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.
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.