Diablo IV Season 7: Guide to Progression

Conquer Diablo 4 Season 7: A Speedy Leveling Guide

Halloween's over, but the Diablo 4 Season 7 witching hour is just beginning! This comprehensive guide will accelerate your Season 7 leveling journey.

Acquire Your Pet
Recruit Your Mercenaries
Conquer the Seasonal Questline
Unlock Class Power
Headhunt Zone Strategies
Mastering Witchcraft Powers
Navigating Rootholds
Utilizing Occult Gems
Mastering Pits, Infernal Hordes, and Nightmare Dungeons

Acquire Your Pet

Upon launching Diablo 4 Season 7, immediately visit the nearest town's Wardrobe. Claim your pet! While combat-ineffective, your pet efficiently gathers gold and materials, freeing you to focus on combat and loot acquisition.

Recruit Your Mercenaries

Vessel of Hatred expansion owners should head to the Den and recruit Mercenaries. Solo players can utilize two, significantly easing leveling and combat. Cultivate Rapport for added rewards.

Conquer the Seasonal Questline

Begin on Normal difficulty and follow the green-leaf marked seasonal questline. This introduces new mechanics: Headhunt zones, Grim Favors for the Tree of Whispers, and Witch powers. While relatively short, it includes puzzles and primarily involves Headhunt zone Favor farming. This is the optimal method to reach level 60. Continuously farm Headhunt zone bosses, collect Favors, and upgrade Witch powers simultaneously.

Unlock Class Power

A convenient change: Prioritized class quests are skipped if completed on a previous character (requires prior login on the Eternal realm with that character). For example, a Season 7 Rogue player should first log in with a previously leveled Rogue to unlock class power automatically upon reaching the required level.

Headhunt Zone Strategies

During Headhunt zone exploration, actively complete Whispers. Four zones are always active; prioritize smaller, denser zones for faster mob farming and Whisper completion. Prioritize these Whisper quests:

Fugitive Shepherd: Escort animals across the map.
Fugitive: Defeat Elites, interact with roots to recover a head or destroy a husk.

Exchange 10 Grim Favors at the Tree of Whispers for a cache. Each Headhunt zone features a Raven of the Tree for Favor exchange, eliminating the need to teleport.

Mastering Witchcraft Powers

At the Tree of Whispers, utilize Altars of Witchcraft to purchase and upgrade powers using Restless Rot (obtained by killing Rot enemies). Prioritize damage-boosting powers. Certain powers are acquired from Forgotten Altars (found in dungeons, Nightmare Dungeons, Pits, and Rootholds at Torment 1 or higher; Draught of Whispers increases encounter chances).

Navigating Rootholds

Rootholds (accessed with Whispering Wood from Whispers and Silent Chests) are rogue-lite dungeons. Activate modifiers to enhance loot quality. Open Exposed Roots for loot; modifiers influence quantity and quality. Save keys until Torment 1 for optimal Ancestral loot.

Utilizing Occult Gems

Craft Occult Gems (via Gelena at the Tree of Whispers) for jewelry slots; they outperform regular gems. Crafting is expensive (requires Restless Rot and Heads from Roothold bosses and Fugitives; Draught of Whispers improves Head drop chances).

Mastering Pits, Infernal Hordes, and Nightmare Dungeons

Continue incorporating Pits (for Glyph leveling) and Nightmare Dungeons (for Glyphs) into your routine. Farm Infernal Hordes for masterworking materials to enhance Uniques.

This concludes our Diablo 4 Season 7 progression guide. Visit The Escapist for more game insights.