Blizzard plans the first major patch for Season 7 of Diablo 4. After some hotfixes, patch 2.1.1 is on the way, bringing more ravens, altars, and bounties into the season of witch power.
What feature is this about?
Forgotten altars can be found randomly in dungeons during Season 7. Through them, you will learn four of the new witch powers that you cannot acquire otherwise.
However, the altars are currently extremely rare. Fans have a few methods to access the altars faster, but there are reports from frequent players who have not found any at all.
This is what Blizzard is changing: In the patch notes for patch 2.1.1, Blizzard writes that the spawn rate of forgotten altars will be increased (via Blizzard). However, the exact increase is not specified.
Additionally, a bug is being fixed that caused forgotten altars not to appear in certain scenarios where they should have been present. Once again, Blizzard is not being specific.
Even if you were able to find altars, it can still happen that you do not learn the related witch power. This bug is also being fixed. Patch 2.1.1 will be released on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. You can find the complete German patch notes on page 2.
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Gameplay trailer for Season 7 in Diablo 4, the Season of Witch Power
Blizzard is bringing more ravens and improving the armory
The new patch also improves some of the new features. Among other things, there will be more ravens in the headhunting zones. The ravens are considered one of the best features of Season 7 by players. In addition, there are two new bounties and the UI for tracking them will be improved.
Blizzard is also working on the armory, the new feature for everyone in Season 7. It should be more accessible in cities, will have a button for easily deleting loadouts, and the UI will receive some improvements.
In the community, the promised changes are mostly well received (via Reddit) – especially since Blizzard is already speaking in a separate post about fixing further existing problems.
Only the potion sound when picking up a witch power flower is still annoying and should disappear. Additionally, some bugs involving popular builds could still use some tweaking.
In Diablo 4 there is a new event coming up. During the “Lunar Awakening,” there are plenty of bonuses that you should definitely take advantage of.
Season 7 was released on January 21, 2025, and exactly two weeks later, the first event in the hellish monster hunt is here – the Lunar Awakening. Inspired by typical “Chinese New Year events,” you will receive big bonuses and can earn some new rewards during the event.
Update, February 4, 2025: The article was originally published in January 2024. We have revised and updated it for the current event.
What kind of event is this? During the “Lunar Awakening” event, you will collect a new currency called “Favor of the Ancestors.” You can exchange this currency for different rewards at Ying-Yue, the head of the Lunar Night Market, in the north of Ked Bardu.
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Gameplay trailer for Season 7 in Diablo 4, the Season of Witch Power
Additionally, the shrines across Sanctuary will be replaced with Lunar Shrines during the event. You can identify them from afar because the shrines have a new look – in the form of a dragon. Activating the shrines and subsequently killing monsters will grant you the Favor of the Ancestors over time, which you can then spend on cosmetic rewards with NPC Ying-Yue.
In total, there are 10 prestige levels where you can secure rewards – including cosmetics and a “Magnificent Spark” for crafting Mythic Uniques. But it doesn’t stop there: Once you’ve reached all levels, you can earn even more rewards with the “Infinite Gifts of the Ancestors.” So it’s worth farming even after reaching the last level.
In Ked Bardu, you can exchange your collected favor for rewards.These rewards can be earned with “Favor of the Ancestors.”
What do the new shrines provide? When you activate the temporary Lunar Shrines, you not only receive a special shrine power as usual but also a random additional bonus. The bonuses include:
Artillery Shrine: Skills have a chance to summon a holy bomb.
Shockwave Shrine: Each explosion triggers a scattering bombardment.
Channeling Shrine: Attack speed is increased, and you have an increased chance to reset cooldowns.
Connection Shrine: Powerful, shocking strikes frequently leap from the character to nearby enemies.
Greed Shrine: There’s a chance to summon a treasure goblin. As long as the shrine is active, a treasure goblin will be summoned from slain enemies.
Deadly Shrine: There’s a chance to instantly kill affected monsters and instill fear in nearby enemies. This also applies to elite enemies, but not to bosses or other players.
Protection Shrine: You reflect all damage taken. The reflected damage scales with level and difficulty.
How do you get the bonus XP? In addition to the effects mentioned above, active shrines grant an XP bonus of 100% (multiplicative). To activate this, you just need to interact with a shrine as soon as you see it. With a click, all bonuses will be active for a period of 2 minutes.
When does the event take place? The Lunar Awakening starts on February 4, 2025, at 7:00 PM and lasts until February 18, 2025, at 7:00 PM. Until then, all players in seasonal and eternal realms can benefit from the shrines and collect the various rewards for the Favor of the Ancestors.
Besides the mentioned bonuses and rewards, there will also be appropriate offers in the shop during the event if you want to style your character a bit more in the theme of the Lunar Awakening. And the XP bonus is great for leveling up your player characters to the maximum level. Tips for leveling quickly can be found here: Diablo 4: Leveling quickly in Season 7 – Leveling Guide up to Level 60
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In Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the reputation that follows Heinrich has direct effects on the game. MeinMMO explains the system and provides useful tips on how to optimize your reputation farming.
What is the reputation system? Every region in medieval Bohemia that you can explore has its own opinion of you. All NPCs and quests located in that region influence your reputation. You should keep an eye on your reputation, as it directly affects how NPCs interact with Heinrich.
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With the trailer for the roadmap of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, you get an overview of upcoming features:
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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: Trailer for the Roadmap with New Features and Hardcore Mode
How reputation works in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
The symbols mean the following: For each region and each group of people, you have a symbol that indicates the level of your reputation.
White: You haven’t been in this area yet, or this group of people doesn’t know you yet.
Prison: You have committed crimes and are being searched for in this region. If guards discover you, you will be arrested.
The smileys are divided into the following gradations:
Red (20-0)
Light Red (21-40)
Orange(41-60)
Light Orange(61-80)
Gold(81-100)
This is what the symbols for your reputation look like.
In the upper right corner, you can see a “reputation worsens” or “reputation improves” indicator with certain actions or selected dialog options. When this symbol flashes, your reputation will improve or worsen by five points.
To find out what your reputation is with individual groups of people, you can check under the menu item “Player” and then “Reputation”.
Reputation with merchants: Each merchant has its own reputation with you. You positively influence this by conducting a successful trade. If you annoy the merchant, for example, by being impatient during bargaining with your offered prices, your reputation will drop.
If your reputation is in the higher ranks, meaning with a golden or light orange smiley, you can enjoy the following advantages:
With merchants, you get better prices, and during bargaining, they are willing to deviate more from the original price.
NPCs will be friendlier towards Heinrich.
Possible crimes will be forgiven more quickly by NPCs or guards. If you are caught committing a crime, you have the opportunity to persuade the NPC or guard not to impose a penalty on you.
Complete quests: Carry out tasks and quests diligently for NPCs.
Dialog options: If you have gathered enough persuasion skill, it is more likely that you will succeed with positive dialog options, such as Impress or Persuade.
Killing: As banal as it sounds, sometimes it helps to eliminate the NPC that is lowering your reputation.
Pilgrimages: You can initiate a pilgrimage with a priest. The cleric will send you to a chapel where he has to pray.
Indulgence shrines: At indulgence shrines, you can show remorse by paying groschen.
Important: Pilgrimages and indulgence shrines only increase your reputation but do not absolve you of penalties for crimes you have committed.
As a good Christian, Heinrich can pray away part of his sins.
Sometimes you can also cheat your way into a good reputation. For example, by simply telling an NPC that you have completed something for him.
Skills for reputation enhancement: If you acquire these skills, you will receive benefits for your reputation:
Charming Man (Main Skill): Heinrich’s reputation will increase by 10 percent more with each reputation boost.
Memorable (Main Skill): Positive and negative changes in Heinrich’s reputation have a higher impact and can reach more groups of people.
Village Hero (Main Skill): If Heinrich achieves a reputation over 60 points in a region, he receives a bonus of 2 to strength, agility, vitality, and persuasion there.
Opportunist (Main Skill): If Heinrich’s reputation worsens, it will now drop by 10 percent less.
If your reputation is symbolized by red or dark orange smileys, you have the following disadvantages:
Merchants offer you worse prices or may not want to trade with you at all. If you recently annoyed one during bargaining, he will be reluctant to bargain again.
Sleep spots may be withdrawn from you or will not be offered to you in the future.
If you have a very bad reputation with important story NPCs, you may receive a game-over screen.
If your reputation is just a prison symbol, you must anticipate penalties based on your actions.
How to lower your reputation
Crimes: Committing crimes is never a good idea, at least if you get caught.
Quests: If you do not fulfill quests as the NPCs would like, or fail to complete a quest, for example, due to a time limit, your reputation will worsen.
Dialog options: If you choose mean dialog options, NPCs will be outraged. Moreover, it does not go over well if you lack enough persuasion skill for a dialog option. A failure automatically results in a reputation drop.
Path of Exile 2 wanted to provide players with a tougher experience, but gamers are not very enthusiastic about the current game mechanics.
How is death punished? In Path of Exile 2, the death of a character is not without consequences. Each time your character is killed in the endgame of Path of Exile 2, it loses 10% of the experience points of the current level. Depending on the character’s level, this can result in several hours of grinding.
This system does not create excitement among players, as a new post in the community shows.
Here you can see the cinematic intro of Path of Exile 2:
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Path of Exile 2: The Cinematic Intro of the Greatest Diablo Competitor
Just Grinding
What bothers gamers? Players of Path of Exile 2 apparently just want to grind and are not interested in the challenging obstacles. This is shown in a new post on Reddit by user Dawgin420.
He criticizes the endgame of PoE2, which with its penalties for the death of your character prevents anyone from daring to face challenges. Instead, players would prefer to run risk-free maps where they can just slay monsters without the danger of getting killed.
This is further fueled by the fact that players can sell maps like Breachstones for good money, instead of risking being killed on the map and losing the content in the form of items and currency.
In practice, this means that adventurers often set aside content with higher difficulty and gamers just opt for mindless and safe grinding. Thus, the developers’ goal to make Path of Exile 2 more difficult seems to not be achieved, as players apparently do not like to play these contents.
Is this just a single opinion? No, under the post on Reddit, many other players also share similar views. User lazypanda1 adds to the post on Reddit with his experience:
That’s true. The current system creates a conflict between challenge and risk/reward. Regarding the challenge, it is most enjoyable when your build is just strong enough to take on the content. Not too weak that you get killed right away, but not too strong that you trivialize the content. […]
The loss of the reward almost always leads to a negative experience. The lower the risk, the more fun is expected, leading to a linear curve that progresses from negative to positive. […] This means that if you want to maximize the fun of the reward, you have to minimize the risk, which means you trivialize the content and thereby eliminate any semblance of challenge.
User Flying_Mage also does not find this good on Reddit: “That is pretty much the main reason why the punishment for death is bad. It encourages you to create easy and diluted content instead of juicy and dangerous. And that is boring. And the absolutely last thing a developer wants to do is make their game boring. […]”
User BigSmols, however, sees it differently on Reddit: “I honestly feel like there isn’t much ‘challenging’ endgame content. I either get randomly one-shotted or nuke the enemies. Don’t get me wrong, this game is technically much more challenging than most other ARPGs, but the endgame and the campaign feel like two different games.”
Stan Lee is still the face of Marvel for many fans. This is also due to his appearances in movies. One of his favorite heroes has only appeared once and is more of a sidekick to a powerful villain. However, he holds significant importance for Stan Lee.
Which character is being referred to? One of Stan Lee’s favorite characters is the Silver Surfer. He made his first appearance in December 1965 in Fantastic Four No. 48. He is the herald of Galactus, one of the most powerful villains in the Marvel Universe.
Originally, the Silver Surfer was a mortal named Norrin Radd from the utopian planet Zenn-La. When Galactus threatened to consume the planet, Norrin Radd sacrificed himself to save his family and his people. He offered to find planets for him to consume. Galactus agreed, bestowed cosmic power upon him, and thus created the Silver Surfer.
For over 100 years, he served Galactus until he came to Earth. There, he also regularly acted as a hero. The Silver Surfer is a tragic figure who means no harm. He is fascinated by other planets, ways of life, and people. This is also one of the aspects that Stan Lee appreciates about the character.
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German trailer for Fantastic Four (2005)
The character looked so heroic and so noble.
What does Stan Lee think of the Silver Surfer? In an older interview (via YouTube), Stan Lee explained how the Silver Surfer actually came into being. Jack Kirby, one of the most important artists in Marvel’s history, drew the herald of Galactus because he thought a large and powerful being like Galactus needed a companion to find planets for him.
Stan Lee liked the idea and loved the design. He said of the Silver Surfer: The character looked so heroic and so noble and so dramatic. Stan Lee recounts that he then named him and made him a philosophical observer of the world and the universe.
In the interview, he explains that he let him speak in Shakespearean and biblical language. For Stan Lee, the Silver Surfer became a voice for his feelings and views. Stan Lee wanted to use the character as a philosophical figure who grappled with questions like why humans fight when they live on such a wonderful planet.
He also says in the interview that children loved the character.
Has the Silver Surfer appeared in any films? He has not appeared in the large MCU so far. In the Fox film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer from 2007, he was one of the main characters. He also made appearances in various animated series and even had his own short series in 1998.
In the upcoming film The Fantastic Four: First Steps, a Silver Surfer is also expected to appear again, as Galactus is set to function as the villain once more. However, this is not the Silver Surfer you know. In this film, the Silver Surfer is the character Shalla-Bal, who also hails from the planet Zenn-La. The new Fantastic Four movie is expected to be released in the USA on July 25, 2025. Stan Lee also had a favorite in the DC universe: Marvel legend Stan Lee had a favorite character from DC that hardly anyone knows
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A dealer has sparked some discussions in the GTA community, as he openly revealed a release date for the highly anticipated action game.
What was this “leak” about? Last week, the Uruguayan dealer “XUruguay” listed September 17 as the release date for GTA 6 on his website. Shortly after, there were various posts on social networks.
Some fans picked up the information and were convinced: the release date for GTA 6 was leaked (via X). Others doubted the accuracy and pointed out that developers Rockstar Games would not share such a secret piece of information with any online stores. Overall, there was excitement and discussions triggered by the mentioned release date.
In the meantime, the dealer has also commented on the discussion and apologized in a statement, explaining what the date actually is (via XUruguay).
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The graphic comparison of GTA 6 and GTA 5 in the video
The “leak” was just a misunderstanding
What is behind the “leak”? As many GTA fans correctly pointed out on social networks, this is simply the release date of GTA V. As the dealer explains in the statement, the release date shown is not a leak. It was merely an internal joke that escalated.
A new employee had read the release date of GTA to the dealer’s team on Google – but that was the release date of GTA V and not GTA 6. Then, a team member jokingly responded that he should enter the date on the website.
However, the joke was apparently not taken as such, and so September 17 ended up as the release date of GTA 6 on the dealer’s website.
What is known about the release of GTA 6? Currently not much. So far, the action game is supposed to release in 2025, but there is no exact date, and some industry experts suspect that the release will be pushed back to 2026.
It is also not known when we will receive a second trailer for GTA 6 that provides new information. The next major deadline could be February 6, as an important business meeting of Take-Two Interactive is taking place then. GTA developer Rockstar Games is a subsidiary of Take-Two. All currently known info regarding the release of GTA can be found on MeinMMO: GTA 6: Release, Trailer and Map – The key information about the action game
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League of Legends offers countless background stories and interesting lore. The new Season 15 takes you to a region some may already know from the Netflix series Arcane. MyMMO presents 5 of the strongest champions.
The name of the season “Welcome to Noxus”already reveals where the theme is heading. It is the home of the characters Ambessa and the new mage Mel Medarda from Arcane. Noxus stands for power, war, and strength and has one of the most feared armies in the world.
Anyone with the necessary skills can take a position of power regardless of wealth and family. Diplomacy is often rejected, and the Noxians solve problems through conquest and war. Despite the performance-oriented ideals of Noxus, the great noble houses still hold considerable influence.
We present to you the 5 strongest champions from Noxus.
How was this list created? This list is based on the official lore and background stories of the various champions. Their strength in-game was not taken into account.
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Welcome to Noxus – Opening Video for the First LoL Season 2025
5. Darius – The Hand of Noxus
Darius grew up as an orphan in a port city with his brother Draven. Both were recruited into the Noxian army by a commander and fought their way to a high status in various conquests and wars.
Darius earned great respect from the populace through his aggression, discipline, and steadfastness. He won wars against numerically superior opponents and thus gained command over his own unit. After a decisive victory, Darius was appointed the “Hand of Noxus” by Grand General Darkwill.
After a years-long campaign in the icy north and several assassination attempts on Darius, he returned to Noxus. Swain had overthrown and murdered Grand General Darkwill during Darius’s absence.
Darius was appointed as one of the three new council members to rule over Noxus. With his incredible physical strength, military skill, and iron will to lead Noxus into a new age of conquest, Darius enters history as one of the mightiest champions of Noxus.
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A streamer in WoW Classic narrowly escaped death because he was too curious and wanted to loot everything he saw.
In the Classic version of World of Warcraft, there are many traps and obstacles that can unexpectedly lead to the demise of a character. This is usually not a problem – except when playing in hardcore mode. Because in that case, every fatal mistake is guaranteed to be the last, and the journey starts anew.
Although all the dangers in World of Warcraft Classic are largely known, there are still incidents where some players are surprised by sudden enemies. This also happened to the streamer Quin69, who clicks on a strange object – and narrowly escapes death.
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WoW Classic: The Hardcore Servers Are Here!
What happened? The streamer Quin69 is part of the streamer guild “OnlyFangs” and has set out to reach level 60 in the hardcore version of Classic. Almost reaching his goal, he is exploring the Plaguelands – an end-game area of WoW Classic.
Here he spots something on the ground and follows his inner urge to loot it immediately, only to narrowly escape his own death.
The fateful item: Blood of Heroes.
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What kind of item is this? In the Classic version of World of Warcraft, everyone eventually stumbles upon the small, red puddles in the Plaguelands known as “Blood of Heroes.”
This is an item required for a few crafting recipes and quests, but is pretty useless for most classes.
What seems like a bit of bonus loot at first glance causes quite a shock moment when the item is opened:
2 elite enemies at level 60 appear, immediately launching an attack. Additionally, both of them use an ability that reduces movement speed by 60%. This makes escape nearly impossible. A few hits from these two enemies are enough to send a character to the digital afterlife. In the world of hardcore WoW, forever.
As a rogue, Quin69 is able to survive the whole ordeal because he uses “Vanish” to leave the fight and simultaneously remove all slow effects from himself. He is even lucky that none of the enemies resist the Vanish – something that can indeed happen with opponents several levels above his character. Sometimes duels also end in death – even when professionals face “noobs”.
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In the dark world of Game of Thrones, death is never far away. It is no coincidence that the series is notorious for its brutality. But which character is actually the most dangerous and has the most victims on their conscience?
What kind of ranking is that? In Game of Thrones, there is an abundance of dangerous characters of all kinds. Some are skilled swordsmen, others are cunning assassins or political intrigues. They are all lethal.
In order to compare which character is the most dangerous, we look at the number of their victims. The Washington Post published a comprehensive statistic on all 6887 deaths in Game of Thrones in 2019.
A death was counted only if:
The death is explicitly shown in the series
The death is not directly shown but occurs very clearly after a certain scene
The death is not shown but is a very prominent part of the storyline
Of course, the numbers are not 100 percent accurate. In action-packed battle scenes, for example, it is more difficult to determine the exact death toll. It even gets more complicated with dragons that can literally burn entire groups of people with one breath.
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Game of Thrones: Trailer for the new action RPG shows familiar characters
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Rank 5: Jon Snow
In the last place of this ranking is Jon Snow. Even though he knows little, he has 112 deaths on his conscience. The main reason for this is his skillful use of Longclaw, his sword made of Valyrian steel.
Since childhood, Jon has trained almost daily for battle. First with the sword master of the Starks, then with the training of the Night’s Watch. With his skills, he manages to survive even in the dangerous North beyond the Wall.
He has most of his kills fittingly in the episode Beyond the Wall (Season 7, Episode 6). Jon and his companions are on an expedition in the North to capture a wight. They are attacked by an army of wights, of which Jon can eliminate 42. Admittedly, wights were already dead. But they die again, which is why they were included in the statistics.
Rank 4: Cersei Lannister
Cersei Lannister might not be suspected on this list at first glance. After all, she is not a classic fighter. She prefers to act in the background and spin political intrigues. Nevertheless, she has killed 199 people.
Almost all of these deaths come from a single scene: the explosion of the Great Sept of Baelor (Season 6, Episode 10). There was supposed to be a trial against Cersei there. But she does not appear. Instead, she uses the highly explosive wildfire that the mad king stored in the catacombs beneath King’s Landing and blows up the Sept. In doing so, she kills several of her rivals, including Margaery Tyrell and the High Sparrow.
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Akira Toriyama has drawn so many characters throughout Dragon Ball that he couldn’t even remember all of them. One of these characters, unfortunately, made his last appearance not in the anime and manga, but in a special story.
Which character is it? Lunch is one of the characters that Akira Toriyama forgot. In the manga, she regularly disappeared during the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament. After that, she only had minor appearances in the Dragon Ball Z anime until she ultimately only appeared in flashbacks and during Son-Goku’s Genkidama in the Boo arc.
Akira Toriyama even retroactively gave her an ending, in which she fell in love with Tenshinhan and lived with him on a farm for a while. Unfortunately, there was no happy ending for the two, and their love story was never seen in the anime and manga.
There was another appearance where Lunch was last seen in Dragon Ball. Unfortunately, this scene does not appear in the regular anime and manga, which is why many fans may not have seen her last adventure.
The anime of Dragon Ball Super stopped in the middle of the story:
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Dragon Ball Super: The Trailer for the Anime
Lunch had a last appearance in Dragon Ball
Where did Lunch appear last? Her last appearance in the manga was split between the 3rd and 4th issues of the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, which were published in 1991. The story of “Put the Old Year Behind You! Jump Characters Face Off at Short GAG Land” takes place shortly after the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, during the Freeza saga.
The story is about the holidays and how many characters from Dragon Ball spend them. Bulma is playing on the console and Mutenroshi is sweeping the veranda of his house. Some of the deceased characters are playing hide and seek on Master Kai’s planet.
On the other hand, Lunch is desperately searching for Tenshinhan. There is a picture of her in her “evil” form. She angrily wonders where Tenshinhan could have gone. With the ending that Toriyama later gave her, we know that she probably longs for him out of love.
Why have so few fans seen Lunch’s last appearance? The Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is only published in Japan. Since the scene was not included in the official manga and the World Wide Web was only made public in 1993, not many have been able to witness Lunch’s last appearance.
The most action in Diablo 4 takes place in the endgame. Accordingly, players want to reach the maximum level 60 as quickly as possible. In Season 7, this can be done particularly quickly, namely in just a few seconds. However, it requires some preparation.
How does the fast leveling work?
Opening reward chests of the Whispering Tree grants you a big boost of experience every time. The XP lies around on the ground as golden orbs.
Now, in Season 7, it’s even faster. A user on Reddit shows a clip in which he goes from level 1 to 60 in just a few seconds. And the new season is perfect for this.
Is the method worth it? Definitely, but the shown minute is a bit misleading. First, all the chests need to be collected. This takes, according to users, about two and a half hours.
Nevertheless, the method is extremely worthwhile because you get gear with item level 750 or even 800 right away. Enough to – depending on the class – start immediately with Torment 4. And in Season 7, you’ll be farming the chests constantly anyway.
The Whispering Tree is the central element of the season and the new head hunts that are already well received provide you with plenty of Gruesome Gifts. The user explains that he was farming anyway to reach the last two levels of the Witch’s Call. But remember, increase your chances for Great Chests in the Battle Pass with Ash.
Gameplay trailer for Season 7 in Diablo 4, the Season of Witch Power
“I haven’t attacked even once until level 60”
Whoever does not want to grind first with a character at maximum level can level up enormously fast at the moment even without the chests. In the thread on Reddit, players talk about taking about half an hour to reach max level.
The reason for this is the new witch powers from Season 7. They are account-bound, leveling for each character and not individually. Powers like the Aura of Drain at level 20 ensure that characters at low levels can simply run through masses of enemies and kill them without ever having to attack.
For both methods, you first need a character at level 60; they are only suitable for second characters. Here you can find tips for fast leveling in Season 7.
However, you also have to invest a lot of time here to even get to the leveled powers. Additionally, you miss out on the legendaries and, with luck, mythical items that can drop from the chests with this method.
For many players, fast leveling of second characters is a welcome feature in Season 7. Replaying a character once per season is enough for them. Being able to try out new characters and builds after that is advantageous. If you also want to test a bit: These are the currently best builds and classes in Season 7
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With Monster Hunter Wilds, many newcomers are entering the series alongside experienced hunters. A player wonders how high the replay value of the title is.
Why is the player wondering this? User xedkox poses the question in his thread on Reddit, asking how likely it is that one would play Monster Hunter Wilds again. He has not played any Monster Hunter game before and cannot yet imagine how much time he will invest in the title.
He usually plays games like Elden Ring, Diablo 4, or Path of Exile, but finds the Monster Hunter system exciting. The community comes to his aid and explains what kind of scope he can expect.
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Monster Hunter Wilds: Daisy Ridley explains the lore
“That would mean you eventually stop”
The community talks less about classic replay value: Fans under his post clarify to him why, in their opinion, one can invest a lot of time into Monster Hunter Wilds. User STIN831 responds directly on Reddit: “There is no replay value in MH. Mainly because that would mean you eventually stop.”
In Monster Hunter games, the excitement does not come from playing it over and over from the beginning. Rather, over time a kind of cycle develops where you continually engage in grinding for rare materials to meet further challenges (via Reddit).
This is explained by ChloroquineEmu regarding a restart and game time via Reddit:
I wouldn’t call it “replay value” since you probably won’t restart the game. But if you want, you can immensely extend the playtime. There are so many things to do and so much to experiment with.
Even a base game of Monster Hunter, focusing on one weapon type, offers, according to the community’s statements, quickly over 300 hours of gameplay (via Reddit). If you want to focus on more weapon types, you could easily end up with 1000+ hours of playtime (via Reddit).
Additionally, there are regular events and usually a major DLC. All in all, you could quickly reach 2 – 4 years, during which the game provides you with new input and adds new content to the “grinding loop” (via Reddit). This ensures that there is no clear “end of the game” and players who enjoy the gameplay can basically keep playing almost endlessly.
With Monster Hunter Wilds, many newcomers will enter the series for the first time. This title is especially well-suited for beginners. The developers have paid particular attention to making the game as accessible as possible. You can read some examples of how they have implemented this here: 5 reasons that make Monster Hunter Wilds the perfect entry for beginners
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A solo kill in World of Warcraft lasts a whopping 6 hours. The trick behind it is cleverly thought out, but probably not recommended to replicate.
Raid bosses in World of Warcraft usually require the cooperation of an entire group – at least when it comes to current content. However, sometimes this requirement can be bypassed with good gear, clever manipulation of mechanics, and plenty of endurance.
Now a monk has defeated Princess Ky’veza of the Nexus – and did so without being in the boss room!
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3 absurde Bugs, die in WoW passiert sind
What happened? The player Venn has made it his mission to solo defeat some bosses from the (still) current raid “Palace of the Nerub’ar.” This time he is taking on the Nexus Princess Ky’veza with his Brewmaster monk.
Normally, the boss requires several tanks who switch out repeatedly because there’s a stackable debuff that continuously increases the damage taken. However, as a monk, Venn is able to mitigate the damage accordingly to survive these attacks long enough until the phase transition occurs.
The real problem is that Ky’veza has an enrage timer. After going through her combat pattern 3 times, she falls into a “soft enrage” and casts the spell “Darkness” – a channeled spell that deals a lot of damage and eventually wipes out the entire raid group.
At least if one can’t find a way to avoid the ability – and that’s exactly what Venn manages to do.
How does it work? Venn placed his transcendence outside the boss fight, allowing him to teleport out of the room at the start of the enrage phase and avoid the damage.
However, doing so also breaks the line of sight and prevents Venn from dealing any damage – except for two trinkets! Because his two trinkets have passive effects that deal damage to an attacker, do not need line of sight, and have no range limitation.
For the next 6 hours, Venn stands close to the door repeatedly to briefly get hit by “Darkness.” This triggers the two trinkets that deal minimal damage before he steps back and heals himself.
This process repeats over and over – for a very, very long time.
The entire fight lasts a staggering 6 hours, resulting in the kill video being over 2 hours long, despite being played at triple speed:
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Why doesn’t the boss reset? There are several conditions that must be met for bosses in raids to reset. This varies by boss, but usually includes:
All characters are dead, or there are no valid targets left (such as through stealth or playing dead).
The boss is forced to leave its original room (for example, because it wants to reach characters outside the room).
Multiple abilities in succession hit no targets.
Is this an exploit? In the end: Yes, definitely. It shouldn’t technically be possible to defeat the princess while being outside of her room. The fact that her ability easily reaches outside of the room and that there’s a way to defeat her with trinkets that don’t require line of sight is an exploit. It will likely be fixed in an upcoming patch.
However, the fact that this method exists to defeat Ky’veza and has been discovered is still a remarkable achievement – just as the circumstance of participating in a single fight for over 6 hours. While most players complain if a boss fight lasts longer than 10 minutes, this is quite an outstanding accomplishment. Venn had previously soloed another boss in the raid.
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In Pokémon GO, Moltres appears for the first time in its Dynamax form. We will show you how to best prepare for the battle.
When will Dyna-Moltres be available? You can find and challenge Dyna-Moltres for the first time on Monday, February 3, 2025, in the game. You have from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM to find the Pokémon on Dyna-Monday in a large part of the power sources.
After Dyna-Monday, Moltres will remain available in Dynamax battles with 5-stars until Monday, February 10, 2025, at 9:00 PM.
Since Moltres is a legendary Dynamax Pokémon, you should be well-prepared for battle to defeat the Pokémon and add it to your collection.
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1. Bring your best counters against Dynamax-Moltres
What weaknesses does Moltres have? The Pokémon possesses the types Fire and Flying. Therefore, it has a double weakness against Rock and a single weakness against Water and Electric. You can see how type effectiveness works in our type chart for Pokémon GO.
What should I use to attack Moltres? Although Moltres has a double weakness to Rock, you can’t bring strong Rock attackers for the battle. The reason is that there are currently no Dynamax monsters of the Rock type, which has already caused criticism from the community.
For the types Water and Electric, you have some options to rely on for the battle. Remember to teach your Pokémon the correct Dynamax attack.
Gigantamax Blastoise with Water Gun
Gigantamax Kingler with Bubble
Gigantamax Rhyperior with Spark Jump
Dynamax Blastoise with Water Gun
Dynamax Rhyperior with Spark Jump
Dynamax Inteleon with Water Gun
Dynamax Kingler with Bubble
Dynamax Zapdos with Thunder Shock
What should I use to defend against Moltres? To absorb the strong damage from Moltres, there are currently not many options suitable for this purpose. Depending on what attacks Moltres has, you should choose between 2 to 4 options.
Gigantamax Blastoise with Water Gun
Dynamax Blastoise with Water Gun
If Moltres does not have Fire attacks but relies on Wing Attack and Ancient Power instead, you can also use the following Pokémon for defense:
Dynamax Metagross with Zen Headbutt
Dynamax Excadrill with Metal Claw
2. Switch your Pokémon in and out according to their roles
Dyna-Moltres is a legendary Pokémon and thus harder to defeat. You need to be a bit more strategic and not just go in with one Pokémon on constant attack.
Use your defensive Pokémon to absorb attacks from Moltres and charge your Dyna-meter. Once it’s full, switch to your attackers and deal significant damage. After your attacks, you should bring your defenders back into play.
Also, remember the Dyna-shield and Dyna-healing and assign trainers for these functions accordingly.
3. Don’t go into battle alone
Alone, you will not stand a chance against Dyna-Moltres. Therefore, you should take other trainers with you and ideally start the battle with a complete Dyna-group consisting of 4 trainers.
If you have a complete group where each trainer knows their role and has the appropriate Pokémon, then you increase your chances of a successful battle against the monster.
To enable your Pokémon to deal and withstand more damage, you should upgrade them accordingly. Evolve your monsters to their highest evolutionary stages and level them up.
Using the right Dyna-attacks and levelling up Dyna-attacks is also crucial to successfully engaging in battle. If one of your Pokémon still lacks the correct Dyna-attack, you can change it using TMs.
Your Pokémon’s Dyna-attack is determined by the Instant Attack that your monster knows.
In addition to the debut of Dyna-Moltres, many other events and content will also start in the game in February. If you want an overview of when which special content will be available, feel free to take a look at our overview of all events in February 2025 in Pokémon GO.
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Steve Barsh can call himself a millionaire. However, this is just his side job, which he spends 1 hour a day on. He never intended to become a property manager. But he was so frustrated with his landlord that he took on the job himself. He says the secret is to take guests’ feedback seriously.
Steve Barsh was actually an IT engineer of his own software company. However, in 1999, he sold the company and, together with his wife, bought a condominium.
Subsequently, the couple rented out the apartment because they only wanted to vacation there. After two years, Barsh began managing short-term rentals out of frustration about having to send 40% of the rental income to a local property management company. This led to the creation of the company “Parker Chase Properties.”
How much does Steve Barsh earn today? In 2024, his company generated $1.4 million in revenue from bookings via VRBO, Airbnb, and the travel software platform Hospitable. Converted, that’s about €1.27 million. Barsh himself estimates that he earns 40 to 50% of his side business’s revenue as profit. These figures were disclosed to the English-language magazine CNBC.com.
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High investments to start: $1.4 million sounds like a lot, but it also involves significant investment: Barsh and his wife now own four apartments and spent about $6 million to buy three of them in 2019, each with a $100,000 down payment. The money mostly came from the sale of a business belonging to his wife.
Currently, the average rental price for Parker Chase in 2025 is $3,390 per night.
Barsh manages the properties together with a housekeeper and a backup manager who steps in when he is out of the country, he says.
How much work time does he need to dedicate to his job? He uses artificial intelligence tools to draft and schedule messages to guests, and programs lock codes to adjust automatically to the guests’ phone numbers. This allows him to work only one or two hours a day on Parker Chase. During the day, he is a startup investor for venture businesses; that is his actual job.
A “mathematical formula” and visitor feedback
A formula for success: Steve Barsh explained that behind the success lies a formula with which one can calculate success and profits. He explains this in an interview with CNBC.com:
We have learned that it is like a mathematical formula. The rule of thumb, based on the mortgage rates [in 2019], is: We want to achieve 10% of the property’s value in rental income in a year. If we buy a property worth $1 million, we must convince ourselves that we can achieve $100,000 in rental income. This results in a positive cash flow.
What else plays a big role in his success? The answer may be surprising, but Barsh explained that one must take the needs of customers seriously since there is a lot of competition out there:
More than half of startups fail because they do not solve a significant and urgent problem that matters to people. In both jobs, I ask exactly the same questions. First, people who want to offer short-term rentals must understand: Who is their customer? Is your target guest staying in a Hilton? Are they staying in a Motel 6? Are they staying in a Ritz-Carlton?
Then you need to develop your central differentiating feature – what makes you unique when you have a lot of competition. I recognized this early on: Our guests really like nice things. We have Cuisinart products, incredibly comfortable leather armchairs, and 85-inch flat-screen TVs.
For this reason, one would take the time to furnish the apartments nicely so that guests feel comfortable:
People look at what we do and ask: Why did you do that? They are tenants. I say: Because they are not tenants. They are guests, and they should be treated like guests.
The cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket appear in booster packs at different frequencies. With 3 free boosters, the development team gives you a chance to obtain the coveted cards.
What kind of chance is that? Soon there will be an event in Pokémon TCG Pocket where 3 boosters will be distributed. These are:
1 Mewtwo Booster (Unbeatable Genes)
1 Charizard Booster (Unbeatable Genes)
1 Pikachu Booster (Unbeatable Genes)
The packs contain the same cards that you would normally find in the boosters. But there’s a little twist that makes them special: The 5th card of a pack is 100% a card that has at least a rarity of ♢♢♢♢.
With that, you’ll definitely get an ex-, Full-Art-, or an Immersive card in each of the packs. That makes a total of 3 rare free cards that you will receive through the packs.
The new expansion can be found in the following trailer:
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3 Free Cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket Coming Soon
When are the boosters coming? The 3 free packs will be distributed starting February 27, 2025. You just need to log into the game to receive the cards. However, you only have a limited time to pick up the boosters: They will be available only until April 30, 2025. The 2 months should be enough for you to collect them.
Where can I find them? Once you log into the game, you will find the boosters in the gifts menu. You can access this by clicking on the gift box in the upper right corner.
What do players say about it? In the Reddit forum, there are some players who wish for a change to the boosters. They want the 1-star cards to be excluded from the promotion. The 1-star cards cost fewer coins in the trade function than the cards with a rarity of ♢♢♢♢.
Other users, on the other hand, cannot understand why players are complaining. After all, the developers have taken the criticism about trading to heart and are working on it. One should not take out frustration on free cards.
The developers of Path of Exile are indeed bringing a new league, and it’s supposed to be crazier than anything before.
What promise is being referred to? The developers of Path of Exile and its successor have repeatedly emphasized during development that both games would be programmed side by side. Path of Exile 1 should not suffer from the fact that they are working on PoE2.
Due to the increasing pressure from the release date, Game Director Jonathan Rogers ultimately decided to involve the experienced PoE1 developers after all. The tasks in PoE2 are so extensive that the former PoE1 developers are to continue working on the successor today and in the future.
This is how the bosses of Path of Exile 2 are created:
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Crazy league coming to Path of Exile
What have the developers now announced? Due to the massive protest from the community, the developers are now deviating from their original plan and bringing a major content update for Path of Exile 1.
In an announcement on pathofexile.com, the developers show what they are planning. They are announcing a month-long event league that includes content they previously considered too “crazy” for the game.
As an example, the developers mention a major change that has never occurred before. There are supposed to be 19 new ascendants, i.e., subclasses, for the crazy event. “What does Path of Exile 1 look like if you can play a witch and ascend to Harbinger?” the developers ask in the post.
What else is known? The developers explain in their statement that they have now redistributed internal resources to Path of Exile 1 to enable the content update. However, it remains unknown whether they will stay there once the update is released.
As of now, it is also not known when the month-long event league is set to start. Since the work has likely just begun, players will probably have to be patient. The developers promise to release more details about the content update soon and look forward to the gamers’ reactions to their even crazier ideas.
That the developers are listening to the community and are now at least trying to keep their promise to some extent pleases gamers in initial reactions under the post. Now it remains to be seen whether the mood will stay so positive when the event league is still a long time coming. Meanwhile, not all players are happy in the successor: A mechanic in Path of Exile 2 torments every solo player, blocking progress in the endgame
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Adventurers who have found their place in the multiverse of Dungeons & Dragons often have to face crunchy bosses and powerful villains. MeinMMO has put together an overview of some particularly powerful representatives that every player should know.
What role do villains play in Dungeons & Dragons? In the pen-and-paper role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (DnD), villains play a central role as opponents who provide challenges for the players and drive the story forward. They can act as mere puppet masters or serve as challenging boss enemies.
Roleplayers often refer to such adversaries as BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy), which stands for the main antagonist of a campaign. The BBEG is a powerful enemy who devises plans and puts obstacles in the heroes’ way until the thrilling final battle occurs.
The lore of Dungeons & Dragons offers a wide range of personalities and creatures perfectly suited for this role. We have compiled 10 of the most powerful adversaries that every player should know.
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As the story differs between the editions of Dungeons & Dragons, the selection of characters is based on the opinion and experience of MeinMMO editor Alexander Schürlein. The background information is meant to give a rough overview of what makes the respective villain stand out. Feel free to let us know in the comments if your favorite villain is missing here.
Who is writing here? MeinMMO editor Alexander has been at home in various pen-and-paper role-playing games for over 15 years. From Dungeons & Dragons to Pathfinder, Shadowrun, The Dark Eye, and Call of Cthulhu to The Black Cat, hardly any system is safe from him. His greatest passion is Faerûn in the DnD multiverse, where he has been experiencing adventures for years.
Some villains from Dungeons & Dragons can also be encountered in video games that have little to do with them – for example, Vecna has a place in Dead by Daylight:
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Count Strahd von Zarovich
Strahd von Zarovich
Count Strahd von Zarovich is a notorious vampire lord who captivates players with his equally charismatic and sinister aura. He is cursed to rule over the realm of Barovia. Strahd was once born as a mortal noble but fell to dark magic and made a pact that turned him into an undead tyrant.
He is in love with Tatyana, a woman he constantly loses as she is reborn in different eras. Strahd’s reign is marked by fear, pain, and despair. His castle Ravenloft is an iconic location in DnD, full of dangers, secrets, and gothic horror atmosphere.
With his vampiric and magical abilities that enhance him and make him mostly immortal, he poses a serious threat to adventurers who dare to confront him. As befits a vampire lord, he does not outright eliminate you but stages an exciting game of cat and mouse that often drives players to despair.
Strahd is among the most popular and well-known adversaries in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. He is a part of many adventures and appears repeatedly in various books and media. With “Curse of Strahd,” there is even an entire campaign book dedicated to him.
Zariel
Zariel
Zariel is a fallen angel and now the warlord of the first layer of hell called Avernus. Originally, she was a Solar, a celestial general driven by her unyielding hatred of demons. She led an army of mortal warriors into the “Bloody Battle” – an eternal war between demons and devils.
But her hatred became her doom: she succumbed to darkness and was eventually transformed into an Archdevil by Asmodeus, the supreme lord of the Nine Hells. Now she serves as a brutal ruler, battling endless hordes of demons from the Abyss in Avernus.
She is an excellent melee fighter, harming her opponents with powerful magic and a flail that replaces one of her arms. She also possesses the ability to see through any illusion and invisibility, making it difficult to outsmart her.
In the campaign book “Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus,” players can confront Zariel – either to defeat her or perhaps even to redeem her.
Page 2 continues with Demogorgon, Asmodeus, and Orcus.
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It could have been so good for RP players in World of Warcraft. But a small detail makes a new feature in patch 11.1 much worse than necessary.
The RP community of World of Warcraft has been quite frugal in recent years, but has been equipped with some nice features in the last expansions. For example, the large tents have become a permanent fixture in RP and weather machines have also become an important part of many RP events.
In patch 11.1 Lorenhalt there are now a number of new items that allow characters to use numerous new “emotes”. But Blizzard makes a drastic mistake – and limits the items to a very small area.
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What are these items? In Lorenhalt there is the club “The Low Blow”. This is a place where fights take place and somewhat resembles the “Fight Club”. The special thing is that it is not a PvP location, but a place where conflicts can be represented with special items.
Through various items, you can display health points above your character as red markers. Various “guide” items allow your characters to take on special animations. For example, you can have your character represented as “stunned”, “played dead”, or “knocked down” for 15 minutes.
The folks at wowhead have already tried this out:
You can also have your characters assume various combat animations – such as for unarmed combat, weapon combat, or magical fights. This is otherwise only possible by targeting a hostile target and right-clicking it.
The idea behind the items: When roleplayers engage in fights, they are usually represented through dice conflicts (similar to pen & paper). However, there are only very limited ways to represent this in the game with appropriate animations. With all these “guide” items, this can be done – stuns, damage, and defeat can be visually represented and enrich the roleplay.
What is the problem with the items? Unfortunately, for the roleplay community, the items are almost useless, because they have a very drastic limitation: They can only be used within the area “The Low Blow” – the fight club where you can also purchase the items.
Everywhere else in the world, the items cannot be used. Anyone who wants to use the items in RP must therefore conduct the conflicts in Lorenhalt in the aforementioned club. This is a massive limitation and makes the items unattractive for most scenarios.
Why is there the limitation? This is not quite clear. One assumption is that Blizzard does not want characters to be able to use various emotes like “stunned” or “played dead” all over the world, as this could cause confusion in PvP situations in the open world.
However, there is still some time until the release of patch 11.1 Lorenhalt. Maybe Blizzard will reconsider that the restriction to the location might not be what roleplayers want. Because even if Blizzard sometimes builds special locations just for RP fans – they certainly didn’t want this.
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In Path of Exile 2 plays the Witch with her army of Minions similar to a Necromancer. We show you a Witch build that allows you to go through all acts to the endgame.
Update, April 3, 2025: The article has been reviewed and is up to date.
What kind of build is this? This is the “Minion Infernalist” build for the Witch in Path of Exile 2. The Witch is one of the classes you can currently play in the Early Access of PoE 2. The build we present here refers to the subclass “Infernalist”, with which the Witch casts powerful fire spells, commands an army of the undead, and summons a Hellhound.
The build guide is based on our own player experiences since the release of the “Early Access” version of Path of Exile 2 and the experts from maxroll.gg. The build is regularly adjusted and updated.
We show you in our guide how you should optimally skill your Witch throughout your entire journey and what you need to know in the endgame regarding the gems and gameplay. In the build, you use skills from the categories “Occult” and “Elemental”.
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Skills for the Beginning: From Act 1 to Act 3
Here’s how you get through the three acts: As you play through the campaign with its three acts, you expand your army of Minions. The Minions support you in combat and are the main component of your build. The key point is the skill “Flaming Skull” that you receive during the campaign. Note that you will need to place support gems into other skills in between.
Act 1: All Skills and Gems
The following skills are used in Act 1:
Chaos Bolt (obtained via your wand)
Skeleton Warrior (obtained via your scepter)
Support Gems: Flesh Shield, Elemental Army
Corruption
Exhumation
Support Gem: unstable creatures
Skeleton Snipers
Support Gems: Combat Tempo, Fire Infusion
Fire Wall
Support Gem: Fortress
Debilitate
Support Gem: Arcane Tempo
Skill Bar: Chaos Bolt, Corruption, Exhumation, Skeleton Snipers, Fire Wall, Debilitate
As soon as you receive gems of higher levels, you add the following skills:
Skeleton Arsonist (instead of Skeleton Snipers)
Support Gems: Spread Shot, Concentrated Effect
Weaknesses
Support Gem: Curse Maximizer
Flaming Skull (you receive an uncut gem from a campaign boss that unlocks the special skill) → the most important skill for the build!
Support Gems: Combat Tempo, Fire Infusion
Sacrificial Pain
Support Gems: Enlarged Effect, Persistence
Skill Bar: Corruption, Exhumation, Skeleton Arsonist, Fire Wall, Debilitate, Weaknesses, Sacrificial Pain (the remaining are “permanent skills”, thus activating by themselves)
To activate permanent skills (like Flaming Skull), use the key displayed when you hover over the skill.
Act 2: All Skills and Gems
What do I change in Act 2? In Act 2, you receive gems of higher levels, allowing you to replace the skill “Weaknesses” with “Flammability”. This buffs the damage of the Flaming Skull.
In Act 2, you will also face the “Trial of the Sekhem”. If you complete it, you will unlock your subclass (Ascendancy) and further skill options. For example, you will receive a Hellhound that you can also summon.
The following skills are used in Act 2:
Skeleton Warrior (obtained via your scepter)
Support Gems: Flesh Shield, Elemental Army
when using the Hellhound skill: Brutality, Last Breath
Corruption/Sparks
Exhumation
Support Gem: unstable creatures
Skeleton Arsonist
Support Gems: Spread Shot, Concentrated Effect
Fire Wall
Support Gems: Fortress, Arcane Wave
Flammability
Support Gems: Curse Maximizer, Spell Cascade
Flaming Skull
Support Gems: Combat Tempo, Fire Infusion
Sacrificial Pain
Support Gems: Persistence, Enlarged Effect
Hellhound
Support Gems: Flesh Shield, Elemental Army
Skill Bar: Corruption/Sparks, Exhumation, Skeleton Arsonist, Fire Wall, Flammability, Sacrificial Pain
Instead of Corruption, the skill “Sparks” is also recommended as it unleashes spark projectiles that seek out enemies. This is particularly helpful if you want to stay at a distance.
If you play with the “Hellhound” skill, you will place the support gems “Flesh Shield” and “Elemental Army” there. Instead, you can add “Brutality” and “Last Breath” to the Skeleton Warriors. If you complete the “Trial of the Sekhem” later, you can leave your Skeleton Warriors as they are.
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Act 3: All Skills and Gems
What do I change in Act 3? In Act 3, you do not change anything about the skills you use. However, you receive spheres for further versions of your support gems and can thus easily expand the skills. You improve the levels of your skills, add more support gems, and build Will, which you need for many skills and Minions. From Act 3, support gems of level 2 drop.
The following support gems are added in Act 3:
Flaming Skull: Piercing Fire (instead of Combat Tempo), Feast
Skeleton Warrior: Shard (instead of Last Breath), Mutilate
Skeleton Arsonist: Combat Tempo
Hellhound: Fiery Death
Skill Bar: Corruption/Sparks, Exhumation, Fire Wall, Flammability, Sacrificial Pain
Tip: To see all support gems, uncheck the box “Show recommended gems”.
Minion Infernalist: Gameplay of the Witch
How does the build play? The gameplay carries through all three acts, with small changes to your skills and support gems:
One of the most important skills for the build that you unlock is Fire Wall. This causes fire damage, but more importantly: later, Flaming Skull will fly out from the Fire Wall and automatically attack enemies. Basically, you can then spam your Fire Wall as long as you have enough mana and grill your enemies with the Flaming Skulls. The Flaming Skulls do not appear in the skill bar and are permanent.
Additionally, Flammability reduces the fire resistance of enemies. You will therefore need that skill in the skill bar.
Exhumation adds damage to enemies and assembles creatures from the corpses in the area that temporarily fight for you. Use the skill while the Flaming Skulls grill your enemies to always have as many Minions as possible.
Corruption weakens enemies and deals chaos damage over time. If you have too many skills in your bar or generally want to press fewer keys, that’s the skill you can leave out. Alternatively, Sparks is recommended to deal damage to enemies from further away.
Sacrificial Pain buffs your Minions – with support gems, they no longer die as quickly.
Your scepter gives you Skeleton Warriors that revive themselves. You don’t need to equip the skill in your skill bar; the skeletons spawn and support you automatically.
Your Skeleton Snipers also fight and revive themselves, but you can still press the command that makes them shoot a gas arrow at enemies. You can use as many snipers as your will allows.
If you replace the Skeleton Snipers with the Skeleton Arsonists during Act 1, two will suffice. The Arsonists can explode other creatures on command. Otherwise, they also support you automatically in combat without you needing to activate anything.
The Hellhound ignites enemies and takes a portion of the damage you would otherwise suffer. You do not equip the skill in your bar; it is permanent.
Pay attention to the display in the upper left corner. There, you see how many Minions are active. You can have up to 10 Flaming Skulls active at the same time. If it is less, place another Fire Wall.
Witch Build: Equipment
What items do I equip? In the campaign, you primarily encounter enemies that deal physical damage. Here, equipment items that increase your armor and energy shield are beneficial. It is also important to increase your resistances to fire, cold, lightning, and chaos damage. You can add sockets to armor and use runes that increase resistances, armor, and other defensive values.
It is important to increase your maximum life points. A high movement speed is also essential to dodge attacks and better handle timed trials.
Regarding your main and off-hand, it is advisable to equip a scepter and a shield. Scepters grant you the skill “Skeleton Warriors”, which you don’t need on your skill bar. Attributes that relate to your Minions are suitable here, such as:
Level on Minion Skills
Allies deal increased damage
Allies have increased attack speed
Increased Will
Tip: Check in regularly with the NPC merchants. After each level-up of your player character, the offer changes, and you can get really powerful items. If you are short on gold, collect as much gear as possible and teleport back to town in between to sell it.
Witch Build: Ascendancy Class
What are Ascendancy classes? They existed in the first Path of Exile and allow you to specialize your class by following the path of an Ascendancy. You receive the first points for your specialization in Act 2 through the “Trial of the Sekhem”.
You follow the Infernalist path and gradually equip the following points:
Faithful Hellhound
Altered Flesh
Will of Beidat
Hand of Beidat
By following this path, you receive a Hellhound that reduces the damage that hits you. Additionally, you gain more life points, more Will, and a higher energy shield.
Witch Build: Passive Skills
How do I distribute my passive skill points? For Acts 1-3 and the Cruel mode, you work your way to the right and then up and activate the points that relate to your Minions. This includes, among others:
Minions deal increased damage
Minions have increased health
Minions are revived faster
Minions have increased movement speed
Here you see recommended minion nodes and the order in which to collect them.
In between, you grab points that increase your intelligence, which is essential for the build. If you lack intelligence points, you cannot improve/equip certain skills. Once you have “enough” intelligence, you can also spend individual points on strength or dexterity, depending on what your gear requires.
A complete skill tree for all acts and the endgame can be found at maxroll.gg.
At the NPC “The Veiled”, you can revise your skills for gold. He also has another useful function:
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This NPC in Path of Exile 2 identifies your items
Skills for the “Cruel” Mode
In the Early Access of Path of Exile 2, there are currently 3 acts, but later there should be 6. To compensate for the missing Acts 4-6, the developers introduced the Cruel mode. Once you have completed Act 3, you play through the game again in Cruel mode from Act 1 to Act 3 – but this time the difficulty is higher than before.
What do I change in Cruel Mode? In Cruel mode, additional skills and support gems are added. “Grim Feast” provides you with higher defense by making enemies drop remains upon death that fill up your energy shield.
The following skills are used in Cruel mode:
Skeleton Warrior (obtained via your scepter – the better it is, the more slots for support gems you have available)
Support Gems: Brutality, Shard, Mutilate
Exhumation
Support Gem: unstable creatures, Legion of Hellfire
Skeleton Arsonist
Support Gems: Spread Shot, Muscle Power, Combat Tempo
Fire Wall
Support Gems: Fortress, Arcane Wave
Flammability
Support Gems: Curse Maximizer, Spell Cascade, Inspiration
Flaming Skull
Support Gems: Elemental Focus, Feast, Fire Infusion
Sacrificial Pain
Support Gems: Enlarged Effect, Persistence
Hellhound
Support Gems: Flesh Shield, Elemental Army, Fiery Death, Strip Away (once you have a 4th slot)
Sparks
Support Gems: Arcane Tempo, Unleash
Grim Feast
Clarity
Skill Bar: Exhumation, Sparks, Fire Wall, Flammability, Sacrificial Pain
What do I change in the endgame? Upon reaching the endgame, you will adjust a few of your skills, add some, and upgrade existing ones. Here too, you rely on a large army of Minions and the powerful Flaming Skulls, but also on defensive skills. If you play the Stones in Path of Exile 2, the skill Corpse Explosion is suitable for faster clearing.
Endgame: All Skills and Gems
The following skills are suitable for starting in the endgame:
Hellhound
Support Gems: Flesh Shield, Fire Susceptibility, Strip Away, Fire Mastery, Burning Flame
Corpse Explosion -> Use a gem of level 7-10 here, as the mana costs would otherwise be too high
Support Gems: Spell Echo, Brutality, Enlarged Effect, Arcane Tempo
Flammability
Support Gems: Spell Cascade, Curse Maximizer, Inspiration, Persistence, Focused Curse
Skeleton Warrior
Support Gems: Mutilate, Shard, Death Blow, Blind
Skeleton Arsonist
Support Gems: Muscle Power, Spread Shot, Combat Tempo, Fire Infusion, Last Breath
Fire Wall
Support Gems: Fortress, Mobility, Arcane Wave
Flaming Skull
Support Gems: Feast, Creature Control, Elemental Focus, Fire Sacrifice
Sacrificial Pain
Support Gems: Fountain of Delirium, Blood Fountain, Mana Fountain, Strip Away
Skeleton Storm Mage
Support Gems: Charge, Storm Fire, Overload, Piercing Lightning
The “Minion Infernalist” build for the Witch in Path of Exile 2 is a good choice for all content and could be just right for you if you usually like to play Necromancers. With small adjustments, you are safe for all acts, the Cruel mode, and the endgame. You can get an insight into the classes from Early Access here: Path of Exile 2: Tier List of the strongest classes in the game
This is an AI-powered translation. Some inaccuracies might exist.
