Diablo 4 Season 10: Chaos Powers Guide

Chaos Perks, or Powers as they’re fondly known in the community are one of the two core seasonal mechanics in Season 10. They let you change how your skills work, giving new damage options, resource tricks, or survivability. 

You can equip any three non-unique Chaos Powers and one Unique Chaos Power at the same time, totalling up to four Chaos Powers. The four rarities of Chaos powers are Magic, Rare, Legendary and Unique. On top of this there are also Class specific Chaos Powers that are only selectable by that specific class, allowing for a broad, unique coverage of powers for every class and overall, each class has access to 16 powers.

Before beginning you should look into starting and completing the Seasonal quest at assassin Shyan who works for the order Viz-Jaq'taar. She can be found in Ked Bardu and she’ll start you off with the questline Sands of Chaos.

For a look at the overall contents of season 10s Season of Chaos, check our overview here.

There will be a few ways to gain Chaos Perks or Chaos Powers in Season 10, but these will be the main ways to gain Powers. 

• Reputation Board and progressing the board is the same as in most seasons, play seasonal content: Helltides, Whispers, Chaos Rifts, and Infernal Hordes.
  
• The new Chaos Rift system coming to season 10, these Rifts will open up during normal gameplay out in the world, during Helltides and even during Nightmare Dungeons.
  
• You can also Unlock Unique Chaos Powers by killing the new seasonal boss found in the Infernal Hordes, Bartuc, Lord of Chaos in Torment I or higher.

In Season 10 with the introduction of Chaos Powers a new currency will also be available known as Infernal Warp, it’s obtained primarily through Chaos Rifts and Chaos Monsters and will be the currency needed to level up all your Chaos Powers.

Powers can be upgraded to a max Rank of 10, upgrading will increase the bonuses provided by Chaos Powers but will not change or give them any additional effects.

Magic

• Invigorating Attacks – Every 5 seconds, your next Basic Skill generates an additional 50-100% of your Maximum Primary Resource, but your Basic Skills deal 30% reduced damage.
  
• Accelerating Chaos – Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy has up to a 10% chance to trigger a Chaotic Burst on the enemy, dealing 200-400% damage. Your Chaotic Bursts that hit an enemy reduce a random active Cooldown by 0.5 seconds.
  
• Unstable Power – Chaotic magics erupt from your Basic Skills, making them guaranteed to Critically Strike and Overpower for 50-100% increased damage, but the power is unstable, giving them a 3 second cooldown.

Rare

• Erupting Chaos – Chaotic Bursts randomly erupt around you, dealing 200-400% damage of your highest damage type. Your Chaotic Bursts also deal 100% of their initial damage over 4 seconds.
  
• Power Siphon – Your Core Skills deal 50-100% increased damage, but also reduce your Maximum Current Resource by 20 for 6 seconds. This reduction stacks but does not refresh.
  
• Alternating Alterations – Casting a Core Skill empowers your next non-Channelled Cast of a different Core Skill, refunding 50% of its Resource cost and dealing 10-30% increased damage.

Legendary

• Marred Guard – You can no longer be healed above 50% Life. You gain 5-10% Maximum Resistance to All Elements, 10-20%[x] Armor, and 50-100% increased Barrier and Fortify Generation.
  
• Chaotic Cooldowns – Casting a Skill with a Cooldown will randomly set its Cooldown between 2 seconds and its base cooldown. You no longer benefit from Cooldown Reduction. Using a Cooldown unleashes a Chaotic Burst, dealing 300-500% damage of your highest damage type.
  
• Crazy Brew – Your Healing Potion is infused with the power of Chaos, granting you 100% Resource Cost Reduction, 40-80%[+] increased Attack Speed and 40-80[+] increased Movement Speed for 5. Your Healing Potion has a 15 second Cooldown and you can drink it at full Life. Cooldown is now affected by Cooldown Reduction.

Unique

• Chaos Unleashed – Killing an enemy generates 2 stacks of Chaos and dealing direct damage to a boss generates 5 stacks of Chaos. At 100 stacks, unleash a salvo of 9 Chaotic Bursts, dealing 300-500% of your highest damage type.
  
  Your Chaotic Bursts gain 30%[+] Critical Strike Chance, and deal 100-200%[x] increased damage.
  
  
• Brawn Over Brains – Gain the following:
  
• • 100-200% [x] Maximum Life
  • +50-100% Healing Received
  • 75-125%[x] Overpower Damage

However, your Maximum Resistances are reduced by 25%, and your damage reduction from Armor is capped at 60%.

• A Beast Cornered – For every 10% Life you are missing, you gain 10-20% [x] increased damage and 5% damage reduction.
  
  Spending Resources also drains a percentage of your Life equal to 30% the Resources spent, refunding those Resources. This cannot reduce you to below 10% Life.

Magic – Dual Threat
Casting a Basic Skill also triggers another equipped Basic Skill at the target, dealing 50–80% of its normal damage.

Rare – Raging Chaos
While you are not healthy, you are Berserking. Your Core Skills deal Fire damage and trigger an additional Chaotic Burst that deals Fire damage.

Legendary – Deafening Chorus
Your equipped Shouts are always active with 30-50%[x] increased effect. Your Maximum Fury is reduced by 20% for each Shout equipped.

Unique – Single-Minded Fury
If you only equip one Arsenal weapon type, gain:

• 30-50%[+] Overpower Chance
• 150-250%[+] increased Bleed Duration
• 50-100%[x] Maximum Life
• 150-250%[x]  increased Damage
  

Magic – Overabundance
Every 100 Spirit you generate beyond your Maximum grants 50-100% increased damage for 5 seconds. Stacks up to three times but does not refresh.

Rare – Purge the Infected
Core Skills also apply 100–200% of their base damage as Poison over 4 seconds. Dealing direct damage to a Poisoned enemy spends 5 Spirit to guarantee a Critical Strike that deals 30–60% increased damage.

Legendary – Wild Transformations
Shapeshifting into a new form auto-casts a free Skill and grants a 5-second bonus:

• Werewolf: Blood Howl and +10–20% Critical Strike Damage
• Werebear: Debilitating Roar and +10–20% Damage Reduction
• Human: Cyclone Armor and +10–20% Attack Speed

Unique – Savagery
Your Companion Skills become Core Skills. Companions grow in size and gain +40–80% Summon Damage.

Magic – Grim Reapers
Skeleton Warriors’ attacks have a 25% chance to also cast Reap, dealing 50–150% of normal damage instead of their regular attack.

Rare – Decimating Desecration
Your damage over time effects have a chance equal to your Critical Strike Chance to deal 50–100% increased damage.

Legendary – Defile the Dead
You can consume each corpse twice. Consuming a Corpse spawns a Chaotic Burst that deals 200–400% Shadow damage. Consuming 10 Corpses grants Unstoppable for 2 seconds.

Unique – Alter the Balance
Your base Core Skills are now empowered as Ultimate Skills, cost no Essence, but have a 30-20 second Cooldown. Your base Ultimate Skills are now altered to also be Core Skills and have no Cooldown, but cost 70-50 Essence.

Magic – Unpredictable Alchemy
Basic Skills are randomly imbued each cast and deal 20–40% increased damage.

Rare – Enervated Strikes
You no longer passively generate energy. Your Core Skills deal 100-150% [x] increased damage.

Legendary – Chaotic Grenades
Your Stun Grenades also trigger a Chaotic Burst, dealing 100-200% Physical Damage. When you drop Stun Grenades, you drop 1 more. Chaotic Bursts generate 5 Energy if they hit an enemy.

Unique – Hit and Run
Every 15 meters you move grants 30–50% increased damage for 5 seconds. This bonus stacks but does not refresh. If it’s inactive, you deal 30% less damage.

Magic – Explosive Combinations
Casting a Basic Skill increases your damage by 10-20%[x] for 5 seconds stacking up to three times.

Rare – Advanced Techniques
Your Core Skills gain increased Mana cost or cooldown by 10% but deal 10–20% more damage.

Legendary – Mana Infused Conjurations
Conjurations deal 10–30% more damage but drain 5 Mana per second and gain extra effects:

• Ice Blades: burst area damage around target
• Lightning Spear: 10% chance to spawn Ball Lightnings
• Familiar: leaves damaging ground after attacks
• Hydra: periodically creates Firewalls toward target

Unique – Mana Shield
You have 99% reduced Maximum Life. Damage is taken from Mana before Life. If you avoid damage for 2 seconds, Mana regeneration increases by 5,000%. Gain 200–400% Maximum Mana and +1 Maximum Mana per Intelligence.

Magic – Alacrity
Basic Skills gain 10–30% increased Attack Speed, 50% more dash range, and trigger their third attack every second hit.

Rare – Combined Strikes
Core Skills hit extra times in a larger area for 20–40% more damage but gain a 10-second cooldown. Your Basic Skill’s third attack resets this cooldown.

Legendary – Back Off!
When you cast a Skill, it deals 30% less damage to enemies close to you but 100–200% more damage to distant enemies.

Unique – Convocation of Spirits
Non-Ultimate Skills have a 1% chance to summon Spirits that deal 100–200% increased damage. This chance rises by 1% for each percent of Ultimate Skill Damage, up to 10%. Ultimate Skills benefit from all their upgrades.