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While Diablo 4’s endgame isn’t as extensive as Path of Exile 2 and Last Epoch, it still offers a number of high-quality dungeons and activities for farming gear, materials, and leveling, such as Horadric Strongrooms, Kurast Undercity, and Infernal Horde in Season 9.

In terms of material yields like Diablo 4 Obducite, Infernal Horde falls short of the previous two, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad endgame activity. Because the Infernal Horde spawns many monsters, and leveling in Diablo 4 is based on monster counts, the Infernal Horde is an excellent leveling activity for players just reaching the endgame.

Leveling is only one aspect of Infernal Horde; don’t forget it also yields a significant amount of materials. To maximize your gains, you’ll need a good farming strategy.

Infernal Horde Guide

Infernal Horde is a wave-based survival mode where you face waves of monsters, culminating in a battle against three Corrupted Council bosses. Each wave begins with a 60-second timer. Unlike the timer in Kurast Undercity, you only need to survive for 60 seconds, not kill all the monsters within 60 seconds. Whether you survive or kill all the monsters, the wave ends.

The player’s primary goal is to earn Burning Aether by killing monsters. These are exchanged for Spoils of Hell at the end of Infernal Horde, which contain items such as Diablo IV Obducite, gold, and elixirs.

After completing each wave, players must choose one of three Infernal Offers, which affect the amount of Burning Aether earned each round, and the monsters encountered. Each Infernal Offer has both positive and negative effects. During each wave, you’ll also trigger Aether Events. Completing these events will earn you more Burning Aether.

Unlocking Infernal Horde events requires Infernal Hordes Compass, which is no longer craftable in Season 9. However, you can get it from dungeons, Helltide, and Whisper Chests.

Infernal Offers

To effectively utilize Infernal Horde, you need to understand the various Infernal Offer mechanics. Different combinations of Infernal Offers can affect Burning Aether drops, and some poorly chosen Infernal Offers can even lead to failure!

The types of Infernal Offers are as follows: 

• The Aether Rush
• The Burning Hellborne
• The Burning Rain
• The Bursting Fiends
• The Bursting Masses
• The Corrupting Spires
• The Draining Spires
• The Enfeebled Wanderer
• The Exalted Council
• The Exalted Elite
• The Exalted Hellborne
• The Exalted Hordes
• The Exalted Masses
• The Exhausted Wanderer
• The Gorging Masses
• The Insatiable Spires
• The Invigorating Hellborne
• The Stalking Devil
• The Summoned Hellborne
• The Summoned Lords
• The Surging Elite
• The Surging Hellborne
• The Teeming Masses
• The Unstoppable Elite
• The Withered Wanderer

Preparation And Strategy

Since players have multiple arsenals, in addition to dealing with The Pit, Bosses, and Nightmare Dungeons, you’ll also need a build specifically for clearing Infernal Horde.

Strategy 1: Hellborne

Hellborne offers the most generous rewards, so to maximize your Burning Aether gains, you’ll want to choose Infernal Offers that are closely tied to Burning Aether. The Surging Hellborne is the best choice, but The Invigorating Hellborne doesn’t provide any Burning Aether benefits.

You can choose from the following Infernal Offers:

• The Summoned Hellborne
• The Burning Hellborne
• The Exalted Hellborne
• The Surging Hellborne

Strategy 2: Aether Fiends

If you don’t encounter any Hellborne-related Infernal Offers, you still have other options. Aether Fiends offer quite good rewards, and if you choose The Surging Elite, your Burning Aether gains will be second only to The Surging Hellborne.

The Infernal Offers you can choose from are as follows:

• The Exalted Elite
• The Surging Elite
• The Unstoppable Elite
• The Teeming Masses
• The Summoned Lords

Strategy 3: Fixed Rewards

Sometimes you may not receive any of the above Infernal Offers. This isn’t the worst of it; you still have some options. While their rewards are average, they’re also not too difficult.

The Infernal Offers you can choose from are as follows:

• The Burning Rain
• The Enfeebled Wanderer
• The Exalted Council
• The Withered Wanderer
• The Stalking Devil

Strategy 4: Optional

If you don’t receive any of the above Infernal Offers, Infernal Offers you should choose are mainly to make the next wave less difficult.

Infernal Offers you can choose from are as follows:

• The Exalted Hordes
• Invigorating Hellborne
• The Bursting Masses
• The Exalted Masses

Strategy 5: Bad Choices

Some choices will slow down your activity, add extra events, or even cause you to die mid-game. Avoid these.

The Infernal Offers you shouldn’t choose are as follows:

• The Gorged Masses
• The Corrupting Spires
• The Insatiable Spires
• The Bursting Fiends

Infernal Horde Rewards

Infernal Horde’s main rewards are Obducite and Scroll of Restoration. Caches also contain materials and even unique weapons. However, Obducite and Scroll of Restoration come from different chests. Scroll of Restoration comes from Spoils of Greater Equipment, while Obducite comes from Spoils of Materials.

The amount of loot varies across Torment levels. Below is the amount of Diablo 4 Obducite found in Obducite Caches at each Torment difficulty level.

• Torment 1: 40 Obducite
• Torment 2: 80 Obducite
• Torment 3: 160 Obducite
• Torment 4: 320 Obducite

This concludes your Infernal Horde farming strategy. If you have extra Infernal Horde Compasses in your inventory, you can just use them all and farm for materials by Infernal Horde.

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.