Helltide Reborn Events Work in Diablo 4

All you need to do is kill monsters, complete events, and interact with various objects in the environment to earn Abnormal Embers. They're everywhere and impossible to miss, but there are a few ways you can try to get them as quickly as possible.

• Focus on taking out large groups of monsters and elites while ignoring stragglers
• Complete every local and small event you come across
• Click on every glowing Demon Rose, Tortured Soul, and Mineral Vein you find
• Kill monsters marked with a skull on the map for extra rewards
• Avoid fighting the Bloody Maiden boss at lower levels to avoid losing your Embers
• Avoid the wandering Boss Kixxarth unless you can kill him quickly
• Skip opening chests until the last 15 minutes or so to avoid outrunning monsters and reducing your XP gains
• Stick to densely packed parts of the map rather than wide-open areas to find the most monsters
• Well-equipped level 100 players should prioritize speed and range damage, even if that means switching to Helltide's skills.

How Helltide Reborn events work in Diablo 4

Your goal in a Helltide is to gather as many Aberrant Cinders as you can to open Tortured Gift chests for loot. Aberrant Cinders aren't permanent, however. You lose 50% of them when you die and you lose all of them when the Helltide event ends. They won't go away when you teleport to a town, but you can't hold onto them for the next Helltide.

Helltide monsters will always be three levels higher than you, but won't exceed level 50 in Adventurer world tier and Veteran world tier. As you defeat them, a threat meter will fill up on the right side of your screen. Monsters will periodically ambush you as your threat increases, and when it's full, a series of ambushes will occur, ending in a confrontation with an especially tough enemy called a Hellborne. The meter will only reset once the Hellborne spawns or if you die.