As you all know, Season 8, which is about to take over Diablo 4 Season of Witchcraft, focuses on the return of Belial and the series of boss battles that come with it. These powerful bosses not only greatly increase the difficulty of the endgame challenge, but also bring us new seasonal powers, Boss Power. These Boss Powers are an important part of your journey to explore the next season, while providing more options for your build optimization.
Here, we will talk about the 12 most powerful Boss Powers at present, which you can’t miss if you want to survive the difficult boss battles in Season 8!
What Are Boss Powers?
However, before reading this article, you need to understand what boss powers are. Boss powers allow you to absorb the essence of important enemies and use their power as your own. Each power has two components:
- Main Power: The core ability, shaping how you play and defining your build.
- Modifier Power: Amplifies and enhances your Main Power, pushing its potential.
1. Wandering Death’s Chest Beam
By defeating the boss, Wandering Death, you can unlock this power.
- Main Power: When using this skill, you can generate a beam that deals with 300% frostbite damage per second. When the enemy is hit, the damage it receives is increased by 50% [x] for 1 second.
- Modifier Power: The main boss power will immediately execute non-boss enemies with less than with 15% health.
2. Ashava’s Poison Breath
Defeating the world boss Ashava unlocks this power. In the process of unlocking the boss, lots of Diablo 4 Gold may also be randomly dropped. If you treat it with care, it will be a win-win situation.
- Main Power: Hitting an enemy will cause 400% poison damage within 4 seconds, and the poison rate will increase by 10% for every 1% of life sustained damage.
- Modifier Power: Each activation can be used to cause 45% poison damage to the enemy within 3 seconds.
3. Avarice’s Explosive Ore
Defeat the boss, Avarice Gold Cursed, to unlock this power.
- Main Power: Obtain ore generated by excess resources. After 2.5 seconds, the ore explodes and causes 700% fire damage.
- Modifier Power: Activating the main power will consume all main resources, and its damage will increase by 1.5% [x] for every 1 resource point consumed. This means that if you want your builds to be unstoppable in the monster swarm, besides accumulating enough Diablo 4 Materials is necessary, farming resources is also your next main goal.
4. Allek’s Talons
Defeat this Allek Apparition in Apparition Incursion event.
- Main Power: This skill deals 200% Spark damage to enemies hit for 4 seconds.
- Modifier Power: Gain 5% movement speed, 1% Cooldown reduction, and move up to 0.5% faster, up to 11%.
5. Beastmaster’s Training
Defeat this Beastmaster Apparition in Apparition Incursion event.
- Main Power: When you summon a skill or mercenary for reinforcement, one summon or mercenary will taunt the enemy and gain 40% damage reduction.
- Modifier Power: Your summons deal 5% [x] more damage, and 0.25% [x] more damage for every 1% item gained, up to 17% [x].
6. Blackmailer’s Sabotage
Defeat this Blackmailer Apparition in Apparition Incursion event.
- Main Power: Knock down close enemies for 1.1 seconds with a core skill while you have Barrier.
- Modifier Power: When you gain Fortify, additionally gain 20% of the amount as Barrier.
7. Flesh Reaper’s Disruption
Defeat this Flesh Reaper Apparition in Apparition Incursion event.
- Main Power: Deal damage to a vulnerable enemy, stunning them and nearby enemies for 0.5 seconds.
- Modifier Power: Gain 5% [x] Vulnerable Damage, and increase Vulnerable Damage by 0.25% [x] for every 1% bonus to crowd control duration, up to a maximum of 10.5% [x].
8. Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste
Defeat this Hatred’s Embrace Apparition in Apparition Incursion event.
- Main Power: Casting a Shadow or Fire skill increases movement speed by 1.1% for 3 seconds, up to a maximum of 11%.
- Modifier Power: Gain 5% [+] Critical Chance, and increased by 0.5% [+] for every 1% of Shadow Resistance, up to a maximum of 22.5% [+].
9. Belial’s Crystal Decoy
Defeat Belial in a Lair Boss ambush.
- Main Power: When you cast an Agility, Defense, or Terror skill, create a crystal that taunts enemies and explodes after 3 seconds, dealing 600% Shadow damage.
- Modifier Power: Activating your primary boss power terrorizes nearby enemies for 0.75 seconds and deals 50% Shadow damage to them.
10. Lilith’s Wind Of Hate
Defeat Lilith.
- Main Power: When you cast a skill, attack enemies with a spike wave that lasts for 2 seconds and deals 250% physical damage. Each time Wind of Hate hits an enemy, the enemy takes 60% [x] more damage, up to a maximum of 300% [x].
- Modifier Power: Hitting an elite enemy with main boss power creates an inert bubble clone with 10% of its maximum life for 15 seconds. Killing a bubble removes 5.25% of the elite’s life. Elites can have up to 3 bubbles active at once, excluding World Bosses.
11. Duriel’s Burrow
Defeat Greater Lair Boss, Duriel.
- Main Power: When you dodge, you now burrow underground, immobilizing nearby enemies for 5 seconds and dealing 200% more damage when you enter and leave. You deal 200% more damage for every 0.25 seconds you’re lurking. Increases the Cooldown of dodge by 4 seconds, and the Cooldown reduction effect of dodge is 50%.
- Modifier Power: Activating main boss power increases your chance to dodge by 21% [+] for 2 seconds. Whenever you dodge an attack, you immobilize nearby enemies for 3 seconds.
12. Belial’s Eye Beams
Defeat Exalted Lair Boss Belial, Lord of Lies.
- Main Power: After drinking a healing potion, gain 75% damage reduction for 2 seconds and summon an eye beam that deals 1,750% damage to enemies over 3.5 seconds. Then, your healing potion will be disabled for 5 seconds. You can drink the healing potion at full health.
- Modifier Power: Activating the main boss’ power grants you 2 seconds of unbreakable invisibility. While invisible, you deal 11% [x] more suppression damage.
The above are the 12 most powerful Boss Powers in Diablo 4 Season 8. With them, you will be able to stand in the sanctuary to the end. But I must emphasize that Boss Power is only a seasonal mechanism in Season 8 and will disappear with the arrival of the next season, so if you want to ensure the lasting threat of your build, then don’t rely on it too much!
