Highlights
- Diablo 4’s side quests offer compelling stories that stand alone from the main storyline, providing players with a chance to uncover hidden tales in Sanctuary.
- Players can help various tribes and characters, such as the Crane Tribe and Torben, uncovering their pasts and solving their problems.
- The side quests in Diablo 4 offer unique and mysterious experiences, like encountering The Grinning One and aiding the haunted soul of Corik in the Black Asylum.
Diablo 4 has one of the greatest stories in the action role-playing game franchise so far. It includes references to other games and absent characters, with the main story an interesting tale of love and loss that takes place over six acts. However, there are a few more interesting tales that players can uncover through adventuring across Sanctuary and picking up side quests.
Players should consider taking a break from grinding levels or exploring the main story to instead take a moment to find and complete these dangerous or compelling off-topic, not related to the main storyline tasks. These might have a spurious connection to the main plot, or take place in the same location, but these side quests stand alone as their own stories.
Updated August 28, 2023 by Kristy Ambrose: After a few patches and upgrades, along with Season of the Malignant, Diablo 4 has added several new quests to the main storyline for players to explore and enjoy.
The side quests have escaped from the chaos mostly unscathed, with even the rewards remaining the same, but now with increased loot drops for more incentive to visit those Nightmare Dungeons. For those who are still interested in the more obscure and hidden parts of Sanctuary, there are plenty of side quests that tell those hidden tales.
10 Consumed By Pride – Dry Steppes
While exploring Sanctuary the player will encounter various tribes named after different animals. Each quest line for these tribes is incredibly fascinating as players begin to do favors for these tribes in the hope of allying themselves with them. However, one of the most intriguing line of side quests from these tribes must be the ones that involve the Crane Tribe.
It is revealed through talking to the leader of the Crane Tribe that their tribe is looked down upon by the other Tribes due to an event that happened in the past, and now they must fend for themselves. This makes the player the Crane Tribe’s only hope during quests like Consumed By Pride and many like it where the player uncovers that the veterans of the Crane Tribe are turning to darker means such as cannibalism.
9 Legacy Of Light’s Watch – Fractured Peaks
In the town of Margrave, next to a campfire, there’s an NPC named Zalan Coste who seems to be doubled over in pain. Speak to him, and he’ll tell players that he was wounded in the nearby dungeon of Light’s Watch trying to recover his mother’s paintings. It’s too dangerous for someone with no fighting skills, so the task is given to the protagonist instead.
When the player enters the dungeon, their quest log will update and list the three Archivist Journals hidden in the dungeon. These aren’t exactly the paintings, but the records for where the paintings might be found, which is the next best thing. This not only gets the players some renown, experience points, and a salvage cache but opens up later, hidden quests. Now it’s possible to find Zalan’s mother’s paintings while out exploring and return them to the rightful owner.
8 The Bear Of Blackweald – Scosglen
Torben appears to be a gentle tavern owner who can be found in the Under the Fat Goose Inn. After helping his patriots of the Inn, Torben will have a quest available to players that allows them to uncover a chunk of Torben’s past. It’s uncovered that Torben used to be referred to as the Bear who was a member of the Blackweald Mercenary company.
This Bear had done many terrible things in his past during the darkest times of Sanctuary though he finally found peace. However, the leader of this group that Torben thought he had killed lives, and the player must help Torben find his peace again.
7 Ally Of The Bear Tribe – Fractured Peaks
Continuing the theme of bears, the Bear Tribe is another tribe the player can find early into their exploration of Sanctuary in Diablo 4. Like the Crane Tribe, the player has multiple quests they can complete to appeal to the clan. However, for the player to finally help the clan leader they must first help other members of the tribe.
This leads to many encounters with the horrifying Goat enemies to bring their fractured bones and heads to prove themselves to the clan. Finally, they can take part in the quest Call of the Ancients which makes for a great finale.
6 Hubris Smiles Back – Dry Steppes
Hubris Smiles Back is an interesting side quest that explores a mysterious entity known as The Grinning One. However, before a player can complete this side quest, they must first complete its previous quest which is Augury of Bones. After collecting bone dust for the character Ogai so he can snort it, which is best not to question, the player will be told to meet him at the Grinning Labyrinth.
Players will then be tasked to collect Baneful Oblations from inside the dungeon for Ogai to use in his ritual. Players are likely to be very confused, and this confusion will continue even after the quest line is complete, making Hubris Smiles Back one of the stranger side quests in Diablo 4.
5 Cries Of Innocence – Fractured Peaks
The perfect bone-chilling quest for the frosty hills and valleys of this cold and snowy zone, players can find this quest by speaking to an NPC named Vendral Trost. He’s standing on a bridge just outside the eastern road leading from Kyovoshad, and he has a tragic story to tell.
Against his better judgment, Vendral sent his troubled son Corik to a place called the Black Asylum. After the boy passes away, his ghostly visage still haunts his father, and Vendral asks the character to visit the Black Asylum, which is just as terrible as it sounds and gives his restless soul peace. Players can visit this dungeon and complete it without finding this quest, but some extra XP and rewards don’t hurt.
4 Izel Of The Vizjerei – Kehjistan
Hubris Smiles Back isn’t the only peculiar side quest to be found in Sanctuary as Izel of the Vizjerei will have players quite literally talking to a statue in Kehjistan. Approaching the statue of a woman will begin the quest where the player will be instructed to help Izel in gaining back her human form.
Players will need to complete two previous quests before they can take Izel to the Athenaeum, though she first requires a short tour of what Kehjistan has become. Without spoiling the ending of Izel of the Vizjerei, players may be surprised by its outcome.
3 First Among Wolves – Scosglen
Scosglen is the second area players will explore due to needing to adventure to this region during Act Two. Just like the rest of Diablo 4, there are many interesting side quests to help with but arguably out of all of them First Among Wolves is by far the best.
Players are likely to have encountered other side quests in Scosglen that have discussed regular folk becoming werewolves. During First Among Wolves players help Artair figure out why this is happening and continue to help him through two other quests on how to stop more people from becoming them.
2 Unsafe Travels – Kehjistan
Kehjistan is an area of the map players are likely to explore later in the game though there are plenty of fascinating side quests there. A trio of quests a player is sure to want to explore starts with Unsafe Travels. Players will find an incredibly sick man who has been poisoned in the Scorching Dunes, he asks for the player’s aid to find a plant that is sure to heal him.
After giving him the plant, players are likely to find this man again who is now covered in flies, they must guide him back to his base while protecting him from the flies that surround him. By the end of this guest players will become not only educated about one of the monsters in the game but also incredibly traumatized.
1 Malady Of The Soul – Fractured Peaks
Unsurprisingly, one of the greatest side quests players will want to get involved in can be completed early into the game as it takes place in the starting city of Kyovoshad. Players will help a priestess as she completes a variety of exorcisms behind the church’s back to help the people of the city.
Players are likely to bond with Sister Octavia as she seems to really want to help people instead of simply burning all those who are possessed. This leaves many players to jump at the chance to help Sister Octavia one final time in the quest Faith in Blood.
Diablo 4 is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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