Diablo 4 Season 10 Chaos Compass Affixs Guide

In the latest update of Diablo 4, the optimal affix choices for the Chaos Compass have changed significantly. Here's a quick breakdown of the highest-value affix combinations you should pick to maximize your Compass efficiency.

White Affixes

• Blood Tower: This affix grants +3 to Soul Towers, which have seen a significant boost in reward output after the update. Increasing Soul Tower spawns means more valuable targets and overall better ether gains.
• Noble Fiend: Offers +2 Fiends boost, another key spawn that drops large quantities of ether and loot. The moderate boost in Fiends makes this affix highly synergistic with farming metas that revolve around monsters like Fiends.
• Fiend Legion: Secondary choice offering additional Fiends, though less than Noble Fiend; useful when top affixes are unavailable but still effective for yield.

Blood Tower and Noble Fiend have seen substantial buffs making these affixes the core of high-yield Compass builds.

Yellow Affixes

• Cruel Overlord: Comes into play only after selecting the Giant Fiend orange affix, synergizing to boost both spawn rates and overall challenge rewards. The synergy leads to substantial returns in the longer farming runs.
• Precious Tower and Noble Demon Tide: Both enrich tower-based mechanics offering solid ether rates, making them good choices if Cruel Lord isn’t available.
• Gathered Matter: Least prioritized among yellows, as its benefit is often overshadowed by more direct spawn or reward-increasing affixes.

Cruel Overlord synergizes strongly with the Giant Fiend orange affix, enhancing spawn rates and overall rewards.

Orange Affixes

• Swollen Matter: The most impactful orange affix, significantly boosts ether quantity per wave. Despite difficulty measuring exact values, player experience consistently reports very stable and high rewards with this affix.
• Treasure Tower and Massive Fiend: Both support the Fiend and tower meta, increasing spawn counts and thus improving loot quality and quantity.

Swollen Matter consistently boosts the quantity of rewards (Ether), making runs more profitable.

Gold (Unique) Affixes

• Ether Goblin: Smoothly consistent, spawning roughly two goblins per wave that drop valuable ether. No other legendary affix currently rivals its steady yield.

Currently the best legendary affix as no others offer comparable consistent value.

Purple Affixes

• Chaos Tribute: The essential purple affix due to its chance to generate screen-filling goblin spawns, dramatically increasing donatable ether and loot drops. Always pick this when available.

If Chaos Tribute and Swollen Matter appear in early waves together, prioritize Swollen Material for more reliable Ether gains.

Special Tip: If Chaos Tribute and Swollen Matter appear in early waves together, prioritize Swollen Matter for more reliable Ether gains.

Additional Strategic Notes

• The current high-yield affix strategy still revolves around Soul Tower and Fiend modifiers. If neither appears, go for Ether Matter–related affixes, as they also have a chance to spawn Fiends. As for Demonic Spawn, testing shows it's underperforming this season — skip it.
• If your goal is mainly Farming Chaos Legendaries, choose an 8-Wave Compass — it reliably nets around 666 Ether per run Diablo 4 gold. The 10-Wave Compass gives slightly better rewards but takes too long to be efficient.

Summary

One thing worth mentioning is how much smoother runs feel after the patch. The pacing of the waves is better, and elite density seems higher overall. Even weaker maps can drop decent loot if you stack the right affixes. Don’t worry too much about chasing the “perfect” setup every time—what matters more is consistency. Running several good compasses back-to-back often ends up giving more Ether than one “perfect” roll that takes forever to finish.

Good luck out there and hope everyone get the gear you’re after!