Players who have completed Diablo 4 will know that Belial is the new Boss of the game. He does feature quite a difficult yet rewarding battle. In the guide, we would assist players on how to summon Belial and also provide tips and strategies to defeat him while maximizing rewards.

• Starting The Fight With Belial: How To Summon Him
• Belial Level Adjustments and Scaling Considerations
• Defeating Strategies and Tips for Belial
• - Optimized Character Build
• - Resistance Management
• - Understanding Belial's Mechanics
• - Team Coordination (Optional)
• - How It Works
• What's the Appeal in Belial Farming?
• Analyzing The Details
• Material Farming: Blood Maiden Based Strategy
• Updated Solutions for Gold Issues – Rune Economics
• Maximizing Efficiency For Belial Farming
• Achieving Best Results - Step By Step Rotation
• Time Allocation
• Other Rewards and Benefits
• Maintaining The Farming Loop
• Final Thoughts: Achieve Mythics Farming Mastery
• Conclusion

↖ Starting The Fight With Belial: How To Summon Him

As of Season 8, players no longer need specific materials to summon Belial. Simply travel to his specific dungeon and interact with an altar to begin the fight. Below is the step by step guide on how players can engage him in battle:

• Find The Portal: To find and teleport to the Palace of the Deceiver, which is located to the West of Tarsarak in Kehjistan. Make sure you are on a Torment Difficulty level.
• Engage With The Altar: Upon entering the dungeon, you should be able to find a summoning altar. This is the same altar that is used to start boss battles.
• Get Your Character Ready: Belial is not an easy character to beat therefore one must be fully equipped so that they stand a fighting chance to defeat him.

↖ Belial Level Adjustments and Scaling Considerations

In Season 6, world tiers were replaced with a new difficulty system. Because of this, Belial's level and other foes encountered in the Palace of the Deceiver will now adjust with your difficulty setting. Players should anticipate a challenging yet balanced encounter customized to their progress.

↖ Defeating Strategies and Tips for Belial

Defeating Belial starts with a solid plan. Below are some key pointers that may aid you triumph:

↖ - Optimized Character Build

Following the most recent tier update for season 8, ensure your character has an endgame-worthy build as strongly suggested.

Eliminate as much damage as possible in each belial phase to prevent him from dealing major damage.

↖ - Resistance Management

Try to have at least 70% resistance against shadow and poison damage as both will help mitigate damage from his attacks considerably.

If you lack the above mentioned resistances, you can use potions or incense to temporarily improve your defenses.

↖ - Understanding Belial's Mechanics

• Stationary Positioning: Unlike other bosses, Belial stays behind a barrier for the entire encounter. Players need to move in a semi-circle to avoid getting hit in front of him.
• Ground Slam and Platform Sweep: Belial drags his hand across the platform, dealing heavy damage and knocking players back. As a result, it is imperative to be cautious about your positioning.
• Energy Beam: The beam that sweeps across the platform is very powerful. It can be avoided with teleportation abilities or by moving out of the range.
• Poison Pools: Belial periodically places poison puddles around the platform. If players remain in such puddles, they shall incur considerable damage over time. Thus, stay away from them at all costs.
• Summoned Eyes: Belial places a large amount of summoned eyes which target a player to shoot damaging attacks. Adjust your location so that none of the summoned eyes can see you.

↖ - Team Coordination (Optional)

When playing with a group, you can designate specific roles for add management, placement, and damage dealing. Having coordinated movement increases avoidance in the damage received during fighting.

Loot Rewards: Picking Your Drops

Belial's loot system is perhaps the most interesting feature of his fight. Unlike the rest of the Diablo 4 bosses, Belial lets you choose your prize from a list of other Unterschlupf (Sanctuary) bosses.

↖ - How It Works

After defeating Belial, a chest will spawn. To unlock it, you need 2 Husks of the Betrayer, which sometimes drop when Belial spawns after other boss fights.

Upon chest opening, a list of Unterschlupf bosses (e.g., Duriel) will be presented to you. After selecting, that boss will be summoned and will decide the pool of rewards you will receive.

All the bosses have a chance of dropping Mythic Uniques so you can take advantage of this chance to get high-value targeted items.

↖ What's the Appeal in Belial Farming?

With two weeks into the season, a new meta arose and it does not suffice to just have a mythic item in possession. Instead, everyone's goal is to target specific mythic items that can reshape and perfect your build. However, everyone is facing the same challenge due to these Diablo 4 items having low drop rates, traditional farming routes, and time-consuming methods. This guide aims to help people increase not only their mythics, but also runes, gold, and crafting materials by presenting a new approach.

↖ Analyzing The Details

To invoke Belial's presence, two Betrayer's Husks are required. Unfortunately, Belial tends to drop one Husk for every ten boss encounters. This means, in order to trigger Belial just once, twenty regular boss kills are necessary. Even at a mythic drop rate of 2% (one mythic per 50 Belial kills), these figures become stark:

• 100 Husks = 1 Mythic (On Average)
• 2,000 Regular Boss Kills = Enough Husks for 50 Belial Summons
• 24,000 Boss Materials = Required For Summoning

When viewed from this lens, clearly, optimizing material collection is critical to success.

↖ Material Farming: Blood Maiden Based Strategy

The epitome of boss materials grinding lies with Blood Maiden. More specifically, her exquisite blooddrops are the optimal means of obtaining boss materials. So what exactly is the breakdown?

Drops per kill: 39 Boss Materials (requires three fully upgraded hearts)

Kills needed: Blood Maiden Kill count of 600

Hearts Needed: 1850

Time Required per Kill: ~3 Minutes

Overall time For Everything: ~31 Hours

While the time sink is undoubtedly huge, it's worth mentioning that thanks to a duplication exploit, boss materials cost around 5 million gold per Betrayer's Husk.

↖ Updated Solutions for Gold Issues – Rune Economics

We all know runes are crucial in crafting mythic items, but did you know they also form the foundation of Diablo 4's economy? Mythic crafting consumes runes permanently, and runes drop on every Belial kill. This ensures a constant flow of sellable runes which will fetch you good gold. Here's a guide on how to maximize profit:

• Initial Step: If you find yourself short on gold, farming Tribute of Harmony for a handful of runes should set you on the right path.
• Upgrading Runes: The jeweler's transmutation system allows you to turn lower-tier runes into higher-tier runes, so make sure to take advantage of that.
• Focus Target: Taon, Lac, CM, Teac, and Ahu are known to be high-value runes. Take Taon and CM runes as an example. They roughly sell for 300 million gold each!

Not only that, they are required for the in-demand Harlequin Crest and Ring of Starless Skies.

By converting low tier runes into high tier ones, you can sell them to amass riches quickly.

↖ Maximizing Efficiency For Belial Farming

As counterintuitive as it may seem, solo farming is more efficient for Belial compared to group farming. Here are my reasons:

• Loot Tables Do Not Scale: The total number of items Belial drops remains constant to the party size.
• Solo Runs Are Quicker: There are no health scaling issues, no delays caused by teammate miscommunication or waiting.
• Control Over Progress: You decide the rhythm—spawn, kill, loot, reset, rinse repeat without any breaks.

↖ Achieving Best Results - Step By Step Rotation

Belial Spawn: Move away from Belial's spawn point to dodge the animation knockback.

Engagement and Kill: Fire off an opener burst (e.g. Lightning Spear) and melt him out.

Timing For Loot: Do not pick up loot after killing Belial, instead:

• Summon the next boss using altar.
• While waiting for the next boss, grab the loot from the previous kill.

Manage Inventory: Manage your drops, after three frequent kills, your inventory fills up. For the fourth kill:

• Trigger the altar reset by opening the chest even when your bag is full.
• Teleport to town, salvage items, then return for the dropped loot.

↖ Time Allocation

Each set of three kills and one reset is approximately 3 minutes of time expenditure.

Estimate 37 complete rotations for the hour mark.

This would result in achieving:

• 111 Belial Kills per Hour
• 2–3 Mythics per Hour assuming a 2% drop rate

↖ Other Rewards and Benefits

Apart from mythics, this particular farming strategy offers several other valuable resources:

• 888 Forgotten Souls
• 13,000 Veiled Crystals
• 111 Runes
• 19 Seasonal Caches

The Forgotten Souls and Veiled Crystals further improve your ability to craft and reroll gear with superior stats.

↖ Maintaining The Farming Loop

This approach is self-sufficient provided it's executed well:

• Sell High-Tier Runes: Selling 15 high-tier runes at 300 million gold each would result in 4.5 billion gold an hour.
• Reinvest Gold: Use the gold to get more Betrayer's Husks and keep summoning Belial.
• Repeat: In every repeat cycle, you'd be gaining additional mythics, runes and crafting materials.

↖ Final Thoughts: Achieve Mythics Farming Mastery

These steps would greatly enhance your effectiveness while playing Diablo 4:

• Get Gold: Transmute low-tier runes into high-tier ones or run Tribute of Harmony.
• Purchase Betrayer's Husks: Spend gold on these diabolic summoning materials and obtain mythics faster.
• Solo Belial Farming: Execute precise rotations along with razor-sharp logistics.
• Sell Runes: Focus on higher valued runes to sustain further farming efforts.
• Repeat and Optimize: Continue to improve your approach in accumulating mythics and other resources.

↖ Conclusion

With this approach, farming mythics becomes easy and efficient, establishing a self-sustaining system that puts you ahead of others. Whether you want to control the endgame or climb the wealth ladder, this strategy has all you need to thrive in Season 8 of Diablo 4