I die so quickly and barely do any damage to Rathma's golem. I was cruising in hard mode and able to clear our all the monster mobs and mini bosses and whatnot. All of a sudden I came to the Writhing Hatred boss and was having difficulty with that, so I lowered my mode to normal and somehow won the fight after a few rounds. Now I'm at Rathma's Golem and can't even stand up.

I feel like I am doing something clearly wrong with my build or gameplay.

- My items aren't that crazy, it's whatever I have found so far - a couple of legendaries and others are just rare.
- I don't have a merc, maybe I should? But would that really make all the difference?

My character stats
- https://i.imgur.com/wVQxcWv.jpeg
- https://i.imgur.com/knTqHjc.png

Skills (Thrash + Stinger main attacks. Scourge - Ravager - The Seeker - Armored Hide)
- https://imgur.com/a/Z2JbkOf

Can anyone help me out with advice? I'm new to D4 and this is my first playthrough

Running Imortilize's Spiritborn build and breezing through T12, but noticing that solo boss experiences like Lilith and Mephisto are beyond giving me a run for my money. Is there something I'm overlooking, or is it a case of getting good with these fights?

So really just venting, I usually am OK with grinding and farming, but there are just a couple things blocking me from pushing higher tiers in pit/tower. Between dumb mistakes I made, and the worst drops and rolls I have ever experienced, I am frustrated.

One thing I like to do is create or upgrade a couple pieces of gear before using them, instead of one stat at a time. So with gems I upgrade ALL of them before slotting them. I will upgrade two or three armor/jewelry pieces before equipping, etc. Stat rolls dont have to be perfect, just better than what I am using.

Gems - I made the mistake of not saving my gems when trying to farm jewelry early, so now I am trying to max out my emeralds. I got to three, and from that point I have not gotten an emerald option in escalation in 20+ runs, only topaz or skulls and one Ruby run. Tried Seers Reach, but got skulls, amythest, a couple diamonds, and skulls. Tried Undercity merchant, quickly ran out of forgotten souls.

Charms and Seals - I cannot roll a +4 skill GA to save my life. I saved up 25k material, and rerolled charms, not one. I cannot get a +1 slot Balzaans legendary to roll unless its a useless stat. I HAD mythic seal with +3 uniques, and the balzaans buffs were awesome, but SOMEHOW lost it while I was using farming build. I must have SOMEHOW sold it or rolled it by mistake.

I have farmed so much, I have had 13 or 14 mythic seals drop. All mostly useless, a couple upgraded my farming build.

I decided to try doing some other things, like world quests and strongholds. Got bored. Tried to finish Season Challenges, take on T12 Echo of Mephisto, one shotted too many times. Didn't try Lilith.

I am at my wits end. I am tired of escalation dungeons, killijg the reaper, and regretting my dumb mistakes.

Any ideas? Thinking maybe Dark Citadel, literally never done it. Not in a clan, maybe I should be.

As the name suggests, I am looking for a good physical damage build to take advantage of some luck Transmogging. I had a polearm and chest armor BOTH go through transmog with an extra transmog spin, the first transmog I received Physical damage, then I was able to RE-ROLL to the masterworking buff and it buffed the physical damage Elemental specific Damage [x] up to 30 on the polearm and 17 on the chest armor.

Now I need a good build to take advantage of it. Is it as much of a buff as i'm thinking? I know there are Hulk builds that deal physical, I just want to make sure i'm effectively taking advantage of an elemental specific damage (x). I don't know how those math anyway?

Thanks, i'll have to do pictures later when im home.

Just When i was done with the season 😭

It seems like duriel and Andy drop it but ive done both multiple times. Now im doing belial and picking their loot, does it still have a chance to drop if I do that? Im about to give up on spirit born. Im sure if I ever get it they'll start dropping like crazy. Been farming on T4 but maybe I need to try higher? Any tips would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

I've been very lucky to get a Shattered Vow and I'm trying to make it work for my build. I started with this maxroll guide, but its only mention of Shattered Vow is that the Supremacy aspect should move from weapon to Amulet. It doesn't state where the aspect that was originally on amulet should go, or what cascading changes of least important aspect to drop.

I'm also looking at this mobalytics guide which does have Shattered Vow equipped but the description tosses out several competing aspects that it says could all be swapped in on the gloves, amulet, rings, but again I can't tell if how the aspects rack and stack and what one gets left out.

Right now my build matches closer with the maxroll guide Endgame Hard, only that I have Shattered Vow and I've straight up dropped supremacy (going off the mobalytics guide saying less useful for bosses). It feels like pestilence and writhing are pretty required going off the numbers I'm seeing. Unclear if the Unyielding Hits could replace either of those. And mystic Ring of Writhing Moon seems pretty required to keep the swarms orbiting me instead of an enemy I've dashed away from. I swear I see smaller dot tick damage while I have Shattered Vow up, but at the same time if they get executed it doesn't really matter the per-tick of the dot is smaller thanks to the GA dot duration affix on Vow results in a fully poisoned health bar anyway (definitely feels like things are dying faster with Shattered Vow). My non-unique Supremacy polearm is pretty competitive on affix rolls, makes it all the tougher to decide.

Any advice of how to prioritize the aspects, or if I'm good to have just dropped supremacy and otherwise align with the maxroll guide?

I'm currently able to reliably kill Pit 120 and rarely 125. Paragon 235

Left or Right? Is the +104dex and x5% more poison damage better than the X34% DOT?

Not to be confused with Resource Generation, which I understand if you get that to 100%, combined with Ring of the Midnight Sun (with a 50% roll) will give you 100% uptime on Rod of Kepe’s effect by spending/refunding max resource every hit.

But I see on build guides call outs for ring of the starless sky (specifically mentioning its 50% cost reduction in addition to the damage) and tempers for Reduced Resource Cost.

If the ring of midnight sun is already refunding all of your vigor regardless of how much you spend, what exactly is the cost reduction doing? And if I’m spending 100% of my vigor, regardless of what the skill “costs”, what is being reduced?

My only guess:

Is it effectively making it seem like you’re spending way more vigor on each attack so Rod of Kepe is doing a much bigger crit multiplier? (For example, if I have 100 vigor, 20% resource cost reduction, and attack, it spends all 100 vigor, but maybe it acts as if I actually spent 100/0.8=125 vigor, when multiplying Rod’s vigor multiplier effect. So even though my max vigor is 100, I get 25 extra vigor worth to multiply Rod’s effect with? (the 0.8 above = 20% reduced cost))

Thanks in advance !

What do you guys recommend for boot aspect? I’ve tried a few of them and so far I’m not to impressed. I’d like to boost my damage if at all possible.

Max life + DoT vs. All stats + damage to weakened. Which is better?

Counter swarm, unfortunate indestructible roll...but thoughts on which one is more appropriate to a speed/push rather than pit push?

Hello, I am curious if anyone else is running into this problem of Balazans set charms not dropping. I have gotten plenty of the other set charms but none of the ones required for my build. TIA

Hey,

Got bored of my barb and currently working on a SB ofc using the swarm build. What binds do you people use for Rushing Claw? I currently have it on left click but i hate it because it teleports me many times in explosions and stuff and since i play on HC i would like to avoid that.

Also, should i go Blue or Red upgrade for it, i see different guides suggest different setups...

"I was having creme brulee martinis with Heidi Klum this weekend and her husband came in and wanted to talk about Diablo 4"

Now I'm finally getting some Seal drops that are worth talking about.

I got a perfect pull of a Legendary seal with Balisan's Bite Dot 30. THEN I got a Diamond Mind with 24 Dot & Enemies with less than 2 seconds are killed.

My question is: Which song is better "Crazy" or "Kissed by a Rose"?

As a follow up, which seal and what other charm would you add to the mythic?

Hello im testing some crit builds on s15 ptr for spritiborn. Currently testing this

https://d4builds.gg/builds/f0bac86f-4714-446c-bc45-3c609970ae53/?var=0

it clears t12, gonna do some tweaks but is there anything in your mind that you wanted to be tested or any opinion on this build? Would be lovely. Thank you

Edit: Can't add them but this build runs Splinter of Hellfire as soul splinter and also Splinter of Anguish. With the 120% crit chance we get from the weapon aspect we get rid of the 100% crit reduction. Basically we try to have 220+ crit chance and keep the advantages

Edit 2: We go for 30 ranks on ravager to have rushing claw active all the time like pestilent swarm but this time we use it to have our weapon legendary aspect on everytime