Diablo 4 Legendary items farm: How to get better gear

Get yourself a major advantage with these epic Diablo 4 Legendary loot farms

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Want to farm the best gear in Diablo 4? Legendary Aspects and Unique items are incredibly important when crafting a powerful build in Diablo 4 , so you’ll want to know the best ways to farm gear. Fortunately, there are many quick ways to get the strongest gear, with high-level Nightmare Dungeons and endgame target-farming methods providing easy access to incredibly powerful loot.

In this guide, we’ll break down the best methods for farming gear in Diablo 4 , which is now out on Xbox Game Pass , covering various ways to target-farm specific item types and other good methods for getting your hands on Legendary and Unique items.

This guide is tailored towards higher-level players who have reached level 50, completed the campaign and the Cathedral of Light Capstone Dungeon, and progressed onto World Tier 3. Before this point, it isn’t really worth target-farming or worrying about gear too much, as it’ll all become obsolete upon reaching World Tier 3 anyway.

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How to farm Legendary and Unique gear in Diablo 4

There are four main methods that most players take to farm Legendary and Unique gear in Diablo 4: Helltides , Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons, and Murmuring Obols . Helltides and Whispers are generally considered the best, as they allow you to target farm. Target farming means you can hunt for specific types of gear that you might need, rather than relying on completely random drops.

Helltides

Helltides are generally considered the best method for target farming in Diablo 4 . However, they are only available in World Tiers 3 and 4, so you must first complete the Cathedral of Light Capstone Dungeon.

Enemies in Helltide areas drop Aberrant Cinders , which you can exchange for Tortured Chests that drop high-tier items. These chests feature an increased spawn rate for Legendaries, and you’ll often get multiples. It’s worth sticking around and seeing what all you can earn from them. So, if you’re playing through these events, collect as many Aberrant Cinders as possible. You’re also likely to earn more Legendary loot in the process of farming these cinders, too.

Whispers

Whispers are bounties that you can complete across the Diablo 4 map after completing the campaign. These are available in all World Tiers, so you don’t need to wait until reaching the higher difficulties.

Whispers are completed for the Tree of Whispers. Completing them gives you Grim Favors via specific activities. Turning in ten Grim Favors allows you to earn caches with an increased chance to earn rare gear, so if you’ve beaten the main story, it’s one easy way to farm for Legendaries. You can farm Grim Favors by focusing on Dungeons, which grant five each, or quickly clearing Cellars as they offer one each. The tree will reset which Grim Favors are available to you every 90 minutes.

Whispers aren’t as efficient as Helltides, as the reward caches focus on randomised gear types, rather than the more specific Helltide Chests.

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Nightmare Dungeons

Nightmare Dungeons tend to shower you with loot as you cut through the demon hordes within. Legendaries drop often from the monsters as you make your way through, and Uniques can also appear if you get lucky. On completion of the Nightmare Dungeon, you’ll also get a guaranteed Legendary (sometimes upgraded to a Unique).

While Nightmare Dungeons don’t allow for easy target farming, leaving you to be reliant on random loot drops, they are great for generally collecting Legendary and Unique items while earning XP. If you’re after Legendaries and Unique that you can scrap for crafting materials, rather than items necessary for your build, then we’d recommend doing Nightmare Dungeons to get powerful items while levelling up fast .

Murmuring Obols

Murmuring Obols are a currency that you get from completing World Events. You can take them to the Purveyor of Curiosities in any hub town, where you can trade for gear of any type that you might need. It’s always a gamble, so the rewards are hit-or-miss, but if you get lucky, it might grant you a Legendary item.

Murmuring Obols aren’t great as a dedicated source of target farming, but make sure to use any that you’ve picked up while completing events for Whispers or those that you find within Nightmare Dungeons and Helltides to get a little bit of extra loot upon returning to town.

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Diablo 4 Legendary gear farming locations

If you are looking for Legendary and Unique gear at earlier levels while playing through the campaign, many of the options listed above won’t be available yet. While gear farming isn’t necessary at lower levels, since you’ll constantly be upgrading on the path to level 50, we do have a few locations that you can focus on if you’re in need of a quick upgrade.

Below, you’ll find a list of places that offer quick, easy options for farming primarily because they’re fast, full of Elite enemies, or reset frequently enough that you can complete them over and over again.

The Frozen Tunnel Cellar

In some cases, Cellars alone can be strong enough to farm because they’re incredibly easy to Master, and again, leaving the Cellar and exiting the game will reset them. One place to try this is The Frozen Tunnel Cellar to the southwest of Kyovashad , as you can often trigger an activity inside of it that grants a Greater Radiant Chest if you manage to Master it. And, as a bonus, it’s also near a World Event, so you can cycle these two locations and farm as much as you want. The Frozen Tunnel is one example that you can access early in the game, but numerous Cellars offer similar farming opportunities.

Ancient Syphon World Event

Located in the Western Ways areas of Fractured Peaks , this is an excellent farming location because it is easy to activate, Master, and reset. As with many of these farms, it will work best if you’ve already made it to World Tier 3 as the rewards are fairly high compared to the event’s difficulty. However, it’s worth farming even at lower levels, and you can beat it in under a minute if your character is strong enough. You have to defeat three enemy hordes and then beat the boss. This will grant you the Greater Radiant Chest, which can drop Legendary items and Murmuring Obols. Recall that you can also trade these Obols in for Legendaries, making it worth the effort. Then, you can reset the activity by leaving the game and returning. If you don’t see the event as soon as you return, just try again.

Anica’s Claim

Animus Dungeons home a ton of Elites, which, in turn, increase your chances of earning higher-tier gear. One of the earliest you’ll find is Anica’s Claim, in the Fractured Peaks area east of Kyovashad. This one is particularly easy to clear, and you’ll also encounter at least ten Elites, all of whom have a chance to drop Legendary gear. Dungeon enemies will respawn after leaving and coming back. But if that doesn’t work right away, you can also try leaving and returning or do the multiplayer respawn trick to continue to farm for Legendaries. And remember, you can also find a World Event to clear in the interim if the dungeon doesn’t seem to reset immediately.

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Radiance Field Cemetery World Event

We’ve already suggested that World Events paired with Cellars make for easy farms, but some World Events alone are straight-up excellent farms. The Radiance Field World Cemetery Hold Your Ground event is a fantastic way to farm for Legendary loot for levels 20-35. It’s a short event that tends to reset quickly, but if you need to accelerate the process even more, you can try logging out and back in again. It may not drop Legendaries every time, but it’s so short that it’s worth farming.

Fields of Hatred

The Fields of Hatred , a PvP area for higher-level players, also has a higher Elite spawn than other areas, granting increased chances to earn Legendary weapons and gear. You can disable PvP by removing the Mark for Blood at the Altar of Cleansing in the nearby town, so you don’t have to worry too much about other players if you’re simply looking to farm. Enemies will spawn as you wander through the area, so you can simply slash your way through to try to earn more Legendary goodies. You’ll find two Fields of Hatred locations on the map, one in the southwest area of Dry Steppes and the other toward the southeast area of Kehjistan.

These are some of the best Diablo 4 Legendary gear farms we’ve found. As long as you’re farming like Dwight Schrute on a beet ranch, you may also want to know where to find Diablo 4 Crushed Beast Bones and Diablo 4 Demon Hearts , too. And since you clearly prefer the best of the best, you’ll want to see our guides to the best Diablo 4 Sorcerer builds , best Diablo 4 Druid builds , best Diablo 4 Necromancer builds , best Barbarian builds , and best Rogue builds to make sure you properly assign all those Diablo 4 skill points you’re about to earn while farming legendaries, too.

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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them

These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints

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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.

This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.

We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.

In this guide:

• What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
• Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
• Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations

What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?

Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).

To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.

It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.

Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes

Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:

Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.

Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders

Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:

• Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
• Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
• Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
• High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
• Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
• Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
• Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.

Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.

Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .

In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.

Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.

Blueprints obtained from quests

One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.

Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:

• Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
• Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
• Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
• Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.

Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.

One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints obtained from Trials

One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.

Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.

Best Blueprint farming locations

The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.

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Dam Battlegrounds

The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.

There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.

Buried City

The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.

Spaceport

The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.

The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.

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Blue Gate

Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .

All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.

Stella Montis

On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.

In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.

That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.

While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.

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