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.
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?
There’s no way to unlock WT3 without doing the capstone dungeon in 2, so whether or not you remember doing it you definitely did already :)
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?
Dissemble it mostly, sell the rest (75/25 and never sell legendary gear for gold). Don't worry much about gear until 65+, just upgrade item level. In the meantime, start looking at class builds, and what stats compliment your character the most.