Hello, everyone. I hope you can upgrade items during the leveling process in Diablo 4 Season 4. The following information in this guide will be useful for you before you reach World Tier 4.

If you start to your endgame build tinkering, I will explain what tempering is and how to use it in the game. We will also discuss enchanting your gear.

When it comes to Tempering or Enchanting the gear you own, investing in Diablo 4 Gold will make your gear even more perfect.

And lastly, I will share with you my logic when it comes to the order of upgrading mechanics. Make sure to check out this last chapter of this passage so you don’t waste tons of gold in the process.

So let’s get into it.

How Tempering Works in Diablo 4?

First, what is tempering? Diablo 4 Season 4 changed a lot of stuff around the loot stats and upgrading items. One of such changes is the addition of tempering, which is a new system of upgrading your items.

Prior to Season 4, you would find loot with all the stats already available on the item. And then you would just change one single stat through the enchanting process and upgrade the item to make the stats higher.

In Season 4, however, you drop items with less amount of stats available on them than before. Rare items have 2 Affixes, 3 legendaries, and 4 Uniques but then you can add powerful Affixes on an item with tempering.

So what tempering does is basically add up to two new powerful affixes to item. However, before you reach World Tier 4 and start dropping in Ancestral item Rarity. You will be able to add only one Affixes.

The number of times you can temper an item is limited. And depends on Rarity of the item. Early items will have a limit of three attempts and then we have Ancestral items which drop at World Tier 4. And those allow us to temper 5 times. Important to note is that tempering can be done only for rare and legendary items.

Uniques cannot be tempered also bear in mind that when you roll tempered Affixes, you do not have an option to keep the old one. The new Affixes always override the old one. And so there is a risk factor here, especially when you are on your last temper attempt available.

So starting the tempering process, you have to go to Blacksmith and click the first tab. The process does not cost any gold but requires a couple of materials. You will get tons of necessary materials as you play the game.

I salvage most of my rares and Legendaries I also temper a lot so far. And I was never short on materials for tempering my gear. Whenever I wanted to change my stuff during the leveling process, besides materials, you also need manuals, which are a list of few stat outcomes for tempering.

One of the Affixes from the manual will be randomly added during the tempering process. You find manuals by just simply playing the game. They drop just like any other loot. These manuals have different Rarities. And these Rarities is impact the range of values of the stats available with the manual.

Basically, the higher Rarity of manual, the better the stats possible manuals are also split into six categories. And these categories work like categories of aspects. Every item type has different possible tempering categories. So for gloves, you can add a utility or offensive category. For pens, you have only defensive or utility categories and so on.

The good thing is that once you find the manual, it’s unlocked permanently. So you don’t need to search for it again and again, which is neat.

Enchanting in Diablo 4 Season 4

Now let’s briefly discuss enchanting your items. Enchanting is a process which modifies one Affixes available on your gear. To this process cannot change the row-based stats of item like damage dealt on weapons or base armor on gloves. Affixes to be changed are marked with dots and are located under this horizontal line.

To enchant your item, you need to go to the occultist and click on the fourth tab. Once you put the item you want to enchant, you can click the icon in the top right corner of enchanting window. To see the potential outcomes of the process. This is super useful to help you understand what stats you can actually get and what are the ranges.

When you enchant any item, you get three choices, two new stats and an option to retain the initial Affixes. The enchanting process takes few materials and a substantial amount of gold, the tricky case that every time you enchant the same item. The cost of the process increases, the price of gold can reach insane amounts. So be mindful of it.

Upgrading Gear Efficiently During Leveling

And let me explain the thought process I use for upgrading any item that I want to use. I think applying this logic may save you a lot of gold during the leveling process. Since we can modify our gear a lot in Season 4.

I look mainly for Legendary item drop with good base row power and two out of free stats that are fitting my build. I don’t care for Legendary Power since I can change it easily now with Codex of Power.

By the way, the aspects are now permanently unlocked when salvaging an item. And the highest value salvaged will be always available in a Codex of Power, not just the lowest base value like before.

I also don’t need perfect free out of free stats because I can swap out one Affixes with an enchanting process. I will always start the process of tinkering an item with tempering. This is because we have a limited number of tempering attempts and the stats available through the tempering process are particularly powerful for build crafting.

So if we don’t get the stat from the manual that we wanted with tempering, the item is potentially a bust. This is especially the case for weapons and other item types with offensive category manuals available on them. They are game changers for items, at least for my build.

So now let me give you a specific example to showcase this process. I am playing a Frozen Orb build with my Sorceress. Let’s say I found gloves that I want to use that have two good stats on them. First, I go to Blacksmith for tempering.

On gloves I can put stats from either utility or offensive category, I found a manual from offensive category called Frost Finesse which has amazing damage boost potential for my build. Especially cold damage and vulnerable damage are very good stats for me. Since Frozen Orb has a 40% chance to make enemies vulnerable and is, of course, cold-based skill.

So if I don’t manage to get either of these stats with tempering. I would not use those glows. Similarly to weapons, I want to get a specific stat in tempering that gives me a chance to cast Frozen Orb twice. So by not enchanting nor swapping Legendary Powers first. I potentially save a lot of gold on an item that I wouldn’t use, anyway. But let’s say, I get the tempering that I wanted.

I start with the enchanting process to try to get the first start on gloves to improve my build. In case I have bad luck and enchanting gets too expensive. I have done three options.

First, I can settle for the sub powerful stat. Next, I can just continue investing gold or I can just stick to gloves that I already have.

And lastly, if I get the stats that I wanted on the item. I swap the legendary power to the one I want. Modifying legendary powers should be done last. As it involves no RNG and it’s quite an expensive process to begin with.

These are my detailed instructions on how to do Tempering, Enchanting and Upgrading Gear in Diablo 4. I hope these are useful to you.

In Diablo 4 there is a mysterious system called Item Power Breakpoints, which measures the value of dropped equipment. If you are a player who is used to relying on the power of items, you may think that it is important to keep your equipment strong during the game, and you are also committed to constantly finding more powerful equipment, which is indeed the right choice .

But if you want to unlock Nightmare world tier or Torment, you want to create powerful builds that will allow you to tackle the harder game levels, then you can't just keep finding new gear. Then all you need to do is find equipment with a higher power value. So, how to judge which equipment is worth your investment, at this time you need to use Item Power Breakpoints.

What Are Item Power Breakpoints?

There are 6 levels in Diablo 4 to determine the overall value of items or equipment. The higher the level corresponding to the item, the higher the corresponding value. Below you will see the different levels of Item Power Breakpoint:

When you upgrade your item in Blacksmith or Jeweler, when your item exceeds its Breakpoint, you can find that it is different from the previous one in practice, because its corresponding level has increased, then its power value will be further improved.

For me, the item I own has a max power value of 711 and my level is 59. This means that I can successfully reach the final Breakpoint at the end of Nightmare difficulty, but the important thing for me is how to upgrade. When you pass Breakpoint, you will also use some additional resources and support, so that you will not waste too much Diablo 4 Gold.

How to use Breakpoints?

Normally, as a player in Diablo 4, you should prioritize items that can be upgraded to reach the highest Breakpoint. Although the drop power of items in the game is related to the corresponding level, it seems to be affected by the world level, such as Sacred and Ancestral items. The above two kinds of equipment are usually unlocked in Nightmare and Torment world tier, and can get higher item attributes and item power.

Ancestral items, when your items exceed the top 725 power cap, it means Torment world difficulty is the best place for Endgame builds. When you reach this point, it means that 90% of the items you use have reached their maximum power. The most obvious example is an Ancestral Unique helmet, which is always better than Sacred Unique in the game, partly because it has a power cap of over 725.

But at the same time, not all items are developing for the better. When you are upgrading Breakpoints, through rerolling stats and affixes, it is very likely that your corresponding item data will become very bad, so turning on tooltips is very necessary. After you turn on tooltips, you will be able to see the new stat range for the corresponding item.

So relatively speaking, Item Power Breakpoints are very important for every player, especially in terms of measuring the value of items. Hope the above content is helpful to you.