10 Tips For Playing Helltide Solo In Diablo 4
If you want to play through Diablo 4’s Helltide events to get their prizes, you can do so easily by yourself if you follow these tips.
When you reach World Tier 3 in Diablo 4, you can play much harder material that will give you a lot of rewards if you can get through it without dying. One of these more difficult events is Helltide, which happens about once every two hours and lasts for about an hour.
During this time, you can fight monsters that are getting harder and harder, open Tortured Chests, and get some great Legendary and Sacred gear. But if you don’t feel up to it, you don’t have to take on Helltide with a group. If you’re strong enough and up for a task, you can easily take on Helltide on your own.
Prioritize World Events
If you see an open World Event during Helltide, you should go there right away. They can be hard to do on your own, but the amount of Aberrant Cinders you can get from an event more than makes up for the trouble and time it takes to do them. Even though both the Radiant and Greater Radiant chests will give you Aberrant Cinders, the Greater Radiant chest will give you a lot more, even if it doesn’t give you better Legendaries or sacred things.
Avoid The Helltide Assassin
You will probably run into the Helltide Assassin at least once while you are taking part. No matter what level you are, you should do everything you can to stay away from him. This is not because it is necessarily dangerous, but because trying to fight it is not worth it at all.It won’t be worth your time unless you’re at a high enough level to kill it easily or a few other people are also after it.
Even though it’s hard, the Helltide Assassin isn’t one of the best world bosses to fight because it takes too long and doesn’t drop nearly enough Aberrant Cinders or things when it finally dies.
Target Elite Enemies
If you’re in the Helltide area and you see an Elite enemy, you should go straight for it. Even though Elite enemies are harder, especially if you get caught in the middle of a swarm, the Aberrant Cinders they drop make it worth it.Elite enemies make it easier to farm Aberrant Cinders, and you’re more likely to get enough for one or two Tortured Chests if you focus on finding them instead of stopping for every small group that comes your way.
Keep An Eye On Your Health
Even though it sounds easy to keep an eye on your health and not die, it’s much harder than you might think during Helltide. It’s easy to run out of potions, and it’s even easier to die if you get pulled into the middle of a group of enemies by accident.
Take the time to open Tortured Soul caches and chests often because you’ll need the potions they drop. If all else fails, die and run back to town to fix your armor and visit a doctor. Just try to get to town as quickly as possible and hope you can get back the Aberrant Crystals you lost when you died.
Spend Your Aberrant Cinders, Don’t Hoard
The most expensive Tortured Gift, the Tortured Gift of Mystery, only costs 175 Aberrant Cinders, so there’s really no reason to save up as many as you can. If you try to keep more Cinders than that, you’ll either die and lose half of your Aberrant Cinders, or you’ll lose half of the Cinders you already have.The worst thing that could happen is that you don’t notice when the Helltide Event stops, and then all of your hard work is lost.
Check the map for the chest you want, see how many Aberrant Cinders you need, work toward that goal, and then open the chest as soon as possible.
Only Grab Legendary Items
You should only pick up Legendary and Sacred items. Anything else will just take up room in your inventory and waste your time. If your collection fills up too quickly, you’ll have to stop in town to scrap everything at the Blacksmith or take too long to get rid of it.So, the best thing to do is be careful about what you buy in the first place and keep track of your stock. That doesn’t mean you can’t go to town, but you should try to make those trips as short and few as possible.
Use Your Horse To Get Around
During Helltide, you’ll run into a lot of enemies, but not all of them are worth fighting if you’re trying to get to a World Event. Don’t be afraid to dash around the map on your horse or teleport if you’re a magician.If you get stuck in a big group, you can also use your horse to run away. You just have to be quick to make the horse run (rather than just getting off). If you don’t have great speed, running around is a waste of time when you have a horse at this point in 8 Ball Pool.
Round Up Groups Of Enemies
Instead of dealing with small groups of enemies one at a time, try to get them all together into one big group before you start hurting them. It’s a bit more dangerous and much easier to get stuck in the middle of a swarm, but it saves more time and is much more fun.
Make sure you don’t wait too long before you start doing damage, because if the enemies move too far from where they started, they will run back to where they started.
Follow Other Players
You don’t have to be in a group to follow other players, whether they’re in a group or playing alone. When you’re near other players, your XP will go up, and you can both enjoy enemy and chest drops.Helltide can be very hard, but at the very least, following other players around will make things a little bit easier. You can also get other players to join world events by using the “follow me” or “help” emotes, but you should remember to thank them when the event is over.
Play Both Offense And Defense
You can’t just play attack or defense in Helltide, and if you do, you’ll die because Helltide will test all of your skills, abilities, and gear. If you don’t have good gear or skills, you’ll have trouble in Helltide, whether you’re by yourself or with others.Level up your gear at the blacksmith and make sure you have good Legendary powers, the right gems in the right gear, and a good build so you don’t die too often. Feel free to try things out and return skills or Paragon Points so you can play around a bit when the next Helltide comes around.