Diablo 4 Season 11 Leveling Strategy

Leveling Build Guides

1) Start on Normal Difficulty: Highly Recommended. If you are a returning player, Hard will offer more experience as well as increased monster difficulty. (Normal is still recommended)

2) Make sure to unlock your pet, put on your cosmetics for you and your mount now!

3) Obtain your Mercenaries (Returning DLC Players). Complete Mercenary quests. It appears very early in the campaign. (New DLC Players)

4) Start and continue your Seasonal Questline. You'll continue until you've unlocked your Seasonal Ranks. Either continue the Seasonal Questline or head to Step 6.

5) Progress your way to crafting/obtaining your first Nightmare Dungeon Sigil. Forgotten Whisper Sigils are a great way to add extra experience to everything you do.

Start the main campaign! (New Players).

Alternate Leveling Route

A) Players now have the option to play the Vessel of Hatred Campaign as an alternate source of leveling. There is however a spot in the campaign where the dialog will make this a slower option. If you don’t mind that, continue through the campaign. If speed is your goal, skip to step 15 once you hit level 45.

B) Whisper Caches, Helltides and Dungeons will be your starting sources of leveling this Season. Just complete all the other whispers, then move onto a new zone with new Whispers. If you start to get Nightmare Dungeon keys, this should be something you look for to also have Whispers attached to it. You can continue with this method until level 60.

C) Nightmare dungeons will be a great way to level as well, if you get lucky early on. The nightmare dungeon sigil that includes the Forgotten Wisdom in the name is what you’re aiming for. This affix makes monsters you kill drop experience globes for massive gains in levels during single nightmare dungeons. There is no way to guarantee you get the Forgotten Wisdom sigil so you’ll need to rely on Whisper caches and Sigil crafting to get obtain one.

Helltide Strategy

After completing steps 1 - 5 head to Helltides. Fight through Helltides until you have reached level 15. The goal is to be able to save up 800 cinder by the time you can swap to either Hard, Expert or Penitent Difficulty. Your cinder will carry over and you’ll gain increased experience simply from opening Chests. You’ll mount up on your horse and run to the chests. You’ll need to be able to survive on the higher difficulty to do this.

If you’re able to sprint to the chest, click it immediately as you get to it, the chest has time to open before the monsters around the chest have time to react and hit you. It takes practice but it’s doable.

Seasonal Mechanic

Season 11 is bringing Divine gifts. One of these gifts will play a major role in your leveling process. You will get this early on by defeating Duriel, who has taken over Helltides and replaced the Blood Maiden for the season. After defeating him you will be rewarded with the Essence of Squalor. Rewards: Maggots in Helltide can drop Experience Globes, doubled while Purified. This will make your leveling experience very fast and will be the main source of leveling for speed.

Capstone Dungeons

Capstone Dungeons have been reintroduced in Season 11, and they are here to stay. These are pinnacle dungeons with unique twists. There are five of them, and they have static monster levels. This means that no matter what level your character is, the monster levels inside the dungeons never change. You can enter them completely underleveled to test your character’s strength and see how strong you truly are, or you can go in overleveled and completely obliterate the dungeons.

What’s the benefit of completing these dungeons? The first time you clear each one per season, you earn 2 skill points per dungeon.

  • Capstone Dungeon #1 – Torrid Menagerie - Level 30 - Hard Difficulty

  • Capstone Dungeon #2 – Hellish Descent - Level 50 - Penitent Difficulty

  • Capstone Dungeon #3 – Unseen Awakening - Level 60 - Torment 1 Difficulty

  • Capstone Dungeon #4 – Tempest Oasis - Level 60 - Torment 2 Difficulty

  • Capstone Dungeon #5 – Breach of Sin - Level 60 - Torment 3 Difficulty

Level 10

6) As you level, pick up herb bundles so you can purchase your first Elixirs at level 10. Craft as many as you can and keep them running for extra Experience.

  • Tempering Unlocks at level 10. Elemental Surge for Weapon Tempers is very strong, even at a basic Temper. It will provide a huge amount of extra damage from the start. We will have to wait until we are in game, with the changes to early game drops to see how much material gains will come in the early stages.

Level 15

7) **CONDITIONAL**

  • If this is your first time playing this character, complete your Class Quest.

  • If you have completed in previous Seasons, either skip, or complete for the new Archetype caches which comes with Tempering manuals and Legendary gear.

8) Switch to Hard difficulty at level 15 if comfortable

  • Gear check up to level 35 complete these every 10 levels.

  • After level 35 switch to every 5 for progressions. Depending on the build you may not even need to this often.

Level 30 - 40

9) Go unlock Aspects through dungeons.

  • Use pins from codex (See video)

10) Complete first Capstone Dungeon on Hard difficulty

11) Continue in to level in Helltides, Whisper Caches and Nightmare Dungeons (Returning Players). Complete Campaign (New Players)

12) Use nightmare dungeons to gain materials

Level 45

13) This is where you can craft Incense. They last as long as your Elixirs do, so use them at the same time.

14) At this point in the leveling process, Strongholds give a very good amount of experience and most can be finished very quickly. This is a great time to break it up and move to completing these.

Level 50 - 60

15) Torment 1 preparations

  • Change to Expert or Penitent Difficulty

  • Farm Nightmare Dungeons for Aspects, Masterworking Materials and Glyphs

  • Farm Pits for Aspects Glyphs and to level Glyphs

  • Update Gems / Runes

16) Clear Capstone Dungeon #2 on Penitent difficulty

17) Clear Pit 10 to unlock Torment 1

18) Swap to Torment 1

  • Start farming ancestrals from Hordes (when keys drop)

  • Continue Nightmare Dungeons, Pits and Whisper chests.

  • Farm boss mats

19)Target farm Uniques to complete build

***Key Notes:

The new forms of Goblins play a huge role in gearing and materials during leveling. Make this your priority when you're leveling

The Purveyor of Curiosity will get a buff in this Season. Combining your Obol Goblin with this vendor is a great way to gear as you level.

Complete Guide for Level 60!

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Complete Unique Target Farming Table from Mobalytics:

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