Finding the best Diablo 4 nightmare dungeons will make your endgame grind dramatically smoother. The extra-challenging variants of Diablo 4 dungeons were already great, but as of its latest update are now hands-down the best place in the Blizzard RPG game to grind XP quickly, level up, grab loads of loot, and upgrade your Paragon glyphs all at once. Fortunately, we’ve now got conclusive stats on the optimal Diablo 4 nightmare dungeons to run at the moment, whatever you’re looking to do.
With the release of Diablo 4 patch 1.0.3, nightmare dungeons have become even better than before. Using nightmare sigils to activate them now opens a portal straight there, eliminating any travel time and meaning dungeon effectiveness comes purely down to how fast you can finish them, clearing out as much as possible along the way. Fortunately, one of the top Diablo 4 streamers has spent the last several days diligently running the numbers, so that you don’t have to.
Ryan ‘Raxxanterax’ S. has tested every single nightmare dungeon that’s currently available under the most neutral conditions possible. He ran each dungeon on two of the best Diablo 4 builds: a fast-moving, unstoppable, melee Tornado Druid, and a slow, crowd control-susceptible, ranged Bone Spear Necromancer. Then he averaged the results to get a good understanding of what works across all Diablo 4 classes.
He made sure that any lucky runs were evened out by always exploring the full area, and killed most of the enemies while moving at his usual farming pace. He avoided doing random events that spawned mid-dungeon, and refused to take advantage of any pylons that spawned, so the numbers could be as consistent as possible. In cases where outliers appeared, he even re-ran those
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