With the new expansion “Lord of Hatred” from Diablo 4, the endgame is also spiced up with new features. A significant role is played by the new War Plans. What exactly this is and how you can use it cleverly, you will find out here.
What are War Plans?
With War Plans, you can create your own endgame plan in a sort of roadmap system. This allows you to choose a sequence of 5 activities and customize them with modifiers. Along your chosen tasks, you will receive rewards for your progress.
In doing so, you collect activity points for an exclusive skill tree. How exactly this works and why it’s worth it, we will explain to you.
How to unlock War Plans? In order 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 sends you to Tyrael in Temis and unlocks 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
- Undercity
- Hideout Bosses
- Hell Hordes
- The Pit
This way, you create a fixed sequence of tasks that you will 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 unlock activity points that you can then 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 beneficial depending on your playstyle, as they can increase your chances of valuable loot or make difficult activities easier for you.
For example, in the Nightmare Dungeon tree, you can unlock that significantly more elite enemies spawn, which increases loot drops. In the skill tree for the Undercity, you can unlock a special vendor who sells you runes and gems for gold at the end of the run. It’s best to check here beforehand if and what is worth it for you, so you can plan better.
Can War Plans be completed in coop? Not exactly. You can participate in the activities together, but there are only two options:
- You have exactly the same War Plans and can share your progress this way
- You must already choose together at the War Table
- You complete the War Plan of your group leader, but do not carry over your own progress
- 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.
In addition to War Plans, the Warlock class is also new to Diablo 4. It is quite popular, which is why many players try out various builds. However, one player copies the build from streamers and quickly realizes that this is not the best approach: Player is dissatisfied, copies the best Warlock build in Diablo 4 from streamers, and is told: That’s the mistake
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