How to Level
Leveling in Diablo 4 is usually best done in areas with high monster and elite density, on the highest difficulty you can still mostly one-hit kill monsters. To level efficiently, you want to follow these steps:
- Begin on Expert difficulty (or on Hard if Expert proves too challenging).
- With
Dance of Knives being so powerful early on you can reliably speed through everything. - Should you drop
Aspect of Star Shards immediately move to Penitent Difficulty.
- Start the Seasonal Questline to unlock the Seasonal Reputation Track.
- Complete a Dungeon with a Whisper Bounty for 5 points.
- Farm Helltide up to level 15, earning an additional 5 points toward a Whisper Bounty so you’re ready to cash it in.
- Open Helltide chests only after reaching level 15; opening them earlier won’t grant you ‍Sigil Powder.
- Switch to Penitent difficulty and turn in your Whisper Bounty at the Tree of Whispers.
At this stage, you should have 60 ‍Sigil Powder so you can craft a Nightmare Dungeon (NMD) Sigil at the Occultist. The Whisper Bounty provides 30, and opening Helltide Chests should yield the remaining 30. If you’re short on ‍Sigil Powder from the Helltide Chests, you can complete an open-world Local Event to make up the difference.
- Craft your Nightmare Dungeon Sigil and complete the NMD, receiving another Sigil upon finishing it. Sigils with the Forgotten Wisdom affix are your top priority, though it’s still worthwhile to run NMDs without this affix to keep your character progressing.
- It’s important to note that the Forgotten Wisdom affix causes enemies to drop experience orbs. Because these exp orbs grant significant amounts, it’s usually better to complete Forgotten Wisdom Sigils on lower rather than higher difficulties so you can defeat enemies faster, despite the lower base experience. Therefore, only run these on higher difficulty if it does not take you much longer to clear.
- Continue farming NMDs until approximately level 55. At that point, you can wrap up your leveling by either clearing a few Strongholds outside of the Nahantu region or, if you have plenty of Forgotten Wisdom Sigils, continuing to run those.
- Consider lowering the difficulty if needed to complete Strongholds more efficiently. Most of the experience comes from Stronghold completion itself, which is unaffected by experience boosts.
- Don’t forget to start repeatedly crafting Elixirs at level 10 and Incenses at level 45 and beyond to help speed up your leveling.
For a more detailed breakdown and more tips, visit our Fastest Route to Endgame Leveling Guide.
FAQ
I'm level 70! Now what?
Once you reach Level 70 make sure to check out our Dance of Knives Endgame Build Guide.
Dance of Knives Attack Speed Scaling
- Attack Speed does not increase the rate at which Knives are thrown.
- Instead, Attack Speed scales the Base Damage of Dance of Knives linearly.
- If Dance of Knives Base Damage is 100% Weapon Damage, adding 50% Attack Speed increases it to 150%. This results in a relative increase of 50%.
- If Dance of Knives Base Damage is 200% Weapon Damage, adding 50% Attack Speed increases it to 300%. So, a relative increase of 50% again.
- To conclude, Attack Speed is its own separate multiplier for Dance of Knives.
Rogue
Dark Shroud can go beyond the 200% Movement Speed cap now.
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