In Diablo 4, with Season 3, the Steward was introduced, a mechanical companion for all classes. A player is now showcasing a combination of stones that significantly increases damage for all builds.
The Steward is a mechanical companion, which you can enhance and customize with various rune stones. He accompanies you throughout Sanctuary and cannot die, only be staggered. At release, the Steward seemed quite weak. Now that many players have found and leveled up more stones, that has apparently changed.
A player has now presented the best combination for the Steward on YouTube, making each class considerably stronger and increasing damage for all builds. However, one of the rarest stones is required for this.
Massive damage boost and cooldown reduction
What is this combination? In the YouTube video, “RageGamingVideos” demonstrates on January 29 a powerful combination of stones for the Steward that can greatly increase your damage. The following stones are necessary:
- Lead Stone: Adrenaline Rush – Provides a quick adrenaline boost, multiplicatively increasing the player’s character’s damage (by 20% at Rank 10)
- Coordination Stone: Continuous Support – Increases the duration of supported skills (by 4 seconds at Rank 10)
- Coordination Stone: Tactical Support – Reduces the cooldown of the supported skill (by 40% at Rank 10)
- Coordination Stone: Genesis – Increases the effectiveness of the supported skill by 150%.
Because the Genesis Stone increases the skill’s effectiveness by 150%, and “Adrenaline Rush” multiplicatively increases the player’s character’s damage by 20%, according to “RageGamingVideos”, you should ultimately achieve a multiplicative bonus of a substantial 50% as well as a few additional bonuses.
Where can I get “Genesis”? Genesis is one of two unique Coordination Stones and drops exclusively from the Echo of Malphas – the new Uber boss in Season 3 of Diablo 4. Additionally, the Echo of Malphas drops legendaries at a high chance and has a chance for 925-item drops, which are the best in the game.
How you can summon and fight the boss can be found here:
“Hurricane” as an alternative
Is there an alternative? You can also play the combination for the time being without “Genesis”, as it is still worthwhile. Another useful Lead Stone is “Hurricane”. It deals an electric charge to an enemy, causing damage to itself and another enemy. At Rank 10, “Hurricane” deals about 10,500 damage every second over 5 seconds.
You can combine “Hurricane” with various Coordination Stones, depending on class and build. If you use builds that depend on resources, “Resource Support” is a good choice, as you receive primary resource when the supported skill deals damage for the first time.
“Break Support” ensures that enemy barriers are destroyed. There is also a chance to make enemies vulnerable for 2 seconds – at Rank 10, the chance is 100%. “Safety Support” grants you damage reduction, and with “Efficiency Support” your critical hit chance for struck targets increases.
Finding the right combination of skills poses a significant challenge for some players. Another player has listed more useful combinations for the Steward companion: Diablo 4: Player shows the best combinations for the Steward – How to make the pet really strong
