With the new expansion “Lord of Hatred” from Diablo 4, the endgame is also mixed up with new features. A significant role is played by the new war plans. What exactly this is and how to use it cleverly, you will find out here.
What are war plans?
With war plans, you can create your own endgame plan in a kind of roadmap system. This allows you to choose a sequence of 5 activities and customize it with modifiers. Along your chosen tasks, you will earn rewards for your progress.
In doing so, you collect activity points for an exclusive skill tree. How exactly this works and why it is worthwhile will be explained to you.
How to unlock war plans? To be able to use the war plans at all, you must have defeated the final boss at the end of the campaign and accept the quest “The War for Sanctuary”. This will send you to Tyrael in Temis and unlock the feature for you.
War plans in Lord of Hatred – What you need to know
How do the plans work? For your war plan, once unlocked, you can choose from the following activities at the war table:
- Whispering Tree
- Nightmare Dungeons
- Hell Flood
- Under City
- Hideout Bosses
- Hell Hordes
- The Pit
This way, you create a fixed sequence of tasks that you then complete one after the other. Each activity has different rarity levels, giving you a rough estimate of the loot that awaits you afterwards.
And what about the activity points? While completing your tasks, you also gain experience in the selected activity. Once you have enough, you will unlock activity points that you can invest in the respective activity tree.
Why is it worth it? With the invested activity points, you unlock permanent bonuses for the respective activity. And these can be very worthwhile depending on your playstyle, as they can, for example, increase your chances of valuable loot or make difficult activities easier.
For example, in the tree for Nightmare Dungeons, you can unlock that significantly more elite enemies spawn, which brings more loot. In the skill tree for the Under City, on the other hand, you can unlock a special merchant who sells you runes and gems for gold at the end of the run. It’s best to check here in advance whether and what might be worthwhile for you, so you can plan better.
Can you complete war plans in coop? Yes and no. You can participate in activities together, but there are only two options:
- You have exactly the same war plans and can share your progress
- You need to choose together at the war table
- You complete the war plan of your group leader but do not take any personal progress with you
- This way you can help each other, but afterwards you still have to complete your own war plan
Whether there will be other options in the future remains to be seen. So far, these are the only ways to tackle war plans in coop.
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