I'll admit it, I rolled into Season 11 ready to hate it. Everyone in my clan was yapping about Spiritborn hybrids, while I stubbornly stayed on Sorc and went straight into the Tower of Penance. A week in, I'm watching the screen evaporate on floor pushes that used to feel impossible, and it's hard not to laugh. If you're already stockpiling upgrades or just browsing Diablo 4 Items buy options to speed up the gearing, this is the kind of season where every little edge actually shows up in your clears.

Why The Tower Suddenly Favors Lightning

The funny part is it's not "press Chain Lightning and pray." The Tower's density is the whole engine. I tried Frozen Orb first and, yeah, it's comfy… until it isn't. Around the 120-ish mark it started feeling like I was paying mana to annoy enemies. Swapping to Crackling Energy with the reworked Axial Conduit pants flipped the vibe completely. You Teleport into a pack, things clump, shocks start bouncing, and the seasonal power keeps converting that shock damage into more Crackling Energy triggers. One pack feeds the next. You're not managing a rotation so much as keeping the storm alive.

The Loop That Makes Or Breaks Your Runs

Raiment of the Infinite is the difference between "nice build" and "why is everything already dead." Pulling the room in on Teleport turns random Tower waves into one big battery. You'll notice it right away: more orbs on the ground, more pickups, more procs, less downtime. It's frantic, sure, but it's also clean once you stop overthinking it. Your job becomes simple: dive in, group up, keep moving, don't give the Tower time to breathe. When you get a bad layout or thin spawns, the build feels merely good. When it's packed, it feels illegal.

Surviving Past 150 Without Getting Deleted

Early on, I got one-shot so often I nearly ditched the whole idea. It wasn't damage that was failing me, it was barrier uptime. The reworked Esu's Heirloom boots matter because movement speed isn't just "nice," it's defense now. Once I leaned into speed and kept barrier rolling, the Tower stopped bullying me. Paragon-wise, nothing fancy, but rushing Elemental Summoner for pickup radius is way bigger than it sounds. You stop jogging after orbs like an idiot and your wave times drop because you're always powered, always casting, always chaining.

Chasing Perfect Gear Without Burning Out

The grind's still the grind. I spent days hunting a staff that didn't brick on Masterworking, and I'm not pretending that was fun. Tower loot rains down, but RNG has a sense of humor when you're pushing leaderboards. Some players just shortcut the pain and grab missing pieces or currency through services like u4gm so they can get back to practicing runs instead of staring at another ruined item, and honestly I get it.