30-Minute Daily To-Do List in Diablo Immortal

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This guide will present you with the best daily routine of activities in Diablo Immortal, maximizing your character progression within the shortest possible timespan. The guide assumes an arbitrary length of 30 minutes, but the activities are ranked in order of importance (along with the speed of the task factored in), so you can shorten it even further to a 15-minute, or even a 5-minute session. In summation, it is important to note the following things in Diablo Immortal:

• You should always be doing activities that are finite for the day, and prioritize time-sensitive ones. At the bare minimum, do the lowest effort-to-reward ratio activities in the game: getting your First Kill of the Day and the Free Daily Rewards from the Shop.
• You should emphasize the completion of tasks relating to the Cycle of Strife (the war between Shadows and Immortals), since they empower your character greatly regardless of your faction.
• You should not be doing low reward activities like Elder Rifts without Crests, the unlimited Zone Events, or lengthy and unrewarding Dungeon runs. An exception can be made if doing these activities will advance your Codex Guide Tasks, Battle Pass Track, or Codex Quests.

With those tenets in mind, your 30 minute (or less) daily routine in Diablo Immortal should look like the following:

Restriction: Once per day.

Runtime: Under a minute.

Reward: Gold, Scrap Materials, Enchanted Dust, Glowing Shard.

Instructions: Open up the in-game Shop and claim the Free Daily Rewards from the bottom right of the Featured tab.

Restriction: Once per day.

Runtime: 1 minute.

Reward: Varies. Daily rotation between Gold, Charms, Crests, Hilts, Scrap Materials, Aspirant's Keys, Normal Gems, Legendary Gems, and Legendary Items.

Instructions: Find any monster anywhere in the world and end its life. This is important, since the rewards get progressively more lucrative the further you go in the 7 Day tracker checklist. Combine the First Kill of the Day with Bounties for added effectiveness.

Restriction: Elder Rift Entrance gives 1 Crest per day. Hilt Trader offers 2 Crests per day, with an additional 2 in Limited Time windows throughout the day. He also sells 1 Legendary Crest per month.

Runtime: 1 minute.

Reward: N/A

Instructions: The Elder Rift Entrance (near the Palace Courtyard Waypoint) is pretty self-explanatory; it gifts one Crest per day, given away when you interact with it. Note if the Elder Rift interface denotes that Daedessa's Blessing is active; if it is, three Elder Rift runs to cap the Blessing's rewards will be very worth it. In a 30-minute daily routine, Elder Rifts should be prioritized over Bounties if you can fully Crest at least 2-3 runs, but can be delayed to a day where you have more Crests and time to play otherwise.

The Hilts Trader is located upstairs from the Immortal Overlook Waypoint in Westmarch. Your most efficient way to spend Hilts is to strictly buy the monthly Legendary Crest and Ca'arsen's Invigoration legendary gem, as well as the 2 daily Crests available in the General tab, plus the 2 additional Crests available in the Limited Time tab twice throughout the day.

Immortals should also get the daily Sigil of Dominance and the monthly Ca'arsen's Invigoration from their dedicated faction tab.

Restriction: Once per day, stacking up to three days.

Runtime: 30 minutes.

Reward: 100 Hilts (30 Battle Points), 1 Charm (70 Battle Points), and 300 Platinum (120 Battle Points).

Instructions: You can find the Daily Activity Rewards in your Codex, Battle Pass section, Activities tab. These rewards are earned idly as you complete other parts of your daily routine, but they are very important to earn. You earn all of them at 120 Battle Points, which is trivial to do through regular play for about 30 minutes while doing the three (synergistic) activities outlined below.

Restriction: One free chest per day, or up to 21 chests given enough resources.

Runtime: 5-10 minutes.

Reward: Battle Points, Beryl, Garnet, Sapphire.

Instructions: After you reach Level 46 and complete Challenge Rift level 10, you will gain the Caldesann's Compassion vessel; after a short quest line, you can access Iben Fahd's Sanctum. This is a daily activity; you enter its depths, kill all the monsters in your way, and (manually!) collect Aspirant's Keys.

These Aspirant's Keys open chests in the designated treasure rooms, with progressively higher key costs. Once opened, the treasure chests drop the so-called Culling Stones ( Beryl, Garnet, and Sapphire). They are used at the Shrine in the first chamber of the Sanctum, and net you passive stat upgrades to your character.

Efficiency-wise, your optimal route is to open the first room each day with keys earned through in-game activities. Keys can be earned from monsters in the Sanctum, the occasional Battle Pass reward, daily Hilt Merchant purchases, PvP rank-ups, opening Blessed Chests from Elder Rift completion with Daedessa's Blessing active, completing an Assembly as Shadow, or Kion's Ordeal raid as Immortal. The currency required to open chests after your Aspirant's Keys run out is better spent elsewhere.

Restriction: 8 Bounties per day, stacking up to 24 when left incomplete.

Runtime: 20-30 minutes.

Reward: Battle Points, Gold, Experience.

Instructions: Take Bounties in batches of four from the Bounty Board in Westmarch, near the Palace Courtyard Waypoint. Complete all of them and turn them in with the Bounty Quartermaster to reduce downtime. Bounties are not an exceptional source of rewards by any means, as they mostly give you Gold. However, they are varied enough and take you all across the world, making them reasonably fun to do on a daily basis. Since they are done in the overworld, they can be paired with Bestiary Turn-Ins for a nice smattering of Battle Points.

Restriction: 3 Turn-Ins per day.

Runtime: 20-30 minutes.

Reward: Battle Points, Gold, Scrap Materials, Enchanted Dusts, Glowing Shards, Legendary Items.

Instructions: This is an activity best done passively as you complete other overworld events, like Zone Events or Bounties. Monsters in the open world will occasionally drop Monstrous Essences. Collecting 10 of these allows for a turn-in at Horadric Altars, which are present in all "towns" (safe zones) in the game.

In a 30-minute play session burst, you should be able to do about 1 Bestiary Turn-In, which happens naturally as you do the Bounties. This is done mostly to feed into the desired completion Daily Activity Rewards tracker.

Restriction: Divided between daily and weekly tasks.

Runtime: 30 minutes (5-10 per task)

Reward: Experience, Gold, Hilts, Scrap Materials, Glowing Shards, Legendary Items, Stat improvements from increased ranking within Faction.

Instructions: Whichever of the two factions you belong to — Immortals or Shadow — provides increasingly powerful rewards as you complete Cycle of Strife-related tasks. Immortals get to choose from the highly valuable triple-stat Legendary items from their Vault, while the Shadows get an increasingly powerful stat boost as they advance through their ranks. Doing your Cycle of Strife tasks is a vital part of your character and faction advancement — do not skip them if you can help it!

• As an Immortal, you
  1. Have daily tasks;
  2. Are responsible for defending the Vault;
  3. Can conquer the Kion's Ordeal Raid;
  4. Participate in the Rite of Exile.
• As a Shadow, you have
  1. Daily contracts;
  2. Will be tasked with raiding the Vault;
  3. Can share buffs in the Shadow's Assembly;
  4. Participate in the Rite of Exile.

In a 30-minute play session burst, you will likely only be able to complete one of these Cycle of Strife tasks, i.e. Immortal dailies, or a Shadow contract. Ideally, you should fit at least one of these activities in your routine.

Restriction: PvE events are rotation-based daily tasks, scheduled at 12 PM, 8:30 PM, and 10 PM server time. A PvP event (the Ancient Arena) is scheduled at 9:30 PM server time on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. Zone Events are very time sensitive!

Runtime: 5 minutes.

Reward: Scrap Materials, Enchanted Dust, Glowing Shards, Legendary Items.

Instructions: The PvE and PvP Zone Events rotate on a daily basis and only appear at the exact times described above. Make sure head to the respective Zone at least a minute or two before the (almost guaranteed) chaos starts — this gives you ample time to get to the precise location of the event, and not miss out on accident.

• On Monday, you have the Demon Gates PvE Event in the Realm of Damnation Zone (12 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM server time).
• On Tuesday, you have the Haunted Carriage PvE Event in the Ashwold Cemetery Zone (12 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM server time). You also have the Ancient Arena PvP Event in the Bilefen Zone (9:30 PM server time).
• On Wednesday, you have the Ancient Nightmare PvE Event in the Mount Zavain Zone (12 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM server time).
• On Thursday, you have the Demon Gates PvE Event in the Realm of Damnation Zone (12 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM server time). You also have the Ancient Arena PvP Event in the Bilefen Zone (9:30 PM server time).
• On Friday, you have the Ancient Nightmare PvE Event in the Mount Zavain Zone (12 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM server time).
• On Saturday, you have the Haunted Carriage PvE Event in the Ashwold Cemetery Zone (12 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM server time). You also have the Ancient Arena PvP Event in the Bilefen Zone (9:30 PM server time).
• On Sunday, you have the Demon Gates PvE Event in the Realm of Damnation Zone (12 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM server time). You also have the Ancient Arena PvP Event in the Bilefen Zone (9:30 PM server time).

In a 30-minute play session burst, you will only be able to fit one of these Zone Events, if any at all into your session (to reiterate, they are very time-sensitive). That being said, timing your play session around the daily Zone Event can be very beneficial, as they are all very short and (comparatively) very rewarding.

Just like any aRPG, efficiency in Diablo Immortal is measured by time spent vs rewards earned. Unlike experience and loot however, having fun is an intangible benefit. You should tailor your play session length and daily activities first and foremost around your own tastes in gameplay.

This guide was written with the belief that having a starting point is better than meandering in town and scrolling through Codex menus, and should be used as such. Mix activities up, swap one out for another, cut it short or make it longer, but most of all — enjoy slaying monsters!

If you have more than 30 minutes to devote to a session of Diablo Immortal, we recommend also checking out our 1- or 2-hour daily guides as well to learn about additional activities to incorporate into your routine!