Cathedral of Light in Diablo 4 is the first accessible Keystone dungeon, located in the Shattered Peak. This location can only be accessed on World Difficulty 2 and after completing the story campaign. The Cathedral of Light is longer and more difficult than normal dungeons, but must be cleared to unlock the Nightmare difficulty level in Diablo IV.
In this guide, we will explain how to complete the first Keystone dungeon and what rewards you can get for this. Read on to find out how to open and where to find the Cathedral of Light in Diablo 4.
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How to find and open the Cathedral of Light
To access the Cathedral of Light dungeon, you must:
- Complete the Diablo 4 main story.
- Play on World Difficulty 2 - Veteran.
If all the requirements are met, then the Cathedral of Light will appear on the global map: the dungeon is located south of the city Kiovashad in location Shattered Peak.
How to complete the Cathedral of Light in Diablo 4
Depending on the game experience, the Cathedral of Light can be completed by a character Level 45-55. To close the content of this dungeon, you have to complete several goals in sequence. The Cathedral of Light can be completed solo or in a group with allies. Next, we will tell you more about each of the stages in this dungeon.
Obtain Malevolence from the Underworld Knights
As soon as you get into the dungeon, get the first objective of the mission. To progress further into the Cathedral of Light, you need to collect Malevolence from the Knights of the Underworld. To do this, you need to find and kill these elite enemies, and then collect a glowing purple essence from their bodies.
Altogether in the inner sanctuary dwells 5 Death Knights and to fulfill the objectives of the task, you must find and kill them all. One enemy is located at the end of the central corridor, two in the rooms on the left side and two in the halls on the right side of the sanctuary. Death Knights are summoners, have a lightning buff, and a teleportation skill.
The First the dead knight is impossible to miss: he is in the central narrow corridor. On the map, these elite opponents are marked with a white skull. The Death Knight is a fairly serious opponent, so it is advisable to clear the place for a fight in advance and eliminate unnecessary small enemies.
Second and third the elite enemy can be found in the rooms on the left side of the inner sanctuary. It will not be difficult to destroy the extra opponents, because these two elite opponents are located in small rooms behind closed doors.
Fourth and fifth the knights are waiting in the rooms on the right side of the inner sanctuary. Here, elite monsters do not hide behind closed doors, but freely walk through the halls, so be careful during the sweep.
Make sure to collect all the elements of Malevolence from the fallen mortal knights. If everything is done correctly, then the scale of the mission stage will be filled to 100% and proceed to the next stage.
Place Malice in the Vessel Urn of Malevolence
After collecting all the essences of Malevolence, you need to return to the end of the central corridor, where in the center of the intersection is Urn of Malevolence. You need to interact with this object in order to place all the collected particles inside the urn. After that, large doors will open that lead to Council premises.
Go to High Council Court
When you enter the opened doors, then continue along the corridor Inner Sanctuary. Go straight ahead and don't turn anywhere. Soon you will get to a stone wide staircase, after which the corridor will already run through council premises. Keep going straight until you come to a dead end where you have to turn right to get to the age in high council court.
Defeat the of the Supreme Council
When you go deep into the Court of the High Council, the battle will begin with four bosses:
- sacred healer - a wizard with a staff enclosed in a round hoop.
- Grand Inquisitor - a magician whose staff is surrounded by four crystals.
- Lord Commander - a huge warrior in plate armor.
- Faithful Protector - a small guard with a spear.
The external distinctive features of each enemy will help to distinguish them during the battle.
Before the start of the battle, stock up on potions and drink the necessary elixirs to increase damage. Regardless of the chosen character class, there is a recommended order of elimination of of the Supreme Council:
- Must be killed first sacred healer, because he can revive his comrades.
- Next, get rid of Grand Inquisitor, which has a lot of nasty long-range spells in its arsenal.
- The penultimate must be destroyed Faithful protector, which moves fairly quickly and deals constant damage at close range.
- Lastly, you can easily deal with Lord Commander, which will be an easy target due to its low mobility.
It is possible to deviate from the above tactics, but it is worth sticking to the main approach for killing all of the Supreme Council: eliminate the bosses one by one, concentrating all damage on a single target.
Activate the teleporter to move to the next area of the dungeon
Once all the High Council bosses have been defeated, the next phase of the mission will begin. Go to the upper right corner of the room and activate teleport gateto go to the Reliquary of Knowledge area.
Kill all enemies in the Reliquary of Knowledge
As soon as you exit the portal, you will immediately meet the first opponents. To proceed to the next stage of the mission, you must kill all enemies in the Reliquary of Knowledge. You will mostly meet knights and skeletons here, but you should also beware of traps while wandering through the corridors. Red marks on the mini-map will help you look for monsters, and when there are opponents left less 15, their number will be displayed in the description text of the current task step.
Travel to the Overseer's Quarters
When you destroy all the enemies in the Reliquary of Knowledge area, the Overseer's room will open. This is the final boss in the Cathedral of Light. To find his chambers, you need to proceed to the upper right age of the current location.
How to kill the Overseer
The Overseer is the most dangerous boss in the Cathedral of Light dungeon. After defeating him, the final rewards will be received, as well as access to the difficulty level Nightmare. Next, we will analyze the main tips that will help you kill the Overseer:
- Gather allies: In a group with other players, it will be much easier to deal with this boss, as well as dodge his deadly abilities.
- Use Elixir: you can create a potion from the alchemist, which will give a temporary buff to damage to undead, so you can increase damage to the Overseer by 20%.
- Start with spam attacks: the boss needs about a minute of real time to fully enter the battle, so use this gap to deal as much damage to the Overseer as possible.
- Destroy skeletons: The boss will sometimes raise hordes of undead, but most of the skeletons are not dangerous, unlike the shooters, so destroy the skeleton archers first.
- Watch out for the skulls: small glowing ghostly skulls fly annoyingly around the arena and are hard to dodge, so if the skull is approaching the character, and the distance is too small, then do not waste time on a meaningless escape, but continue the battle.
- Survival: This boss can drag out the fight, so make sure you have enough healing potions until the end of the fight, and don't forget to elude the overseer's dangerous skills.
- Beware of the scythe: The Overseer will use a scythe if you deal damage at close range for a long time, so change your position more often because this strike is hard to avoid.
- Beware of the bone walls: Sometimes the Overseer creates small, twisting walls of bones that make it difficult to move, and after a while they explode: hug the edges of the arena room to avoid unnecessary damage.
The rest of the boss's attacks have visible areas of application and are easy to dodge or do minor damage.
Rewards for completing the Cathedral of Light
The following rewards can be obtained for completing the Cathedral of Light:
- New World Difficulty 3 will be available - Nightmare.
- Achievement "Cathedral Conqueror».
- Title "Holy Iconoclast».
- objects legendary qualities (orange rarity).
- Subject rare qualities (yellow rarity).
- objects magical qualities (blue rarity).
- Heaps Gold.
We hope that with the help of this guide it was possible to find and complete the Cathedral of Light in Diablo 4. You can leave additional questions about this dungeon in comments. On our website in a special section, read other useful Diablo IV guides.
The strategy given in the article is shit, I stupidly spawned it, you don’t need to pay attention to minions at all, if there are AOE skills they will die, you just need to hammer him and that’s all, the higher the damage, the more and faster he throws cans out of himself. Banks calmly help to survive his attacks, even distant ones, even close ones, with a scythe.