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Diablo 4 Season 10 has introduced Chaos Perks as part of its seasonal power system. These perks are designed to alter how your skills work in the game, offering new ways to craft your builds. They provide unique bonuses to every build but require you to manage risk and reward to maximize their effectiveness in combat.
In this guide, we break down what the Chaos Perks are, how they work, and how to get them in Diablo 4 Season 10.
Diablo 4: What are Chaos Perks?
Chaos Perks come in multiple rarities in Diablo 4, from Magic to Unique (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)Diablo 4 Season 10's Chaos Perks modify your preexisting skills by granting them new gameplay mechanics and effects. Each Chaos Perk offers unique and powerful bonuses that can boost your build mechanics, defensive capabilities, or buff offensive ones. However, these bonuses come with certain drawbacks, which include cooldown penalties, defense reduction, or resource drain debuffs.
Players can use Chaos Perks to create different combinations, making their builds unique. Each player is allowed to equip up to three non-Unique Chaos Perks and a single Unique Chaos Perk, allowing them to experiment with multiple variations.
General/regular Unique Chaos Perks (All classes)
Chaos Perks, varying from Magic to Legendary rarity, offer changes to minor mechanics and buffs offensive and defensive abilities (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)1) Chaos Unleashed
- Killing an enemy generates two stacks of Chaos, and dealing direct damage to a boss generates five stacks of Chaos. At 100 stacks, unleash a salvo of 9 Chaotic Bursts, dealing 300-500% of your highest damage type.
- Your Chaotic Bursts gain 30%[+] Critical Strike Chance, and deal 100-200%[x] increased damage.
2) Brawn Over Brains
Brawn Over Brains grants the following:
- 100-200% [x] Maximum Life
- +50-100% Healing Received
- 75-125%[x] Overpower Damage
However, your Maximum Resistances will be reduced by 25%, and your damage reduction from Armor will be capped at 60%.
3) A Beast Cornered
- For every 10% Life you are missing, you gain 10-20% [x] increased damage and 5% damage reduction.
- Spending Resources also drains a percentage of your Life equal to 30% the Resources spent, refunding those Resources. This cannot reduce you to below 10% Life.
Class-specific Unique Chaos Perks
Chaos Perks, varying from Magic to Legendary rarity, offer changes to minor mechanics and buffs offensive and defensive abilities (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)| Class | Chaos Perk | Rarity | Unique effects |
| Barbarian | Single-Minded Fury | Unique | If you only have one Arsenal Weapon type equipped, gain the following:
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| Druid | Savagery | Unique | Your Companion Skills are altered to also be Core Skills. Your Companions grow in size. Gain 40-80%[x] Summon Damage. |
| Necromancer | Alter the Balance | Unique | Your base Core Skills are now empowered as Ultimate Skills, cost no Essence, but have a 30-20 second Cooldown. Your base Ultimate Skills are now altered to also be Core Skills and have no Cooldown but cost 70-50 Essence. |
| Rogue | Hit and Run | Unique | Every 15 meters you move grants you 30-50%[x] increased damage for 5 seconds. This bonus stacks but does not refresh. If this bonus is not active, you deal 30% reduced damage. |
| Sorcerer | Mana Shield | Unique | You have 99% reduced Maximum Life but any damage you would take is dealt to your Mana before your Life. If you have not taken damage in the last 2 seconds, your Mana Regeneration is increased by 5,000%[+]. You gain 200-400% increased Maximum Mana, and each point of Intelligence increases your Maximum Mana by 1. |
| Spiritborn | Convocation of Spirits | Unique | Casting a Non-ultimate Skill has a 1% chance to invoke the Spirits of that Skill’s types which deal 100-200%[x] increased damage. This chance is increased by 1% of your Ultimate Skill Damage, up to 10%. Your Ultimate Skills benefit from all of their Upgrades. |
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How do you unlock Chaos Perks in Diablo 4?
Fight through Infernal Hordes and confront Bartuc instead of the Fell Council to get Unique Perks (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)Chaos Perks of Diablo 4 can be unlocked by progressing through Season 10’s reputation system and boss encounters. All Magic, Rare, and Legendary Chaos Perks can be unlocked by progressing the Season 10 reputation path. Reputations can be earned by finishing seasonal activities, Infernal Hordes, and Chaos Rift activities in Diablo 4.
Meanwhile, Unique Chaos Perks are special and can only be unlocked after beating Bartuc, Lord of Chaos, during Infernal Hordes (Torment I or above).
At the end of every Infernal Horde, you will get the choice to face the Fell Council or increase the challenge by facing Bartuc. This boss fight is the only way to acquire Unique Chaos perks and armor in Diablo 4 Season 10 (drops are guaranteed in Torment 3 and 4).
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Diablo 4: How to upgrade Chaos Perks
Summoning Bartuc significantly increases the difficulty of the Infernal Hordes (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)Chaos Perks can be further upgraded using Infernal Warps, the season currency introduced in Diablo 4 Season 10.
Infernal Warps can be earned from:
- Infernal Hordes
- Chaos Rifts inside Helltide events and Nightmare Dungeons.
Upgrading a Chaos Perk enhances its secondary Unique effect and its values. Make sure you upgrade the perks you will be using to increase the core damage of your build and its survivability in the endgame of Diablo 4.
Diablo 4 Season 10 offers a ton of Chaos Perks for players to experiment with; every combination feels different, so try mixing general and class-specific perks to see which one synergizes well with your playstyle.
Chaos Perks are designed to boost your gameplay and build’s core functionality, but they can come with serious drawbacks.
While you will get access to most perks (Magic to Legendary) relatively easily, Uniques can only drop from Bartuc. Make this boss an early priority when running Infernal Hordes. Unlocking Unique Chaos Perks early is key to mastering the system and finding the perfect combination for your build in the game.
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