Diablo 4 Season 3 Guide - Season of the Construct
Jan. 23, 2024Diablo 4 Season 3 Guide – Season of the Construct
Diablo 4 Season of the Construct guide for old and returning players. In this Diablo 4 Season 3 Guide, I’m going to show you everything you need to know before you start playing the new Diablo 4 season, Season of the Construct.
First let’s take a look at the new Diablo 4 Seasonal content featuring the Companion, Arcane Tremors and Nightmare Vaults, before we get into to some leveling tips for returning players, or for those looking to reach World Tier 4 as quickly as possible.
TheSeason of the Constructrevolves around The Loom, an ancient technology designed by the founder of the Horadrim and his companion Ayuzhan. This loom has been stolen by the demon Malphas, and you must fight against his minions, the Constructs, to get to the Loom and defeat him. Gatehall will be the season’s newest hub area, a town center under Kehjistan which acts as your way of accessing the new seasonal dungeons, Vaults.
To help you in your journey to defeat Malphas, you will have a new seasonalSeneschal Companion, aka the robot spider pet. The Seneschal is a Construct that you find during the Seasonal Quest that is repaired to become your own Construct companion. You should acquire The Seneschal as fast as you can, since it’s a permanent pet that can deal damage, crowd control and even heal you, overall being very helpful. You can also pet it, so make sure you get it! This companion will level with you as you progress in the game, and it has its own skills for you to build it to your liking.
These skills can be equipped via Tuning andGoverning Stoneswhich you can get from Arcane Tremors,Vaultsand crafting from Shattered Stones which are randomly dropped from Constructs at the Jeweller in Gatehall. They can also be upgraded by finding duplicates or crafting duplicates. You will have 2 slots for Governing Stones, determining what abilities your Seneschal can perform, and 6 slots for Tuning Stones which can augment those abilities.
Once you get the Seneschal, you obviously want to start getting those stones, so you should start by clearing Arcane Tremors that can be found across Sanctuary. In these events, you need to find Cores from Constructs or from Towers which you have to place in a brazier to summon Malphus’ Heralds. Defeating these constructs have a low chance of giving you some stones as well as shattered stones, but more importantly when you defeat the Heralds, you get the seasonal Rare Currency; Pearls of Warding. These act as a sort of currency for “gambling” in the new vaults, which can provide you with more Governing and Turing Stones.
After you obtain some Pearls of Warding, you should go and access one of the 3 Vaults from Gatehall. Once you enter the vault, there will be a statue called the “Statue of Zoltun Kulle”, which allows you to exchange Pearls of Warding for stacks of Zoltuns Warding. These stacks act as a counter for the multiple traps that can be found throughout the vault. Everytime you get hit by a trap, you lose one stack of Zoltuns Warding, and if you have 0 stacks by the time you complete the dungeon, you won’t be able to unlock the special Wardwoven chest which contains good loot and more Tuning/Governing Stones.
Additionally, you can turn the Vaults into Nightmare vaults, if you want to speed up the process. These vaults will have more traps, harder enemies as well as more Wardwoven Chests to unlock. Vault Sigils to start Nightmare Vaults will drop in the same fashion as normalNightmare Sigilsin World Tier 3 and 4.
So now you probably get the basic cycle for the season; do someArcane Tremors, get some Pearls, go to a Vault, clear it without getting hit by traps, put skills on the companion and repeat. Once you complete the questline, you will gain access to a 4th vault; the Uber Vault. In this Vault, you will go against traps and enemies, and at the end fight against Uber Malphus, a stationary boss who can drop you 2 Unique stones which are super strong, so you do want to complete this at some point during the season.
Next, let’s talk about how you can level up fast in the new season. Depending on whether you have completed the Diablo 4 before or not, the first option you get when making a new character for the season is whether you want to skip the campaign and which world tier you would like to play on. If you have already completed the campaign, skipping it on a new character will be the much faster method of leveling. For the world tier, contrary to what you may think, World Tier 1 will be the best for quick leveling.
Choosing World Tier 2 will provide you with 20% more experience and gold, but in return the enemies are more challenging and will take you more time to churn through, ultimately making it less efficient than choosing World Tier 1, where enemies are a cakewalk and you can clear dungeons much faster. Of course, later on when you get to the mid and end game, you will be running World Tier 3 and World Tier 4 when available, as these difficulties generate much more XP.
Since there have been no updates to experience at the Season of the Construct launch, the fastest way to level your character will still be half-repeating the Domhainne Tunnels dungeon in Scosglen, but there are still other methods to level including the new seasonal activities.
When you spawn in, the first thing you should do is make sure you claim your renown rewards. If you played in earlier seasons and completed renown for all regions via discoveringWaypoints, clearingStrongholds, finding Altars of Lilith etc., you will be able to claim the bottom rewards for all the regions. This will include 2 skill points, +1 Potion Capacity, +80 MaximumObolCapacity and most importantly, +4 Paragon Points. If you haven’t unlocked these, you don’t need to feel rushed to get them as soon as you can, but you will definitely need to find some time to get these rewards later down the road.
The first thing you should do is progress the Seasonal Quest as much as you can until it’s too hard or you get bored, so you can obtain theSeneschal ConstructCompanion as soon as possible. Once you do that, you can start grinding theDomhainne Tunnels. The strategy is to clear the first section without releasing any prisoners, TP out to Cerrigar, sort your inventory, reset the dungeons via your map, then go back. You basically repeat this until around level 50 along with the oddHelltideto get necessary resources likeForgotten SoulsandFiend Rosesfor upgrading your gear.
If this isn’t for you, which I know is the case for a lot of people, there are a bunch of other things you can do to level your character. The best alternative is Legion Events, which spawn quite frequently and will give you a ton of XP upon completion. You will get an alert on the map before they spawn in, and you should head over there around 5 minutes before it starts to kindle the campfire at the location. Once you interact with it and stand around for a bit, your XP gain for the event will increase up to 15%, and you can clear the event with other people in the world to get some amazing XP.
Other activities can includeWorld Bosses, Whispers, and the new seasonal activities. World bosses will spawn in every 6-8 hours, and are a great source for XP if the server is prepared to kill it. However, I don’t recommend doing these in the first week of the new season, as most of the time everyone is simply too weak to take them on and it just ends up as 15 minutes of your life wasted.
Grim Favorsare another great way to level, with a bunch of diverse quests on the map for you to complete like harvesting a zone, clearing a cellar or the most XP-rich one, clearing a Whisper Dungeon. Grim Favors can also overlap with World Bosses and the new seasonal activities, so be on the lookout for that. The new seasonal activities will consist of Arcane Tremors which you can find throughout Sanctuary, and theVaultdungeons. I personally recommend grinding the Arcane Tremors for leveling, since they can give some XP and the new Rare Currency.
You can mix up all these different activities while clearing Domhainne Tunnels, or just do one or the other depending on what you have the most fun with. Just remember to clear Helltides every once in a while, stock up on elixirs to boost XP gain while you do any activities, and do seasonal content as well. At level 15 (or 25 for necros) you should do your Class Quest to unlock a special feature of your class. Further down the line, once you feel confident with your build at the level 50-60 range, you can attempt theWT3 Capstone Dungeonin Kyovashad to increase your World Tier, which brings us to leveling above 60.
Once you get to WT3, the best use of your time will be coming fromNightmare DungeonsorNightmare Vaults, which give good rewards and XP. You can get the Nightmare Sigils to activate them as random drops from enemies at this point in the game, and from crafting at the occultist. To max out the XP you can get from Nightmare Dungeons, you should be fighting enemies 10 levels higher than you, although you can do lower level ones if they are too difficult at first.
You can also continue doing the activities from before, though they will be unlikely to progress your character to the same extent since Nightmare Dungeons are the bread and butter of character progression. Once you get to around level 70, you can attempt theWT4 capstoneand from there, you can keep doing Nightmare Dungeons as well as a mix of other things like completing the Seasonal Quest if you haven’t, completing your renown or basically any of the other activities in the game.
So far, that’s about everything we have to say on what we think beginners should do at the start of this new season. Later on, there will be an upcoming Gauntlet dungeon, a weekly rotating fixed dungeon that will have you competing against other players on leaderboards, with top weekly scores earning a permanent spot in the Hall of the Ancients. We don’t know much about what these dungeons will entail specifically, but if you feel like you are up for the challenge, be on the lookout for this dungeon in the coming weeks or months.
So that about wraps up our Diablo 4 Season of the Construct Guide, catching you up on leveling tactics as well as the new features in the game. What do you guys think about the season so far? Does it look interesting? Do you think Diablo is going to peak again with this new season? Let us know in the comments below!
If you need help in exploring Sanctuary be sure to drop by our Diablo IV wiki for all the latest on thenew season,Seneschal companion, newdungeonsand more.
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