General Farming Guide

There are many different items, materials and currencies to farm and use in Diablo 4. All are important and have their uses for your character and gear alike. Some are easy to gather, while others are tricky and can only come from specific areas or events. This farming guide aims to arm you with the best information to stock up on what you need to supercharge your progression!

Gathered materials range from Plants, Ore, Skins, Monster Parts and Salvage. Each has their own purpose and place to collect them. The general rule to remember with Gathered Materials is the ABCs - Always Be Collecting! Tapping on a node to gather these materials happens instantly and can even be done on your mount, so doing a hit-and-run on a few enemy covered nodes is possible if you want to risk it.

Howler Moss, Biteberry, Reddamine, Blightshade and‍ Lifesbane can be found with relative ease in any of their respective regions. Plant nodes tend to be around the edges of terrain and structures alike. The game doesn't make it easy on you by placing them in the middle of an open field. Keep an eye out for any Plant node you may pass while traveling from one activity to the next, and quickly gather them when seen. In addition, you can receive a random assortment of Plants from a reward chest at the end of a Local Event. Completing a Side Quest can also reward a Plant Cache, granting a small stockpile of Plants to use. Lastly, if you're just short for an Elixir, you can convert 5 spare Gallowvine to a specific region Plant at the Alchemist to save farming time. This can be done the other way around at a 1 to 1 ratio.

This positive feedback loop is accelerated in a well organized group that is on the lookout, as Tortured Gift of Mysteries appear for a brief time before rotating to a new location at the top of each hour. Having a group that splits up to each zone of a Helltide to call out spawn locations with the Map Pin maximizes your chances of success.

T‍he primary way to obtain Scattered Prisms is through defeating World Bosses when they appear. Their spawn times can vary, but it is safe to say every 5–6 hours. There is a small chance to obtain one through Dungeon Bosses or Treasure Goblins too. Overall, this means that Scattered Prisms are a lot more scarce than other materials. With that in mind, keep an eye out for World Boss spawns in the world.

Sometimes efficient farming really means effective usage! Don't go adding sockets to every piece as you replace one for another. This goes especially true when you just enter Nightmare Difficulty and want to start upgrading gear like mad. Save these materials for pieces that have a majority of the correct properties to know you're getting good value when using them.

Monster Parts are a deceptively tricky material to farm. You could follow the advice of the tooltip, but you may have to kill quite a few enemies to only get a few Parts. One method of getting guaranteed Monster Parts (albeit random which one you receive) is to do Cellars. Any Cellar rewards a chest after completion which contains a few of a random Monster Part. One catch, however: if the Cellar has a proper event that rewards a bigger golden chest at the end, it does NOT reward any Monster Parts. Keep this in mind if Monster Parts is your only reason for doing Cellars.

Another method is to hunt down Rare Elites in the world as they drop the same amount of Monster Parts each time when killed. They are located across the world, so we have provided the information you will need below:

Roaming around the eastern half of Scosglen is your best bet. It's littered with Chargers, Bears and Werewolves.

Forgotten Soul are exclusively found from Tortured Gifts and special Bosses during Helltide and are critical to Enchanting gear and upper end gear Upgrading. There are a few methods you can employ to collect them. The simplest is similar to Fiend Rose. You can spend Aberrant Cinders on the cheaper 75 Tortured Gift of Protection (Armor) and Tortured Gift of Jewelry (Rings) to have a 50/50 shot at getting Forgotten Souls. A better way is grouping up and target farming Aberrant Cinders in mass for Tortured Gifts of Mysteries, which guarantee some to drop. Lastly, look for Kixxarth, Helltide Assassin or the Portal Invasion event, as both can have a chance to drop Forgotten Souls.

Abstruse Sigil, Coiling Ward and Baleful Fragment are rather straightforward. Each one comes from Salvaging a Legendary Armor, Weapon, or Jewelry piece. The amount of Legendaries you get of the three and break down correlates to how many of these materials you get. If you find yourself getting low on one particular material, you can take a chance and gamble at the Purveyor of Curiosities to get one or two more items to break down. You can also go to the PvP version of this vendor, however, you can only gamble Armor pieces. Lastly, going for the cheaper Tortured Gift of Protection (Armor) and Tortured Gift of Jewelry (Rings) can net you a few required materials for a last Upgrade on a piece of gear in a pinch.

‍‍Veiled Crystals come from Salvaging (see a trend here...) Rare Items. With that in mind, don't just ignore Rare Items on the ground. Make sure to pick up the highest ones you can get (Normal, Sacred, or Ancestral ) as you should be for gear upgrades anyways. If they do not provide you with a gear upgrade, simply Salvage them all to get some materials. ‍Veiled Crystals can also start to drop off Elites as you get in higher Difficulties, too. This helps speed up your acquisition, so don't bypass all the Elites you see.

Sigil Powder comes from Salvaging, you guessed it, Nightmare Sigils. Since your intake of this material is directly linked to your intake of Nightmare Sigils, you need to plan accordingly. For an easier time, complete Whispers of the Dead from the Tree of Whispers to get Collections. Once opened, these Collections have a decent chance of dropping various other materials we have covered along with the possibility of a Nightmare Sigil. A better method is to just pick an easy Nightmare Dungeon you can run and do it. You usually get 2–4 Sigils per run, giving you room to keep certain Sigils to run and others to Salvage.

With the addition of new Bosses, there are certain materials you need to collect on in the world. These materials are linked to certain activities you must complete to get. Once you have gathered enough of them, you can summon the Boss and attempt to kill it. See the list below for all the important information on materials and where to get them.

Currencies are your bread and butter to do almost everything in the game. Gold fuels your gear Upgrading, Enchanting, Extracting and Imprinting Aspects on gear, Skill and Paragon point respecing, repairing and more. Obols allow you to target gamble for a particular gear slot along with Red Dust (Armor only). Aberrant Cinders also let you target a particular gear slot for possible Legendaries and Uniques. Let's learn how to farm each one.

First rule of making Gold , don't over spend what you have! Make sure you don't Upgrade every piece of gear, or Extract every Aspect you get, etc. If you do, you can never earn enough to out pace your spending. With this in mind here are the two best methods for generating Gold.

First, complete Whispers of the Dead. Whispers are a great source of Gold and are a required activity for collecting materials to summon one of the End Game Bosses. You can recieve several MILLION Gold per turn in, making Whispers quite good! Get two things done at the same time - efficient!

Second, the best way to actually earn Gold is to sell unwanted Rare Items. Rare Items sell for a decent chunk of 10k to over 20k Gold for one item! A healthy half-hour of farming can net a lot of Gold to aid in your gearing, re-speccing, Enchanting and more.

The best method for farming Obols is to simply find and complete Local Events. Grouping up while doing these can make completing them go even faster. Obols can also come from a Reward Cache by completing a Side Quest.

Gear, Gems and Skulls are some of the most basic but required items we need to farm. Legendaries and Uniques are relatively easy: kill, kill, kill! Gems and Skulls are just the same, but with a few additional methods to obtain them.

Written by Dredscythe
Reviewed by IBoilerUp