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.
Put elixirs on your emote wheel.
I did not realize this was a possible.
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.
Well. I am around Level 46, never knew they affected xp, and have never used one at all. Goddammit.
Everytime the bois and I enter a dungeon, there’s a sip check call-out to pop another elixer if you’re low. Highly recommend!
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.
I’m the worst at remembering elixirs, this is definitely a top tip! Thanks :)
Seriously, I only found out around level 56 in preseason. I still often forget to apply any.