Loot Reborn – Episode 453

In this episode, I talked about Microsoft’s plans for an Xbox mobile gaming store; Studio closures at Xbox; Blizzard hiring for unannounced

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- Coming to you fromsomewhere in Sanctuary.

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This is episode 4 5 3of Shattered Soul Stone,
your Diablo Community podcast.
This episode is called Loot Reborn.
It is May 10, and this is Jen.
We're gonna start off with someMicrosoft related stuff, uh,
some of which seems good,some of it not so much.
So what I'm looking athere is from The Verge,
and that was posted yesterday.

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Um, it's called Microsoft'snew Xbox Mobile Gaming Store
is launching in July.
The Xbox Mobile store willbe available on the web first
with Microsoft's first party games,
which is kind of interesting.
This one was written by Tom Warren.
Microsoft has been talking about plans
for an Xbox Mobile gaming storefor a couple of years now,

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and the company now plansto launch it in July.
Speaking at the BloombergTechnology Summit earlier today,
Xbox President Sarah Bondrevealed the launch date
and how Microsoft is going
to avoid Apple's strict App store rules.
Quote, we're going to start
by bringing our own first party portfolio
to the Xbox Mobile store.

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So you're going to seegames like Candy Crush show
up in that experience.
Games like Minecraft says Bond.
We're going to starton the web, excuse me,
and we're doing that becausethat really allows us
to have it be an experience
that's accessible acrossall devices, all countries,
no matter what anindependent of the policies
of closed ecosystem stores.

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Although Bond alluded to games
and an actual store in her statement
during her interview atthe Bloomberg Tech Summit,
a statement provided tothe Verge paints a slightly
different picture quote.
This year we will debutour first mobile offering
where mobile players canfind deals on their favorite
in-game items and discovernew games starting on the web

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so players can access it anywhere.
Bond says quote,
this web based store is thefirst step in our journey
to building a trusted appstore with its roots in gaming.
End quote, the store will befocused on first party mobile
games from Microsoft's various studios,
which include huge hits like Call of Duty,
mobile and Candy Crush.
Saga Bond says thecompany will extend this

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to partners at somepoint in the future too,
while games will naturallybe part of the store.
It sounds like the key parts
of the Xbox experiencewill also be available.
Bond argues there isn't a gaming
platform and store experience.
That quote goes truly acrossdevices where who you are,
your library, your identity,your rewards, travel

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with you versus being lockedto a single ecosystem.
So Microsoft is trying to build that
with its Xbox mobile store.
There's a little bit morein there to read from,
but um, that is a thing that's happening.
And if it's true,
I mean it does soundlike they certainly want
to launch this in,
I think it was July orsomething like that.
Yeah, July. Yeah, July.

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So this might be good for people
that don't wanna play on a mobile device,
like I'm, you know, like an Xbox.
I have an Xbox and um, I'vebeen playing games on it,
you know, so that's fine,but like, how does this work
otherwise, you know what I mean?
Like, if I have to do things,if it's only gonna be, well,
we're gonna put it on the web.
First of all, I have an Applecomputer, is it gonna function

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with Microsoft stuff?
I don't know. That could bea problem for some people,
so it's just something alittle weird to think about.
Also, uh, game Spot hasannounced pretty much a similar
article titled Microsoft Set
to Launch Mobile GameStore this July, written
by Steven T. Wright on, uh, today May 10.
Microsoft will open a mobilegame store in July to compete

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with Google Play and Apple's App Store.
Xbox President Sarah Bondrecently announced the move at the
Bloomberg Technology Summit stating
that the store will launch on the web
rather than through an app.
So that kind of confirms thatit's gonna be on the web,
which might lock out peoplewho have max, you know, uh,
in order to maximizeaccessibility across many devices.

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Microsoft stated that it planned
to launch a gaming storefront last year
after the European Union'sDigital Markets Act made it
easier for tech companiesto start their own direct
to consumer stores issuingApple's dominant quote,
walled garden and quote approach Bond said
that the store will initiallyfeature games from Microsoft
owned studios such as Candy Crush Saga,

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this storefront marks Microsoft'slatest attempt at entering
the lucrative mobile gamingspace, a market segment
that Xbox is not usuallyassociated with, uh,
the platform holders, $69million Activi, AC acquisition
of Activision Blizzard.
Yeah, get all those wordsin there. It's just a lot.
Uh, helped set up this move as
that publisher includes CandyCrush Developer King, one

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of the biggest playersin the mobile space.
This decision comes at a difficult time
for Microsoft's gaming division.
Xbox was heavily criticized earlier in May
for closing multiple studios,including Tango, GameWorks,
and Arcane Austin as, which are well known
for producing criticallyacclaimed games like, Hi-Fi Rush
and Dishonored respectivelyBond defended that decision at

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that same summit, saying thatthe company looked at the, at
a whole variety of factors
and quote, when making such decisions.
She also cited a lack of growth
and the rising cost of making quote,
beautiful triple ablockbuster games end quote
as reasons for the closures.
There's a gonna be a bit of, uh,
things in here from Wow Head
and some other places that I like to, uh,

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get news from for this sort of thing.
And wow, head has postedBlizzard hiring several positions
for unannounced PVE game.
This is written by TROs 10 hours ago,
and there's a little graphic here
and it says, heroes choose your role.
Do you wanna be analytics and research?
Do you wanna be art, animation and sound?
Do you want to be corporate operations?

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So here's what it says,there's a little bit here
that's blurbed in from Wow head,
and then a little clip here about
directly from what Blizzard is saying.
So here it is. Blizzard ishiring for an unannounced game,
exclamation point, althoughlacking identifying details,
not even clarifyingwhether it is a brand new
or existing ip, there are notices

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for several high level positions,
including creative director,narrative director,
and principal animator.
Of course, this doesn'tmean the game is guaranteed
to become a reality project.
Titan was famously canceled
after more than sevenyears of development,
though Overwatch was born from its
ashes just two years later.
More recently, the unannouncedsurvival game was canceled,
was uh, was canceledafter a rumored six years

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of development, two of which were public.
And the Overwatch two PVEmode was likely canceled
after poor sales early last year.
Cancellations are an unfortunate reality
of the business though,and Blizzard is no stranger
to the creative processrepeatedly emphasizing numerous
active projects in development across all
of their existing IP and beyond.
We do have a thing here for Blizzard,

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and, uh, I could, Icouldn't view the original,
but it's right here in Wow Head,
so I'm just gonna read it from here.
At Blizzard, we crafta genre designing games
and legendary worlds for all to share.
Through unparalleled creativity
and storytelling, wecreate immersive universes
and iconic characters thatare beloved across platforms,
borders, backgrounds,

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and generations only made possible
by building a work environmentthat nurtures the artistry
of game development
and unleashes theaspirations of our people.
We are in search of acreative director to help grow
and advance the, the creative vision
of our unannounced game.
The ideal candidate hasa passion for design
and is able to effectively communicate

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to the games objectives throughhigh quality visual content.
They continuously learn,understand the importance
of process, pay attention to detail,
and are eager to play acrucial role on our team.
The creative directorwill oversee narrative
and visual design, guiding story
and world creation forthe unannounced project.
Qualified candidates will havedemonstrated experience in

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establishing and guidingcreative leadership teams from
initial concept to release.
This role is anticipated tobe a hybrid work position
with some work onsiteand some work from home.
The home studio for thisrole is Irvine, California,
which is where Blizzard is headquartered.
So that's, and if you didn't
know that, I mean, that's where it's at.
I get that they're tryingto make an unannounced p
uh, PVE game.

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Okay, so that would beplayer versus environment.
It, it's not, you know, go in there
and kill all of the other players.
It's go around and see
what you can find inwhatever this world is going
to be if they get it done.
There was a game, I thinkthey canceled it a while back.
I can't remember the nameof it, but it was intended
to be something that soundslike this to me, you know, um,
where you're, you're outlike gathering ore or plants

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or whatever it was, and thatgame never saw the light of day
as far as I know, they did work on it,
it was worked on a while back.
You may remember quite awhile back it feels like, um,
that there were a number ofpeople who were working on
that game and then all of a sudden, um, I,
I don't know if it had todo with Microsoft or not,
but all of a sudden that wholeteam just got axed, you know,
so I'm thinking this islike their take two on this

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with Blizzard because theyobviously wanted that game
to go somewhere and I don'tknow, and it didn't happen.
So I'm hoping that this onewill be what they wanted it
to be and that they will findthe right creative director
to get in there and do stuff with it
and help other people to dowhat they should be doing
with whatever this game happens to be.
I'm not gonna be payinga lot of attention to it

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until I know that it's likeactually gonna be viable.
I would hate to see themdo this like, you know,
unannounced PVE game, whichsure sounds like the name
for whatever the other onewas that they just axed
and got rid of for whatever reason.
Um, I'd like to see it thrive.
It sounds like something Imight wanna play, you know,

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but I don't know.
I mean, can it get its wayall the way through iteration
and all of that to actuallyshow up, I don't know,
on your computer or ona tablet or something
and I don't know, I'm just, I'm like,
y'all asked the last one.
What are you gonna do this time?
I mean, okay, so moving on to Diablo two,

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resurrected season seven isgoing to begin on May 23rd.
There is, I'm looking at theBlizzard forums to see this
and uh, Pez radar wrote this.
Hi all. We wanted to give aheads up on the start time
for the new season forDiablo two resurrected
Diablo two resurrected.
Season seven will begin on May 23
for all players globallystarting at 5:00 PM PDT as

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with all new ladder seasons,leaderboards will be cleared
for the new season, andthat's all that's in there.
There apparently was acouple of posts beyond it
and there's some other ones
that are just topics thatpeople are talking about.
The sort of, kind of,sort of related to this,
if we've got Diablo tworesurrected starting on May 23,
what else do we have starting then?

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You know, well we have DiabloImmortal, which was, uh,
posted introducing DiabloImmortals newest class,
the Tempest, and there islike a really neat drawing
and I think I saw some like videos on, uh,
Twitter about this, that sort of thing.
And there's actually anembedded video in there too,
but I'll, I'll read you some of this.
So this is, um, the newsclass is The Tempest.

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Here's what it says. In atime of ever-growing danger
for the world of sanctuary,
mysterious wanderers havesailed from the frigid mist
of the north to push back thedarkness that surrounds us.
These agile dual blade wieldingwarriors harness the fury
of the storm and crash upon their enemies
with wind and waves.
Will you become one of them

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or will you fight alongside them?
The Diablo Immortal teamis proud to in introduce
that the game's eighth class,the Tempest, I kind of screwed
that up, but you probably get it.
Catch your first glimpse atthe Tempest in our newest
cinematic trailer here and be
and become the storm on May 23.
So Diablo, um, Diablo fouris gonna be, is it Dia?

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No Diablo two Resurrectedbegins May 23, uh, the, um,
Diablo Mortals new class May 23.
Um, and then underneaththe video here it says,
keep your eye trained on the gathering.
Storm ahead for a deep dive on Tempest,
including a look at theirunrelenting abilities
and a new short storyfrom senior narrative
designer Ryan Quinn.

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May the wind be at your backand the sea at your grasp,
but the Diablo Im Mortal team.
There is a video in here. Idon't know how long it is.
I know I saw it on social media somewhere,
it seemed kind of interesting.
There's also another onein here from May 6th of,
uh, obviously this year.
And, uh, this is anotherDiablo immortal thing.
So it says, take heed
of the shadows in treacherous reflection.

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So here we go. Sinceour last content update,
you have vanquished theDarkness in the legions
of Horror Limited Time event,beheld new legendary gems
and new legendary A fixesand met a new familiar.
This content update introducesthe season 26 Battle pass,
a new limited time event,new tower war season,

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and a new event center cycle and more.
As with previous content updates,
there will be server maintenancestarting on May seven,
from which we've already passedfrom 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM uh,
for, uh, different countries basically.
Um, and it's gonna be, ifyou're in the Americas,
it's gonna be 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM PDT

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for servers in the Americas.
After the maintenance hasconcluded, all items mentioned
below will be live specific dates
for any content going liveafterward are provided below.
So here we have a little video from this
and it's talking about thebattle past 26 cosmetics.
I'm not gonna play it now because it, I'm,
I put everything in the show notes.
It's shattered soul stone.com.
You could find it there and you know,

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there'll be links and all of that stuff.
So the first thing here is Battle pass 26
treacherous reflection.
A shadow is beholden to its caster
for its very form and function.
Who could fault it for rebelling?
The season 26 battle passlays bare 40 ranks worth
of rewards such as crests,hilts, legendary gems, and more.
Starting with the season 26 battle pass,

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empowered battle pass cosmeticscan now be claimed at level
15 instead of level 30.
Purchasing the collector'sempowered battle pass will
immediately unlock the cosmetics.
The season 26 Battle Pass,
portends treachery starting May nine.
So we've, uh, it'syesterday. We started there.
Apparently you could still get on
and do it starting Maynine, 3:00 AM server time

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and ends June 6th, 3:00AM server time, beginning,
begin slaying demons
and climbing your waythrough the ranks today.
Then we are talking aboutTower War season two.
I did not know there wasa season two for this part
of the game, but here we are.
Here's a little blurb.
The PVP mode Tower War isback with a second season.
We've made optimizations tothe matchmaking algorithm

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to help ensure balanced play.
Those looking to flaunt theirmarshal prowess can compete in
this arena of carnage fromMay eight through June 3rd.
Uh, you know, this yearobviously, uh, server time,
tower war takes place from10:00 AM to 12:00 PM two
to 4:00 PM and eight
to 10:00 PM server timeeach day if it's run.
And you must be level46 or higher to play.

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So plan accordingly.
Then we have new limitedtime event swirling winds,
and there's definitely a picture here
of if you've played Diablo
before, I'm assuming some of you have,
and you have like thoselittle guys that come out
of the water and theylook kind, they like, kind
of like they've beendrowned and they're kind
of, you know, whatever.
This has like somethingakin to that with a bunch

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of player classes just tryingto beat up all these monsters.
So here's the tiny littleblurb for this one.
Prepare yourselves for awhirlwind adventurers from May 16,
3:00 AM to May 27, 3:00 AMserver time adventurers.
Over level 30, we'll get apreview of the next update
to arrive in sanctuary
through the limited timeevent swirling wins.
Rewards are available ingame on the following days.

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Uh, day two is May 17, day four is May 19,
day eight is May 23.
Log in and complete the daily task
to claim your rewards startingat 3:00 AM server time.
And then we have the new events cycle, uh,
center cycle so we know what's coming up.
That's what it's for.It's that little spot
where you log into the game
and you haven't in awhile, which is a problem

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that I have all the time.
Um, and you gotta wait for eachlittle event thing to pop up
and actually get into your game.
That's what I'm looking at here on this.
So here's um, someinformation on that claim.
Increased rewards for yourvarious exploits in sanctuary
during the second cycle
of the events centerfrom May 17 to June 18.
By finishing tasks andconquering the lesions

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of the burning hells, you'llearn seals of triumph,
which will reward you inkind for the sheer number
of deeds you can attribute to your name.
To see the full list of eligible items
that rewards seals of triumph.
See the bottom left handside of the events tab
that's not actually in here participate
as you would normallyto earn these rewards.
The more events you complete,the more spoils shall be
yours, eh, it kind of rhymes.

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One star, legendary gems.
Normal gems to lyricpearls, legendary gems,
a unique avatar frame, and aspirants keys.
You can still claimrewards from the last cycle
until the end of that cycle on May 21.
And then we have returning events.
There's a lot going on inDiablo, mortal .
So this one is calledTrials of the Warrior.
It's got, uh, like acrusader holding a big sword

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and a bunch of demons trying to grab him.
A true warrior isn't measured
by their title, but by their fess.
Add to your accoladesfrom May eight, 3:00 AM
to May 16, 2 50 9:00 AM servertime by completing daily
and challenge cla tasks.
From the trials of the Warrior event,
you can either complete bounties
or slay elite monsters
to earn treasures benefiting their valor.

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Depending on the tier you reachby the event's conclusion,
you'll receive a correspondingreward via in-game mail,
you'll only receive thereward for the tire,
the highest tiers achieved.
So bronze tier is one bountyor five elite monsters
and one random legendary item.
Silver tier is 10 bountiesor 50 elite monsters.
Two random legendary items.
Gold tier is 30 bountiesor 100 elite monsters.

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Two random legendary itemsand one random set item.
Platinum tier is 40 bountiesor 150 elite monsters.
Three random legendary itemand one random set item.
And then the diamond tier is 50 bounties
or 200 elite monsters.
Three random legendary uh,items and two random set items.
You must log in theweek following the event

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to receive their rewards.
Um, so you gotta do that.
There's the Wild brawl,which I've seen before.
It's got some characters standing here
with in a forest lookingarea, all armored up as much
as they wanna be and all these little
eyes looking back at them.
So this one says, enlistyour most trusted companions
and outlast enemy teams
and the Wild Brawl event Inthis unique limited time PVP

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event from May 10, that's today 3:00 AM
and May 17, 2 50 9:00 AM Servertime players will start at
Level one, work together in teams of six
to explore an expansive map
and endure to become thelast surviving team equipped,
discovered gear gain experienceto strengthen your power
and slay everything insight to win the battle.

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This arena style game mode endswhen one team has outlasted
the others to make theireternal mark un sanctuary.
For more information, there's a link
to an article about that.
Then there's Survivor's Bain,which I think has popped up
before in Survivor's Bain.
You will begin each runwithout your character's items
and a random skill from their class.
From May 17 through May23, 3:00 AM server time.

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You can vanquish demons acrossthree levels in succession,
Shaar Sea, if I'm sayingthat right, ALDs Cemetery
and frozen tundra to earnrewards and achievements.
As you move throughout the map,
any skills you have equipped will be
automatically cast for you.
Smiting Hell's Min, min Minions,
sorry Smiting Hell's Minionswill grant you useful
experience orbs thatlevel up your character.
Each time you level up, you'llbe presented with the option

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to equip a new skill up tosix total can be equipped.
The skill you are presentedwith can be from any class,
regardless of your character's class,
or to upgrade an equipskill for more information.
There's another link toan article from that.
There's also ally of bloodquarreling forces threatened
to desecrate hallowed groundsmarking a point in the
conflict between the forces of shadows

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and immortals demolishopposing century towers
and dismantle the enemy team's base
by shattering their crystal heart.
Imbue your adventurerwith specialist skills
for a tactical advantage and guard
and bolster your champion's marks
to claim the day from May17, 3:00 AM to May 24,
3:00 AM server time fight alongside sacred

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guardians in the alley of blood.
Then there's a link to anarticle with more about that.
Here are the rules of engagement.
All characters will be set to level 60.
The rank of all legendary gear
and set gear will be set to one.
The rank for all legendarygems on your character will be
set to 10 bonuses from thefollowing are disabled as well,
residents, clans andwar bands, normal gems

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and charms, heli query, bonuses, stances,
and paragon specialization.
Then there's the Shady Sock event,
which is exactly what you think it is.
It's a character here named Yakin.
Y-A-K-I-N has once againcome into possession
of some liberated merchandise,
likely flu from a far away excavation.
His shady stock is in high demand
and will be available toperuse from May 11 to May 18,

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3:00 AM server time
or until West March'sguards rate his supply.
And then there's a link to that article.
All clans on deck is the armies
of the burning hills aremustering their forces
to most assuredly for nefarious intents,
you must rally your banner adventurer.
Call upon your clan foraid to beat back the tide
of darkness from May 18 to May 25, uh,

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2:59 AM Server time sanctuarywill need all clans on deck
for more information,there's a link to an article.
There's also some feature updates
with classes and battlegrounds.
I'm not gonna go over all of these
because there's a lot in here,
but you'll see it if you, um, if you go
to the Shattered Soul Stone website
or if you just pick this upthrough Blizzard, you'll see it
and you'll see how it goesand all of this sort of thing.

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There's, um, rotating achievements
and all of this kind of stuff.
So it's a lot. I might try some of it.
There's no way I'm gonna beable to do all of it at once,
but I'll, I'll give it a try.
We also have, um, on uh,Diablo four.blizzard.com,
the new season coming up on May 14th,
which is called Loot Reborn.

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I'm not sure like, Iunderstand that this is
probably indicating
that they're fixing the wayloot has gone in the past
and making it better for the player.
There's a countdown clock on here.
Um, you could get an upgraded battle pass.
There's all this stuff.
So here's some littleblips about this thing.
There's videos in here
and screenshots andall this kind of stuff.

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So here's part of it.A new era is upon us.
Become the hero of your choosing
with a newly improved itemization system.
The power is in your hands
to craft the weapons of your dreams.
Temper your gear witha new crafting system
to face down hordes of enemiesin the updated held hides.
Achieve the pinnacle of yourbuild through master working

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and try your hand at thedaunting challenge of the pit.
Loot reborn, forge yourweapons as you see fit
so you can have improved clarity.
It parses items faster.
Spend more time slaying
and less time sorting witha simplified stat system
that makes items easierto parse than ever before.
Or, uh, craft your gear through choice,
temper to perfection.

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The days of hunting for theperfect item drop are gone.
Develop your gear through tempering
and master working, building an arsenal
that matches your unique play style.
Improved codex of power,
powerful enchantments at your fingertips.
Store and imprint your enchantmentsdirectly from the codex
of power with no need for aspect crystals.
May the odds be in yourfavor. New greater apexes.

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I'm probably saying thatwrong one way or the other.
I'm not sure I've heard itpronounced two different ways.
The stars align on rare item drops
to grant you greater FXsgreatly improving the
power of your items.
Fight back the forces of hell.
There's a picture of a bunchof demons running around amuck.
The armies of hell areexpanding their reach across
the world of sanctuary.

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New threat systems enemies,blood maiden boss and events.
Join the Iron Wolves this season
or in this season, activities
and fight to beat back the tides
of hell earning youreputation and rewards.
Hell Tide is now availablefor all world tears.
The journey never ends.
Chase down new challenges
and reach new pinnacles in theimproved end game experience

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craft ultra powerful weapons.
Master the forge, bravethe darkness of the pitch
to earn rare materials.
Forge your weapons withthese precious metals
to improve your gear stats.
Creating mighty weapons fit for a hero.
There's also, um, a new Uber boss thing
and greatest challenge yet thing.
You can get free rewardsthrough the season.
Blessings, uh, use thesmoldering ashes you earn in the

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battle pass to upgrade allyour seasonal characters
with increased XP gains better chances
for raw materials whensalvaging items and more.
And then seasonal title.
There's a new one, devilishand Worm Fiend title
provided you might, uh,proving your might this season.
So you could get devilish worm fiend
if you, if you wanted it.
There's some clothingand weapon trans mugs.

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There's a Mount Trophynew seasonal mount trophy
for riding into battle and style.
And you could get more with premium,
which is encouraging you to pay
for the premium battle pass if
that is something you would like to do.
There's a demagogue armor set.
Collect the full heroic armor set
and its awoken version as partof your battle pass journey.
There's a demagogue thoroughbred mount,

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a demagogue plating Mountarmor, weapons skins,
town portal skins, emotes, platinum,
and more wings
of Hell's Legion emoteaccelerated battle pass.
And then at the bottom thereis, um, a whole list here of
what you can do withthe basic battle pass.
The free one, the premium one,
and then the accelerated one,
which gives you pretty much

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everything you could possibly want.
Frequently asked questionsare at the bottom,
so if you don't know anything about that,
you could look there and find out.
The first one says, how doI access the season content?
Do I need a battle pass to play?
So I'll just read you the answer
to that one and leave the rest alone.
Once the season starts,lock into the game,
create a new seasonal character and enjoy.
If you have not completed theprologue yet, you will need

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to complete it on one character
to gain access to seasonal content.
The free battle pass isautomatically available
to all seasonalcharacters, get the premium
or accelerated battle passto earn additional rewards.
And back over on Wow Head.
They have an article by arcanetitled New Changes Coming
to Ladder Bosses inDiablo for Season four.

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And there's some notes in here to look at.
There's some little piecesfrom probably Blizzard,
so I'll just read you a little bit
of this Blizzard's recentdeveloper update Live stream
filled players in on some of the changes
that have been implemented as a result
of player feedback following the PTR.
Included in these adjustmentsare changes coming
to the end game ladder bosses,
exclamation point Blizzard has taken note

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of various pain points such
as summoning material acquisition
and requirements, as well as the rewards
for both the tormentedversion of all the bosses
and the non Uber bossessuch as Beast in the Ice
or Lord Zero tormented Bosseshave had their summoning
material cost reduced from five times
to three times the normal amount required.
In addition, the rewards
for slaying a tormented boss are now

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five times the normal amount.
Boss summoning materials willdrop from numerous activities
and enemies in the game, suchas elite monsters, whisper Cs,
treasure goblins, and the new hell born
enemy during the hell tides.
Okay about those treasuregoblins I did really well in
Diablo three, finding the treasure goblins
and knocking them over andgetting all their loot.
D four is not being as kindto me as Diablo three was,

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but I I think I've killed acouple of treasure goblins as I,
you know, as they got in my way basically.
So going back to the Wow head article
and all non Uber bossessuch as Gregory Han
or Beast in the Ice, willnow have an added chance
to drop an Uber unique such anitem such as the grandfather.
Several tormented bosses haveundergone balance changes

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to bring better parity between them
and other tormented bosses.
With these changes, playerswill be able to sum an end game.
Bosses with much more frequency
through more varied gameplaybe potentially well rewarded
with a surprise.
Uber unique on their journeyto the tormented bosses
and faceoff against even tougher
and more winning pinnaclebosses than before.
We also have from Pur Diablo.

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This one is titled Diablo four Sets.
Andro Words Not RuledOut says Joe Pre Ofpi
and it's written by Rush, uh, yesterday.
And we've got a picture of Lilith
with some like runes in front of her.
Very close to the viewer's uh, site here.
It's a question that repeatedly arises.
Will Diablo four rune words
and sets ever be added sets are something

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that we feel could be comingsooner rather than later.
Perhaps even the vesselof hatred expansion
because there are assetsin the game files to
that point to it happening.
On the other hand, ruinswere touted prior, prior
to launch, but never appeared.
Joe Prera, if I'm saying that right,
has been on the interview roundsthis week speaking to Riker
and sounds like both sets
and Ro words could becoming down the pipe,

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which I know would please manyfans says the writer Rush.
If you have been followingPure Diablo long enough,
we started documentingthe Diablo four run words
that were first shown before launch,
and they showed many similarities
to the Diablo two ruinson Diablo four run words.
Talking about Diablo four run words.
Joe stated this prior tothe launch of Diablo four.
We did work on run wordsfor quite some time.

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We had some really cool stuff.
We didn't feel we had the time
to iterate it properly and polish it.
It wasn't going to be ready
and it wasn't going to fitquite right With that in mind,
we didn't end up launchingwith that feature.
We didn't want to havea half-baked version of
what we wanted to do with it.
As we think about the future,
it's not like ruin wordshave lost their luster.
I think it's pretty clearthat Diablo four feels like

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ruin words would fit.
There's room for thisin the future, I think.
So there's some of that.
And the last thing here isfrom Icy Veins, uh, written
by staff, uh, called Powerful,new, unique, Uber unique
and legendary items coming in season four.
So there's a big picturehere of all of these items.
There's staffs, there'scrossbows, there's knives,

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there's all kinds of things in here.
So here's a little blurb.
It's time to take a look at the new Tools
of Destruction Players willbe getting in Season four
only a few days away.
The May 14th launch of thebiggest Diablo four season
yet brings an incredibleamount of new features
and massive changes to the game,
but it also brings us somenew toys to play with.
Starting with a brand newand very powerful Uber

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unique interiors.
Might, it won't be ashard to get as you think
with three new sources of theresplendent Spark material
from Season four.
One from the Iron Wolves reputation,
one from your first Tormented Boss Kill,
and one for Uber Lilith.
You'll only need to findone Uber unique of any kind
to be able to craft any other you want.
Then there's the 11 newuniques two per class,

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one non-class specific
and eight new legendaryaspects giving us plenty
of new builds to play with.
Let's take a look at them all.
So here's a source directly from Blizzard
that they've embedded into this article.
So unique items, materialsmite unique chest armor.
While at full life your skillsunleash a divine barrage
dealing damage, Yen'sblessing, unique boots,
casting a skill thathas a 40 to 60% chance

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to cast a non mobility non ultimate skill
that is currently on Cool Down.
This effect can only occuronce every eight seconds.
Legendary aspects aspect offrosty strides while below 45
to 60% of life evade freezesclose enemies for cold damage
and applies vulnerable tothem for three seconds.
Aspect of concussive strikes.

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Lucky hit damaging an enemyhas up to a 20% chance
to daze them for two seconds.
You DL five to 20% to increasedamage to Dazed enemies.
And then we're going into allof the classes, so you'd have
to like look at this if youwant to know which one it is.
I'm sure everybody's got their favorites.
I've played a few different ones
and, um, it was kind of fun for a while.
And then, um, I kind ofgot a little bored ,

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so I'll probably jump into the
new season and see how that goes.
I like that they're just flatout calling it loot reborn,
like that's what everybodywants to see in a Diablo game.
All this cool loot that you can get, um,
and not have like duplicates
and like, things thatdon't really fit your
class or whatever.
I think that's kind of coolfor them to do, to do that.
And yeah, that's, that's wherewe're gonna end this show.

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