Each Stone will allow you to run one Greater Rift. The whole point of running the normal Rifts is to earn the Greater Rift Keys. You’ll be running high level Rifts in no time! You then return to Orek in town, who will reward you with a huge amount of Gold and XP and he will close the Rift, giving you 30 seconds notice, so make sure you collected all the loot beforehand.

The higher the difficulty you are on, the more rewards you will receive, like multiple Greater Rift Keys. When the Rift Guardian is killed, it will drop a lot of gold, a chance at set and legendaries, some gems, Forgotten Souls, Blood Shards and a Greater Rift Stone. The little orbs above my character are Progress Orbs. As you seek out the Elites, you will find powerful Pylons, which are similar to shrines from the main game, however these give a 30-60 second boost that can make a real difference to getting through the Rift. Your best strategy is avoid or very quickly kill packs of weak enemies and wander around trying to find Elite packs to wipe out. The progress bar fills slowly by killing standard enemies, but killing a pack of Elites or Super-Elites causes them to drop 3-4 Progress Orbs that grant 1% each to the progress bar. A portal will open to a random location and your job is to kill enemies until a progress bar fills and the Rift Guardian (a variant of a Boss, or Unique from story mode) appears and you need to kill it. You enter the rift by interacting with the Nephalem Obelisk in town. Rifts are a challenge given to you by Orek in Adventure Mode. You’ll be using the Nephalem Obelisk a LOT in Diablo 3. These are used in varying amounts alongside Forgotten Souls (from deconstructing Legendaries) to craft Legendary and Set items at the Blacksmith, but also to perform certain actions with the Kanai Cube (see Below). The crafting materials from Horadric Caches are well worth pursuing. The crafting materials you gain are very important and are specific to the act the Horadric Cache was earned in: You use Blood Shards (that can also drop from Elites) to buy random items from Kadala in the camp. The Horadric Cache can be found in your miscellaneous bag in your inventory and contains gold, crafting materials, blacksmithing plans, items, a potential for an Act-specific Legendary and some Blood Shards. The zones are far more crowded in Adventure Mode.Ĭompleting all five bounties in an Act will earn you XP, Gold and Horadric Cache from Tyrael – although one of the Acts will be tagged a “Bonus” Act and you will get 2 Horadric Caches. Bounty Ground (Find a portal to another realm and take part in the event there).

Exploration (you need to move around the zone freeing a number of prisoners).

Event (you need to participate in a cursed chest or shrine).

Kill a Unique Monster (and a set number of other enemies in the zone).

Clear a dungeon (usually the second level thereof).

Adventure Mode will see you completing Bounties for Tyrael in each of the five Acts. What to do next? Luckily, the game has a pretty extensive post-game element. So, you’ve finished Diablo 3’s story mode.

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