What to do after Level 50+ in Diablo 4

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I

recently reached over level 50. I'm

actually level 57 now, and I finished the

main story. And I was wondering, so what

exactly should I keep playing the game for

now that I finished the main story? I

don't really know what else to do.

There's no more main campaign quests, and

I wanted to make a video explaining that

the game is actually a lot of fun even

after you finished the main story and what

you're supposed to be doing after level

50. So if you go onto the map, you'll see

there's quite a lot of things still you

can do, like the side quests and The blue

areas are side quests, but they're pretty

boring and not really much of a challenge.

There's also the Tree of Whispers over

here where you can collect Grim Favors,

and when you collect Grim Favors up to 10,

they'll give you a box full of loot. And

sometimes you get legendary items in this

box of loot, and that's great and

everything. You go around these red marks

on the map like this one. If you finish

this dungeon, you'll get 5 Grim Favors.

If you go to these areas and do what they

tell you to do, you get 1 Grim Favor. But

to be honest, these 2 things are kind of

boring. What you really want to be doing

is this. So if you go into your character

tab and go into consumables, you might

see— you might have some of these things

called Nightmare Sigils. Now first of

all, you need to get to World Tier 3, and

by doing this— to get to World Tier 3,

you need to do this. You need to go to

this cathedral place and there'll be a

quest up in the top left corner. And then

you have to finish a dungeon in this

cathedral, and then you'll get access to

World Tier 3, which will make the game

much more difficult and you'll get much

better rewards. And then when you go to

your character tab, I don't know when you

get these sigils. I didn't notice when I

got mine, but it was like I was something

like level 48 or 49 or 50 when

I first noticed, hey, what's this sigil

thing? So the sigils actually let you

increase the difficulty of the dungeons in

the game. So you go into the map, you see

all the dungeons. Um, I'm not really

seeing them for some reason, but usually

there's like loads of dungeons everywhere,

like, like this one for example. You can

do, uh, the same dungeons at different

difficulty tiers up to tier 100.

So each of these sigils represents a

different dungeon, and by right-clicking

on it will ask you if you want to accept,

and then it will turn, for example, this

Conclave dungeon into a Tier 17

dungeon. Basically what a Nightmare

dungeon is, it means it's going to be way

more difficult than normal, and you're

going to get better rewards, better loot,

more gold, but they're going to make it

way more difficult. You also get a limited

amount of times you can revive, so you can

only revive 12 times usually. And there's

also dungeon affixes So the dungeon will

have special unique things that will

try and throw at you to make it more

difficult. For example, this dungeon has

backstabbers, monster burning damage,

death pulse, control impaired explosions.

I don't really know what any of that

means, but they sound pretty bad and it's

going to make your life harder in the

dungeon. And if you go to the Occultist,

you can actually craft and buy sigils,

sigils. So for example, I can create Tier

1 to 5 up to Tier 16 to 20 sigils by using

Sigil Powder. And you can also, if you

click on Ancestral, you can craft up to

Tier 91 to 100, but you need World Tier 4,

and that's the highest difficulty level.

So before I found out you can do this, I

didn't even know there were Nightmare

Dungeons. I didn't know you could ramp up

the difficulty level of dungeons so many

times. I thought, wow, this game's so

easy. I'm on World Tier 3 and I'm still

2-shotting everything. And I was

wondering, why should I keep playing the

game now that I finished the story? Don't

really care about the side quests.

There's no point grinding the Grim Favors.

I thought I might as well just stop

playing the game, but then I realized,

wait, the whole point of the game is to

keep doing these Tears and Nightmare

Dungeons and challenging yourself and

trying to ramp up the difficulty as much

as you can whilst still being, being able

to do the dungeon. And when it gets too

difficult, maybe lower it down a little

bit. And then see what you can do to

improve your character. The whole point of

the game is basically to overcome

difficulty and see what you can do to

improve your build and your playstyle and

get new gear with special aspects that

give your playstyle extra bonuses and

benefits. And then see if you can

challenge yourself to overcome Tier 16 to

20. And then once you've been able to do

that, you can then try to get up to World

Tier 4. Basically, like, the end game the

end goal for a lot of people would be to

try and do tier 91 to 100 Nightmare

Dungeons. It took me a while to realize

this, I guess, as a noob to ARPGs and the

Diablo series. I was wondering, I was

thinking that the whole game was to do the

story and defeat Lilith, and we have to

get to level 100 and get amazing gear to

defeat the main villain of the game and

finish the story. But then I got to around

level 46 or 47 And then finished the

campaign accidentally by not really

trying, just doing the main quests. And I

was kind of shocked at how the story was

over already and I'm only level 45 when I

know the max level is 100. I guess I

missed the point of the game because the

point of the game is not really about the

story. The story is just like there just

in case you want a bit of a story, I

guess. But I think most players are not

playing because of the campaign mode or

anything. You can also salvage some of the

sigils— I mean, all of the sigils. So in

case you got a lot of tier 1s or 2s and

you don't really want to do tier 1 or 2,

you could salvage them and then you get

the sigil powder. Then you can craft

whatever tier you want to craft. Okay, so

I guess I could consume one and then show

you what a Nightmare Dungeon is like. I

think I feel pretty comfortable around

tier 15, so I kind of want to challenge

myself and try to do something a bit more

difficult. Like, I don't have anything

higher than a 15. I have a 17. Maybe I can

try a 17 and then see if I can actually do

a 17, because the highest I tried to do

was 20, and that was just way too hard. I

actually got kind of close to doing it.

So when you consume it and press M, it

would automatically show you where it is

on the map, which is convenient. Then just

right-click to pin it and and it will tell

you how to get there, and it'll show you

the dungeon affixes. So it says that I

will be able to deal 10% more shadow

damage, so I guess that's nice. Dungeon is

giving me a buff, but then it's also going

to do some other bad things like Death

Pulse— killing monster releases deadly

lightning pulse after a short delay. So

you gotta be careful after you kill stuff,

I guess. Monster Burning Damage— monsters

deal an additional 22% of their physical

damage as burning over 5 seconds. Monster

overpower resist— monsters take 45% less

damage from overpower attacks. So that's

kind of bad for me because my build

actually has a lot of overpower buffs, so

I'm gonna do way less damage with my

overpowers. And then for the reward,

that's just the aspects, same as usual.

So we go there, have to find the closest

teleportation node or waypoint,

and then we have to make our way over to

the dungeon. It's kind of annoying how

sometimes the waypoints are kind of far

from the dungeons. This one's not too bad,

just from here to there. But I've had some

dungeons like this one, for example,

where there's no waypoints nearby. It's

probably one there hidden, but I didn't

find it yet. So I had to start off here

and then travel all the way down. It gets

annoying having to ride all the way to the

dungeon. I wish you could just teleport to

the dungeon. I don't see why they thought,

okay, this is a good gameplay element

where we'll just make the players waste

their time riding here. Riding there.

It's so silly. I mean, you can teleport to

the town, so I don't see why they can't

just let us teleport to the dungeons.

Most time— most of the time, everyone's

just going to be going from between the

dungeons and the town. So I thought maybe

they think it'll be a shame we spent so

much time on the open world and the

players are not even going to see it

because they're just teleporting between

dungeons and towns. So you can see the

entrance of the dungeon looks kind of

different as well. There's red flames

going into it or coming out of it as well,

when usually it's just an orange glow.

Oh, okay, so we're inside of the Nightmare

Dungeon. You can see on the right-hand

side it will say here Nightmare Dungeon

Tier 17. We've got 12 lives remaining,

and after you die 12 times, that's it.

You get kicked out of the dungeon, you

lose this sigil, the consumable,

and you have to make another one.

Otherwise you won't be able to do it

again. So yeah, it's a bit harsh if you

keep dying, but if you're dying like 12

times, then maybe that's because it's too

difficult for you and you should try

something lower, or maybe adjust your

build and your playstyle so that you've

got more survivability. Actually, my

Barbarian build was more of a DPS-focused

build with— it was kind of the same of

what I have now, but instead of

Challenging Shout, I had Death Blow, and I

was doing crazy damage. My Barbarian

was like a glass cannon. He could do

insane damage, but he didn't have much

survivability, and I was just getting

destroyed. So I had to change my build to

a more defensive one. I actually dropped

points in a few things like,

um, Death Blow had to get rid of, and I,

I built— I mean, I saved up 10 points by

sending other skills, and then I had to

put into defensive stuff like this stuff—

Thick Skin, Defensive Stance— and I got,

uh, Challenging Shout gains 48%

damage reduction, also 20% bonus max life.

So I had to go from being a DPS-focused

Barbarian to now I'm a defense-focused

Barbarian so I can survive. And okay, I do

way less DPS now, but now I can actually

survive long enough be able to do whatever

DPS I can still do. Really, you're gonna

be very weak, and even these simple mobs—

for example, the first mobs you encounter—

still do quite a lot of damage. And if you

don't have good defensive abilities,

you're gonna get wrecked unless you're

very good at dodging. So look how much

damage they're gonna do. You see, I'm

getting destroyed already just getting a

few hits. I can't even stand there for a

few seconds. I need to use my defensive

abilities. Like my shield, my Rallying

Cry, my potions. This is actually quite

difficult. I didn't realize Tier 17 was

gonna be so hard. So yeah, I'm really

struggling already. Maybe Tier 17 is too

much, but if you play carefully and maybe

do some cheese tactics, you might be able

to get quite far into the dungeon and even

defeat it, possibly. You just need to

really be on your toes and treat it as if

Just have to be very careful. It's kind of

weird doing this because for most

of the game I felt so overpowered and I

was just 2-shotting everything and nothing

was really a challenge. But now I actually

have to be careful again, like back when I

started the game and I was 20, level 20 or

30, and I actually had to be careful and

kite the bosses around. It's nice that the

game is challenging again. So if you want

a challenge Definitely recommend doing the

Nightmare Dungeons. So look how difficult

it is. I really need to use my cooldowns

whenever they're off cooldown. I'm really

dependent on my ultimate skill as well if

there's too many, so I'm really taking a

beating here. And the enemies

are very aggressive. Sometimes you get

some enemies that will try and trap you

with stone blocks And that really screws

me up when you get stunned and trapped and

stuff because you can't run away. You'll

have a lot of survivability if you kite

them around like this and try to split

them up, take them on one by one.

But yeah, it is, uh, it gets very

difficult, but it's very rewarding as

well. It's nice to have a challenge in the

game again. Because it's still doable

though. I'm still doing pretty good

damage. I've used all of my potions now.

Yeah, tier 17. Damn, this is hard. This is

just the beginning part,

but not impossible. As long as it's not

impossible and you've got some chance—

see, that wasn't too bad.

Well, anyway, this is what you're going to

be doing when you get over level 50 and

you finish the main story. And I think the

game is still pretty fun even though

there's no story anymore.

Yep,