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Although the 2.2.0 PTR for Season 8 has been closed, and it is expected that the season may receive other adjustments based on the PTR after the official launch, at least the season theme and some seasonal content will not change significantly, such as the appearance of the main boss Belial.

In fact, if you experience the 2.2.0 PTR, you will know that many new contents of Season 8 are related to this boss. It is worth noting that for the entire Diablo series, Belial is not a purely new character. His allies Andariel and Duriel have been active in the boss battle of Diablo 4, and Belial himself has appeared as the boss of the second act of Diablo 3.

So you should be able to foresee that the arrival of Belial will not only provide new playable content for Diablo 4 Season 8, but may also have an impact on the direction of the main plot of the game, because he is related to many classic villains. Based on this, we will introduce you to both aspects separately.

Playable Content In Season 8

With the return of Belial, not only are there more bosses you can farm, but you can even earn Diablo 4 Gold by farming bosses and gain new available powers while doing so! In addition, the new seasonal event Apparition Incursion and the upgraded and renamed endgame boss system are also closely related to Belial.

Boss Powers

Like Season 3’s vampire powers and Season 7’s witch powers, according to the content shown in the 2.2.0 PTR, Season 8 is expected to add boss powers as the biggest feature of the season. Specifically, you can absorb the exclusive skills of the 24 bosses in Sanctuary after killing them, including world bosses and Apparition Incursion event bosses (including even the terrifying Duriel and Lilith, as well as the latest Belial).

Each boss power is expected to have a primary effect and modifiers that can be activated based on the power slot you equip it to. You can activate up to 1 main power and 3 modifier powers at a time, and you can try more main power and modifier power combinations in the process of obtaining new powers, and find more available Season 8 builds.

Apparition Incursion Event

Realmwalker in Season 6 and Headrotten in Season 7 are special enemies that you need to kill and can drop various seasonal rewards for you. In Season 8, similar enemies will be Apparition monsters brought by the new event Apparition Incursion - they are also Belial’s subordinates.

There should be 10 Apparition monsters that can be killed in this event, each of which can provide you with rich rewards, including exclusive boss powers to help you fight against the final boss Belial.

New Lair Boss Mechanism

The most terrifying boss in Diablo 4 should have been the endgame boss, but with the appearance of Belial, the endgame boss mechanism will be fully optimized and upgraded and renamed lair boss. On this basis, bosses of this category are divided into three levels: initiate, greater, and exalted lair. They are:

• Initiate Lair Bosses: Beast in the Ice, Grigoire, Lord Zir, Varshan, and Urivar.
• Greater Lair Bosses: Andariel, Duriel, and Harbringer of Hatred.
• Exalted Lair Bosses: Belial.

It is worth noting that you must be in Torment I or higher to fight lair bosses. In addition, summoning these bosses no longer requires special materials, and killing them will not drop enough loot directly, but a hoard will appear after their death. Only by obtaining the corresponding key can the hoard be opened to obtain loot.

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Future Diablo 4 Plot

In the story of Diablo 2 and Immortal, Belial and Azmodan were imprisoned together in the soulstone after failing to conquer Sanctuary, and Diablo continued to attack Sanctuary and Heaven until he was defeated and thrown back into the abyss at the end of Diablo 3, but his failure also led to the release of Belial and other demons.

As a core character of the entire game series, Diablo’s first appearance was in Diablo 1, which was launched in 1996. This special boss battle in D1 later even appeared in the anniversary dungeon of D3. Later, Diablo also appeared as the final boss of the fourth act of both D2 and D3 games.

So far, Diablo 4 is the only game in the entire Diablo series in which Diablo himself has not appeared. Although he is often mentioned by other villains, he has never appeared as a real boss. Logically, Diablo should appear in D4, but perhaps because he is so important, the developers don’t know when is the best time to make him appear.

However, if Belial, the boss who also appeared in the previous game, can receive good reviews from players in Diablo 4 Season 8, it may indicate that it is time for Diablo to debut! This will usher in the most important turning point in the plot of the entire Diablo 4 series, and may also attract some players who are interested in Diablo himself.

The above is our analysis of the return of the new boss Belial. Let us look forward to his official performance on Season 8!

Goblins are a common creature in fantasy MMORPGs. Although they are often small and ugly so that they are not set as your character’s playable race or the main boss of the game, but they are the best choice for playing as NPCs in limited-time events. Take Diablo 4 as an example, on March 4, the game held a week-long March of the Goblins during Season 7.

In fact, this is not the first time that Diablo 4 has held March of the Goblins. In the winter of the second half of last year, in order to warm up for the upcoming Christmas, Diablo 4 also held another goblin event called Slay Ride To Hell, which received a good response.

The main purpose of these goblin events is not only to liven up the season’s atmosphere but also to provide you with a new limited-time channel to earn rewards. For example, in this March of the Goblins, you can get Diablo 4 Gold, Mythic Unique items, and other more precious resources by hunting down 6 different goblins.

However, shortly after the event began, some players who chose to experience it on Xbox found that they could not participate normally. Based on this, we will introduce you to this Xbox-only bug and how to continue the event after it is resolved.

Bug On Xbox

After March of the Goblins event was launched on March 4, if you are a Xbox player, you may have seen the goblin statue in Kyovashad center but could not participate in the event on time. This is because patch 2.1.3 and the event had a delay problem on the Xbox platform at that time.

Honestly, it is frustrating when you find that players on other platforms have started to earn rewards by hunting goblins, but you can’t experience it. Although delays are not surprising for Diablo 4 - the release of Season 8 was delayed, it is hard not to feel psychologically unbalanced that this delay is only for the Xbox player group.

Fortunately, the problem was eventually resolved quickly. Diablo 4 fixed the delay bug a few hours after it appeared, allowing you to download the update on Xbox to experience this goblin event smoothly.

Why Did This Bug Happen?

Although neither Xbox nor Diablo 4 announced the final cause of this delay, many players speculated that it might be due to Xbox’s too strict and slow patch review policy. In fact, Xbox takes longer to approve most new games or new game patches than other platforms. For example, Stardew Valley 1.6 update also encountered similar problems when it was released on Game Pass.

In contrast to the inefficiency of Xbox, the speed at which Diablo 4 developers responded to this delay is enough to satisfy you - if even Diablo 4 was delayed, it might cause you to miss out on valuable loot in the event. Also, while you can still hunt goblins after the event ends, these creatures will appear more frequently during this event, so delays may hinder your progress.

How To Play March Of The Goblins?

There are six types of goblins you can hunt during this event, and each one offers different rewards, but first you need to know how to start the event.

Once logged in, control your character to Kyovashad and find Altar of the Goblin statue in front of Idania’s Ring and amulet shop. It will be marked on the mini-map with a white badge icon. Once you find it, hover over the statue to see the level of the goblin you are tracking, and the rewards you can get for killing different goblins. They are:

• Green Odious Ector: Crafting materials, Obducite for Masterwork upgrades.
• Gold Gilded Baron: A staggering amount of Diablo 4 Gold.
• Diamond Glittering Prym: Gem fragments, runes, Undercity Tributes and Scattered Prisms.
• Purple Curious Murl: Bag of Obols, which can be used to obtain many Murming Obols.
• Blue Gelatinous Syrus: Splits into two goblins when killed, and then into three. Killing them all will give you a legendary item. It may also drop gold, boss materials, and elixirs.
• Mythic Purple Fancy Old Fedric: One mythic unique item and one Resplendent Spark.

It is worth noting that if you reach the level of a goblin during the event 10. In addition to the dropped rewards, you will also receive a treasure chest containing rare prizes such as Resplendent Spark.

If you want to improve the efficiency of farming goblins within the specified time, it is recommended that you go to specific areas, such as Nahantu, where there are many goblins in the west; or the beaches in the northern area of ​​Ked Baru, where there are also many goblins waiting for you to kill. And the higher the difficulty of Torment you challenge, the higher the probability of goblins appearing on the map.

In addition, since this event is held in Season 7, you can also make full use of some of the seasonal mechanisms, such as Headhunt zones or Helltides, which are special events with timers that facilitate goblin hunting in specified areas.

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It is worth mentioning that since the goblin hunt takes place in public areas, other players may steal your loot during the hunt. To avoid this, please turn off your Diablo 4 PVP mode and cross-platform play before entering this event.

The above is about the bug of March of the Goblins on the Xbox platform, as well as the way to participate in the event in time after the bug is resolved. I hope it can be helpful to you. Thank you for reading.

Since the birth of Diablo 4 in 2023, the series will regularly launch new seasons, and each new season has an exclusive theme, which not only serves as a “gimmick” to attract new and old players, but also represents the power or items available in that season. In Season 7, the theme is witchcraft power, which may remind you of the theme of vampire power in the past Season 2.

In fact, these two powers are not only similar in name but also in the operating principle. witchcraft power also borrows the strengths of vampire power and is upgraded at the same time to present a better Diablo 4 through Season of Witchcraft. Based on this, we will introduce you to the characteristics of these two powers and their connection.

Vampiric Powers

As the biggest feature of Season 2, all vampiric powers can be simply divided into small and large forms, and can provide you with special abilities through specific skill trees (these abilities are independent of your character class skill tree), thus providing more possibilities for all Diablo 4 classes to build builds.

The types of effects brought by vampiric powers are very rich, mainly including attribute increases, vampiric curses and infections on enemies, and more benefits you want. After unlocking vampiric powers, you can equip up to five at a time, but each power requires a combination of three contract types to be effectively matched with builds. The three contracts are Ferocity, Divinity, and Eternity, which can be found on equipment.

How To Unlock?

When you complete tasks or explore seasonal events in Season 2, you can get Diablo 4 Gold and seasonal items Potent Blood. Consuming this item allows you to unlock or upgrade one of the three vampiric powers randomly. Although the unlocking process is not difficult, this randomness may prevent you from investing in the vampiric power you want.

Vampire Powers After Season 2

All vampire powers are set to be available after Season 2 and remain in the game, providing you with benefits by attaching them to weapons and armor. They are Aspect of Accursed Touch, Boiling Blood Aspect, Undying Aspect, Aspect of Metamorphosis, Aspect of the Moonrise, and Hectic Aspect.

Witchcraft Powers

The first and biggest difference between witchcraft powers and vampire powers is that it contains a lot more specific powers, a total of 25, and these witchcraft powers can be divided into 4 schools: Eldritch, Psyche, Growth & Decay, and Lost. The first three schools have 7 witchcraft powers each, and the last one has only 4, but it will be more difficult to obtain.

How To Unlock?

First, you need to complete the pre-quest Oaths and Debts related to unlocking witchcraft power in the main quest line after entering Season 7 to unlock the three witch altars next to Tree of Whispers (corresponding to the first three witchcraft power schools). Interacting with them can initially unlock the corresponding power, but the fourth school of lost power requires you to farm Forgotten Altars in the dungeon to unlock it. These powers include:

• Eldritch: Firebat Servants, Abyssal Resonance, Wave Of Woe, Purging Touch, Shaken Soul, Hex Of Flames
• Psyche: Twilight Warding, Force Of Will, Life Link, Hex Of Shattering, Aura Of Misfortune, Aura Of Lament
• Growth & Decay: Poison Frog Servant, Soul Harvest, Hex Of Whispers, Decay Augmentation, Grow, Aura Of Siphoning
• Lost: Doom Orb, Vengeful Spirit Servant, The Cycle, Piranhado

It is worth noting that after the initial unlock, you will also need to increase your reputation in Coven to start using these powers. In addition, if you can obtain Occult gems by completing the seasonal event Headhunts in Season 7, you can further enhance the witch power you have equipped.

Currently, you can equip up to six witchcraft powers in the game, five from the first three witch schools and one from the lost power unlockable through Forgotten Altars. They can be further summarized as follows:

• Eldritch: Adds additional properties to your skills, such as triggering new effects or applying debuffs to targeted enemies.
• Psyche: Strengthens your character or weakens your enemies.
• Growth & Decay: Increases the damage over time and summon effects you create.
• Aura: Enemies near your character are affected by the relevant witchcraft power.
• Hex: Uses a curse to weaken the target for a certain period.
• Unique: Provides extremely powerful benefits, but only one can be equipped at a time.

The Connection Between The Two Powers

As you can see, witchcraft powers are similar to vampire powers in many ways, such as the benefits they provide and their perfect synergy with builds. But what is really important is that, as a latecomer, witchcraft has fully absorbed the defects of vampire power in obtaining it, and simplified the way to obtain it so that you can more easily craft your Season 7 builds around witchcraft.

In this regard, although Diablo 4 Season 2 was well received because of vampire power, witchcraft powers, which has been simplified and divided by schools to make it more intuitive, is likely to surpass vampire power in the future and become the best seasonal mechanism of Diablo 4.

From another perspective, whether it is the retention of 6 aspects or the reference by the witchcraft powers, it shows that some abilities are worth keeping in Diablo 4 even after the end of some seasons. This is not only a commemoration of past successes but also the best source of inspiration for game developers to continue to develop new season mechanisms.

Almost every Diablo 4 season has one or two exclusive season highlights, and for the latest Season of Witchcraft, this highlight is undoubtedly the powerful witchcraft powers with different effects. Their design ideas are very similar to the vampire powers in Season 2, but they are more diverse and more powerful.

It is worth noting that different witchcraft powers will be suitable for different Diablo 4 classes because of their combat effects, but there are also some witchcraft powers that are suitable for almost every class, so every player needs to understand how to obtain and upgrade it, such as Piranhado, which belongs to the lost power.

What Is Piranhado?

Before understanding Piranhado, first you need to know that the witchcraft powers in Diablo 4 Season 7 can be divided into four major categories. The first three of them can be learned at the altars corresponding to the three witch NPCs by completing the pre-tasks, and the last lost witchcraft power requires you to farm Forgotten Altars additionally in the dungeon to obtain it, such as Piranhado.

Interestingly, Piranhado of lost witchcraft powers is actually a return of Witch Doctor Piranhas rune from the previous Diablo 4 season, and it works well with every class in Season 7 as a witchcraft power.

How To Get Lost Witchcraft Power Piranhado?

First you need to unlock the entire witchcraft powers mechanic, and to do that you need to complete some of the pre-quests for the Season 7 campaign. The first step is to go to Gea Kul and talk to Gelena, which kicks off the campaign, then you need to find the source of decay and one of the stolen heads, and then go to the Tree of Whispers with Gelena to complete the remaining quests.

These quests will teach you what Coven’s Favor is, and will begin allowing you to interact with the three witch-related altars next to Tree of Whispers and gain the witchcraft powers associated with their names, namely Altar of the Eldritch, Altar of the Psyche, and Altar of Growth Altar.

The fourth altar, Forgotten Altar, which can bring lost witchcraft power, can only be found in dungeons, and the specific time and place of its appearance are randomly refreshed, so it will take more time and effort to obtain this witchcraft power.

After encountering Forgotten Altar, you need to exchange it with Restless Rot to exchange it for the desired witchcraft power from the altar, such as Piranhado. As for Restless Rot, you can actually think of it as a special currency limited to Season 7, which can be obtained by killing Headrotten enemies in Headhunts area.

In addition, don’t forget that you can’t use Piranhado immediately after obtaining it, but you need to continue to unlock it by improving your reputation in Coven and claiming rewards from Coven’s Favor board next to Tree of Whispers, otherwise it will just be a decoration.

It is worth mentioning that farming in Headhunts area not only allows you to obtain witchcraft power through Restless Rot but also obtains Diablo 4 Gold, gear, crafting materials and other loot at the same time, which is very worth investing.

How To Find Headhunts Zone?

Headhunts are activated by Tree of Whispers in random areas of Sanctuary, a bit like Helltides. Once activated, there will be multiple Headhunts active on the map at any given time, each with a different timer, and you can go to these areas to farm them according to your schedule.

Headrotten, an enemy in Headhunts that drops various loot for you, is a new gameplay element in Season 7. It has several different variants, and Restless Rot dropped upon death can not only be exchanged for lost witchcraft powers, but can also be used to craft Occult gems, a new item that appeared in the current season.

How Do You Upgrade Piranhado?

Piranhado is actually upgraded in the same way as any lost witchcraft power, and is much easier than unlocking and obtaining them because it does not require the hard-to-spawn Forgotten Altar.

First, go to your character’s inventory, find the Witchcraft tab, select the witchcraft power you want to upgrade, and consume the required amount of Restless Rot listed in the corner of the screen to complete the upgrade. In addition, you can equip and replace the witchcraft powers you have fully unlocked according to specific needs in this interface position, and you can use up to six powers at the same time.

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After completing the campaign missions of Season 7, you can actually unlock more witchcraft powers you want by continuing to complete seasonal world missions. Although it is troublesome to find forgotten altars through dungeons to unlock more lost powers, if you equip more witchcraft powers from the other three altars in advance, it should be easier to obtain lost powers.

The above is the knowledge about obtaining and upgrading Piranhado and more lost witchcraft powers. Maybe you didn’t know how to get them before, but now I believe you should be able to do it quickly. Thank you for reading.

As a rich ARPG, Diablo 4 series has many game items, which form a huge network of item relationships through their different appearances and functions. Some of these universal items exist in each season (including DLC), while others are only applicable to the current season.

Currently in progress is Season of Witchcraft. This season adds new Roothold dungeons on the basis of the existing dungeons, and Roothold Keys that can unlock it are a season-limited item-unless Rootholds perform well enough to be set as permanent content later. Legendary Runes are regular items that have been with you for a long time in your Diablo 4 career.

But in fact, no matter which one, they play an important role in your Season 7 experience. Based on this, we will introduce you to the methods of farming these two items in Season 7.

Roothold Keys

As a new dungeon activity in Diablo 4 Season of Witchcraft, Roothold gives you a new place to get gear and Diablo 4 Gold, as well as other resources you need. However, while this type of dungeon is not difficult to clear, in order to enter it successfully, you need to convert ordinary dungeons through Roothold Keys (also known as Whispering Wood sigils).

Generally speaking, you should be able to get some Roothold Keys after you officially start Diablo 4 Season 7 main quest, but as the game progresses, this item will become more and more difficult to obtain.

Farming Methods

Currently, the best way for you to get Roothold Keys is to farm Whispers in Headhunt area of ​Sanctuary. Headhunt area will be represented by a teal icon on the world map. In terms of how it works, Headhunts are very similar to Helltides. They are only effective for a short time. Once the timer expires, the current Headhunt will end and regenerate somewhere else.

All Headhunt areas will have a multiple Tree of Whispers bounties, and completing them will not only help you farm Whispering Wood sigils, but also give you the usual Tree of Whispers rewards.

In addition to the direct drops of Whispering Wood sigils and some loot, if you get some locked Silent Chests while farming Headhunt areas, opening them can also give you additional Roothold Keys, but the annoying thing is that unlocking these chests requires another key - Whispering Keys.

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Currently, Whispering Keys can be obtained in two ways, namely opening Whisper Caches obtained through Tree of Whispers, and exchanging them by Obols at Purveyors of Curiosities in major towns.

It is worth noting that the drop rate of Whispering Wood sigils is very low at present, and sometimes you may need to invest several hours farming in Headhunt area, but in the end you will only get a few keys, or even none at all. While the drop rate seems to be increased on Torment I difficulty, this increase is negligible compared to your high Roothold Keys requirement, but you can expect this drop rate to be adjusted later in the game.

Roothold Dungeons

Once you have enough Roothold Keys, you can use it from the “Keys” tab in your inventory to teleport you to the associated Roothold dungeon. You will then find that you can remove rotten roots from Tree of Whispers here, and then increase the challenge of the dungeon by choosing to modify monster attributes and other modifiers in exchange for better rewards.

Legendary Runes

Legendary Runes can help you get some powerful and class-appropriate passive effects in Diablo 4 Season 7, so that you can fully exert your strength in the endgame stage. However, compared with other runes, the drop rate of Legendary Runes is relatively low, so you may need to invest a lot of time and effort in farming.

Farming Methods

The current ways to farm Legendary Runes can be summarized as follows:

• Defeat world bosses
• Defeat lair bosses
• Crafting runes directly
• Farm Kurast Undercity dungeons
• Complete seasonal activities
• Open Whisper Caches

The latter three methods are easier to complete, as there are no additional prerequisites for completing seasonal activities and Tree of Whispers bounties, and the tributes required to enter Kurast Undercity are also common, making it easier to complete than defeating special bosses.

It is worth noting that if you use Tributes of Harmony to enter Kurast Undercity, you will definitely get runes at the end of each run. Although this does not include guaranteed Legendary Runes drops, it is always nice to get runes.

How To Craft Runes?

If you still don’t get Legendary Runes through combat-type methods after consuming a lot of time, consider the third method introduced to you earlier, which is to craft runes directly. To do this, you need to go to any jeweler and convert the runes you don’t need into other runes.

Usually you only need to provide three of the same runes to convert them into a completely different rune, and you have a 15% chance of getting a new rune that is one level higher than the materials used. That is, if you provide three yellow runes for conversion, there is a 15% chance of getting a Legendary Rune.

World And Tormented Bosses

Before you get Legendary Runes by defeating world bosses, you need to have enough knowledge about this type of boss. Usually they will spawn regularly every 3.5 hours at preset locations throughout Sanctuary, and the battle process with them is best not to exceed 15 minutes. In fact, if you can master their attack patterns, it will become very easy to defeat them.

As for Tormented bosses, you need to obtain the corresponding summoning materials before you can summon them and challenge them. After that, they may not only drop Legendary Runes for you but also provide some rare loot to help you further improve your Season 7 builds.

After understanding the above content, you can enter the game and start farming! I hope you are lucky enough to accumulate enough game items as soon as possible!