How to Crush Echoing Nightmares Every Time (Insane XP + Augments)

[@holzbruch]

I was wondering why I got overwhelmed so fast - turns out I've never really killed those machines and too many small enemies spawned. Now that I know this I get easily the maxed out augment gems. Thank you very much!

[@Ashok102x]

Its easier to spot the machines by looking at the minimap, since when they spawn they are shown for a short time on the map and you can identify them easily since they dont move.

[@DrgnDspchr]

This walkthrough and mechanics explanation is AWESOME....well done....thanks bunches. ..

[@cozmothemagician7243]

Raxxanterax, I have watched you challenge rift guides for many seasons so you are the FIRST tuber I go to for anything D3. I thought I had subbed a while back, but must not have. THAT error is fixed. You hit the ball out of the park with this nightmare guide. Cool thing, I decided to play a monk even before I new just how mega-super-insane-awesome she was going to be this season. I just decided than the INNA set dg was one I had not done and it looked fairly easy once geared. (My first try I was seconds away from mastery.. THEN I watched your vid on THAT too) I look forward to what ever genius level vid(s) you make next for D3 (: Thank you so much for all of your work.

[@georgejinga7594]

As always PERFECT walkthrough from RAX !!!

[@benmoran4]

He’s a god

[@kairu71]

Didn't even know about those machines. Thanks man

[@blucid]

Following the Machines and putting them on my top priority ended up with my first run ending @ 127. Amazing tip really appreciate it.

[@quixmith]

Brilliant, thanks a million for information that I never ever knew I needed lol. Awesome stuff

[@dankurina9191]

Nice. I just stumbled upon this video on how best to do the Nightmare rifts which are stupidly rare now live. I will try some of the gear and skill changes with the strategies and see if I can survive until 150 solo. Thanks again Rax for this very informative vid! We really needed this video to survive because the echoing nightmare gems/drops are hard to get. Doing these is really enticing for the paragon increase and the augments for sure.

[@TalesOfSurvival]

idk why people think they are rare i have like 30 sitting in my stash just from leveling and gearing my hc wiz.

[@arnoldlebre]

Would be cool to get a guide to do these in HC too. I did some but it's risky af

[@dinartese7en]

Until now my max level achieved was 137 (in hardcore), but my strategy was to use unity and Ancestors grace, that way I'm extremely tanky and have 3 cheats death (follower, skill, amulet). Done with monk with circa 800 Para. In my worst played run, I got only 2 death cheats activated, so it wasn't so bad (amulet was still there to save me one more time if needed).

[@otaviocamanho1135]

@@dinartese7en Use a demon hunter and cube the cheat death on the torso, now you have 4 cheat deaths =)

[@EnderrBandit]

With my DH i got up to 100 then I just run around ( no cheat skill popped ) because I'm not sure how deep I can venture before mobs really start to chop my health . Marauder set btw .

[@stefanboehle9682]

just can say how we did it in hc .. we did around 80runs . we pop speed at 100. cdr at around 110-115 . dmg at 120. and conduit around 125-130. marauder+inna monk + zdh +zbarb , both supps with flavor.. like that its ez as fuck.

[@Gloryofthereef]

Had no idea there were machines spawning the explosions, I was just trying to dodge them

[@din6675]

I feel pretty dumb not knowing about the machines and jumping around a whole screen covered in explosions lol. Still got to 150 though just by using pylons around 120, so this really is quite easy to do solo.

[@JelleStreet]

Awesome stuff Raxx, keep it up!

[@bau961]

Omg ty so much for the tutorial i recently started playing again, and i was so confused what to do, didnt know where the little exploding things where coming from and such

[@Vortechtral]

Is there a reason to go to 150, or is it mainly to just get more XP? Since the reward item caps at 125 from inside, there isn't much need other then maybe a bigger item pool and or more XP to gain, unless there is something else.

[@juliushall8499]

Other than a bandit shrine spawning, no there's no reason to keep pushing. Bragging rights are dope tho

[@josemcardin]

Ty 4 hard work raxx,we really apreciate it

[@jamesburrelljr.8561]

Raxx for president he made me feel like i was in a Boardroom. With his Bullet point video display. Cool video😀

[@grimklang]

guess what, meeting is over!

[@benmoran4]

Raxx u are truly the D3 professor no one explains things and demonstrates them as well as you. Chad king

[@chadbannergreen]

Witf is a Chad King?

[@solemnander]

@@chadbannergreen a king that is a Chad obviously

[@unforgednothing5539]

@@chadbannergreen chad king.

[@jc-le4sf]

The museum comment was great! You are a comedian my friend!

[@Raxxanterax]

Get those juicy Augments with ease!

[@The_GlassCannon]

I'm assuming the fire immune amulet does not work in here?

[@zitokeratin2643]

@@The_GlassCannon Why shouldn't it work? Of course it has to.

[@PelinAyter]

@@The_GlassCannon It used to work in the PTR, but they then changed the damage type to physical so people wouldn't cheese it, if I understood correctly.

[@Shozb0t]

Is 125 the maximum rank for the whisper?

[@Scyrella]

I really love monk but man I really hope other classes/ builds get extra love next league

[@wxmyjnsn]

SO would like to play WD or Necro

[@namonamo494]

@@wxmyjnsn well i can understand the need for change nec as the strongest dps set up for xp meta for what 5+season now wd/crusader and perhaps even wiz are the 3 in need ^^

[@Niflheimrr_EL]

I used the dashing strike damage reduction fist weapon for safety instead of the dmg from echoing fury

[@vincesundara8579]

Nice .. i'll try that too BRUH !!

[@Kylar_Godslayer]

Me too, made it to 150 pretty easily

[@franciscolagosg1077]

Hey Raxx, Saludos desde Chile. Tus videos han hecho mas entretenido mi juego en Diablo. 💯

[@HannibalGraham]

Not surprised they reused an old construct that failed originally. It's the same map but with pylons and mist without the wait to get to the next tier.

[@henrycaldwell238]

Good review, You are great at explaining things to people so anyone can understand. Awesome tip on follow the explosions. I was doing this early on and trying to explain how but people would not listen that the Flavor of time was mandatory no matter what because the conduit is what gets you to 150 and need to be double duration. My strategy was pull speed, channel, power, then conduit. 110,115,120,125. I did not think you would not make 150 pulling at 120 (122) and I was right you were a few short. It is too bad in season 27 it was nerfed so hard rather then just lowering the xp, and making the cap 160 with the xp like it was 150.

[@danielkroll3468]

poor raxx, playing like crazy instead of going offline and sleep, sharing his strat with the viewers and almost loses his voice. have a nice rest between the grinds :)

[@Jules-77]

I think this is the most useful video of yours that I’ve seen & I’ve watched a lot. Thank you. I can’t wait to try this as I only managed about 5 runs as the last season closed, and wasn’t at all sure what I was doing! This season has started just as poorly for me, I can barely remember the characters I made as I haven’t played since ( health, as usual) so this will really help. Just noticed this is ten months old! Why it appeared now, who knows. I’m glad it did.

[@dylak_wiin]

I’ve got like 20, didn’t realize what they were but got to 143 solo with Multishot first try. Good build for it.

[@Tenkuuken]

I'd like to add though, terrain also plays an important role in this stage. I got a stage like the underground barracks littered with pillars which obstructed the view and path to the machines (and your movement). If it's that kind of map you get, tank the stage and restart until you get a clear map

[@davidholder2100]

Great video Rax. Thanks

[@bauman11]

thanks Rax for pointing out the machines, made a huge difference.

[@ДимитърГюлмезов]

Thank you for the good guide man !

[@lowercaseCAPS]

This made me sub, great video!

[@phoneoperator]

What is that big circle at 13:33?

[@jg62190]

Another thing you can keep an eye on is the map and if you see a skull that's not moving, that's where those pesky machines will be.

[@jeffreyruth7881]

These are such great basic videos. To the point. Love the content. What's your Rift vs Scream drop ?? I have 22rifts with my Monk that I powered up following you theroys. 8hrs to paragon 420. Record for me. No screams yet....

[@billthecanuck]

this is a neat qol, havnt played ni a while, so can you no longer use gems to augment and have to use these instead?

[@nexcorvus7854]

I love Raxx's Paint art! I need more of these

[@tundrabone]

Is there a certain Lvl that the bandits spawn ?? also great Vids as always helps a ton !!!

[@omitl1376]

You're awesome raxx very helpful your vids and augments everything keep doing what you doing man 👏🏽

[@teosto1384]

Now I'm missing some very crucial gameplay aspect here. I've been running Inna's and would love to have Cyclone Strike but it overrides Mystic Allies and vice versa, so I'm forced to have only one of them. Just need to find me Inna's Belt so I can ditch the staff and equip the legendary that procs Cyclone on Tempest Rush. Is it a PC specific feature to have freely chosen skills (I'm on Switch) or am I actually missing something here?

[@darrenng9828]

Thanks for the tip, Raxx! And please take care of yourself, buddy.

[@mattl1807]

Raxx, when do you normally play? I've got 5 screams we can run through.

[@realicepick285]

So in hard-core stop attacking and it will end?(pverahelmed), which in turns jeeps us from dying and losing our character.

[@craftuar2439]

This can be difficult with low level paragons ;) My first try with para 650 and base monk = RIP cause the monsters are everywhere + multiple explosions ;) Next time i will use an def gem ( Liferegen with shield or another one ) to survive this ;)

[@tariell554]

Got my first scream at paragon 100. Gave it a go for a laugh, at the end I was paragon 275!. So much fun.

[@nilsaduran9683]

Good luck with your monk👏

[@Kallipolis7]

I attempted to message in the SE discord - general chat and was told I don’t have permission to message there. There is no other channel. How do I connect with members of the SE community if I am not able to communicate on the discord channel ?

[@jbaymanec]

Should you not update this due to the altar of rites bonus?

[@genyaarikado1778]

can't wait to try this out, i never noticed the machines before

[@alanwest8982]

Great Video Guide! But that list you have shows season 25 Inna Monk setup NOT season 26 and the one you showed a little bit of it. I would love to see the FULL setup using Flavor of Time and such.

[@thomasmoore6117]

hey boss i play same build. is them 2 weapons better than shelongs?

[@jammin_maestro]

Best advise is to join a community, and then join a group running EN. I was in a group of innas in the low 900 paragons. We were able to clear past 125 tiers in a few ENs and got some juicy 125 augment gems. Now I need to farm normal gems 😅

[@cozmothemagician7243]

Make a l31 'ring' to feed all your blood shards (from those nightmare O_o) to kadala. IIRC The DH is one the classes with the lowest number of rings at that level. DO NOT GO ABOVE 31. then there are only like 3-4 leggo rings that kadala can give. several peeps have vids about this method...

[@jammin_maestro]

@@cozmothemagician7243 yeah that wat I did last season. Purposely leveled a sader till lvl 31 just to gamble rings on him. But after like 1 months into the season, I was getting quite alot of puzzle drops so this method would be good during early season

[@rynoleroux8843]

Thanks Raxx! Get some rest man! You need it.

[@michaelteal391]

Worked for me. Thanks!

[@ino145]

I get bandit shrines and pop them but then get overwhelmed and they don't drop loot the goblins.. :( Do I keep the shrine for when I failed?

[@crowxsp6064]

Hi there! I'm Smithsonian's museum director and I want the rights over that paint file. DM me to close the deal. Jokes aside, nice guide man, helped me out!

[@davidholder2100]

I just got a petrifying scream in my first T1 GR. Am saving it for when I am much higher. I have terrible internet so only play solo. I have said for years the RNG in this games needs an overhaul. The person at 600 paragons and no screams is a great example of why the RNG needs fixed.

[@aryssobral]

Ive got 5, whats this echoing place good for?

[@aaronp8874]

Did the drop have a red beam like primals do?

[@doakesanddrax]

@@aaronp8874 looks like a Ramadan gift or whatever there called.

[@NSILY]

@@aaronp8874 no, its just normal legendary beam, also its name when it drops is “key”

[@robmicaznex]

I’m at p800 and only 2 screams

[@michaelhamilton313]

YOU LIED!!! THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL SQUARE!!!! :-p Thanks for the videos brother, I dig em all

[@stevel7171]

I'm having a problem, the pylons don't have their name on them so I can judge which one to take first. I've rebooted my pc and restarted the game and nothing helps...any ideas

[@robinblecher8936]

mhm is there a list what skills / runes you use?

[@KribKill]

Do you think that smt like that could be done as a wizard?

[@gileadgafni6588]

Do you sell T-shirts with your paintings?

[@zajber]

Hi m8 ;) is it so to get Set Gear I have to play from a special Torment? have a nice day

[@Trunka34]

How do you level the whisper to 150? I completed a 151 run and it still dropped at 125.

[@jaredmoss7403]

What are the chances they fix the drop rate soon?

[@doakesanddrax]

I hope so. Seems fun. But is not a casual friendly season. Probably gonna bounce out after season journey is done. Even with doing echoing nightmare with no power boost like soul shards or ethereals its no different than off season play.

[@jaredmoss7403]

@@doakesanddrax I'm digging the new stuff that they been trying with the game, Gonna try to build innas Tepest rush with zodiac, and desert shroud. But with minion attack speed gloves. Idk

[@doakesanddrax]

@@jaredmoss7403 absolutely. I didn't mean to sound negative. I wish more games did this season kinda of thing. Do something new and exciting bring people back for a couple of weeks or month. However long it takes for them to consume the content than wave good bye for the next couple months. Diablo does this best no artificial time gates to try to get you to play everyday. If you want to do everything in the first week that's on you.

[@jaredmoss7403]

@@doakesanddrax all good man, My main gripe with the game is how little build diversity there is, I love Bombard Crusader, But thorns bomb is the only one you can use, Immortal Kings, and Akkans also, assome sets but they are not even in the same realm. But danm I do love the game, just could be better, waiting for D4.

[@tobisthlm]

Done a few 125-130's and got my 125 augments, is 150 boosting the xp insanely or why do we target it?

[@Tuesdayb2008]

lol true, i only ever need to clear 130 to get my Level 125 augs. no need to push 150

[@davidmorgado3755]

EXP is much higher on 150 tier, I feel it with paragons levels gains

[@TazMan635765]

What is the purpose of getting higher than 126? The gem doesn't go higher than 125. But this was awesome help for machine advice!!

[@mdouet]

FYI mobs can't be pulled or frozen, so Implosion and Merciless Assault won't work in Echoing Nightmare.

[@oexarity287]

Enemies only need to be hit by Cyclone Strike for the damage buff. It doesn't matter if they're pulled or not.

[@mdouet]

@@oexarity287 I'm just saying that the Implosion rune doesn't do anything, might as well pick the healing rune instead.

[@coldfire22]

Echoing Nightmares?? Whats that? I'm over 600 paragon and haven't seen one petrifying screams. :( This season is a huge waste of time for casual players. Epic fail on Blizzards part. They need to hotfix the drop rate. Going from 100% drop rate to whatever it is not was too big a drop. Should be something like 75%.. so not EVERY GR, but they should be often enough to actually utilize.

[@soulawaken24]

They have to balance it for both 24/7 group players and casual solos though. 75% is too much, group players would be going to set new paragon records (again). I mean they are still going probably going to set records even with the drop rate as it is now. But I agree it's a bit too low now. Maybe even just like 10-20% would be good. It's clearly lower than 10% as it is now.

[@nighthawk82]

@@soulawaken24 20% would be fine. Higher than 30% would be too much oh well, the XP isn't even that high. and it's only XP anyway... quite dull reward system. and on top they never drop. very disappointing indeed

[@soulawaken24]

@@nighthawk82 Yea honestly for a solo player. The focus is still on doing speed GRs almost the entire way through and pile up keys, only stopping to maybe join a group to clear the keys every few days at most (or just do them solo). So in terms of the seasonal experience, it's almost akin to having no seasonal themes. After the last two seasons, this is definitely disappointing~

[@jedirayden]

@@soulawaken24 to be honest though... It was going to be REALLY hard to even compare with the last two seasons.

[@mathewbenford2981]

Solo players really struggling

[@chowie84]

are we supposed to target the machines first?

[@MaffeyZilog]

Those "machines" are the same add spawner that you see in all the area's of Zoltun Kulle's archives.

[@Mihai-Sorin.Machidon]

so if you complete a lv 150 the gem that you will reveive will still be 125?

[@LurkerPatrol]

What's the best point to run a petrifying scream? When you're able to do a GR 120?

[@VVoude]

You rather run 25 times GR for 125 augment? Or one few minute petrifying scream for 125 aug

[@TheSheptys]

as soon as possible augment early get power quicker, you'll get heaps through season at 400 para I got 130 on barb first try, am only running 75 G rifts...

[@fimbulwinter3174]

If only they'd up the drop rate. Season feels vanilla af.

[@thebitterfig9903]

A seasonal drop rate of even 2x or 3x normal would be really pleasant.

[@darthmullet6138]

Yeah, I've found 3 by paragon 800. Season is vanilla for me.

[@muncher1753]

@@darthmullet6138 just found my 4th also at 800. I’ve been farming 90s non-stop to try and get these.

[@CloudeZ_]

@@muncher1753 havent found a single one at paragon 920 very vanilla

[@warrenmack8336]

Got 2 at 1k gons. Disappointing

[@Kallipolis7]

I added your discord. Thanks for the wonderful guide. However, I want to join up with an SE clan for D3 but there is no option to chat in the SE Discord. How do I meet up with members of your clan to do Echoing Nightmares; GR’s, etc ?

[@Roger-uw1pj]

Mind blown. I'll give this a try for sure. I'm on EU tho. Thanks!

[@BarryTGash]

Thanks for this, got 15 more waves after trying - it was a lot less frenetic. A bit more practice (cos I'm a filthy casual) and I'll get there. Btw: chamel - sounds like a chad camel to me... ;)

[@cnelsonlv99]

My only character is a Rathma AotD Necro... have all gear, although not optimized. Is it even possible to do Echoing Nightmares with this build?

[@Etok-96]

if you go solo why not taking someone of the companions? I mean you can go with alot more stuff there

[@IiMmAaNnn]

Lol ! Nice machine thech haha, had no idea about them hahah

[@1davidbaugher]

Thanks for the vid helped out alot

[@ryeater64]

What is the highest legendary stones that drop on echoing nightmare

[@vincesundara8579]

NICE !!!!! gonna try it solo for the first ten.. looks fun !!

[@florians.6605]

Hi Raxx, thx a lot for this great howto. Take care of your voice!

[@Caelest]

The drops are abysmal for the PS...

[@davepastern]

Raxx - I play s6 impale, and the issue is that the early waves leave me with no hatred (and this is running with seethe rune and visage of gunes in cube). The problem with this is if I play with dark heart rune/aquilas, there's no chance of getting past 20 or 30 with the EN. And of course, playing with seethe/gune, means I am losing a LOT of toughness and far more susceptible to die. I am playing HC btw. I am also on PS4. Myself and others have noticed that once you hit GR120, you hit a brick wall in terms of damaging mobs and it is very hard to progress (solo player here) beyond that. Said s6 impale character is only p700 (I'm testing ENs on SC before even considering trying them with HC) and is mostly non ancient, no augments, lgems ~ rank 60 or so. Any advice? (please don't say play another build - I only play s6 impale and that is all I am interested in playing). From what I have seen so far in SC, the ENs are worthless to the s6 impale build due to hatred management issues. It seems the seasonal event isn't great for some builds and only a few builds can take full advantage of it. I am an experienced s6 impale player (rank 4 globally PS4 HC last season and rank 1 for shadow set LBs). So, I'm not a newb.

[@Ashok102x]

I tried a variant with Leonine Bow of Hashir and karmesins set (so no vault), worked pretty well

[@davepastern]

@@Ashok102x yeah but no mobility...that's like a death sentence to a DH. it simply shows how bad a design this theme is imho. Shameful that Blizzard intends to make ENs a permanent feature too. They are woeful and far inferior to the s26 shards theme, which is what should have been made permanent imho. It shows how little Blizzard actually understands this game, and how little they listen to their customers, the players.

[@DutchMeister74]

GoD DH is the answer

[@Bendickson300]

So all you need for a 125 augment is to hut wave 125, right? 150 is just for max xp or what?

[@mindyalexander3357]

Do gyms go higher than 125 I cleared past 150 only got a 125 Jim

[@imagines9688]

what happened to the bandit shrine?

[@Dadda83]

Just a question, as they only get to 125 max there is no reason to fight your way through to wave 150. Or am i missing something?

[@Devildogx36]

I was wondering the same thing. What's the point of going past 125?

[@VOID-GRIMM_Sinn]

Im curious. Why must we stop at 150. Still new to d3

[@IrawanSoetomo]

Am I missing something? You awesomely did 148 but only got a 125 gem? Is it capped that way? Then, what's the point of going max to 150 here?

[@DutchMeister74]

126 is enough

[@ASavageEye]

With Echoing Nightmare being a permanent feature now Off Season play will be more fun and paragon levels will start to shoot up across the board. Glad to see a clear path for doing this, I was just running around at top speed with the DH GOD lol

[@yawgmoth3669]

they wont, xp got nerfed rly hard. easy way to get boosted to lvlv70 + 100 para though

[@bensterWasHere]

should we use nemesis?

[@Kai-Infinity]

So, how do HC play this? Also, you don't play HC anymore?

[@CronaBlackBlud]

Does going above 150 increase the XP earned?

[@cardboardjesus8761]

pretty sure everything capped @ 150 that's why you just end it right when you hit

[@hugmad]

Awesome, thank you!

[@GaloJohnson]

It's so much easier to find the lunatics if u constantly look at the map, ull see a "line" of mobs rushing from a location, just follow the "source" of the line.

[@andristefanus]

i keep getting the map where the fog is orange, hard to spot the flame tracks

[@robertwright2852]

What am I missing? How do you identify these pylons? Unlike everywhere else, where hovering cursor over the pylon reveals the type, in Echoing Nightmares that ain’t happening for me. They all LOOK the same. I could easily get 140 to 150 if I only could tell what pylon I’m clicking. Can someone help me? Anybody?