Some of Diablo 4 Season 9‘s Seasonal Journey challenges are a bit of a pain to complete this time, and not very clear with instructions. Especially the ones asking you to deactivate enemy affixes with infusions or to complete specific objectives in Escalating Nightmares.
A lot of new players are asking for advices on Reddit, on how to complete those objectives fast, and players in the comments have shared their best tips!
Here is a recap of what you need to do to finish those two specific seasonal quests!
How to Complete the Infusion Affix Cancelling Challenge
This quest asks you to cancel out enemy affixes using the right infusion power (from the Season 9 Horadric powers), and here is how it works:
- Equip one of the seasonal Horadric Infusions from your inventory’s seasonal tab.
- Head into content with plenty of elite enemies like Nightmare Dungeons or The Pit.
- Look for elites that have specific affixes (like Vampiric, Volcanic, etc.) and attack them while your infusion is active.
- The infusion must be upgraded to at least Rank 5 to trigger the affix cancel.
- Swap to a different infusion after completing one.
- Keep checking progress between runs, it is a bit random, not going to lie…
How to Open Grand Horadric Caches
Another seasonal quest is causing issues, and it is the “Night Terrors” one. This quest asks you to open Grand Horadric Caches in Strongrooms during Escalating Nightmares, and to complete local Events with Mastery in Escalating Nightmares.
Here is how it works:
- Escalating Nightmare Dungeons are those activated using Legendary-quality (orange) Nightmare Sigils. You can find those in Horadric Strongrooms inside other normal Nightmare Dungeons.
- Use the sigil from your Consumables tab to start an Escalating run.
- Find a Strongroom.
- At the end of the Strongroom, you will be rewarded with a Grand Horadric Cache. Open it to completes the “Open Grand Horadric Caches found in Horadric Strongrooms during Escalating Nightmares”.
- The second part asks you to complete random events inside Escalating Dungeons (for example, saving villagers, activating pillars, etc.). These are fully RNG-based, so expect to run a few dungeons before completing it. You need 5 of them.
- If you run out of Escalating Sigils, party up with other players. You can join their dungeon even if you do not have one of your own.
- You can run through the dungeons on lower Torment Tier to make it faster. You do not need to do that in T4 if your goal is just to complete the achievements.
With all those tips coming straight from the community, you should have no issue finishing your season journey!
