August 11, 2024 • 33 mins
In this episode, I explained why I hadn’t been doing Shattered Soulstone; I read an article from GameSpot; Blizzard has a new
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Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary. This
is episode
459
of Shattered Soulstone, your Diablo community podcast.
This episode is called preorder
Prava.
It is August 10, 2024,
and this is Jen. Now I'm gonna start
out. I know I skipped a lot of,
times I should have been doing an episode,
but the problem is I'm immune compromised, and
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I had a sinus infection that would not
go away. I got, in touch with a
doctor on the Teladoc thing,
and the medication they provided made me sicker.
I'm just finally getting over a lot of
that. So that's why you didn't have any
episodes for quite some time, because I was
literally too sick to do it. And, this
doesn't happen a lot, but sometimes it does,
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and then it takes me a while to
get better.
So there we are. That said, I have
gathered up a bunch of things that have
to do with Diablo 4 and other stuff.
And I'm gonna start off with an article
from gamespot.com.
And this one is titled Diablo 4 Vessel
of Hatred
May Have Players Deal less damage, and that
could be good. And this is written by
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Cameron Kosh or Koch
on July 22, 2024.
Yes. That was a while back, but I
think it's a good article. So I'm just
gonna like read through part of this for
you.
In addition
to the headline I just read, there is
a smaller one saying a level and number
squish could be coming in Diablo 4's first
expansion, which would be vessel of hatred. So
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here we go with Cameron,
Koch or something like that. The writing. Okay.
Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is coming in
October,
and players now have reason to believe there
will be major changes to the game's max
level, paragon system, and even the amount of
damage players deal come the release of the
game's first expansion.
Blizzard recently gave players an in-depth look at
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the expansion's new class, the spirit born, as
pointed out by wow head and discussed on
places like the Diablo 4 subreddit,
nestled among the new spirit born gameplay footage
from various media outlets and content creators is
evidence that the game's maximum level cap might
be going down from level 100 to just
60. It also indicates a major change in
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the way the game's paragon points are distributed.
There are a few clues as to why
this might be the case. Spirit borne gameplay
footage shows XP bars post level 50 without
the paragon point unlock nodes seen in the
current version of the game. Instead, it looks
like players may earn paragon points each, quote,
level, end quote, after max in a way
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that could be closer to how players earned
paragon points in Diablo 3. That being said,
it is unlikely players will be able to
earn quote infinite end quote paragon points like
in Diablo 3 as that would require blizzard
to completely rework Diablo four's existing paragon board
system.
Other evidence suggesting a new lower max level
is an in game tooltip that states the
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amount of armor players will need at level
60. In the current game, the tooltip references
the amount of armor needed at level 100.
The healing potion upgrades from the alchemist shown
in the spirit borne gameplay footage is another
indication with the new upgrades looking like they
will cap out closer to level 60 instead
of level 90 like in the current game.
Going hand in hand with the max level
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and paragon changes looks to be a damage
number squish. It's something many players have requested
given that damage values in Diablo 4 can
currently be in the 1,000,000 or even 1,000,000,000,
making them extremely hard to read, and reoccurring
boss requiring bosses to have the health in
the trillions in order to compensate.
Goes on from there. And at the bottom,
there are some imagery from the vessel of
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hatred, just screenshots of it. It's pretty neat.
Moving on, we have,
recently ish, well, actually I guess it was
July,
26. So not that long ago, there is
on the US blizzard forums for Diablo
Immortal and it's titled introducing your new Diablo
Immortal community manager. And this manager is going
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by the name of Ghost Signals,
and he is a community manager. So here's
what he wrote on there. Greetings,
adventurers. I am Ghost Signals, the newest addition
to the Diablo Immuta Immortal community team. I
am so excited to be joining the team
here at Blizzard, but even more so, I
am excited to be joining this community of
passionate Diablo Immortal fans. I am here because
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our amazing community team, which works across all
of the Diablo games, has been stretched pretty
thin. There's a lot of work that goes
into bolstering and building the communities of a
game, and with the addition of a Centimeters
dedicated only to Diablo Immortal, we can give
you all the attention that you
dedicated only to Diablo Immortal, we can give
you all the attention that you deserve. My
mission as your dedicated community manager is to
help this community thrive and grow and to
work with you all to build spaces like
this. I'm gonna of
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Diablo
of Diablo Immortal, help each other get better
at the game, and stay informed with a
little with all things happening in the game.
And it goes on to,
a lot. There's a lot more in here.
So that's like the first part. And then
he's got a section here that says a
little bit about myself. And he wrote, I've
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been working in community management for for about
10 years now, specifically on mobile and free
to play free to play GES. That's either
a typo or I don't know what this
word is, with passionate communities like yourself. I
believe in meaningful communications that keep players informed
and prepared. This means that I will always
do my best to answer questions and deliver
timely communications and responses, but that doesn't mean
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that I will be able to answer every
question that is posted and especially not when
they are specific to individual players slash accounts.
I, unfortunately, This
means that This means that the inflection slash
emotion behind those words might be left to
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interpretation,
but I ask that you try to and
read them as neutrally as possible.
I think player feedback is one of the
greatest, most powerful tools to improve a game,
and I will always welcome feedback, but it
needs to be done constructively.
Be passionate about what you have to say,
but let's keep it professional. If you don't
like something, you need to tell us why
so that we can address the root cause
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of the issues. Insults and rants tend to
derail your feedback, and I don't want that
to happen, he writes. However, player feedback is
not the only metric on which decisions are
made, and we should be honest about that.
Sometimes decisions that are unpopular
will be made for the sake of the
long term health of the game, and sometimes
player feedback
just doesn't fit in the future plans of
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the game.
And then there's more in here, and you
could follow him on Twitter,
slash
x. So he's on there. And again, his
name is ghost signals. There is stuff,
posted a while back. I think I may
have talked about this the last time I
did a show and it's the Blizzard gear
store, the new Diablo 4 Spirit Born merchandise
now available.
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And so there's mostly t shirts and things
like that. There's a Spirit Born black t
shirt for $30 It has, it's green. I
don't know if it glows in the dark
or not, but it's got some of these
little images here of different kinds of things.
Some of them have wings and,
some of them look like a bug and
things like that.
Then you've got the vessel of hatred glow
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in the dark black t shirt also for
$30,
which has the iconic image of the
character you've seen as soon as, they started
hyping Vessel of Hatred. And And so it
looks like a person wearing, like, a jaguar
or something on their head and a bunch
of ruins all the way around it.
That's $30 There's a red, like, bright red
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Lilith red t shirt for $35
It has an image of
you've probably seen before of, like, Lilith statues
and things like that in game or out
of, because there are some, that are other
than that. And above it, like, above that,
you know, sort of, black and gray image
on a red red t shirt, it says
Lilith with the letters all kind of squished
together and some gold,
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inlay around her. So that's kinda neat. And
then there's the Mephisto black t shirt for
$35, which I bought because I think Mephisto's
incarnation
in Diablo 4 is awesome, and I just
thought it was so fun. So I have
one of those right now.
I'm not sure how long these things are
gonna stay in the blizzard store. There's a
link I'll put I'll put links up on
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everything when I'm done, talking to you about
all the stuff I was gonna tell you
about.
And you can, you know, find your way
to the
merchandise store when you're ready. This episode is
called pre order Prava because you can now.
It's the book of Prava. Now, if you're
new to this kind of stuff, there's a
lot of books
that have to do with it. There's book
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of Tyrael. There's book of Lorath. There's book
of there's so many of them. And some
of them are art books, and some of
them are not. But these types of books
focused on a particular character in the game
are usually focused on, like, what's their background?
What did they do? How are they doing
things? How did they get to where they
were? You know, that kind of stuff. So
this is from pure Diablo, and I'm going
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to read you just a tiny bit because
it looks like they did a very short
interview. Well, I'll just start reading it to
you. But the picture of this thing is,
you know, you'll you could see it in
the show notes later,
because those would be up. It's got, like,
a palm with some fire behind it and,
arrows coming from either side. It's very gold.
It's got, like, what looks like a leather
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strap going from top to bottom of the
book and across, and the hand thing is
on top of it. There's a bunch of
runes. It says and gold and book of
Braava. So that's, you know, something. So here's
a little bit from this particular article from
purediablo.com.
In her recent interview with game director Brent
Gibson and associate narrative designer Alainie Rivera Colon,
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our friend Jen of Hatred, which is not
me, asked them about the lore for the
vessel of hatred. In the book of Lorath,
which was released last year along with diablo
four, more details were provided about lorath and
Norell's journeys from the end of diablo 4
main campaign to just prior to what was
presented in the vessel of hatred release date
trailer. However, there is a new book titled
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the book of Prava that will be released
in October
alongside the vessel of hatred expansion.
Alaini had this to say when she asked
when asked about whether the book of prava
will be directly linked to the vessel of
hatred. She said
this, Brahma is still tied to the player.
So I think regardless, you can probably read
in for some interesting points, but I don't
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know if there's going to be anything in
there that's necessarily spoiling anything.
I think if anything, it just gives it's
just giving players ammo to say I cannot
wait to play expansion and see what happens.
Brent also responded to the same question.
He said I'm a hyper lore nerd, and
I will bow to our writing staff. They
create way more lore than we'll ever expose
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in just the game, especially with spirit born.
It's a class that we want to see
have life after the expansion. Right? So we
developed the lore in a way that can
be used for more things like books and
novelettes and blog posts and merchandise and all
these other
things. The lore is integrated, you know. We
don't release a book without thinking about its
impact on the canon and how that's going
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to build out to everything else, and, obviously,
a lot of the material we're releasing right
now has to do with the time period
that we're dealing with right now. So definitely
check it out. If you're a lore person,
it will definitely be worth it and you
can pre order it now from Amazon. Let's
see how much that's gonna cost us. Okay.
So here we go. It's gonna be it's
a hardcover book like the rest of them
are and it is going to be released
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on October 1,
2024.
And what does it cost?
I do not know what it costs.
Let's see. You can preorder it now. Oh,
okay. It is hardcover
$29.95.
That's that's what it is. So I'll throw
that in the show notes as well. From
Wowhead,
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posted by populartopular
about Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder season 8 coming
August 23rd, which is not terribly far away.
But if you only like playing Diablo
2 resurrected,
there's some things in here about it. And
it's there's not a lot of
a lot of things, but there's some things.
So there's this, you know, creepy looking skull
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thing with ladder season 8 next to it.
And here's the blue notes for this one.
Sanctuary's denizens will be happy to set their
sights on you again, traveler. Countless demons have
met their timely demise at the end of
your weapon, and yet their onslaught
doesn't relent. Sanctuary needs a savior. Return on
August 23. I think these things are lining
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up right around there,
to wreak havoc among the burning hell's ranks
in ladder season 8. So here's some patch
notes.
This patch goes live on August 20. It
introduces a variety of bug fixes to various
systems and updates to player reporting. And then
it says general player reporting has been updated,
but but we don't know what was updated
from that. Gameplay
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fixed an issue where assassin's blade fury skill
would stop channeling when the monster initially targeted
died,
fixed an issue where assassin's dragon tail would
sometimes not properly inconsistently
cut consume charges.
Not sure exactly how that was worded, but
that's what it says. Fixed an issue where
dragon tail could cause desync and rubber banding
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issues in both online and offline play. Fixed
an issue where the act 3 mercenary would
target ravens with enchant.
Fixed an issue where joining a new game
as a terror zone rotation began could cause
a failure to join the game, fixed an
issue where skill could become unbound while weapon
swapping, fixed an issue where missiles could desync
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if a skill was aimed at a target
that was standing on top
of an item.
Oh my gosh.
Okay. User interface and user experience fixed an
issue where the tooltip and the character screen
for Amazon's lightning bolt displayed inaccurate data, fixed
an issue where the character list would resort
whenever the game was relaunched. That's a problem.
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There's a developer's note on that. This issue
has been fixed for PC only. We anticipate
a fix for consoles coming soon and we'll
keep you updated.
Also fixed an issue where the tooltip for
slow missiles didn't display accurate information for what
affects the next level of the skill would
do and fixed an issue where v wasn't
an arrow between the lightning and chain lightning
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skills in the skill tree when using controller.
So it'd be like if you've got an
Xbox or something. So season 8 is gonna
start. I think we have it up here.
Where did it go? August 20. So if
you're into that, that's when you start. There's
a whole bunch of things in here that
are left over, and there's like new things
added to the stash.
Once season 7 ends, all ladder characters will
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be transferred to their respective non ladder group.
All items in that character's group shared stash
will go into a new withdraw only set
of shared stash tabs denoted by a check
marked passed box. Any items from ladder season
6 stored in the withdraw only tabs will
be lost at this time. You will have
all of the ladder season 8 to withdraw
any items you would like to keep from
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season 7. When ladder season 8 ends, this
withdrawal only set of stash tabs
will be overridden with any items in the
ladder season 7 shared stash. Be sure to
get any items out before then, or they
will be lost forever. So that's what's going
on there soon ish. Over on Wowhead again,
we have an article titled
Diablo 4 season 5, season of the infernal
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hordes now live. Now I've been looking at
some of this stuff actually on Instagram when
I was too sick to play anything, you
know,
and,
it's an interesting
grouping of
demons and
monsters and and all kinds of stuff. So
this one was written by Blaney
Wow. So I'm gonna read you a little
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bit about this. And there is a gameplay
trailer embedded in this that I'm not gonna
actually post here or, you know, run through
here because you probably will wanna see it
yourself instead of, like, hearing and wondering what
the visuals were. So here we go. The
5th season of Diablo 4, the season of
the infernal hordes, is now officially live with
sweeping changes to a number of legendary aspects,
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unique, and mythic items along with the new
mother's gift reputation
and infernal hordes endgame mode. There's plenty of
content to test, and then there's the video.
Our overview linked below covers everything coming with
the season along with links to our guides
on each piece of content and how best
to get yourself started in season 5. The
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seasonal journey will also be helping players once
again start to create certain builds for each
class with the aspects granted being specifically tailored
to archetypes. They were confirmed on twitter by
Adam Fletcher to be the barbarian gets weapon
swapping slash knockback, the druid gets cataclysm
companions.
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Necromancer gets bone spirit and prison and also
bone golem. Rogue gets flurry and dark shroud
and also mobility.
Sorcerer gets chain lightning and mana. These will
allow you to focus on leveling faster with
certain builds due to the power increases you'll
receive by completing the season journey. For example,
as a rogue you'll benefit from running the
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flurry leveling build or as a sorcerer the
chain lightning leveling build. With that being said,
leveling is now fast enough that you can
definitely choose to play what you find fun.
Leveling isn't the only new thing to this
season, though. We've updated our guides with the
freshest information, giving you everything you need to
know all in one spot. And that part's
coming from Wowhead.
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And there's tier lists in here
you can check out too, but, basically,
it's live.
This was posted 4 days ago, so you
can get in there. We've also got from
Blizzard watch who are also really cool people.
Similar,
but different.
This one's titled everything you need to know
about Diablo 4 season 5 and its infernal
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hordes now live written by Elizabeth Harper. And
there's the iconic photo of all the types
of classes you can play standing around a
campfire. You've probably seen that one before. If
you're still playing the game, you probably have.
Diablo 4 season 5 is now live. Much
like, and much like season 4, this is
another season that focuses on buffing the base
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game with new gameplay that isn't season specific.
Loot overall got buffed last season, so this
season focuses on buffing uniques, which were feeling
pretty weak in season 4. We also have
more end game activities with the hellish new
infernal hordes event and fell council battle. But
whether you're eager for another new end game
event or not, there's a lot to look
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forward to next season which will be a
brief one lasting only until the expansion launches
on October 8th, but it will add a
lot of content for both seasonal and non
seasonal characters. Here's what we know about Diablo
4 season 5 and the short season 5
schedule. What are infernal hordes?
Mark marking their debut in season 5, these
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hellish new dungeons throw waves of enemies at
you and in between each wave you can
choose a new infernal offer, which adds a
new challenge to the next wave and more
rewards to go with it. Each wave is
a quick 90 seconds, and you will need
to survive them and kill all enemies.
As you progress, you'll earn burning ether, which
will unlock spoils of hell at the end
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of the run, rewarding gold, materials, or gear.
If you complete every wave, you'll go on
to battle the Fell Council, the same Zaccarim
priest who guarded Mephisto's soul soul stone in
Travancall,
a place we'll be returning to in vessel
of hatred. There are 5 fell priests to
fight, but the encounter will pit you against
3 of them at random, making each run
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a bit different. Infernal hordes have 3 tiers
of difficulty with tier 1 available in world
tier 3, tier 2 available in world tier
4, and tier 3 available in world tier
4 at level 100.
Now that might be a problem if they're,
like, if 100 is the top and that's
what it's been, I'm not sure that, you
know, if they cap it at 60 and
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you go into this, I'm not sure if
they're, like, making that balance or not. Not
I'm not talking about, you know, Blizzard Watch,
but,
if Blizzard itself is, like, trying to I
don't know how that's gonna work.
Like, world tier 4 at level 100, but
if you can't do level 100 and you're
stuck at 60, how is this gonna work?
I'm not sure, but, might give it a
try.
Rewards will scale with difficulty, so expect more
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gold and better gear as you progress, but
the hardest part of the infernal hordes may
actually be getting to them. The event requires
an infernal compass to start, and after getting
the first one through a quest, the rest
are rare drops from everyday game activities. Finding
more compasses and highly higher quality compasses to
even start this event can be a challenge.
Drops were scarce on the PTR, but have
reportedly been buffed. So we'll see how it
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looks now that the season has started. So
that's pretty much there. There's also other stuff
in here that's pretty neat to,
skim through.
Most season 5 features will also be on
the eternal realms. Not sure what that's supposed
to be. Season 5 will be the shortest
season yet.
What about season 6? Here's what they wrote.
We all know about season 6. All we
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know about season 6 is that it will
start on October 8 alongside vessel of hatred.
That feels like an odd time to launch
launch a season
as we'll probably all be jumping into the
new story with our favorite characters, though I
suppose it would be a good time as
any to roll a new spirit born alongside
the new season. However, the timing makes me
wonder if we'll get another lightweight season that's
primarily focused on overall gameplay changes in the
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expansion rather than offering a unique theme to
play with. With season 5 still on the
horizon, I don't expect any news about season
6 soon, but I'll update this post when
we have details. So that's from Blizzard watch.
And this one is kind of ominous to
me in in several ways.
So this is from Wowhead, and it is
titled Diablo 4 season 5 patch 1.5.0,
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now live for pre download. It wants 6.66
gigabytes
so your computers might cry at that one,
depending on how
useful your computer is with, you know, these
types of things. Like, I I can't play
Diablo 4 on my computer directly. I do
this through Xbox instead, so we'll just see
how that's gonna go. This one is written
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4 days ago by Garbanath,
and also, you know, this is from Myohed.
So here's a little bit about that. Diablo
4 patch 1.5.0
is now available to download. This patch includes
new and reworked unique and legendary items, class
updates, and new infernal hordes game mode, and
more. According to the Diablo 4 community manager
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Marcus Kretz, season 5 is on track to
release at 10 AM PDT, and Blizzard will
be on standby to address any issues should
they arise. And there is a screenshot from
x
from Marcus,
Kretz, and he says happy Diablo 4 season
of the infernal hordes launch day. Patch is
now available for download on all platforms. Season
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goes live in under an hour at 10
AM PDT. This was posted on August 6,
2024, by the way.
Team will be all eyes looking for any
issues post launch. Super psyched. See you in
there. There's a little bit more here. Patch
1.5.0
is bringing a lot of changes to the
game, and players appear to be in agreement
on one thing. Season 5 is shaping to
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be one of Diablo 4's best seasons yet.
We're looking forward to trying out the new
mini hellfire breaches in preparation of infernal hordes.
So and then they ask what class you're
playing, which, I don't think everybody's gonna jump
in on that one. And then we've also
got and this is kind of weird to
me, but I'm just going to put it
in here anyway. So this one is also
from Wowhead. This one is written by Jen
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Artross, which again is not me. And so
the topic of this,
I guess the title of this one is
beauty and sin sets return.
New strappy leather cosmetics for necromancer and sorcerer
in Diablo 4. So here's some stuff about
that. Now these are things you have to
purchase. It's in, Tejal's shop, and everything just
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about everything in Tejal's shop is,
something you have to pay for. Once
in a while, there's something freebie in there,
and that works out pretty good. But in
any case, this is, this is what we
have here.
So Tehal's shop got has gotten new Diablo
4 cosmetics in stock for season 5, and
2 in particular stand out. Rather strappy sorcerer
and necromancer
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sets. Take a look at the models below,
which I will try to describe to you.
It's possible that given the expansion of the
beauty in sin motif, barbarians and druids may
get their own version of this set in
the future. So here's for the necromancer. So
if you're playing a necromancer, whether you're playing
a male necromancer or a female necromancer,
the
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leathery looking outfits are
not exactly
completely equitable.
I'm just going to explain it a little
bit. So this is called the sinful bridal
chest armor.
It also comes with a lovely rose petal
animation tying it to the beauty and sin
collection. So if you're playing a male necromancer,
you have,
boots with some gold on the sides.
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You have pants that go all the way
up to your waist with a gold belt
around it. You have armbands
and a little bit like, you don't really
have a shirt, but you have some, like,
leather straps around your stomach area,
and your shoulders actually have more,
content right there than that. There is a
gold thing that covers the necromancer
male necromancer's face all the way up, and
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there's like a you can look at this,
I'll put it in the show notes, and
it sort of like spins them around so
you could see the whole effects of the
outfit. So he's got pants, he's got the
arm guards, He's got all of this stuff.
And then when you look at the one
for the female necromancer,
you have boots that look about the same
as the one that the the men are
using.
And then there's,
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one leg that has, like, a lot of
covering.
They both one of them has less covering
than the other. I guess the second one
has more covering than that, and there's some
straps around the,
leg of the female necromancer. They have arm
guards and the same type of things on
their shoulders
as the males do, but they also get
a corset thing. And instead of actual pants,
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they're wearing, like, underwear with a gold belt
around it. Are people gonna enjoy this? Are
people gonna not enjoy it? I really have
no idea. There's also some kind of mask
with gold around it and spikes coming out
of it and some kind of,
weapon that looks like, I don't know, like
a gold horse head and skeleton, kinda. I'm
not sure. And then for the sorcerers,
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same thing. So it's the sinner's presence chest
armor that comes with a lovely rose petal
animation, tying it to the beauty in sin
collection.
These people get more,
armor than the necromancers
did.
So there's a male and a female version
of this, and the male figure here who
is a sorcerer has,
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a sort of a little flared neck thing
that goes over their shoulders as well. They
are covered
with straps
across their,
torso,
and that leads to, like, a belt and
then another belt with, like, a little star
on it. And they have a full set
of pants
and boots and, like, knee pads and bracers.
Okay. And so there's a thing in here
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if you want to see how it looks
all the way around. And then with the
female,
sorcerer, it's similar. They have the same, I
think it's exactly the same, the shoulder pads
basically,
and the neck
guard. They do have the braces on their
arms, and they have, like, this
pentagon
coming from the thing around their neck. And
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there's, like, this very small leathery,
gold and black,
bodice kind of thing. There's the same belt
that the male
sorcerers have and they also get a cape
and boots
that go almost all the way up to
where the belt is. And so this this
one at least looks like they have clothing
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on, whereas the necromancer ones kind of don't,
especially the female ones.
So whatever. If that's your thing, go for
it. Be happy. You know, whatever. And
that's just how this goes. And then we've
got okay. There is some others. There's a
rogue set,
a transmog, first made available in October of
2023.
And they yeah. There's male and female for
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that too. So what we have here now
is
a male rogue who is wearing,
a necklace kind of thing that contains
connects to a strap around the top of
his chest. He's got full arm bands and
gloves. He's got pants. He's got the gold
belt. He's got boots all the way up
to his thigh. You could see it's been
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around. If you when you look at this,
you can turn around and see how those
things are holding up.
And then you've got the,
the other rogue, the female rogue, and
this one has the boots all the way
up to about where their knees are and
has some little strappy things
and, definitely has the armbands up to past
their elbow. They also have a, like,
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sort of
like, yeah, sort of like both of them
have, like, a right around their head, like
a little band with a gold thing on
it. And,
with the female rogues,
they're wearing, like, this weird bodice thing.
And don't know. Maybe people think that's cool.
Maybe they don't like it. Maybe they do
like it.
I'm not sure. But it just feels weird,
because it almost looks like, you know, in
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all of these that I've been looking at
here, the male characters are mostly covered,
whereas the female ones are not. So it's
up to you if you wanna play you
know, if you wanna go to Tehale shop
and buy any of these, that's fine. You
like it. You enjoy it. Go ahead. It's
it's, you know, no reason not to. I
have no idea what they're gonna cost, and
I don't know if they're still in there,
but they might be. Then we have the
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last thing here. So this one is, from
Wowhead posted by drapes, g r a p
e z or drapez. I'm not sure. So
this is about
free in game content and stuff like that.
So treasure goblin funko pop figure, that's one
of them, Anarius and Lilith Stein,
red Lilith statue and d two r vinyl
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box set on sale in the blizzard gear
stores. This is from 3 days ago.
So here's what we've got. Season 5 of
Diablo 4 has officially launched, and to celebrate
some items have gone on sale in the
Blizzard gear store, including one with an in
game reward attached. Just in time for the
season of infernal hordes, Blizzard together with funko
pop, has released a miniature gold treasure goblin.
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This 4.5
inches tall treasure goblin, who looks like he's
been straying too close to some of Erevis's
attacks,
comes with the weight of gold mount bundle.
This bundle
includes an ingot,
caras bullion
and sanctus and
cloth ulnas
tithe.
I have no idea what these things are.
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Purchased the funcopop figure of the funcopop figure,
sorry, comes with a digital code that can
be exchanged for the mount bundle through the
in game store.
This specific mount bundle is priced at 1500,
whatever the Diablo
currency is, or $15 USD.
So it's a pretty good deal if you
are into collecting mounts, mount armor, and mount
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trophies. And there's a picture of this in
here, and it is a treasure goblin. He's
completely in gold, which is kind of interesting.
Other than that, there's a lilith stein, which
is interesting. It looks like a beer stein,
like a big one. It's black. It's got
her image on it in various parts. So
this is,
on sale now as far as I can
tell. When was this posted? 3 days ago.
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So it's probably still in the shop. Yeah.
It is a 24 ounce limited edition stein
with images of Lilith and Denarius displayed on
the sides, a 12
inch tall red Lilith statue and a 3
by
LP vinyl deluxe box set of the Diablo
2 resurrected soundtrack,
which only,
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of which only 1500
were made. The Lilith and Inarius
24 ounce stein
is now a $100 instead of $200. It's
a black covered stein. It's nice if you
collect steins. If you don't, it's no big
deal. And they do still have the Lilith,
red Lilith statue, the 12 inch one that
used to be $120.
It's now $70. So if you dig that,
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you can get it from the store
as long as it lasts. And then at
the end, the deluxe vinyl box set for
Diablo 2 resurrected
is,
it's a 3 XLP on marbled vinyl. So
this is like,
if you have a turntable, this will help,
but otherwise, I'm not sure.
There's, some dice. There's,
like a little what is this here? A
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pentagram coin,
a collectible horadric
cube pin, and a miniature cinematic
scroll,
bonus die cut picture
disc.
So this seems like something I wouldn't do
because I just can't imagine
I just can't imagine being this into Diablo
2 resurrected
to get, like, 3
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marbled vinyl things. You know?
I yeah.
But other people will probably really like them.
It's just not for me, and that's okay.
And that's where I'm going to end the
show. I promise I will try to get
better at well, I'm better now from what
I was,
been from what I was when I got
sick. So there'll be more shows, and I'm
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I'm gonna just close out the show now.
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Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary. This
is episode
459
of Shattered Soulstone, your Diablo community podcast.
This episode is called preorder
Prava.
It is August 10, 2024,
and this is Jen. Now I'm gonna start
out. I know I skipped a lot of,
times I should have been doing an episode,
but the problem is I'm immune compromised, and
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I had a sinus infection that would not
go away. I got, in touch with a
doctor on the Teladoc thing,
and the medication they provided made me sicker.
I'm just finally getting over a lot of
that. So that's why you didn't have any
episodes for quite some time, because I was
literally too sick to do it. And, this
doesn't happen a lot, but sometimes it does,
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and then it takes me a while to
get better.
So there we are. That said, I have
gathered up a bunch of things that have
to do with Diablo 4 and other stuff.
And I'm gonna start off with an article
from gamespot.com.
And this one is titled Diablo 4 Vessel
of Hatred
May Have Players Deal less damage, and that
could be good. And this is written by
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Cameron Kosh or Koch
on July 22, 2024.
Yes. That was a while back, but I
think it's a good article. So I'm just
gonna like read through part of this for
you.
In addition
to the headline I just read, there is
a smaller one saying a level and number
squish could be coming in Diablo 4's first
expansion, which would be vessel of hatred. So
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here we go with Cameron,
Koch or something like that. The writing. Okay.
Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is coming in
October,
and players now have reason to believe there
will be major changes to the game's max
level, paragon system, and even the amount of
damage players deal come the release of the
game's first expansion.
Blizzard recently gave players an in-depth look at
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the expansion's new class, the spirit born, as
pointed out by wow head and discussed on
places like the Diablo 4 subreddit,
nestled among the new spirit born gameplay footage
from various media outlets and content creators is
evidence that the game's maximum level cap might
be going down from level 100 to just
60. It also indicates a major change in
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the way the game's paragon points are distributed.
There are a few clues as to why
this might be the case. Spirit borne gameplay
footage shows XP bars post level 50 without
the paragon point unlock nodes seen in the
current version of the game. Instead, it looks
like players may earn paragon points each, quote,
level, end quote, after max in a way
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that could be closer to how players earned
paragon points in Diablo 3. That being said,
it is unlikely players will be able to
earn quote infinite end quote paragon points like
in Diablo 3 as that would require blizzard
to completely rework Diablo four's existing paragon board
system.
Other evidence suggesting a new lower max level
is an in game tooltip that states the
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amount of armor players will need at level
60. In the current game, the tooltip references
the amount of armor needed at level 100.
The healing potion upgrades from the alchemist shown
in the spirit borne gameplay footage is another
indication with the new upgrades looking like they
will cap out closer to level 60 instead
of level 90 like in the current game.
Going hand in hand with the max level
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and paragon changes looks to be a damage
number squish. It's something many players have requested
given that damage values in Diablo 4 can
currently be in the 1,000,000 or even 1,000,000,000,
making them extremely hard to read, and reoccurring
boss requiring bosses to have the health in
the trillions in order to compensate.
Goes on from there. And at the bottom,
there are some imagery from the vessel of
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hatred, just screenshots of it. It's pretty neat.
Moving on, we have,
recently ish, well, actually I guess it was
July,
26. So not that long ago, there is
on the US blizzard forums for Diablo
Immortal and it's titled introducing your new Diablo
Immortal community manager. And this manager is going
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by the name of Ghost Signals,
and he is a community manager. So here's
what he wrote on there. Greetings,
adventurers. I am Ghost Signals, the newest addition
to the Diablo Immuta Immortal community team. I
am so excited to be joining the team
here at Blizzard, but even more so, I
am excited to be joining this community of
passionate Diablo Immortal fans. I am here because
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our amazing community team, which works across all
of the Diablo games, has been stretched pretty
thin. There's a lot of work that goes
into bolstering and building the communities of a
game, and with the addition of a Centimeters
dedicated only to Diablo Immortal, we can give
you all the attention that you
dedicated only to Diablo Immortal, we can give
you all the attention that you deserve. My
mission as your dedicated community manager is to
help this community thrive and grow and to
work with you all to build spaces like
this. I'm gonna of
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Diablo
of Diablo Immortal, help each other get better
at the game, and stay informed with a
little with all things happening in the game.
And it goes on to,
a lot. There's a lot more in here.
So that's like the first part. And then
he's got a section here that says a
little bit about myself. And he wrote, I've
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been working in community management for for about
10 years now, specifically on mobile and free
to play free to play GES. That's either
a typo or I don't know what this
word is, with passionate communities like yourself. I
believe in meaningful communications that keep players informed
and prepared. This means that I will always
do my best to answer questions and deliver
timely communications and responses, but that doesn't mean
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that I will be able to answer every
question that is posted and especially not when
they are specific to individual players slash accounts.
I, unfortunately, This
means that This means that the inflection slash
emotion behind those words might be left to
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interpretation,
but I ask that you try to and
read them as neutrally as possible.
I think player feedback is one of the
greatest, most powerful tools to improve a game,
and I will always welcome feedback, but it
needs to be done constructively.
Be passionate about what you have to say,
but let's keep it professional. If you don't
like something, you need to tell us why
so that we can address the root cause
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of the issues. Insults and rants tend to
derail your feedback, and I don't want that
to happen, he writes. However, player feedback is
not the only metric on which decisions are
made, and we should be honest about that.
Sometimes decisions that are unpopular
will be made for the sake of the
long term health of the game, and sometimes
player feedback
just doesn't fit in the future plans of
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the game.
And then there's more in here, and you
could follow him on Twitter,
slash
x. So he's on there. And again, his
name is ghost signals. There is stuff,
posted a while back. I think I may
have talked about this the last time I
did a show and it's the Blizzard gear
store, the new Diablo 4 Spirit Born merchandise
now available.
(06:47):
And so there's mostly t shirts and things
like that. There's a Spirit Born black t
shirt for $30 It has, it's green. I
don't know if it glows in the dark
or not, but it's got some of these
little images here of different kinds of things.
Some of them have wings and,
some of them look like a bug and
things like that.
Then you've got the vessel of hatred glow
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in the dark black t shirt also for
$30,
which has the iconic image of the
character you've seen as soon as, they started
hyping Vessel of Hatred. And And so it
looks like a person wearing, like, a jaguar
or something on their head and a bunch
of ruins all the way around it.
That's $30 There's a red, like, bright red
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Lilith red t shirt for $35
It has an image of
you've probably seen before of, like, Lilith statues
and things like that in game or out
of, because there are some, that are other
than that. And above it, like, above that,
you know, sort of, black and gray image
on a red red t shirt, it says
Lilith with the letters all kind of squished
together and some gold,
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inlay around her. So that's kinda neat. And
then there's the Mephisto black t shirt for
$35, which I bought because I think Mephisto's
incarnation
in Diablo 4 is awesome, and I just
thought it was so fun. So I have
one of those right now.
I'm not sure how long these things are
gonna stay in the blizzard store. There's a
link I'll put I'll put links up on
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everything when I'm done, talking to you about
all the stuff I was gonna tell you
about.
And you can, you know, find your way
to the
merchandise store when you're ready. This episode is
called pre order Prava because you can now.
It's the book of Prava. Now, if you're
new to this kind of stuff, there's a
lot of books
that have to do with it. There's book
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of Tyrael. There's book of Lorath. There's book
of there's so many of them. And some
of them are art books, and some of
them are not. But these types of books
focused on a particular character in the game
are usually focused on, like, what's their background?
What did they do? How are they doing
things? How did they get to where they
were? You know, that kind of stuff. So
this is from pure Diablo, and I'm going
(08:53):
to read you just a tiny bit because
it looks like they did a very short
interview. Well, I'll just start reading it to
you. But the picture of this thing is,
you know, you'll you could see it in
the show notes later,
because those would be up. It's got, like,
a palm with some fire behind it and,
arrows coming from either side. It's very gold.
It's got, like, what looks like a leather
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strap going from top to bottom of the
book and across, and the hand thing is
on top of it. There's a bunch of
runes. It says and gold and book of
Braava. So that's, you know, something. So here's
a little bit from this particular article from
purediablo.com.
In her recent interview with game director Brent
Gibson and associate narrative designer Alainie Rivera Colon,
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our friend Jen of Hatred, which is not
me, asked them about the lore for the
vessel of hatred. In the book of Lorath,
which was released last year along with diablo
four, more details were provided about lorath and
Norell's journeys from the end of diablo 4
main campaign to just prior to what was
presented in the vessel of hatred release date
trailer. However, there is a new book titled
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the book of Prava that will be released
in October
alongside the vessel of hatred expansion.
Alaini had this to say when she asked
when asked about whether the book of prava
will be directly linked to the vessel of
hatred. She said
this, Brahma is still tied to the player.
So I think regardless, you can probably read
in for some interesting points, but I don't
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know if there's going to be anything in
there that's necessarily spoiling anything.
I think if anything, it just gives it's
just giving players ammo to say I cannot
wait to play expansion and see what happens.
Brent also responded to the same question.
He said I'm a hyper lore nerd, and
I will bow to our writing staff. They
create way more lore than we'll ever expose
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in just the game, especially with spirit born.
It's a class that we want to see
have life after the expansion. Right? So we
developed the lore in a way that can
be used for more things like books and
novelettes and blog posts and merchandise and all
these other
things. The lore is integrated, you know. We
don't release a book without thinking about its
impact on the canon and how that's going
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to build out to everything else, and, obviously,
a lot of the material we're releasing right
now has to do with the time period
that we're dealing with right now. So definitely
check it out. If you're a lore person,
it will definitely be worth it and you
can pre order it now from Amazon. Let's
see how much that's gonna cost us. Okay.
So here we go. It's gonna be it's
a hardcover book like the rest of them
are and it is going to be released
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on October 1,
2024.
And what does it cost?
I do not know what it costs.
Let's see. You can preorder it now. Oh,
okay. It is hardcover
$29.95.
That's that's what it is. So I'll throw
that in the show notes as well. From
Wowhead,
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posted by populartopular
about Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder season 8 coming
August 23rd, which is not terribly far away.
But if you only like playing Diablo
2 resurrected,
there's some things in here about it. And
it's there's not a lot of
a lot of things, but there's some things.
So there's this, you know, creepy looking skull
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thing with ladder season 8 next to it.
And here's the blue notes for this one.
Sanctuary's denizens will be happy to set their
sights on you again, traveler. Countless demons have
met their timely demise at the end of
your weapon, and yet their onslaught
doesn't relent. Sanctuary needs a savior. Return on
August 23. I think these things are lining
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up right around there,
to wreak havoc among the burning hell's ranks
in ladder season 8. So here's some patch
notes.
This patch goes live on August 20. It
introduces a variety of bug fixes to various
systems and updates to player reporting. And then
it says general player reporting has been updated,
but but we don't know what was updated
from that. Gameplay
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fixed an issue where assassin's blade fury skill
would stop channeling when the monster initially targeted
died,
fixed an issue where assassin's dragon tail would
sometimes not properly inconsistently
cut consume charges.
Not sure exactly how that was worded, but
that's what it says. Fixed an issue where
dragon tail could cause desync and rubber banding
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issues in both online and offline play. Fixed
an issue where the act 3 mercenary would
target ravens with enchant.
Fixed an issue where joining a new game
as a terror zone rotation began could cause
a failure to join the game, fixed an
issue where skill could become unbound while weapon
swapping, fixed an issue where missiles could desync
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if a skill was aimed at a target
that was standing on top
of an item.
Oh my gosh.
Okay. User interface and user experience fixed an
issue where the tooltip and the character screen
for Amazon's lightning bolt displayed inaccurate data, fixed
an issue where the character list would resort
whenever the game was relaunched. That's a problem.
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There's a developer's note on that. This issue
has been fixed for PC only. We anticipate
a fix for consoles coming soon and we'll
keep you updated.
Also fixed an issue where the tooltip for
slow missiles didn't display accurate information for what
affects the next level of the skill would
do and fixed an issue where v wasn't
an arrow between the lightning and chain lightning
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skills in the skill tree when using controller.
So it'd be like if you've got an
Xbox or something. So season 8 is gonna
start. I think we have it up here.
Where did it go? August 20. So if
you're into that, that's when you start. There's
a whole bunch of things in here that
are left over, and there's like new things
added to the stash.
Once season 7 ends, all ladder characters will
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be transferred to their respective non ladder group.
All items in that character's group shared stash
will go into a new withdraw only set
of shared stash tabs denoted by a check
marked passed box. Any items from ladder season
6 stored in the withdraw only tabs will
be lost at this time. You will have
all of the ladder season 8 to withdraw
any items you would like to keep from
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season 7. When ladder season 8 ends, this
withdrawal only set of stash tabs
will be overridden with any items in the
ladder season 7 shared stash. Be sure to
get any items out before then, or they
will be lost forever. So that's what's going
on there soon ish. Over on Wowhead again,
we have an article titled
Diablo 4 season 5, season of the infernal
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hordes now live. Now I've been looking at
some of this stuff actually on Instagram when
I was too sick to play anything, you
know,
and,
it's an interesting
grouping of
demons and
monsters and and all kinds of stuff. So
this one was written by Blaney
Wow. So I'm gonna read you a little
(15:38):
bit about this. And there is a gameplay
trailer embedded in this that I'm not gonna
actually post here or, you know, run through
here because you probably will wanna see it
yourself instead of, like, hearing and wondering what
the visuals were. So here we go. The
5th season of Diablo 4, the season of
the infernal hordes, is now officially live with
sweeping changes to a number of legendary aspects,
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unique, and mythic items along with the new
mother's gift reputation
and infernal hordes endgame mode. There's plenty of
content to test, and then there's the video.
Our overview linked below covers everything coming with
the season along with links to our guides
on each piece of content and how best
to get yourself started in season 5. The
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seasonal journey will also be helping players once
again start to create certain builds for each
class with the aspects granted being specifically tailored
to archetypes. They were confirmed on twitter by
Adam Fletcher to be the barbarian gets weapon
swapping slash knockback, the druid gets cataclysm
companions.
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Necromancer gets bone spirit and prison and also
bone golem. Rogue gets flurry and dark shroud
and also mobility.
Sorcerer gets chain lightning and mana. These will
allow you to focus on leveling faster with
certain builds due to the power increases you'll
receive by completing the season journey. For example,
as a rogue you'll benefit from running the
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flurry leveling build or as a sorcerer the
chain lightning leveling build. With that being said,
leveling is now fast enough that you can
definitely choose to play what you find fun.
Leveling isn't the only new thing to this
season, though. We've updated our guides with the
freshest information, giving you everything you need to
know all in one spot. And that part's
coming from Wowhead.
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And there's tier lists in here
you can check out too, but, basically,
it's live.
This was posted 4 days ago, so you
can get in there. We've also got from
Blizzard watch who are also really cool people.
Similar,
but different.
This one's titled everything you need to know
about Diablo 4 season 5 and its infernal
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hordes now live written by Elizabeth Harper. And
there's the iconic photo of all the types
of classes you can play standing around a
campfire. You've probably seen that one before. If
you're still playing the game, you probably have.
Diablo 4 season 5 is now live. Much
like, and much like season 4, this is
another season that focuses on buffing the base
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game with new gameplay that isn't season specific.
Loot overall got buffed last season, so this
season focuses on buffing uniques, which were feeling
pretty weak in season 4. We also have
more end game activities with the hellish new
infernal hordes event and fell council battle. But
whether you're eager for another new end game
event or not, there's a lot to look
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forward to next season which will be a
brief one lasting only until the expansion launches
on October 8th, but it will add a
lot of content for both seasonal and non
seasonal characters. Here's what we know about Diablo
4 season 5 and the short season 5
schedule. What are infernal hordes?
Mark marking their debut in season 5, these
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hellish new dungeons throw waves of enemies at
you and in between each wave you can
choose a new infernal offer, which adds a
new challenge to the next wave and more
rewards to go with it. Each wave is
a quick 90 seconds, and you will need
to survive them and kill all enemies.
As you progress, you'll earn burning ether, which
will unlock spoils of hell at the end
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of the run, rewarding gold, materials, or gear.
If you complete every wave, you'll go on
to battle the Fell Council, the same Zaccarim
priest who guarded Mephisto's soul soul stone in
Travancall,
a place we'll be returning to in vessel
of hatred. There are 5 fell priests to
fight, but the encounter will pit you against
3 of them at random, making each run
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a bit different. Infernal hordes have 3 tiers
of difficulty with tier 1 available in world
tier 3, tier 2 available in world tier
4, and tier 3 available in world tier
4 at level 100.
Now that might be a problem if they're,
like, if 100 is the top and that's
what it's been, I'm not sure that, you
know, if they cap it at 60 and
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you go into this, I'm not sure if
they're, like, making that balance or not. Not
I'm not talking about, you know, Blizzard Watch,
but,
if Blizzard itself is, like, trying to I
don't know how that's gonna work.
Like, world tier 4 at level 100, but
if you can't do level 100 and you're
stuck at 60, how is this gonna work?
I'm not sure, but, might give it a
try.
Rewards will scale with difficulty, so expect more
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gold and better gear as you progress, but
the hardest part of the infernal hordes may
actually be getting to them. The event requires
an infernal compass to start, and after getting
the first one through a quest, the rest
are rare drops from everyday game activities. Finding
more compasses and highly higher quality compasses to
even start this event can be a challenge.
Drops were scarce on the PTR, but have
reportedly been buffed. So we'll see how it
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looks now that the season has started. So
that's pretty much there. There's also other stuff
in here that's pretty neat to,
skim through.
Most season 5 features will also be on
the eternal realms. Not sure what that's supposed
to be. Season 5 will be the shortest
season yet.
What about season 6? Here's what they wrote.
We all know about season 6. All we
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know about season 6 is that it will
start on October 8 alongside vessel of hatred.
That feels like an odd time to launch
launch a season
as we'll probably all be jumping into the
new story with our favorite characters, though I
suppose it would be a good time as
any to roll a new spirit born alongside
the new season. However, the timing makes me
wonder if we'll get another lightweight season that's
primarily focused on overall gameplay changes in the
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expansion rather than offering a unique theme to
play with. With season 5 still on the
horizon, I don't expect any news about season
6 soon, but I'll update this post when
we have details. So that's from Blizzard watch.
And this one is kind of ominous to
me in in several ways.
So this is from Wowhead, and it is
titled Diablo 4 season 5 patch 1.5.0,
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now live for pre download. It wants 6.66
gigabytes
so your computers might cry at that one,
depending on how
useful your computer is with, you know, these
types of things. Like, I I can't play
Diablo 4 on my computer directly. I do
this through Xbox instead, so we'll just see
how that's gonna go. This one is written
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4 days ago by Garbanath,
and also, you know, this is from Myohed.
So here's a little bit about that. Diablo
4 patch 1.5.0
is now available to download. This patch includes
new and reworked unique and legendary items, class
updates, and new infernal hordes game mode, and
more. According to the Diablo 4 community manager
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Marcus Kretz, season 5 is on track to
release at 10 AM PDT, and Blizzard will
be on standby to address any issues should
they arise. And there is a screenshot from
x
from Marcus,
Kretz, and he says happy Diablo 4 season
of the infernal hordes launch day. Patch is
now available for download on all platforms. Season
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goes live in under an hour at 10
AM PDT. This was posted on August 6,
2024, by the way.
Team will be all eyes looking for any
issues post launch. Super psyched. See you in
there. There's a little bit more here. Patch
1.5.0
is bringing a lot of changes to the
game, and players appear to be in agreement
on one thing. Season 5 is shaping to
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be one of Diablo 4's best seasons yet.
We're looking forward to trying out the new
mini hellfire breaches in preparation of infernal hordes.
So and then they ask what class you're
playing, which, I don't think everybody's gonna jump
in on that one. And then we've also
got and this is kind of weird to
me, but I'm just going to put it
in here anyway. So this one is also
from Wowhead. This one is written by Jen
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Artross, which again is not me. And so
the topic of this,
I guess the title of this one is
beauty and sin sets return.
New strappy leather cosmetics for necromancer and sorcerer
in Diablo 4. So here's some stuff about
that. Now these are things you have to
purchase. It's in, Tejal's shop, and everything just
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about everything in Tejal's shop is,
something you have to pay for. Once
in a while, there's something freebie in there,
and that works out pretty good. But in
any case, this is, this is what we
have here.
So Tehal's shop got has gotten new Diablo
4 cosmetics in stock for season 5, and
2 in particular stand out. Rather strappy sorcerer
and necromancer
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sets. Take a look at the models below,
which I will try to describe to you.
It's possible that given the expansion of the
beauty in sin motif, barbarians and druids may
get their own version of this set in
the future. So here's for the necromancer. So
if you're playing a necromancer, whether you're playing
a male necromancer or a female necromancer,
the
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leathery looking outfits are
not exactly
completely equitable.
I'm just going to explain it a little
bit. So this is called the sinful bridal
chest armor.
It also comes with a lovely rose petal
animation tying it to the beauty and sin
collection. So if you're playing a male necromancer,
you have,
boots with some gold on the sides.
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You have pants that go all the way
up to your waist with a gold belt
around it. You have armbands
and a little bit like, you don't really
have a shirt, but you have some, like,
leather straps around your stomach area,
and your shoulders actually have more,
content right there than that. There is a
gold thing that covers the necromancer
male necromancer's face all the way up, and
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there's like a you can look at this,
I'll put it in the show notes, and
it sort of like spins them around so
you could see the whole effects of the
outfit. So he's got pants, he's got the
arm guards, He's got all of this stuff.
And then when you look at the one
for the female necromancer,
you have boots that look about the same
as the one that the the men are
using.
And then there's,
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one leg that has, like, a lot of
covering.
They both one of them has less covering
than the other. I guess the second one
has more covering than that, and there's some
straps around the,
leg of the female necromancer. They have arm
guards and the same type of things on
their shoulders
as the males do, but they also get
a corset thing. And instead of actual pants,
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they're wearing, like, underwear with a gold belt
around it. Are people gonna enjoy this? Are
people gonna not enjoy it? I really have
no idea. There's also some kind of mask
with gold around it and spikes coming out
of it and some kind of,
weapon that looks like, I don't know, like
a gold horse head and skeleton, kinda. I'm
not sure. And then for the sorcerers,
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same thing. So it's the sinner's presence chest
armor that comes with a lovely rose petal
animation, tying it to the beauty in sin
collection.
These people get more,
armor than the necromancers
did.
So there's a male and a female version
of this, and the male figure here who
is a sorcerer has,
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a sort of a little flared neck thing
that goes over their shoulders as well. They
are covered
with straps
across their,
torso,
and that leads to, like, a belt and
then another belt with, like, a little star
on it. And they have a full set
of pants
and boots and, like, knee pads and bracers.
Okay. And so there's a thing in here
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if you want to see how it looks
all the way around. And then with the
female,
sorcerer, it's similar. They have the same, I
think it's exactly the same, the shoulder pads
basically,
and the neck
guard. They do have the braces on their
arms, and they have, like, this
pentagon
coming from the thing around their neck. And
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there's, like, this very small leathery,
gold and black,
bodice kind of thing. There's the same belt
that the male
sorcerers have and they also get a cape
and boots
that go almost all the way up to
where the belt is. And so this this
one at least looks like they have clothing
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on, whereas the necromancer ones kind of don't,
especially the female ones.
So whatever. If that's your thing, go for
it. Be happy. You know, whatever. And
that's just how this goes. And then we've
got okay. There is some others. There's a
rogue set,
a transmog, first made available in October of
2023.
And they yeah. There's male and female for
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that too. So what we have here now
is
a male rogue who is wearing,
a necklace kind of thing that contains
connects to a strap around the top of
his chest. He's got full arm bands and
gloves. He's got pants. He's got the gold
belt. He's got boots all the way up
to his thigh. You could see it's been
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around. If you when you look at this,
you can turn around and see how those
things are holding up.
And then you've got the,
the other rogue, the female rogue, and
this one has the boots all the way
up to about where their knees are and
has some little strappy things
and, definitely has the armbands up to past
their elbow. They also have a, like,
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sort of
like, yeah, sort of like both of them
have, like, a right around their head, like
a little band with a gold thing on
it. And,
with the female rogues,
they're wearing, like, this weird bodice thing.
And don't know. Maybe people think that's cool.
Maybe they don't like it. Maybe they do
like it.
I'm not sure. But it just feels weird,
because it almost looks like, you know, in
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all of these that I've been looking at
here, the male characters are mostly covered,
whereas the female ones are not. So it's
up to you if you wanna play you
know, if you wanna go to Tehale shop
and buy any of these, that's fine. You
like it. You enjoy it. Go ahead. It's
it's, you know, no reason not to. I
have no idea what they're gonna cost, and
I don't know if they're still in there,
but they might be. Then we have the
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last thing here. So this one is, from
Wowhead posted by drapes, g r a p
e z or drapez. I'm not sure. So
this is about
free in game content and stuff like that.
So treasure goblin funko pop figure, that's one
of them, Anarius and Lilith Stein,
red Lilith statue and d two r vinyl
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box set on sale in the blizzard gear
stores. This is from 3 days ago.
So here's what we've got. Season 5 of
Diablo 4 has officially launched, and to celebrate
some items have gone on sale in the
Blizzard gear store, including one with an in
game reward attached. Just in time for the
season of infernal hordes, Blizzard together with funko
pop, has released a miniature gold treasure goblin.
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This 4.5
inches tall treasure goblin, who looks like he's
been straying too close to some of Erevis's
attacks,
comes with the weight of gold mount bundle.
This bundle
includes an ingot,
caras bullion
and sanctus and
cloth ulnas
tithe.
I have no idea what these things are.
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Purchased the funcopop figure of the funcopop figure,
sorry, comes with a digital code that can
be exchanged for the mount bundle through the
in game store.
This specific mount bundle is priced at 1500,
whatever the Diablo
currency is, or $15 USD.
So it's a pretty good deal if you
are into collecting mounts, mount armor, and mount
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trophies. And there's a picture of this in
here, and it is a treasure goblin. He's
completely in gold, which is kind of interesting.
Other than that, there's a lilith stein, which
is interesting. It looks like a beer stein,
like a big one. It's black. It's got
her image on it in various parts. So
this is,
on sale now as far as I can
tell. When was this posted? 3 days ago.
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So it's probably still in the shop. Yeah.
It is a 24 ounce limited edition stein
with images of Lilith and Denarius displayed on
the sides, a 12
inch tall red Lilith statue and a 3
by
LP vinyl deluxe box set of the Diablo
2 resurrected soundtrack,
which only,
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of which only 1500
were made. The Lilith and Inarius
24 ounce stein
is now a $100 instead of $200. It's
a black covered stein. It's nice if you
collect steins. If you don't, it's no big
deal. And they do still have the Lilith,
red Lilith statue, the 12 inch one that
used to be $120.
It's now $70. So if you dig that,
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you can get it from the store
as long as it lasts. And then at
the end, the deluxe vinyl box set for
Diablo 2 resurrected
is,
it's a 3 XLP on marbled vinyl. So
this is like,
if you have a turntable, this will help,
but otherwise, I'm not sure.
There's, some dice. There's,
like a little what is this here? A
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pentagram coin,
a collectible horadric
cube pin, and a miniature cinematic
scroll,
bonus die cut picture
disc.
So this seems like something I wouldn't do
because I just can't imagine
I just can't imagine being this into Diablo
2 resurrected
to get, like, 3
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marbled vinyl things. You know?
I yeah.
But other people will probably really like them.
It's just not for me, and that's okay.
And that's where I'm going to end the
show. I promise I will try to get
better at well, I'm better now from what
I was,
been from what I was when I got
sick. So there'll be more shows, and I'm
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I'm gonna just close out the show now.
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