What Are The Key Factors That Affect The Efficiency Of Farming Mythic Unique Items In Diablo 4 Season 5?

New Mythic Unique items were introduced in Diablo 4 Season 5, which replaced the old Uber Unique system. As the most powerful items in the game right now, pretty much everyone wants to get these Mythic Uniques to build the most powerful endgame build. 

So, in this guide, we’re going to focus on Mythic Uniques and talk about how to farm them, as well as some of the factors that affect your farming efficiency. Let’s jump right in!

Best Way To Farm Mythic Uniques

Now, it’s pretty obvious that you need to farm Tormented Bosses to have the best chance of getting Mythic Unique items. Technically, you can get any Mythic Unique from anything in the game, and any non-Tormented Bosses in the game, but you can’t reliably farm these Diablo 4 items.

There are also stories floating around on Reddit of people getting amazing 3 Greater Affix Shakos from a regular Varshan or something similar. That may be true, but you have to admit that farming Mythic Uniques other than Tormented Bosses is still not very efficient.

Factors Affecting Mythic Uniques Farming

Now that all is said and done, there is only one question left: Which Tormented Boss should you focus more on for farming Mythic Unique items? Now this is a harder question, and this is actually the core question we want to discuss here.

The simple and almost certainly correct answer is: it depends entirely on the situation. That is correct, but what does it depend on? There are 5 factors that determine which boss you should prioritize farming. Each factor has a lower priority than the previous one. So, if a higher priority factor decides a boss for you, you should farm that boss. Of course, you can also move on to a lower priority factor and repeat until you can decide.

There is one factor that we did not mention here, and that is the drop chance. According to the developers, all Tormented Bosses have the same chance of dropping a Mythic Unique. So if the drop chance of each boss is different, this factor will be important, but fortunately, we don’t even have to think about this issue. So here are the factors we have to consider:

Difficulty

Difficulty should be the most basic factor you need to consider. Simply put, if you can’t kill a boss, you shouldn’t farm it. Fortunately, Tormented bosses are currently very easy in Diablo 4, and even if you can’t kill them yourself, you can ask someone in the trade chat to help.

So, although difficulty is theoretically the most important factor, it can be largely ignored. Sometimes, Beast in the Ice and Andariel can be a pain for a lower-equipped team, but most of the time, they don’t pose much of a threat. And as the game progresses, you have more time to farm Diablo 4 Gold and collect rare equipment, which makes these boss fights easier.

Group

Can you find a group for a specific boss? At the moment, this is not a problem because we are still at the beginning of Season of the Infernal Hordes, but it may be difficult to find a suitable group later.

The reason Group is important is not to help you kill the boss, but to rotate. If you go with a group of four and everyone summons a boss once, you can actually kill 4 bosses with one set of boss summoning materials. This is very important and can greatly save you the time and Diablo 4 Gold you would have invested in farming summoning materials. Therefore, you should always team up to fight Tormented Bosses.

Boss Drops

If you need a specific piece of gear for your build or you are looking for a specific boss drop to complete an upgrade, then farming Tormented Bosses to get Mythic Uniques is also a good option.

The classic example everyone mentions here is Lightning Spear Sorcerer. This build requires a well-rolled Fractured Winterglass Unique Amulet. Since Lord Zir drops this Amulet, you should farm Tormented Lord Zir if you need it. It’s that simple.

You can check out Diablo 4 items that these bosses will drop in advance and focus your farming based on your needs to increase the probability of Mythic Uniques dropping.

Preferred Material Farming

This is another factor that is easy to understand. If you really like farming one of the boss summoning materials for some reason, and none of the above factors are important to you, then you should focus on farming that boss.

But this is a minority, as the vast majority of players don’t like farming any boss materials. For Lord Zir and Grigoire, you have to run Helltides, but that’s boring. For Varshan, you have to use Whispers, but that’s too slow. For Beast in the Ice, you have to farm Nightmare Dungeons, but everyone hates Nightmare Dungeons. And for Andariel and Duriel, you have to run the previous boss first.

So essentially, unless you like a specific boss material farming for some reason, you should ignore this factor and go to the last one.

Consider Summon Cost

Now, this is the most important factor. All Tormented bosses require 1 Stygian Stone to summon, but it’s easy to get now, so this makes no difference for boss farming.

Here, you want to determine which boss has the lowest cost to summon. Unfortunately, the prices of these summoning materials are always changing, so this is something you have to look up on your own. Still, no matter which boss you choose to farm, stocking up on enough Diablo 4 Gold will help improve your farming efficiency.

Keep in mind that different bosses require different amounts and types of summoning materials. Besides Stygian Stones, Tormented Lord Zir requires 27 Exquisite Blood to summon, but Tormented Varshan only requires 15 Malignant Hearts. So, please factor this into the price as well.

Of course, if you don’t have the time, you can also choose to trade on a third-party site, that is, send the boss materials you want directly to the trade chat. With this method, you can skip the entire boss material farming and just spend some real money.

If you want to earn some gold, you can choose to farm Infernal Hordes. Anyway, this is by far the best endgame activity with rewards.

That’s it. I really hope that this guide was helpful to you. If you want, you can share your experience and thoughts on farming Infernal Hordes and Tormented Boss to get Mythic Unique items. See you next time!