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Duriel, the Lord of Pain is one of the four Lesser Evils while also being the twin brother of Andariel. He allegedly conspired with his twin and Diablo to release both Mephisto and Baal from their prisons according to Deckard Cain. Although he has a passion for torture, he favors the physical aspect of it and cares very little about the mental pain it inflicts.

Before you attempt Duriel, max out your poison resistance which can be done by socketing Royal Emeralds into your jewelry as Duriel has a lot of poison-based attacks that can deal significant damage should you get hit by it. Another handy tip is to bring elixirs that boost your max health as some of Duriel’s attacks hit hard.

In terms of his attacks, Duriel plays similarly to its story counterpart with a few more swipes and slashes thrown in. The most difficult attack to deal with is his charge which can one-shot you depending on your build; even sturdy characters may go down. Whenever you see Duriel rock back and forth, a charge is incoming, as you best be ready to use any of your evasive abilities to dodge it. Note, this cannot be dodged through like most other attacks as Duriel is deceptively quick and can turn almost instantly, so you’ll need to avoid the attack the old-fashioned way, skill.

Here are Duriel’s attacks:

• Balls of Venom - Avoid the area of effect poison puddles by moving around the arena to reposition Duriel if you need to.
• Charge - When he rocks back and forth, get some distance, and dodge the attack. If you have any defensive or evasive skills such as Blood Mist, use them here. This attack can and will kill you.
• Summon Maggots - For the most part, these are fodder for you to get potions back, but make sure they don’t explode near you as they can deal significant damage.
• Various Melee Swipes, Stabs, and Slashes - Avoiding these attacks is more class dependent, so use your barriers, unstoppable, and dodges to avoid, or at least mitigate them.

For a more detailed boss strategy, head over to our In-Depth Duriel Boss Guide.

Duriel, Maggot King can only be summoned which requires two Shards of Agony and two Mucus-Slick Eggs which can only be obtained by defeating both Grigoire, the Galvanic Saint, and the Echo of Varshan. Once the items have been obtained, you’ll need to traverse to the level 100 Gaping Crevasse dungeon which is situated at the southern edge of the Southern Expanse in Kehjistan and can only be accessed in World Tier IV.

Kehjistan

Grigoire is an Uber boss who was introduced in the season of the malignant. He is an opposing figure clad in heavy armor and wields a mace while also having a penchant for lightning, hence his name. Due to his heavy armor restricting his movement, he focuses on attacking you with his mace from a stationary position while conjuring up fierce lightning-based attacks.

Grigoire doesn’t have too many attacks and he’ll spend most of the time punishing you with mace attacks that fire off Charged Bolts on every swing. When he’s not hitting you in the face with his mace, he’ll summon pillars that will arc lightning between them which will restrict your movement, and deal damage should you touch them. Like most bosses in Diablo IV, Grigoire has adds that serve as nothing more than a way to summon corpses as a Necromancer, or bolster your potion supply. One of the more difficult attacks to avoid is his Lightning Lance which comes down at you quickly with little warning, so always be prepared to move at a moment’s notice. A good defense is imperative against Grigoire due to his hard-hitting attacks, and a maxed-out lightning resistance wouldn’t go amiss. In short, here are Grigoire’s attacks:

• Lighting Mace Smash - Negate the damage through the various defensive options in the game such as Barrier, Unstoppable, Fortify, Blood Mist, and Lightning Resistance Elixirs.
• Arc-Lightning - Stay in the square nearest to Grigoire while negating the damage through the defensive options mentioned above. This allows you to attack him while avoiding the lightning.
• Lightning Lance - These are difficult to anticipate and may require you to fight him a couple of times to get the timing down. When you get the timing right, a simple dodge will avoid the attack.

For a more detailed boss strategy, head over to our In-Depth Grigoire Boss Guide.

• Hall of the Penitent

Grigoire will have to be summoned at the altar in the Hall of Penitent dungeon found along the eastern edge of the Dindai Flats region in the Dry Steppes. Unfortunately, to use the altar, you’ll need to get Living Steel which can be acquired through Helltide Events. and defeating the demon who goes by the obnoxious name of “He-Grins-Wide-And-Waits”. Defeating him will reward you with a Tortured Gift of Living Steel chest which requires 300 Aberrant Cinders to open. Summoning him in World Tier III will cost you two Living Steels while World Tier IV requires 5.

Dry Steppes

The Beast in the Ice is a large winged beast who wields a large sword encased in ice. Although it has similarities to a Gargoyle, it doesn’t have a hard body of stone which gives it more flexibility when fighting its prey. Not only does the Beast have formidable strength, but it’s known to conjure storms of bitter cold which can trap their foes in prisons of ice.

Before you start the battle, make sure you adjust your resistances to protect you from cold, and bring along some Cold Resistance Elixirs while you’re at it. The Beast has a plethora of attacks compared to other bosses which makes the battle a lot more difficult, so damage mitigation and immunity skills are a must.

At the beginning of the battle, the Beast will predominantly use its melee attacks where it’ll swing at you with its weapon. Note that this will unleash numerous shards of ice with every swing and they will ricochet around the arena. During this “phase” of the battle, you’ll want to stick close to it and dodge as the swing approaches you. While you fight him, it’ll periodically breathe a stream of cold in your direction. Simply, dodge the attack, get behind it, and unleash your most potent abilities while it’s stuck in animation.

One of its stronger attacks is its slam attack. The Beast will slam its weapon into the ground creating numerous area-of-effect markers that will deal significant damage to you should you be in them. Reposition out of the markers to negate the damage from them. Now, at first, this should be easy to avoid, but after a while, it’ll leap into the air, and violently crash down upon the arena. This is easy enough to dodge, but as it lands, it’ll unleash numerous shards of ice that ricochet around the arena which makes this whole sequence of attacks incredibly difficult to avoid. Instead, use your damage mitigation tools to absorb/negate the majority of the damage, and heal up any damage that gets through.

At approximately around the first arrow of its health, the Beast will unleash a bone-chilling Ice Storm around the arena which will deal damage if you touch it, but its main purpose is to restrict your space. During this attack, the Beast will periodically send forth waves of frost across the arena that you will need to avoid as these can push you into the storm. Furthermore, you won’t be able to target it, and it’ll summon some Overseers adds to the battle, but these shouldn’t cause you too many problems as they go down quickly.

When the Ice Storm dissipates, “phase 2” will begin. For the most part, this will be the same as the other mechanics other than it’ll summon Elite enemies instead of Overseers when it uses Ice Storm, but more importantly, the Beast will use a new attack where it’ll plunge its weapon into the ground. This will telegraph numerous circular markers across the arena which will unleash waves of frost outward from them. If you get hit by them, the odds are you’ll get Frozen.

Finally, when the Beast is low on health, its Ice Storm will become perpetual while waves of frost will fly across the arena. During the final phase, the weapon plunge attack introduced in the previous phase will gain another mechanic. This will add an extra wave of frost out of the markers, but the waves will cover more area meaning you’ll have more to dodge.

• Hall of Penitent

The Beast in the Ice can be found in the Hall of Penitent. You can summon him by activating a Glacial Fissure Nightmare Sigil which can be obtained by crafting it at the Occultist for nine Distilled Fears. This will create the Nightmare Dungeon “Glacial Fissure” which is where you’ll find the boss. Distilled Fears are acquired by completing tier 30+ Nightmare Dungeons on World Tier IV.

Dry Steppes

Varshan was a simple priest within his village who spent many happy days with his friend, Cormond, who was also a priest. That was until one eventful day when Lilith visited his village, and turned the entire village populace into demons. His friend Cormond chose to flee the onslaught that occurred that day while Varshan stayed and fought to protect the village from Lilith.

As time passed, Cormond returned to the desolate village to find that people had disappeared and Varshan, who was now corrupted due to Lilith’s taint. Cormond invented a malignant cage to contain the now corrupted Varshan, so he could treat him when he found out more information about the corruption, but the plan backfired, and Varshan broke free with a new power that corrupted anything he touched.

This caused Cormond to flee once again with Varshan close at his heels, driven mad by the corruption and his thirst for revenge on Cormond who he believed left him to fend for the village on his own. As Varshan continued his hunt for Cormond across Sanctuary, Cormond bumps into a powerful wanderer who would help Cormond find out how to contain, and treat Varshan. Cormond and the wanderer found out from the various archives hidden deep within some ancient ruins that they could create another cage to trap Varshan and complete the failure that Cormond attempted before. Although the cage worked to trap Varshan, all it could do was end the corruption and put him out of his misery.

If you fought the Echoes variant of Varshan during Season 1, not much has changed. Varshan has no specific element he focuses on and instead uses various different physical attacks. These attacks are split between using tentacles, or corruption-based attacks which require you to reposition. The former will be predominantly used if you keep your distance from him and will pull you in.

The latter, however, places telegraphed markers on the floor that you will need to pay attention to if you don’t want to take a lot of damage. Periodically throughout the battle, Varshan will summon three Elite enemies, and while these are up and alive, he will be invulnerable. Fortunately, these aren’t particularly difficult to take down, and classes with high area-of-effect damage will defeat them in no time.

If you want a more detailed strategy on how to defeat Varshan, head over to our In-Depth Varshan Boss Guide.

If you want to fight the Tormented Echo of Varshan, you’ll need to summon him which can be time consuming. This requires that you have four specific items which are:

• Blackened Femurs
• Gurgling Heads
• Malignant Hearts
• Trembling Hands

These materials can be obtained by completing Grim Favors or defeating Grotesque Debtors. Note, you must be World Tier IV to get the Malignant Hearts required to summon Varshan. Once you have the required materials, head to the Malignant Burrow located in the northeast of The Whispering Mire, near the Tree of Whispers, and place them one at a time in each Malignant Altar.

Hawezar

Lord Zir is an ancient vampire that dates back to the Firstborn who are also known as the “Ancients”. The Firstborn were the first generation of Nephalem who were created when renegade demons and angels procreated creating beautiful abominations. Zir was imprisoned in the City of the Ancients when he and his kin reacted negatively to having their power stolen when Inarius tampered with the Worldstone. While imprisoned, Zir has been biding his time and feasting on blood while waiting to enact his revenge on Sanctuary.

The difference between the two versions of Lord Zir isn’t much other than the inflated stats. Because most, if not all of his attacks are blood skills, he doesn’t use any specific element. For this reason, we suggest bringing elixirs that boost your maximum health. Zir doesn’t have too many attacks, but the attacks that he does have can deal significant damage. Still, the lack of attacks makes it easier to remember how to avoid them when you’re fighting him.

Lord Zir has several attacks to watch out for which are:

• Melee Attack/Swipe: This is your traditional swipe attack in a cone in front of him. Simply dodge behind him to avoid the attack and set up a counterattack of your own.
• Blood Blades: Zir will lean back briefly before transforming his arms into blades of blood. This attack will cover in front of him, so dodge toward him to avoid the attack, or get some distance.
• Orb of Blood: A large orb of blood will slowly make its way around the arena which will spawn minions as well as blasts underneath it. Stay out of the orb’s path while defeating the minions as they go to attack you.
• Blood Puddles: Flapping his wings in tandem, Zir will unleash large droplets of blood over the arena. When they hit the ground, they’ll create puddles of blood that will slowly join up with each other to create bigger puddles. If you touch the puddle, you’ll get the Vulnerability debuff. Not only do you want to avoid the puddles, but you’ll want to avoid any attack that touches them as it will give the attack a second property, blood projectiles. These will fire outwards of the puddle after an attack goes through them, although this will make the puddle dissipate. Keep your distance from the puddles, and be ready to dodge if one of Zir’s attacks passes through a puddle.
• Retreating Blast: Zir will get some distance from you and charge up his wings before unleashing a devastating blast of air that covers a wide area which can knock you back if it hits you. Keep on the move while he charges, and try to position yourself where a knockback won’t push you into harm.
• Blood Call: Summons Bloodseekers. Unlike regular adds in boss fights, these Bloodseekers are arguably the most difficult part of the fight. They have their own skill set, hit hard, and attack quickly. If that wasn’t enough, they can inflict status effects too. Whenever Zir summons one of these, take it out as soon as possible otherwise, you’ll get overwhelmed by them.

You’ll fight Lord Zir as the last boss of the Season 2 storyline, but a more powerful version with more powerful loot can be summoned in World Tier IV. To summon him, you’ll need nine Exquisite Bloods which can be acquired by defeating World Bosses and/or Legion Events in World Tier IV. When you have the required blood, head to The Darkened Way dungeon in the northeast of Fractured Peaks and find the Bloodied Altar within Ancient’s Seat. Place all nine exquisite bloods into the altar and enact the Ritual of Blood.

Fractured Peaks