In this guide, I want to talk about item farming in Diablo 4 Season 4. It’s a very simple and common question: what is the most efficient way to farm the most legendary items with Greater Affixes and the item Aspects you’re missing in the shortest possible time.

Now we know that the best way to upgrade items is to farm Pit of Artificers and loot materials for Masterworking, but there is currently no indication of higher quality loot, or a higher chance of Greater Affixes appearing in loot dropped in Pit. This makes Pit not the best choice for item farming. So what is?

Item Farming Tips

In my experience, the highest number of item drops per hour occur in Helltide, and I have some tips that can help you maximize the number of items you get in each Helltide. This way you can get a god-level item with many Greater Affixes and start upgrading it in Pit. So how to farm Helltide efficiently?

Farming Blood Maiden

Always farm Blood Maiden boss if you can. Go to the weird demonic skull icon on Helltide map and use Baneful Heart that appears on the top right of the screen to summon Blood Maiden. You’ll see 3 Altars on the ground, each of which requires a Baneful Heart to activate.

Avoid Using All Baneful Hearts

Try to avoid using all 3 Baneful Hearts yourself. In most cases, there will be other players farming there too, so I recommend only contributing 1 heart so that other players can continue to activate the other Altars.

You’ll find that if you contribute at least 1 heart to the summon, you’ll receive a buff that significantly increases Diablo 4 items you drop from Blood Maiden.

So again, I recommend only using 1 if you can. Because if you use more, you’ll waste them, but if you don’t use any Baneful Hearts, then you won’t get the buff.

Prioritize Opening Chests

After killing the boss, quickly use an Altar to look for Tortured Gifts Chests on the map and open them.

You’ll get a lot of Cinders for fighting the boss, so you can open multiple chests. But I recommend opening the chests that contain loot for the gear you want. So if you’re looking for rings, open the ring chests first. You’ll have plenty of time to get back to the boss later.

Try Doing Nearby Whispers

Once you have no chests to open, try doing Nearby Whispers. This might involve collecting Venous Motes or activating Helltide Doomsayers. This way you can earn extra money and items from the final Whisper Cache.

Reset Instance

If no one is farming Accursed Rituals, and you don’t have Baneful Hearts to summon the boss, then teleport to town, wait a few seconds, and come back. This will put you in a new instance of the area, and it’s possible that in this new instance, players are farming Blood Maiden. You can also try logging in and out to get the same effect.

Also Read: 5 Essential Points To Note For Necromancers In Diablo 4 Season 4 Loot Reborn

Gambling Item Aspects

In my experience, this is by far the best way to farm items, and there are some tips on how to make it more effective. Next, I want to talk about a very elegant way to get your item Aspects.

From experience, I know how frustrating it can be when you don’t have a specific Aspect you need for your build, and while Season 4 helps a little with that by making it so that when you find an Aspect, it’s yours forever, you still have to find that Aspect first. But when it still doesn’t drop, then spending Murmuring Obols on gambling becomes the optimal solution to get that Aspect.

You just type the name of Aspect you’re looking for in the text box, and it will immediately tell you the type of item you have to gamble with in order to have the highest chance of getting it. So let me show you how it works.

Let’s say I really need Blood Getter’s Aspect, but it never drops for me, or my luck is terrible, so I decide to take matters into my own hands and gamble. I visit Gamble, and all I have to do is find Aspect I’m looking for, which is Blood Getter, and select it.

We found that the best gamble item with the highest chance of getting it is boots on a Necromancer. So this tool will not only tell you the item slot, but also the class.

Class can be important in some cases. Let’s say we are looking for a Resource Aspect, and we want to gamble on the class with the fewest other Resource Aspects to maximize our chances.

Let’s try it again, this time with an Aspect that can be used by multiple classes: Accelerating. In order to get Accelerating Aspect, I have to gamble off-hands on a Necromencer.

But what if we don’t have a Necromencer? No problem, we can scroll down and manually look at the odds for each class and each slot. The highest odds are off-hands on a Necromencer, the second highest is off-hands on a Druid, then Sorcerer, and so on. This way I can choose the one with the highest odds for me.

So can you see how this can save you a ton of time and Murmuring Obols that you might otherwise waste? I hope you find this tool as useful as I do. Good luck!