With Season 4, new crafting systems came to Diablo 4. For one of them, you need special materials that you can only get from the pit. Players are now explaining how to get the important mats quickly.
For the new crafting system of “Completion” (“Masterworking”), introduced with Season 4 in Diablo 4, a rarer material is required, depending on the level of completion:
- Level 1–4: Obsidian (magical crafting material)
- Level 5–8: Ingolith (rare crafting material)
- Level 9–12: Inferior Iron (legendary crafting material)
Where do I get the materials? You can get Obsidian, Ingolith, and Inferior Iron exclusively in the pit, a new endgame activity. Depending on the level of the pit, the respective mats will drop in a certain quantity at the end as a reward. Additionally, you have the option to convert the materials with the alchemist.
On Reddit, players have calculated how much Inferior Iron you need for all 12 levels of completion at the blacksmith. On top of that, they discuss how to get the important mats the fastest.
How to farm crafting materials the fastest
In a thread on Reddit, players discuss how much Inferior Iron they need for a complete upgrade and how many pit runs are necessary. We have summarized the numbers for you here.
How do I get the mats the fastest? A user notes in the comments that one run in the pit at level 81 gives 40 Inferior Iron. With 17 runs, you have enough mats to upgrade an item with all 12 levels of completion at the blacksmith.
The user “Valarauka_” suggests in the comment on Reddit to run higher pit levels and convert the Inferior Iron into the other mats. He writes:
- For completion at levels 1–4, you need 100 Obsidian, which can be obtained by converting 11 Inferior Iron.
- For levels 5–8, you need 260 Ingolith, which corresponds to 87 Inferior Iron.
- Levels 9–12 require a total of 550 Inferior Iron.
- This totals to 648 Inferior Iron for an upgrade.
According to “Valarauka_”, the simple mode is to “collect a total of 650 Inferior Iron, converting 100 of that into 300 Ingolith and 40 of that into 120 Obsidian.”
He notes that a pit run at level 91 gives 50 Inferior Iron each time. If you can finish 91-level pits in about 4 minutes, it takes roughly an hour for a complete completion of an item. The last few levels are the “most expensive”. However, if you are also satisfied with 8 out of 12 levels, that would mean “less than ten minutes per item”. Here are the number of runs you need:
- Level 61: 33 runs
- Level 71: 22 runs
- Level 81: 17 runs
- Level 91: 13 runs
- Level 101: 11 runs
Many users see the biggest challenge here with the bosses at the end of the pit dungeon. Recently, the discussion arose whether it is possible to complete the high levels in the pit without cheats:
A few tips for farming summarized:
- Run as high pit levels as possible, but not so challenging that you die too often, which leads to long runbacks that just slow you down.
- Continuously increase the level of the pit so that you don’t feel pressed for time and, in the best case, need much less time than indicated by the timer.
- Check with the alchemist if you can convert mats if you are missing any. If you can run high pit levels, it is often more worthwhile to convert mats than to go back to the lower levels to collect, for example, Obsidian.
- Use the mats you already collected to upgrade your items in the meantime. For the first four levels, you need Obsidian, then Ingolith, and finally Inferior Iron from the pit – plus a few other mats, such as raw leather, iron chunks, and murky crystals.
- Keep in mind that only the one who “opens” the pit receives 100% of the mats. Team members only receive 50% of the mats dropped from the pit level.
If you have already “completed” items at the blacksmith and exchange them for new equipment, you should not sell the old items. While gold is an important resource that you need especially for crafting, in some cases, this is the poorer choice. You can read more about it here: You should never sell improved items in Diablo 4, even if you are short on gold
