About this site and how it is written : schillman.se

Who

Sebastian

I am one person in Sweden with a seasonal Diablo IV habit: a lot of repetition, and a lot of small decisions about where the next hour goes.

This site came out of that. Every season I ended up with the same private notes file, half of it stale by week three, and every season I rebuilt it. At some point it was less work to write the thing properly, put it on a domain and keep it current than to keep rewriting a scratch file. That is the entire origin story. There is no team, no editorial calendar and no sponsor.

What I am not is a leaderboard player. I do not push the highest Pit tiers and I am not going to pretend I have the fastest clear of anything. What I do have is a fairly obsessive habit of checking claims before repeating them, which turns out to be the thing most missing from community write ups.

Why

What this site is for

Season guides are good at telling you what is strong. They are bad at telling you what you personally have already done. By week two of a season you have read the same tier list four times and you still cannot remember whether you took the Helltide node or just meant to.

So the tools here are built around state, not advice. The Season 14 Farming Ledger is a checklist of the farming decisions that actually matter, tickable, filterable, and stored in your own browser. The written guides are the longer explanations sitting behind the terse checklist lines, for the parts of the season where understanding the mechanic changes what you do rather than just how fast you do it.

Both are static HTML. No account, no login, no server holding anything of yours. The ledger is a single file, which means you can save it to disk and it keeps working with the network off, which is the point when you are alt tabbing out of a game.

Editorial

The rules every page here is held to

Community guides copy each other. A typo introduced once gets repeated for a season, and a plausible sounding invented name spreads faster than a correct boring one. The rules below exist because I have been on the wrong end of that.

Every named mechanic is checked before it ships Any boss, node, currency, material or activity named on a page is verified against a current source, meaning official patch notes or an actively maintained guide site, at the time of writing. Not from memory, and not from another fan page that itself cites nobody.
Sources are listed on the page, not hidden Each guide ends with the specific pages it was checked against, and what each one was used for. If you think a page is wrong, you can see exactly what I relied on and where I went beyond it.
Unconfirmed is written as unconfirmed Where sources disagree or a number could not be verified, the page says so in the text and tells you to read the value off your own game. An honest gap is more useful than a confident guess, because you can work around a gap.
Every page carries the date it was last checked Season content is patched constantly and terminology drifts between patches. A guide with no date on it is a guide you cannot trust, so the date sits under the title on every page here.
Corrections get made, and get dated When something here turns out to be wrong, it gets fixed and the check date moves. The Helltide War Plan node is called Writhe and Rot; my own ledger said something else for a week because I copied it from a source that had it wrong. That is exactly the failure these rules are for.
Nothing here is machine generated and posted unread Pages are written, checked and edited by me. Tooling helps with the mechanical parts, link checking, contrast ratios, catching typographic junk in copy, and every published sentence has been read by a person who is accountable for it.

Independence

Money, affiliation and what that changes

This is a fan site. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment, and Diablo IV and everything in it are their trademarks and their property. I do not have early access to anything, I do not get builds before you do, and nothing on this site is official.

There are no affiliate links, no sponsored placements and no paid rankings anywhere on this site. Nobody has paid to be recommended here and there is nothing to buy. If that ever changes it will be stated plainly on the page it affects, not buried in a policy.

The site does carry advertising to cover the domain and its running costs. Advertising has no influence on what is written: it is served by a third party, I do not choose the individual ads, and no advertiser sees a page before it is published. What the ad provider stores in your browser is covered in the privacy and cookies page.

Build

How the site itself is made

Static HTML and one stylesheet, deployed on Netlify, with no build step, no framework and no analytics. Page weight is mostly fonts. The whole thing is public on GitHub, so if you want to see how a page is put together, or file a correction against the exact line, you can.

Before anything ships, a small checker runs over the site: it confirms every internal link resolves, every style class actually exists, the copy contains no stray typographic characters, the markup is balanced, and every text colour clears its WCAG contrast ratio against the real background it sits on, computed rather than eyeballed. That checker was itself validated by deliberately breaking the site to confirm each check fails when it should, because a check that cannot go red proves nothing.

Reach me

Corrections are the most useful thing you can send

If a number here is wrong, or a mechanic changed in a patch and I have not caught it yet, telling me is genuinely helpful and I would rather hear it than not. The contact page has the ways to get hold of me.