For those not aware, one of the objectives for the last part of the season 1 journey is to purify 10,000 Seeds of Hatred. There are also objectives to purify 1,000 and 5,000 in Chapter 4 and Champion (Chapter 6) respectively. If you don’t like PVP but still want to complete all the season journey objectives, now’s your chance while everybody is busy spamming dungeons and quests to level!

It took me about 20 minutes to collect 11,000. Didn’t see one other player or have to kill people to take their Seeds. Here’s what I did:

  • Run around looking for the special PVP area chests that drop 1,000+ seeds.
  • Complete the objectives in the area to get batches of 1,000+ seeds.
  • Kill elite packs to get 200+ seeds.
  • Kill the little enemies that spawn while the ritual is completing. It seems they have a higher chance to drop seeds than other enemies.
  • tissek@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Another good time to do PvP is early mornings. Well, generally before 10am the activity is small.

  • Dnn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’ve never cared about PVP in any Diablo and wasn’t aware it’s needed for progress. So thanks a lot for this hint - just finished the 10k at 9 am without a single soul in the area.

    • Meeech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s not required to complete the journey. You only need to finish most of it. They said on one of the campfire chats because they knew if pvp was forced on people to complete the journey, there would be riots.

    • squidzorz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Sorry didn’t mean to make it sound like you HAVE to do it. You only need to complete around 75% of each chapter’s objectives for it to be considered “completed”. 9/11, 9/12, 6/8, etc.

      The 10,000 seeds objective in the last part is definitely going to be easier than reaching level 100 or killing Uber Lilith though.

    • Garden_Ramsay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was able to do it at 10am without seeing a single person. You don’t actually pvp, you just kill enemies and click a thing. I got like 4 levels and upgrades and mats and gold while doing it so it wasn’t a wasted 30 mins. You can turn off cross play to lower any possibility of running into people.

      • Lopen's Left Arm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I just popped in there with cross network play off, and you’re right it was totally empty! Took me about an hour to do all 10,000, didn’t see a single other person the whole time. Great tip!

    • SplitsAtoms@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I agree, nothing ruins a PvE game more than forced PvP.

      I used to play The Division, and there’s a lot of other examples.

  • inverimus@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Another tip if you don’t want to actually PvP, turn off cross play and you will rarely see anyone anywhere.

  • CrowAirbrush@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Turns out i was alone, so i finished it in less than an hour while not knowing what to do.

  • Kaypher@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I kind of stumbled into the area without knowing the mechanics whilst halfway through the campaign. Is it normally a dangerous place to be if you’re not looking to hunt other players?

    • squidzorz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      If there’s no other players, it’s the same as any other zone aside from the boss that wanders around. If you run into a player that is PvP flagged, they can and will attack you and you will lose all your seeds.

      • Kaypher@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There’s no looting of gear from other players? I suppose that would be a bit much and most people would avoid it altogether.

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Non season you typically have people 20+ levels ganking you. I’ve seen level 70+ flagged people even on world tier 1. It’s stupid. Season start is probably also a good time to farm non season shards, if you want to unlock all the cosmetics.

  • octal@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Can you group up for those zones? I wonder if that’s an alternative way to do it even if it is populated.