Rank 2: Nightmare Dungeons
Nightmare Dungeons are the most versatile activity you can choose in the War Plans. They not only reliably provide loot (and encounters with the Butcher), but depending on execution, can yield a tremendous amount of:
- Gold
- Oboli
- or crafting materials needed for the blacksmith or the Horadrim Cube.
They are not too challenging as they scale with your chosen difficulty and only bring along (usually negligible) additional dangers. Additionally, you can significantly increase your yield with the right skills.
The right path (blue) gives you an increased chance and even a guarantee of rare events and treasure goblins appearing in the dungeons. This way, you can obtain strong loot even easier – with a chance for the coveted Mythics – and experience points to level up faster in the Paragon.
Rank 1: Hell Flood
For almost the entire duration, Hell Floods are your best option to farm everything you need: loot, materials, gold, or XP. Here you also receive keys for the chests of the Hoard Bosses and Forgotten Souls.
The biggest advantage of Hell Floods is that you can complete several parts of the war plan in one Hell Flood at the same time. For the sub-task, you must open chests. So, if you collect enough Glut and choose the Hell Flood two or three times, you can return each time and simply open two chests with the Glut you have already collected.
Moreover, Hell Floods always come with guaranteed Whispers, which you can complete on the side for additional chances at strong loot and even Glorious Sparks with the appropriate talents.
The ideal skill paths are the middle (orange) if you want more loot from the flood directly, or the right side (red) to gather more Glut and thereby complete more war plan tasks per flood. You can easily farm 1,000 or more Glut within minutes.
Feel free to let us know in the comments which war plan activity you like the most or what tricks you use to farm more efficiently!
Bonus: Whispers
Even though whispers are technically part of the war plans, you cannot select them as tasks. You simply complete them on the side, which is why we do not list them as part of the actual ranking here.
Whispers are one of the reasons why Hell Floods are rated so highly, even though each of the activities can appear as a whisper – including the Pit and bosses.
For talents, the middle left path (light blue/turquoise) is the best as you can generally extract more from everything whispers have to offer. Alternatively, you can choose the middle right path if you are specifically looking for material and chaos rewards. The important part is the last point with a chance for Glorious Sparks.
War plans may seem a bit lame at first glance – at least that was my impression when I plunged into the endgame of Lord of Hatred. However, the feature became better the more I engaged with it, and now I can’t get enough of it: I am currently playing Diablo 4 more than I have since release, even though I initially found the new endgame to be totally boring.
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