Easy Spectral Ash & Tons of Loot - Season 8 Best Farm - Diablo 4

Summary

In this Diablo 4 Season 8 guide, discover the most efficient way to gather spectral ash and loot. Forget about apparition incursions; instead, focus on boss layers, as they’re more rewarding and less time-consuming. Learn about the benefits of boss drops and how to conquer Torment levels with optimized strategies. The guide walks you through maximizing powers, leveraging boss powers, and handling Torment 1 to 4, helping you improve your gameplay and gear management quickly.

Highlights

• Teleport to boss layers for optimal spectral ash farming—less hassle, more loot! 🚀
• Bosses drop a mix of their specific loot and general unique items, maximizing gains. 💎
• Focus on Hell Tides and Under Cities to streamline your farming strategy. 🌪️
• Optimal power use involves spreading ashes across multiple upgrades, not maxing one out. 🌟
• Challenge yourself with higher Torment levels—expect big damage and big rewards! ⚡

Key Takeaways

• Spectral ash farming is best done at boss layers, not apparition incursions. 🎯
• Bosses drop both specific loot and unique general loot, increasing your rewards. 💰
• Torment difficulty levels provide a challenge, but with the right strategy, they are manageable. 💪
• Upgrade boss powers strategically across different ranks for maximum efficiency. 📈
• Seasonal journeys offer crucial bonuses, unlocking new opportunities in gameplay. 🚀

Overview

Diving into Diablo 4 Season 8, this guide deciphers the best farming methods for spectral ash, crucial to powering up your gameplay. Avoid the usual apparition incursions as they are tedious and opt for boss layers, which offer better bang for your time and effort. It's all about strategic teleportation and power usage, ensuring that you level up efficiently and effectively.

Boss battles are pivotal, not just for the thrill but due to the lucrative rewards they yield. Expect both specific and rare general loot drops, enhancing your inventory. Torment levels come with difficulty spikes, but with the right build and strategy, clearing them becomes both manageable and rewarding, enabling players to elevate their game.

Upgrading boss powers requires a strategic approach, distributing spectral ash wisely rather than focusing on a single upgrade. Participating in seasonal journeys unlocks indispensable bonuses that propel your progress, making it crucial to incorporate them into your gameplay. Follow the guide to master your loot farming and power upgrades in Diablo 4's thrilling season 8 adventure.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:30: Easy Spectral Ash Farm: Layer Boss Strategy The chapter discusses efficient strategies for farming spectral ash, crucial for upgrading powers in the game. It counters the common misconception that apparition incursions are the best method due to their time-consuming nature. Instead, the chapter suggests teleporting to a layer boss and summoning it to quickly farm spectral ash, specifically highlighting the effectiveness of ‘blood wave’ in this process. The strategy is illustrated with an example involving a character only 9 hours into the game, showcasing that even newly created characters can benefit significantly. However, it ends on a note that sometimes the spectral ash yield might be zero despite the effort.
• 01:30 - 03:00: Optimal Boss Drops & Tribute of Titans In the chapter titled 'Optimal Boss Drops & Tribute of Titans,' the strategy for maximizing loot in a game is discussed. The focus is on gathering optimal boss drops, specifically spectral ash, which appears in large quantities and increases with higher levels of torment. The speaker mentions their success in obtaining loot at Torment 3 and hints at the potential for even greater success at Torment 4, despite the latter not being as visually exciting. Overall, the chapter emphasizes the efficiency of farming strategies compared to other options like apparition incursions.
• 03:00 - 04:30: Boss Powers & Torment Levels The chapter titled 'Boss Powers & Torment Levels' discusses the strategies for accumulating spectral ash in the game. It suggests participating in events like hell tides and whispers during hell tides. The narrator mentions how they utilize living steel and axe of blood to defeat bosses. A key point is that bosses now drop loot that is not limited to just Lord Zur; they distribute loot evenly among different layers. The narrator shares personal loot experiences, mentioning items like a 'cruous embrace' and a 'bloodless scream,' and notes that some loot is obtained from specific bosses such as Varon.
• 04:30 - 06:00: Ashava's Poison Breath & Whisper Strategy The chapter discusses strategies related to "Ashava's Poison Breath & Whisper." It starts by talking about loot drops from bosses, specifically mentioning the 'ring of mandel' from the beast of ice, and the general unique loot they can drop. It highlights the exciting reward of the 'tribute of titans' which can be used in the under city to obtain layer boss hort keys, providing a tactical advantage by avoiding glitchy incursions in the endgame.
• 06:00 - 07:30: Reputation Grind & Seasonal Journey The chapter provides insights into the 'Reputation Grind & Seasonal Journey' in a game. It discusses strategies within a game environment, particularly focusing on dealing with bosses such as Grigo, the Beast of Eyes, in the 'hell tide' area, among others. There's a key tactical piece of advice given: when you reach 'Torment One' level, you should teleport to all bosses and defeat them to gain their 'boss power' without needing to claim their loot. The focus is on leveling up within the game by efficiently gaining power from boss encounters.
• 07:30 - 09:00: Pit Difficulty & Gear Masterworking The chapter discusses the mechanics of fighting Uber Balile in the game, emphasizing the need to complete specific quest lines to unlock the battle. It notes some difficulties in obtaining certain items, specifically referencing 'Tiny Balile' and 'Averest explosive ore,' and mentions challenges with encountering the 'outlaw sharpshooter.' It highlights the power dynamics within the game, stating that from the first level of 'Torment one,' abilities like 'Ashava's poison breath' combined with any damage overtime skills significantly simplify leveling up.
• 09:00 - 10:30: Mercenary Reputation & Boss Caches The chapter discusses 'whispers on bosses,' with a focus on the 'Harbinger of Hatred' which is currently categorized as a whisper. The process includes teleporting to the Harbinger's location, engaging in combat, defeating him, and abstaining from taking his loot. Despite not taking the loot, players still receive five whispers and obtain favors for use on the reward tree.
• 10:30 - 12:00: High Pit Levels & Build Optimization The chapter discusses strategies for achieving high damage levels in a game, specifically mentioning astronomical figures like two to three billion damage when facing the Torment 3 boss. Initially, for lower levels like Torment 1 and 2, the player did not require any special enhancements or aspects, relying on a regular summer necromancer. However, progressing beyond Torment 2 necessitated a shift to a Bloodwave Necromancer to accommodate the increased difficulty. Despite using subpar equipment, the player still manages to inflict 1.1 billion damage, allowing them to clear challenging levels like pit 65, 70, and potentially 75.

Easy Spectral Ash & Tons of Loot - Season 8 Best Farm - Diablo 4 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Number one, where do you get the most spectral ash to upgrade your powers because you'll need thousands and thousands to get them to level 20. If you think it's apparition incursions, you're wrong because they are annoying to do and take quite a while. The better way, teleport yourself to a layer boss. Summon him and right now we get 1,61 spectral ash. Send poor lord Zur to meet his maker. Yes, blood wave is still absolutely OP. Character is 9 hours old. And then we actually don't get a single piece of spectral ash. We just get some
• 00:30 - 01:00 gold. But as you actually loot the horde and let me take a step back, you get all the things. And then you're going to see spectral ash, spectral ax, special ash, spectral ash. And suddenly 140 more. And this amount does raise with torment here. That was torment three for me. I can already kill things on Torment 4. It just doesn't look so action-packed as when I do it in Torment 3. And that brings us to a way better farming loop than actually going to the apparition incursions and trying
• 01:00 - 01:30 to get yourself slowly and annoying more spectral ash because what I'm doing right now is I do my hell tide, the whispers in the hell tide and I loot the chests and I go kill bosses with my living steel and my ex of blood. And here you need to keep in mind that the bosses are not only dropping Lord Zur loot. This changed all the layer bosses. They drop half and half. I got a crewous embrace and I also got a bloodless scream, but the bloodless scream is from Varon. The shard of rathal is also not
• 01:30 - 02:00 from here. And the ring of mandel is from the beast of ice. Yes, bosses will still drop their specific loot, but they also have a chance to drop just general unique loot. And they drop another amazing thing on top. That would be simply the tribute of titans. Tada. Take these into the unders city to get yourself layer boss hort keys. This keeps me away from the annoying incursions in endgame, which are bugged anyways, and sometimes you don't have enough minions to actually clear them, and allows me to simply focus on the
• 02:00 - 02:30 hell tide, the unders city, and our friendly layer bosses. Big word of advice on the boss powers in general. As soon as you get to Torment One, no matter if you have a key to actually claim their loot or not, you will just teleport to all the bosses once, Grigo, the Beast of Eyes, and so on, kill them, and they'll grant you their boss power. You don't actually have to claim their loot for that. You just have to kill them in Torment One the first time to actually get their boss power. For
• 02:30 - 03:00 Bile's power, you have to wait for the quest line that allows you to fight Uber Balile and then you can go there, just summon him and kill him again. As you can see, I only missed Tiny Balile right now and the Averest explosive ore. And for some reason, the outlaw sharpshooter is not coming at all. That being said, all the powers since the very first second I stepped into Torment one. And the current most OP power is Ashava's poison breath. This with any damage overtime ability, whirlwind, blight, whatever. Just trivializes leveling. Try it out. It's stupid. Another thing to
• 03:00 - 03:30 not forget is whispers on bosses. Right now, the harbinger of hatred is a whisper. And again, here I can just teleport to the harbinger's den. Fight the harbinger and kill him. Don't take his loot. And I still get the five whispers. I still get the favors to hand that then in on the tree. Now, let's talk actual difficulty. What do you need to go from torment one to four? And how much stronger are Tormund four bosses than Torment 3 bosses? Because you saw me kill the Torment 3 boss with two to
• 03:30 - 04:00 three billion damage. You heard correct. Two to three billion damage. That was the Torment 3 boss. Quite easy. For tournament one and two, I didn't need anything. I went in there without even having a single aspect. just normal summer necromancer, but then I did have to swap after Torment 2 over to our Bloodwave Necromancer. And with my shotty equipment, I can right now deal 1.1 billion damage. This allows me to clear pit 65, 70, maybe even 75. But
• 04:00 - 04:30 now, watch how it is with a Torment 4 boss, just to vibe you in what kind of damage you'll have to get, you'll have to expect to actually fight a Torment for a boss. I have all my overpower damage up. It's Torment 4. It's Lord Zur. I used to just do one single blood wave and he dies. Okay, cool. You've all seen it before. Now, if we're fighting the man here, I'm throwing my blight in and I do this. So, you see like 300 million, 400 million, right? And then again, I was actually not overpowered
• 04:30 - 05:00 and we do like more 600 million, 600,00 like his HP is this is this is what you have to do. So you you'll be having to get very big damage numbers to like scratch the guy to get him down. There's a 900 million, so almost a billion there. I died, but his life just got put down a little little bit. And I pretty much one hit died there with 10,000 HP. Obviously, I can get way more as these
• 05:00 - 05:30 pieces of gear are not really masterworked and or even tempered partially. So there there's still a lot I can do to improve my gear, but it's too feeling to give you for tier four. The jump from three to four is quite extreme. Three I can do without even looking at the screen. And for some reason, they forget to tell us something about the seasonal journey. Seasonal journey one doesn't give you anything, just some basic loot. But as you finish seasonal journey 2, you get your first two ashes. And you really want those two ashes because we got the earn of lies.
• 05:30 - 06:00 Boost the chance for Bile, Lord of Lies, to appear after defeating a layer boss. Without this, I have not seen a I have killed 30 bosses. I have not seen a single balile. 30 stashes open up. Not a single bai has happened. Without these points, you're probably not going to seem a lot. The next two points I'm probably going to get when finishing three. Again, it doesn't say anything about this. It didn't say anything here in the rewards as well. I would assume I get another two points as I then finish number
• 06:00 - 06:30 three. here. Do keep in mind that you when you upgrade your powers want to spread it out. It says upgrade boss powers to rank 12 four times. Here it was rank eight four times. Do not use your spectral ash. I have 1,200 to just slam this now. It's 160. I sure I could push this to 20, but why would I? I play four power. So I'd rather just move them up to 12 to then actually be able to get my spectral ash to meet more baliles to
• 06:30 - 07:00 be able to kill more uber baliles because if you get the normal balile you can kill the uber balile who can then give you any loot you're looking for. And now to the reputation grind. What should you do? Where should you go? Defeat balle apparition incursions and slay bosses across century to raise unveilor's oath rank. You heard right bosses. This means killing the lear bosses is also the best choice. Again, even killing the blood maiden counts as an apparition, too. She counts as a
• 07:00 - 07:30 boss. Therefore, the pit layer bosses, hell tide, screw the screw the incursions. There is zero reasons to go there and spend time for leveling. Yes, afterwards. I I have not touched them since I hit Tormund. Now, I'm getting these three cool things. And what do I get out of my layer cache? Damn, that's another 26 living steel, malignant hearts, mask, actions of blood, more bosses, more fragments, more everything.
• 07:30 - 08:00 And look at the amount of keys we're having. And we're not even tryh harding. This character is 9 hours old. 9 hours put into the game. And yet I can still do tons of bosses. Sure, I don't want to do because in kind of stupid at this point, but I can just farm myself some durio. It's it. And I can use the Stigian stones as a substitute for any material to actually do the aer of hatred or dural or mandario. And as a big heads up, as your first mercenary,
• 08:00 - 08:30 you should level up Mr. Sububo because Subo, as you get him all the way here reputation wise, adds the boss summoning caches to the bartering. If you then go to the mercenaries in the middle, you restock the supplies. How many coins do I have? 400. Cool. Here's a chance to get a boss summoning cash, which is obviously boss material summoning cash. Thank you very much. And that is a mass. That's a lot of Yeah, that's at least
• 08:30 - 09:00 one of the guys just like that just with a bering just with the points I anyways have. But get that subu up so you actually do see it. As a second, you might want to have Varana because Varana gives you then the masterworking materials. Perfect caches to appear. Don't worry, they're not kicking each other out. It's rather that you're getting masterworking materials and boss summoning mats. More is more. And by leveling them all up, you're going to have like 10 12 choices instead of just five choices. Final word on pit
• 09:00 - 09:30 difficulty and having to reach as low as possible. I went all the way to 70 right now. I am playing the blood wave. do billions of damage already with not so perfect gear, right? It's rather shoddy and I have like this is maybe six times masterwork, eight times eight times. I I don't have many masterworks. I can get much more maximum life yet if you're looking at what we're doing here. So, we're going to be hitting them for There you go. Multi multi-millions,
• 09:30 - 10:00 hundreds millions up to billions of damage, but it's it's taking some. And that's only pit 70, right? So, I'll be having to move my damage up to 10, 20, 30 billion to then later feel good about going anywhere, even close to pit 100. So, if if you're capping out on pit 80 this season, you're capping out on pit 75, don't feel bad. I wouldn't like cling to this idea of I have to hit that pit 100. There will probably be builds
• 10:00 - 10:30 and I'll be trying out the bloody bone spear for sure, but you can already see where I'm trying to tell you. Don't don't stress yourself about pit levels. Things are a bit different. If your friend tells you he's only able to do 70, don't laugh at him because 70 is already pretty respectable because you need hundreds of millions, if not billions of damage to actually do it, right? Obviously with Bloodwave, it's quite simplistic, but other lower performing builds will never get there. That's also why we can completely forget about ever playing corpse explosion
• 10:30 - 11:00 again as an actual damaging skill because it just simply can't overpower do billions of damage. You need skills that can do that or you're busted. Ladies and gentlemen, anything else you'd like to share? Put that in the comments below. Want to see the necromancer build we have been using from level one to Tormund 4? There's the video and also the way I did actually level up because that was 3 hours to level 60. Enjoy. Have a fantastic good day.