Diablo 4 Season 8 Belial’s Return released some time ago has brought many new season activities and some more interesting remarked endgame boss mechanisms. One of them is that you need to defeat the minions of the ultimate boss Belial in various locations in the Sanctuary and complete the encounter with it.
In this encounter borrowed from Diablo 3, you will have a thrilling and exciting battle with Belial. But it is worth reminding you that the battle with Belial is just the beginning of this new season. This A Deceitful Incursion task will be the top priority for you to officially start this new season.
After completing this task, you will thoroughly understand some important season mechanisms, new upgrade systems, and some new activities in this D4 Season 8. In order for you to collect the above information faster, this guide will introduce you to the specific methods of completing A Deceitful Incursion task and some strategies or techniques you can use.
How To Unlock A Deceitful Incursion Quest?
Once you complete the seasonal questline provided to you in Diablo 4 Season 8, use the teleport waypoint to go to Kyovashad and then talk to the local Sayeena to unlock A Deceitful Incursion quest.
After the conversation, you will see a quest log on your screen, which will show you a small part of the tasks you need to complete next and some location waypoints to explore. First, you need to find the source of Apparitions.
Step 1
During your conversation with Sayeena, she will tell you that some Apparitions that will hinder your exploration have been found east of Fractured Peaks, and ask you to clear them first and find their source.
Then you need to go to this waypoint and eliminate Apparitions enemies mentioned by Sayeena. They will drop a lot of Diablo 4 gold, so if you have just created the current season character and skipped the main campaign specifically for this quest, you can use these rewards to directly optimize your own skill points.
Step 2
After you clear it, you will enter a dungeon with a Kirma Apparition, a very large beast with very powerful ranged and melee attacks. It is very risky to challenge it even with Normal difficulty if your current build is not mature enough, so you should keep a certain distance from this monster as much as possible during the battle.
But if your character level and build level are both high, you can equip a movement skill that gives you Unstoppable effect so that you can easily get rid of any stun moves used by Kirma. After successfully dodging, you can slowly drain the health of this monster until you defeat it, and then you need to return to the place where you just received the quest to talk to Sayeena again.
Step 3
During this conversation, Sayeena will explain to you the reason for these Apparitions: after the end of the last season and the death of Lilith, many demons appeared in Sanctuary, and these Apparitions are just one of them.
In fact, this is just a strange product of Diablo 4 to explain the reason for the seasonal mechanism of Apparitions and to integrate it with the main storyline. Many players in some player communities and social media directly called this far-fetched plot cutscene completely unnecessary, and even somewhat affected the players’ judgment of the exploration progress of the main quest.
Back to the game, after the addition of the seasonal mechanism of Apparitions, an Apparition Incursion will be generated somewhere in Sanctuary every 5 minutes, and you need to defeat all the enemies it generates, similar to Legion Events. Then you will get the seasonal designated currency after the battle is completed, which can be used to obtain reputation on the reward track provided by Sayeena.
About Apparition Incursion
When you enter an area with an active Apparition Incursion, a horde of Belial’s minions will spawn nearby. It is best to equip your build with some skills with high area damage and spend a lot of Diablo 4 items to maximize its effectiveness during this activity, as they will make it very easy for you to fight this relatively simple group of enemies.
After you defeat these minions, an Apparition that is very similar to the mini-boss you encountered before will appear in front of you. Since this activity allows players to explore in a group, you will have the help of all nearby allies in this small encounter, making it not too threatening to your health.
After you defeat this Apparition, the ritual altar will move to another location in the area. You will need to find it again and kill all mini-bosses within your visible range during its active time until you have successfully killed two apparitions in this dungeon.
After that, Belial will appear, and Apparition Incursion event will officially end. All you need to do is defeat this most important boss in the entire Diablo 4 Season 8. In addition to conducting wide-ranging ground attacks, it often summons pillars that track the player’s location. They will explode a few seconds after they spawn, causing you to deal extremely high damage.
So in this boss encounter, you should use those ranged offensive skills as much as possible and strafe around the boss, which will allow you to avoid most of Belial’s attacks and have more space to cast more attacks on him.
Rewards
After you successfully kill Belial, you will be given an event chest containing Spectral Ash, which is the currency you need for Boss Powers seasonal mechanic in S8. You need to select a Boss Power in the character tab in the game, and the amount of Spectral Ash required will be displayed below.
The above are the steps to complete A Deceitful Incursion Quest in Diablo 4 Season 8 Belial’s Return, as well as the exploration method and reward information in the new Apparition Incursion event. I hope that you can complete the designated tasks faster with the help of this guide and get more loot and rewards in the new season event, so as to get a more powerful build. I wish you a happy game!