Diablo 4 adds new gear to each class almost every season, which gives you motivation to continue playing the new season by strengthening the damage output of each class in different ways, especially when the season mechanism itself is not innovative.
In Season 9, the game added 6 unique items, each of which can provide benefits to its class, and the one that belongs to Sorcerer is the unique Amulet Ophidian Iris.
Based on this, this time IGGM will introduce you to the item and all the ways to get it in Sins of the Horadrim Season. Or if you still need to buy Diablo 4 items or learn about other related game information, IGGM can also satisfy you.
What Is Ophidian Iris?
As a Sorcerer exclusive item added in Season 9, Ophidian Iris has many unique affixes and exclusive combat benefits. The affixes include:
- + [10.5 – 15.0]% Attack Speed
- + [1 – 2] to Primordial Binding
- + [11.5 – 15.7]% Intelligence
- + [77.5 – 100.0]% Pyromancy Damage
Based on this, the exclusive powers that this gear can provide you are:
- Hydra is now a core skill, and as long as you summon three Hydras, its attacks will explode on impact.
- Each additional head of Hydra will not only increase its size, but also increase its damage by [50 – 100]%.
Crafting Hydra Sorcerer Build With This Gear
To make the most of the basic attribute bonuses such as speed and intelligence brought by Ophidian Iris in Season 9, you must utilize it to craft Hydra Sorcerer build.
In fact, Hydra itself is an active skill of Sorcerer, which belongs to the summoning skill group and can be upgraded to level 5 to deal more damage.
More specifically, this skill allows you to summon a three-headed hydra in battle, which will breathe fire to attack enemies within range for the next 12 seconds.
This attack feature makes it possible to help you get more Diablo 4 gold in dungeons at one time, especially in the new dungeons Horadric Strongrooms and Escalating Nightmares introduced in Season 9.
If you want to craft the best Hydra build, it is recommended that you further match it with the following:
Skills
- Fire Bolt: Automatically fire flaming arrows in battle, causing burning damage to enemies.
- Lightning Spear: Output lightning damage.
- Devastation: Provides you with damage reduction and barrier effects.
- Ice Shards: Effectively weaken enemies and provide additional attack speed, allowing you to complete battles faster.
Gear (increases damage output)
- Harlequin Crest
- Heir of Perdition
Horadric Spells
- Reactive Ooze: Provides reliable resource generation.
- Frigid Heart: Deals frost damage to enemies.
- Volatile Crystal: Makes your Catalyst Horadric Spells deal more damage.
How To Get Ophidian Iris?
The main way to get most of Diablo 4’s unique items is undoubtedly to repeatedly farm the bosses that drop them, but in fact, rewards or caches obtained by completing other tasks may sometimes bring related drops.
Farming Exclusive Bosses
First of all, in order to get Ophidian Iris from lair bosses, you must enter the boss battle at Torment 1 or higher difficulty. The bosses that can currently drop this item include:
- Echo Of Duriel: This boss is located in Gaping Crevasse, southeast of Gea Kul in Kehjistan region. The unique lair key is Shard of Agony, which can be obtained by defeating Varshan and Grigoire. The trick to fighting him is to increase your poison resistance attribute.
- Echo Of Andariel: This boss is located deep in Hangman’s Hall near Tarsarak waypoint in eastern Kehjistan. The unique lair keys are Pincushioned Dolls, which can be obtained by defeating Beast and Lord Zir. The combat trick is to fill a few sockets with diamonds.
- Harbinger Of Hatred: This boss is located in central Nahantu and can be found east along the city of Kurast Bazaar. The unique lair key is Abhorrent Heart, which can be obtained by defeating Urivar. The combat trick is to pay attention to his ranged and AOE magical attacks.
Of course, in addition to Ophidian Iris, you also have the opportunity to obtain Diablo 4 gold or other items during the farming process. Of course, if there are duplicate or useless items, you can also sell them in exchange for more gold in case of emergency.
Obol Trade
Obol is actually a special currency in Diablo 4 that can be used to trade other special items, including Ophidian Iris, at Purveyor of Curiosities. However, this method is highly random, so it is only recommended to utilize it when you have a lot of Obols.
If you want to focus on farming this currency, you can focus on the following game events:
- World Events
- The Gathering Legions Zone Events
- Events in Dungeons and Cellars
- Murmuring Caches from Side Quests
- Pit of Artificers
Obtaining And Opening Caches
Most of the main and side quests in Diablo 4 will reward you with valuable game items through caches, which may include Ophidian Iris in Season 9. Although you can choose the type of gear or item you want, the chance of it dropping is still very low.
Fortunately, if your character is in Torment 1+ difficulty and reaches level 60, the drop chance will increase. In addition, you can also increase the chance of getting Ophidian Iris through caches by completing additional side quests as a Sorcerer.
That’s all there is to know about Ophidian Iris, one of the new unique items in Season 9. If you haven’t got it yet, this guide should help you! Thanks for reading!