Diablo Immortal gear farming is primarily an endgame progression activity focused on collecting Legendary equipment for Essences, improving Combat Rating, and acquiring Set Items for secondary-slot bonuses. The most efficient approach is not to repeat one activity indefinitely: use open-world farming and daily rewards for Legendary gear, run targeted dungeons for Set Items, extract duplicate Legendaries for Essence Mastery and Loyalty progress, and craft replacements when random drops do not provide the slot or bonus you need.
What Gear Farming Means in Diablo Immortal
Diablo Immortal divides equipment into primary and secondary gear. Primary gear consists of the head, chest, shoulders, legs, main-hand weapon, and off-hand weapon. These slots use Legendary items with skill-changing Legendary Essences. Secondary gear consists of the neck, rings, hands, waist, and feet slots, where Set Items provide powerful bonuses when you equip enough pieces from the same set.
Legendary gear farming has three goals:
- Increase Combat Rating through higher-stat equipment appropriate for your difficulty.
- Collect Legendary Essences that change or improve your skills.
- Find Legendary items with useful attributes, magic affixes, and upgrade potential.
Set-item farming has a different purpose. A green item may not provide the highest individual Combat Rating, but its set bonus can substantially improve damage, cooldowns, movement, survivability, or support effects. You should therefore farm Legendary and Set Items separately according to your immediate objective.
Best Gear-Farming Priorities
| Goal | Best Activities | Why It Works |
|---|---|---|
| Unlock Legendary Essences | Open-world farming, daily rewards, dungeons, raids, events, and crafted Legendaries | More Legendary items mean more opportunities to extract missing Essences |
| Improve Combat Rating | Highest practical difficulty, Helliquary content, dungeons, and all available gear rewards | Higher-difficulty equipment generally provides better primary attributes and Combat Rating |
| Complete a Set | Targeted dungeons and Set Item crafting | Dungeon loot pools determine which Set Items can drop |
| Farm upgrade materials | Salvaging unwanted gear, open-world events, dungeons, and crafting materials | Unwanted items remain useful as materials for item upgrades and recipes |
| Find better magic attributes | Higher-difficulty content, Terror Rift, Abyssal Verge, Castle Erebban, and other current reward activities | These activities can provide equipment with additional or specialized affixes |
For most accounts, the correct order is to reach the highest difficulty you can clear quickly, unlock the Essences required by your build, complete a functional Set bonus, and only then spend significant time hunting ideal attributes. A build with the correct Essence and Set bonus is usually more effective than a collection of slightly stronger items with unrelated powers.
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How to Farm Legendary Gear Efficiently
1. Farm the highest difficulty you can clear quickly
Difficulty affects the quality and progression value of equipment. However, the highest available difficulty is not automatically the best farming location. If enemies take too long to kill or you die frequently, a slightly lower difficulty with much faster clear speed can produce more useful items and materials per hour.
Use the difficulty selection and Codex information to confirm which rewards are available to your character. Gear obtained from the current server difficulty or higher is especially valuable for Essence Loyalty progress, while older equipment can still be useful for Legacy Loyalty progress and extraction materials.
2. Complete the first daily Bestiary turn-in
Collect Monstrous Essence while completing bounties and open-world activities, then turn in the required amount at the Horadric Bestiary. The first Bestiary turn-in of the day is one of the most reliable routine opportunities for a Legendary reward.
Do not stop farming immediately after reaching the daily turn-in requirement. Open-world monsters can still drop Legendary items, and the same route can provide experience, gold, salvage materials, events, elite encounters, and progress toward other activities.
3. Combine bounties with open-world farming
Bounties are more efficient when treated as route objectives rather than isolated quests. Choose bounties that place you in the same zone, complete them while collecting Monstrous Essence, and kill elite packs instead of travelling past them.
For open-world farming, use a compact route with dense monster spawns and minimal travel. A fast movement build is often better than a maximum-damage build when ordinary enemies already die quickly. Party farming can improve clear speed and reduce downtime, but it does not guarantee a specific Legendary drop.
4. Use all guaranteed or selectable gear rewards
Legendary items can come from many sources beyond ordinary monster drops. Check the Codex, Battle Pass rewards, event reward tracks, faction activities, Helliquary content, challenge activities, vendors, and weekly reward menus before beginning a long farming session.
Some reward screens allow you to select a class or a specific equipment slot. Use those options to target missing build pieces rather than choosing randomly. A selectable reward is most valuable when you already know which Essence or slot is blocking your build.
5. Craft missing Legendary equipment
Current crafting systems allow you to create Legendary items of a chosen equipment type by using materials gathered from activities such as open-world content, Terror Rifts, Oblivion Pillars, Hellslayer Bounties, and dungeons. Certain crafting recipes can also add a selected special magic attribute when you provide the required material.
Crafting is not a guarantee that you will receive the exact Legendary Essence you want. Its value is control: you can target the slot, create current-difficulty equipment, and turn unwanted results into further progression. Craft when you have a clear gap, not simply because materials are available.
How to Unlock Missing Legendary Essences
When a Legendary item drops, extract its Essence rather than treating it as ordinary salvage. The first extraction unlocks the Essence for inheritance on another item from the same equipment slot. Duplicate extractions contribute to Essence Mastery, which improves the effectiveness of extracted Legendary powers as your mastery progresses.
Essence Transfer lets you inherit an unlocked power onto a newer Legendary item. This means you do not need to keep wearing an old item merely because it contains the correct power. Replace the item when a higher-Combat-Rating or better-affix version appears, then inherit the desired Essence onto the replacement.
Use the Essence Loyalty system instead of waiting forever
Extracting Legendary equipment also advances the Essence Loyalty system. Loyalty Points can be used to select an uncollected Essence, including newly available Essences tied to the current difficulty. This is the most important protection against bad RNG when you repeatedly receive Legendaries for the wrong skill or slot.
Prioritize Loyalty progress when:
- Your build is missing one essential Essence.
- You have already extracted most common powers from a slot.
- You are farming current-difficulty gear for a newly unlocked build.
- You have changed class and need to rebuild your Essence collection.
Do not extract every Legendary immediately if you are unsure whether its attributes are worth preserving. Compare the item with your equipped gear, check whether the Essence is already unlocked, and then extract duplicates once you have confirmed that the item is not an upgrade.
Best Ways to Farm Set Items
Set Items are mainly acquired through dungeons and Set Item crafting. Each dungeon has a defined Set Item drop pool, so the correct dungeon depends on the piece and set bonus you are targeting. Open the Codex or dungeon information screen before farming to verify which dungeon can reward the required item.
Target the correct dungeon, not the fastest dungeon
Running the fastest dungeon is only efficient when that dungeon can drop the Set Item you need. If the item is not in its reward pool, repeated runs cannot produce it. Choose a dungeon that includes the desired set and then optimize the run for speed, survival, and minimal loading or travel time.
Dungeon farming is affected by RNG. A long sequence without the desired piece does not mean the account is malfunctioning, and a short sequence of lucky drops does not establish a permanent drop rate. Optimize the number of efficient runs you complete rather than expecting a guaranteed result from a fixed number of attempts.
Use Set Item crafting to correct bad luck
Salvage unwanted Set Items to obtain the materials required for Set Item crafting. Crafting allows you to target a set and equipment slot instead of relying entirely on the dungeon’s random reward table.
Crafting is particularly useful when you have completed most of a set but are missing one ring, belt, or pair of boots. It is also useful when your current Set Item has poor attributes and you want a replacement without abandoning the set bonus.
| Situation | Recommended Action | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| You need your first functional set | Farm the dungeon that drops the required set and salvage duplicates | Dungeon runs provide both direct drops and materials for later crafting |
| You are missing one specific slot | Continue the correct dungeon and use Set Item crafting | Crafting reduces dependence on the full random dungeon pool |
| Your set has low Combat Rating | Farm the same set at your current difficulty | Higher-difficulty replacements can preserve the bonus while improving attributes |
| You need a temporary upgrade | Equip a higher-stat item even if the set is incomplete | Combat Rating and survivability can matter more than a weak partial bonus |
| You are changing builds | Save useful pieces, then farm the new set through its listed dungeons | Different builds often require different set bonuses and slot combinations |
How to Choose Between Set Bonuses and Combat Rating
Set bonuses are not automatically superior to higher Combat Rating. If you are below the recommended Combat Rating for a difficulty, replace weak gear first and return to set optimization after you can clear content safely. A set bonus cannot compensate for being unable to survive or damage enemies in the selected difficulty.
Once your Combat Rating is sufficient, set bonuses become more important. Damage-focused PvE builds usually value bonuses that improve the primary damage skill, increase damage against controlled or injured enemies, or improve uptime on a major buff. Farming builds often prefer movement speed, cooldown reduction, resource efficiency, or effects that improve clear speed.
PvP requires a separate evaluation. A set that performs well in dungeons may be poor in Battlegrounds if its bonus depends on long uninterrupted attacks, stationary positioning, or enemies remaining grouped. PvP gear decisions should account for crowd control, survivability, mobility, and the shorter windows available to complete a rotation.
Activities That Supplement Gear Farming
Helliquary raids and related raid content
Helliquary activities are primarily important for Helliquary progression and Combat Rating, but they can also provide equipment and other useful rewards. Complete the available raid objectives on their normal schedule instead of farming ordinary gear at the expense of permanent Helliquary progress.
Helliquary Combat Rating is not the same as Resonance or ordinary item attributes. A player can have strong Legendary Gems and still be behind on Helliquary progression, so include raids in your weekly routine.
Terror Rifts and high-level activity rewards
Terror Rifts and similar current endgame activities can provide materials, Legendary equipment, and specialized progression resources. They are most valuable when you can clear them efficiently and when your account also needs the materials associated with their crafting systems.
Do not enter difficult content solely because it has a chance to drop better gear. If the activity requires repeated deaths or unusually slow clears, use a faster farm until your Combat Rating and build improve.
Challenge content and event rewards
Challenge activities, limited-time events, faction content, and Battle Pass reward tracks can produce Legendary items, Set Items, crafting materials, or selectable gear. These rewards are often more efficient than direct grinding because they combine gear with experience, currencies, and account progression.
Check the current activity menu before farming. Reward structures and available activities can change with updates, so do not rely on an old checklist that assumes every event or reward source remains active.
F2P, Low-Spender, and Developed-Account Priorities
F2P accounts
F2P players should focus on activities that provide equipment, upgrade materials, and progression at the same time. Complete the first Bestiary turn-in, combine bounties with open-world farming, run targeted dungeons for set pieces, and use crafting materials only after identifying a genuine equipment gap.
Do not spend scarce currencies trying to force a perfect item. A higher-Combat-Rating replacement with an inherited Essence is usually more valuable than waiting for the same power to appear naturally on a perfect item.
Low-spender accounts
Low-spender players should use the same farming structure as F2P accounts while taking advantage of additional reward tracks and periodic selectable gear. Premium rewards can accelerate the number of attempts, but they do not remove RNG from Legendary or Set Item drops.
Use premium resources to support a defined build rather than collecting random equipment for every class. If you frequently class change, maintain a clear list of required Essences and sets before spending materials.
Developed accounts
Established accounts should separate farming sessions by purpose. Use a fast open-world build for Legendary items and materials, a dungeon build for Set Items, and a high-damage or support build for raids and difficult group content.
At this stage, the main bottleneck is often not obtaining any gear but finding better attributes, magic affixes, item ranks, and Essence Mastery progress. Extract duplicates, salvage unusable Set Items, and craft only when the resulting slot or attribute can improve your current setup.
A Practical Daily and Weekly Gear Routine
- Claim available daily rewards and inspect selectable Legendary gear options.
- Complete the first Horadric Bestiary turn-in.
- Run bounties in zones where you can collect Monstrous Essence efficiently.
- Farm open-world elite packs when you need Legendary equipment or salvage materials.
- Run the dungeon that contains your required Set Item.
- Complete scheduled Helliquary, faction, clan, and Battle Pass activities.
- Extract new Legendary Essences and record which powers are still missing.
- Salvage unwanted Set Items and use the materials for targeted crafting.
- Raise the difficulty only when you can clear it without a major loss of speed.
For a short session, prioritize the first Bestiary reward, the current Battle Pass objectives, and a targeted dungeon. For a longer session, add open-world farming, crafting-material collection, Helliquary activities, and additional dungeon runs after the guaranteed or scheduled rewards are complete.
Common Gear-Farming Mistakes
| Mistake | Why It Hurts | Better Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Farming a dungeon without checking its Set Item pool | The required item cannot drop there | Check the Codex and target the correct dungeon |
| Choosing the highest difficulty regardless of clear speed | Slow clears reduce total rewards per hour | Farm the highest difficulty that remains fast and reliable |
| Salvaging every Legendary immediately | You may lose an uncollected Essence or useful upgrade | Check the Essence, attributes, and item rank before processing it |
| Waiting for a perfect Legendary before using Essence Transfer | You delay progress while relying on random drops | Inherit the required Essence onto a stronger replacement |
| Ignoring Set Item crafting | Bad dungeon luck can leave one slot unfinished for too long | Salvage duplicates and craft the missing set slot when possible |
| Using a PvE set in every activity | Some bonuses perform poorly against players | Maintain separate PvE, farming, and PvP configurations |
| Farming gear while neglecting Helliquary progression | You lose a major source of permanent Combat Rating | Complete scheduled Helliquary content alongside gear farming |
How to Make Each Farming Run More Productive
- Use movement skills and speed-oriented attributes when ordinary enemies already die quickly.
- Keep inventory space available so you do not interrupt a productive route.
- Extract or salvage items regularly instead of allowing a full inventory to end the session.
- Save selectable rewards until you know which slot or Essence is still missing.
- Farm with a party when it improves clear speed, but do not assume group play guarantees a particular drop.
- Track the Set Items and Essences required by each build before spending crafting materials.
- Replace equipment when the Combat Rating improvement is meaningful, then inherit the correct Essence.
- Use the Codex to verify dungeon rewards, current activity availability, and the difficulty appropriate for your account.
The most reliable long-term strategy is to treat every unwanted item as progress. Legendary duplicates advance Essence Mastery or Loyalty, Set Item duplicates become crafting materials, and lower-quality gear supplies upgrade resources. By combining daily rewards, open-world farming, targeted dungeons, crafting, and scheduled endgame activities, you maximize useful attempts without depending on any single random drop.
