Help wanted for playing Diablo 4

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I have been playing Diablo IV on and off from the start now and also bought VoH, but not sure why… For some reason it does not attrack me as much as Diablo 3 of 2 and one of the reasons (maybe the most importamt one) is that i really have no clue which item i should keep. of course, i understand that rare is mostly better than common, but the only thing the game helps you with is armor and damage, but what should I follow?

It even went back to D3 for a while to get the feeling back, but decided to stick with D4, but now i just follow a Icy Veins build, but still do not know whoch items i should keepo and what abilities imshould aim for, which is very frustrating. Is there not some form of manual or so? What can you guys recommend?

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well as for the basics, of course youll want to aim for max resist, and armor. Just hover with your mouse over the stats, and it will tell you what the max values are.

As for the damage, id say just go blindly experiment a little. You can check the kodex for legendary aspects, and see if theres something you might enjoy.

that being said, the new season stats in 2 days, so eventually youd want to wait.

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So let’s start off with the basics. Item tiers go from Normal - Magic - Rare - Legendary. You also have uniques and Mythic uniques in the mix and depending on the build you may need to seek some of these out.

Moving forward though you’ll mostly be concerned with upgrading your gear to Legendary items, switching out the aspects as needed, and looking for the right affixes/stats. I don’t know what build guide you’re following, but I’ll give you a general guide.

For the most part you can’t go wrong with armor pieces that have +main stat and +health. This leaves the third stat on your gear to whatever you might need. Such as reduced cooldown, resistance, armor, Crit chance, +skills or +passives, etc. Typically for your boots you’d want movement speed if possible.

Again this is just a general rule, if you find a pair of gloves with Crit chance, +core skills, and another random stat you want to keep by all means use it. Maybe your chest piece has +all resist, +armor, and a passive skill you want on it. Don’t take this as law, and just go with what works for you at the moment.

Jewelry is more for offensive purposes and some extra passives on an amulet, if you get lucky. If you’re like most of us, finding the perfect amulet will be near impossible for you, so going with something that helps you out for the moment is what you’ll go for.

For example an amulet with movement speed, armor, Health, Crit chance and main stat is a good starting amulet. Combine any of those three on an amulet depending your build and it’ll be useful. Rings you can dabble a little more into damage. Such as Crit chance, damage types, main stat, etc.

Weapons you want to go for something that your build uses. For example if your build uses Overpower, try to get that affix on your weapons, or if it focuses on Crit damage you’d want that, etc.

Once you’re level 60 and have 750 gear (the hard cap before ancestral gear) you can start to add Tempering affixes onto your gear via the blacksmith. You can also upgrade your gear using Masterworking, this will help you push a little farther if you’re struggling a bit, but I wouldn’t waste too many mats on Masterworking 750 gear. I’d wait until you get 800 (ancestral) gear for that.

If you have a link to the build you’re following I can give better detailed instructions if you want.

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Icyveins even have leveliing builds to follow, i can’t simply understand the issue in following them. They’re quite understandable and very well wwritten. And english is not even my main language, and i can understand perfectly the guides there…

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It would help clarify if you could name a couple example articles/pages from Icy Veins. I’ve never looked closely at their guides, but I assume they provide all the info to equip a character.

What’s the name of an article you looked at? Was it a “leveling” or “endgame” guide? And what specifically was unclear on that particular page? Just curious.

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Check out maxroll, they are a little more forgiving when it comes to their guides and how to follow them

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Ok, I’ve glanced at a few of the site’s guides now… keep in mind, a lot of these sites lightly edit existing pages each season, adding some pertinent info, but also leaving behind info that’s irrelevant or sometimes misleading. Maxroll is no different.

On icyveins, you could look at their leveling builds page:
https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/leveling-tier-list/
…then move on to their speedfarming builds:
https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/speed-farming-tier-list/
…and their “boss killer” builds:
https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/boss-killer-tier-list/

The builds I’ve browsed seem pretty straightforward… the endgame builds have a short “Build Requirements” section near the top, I’d pay attention to that, it tends to list a handful of items (uniques, aspects) that enable the build.

Then I’d pay attention to gear options further down in the article (on PC you can click table of contents button hidden in the left margin). You’ll see more detail on gems & runewords, mythic uniques, and witchcraft powers (S7 mechanic) that might complement the build.

You won’t see the same level of detail on leveling guides, from what I could tell… simply because you won’t have access to a lot of “build enabling” items early on, and because early leveling isn’t very gear-dependent.

Do share an example of a page that gave you trouble. I’m curious.

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id personally always advice maxroll if the focus is simplicity. Icyveins is solid, but it kinda has something that puts me off to it ^^