Hey all, I’m new to Diablo IV after having not played D3 for a couple years, so I wanted to share a few tips for others who might also be new. These tips are based off my own experience in patch 1.1.0b.
TL;DR, I’ll elaborate on some of them later:
- Level to 45ish in WT1
- Do the WT2 capstone dungeon as soon as you can (45+ is doable for most classes/builds)
- Salvage items at the blacksmith until you hit WT3 and get Sacred items, then start vendoring for gold
- Only upgrade weapons, and only upgrade them twice, until you get to WT4 and get your Best-in-Slot pieces
- Don’t imprint weapons; weapon legendaries are rarer and thus the imprint mats are rarer too
- Nightmare dungeons at Tier 1 are easier than normal dungeons
- Nightmare dungeons are a great source of legendaries
- Legion events are a zerg fest so don’t worry if you’re not playing the top meta spec, there’s always someone there to help, and are a good source of EXP
- Do Helltides if you can, and farm 250 Cinders for the Box of Mysteries, but be careful as the monsters are higher level and you lose Cinders when you die.
- Do the world boss weekly for the box
Salvage vs Vendoring At low levels, items are worth very little at the vendor, but salvage to a good amount of materials. If you only upgrade weapons, or don’t upgrade at all, you’ll have a nice bank of materials for your WT4 ancestral BiS armor pieces.
As you hit higher levels and higher tiers of gear (Sacred/Ancestral), everything becomes more expensive and gold becomes more valuable, so consider vendoring things! 167 million gold might seem like a lot, but if you’ve ever tried upgrading gems from scratch, you’ll see how quickly that money evaporates. You can always run a dungeon or two and pick up everything to salvage if you run low on mats.
Nightmare Dungeons When I hit 46 with my WW Barb, I tried doing a normal dungeon but couldn’t get past the first elite in my first WT3 dungeon. To my surprise, NMD Tier 1 was very easy.
Also, ever wonder how most midgame/early endgame builds have a full set of imprinted gear and you think “how, I only have 7 of the imprint mats”, that’s because NMD’s give 1-2 legendaries on completion, in addition to whatever drops. Depending on your luck, you might only need to run a few of them before you can afford your imprints on your armor. You’ll end up with a lot of trash affixes that don’t matter for your build, into the bin it goes.
Bonus fact; salvaging legendaries unlock some cool transmog options!
That’s all I can think of just now, let me know if anything is wrong or leave a tip of your own for a fellow new Wanderer.
USE ELIXERS! My friends didn’t even realize they had them because of the weird bag layout. On top of that they had no idea that they all gave exp boosts. They kept asking how I was leveling so much faster even though we were playing together.
Yep, and many of the free elixirs you get are quite useless, like “+10% fire resistance”. But they all give extra experience gain so always worth having one up.
Oh wow, didn’t realize they gave extra XP. I was doing fine without the bonuses so I never really bothered looking at them unless I was going for a specific boss.
Put elixirs on your emote wheel.
Elixers are only worth in Wt1 and possibly 2. At Wt4 you’re already getting 200% more exp so the extra 5% actually translates to around 1.6% more. So not as important on the higher WT levels.
That’s why this is tips for new players
And what he wrote is actually a tip for new players.
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Solid list, glad to see other content here than just endless doom and gloom of the sub!
Good tips, but even though I’m level 53, and finished the campaign, I don’t know what some of these things are. Eg. I went to WT3, but have no idea what the capstone dungeon is that I should have done in WT2? What is vendiring for gold? Is that just selling? Also, what are mats?
Vendoring is selling and mats are materials (things like herbs, ores, leathers, shards, etc.).
Many thanks for this, some solid tips
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If it’s your first play through, do the campaign, as you’ll never need to do it again. You can also do all Altars of Lilith (there’s map tools online to help you find them) as you also won’t have to do that again.
The consensus is that you should save side quests for WT4 at 70+ since pre season 1 EXP at that level was hard to come by. It’s only in WT4 you can do the last tier of renown anyway, so no point in doing the grind sooner than that.
Does xp you earn in a region still get applied after you finished the first three tiers of renown for a region? Or is it just gone and you need to do more once you open up Nightmare difficulty?
It gets stored, so you’re not wasting your time if you do the grind in WT1 just to have it ready when you hit WT4, but you do lose some EXP.
Great tips. A few notes of personal experience as a druid;
- was able to do capstone @ lvl 40 as pulverize, dinged 41 inside.
- took salvage blessing first for the same reason as yours (thinking of getting gold blessing 2nd)
- 250 cinder helltides are invaluable to gear up and 5x better than most other stuff
It can be good to upgrade anything 1 to 3 times if that brings it into the next tier. If you have an item that is has a level of 620 for example, it is a tier 4 item and upgrading it once to 625 will make it tier 5. You will get plenty of the mats for 1-3 upgrades, its the 4th and 5th upgrades that need rarer mats.
