Diablo 4 open world, currencies, merchants, classes, paragon, specialization, NPC merchants, PvP, guild, shop, complete beginner's guide!

This guide has been updated with the patch 1.4.

Classes, Specialization, Skills, and Tiers

Five classes are playable, Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Sorcerer, and Rogue. For each class, from your level 15 you will receive a specialization quest, except the Necromancer who can use it level 19. Once completed, you will unlock the specialization in order to improve certain traits of your character. You can find the details of these specializations in our Diablo 4 class guide.

You will unlock the levels of new skills as you go along, by spending points:

• 2
• 4, total 6
• 5, total 11
• 5, total 16
• 7, total 23, ultimate active
• 10, total 33, ultimate passive

Once the max level is reached, currently 50, you will unlock the Paragon system. You will be able to improve your character's overall power through a glyph system. A complete guide will be dedicated to this complex system.

attributes

Here are the attributes and their usefulness, be careful they change according to the class. Your character's primary stat will be one that increases skill damage.

Diablo 4 open world and difficulty

Diablo 4 is on an open-world model, so you'll encounter players in town and while killing creeps. It's exactly the same principle as Diablo Immortal. You will also be able to make vents in this world and access dungeons, fairly long instances or landmarks, an area to clean, with of course rewards. Once you have explored a region and its vents, you will unlock exploration rewards. These are shared to all your realm characters (e.g. softcore or hardcore) and are highly recommended to do. You can also find Lilith statues for permanent global buffs (+2 in strength for example).

You can change the difficulty of the game, in order to have better rewards. Apart from the two basic levels, the others are unlocked by completing the story. The difficulty change can be done at the statue in the main town.

• Adventure or Expertise, basic levels
• Nightmare, from level 50
• Hell, from level 60
• Torment, from level 70, with different tiers

Note that the levels are indexed on your character, so you can play with a level 70 while being level 10, however it will be impossible to access a difficulty unlocked by another player without having unlocked it yourself. The exception is possible if you go too far in the map, the level will be higher than yours. You will also be able to face the bosses of the world events, as soon as you can go to do them! They appear at specific locations on the map and will give you great rewards. You will also have a weekly system, encouraging to kill each world boss at least once a week.

In any case, exploring the world and doing the activities once will be crucial, because in addition to rewards like gold, you'll collect skill and attribute points for all your characters! Thanks to Did Astran for the map!

Teleport portals on the map

Currencies and exchanges

• Gold: the main currency, to buy, extract, repair, etc.
• Obols: to buy random items
• Red Dust: PvP currency, to buy items, scrolls, etc.

You can exchange all items, as long as you don't have them modified via crafting or whether it is a Uber Unique.

Objects

Items appear under Magic, Rare, Legendary, and Unique rarities. A unique item has a particular power but will be similar in power to legendary items. You will have three power levels:

• normal in difficulty T1 and T2
• sacred in difficulty T3
• ancestral in difficulty T4

You will absolutely have to equip yourself with sacred to play in T3 and then with ancestral for T4.

Gems

Here are the different gems and their powers:

Craft Diablo 4

Find the guide dedicated to Diablo 4 crafting.

Diablo 4 NPC

Find the list of NPCs:

• Blacksmithing and crafting: recycle your objects, to recover materials and extract your aspects. Craft your objects, via quenching and perfecting
• Stable Master and Mount: The world of Diablo 4 is vast, get a mount as soon as possible. You will find it near the NPC and will have to complete a level 15 quest. You can then call it as you wish and get off to attack the enemies. You can also jump while attacking the mount, but this will put your mount in recovery time.
• Jeweler: add holes and remove gems, create gems
• Alchemist: Upgrade your potion, you have a unique potion skill that will be upgraded to better heal you. Craft elixirs and incense, refine your resources
• Occultist: imbue aspect powers, enchant an object, i.e. change an affix of a rare or legendary object, create and recycle sigils, endgame dungeons

You will also find a curiosity merchant to exchange your obols and merchants of weapons, armor and accessories.

Guild

You can join a guild on Diablo 4, up to 150 players. Currently there is no bonus to be in the guild, but rather a list of friends to find you.

PvP

Diablo 4 features a PvP system. You will have specific areas on the way out of town where players can compete. These areas allow you to collect seeds of hatred and then convert them into Red Dust. If you die, you lose your inventory and collected Seeds of Hatred, so be very careful! Currently there is no arena system or PvP matchmaking.

Real Money Shop

The shop currently offers skins for classes and mounts. It does not currently grant an in-game boost. Once your purchase is complete, you can equip your skin via the wardrobe, located right next to the chest. A battle pass is also planned, which should also be only on cosmetics.