With Season 3, every class receives a new unique item in Diablo 4, which is expected to allow for some pretty strong builds. Blizzard has now expanded the patch notes and revealed: The uniques can be found with the Beast in the Ice. Just the mention alone is enough to make fans groan. A side note makes the grind significantly more bearable.
What are these uniques?
- In Season 3, each class gets one new unique and another that is available to all classes. You can find the items listed in the patch notes for Season 3 for each class.
- With the uniques, new builds should be possible. Sorceresses, for instance, can cast Meteor with their new helm without spending any mana and summon more meteors per cast. The Meteor build is already a contender for the best builds in Season 3.
- Blizzard has now expanded the patch notes with a few sentences that explain which dungeons are in the rotation for Season 3 and with information on where to obtain the uniques (via Diablo Forums).
This is how you obtain the uniques: Like every item, you can initially find the new uniques all over. However, the chance of obtaining them is generally quite low, and you have no influence over which specific item you will receive.
However, the new unique class items will be added to the loot table of the Beast in the Ice in Season 3. It is one of the bosses from which you can explicitly farm uniques. The Beast receives the 6 uniques in addition to its existing loot table,
Exactly this is now causing discontent within the community. Because the Beast only appears in a specific dungeon that you must open up first with some effort. You need a considerable grind to even reach the boss. However, this is now faster.
The Beast in the Ice is easier to summon in Season 3
On Reddit and elsewhere, players are complaining that they are supposed to visit the Beast in the Ice for targeted farming. The Beast itself only awaits in its specific dungeon, the Glacier Chasm, near Kyovashad.
To summon it, you need certain items:
- Refined Fear can be obtained from Nightmare dungeons starting from world tier 4.
- You then bring 9 units of this material to the Occultist.
- Together with 250 Seal Dust, which you can obtain by disassembling Nightmare seals, you can then create a Nightmare Seal for the Glacier Chasm.
Every time you want to fight the Beast in the Ice, you need this material. What makes the boss additionally annoying are its attacks. You need high frost resistance and must be able to dodge well; otherwise, the Beast will tear you apart. The fight is considered quite challenging, especially before you have really strong equipment.
However, Blizzard has revealed that Refined Fear will drop more frequently in Season 3. In a Nightmare dungeon starting from level 30, you are guaranteed to receive one Fear at the end. For every 10 levels above that, there is a chance for an additional one. From level 90, you are guaranteed to receive 3 units of Refined Fear.
If you are far enough and can grind high dungeons, you will only need 3 Nightmare dungeons to guarantee the summoning of the Beast. Additionally, you have extra chances for uniques from the dungeons themselves.
For those aiming to rank high on the leaderboards, they will have plenty of time to farm anyway. Because the leaderboards will come in Season 3, just not immediately at launch.
