Season 4 is off to a great start in Diablo IV! Are you fulfilling the objectives as you go to get increased power earlier?
The Season Journey in Diablo IV is your guide on what you should be doing next while playing through Adventure Mode. Since you don't really have objectives set, you can tackle whatever you want. However, sticking to the seasonal objectives is more rewarding, as you will get caches with various goodies: currencies, summoning ingredients, legendary items, and so on.
We will lay out all the objectives here for your reference so make sure to not miss any! You can view them in game by pressing U to see the Season Pass and the Journey screen.
Remember to use your Smoldering Ashes for various blessings as soon as you receive them; increase your XP gains, Glyph XP, drops, and so on. Each objective you complete gives you Favor, which advance the Battle Pass further, which will give you the Smoldering Ashes.
The objectives add up, and you can always do the previous ones even if you advance. You also don't have to do all of them to advance.
Diablo IV Season 4 Journey
Chapter I
The Season Journey will help guide you through the game and reward you along the way. Each objective completed gives Favor to progress the Battle Pass. Get out there and slay some demons!
Complete 8 of 10 objectives to earn rewards and unlock the next chapter:
- What Lurks Below - Complete a Cellar - Quantity: 3
- Den of Evil - Complete any dungeon found on your map - Quantity: 1
- Trouble in the Wilds - Complete World Events - Quantity: 2
- One of the Pack - Increase your Wolf's Honor Rank to 1 by battling evil in Helltide zones - Quantity: 1
- Forager - Collect Bundled Herbs from Harvest Nodes, Cellars, or various other sources throughout Sanctuary - Quantity: 50
- Fragrant Find - Collect Angelbreath from Harvest Nodes, Cellars, or various other sources throughout Sanctuary - Quantity: 10
- Prospector - Collect Iron Chunks from salvaging Weapons and Jewelry, Mineral Nodes, or various other sources throughout Sanctuary - Quantity: 50
- Tanner's Apprentice - Collect Rawhide from salvaging Armor, defeating Monsters, or various other sources throughout Sanctuary - Quantity: 50
- Joining the Fray - Complete Iron Wolf Events found during Helltide - Quantity: 1
- Spoils of Hell - Open Tortured Gifts during Helltide - Quantity: 1
Rewards for Chapter I are:
Greater Favor
First Journey Cache
First Journey Crafting Cache
First Journey Equipment Cache
Chapter II
Continue your journey. Secure strongholds to gain access to new waypoints and dungeons. Complete cellars and dungeons for resources, and gear to increase your power. Keep your elixirs stocked and mind your gems.
Complete 7 of 10 objectives to earn rewards and unlock the next chapter:
- Veteran of Ashes - Acquire Aberrant Cinders during Helltide - Quantity: 666
- Miracles of Alchemy - Craft Elixirs at the Alchemist - Quantity: 10
- Keeper of the Keys - Collect a Whispering Key, sold at the Purveyor of Curiosities - Quantity: 3
- Touching the Eternal - Unlock Aspects in the Codex of Power, such as through completing dungeons - Quantity: 3
- Honorary Wolf - Increase your Wolf's Honor Rank to 6 by battling evil in Helltide zones - Quantity: 1
- Notarized Nuisance - Increase your Threat Level to Max by defeating monsters during Helltide - Quantity: 1
- Expanded Repertoire - Learn Recipies of Magic rarity or higher - Quantity: 1
- Cinder Spender - Open Tortured Gifts during Helltide - Quantity: 10
- Mad Prophecies - Complete Doomsayer Events found during Helltide - Quantity: 3
- Demonic Presences - Disrupt Cultist Rituals found during Helltide - Quantity: 3
Rewards for Chapter II are:
Greater Favor
Second Journey Cache
Second Journey Crafting Cache
Second Journey Equipment Cache
Chapter III
Reach greater heights. Upgrade your gear, indulge in curiosities, achieve mastery, stockpile survival tools, and fight the largest monsters in Sanctuary. From here, your journey becomes ever more challenging.
Complete 8 of 10 objectives to earn rewards and unlock the next chapter:
- Risk and Reward - Buy equipment from the Purveyor of Curiosities - Quantity: 25
- A Master at Work - Complete World Events with Mastery - Quantity: 3
- Hard Fought Victory - Complete Legion Events - Quantity: 1
- Forsaken Offerings - Obtain Caches from the Tree of Whispers by completing Whispers - Quantity: 10
- Raised by Wolves - Increase your Wolf's Honor Rank to 9 by battling evil in Helltide zones - Quantity: 1
- Ineffable Draughts - Consume Seasinal Elixirs, Elixir of Momentum, or Elixir of Holy Bolts - Quantity: 5
- Basic Needs - Temper Affixes onto Gear at the Blacksmith - Quantity: 5
- Thorn in Hell - Defeat Monsters while at Max Threat Level during Helltide - Quantity: 666
- Predator and Prey - Defeat Monsters while Bloodmarked in Hostile areas - Quantity: 666
- Capable Craftsmen - Learn Recipies of Rare rarity or higher - Quantity: 1
Rewards for Chapter III are:
Greater Favor
Third Journey Cache
Third Journey Crafting Cache
Third Journey Equipment Cache
Third Journey Summoning Cache
Chapter IV
Ready yourself and venture into the most dangerous places of all - the more hellish shadows of the world, places where Mephisto's hatred has left lingering traces. Enter the nightmare.
Complete 9 of 11 objectives to earn rewards and unlock the next chapter:
- Pilgrim of Horror - Complete a Tier 10 or higher Nightmare Dungeon - Quantity: 1
- Blessing of the Strong - Equip Sacred Legendary items in every slot - Quantity: 1
- Confront the Creature - Defeat the Blood Maiden during Helltide in World Tier 3: Nightmare or higher - Quantity: 1
- Baptized in Hell - Defeat Hellborne during Helltide - Quantity: 25
- Shards of the Fiends - Collect Scattered Prisms, found primarily from defeating World Bosses - Quantity: 5
- The Long Howl - Complete Iron Wolf Events found during Helltide in World Tier 3: Nightmare or higher - Quantity: 15
- Most Dangerous Game - Defeat Elite Monsters while Bloodmarked in Hostile areas - Quantity: 25
- Seed to Evil - Collect Baneful Hearts by defeating Hellborne during Helltide in World Tier 3: Nightmare or higher - Quantity: 15
- Brink of Madness - Defeat Monsters while at Max Threat Level during Helltide in World Tier 3: Nightmare or higher - Quantity: 666
- Decent into Delirium - Defeat Elite Monsters while using the Profane Mindcage during Helltide in World Tier 3: Nightmare or higher - Quantity: 666
Rewards for Chapter IV are:
Greater Favor
"Captain of the Wolves" Emblem
Fourth Journey Cache
Fourth Journey Crafting Cache
Fourth Journey Equipment Cache
Fourth Journey Summoning Cache
Slayer
You are now inarguably a paragon. Strengthen your glyphs through ventures into nightmare dungeons; continue to upgrade your legendary items; venture into places where Hell itself intrudes upon Sanctuary. You can handle it.
Complete 9 of 11 objectives to earn rewards and unlock the next chapter:
- The Gathering Fires - Acquire Aberrant Cinders during Helltide in World Tier 4: Torment - Quantity: 6.666
- Damnation's Downfall - Defeat each of the 5 Helltide Commanders while using the Profane Mindcage during Helltides, summoned after completing Helltide Events - Quantity: 666
- Shock and Awe - Defeat Grigoire, the Galvanic Saint in World Tier 4: Torment - Quantity: 1
- No Mere Mortal - Unlock a Legendary Paragon node after reaching level 50, through using Paragon Points - Quantity: 1
- Mephisto's Bane - Purify Seeds of Hatred obtained in Hostile areas at an Altar of Extraction - Quantity: 33.333
- Alpha Member - Increase your Wolf's Honor Rank to 15 by battling evil in Helltide zones - Quantity: 1
- Form and Function - Upgrade gear by adding Sockets to them at the Jeweler - Quantity: 5
- Guilt - Defeat the Echo of Varshan in World Tier 3: Nightmare, summoned beneath the Tree of Whispers with materials from World Tier 3: Nightmare Whisper Caches - Quantity: 1
- Ancient Craft - Temper Affixes onto Ancestral Gear at the Blacksmith - Quantity: 8
- Precious Shards - Salvage Ancestral Legendary items at the Blacksmith - Quantity: 100
- Heir to Transcendence - Equip Ancestral Legendary items in every slot - Quantity: 1
Rewards for Slayer chapter are:
Epic Favor
Slayer's Cache
Slayer's Crafting Cache
Slayer's Equipment Cache
Slayer's Summoning Cache
Champion
At this point, you know how to get stronger, and what challenges lie in store for you. Can you overcome them?
Complete 10 of 12 objectives to earn rewards and unlock the next chapter:
- Not All Who Wander - Defeat the Seething Abomination while Bloodmarked in Hostile areas - Quantity: 5
- Lootmaster - Open 10 Tortured Gifts during a single Helltide in World Tier 4: Torment - Quantity: 1
- Forgiveness - Defeat Lord Zir in World Tier 4: Torment, summoned in Fractured Peaks with Exquisite Blood from World Tier 4: Torment World Bosses or Legion Events - Quantity: 1
- Harbinger of Ice - Defeat The Beast in the Ice in World Tier 4: Torment, summoned with Distilled Fear from Tier 30 or higher Nightmare dungeons - Quantity: 1
- Anointed in Blood - Reach level 90 - Quantity: 1
- Born in Torment - Defeat Hellborne while using the Profane Mindcage during Helltide in World Tier 4: Torment - Quantity: 10
- Anguish Ignited - Defeat Echo of Andariel in World Tier 4: Torment, summoned in Kehjistan with materials from The Beast in the Ice and Lord Zir - Quantity: 1
- Exterminator - Defeat Duriel in World Tier 4: Torment, summoned in Kehjistan with materials from Grigoire and the Echo of Varshan - Quantity: 5
- Heritage of Artisans - Learn Recipies of Legendary rarity or higher - Quantity: 1
- Honing Craft - Attempt to Masterwork gear at the Blacksmith - Quantity: 20
- Cleanining Day - Defeat 666 Monsters within 6 minutes while using a Profane Mindcage during Helltide in World Tier 4: Torment - Quantity: 666
- Preamble - Complete Artificer's Tier 1 or higher in The Pit, located at the Artificer's Obelisk in Cerrigar and activated with Runeshards - Quantity: 1
Rewards for Champion chapter are:
Epic Favor
"Mark of the Artificer" Emblem
Champion's Cache
Champion's Crafting Cache
Champion's Equipment Cache
Champion's Summoning Cache
Destroyer
Complete your Paragon journey. Defeat the most challenging foes. Fully immerse yourself in the ordeals you face.
Complete 7 of 9 objectives to earn rewards and unlock the next chapter:
- Blessed Mother Departed - Defeat Echo of Lilith in World Tier 4: Torment, remembered in Nevesk - Quantity: 1
- Glyphmaster - Improve Paragon Glyphs to Rank 15 by completing Nightmare Dungeons - Quantity: 5
- Alpha of the Pack - Increase your Wolf's Honor Rank to 18 by battling evil in Helltide zones - Quantity: 1
- Delved Deep - Complete Artificer's Tier 21 or higher in The Pit, located at the Artificer's Obelisk in Cerrigar and activated with Runeshards - Quantity: 1
- Horadic Smith - Masterwork your gear to Rank 8 at the Blacksmith - Quantity: 1
- Anathema - Defeat the Blood Maiden while using the Profane Mindcage during Helltide in World Tier 4: Torment - Quantity: 1
- The Bigger They Are - Defeat World Bosses - Quantity: 10
- Anguish Extinguished - Use Stygian Stones to summon and defeat Tormented Echo of Andariel - Quantity: 1
- Eradicator - Use Stygian Stones to summon and defeat Tormented Echo of Duriel - Quantity: 1
Rewards for Destroyer chapter are:
Destroyer's Cache
Destroyer's Crafting Cache
Destroyer's Equipment Cache
Destroyer's Summoning Cache
Diablo IV Leveling Tips
A couple of leveling tips in case you miss anything!
- Helltides are the way to go this Season obviously, but try to combine them with doing Whispers as much as possible, the Caches give you tons of EXP as well as the most gold of any source in the game
- Opening Gifts of Mystery also grants EXP, so make sure to spend your Cinders before they go away (you can leave the zone, but when the Helltide is over, your Cinders will disappear)
- Elixirs! As always, have them on, but note that tier II elixirs grant an 8% EXP boost.
- Being with someone in a party will always give you more EXP. Remember that when doing Legion Events (which give tons of EXP), and just ask a random person.
- Later on Tier IV, you can use Profane Mindcages to increase the level of monsters. But beware, it may not be worth it if your survivability and resistances aren't great; you lose the buff on death.
- Check the Nightmare Dungeon Tier List from Maxroll to see what's best for Solo XP. Avoid worse dungeons and the ones with bad affixes that kill you fast.
- Temper your gear right away! The added affixes can be a huge damage boost. As soon as you find a pretty good yellor or legendary item, temper it!!