Diablo 4 Season 11: How to upgrade Divine Gifts (and what they do)

Diablo 4 Season 11’s Divine Gifts offer you the ability to enhance your rewards from completing specific content and upgrading them confers greater rewards still. It’s certainly a different type of seasonal borrowed power, because it doesn’t give you new special attacks, or passives that trigger whenever you move around. Instead, they give you rewards for doing things in-game, and, depending on what slot they’re put into, make content harder.

It’s honestly not too hard to upgrade Divine Gifts in Diablo 4, but it is going to feel tedious. Depending on the content in question, it can also feel incredibly slow. Nonetheless, it’s worth doing because it can make some of your other grinds, like farming Uniques a little bit faster.

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How to upgrade Divine Gifts in Diablo 4

If you want to upgrade Divine Gifts in Diablo 4, you need to grind particular activities, depending on the Divine Gift. The short answer is to just keep doing whatever activity you fought the Lesser Evil boss at, over and over, until you rank up. Defeating the Lesser Evil bosses will drop items that increase your rank by 1 point.

Just gather up those Memories for points towards the next rank of your Divine Gifts (for that boss) (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

For example, defeating Azmodan in Hawezar will drop Sinful Memories. Picking these up will increase your rank with both of his Divine Gifts. At least you don’t have to actually summon Azmodan to get these. If you’re just waiting around and someone summons him, as long as you take part, you can loot this item. You don’t have to open any of the chests, he’ll drop them when he dies.

You just have to keep taking part in these events until you reach the next rank. You can see it in the Divine Gifts section of your menu, so it’s easy to see how far you have to go. Below are the activities you need to do to grind up these ranks:

• Andariel in The Undercity.
• Azmodan in Hawezar.
• Duriel in Helltides.
• Belial in The Pit.

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What upgrading Divine Gifts does in Diablo 4

Each Divine Gift offers you specific bonuses for completing content related to that boss. In addition, each Essence rewards you with particular things, such as Runewords, Gem Fragments, Exp Orbs, and even Boss Lair Keys. Below we’ll show you each of the Essences, and how the rewards will work as you increase their rank.

Some of the Divine Gifts are more worthwhile than others (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Essence of Sin (Survive World Bosses)

• Rank Upgrades: Higher quality Dungeon Keys drop.
• Rank 2: The Weekly cache awards a huge amount of Activity Keys.
• Rank 5: More Compasses and Tributes drop across Sanctuary.

Essence of Hellfire (Survive World Bosses)

• Rank Upgrades: Higher quality Lair Boss Keys drop.
• Rank 2: The Weekly cache awards a huge amount of Lair Boss Keys.
• Rank 5: More Lair Boss Keys drop across Sanctuary.

Essence of Anguish (Vanquish the Undercity)

• Rank Upgrades: The amount of Obols you receive from Undercity runs increases.

Essence of Screams (Vanquish the Undercity)

• Rank Upgrades: Higher quality Salvage Materials drop from Undercity runs.

Essence of Pain (Helltides)

• Rank Upgrades: Higher quality Runes and Gems drop from Pangs of Duriel in Helltides.

Essence of Squalor (Helltides)

• Rank Upgrades: Experience Globes reward you with more exp.

Essence of Lies (The Pit)

• Rank Upgrades: Extra upgrade chance increases for your Paragon Glyphs.

Essence of Shadows (The Pit)

• Rank Upgrades: The amount of gold you receive increases.

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Check out our other Diablo 4 guides and features

• Diablo 4 Season 11: Hadriel’s Divine Missive walkthrough
• Diablo 4 Season 11: Call of the Paladin walkthrough (Path of the Paladin)
• Diablo 4 devs walk back major Masterworking change ahead of Season 11
• Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred DLC: Release date, known features, and more

Edited by Jason Parker