As you start your Diablo IV main story journey, you’ll be greeted with an awesome expansive world, with several regions, and an overall larger story that will be told in several various acts, which will span across the whole open world of Sanctuary. There is a lot of stuff for you to do once you’ve managed to complete the whole Diablo IV story, whether or not you decided to tackle the story as fast as possible or take your time and do Dungeons and Side Quests before you end up confronting Lilith.
However, these activities to do aren’t always too obvious and so this article will help you realize all of the new features and challenged that the game may be hiding post campaign.
Once you’ve completed the story, the grind to get your character to level 100 may seem quite frightening at first but this article will help shed light on the most important information you should know in order to get you. Below are some new features that will become available to you once you’ve completed the main story that will be very important for you to know.
Tree of Whispers
You’ll actually first encounter the Tree of Whispers during your time in Diablo 4’s main story line, but it’ll still have quite an important role to play after the campaign and will become quite a recurring source for experience gain and loot.
Once you’ve completed the storyline, this Tree of Whispers will give you a number of different bounties that’ll range from anything like Dungeons to World Bosses and even more. The more of these bounties you complete, the more Grim Favours you’ll earn and once you’ve managed to get a total of ten, you can then return them to the tree and choose one of several various rewards that’ll be very much worth your while. It is important to take not that these bounties have a time limit on them so try your best not to leave if you’ve only finished half of a bounty as you could lose all of your progress.
Getting Paragon Points
Although this is a feature where you don’t really have to complete the main story to activate, it’s more than likely that you’ll only reach level 50 once you’ve completed all of the Main Acts, and it is at level 50 where the Paragon Board will be made available to your character. This Paragon Board will allow you to essentially customize your character further outside of your main Skills. Every single on of the various boards will contain different types of tiles that will give you anything from basic stat boosts to even new Legendary Powers.
When you start levelling up after this point in your Diablo IV journey, you’ll start to earn Paragon Points as you climb the ranks and you can start to build out your Starting board to 8 other Paragon Boards, which will all hold different bonuses. The path that you choose to build out to will depend mostly on the skills that you use the most, so it would be in your best interest to actually take your time and analyze the board carefully so that you can plan your priority list in the best way possible.
Capstone Dungeons
The story of Diablo IV doesn’t just end once you’ve finished the final act, there are a set of some quite challenging dungeon events called Capstone Dungeons that Diablo IV has introduced for those players that have completed the final Act and have reached a specific power level. Once you’ve managed to get your Diablo IV character to level 50, 75 and 100, you’ll get access to the respective challenging Dunegons as well as the Bosses that are lurking within.
These Capstone Dungeons won’t just be important for you post campaign to continue the Diablo IV story but also to unlock new events and features that you would otherwise not have come across. Specifically the dungeon that is made available to you at level 50, the first Cathedral of Light Capstone Dungeon, is actually the only way that you’ll be able to increase the World Tier Difficulty and thus gain access to some harder challenges and features that you wouldn’t otherwise appear. These challenges and features will be listed below…
Increasing the World Tier
If you are someone that may have wanted to work through all of Diablo IV’s main Acts as quickly as possible then you may have played the whole thing on World Tier 1 but if you are a player that wanted more of a challenge then you may have already travelled to Kyovashad’s World Tier Statue to bump things up to World Tier 2 not only for the increased difficulty but also for a better chance at more experience and loot. From this World Tier, things will just get more challenging, however you won’t be able to just simply flip a switch to increase the difficulty and rewards anymore.
This time if you want to turn it up even more and reach World Tier 3’s difficulty, you’ll need to complete the very first Capstone Dungeon, which you’ll gain access to at level 50, and also beat it on Tier 2’s difficulty. This will be the one and only way for you to cause new events to appear, such as the Helltide Events and Nightmare Sigils, as well as a chance to get even more tiers of loot, such as Sacred and Unique items. Then taking the next step to World Tier 4 will be even more challenging as you’ll not only need to complete the Capstone Dungeon, which unlocks at level 75, but also do it on World Tier 3 difficulty.
The Helltide Events
One of the more exciting events that you are able to unlock with the World Tier 3 difficulty mode are the Helltide Events. The Helltide Events transform areas into dangerous zones that are marked in red on your map for a whole hour now and then, where there will also be many demonic invasions. When this is active, it’ll be your goal to try and fight off as many demons as you possibly can. Whilst doing this, you’ll also want to try and participate in as many events as you can so that you earn unique materials that you would’t be able to find anywhere else but here.
All of the enemies that you defeat, chests that you open and plants that you harvest will all have a chance to contain the new items, such as Forgotten Souls, Fiend Roses as well as Abberant Cinders. These new items are very important to you if you want to be doing any upgrading to your best gear so that they can become even better.
Then another thing about these events, that could even be the most important thing, is the abundance of special chests, which are known as Tortured Gifts, that will only ever appear in Helltides. In order to open these special chests you’ll need the Abberant Cinders that you get by completing various events in a Helltide, but when you do manage to open one, you can be offered some quite exceptional gear. The Helltide Mystery Chests that most players will be looking out for the most are called the Tortured Gift of Mysteries, which will have a chance of spawning in a few various places in each Helltide Zone.
Nightmare Dungeons and Glyphs
Then coming to the last big feature that you unlock after getting to World TIer 3, it is the ability that your character has to get Nightmare Sigils as well as access to the extremely challenging Nightmare Dungeons. When you experience these Sigils begin to drop, you’ll then find that they actually correspond to one specific dungeon in the Diablo IV world. What’s more is that in these Nightmare versions of the dungeons, every Sigil will have a list of various positive and also negative modifiers active.
As you might already expect from the name of these dungeons, they are going to be extremely challenging and will also only allow for a certain amount of revives, however if you make it through the dungeon you’ll be rewarded extremely well as well. What you can do to help you earn more Glyphs, is actually start Salvaging Sigils so that you can create even tougher dungeons to complete.
What Glyphs are are basically Perks that you can add to a specific piece of your Paragon Board, which will then become even more empowered based on the nearby perks that are selected close to the socket.
Final Words
So, there you have a complete guide as to some of the new events and features that you’ll experience post campaign in Diablo IV. Hopefully, after reading this article, you have a better idea as to what to expect after you finish the main Acts, so that you don’t feel too lost as soon as you finish the campaign.
