Diablo 4: Opening the Cow Level – Step by Step

Step 2: Farm the Rusty Bardiche

For the second part, you need Vessel of Hatred. You must farm the Rusty Bardiche in Nahantu and require some patience. If you want to solve it yourself, you can find scrolls of Uacax with clues at the docks of Kurast, in Kichuk and Samuk. You will find the solution here otherwise. You will again need three items:

• the Chatterstone
• the Crooked Staff
• and the Rusty Old Bell

For the Chatterstone, you only need to travel to the grave of Onucha Ikha, a bit southwest of the docks of Kurast, and use the “Thank you” emote in front of three statues: first at the middle one, then at the northern, then at the southern. The stone will then simply fall to the ground at the statue.

The Crooked Staff requires a tough fight. You have to defeat an elite enemy (“Blood Blitz”) east of the hideout (the base of the mercenaries from Vessel of Hatred). However, you must defeat him exclusively with the normal “attack” you have at the start of the game. To do this, you need to:

• send your mercenary away so he doesn’t accidentally kill the mob
• unlearn all skills (reset all skill points)
• remove most of your equipment if it grants you skill points anywhere
• Paragon does not matter and can remain unchanged

The skill bar should be empty except for the normal attack (no ability!). Accordingly, it is advisable to fight the opponent at the lowest difficulty (normal). Once you have defeated the enemy, he will drop the Crooked Staff.

The last item, the Rusty Old Bell, requires a scavenger hunt through the Five Hills in Nahantu. There you will find small statues resembling birds, which are very well hidden. Approach them as close as possible and in the correct order:

Return to the starting point after the 12th bird and the bell should be in front of you.

With the three quest items, you then need to go to the east of Nahantu. North of Ichorfall, you will find “Cordyceps Zombies” standing isolated at various locations. You need to pull together 3 of these – which requires a lot of kite work.

Send your mercenary away for safety and do not equip area spells so that the zombies do not accidentally get killed. Isolate them and bring them to a spot. They must all die close together. Then they leave a small mushroom field. Drop the three collected items there and wait until they emit purple smoke – they are now corrupted.

The three corrupted relics are then brought to the Temple of Oka’bo southeast of Kurast. Right at the entrance in the southeast, you will find three braziers, two at the entrance, one by the statue a bit further. Interact with the braziers (you need the corrupted items for this) and you will receive the Unusual Key.

The key opens a hidden passage in the “Abandoned Building,” a cellar west of Kurast. Deal with all enemies there. In the last room, a wall with overgrowth in the northeast glows faintly white when you approach it. Interact with the wall, and you will enter another area with many cows and corpses. Kill the cows and loot the Rusty Bardiche.