Diablo III‘s patch 2.1 for the PC introduced new endgame content: Greater Rifts. These are tiered, higher level dungeons with a 15-minute timer and with a boss at the end who almost always drops awesome loot. And there’s a smart way to finish these dungeons and get huge amount of legendaries.
Here’s Diablo III veteran Kripparrian — the guy who managed to kill Diablo back in the day on the hardest difficulty in hardcore mode, first in the world — with his own take on running Greater Rifts:
It’s a 9-minute video, so let me summarize his method below. It’s relatively easy and you don’t have to cheat or do anything fishy:
- When you kill a boss in a normal rift, there’s a chance to get a “Keystone of Trials.”
- Doing a trial with this key will let you do Greater Rifts. These are tiered dungeons, from level 1 to 100. Kill a lot of monsters during the trial and you’ll end up in a Greater Rift around level 10-20. Teleport out of the trial and you’ll be on level 1. This is exactly what we have to do here.
- Level 1 Greater Rifts are a complete joke, so it’s easy to rush through them in a few minutes without even losing health. The boss in the end however will almost always drop pretty great loot, legendaries included.
- You can upgrade rift levels at the end of the dungeon. Faster clears earn bigger jumps, but if you end up with 4:30 minutes or less left, you’ll only jump 1 level. And that’s what we have to do. Jump from level 1 to level 2.
- Try to do as many lower level rifts as possible, upgrading only one or two levels at the end of each run. Level 25 is the equivalent of the game’s hardest difficulty, Torment 6, so lower level runs will be easy for a while. The bosses will almost always drop legendary items and, if you have too much time left on the timer, just teleport out and do some bounties on the world map.
Of course, this might not be the best way to get cool gear if you’re already on the hardest difficulty, but otherwise — as you can see in the top screenshot I took, while trying out this strategy — it works really well.
Diablo 3 Manipulating Greater Rifts [Kripparrian, YouTube]
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6 responses to “How To Get Heaps Of Loot In Diablo III’s New Dungeons”
PATCH INCOMING! :p
Man I hope they bring this patch to the console versions in short order, really looking forward to it.
I once went 5 hrs straight without finding a legendary. And when I did find one? it was ‘another’ Vigilate Belt. Gerd Derm Et.
I went through the game on two or three difficulties (always with a friend) before I found a single one… Now nearly everything that drops is Gold or higher.
I tried a solo wiz run at lvl 30 last night…I was smaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashed in a big way.
4 player lvl 35 is currently my highest. I recommend indestructible shoulders for these high runs too. You will die…a lot.
Been slowly playing Diablo 3 on PS4, as if you even need help getting better loot- I got half a dozen Legendaries in Act 1 alone. The thrill of finding them was lost when I found the Crown of Leoric in a log walking around the fields of his mansion… while already wearing the one he dropped as loot. ffs Legendary my ass.
I think I ended up with about 5 Crown of Leorics… and 3 of his Signet rings.
That man liked his jewelry .