What is The Pit?
The Pit is a dungeon that has 100 tiers (levels) with increasing difficulty and better rewards. It was added in patch 1.4.0 (Season 4) as new endgame content. These are similar to Diablo 3 Rifts.
When can you do The Pit?
When players enter World Tier IV, they receive a priority quest, "Pit of the Artificer" where you must complete a Tier 46 Nightmare Dungeon. On completion, players can start collecting Runeshards during endgame content.
How to Get to the Pit
Players need 1 Runeshard, a material that drops from all end-game content such as Whispers, Helltide chests, and Nightmare Dungeons.
Head to Cerrigar and find the Obelisk (pictured right) and click to open a portal down to the Pit.
What do you do in The Pit?
Players will have to slay as many monsters as possible within a 10 minute timeframe. Slay enough of these monsters and a portal opens which takes you to a Boss arena.
- Killing the boss before the timer expires grants players Masterworking Materials and unlocks the next Tier of The Pit.
- Killing the boss with 4-6 minutes to spare will grant players an additional Tier unlock.
- Killing the boss with 6 or more minutes to spare grants players 2 additional Tier unlocks.
If the Mastery timer expires before you finish running through The Pit you’ll still receive loot, but won’t receive any Masterworking materials.
How many Players can run The Pit at once?
Up to four grouped players can undertake The Pit.
Take note, the player that opened The Pit will take the lion's share of the materials. Also, only the player that opened The Pit has the chance of receiving the Materials (Stygian Stones) used for summoning Tormented Echoes (the highest level bosses in the game).
Why run The Pit
The Pit is a primary source for Masterworking materials which was also added in Patch 1.0.4. The deeper you go in The Bit, the better the Masterworking materials.
Stygian Stones are also found within The Pit. These stones are used to summon level 200 versions of each Boss Ladder boss. Their drop rate is as follows:
- Tier 1: 5%
- Tier 40: 10%
- Tier 100: 18%
- Tier 200: 30%
Pit Rewards in Groups
It's important to note that when running The Pit as a group, the Party member that spends the Runeshards to open the Pit gets 100% of the Masterworking materials, the rest of the party receives half the amount.
What's inside The Pit?
Pit levels come with a variety of tilesets and different monster families. Each floor has a different tileset from the previous one to give the player visual variety.
Changes to The Pit
Patch 2.0, October 8, 2024
- Pit tiers reduced from 200 to 100 inline with new difficulties (normal to T4)
Patch 1.4.3, June 17, 2024
- Health and damage levels have been reduced in the Pit. The adjustment is most significant as players approach tier 60, so more players can fully participate in Masterworking.
Patch 1.4.2, June 6, 2024
- The chance to receive a Stygian Stone on completion of the Pit has been increased.
- We have made the following adjustments to bosses in The Pit.
- Adjusted the damage of boss powers and boss affixes to be more in-line with the difficulty of the dungeon leading up to the fight.
- Reduced the frequency of boss affixes so they don't overlap.
- The Tomb Lord Bone Wall boss affix now starts appearing from Pit tier 1.
- Slightly reduced ability cooldown.
- The Blood Bishop triple Shadow Line boss affix now starts appearing from Pit Tier 31.
- Moderately increased cooldown.
- Reduced the Airidah Wind Vortex boss affix to last 6 seconds, down from 8 seconds.
- The selection for Pit Tier will now default to last completed Tier instead of highest available Tier.