Helliquary

"Muster your courage and rally your friends. More mayhem is coming to the Helliquary. Helliquary bosses are now designed for raids of eight players. This is one of many changes we’re making to PvE, to make it more challenging and rewarding to players who complete these objectives as they cycle weekly."

- Mode description^(src)

The Helliquary

Helliquary is a gameplay system of Diablo Immortal. It is intended for endgame play.

Lore

"You're back! And you stink of demon. I'll take that to mean you were successful. Now, take a look at the Helliquary; you'll see places to store demonic remains like the ones your Chaos Herald left behind. Once placed, they will seal, and the device will siphon the demonic energies."

- Rayek^(src)

The Helliquary

The Helliquary is an ornate chest fashioned from precious metals, crystal, and gems. It was built to locate particularly destructive demons and trap their essence when they're slain. Once the demon is defeated, the Helliquary can turn their remains into power an adventurer can take advantage of. Though unstable, the Helliquary is capable of funneling the power of defeated demons to a sufficiently daring subject. The remains of the demon are sealed inside the Helliquary, containing the darkness, and the energy is channeled into the subject, without any noticeable corruption. However, the risks of this process remain unknown.

At least in theory, the Helliquary is capable of channeling the essence of humans as well.

The Helliquary was designed to be reinforced by scoria. The stronger it becomes, the stronger its user(s) become as well. The device is small enough and light enough to be lifted by an ordinary human.

Since it was upgraded by Rayek, multiple parts of a demon can be sealed in the Helliquary at a time.

History

"Are you sure siphoning demonic energy is a good idea?"
"We need energy--we use demons or we use people...Personally, the former seems more ethical."

- An adventurer and Rayek^(src)

The Helliquary was built by Rayek with the aid of Charsi. Rayek hoped to use his creation to stop demonic incursions before they happened, and prevent the doom that came to his homeland from ruining other lands. After building the device, he detected dark energy coming from the Einfrinn Tree. Studying the tree, he discovered that the Helliquary had become entangled with energy leaking from the tree, and that the tree itself was holding back a powerful demon. He suggested using the Helliquary to lend power to the tree, as it was growing weaker by the minute.

To this end, he enlisted the aid of a hero/group of heroes. After receiving a vision of the future from the tree, they retrieved the remains of Chaos Herald Pyl, which were used by the device.

Two years later, Rayek was put in charge of Cain's Workshop after Cain travelled. He built an alter in the backroom of the workshop that could boost the sensing range of the Helliquary. Unfortunately, an energy reading originating from Bilefen interfered with the altar. Rayek sent a letter to the Shard-seeker to help him track the source of the energy. The interference originated from a fissure venting demonic energy which corrupted the surrounding wildlife. Using the energy as a reference, Rayek located similar fissures at Ashwold Cemetery, Dark Wood, Frozen Tundra, Mount Zavain and Shassar Sea. Rayek asked the Shard-seeker to gather energy samples from the other fissures, but not before upgrading the Helliquary. By placing the improved Helliquary on the altar, and using the procured energy samples as a reference, Rayek scried a new set of demons — the third so far. He named them the "Hearthrot".

Gameplay

A Helliquary raid is initiated

The Helliquary becomes available once the player's character reaches level 36. After this, players will reunite with Deckard Cain in his workshop. Cain introduces the player to Rayek, who's developed the Helliquary. This is part of the quest "Opening the Helliquary."

Overview

The Helliquary is a powerful creation forged to defend against battle some of the most powerful demons from the Burning Hells.

• As your Helliquary grows in power, so do you. Initially you gain bonuses to Combat Rating, and later gain additional benefits in Challenge Rifts.
• To improve your Helliquary, you must find Voidblood Slag, which is awarded by defeating Helliquary demons, as well as the Empowered Battle Pass and from other special sources.
• When the Helliquary is powerful enough, you will be directed to locate a powerful demon in battle.
• The first 5 Demons defeated drop Demonic Remains which can then be Sealed into the Helliquary to continue increasing its power, and also award 80 Warband activity points. This cap resets every Monday and Thursday.
• The first time a particular Demon is defeated by a warband (at least 4 members), it awards some Voidblood Slag, up to Hell VIII difficulty.

Demonic Remains

For a list of Demonic Remains, see Category: Demonic Remains.

Demonic Remains operate as following:

• Demonic Remains drop after each Helliquary boss is slain. Players will only receive remains for their first five kills following each Helliquary reset on Monday and Thursday. Each Remains can only be assigned to one specific slot in the Helliquary. (Hearthrot bosses drop specific items for each slot; Wrathborne and Voidwound bosses drop the same item, regardless of the slot to which it is assigned.)
• The Trophies tab of the Helliquary menu contains various slots for players to assign Demonic Remains to. Each Demonic Remain provides various bonuses to Challenge Rifts when placed in a slot, as well as bonuses to Combat Rating and Attributes. Players may have up to 5 sets of Demonic Remains bonuses at a time.
• The attributes provided by each Demonic Remains scale to the Hell difficulty in which players received it from. The higher the difficulty, the greater the rewards.

Other Information

Players may solo the Helliquary, or do so as part of a group. The Helliquary allows up to 8 players at a time (this can be in a warband) to locate and defeat bosses in order to not only power up their characters, but also to benchmark their power. If a player's character defeats a boss, they receive a power boost. Multiple difficulty levels are available for each boss; the difficulty of bosses increases with each subsequent Hell difficulty. Some Hell difficulties can only be unlocked through defeating corresponding Helliquary bosses. Within the Helliquary dungeon itself, the difficulty scales to players' respective difficulties.

Each player has one revive in the Helliquary. Otherwise, they need to rely on other players to revive them. When a player dies more than once during a raid, resurrecting them will incur an increasing cooldown.

The Helliquary has a leaderboard system, where warbands compete for the best positions. The top leaderboard team gains extra scoria. For a warband to take part in a Helliquary raid, at least four warband players must be present. The other four slots can be filled by other players. Completing the raid this way will still yield extra warband rewards for the warband members. Successfully completing a warband Helliquary raid for the first time will grant warband members an additional 400% drop rate increase for Sealed Warband Chests. This bonus resets every Monday and Thursday.

Objectives are cycled weekly.

Bonuses

• Level 1: +12 Combat Rating
• Level 2: +14 Combat Rating, +10% Critical Hit Chance (Challenge Rifts only) (cost of 1 Hellfire Scoria)
• Level 3: +16 Combat Rating, +10% Critical Hit Chance (Challenge Rifts only) (cost of 3 Hellfire Scoria)
• Level 4: +18 Combat Rating, +10% Critical Hit Chance (Challenge Rifts only) (cost of 5 Hellfire Scoria)
• Level 5: +20 Combat Rating, +10% Critical Hit Chance (Challenge Rifts only) (cost of 7 Hellfire Scoria)

List of Bosses

Wrathborne

The Wrathborne are the first set of Helliquary bosses. Their order of introduction is as follows:

1. Lassal the Flame-spun
2. Vitaath the Shivering Death
3. Gorgothra the Claimer
4. Beledwe and Gishtur (double boss)
5. Izilech the Misshapen

Voidwound

"A hellish quintet of terror has run amuck in Sanctuary—meet your new lieutenants of Hell."

- Group description^(src)

The Voidwound

The Voidwound are the second set of Helliquary bosses. They were all introduced to Immortal simultaniously as part of the Terror's Tide update. Their order of progression is as follows:

1. Ophinneb the Skin-Veiled
2. Catarag the Strangling Sun
3. Dymdrail, Crawling Woe
4. Apothrus, Tamer of the Fallen
5. Phangwrth, Warmth-Feaster

Hearthrot

"A Putrid Pack of Hell-Raisers has Ravaged Sanctuary—Meet the Hearthrot Demons."

- Group description^(src)

The Hearthrot

The Hearthrot are the third set of Helliquary bosses, released as part of the Destruction's Wake update. Their order of progression are as follows:

1. Vhansoon, Desolation's Scourge (retired)
2. Strazos, Steadfast Decay
3. Gebdu, Mountain Breaker
4. Khuluul the Crooked Grin
5. Yamnaal of the Deluge
6. Saarodan, Sky-Sunderer

Soulhewn

The Soulhewn

"Meet the Soulhewn—Sullied Purveyors of Insanity"

- Group description^(src)

The Soulhewn are the fourth set of Helliquary bosses, released as part of the Splintered Souls update. Their order of progression are as follows:

1. Iphael, Knight of Broken Stone
2. Drepsaigh, Blightspewer
3. Elsauli, the Shardheart
4. Iscea, Twofold Rebirth
5. Peisthal, Underearth Empress

Stormspawn

The Stormspawn

"Emerging from the fiery gates of Hell itself, The Stormspawn have arrived to dismantle your bones."

- Group description^(src)

The Stormspawn are the fifth set of Helliquary bosses, released as part of the Age of Unmaking update. Their order of progression are as follows:

1. Aeyntragga, Eater of Storms
2. Uthmaash-Ksarr the Breath Collector
3. Xekorendaag, Ice Leviathan
4. Morsagurei the Fisher’s Ruin

Demons by Difficulty

Each Difficulty offers a different set of demons to challenge. The last boss on each difficulty must be defeated to unlock the next difficulty.

Difficulty	Boss 1	Boss 2	Boss 3	Boss 4	Boss 5	Combat Rating requirement
Normal	Lassal	Vitaath	Gorgothra	Twin Terrors	Izilech	420	445	470	495	520
Hell I	Ophinneb	Catarag	Dymdrail	Apothrus	Phangwrth	2120	3920	6620	9420	12620
Hell II	Strazos	Gebdu	Khuluul	Yamnaal	Saarodan	13720	14820	17020	19220	21420
Hell III	Iphael	Drepsaigh	Elsauli	Iscea	Peisthal	22520	24570	26620	28370	30120
Inferno I	Elsauli	Iscea	Peisthal	Aeyntragga	Uthmaash-Ksarr	31620	33120	34520	35920	37320
Inferno II	Iscea	Peisthal	Aeyntragga	Uthmaash-Ksarr	Xekorendaag	37720	38120	38520	38920	39320
Inferno III	Peisthal	Aeyntragga	Uthmaash-Ksarr	Xekorendaag	Morsagurei	39720	40120	40520	40920	41320

History

The Helliquary originally unlocked between levels 41–45. Originally, the Helliquary was said to have been developed by Charsi, while in the final version, its creation can better be attributed to Rayek.

At some point, the Helliquary became available when the player completed the Bilefen questline. In the final version, the player just needs to reach level 36.

Originally, the Helliquary could only be attemtped as part of a group. As of the Terror's Tide update, the Helliquary may be soloed.

The original Helliquary dropped Scoria, which had to be taken to Charsi in Westmarch to be refined into Hellfire Scoria; this was removed when the Voidwound bosses were added.

Originally 4 members of the same Warband had to participate in a Helliquary raid to earn Warband Points. This requirement was dropped in the September 21 2023 update.

In the Unending Storm update, the difficulties were reworked, and as a result the bosses available to challenge were updated as well. The bosses for each difficulty before the update were as follows:

Difficulty	Boss 1	Boss 2	Boss 3	Boss 4	Boss 5	Combat Rating requirement
Normal	Lassal					420
Hell I	Lassal	Vitaath				720	870
Hell II	Lassal	Vitaath	Gorgothra			1250	1400	1550
Hell III	Lassal	Vitaath	Gorgothra	Twin Terrors		1820	2120	2120	2390
Hell IV	Lassal	Vitaath	Gorgothra	Twin Terrors	Izilech	3040	3040	3390	3390	3705
Hell V	Vitaath	Gorgothra	Twin Terrors	Izilech	Ophinneb	4825	4825	5475	5475	6175
Hell VI	Izilech	Ophinneb	Catarag	Dymdrail	Apothrus	7815	7815	8403	8403	8930
Hell VII	Ophinneb	Catarag	Dymdrail	Apothrus	Phangwrth	10400	10400	10750	10750	11310
Hell VIII	Ophinneb	Catarag	Dymdrail	Apothrus	Phangwrth	13200	13200	14250	14250	14550
Inferno I	Dymdrail	Apothrus	Phangwrth	Vhansoon	Strazos	19700	19700	20300	20300	20900
Inferno II	Phangwrth	Vhansoon	Strazos	Gebdu	Khuluul	22100	22100	22700	22700	23000
Inferno III	Strazos	Gebdu	Khuluul	Yamnaal	Saarodan	24200	24200	25100	25100	26020
Inferno IV	Khuluul	Yamnaal	Saarodan	Iphael	Drepsaigh	29100	30000	30360	30720	31100
Inferno V	Saarodan	Iphael	Drepsaigh	Elsauli	Iscea	31700	32300	32700	32900	33300
Inferno VI	Iphael	Drepsaigh	Elsauli	Iscea	Peisthal	33500	34300	34500	34700	34900

Because there was no room for them in the new system, Vitaath, Gorgothra, Izilech, the Twin Terrors and Vhansoon can no longer be challenged. Their trophies were retired and moved into the Legacy category. Nevertheless, these bosses (except for the Twin Terrors, which didn't appear before) can still appear as echoes during a Helliquary Surge.

In the August 7 2024 update, Vitaath, Gorgothra, Izilech, and the Twin Terrors were added back on Normal difficulty.

See also

• Helliquary Gauntlet
• Helliquary Surge

Trivia

This section contains facts and trivia relevant to this article.

• The lack of prelude quests for the Soulhewn and Stormspawn implies that the groups were not scried by the Helliquary, but encountered by the Shard-seeker in their journey through the the regions the groups base in (Southern Dreadlands and Cold Isles respectively). This might be because they were already active by the time the Helliquary was made.