How to sanctify gear in Diablo 4 Season 11

Diablo 4 Season 11 is now live across all platforms, and the new Sanctification system completely overhauls the crafting system as we knew it.

When you sanctify a gear, you can push it beyond its basepotential. However, all changes that you make will be permanent, so you’ll have to decide carefully. This guide will explain the complete process so that you can sanctify your gear properly.

How Sanctification works in Diablo 4

Introduced as part of Season 11 content, Sanctification acts as a one-time infusion that adds bonus stats to your gear. The gear you sanctify will become unmodifiable, and you can’t make any changes to it (aside from adding Runes and Gems). This is what a gear gains on Sanctification.

• Bonus legendary power
• Upgrade existing Affix to Greater Affix
• Add an additional Affix from an exclusive pool of Sanctification
• Replace an existing Affic with a random Sanctification Affix
• Add a random amount of bonus Quality (5-25)
• Get a Unique or a Mythic power on rare occasions.

How to sanctify gear in Diablo 4

There are two ways to perform Santification in Diablo 4.

• Pre-torment: You’ll get the chance to sanctify gear early in the game at the Heavenly Anvil. To do so, you’ll need to defeat a Lesser Evil in any event/activity. Doing so will allow you to use the Heavenly Anvil for sanctifying a gear. If you reject the chance, you’ll have to defeat another Lesser Evil to get the opportunity to use the Heavenly Anvil.
• Post-torment: Once you pass this difficulty, you can sanctify your gear with Heavenly Sigils. You can obtain Sigils by defeating the new bosses: Astraroth, Belial, and Bartok. Season events can also reward you with these sigils.

When should you sanctify gear in Diablo 4

The ideal time to sanctify a gear depends on you, but you should complete the following steps first: Temper, Enchant, and Masterwork. Once done, imprint a choice of Aspect on the gear. It’s only then that you should sanctify a gear to take it to the endgame level.

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Last night’s The Game Awards show wasn’t the greatest of all time, but it sure did give us a glimpse of some potentially awesome games. One title in particular, however, stood out for a wrong reason: being similar—too similar—to CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077.

And that would be No Law, developed by Neon Giant of The Ascent fame, and published by the self-proclaimed AI-first pioneers, Krafton. Neon Giant’s track record is genuinely great, with The Ascent being one of the most visually striking games I’ve ever seen and played. It’s also set in a cyberpunk environment, one that delves deep into the realm of science fiction, making its cyberpunk vibes more of an artistic choice than an actual setting.

Even so, the studio has established itself as a proper sci-fi and cyberpunk-oriented team of creatives, which naturally led into a more ambitious, larger-scale game such as No Law is supposed to be. And that’d be all fine if the game didn’t bear so much similarity, eerie similarity, to CDPR’s 2020 title, Cyberpunk 2077.

While watching the TGA show last night, seeing No Law made me think it was something Cyberpunk 2077-related. The first-person perspective, the animations, the way the combat unfolds, all reminded me of CDPR’s game, not to mention the segment that showcases a certain location that is exceptionally difficult to tell apart from Cyberpunk 2077‘s Afterlife.

Now I get a first-person cyberpunk title is bound to bear some semblance to what was already made, but I for the life of me couldn’t tell you this wasn’t Cyberpunk 2077 if you didn’t tell me. That brings me to my biggest fear regarding Neon Giant’s upcoming title: it could fall into the same situation that Tencent has caught itself in with Lights of Motiram.

Sony sued the company for ripping off its assets, ideas, and style, and is currently embroiled in a massive legal battle that saw Light of Motiram grind development to a halt. If No Law doesn’t showcase more unique elements in the near future, I have a feeling CDPR might not like what the studio has done here, and could pursue legal action much in the same way as Sony.

This could eventually result in a potentially good game being bogged down by a lawsuit because it decided to pursue established styles instead of developing a new one, even if derivative of the one CDPR itself had made.

No Law posits an interesting setting and story, such as its Port Desire city that is an anarcho-corporatist hellscape, but how it executes things brings it way too close to an existing game, so much that telling them apart becomes a real headache.

We’ll have to wait and see how the game develops further and how its style evolves and translates into actual gameplay. But so far, its future seems to be hanging by a thread, one that CDPR could decide to slash at any moment.

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