The midseason patch 2.0.5 brought several buffs in Diablo 4, apparently also for an event in the Hell Flood. Because players now collect much more cinder there, but they cannot spend most of it.
On November 19, 2024, the midseason patch arrived in Diablo 4 and brought various buffs. The ‘old classes’ were buffed to align them a bit more with the overpowering Spiritborn. The new class currently dominates the tier list of the strongest builds in Diablo 4. Blizzard also buffed the mercenaries, the runes, and the shrines in the game.
Apparently, however, the developers have also increased the drops of ‘Anomalous cinder’ in the Hell Flood, which you receive during the Blood Maiden ritual. Now so much cinder drops that players run out of boxes when spending it.
2,200 cinders in 6 minutes
How much cinder drops now? During the Blood Maiden event in Diablo 4, numerous monsters spawn before the boss appears. The enemies all drop “Anomalous cinder”, and especially when other players are also slashing monsters, the cinder fills the screens quite quickly. After the patch, the dropped cinder is much higher than before.
We repeated the Blood Maiden ritual several times on normal difficulty, where a few other players were also present. Most of them were at a high level and apparently used the Hell Flood at normal difficulty for farming.
In about 6 minutes, we collected approximately 2,200 cinders. A Hell Flood lasts around 55 minutes, and the ritual can be performed as many times as there are Corruption Hearts. With players at high levels, the boss falls relatively quickly accordingly – in our attempt, 3 rituals were possible in that time.
So you can collect a lot of cinder there, which you can then exchange for boxes full of loot, materials, tributes, and potions. If you only want to farm as much cinder as you need for the boxes in the Hell Flood, keep in mind that there are about 8-9 boxes per area:
- At the first difficulty levels, a box costs 75 cinders
- At Torment 1-4, the boxes with gear cost between 75 and 150 cinders
- For the large box of secrets, which brings you boss materials and loot at the torment levels, you need 250 cinders
This is what players say about it: On Reddit, the user shibumi7126 writes that after downloading the patch, he performed the Blood Maiden ritual. In one run, he collected approximately 750 cinders. Maxboo adds: “Now we need more boxes of secrets.”
In another Reddit post, one player shows in a screenshot that he farmed over 10,000 cinders in 30 minutes. Yxalitis comments: “The drop rate of cinders is obviously a bug.”
Farming cinders at a low level – and spending them at a torment level
What does all this cinder bring me? The more cinder you collect, the more boxes you can open in the Hell Flood. One tip: if you switch your player character in between, it is possible to spend the collected cinder with other characters as well.
This way you can farm faster at a lower difficulty and open the boxes with another hero at a torment level. Switching the difficulty with one character is also possible during this – the collected cinder remains.
Of course, you don’t have to collect 10,000 cinders. To open all the boxes in the Hell Flood, you should be safe with 2,000 cinders and might even be able to equip several characters. Whether this is a bug that will be fixed soon is still unclear. We will keep you updated on it.
Some players are collecting heaps of cinder in the Hell Flood to exchange for loot, while others are taking down bosses to get powerful items. One player took down 2,400 bosses at a torment level in Diablo 4 and documented his loot drops. His conclusion: If you’re hoping for the best items in the game, you might be disappointed.
