October 6, 2024 • 24 mins
In this episode: Diablo IV Patch Notes; Vessel of Hatred Launch Twitch Drops; Blizzard story recap; New Legion Event in Nahantu for
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Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary.
This is episode
461
of Shattered Soulstone, your Diablo community podcast. This
episode is called even more hatred.
It is October 5th 2024,
and this is Jen. I got a whole
bunch of stuff in here. Most of it
is coming from Wowhead because they do really
good things, and I'm just gonna start us
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off with that. There was,
patch notes, Diablo 4 patch notes a while
ago, not that long ago, October 2nd. So
I I put it in for the front
because it's like, you know, the first thing,
October 2nd. I mean, you know, whatever.
So this is what was listed here on
the Blizzard,
all dues thing. Okay. It says the Diablo
4 team has been monitoring your feedback as
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as we introduce patches to keep your experience
in sanctuary smooth. We will update the below
list and denote whether the fixes are intended
for PC,
Xbox, PlayStation, or all platforms.
So the next thing along it is a
lot of detail on stuff. I'm not gonna
read you every word because there's a whole
lot of it. And it says that the
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2.0.2
build will be,
available on October 7th.
If you're using NVIDIA,
DLSS frame generation and ray traced foliage will
be disabled while the team works on addressing
an issue in an upcoming patch. So here's
some stuff. This is starting with classes. All
classes, legendary
aspect affix values now have a separate cap
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between ancestral
and non ancestral items.
Now the maximum values for aspects can only
be found on ancestral items. And here is
a developer's note. Previously,
max roles of aspects could be found much
earlier on. This made the transition into ancestral
ancestral items
less exciting as your aspects could already be
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maxed out before you entered torment difficulty. Now
there is more noticeable item progression as you
move through torment difficulties.
Then there's a thing about runewords.
It's
a little strange though. So alright. Magic ruins
of ritual. The first one is cir, c
I r, casts same non channeled skill 3
times.
Offering gained increased from 25 to 50. Sem,
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c e m, evade,
offering gained increased from 50 to 75.
Mani or moni,
m o n I, cast after moving offering
gained increased from 10 to 25. Interval increased
from 0.2 seconds to 0.25
seconds. Yaks, just like the
animal, use healing potion from 100 to 200.
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There's a little bit more in here,
that are rare runes of ritual, and I'll
leave you to find those when you buy
the expansion, which I have yet to do,
but I'll get there. There's also ruins of
invocation.
I'm going to just tell you the names
of them and a little tiny bit about
them. So the first one is Vex plus
3 doll skills.
Zan, x a n, critical overpower.
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Gar, gain critical strike chance up to 10
stacks.
Zao, x a l,
max HP,
QA, movement speed up to 5 stacks, tech,
TEC,
earthquake,
ton stun grenades, ton, t0n
meteorites,
tal, pestil, and swarm. Now we're going into
classes a little bit.
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The sorcerer unstable currents, the tool tip for
unstable currents has been updated to state unleashed
instead of is also cast. Developers note the
effects of unstable currents are not treated as
casts, which only occur once when you press
the skill button. And then lightning spear, only
12 lightning spears can exist at one time.
Any new ones created will destroy the oldest
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one. Passives, enlightenment
no longer gain stacks from automatic casts that
can only occur every 0.2 seconds.
And it goes on from there. There's some
unique items in here as well. There's tempering.
If you've done if you've been playing,
Diablo 4,
I'm gonna say the original,
then you've probably, you know, heard about a
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lot of these other things, in here. There's
the infernal hordes.
The developer's note says we've made several changes
to ensure infernal hordes remain a fun and
rewarding activity. Our changes address not being able
to target farm specific unique items on a
consistent basis, loot rewards feeling lackluster, and the
process
of people of opening chest feeling tedious.
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There's a whole bunch of information about all
those chests. There's a miscellaneous in here. I'll
just give you the developer's notes on these.
When trying to socket a gem into a
2 socket item that is already full, the
bottom gem will be removed, and the new
gem will become the top gem. Think in
think first in, first out. If you try
to socket a gem into an item that
has 1 or more runes in it, all
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runes are automatically
runes onto into an item that contains gems.
Additionally, unsocketing no longer costs gold to perform.
I'll just go through the developer's notes. We've
received requests for a reliable way to obtain
a mythic unique during a season. This change
fills that need. We've also created an avenue
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that allows you to target a specific mythic
unique using runes, giving more flexibility and progressive
chase in your pursuit of mythic
unique items. Another developer's note, and then I'll
stop there with it. With the substantial increase
to impairment reduction sources through Paragon,
we found this was a good opportunity to
improve the overall pool of affixes on gear
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by removing impairment reduction
as a gear affix. And there's there's a
few more things in here, but I thought
they were kind of interesting. I've got another
one. It's from September 30,
and I may have said it on a
show before the big gap where I couldn't
do anything because I got really sick for
a while. So I'm just catching up a
little bit and you guys can catch up
with me. So this one was actually posted
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by Blizzard Entertainment on September 30, 2024. It
says, Erd Vessel of Hatred launch Twitch Drops.
Okay?
If you don't know what a Twitch drop
is, you go to Twitch. You look for
somebody playing the expansion,
and,
you'll you'll get, like, drops of stuff you
can use in in the game when you
start playing it. So, here's a little description.
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Vessel of hatred arrives on October 7 at
4 PM PDT, bringing wanderers back into the
hatred filled canopies of non hautu, if I'm
saying that right. I think it's non hautu.
Following launch, celebrate with 4 weeks of Twitch
drops to earn starting on October 8, 10
at 10 AM PDT.
So that's, a few days from now. Prepare
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your vessel of hatred's imminent arrival. Connect your
battle dot net account with your Twitch account,
and then watch dedicated streamers in the Diablo
4 category to earn coveted drops. Gifting 2
Twitch subscriptions earned you the ghost of the
conquered mount, and gifting 4 Twitch subscriptions
earned you the glory of the Victor mount
armor. Read below for more details. So if
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you don't know what Twitch drops are, it's
in this article. Everything I talk about in
the show is gonna be in the show
notes when I get this all, you know,
put together. So here's what it is. The
below list of Twitch drops could be earned
by watching any channel in the Diablo 4
category with drops enabled each week. Please note
that after watching any eligible streamer for 3
hours,
you must claim the corresponding reward prior to
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gaining progress towards the second, the next reward.
So there's some for the sorcerer and necromancer.
The start time is October 8, 10 AM
PDT. The end time is October 15
at 9 59 AM PDT.
Watch at least 3 hours of eligible diablo
4 content while this Twitch drop is active
to earn the ringmaster's
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word
2 handed staff item cosmetic for the sorcerer
and the wranglers hook scythe item
cosmetic for the necromancer in jungle moss and
twitch purple weapon recolors, all for your demon
slaying needs. Keep the momentum and a total
of 6 hours to earn the guise of
the grand
vizier for sorcerer and guise of the tombkeeper
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for necromancer back trophy. The next one is
the barbarian.
It's got a really cool dragon head looking
thing on it and and a fancy ax.
So that's gonna pop up October 15 at
10 AM PDT, and it will end on
October 22,
9:59 AM PDT. Again, you have to watch,
you know, like 6 hours or something like
that. For the rogue, it's October 22 at
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10 AM and October 29,
9:59
AM to get,
what looks like a fancy bird and a
really neat looking bow. And then for the
druid, it's October 29, 10 AM PDT, and
it ends on November 5, 9:59 AM PST.
You can also support a streamer if you
want to do that. As mentioned earlier, from
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October 8, 10 AM PDT to November 5,
9:59 PST, you can also show your support
for streamers within the Diablo 4 category
by purchasing or gifting their channel Twitch subscriptions
of any tier. Purchasing or gifting 2 Twitch
subscriptions will earn you the hauntingly brilliant ghost
of the conquered mount. Purchasing or gifting 4
Twitch subscriptions
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will grant you the formidable glory of the
Victor bound armor, which is super fancy, And
that's kind of how it goes.
So, well, you know, if you're interested in
doing that, you can. Just keep it in
mind that you might miss stuff if you
don't check it out. Or if you have
a particular class that you really enjoy playing
and you don't care much about the other
ones, then, you know, check it out again,
see when that's gonna pop up for you,
and it'll be fine.
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Over on Wowhead, we have an article titled
Diablo 4, the story so far. There is
a spoiler warning when in brackets,
and it looks like it's a video. So
I'm just going to read you a tiny
little bit of this. It's a pretty short
video.
The release of Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred
is less than a month away. To refresh
our memories of the events that have taken
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place so far in Diablo 4, Blizzard has
released a story recap on YouTube. Now I'm
not gonna play that right now because I
don't know if that's I'm not sure exactly
how that's gonna go if I put this
up
and, you know, or put the video of
it up and have things go wrong or
something like that. So here's what Blizzard wrote.
Your battle with hell has only just begun.
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Witness the epic struggle that almost brought sanctuary
to its knees in Diablo 4. The next
chapter of the dark tale continues with the
vessel of hatred on October 8. Pre purchase
the ultimate edition and instantly unlock Diablo 4
in game items, diablo.com/expansion.
So there's those. Have I bought this yet?
Not yet, but I will. Okay. Another one
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from 13 days ago.
Nope. 13 hours ago. Excuse me. New Legion
event in non Hantu for Diablo 4 vessel
of hatred. And this one is posted by
Jez Artross.
So here we are. Wow head was recently
invited to a playtest of Diablo 4 Vessel
of Hatred. And during our explorations
in Nanhontu,
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we found fun new content, namely a brand
new Legion event. Players diving into the jungles
of Nanhontu Hauntu in search of Narel can
make a pit stop at the newest Legion
event of souls and spirits.
Players must escort several basins of souls around
the area, allowing them to collect souls as
you move. Be warned, though, the forces of
hell don't want you to succeed.
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Players will battle their way through waves of
demons as the basins travel through the arena,
and you will need to protect them as
well. The demons can destroy a basin if
if you're overwhelmed. Once all basins have been
escorted, the final boss spawns, and then of
course, you're loot too.
Mob density does not seem to be a
problem in this legion event. Scores of demons
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spawn as you escort the basins of souls
with more and more pouring in as the
event progresses, players will be able to work
together to escort the basins. So it won't
be quite as difficult as any as attempting
a solo on the playtest realms. That said,
expect a fun challenge with this event.
And after that, I've got another one also
from Wowhead. Diablo 4 vessel of hatred early
access q and a with Brent Gibson,
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Rex Dixon, Colin Feiner, and Kyle Martin. This
is from 14 hours ago, and it looks
like it's just a question and answer kind
of thing going on. Yeah. So this was
written by,
a Wowhead person named, Jen Artross.
And I'll just read you a little bit
of this because it's pretty long. But again,
everything will be in the show notes. You
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can, like, look it up right away. Okay.
Diablo 4's vessel of hatred launches in only
a few short days, and soon players will
be deep in the jungles of Nanhontu following
in Dorel's footsteps in a race against time
to stop the corrupting influence of Mephisto. Wowhead
was recently lucky enough to be invited to
an early playtest of Vessel of Hatred, and
as a result, participated in a q and
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a session with several Diablo 4 developers. Joined
by other playtesters as well as game director
Brett Brent Gibson, lead designer Rex Dixon, leave
live design live designer Colin Feiner, and producer
Kyle Martin. This q and a covered everything
from design philosophies, new features, the spirit born,
runewords, and more. Dive in with us for
some of your most burning questions
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answered. And, yeah, there are there are spoilers
in this. There's a little block here that
says stay a while and listen, Wanderer. Story
spoilers for Diablo 4 vessel of hatred can
be found ahead. Continue at your own risk.
So I'm not gonna read you those because
some people don't like to be spoiled. So
that's what that is, but you'll find it
in the show notes when I'm done here.
We've got another one from Wowhead,
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from 14 hours ago. New tormented boss summoning
material transmute recipes available with vessel of hatred.
And who wrote this one actually? This is
Tharid. Okay. Collecting materials to summon tormented bosses
is one of the critical gameplay loops in
Diablo 4's end game. With the release of
vessel of hatred on October 7 and 8,
players can transmute summoning materials from lesser tormented
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bosses into summoning materials needed to summon tormented
Uber Duriel and tormented Uber Andariel.
Now I fought Andariel.
I think I fought Duriel
in,
not the, you know, new expansion coming up,
obviously, but I think it'll be fun to
try that again. In addition to lesser summon
materials, players will also need kazra horns, which
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drop from lesser tormented bosses. And in the
dark citadel, Vessel of Hatred's new end game
raid dungeon. There's a picture here of this
Kazra Horn. Below, you can find all the
boss summoning material transmute recipes available at the
alchemist in the vessel of hatred. And there's
a section here on tormented Uber Duriel and
tormented Uber and Dariel in here. We have
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another story. We have new Akarad short story
and audiobook unveiled,
Diablo IV vessel of hatred. This was posted
13 hours ago
by Verid, and it has a really nice
picture at the top of this that if
you didn't know anything about the Diablo series,
you would think this was like, you know,
something you'd see in a in a church
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or something like that.
So here's what we've got. There is a
whole story about this. I'll just read you
a little tiny bit of this. And so
here's what was written here by
Therad. Want to get into the mood for
the release of vessel of hatred? Blizzard has
released a compelling short story about Akhirat,
also available as a 47 minute audiobook.
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Looking at the trailers and teasers of the
last weeks of the last weeks leading up
to vessel of hatred's launch, Akhirat, prophet and
leader of the Zakarum faith, will play a
crucial play a crucial role in the story
of Diablo 4's first expansion.
The first the story the shot story written
by Matthew j Kirby, author of the book
of Lorath and the upcoming book, Book of
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Prava, I don't have that one yet, tells
the tale of Akkharat and his first visit
to Nan Hathu.
So there's a tiny little bit in here
and I'll read you that. So Blizzard wrote
this sanctuary is a volatile place. Danger lurks
at every turn and the reappearance of Mephisto's
hatred has ushered in a new era of
hardships for those who call these lands home.
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While its denizens may have little hope, the
rich stories they've passed down through the generations
have shined truth on the darkness. So this
one is in titled when Akhirat came to
Nanhatur is written by, Matthew J Kirby.
There's a little tiny picture or not picture.
It's a it's a little tiny, like, story
starts here kind of thing. And I don't
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wanna like spoil it for you, but it'll
be in the show notes. You can look
it up for yourself. So you can read
it, or you can listen to the audiobook
narrated by Ocarrot voice actor Joshua Chang. So
I think that's cool. You get 2 options
in there if you'd like to do that.
Another one, 15 hours ago, Diablo 4 Vessel
of Hatred expansion review. So here we go.
This is written by also by Tharid. He
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seems to be doing a lot this time.
Hatred Looms Over Sanctuary. On October 8, Vessel
of Hatred, Diablo 4's first expansion, will continue
to unveil the story of the prime evil
Mephisto's return. Thanks to Blizzard, Wowhead was granted
access to an exclusive week long vessel of
hatred playtest. And for over 300 hours combined
across all team members, we were able to
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dive into the expansions campaign, the new spirit
born class, its leveling and end game systems,
and much more. So here's a little bit
about the campaign. I'd have to say this
actually a lot. So there's 4 different categories
in here that, you can read through. I'll
just talk about the campaign for now and
everything else. I'll just give you the titles
of what's happening from there. So for the
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campaign, Diablo 4's first campaign, which launched alongside
the main game in June last year, was
generally well received by both game journalists and
community members. Without spoiling vessel of hatred story,
we can safely say that Blizzard has kept
up this momentum
and crafted a fantastic campaign fit for a
first expansion.
We can't and won't tell what that campaign
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is about, of course, but we can tell
you how it felt to play vessel of
hatred's campaign.
1st, we advise you to play through the
campaign on normal difficulty
if you decide to experience it with your
1st seasonal character.
Campaign quests
reward incredible amounts of experience, and we won't
defeat millions of monsters along the way. So
playing through the campaign on hard difficulty, which
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grants 75 percent more monster experience, wouldn't be
worth it anyway. In the end, most of
us hit around level 50 by just playing
the campaign on normal. The pacing felt great
because it balanced leveling speed well while fully
embracing one of the expansion's main features, a
new storyline to explore. Now back to the
story. Diablo 4's first campaign ended on an
unsettling note. Yes. Both Lilith and Denarius were
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taken care of. But what about Mephisto,
the much greater or even primeval?
In the end, Narelle took fate in the
form of Mephisto's
soul stone into her own hands, which started
a character arc that up to this day
isn't universally loved by the community.
With the start of vessel of hatred's campaign,
the player decides to follow Narel into nonhontu
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where she plans to destroy the soul stone
with the help of Aqaraq's tomb, a light
infused point of interest for every believer of
the light. While this does feel a lot
like Du Amashina,
moment with the sole intention of kicking off
a new expansion story, we are glad that
for once in Diablo history, the soul stone
bearer received some form of human assistance.
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During our adventure through Nan Han 2 and
vessel of hatred's campaign, we began to understand
Narelle's role in place in sanctuary.
She's a vessel for a prime evil. This
epiphany helped us better understand her motives and
actions. More than once, Norell reminded us of
Diablo 2's Marius, the lonely adventurer who unknowingly
assisted the prime evils in their uprise back
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in the day. While playing through the campaign,
fans will notice countless parallels between Vessel of
Hatred and Diablo 2. While the spirit born
is a new class is a novel choice
made by Blizzard, vessel of hatred's campaign returns
to the roots of Diablo lore. While the
main game campaign showcased the eternal struggle between
heaven and hell, vessel of hatred's campaign is
all about the conflict between light and darkness,
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all supported by stellar voice acting, immersive cut
scenes, and of course breathtaking cinematics. Now there's
other things in here that you can, you
know, check out from when I post this.
So they're talking about the spirit born class
and what that is,
leveling in the end game type things. There's
a conclusion in here somewhere.
And,
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it's going to vessel of hatred will release
worldwide on October 7 8. So you have
a little while to get into that if
you haven't done it already.
Over on, also on Wowhead, Diablo 4 vessel
of hatred patch 2.0.2
early download now available on battle.net.
This is written by popular popular. Diablo 4
global director of community Adam Fletcher has announced
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that Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred patch 2.0.2
is now available for early download on all
PC
Battle dot net users who own the expansion,
which means if you're playing on a Mac
like I am, that's not going to work.
But fortunately, I have an Xbox, so it
should be okay. So here's a little screenshot
from x.com
from Adam Fletcher. It says pcbnet
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users can now download 2 point 0.2 early
before the launch of vessel of hatred. I
recommend grabbing this prior to launch on October
8th. And then there's a whole thing here
with the rest of this. I'm just gonna
take a look at that real quick. He's
got this early download for vessel of hatred
is live for, this was on September 30.
So maybe I don't need that, but Xbox
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and PS users will just grab 2.0.2
for their download. So that's safe enough, I
would think. I'm gonna try to go back
in there, but maybe not. Okay.
Another one from Jen Artross. Stronghold leveling nerfed
in Diablo 4 season 6. In Diablo 4,
many players look for the fastest ways to
level, whether that be grinding nightmare dungeons, speed
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running the pit, or more recently running strongholds
over and over. However, a new meta will
need to be discovered in season 6 because
strongholds, formerly one of the best ways to
level, have received an nerf to experience to
to experience to bring them back in line.
Here's a little bit from Blizzard itself.
Experience rewards received for completing strongholds have been
adjusted. Players will now earn a one time
experience reward when killing a stronghold boss, preventing
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players from infinitely earning large amounts of experience
from the same stronghold through partying. Partying meaning
you brought 3 other people or 4 other
people with you or more than that. Developers
note, we're glad the return of quest experience
rewards like strongholds in patch 2.0 is being
enjoyed. We've adjusted the experience rewards so that
strongholds remain a strong early to mid game
leveling activity, but not strong enough that it's
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mandatory to hold them from completion until a
later character levels. While strongholds will be lucrative
to run, they won't be quite at the
top of the pack in terms of experience
gain any longer, meaning players will have to
use other strategies once again, such as hell
tides. So there's that. I got 2 more
things for you.
Main stat damage bonus reverted in Diablo 4
season 6 back to former baseline, written a
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day ago by Jen Artras.
Blizzard has stated that the damage bonuses granted
by main stat newly added in Diablo 4
season 5 will be reverted in season 6
back to former values. In their newly released
patch 2.0.1/2.0.2
patch notes, Blizzard included a line mentioning the
previously buffed main stat bonuses would be reduced
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to prior values. This in turn will undo
many of the changes that players were just
getting used to in season 5. There's a
little tiny thing here from Blizzard. The 2
times increase applies to main stat contribution to
skill damage and has been reverted to pre
patch 2.0 values.
Previously in Diablo 4 patch 1.5.0,
all classes except barbarian were given a bonus
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to their main stat increasing the skill damage
they would deal. For some classes such as
druid and necromancer,
this revision will equal up to a 25%
nerf in terms of main stat damage values.
Then I have one last thing in here.
This is another story. It is a story
recap specifically on Diablo 4, the story so
far. It's on YouTube,
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and it's a very short little thing. I'll
probably watch it later. I don't wanna, like,
add the audio from this into a show
that I'm just getting done with here. So,
it's there. And everything that you'll need
to find out about what all of this
is, you can find it in the show
notes shortly at shattered soulstone.com.
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This episode is called,
I forgot the name of it. Hold on.
Oh. Okay. Let's try that again.
Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary.
This is episode
461
of Shattered Soulstone, your Diablo community podcast. This
episode is called even more hatred.
It is October 5th 2024,
and this is Jen. I got a whole
bunch of stuff in here. Most of it
is coming from Wowhead because they do really
good things, and I'm just gonna start us
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off with that. There was,
patch notes, Diablo 4 patch notes a while
ago, not that long ago, October 2nd. So
I I put it in for the front
because it's like, you know, the first thing,
October 2nd. I mean, you know, whatever.
So this is what was listed here on
the Blizzard,
all dues thing. Okay. It says the Diablo
4 team has been monitoring your feedback as
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as we introduce patches to keep your experience
in sanctuary smooth. We will update the below
list and denote whether the fixes are intended
for PC,
Xbox, PlayStation, or all platforms.
So the next thing along it is a
lot of detail on stuff. I'm not gonna
read you every word because there's a whole
lot of it. And it says that the
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2.0.2
build will be,
available on October 7th.
If you're using NVIDIA,
DLSS frame generation and ray traced foliage will
be disabled while the team works on addressing
an issue in an upcoming patch. So here's
some stuff. This is starting with classes. All
classes, legendary
aspect affix values now have a separate cap
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between ancestral
and non ancestral items.
Now the maximum values for aspects can only
be found on ancestral items. And here is
a developer's note. Previously,
max roles of aspects could be found much
earlier on. This made the transition into ancestral
ancestral items
less exciting as your aspects could already be
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maxed out before you entered torment difficulty. Now
there is more noticeable item progression as you
move through torment difficulties.
Then there's a thing about runewords.
It's
a little strange though. So alright. Magic ruins
of ritual. The first one is cir, c
I r, casts same non channeled skill 3
times.
Offering gained increased from 25 to 50. Sem,
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c e m, evade,
offering gained increased from 50 to 75.
Mani or moni,
m o n I, cast after moving offering
gained increased from 10 to 25. Interval increased
from 0.2 seconds to 0.25
seconds. Yaks, just like the
animal, use healing potion from 100 to 200.
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There's a little bit more in here,
that are rare runes of ritual, and I'll
leave you to find those when you buy
the expansion, which I have yet to do,
but I'll get there. There's also ruins of
invocation.
I'm going to just tell you the names
of them and a little tiny bit about
them. So the first one is Vex plus
3 doll skills.
Zan, x a n, critical overpower.
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Gar, gain critical strike chance up to 10
stacks.
Zao, x a l,
max HP,
QA, movement speed up to 5 stacks, tech,
TEC,
earthquake,
ton stun grenades, ton, t0n
meteorites,
tal, pestil, and swarm. Now we're going into
classes a little bit.
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The sorcerer unstable currents, the tool tip for
unstable currents has been updated to state unleashed
instead of is also cast. Developers note the
effects of unstable currents are not treated as
casts, which only occur once when you press
the skill button. And then lightning spear, only
12 lightning spears can exist at one time.
Any new ones created will destroy the oldest
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one. Passives, enlightenment
no longer gain stacks from automatic casts that
can only occur every 0.2 seconds.
And it goes on from there. There's some
unique items in here as well. There's tempering.
If you've done if you've been playing,
Diablo 4,
I'm gonna say the original,
then you've probably, you know, heard about a
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lot of these other things, in here. There's
the infernal hordes.
The developer's note says we've made several changes
to ensure infernal hordes remain a fun and
rewarding activity. Our changes address not being able
to target farm specific unique items on a
consistent basis, loot rewards feeling lackluster, and the
process
of people of opening chest feeling tedious.
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There's a whole bunch of information about all
those chests. There's a miscellaneous in here. I'll
just give you the developer's notes on these.
When trying to socket a gem into a
2 socket item that is already full, the
bottom gem will be removed, and the new
gem will become the top gem. Think in
think first in, first out. If you try
to socket a gem into an item that
has 1 or more runes in it, all
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runes are automatically
runes onto into an item that contains gems.
Additionally, unsocketing no longer costs gold to perform.
I'll just go through the developer's notes. We've
received requests for a reliable way to obtain
a mythic unique during a season. This change
fills that need. We've also created an avenue
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that allows you to target a specific mythic
unique using runes, giving more flexibility and progressive
chase in your pursuit of mythic
unique items. Another developer's note, and then I'll
stop there with it. With the substantial increase
to impairment reduction sources through Paragon,
we found this was a good opportunity to
improve the overall pool of affixes on gear
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by removing impairment reduction
as a gear affix. And there's there's a
few more things in here, but I thought
they were kind of interesting. I've got another
one. It's from September 30,
and I may have said it on a
show before the big gap where I couldn't
do anything because I got really sick for
a while. So I'm just catching up a
little bit and you guys can catch up
with me. So this one was actually posted
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by Blizzard Entertainment on September 30, 2024. It
says, Erd Vessel of Hatred launch Twitch Drops.
Okay?
If you don't know what a Twitch drop
is, you go to Twitch. You look for
somebody playing the expansion,
and,
you'll you'll get, like, drops of stuff you
can use in in the game when you
start playing it. So, here's a little description.
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Vessel of hatred arrives on October 7 at
4 PM PDT, bringing wanderers back into the
hatred filled canopies of non hautu, if I'm
saying that right. I think it's non hautu.
Following launch, celebrate with 4 weeks of Twitch
drops to earn starting on October 8, 10
at 10 AM PDT.
So that's, a few days from now. Prepare
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your vessel of hatred's imminent arrival. Connect your
battle dot net account with your Twitch account,
and then watch dedicated streamers in the Diablo
4 category to earn coveted drops. Gifting 2
Twitch subscriptions earned you the ghost of the
conquered mount, and gifting 4 Twitch subscriptions
earned you the glory of the Victor mount
armor. Read below for more details. So if
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you don't know what Twitch drops are, it's
in this article. Everything I talk about in
the show is gonna be in the show
notes when I get this all, you know,
put together. So here's what it is. The
below list of Twitch drops could be earned
by watching any channel in the Diablo 4
category with drops enabled each week. Please note
that after watching any eligible streamer for 3
hours,
you must claim the corresponding reward prior to
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gaining progress towards the second, the next reward.
So there's some for the sorcerer and necromancer.
The start time is October 8, 10 AM
PDT. The end time is October 15
at 9 59 AM PDT.
Watch at least 3 hours of eligible diablo
4 content while this Twitch drop is active
to earn the ringmaster's
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word
2 handed staff item cosmetic for the sorcerer
and the wranglers hook scythe item
cosmetic for the necromancer in jungle moss and
twitch purple weapon recolors, all for your demon
slaying needs. Keep the momentum and a total
of 6 hours to earn the guise of
the grand
vizier for sorcerer and guise of the tombkeeper
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for necromancer back trophy. The next one is
the barbarian.
It's got a really cool dragon head looking
thing on it and and a fancy ax.
So that's gonna pop up October 15 at
10 AM PDT, and it will end on
October 22,
9:59 AM PDT. Again, you have to watch,
you know, like 6 hours or something like
that. For the rogue, it's October 22 at
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10 AM and October 29,
9:59
AM to get,
what looks like a fancy bird and a
really neat looking bow. And then for the
druid, it's October 29, 10 AM PDT, and
it ends on November 5, 9:59 AM PST.
You can also support a streamer if you
want to do that. As mentioned earlier, from
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October 8, 10 AM PDT to November 5,
9:59 PST, you can also show your support
for streamers within the Diablo 4 category
by purchasing or gifting their channel Twitch subscriptions
of any tier. Purchasing or gifting 2 Twitch
subscriptions will earn you the hauntingly brilliant ghost
of the conquered mount. Purchasing or gifting 4
Twitch subscriptions
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will grant you the formidable glory of the
Victor bound armor, which is super fancy, And
that's kind of how it goes.
So, well, you know, if you're interested in
doing that, you can. Just keep it in
mind that you might miss stuff if you
don't check it out. Or if you have
a particular class that you really enjoy playing
and you don't care much about the other
ones, then, you know, check it out again,
see when that's gonna pop up for you,
and it'll be fine.
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Over on Wowhead, we have an article titled
Diablo 4, the story so far. There is
a spoiler warning when in brackets,
and it looks like it's a video. So
I'm just going to read you a tiny
little bit of this. It's a pretty short
video.
The release of Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred
is less than a month away. To refresh
our memories of the events that have taken
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place so far in Diablo 4, Blizzard has
released a story recap on YouTube. Now I'm
not gonna play that right now because I
don't know if that's I'm not sure exactly
how that's gonna go if I put this
up
and, you know, or put the video of
it up and have things go wrong or
something like that. So here's what Blizzard wrote.
Your battle with hell has only just begun.
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Witness the epic struggle that almost brought sanctuary
to its knees in Diablo 4. The next
chapter of the dark tale continues with the
vessel of hatred on October 8. Pre purchase
the ultimate edition and instantly unlock Diablo 4
in game items, diablo.com/expansion.
So there's those. Have I bought this yet?
Not yet, but I will. Okay. Another one
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from 13 days ago.
Nope. 13 hours ago. Excuse me. New Legion
event in non Hantu for Diablo 4 vessel
of hatred. And this one is posted by
Jez Artross.
So here we are. Wow head was recently
invited to a playtest of Diablo 4 Vessel
of Hatred. And during our explorations
in Nanhontu,
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we found fun new content, namely a brand
new Legion event. Players diving into the jungles
of Nanhontu Hauntu in search of Narel can
make a pit stop at the newest Legion
event of souls and spirits.
Players must escort several basins of souls around
the area, allowing them to collect souls as
you move. Be warned, though, the forces of
hell don't want you to succeed.
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Players will battle their way through waves of
demons as the basins travel through the arena,
and you will need to protect them as
well. The demons can destroy a basin if
if you're overwhelmed. Once all basins have been
escorted, the final boss spawns, and then of
course, you're loot too.
Mob density does not seem to be a
problem in this legion event. Scores of demons
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spawn as you escort the basins of souls
with more and more pouring in as the
event progresses, players will be able to work
together to escort the basins. So it won't
be quite as difficult as any as attempting
a solo on the playtest realms. That said,
expect a fun challenge with this event.
And after that, I've got another one also
from Wowhead. Diablo 4 vessel of hatred early
access q and a with Brent Gibson,
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Rex Dixon, Colin Feiner, and Kyle Martin. This
is from 14 hours ago, and it looks
like it's just a question and answer kind
of thing going on. Yeah. So this was
written by,
a Wowhead person named, Jen Artross.
And I'll just read you a little bit
of this because it's pretty long. But again,
everything will be in the show notes. You
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can, like, look it up right away. Okay.
Diablo 4's vessel of hatred launches in only
a few short days, and soon players will
be deep in the jungles of Nanhontu following
in Dorel's footsteps in a race against time
to stop the corrupting influence of Mephisto. Wowhead
was recently lucky enough to be invited to
an early playtest of Vessel of Hatred, and
as a result, participated in a q and
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a session with several Diablo 4 developers. Joined
by other playtesters as well as game director
Brett Brent Gibson, lead designer Rex Dixon, leave
live design live designer Colin Feiner, and producer
Kyle Martin. This q and a covered everything
from design philosophies, new features, the spirit born,
runewords, and more. Dive in with us for
some of your most burning questions
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answered. And, yeah, there are there are spoilers
in this. There's a little block here that
says stay a while and listen, Wanderer. Story
spoilers for Diablo 4 vessel of hatred can
be found ahead. Continue at your own risk.
So I'm not gonna read you those because
some people don't like to be spoiled. So
that's what that is, but you'll find it
in the show notes when I'm done here.
We've got another one from Wowhead,
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from 14 hours ago. New tormented boss summoning
material transmute recipes available with vessel of hatred.
And who wrote this one actually? This is
Tharid. Okay. Collecting materials to summon tormented bosses
is one of the critical gameplay loops in
Diablo 4's end game. With the release of
vessel of hatred on October 7 and 8,
players can transmute summoning materials from lesser tormented
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bosses into summoning materials needed to summon tormented
Uber Duriel and tormented Uber Andariel.
Now I fought Andariel.
I think I fought Duriel
in,
not the, you know, new expansion coming up,
obviously, but I think it'll be fun to
try that again. In addition to lesser summon
materials, players will also need kazra horns, which
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drop from lesser tormented bosses. And in the
dark citadel, Vessel of Hatred's new end game
raid dungeon. There's a picture here of this
Kazra Horn. Below, you can find all the
boss summoning material transmute recipes available at the
alchemist in the vessel of hatred. And there's
a section here on tormented Uber Duriel and
tormented Uber and Dariel in here. We have
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another story. We have new Akarad short story
and audiobook unveiled,
Diablo IV vessel of hatred. This was posted
13 hours ago
by Verid, and it has a really nice
picture at the top of this that if
you didn't know anything about the Diablo series,
you would think this was like, you know,
something you'd see in a in a church
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or something like that.
So here's what we've got. There is a
whole story about this. I'll just read you
a little tiny bit of this. And so
here's what was written here by
Therad. Want to get into the mood for
the release of vessel of hatred? Blizzard has
released a compelling short story about Akhirat,
also available as a 47 minute audiobook.
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Looking at the trailers and teasers of the
last weeks of the last weeks leading up
to vessel of hatred's launch, Akhirat, prophet and
leader of the Zakarum faith, will play a
crucial play a crucial role in the story
of Diablo 4's first expansion.
The first the story the shot story written
by Matthew j Kirby, author of the book
of Lorath and the upcoming book, Book of
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Prava, I don't have that one yet, tells
the tale of Akkharat and his first visit
to Nan Hathu.
So there's a tiny little bit in here
and I'll read you that. So Blizzard wrote
this sanctuary is a volatile place. Danger lurks
at every turn and the reappearance of Mephisto's
hatred has ushered in a new era of
hardships for those who call these lands home.
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While its denizens may have little hope, the
rich stories they've passed down through the generations
have shined truth on the darkness. So this
one is in titled when Akhirat came to
Nanhatur is written by, Matthew J Kirby.
There's a little tiny picture or not picture.
It's a it's a little tiny, like, story
starts here kind of thing. And I don't
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wanna like spoil it for you, but it'll
be in the show notes. You can look
it up for yourself. So you can read
it, or you can listen to the audiobook
narrated by Ocarrot voice actor Joshua Chang. So
I think that's cool. You get 2 options
in there if you'd like to do that.
Another one, 15 hours ago, Diablo 4 Vessel
of Hatred expansion review. So here we go.
This is written by also by Tharid. He
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seems to be doing a lot this time.
Hatred Looms Over Sanctuary. On October 8, Vessel
of Hatred, Diablo 4's first expansion, will continue
to unveil the story of the prime evil
Mephisto's return. Thanks to Blizzard, Wowhead was granted
access to an exclusive week long vessel of
hatred playtest. And for over 300 hours combined
across all team members, we were able to
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dive into the expansions campaign, the new spirit
born class, its leveling and end game systems,
and much more. So here's a little bit
about the campaign. I'd have to say this
actually a lot. So there's 4 different categories
in here that, you can read through. I'll
just talk about the campaign for now and
everything else. I'll just give you the titles
of what's happening from there. So for the
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campaign, Diablo 4's first campaign, which launched alongside
the main game in June last year, was
generally well received by both game journalists and
community members. Without spoiling vessel of hatred story,
we can safely say that Blizzard has kept
up this momentum
and crafted a fantastic campaign fit for a
first expansion.
We can't and won't tell what that campaign
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is about, of course, but we can tell
you how it felt to play vessel of
hatred's campaign.
1st, we advise you to play through the
campaign on normal difficulty
if you decide to experience it with your
1st seasonal character.
Campaign quests
reward incredible amounts of experience, and we won't
defeat millions of monsters along the way. So
playing through the campaign on hard difficulty, which
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grants 75 percent more monster experience, wouldn't be
worth it anyway. In the end, most of
us hit around level 50 by just playing
the campaign on normal. The pacing felt great
because it balanced leveling speed well while fully
embracing one of the expansion's main features, a
new storyline to explore. Now back to the
story. Diablo 4's first campaign ended on an
unsettling note. Yes. Both Lilith and Denarius were
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taken care of. But what about Mephisto,
the much greater or even primeval?
In the end, Narelle took fate in the
form of Mephisto's
soul stone into her own hands, which started
a character arc that up to this day
isn't universally loved by the community.
With the start of vessel of hatred's campaign,
the player decides to follow Narel into nonhontu
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where she plans to destroy the soul stone
with the help of Aqaraq's tomb, a light
infused point of interest for every believer of
the light. While this does feel a lot
like Du Amashina,
moment with the sole intention of kicking off
a new expansion story, we are glad that
for once in Diablo history, the soul stone
bearer received some form of human assistance.
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During our adventure through Nan Han 2 and
vessel of hatred's campaign, we began to understand
Narelle's role in place in sanctuary.
She's a vessel for a prime evil. This
epiphany helped us better understand her motives and
actions. More than once, Norell reminded us of
Diablo 2's Marius, the lonely adventurer who unknowingly
assisted the prime evils in their uprise back
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in the day. While playing through the campaign,
fans will notice countless parallels between Vessel of
Hatred and Diablo 2. While the spirit born
is a new class is a novel choice
made by Blizzard, vessel of hatred's campaign returns
to the roots of Diablo lore. While the
main game campaign showcased the eternal struggle between
heaven and hell, vessel of hatred's campaign is
all about the conflict between light and darkness,
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all supported by stellar voice acting, immersive cut
scenes, and of course breathtaking cinematics. Now there's
other things in here that you can, you
know, check out from when I post this.
So they're talking about the spirit born class
and what that is,
leveling in the end game type things. There's
a conclusion in here somewhere.
And,
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it's going to vessel of hatred will release
worldwide on October 7 8. So you have
a little while to get into that if
you haven't done it already.
Over on, also on Wowhead, Diablo 4 vessel
of hatred patch 2.0.2
early download now available on battle.net.
This is written by popular popular. Diablo 4
global director of community Adam Fletcher has announced
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that Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred patch 2.0.2
is now available for early download on all
PC
Battle dot net users who own the expansion,
which means if you're playing on a Mac
like I am, that's not going to work.
But fortunately, I have an Xbox, so it
should be okay. So here's a little screenshot
from x.com
from Adam Fletcher. It says pcbnet
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users can now download 2 point 0.2 early
before the launch of vessel of hatred. I
recommend grabbing this prior to launch on October
8th. And then there's a whole thing here
with the rest of this. I'm just gonna
take a look at that real quick. He's
got this early download for vessel of hatred
is live for, this was on September 30.
So maybe I don't need that, but Xbox
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and PS users will just grab 2.0.2
for their download. So that's safe enough, I
would think. I'm gonna try to go back
in there, but maybe not. Okay.
Another one from Jen Artross. Stronghold leveling nerfed
in Diablo 4 season 6. In Diablo 4,
many players look for the fastest ways to
level, whether that be grinding nightmare dungeons, speed
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running the pit, or more recently running strongholds
over and over. However, a new meta will
need to be discovered in season 6 because
strongholds, formerly one of the best ways to
level, have received an nerf to experience to
to experience to bring them back in line.
Here's a little bit from Blizzard itself.
Experience rewards received for completing strongholds have been
adjusted. Players will now earn a one time
experience reward when killing a stronghold boss, preventing
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players from infinitely earning large amounts of experience
from the same stronghold through partying. Partying meaning
you brought 3 other people or 4 other
people with you or more than that. Developers
note, we're glad the return of quest experience
rewards like strongholds in patch 2.0 is being
enjoyed. We've adjusted the experience rewards so that
strongholds remain a strong early to mid game
leveling activity, but not strong enough that it's
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mandatory to hold them from completion until a
later character levels. While strongholds will be lucrative
to run, they won't be quite at the
top of the pack in terms of experience
gain any longer, meaning players will have to
use other strategies once again, such as hell
tides. So there's that. I got 2 more
things for you.
Main stat damage bonus reverted in Diablo 4
season 6 back to former baseline, written a
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day ago by Jen Artras.
Blizzard has stated that the damage bonuses granted
by main stat newly added in Diablo 4
season 5 will be reverted in season 6
back to former values. In their newly released
patch 2.0.1/2.0.2
patch notes, Blizzard included a line mentioning the
previously buffed main stat bonuses would be reduced
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to prior values. This in turn will undo
many of the changes that players were just
getting used to in season 5. There's a
little tiny thing here from Blizzard. The 2
times increase applies to main stat contribution to
skill damage and has been reverted to pre
patch 2.0 values.
Previously in Diablo 4 patch 1.5.0,
all classes except barbarian were given a bonus
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to their main stat increasing the skill damage
they would deal. For some classes such as
druid and necromancer,
this revision will equal up to a 25%
nerf in terms of main stat damage values.
Then I have one last thing in here.
This is another story. It is a story
recap specifically on Diablo 4, the story so
far. It's on YouTube,
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and it's a very short little thing. I'll
probably watch it later. I don't wanna, like,
add the audio from this into a show
that I'm just getting done with here. So,
it's there. And everything that you'll need
to find out about what all of this
is, you can find it in the show
notes shortly at shattered soulstone.com.
You've been listening to episode 461
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of the Shattered Soulstone, your Diablo community podcast.
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I forgot the name of it. Hold on.
Oh. Okay. Let's try that again.
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