Diablo 4 Season 6: How To Defeat Uber Lilith To Get Resplendent Sparks?

The best build for Sorcerer in Season 9 has already appeared, and it is Hydra Sorcerer. In PTR, Hydra Sorcerer build shows amazing damage and speed of clearing dungeons. But in season 8, Hydra was not a very powerful skill, even Fire Bolt Sorcerer build and Flame Wall Sorcerer build did not always carry this skill.

Why Is Hydra Sorcerer Build So Powerful?

There are two reasons why it has become very strong in PTR. The first is naturally that it has been strengthened. The damage of Hydra has increased from 23% to 35%. This is equivalent to the damage caused by this skill being 150% of the previous damage.

The second is naturally the improvement brought by the new unique item of Season 9, Ophidian Iris. It can make the three-headed Hydra have two more heads, and the Hydra with over than three heads will have a larger head, causing double the damage, and the enlarged head can create explosions when attacking.

After you equip this item, Hydra becomes a core skill, which means it can get more amplification.

In the endgame, if you equip two one-handed weapons and upgrade them with Masterworking, you can summon up to 12 heads to deal 1200% AoE damage. But this is a theoretical value, and most of the time you can deal 700% to 800% damage. Hydra is basically constantly making damage bombs, and you can imagine how fast it will farm Diablo 4 gold.

However, it is worth noting that in season 9, releasing Hydra no longer just consumes your 20 mana, but will continue to consume your mana. As the mana consumption increases, the damage of Hydra will also increase. There is a cap on this increase, so you need to increase the maximum mana of Hydra Sorcerer or prepare some way to restore mana.

Horadric Spells

Catalysts

Propulsion: Create a shock wave to push enemies away, and make enemies that hit the surrounding terrain suffer second damage.

While Astral Pillar is probably stronger, the reason to choose it is that it has a short cooldown, allowing you to trigger the effect more often and fill in some skill gaps. It can also help avoid some melee attacks from enemies that are afraid of getting close to you.

Infusions

Smoldering Ember: Allows Catalysts to deal Fire damage, and has a chance to set enemies on fire, creating a burning area under their feet.

Hydra Sorcerer deals primarily Fire damage, so this is pretty much the only choice.

Arcana

• Reactive Ooze: After using a Catalysts skill, increase resource regeneration for 10 seconds.
• Frigid Heart: Freezes enemies that collide twice.
• Siphoning Gizmo: Lucky hits from Catalysts consume damage over time and deal 100% damage directly.

Arcana acts like Boss Powers modifier from Season 8. The reason for choosing these three is that they can increase resource recovery speed, control monsters, and increase the damage of Catalysts.

In addition to the above Season Powers, Season 9 also has Horadric Jewels that can increase the power of Horadric Spells. Among them, the most noteworthy is Tyrant Bane, which will make the enemy suffer DoT damage forever. At present, this Horadric Jewel has not been weakened. In theory, you can keep stacking until a very scary DoT damage.

But it is expected that it will definitely be weakened by the developers, perhaps by setting a stacking limit. But at present, it is still one of the best Horadric Jewels for poison and burning builds. You need to enter the dungeon in Torment Difficulty to get Horadric Strongrooms to unlock Horadric Jewels.

After that, you need to use gold and materials to make it. Horadric Jewels will not drop in the dungeon.

Skills And Equipment

Skills

• Basic: Fire Bolt
• Core: Elemental Dominance/Ice Shards
• Ultimate: Inferno (Prime, Supreme)
• Teleport (Enhanced, Shimmering)
• Ice Armor (Enhanced, Shimmering)
• Conjuration: Hydra (Enhanced, Invoked)
• Key Passive: Esu’s Ferocity

Hydra Sorcerer builds have a relatively fixed skill selection, but you can also switch the core skill from Elemental Dominance to Ice Shards in exchange for different elemental damage. And you also need to make some adjustments to your equipment.

Equipment 1

• Weapon: Serpentine Energy Staff
• Helm: Harlequin Crest
• Armor: Shroud of False Death
• Gloves: Runic Gloves of Three Curses
• Pants: Tibault’s Will
• Boots: Runic Cleats of the Bounding Conduit
• Amulet: Ophidian Iris
• Ring: Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop and Battle Caster’s Soulwatch Hoop

Equipment 2

• Weapon: Serpentine Aspect
• Helm: Hail of Verglas
• Armor: Shroud of False Death
• Gloves: Sidhe Bindings
• Pants: Tibault’s Will
• Boots: Aspect of the Orange Herald
• Amulet: Ophidian Iris
• Ring: Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop, Battle Caster’s Aspect

One of the two sets of equipment focuses on the balance between crit and summoning hydras, and the other focuses on crit. You need to pay attention to your mana consumption. Hydra Sorcerer builds are very much based on Diablo 4 items. You can use other leveling builds as a transition until you get Ophidian Iris.

PTR is running now, so you can check out the damage cap of Hydra Sorcerer build, and it will definitely not disappoint you.

After Diablo 4 Season 8 significantly enhanced each class, many builds were weakened again in Season 9. Although many class skills have been strengthened, the changes to Overpower mechanism and Tempering affixes have caused most builds to be substantially weakened.

In particular, the builds that relied on Overpower mechanism in Season 8 have almost all declined in Season 9. The following builds rank is based on the changes in season 9 combined with the builds data of season 8. The real ranking can only be obtained after the players participating in the PTR have experienced it.

Tier S

• Flay Bleed Barbarian Build
• Pet Twister Barbarian Build
• Pet Earthquake Barbarian Build
• Hydra Sorcerer Build
• Quill Volley Spiritborn Build
• Thorns Spiritborn Build

This may be a bit beyond your belief, but Barbarian is indeed not greatly affected by this change. Barbarian’s Ugly Bastard Helm was nerfed in Season 9, so you can look for some alternatives, but it’s still the best choice in most builds. In terms of damage, two builds that use summons for damage output are not affected by Overpower nerf.

Hydra Sorcerer has received a huge buff. In Season 8, Hydra was just one skill of Fire Sorcerer builds. But in Season 9, Hydra has not only been buffed, but we also have a Unique Amulet Ophidian Iris that greatly increases the fire damage and critical strikes dealt by Hydra. Hydra Sorcerer Build has the potential to be one of the Meta builds in Season 9, which can help you farm Diablo 4 gold and reach The Pit above 100, so Hail Hydra!

Spiritborn also does not rely on Overpower, so it has hardly been nerfed. So Quill Volley Spiritborn Build is probably the same level as Season 8, while Thorns Spiritborn’s ranking rise is because of the increase brought by the new unique pants Balazan’s Maxtlatl.

Tier A

• Summon Mage Necromancer Build
• Bone Blood Spear Necromancer Build
• Chain Leveling Sorcerer Build
• Blizzard Sorcerer Build
• Ice Shards Sorcerer Build
• Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build
• Machine Gun Smelly Druid Build
• Cataclysm Druid Build
• Shred Druid Build
• Boulder Druid Build
• McFlurry Rogue Build
• Firestorm Evade Spiritborn Build

In Tier A, most of the reasons for Necromancer builds falling from Tiers are because of Overpower nerf. The new glove The Hand of Naz greatly enhances Skeleton Mage, allowing Summon Mage Necromancer to gradually replace Blood Wave Necromancer and Bone Spear Necromancer Builds. Great Skeleton Mage is more powerful and more survivable than before. Necromance may even farm Diablo 4 gold faster in the early stages.

Druids have always been strong, but they received a lot of nerfs in Season 9, especially Cataclysm Druid Build. The nerfs to Overpower and Cataclysm-related items basically cut into the arteries of Cataclysm Druid Build, leaving it on the verge of death, and it is impossible to be as simple and violent as season 8 and 7.

Tier B

• Death Trap Rogue Build
• Lugging Strike Barbarian Build
• Double Swing Barbarian Build
• Whirlwind Barbarian Build
• Bash Barbarian Build
• Mighty Throw Barbarian Build
• Blood Wave Necromancer Build
• Bone Spirit Necromancer Build
• Blood Lance Necromancer Build
• Blood Surge Necromancer Build
• Companion Druid Build
• Earth Spike Druid Build
• Stone Bust Druid Build
• Razor Wings Spiritborn Build
• Payback Spiritborn Build
• Rushing Claw Spiritborn Build
• Meteor Sorcerer Build
• Fire Ball Sorcerer Build
• Incinerate Sorcerer Build
• Rapid Fire Rogue Build
• Rain of Arrows Rogue Build
• Poison Death Trap Rogue Build

Necromancer and Druid are most affected by Overpower’s nerf, but what about Rogue? It’s a shame that Rogue will be hurt worse than both of them in Season 9.

Although Rogue got a new unique helmet in this update, the helmet is a very important part of Rogue builds, and there are many helmets that can compete, and this new helmet may not be the best.

In addition, Death Trap has been set to a 10s CD, and Flurry’s healing has also been changed to delayed healing. There are also some other nerfs in terms of damage, which are like punching Rogue players in the face. The damage of Death Trap Rogue Build takes time to accumulate, and now its damage starts slower, and Diablo 4 items from it have also been weakened. Rogue players may have a painful time playing in Season 9.

Tier C

• Frenzy Barbarian Build
• Frozen Orb Sorcerer Build
• Ball Lightning Sorcerer Build
• Twisting Blades Rogue Build
• Dance of Knives Rogue Build
• Barrage V Rogue Build
• Landslide Druid Build
• Hurricane Druid Build
• Upheaval Barbarian Build
• Pure HotA Barbarian Build
• Deathblow Barbarian Build
• Bash Barbarian Build
• Steel Grasp Barbarian Build

Tier C builds don’t perform well in The Pit. They can be played as entertainment builds in the endgame, but in other aspects, they have various defects such as low damage cap and long farming time, so they are not recommended.

The above is the Season 9 PTR builds rank. Players can try Tier S builds to test their damage. You can also adjust them to develop more gameplay and builds.

Diablo 4 Season 9 will be released in a month, and it will bring changes to dungeons. There are various dungeons in Diablo 4, and some of them have unique mechanisms and rewards.

Dark Citadel is a unique dungeon, or more precisely, a Citadel. This is a multiplayer PVE Citadel. This dungeon cannot be played alone, and requires at least two players. Its rewards include gold, materials, unique items, and appearances.

How To Enter Dark Citadel?

Dark Citadel is part of Vessel of Hatred, and only DLC players can enter this area.

Dark Citadel is part of the endgame content. Only when you reach level 60 and the world difficulty reaches Torment I can you unlock the quest to unlock Dark Citadel: Crater of Lost Souls. After you complete this quest, you can find Dark Citadel in Kurast.

How To Play Dark Citadel?

Dark Citadel consists of three parts:

• Labrinth of Souls (Right Wing)
• Enclave of Strife (Left Wing)
• Dominion of Zagraal (Center Wing)

These three parts are independent, and players who enter them need to cooperate with each other to solve puzzles. In this area, you will encounter some special mechanisms:

• Soul Siphons: Touch Soul Siphon to activate it, and then a circle will appear around it. You need to kill enemies in the circle to recharge Soul Siphon.
• Sealing Wards: Defeat a Ward Guardian to get a Ward Stone. You can place it in the sealing barrier to contact the seal.
• Pressure Switches: Standing on the pressure switch has different colors corresponding to different doors. Standing on it will open the door, and leaving it will close the door.
• Gateway Charge: Kill Realm Guardians and collect Realm Shards which they drop when they die, which can be used to recharge Gateway. When the energy bar is full, Gateway is fully charged.
• Impending Doom/ Soul Entanglement/ Souls Consumed: Complete the quest before the progress bar is full.
• Realm of Oblivion: The area will stack debuffs over time. When the debuffs stack to 100 layers, you will die. The debuffs will stop stacking when you are in the range of Soul Dampener. Path Indicators will guide you out of Realm of Oblivion.
• Door Barrier: Barrier Guardians have different symbols. Defeating them will unlock the corresponding door barrier.
• Barrier Ward: Activate Barrier Ward to create a safe area.
• Counterspell: Kill a Spell Guardian to get a Counterspell Stone. When a Soul Orb is about to hit you, you can use the skill to bounce its Soul Orb back to the caster.
• Teleporter: All players must be standing inside the teleporter to activate it.

Dark Citadel Rewards

• Dark Citadel Merchants: Dark Citadel merchants sell unique cosmetic weapons and Scrolls of Restoration
• Weekly Chests: Complete 3 wings to receive Ancestral Gear rewards.
• Khazra Treasury: Kill Khazra’s Treasury Guardians at the end of certain Trials to collect Citadel Coins.
• Torment 4: Complete Dark Citadel at this difficulty to receive exclusive gear sets, mounts, and cosmetic rewards.

Khazra Treasury

After killing guards in Khazra Treasury, you can get Citadel Coins, Khazra Horn, Murmuring Obolss. There is more than one Khazra Treasury, so look for them while exploring.

Merchant Items

The merchant in Dark Citadel will sell some consumables, but he does not accept Diablo 4 gold, only Citadel Coins. You can earn Citadel Coins while exploring Dark Citadel.

• Scroll of Abundance (800 Citadel Coins)
• Scroll of Forging (1750 Citadel Coins)
• Scroll of Generosity (1500 Citadel Coins)
• Scroll of Grave Oil (400 Citadel Coins)
• Scroll of Restoration (2000 Citadel Coins)
• Elixir of Swift Revival (800 Citadel Coins)
• Elixir of Tailwind (800 Citadel Coins)
• Incense of Khazra Power (1600 Citadel Coins)
• Incense of Fortitude (1600 Citadel Coins)
• Incense of Rushing Wind (1600 Citadel Coins)
• Incense of Capacity (1600 Citadel Coins)

These items can increase the amount of experience gained by the player, or improve the player’s attributes, damage, potion recovery, etc.

Dark Citadel Cache

• Dark Citadel Gear Cache (1200 Citadel Coins): Contains random gear, with a chance to get unique items.
• Dark Citadel Gem Cache (1100 Citadel Coins): Contains gold, random gems, and gem fragments.
• Dark Citadel Crafting Cache (900 Citadel Coins): Contains random crafting materials.

Weapon Appearance

• Doom Mace (15000 Citadel Coins)
• Hooked Piercer (15000 Citadel Coins)
• Ritual Impaler (20000 Citadel Coins)
• Sculpted Quarterstaff (20000 Citadel Coins)
• Twisted Spirit Wand (15000 Citadel Coins)

Cosmetic Sets

Armor of the Khazra

Complete Dark Citadel area quests in Torment 1-3, and the fragments of Armor of the Khazra will drop from treasure chests and bosses.

• Helm: Helm of the Khazra
• Chest: Chestplate of the Khazra
• Gloves: Gloves of the Khazra
• Pants: Leggings of the Khazra
• Boots: Boots of the Khazra
• Greater Armor of the Khazra

The following items will only drop on Torment 4 difficulty:

• Helm: Greater Helm of the Khazra
• Chest: Greater Chestplate of the Khazra
• Gloves: Greater Gloves of the Khazra
• Pants: Greater Leggings of the Khazra
• Boots: Greater Boots of the Khazra

Dark Citadel is a fun raid in Diablo 4 that offers some pretty wonderful rewards as part of the endgame, so invite your friends to explore it together!

The general content of Diablo 4 Season 9 has been almost completely revealed after Campfire Chat. This is a brand new season, but it has a familiar feel.

The special power of Season 9 is Horadric Spells. They work a little differently than in previous seasons. You can decide to some extent what kind of damage Horadric Spells will do and how they will do it. In addition, there is a Horadric Jewel similar to Occult Gems in season 7 that can further enhance the power of Horadric Spells.

What Are Horadric Jewels?

Horadric Jewels are very obviously borrowed from the seasonal items in Season 7. Like Occult Gems, you can’t get these gems from dungeon drops. You need to get Horadric Tomes from rewards in Horadric Strongrooms, then unlock their crafting methods, and finally use gem fragments, Diablo 4 gold and Horadric Phials to craft Horadric Jewels.

However, they only appear in Torment difficulty, which means you can’t use them in the early game. You can equip up to three Horadric Jewels at a time, but you can’t equip the same Horadric Jewel. They don’t seem to upgrade, and the benefits they give you are fixed.

What Are Horadric Jewels Effects?

There are 15 types of Horadric Jewels, and some of them are similar to Diablo 3 gems.

1. Seal of Control: When you equip two or more School of Control Arcana, your control time is extended and Lucky Hit Chance is increased.
2. Seal of Power: When you more than one Arcana from School of Power, increase movement speed and critical chance.
3. Seal of Denial: When you over than two Arcana from School of Denial, increase Barrier, Fortify and Thorns.
4. Horadric Crest: For each Arcana from a different school you equip, gain maximum all elemental resistance and damage reduction.
5. Reverie Horn: After you damage or kill an enemy, your minions are empowered, becoming larger and dealing bonus damage over 4 seconds.
6. Scornful Light: The elemental damage you deal and you take will both increase.
7. Tyrant Bane: After you deal sustained damage to an enemy, they are permanently affected by your sustained damage.
8. Liminal Echo: If you would take fatal damage, you avoid it instead, and activate Propulsion, then gain 3 seconds of invincibility. This effect can only occur once every 75 seconds.
9. Idol From Below: You gain a boost to your primary stat and maximum health and are always Unhindered. However, you will be hunted in Sanctuary’s darkest places by Jewel Guardian.
10. Myriad Stone: After casting a Catalytic Skill, if it was an Ultimate Skill, get 30% Attack Speed for 10 seconds.
11. Spark of Creation: After casting a Catalytic Skill, gain 10 Primary Resources.
12. Luminate Eye: The cooldown of your Catalytic Skill is reduced by a quarter.
13. Brilliant Sigil: The effectiveness of your Infusions is greatly increased.
14. Elemental Brand: Your Catalytic Skill deals damage equal to one-third of your Infusions over 3 seconds. Lucky Shot: Dealing damage equal to your Infusion has up to a one-third chance to trigger its secondary effect.
15. The Starflux: Your Catalytic Skill deals double the damage. However, you lose control of Horadric Spells, causing your Catalytic to inherit Infusions randomly.

Which Horadric Jewels Are Good?

Tier S

Idol From Below is clearly in the Tier S category. First, it increases maximum health and core attributes, which are important for all builds. Second, its negative effect is not really a negative effect. It will randomly refresh some monsters in front of the player, and the player can use these monsters to trigger certain skill effects or refresh buffs. Finally, more monsters also mean more drops and gold.

Seal of Power will also be one of the best Horadric Jewels. Because many movement speeds are a very scarce attribute for every class, not to mention the critical hit rate. Classes like Spiritborn need critical chance and movement speed very much, so this Seal of Power will almost become a must-have.

Tier A

The Starflux is a very promising Horadric Jewel. It can double the damage of Catalytic Skill, but you will inherit random elemental infusions, which will hardly have any effect in some builds.

Tyrant Bane is worth mentioning. It may not be as versatile as the above Horadric Jewels. For DoT builds, Tyrant Bane must be chosen. You can match different DoT sources to maximize its effect.

Reverie Horn, like Tyrant Bane, is not very versatile, but it can shine in some builds. Builds that can benefit from Reverie Horn are Necromancer Summoner Build, Minion Barbarian Endgame Build, and Hydra Sorcerer Build. Since both Hydra and Skeleton Mage received improvement in Season 9, Reverie Horn may be more popular than expected.

Diablo 4 Season 9’s Horadric Jewels can not make people feel fresh, but they are better than season 7’s Occult Gems because they provide the exact enhancements players need to improve the efficiency of farming gold and Horadric Strongrooms in nightmare dungeons.

Diablo 4 Season 8 has been running steadily for a while, and it will be replaced by Season 9 in early July. This is a fairly brief season.

A lot of information about Season 9 has been released on Campfire Chat on May 22. We know that in each season, a unique item will be designed for each class, which will strengthen a certain aspect or a certain skill. Season 9 is no exception.

Currently, all 6 class unique items have been released. Let’s see which builds they strengthen.

Barbarian: Hooves Of The Mountain God

• Attacks reduce dodge cooldown by 2.5 seconds
• Increases movement speed by 17.5-23%
• Increases basic attack speed by 16-25%
• Increases Fury Per Second by 7-10
• Increases Belligerence level by 2-3
• When reaching max Fury, your Fury will be depleted rapidly until it is exhausted, and all your basic skills will now cleave and deal 70-100% additional damage.

This unique item is a boots, and its unique power is mainly to improve basic skills. This boot is undoubtedly a very versatile equipment, and you can put it into most builds, especially some farming builds or leveling builds.

Basic skills have a short CD time, and Hooves of the Mountain God can convert the damage of basic skills into AoE damage, which greatly improves the efficiency of clearing monsters and farming Diablo 4 Gold.

Druid: Noxious Spine-Breaker

• Deals 110% damage to poisoned enemies
• Increases Willpower by 14-18%
• Increases Poison Damage by 114-150%
• Pulverize has a 26-35% chance to hit twice
• Resource cost reduced by 26-35%
• Every 10 seconds, Pulverize forms a pool of poison that deals 200-400% of its damage as poison over 6 seconds. This pool splashes an additional 20-40% of the total damage of the puddle to and around it.

This unique item is a two-handed mace that primarily enhances Druid’s ability to use poison and is associated with Pulverize.

Pulverize is one of the Druid’s most common abilities, and Pulverize Druid build and Pulverize Companions build built around it both performed well in the endgame. But if part of its physical damage change into poison damage, its ability to deal damage may be reduced.

However, you can use it in Pulverize Poison Creeper leveling builds, where this unique two-handed hammer can continuously deal AOE poison damage, which is very useful for clearing out ordinary monsters.

Necromancer: The Hand Of Naz

• Increases Skeletal Mage Damage by 77.5-100%
• Increases Attack Speed by 10.5-15%
• Increases 424-457 Maximum Lifespan
• Increases Skeletal Mage Mastery by 2-4
• Sacrifice Skeletal Warriors and Golems to gain an additional Skeletal Mage for each minion sacrificed.
• When a Skeletal Mage attacks an enemy 25 times without dying, it upgrades to a Skeletal Arch-Mage.
• Skeletal Mages teleport to safety when attacked, and their attacks occasionally shatter on impact, dealing 50-100% additional damage to the target and up to 3 additional targets.

Necromancer summon builds have been improved once again, and they have gained a new summons. To be honest, even if Necromancer players like to use summons very much, they have to seek other skills as their main force at the endgame. Because the summon build has some shortcomings that cannot be ignored, such as scattered damage and low survivability of summons.

This unique glove makes up for some of these shortcomings to a certain extent, and it should become one of the must-have equipment for summon builds. With this equipment, summon Necromancers will clear nightmare dungeons faster and farm gold and items more efficiently.

Rogue: Deathmask Of Nirmitruq

• Increases 424-457 maximum health
• Increases 2-3 skill levels to Flurry
• Increases 16-25 movement speed
• Increases 224-296 armor
• You can now extend the release time of Flurry, which will consume 10% of your health when you are low on energy. Spending health to cast Flurry increases your damage by 30-50% and your attack speed by 50% for 5 seconds, and it will stop automatically when health is low.

This unique helmet will undoubtedly become the focus of Rogue players. Whether it is leveling up, farming, or in the endgame, Flurry is the most commonly used skill of Rogue.

Flurry can cause multiple damage to the enemies in front of it through melee combat. This helmet can greatly enhance the damage of Flurry Rogue, allowing it to almost stably kill enemies. But Rogue has many powerful helmets, so players need to make certain trade-offs.

Sorcerer: Ophidian Iris

• 30% resistance to all elements
• Forged Hydra has +2 heads
• Increased 11.5-15.7% Intelligence
• Increased 5.2-6.0 Critical Chance
• Increased 77.5-100% Fire Damage
• Increased Devouring Blaze by 1-2
• Hydra is now a core skill and always summons a 3-headed Hydra whose attacks explode on impact.
• Each Hydra with 3 heads is larger and deals 50-100% more damage.

This is a unique amulet that primarily improves Sorcerer’s Hydra skill. Hydra is a somewhat interesting skill, but it only appears in some of Sorcerer’s fire builds and it basically means Sorcerer has to sacrifice a survival skill, so it shouldn’t provide much of a boost to Sorcerer.

Spiritborn: Balazan’s Maxtlatl

• Increases Dexterity by 107-121
• Increases Max Health by 424-457
• Increases Thorns by 268-373
• Bastion +2-3 Rank
• Each attack deals 200-300% of your Thorns as damage to nearby enemies, and poisons them for 100% of that damage over 3 seconds.
• Each counterattack with Thorns increases poison damage by 100% over 5 seconds, up to 300%.

This unique pair of pants boosts Spiritborn’s Thorns and Toxin damage, so it’s clear what build he’s best suited for, which is Stinger Spiritborn leveling build. Builds that rely on Toxins and Thorns can use this item, but it probably won’t be very useful in the endgame.

The unique items updated in Season 9 basically strengthen the ability of each class of farm gold in the early stages or enhance some less popular gameplay. We look forward to players’ in-depth exploration and development of these unique uses.

It’s been less than a month since Diablo 4 Season 8 was officially released, and Season 9’s content is already beckoning. Season 8’s Boss Powers are fun, but not great, and its partnership with Berserk IP is even more disappointing.

Thankfully, Season 8 is a short-term season, and Season 9 will be officially released in early July. A lot of content about Season 9 has been announced in Campfire Chat on May 22. More specific content can be experienced in PTR Patch 2.3.0 from Tuesday, May 27 to Tuesday, June 3.

Season Powers: Horadric Spells

First up is Horadric Spells, which, like Boss Powers, are special powers in Season 9. It differs from Boss Powers, and it is divided into three types:

• Catalysts: Equivalent to Mian Boss Powers
• Infusions: Change the damage type caused by Catalysts
• Arcana: Add modifiers to Catalysts

You can equip one Catalyst, one Infusion, and three Arcana. Arcana is divided into three different qualities: Magic, Rare, and Legendary. Catalysts are the core of Horadric Spells, while Infusions and Arcana can change their power.

Although it is slightly more complicated than Boss Powers, the actual experience in the game must be not much different from Boss Powers, and I believe that you who have experienced several seasons must have realized this early. However, Infusions allow Horadric Spells to be more flexible in builds, which is definitely better than Boss Powers, because Boss Powers have a fixed damage type.

Horadric Strongrooms

The new feature added in Season 9 is Horadric Strongrooms, which will appear randomly in Nightmare Dungeons. Think of them as potent micro-dungeons.

Once you enter a nightmare dungeon, you may occasionally come across a Horadric Gateway with noticeable lights and sounds. After clearing out the demons along the way, you can enter it and find Horadric Strongrooms.

After you find a Horadric Strongroom, you can choose to open Strongroom and then meet the requirements of Horadric Pillars. You need to kill monsters according to the requirements before the timer reaches zero. After meeting the requirements, you can get rich rewards, including unique items, Diablo 4 gold, and materials.

Horadric Pillars are divided into different types and different requirements. The higher the difficulty, the more Horadric Pillars will appear. High-quality Horadric Pillars have more difficult requirements and better rewards.

Although the appearance of Horadric Strongrooms is random, there are still some ways to increase the probability of their appearance.

• 1. Play Nightmare Dungeons on Torment difficulty. Horadric Strongrooms are most likely to appear on Torment 4 difficulty.
• 2. Upgrade Wayfinder with Horadric Phials, which can enhance it to find Horadric Strongrooms. Horadric Phials are the special currency of season 9.
• 3. Use the Nightmare Dungeon Sigil with Horadric Strongrooms affix.

You can choose to complete all Horadric Pillars. Each Horadric Pillar will require you to kill demons, and each demon will provide you with 2 Horadric Attunement and extend the timer by 10s.

There are also Shrines scattered in Horadric Strongrooms, which can provide you with some buffs to help you kill demons.

To leave Horadric Strongrooms, you must first defeat the boss that appears. Before you can, you choose between several Horadric caches. The more Horadric Attunement you get, the better the rewards in the treasure chest.

Nightmare Dungeon

Season 9’s Nightmare Dungeon has not changed much, but it adds a new endgame activity. Three nightmare dungeons will be combined, and each one is more difficult than the last. You must carefully choose each affix, because the affixes of these three dungeons are stacked together.

As an upgraded version of the normal nightmare dungeon, it is more difficult and has better rewards. Besides a large amount of gold, the probability of dropping unique items here is also higher.

You must defeat the final boss Astaroth, and his three-headed hellhound mount to leave this dungeon. Astaroth and his mount have independent health bars. If you kill the three-headed hellhound in battle, Astaroth will fall to the ground and fall into a short stiffness. You can take this opportunity to deal a lot of damage to him, and then the three-headed hellhound will revive with full health.

At a certain stage in the battle, Astaroth will jump off the three-headed hellhound and besiege you with it, which will bring significant challenges.

Therefore, you need to kill Astaroth as quickly as possible in this battle, either by aiming your skills at him as much as possible, or by bursting out a lot of damage while he is down.

Nightmare Dungeon Affixes

Nightmare Dungeons added new affixes in Season 9:

• Horadric Reserves: Generate more bonus rewards in loot boxes: Gem fragments, gold, Obols, seasonal currency, resources.
• Equipment Delve: Collectibles in the dungeon, they can upgrade treasure chest rewards: weapons, jewelry, armor.
• Power Shrines: Shrines generated in the dungeon: Artillery, Blast Wave, Channeling, Lethal, Protection.
• Forgotten Wisdom: Experience has a chance to be generated when killed, and experience wells will be generated somewhere in the dungeon, increasing the experience value when killing.
• Treasure Breach: many gilded gremlins will invade the dungeon.

The main changes in Season 9 are concentrated in the dungeons. Although the rewards are better, the difficulty is also higher. Before challenging, players should be prepared and bring enough consumables.