If you’re looking for more Primary Resource generation in Diablo 4 (Spirit, Fury, etc.), clearing the Champion’s Demise dungeon and its cursed Cairn Downfall room is a must. After completing it, you unlock the Aspect of the Umbral, which restores one of your primary resources whenever you crowd-control an enemy. Applying effects like slow, stun, and daze will generate more resources, which is great given that the Druid doesn’t naturally replenish resources.
Here’s what you need to know about the Champion’s Demise dungeon, the Cairn Downfall area, and the challenges you will face to unlock its important Aspect.
Exact location of Champion’s Demise and Cairn Downfall in Diablo 4
The Champion’s Demise dungeon, which contains the Cairn Downfall area, is located in the Untamed Scarps sub-region, in the Dry Steppes. That’s a very long walk to the west of Kyovashad. If you haven’t unlocked any area in the Dry Steppes yet, I recommend looking at the path on my screenshot below. That’s the exact path I followed, which also let me level up one time while I cleared mobs and events on the way.
If you have unlocked a few waypoints in the Dry Steppes, the Jirandai Waypoint is the closest to this dungeon, making it a short walk to the northeast. It’s also west of The Ruins of Qara-Yisu and southeast of the Temple of Rot strongholds.
How to clear Cairn Downfall
Before fighting the Khazra Abomination for your Aspect in Champion’s Demise, you have to do some fetching around the Cairn Downfall area. I was forced to fully clear Cairn Downfall to get all three Stone Carvings to the pedestal in the center of the room, but there might be ways to avoid some of the mobs along the way.
You will find the Stone Carvings to the south, southwest, and northwest of the pedestals in Cairn Downfall. All of them will be protected by enormous mobs of demons. I carried each Stone Carving to the pedestals one by one.
It’s essential to bring a good area damage ability in your build. In my case, I brought Pulverize with my Werebear Druid, but any ability in your class that can deal big damage numbers in an area will be of huge help. It’s easy to be swarmed by Spiders and Moon Clan demons while looking for the items. When fighting mobs, pay special attention to Moon Clan Shamans and kill them first when possible. Their power beams will buff any monster it is attached to, making your fight way harder.
I also recommend having a lot of health regeneration and damage mitigation if you’re going for a melee build. In my Werebear Druid, for example, I ran ability upgrades like Preserving Debilitating Roar and Natural Trample for extra tankiness. An active elixir and the highest-quality healing potion available are also recommended.
Once you bring all Stone Carvings to the pedestals, you will unlock the room in the north where the dungeon boss Khazra Abomination will be waiting for you.
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How to kill the Khazra Abomination and obtain the Aspect of the Umbral
Defeating the Khazra Abomination requires you to avoid its poison pools and deal damage nonstop. It did not spawn any mobs against me during the fight, so I focused on using my best single-target skills to take it down, as you can see in the video of my fight below.
Khazra also throws poison pools far away from it, so you should also be careful with them if you’re running ranged builds.
As you burn the boss’ health, it will start spawning poison pools that are larger and in higher numbers than before, making precise movement an important part of survival.
If you get the movement right, you will eventually beat Khazra and unlock the Aspect of the Umbral in your Codex. Next, look for an Occultist in a major town like Kyovashad to imprint your Aspect into your gear. When you want to replay the dungeon for any reason, just reset it.
How Aspect of the Umbral works
When you reach an Occultist, you will learn the Aspect of the Umbral is imprinted only into a ring at the cost of six Veiled Crystals, which you can obtain from salvaging rare weapons and armor. Here is how the Aspect’s effect reads once it’s equipped:
- “Imprinted: Restore one of your Primary Resource when you Crowd Control and enemy.”
You can only imprint Aspects into Rare or higher-rarity gear. Rare rings will become Legendary, like my Loop of the Umbral below.
Since this Aspect is from the Codex of Power, it can’t be extracted, but it can be re-applied as many times as you want in rings as long as you pay its imprint cost.
