Diablo 4 Season 11 PTR Divine Gifts Guide: Full List, Effects & How It Works

Currently, patch 2.5.0 for Diablo 4 Season 11 has been released, and PTR of this season is nearing its end. Some players have learned about some of the game content contained in the new season through this week-long test time, such as the reworked crafting system, the new season mechanism Divine Gifts, and the newly added Uniques.

Among these new contents, Divine Gifts mechanism used to enhance character construction to complete all exploration content must be the most important. It is a member of Borrowed Power system that D4 has been emphasizing this year, just like the previous Horadric Spells and Chaos Perk.

Because Divine Gifts are the core of this season’s update, a thorough understanding of how they work and the types they contain will be of great significance to your ability to develop a more appropriate exploration strategy for them. In view of this, IGGM will do it for you and analyze them here.

What Is It?

Divine Gifts are given to you by Angel Hadriel in the story background provided by Diablo 4 Season 11. It represents part of the power from High Heavens and the courage to stop the expansion of the evil forces in Sanctuary.

You need to participate in Lesser Evil Invasion in the game and kill specific bosses in it to obtain this special power. Each Divine Gift has three parts: Reward, Corrupted Gift, and Divine Gift, and the specific effect of which changes depending on where you insert them into Power Board.

Rewards: Increase the bonuses or loot in a specific activity.
Purifying Gifts: Provide beneficial buffs.
Corrupted Gifts: Increase the challenge and risk of the associated activity, but also increase the rewards.

How It Works?

After a brief understanding of the background story and introduction of Divine Gifts in Diablo 4 S11, IGGM will now introduce to you how it works. As with previous seasons, you’ll find Lesser Evils in various worlds and endgame events, which can drop Corrupted Essence on the first time killed.

Deliver the harvested Corrupted Essences to Hadriel, who will then provide you with two Divine Gifts for that boss. Afterwards, you can gain experience points to increase the level of your gifts by killing any of these Lesser Evils’ minions during daily exploration activities.

The following are the names of the essences each boss can provide you with and their specific locations. It’s important to note that these details are from PTR and are likely to change during the official season.

Essence of Pain: Duriel From Helltide
Essence of Squalor: Duriel From Helltide
Essence of Lies: Belial From The Pit
Essence of Shadows: Belial From The Pit
Essence of Sin: Azmodan From Overworld
Essence of Hellfire: Azmodan From Overworld
Essence of Anguish: Andariel From Undercity (Only For DLC)
Essence of Screams: Andariel From Undercity (Only For DLC)

After you obtain Divine Gifts, these S11 exclusive season reward, you can choose to equip it on the outside or inside of the board, which will affect the difficulty of your subsequent exploration and the quality of your loot in Diablo 4 Season 11.

Inner Slots activate Purified Gift benefit, doubling Reward effect and removing Corrupted Gift. Outer Slots activate Corrupted Gift power, making the entire battle more difficult, but Reward effect remains effective.

However, it is worth reminding you that at the beginning of the season, you only have 4 Corrupted Slots. The corresponding Purified Gift slots need to be unlocked by improving Divine Favor ranks in Seasonal Reputation board. The specific levels are as: Rank 2 – Duriel, Rank 4 – Andariel, Rank 6 – Azmodan, and Rank 8 – Belial.

In summary, the newly added Divine Gifts can allow players to find some freshness in the monotonous game content of Diablo 4 for several seasons, and perfectly meet the respective demands of two groups of players: casual players who want more rewards; high-level players who want a more difficult challenge.

While the developers explicitly state that Divine Gifts aren’t as difficult to obtain as they were in previous seasons, D4 boss encounters that offer Corrupted Essences are still worth your attention, as they’re generally more difficult than smaller monsters.

If you want the battle process to be easier, you might as well buy cheap Diablo 4 gold at IGGM.com and keep it in reserve. After entering the new season, you can use it directly to upgrade your gear, improve character build and farm more essence.

Current Divine Gifts List

Next, we’ll delve into the most important part of this guide: the specific effects of each Divine Gift. Again, this information is based on the recently concluded Season 11 PTR. The specific effects and statistics will likely be officially released during the season, so look forward to it on December 9th.

Essence Of Pain

Rewards: Pangs of Duriel in Helltide will drop Socketables, and Purified will double the amount. As Gift Rank increases, the loot will contain higher quality Runes and Gems.
Purified Gift: While you take damage, you gain a maximum barrier every 20 seconds.
Corrupted Gift: Pangs of Duriel will ambush you more frequently and have a 100% chance of destroying your Barriers or Fortified Life with their attacks.

Essence Of Squalor

Rewards: Maggots spawned in Helltide will drop Experience Globes for you, the quantity of which will be doubled after being Purified. And as Gift Ranked, the reward amount will increase.
Purified Gift: Provides you with a Healing Potion every 20 seconds.
Corrupted Gift: Meteorites will spawn more Maggots after they fall, and each point of damage they cause you will consume one of your Health Potions.

Essence Of Lies

Rewards: You’ll have a chance to earn additional upgrades while in The Pit, which amount increases with Rank levels, and doubles when you’re Purified.
Purified Gift: Fortify 1% of your maximum life every second.
Corrupted Gift: Belial’s Eyes focus on you, dealing massive damage equal to 10% of your maximum health per second.

Essence Of Shadows

Rewards: Completing The Pit will earn you a large amount of D4 gold, which amount increases with Rank levels and doubles after Purified.
Purified Gift: When you are crowd controlled, you will enter the Unstoppable state every 12 seconds.
Corrupted Gift: Belial’s Apparitions are empowered, causing their attacks to stun you for 3 seconds or knock you back.

Essence Of Sin

Rewards: Survive battles against World Bosses to earn Activity Keys, which increase in number with Rank, and double in quality at Purified. Furthermore, Weekly Cache at Rank 2 contains a large number of Keys, and at Rank 5, the chance of dropping Compasses and Tributes in Sanctuary increases.
Purified Gift: Your Armor increases by 20%.
Corrupted Gift: You are always vulnerable when fighting World Bosses.

Essence Of Hellfire

Rewards: Survive World Boss encounters to earn Lair Boss Keys, which increase in quality with Rank, and Purified doubles their quantity. These keys appear in Weekly cache at Rank 2, and increase the number of keys in Sanctuary at Rank 5.
Purified Gift: Your direct damage has a 10% chance to Stun enemies for 1 second.
Corrupted Gift: During battles with World Bosses, you will suffer damage from Meteors rain.

Essence Of Anguish

Rewards: Undercity will contain Obols rewards, the amount of which will increase with Rank and will double when Purified.
Purified Gift: Your movement speed is increased by 30%.
Corrupted Gift: Manifestations of Anguish appear in various locations throughout Undercity and wield lightning siphons, which will inflict a 70% movement speed penalty on you if they get close to you.

Essence Of Screams

Rewards: Clearing Undercity will earn you Salvage Materials, whose quality increases with Rank upgrades, and their quantity doubles with Purified.
Purified Gift: Your resistances are increased by 20%.
Corrupted Gift: Agonized Souls become enraged and explode, manifesting as an area of electrified ground that pulls you in, causing you to lose 12% of your maximum health per second.

This concludes Divine Gifts seasonal mechanic currently available in Diablo 4 Season 11 PTR. It appears to be a remarkable effort by the developers to meet the needs of all players, and a significant investment has been made. IGGM, along with all players, looks forward to its performance in the official season and will continue to provide you with the most up-to-date game guides and safe Diablo 4 items trading.

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