Yield your loot! It's time to gear up your build with the most loot-filled events of the year in Diablo 4 Season 11. The 2025 Christmas Goblin Greedings Event brings not only a festive atmosphere but also a golden opportunity for anyone seeking to maximize gold, mythic uniques, unique gear, high-demand mats, and fastest build progression. To help you get the max, here we detail what, where, and how to farm from the Diablo 4 Season 11 Goblin Event!
Diablo 4 Season 11 Christmas Goblin Greedings Event (Start & End Time)
The Daiblo 4 Season 11 Christmas Goblin Greedings event kicks off on December 18th and continues through to January 6th, giving everyone about three weeks to hunt down goblins and reap the rewards. This event serves as the primary winter holiday celebration in Season 11, focusing on increased goblin spawns throughout Sanctuary. During this period, a ridiculous amount of loot can be found by simply hunting goblins, and there's also a special goblin-specific reputation board for extra rewards.
While the festive theme sets the tone, the heart of the event is all about maximizing your farming efficiency and leveraging the altered loot tables. Alongside the core goblin event, additional bonuses stack up, including increased cache rewards from whisper turn-ins and a selection of free mount cosmetics just for logging in.
Diablo 4 Season 11 Xmas Goblin Event Rewards & Loot (What To Farm)
During the Goblin Greedings event, several valuable items in Diablo 4 Season 11 and opportunities await:
Goblins Everywhere: There will be a lot more goblins pretty much everywhere, both in dungeons and the open world. These goblins have a chance to drop bags of loot in addition to their normal drops, including a bunch of gold and resources.
Treasure Bags: Opening these treasure bags from goblins yields various mats and crafting
Reputation Rewards: Defeating goblins grants reputation for a special event board. Progressing through this board awards a variety of one-time rewards, culminating in a resplendent spark. After completing the board, you can continue collecting loot through a repeatable chest for even more materials.
Mythic Prankster, Treasure Breach & Hidden Armory Sigils: These are among the best dungeon sigils you can acquire, each offering a chance at huge loot explosions. The Mythic Prankster is the only mythic nightmare dungeon in the game, while Treasure Breach sigils often contain upwards of 25 goblins inside.
Mythic Items: Especially from Mythic Prankster encounters (guaranteed five per run).
Extra Whisper Caches: While the event is active, turning in grim favors at the Tree of Whispers grants a bonus cache, known as a collection of chaos. These caches contain gear, experience, gold, and more. Opening them on new characters can quickly gear and level them up.
Free Cosmetics: Several free mount cosmetics are available from the shop during the event. These rewards are seasonal recolors, but are still a welcome addition for collectors.
Obducite, Forgotten Soul & Crafting Materials: Running event dungeons and opening caches fills up your bags with obducites, forgotten souls, and other upgrade materials, perfect for sanctifying gear or crafting.
Legendary Runes: Gained from goblin drops and event chests.
Resplendent Spark: The final prize on the reputation board.
How To Farm the Goblin Event in Diablo 4 Season 11 - Best Farm Spots & Routes
Efficiency is the key to getting the most out of the Goblin Greedings event. Here’s how to maximize your gains:
1. Open World Goblin Hunting
For players who want to roam the world and hunt goblins outside of dungeons, there are a few key techniques to boost your efficiency:
Turn Off Crossplay: Go into the menu and disable cross network play. This reduces competition, letting you tag more goblins before other players can reach them.
Use Sububo as Your Companion: The so-called "Sububo map hack" allows you to see goblins, monsters, and shrines on both the mini map and world map, making goblin detection much easier.
Mount Up: Being on horseback increases how far you can see on the world map, allowing you to spot goblins at a greater distance than on foot or just looking at the mini map.
Check High-Density Areas: Nantu is recognized as having a particularly high concentration of goblins. However, it’s also popular, so you might find heavy competition during peak times. If that’s the case, any other zone with decent goblin density will work—west of Kat Bardu towards the coast is another recommended spot.
Look for Shrines, Especially Greet Shrines: During the event, Greet Shrines become much more valuable. When activated, killing fifty mobs while under the shrine’s buff will spawn a random goblin. This effect can be triggered up to five times, giving you more goblins to slay for loot and reputation.
Keep Checking the Map: Goblins may not appear on the mini map unless you’re close, but they show up on the world map. Regularly open your map to scan for their icons.
With these methods, many players report finding a goblin every thirty seconds or so, especially when optimizing their movement and map awareness.
2. Farming Treasure Breach Dungeons
Treasure Breach dungeons are the centerpiece of this event’s farming strategy. Here’s why:
Double Goblins: During the event, Treasure Breaches are loaded with goblins, often spawning in pairs or even packs of three, making these runs incredibly lucrative.
Massive Reputation Gains: Just a single Treasure Breach can fill several ranks on the reputation board, allowing you to complete the event’s main rewards in only a handful of runs.
Group Play for Efficiency: If you gather a group of four, each player can bring a Treasure Breach sigil. This way, you can chain four runs back-to-back, multiplying your goblin and loot gains.
Guaranteed Loot and Materials: These dungeons drop everything you need for crafting and upgrading, thousands of obductie, forgotten souls, neathirons, and more. The longer and larger the dungeon, the more goblins and loot you’ll get.
Save Your Treasure Breach Sigils: Many recommend saving up your sigils in advance, as these dungeons are far more rewarding during the event. You can get sigils from world bosses like Asmodan, opening chests, or crafting them.
Players have found that Treasure Breach dungeons are so rewarding that you’ll spend more time picking up loot than actually hunting goblins. After just a few runs, it’s possible to max out your reputation board almost instantly.
3. Mythic Prankster Dungeons
While there was speculation that Mythic Prankster dungeons would also have doubled goblins during the event, in practice, these dungeons still provide just one Prankster goblin per run. However, each Prankster guarantees five mythic items and a spark, making them well worth running if you have the sigil. Check out how to get Sigils for Mythic Pranster Dungeons.
Best Run in Groups: Similar to Treasure Breaches, running Mythic Prankster dungeons in a group allows all members to benefit, and each can bring a sigil for back-to-back runs.
Rare but Valuable: These sigils are harder to come by, but the rewards are substantial, especially for those still chasing specific mythic drops or more sparks.
4. World Bosses and Tree of Whispers
World Bosses: Defeating bosses like Azmodan can yield a large number of Treasure Breach and Mythic Prankster sigils. Be sure to attend world boss events, as they’re a reliable source of keys and loot. Defeating Azmodan, especially with the Essence of Sin power slotted at a high rank, is one of the top ways to farm keys and sigils. Normally, Azmodan can be killed quickly for reputation, while on higher difficulties or as a world boss, you can get up to 50 keys per encounter. Make sure you survive the encounter to claim your rewards, as dying reduces the loot.
Tree of Whispers: Turn in your caches during the event to take advantage of the double reward mechanic. Each cache may contain another cache, multiplying your haul.
5. Extra Tips for Efficient Farming
Save Whisper Caches
Start by focusing on grim favors. Complete any activities on the map that reward these, such as boss layers and world bosses. Turn in your grim favors to the Tree of Whispers but do not open the caches until the event starts. Saving these caches means you can open them during the event and gain bonus caches from each, effectively doubling your rewards. These caches can be stashed and opened on any character. Opening them on a low-level alt can boost them from level 1 to 60 in just a few minutes, since the rewards scale with the difficulty the cache was earned in but provide gear for the class that opens them.
Farm Nightmare Dungeon Sigils
Craft as many nightmare dungeon sigils as possible before the event. You're looking for keys with Treasure Breach, Mythic Prankster, or Heradric Strong Room affixes, these offer the best goblin and loot density. Salvage any less valuable keys to get sigil powder, then recraft more keys until your stash is full of the best ones. During the event, run these dungeons for huge goblin spawns and loot explosions.
Open World & PvP Zone Farming
Seek out red monsters in the open world and PvP zones. These grant extra reputation and can often be found in high density. Fast builds, such as Hammerdin, are particularly effective for clearing these areas and gathering reputation power.
Plan Your Routes
Focus on objectives that give five grim favors, like layer bosses, endgame activities (Undercity, Infernal Horde, Pit runs), and world bosses. PvP zones offer quick whispers—defeat the roaming boss or cleanse PvP currency for fast grim favors. Helltides provide additional grim favor objectives, especially if you have access to the Vessel of Hatred expansion.
Optimize Dungeon Completion
Use crafted nightmare sigils that match dungeon whisper objectives for quick teleports and completions. If you’re aiming for the highest number of caches, ride to dungeons with whisper objectives and clear them, even if travel takes extra time.
Utilize Event Synergy
During the event, opening whisper caches grants an extra chaos cache from each. The chaos caches provide a variety of loot, including keys, gear, gold, and experience. After finishing the reputation board, keep farming goblins for infinite repeatable loot chests.
Form Parties
Running dungeons and key content in a party grants higher efficiency. Each member can open a sigil, leading to four times the rewards in a single session.
Craft and Salvage
Salvage duplicate keys and sigils, then craft more Treasure Breaches or Mythic Pranksters to keep the farming loop going.
Pick Up All Drops
The sheer volume of loot can be overwhelming, so make sure to clear your inventory often and focus on picking up valuable mats and sigils.
The Goblin Greedings event in Diablo 4 Season 11 is designed for loot hunters and alt-levelers alike. By saving up whisper caches, stocking up on the right nightmare dungeon sigils, and planning your farming routes, you can take full advantage of the event’s generous rewards. Whether you’re aiming to build up your main character’s power or rapidly gear a new alt, the event’s increased goblin activity and bonus caches provide all the tools you need. Gather your keys, prepare your builds, and get ready to enjoy the chaos and riches of the holiday season in Sanctuary!