News Tag: Diablo 4 Obducite Farming

Although Diablo 4 Season 10 has only just begun, some proactive players have already begun crafting their endgame gear. You'll need Ancestral Unique items, Mythic items, and Obducites.

Farming these items is obviously quite time-consuming, but a bug that first appeared in Season 9 allows you to quickly farm Diablo 4 Obducites, at a rate of around 2,000 at a time. This bug won't be fixed anytime soon (after all, it's been delayed from Season 9 to Season 10), so you might want to take advantage of it while you can.

The Function Of Obducites

Let's briefly explain the function of Obducites. Obducites are used to Masterwork your Unique and Mythic Unique items, upgrading them from Rank 1 to Rank 4 to achieve the ideal stats.

The fastest way to farm Obducites in Season 9 is to use Horadric Strongrooms and Infernal Hordes, but normal farming methods are quite time-consuming.

Horadric Strongrooms

Horadric Strongrooms are a new mechanic added in Season 9. They're limited-time mini-dungeons where you fill a progress bar by killing enemies. When the timer expires or the progress bar is full, a boss will appear. Defeating the boss will drop loot and a treasure chest. The more the progress bar fills, the better the rewards.

Rewards (on Torment difficulty and above):

• Unique Item
• Obducite
• Gold
• Mythic Items (not very common, but higher than normal)

In addition, after leaving a Horadric Strongroom, you'll receive a random buff, valid only for the current dungeon:

• Experience: Killing monsters earns more XP.
• Reputation: Killing monsters earns more Reputation.
• Obducite: Killing monsters earns more Obducites.
• Gold: Killing monsters earns more Diablo 4 gold.

Horadric Strongrooms won't appear in every Nightmare Dungeon, but you can increase your chances by:

• Play at a higher world level. Horadric Strongrooms are more likely to appear in Torment Mode.
• Use Nightmare Sigils with affixes that guarantee a Horadric Strongroom in the dungeon.
• A purple glowing line will guide you to Strongrooms in the dungeon, and don't miss it.

How Does The Bug Work?

You just need to simply activate any Nightmare Dungeon Sigil, regardless of affix (Strongrooms preferred). You don't need to actually complete the demon dungeon, but rather teleport to the various Lair Boss pre-dungeons.

If you have some weaker Nightmare Dungeon Sigils, use them at this opportunity, but be sure not to complete Nightmare Dungeon, or you won't be able to exploit this glitch.

When you activate a Nightmare Dungeon Sigil, Strongroom entrances can appear in small entrance areas where they normally wouldn't. This effectively adds potential spawn points to all pre-boss dungeons.

There's a chance that a Strongroom entrance will spawn on the minimap before you enter a boss room. If one appears, complete it immediately. If you're lucky, you might even find multiple Strongrooms before Lair Bosses, which makes it more efficient if you use a team approach.

Remember that this is random; you might not receive a Strongroom on every floor. You don't need to defeat any Lair Bosses to receive a Strongroom. Simply enter their dungeon and search for Strongroom. If none appears, teleport directly to the next pre-boss dungeon.

This method greatly increases the number of Horadric Strongrooms you can encounter per unit of time, compared to running full Nightmare Dungeons or farming Undercity and Infernal Hordes.

After you defeat and claim Horadric Strongrooms, don't complete or clear the original Nightmare dungeon. Instead, continue teleporting to other boss locations. Because Sigil is still active, these smaller dungeons will continue to have a chance to spawn Strong Rooms. These smaller dungeons spawn very quickly, so there's no need to log off to reset them; simply teleport in a loop.

Furthermore, the enemy difficulty in Horadric Strongrooms is similar to that of a regular Nightmare dungeon—not too difficult, allowing you to quickly clear them. If your build can instantly defeat them, your efficiency will be very high.

How To Increase Efficiency?

This method of obtaining Obducites is much faster than regular farming. Besides the main target Obducites, you'll also receive Greater Affix gear, unique items, and Nightmare Dungeon Sigil.

For maximum efficiency, it's best to play on Torment IV difficulty, which will yield approximately 2,000 Obducites per run(efficiency will vary depending on your build).

To further improve efficiency, adjust your character build to prioritize movement speed for faster clearing and traversing within Horadric Strongrooms.

The above is how to quickly farm using this exploit. While the primary target is Obducites, you can also earn a wealth of perks like unique gear, XP, and Diablo 4 gold. This makes it the best farming method until the exploit is fixed.

Farming both Obducites and Mythic items is a long and arduous process, feeling like Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill before you see any real rewards.

For players with less time, acquiring these materials and top-tier gear is even more challenging. If you're looking to experience invincibility even on Torment difficulty, head to IGGM.com, where you'll find a large collection of Diablo 4 Obducites and gold for sale, which can help you quickly complete your endgame build.

There’s been a lot of discussion about the best way to farm obducite, but with the dungeon updates in Season 9, the farming method has changed.

This material is primarily used to upgrade your Masterworking gear and is a late-game material. Therefore, the following information applies primarily to farming in Torment 4. The same method can be used in other Torment difficulty levels, though it won’t be as efficient.

1. Horadric Strongrooms

Dungeons are a must-do for many players. Whether you’re leveling, farming for gold, or anything else, you’ll spend some time in a dungeon. Diablo 4 Season 9 adds mini-treasure rooms to nightmare dungeons, known as Horadric Strongrooms. When you play a nightmare dungeon, you’ll notice a prominent Horadric Gateway on the mini-map. After activating it, you’ll need to defeat several waves of mobs before you can enter the Horadric Strongroom.

Horadric Strongrooms are small dungeons. Upon entering, you’ll need to choose your favors. Once you’ve chosen your Favors, you’ll enter a room filled with enemies and four Horadric Artifact Pillars.

You must kill mobs within a 90-second timer to refill your Horadric Attunement, similar to Kurast Undercity. When the timer reaches zero or your Horadric Attunement reaches maximum, the mobs disappear and a boss appears. Defeating the boss will drop a Grand Horadric Cache containing over 2,000 obducites. The exit will appear after you claim the rewards.

There are two choices to farm a dungeon containing Horadric Strongrooms:

Farming The Entire Dungeon

Farming the entire Nightmare Dungeon is the least efficient method. Clearing Strongroom first and then clearing the remaining Nightmare Dungeons will yield additional Obducites, but the farming time will be significantly longer. It takes about 5 minutes to earn an additional 800-1200 Obducites, while in a Strongroom, you can earn about 1200 Obducites per minute.

Farm Only Horadric Strongrooms

You should only farm and collect Nightmare dungeons with Horadric Strongrooms affix. Once you defeat the boss and claim the rewards, exit immediately. This is a relatively efficient method.

Sigil Powder can be crafted into Nightmare Sigil, which transforms a normal dungeon into a Nightmare dungeon. Using this with Sigil Powder will significantly increase your efficiency, but it will quickly deplete your Sigil Powder. Additionally, the location of Horadric Strongrooms will change with each new Nightmare dungeon, affecting your farming efficiency.

2. Kurast Undercity

Kurast Undercity is a true treasure trove. You need to use Tribute of Refinement here and then clear monsters as quickly as possible. This method yields about 1,100 Diablo 4 Obducite per minute. If you encounter Portal Pranksters (Goblins), you’ll get a bonus.

This method relies on consuming Tribute of Refinement, which drops in Nightmare dungeons and Infernal Hordes, so you can combine it with other methods. Furthermore, if you team up with three other players and enter Kurast Undercity, one Tribute of Refinement will give you all 2,000 Obducite, for a total of 8,000 Obducite, which is quite a bargain.

3. Escalating Nightmares

Escalating Nightmares are essentially three nightmare dungeons strung together, a new dungeon change for season 9. Each dungeon has affixes, and these affixes stack with the next dungeon. You can set the affixes for the first tier, but the subsequent two tiers are random. Dungeons with Strongroom affix can yield around 2,000-2,500 Obducites, while the appearance of these affixes in the other two dungeons is entirely a matter of luck.

Thus, ideally, you can earn over 10,000 Obducites per clear of Escalating Nightmare. That said, the larger the map, the more Obducites you’ll earn, but the longer it takes to complete them. Overall, this method is less efficient than the previous two methods.

4. Infernal Hordes

Infernal Hordes event has a high degree of randomness, making it the least recommended method. Furthermore, the optimal event also requires randomness. The boons you choose may not always spawn the enemies you want. On average, this method yields about 350 Obducites per minute.

However, Infernal Hordes isn’t an unwanted event, as Obducites aren’t its primary reward, and the large number of monsters makes this an excellent leveling activity. As long as you combine it with buffs like EXP Elixirs, Incense, and Mother’s Blessing, it’s even more efficient than The Pit.

5. March Of The Goblin (Limited Time)

March of the Goblin is currently ongoing. This group of goblins, each with its own unique color, offers incredible rewards. Whatever you farm, it’s likely in the bags carried by these goblins.

While their spawn rate is random, there are certain areas where they appear more frequently. You can plan a more targeted farming route to hunt these goblins. The Diablo 4 Obducite you get with this method depends entirely on your luck.

6. Masterworking Cache

The last important method is Masterworking Cache, which you can get by trading in Mercenary’s Den, and a Masterworking Cache provides approximately 1,000 Obducite.

This is how to farm Obducite in Season 9. The stronger your build, the more efficient you’ll be. If you think these methods are too time-consuming, you can also choose to trade with other players.

As we all know, Obducite is one of the important materials you need when entering Diablo 4 Season 7 endgame, they can help you quickly upgrade your equipment in order to clear higher Pits or simply dominate Torment 4 and do your favorite grinding activities. Whatever the reason, we all need it, and accumulating a lot of Obducite quickly is the goal of almost every player!

As you know, there are 3 sources to get Obducite in Diablo 4. The first and most popular is of course Nightmare Dungeons, then Infernal Hordes, and last but not least is Kurast Undercity using Tribute of Refinement. But which one is the fastest way to get as much Obducite as possible in the shortest time? Here, we will try to answer this question.

Nightmare Dungeons

First of all, as you know, Nightmare Dungeons have always been one of the best sources of Obducite in Diablo 4, and this is also true in Season 7. But did you know that not all Nightmare Dungeons are the same?

It turns out that the amount of XP and Obducite you can get is based on the ranking of Nightmare Dungeon, which depends on the size, layout, and monster density of the dungeon. Therefore, some Nightmare Dungeons are better for you to farm materials than others. However, this ranking changes from season to season, so we will introduce 8 so-called S-tier Nightmare Dungeons in Season 7 that are your best choice for Obducite.

For the ranking of these dungeons, we followed two important factors. The first is based on how fast you can clear the dungeon, for this we assume that 3 minutes is the best time for you to clear Nightmare Dungeons, and the other influencing factor is based on the amount of Obducite you can get.

Of course, we know that there are many factors that can change the results, but please note that here we exclude the results of encountering Butcher or finding multiple Goblins, so Obducite you can actually get is definitely more considerable than we expect.

In the final list of Nightmare Dungeons, you can see that the 8 most suitable dungeons for farming are: 

• Ancient’s Lament
• Sarat’s Lair
• Deserted Underpass
• Mariner’s Refuge
• Uldur’s Cave
• Sirocco Caverns
• Forsaken Quarry
• Caldera Gate

The good thing about these 8 dungeons is that their layouts are very simple, which means that they either have only one layer like Uldur’s Cave, Forsaken Quarry, Mariner’s Refuge, Sarat’s Lair, and Ancient’s Lament, or if there are 2 layers, the layout feels like walking a straight line, allowing you to clear the dungeon very quickly, just like Deserted Underpass, Sirocco Caverns or Caldera Gate dungeons.

The most important thing is that the density of monsters in these dungeons is very high, some of these dungeons are what we call spider-themed dungeons, you know when you kill a spider more spiders will spawn, so these dungeons are the best. Not only can you collect more Obducite from them, but you also have the opportunity to make a good profit of Diablo 4 Gold by group clearing a lot of mobs, killing two birds with one stone!

In addition to these, we also found Feeding Grounds, Light’s Watch, and Blind Burrows. The problem with Feeding Grounds and Light’s Watch is that they are both large dungeons, unless you have an excellent fast farming build, it will take you a long time to clear them, and you don’t get much Obducite from these dungeons compared to other dungeons.

Blind Burrows is another spider dungeon, very similar to Sarat’s Lair, but Sarat’s Lair is better because it is completed faster. So, if you can choose, it is recommended that you always choose Sarat’s Lair or any other dungeon first.

So, taking into account the time it takes to clear a dungeon, teleport back to town, and the loading times, you can earn up to 1,500 Obducite every 4-5 minutes if you farm these dungeons as quickly as possible. That means on average you can run about 12 dungeons per hour and get a total of 18,000 Obducite.

The problem here, though, is that these Dungeon Keys are random drops, and even if you can craft them, that can affect your farming efficiency.

Infernal Hordes

The second method brings us to our beloved Infernal Hordes. Obducite has been given an enormous boost this season, with Hellborne option appearing more often than ever before. This is great because even if you have a really bad speed farming build like Blood Wave Necromancer, you should still get 800 to 900 Burning Aether every 10 waves, for an average of 4,500 Obducite per run.

I think better builds should be able to get around 1200 Aether on average, since they will be completing Infernal Hordes in a shorter time. This means that in one hour you should get between 17,000 and 20,000 Obducite. If we compare this amount to the 18,000, you can get in Nightmare Dungeon, you can almost say they are about the same.

Kurast Undercity

We come to the last contender, which is Kurast Undercity with Tribute of Refinement. As you know, Kurast Undercity just appeared last season, and you can get Mythic Uniques, materials, and Obducite from it, depending on the type of Tribute you use.

To get Obducite, you need Tribute of Refinement, and according to our data, these Tributes are currently the best source for Obducite. In 30 minutes, we did a total of 8 dungeon runs and got a whopping 16,000 Obducite. Note that these runs took place at Torment level 4, but we are not sure if Torment level makes a difference in Obducite drops.

As you can see, our farming method was to ignore all enemies and activate Beacons, and if for some reason we didn’t reach the highest level in the last part, we killed some enemies, just to make sure we always had maximum coordination.

Once again, the build we used was not optimized for fast clearing, so you also got that amount of Obducite with your build. This means that if you use a fast farming build, in 1 hour you can easily get even close to 30,000 Obducite! Ridiculous!

However, there is a minor problem, and that is finding Tribute. You need to complete Dark Citadel, get Tree of Whispers caches, or you can always do Infernal Hordes and exchange the remaining Aether for Obducite, Gem Fragments, and you will definitely get 1 Tribute of Refinement.

That’s it! Finally, please tell us which method is better for you? Do you have a scavenging build that helps you farm Obducite faster? Do you have any other better farming tips to share? See you next time!