Best GEM Farming and Crafting Guide | Diablo 4 Season 14 transcript

Here we go, guys. We finally have proper gem farming method. So, no more boring runs of the same dungeon. On top of that, Blizzard finally listened to all the complaints and they have announced huge changes to the mythic items. Uh the new patch will be released next week uh and I will explain everything at the end of the video, but uh make sure to keep all mythics even the ones with bad rolls because there is a [music] good chance that we will be able to change all affixes just like on the PTR.

So, let's start this video first with the best farming method for mythic items. As always, we get a lot of sparks from the seasonal progression, so make sure to complete all the main objectives. The drop rates for everything else have changed. Based on the gameplay so far, I think that the war class have increased chance to give mythic options. Farming them very fast and selecting uh new plan three times will increase those chances.

Uh we can get three sparks or a one item per mythic selection. Now, under city is no longer the best option. We only get one guaranteed item per one mythic offer. We still have the prankster goblins, but their chance to drop mythic item has been nerfed into oblivion. So, the best way to farm mythic items this season uh is bosses with the nemesis options selected in the war class. We get uh tons of layer keys from escalating dungeons and speed farming bosses is our best option.

[music] Now, the only way to get guaranteed original mythic items is by crafting. I tested this with over 40 sparks and always got original mythic item as you can see on the screen there. They also drop during gambling. This is another good way to get mythic items, but uh also to maximize all legendary aspects. Uh the cap has been increased to 25,000 and it takes between 70 and 100,000 to get a mythic. So, the chances are very low, but we gamble so much uh that we don't even notice how many obols can we spend because we get tons of obols from escalating dungeons.

You can easily get between 10,000 and even 25,000 per run depending on how many obol choices [music] are available. So this season escalating dungeons are the best farming method for everything including gems and we'll talk about this later. This is how you need to set up the war plans to enable nine different portals instead of just three. In addition, we also select Goblin Altars and the greed dungeon. We can spawn Goblins about two three times in just one escalating dungeon. >> [music] >> This gives us a very big chance to get the Goblin portal.

So with everything being said, how do we get sigils? Well, we get tons of them from the war plan setup, but we can also get them from crafting. Right, so you need five normal normal nightmare dungeon sigils to get one escalating. And it's worth it, trust me. All the farming is done in escalating dungeons now. Including gems. So ideally you want to find one that starts with a gem, but don't worry if you don't, you can [music] start any of them because with the options in the war plans that we have set up, we get [music] 18 choices for level two and three combined.

So this is how it looks. For every level we have three different choices. 18 choices, one of them is bound to be gems. You got to be really unlucky not to get gems. So I got skull and I got emerald in this run. So I will go with the emerald and let's see how many I can get. The rewards increase by level, so you get less gems, less gold, less everything when you start on level one and they keep increasing until level three.

So you you you can end up anywhere between two grand gems and if you get lucky with three levels so our gem farming, you can get six, seven, or more. So, it's way better than the method from season 13 where we were only getting three royal chests. You get about 20 royal gems if sometimes more uh from running uh escalating dungeons. Also, at the end, the boss triples the reward. So, whatever your farming was, in this case gem, the boss triples it.

If it was gold, the boss will triple it. So, make sure to open the chests because uh he the boss also gives you the the reward at the end. We get about eight chests or so per run. And that's not all, of course. Uh after that, uh we we fight Astaroth and he gives us tons of reward as well. Uh depends which option you select for him. I usually go uh with uh uh keys and sigils. We get tons of boss uh layers and we get uh tons of nightmare dungeon sigils uh from Astaroth.

At the end, we've increased uh in one run by two grand gems. Like I said, if you get lucky, you can get four, five, or even more. So, in this uh second run, I'm going to do so you guys can see for all the gems, so not a specific one, but a uh gem reserve for all the gem types that we have. Uh they drop less, of course, but in total, you still get about 20 royals just uh for all of them, for all the different types, not just for one.

Uh and again, uh if you get lucky in one run, uh so you can see here the numbers, how much they approximately drop. Around 20,000 is usual uh per each type. Uh so, you at least get for every type, you get about two or three royal gems if you go with the gem reserve option. And again, the boss at the end will triple the rewards. Whatever they are dropping from the chest, it triples. >> [screaming] >> Yeah, so once you've collected enough, go to the cube and you can craft them first and then go to the cube.

And now we can craft the Horadric gems, which need five of the grand ones. So, in about if you're uh doing this fast enough, uh you can get about two or three, if not more, Horadric gems per hour. Another good thing about this is with the war setup, we are killing so many elites and we are getting sometimes two or three altars, goblin altars, per escalating dungeon run. These goblin altars spawn goblins, which have a chance to give you the goblin portal for the goblin dungeon.

So, I got it twice yesterday. >> [screaming] >> So, this was the first run. So, make sure you set up the war plans the way I showed you in the beginning because the goblin portal also gives tons of gems and other rewards. So, you can see it matches pretty much the rewards we are getting from the escalating dungeon. So, with this one and the dungeon combined, I got one grand gem for all the seven type different types of gems.

That that is a lot. That is way way way better than anything we had last season or before. Uh also, my filter is set up very high for end game right now. So, you don't see anything dropping on the screen, but if you look at the mini map, you can see there is quite a lot of items dropping. It's just that I don't select anything anymore. I don't even collect the ancient items unless they are either unique or they have greater affixes.

At the end, we fight boss, will give us some rewards. I assume it has a chance to drop mythic as well. I didn't get it in the two runs. Uh but I you get about 100 20-30 million gold. Uh that one he spawned three goblins. One will give us gold and two will give us obols. Uh so like I said, it's a great way to get all the mats, obols, everything else. So yeah, tons of uh stuff. Not not only gems. We get pretty much everything we want from the escalating dungeons including mythic items and mythic keys uh as you can see for Mephisto.

So right now this season I think that the escalating dungeons are the place to be. Uh best best uh place for farming anything. And of course Asteroth at the end give us tons of keys, tons of rewards making this option I selected to give me uh nightmare dungeons and keys. So we get a lot of stuff. Definitely the best way for gems, gold, mats, everything else. And also don't forget that there is a lot of seasonal progression.

I'm I'm always over 50 chests for seasonal progression so don't forget to open those as well. Uh they give uh quite a lot of uh rewards as well. All right. Let's do crafting. I'm going to show you how to make these useless items into a a really good ones. So we're going to start with the three that I have on the screen there. Uh yeah, I don't need any of those affixes pretty much. So I selected these three for that particular reason.

We're not going to do the mythic one. Uh you can only have one of these uh original mythics equipped uh if it's uh uh changed, so we're not going to do that one. But, first thing you do is you got to protect uh just the stat that you need. So, in this case, critical strike chance. In this case, I'm going to protect uh strength. You click enchant, accept, and then hit escape on your keyboard. Same for every item. That way they stay the same, they don't change, and they are now protected uh when you use them in the cube, they will not be changed.

So, we need to replace life, fury, and cold resistance and get strength, physical, and critical. So, how to do that? We have these uh prisms for uh every individual uh stat [music] or aspect. So, what we're going to do or affix. So, what we're going to do is we need to replace one resource [music] and two defense. You choose chaotic re-roll, you choose [music] the resource prism, and now you can transmute until it's changed uh to something else.

So, we're looking for offensive um affixes, so I'll keep going until I get uh instead of defensive, already got strength. Now, I need to replace the physical. And finally, we got three offensive. So, now we're going to replace the resource stat. So, again, chaotic re-roll. You transmute it. And let's see what we got. We got life. So, now we got to replace defensive. We select chaotic again. And we keep going until it's already changed and it's [music] offensive now.

All right, so we'll keep that. Now, we're going to do a focus re-roll with offensive prism. And now on we can only get offensive um stats uh on our item. So, I need critical strike damage, so I'll keep doing uh the changes until I get it. We got physical, which is good, but we need to replace the vulnerable with critical. And here it is. Now, this item is not one of the best, so I'm not going to invest any more time into it, but uh I can keep going until I get perfect stats.

More strength, more critical, more physical, but it's fine the way [music] it is right now because uh the item is just temporarily until I find something better. So, we're going to do the same thing with the pants now. I need to replace maximum life, healing, and launching strike uh with um resource, armor, and uh all resistance, yeah? So, let's do that. We do the same thing. We do the chaotic reroll. We got the armor.

Oh, we got everything already. So, yeah, that's how we changed. We went from three unwanted uh stats to three that we need. And finally, the weapon. And the weapon has only three uh affixes. So, what we're going to do is we don't know yet which one we're going to protect, so first we're going to change uh add um the what we need, the last one. In this case, I need resource. So, I'm going to use the resource prism. I'm going to go add affix uh because I need uh lucky uh resource on lucky hit.

So, we got it right away. If we didn't get four, I would have rerolled it again with focus reroll [music] for resource. And now, we need to replace the maximum life, which is defensive, with something offensive. And then we'll work on the offensive uh So I hopefully we get critical strike damage. If not, we'll have to protect our strength uh GA affix. Sometimes it just rerolls the same one like in this case, the maximum life.

It kept giving me the maximum life. Finally, we have uh offensive weapon damage, but we don't need weapon damage. So now I have to reroll. Uh but before I do that, I will protect strength, enchant, accept, hit escape on the keyboard, and now [music] I will continue. So we need critical strike damage. But we got to do the focus reroll. And uh we kept keep going until we get um physical and critical strike damage. We keep going.

Still getting weapon damage. All right, we got all damage multiplier, which is good enough. Um so this is uh we're going to keep it that way. And that's it. That's uh how you craft items. You use the prisms to do a uh chaotic reroll for the stats that you don't need, [music] and then you use um focused one to do for the stats that you need. And for the end, finally some good news from Blizzard. After ruining the season and losing half of the players, uh they've decided to fix the problem with the mythic items and um uh hopefully go back to the PTR settings.

Uh we were all happy with the PTR. You were able to craft them. You were able to change uh almost every stat, and you were able to equip more than one. So I hope next week when the patch drops, those will be the changes that we're going to see. Hopefully, the players will come back and we can have a better season for what we have now because equipping one original mythic uh it's not nearly good enough. So, thank you guys for watching and uh we'll see what happens next week.

Ciao.