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.