
• Rupture: Pierce the enemy, causing Overpower and bleeding effects to surrounding enemies, and triggering various equipment effects.
• Rallying Cry: Increases your and your allies’ movement speed and makes you unstoppable, while Strategic Rallying Cry increases the player’s health.
• War Cry: Greatly increases the character’s damage, and Enhanced War Cry can also put Barbarian into a berserk state.
• Challenging Shout: Taunts nearby enemies and gains a large damage reduction, which is a very important survival skill.
• Call of the Ancients: The ultimate skill and the core of this build. Summons 3 Ancients to fight for you.
• Unconstrained: Provides a large amount of Berserk damage bonus and allows Barbarian to maintain Berserk when the health is low.

The idea of releasing skills for this equipment is actually very simple, use Call of the Ancients as much as possible. Call of the Ancients as an ultimate skill has a 41-second CD time, so you need to use bleeding to trigger Rage of Harrogath and speed up CD of all your skills.

You first need to release Rupture to reduce the cooldown of the ultimate skill through bleeding and equipment effects. Then release Call of the Ancients, and use Rallying Cry and War Cry to increase the damage of your summons. The release of Lunging Strike actually requires your judgment.

Minion Barbarian takes into account both offense and defense. Whether dealing with bosses or groups of enemies, he is at ease. And the more enemies there are, the faster the cooldown of Call of the Ancients will be. Therefore, this build is very efficient whether it is farming Diablo 4 Gold or dealing with Helltide.

Equipment

• Helm: Ugly Bastard Helm improves resistance and lucky hit damage.
• Chest: Rage of Harrogath improves critical hit chance and health, and reduces skill CD.
• Gloves: Fists of Fate improves maximum health and critical hit chance and lucky hit chance.
• Pants: Arreat’s Bearing improves the damage of Call of the Ancients and reduces its cooldown.
• Boots: Relentless Berserker’s Aspect increases Berserking time.
• Amulet: Aspect of Apogeic Furor increases ultimate skill damage.
• Ring1: Vehement Brawler’s Aspect increases ultimate skill damage and level.
• Ring2: Aspect of Ancestral Charge increases summon damage.
• Main Hand: Executioner’s Aspect, every 4 seconds, your Overpowers can trigger earthquakes.
• Off-Hand: The Third Blade increases strength and Weapon Mastery Damage.
• Polearm: Aspect of Ancestral Echoes increases critical damage and maximum health.
• Two-Handed Mace: Aspect of Earthquakes increases Earthquake damage.

Minion Barbarian Endgame Build is very strict about equipment requirements. If you can’t get these equipment together, then this build will not work smoothly.

Many of the unique equipment plays a key role in this build. They will not drop in normal difficulty. Only in Torment 3 or 4 will they have a higher chance of appearing in boss or monster drops. Therefore, Minion Barbarian build is not suitable as a leveling build, while the required legendary aspects for this build are not high, and you can find them when farming dungeons.

Boss Powers

Main Boss Powers

Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley

This Boss Power is triggered when damaging a Vulnerable enemy, dealing a large amount of fire damage over 1.2 seconds, and dealing 40% more damage to Vulnerable enemies. Because Minion Barbarian has many ways to cause vulnerability, this Boss Power works well with it.

Grigoire’s Lightning Square

This is another good choice, and it will deal lightning damage to Barbarian after the core ability is released. It is not your main damage output skill, but more like a supplement to your Rupture.

Modifier

• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: Increases critical hit rate, ensuring that every attack of Barbarian can trigger a critical hit.
• Beastmaster’s Training: Increases the damage of summons.
• Lilith’s Wind of Hate: By generating Blister Clone, you have more targets to trigger Rupture and Rage of Harrogath, and reducing the skill CD.

Mercenaries

Minion Barbarian’s summon skill is its main means of attack, so Mercenaries can give it more helpers, so players naturally cannot be stingy with gold.

• Hired: Subo

Subo’s Seeker skill is a very useful skill, and he can also stun enemies.

• Reinforcement: Varyana

‍Varyana, as a barbarian, can use Bloodthirst to help you trigger Rage of Harrogath and speed up skill cooldown.

Most of the difficulty of Minion Barbarian endgame Build lies in equipment collection, and its operation is very simple and easy to understand. And compared to Necromancer, the summons in Call of the Ancients are more violent and powerful than skeletons, which makes it very fun to play.

Necromancer was incredibly good in Season 7, and maybe that’s when many players fell in love with Blood Wave Necromancer. Unfortunately, this build was nerfed in Season 8, but Diablo 4 players should have gotten used to it.

So Necromancer became less powerful and less fun? Of course not! They kicked Blood Wave Necromancer down the stairs, but pulled Bone Spear Necromancer up. This build is also a powerful endgame build that can cause incredible damage.

Pros And Cons

Pros

• Can cause huge amounts of damage
• Not very demanding on gear
• Good for The Pit

Cons

• Using Bone Spear consumes health
• You need to make sure your skills hit
• Farming is slow

Skills

• Bone Prison: Creates a Bone Prison with a certain amount of health that traps the target for 6 seconds.
• Corpse Tendrils: Corpses burst, pull enemies closer, and deal damage. This skill does not consume corpses.
• Bone Spear: Summons a bone spear from the ground that pierces the enemy and causes huge amounts of damage.
• Soulrift: Corrupts nearby enemies over eight seconds, dealing damage to them, and rips and absorbs their souls to generate resources.
• Blight: After releasing Blight to cause damage, it leaves an area that lasts for 6 seconds, and enemies passing through this area will be damaged.
• Blood Mist: Transforms into a blood mist that is immune to damage for 3 seconds and restores health.

You must have noticed that all Bone Spear Necromancer’s skills have almost no area damage, which is why Necromancer farming is slow. The trade-off for ranged abilities is extremely high damage to a single enemy. Even Torment 4 difficulty bosses can be easily dealt with by Bone Spear Necromancer.

You can add a Blood Surge Necromancer or Minions Necromancer to your armory to farm Diablo 4 Gold and clear out the minions.

You need to trap the enemy with Bone Prison first, then use Bone Spear and Blight on the enemy to increase your damage. Blood Mist is a skill you can use to escape when you are in danger.

Using these skills will consume your health, so always keep an eye on your health.

Gear

• Helm: Deathless Visage (Tam + Wat)
• Chest: Aspect of Hardened Bones (Royal Topaz)
• Gloves: Aspect of Serration
• Pants: Indira’s Memory (Royal Topaz)
• Boots: Path of Trag’Oul
• Weapon 2H (Mace): Aspect of Grasping Veins (Royal Skull)
• Amulet (50% Scaling): Aspect of the Dark Dance (Royal Skull)
• Ring 1: Bone Duster’s Aspect (Royal Skull)
• Ring 2: Sacrificial Aspect (Royal Skull)

There are three unique items in this set that help this build a lot.

Deathless Visage increases the critical damage of Bone Spear greatly. This is a unique item that mainly increases Bone Spear and it will be found in Echo of Varshan drop.

Indira’s Memory improves both Blood Wave and Bone Spear. This item transforms a Bone Spear into a Blood Spear, which consumes your health when hitting an enemy, and can also consume nearby corpses to launch new bone spears. This unique item can be obtained by defeating The Beast in the Ice in Torment tiers 3 and 4.

Path of Trag’Oul reduces the cooldown of Bone Prison and increases the control range of Bone Prison, allowing you to hit with Bone Spear after controlling an enemy. Path of Trag’Oul can drop on any difficulty level, and is recommended to be obtained by defeating Grigoire, the Galvanic Saint.

In addition, after you get 2 Resplendent Sparks, you can go to The Jeweler to use the following materials to craft Shroud of False Death, which replaces Aspect of Hardened Bones.

• x2 Resplendent Spark
• x6 Bac
• x6 Kry
• x6 Moni
• Diablo 4 Gold

In general, your goal is to get your armor above 1000 and as many elemental resistances as possible, preferably 70%.

Boss Powers

Main Boss Power

• Lilith’s Wind of Hate: When you cast a skill, attack the enemy with a spike wave that lasts for 2 seconds, causing a large amount of physical damage. Each time Lilith’s Wind of Hate hits an enemy, it will increase the damage it takes, which can be stacked up to 5 times.
• Grigoire’s Lightning Square (Alternative to Lilith’s Wind of Hate): After releasing the core skill, lightning spreads outward within 1.2s, causing a large amount of Lightning damage.

Modifier Boss Powers:

• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: Increases critical hit rate.
• Wandering Death’s Chest Beam: Damage from Main Boss Power can kill non-boss creatures with less than 1/4 of their health.
• Lord Zir’s Blood Pool: Restores health within three seconds after activating Main Boss Power.

Elixir

Elixirs can provide you with a short-term large buff in battle, especially when fighting against bosses. Using elixirs can increase your chances of winning. It is recommended that you use the following three elixirs:

• Elixir of Fortitude II: Increases maximum health.
• Elixir of Destruction II: Increases Overpower damage and vulnerability damage.
• Elixir of Resourcefulness II: Increases resource acquisition.

Elixirs cannot be stacked. Note that you only need to drink one elixir at a time, or you will waste your materials and gold.

The skill release order of Bone Spear Necromancer Build is very simple, and the equipment matching is not complicated. Since players need to defeat many bosses in Season 8 to upgrade Boss Powers Rank, Bone Spear Necromancer that can cause high single-target damage is worth trying.

Diablo 4 Season 8 has been officially launched on April 29. All players’ gold, equipment and other items in Season 7 cannot be brought to season 8. Players need to re-select their class to return to Sanctuary and start a new round of battles.

The main gameplay of Season 8 Belial’s Return is to kill bosses and obtain their Boss Powers. Fighting bosses will become an important part of Season 8. Besides obtaining Boss Powers in Apparition Incursions, players also need to defeat world bosses and Lair bosses to get all Boss Powers.

These bosses are very difficult to deal with. If you want to defeat them, you need to prepare gold coins, level up, change equipment, make potions, select skills, etc.... Choosing a good build can make you get twice the result with half the effort and save time.

Leveling Build Tier List

• Upheaval Barbarian Build
• Blood Surge Necromancer Build
• Minion Summoner Necromancer Build
• Dance of Knives Rogue Build
• Barrage Rogue Build
• Chain Lightning Sorcerer Build
• Incinerate Sorcerer Build
• Firewall Sorcerer Build
• Quill Volley Spiritborn Build
• Stinger Spiritborn Build

Best Classes for Leveling in Season 8: Necromancer, Spiritborn, Rogue.

All the above are top leveling builds, each of which is very efficient at dealing with large groups of enemies and gaining experience quickly.

There are two ways to quickly level up a Necromancer. One is to use Blood Surge as a core skill and suck the blood of the enemy. Blood Surge Necromancer Build has high damage and can also be used as a tank in the early game. Minion Summoner Necromancer is more dependent on summons. As long as Necromancer’s summons is not all dead, Necromancer is still in a relatively safe environment.

Dance of Knives Rogue is still the best Rogue Leveling Build, but Dance of Knives is only available to players with DLC. Players without Vessel of Hatred can also choose Barrage Rogue Build. This build can shoot a lot of arrows and clear monsters quickly.

Although Sorcerer can also cause a lot of damage, her health is not high, and you have to pay attention to mana consumption, so it is recommended that Sorcerer players team up with your friends to play.

Speed Farming Build Tier List

• Whirlwind Barbarian Build
• Hammer of the Ancients (HotA) Barbarian Build
• Cataclysm Druid Build
• Blood Wave Necromancer Build
• Blood Surge Necromancer Build
• Dance of Knives Rogue Build
• Shadow Step Rogue Build
• Death Trap Rogue Build
• Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build
• Fireball Sorcerer Build
• Meteor Sorcerer Build
• Ice Shards Sorcerer Build
• Blizzard Sorcerer Build
• Ball Lightning Sorcerer Build
• Poison Quill Volley Spiritborn Build
• Crushing Hand Spiritborn Build
• Firestorm Spiritborn Build

Best Classes for Speed Farming in Season 8: Rogue, Spiritborn, Sorcerer.

Speed Farming Build focuses more on the speed of clearing monsters than Level Build. You need to make your build to run Helltides, Nightmare Dungeons, The Pit (early tiers), Infernal Hordes, or Kurast Undercity as fast as possible.

Sorcerer is probably the best Speed Farming class in Season 8, because Sorcerer has been enhanced in Season 8, and can quickly deal large-area damage with Boss Powers. Ice Shards Sorcerer Build has been improved compared to Season 7, and it can slow down monsters and still deal enough damage.

The advantages of Spiritborn and Rogue are that they move fast and can run through Nightmare Dungeons and The Pit as fast as possible and get Diablo 4 Gold and equipment, etc.

Endgame Push Build Tier List

• Whirlwind Barbarian Build
• Cataclysm Druid Build
• Blood Wave Necromancer Build
• Bone Spirit Necromancer Build
• Bone Spear Necromancer Build
• Death Trap Rogue Build
• Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build
• Poison Quill Volley Spiritborn Build

Best Classes for Endgame Pushing in Season 8: Necromancer, Barbarian, Sorcerer.

Endgame Push Builds are a test of your build’s overall capabilities. Because in the endgame, monsters and bosses have a lot of health, and their damage becomes very threatening.

Endgame Builds need to ensure that you can still quickly clear monsters, but also survive the boss’s attacks, which is particularly important in Season 8.

Both Necromancer and Barbarian can make a lot of area damage, and they also have many ways to survive. But I think Necromancer is a little less efficient than Barbarian in clearing monsters, but the developers have strengthened Bone Spear Necromancer, making Necromancer deal with bosses faster, so both have their advantages.

Boss Killer Build Tier List

• Mighty Throw Barbarian Build
• Cataclysm Druid Build
• Blood Wave Necromancer Build
• Bone Spear Necromancer Build
• Death Trap Rogue Build
• Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build
• Poison Quill Volley Spiritborn Build

Boss Killer Build only requires you to clear bosses in the fastest and best way, and has no requirements for clearing Helltides, Nightmare Dungeons, etc.

Most bosses will not summon minions, so the higher the damage of Boss Killer Build to single monsters, the better. The performance of Blood Wave Necromancer Build and Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build has increased in Season 8. If you are interested, you can use some gold to change your skills to experience their power.

The above is all about Diablo 4 Season 8 Top Class And Builds. Playing the meta builds of each Season can bring you the most comfortable gaming experience, but you can also try other genres, and each build has its own fun.

Diablo 4 Season 8 Boss Powers were very powerful in the initial PTR. The damage data of each Boss Power that was upgraded to the maximum level seemed to be typed out by the designer with his feet on the computer keyboard.

The amazing damage seemed to really turn the player into a boss. Many builds in PTR even used Boss Powers as one of the main output methods, and the powerful Boss Powers gave players some expectations for the new season.

However, the powerful Boss Power was eventually weakened by the designer, which is not surprising, but a bit regrettable. If the original data can be maintained, maybe the players of Season 8 can experience the pleasure of character data explosion. Let’s have a look at which Boss Powers have been weakened.

Legendary Boss Powers

1. Andariel’s Flaming Skull

Primary Power

• Damage reduced from 1800% to 450%.

Modifier

• Reduced damage over time bonus from 21%-40% to 10.5-20%.
• Damage over time no longer requires enemies to be burning.
• Removed bonus burn damage from Primary Power.

2. Belial’s Eye Beams

Primary Power

• Damage reduced from 1,750% to 438%.
• Damage Reduction reduced from 75% to 50%.
• Number of eye beams reduced from 6 to 5.
• Slightly sped up eye orbital rotation.
• Eye duration reduced from 3.5 seconds to 2 seconds, damage over time duration unaffected.

3. Harbinger Of Hatred’s Volley

Primary Power

• Damage reduced from 400% to 250%.

Modifier

• Fixed multiplicative nature of vulnerability bonus.
• Modifier activation now has a 1 second cooldown.

4. Duriel’s Burrow

Primary Power

• Damage reduced from 200% to 100%.

Modifier

• Dodge duration increased from 2 seconds to 5 seconds.

5. Lilith’s Wind Of Hate

Primary Power

• Damage increased from 250% to 400%.

Modifier

• Only 1 Blister Clone can exist per Elite, and only 2 Blister Clones can exist per Boss.
• Bliste can no longer be produced by skills that cannot execute Bosses.
• Bliste Elite damage reduced from 5.25%-10% to 2.1%-4%.

You may notice that the changes to Legendary Boss Powers are not all nerfs, but this also shows that Boss Powers are very unbalanced. All 5 Legendary Boss Powers have been adjusted, and only Lilith’s Wind of Hate has been buffed.

Lilith is one of the most tough bosses in Diablo 4, and after this adjustment, her Boss Power is more useful. While challenging her won’t give you unique items or rewards like in Diablo 4, the mount, boss powers, and a Resplendent Spark still make her a more worthwhile challenge in season 8.

Legendary Boss Powers are now at a similar level of damage after this adjustment. They no longer deal outrageous damage, but are still an excellent support.

Rare Boss Powers

1. Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs

Primary Power

• Damage reduced from 800% to 400%.
• Primary Power now has a 1 second cooldown.
• Removed 5 second ultimate cooldown reduction.
• Newly gained 15% cooldown reduction.

2. Varshan’s Life Steal

Primary Power

• Life steal beam now always applies to nearby enemies.
• Damage lasts 1 second instead of 3 seconds.
• Damage increased to 700%.

3. Wandering Death’s Chest Beam

Primary Power

• Adjusts the beam to move closer to your character.

Modifier

• Enforcement threshold 15%-34% to 15.5%-25%.

4. Lord Zir’s Blood Pool

Modifier

• Healing increased from 5.5%-15% to 17%-36%.

5. Grigoire’s Lightning Square

Primary Power

• Damage reduced from 300% to 250%.

6. Avarice’s Explosive Ore

Modifier

• Lowered the damage bonus per resource point from 1.5%-3.4% to 0.01%-0.20%.

Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs and Wandering Death’s Chest Beam’s Primary Powers were two of the best Rare Boss Powers, and they’ve been nerfed. Varshan’s Life Steal was not very useful as either a Primary Power or a Modifier, so it’s been buffed. Even though Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs has had its damage nerfed by half, it’s still one of the best Boss Powers for leveling and farming Diablo 4 Gold for builds that rely on ultimates.

Magic Boss Powers

1. Sinerat’s Flames

Primary Power

• Damage reduced from 200% to 50%.
• Avarice’s Explosive Ore

Modifier

• Damage bonus reduced from 1.5%-3.4% to 0.01%-0.20% per resource point.

2. Blackmailer’s Sabotage

Modifier

• Barrier reduced from 20%-58% to 11%-30%.

3. Allek’s Talons

Primary Power

• The channeling basic skill now triggers Allek’s Talons while channeling.

4. Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste

Modifier

• Maximum critical chance bonus reduced from 22.5%-70% to 12%-50%.

5. Flesh Reaper’s Disruption

Modifier

• Crowd control damage bonus increased from 0.25% [x] to 0.5% [x].

6. Skerg’s Toxins

Primary Power

• Changed to whenever you take direct damage.
• Damage reduced from 1000% to 600%.

7. Beastmaster’s Training

Primary Power

• Summon now stuns enemies for 2-4 seconds instead of taunting.

Magic Boss Powers have most of them, been adjusted, and most of them have been nerfed. Some Magic Boss Powers did seem a bit unbalanced during PTR testing. For example, Sinerat’s Flames was found to be better than most Rare Boss Powers.

Although weakening Boss Powers can prevent the focus of Season 8 completely shift to boss powers, it will also make Season 8 lose its highlights and become mediocre. I hope that the cooperation with new IP and Boss Powers are not the only changes in Season 8, and players hope that there will be more interesting functions.

Belial, a classic Diablo boss, returns in Diablo 4 Season 8. This demon of lies has three forms in Diablo 4: Apparition, “Mini” Belial and “Uber” Belial.

Like Uber Lilith, Uber Belial will be the most hard fight in Diablo 4. To get Belial’s boss powers, you must defeat him first. Here’s how to deal with Belial.

How To Summon Belial?

There are three different Belial in the game that appear in three different ways.

• Apparition Belial: After defeating the first two bosses in Apparition Incursion, the last boss is Belial.
• Mini Belial: When you defeat Lair boss, maybe Belial’s Ambush will be triggered. Mini Belial will appear and attack you.
• Uber Belial: Uber Belial requires no summoning materials, but you will need 2 Betrayer’s Husks to open its chest, and Betrayer’s Husks are dropped by Mini Belial.

Once you have enough Betrayer’s Husks, you can go to the dungeon in Palace of the Deceiver in Kehjistan to summon Uber Belial.

How To Prepare?

Adjust Your Build

Uber Belial does not rely on summons, and will frequently use various skills to affect your movement range. Therefore, you can use some Diablo 4 Gold to re-select your skills to ensure that your build can deal damage to a single boss while also ensuring that you have enough survivability.

Poison Resistance

Many of Uber Belial’s skills deal lots of poison damage. If you have a high poison resistance, this fight will not be that difficult. You can use Elixir of Poison Resistance II to increase your poison resistance.

Required Crafting Materials:

• Bundled Herbs x 40
• Emerald Fragment x 300
• Angelbreath x 30
• 6000 Diablo 4 Gold

Belial’s Skills

Belial deals mostly poison and physical damage, so you’ll want to maximize your armor and poison resistance. Belial has a Stagger Bar, and when you fill it up during a fight, Belial will turn blue and be briefly stunned, which is a great time to lean in on your damage.

Uber Belial

Belial has a few attacks to watch out for:

• Claw Sweep: Belial stabs into the platform with one claw, then sweeps across it. Avoid standing on top of the platform to avoid this attack, and positioning is the key to avoid.
• Poison Spray: Belial sprays poison from one end of the platform to the other. You need to stand in front of the black eyes to avoid damage, and all other eyes will cast deadly venom all over the platform.
• Poison Wave: The pools of poison slide across the platform from left to right. If multiple pools of poison appear, use defensive skills or potions and stay out of their path.
• Belial’s Eyes of Betrayal: Belial summons seven eyes around himself. One to three of the eyes will turn black/inactive. Stand in front of the black eyes to avoid damage. All other eyes will cast deadly poison all over the platform.
• Poison Pools (Tracking): Belial will stab the platform with his claws and create poison pools at your feet. These pools will track your position, so you need to keep moving and be careful to avoid the pools that form until the attack is over.

Mini Belial

Mini Belial deals the same type of damage as Uber Belial, but it appears after you defeat Lair Boss, leaving the player with little time to prepare, but it is easy to deal with if you know his skills.

• Poison Wave: Belial marks a rectangular area in front of him and releases a poison wave that sweeps across the entire platform. Stay away from the area before the wave hits to avoid being hit hard.
• Poison Pools: Large poison pools will spawn near Belial and explode. Keep moving and avoid these areas when poison pools appear.
• Poison Bombs: A phantom of Belial appears, firing poison bombs into the arena. Keep dodging to avoid getting knocked out by the crossfire.
• Black Soulstone: Three or more Soulstones spawn and explode shortly after. Watch their positions and keep your distance before they explode.
• Belial Illusion: Three mini versions of Belial appear in a red circle. Once activated, they release poison waves and trigger other mechanics. Avoid the center and keep moving until the circle disappears.
• Connected Black Soulstones: One or two Soulstones connect directly to Belial and begin tracking you, and they will follow you until they explode. Keep your distance and use evasive skills to avoid getting trapped.
• Blood Strike from the Air: Blood spears drop from the air in a random pattern, and you need to pay attention to the red signs on the ground and hurry.
• Adds Spawns: Elite snake-like adds will join the fight when ambushed. Focus on them quickly to avoid being overwhelmed, especially in high-density mechanics.

Loot Pool

Belial has no fixed loot pool, but after defeating him and opening Belial’s treasure with Betrayer’s Husk, you can choose the loot pool of other lair bosses as the drop pool for this boss battle, which will help you get the items you want better.

In addition to the regular drops such as gold, materials, etc., the first unique item dropped will definitely come from the boss-specific loot table you choose. Any additional unique drops have a 50% chance to come from the public drop pool. You also have a chance to get an Ancestral Unique Item from Belial’s drops.

If you are playing in a group, each other player will increase the chance of dropping an additional unique item by one third.

These are some attacks of the new boss Belial in Diablo 4 Season 8. I hope it can help you get Boss Powers or other rewards you want.