Horadric Cube System Guide | Target Affixes and Gamble Amulets in Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred

Players, are you interested in Horadric Cube, which will be released alongside Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred? The workings of this amazing system might just blow your mind. We'll now explain Horadric Cube system in detail.

Horadric Cube somewhat replaces or supplements the original enchanting mechanism, allowing players to finely customize their equipment using various recipes and materials. It may become the core method for players to craft their ultimate gear.

You can directly see Horadric Cube recipes in the game, including the quantity and type of materials - everything is clearly displayed. Judging from the released gameplay footage, enchanted indicators no longer appear on equipment, suggesting that enchanting may have been completely replaced by Horadric Cube.

Legendary Gear Crafting

Horadric Cube will provide players with four core operation methods to modify affixes on white, blue, yellow, and even legendary equipment, with a maximum of four affixes per piece of equipment:

• Add Affix: Gradually add affixes to equipment until all four are reached.
• Chaotic Reroll: Randomly reroll an affix from its current category to another category. 
• Focused Reroll: Rerolls an affix within the same category. For example, changing one attack affix to another.
• Remove Affix: Removes a specific affix from equipment, even legendary equipment.

Tuning Prisms: Key Materials for Targeted Crafting

All Horadric Cube operations require Tuning Prisms, which vary in shape and color, corresponding to different affix categories.

The known affix categories are Attack, Defense, Skills, Core Attributes, Resources, and Mobility. Each prism can target a specific category.

For example, using an Attack Prism for Add Affix will always result in an attack affix. Using a Defense Prism for Focused Reroll will always result in a change within the same Defense affix category.

Tuning Prisms allow players to highly customize their equipment. Theoretically, one can start with a blue item and gradually build near-endgame gear.

Transfiguration

Transfiguration is a permanent upgrade to Sanctification system in Season 11. This is done directly within Horadric Cube. Its basic effect is adding a fifth affix to equipment, such as powerful bonuses like Attack Speed ​​or Cooldown Reduction.

However, players pay a heavy price for this. After performing this operation, there's a very high chance the equipment will become unmodifiable, meaning you can no longer adjust any affixes using Horadric Cube.

Therefore, players must place Transfiguration as the final step in their equipment crafting process, making it a highly attractive endgame pursuit.

Additionally, a pain point of Sanctification in early seasons was the potential for randomly replacing an existing affix, rendering your best equipment unusable.

In Lord of Hatred, a new Entropic Tuning Prism will be added, which removes all risky consequences. The worst negative results you fear will not occur. After using it, Transfiguration will only produce neutral or positive results, and the equipment remains unchanged.

For extremely difficult-to-obtain gear like Amulets, players will use this safety prism. For easily replaceable parts like Pants and Boots, the gamble continues.

Kullean Tuning Prism

We must single out Kullean Tuning Prism because it's an extremely risky gamble. This is likely the ultimate goal for endgame players.

Basic Rules

This prism is for Amulets only and consumes a special material called Kullean Tuning Prism. It adds a random legendary affix to an Amulet. There are approximately 30 known universal affixes, covering all categories including offense and defense, but the added affix is ​​usually weaker than class-specific affixes.

In Lord of Hatred, Amulets can acquire extremely powerful new affixes. For example, Vulnerable Damage Multiplier and Damage over Time Multiplier. These affixes are even stronger than the original passive skill levels.

Even more outrageous, Unique Amulets can now also acquire these affixes. Unique equipment is usually not modifiable through Horadric Cube crafting. In other words, obtaining a perfect Unique Amulet will become extremely difficult.

Key Difference from Transfiguration

While both add another affix, unlike Transfiguration, using Kullean Tuning Prism keeps Amulet modifiable. As long as you have enough Kullean Tuning Prism, you can reroll repeatedly until you get the ideal affix.

This means you can first refine Amulet's affixes to perfection using Horadric Cube, then continuously gamble on affixes, and finally consider Transfiguration, accepting the risk of irreversible changes.

Ultimate Gambler's Guide

Theoretically, to create the ultimate Amulet, you can first use a large number of prisms to refine four perfect affixes using Horadric Cube. Then, repeatedly use Kullean Tuning Prism to get the ideal affixes. Next, try regular Transfiguration, using Entropic Tuning Prism or simply gamble to try for a fifth affix.

Trading Economy

Tuning Prisms, especially Kullean Tuning Prisms, are tradable.

Casual players can sell these prisms to hardcore players in exchange for Diablo 4 gold or other resources. Hardcore players, on the other hand, will need large quantities of Kullean Tuning Prisms in pursuit of god-tier Amulets with perfect affixes, thus creating a high-end trading market.

This may become one of the most active economic sectors in Lord of Hatred.

The official Diablo 4 team has announced a livestream starting at 11:00 AM Pacific Time on April 23rd to discuss Lord of Hatred in more detail. We wonder what surprises await! Let's look forward to more explanations about Horadric Cube during the livestream!