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Diablo 4 development team claimed they would surprise players at 2025 TGA, and they truly delivered. They not only announced the next DLC, Lord of Hatred, at TGA, but also introduced a new class for Season 11: Paladin.

Each DLC release brings significant changes to Diablo 4's gameplay. The official information regarding Lord of Hatred will be revealed gradually over the next few months, but let's first take a look at what this expansion pack brings.

Benefits Of Pre-ordering Lord Of Hatred

Lord of Hatred is currently available for pre-order. Only players who unlock it can play as Paladin in Season 11, and this will also directly unlock the 2024 DLC, Vessel of Hatred. This means that if you pre-order Lord of Hatred, you can experience 7 classes in Season 11!

Story Recap

Looking at the content of the past few seasons, the war between angels and demons in Sanctuary has intensified. The root of all this lies with Lilith and Inarius, the creators of Sanctuary, and each harbors a twisted plan.

Lilith's goal extends beyond granting power to humans, and her true intention is to devour her own father, Mephisto, Lord of Hatred, to seize his power. At the time, Mephisto was being reborn in Hell, weakened. The key to thwarting Lilith's plot is a wanderer who has drunk demon blood - the player-controlled protagonist.

Mephisto, too, has his own schemes. He sends his messenger to help Wanderer stop Lilith. Although the team tries to avoid making a deal with the devil, they are ultimately forced to accept.

Wanderer ultimately defeats Lilith, and Neyrelle, a member of the team, decides to seize the opportunity to bury Lord of Hatred completely. However, acting alone, she is quickly corrupted by Mephisto's corruption. Fortunately, Wanderer finds her and helps her resist the corruption.

Together, they find Tomb of Akara, the final resting place of the holy prophet. This was originally a prison from which Mephisto might never escape. Although Wanderer defeats Mephisto's messenger, Mephisto himself escapes and enters a new vessel - the body of the prophet Akarat (Vessel of Hatred storyline).

Thus, Lord of Hatred walks the lands of Sanctuary as the false prophet, and the upcoming storyline will culminate in Lord of Hatred DLC.

Confirmed Content

Lord of Hatred expansion introduces the new Paladin class, whose skill tree offers three enhancements to each skill, potentially indicating the direction for skill reworks in other classes. The official announcement also confirms that the expansion includes two new classes, with the next class to be released in April along with the expansion pack.

New Area

A new two-minute trailer has been released, showcasing some of the updated content. The expansion will also add a new area called Skovos Isles and a new campaign. This new area is Lilith and Inarius, the birthplace of human civilization.

This area was originally planned for Diablo III, but due to its art style being somewhat similar to Titan Quest, the decision was shelved. However, the development team has revived this area in Diablo IV.

Skovos Isles are currently ruled by a prophet and an Amazon Queen. If the new class in the DLC is related to this region, it might be a class like Hunter or Amazon.

New Features

The highly requested Horadric Cube will return in Lord of Hatred. First appearing in Diablo 2, it has many uses, including crafting equipment and resetting item affixes. While its role in Diablo 4 is currently unknown, it will likely be integrated with the current crafting system.

Additionally, the developers have confirmed the addition of loot filters to help players more efficiently locate target equipment from the massive loot drops, complementing the crafting system and collecting common quality base items.

New Skill Tree

The current skill tree in Diablo 4 is rather rudimentary, with only two upgrade paths per skill, but Paladins have three. This is the direction the developers intend to take for the skill tree rework.

Lord of Hatred will bring a completely new skill tree, with each skill offering more diverse upgrade paths, creating a vast array of build combinations. Additionally, skill enhancements may include transformation options that fundamentally change skills, such as Sorcerer's Ball Lightning potentially transforming into a Fireball. The current Enhancement system and passives may be integrated into the new skill tree.

The development team hopes to shift the core definition of build crafting toward the skill tree rather than legendary and unique Diablo 4 items, allowing gear to play a more supportive rather than essential role, thus providing more flexible and diverse deck-building possibilities.

Talisman System

A new Talisman system will be added, possibly similar to Idol system in Last Epoch or Charm system in Diablo II, to provide additional set bonuses or ability combinations.

Endgame Content

A new endgame system called War Plans will be added, perhaps somewhat similar to Atlas tree in PoE series, allowing users to customize the endgame events they want to participate in. Each event is expected to have its own smaller skill trees for customizing and enhancing gameplay.

Another new mode is being added called Echoing Hatred. This is likely a bullet hell endless mode, possibly inspired by Echoing Nightmares in Diablo 3. Mechanically, it may involve fighting increasingly powerful waves of monsters and includes an overwhelm mechanic, and failure to clear monsters quickly will result in failure.

Finally, and most importantly, fishing will be available in the waters of Sanctuary. This is not only relaxing but may also yield some particularly valuable items.

Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred is highly anticipated for both its story and new content, and it may bring about a complete transformation for Diablo 4.

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

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

Evade Spiritborn Build

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

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

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

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

Firewall Sorcerer Build

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

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

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

Dance Of Knives Rogue Build

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

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

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

Minion Build Necromancer Build

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

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

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

HOTA Lunging Strike Barbarian Build

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

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

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

Companion Druid Build

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

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

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

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

Diablo 4 Season 11 made some adjustments to various classes, and Necromancer once again emerged as one of the best. The newly acquired unique item for Necromancer, Gravebloom, is particularly interesting; it allows you to summon three powerful golems.

If you decide to play Necromancer in Season 11, you might want to know which builds are the strongest. Below is a ranking of the strongest Necromancer builds, which are focusing on their performance in The Pit and Tower.

The Impact Of Season 11

Season 11 made several permanent changes to the crafting and defense systems, which directly impacted many builds.

Firstly, the cooldown reduction affix can now appear on jewelry. Ring of Mendeln was buffed, and Rathma's Vigor passive was changed, making some builds viable again.

On the other hand, developers increased monster damage and generally weakened character survivability, making build tankiness extremely important.

Tier D

Blood Mist Necromancer

Blood Mist Necromancer primarily relies on frequently triggering Blood Mist and Corpse Explosion, especially Blighted Corpse Explosion, to deal damage, and it's also known as Infinimist Necromancer.

It performed poorly in the season. The main reason is its over-reliance on corpse resources, while there are currently more high-damage alternatives.

C Tier

Affliction Necromancer

Affliction Necromancer is a new build in Season 11, and it involves curse skills like Iron Maiden. Some unique items allow Iron Maiden to deal shadow damage.

Affliction Necromancer is very suitable for leveling. However, its damage output has a ceiling for pushing The Pit and Tower levels, preventing it from reaching top-tier levels and placing it primarily in the mid-tier of The Pit.

Tier B

Blood Surge And Blood Lance Necromancer

Both Blood Surge and Blood Lance have received significant buffs, resulting in substantial damage increases. With the right Diablo 4 items, these builds might reach Tier A.

Corpse Explosion Necromancer

This build focuses entirely on corpse explosion damage, making it heavily reliant on Black River gear. Its survivability is decent, but its damage output may be insufficient at higher levels of The Pit.

Sever Necromancer

Sever Necromancer performs strongly in the early game, but suffers from slow movement speed and insufficient damage in the late game.

Bone Storm Necromancer

It was very strong in Season 10 due to the existence of Chaos Perks, but its ranking has dropped due to the removal of these mechanics in the new season and the nerf to Lidless Wall. It might not be as good as Blood Necromancer builds, but it's still Tier B.

Tier A

Blight Necromancer

This build focuses on Blight skill, utilizing Ebonpiercer to make Blight effective. This build is very tanky and suitable for speed farming. In Season 11, due to the significant increase in monster damage and the decrease in overall player survivability, survivability becomes extremely important, which is the main advantage of this build.

Bone Spirit Necromancer

With Season 11 allowing players to gain cooldown reduction on rings and amulets, coupled with the fix to Rapid Ossification, Bone Spirit can finally be self-sufficient and become a viable option. Its damage and survivability are decent, and if Sanctification is utilized to obtain suitable affixes, this build has the potential to reach Tier S.

Bone Spear Necromancer

Bone Spear Necromancer has very strong single-target damage, making it very effective against bosses, but it lacks AoE capabilities. The buff to Ring of Mendeln also benefits it, resulting in a slight rise in its ranking.

Skeletal Mage Necromancer

The primary beneficiary of Ring of Mendeln damage buff is Skeletal Mages Necromancer, making Necromancer's summons very reliable again. It excels for leveling and early push of The Pit, but falls slightly below Tier S for higher levels.

Blood Wave Necromancer

Overpower variant of Shadow Blood Wave struggles somewhat with triggering Blood orbs, but the changes to Rathma's Vigor (Overpower timer 15s → 10s) might give it the potential to reach Tier S.

Another DoT variant is viable; regardless of the variant, this build provides strong survivability, which is invaluable in the current season.

Tier S

Shadow Blight Necromancer

Shadow Blight Necromancer boasts extremely high damage, possibly slightly higher than the buffed Golem Necromancer. It's also incredibly tanky, offering far greater survivability than Golem Necromancer.

It relies on corpses, requiring corpse explosions, Soulrift, and Blight casts to trigger Shadow Blight effect. While the controls are somewhat cumbersome, the high damage makes survivability less of a concern in The Pit.

Golem Necromancer

Golem Necromancer received approximately a 60% damage buff compared to the PTR, and is expected to stack an additional 6 layers in The Pit. It doesn't rely on corpses, and Golem's casting provides an Unstoppable state, combining single-target and AoE damage for a more comfortable gameplay experience. However, its biggest drawback is survivability, so you'll need to be careful to dodge monster and bosses' skills.

If you prioritize stability, high damage, and high survivability, choose Shadow Blight Necromancer. If you want to challenge yourself with extreme damage, try new playstyles, and accept a fragile build, choose Golem Necromancer. These two are likely the highest-ranked Necromancer builds on The Pit and Towers leaderboards.

While classic Necromancer builds remain reliable, we highly recommend trying newer builds like Golem Necromancer and Affliction Necromancer. They're perfect for early-game leveling and endgame play, respectively, offering a fresh experience.

While Diablo 4 Season 11 made some adjustments to the early game difficulty, your leveling speed will still be quite fast if you kill monsters quickly enough.

Evade Spiritborn build, after several seasons of testing, has proven to be excellent for both leveling and endgame performance, and may be one of the best Spiritborn builds.

Evade Spiritborn Gameplay And Advantages

The core mechanics of Evade Spiritborn build revolve around Eagle Hall ability. Your skill tree should primarily focus on enhancing various damage multipliers. Use Evade to trigger Accelerated Thunderspike effect, unleashing a barrage of feathers at monsters for massive damage.

Evade Spiritborn build has been a Tier S leveling build for several consecutive seasons. It boasts extremely fast movement speed and monster-clearing efficiency, and its gameplay is very simple, and you just need to keep using Evade, and the flying feathers will automatically clear the monsters on the screen.

Impact Of Season 11

A bug in PTR 2.5.0 allowed gear like Loyalty's Mantle to provide double damage bonuses with Eagle Hall, resulting in excessively high damage. If this bug had been fixed, the reachable level in The Pit would have decreased by 10 levels (about level 100). This bug has been fixed in the official patch.

However, the developers also announced a rebalancing of the difficulty of The Tower and The Pit, reducing it by approximately 5-10 levels. Therefore, the actual strength of Evade Spiritborn is not expected to change significantly compared to PTR 2.5.0.

Additionally, the developers announced a 60% reduction in boss health, which will significantly speed up boss fights for this build.

Evade Spiritborn Leveling Build

Gear

• Helm: Aspect of Might (Neo + Qax)
• Chest Armor: Aspect of Layered Wards (Cem + Gar)
• Gloves: Rebounding Aspect
• Pants: Aspect of Disobedience (Emerald + Emerald)
• Boots: Duelist's Aspect
• Amulet: Aspect of Unyielding Hits (Skull)
• Ring 1: Conceited Aspect (Skull)
• Ring 2: Aspect of the Moonrise (Skull)

In the early game, you can freely use your two-handed weapon slot, using any magic, rare, or legendary weapon, focusing primarily on its pure damage to avoid wasting resources on Aspect engravings due to frequent upgrades.

Skils

• Thunderspike: Enhanced Thunderspike and Accelerated Thunderspike
• Crushing Hand: Enhanced Crushing Hand and Advantageous Crushing Hand
• Toxic Skin: Enhanced Toxic Skin and Measured Toxic Skin
• Soar: Enhanced Soar and Replenishing Soar
• Ravager: Enhanced Ravager and Measured Ravager
• Armored Hide: Enhanced Armored Hide and Reinforced Armored Hide
• Primary Spirit: Eagle
• Secondary Spirit: Eagle

From level 1 to 14, you can use basic skills like Stinger, Quill Volley, or Crushing Hand to level up. However, when you reach level 15, you must reset your skills and switch to Evade Spiritborn build.

Evade Spiritborn skill build is relatively flexible, and the overall strength is not significantly affected. Even if you don't have enough skill points, it won't affect your damage much, because skills like Thunderspike and Crushing Hand are mainly used to trigger effects.

Starting with the seasonal quests, unlock the reputation board on Normal difficulty, then equip your pet. Once you reach level 15, switch to Hard difficulty and use Crushing Hand to farm Helltide. Then farm Helltide until the first hour ends, and your character should be around level 30-35.

Then, run Vessel of Hatred Campaign on Normal difficulty until you unlock Kurast Undercity and obtain Runes Cache. Last, depending on your character's strength, continue farming Helltide on Expert or Penitent difficulty until you reach level 50. After that, clear Strongholds on Normal difficulty.

Evade Spiritborn Endgame Build

Gear

• Helm: Loyalty's Mantle (Qax + Cem)
• Chest Armor: Jacinth Shell (Emerald and Emerald)
• Gloves: Fists of Fate
• Pants: Temerity (Emerald and Emerald)
• Boots: Duelist's Aspect
• Weapon: Wushe Nak Pa (Ohm + Bac)
• Amulet: Aspect of Redirected Force (Skull)
• Ring 1: Conceited Aspect
• Ring 2: Aspect of Unyielding Hits (Skull)

In the mid-game, you can Temper your gear to gain damage affixes and reforge other attributes. Then, progress through The Pit to level 10 to unlock Torment I difficulty.

This build doesn't require any specific Diablo 4 items for a smooth transition from early game to endgame content, and you only need 3 items to handle most of the endgame content. One is the core item Loyalty's Mantle obtained by defeating Gregor, and the other is the Wushe Nak Pa and Jacinth Shell obtained by defeating Lord Zir.

Skills

• Armored Hide: Enhanced Armored Hide and Reinforced Armored Hide
• Concussive Stomp: Enhanced Concussive Stomp
• Thunderspike: Enhanced Thunderspike and Accelerated Thunderspike
• Counterattack: Enhanced Counterattack and Reinforced Counterattack
• The Seeker: Harmonious Seeker and Exalted Seeker
• Rock Splitter: no

In endgame gameplay, you almost only need to frequently press the evade key, while other skills mostly provide buffs. For example, Armored Hide skill is only used to trigger Aspect of Unyielding Hits buff.

Spiritborn is one of the strongest classes in Season 11, and Evade Spiritborn is the most stable and safest choice. It can be strong from the start of the season to the end, without worrying about acquiring specific Diablo 4 items, and is arguably the best leveling build in the entire game. If you're not aiming for The Pit rankings, then this can be your best starting build for Season 11.

Diablo 4 Campfire Chat not only announced the changes for Season 11, but also its release date. However, this date is unusual, being two days later than players had predicted.

This is clearly unusual, leading players to speculate that Season 11 might have some surprises in store to counter the challenge from its biggest rival, Path of Exile 2 patch 0.4.0.

Why Is The Release Date Unusual?

Season 11 Release Date

According to Diablo 4's usual practice, the end date of each season pass typically signifies the end of the season. Therefore, according to the original schedule, Season 10 would end on December 9th, which usually means that Season 11 would begin immediately afterward on the 9th.

However, the latest official patch notes and blog indicate that Season 11 will begin at the following times:

• 8:30 PM Pacific Standard Time (PT), Thursday, December 11th
• 11:30 PM Eastern Time (EST), Thursday, December 11th
• 4:30 AM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Friday, December 12th
• 5:30 AM Central European Time (CET), Friday, December 12th

The Unusual Reason

Official releases are rarely on Thursdays, and they typically release new seasons on Tuesdays. Furthermore, 8:30 PM EST is an unfavorable time for players worldwide, as it's close to midnight or nighttime in most regions.

This time also means that Diablo IV development team and engineers will probably need to work through the night to ensure a smooth season launch, resulting in additional overtime costs.

Furthermore, Diablo 4's official season updates deliberately avoid clashing with the seasons and leagues of other popular ARPGs.

This timing puts Season 11 very close to the release of its main competitor, Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0. Patch 0.4.0 will be released on December 12th, bringing the new Druid class to Path of Exile series.

The Impact Of The Game Awards

The biggest reason for the two-day delay in Season 11's release is likely The Game Awards ceremony, also scheduled for December 11th, 2025. It's not just an awards ceremony, but also a platform for announcing major game news of the year.

The Game Awards will begin at approximately 7:30 PM Eastern Time / 4:30 PM Pacific Time, and Season 11 will be released a few hours after the awards ceremony.

The developers of Diablo IV have repeatedly hinted at revealing new content at The Game Awards, almost certainly the game's second expansion.

However, expansion announcements shouldn't affect season release dates. Therefore, this deliberate arrangement might suggest that Season 11 itself will include a surprise release linked to the expansion announcement. This content could be revealed at The Game Awards and released a few hours later with the season.

Speculation On The Surprise Release

New Class Paladin

Paladin is an extremely popular class in Diablo series, and its addition would greatly boost its popularity. Furthermore, some players have discovered that one of the cosmetic rewards for Season 11 Battle Pass closely resembles a flail, a classic Paladin weapon, and currently, there is no actual flail weapon type in the game. However, Season 11 already includes a major rework of core combat and stats systems, including elites, game difficulty, capstones, toughness, defense caps, and health potions.

Adding a completely new class without prior community testing or feedback on the public test server is extremely risky and logically illogical. Therefore, while the possibility of a new class is there, it is very small.

Expansion 2

So, is it possible that the official announcement of DLC 2 will be made directly? Generally, expansions, as paid content, require several months of promotion to introduce their features and attract players. It's unlikely they will be released without prior notice, and the official announcement has already stated that the expansion will be delayed until 2026. Therefore, the probability of announcing DLC 2 directly at TGA is very small.

However, Season 11 might release a brand new area connecting to the new expansion. After all, it's been over a year since the last DLC was released, and the official development of DLC 2 should be nearing completion, allowing them to promote it in-game beforehand.

The new area could serve as a prelude to the expansion. For it to be meaningful, the area would need to include side quests, new Diablo 4 items, main story clues, or new exclusive activities—which in itself constitutes a significant update.

While the specific content is unknown, Season 11 has a high probability of including unannounced surprise releases; otherwise, the seemingly illogical release timing of the season cannot be explained.

Other Clues

After the announcement of the first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, Diablo 4 added a free pet system. This proves that the developers have a history of adding free content alongside major announcements.

Furthermore, renowned game journalist Jez Cordon revealed that Diablo IV's content at The Game Awards goes far beyond just one expansion, indicating that there are even more surprises to come.

In any case, these hidden surprises have significantly increased the player community's anticipation for Season 11. What new content awaits us at 2025 TGA.

Diablo 4 Season 11, Season of Divine Intervention, has been postponed from the previously speculated December 9th to December 11th, specifically at 8:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, unlike the usual 10:00 AM start time.

Season 11 differs significantly from PTR 2.5.0, including a large amount of new content, system rework, and balance adjustments. However, the core theme is a slower overall game pace, increased difficulty, and a general nerf to build strength compared to Season 10.

In PTR, players were generally dissatisfied with changes to crafting aspects such as Sanctification system and Masterworking, and the official response was that these would be adjusted. These changes are now live in Season 11 release. Let's take a look at the specific changes.

Sanctification System

Sanctification is a new seasonal mechanic introduced in Diablo IV Season 11. The development team seemed to have considered making it a permanent system, but recent campfire chat hints that it might not be.

Veteran ARPG players will recognize that this system's core concept originates from similar systems in other ARPGs, such as Vaal orbs in Path of Exile and Worldstone Shards in Diablo 2 mod.

Essentially, it's a gambling mechanic with gear. Players can potentially gain powerful buffs to a piece of gear or brick it. Based on strong feedback from the player community, the development team made two key changes to Sanctification mechanic.

Removing Negative Effects On Specific Gear

In PTR, Sanctification could replace an affix on gear. While the new affix might be powerful, it could also brick the gear by replacing Greater Affix on Uniques and Mythic Unique items.

The current official solution prevents the attributes of Unique and Mythic Unique gear from being replaced. This means that the risk of destruction for top-tier gear, which is of greatest concern to most players, is no longer present. This negative effect may only exist on Legendary gear, and its impact is significantly reduced.

Changing No-effect Outcome Result

In PTR, there was approximately a 20% chance that sanctification would result in no change, meaning the equipment neither improved nor damaged. In Season 11 live servers, this 20% probability has been replaced with an increase in equipment quality.

This effect works in conjunction with Masterworking system, as Masterworking can increase equipment quality by up to 25%, with each 1% quality increase boosting all equipment stats by 1%. Sanctification now directly increases equipment quality by 5% to 25%, improving base stats such as armor, resistances, weapon damage, and the values ​​of all affixes, tempers, and mythic equipment stats.

Sanctification Probabilities

Based on official information and player testing results in PTR, the possible results and approximate probability distribution of sanctification are as follows:

10% probability: Replace an affix

• Approximately 15% probability: Add a new power.
• Approximately 20% probability: Add a more powerful affix.
• Approximately 30-35% chance: Adds a random powerful affix.
• Approximately 10-15% chance: Improves equipment quality.

According to Diablo 4 community manager, the new Might pool contains some incredibly powerful options, and the affixes added by Sanctification come from a specific pool of powerful affixes, which may include:

• Cooldown reduction
• Attack speed
• +2 to all skills on jewelry
• Doubling the strength of gems
• Percentage core stats
• Total resistance
• Crit chance
• Movement speed
• Lucky chance
• Resource cost reduction
• Maximum resource
• Maximum life

Defense System Overhaul  

Diablo 4 has made many changes to the defense system, including a rework of Fortify and Toughness system.

Fortify Reworked

Diablo 4 Season 11 introduced a new attribute, Fortify. It has also been reworked in the live servers of Season 11. It no longer directly provides damage reduction. The new mechanism is: when you take damage, Fortify points are converted into health regeneration, essentially a second health bar.

Fortify can coexist with Barrier, but they function differently: Barrier adds a shield to health, while Fortify quickly regenerates health after it is depleted.

New Defense System

Season 11 introduced a completely new Resistance and Armor system, but the specific workings (such as the cap) are somewhat unclear.

Additionally, UI displays a comprehensive Toughness value as a reference for survivability at each difficulty level, but you shouldn't blindly rely on this value. You must balance improving all resistances; otherwise, too low a single resistance can still lead to instant death.

Intelligence class can equip Skulls gems. For non-Intelligence classes, if the primary attribute is Armor, socket Diamonds to increase all resistances.

Affix Updates

Rings and gloves will have new affixes such as life on hit and coldown reduction, and Life on hit will be a crucial survival affix.

Crafting Changes

Tempering System

Tempering changes are consistent with PTR, and each item can now only be tempered once. As compensation, Diablo 4 items will drop with an additional base affix. While player control over affixes is reduced, the total number of affixes remains unchanged.

Masterworking Upgrade Rework

Masterworking has received some adjustments compared to PTR. Its maximum level has been increased from 12 to 25. While the increase per level is smaller, the cumulative increase may be greater, perhaps providing a 50% increase in base stats. Furthermore, there is now a chance to critically strike upon upgrading, resulting in an even greater boost.

Potion System Changes

Basic potions can no longer be upgraded, and players will only have four basic potions. As compensation, your character will automatically replenish one potion every 30 seconds to cope with prolonged battles.

These are the main changes to crafting and items in Diablo 4 Season 11 live server. Compared to PTR, it restores the strength of builds, preventing players from struggling this season.

Each class in Diablo 4 Season 11 has new unique items, often leading to entirely new builds or playstyles. Barbarian's new unique item, Chainscourged Mail, allows for a continuous jumping playstyle.

Infinite Leap Barbarian build is more like a speed farming build. It's not particularly powerful, but it's very fun. it allows you for quick completion of content like Helltide, Dungeon, and Infernal Hordes through endless jumping.

Leap Barbarian Gameplay

The core of Infinite Leap Barbarian build relies on the unique effect of Chainscourged Mail. Its effect is that when you cast a damaging melee skill, that skill is disabled. Once all melee skills in your skill bar are disabled, they are reactivated, and their cooldowns are refreshed. For each skill disabled, your melee skill damage increases by 50-100%[x].

This means that if you only have one high-damage melee skill, you can use it infinitely. These pants make leapquake builds a breeze, and among all the new unique items in Season 11, it's definitely one of the top-tier items.

Leap Barbarian Gear

• Helm: Harlequin Crest (Ruby+Ruby)
• Chest Armor: Aspect of Bul-Kathos (Ruby+Ruby)
• Gloves: Vehement Brawler's Aspect
• Pants: Chainscourged Mail (Ruby+Ruby)
• Boots: Wildbolt Aspect
• Amulet: Melted Heart of Selig (Diamond)
• Ring 1: Bold Chieftain's Aspect (Diamond)
• Ring 2: Ring of Starless Skies (Diamond)
• Bludgeoning Weapon: Brawler's Aspect (Igni+Tec)
• Slashing Weapon: Aspect of Earthquakes (Neo+Ohm)
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Ramaladni's Magnum Opus (Ruby)
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Sabre of Tsasgal (Ruby)

Chainscourged Mail is the core starting gear for this build. To effectively utilize its unique effect, you cannot have other Brawling skills in your skill bar.

Harlequin Crest provides all skill levels and attributes, offering a significant damage boost. Melted Heart of Selig is one of the best mythic items in Season 11, providing abundant resources and survivability, making it ideal for Barbarians.

Wildbolt Aspect increases Leap Ranks, perfectly complementing this build, while Aspect of the Earthquake is the core of its damage output. It causes Barbarian's Leap to trigger Earthquakes, dealing high damage and providing substantial damage reduction.

Vehement Brawler's Aspect increases the area of effect of your Leap, which is crucial for fast farming.

Other Diablo 4 items, such as Ramaladni's Magnum Opus and Sabre of Tsasgal, provide damage amplification for Leap and Earthquake, enhancing your gameplay experience. Finally, since Leap is affected by attack speed, remember to stack it as much as possible when crafting equipment.

Leap Barbarian Skills

Active skills

• Leap: Enhanced Leap and Power Leap
• War Cry: Enhanced War Cry and Power War Cry
• Challenging Shout: Enhanced Challenging Shout and Tactical Challenging Shout
• Rallying Cry: Enhanced Rallying Cry and Tactical Rallying Cry
• Wrath of the Berserker: Prime Wrath of the Berserker and Supreme Wrath of the Berserker:
• Ground Stomp: Enhanced Ground Stomp And Strategic Ground Stomp

Talents

• Pressure Point
• Warpath (Vessel of Hatred)
• Tempered Fury
• Martial Vigor
• Outburst
• Tough as Nails
• Booming Voice
• Aggressive Resistance
• Battle Fervor
• Prolific Fury
• Pit Fighter
• No Mercy
• Slaying Strike
• Hamstring
• Thick Skin
• Defensive Stance
• Counteroffensive
• Heavy Handed
• Wallop
• Brute Force
• Unbridled Rage

Leap is the primary movement and damage skill. If you have a 100% Lucky Hit Chance, you can efficiently trigger its effects. As long as you can hold down Leap skill, you can perform consecutive jumps. Combined with or using dodge to adjust your position, you can achieve high-speed movement and clearing mobs.

With only one Brawling skill, all three Shouts skills - War Cry, Challenging Shout, and Rallying Cry - can be used. They provide damage amplification, rage generation, and reduced damage taken.

Wrath of the Berserker grants Barbarian Berserking and Unstoppable status and increased damage. Ground Stomp is used to refresh ultimate skill cooldowns and manage rage issues. You also need to use Dominate Glyph in conjunction with Ground Stomp to ensure the Overpower effect on enemies is always up.

The ideal choice for Technique is Polearm, as it provides Lucky Hit chance and extra damage to wounded enemies. A Two-Handed Mace is also a strong alternative, offering slightly higher damage and faster animation speed.

Glyphs

Here are some recommended glyphs:

• Marshal: Provides cooldown reduction for non-Shout abilities.
• Blood Rage: Increases damage after killing a bleeding enemy.
• Challenger: Amplifies other glyph nodes, increasing damage against elite enemies.
• Carnage: Provides attack speed.
• Weapons Master: Restores Fury.
• Warbringer: Consuming Fury grants Fortify effect.

Divine Gift

Divine Gifts are a Season 11 mechanic. Corrupted Divine Gifts increase the game's difficulty, while Purified Divine Gifts provide some buffs, but overall, they don't offer the same significant improvement as Chaos Perks.

Corrupted Divine Gift:

• Essence of Sin
• Essence of Shadows
• Essence of Squalor
• Essence of Hellfire

Purified Divine Gift:

• Essence of Screams
• Essence of Pain
• Essence of Sin
• Essence of Lies

Other Items

• Elixir of Resourcefulness: Saves resource consumption.
• Ancient Times: Increases Strength by 25.
• Reddamine Buzz: Increases maximum health.
• Soothing Spices: Increases all elemental resistances and armor.

Infinite Leap Barbarian build is quite fun, but it might not perform very well in high-difficulty content like The Pit. On T4 difficulty, you can farm all content comfortably - especially if you enjoy a fast, spam-heavy farming playstyle

It's a tradition in Diablo 4 to equip each new season with its own unique seasonal power. While not every new power is fun or useful enough, they do reflect the season's theme to some extent.

In Season 10, Chaos Perks were a hit with players due to their powerful abilities, which puts even more pressure on the upcoming Divine Gifts mechanic - if it doesn't perform as well as Chaos Perks, it could ruin Season 11.

Therefore, this article will focus on this mechanic, explaining its operation to analyze whether it's worth paying attention to and experiencing.

What Are Divine Gifts?

As the seasonal power for Season 11, Divine Gifts actually has two systems: Corrupted and Purified. Equipping Corrupted increases both the difficulty and rewards of subsequent games, while Purified only provides additional buffs.

Defeating the four bosses - Duriel, Andariel, Azmodan, and Andariel - in this season will reward you with two Corrupted Essences from each. Find Angel Hadriel, who will purify these essences, transforming them into equipable Divine Gifts.

Corrupted slots corresponding to these Corrupted Essences will unlock immediately after defeating the boss. However, to unlock their Purified slots, you must unlock higher ranks in Season Reputation system. The required ranks are as follows:

• Duriel: Rank II
• Andariel: Rank IV
• Azmodan: Rank VI
• Belial: Rank VIII

In addition to Corrupted and Purified slots, Divine Gifts can also be placed in the slots corresponding to each boss to unlock exclusive rewards. You can then earn XP by repeatedly farming these bosses or other related enemies to upgrade existing Divine Gifts.

How To Obtain Divine Gifts?

Four key bosses will appear in different game events or dungeons. Defeating them, converting them through Hadriel, and ensuring your reputation level meets the requirements will allow you to equip a full Divine Gift.

Therefore, to enjoy this seasonal mechanic, you must be strong enough to defeat all four bosses. Some are easier, while others may require you to equip better Diablo 4 items to beat them.

Each boss can provide up to two Divine Gifts (before conversion, they are Corrupted Essences). Each Divine Gift consists of three parts: boss reward, Corrupted effect, and Purified effect.

It's worth noting that if you obtain the boss reward after unlocking Purified stat, its contents will be doubled. The rewards will continue to increase as Divine Gifts are upgraded.

Duriel

This boss will appear in Helltides. The corresponding essence and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Pain:

• Boss Reward: Can drop socketable items.
• Corrupted Effect: The boss will ambush you more frequently and has a 100% chance of breaking your barrier or empower itself.
• Purified Effect: If you take damage, you will briefly gain maximum barrier value every 20 seconds.

Essence of Squalor:

• Boss Reward: You can encounter Maggots while farming Helltide; killing them will drop Experience Globes.
• Corrupted Effect: Maggots spawn from falling meteorites, consuming 1 Health Potion per attack.
• Purified Effect: Gain 1 Health Potion every 20 seconds.

Andariel

This boss will appear in Kurast Undercity. The corresponding essence and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Anguish:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more Obols by clearing dungeons.
• Corrupted Effect: You may encounter Manifestations of Anguish in dungeons; they will reduce your movement speed by 70% when they get close.
• Purified Effect: Grants a 30% movement speed increase.

Essence of Screams:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more Salvage materials by clearing dungeons.
• Corrupted Effect: May encounter Agonized Souls, causing you to lose 12% of your maximum health per second.
• Purified Effect: Grants a 20% increase in resistances.

Azmodan

This boss will appear as a World Boss. The corresponding essences and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Sin:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more keys to play other events.
• Corrupted Effect: You will be in a Vulnerable state when fighting all World Boss enemies.
• Purified Effect: Armor effectiveness increased by 20%.

Essence of Hellfire:

• Boss Reward: Obtain more lair boss keys.
• Corrupted Effect: Triggers a meteor shower attack when fighting all World Boss enemies.
• Purified Effect: Your direct damage has a 10% chance to stun the enemy for 1 second.

Belial

This boss will appear in The Pit. The corresponding essences and specific buffs are as follows:

Essence of Lies:

• Boss Reward: Gain additional upgrade opportunities in The Pit.
• Corrupted Effect: The boss will fire beams at you, causing you to lose 10% of your maximum health per second.
• Purified Effect: You can recover 1% of your maximum health per second.

Essence of Shadows:

• Boss Reward: Gain more gold by clearing The Pit.
• Corrupted Effect: The boss's phantom attacks can stun you for 3 seconds or knock you back.
• Purified Effect: Enter an Unstoppable state once every 12 seconds of being affected by crowd control effects.

How To Maximize The Effect Of Divine Gifts?

As you can see, Divine Gifts buffs or rewards corresponding to different bosses, have highly limited effects, usually only suitable for use in specific events.

Therefore, we recommend that you prioritize defeating the bosses corresponding to the buffs you want to unlock their Divine Gifts, based on your needs or playstyle. Then, while farming other bosses, acquire enough XP to upgrade existing gifts.

What Is The Relationship Between Divine Gifts And Sanctification?

If you've been following Season 11, you should know that Sanctification is the final mechanism for upgrading gear - once completed, the gear cannot be modified.

The relationship between this mechanism and Divine Gifts is that when you fight the relevant boss for the latter, if you win, you may receive an invitation to travel to Heavenly Forge to begin Sanctification. Unlocking this forge requires completing Season 11 main quest.

Afterward, to complete Sanctification, you need to consume Heavenly Sigils, which can be farmed by completing various endgame events.

While completing Sanctification isn't difficult, especially for players already in the endgame, the reward - a gear upgrade - is randomized and cannot be changed afterward, making this mechanism less appealing to players.

That concludes our introduction. We would be honored if you found it helpful in preparing for Season 11!

Hi Diablo 4 players, the previously postponed Compass to Carnage event has officially begun. Season 10 is considered by players to be the most fun season yet, as Chaos Armors and Chaos perks significantly increased the potential of builds.

Season 10 ends on December 9th. If you want to improve your builds before then, Compass to Carnage is your last chance to farm Chaos Armors. Let's take a look at which builds will make you most efficient during this event.

Date

Compass to Carnage runs from November 25th to December 2nd at 10:00 AM Pacific Time/1:00 PM Eastern Time/6:00 PM UK Time/7:00 PM Central European Time.

Event Bonuses

Infernal Compass Drop Rate Increased

The drop rate of Infernal Compass (keys used to unlock Infernal Hordes) is increased throughout the game world.

Infernal Hordes are the primary source of Chaos Armors, and with Season 10 ending soon, this is the last chance to obtain them.

The event provides extra Aether, making farming the 6-wave Infernal Hordes dungeon very worthwhile. Normally, farming 6-wave Infernal Hordes is not recommended because it's difficult to accumulate 666 Aether to unlock the final boss fight Bartuc, and Aether chests.

However, the increased Aether rewards significantly improve the time efficiency of farming 6-wave dungeons. So it's recommended to team up with other players for Infernal Hordes and take turns using your Infernal Compass to maximize your gains.

Increased Chaos Waves

The number of Chaos Waves encountered per run in Infernal Hordes mode is increased. Successfully sealing Chaos Rifts will grant players a significant amount of extra Aether.

Additionally, during Compass to Carnage event, another event called Mother's Blessing Reignite is also available, providing XP and gold bonuses. This event ends on December 2nd.

During the event, players gain 35% more XP. However, compared to the experience gained from the ultimate endgame content, The Pit, the actual increase is only about 10%. If you haven't reached Paragon Rank 300 yet, this event is a great leveling opportunity. Additionally, the drop rate of gold in the world is increased by 50%, a significant effect due to its multiplicative nature.

How To Efficiently Farm Infernal Compass?

Helltide

Actively farming in Helltide area is highly recommended, not only because the drop rate of Infernal Compass is high in Greater Helltide Chests, but also because you can obtain Grim Favors and Abherrant Cinders more efficiently. Quickly sealing Chaos Rifts is also highly recommended, as they are fast and efficient.

Viz-Jaq'taar Offering Board

After completing Tree of Whispering, you can exchange your loot for Greater Infernal Caches at Viz-Jaq'taar Offering board in Yelesna. These chests guarantee at least one Infernal Compasse and have a high chance of containing Chaos Armors.

Best Builds For Compass To Carnage

Compass to Carnage event encourages players to participate in Infernal Hordes event. This event has a large number of monsters, but they are not as strong as those in The Pit. Therefore, regular fast-farming builds are sufficient for efficient farming.

Some builds require unique or mythic unique items to solve resource or skill cooldown issues. If you want to buy Diablo 4 items directly to complete your builds, IGGM is hosting a Black Friday lucky draw where participants can receive discount coupons, helping you save money.

Sorcerer

• Hydra Sorcerer
• Lightning Spear Sorcerer
• Ball Lightning Sorcerer

Sorcerers perform very well in Season 10. They have many AOE skills, easily reaping monsters, and don't rely on Mythic items. Additionally, many Chaos Perks in Season 10 are very suitable for this class, such as Mana Shield and A Beast Cornered. These Chaos Perks solve the survival problems of these Sorcerers.

Spiritborn

• Evade Spiritborn
• Stinger Spiritborn
• Crushing Hand Spiritborn

Evade Spiritborn performs exceptionally well in Infernal Hordes. This build is one of the best farming builds in Season 9. With the right skill points, you can achieve an infinite dodge-triggered Thunderspike farming method, independent of Diablo 4 items.

Rogue

• Death Trap Rogue
• Flurry Rogue

Rogues have very high movement speed, but their damage is somewhat lacking, making them less efficient in The Pit. However, they are perfectly fine for dealing with Infernal Hordes. The above two are very commonly used Rogue farming builds. Death Trap Rogue deals higher damage but is more complex to play, while Flurry Rogue only requires focusing on using Flurry.

Druid

• Fleshrender Druid
• Companion Druid
• Cataclysm Druid

Druid offers a variety of gameplay options in Season 10. You can focus on skills or use summons. However, compared to other classes, Druid gameplay is slightly more complex. Different builds have different skill usage sequences, but due to their high damage, they can be quickly farmed in Infernal Hordes.

Barbarian

• Earthquake Barbarian
• Lunging Strike Barbarian
• Whirlwind Barbarian

Barbarian is a very aggressive melee class. Builds like Earthquake Barbarian allow you to rampage through Infernal Hordes. However, in terms of efficiency, it is slightly inferior to other classes, and generally requires specific unique items to function effectively.

Necromancer

• Shadowblight Necromancer
• Bone Spirit Necromancer

Necromancer deals high damage in Season 10, but its efficiency is slightly lower than other builds, whether focusing on summoning or Bloodwave. While you can use Shadowblight to clear the screen of monsters, you still need to manage resources and cooldowns, and you'll need suitable affixes.

This concludes the general information and recommended builds for Compass to Carnage. Hope you have fun in the final stages of Season 10.

The new unique items added in Diablo 4 Season 11 often influence one or more builds in a class, and Gravebloom, the new unique item for Necromancer, brings a new available summoning build to Necromancer.

Gravebloom significantly enhances Necromancer's golems, and compared to traditional minion builds, this playstyle is much more proactive. This is because you need to frequently trigger the golems' active abilities, rather than letting minions attack automatically.

This new build is viable in Season 11 not only because it deals more damage than a Skeleton Army Necromancer, but also because it is very tanky, thus becoming a meta build for Necromancer in Season 11.

Gravebloom

The new unique item, Gravebloom, is a new unique mace. It allows you to summon multiple golems. While the damage of a single golem is reduced, the increased number of golems boosts overall damage. It's also an essential Diablo 4 item for this build; the build won't function properly without it.

Gravebloom provides a total of 40% attack speed, which is incredibly high for a one-handed weapon. It also has a 75% chance for the golem to attack twice.

Golem Necromancer Skills

Active Skills

• Blight: Provides a buff as a Darkness Skill; no active casting required.
• Sever: Also a Darkness Skill that triggers a damage bonus; no active casting required.
• Golem: Summons a golem; you need to cast it to allow the golem to use its active skill.
• Reap: Used to spawn a corpse.
• Soulrift: As an ultimate skill, provides a vulnerability debuff and Essence.
• Decompose: When fighting bosses, if Reap goes on cooldown, you can hold down Decompose to wait for Golem skill to cool down.
• Iron Maiden: Increases damage taken by enemies. Does not need to be placed on the skill bar.
• Decrepify: Curses enemies, slowing them. Does not need to be placed on the skill bar.

Book Of The Dead

Choose to sacrifice all minions, providing Necromancer with additional survivability and damage.

• Skeletal Warriors Defenders: Cannot summon Skeletal Warriors. Gains 25% all elemental resistance.
• Skeletal Mages Cold: Cannot summon Skeletal Mages. Increases damage against vulnerable enemies.
• Golems Blood: Blood Golem allows Necromancer to regenerate health when using active skills. Necromancer reduces damage taken by the golems when they are healthy.

Passive Skills

• Hewed Flesh (3)
• Necrotic Fortitude (3)
• Titan's Fall (3)
• Spiked Armor (3)
• Grim Harvest (1)
• Fueled by Death (3)
• Death's Embrace (3)
• Amplify Damage (3)
• Coalesced Blood (3)
• Reaper's Pursuit (3)
• Necrotic Carapace (1)
• Finality (3)
• Golem Mastery (3)
• Memento Mori (3)
• Stand Alone (3)
• Inspiring Leader (3)
• Kalan's Edict (1)
• Hellbent Commander (3)
• Death's Approach (3)

Death's Embrace is very powerful in Season 11. When an enemy affected by Iron Maiden dies, it automatically restores 7% of the player's Life, providing a continuous source of healing.

Hellbent Commander grants a massive damage bonus when you have 7 or more minions. To trigger this effect, you also need to summon wolves to supplement the number of minions besides the 3 golems.

Golem Necromancer Equipment

• Helm: Heir of Perdition
• Chest armor: Shroud of False Death
• Gloves: Aspect of the Cursed Aura
• Pants: Blood Moon Breeches
• Boots: Hulking Aspect
• Amulet: Aspect of Fel Gluttony
• Ring 1: Aspect of Reanimation
• Ring 2: Aspect of the Great Feast
• Weapon: Gravebloom
• Offhand: Sacrificial Aspect

Aspect of the Cursed Aura automatically applies Decrepify and Iron Maiden curses to nearby enemies. Combined with the healing effect of Iron Maiden, this makes your Necromancer extremely tanky.

Hulking Aspect gives golem attacks a chance to reduce their cooldown and spawn a corpse upon attacking. Aspect of Fel Gluttony allows golems to consume corpses for a damage bonus, and all golem builds require this Aspect.

Other Diablo 4 items, such as Aspect of the Great Feast, directly provide damage bonuses to your golems. You should prioritize affixes for your gear that increase attack speed, critical strike chance, and golem cooldown reduction.

Paragon Board Nodes

• Essence: Provides more critical strike damage.
• Hulking Monstrosity: Through Deadraiser node, makes minion attacks deal more damage to enemies.
• Scent of Death: Provides damage reduction and critical strike damage, enhancing survivability.
• Frailty: Increases the damage of necromancers and minions.
• Corporeal: Increases physical damage.
• Cult Leader & Amplify: Increases the minion's damage based on its attack speed.

Golem Necro Advantages In Season 11

Overall game difficulty has increased, and character survivability and damage have been reduced. Percentage bonuses to main stats (such as Intelligence) have been removed. In this generally harder environment, Golem Necromancer build offers excellent tankiness and damage, with no survivability issues.

In Tormented 4's Open World, the golem's auto-attacks are sufficient for most situations, allowing players to AFK. However, at higher levels of The Pit, you must actively control your Golems. They can face-tank and deal damage in most situations, and even solo new bosses.

You don't need to create a Seasonal Character to experience this build, as all new gear drops in Eternal Realm, and the additional bonuses from Season Journey offer little benefit to this already established build.

Golem Necromancer build may still have some room for improvement, but it surpasses almost every other necromancer summoning build in every aspect. Moreover, the golem's damage can reach over 1 billion, and combined with its tanking capabilities, it is enough to place it in the Tier S build category of Season 11.