STOP DOING 10-WAVE HORDES! 🛑 This “6-Wave” Shortcut Is Breaking the Game!

Are you still running 10-wave Infernal Hordes? You’re wasting your time! Thousands of top players are using a “War Plan Teleport” trick to force the game into a 6-wave version of the activity, giving you the same XP and Aether in nearly half the time!

But that’s not all—if you group up with the right team, you can “chain” these runs by abandoning your quest to keep your board active, effectively stacking your activity experience 2.5x faster than solo players.

Don’t let the grind kill your season. Learn the 6-wave hack and the party-sync secret before Blizzard patches it 👇

In the high-stakes endgame of Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, efficiency is king. While many players treat Infernal Hordes as a mandatory 10-wave slog, a specific “teleportation exploit” and a strategic approach to the War Plans system have emerged as the gold standard for power-leveling and material farming. By manipulating how the game instance triggers, players are consistently finishing activities that should take 15 minutes in under 7 minutes.

The 6-Wave “Teleport” Shortcut

The most widespread mistake in the current meta is manually starting Infernal Hordes by clicking the compass keys in your inventory. This action forces a standard 10-wave encounter.

Instead, experienced players are utilizing the War Plans Activity Teleport button found on the map overlay. By entering the Echoing Hatred zone (without activating the event) and using the teleportation interface to jump directly into the Infernal Hordes node from your active War Plan, the encounter defaults to a 6-wave structure.

The rewards, XP, and Aether drops remain scaled to the activity’s difficulty, but the time investment is slashed by nearly 40%. It is a “default” state for the system when accessed via the War Plans interface rather than the inventory item, making it the most significant time-saver in the current Season 13 endgame.

The “Quest Abandonment” Loop

For those looking to max out their War Plans skill trees (specifically the Infernal Horde tree), there is an even more advanced strategy involving party synchronization.

Group Up: Join a party where every member has Infernal Hordes as their active node.

Run the Activity: Complete the 6-wave run.

The Abandonment Trick: After teleporting out and collecting your loot, do not complete the full War Plan. Instead, open your quest log (J key) and Abandon the active War Plan quest.

Reset: Because you abandoned the quest after gaining the activity experience but before locking the board, your board state remains unchanged. You can immediately reactivate the node and start the process over.

By sharing activity experience among party members—who grant 80% of their activity gains to the party—a full group of four can generate over 400 points toward their trees in the time it takes a solo player to earn 125. This makes leveling your skill trees—usually a multi-week task—possible in a single weekend of dedicated play.

Strategic Skill Tree Priority

Efficiency isn’t just about speed; it’s about where you spend your points. The community consensus for Infernal Horde tree leveling is to prioritize:

Method of Madness: To weight your offerings toward high-yield categories like Aether Lords or Masses.

Impending Doom: This node fills the spawn slots in the final 10 seconds of a wave, drastically increasing your Aether per minute.

Chaos Wave Suppression/Amplification: Decide early if you want consistency (suppression) or “Jackpot” potential (amplification for goblins/bosses). Most high-tier farmers choose suppression for reliable 1,500+ Aether runs.

The “Chaos” Balancing Act

While the 6-wave shortcut is superior for speed, the rewards are still heavily dependent on your ability to handle Chaos Waves. A run without a single Chaos portal is considered a failure in the current economy. If you are struggling with the difficulty, ensure your build is optimized for “Aether Lord” sniping. If you are finding that you have low Aether returns, you are likely killing too slowly or failing to camp the spawn points during the final 10 seconds of each wave.

Conclusion: The Race to the Top

The current state of Lord of Hatred endgame is a race against time. With Blizzard actively patching “infinite farm” bugs, the 6-wave shortcut and the party-sync abandonment trick remain the most reliable ways to stay ahead of the curve. By minimizing your time in the Hordes and maximizing your activity points through party cooperation, you can finish your season progression while others are still halfway through their first 10-wave compass.