Since Horadric Cube was introduced to Diablo 4 and further enhanced in Season of Death Awakening, Amulet has become one of the most valuable equipment slots. Its powerful affix potential and flexibility make it a key piece for maximizing endgame builds.
As Mythic Uniques and Gold have become harder to obtain this season, efficient crafting is more important than ever. In this guide, D4GOLD.com explains how to use Horadric Cube to craft a top-tier Amulet and significantly boost your character’s power.
Horadric Cube Changes
First, we need to understand the changes to Horadric Cube in Diablo 4 Season of Death Awakening.
- Increased drop rates for Gem Fragments at Torment difficulty or higher;
- Reduced the number of gem types required for Jeweler conversion from three to two;
- Gem Fragments can now be converted 1:1 to target fragments without loss;
These changes make it easier and more efficient to obtain the gems you need, and improve Horadric Cube’s crafting and upgrading capabilities.
Mythic Uniques
According to Diablo 4 Season 14 Mythic Uniques 3.0, you can upgrade a Mythic Unique by placing a target fragment’s base item and 5 Pandemonium Fragments into Horadric Cube. Similarly, if you place a Unique Amulet in it for upgrading, you will also get a Mythic Unique Amulet.
Therefore, the first step in crafting a top-tier Amulet is choosing the right base item. Choose an Ancestral Amulet with a strength of 850+ and at least one Greater Affix or an affix you need.
Because an Amulet upgraded in this way will have its exclusive key Aspect effect directly increased by 50%, it can be further enhanced through enchanting, conversion, etc., until it becomes a perfect Amulet that balances output, skills, and build mechanics.
Adding Affixes
An Amulet upgraded from Horadric Cube is not yet at its most perfect state. A top-tier Amulet needs at least four core important affixes (such as critical strike chance, critical strike damage, cooldown reduction, lucky hit, etc.) and 1-2 Greater Affixes.
The affixes of a newly upgraded Mythic Amulet may not perfectly match your build needs, so D4GOLD.com recommends that you adjust the affixes.
The first step is to use Diablo 4 Horadric Cube to add an extra affix to Amulet, increasing it from three affixes to four. Tuning Prisms play a key role in this. They allow you to control the type and direction of the newly added affix.
- Pragmatic Tuning Prisms: The most crucial Tuning Prisms for Amulets, including cooldown reduction and Lucky Hit;
- Aggressive Tuning Prisms: Critical Strike Chance, Critical Strike Damage, Attack Speed, etc.;
- Protector Tuning Prisms: Maximum Health, Resistances, Damage Reduction, etc.
Players can selectively use affixes based on what their Amulet lacks or what their build requires.
Secondly, Tuning Prisms can control the category of the modified affixes, preventing them from becoming useless. In short, its core function is to control the enhancement outcome, ensuring that upgrades and transformations align with the build’s needs.
Furthermore, you may have noticed that Diablo 4 Season 14 introduces Chromatic Tuning Prisms, which provide targeted resistances and grant all elemental resistances to gear-something previously unavailable.
Resetting Aspects
What if the upgraded Mythic Amulet’s exclusive aspect isn’t what you need? Don’t worry, Kullean Tuning Prism can reroll your Aspects using Horadric Cube. Unlike other Tuning Prisms, its greatest value lies in not locking your gear, allowing you to adjust repeatedly until you’re satisfied.
You can obtain them in Diablo 4 Season of Death Awakening War Plans and chests in Tree of Whispers, or you can also buy Diablo 4 Kullean Tuning Prism from D4GOLD.com, which will save you more time and offer a better price.
Replacing Unwanted Affixes
Similar to adding affixes, if you want to remove unwanted affixes from your Amulet, D4GOLD.com recommends using Tuning Prisms to replace them until you get the affix attributes you need.
It’s important to note that before re-rolling, you should lock Greater Affix or key attribute affixes you want to keep. Have an enchanter use a skill to lock the attribute on it and click Do Not Change to avoid being re-rolled.
Although Tuning Prisms randomly replace affixes, the newly generated affixes still belong to the same affix pool. Within the affix pool already defined by Prism, you can fill in the missing key attributes one by one.
Generally, the priority is cooldown reduction first, followed by critical strike chance or skill level, and then damage-increasing attributes such as critical strike damage or lucky strike.
The key at this stage is not to pursue perfection in one go, but to accept the logic of gradual approximation – that is, to ensure the core mechanics are in place first, and then optimize the output ceiling. Every Horadric Cube operation should serve to fill gaps in the build.
Occultist
To completely transform this Amulet into a top-tier endgame item, you can go to Occultist to Enchant the lower-value affixes after you’ve crafted all the affixes to your satisfaction.
This will continuously consume Diablo 4 gold and materials, but each time you’ll be given three affixes to choose from. You can use this method to reroll the affixes you consider to have low values to higher values.
A common mistake many players make when crafting a top-tier Amulet is using Occultist to reroll stats before actually re-rolling affixes, and then only using Horadric Cube to fill in any gaps. This pollutes the affix pool, preventing you from consistently getting high-quality affixes.
Therefore, D4GOLD.com must remind players that the order in which you craft gear is crucial to its success.
We hope all players can craft their own incredibly powerful Amulet in Diablo 4 Season of Death Awakening.
