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.
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.
Sounds cool! Im a necro and tried capstone first time yesterday at level 40… I’m simply taking too much damage and not dealing enough… normal mobs are fine but those elite mobs are way too hard for me. Any tips?
WT1 feels way too easy for me, my minions kill everything on their own.. yet capstone is very hard
At the moment (and in my experience as a fellow Necro) minions are just too weak to be much help in harder/higher content. There are only a small few builds I've seen where minions are viable, and they require very specific builds/items that would be hard to find at 40. Finding a build that sacrifices them is usually the better option. Although it's been nerfed heavily, the bone spear build is still very strong and is what I used to solo the capstone at 42 this season. Not sure if there's a difficulty difference running the capstone on wt1 or wt2, but if there is, my clear was wt2
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.
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?
Yeah it looks like it's the cathedral of light, definitely did that!
Now can someone tell me what to do with all this stuff I have? Too many decisions based on too many days points and full bags and storage stopping me from playing.
Has someone written a program to help with this yet?