With Season 4 came the new endgame activity “The Pit” in Diablo 4. It is meant to collect various materials. A player has now found out that he is unnecessarily doing too many runs to farm. He was not aware of a simple mechanic.
What is the Pit good for? The Pit is a new endgame activity that was introduced with Season 4 in Diablo 4. In the Pit, there are three different types of materials that have increasing rarity. You need the special materials to improve your equipment at the blacksmith through completion. For the initial stages of completion, Obsidian is used, then Ingolith and on levels 9 to 12 Low Iron.
The rarity of the materials also plays a role at the Pit levels. Thus, you receive Obsidian in the early stages, Ingolith from level 31 and Low Iron from level 61. One player reported on reddit that he “spammed” Pit level 30 to farm Obsidian. Now he has realized that this was completely unnecessary.
Convert instead of farming uselessly
What did the player do? On reddit, user “nakedhouse” writes on June 19, 2024, that he was repeatedly running Pit level 30 to get Obsidian. He needed so much because the right affixes of his equipment were not “critically” improved at level 4 of completion. Apparently, he reset the items again and again – and kept running Pit level 30.
Why was that unnecessary? “nakedhouse” apparently thought that he had to run certain Pit levels to get certain materials. In this case, Obsidian, which is available until level 30. Only now has he found out that converting the materials at the alchemist is much more worthwhile. He previously thought, “the conversion is a 1:1:1 ratio.”
At the alchemist, you can convert about ten Ingolith into 30 Obsidian. Others even recommend only running high levels in the Pit and converting the Low Iron.
“I do level 90 [of the Pit] at the same speed as level 30. Basically, I farmed Obsidian nine times slower than I could,” writes “nakedhouse” in his post. He adds afterward: “Edit: It seems I’m not alone in this. I’m glad I could help […].”
What do other players say about this? In the comments, several users note that they also did not know this. For example, “taneora” writes: “Looks like it’s time to stop spamming the 30s Pits, thanks.”
And “AuthorAncient3534” felt the same way: “So if I just convert, I get a lot more Obsidian? Damn, I’ve wasted so much time.”
User “Aorak” reports that he stopped doing Pit runs because he thought he had to farm low levels for Obsidian. “That’s a game-changer,” he notes. And “yeahboiwahoo” writes: “I wasn’t aware of that, thank you! I was tired of running 30s.” User “macumba_virtual” adds: “To be honest, I don’t think the game even tells you that.”
Others recommend that the items you have already improved through “completion” and no longer need should definitely be dismantled. In Diablo 4, you need quite a bit of gold – whether for crafting, resetting “completion” or for “rerolling” affixes. But even if you lack gold, you should never sell your improved items.
