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<p>A player from Rob2628&#8217;s party has looted what appears to be the very first <span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/wearables/2DInventory_Swords_40.png" alt="The Grandfather"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Two-Handed Sword" data-item-quality="unique">The Grandfather</span></a></span> of Season 1! Congrats to Hydra!</p>



<p>On August 18, we<a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/the-first-seasonal-shako-aka-harlequins-crest-in-diablo-4/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> covered a lucky individual who looted possibly the first shako</a> (<span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/wearables/2DInventory_Items_Helms_233.png" alt="Harlequin Crest"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Helm" data-item-quality="unique">Harlequin Crest</span></a></span>) of Season 1. Today, Rob released a new video with one of his teammates looting another Uber Unique &#8212; <span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/wearables/2DInventory_Swords_40.png" alt="The Grandfather"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Two-Handed Sword" data-item-quality="unique">The Grandfather</span></a></span>!</p>



<p>Unfortunately, the item has rolled with the least Critical Strike Damage increase possible (<strong>60-100%</strong>).</p>



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<p><br>Here&#8217;s Rob&#8217;s video showing his teammate with the Uber Unique.</p>



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First Grandfather Uber Unique Drop in Diablo 4 Season 1?


<p>Discover the most efficient way of farming Paragon experience in Vessel of Hatred&#8217;s <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/diablo-4-latest-season/">Season 6</a>!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Paragon XP</h2>



<p>Rob2628<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bN8C_Fe9nrWv__jUc_Vdbl220g4NM0mlux-ga_s_-5s/htmlview?gid=1074386454#gid=1074386454"> created a spreadsheet</a>, documenting the most efficient ways of farming Paragon in the ongoing Season, noting that the XP curve needed to reach the next Paragon level exponentially increases at around Paragon Level 250, and to go from 299 to 300, you will need around 1 billion XP.</p>



<p>We only see a few people with Paragon 300 due to how much XP is needed to reach the cap. Here&#8217;s how many hours you can expect to reach the Paragon cap with the most ideal way of XP farming:</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Infernal Hordes: The Most Chill, But Not Effective Way of Farming XP</h2>



<p>Rob argues that <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/infernal-hordes-guide/">Infernal Hordes</a> isn&#8217;t the best way of farming XP and the maximum you&#8217;re going to get is around 250 million per hour. You would need 3 hours per level using that method, but he says it&#8217;s the most &#8220;chill&#8221; version. You&#8217;ll get around <em>half</em> the efficiency you&#8217;d get in Pits.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Pit</h2>



<p>The higher tier you complete in the <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/the-pit-of-the-artificers-guide/">Pit</a>, the more XP you will get. There&#8217;s XP from completing the quest and from the pit closing. Here are the exact values taken from Rob&#8217;s spreadsheet:</p>



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<p>However, mob health goes up by 25% while the XP doesn&#8217;t go up by as much, so it&#8217;s not worth farming the <strong>highest Pits</strong>. That&#8217;s why Rob recommends running Tier 100-110 pits for efficient XP farming.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Ideal XP Farming Build?</h2>



<p>The build Rob uses for speed-farming is the <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/quill-volley-spiritborn-build/">Quill Volley Spiritborn</a> build that focuses on teleports and speed.</p>



<p>The linked video has you covered with more details!</p>



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Master the Fastest Paragon XP Farming Methods in Vessel of Hatred’s Season 6!


<p>Here come the Rawhide and Iron Chunk buffs! We don&#8217;t get any specific information on what exactly has changes, so we&#8217;ll have to find out in-game. Seething Opals also got some buffs, and we have a fix for a Pit XP exploit. </p>



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Diablo 4 Season 6 Hotfixes, October 21st: Material Drop Rates Buffed


<p>Rob2628 cleared Pit 110 with their <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/spiritborn/builds/">Spiritborn</a> in just 42 seconds and released a video of the run!</p>



<p>Spiritborn is great when it comes to speed-running. A testament to that is the latest clear video of a Pit 110 in a mere 42 seconds! You can watch the video of the clear in the short linked below.</p>



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Pit 110 Cleared in 42 Seconds!


<p>We have a hotfix for the quest item bug which could result in game crashes today. This bug may have been related to item duping as well. </p>



<p>This isn&#8217;t the announced hotfix with the Rawhide and Iron Chunk buff, as that one is scheduled for the start of the week.</p>



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Diablo 4 Season 6 Hotfixes: October 20th


<p>We have some great news today! After the many complaints by players regarding basic crafting materials, it seems another buff is coming! </p>



<p>Global Director of Community Adam Fletcher announced that Rawhide and Iron Chunks will be getting adjusted with a hotfix at the start of the week. It&#8217;s unclear what exactly is changing, whether itps their drop rates or perhaps the material costs, but we&#8217;re expecting a substantial improvement. There was a buff to their drop rates already in the most recent patch, but it was not enough. And so this one should be more major, but we&#8217;ll have ti wait and see. </p>



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Rawhide and Iron Chunk Buffs Coming With Hotfix!


<p>The Spiritborn are getting their own empty items! </p>



<p>A long time ago we got a glimpse at the first newly-added Mythic Unique, <a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/icons/2DInventory_Staff_47.webp" alt="Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Staff" data-item-quality="mythic">Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander</span></span></a> via a weird placeholder item. While the bugged item wasn&#8217;t the actual spear, it did use its unique art. Blizzard quickly clarified and removed the item from dropping, but now we have another! </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Spiritborn PH</h2>



<p>The new Vessel of Hatred class now has its own little anomaly! The Spiritborn-specific glaive weapon type has its mystery item, as <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GuyIncognit0/">GuyIncognit0</a> found one. And it was in a very specific way too, as a fetish swam event happened during a Whisper, as the player got a &#8220;&lt;Character name> is being hunted&#8221; chat event and proceeded to be swarmed by fetishes! It seems this very unique event may have contributed to the Unique glaive being bugged:</p>



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<p><br>While the item isn&#8217;t exactly usable, it&#8217;s definitely a novelty and cool to keep around. It truly is unique! </p>


The Placeholders Are Back! Unique Glaive With No Stats Drops Off Fetish Swarm


<p>We&#8217;ve already talked about how players are desperate for Rawhide at the moment. The basic material has been in very short supply since the 2.0/Vessel of Hatred changes, and even the <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/increased-rawhide-and-iron-coming-with-season-6-patch-2-0-3-later-this-week/">recent buff to salvage amounts</a> has not changed anything. Luckily, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Rob2628">Rob</a> took a look at the situation and found some great spots to farm. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Rawest of Hides Required</h2>



<p>Forget Obducite and gold, it&#8217;s the basic materials that are in extremely short supply in the masterworking process. And since Rawhide is required for all armor rolls, that is currently the main bottleneck for all players. Even those with only a few masterworked items! One of the main reasons players find themselves in this predicament seems to be either a change or bug in Legion events. Previously, they dropped around 800 Rawhide/Chunks per event, and now it&#8217;s down to around 3. So, considering all this, where do we go to get some more?</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Tormented Bosses</h2>



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<p>As Rob explains in the video below, there are a few places, depending on the other resources you have. Specifically, boss summoning materials. As it turns out, Tormented bosses are the best source of Rawhide at the moment. However, your ability to farm them is entirely dependent on how many summoning materials you have and, more importantly, whether you can find a group to do summon runs with, as that quadruples your loot. Also, for all of these methods you&#8217;ll want to do them on as high a difficulty as you can. </p>



<p>The reason the bosses are so good for the base material is due to Ancestral Legendaries, Uniques and especially Ancestral Uniques salvaging for a lot of them. This is also why the Beast in Ice is at the very top of the Rawhide chain, as it drops the most armor items, which salvage into Rawhide. Any weapons and jewelry will not help with our raw quest. Lord Zir is next in line, and Duriel is in third place. All the bosses are between around 8,000 and 9,200 Rawhide per hour. However, if you don&#8217;t have access to a lot of summoning materials and/or groups, there is an alternative. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Temple of Rot</h2>



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<p>There might be a catch to the second-best farm spot. The Temple of Rot stronghold is pretty close to the Tormented bosses, but you need to have not cleared it on your character. If you have, you can always find another player who hasn&#8217;t and proceed that way, or try on an alt that hasn&#8217;t cleared it/make a new one. You could even use the <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/level-1-to-60-in-10-seconds-with-some-preparation/">instant-lelvel-60 method using Tree of Whispers caches</a> to do it! </p>



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<p>In any case, the Temple is a very simple run as you just head to the chest above, open it, and get 50 Rawhide (on T4). Since it&#8217;s a very short reset and doesn&#8217;t require any mats, you can do a lot of these runs, resulting in around 6,000 Rawhide per hour. The chest is in the top left of the stronghold, right next to the bell you use when you finish it:</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Rest</h2>



<p>The rest of the options are much less profitable. Whisper caches and Helltides bring in less than a third of the Temple each, let alone the bosses. However, you can combine them. Obviously their results are significantly better that way &#8211; not to mention you get other loot as well. Combined they come in at around 4k. The Whisper caches can also be a nice short-term option as you gather them to level an alt in case you&#8217;ve cleared the Temple, though. Infernal Hordes and Nightmare Dungeons are not great, coming in around 2-2.5k.</p>



<p>You can check out all the details with examples in Rob&#8217;s video below, as well as the specific material drop salvage numbers for legendaries, Uniques and Ancestrals. </p>



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<p><br>So good luck with your farming! And let&#8217;s hope Blizzard put in another buff in really soon, this time more like the Forgotten Souls one! </p>


Where to Find the Best Rawhide Farm Spots in Diablo 4 Season 6


<p>Here&#8217;s another quite annoying bug, this time relating to one of the Tormented endboss summons. </p>



<p>The Beast in Ice is summoned by using <a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/icons/2DInventory_Quest_MiscTrinkets_46.webp" alt="Distilled Fear"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Summoning" data-item-quality="normal">Distilled Fear</span></span></a> at the altar. In one of the better updates, Blizzard made the altar reusable so players don&#8217;t have to reset the dungeon every time they want to re-summon the boss. It seems this change from Season 5 did have some unintended consequences, however. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">A Sneaky Beast</h2>



<p>As showcased by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Onsokomaru/">Onsokomaru</a>, the beast sometimes just does not spawn after depositing the fear into the altar. It&#8217;s not a very common occurrence, but losing any amount of boss mats, especially if you&#8217;re running solo, is always a problem. </p>



<p>There may be a way to see it coming, however. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Onsokomaru/">Onsokomaru</a> explains that it seems like when the bug is active and you&#8217;re about to lose the summoning materials you&#8217;re putting in, the frozen people around the altar won&#8217;t respawn. This means the dungeon wasn&#8217;t properly reset and so that&#8217;s why the summoning won&#8217;t work. The solution is simple, as you just leave and re-enter the dungeon. </p>



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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Problesz/">Problesz</a> also added that the bug/non-reset may also be visible if the altar is active, AKA red and smoky with ashes in it. The frozen people seem like an easier thing to spot, but either works. </p>



<p>So save your summoning materials and keep an eye out for the warning signs! </p>


Warning: Be Careful With Summoning the Beast in Ice – It May Eat Your Summon Materials!


<p>A secret title for completing all <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/latest-season-journey-for-diablo-4/">Season Journey</a> objectives in<a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/diablo-4-latest-season/"> Season 6</a> has been discovered!</p>



<p>Each season has a hidden title for completing all of the Season Journey objectives, and Season of Hatred Rising is no exception! For this season, you’ll earn the title <strong>Zakarum’s Ally</strong>!</p>



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Secret Title for Completing All Season Journey Objectives in Season 6


<p>Today&#8217;s<a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/huge-diablo-4-patch-2-0-3-notes-realmwalker-and-undercity-improvements-mythic-unique-buffs-uniques-return-and-more/"> patch 2.0.3</a> brought buffs to Rawhide and Iron Chunk drop rates, but only in specific circumstances. Players have tested the waters and are still very unhappy with the amount of Rawhide that&#8217;s dropping in particular. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bad Community Reception</h2>



<p>After the patch went live, players tried to restock their missing Rawhide, but were not pleased. Some didn&#8217;t really understand what was changed, while others thought the buffs simply were not enough.</p>



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<p>It&#8217;s difficult to tell what the change was because it was very specific, so let&#8217;s look into it. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Problem</h2>



<p>The buffs that came today in patch 2.0.3 only affected the salvage from blue and yellow items (magic and rare). These are auto-salvaged in Torment difficulties, so it&#8217;s more difficult to spot the change. Here&#8217;s the exact text from the patch notes:</p>



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<p>However, many endgame activities drop very few blues and yellows, and so the buffs might not be felt at all. The buff was very specific and it seems it may not have been enough, as many players are still complaining about a massive shortage. There are even some doing some weird and probably inefficient things to get what they think is more of the blues and yellows. </p>



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<p>As pointed out by several commenters in the thread, the above method of heading to Penitent to gamble Obols to get blues and yellows is probably not really worth it, but it does show just how desperate players are getting for those basic materials! </p>



<p>So let&#8217;s see if things settle down and it just takes players a while with this new buff to even out their deficits. Or perhaps we&#8217;ll get another buff soon!  </p>


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