Everything You Need to Know About Seething Opals - Diablo 4 Season 6
Each new Diablo 4 season brings with it new mechanics — whether that be new temporary powers, a new companion, or new consumables, seasons bring surprises and a fresh way to experience Sanctuary. Season 6 is no different, introducing many new features such as Realmwalkers, a new seasonal reputation track, and, of course, Seething Opals.
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What are Seething Opals, though? The newest consumable debuting in Diablo 4, these powerful Elixirs function as the main way to interact with the seasonal reputation, and more importantly, provide bonuses that increase Experience gain, allow you to target-farm gear, and more!
Seething Opals function exactly like Elixirs, except they don't replace them — you can have an Opal and an Elixir active at the same time, stacking their effects. This allows you to stack both experience gains, making them incredibly powerful for leveling as well as their other functions. Additionally, each Seething Opal allows you to progress reputation with the Zakarum Remnants, the seasonal reputation, but be warned: you can't accrue reputation without an Opal buff active!
The most exciting aspect of Seething Opals, however, comes from their ability to boost drop rates of specific items, allowing you to effectively target-farm them. Each Opal is associated with a different type of drop:
- Seething Opal of Gold: enemies drop additional gold
- Seething Opal of Equipment: enemies drop additional equipment
- Seething Opal of Materials: enemies drop additional herbs and crafting materials, such as Angelbreath and Iron Chunk
- Seething Opal of Torment: enemies drop additional Artificer's Stones and can drop summoning items or Infernal Compasses
- Seething Opal of Socketables: enemies drop additional Gem Fragments and will sometimes drop Runes
Players must interact with the Realmwalkers to earn Seething Opals — when a Realmwalker is defeated, players can enter the Seething Realm, which
