Burning Aether Speed Farming Guide for Diablo 4 Season 5

Last updated on 27/08/2024

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Burning Aether Speed Farming Guide for Diablo 4 Season 5

Since Diablo 4 Season 5, you can farm Burning Aether in the Infernal Horde arena, which you can then exchange for valuable items, materials and gold. Depending on the arena tier, you have to survive a certain number of monster waves and defeat the High Council at the end.

During each wave, you collect Burning Aether from various events that are regularly triggered by killing monsters. You can see when such an event starts by the progress bar on the right-hand side of your screen.

At the end of each wave, you can choose one of three Hellborne Boons, which make the subsequent waves more challenging, but at the same time give you additional Aether by completing events. However, each Hellborne Boon is more or less effective when it comes to collecting the highest possible amount of Burning Aether in an Infernal Horde run.

In my tier list below, I'll show you which Hellborn Boons you should pick to efficiently farm Burning Aether in the Infernal Horde arena.

Hellborne Boons Tier-List

The Best Hellborne Boons to Farm Burning Aether in Diablo 4

	Efficiency	Hellborn Boons	Banes & Boons
1	Very good	The Summoned Hellborne	Hellborne are hunting you Hellborne grant +1 Aether
2	Very good	The Surging Hellborne	+1 Hellborne when spawned Hellborne grant +1 Aether
3	Very good	The Exalted Hellborn	Hellborne damage +25% Hellborn grant +1 Aether
4	Very good	The Surging Elite	Chance for Elite Doubled Aether Fiends grant +2 Aether
5	Very good	The Exalted Hordes	Aether Events spawn 50% faster
6	Good	The Exalted Elite	Elite damage +25% Aether Fiends grant +2 Aether
7	Good	The Unstoppable Elite	Elites are unstoppable Aether Fiends grant +2 Aether
8	Good	The Burning Rain	Hellfire rains upon you At the end of each wave spawn 3-9 Aether
9	Good	The Burning Hellborne	Hellfire now spawns Hellborne Hellborne +2 Aether
10	Neutral	The Withered Wanderer	-10% All Resistances Fell Council +15 Aether
11	Neutral	The Exhausted Wanderer	Evade Cooldown +2 seconds Fell Council +15 Aether
12	Neutral	The Exalted Council	Fell Council damage +50% Fell Council +15 Aether
13	Neutral	The Stalking Devil	An Infernal Demon has your scent Slay it to gain +25 Aether
14	Neutral	The Exalted Masses	Aetheric Mass damage +25% Aetheric Mass grants +1 Aether
15	Neutral	The Draining Spires	Soulspires drain Life Soulspires grant 2x Aether
16	Neutral	The Invigorating Hellborn	Hellborn damage +25% Slaying Hellborn invigorates you
17	Bad	The Corrupting Spires	Soulspires pull foes inward
18	Bad	The Aether Rush	Normal monster damage +25% Gathering Aether increases movement speed
19	Bad	The Gorging Masses	Slaying Aetheric Mass slows you While slowed this way, you have unlimited resources
20	Bad	The Bursting Fiends	Elite damage +25% Aether Fiends explode and damage foes
21	Bad	The Bursting Masses	Masses deal unavoidable damage Spawns an Aetheric Mass at wave start
22	Very bad	The Summoned Lords	Aether Lords now spawn They grant +3 Aether
23	Very bad	The Teeming Masses	Masses spawn an Aether Lord on death Aether Lords grant +3 Aether
24	Very bad	The Insatiable Spires	Soulspires require 2x kills Soulspires grant 2x Aether

Infernal Horde Tiers

All Tiers of the Infernal Horde in Diablo 4

	Monster Level	Number of Waves	Number of Revives
Tier 1	55	6	8
Tier 2	75	6	3
Tier 3	100	6	3
Tier 4	120	7	3
Tier 5	140	7	2
Tier 6	160	8	2
Tier 7	180	9	2
Tier 8	200	10	2

Infernal Horde Rewards

All Rewards in the Infernal Horde

Spoils

At the end of each Infernal Horde run, you can choose your rewards from the following four chest types:

Spoil	Aether	Reward
Spoils of Greater Equipment	60 Burning Aether	This chest can only be opened once, but contains legendary items and at least one with a Greater Affix.
Spoils of Equipment	20 Burning Aether	Many legendary items await you in this chest. You can also open it as often as your Aether supply allows.
Spoils of Materials	20 Burning Aether	The material chest can also be opened as often as possible until your Aether supply is exhausted. It rewards you with valuable materials. You'll find a full list of all materials further down in the article.
Gold	Total Aether stock	The gold chest uses all your Burning Aether at once and then rewards you with a lot of gold. The more Aether you use, the greater the amount of gold.

Materials

You can farm the following important materials from the Infernal Horde, depending on the Tier:

Material	Infernal Horde Tier
Bundled Herbs Gem Fragments Veiled Crystals Angelbreath Forgotten Souls Scattered Prisms	Tier 1 - 8
Obducite	Tier 3 & 4
Ingolith	Tier 5 & 6
Neathiron	Tier 7 & 8
Stygian Stones	Tier 6 - 8

Gold

Infernal Horde Tier	Gold
Tier 1	approx. 8.700 Gold per Aether
Tier 2	approx. 39.000 Gold per Aether
Tier 3	approx. 56.000 Gold per Aether
Tier 4	approx. 74.000 Gold per Aether
Tier 5	approx. 100.000 Gold per Aether
Tier 6	approx. 116.000 Gold per Aether
Tier 7	approx. 131.000 Gold per Aether
Tier 8	approx. 151.000 Gold per Aether

Uniques

You can farm the following unique items in the Infernal Horde arena. These can be found in both the large and the normal equipment chest.

The Third Blade

Unique 1h Sword

Damage to Close Enemies

Strength

Fury on Kill

Vulnerable Damage

Weapon Mastery Damage

Your Weapon Mastery Skills are now also Core Skills that have no Cooldowns but cost Fury, dealing X% of normal damage. Their Fury costs are reduced by X for any additional Charges the Skill would have had.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

Barbarian

Vox Omnium

Unique 2H Staff

Lucky Hit Chance

Intelligence

Core Attack Speed

Non-Physical Damage

Ranks to Basic Skills

Casting a Core Skill additionally fires 2 instances of Fire Bolt, Frost Bolt, or Spark, matching the elements of your last 2 non-Core Skill casts. These projectiles deal X% increased damage.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

Sorcerer

The Basilisk

Unique Staff

Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies

Earth Attack Speed

Critical Strike Damage

Physical Damage

Critical Strike Chance Against Stunned Enemies

When you first hit an enemy with an Earth Skill, Petrify them for X seconds. Petrifying an enemy additionally deals X Physical damage.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

Druid

The Umbracrux

Unique Dagger

Damage

Dexterity

Vulnerable Damage

Subterfuge Cooldown Reduction

Ranks to Innervation

Your Subterfuge Skills create an attackable Shade Totem for X seconds. Any damage it takes is replicated onto surrounding enemies at X% effectiveness. You may only have 1 Shade Totem active at a time. This damage counts as a Trap skill.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

Rogue

The Mortacrux

Unique Dagger

Macabre and Corpse Damage

Intelligence

Chance For Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage

Hewed Flesh also grants a Barrier for X% Maximum Life for X seconds

Ranks to Hewed Flesh

When consuming a Corpse, there is a X% chance to also create a decaying Skeletal Simulacrum that seeks enemies but cannot attack. When it dies, it explodes for X Shadow damage. This effect is treated as a Macabre Skill.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

Necromancer

Endurant Faith

Unique Gloves

All Stats

Maximum Life

Cooldown Reduction

Healing Received

When you would be damaged for at least X% of your Maximum Life at once, it is instead distributed over the next X seconds and reduced by X%.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

All Classes

Crown of Lucion

Unique Helm

Maximum Life

Lucky Hit Chance

Shadow Resistance

Cooldown Reduction

Each time you use a Skill with a Resource Cost, gain X% increased damage and Resource Cost is increased by X% for X seconds, stacking up to X times.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

All Classes

Locran's Talisman

Unique Amulet

Resistance to All Elements

All Stats

Maximum Resource

Critical Strike Damage

Resistance to All Elements

Your skills gain X% Critical Strike Chance bonus per point of Primary Resource you have, up to X% . Each point of Primary Resource above X grants X% Critical Strike Damage instead.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

All Classes

Rakanoth's Wake

Unique Boots

Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown by X Seconds

Movement Speed

Non-Physical Damage

Resistance to All Elements

Cooldown Reduction

When you cast a Skill with a Cooldown, you explode, dealing X Fire damage.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

All Classes

Shard of Verathiel

Unique 1h Sword

Damage

All Stats

Maximum Resource

Basic Attack Speed

Ranks to Basic Skills

Basic Skills deal X% increased damage but additionally cost X Primary Resource.

Dropped by

Infernal Horde

Class

All Classes

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