Diablo 4 has a stickied weekly thread for simple FAQs, but for some reason it is mostly dead. I find that surprising because there are so many passionate players of this game and so many who like to help others, and because other gaming communities often have such an active weekly sticky by comparison.

Just for example, GTA Online has a similarly sized community-- D4 has 693k visitors and 15k contributions per week, GTQ Online has 647k visitors and 17k contributions per week-- but compare their weekly sticky to ours.

I think this is a bummer because these pages are so accessible to beginners and such a good source of information. Take a look at the current GTA weekly thread, for example. (https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/1tvd4s5/simple_and_frequently_asked_question_thread/) Every question has 3 answers, and some of them lead to full discussions. Meanwhile, our FAQ is almost entirely questions and not a single answer.

So I'm curious if you have thoughts on why this game doesn't have that. I used to spend a ton of time on the GTA threads answering questions because it was fun and because I had a wealth of knowledge to share after years of playing and reading everything I could. I'm relatively new to Diablo and not as well versed, so my knowledge is limited.

Do you feel you know a lot about D4? If so, do you hop on the FAQ thread? If not, is there something that could be done to get you there?

Just cleared T12 Mephisto for the first time. Clash Paladin, borrowed my wife's flawless Horadric Amethyst. I never got tired of watching the followers get nuked and their bodies launched into the air, no matter how many times I Saw it.

Someone linked in another post here to helltides.com and I was looking at the top Paladin build, and it mentions this:

tips：1. Keep Cooldown Reduction at 40% or you will trigger the Fortress bug.

https://infinitybuilds.gg/en/builds/0Z7tIuLbas

I can find a lot of discussion about curious fortress behavior, but I haven't found anything else about this specific bug. Do you have info you can share? Thanks!

edit: Just realized I may have misinterpreted, maybe you need to keep it to a minimum of 40%... not sure. Would love to know if you have more info.

I'm sure this is a dumb question but I am looking to know why it's dumb.

I see builds like MrRonit's pit 140+ Clash build that recommend Blood-Mad Idol. But they still balance damage, eg by advising an emerald, a topaz, and a ruby in jewelry. They still balance damage resistances on their gear.

But if I'm understanding right, all damage from Blood Mad is turned into fire damage. If you wanted to really min max for a deep pit push, wouldn't it make sense to really lean into it with only fire resistance on gear, three rubies in jewelry, etc? Or is there a reason that's not a good idea?

Edit: It seems others have had this issue as well, so I suspect this is bugged. See also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1tj7fvd/cant_cube_reroll_off_zealot_skills/

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/you-cannot-use-remove-and-focus-reroll-on-a-zealot-skill-amulet-on-horadric-cube-paladin/256945

And the same issue for the S14 PTR:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/bugknown-issue-mythic-unique-in-cube-skill-affix-not-recognized-by-adept-prism/258210

I am not saying you can't or no one is ever able to re-roll +ranks to zealot, but there does seem to be some scenario where it bugs. If you've had this happen to you, it would be helpful if you share below-- maybe what kind of item you were rolling, what you tried, what the other affixes were, I don't know what other info would be useful... maybe if it wasn't legendary, did you try removing instead of rerolling affix?

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Was rolling a great amulet in the cube with 3 offensive multipliers and trying to get crit chance on the 4th.... rolled a dozens of times without issue, chaotic reroll on whatever it landed on-- main stat, juggernaut skill, physical resistance, all resistance, etc. Just use the right prism and roll again.

Until I hit +2 to zealot. My amulet is legendary so I can't try removing affix but chaotic/focused reroll won't work with any prism (denies recipe combination in red text). Of course I could try offensive, but even if +zealot skills are considered offensive, it will have a 1 in 3 shot of rolling off my GA crit dmg multi (I rolled max vuln multi at the occultist so it's protected and my other affix is all damage mult).

Can't do chaotic or focused reroll with any prisim except offensive-- tells you the recipe won't work. Either it's bugged, or zealot is classified purely as offensive.

Does anyone happen to know which?

[edit] Update: I looked into Zeal builds and was tempted to save this in case I tried Zeal but was more interested in experimenting for science.

I re-rolled using offensive prism. Of course it immediately targeted my GA crit multi, which was the risk I knew I was taking (I already had kissed it goodbye). I rolled 10 more focused offensive just to see, and in that time it targeted the other 2 several times, but never targeted Zeal. I then did chaotic reroll with offensive, and it rolled the others to different things, but did not fix the apparent bug-- still could not target Zeal with main stat/skill prism, would still say recipe not matching or whatever.

I finally tried without a prism and was eventually able to re-roll it chaotically.

Been leveling my Clash Paladin for awhile and finally had enough, decided to level a Barb with the goal of carrying my wife through enough pit 150s to level her glyphs. (I topped my Pally out at a solo 130 pit....no gem strength transfigs, glyphs mostly in the 120s.)

Start new character, open all my saved cache's, instantly hit Level 70 but have a giant pile of loot on the ground. World boss in 5 minutes, want to clear out my trash fast. I go into my stash and pull out my Heir of Perdition with 2 flawless horadric gems from my other build, as well as my Ring of Starless Skies with a Flawless Horadric Emerald, and the uniques I need (I always save 1 unique of each type in my stash just in case, then just replace it if I find a better one). I very stupidly did not equip or protect them.

I've been in endgame so long that most of what I pick up is junk, so my routine is stash the 1 or 2 uniques that might be worth recycling or any multi-GAs good enough to keep for a future build, and then scrap everything in my inventory. But of course I wasn't going to make this mistake now. Mark as junk, recycle junk, mark junk, recycle junk... then muscle memory kicked in about the 4th or 5th trip and I hit the "scrap all" button.

I did all the gem runs myself, didn't buy any or trade any. Last night before bed, for example, after my wife fell asleep on the couch, I took her controller and did 72 Seer's Reach runs for the 2 of us with my speed version of paladin. That's pretty typical. Took 1.5 hours (including scrapping items, restroom breaks, and so on). (I've had fun working on it-- coming out of Falling Star I almost automatically trigger Conceal from runes - move 50 meters and conceal, then alternate between casting rally and condemn and falling star, have +6 evade boots and arbiter evade through terrain and stuff, blood-mad idol for extra speed boost and runes also casting rally when I use falling star).

God this feels bad. I knew it was dumb to spend my life doing this but you know how the obsession takes you? You know how you just can't stop because you've been going so long, the grind might eventually pay off, you're getting there, just gotta lock in and keep going? Eyes burning, back sore, tired from no sleep, headaches, but you've got the obsession, you've got the bug, you don't want to stop and hell you're an adult and no one can tell you what to do as long as you don't lose your job over it so you just keep grinding?

Lost it all. I mean I still have a few flawless horadrics on my other character but I think I had 5 total and my wife has 6, and I just lost 3, plus the best unique and mythical items that I've found in dozens or maybe even a couple hundred hours of gameplay. But I wouldn't care about the items if I could just get my gems back.

Ugh.

It takes me several dungeon runs to get enough to make a wager, and inevitably I get the option to make a wager when my bar is 95% complete. As far as I have seen every wager involves killing 100 mobs. So I kill 20 mobs and the final boss spawns. That's fine, I still haven't dodged/rank a potion, whatever... but I can't continue going through the dungeon to kill the rest of the guys anyway.

That seems unfair. Why not move the wager to the start automatically, so I have a chance to complete? And if not that, fine, but after I kill the boss let me go back to trying to satisfy the terms of my wager.

I wouldn't mind if it were fairly random but it seems like 90% of the time the wager is late in the run.

Edit: someone pointed out my mistake... I always kill the boss when he spawns. Never really thought about it. Apparently you can just go complete the wager as long as you don't kill the boss, which mostly resolves my complaint. Thanks person who used their brain.

EDIT: THIS IS A DUMB QUESTION. SORRY. Fortress + resolve gives over max block chance instantly. I iknew that until like 2am last night when I wrote this dumb question. /edit

For clarification, I have +ranks to Juggernaut skills on all my seals, it ends up being +15 ranks to Juggernaut skills. Consecrate is at 1+0 while Aegis is at 1+15.

My block chance is not that high, since it's not a big priority in a Clash build, I'm not on right now but I think it's in the 40s.

But Consecrate seems to mainly do 2 things: 1, x7% damage, and 2, mark enemies in a wide area for Paingorger's. (It reduces resource cost but that's irrelevant inside Fortress, and it does fortify, which is irrelevant with 72 stacks of resolve inside Fortress, and weakens, which does offer some synergy.

Meanwhile, Aegis gives 44% block chance, can grant unstoppable, can be cast for free when resolve used, grants 8 stacks of resolve (I guess this is not very useful inside Fortress since we're always at max stack), and increases block damage reduction by 15%. Shiledbearer does increased damage equal to 110% of block chance, so with Aegis that's an increase of 48%[x] damage instead of 7%x, that's a pretty huge difference.

For pit pushes, I can see how the increased range for Paingorgers might trump other factors, but does it really make up for a 40%x damage boost compared to Consecrate? Are ther eother factors that I'm not considering?

Thanks for your thoughts!

The #1 Paladin build as of May 25 (reached Tier 143 on May 21) uses Thul (freeze enemies) and Ring of Pelghaim to apply ramping up damage to enemies that are affected by freeze (which includes staggered bosses since they get all CC).

This build runs blood-mad idol on charm instead of Griswold, which says all damage you take is increased by 200% and then applied as burning damage over 4 seconds. As far as I know you can't see all nodes on the skill tree they chose, just the abilities. So my first question is: do you think it's plausible that they're taking the Fortress node saying your damage can't be reduced to less than 1 while inside the fortress, so that blood-mad idol is constantly buffing damage and there's no drawback from burn while inside fortress?

The problem with this is no extension of fortress duration, but that doesn't matter against bosses, and can be mitigated by cooldown reduction and being highly aware of when fortress is about to expire.

My other question is, can you confirm that Pelhgaim works against bosses the way I am interpreting it? First, constantly applying freeze any time you use an aura or consecrate will spike their stagger bar, and then while they're staggered, Pelghaim will be permanently causing them, from then on, to take 10-15%x increased damage per second staggered. That means that for the rest of the fight that remains, right? So each stagger would add like 100-180% (12s x 15% at best) multiplicative damage from then on as long as you fight that boss?

Thanks for your thoughts!

Edit: if you're just here to say movement speed cap is 200%, make sure you're up to date with your info!

See for example https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1t9s11y/has_the_movement_speed_cap_changed/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1tfz59g/comment/omdrq16/

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I want a build that just flies.

Of course I have 30%[x] in arbiter form, max roll movement speed on boots and amulet.

I went back to Argent Veil for this build over Starry Skies. Cooldown reduction on amulet and ring.

Boots have evade reduces cooldown, arbiter's zephyr (reducing arbiter evade cooldown)**, and instead of evade cooldown% I went mobility cooldown%.

I have the Falling Star can be cast twice skill tree node, so the mobility cooldown helps me do more falling stars.

I use 2 runewords for speed. I wish I had taken notes as I went because a lot of ones that I wanted to try didn't seem to work.

I couldn't exceed 200% movement speed cap using Qua for some reason-- this seemed like the obvious choice (like CemQua). I guess it's treated like additive/stat speed, which makes since because it's not triggering a skill.

I also couldn't use Jah (replace your next evade with sorceror's teleport) for increase TP distance. Or rather, I could, but it only affected standard teleport, not Arbiter's teleport, which is useless.

I ended up using Ner (invoke Rogue concealment, with speed bonus, unstoppable, stealth) and Kel, invoking Paladin's Rallying Cry (increasing resource and movement). This also helps with the loss of Starry Skies a little.

So if I evoke arbiter and trigger both runes, not only do I get up to 255% speed but my cooldown on Falling Star and Evade are both extremely short, to where I can pretty much spam 2 or 3 evades and a falling star in between with no break.

Obviously this sacrifices tons of damage, it's not for high tier pushing, but I love having it in my pocket. One of my grinding goals right now is to run through war plans until I get some mythic nodes that might drop horadric jewels, since I'm tired of running Seer's Cavern or whatever-- plus a horadric direct drop would be so much time saved. But it also helps with Seer runs.

So, any thoughts on how I can push this further?

Thanks for the info!

Update: quick video

https://reddit.com/link/1tgi9zh/video/263w5l1y5x1h1/player

Every Hammer Paladin build for season 13 is based around Blessed Hammer core, most agree on Defiance and Fanatacism aura, and the Arbiter of Justice ultimate.

But I do see some differences or at least discussions about the last 2 abilities.

Most of the base and leveling guides use Condemn. I think I'm missing why that's useful, to be honest. Grouping enemies seems to have little value with spiraling hammers everywhere, stunning certainly isn't useful against most bosses, our wing strikes do a good job applying vulnerable and we're in Arbiter all the time, and movement speed is maxed out. So I tend to side with builds that swap this out.

Aegis was my go-to, since with Shield Bearer and Aspect of Redirected Force the block% is turned into a potent damage buff. However, my block chance is at 86.5% without proccing it, plus I can put a couple points into it and take it of my skill bar and still have it proc passively when resolve stacks are consumed. With Defiance Aura and a "heal on hit" affixes doesn't this create constant passive procs? I don't notice that happening but it seems like it would, making it useful to put points into but not have on your skill bar.

Honestly I'm not sure how useful I find Falling Star. It's good to avoid some things but I'm on console so not being able to control where it lands is a big negative when dodging a screen full of ground effects. The damage is weak. I like it for zooming around maps with the "kill vuln enemy reduces CD by 0.5s" but for bosses I swap to x20 dmg when sued twice in five seconds. Still, the damage is low, mobility isn't needed, it seems like it's not that good for boss fights, unless I take away the 20s reduced CD on arbiter form for faster wingstrikes and need a way to stay in arbiter form.

But if I leave Fallling Star I've got one spot left. The two I'm considering are:

Holy Light: without many points to put into it, it's not going to be very useful as damage, but the 12% healing is nicel. Especially since I'm already prioritizing aura skills and disciple skills for bonus skill points, there's some synergy with the other auras. It also gives fortify with Rite of Submission. This seems pretty good for survival.

Consecration: Healing over time, plus a small x7% damage bonus. With just a couple points it reaches 32% healing.

What are you thoughts? What's your skill bar look like, and do you change it if you're going to prioritize a boss battle? Would you consider removing Falling Star and using both Consecration and Holy Light?

edit: lol title. No, you haven't, because I won't let you play mine. But um, have you done it on yours? [/edit]

I specced into a new build and I love it-- it uses Aegis to reach 100% block chance and several synergies with block. The guide I follow says you can get it to 100% uptime but I am not even close. Is it just cooldown reduction affixes/charms/seals? Are there glyphs/Paragon changes I should make?

I'm not sure if this is a dumb question... I mean the answer is "yes do that" but I just want to see if there's a particular focus or idea that I'm missing.

I'm doing the Maxroll Blessed Hammer Paladin build where you stay arbiter. These require you to stay in arbiter form to maximize damage stacks.

I'm trying to get the recommended ring; I've upgraded like 15 plain rings so far and gotten every other unique, and so I'm trying to target farm Andariel and the others that drop it, but I have been struggling so much with just getting past the first lair bosses. When they do the poison thing that traps you in a circle, you just can't touch your arbiter flying abilities, because you cant' really aim them. Sometimes I just have to dodge something and try really hard to use the joystick to land somewhere good, and sometimes he just chooses to fly straight across the map outside of the poison and die. I got him 90% down so many times, and would just have some kind of bad luck... like it was either die or leap to dodge because my other mobility skills were on cooldown, boss had been flying around long enough that I've lost my fortify and heal stacks, all my potions gone, and I'm slowed by the garbage he throws down, so this is it.... gotta take a leap of faith-- goddammit dead again.

I quickly half-reworked my build before going to bed tonight into a Blessed Hammer Judicator build but I didn't have enough block and it didn't generate much fortify, so it was pretty squishy.

I can't get that stupid ring (argent veil.)

It occurred to me right before I went to bed that I don't have to beat the intro lair bosses on torment VII, I should probably go back down. I was thinking I wouldn't get the grand lair key or whatever at lower levels, but I guess right now I'm just trying to unlock the boss that will unlock the higher tier lair key so damn. I probably should have just dropped a few tiers. I'm dumb.

Edit: I'm an idiot, see my reply to the conversation below.