Diablo 4 Adds New Way To Play With Gauntlets Next Week
Blizzard has provided an in-depth look at the upcoming Gauntlet mode in Diablo 4, a leaderboard focused endgame event. The Gauntlet mode launches on March 5, with weekly resets once it’s live.
Detailed in a blog post, the Gauntlet mode is a leaderboard-focused dungeon, where you compete to get high-scores on a weekly basis. The dungeon is set at Nightmare Dungeon level 70, giving you eight minutes to score as many points as possible by slaying monsters, elites, and bosses. While your gear and build is important to scoring high, this particular challenge requires much more strategy in how you tackle it.
Each week there is a set Gauntlet dungeon, which has a static layout. On top of the static layout, every mob, boss, chest, and shrine location will be the exact same during the week. The reason why it’s static is that tackling the dungeon in a certain order has an impact on how much score you can get. There are also two special shrines: one that respawns all defeated monsters and one that increases your score. You will want to learn the dungeon throughout a week, to maximize the score they can achieve.