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| 1346s | season 4 is going to be the biggest up |
| 1349s | date we have ever made to Diablo I since |
| 1352s | it is launched our focus on season 4 is |
| 1355s | to really make a lot of Evergreen |
| 1357s | updates to the core systems of Diablo I |
| 1359s | in season 4 We're ramping the intensity |
| 1362s | across the seasonal and eternal Realms |
| 1364s | through a collection of new activities |
| 1366s | aimed at ensuring the momentto moment |
| 1368s | gameplay experience is as exciting and |
| 1370s | rewarding when how comes to |
| 1375s | Sanctuary season 4 item changes are some |
| 1378s | of the biggest changes we've made to |
| 1379s | Diablo 4 thus far we've never done |
| 1381s | anything like this we are fundamentally |
| 1383s | changing how you engage with items how |
| 1385s | you upgrade them and along the way |
| 1388s | solving a lot of things that we've seen |
| 1390s | continually from our community we agree |
| 1392s | with are pain points of our existing |
| 1394s | item system right now so in this new |
| 1396s | itemization system we're focusing on |
| 1398s | narrowing down the scope of the base |
| 1400s | affixes they're going to be a lot |
| 1402s | simpler they're going to be fewer in |
| 1403s | number so you can much more easily parse |
| 1405s | whether this item is useful for you and |
| 1407s | if it is then you can take it and |
| 1409s | further upgrade it and customize it to |
| 1410s | your own specific |
| 1414s | build tempering is a new system that |
| 1417s | allows you to really customize the gear |
| 1419s | that you find in order to temper you |
| 1422s | will need to go to the blacksmith and |
| 1423s | then choose the recipe that you wish to |
| 1425s | temper from and then a random AIX from |
| 1427s | that recipe will be attached onto your |
| 1430s | gear tempering recipes can be found from |
| 1432s | almost all of the content throughout |
| 1433s | sanctuaries so you will actually be |
| 1435s | looking for tempering recipes that go |
| 1437s | directly with what you're envisioning |
| 1439s | maybe you're thinking I'm going to play |
| 1441s | a frost sorceress there are also going |
| 1443s | to be recipes that are more generic and |
| 1445s | maybe are just generally good for the |
| 1446s | Sorceress but you'll be able to choose |
| 1448s | which one you think is going to be most |
| 1450s | powerful with the build you're making |
| 1452s | for your |
| 1455s | class we're making a pretty radical |
| 1458s | change to the Codex of power in this |
| 1460s | season based again on the feedback that |
| 1463s | has been coming from our players now |
| 1465s | every single legendary in the game will |
| 1467s | be entered into your codex of power so |
| 1469s | that you can continually imprint the |
| 1470s | best possible version of that legendary |
| 1473s | onto your gear so going forward there |
| 1475s | will no longer be carrying around all of |
| 1477s | these aspect crystals in your inventory |
| 1479s | it's all going to be in the Codex of |
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| 1485s | power so part of the final system that |
| 1488s | we have is going to be greater AIX is |
| 1491s | what's a greater AIX well we want to |
| 1492s | keep it compelling that there are some |
| 1494s | drops that are even better than the |
| 1496s | others when you're trying to get the |
| 1497s | perfect build at endgame because of this |
| 1501s | in World tier 4 and only in World tier 4 |
| 1503s | when an ancestral legendary item drops |
| 1506s | there's a chance the affixes on it can |
| 1508s | roll as greater affixes these will roll |
| 1511s | with bigger values that are normally |
| 1512s | available for that AIX greater affixes |
| 1515s | are fairly rare but they're not |
| 1518s | impossible to find while leveling up |
| 1520s | you're going to be able to find upgrades |
| 1521s | much more easily with this new |
| 1525s | system another part of itemization is |
| 1527s | going to be Masterwork now this is |
| 1529s | something really intended for that very |
| 1531s | highend game again World tier 4 this is |
| 1534s | where a player is going to take an item |
| 1537s | already has the affixes that they want |
| 1538s | on it but now they go through a process |
| 1541s | of upgrading those axes getting even |
| 1543s | higher values on them masterworking |
| 1545s | really starts at level 100 once you've |
| 1548s | already completed your build and found |
| 1549s | some of the best items you're going to |
| 1551s | be able to test your build against the |
| 1553s | powerful enemies of the pit |
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| 1559s | the pit is a new endgame system that has |
| 1561s | been added in this season that is going |
| 1564s | to challenge players that feel that they |
| 1566s | have largely maximize their build by |
| 1568s | pushing into more difficult tiers of the |
| 1571s | pit you're going to be able to unlock |
| 1573s | rarer crafting materials to Masterwork |
| 1575s | your gear even further you're going to |
| 1577s | have to play some of the hardest content |
| 1579s | in the game but once you do if you're |
| 1582s | successful you can go and make those |
| 1584s | aices even stronger |
| 1590s | in season 4 We're ramping the intensity |
| 1593s | of the hell Tides through the inclusion |
| 1594s | of a variety of new activities the first |
| 1597s | of which is a doubling down and Rise of |
| 1599s | the cultists presence throughout the |
| 1601s | tide you're going to be running through |
| 1603s | the hell tide seeing the cultist just |
| 1605s | Conjuring up swarms and swarms of demons |
| 1607s | adding to that sense of mannequin chaos |
| 1610s | that you know they're pretty well known |
| 1611s | for the other archetype that we're |
| 1613s | adding is the presence of the doomsayers |
| 1616s | who were unfortunate enough to be caught |
| 1618s | out in the time and basically just lost |
| 1620s | their minds to all of the Mania going on |
| 1623s | around |
| 1625s | them and lastly rounding out the new |
| 1627s | activities are just the inclusion of the |
| 1629s | iron wolves they're finally joining the |
| 1631s | fight they could no longer stand in the |
| 1633s | sidelines seeing the hell tides and |
| 1635s | hell's forces intensify their assault on |
| 1638s | sanctuary as season 4 players engage and |
| 1642s | progress through the call The Wolves |
| 1643s | seasonal activity they'll earn honor |
| 1646s | with the iron wolves unlocking access to |
| 1648s | vast assortment of rewards to accompany |
| 1651s | and Empower your season 4 |
| 1654s | Journeys in the updated heal TI for |
| 1657s | players who are able to stay alive long |
| 1659s | enough they'll be paid a visit by the |
| 1660s | hellborn former Heroes of sanctuary who |
| 1663s | have aligned with the forces of Hell to |
| 1666s | attack the Allies they once aligned with |
| 1668s | players who are able to take down the |
| 1670s | hellborne will be acquiring the |
| 1672s | materials they need to engage with the |
| 1674s | new premier hell tight activity the |
| 1677s | accursed rituals located in the hell |
| 1679s | tide these accursed rituals are pretty |
| 1682s | much just a botched rituals from the |
| 1684s | cultist that players will be |
| 1686s | kickstarting for themselves drawing the |
| 1688s | attention of all the nearby htide |
| 1690s | monsters in this kind of allout |
| 1692s | battle one of my favorite themes for |
| 1695s | these ambushes is the hell worm it's |
| 1697s | literally a giant hell slug Beast that |
| 1700s | emerges from the ground and spews out a |
| 1702s | whole bunch of mobs at you if you're |
| 1704s | able to survive that you'll be paid a |
| 1706s | visit from the blood Maiden our brand |
| 1708s | new new hell tide mini boss and one of |
| 1710s | the ultimate challenges in the new |
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| 1713s | experience so I think I'm actually most |
| 1716s | excited about this season because of |
| 1717s | what you're able to do with your old |
| 1720s | characters how they can integrate with |
| 1722s | this new item game and take them to new |
| 1725s | levels of Power with this system I think |
| 1727s | that the best part of this update is |
| 1728s | that you're going to be really empowered |
| 1730s | to build the character that you want to |
| 1732s | play you're going to be able to pick |
| 1733s | custom affixes and enhance your |
| 1735s | character in a lot of new and |
| 1737s | interesting ways |
| 1740s | [Music] |
| 1745s | happy Friday Diablo Community welcome to |
| 1748s | another Diablo 4 campfire chat uh I am |
| 1751s | Adam Fletcher I'm joined here by very |
| 1753s | familiar face Mr Adam Jackson hello |
| 1755s | hello the Adams have invaded we taken |
| 1757s | over we have taken over we actually are |
| 1759s | joined by one additional person and this |
| 1761s | person is uh tuning in patching in I I |
| 1766s | don't know what phoning in I don't know |
| 1767s | from from Albany blizzard Albany and |
| 1770s | that's Mr Dan tangu Dan would you like |
| 1772s | to introduce |
| 1774s | yourself yeah sure thing hi I'm Dan |
| 1777s | tangue and I'm uh one of the lead |
| 1778s | Seasons designers for Diablo I and yeah |
| 1781s | we've got a lot of exciting stuff to |
| 1782s | share with you awesome great to hear |
| 1785s | from Dan Dan is kind of like melting in |
| 1788s | Albany I believe it's very very warm up |
| 1791s | there it's actually warmer there than |
| 1793s | California which is kind of crazy uh but |
| 1796s | uh look at this Adam and and Adam oo I |
| 1800s | love it did Jo yeah no more Joe's where |
| 1803s | where's Joe pipor not here he's actually |
| 1806s | on vacation so that's the that's the |
| 1808s | reason why he's not here but we have a |
| 1810s | lot to talk about today we are actually |
| 1811s | going to be talking about uh season 5 in |
| 1814s | the PTR um and we do want to like you |
| 1817s | know there's been a lot going on with |
| 1818s | Diablo 4 over the last couple months |
| 1820s | obviously season 4 has launched uh we |
| 1822s | had our mid-season update uh last week |
| 1824s | we we introduced pets uh which is really |
| 1828s | cool |
| 1829s | just no one expected it but we we did |
| 1831s | introduce pets within season 4 um and at |
| 1833s | the same time we also had our release |
| 1836s | date announcement for vessel of hatred |
| 1838s | which is October 8th so lots and lots |
| 1841s | and lots of cool stuff that's going on |
| 1843s | with Diablo 4 and we have more to share |
| 1845s | today but uh of course with PTR we do |
| 1848s | need to talk like a little bit of the |
| 1850s | housekeeping stuff to make sure that |
| 1852s | players are aware of it and and when |
| 1854s | it's going to start um currently uh we |
| 1857s | have uh season 5 PTR actually starting |
| 1860s | next Tuesday and that is on the 25th it |
| 1862s | will run for one week similar to the |
| 1864s | season 4 PTR it is PC battl net only |
| 1867s | again uh it is just easier for us to be |
| 1870s | able to get builds up and get things out |
| 1871s | and get feedback in really quickly uh |
| 1874s | when we have it on uh PC battl net so uh |
| 1877s | that will be going live next Tuesday |
| 1879s | everything that we're talking about |
| 1881s | today uh will be in a blog that will go |
| 1883s | live after the stream as well as uh |
| 1886s | patch notes will be going live live |
| 1888s | after the stream and they're pretty |
| 1890s | pretty beefy in in themselves or |
| 1893s | in I don't know it's Friday you guys |
| 1896s | it's so we we haven't done a Friday |
| 1898s | stream in I don't know it's been a while |
| 1901s | it's been a a long while uh for for |
| 1904s | feedback though uh we will be opening up |
| 1906s | our PTR Forums on uh uh for players to |
| 1908s | actually be able to submit feedback so |
| 1911s | uh the Diablo 4 forums will have a |
| 1912s | special section for PTR and then |
| 1914s | separately uh if you do want to leave |
| 1917s | feedback on other Avenue such as like |
| 1919s | Reddit or um the community Sanctuary |
| 1921s | Discord places like that we most |
| 1923s | definitely end up like coming through |
| 1925s | all the different various uh uh ways of |
| 1928s | players being able to provide feedback |
| 1930s | uh specifically from that end um for |
| 1932s | this PTR we will note that um this one |
| 1935s | will be a little different than season 4 |
| 1937s | in regards to how you can start off |
| 1939s | characters there will still be character |
| 1940s | boosts like what we had with uh the |
| 1942s | season 4 PTR I believe it's actually |
| 1944s | moved to a different city uh I can't |
| 1948s | call I I think we had it in kovos Shad |
| 1950s | before and I believe it's in a different |
| 1952s | city and I don't |
| 1955s | recall which city it is it's in the blog |
| 1958s | though um but uh all that information |
| 1961s | will be there after the stream |
| 1963s | separately uh we did incorporate a |
| 1966s | character copy feature but we initiated |
| 1969s | this character copy already no one knows |
| 1971s | this but as of yesterday characters were |
| 1974s | copied from your accounts over to PTR so |
| 1977s | um it gives gives you a little bit of |
| 1979s | variety of being able to take over some |
| 1980s | of those characters that you've already |
| 1981s | built out uh or you know if you want to |
| 1985s | you can still use the character boost I |
| 1987s | will note uh we do want players to be |
| 1990s | experiencing in in like a variety of |
| 1992s | ways like whether using your other Char |
| 1994s | your your current characters that we're |
| 1995s | copying over or if you're using some of |
| 1997s | the character boosts we do recommend um |
| 1999s | or if you want to level up level one |
| 2001s | like that's that's a another option as |
| 2004s | well it allows us to get feedback from |
| 2005s | all different aspects so we do recommend |
| 2008s | uh you know trying it out in different |
| 2010s | ways and providing feedback of like how |
| 2012s | things feel how things uh flow within um |
| 2015s | the PTR itself so that is all kind of |
| 2019s | like the general housekeeping notes that |
| 2020s | we do have oh and I will say that I |
| 2022s | believe we actually did we did correct |
| 2024s | that codex of power reset thing as well |
| 2027s | so yeah I remember that was that was uh |
| 2030s | uh plaguing some people uh last season |
| 2033s | we did correct that so it won't reset I |
| 2035s | believe every single time you end up |
| 2036s | like creating a new character boosting a |
| 2039s | and then separately on the fors we will |
| 2041s | have a known issues list you know it's |
| 2044s | PTR it's anly build uh so we want to |
| 2047s | make sure that people are aware of that |
| 2048s | and with PTR um you know when we take in |
| 2052s | feedback it's great for for players to |
| 2054s | be able to like provide all various |
| 2055s | forms of feedback I will say by the time |
| 2058s | uh season 5 launches uh we will try our |
| 2061s | best to get as much of that feedback in |
| 2063s | uh if it's something that's like a |
| 2065s | massive like oh like a huge overhaul or |
| 2068s | something like that I wouldn't expect it |
| 2070s | in season 5 but it is good to hear that |
| 2072s | feedback because it might be something |
| 2073s | that we end up incorporating uh maybe in |
| 2076s | the future uh for like a future season |
| 2078s | from that end um yeah it's very useful |
| 2081s | so toally helps us drive future |
| 2082s | decisions and even we did a lot of |
| 2084s | reaction to PTR feedback in season 4 if |
| 2087s | I remember right we did like a whole lot |
| 2088s | on our team at least and I expect the |
| 2090s | same for season five so exactly send it |
| 2092s | in it's very useful and then one last |
| 2095s | thing I do want to note is because |
| 2096s | players have probably seen when season 4 |
| 2098s | is ending which is currently in early |
| 2101s | August uh you can see that kind of like |
| 2103s | on on your uh character select screen |
| 2105s | when you're you're jumping into the game |
| 2107s | um I will note that season 5 is a little |
| 2110s | bit shorter of a season than what we've |
| 2112s | had beforehand uh season 5 itself uh |
| 2115s | will run until uh that October 8th date |
| 2118s | with vessel of hatred because vessel of |
| 2120s | hatred is actually the start of season |
| 2121s | six so uh we we did want to at least |
| 2124s | clarify make sure because we've heard a |
| 2126s | lot of those questions of like hey is |
| 2128s | like |
| 2129s | is is vessel of haer hitting the middle |
| 2130s | of season 5 things like that so we did |
| 2132s | want to note that from that end but |
| 2135s | enough of the housekeeping notes I know |
| 2137s | a lot of players want to hear about uh |
| 2139s | season five in itself and so Mr Dan |
| 2142s | tangue from the sweltering uh |
| 2147s | city of Albany will be uh walking us |
| 2151s | through uh season |
| 2153s | five yeah absolutely so yeah let's dive |
| 2157s | into the new features on PTR for season |
| 2159s | 5 um just to give you a little bit of |
| 2162s | context you know we did some early |
| 2164s | brainstorming for season 5 and we knew |
| 2166s | that you know we needed to build out the |
| 2168s | endgame uh so endgame you know we've |
| 2170s | heard y'all that endgame is very |
| 2172s | important and season for we added the |
| 2175s | pit into the endgame and some people |
| 2176s | have been playing hell Tides into the |
| 2177s | endgame but we still want to expand the |
| 2179s | end game a bit more right so if it's an |
| 2182s | in-game activity we definitely need |
| 2184s | something that's rewarding and very |
| 2187s | replayable we also wanted to make |
| 2189s | something with a lot of monsters I mean |
| 2190s | Monster density and just entering that |
| 2193s | that feeling of flow State's really |
| 2195s | important for |
| 2196s | players uh we needed something that had |
| 2198s | stakes and we wanted players to push |
| 2200s | their luck and finally we really wanted |
| 2203s | to return to hell you know previous |
| 2205s | Diablo games let you return to Hell |
| 2207s | after you defeat the big boss but Diablo |
| 2210s | 4 hadn't done that yet and so with all |
| 2213s | those goals in mind let me introduce you |
| 2216s | to the infernal hordes |
| 2218s | now uh let me give you a quick summary |
| 2220s | of what the infernal hordes is uh it's a |
| 2223s | wave based uh gameplay mode with |
| 2226s | Survivor likee choices in between the |
| 2228s | waves and it'll culminate with an all |
| 2230s | new boss encounter and then the rewards |
| 2233s | build on top of itemization 2.0 that |
| 2235s | came in season |
| 2237s | 4 so now how do you go about confronting |
| 2240s | the internal hordes how do you get back |
| 2241s | to Hell uh I think we can queue up some |
| 2244s | footage and then I'll I'll talk you |
| 2245s | through some of the ways you get back to |
| 2247s | hell |
| 2249s | all right first off you're going to |
| 2250s | unlock you know the activity for hell uh |
| 2254s | with a Brisk Eternal Quest line starting |
| 2255s | at World tier 3 in zarban Zet that's |
| 2258s | where you need to go in the PTR now you |
| 2261s | need a new type of key called a compass |
| 2263s | which you can see down in the inventory |
| 2265s | below here and like nightmare dungeons |
| 2267s | the compasses all have a starting |
| 2269s | monster difficulty and a number of |
| 2271s | revives and there are eight levels of |
| 2273s | difficulty with escalating Challenge and |
| 2275s | rewards as you can see it's a very |
| 2277s | nightmare dungeon like flow here and |
| 2280s | then compasses can be upgraded to higher |
| 2282s | tiers with all new consumables called |
| 2284s | Abyssal Scrolls so you'll get a chance |
| 2286s | to play with all these new features when |
| 2288s | you're in the |
| 2290s | PTR but let's let's really talk about |
| 2293s | the the gameplay itself and I think |
| 2294s | we've got some footage of the wave based |
| 2296s | play that I we could show off here um |
| 2300s | first off G to have a lot of monsters |
| 2302s | now you have one monster here this is a |
| 2305s | start of wave one and so you defeat this |
| 2308s | ather fiend and it's going to drop |
| 2310s | something called burning Aether which is |
| 2311s | a new currency now this new currency is |
| 2315s | specific to hell and you use it to |
| 2317s | unlock The Spoils of Hell at the end of |
| 2319s | a |
| 2320s | run and at the end of each wave uh |
| 2323s | there's going to be what's called The |
| 2324s | Infernal offer so let's get through this |
| 2326s | wave and we'll take a look at the |
| 2327s | infernal offer now you see these hands |
| 2330s | reaching out from Hell itself and |
| 2332s | they're tempting you with a choice |
| 2334s | you're going to choose the form of your |
| 2335s | Destructor you're going to pick a boon |
| 2337s | in a bane that impacts the rest of your |
| 2341s | run and so now you've chosen a a boon in |
| 2344s | a Bane and yeah that's going to modify |
| 2347s | the gameplay that comes up next and so |
| 2350s | here you're jumping into one of the new |
| 2351s | activities that also unlocks Aether in |
| 2353s | this and this is a soul Spire it's |
| 2356s | pretty similar to a hell Spire that |
| 2357s | you'd see in Hell tide and you have to |
| 2360s | kill a number of enemies within that |
| 2362s | ring in order to be able to earn an |
| 2363s | ather and you can upgrade Soul spires |
| 2366s | from The Infernal office as well if you |
| 2368s | like and then finally what you need to |
| 2371s | do is complete the number of waves in |
| 2373s | order to be able to confront the boss |
| 2375s | and so you see in this particular run uh |
| 2378s | you're at five of five waves so you are |
| 2381s | just about ready once you defeat this |
| 2383s | wave to go confront uh the new bosses |
| 2386s | for the infernal |
| 2387s | hordes so we'll finish collecting our |
| 2390s | Aether here uh find our last number of |
| 2393s | enemies and I think we're good I think |
| 2396s | we're ready to go so let's take a look |
| 2399s | at our new bosses I think we've got some |
| 2401s | cool art to share here so these are the |
| 2406s | Fel Council they're going to be some |
| 2407s | familiar faces for Diablo I players they |
| 2410s | are resurrected versions of the council |
| 2412s | members from Diablo I now for those of |
| 2414s | you who didn't play Diablo I uh the |
| 2417s | council members were former High Priests |
| 2420s | of the zacharo room and they had uh |
| 2424s | promised to basically take care of Mesto |
| 2427s | after he'd been trapped in the Soul |
| 2428s | Stone and he'd been hidden down and |
| 2431s | caressed and Trinkle and uh of course as |
| 2435s | it happens Mesto corrupted them both in |
| 2438s | mind first and then their bodies and |
| 2440s | they became demons who are just zealous |
| 2443s | and serve him without question and so uh |
| 2447s | we thought it was going to be really |
| 2448s | cool to be able to resurrect them and |
| 2450s | bring them back uh for Diablo I and they |
| 2453s | fit great in Hell uh we had to tweak |
| 2455s | their power sets a little bit and to fit |
| 2457s | the D4 combat system so we gave them new |
| 2460s | titles and new looks to really reflect |
| 2462s | their their combat |
| 2464s | Specialties say it's it's incredibly |
| 2467s | awesome to see uh these guys come back |
| 2470s | you know it's giving very nostalgic uh |
| 2473s | Vibes of of doing a bunch of you know |
| 2475s | Durance of hate runs for for Miss Visto |
| 2478s | and doing meth runs and everything like |
| 2480s | that so yeah it's really awesome to see |
| 2481s | him back in uh season |
| 2484s | five yeah I agree uh Diablo I is |
| 2487s | certainly near dear to our hearts here |
| 2488s | out in New York and uh yeah we're really |
| 2492s | glad to have them back and we hope to |
| 2493s | see uh hopefully more returning new |
| 2496s | faces in the future too so let's take a |
| 2499s | look at that boss encounter now so uh I |
| 2502s | showed you a number of um members of the |
| 2505s | Fel Council here we've actually built |
| 2508s | five of them in total uh but you're only |
| 2510s | going to fight three at a time now we |
| 2513s | keep two in the hopper basically and we |
| 2514s | do that because we want to have a whole |
| 2516s | bunch of replays so associated with this |
| 2518s | boss fight and because we're only using |
| 2520s | three of the five there's actually 10 |
| 2522s | variations of this boss fight you can |
| 2524s | fight uh randomly as you do your |
| 2527s | infernal run and so we're going to uh |
| 2530s | basically kill them off and uh once you |
| 2534s | defeat one the fight will actually |
| 2536s | escalate uh actually probably escalates |
| 2538s | even if you just take down a certain |
| 2540s | amount of Health if I remember correctly |
| 2543s | and uh it escalates uh basically their |
| 2545s | attacks become more powerful and then |
| 2548s | they start really getting even more |
| 2549s | powerful uh kind of room clearing |
| 2551s | attacks towards the end but we've |
| 2553s | defeated them here and this is the |
| 2556s | reward moment I actually wanted to talk |
| 2557s | through with you because this is |
| 2559s | something that really ties into |
| 2560s | itemization 2.0 you've got several |
| 2563s | chests here and you've got a choice of |
| 2566s | the rewards you get at the end of your |
| 2569s | infernal run you can choose from a chest |
| 2572s | that contains all new legendaries and |
| 2573s | uniques you can choose from a chest that |
| 2576s | contains all sorts of crafting materials |
| 2578s | including masterworking materials so you |
| 2580s | don't need to go to the pit anym |
| 2582s | exclusively to get masterworking |
| 2584s | materials uh you've got a chest that |
| 2587s | allows you just to get a whole bunch of |
| 2588s | gold I know people out there are really |
| 2590s | asking for gold and this is going to be |
| 2591s | a good source of it and finally even |
| 2594s | though it wasn't shown here you have a |
| 2596s | chest that guarantees a single item with |
| 2600s | a greater ax on it and so we thought |
| 2603s | we'd want to try this out and see how |
| 2605s | people respond to it and we thought it |
| 2607s | would be pretty exciting you know |
| 2608s | certainly in season 4 I'm really trying |
| 2611s | to get some more greater aexes so I'd |
| 2613s | love to have this uh in season five um |
| 2617s | so yeah let's take a closer look at some |
| 2619s | of the uniques you can FM from The |
| 2621s | Infernal horde since we're talking about |
| 2622s | rewards already uh so we're going to |
| 2625s | queue up some footage |
| 2629s | here so first up we've got the Basilisk |
| 2633s | and so this is going to be a new unique |
| 2635s | staff for Druids and so when you hit an |
| 2637s | enem with a earth skill it'll petrify |
| 2639s | them and deal physical damage so turning |
| 2641s | the monsters to Stone always cool but |
| 2644s | it's also cool that you can CC your |
| 2646s | Target and boost your initial attack |
| 2648s | here so this one's pretty exciting for |
| 2650s | your Dro players out there all right |
| 2653s | next up we've got the third blade now |
| 2656s | this is a unique sword for |
| 2658s | barbarians this one makes your weapon |
| 2661s | Mastery skills uh be treated as core |
| 2664s | skills that cost Fury even though they |
| 2666s | deal a little reduced image this one's |
| 2668s | pretty exciting because now you can |
| 2670s | start making all sorts of new builds |
| 2672s | that you've never seen before so we're |
| 2674s | really interested to see what the |
| 2676s | community comes up with here all right |
| 2678s | next up we've got the mor Crux now the |
| 2681s | mor Crux is a new unique dagger for |
| 2683s | necros so when you consume a corpse |
| 2686s | there's a chance that you'll create a |
| 2687s | skeletal simulacro that seeks out |
| 2690s | enemies and when it dies it explodes so |
| 2693s | essentially you're Mak making a Skelly |
| 2696s | bomb when you consume corpses and so |
| 2698s | that's just going to seek out targets |
| 2700s | and explode I think that'd be pretty |
| 2702s | handy for my necro this season so I'm |
| 2705s | looking forward to that one too next up |
| 2708s | we have the umber Crux now the umber |
| 2711s | Crux is a new unique dagger for Rogues |
| 2714s | so if you use a center fuge skill you'll |
| 2716s | create a totem and if you hit that totem |
| 2719s | with an attack it replicates any of the |
| 2721s | damage it takes to all nearby enemies |
| 2724s | and so it's a great way for essentially |
| 2727s | replic ating and doubling down on the |
| 2729s | damage that you're dealing in a |
| 2731s | particular |
| 2732s | area all right next up we've got the Vox |
| 2735s | omnium now the Vox omnium is a new |
| 2738s | unique staff for sorcs and so when you |
| 2740s | cast a core skill it's going to |
| 2743s | attack cast an additional two basic |
| 2746s | projectiles based on the previous |
| 2748s | elements used and so this allows you to |
| 2751s | really start comboing your core and |
| 2753s | basic skills together and if you decide |
| 2755s | to have different elements a associated |
| 2758s | with those core and basic skills now you |
| 2760s | can start casting fire and lightning and |
| 2765s | cold all at the same time so we're |
| 2767s | pretty excited about this one too and |
| 2770s | the final one we're going to share out |
| 2771s | here is actually a new set of boots |
| 2773s | that's available for all classes uh and |
| 2776s | these are uh called rakos wake and so |
| 2779s | whenever you use an ability with a cool |
| 2781s | down you'll trigger tongue twister |
| 2784s | trigger an explosion dealing fire damage |
| 2787s | and so really it's pretty |
| 2789s | straightforward you're going to bathe |
| 2790s | your enemies in Flames whenever you use |
| 2791s | a cool down skill so maybe I'm going to |
| 2794s | dust off my uh Whirlwind Barb here and |
| 2796s | slap them on and see how it |
| 2798s | does um so yeah these are some of the |
| 2801s | uniques and legendaries that are going |
| 2803s | in uh to The Infernal hordes uh I think |
| 2807s | there are 10 uniques overall and over 20 |
| 2811s | legendaries that you can farm from The |
| 2813s | Infernal hordes so uh there's going to |
| 2816s | be a lot to chase down in there that's |
| 2818s | awesome thank you Dan for like sharing |
| 2821s | going through all that stuff I know with |
| 2823s | with players jumping in on PTR |
| 2825s | especially for uh and trying out |
| 2827s | infernal hordes and everything what's |
| 2829s | kind of like the the top things that you |
| 2831s | really want them to like kind of hone in |
| 2833s | on give feedback on check on uh for |
| 2836s | PTR yeah absolutely we we definitely |
| 2839s | need feedback on the PTR it's it's super |
| 2842s | critical to ensuring that you know the |
| 2844s | infernal hordes and all the rewards feel |
| 2846s | great for when the season launches so uh |
| 2849s | here are some of the topics that you |
| 2851s | know we could use some help on uh first |
| 2853s | off you know just how is the infernal |
| 2855s | hordes gameplay how do the boons and |
| 2857s | bines feel you know which ones do you |
| 2859s | like the most or the least and these are |
| 2861s | types of things that'll help us |
| 2862s | fine-tune that experience similarly you |
| 2865s | know how is it acquiring compasses do |
| 2867s | you have too much too few how do you |
| 2869s | feel about upgrading them you know that |
| 2871s | could help us really dial in kind of the |
| 2874s | access to the infernal hordes uh we're |
| 2876s | also interested in learning how you feel |
| 2878s | about the difficulty and the gameplay |
| 2880s | length of the different tiers like I |
| 2882s | said at the top we've got eight |
| 2884s | different tiers of difficulty and so you |
| 2887s | know we have the ability to dial those |
| 2888s | in a little bit we want to make sure |
| 2890s | that players can really replay this over |
| 2892s | and over again as they push into the |
| 2894s | endgame much like the pit and then |
| 2897s | finally of course how are the rewards |
| 2899s | you know which do you like the most or |
| 2900s | the least you know we can certainly make |
| 2902s | tweaks on the rewards to make sure |
| 2904s | they're as enticing as possible awesome |
| 2907s | yeah and I know with uh infernal hordes |
| 2909s | this is kind of a this is another |
| 2911s | alternative because as you mentioned it |
| 2913s | you can jump into it starting with World |
| 2914s | tier 3 so if you're actually leveling a |
| 2916s | new character you can actually jump into |
| 2918s | infernal hordes and you're able to earn |
| 2920s | like experience so in here so you |
| 2922s | actually have the opportunity of like |
| 2924s | jumping into hell Tides if you want to |
| 2926s | you can jump into infernal hes uh when |
| 2928s | you get to you know 85 or something like |
| 2930s | that you can jump into pits uh so |
| 2931s | there's there's now like more uh or |
| 2934s | nightmare dungeons obviously when you're |
| 2935s | update you're upgr your glyphs and |
| 2937s | everything so there's a lot of different |
| 2939s | variety now for being able to kind of uh |
| 2941s | level up a character uh especially as |
| 2943s | you're going to that mid to late game uh |
| 2946s | um phase of your your character's |
| 2948s | Journey you could say yeah something |
| 2950s | else to bring up for the rewards for The |
| 2951s | Inferno horde as well that I want to |
| 2953s | clarify so uh Dan mentioned about you |
| 2956s | know there's going to be uniques that |
| 2957s | are there that you can Target farming |
| 2958s | The Infernal hordes there's actually |
| 2960s | going to be a group of uniques and |
| 2961s | legendaries that you're able to Target |
| 2963s | Farm in that piece of content in the |
| 2965s | infernal hordes so um you're also kind |
| 2968s | of similar how the normal game works you |
| 2970s | know how you can Target farmer unique |
| 2971s | from a boss but you can find it anywhere |
| 2973s | else in the world it's the same way here |
| 2975s | where you can get these new uniques and |
| 2977s | legendaries anywhere but you have a |
| 2979s | better chance you know if you're |
| 2980s | targeting them in the infernal hordes |
| 2981s | and this is the first time that we're |
| 2983s | doing this with a group of legendaries |
| 2984s | as well we have legendary powers that |
| 2987s | are actually able to be Target farmed in |
| 2988s | the infernal hordes um which is actually |
| 2990s | something a little bit new to the game |
| 2992s | so I just wanted to clarify that and in |
| 2994s | addition to that we're also adding new |
| 2996s | uniques and legendary to the rest of the |
| 2998s | game as well in addition to this so |
| 3000s | there's actually a very large group of |
| 3001s | unique I think it's over 50 or something |
| 3003s | yeah there's over there's over 50 new |
| 3007s | uniques and legendaries coming into |
| 3008s | season we have a lot coming pretty a lot |
| 3011s | more to talk about there too so yeah we |
| 3013s | this was just kind of a small preview of |
| 3015s | what people are looking at uh here and |
| 3018s | they'll they'll be able to jump in more |
| 3019s | and actually check it out on PTR because |
| 3021s | all of them will be present there and I |
| 3023s | know Adam is actually going to talk |
| 3024s | through a few of more a few additional |
| 3026s | ones here later but |
| 3027s | uh yeah Dan this is awesome can't wait |
| 3030s | for players to jump in uh I appreciate |
| 3033s | you uh uh uh informing and and providing |
| 3037s | all the new updates and everything it's |
| 3038s | exciting yep from the the sweltering |
| 3041s | heat of all I I'm going to keep bringing |
| 3042s | it up they canceled School up there it's |
| 3046s | crazy I'm like that's absolutely insane |
| 3049s | um but we will be seeing Dan again here |
| 3051s | later uh especially when we get uh into |
| 3053s | Q&A at the end but uh Dan thank you |
| 3055s | again um I think you're welcome yeah |
| 3059s | awesome appreciate it and then uh I |
| 3061s | think we're going to jump into a little |
| 3062s | bit of some balance and class updates |
| 3064s | with Mr Adam Jackson |
| 3067s | so yeah let's get to it we have a lot to |
| 3069s | talk about I think we have yeah so the |
| 3072s | topics I'm going to be covering today |
| 3074s | we've got uh unique items we're going to |
| 3075s | be talking quite a bit about that we've |
| 3077s | got some updates to Mythic uniques that |
| 3079s | are very exciting and near and dear to |
| 3080s | my heart and then we've got your |
| 3082s | standard class updates a lot of stuff |
| 3084s | coming in season 5 um one thing to |
| 3086s | clarify here is that we are going to be |
| 3088s | releasing the patch notes soon so I'm |
| 3089s | not going to be going over every single |
| 3091s | you know class update because there's a |
| 3092s | ton of them kind of similar to season 4 |
| 3094s | I'm really only to highlight just like |
| 3095s | one major thing for each class on the |
| 3097s | stream today but you'll be able to see |
| 3099s | all the things that we're doing um in |
| 3100s | the patch notes there's a |
| 3103s | lot so first uniques uh we have some |
| 3105s | quality of life updates here really |
| 3107s | targeting how you get uniques that I'm |
| 3109s | I'm pretty pumped about to announce here |
| 3112s | today so uh you can now Target farm |
| 3115s | uniques from three additional sources |
| 3117s | you can Target them from oal vendors |
| 3119s | hell tide chest and Whisper caches these |
| 3122s | places where you've always been able to |
| 3123s | you know kind of Target Farm certain |
| 3125s | gear slots and not been able to get |
| 3127s | uniques and you're wondering well why |
| 3128s | didn't why couldn't we do that that |
| 3129s | stinks well now you can and it's awesome |
| 3131s | and I love |
| 3133s | it so here um just to give some more |
| 3136s | detail into how this works is uh |
| 3139s | basically when you when you open like |
| 3141s | I'm just going to use hell tight chest |
| 3142s | as an example right if you want a spe |
| 3144s | specific unique weapon let's say uh you |
| 3147s | can just simply Target the weapon hell |
| 3149s | tide chest and you'll be able to have a |
| 3151s | chance to get only unique weapons for |
| 3154s | your class from those chests so when |
| 3156s | you're targeting a specific thing you |
| 3157s | just go to you know the place that has |
| 3159s | that slot whether it's the oal vendor |
| 3160s | the hell TI chest or the whisper cach |
| 3162s | and you'll have a chance to get uniques |
| 3164s | that are targeted for that slot so it |
| 3166s | kind of adds you know while you're doing |
| 3167s | your normal grind of you know doing the |
| 3169s | boss ladder killing the boss you can |
| 3171s | also be collecting obals doing the hell |
| 3172s | ties doing The Whispers and having a |
| 3174s | chance to Target and get that unique as |
| 3176s | well from that |
| 3177s | content and in addition to that this is |
| 3180s | also true for Mythic uniques uh so I'll |
| 3183s | just give an example here of exactly how |
| 3185s | this works let's say that you want to |
| 3187s | get you know harleen Crest a Sho or |
| 3189s | andariel's Vis you don't want to Target |
| 3191s | those Helms you could be targeting Helms |
| 3193s | from Hell tide targeting Helms and you |
| 3195s | know when you turn in your obals to the |
| 3197s | oal vendor and every time if you get a |
| 3199s | Mythic unique you will get one of those |
| 3202s | two from that Source now Also to clarify |
| 3205s | let's say that you are like targeting |
| 3207s | gloves for some reason you know we don't |
| 3208s | have any Mythic unique gloves yet then |
| 3211s | if you were to get a Mythic unique you |
| 3212s | still can it'll just give you a random |
| 3214s | one instead uh since you know you can't |
| 3216s | Target one in that slot so pretty |
| 3219s | exciting way to uh to Target kind of the |
| 3221s | things that you want while you're |
| 3223s | farming for the things that you want |
| 3224s | it's going to be amazing so I know I |
| 3226s | know we've heard a lot of players going |
| 3228s | like hey you know we we do the the the |
| 3230s | endgame bosses a whole lot where we're |
| 3232s | trying to and and you you can actually |
| 3234s | find them just in the open world as well |
| 3236s | we've actually seen |
| 3237s | a lot of cases especially with this past |
| 3239s | season where players are jumping into |
| 3240s | hell tide and they're actually finding |
| 3242s | them there but now it's an additional or |
| 3244s | additional options for players uh which |
| 3246s | I think will be a lot better um for for |
| 3249s | just overall finding some of the gear |
| 3250s | that everyone want as someone who for |
| 3252s | the last three seasons my uniques have |
| 3254s | always come from the Beast and Ice I am |
| 3256s | very selfishly invested in getting this |
| 3258s | into the game so so all right let's talk |
| 3261s | about other unique updates here uh we're |
| 3263s | going to be making a whole lot of |
| 3264s | updates to our unique items so I'm going |
| 3266s | to be covering lot today um we've heard |
| 3268s | feed your feedback and we're going to be |
| 3269s | doing some updates here um to clarify |
| 3271s | before I go into what the updates are uh |
| 3273s | you are going to be seeing these updates |
| 3276s | to like the way that we think about and |
| 3277s | our philosophy of our uniques and how |
| 3279s | they work you're going to be seeing them |
| 3280s | in the PTR for the new uniques coming |
| 3282s | into season 5 uh between the PTR and the |
| 3285s | launch you'll be seeing in the season 5 |
| 3287s | launch these updates to all the existing |
| 3289s | uniques in the game so in season 5 comes |
| 3291s | out basically all the uniques will get |
| 3292s | these updates I'm about to talk about |
| 3294s | but in the PTR you're only going to |
| 3295s | really see this in the new uniques |
| 3297s | coming into the |
| 3299s | game yeah there so now we can go on to |
| 3301s | the next |
| 3302s | part all right so the teams been talking |
| 3305s | a lot um as many of you probably know in |
| 3307s | season 4 when we did diation 2.0 we |
| 3309s | didn't really update the uniques almost |
| 3310s | at all in the game right we didn't do |
| 3312s | like a big pass to like cover how they |
| 3313s | exist in tempering or anything like that |
| 3315s | so the team's been talking a lot about |
| 3317s | you know what is the role of uniques in |
| 3320s | Diablo 4 like how are they different |
| 3321s | from legendary items because they're |
| 3322s | kind of similar and that they both give |
| 3324s | you you know Legendary Power that's |
| 3325s | really strong um but how are they |
| 3327s | different and what do we want them to be |
| 3329s | longterm um and we've kind of landed on |
| 3331s | a few things here I'm going to talk |
| 3332s | about the first one is that you know |
| 3333s | they're powerful and exciting items that |
| 3335s | kind of direct players to builds right |
| 3337s | so imagine you're a fireball Sor you |
| 3339s | know we've got two uniques for you they |
| 3341s | really Target you you're going to feel a |
| 3342s | lot better playing with Fireball when |
| 3344s | you take them uh you know we want you to |
| 3345s | take these things and kind of level up |
| 3347s | your build they're moments of like very |
| 3348s | large incremental power where you feel |
| 3350s | like you're you know filling in your |
| 3352s | fantasy as a |
| 3353s | class um the next one is that they're |
| 3356s | kind of pick up and play right they're |
| 3358s | easy to evaluate the moment that you |
| 3359s | pick up the unique you know you know |
| 3361s | whether it's a good one or a bad one we |
| 3363s | want this to be a little bit different |
| 3365s | from legendary powers where you know you |
| 3366s | pick it up and you kind of go on a |
| 3367s | journey where you know you make it into |
| 3369s | something that's really good a unique |
| 3371s | you know when you pick it up whether or |
| 3372s | not it's one that you want to keep or |
| 3374s | one that you |
| 3375s | don't and then the last one uh pretty |
| 3378s | obvious but is worth saying you know |
| 3379s | they're kind of more rare Chase items |
| 3381s | that players don't see very often you |
| 3382s | know when you're going through the end |
| 3384s | game you're seeing legendary Powers a |
| 3386s | lot because you you know we have a lot |
| 3387s | of reasons to give you a lot of them you |
| 3388s | want to upgrade your codecs they are the |
| 3390s | way that you can you know get greater |
| 3392s | axes and and temper and Masterwork them |
| 3394s | so there's a reason why you want to |
| 3395s | churn and look through a lot of them |
| 3397s | uniques you do want to get a good one |
| 3399s | obviously but not nearly as often as |
| 3401s | like a legendary power we don't need |
| 3403s | that that aspect of their design so they |
| 3405s | are more rare they're harder to get but |
| 3407s | when you get it it's kind of like a more |
| 3408s | exciting Moment Like did I get the |
| 3409s | perfect one and then if not you go and |
| 3411s | try and get the next |
| 3413s | one so uh let's talk a little about our |
| 3415s | goals for the update that we're going to |
| 3417s | be doing here um one of the things that |
| 3419s | we come to a lot that we talk about on |
| 3420s | the team is this idea we I like this |
| 3422s | quote of like players build their |
| 3423s | legendaries and players build around |
| 3425s | their uniques right your Legendary Power |
| 3428s | is is very or your legendary items are |
| 3429s | very malleable you know the moment you |
| 3431s | get it you don't know yet if it's going |
| 3433s | to be the best in slot item but it has a |
| 3434s | chance to be um but they're also like |
| 3436s | able to fit in a lot of different ways |
| 3438s | you can manipulate your their stats via |
| 3440s | you know enchanting via tempering um and |
| 3442s | masterworking and so there's a lot that |
| 3444s | you can do with the item once you've |
| 3446s | gotten it whereas uniques they're a lot |
| 3447s | more static right the the stats on them |
| 3450s | can't change you can't really manipulate |
| 3452s | them very much and sometimes they have |
| 3453s | maybe qualities to them or stats that |
| 3456s | are a little bit inconvenient and you |
| 3457s | got to figure out like how do I overcome |
| 3458s | this this uh this little detriment or |
| 3461s | make my build into where it's a Plus |
| 3463s | instead of a detriment right like it's a |
| 3465s | fixed thing that you have to build |
| 3466s | around which is very different than a |
| 3468s | legendary um also ideally we want |
| 3471s | players to run two to four uniques in |
| 3472s | their build you know one of the the |
| 3474s | difficult parts of this and I think |
| 3475s | we're going to be Contin to work on with |
| 3477s | the balance and design of uniques is |
| 3479s | that you know we want you to run some |
| 3481s | but we don't want you to run all of them |
| 3483s | in your build right it's very easy to go |
| 3484s | one way or the other I can very easily |
| 3486s | make you run no uniques and I can very |
| 3487s | easily make you run like every slot is a |
| 3489s | unique by making them really really |
| 3490s | crazy right um we want these to fit in |
| 3493s | such a way that you're running some of |
| 3494s | them the ones that are applicable to |
| 3495s | your build or maybe some spicy ones here |
| 3497s | or there that you try and you know like |
| 3498s | makeing a special way to work with you |
| 3501s | um but not all of them I would say right |
| 3502s | now like on live in season 4 players are |
| 3504s | running more like zero to two in their |
| 3506s | build so it's not as much as we want |
| 3507s | which means that we want to update them |
| 3508s | to make them a little bit more |
| 3511s | attractive and another one is we kind of |
| 3513s | want to move away from these generic |
| 3514s | fits all build styles of uniques right |
| 3517s | um one thing that I know a lot of |
| 3518s | players have talked about in the past |
| 3520s | that we've had is that some of our |
| 3521s | uniques are just so generically good and |
| 3523s | this is particularly uh scary for us |
| 3525s | when it's like what we call generic |
| 3527s | unique which is one where every class |
| 3528s | can use it and so like if every class |
| 3530s | can use it and every build can use it |
| 3532s | and it's better than like the build |
| 3533s | specific or class specific stuff then it |
| 3536s | just becomes slot for everybody and |
| 3537s | we've taken away your agency and your |
| 3539s | choice cuz you're just going to Target |
| 3540s | this item and and ignore everything else |
| 3542s | right the only items in the game that we |
| 3544s | really want to to fit that role are like |
| 3546s | Mythic uniques where they're across all |
| 3548s | classes and they're so good but they're |
| 3550s | also extremely rare so you're very |
| 3553s | excited to see them whenever you see one |
| 3554s | but all the other regular uniques we |
| 3556s | don't want to fit that design space so |
| 3558s | we're going to be trying to move away |
| 3559s | from these ones and and readjust them |
| 3561s | and redesign them a little bit where |
| 3563s | they fit into all kinds of builds and |
| 3565s | kind of Target something that they're |
| 3566s | really good at or that's a little bit |
| 3568s | more unique about them and make them |
| 3569s | really good at that and less generically |
| 3571s | good at everything it's funny because |
| 3573s | everyone's in the chat going like oh rip |
| 3575s | Sho rip Sho but we just literally we |
| 3578s | just mythics is not what they're a |
| 3580s | different Beast here I'm talking about |
| 3582s | all your regular ones yeah sho's still |
| 3584s | going to be just as good if not better |
| 3587s | honestly all right so enough Preamble |
| 3590s | right what are we actually doing so |
| 3591s | we're going to be doing two big updates |
| 3593s | to uniques the first one is we're going |
| 3595s | to be increasing the upper power of the |
| 3597s | unique effects and the roll range um |
| 3599s | we're going to be doing a increase in |
| 3600s | the range from an average of 10 to 20 |
| 3602s | rolls which I'll explain in a second and |
| 3604s | then we're also going to be increasing |
| 3605s | the upper power of like how much you can |
| 3607s | get from the rolles this is really just |
| 3608s | buffing pretty much most uniques across |
| 3610s | the board to compete with the new world |
| 3612s | of legendary powers that we live in |
| 3614s | since you know they got extra power |
| 3615s | juice to them now uniques are catching |
| 3617s | up so as an example here I gave you know |
| 3619s | if an older unique like one on live gave |
| 3621s | you around 40 to 80% multiplicative |
| 3623s | damage that's going to go up to like 40 |
| 3625s | 100 Maybe 20 maybe even higher really |
| 3627s | the Mandate is as high as we can get |
| 3629s | away with uh without breaking things um |
| 3632s | and then we're also going to be |
| 3632s | increasing the roll range this is like |
| 3634s | the number of possible rolls it can do |
| 3636s | from an average of 10 to 20 so it'll be |
| 3638s | a little bit harder to get basically |
| 3640s | what we're targeting here is the |
| 3641s | discrepancy inside of a unique is a |
| 3643s | little bit wider where the difference of |
| 3646s | like a low roll and a high roll is a |
| 3647s | little bit bigger but the high rolls are |
| 3649s | way better than they were before so |
| 3651s | they're more exciting when you get them |
| 3652s | really good um but it's a little bit |
| 3654s | harder to get there |
| 3657s | and the next one is going to be updating |
| 3659s | the affixes the actual stats on the |
| 3660s | uniques um we're doing a pass on all of |
| 3662s | them and this is kind of what we're |
| 3664s | doing the first thing is we're changing |
| 3665s | their stats to fit with the season 4 |
| 3667s | updates right we're doing the things |
| 3669s | like we did before of simplifying stats |
| 3671s | you know getting rid of super |
| 3672s | conditional things making them as more |
| 3674s | generically understood and good we're |
| 3676s | also going to be adding tempering stats |
| 3678s | we're open to really adding whatever we |
| 3680s | want that makes the unique fit the |
| 3682s | fantasy so as an example here you know a |
| 3685s | lot of two-hand weapon uniques have a a |
| 3686s | problem where they're all basically |
| 3687s | competing against bonus projectiles as |
| 3689s | an AIX because you can just temper that |
| 3691s | onto your weapons right so when it comes |
| 3693s | to those kind of situations we'll just |
| 3695s | slap the bonus projectiles on that |
| 3697s | unique and now you know it's no longer |
| 3698s | competing in that way where we have to |
| 3700s | kind of dance around it we can just put |
| 3702s | it we're also open to the idea by the |
| 3703s | way of breaking slot restrictions kind |
| 3705s | of like we did in season 2 so you can |
| 3707s | have bonus projectiles or other things |
| 3709s | on other slots you know like uniques are |
| 3711s | are where we get to play a little bit |
| 3713s | and just really make something thematic |
| 3714s | and cool and build defining and so they |
| 3716s | have less restrictions than everything |
| 3718s | else and the other one is we're updating |
| 3720s | the stat power levels and the effects so |
| 3723s | the idea here that we're thinking and |
| 3724s | this is particularly nuan when it comes |
| 3726s | to generic uniques but um stats that |
| 3729s | kind of fit the theme or the the fantasy |
| 3731s | of the unique were are going to be like |
| 3733s | way stronger than your normal stats |
| 3735s | right so as an example if you have a |
| 3736s | unique that's targeting fire damage |
| 3738s | maybe it's like a meteor or firewall and |
| 3740s | the Sorcerer whatever it may be you know |
| 3742s | that plus fire damage can be Juiced up |
| 3744s | to be really really high but stats are |
| 3746s | more like generically good like you know |
| 3748s | I don't know attack speed Max life |
| 3750s | resist all um those ones aren't going to |
| 3753s | be Juiced unless it fits the theme of |
| 3755s | the unique really well right so we have |
| 3757s | an example here of one that has been a |
| 3759s | problem for us in the past I kind of |
| 3760s | want to go through how we would think |
| 3761s | about it I'm not going to say exactly |
| 3763s | what we're going to do here to toolz |
| 3764s | will but kind of give you our thought |
| 3766s | process right so toolz will as you many |
| 3769s | of you know in previous seasons was kind |
| 3770s | of a problem where it just became best |
| 3772s | in slot for almost every build um you |
| 3774s | know the the famous line we say is that |
| 3776s | was you know damage on pants which was |
| 3778s | you know impossible to get almost |
| 3779s | anywhere else in the game and it turned |
| 3780s | out damage on pants was really really |
| 3782s | good right um it also gave you damage |
| 3784s | reduction one of the best stats in the |
| 3786s | game um and then it also gave you a |
| 3788s | bunch of it also sold resource in many |
| 3790s | ways for you as well right it gave you a |
| 3792s | bunch of resource whenever you became |
| 3793s | Unstoppable which wasn't too hard to do |
| 3795s | um so it was doing a lot of things at |
| 3797s | once it gave you you know very unique |
| 3799s | effect with putting damage on a slot |
| 3801s | that you don't get it it also gave you |
| 3802s | resource which is something that every |
| 3803s | class wants you know very heavily and |
| 3805s | Adam it gave you three extra potions and |
| 3808s | three extra potions yes now that one you |
| 3811s | that's all right um but yeah so you know |
| 3814s | the way that we would tackle this one to |
| 3816s | give you an idea is like you know the |
| 3819s | the we either would kind of pick you |
| 3820s | know do we want to focus this on the the |
| 3822s | damage aspect that it's damage on a |
| 3823s | non-damaged slot or maybe we focus on |
| 3825s | the resource aspect and like double down |
| 3827s | on that and make that really powerful |
| 3829s | and really cool um or we do like a |
| 3831s | little bit of both but if we do both |
| 3833s | then it's not going to give you the |
| 3834s | defenses that another pant slot would |
| 3836s | give right basically in our mind we'd be |
| 3838s | like we want to get to give the minimum |
| 3840s | amount of Defense where it's not just |
| 3841s | like a trash item cuz it has nothing but |
| 3843s | then after that not so much you're going |
| 3845s | to have to solve your defenses in other |
| 3846s | slots or somewhere else to justify |
| 3848s | getting the damage on this slot is how |
| 3850s | we would think about it right and so |
| 3851s | we're having a lot of conversations now |
| 3853s | I don't think we're going to nail every |
| 3854s | single item perfectly in this first pass |
| 3856s | um so we're really looking for feedback |
| 3858s | when you you know jump into season five |
| 3859s | and Beyond um and we'll be adjusting |
| 3861s | them but I kind of want to give you an |
| 3862s | idea of what we're doing and kind of |
| 3863s | what we're thinking and targeting with |
| 3865s | this |
| 3867s | I think we can move on so Mythic uniques |
| 3869s | uh are getting a facelift here so lots |
| 3872s | of updates here Mythic uniques are now |
| 3874s | going to be truly Mythic they're getting |
| 3876s | a new color beam when they drop on the |
| 3877s | ground they're coming out with an |
| 3879s | awesome new sound that you're going to |
| 3880s | hear in a little bit we've got new item |
| 3881s | UI that you can see so they have a |
| 3883s | different color um they really are going |
| 3885s | to look and feel like the the special |
| 3887s | items that they are we have a video here |
| 3889s | to show you the sound and what it looks |
| 3890s | like on the ground so you can see here |
| 3892s | this beam looks you know very different |
| 3894s | than anything else |
| 3896s | isn't that sound echoey sound I love it |
| 3898s | sounds like |
| 3900s | a I don't know it sounds like you're |
| 3903s | murdering a bunch of like church organs |
| 3905s | or something like that it's just like |
| 3907s | crazy but yeah so you know with this |
| 3909s | thing drops you're definitely going to |
| 3910s | know when you got one no more like |
| 3912s | sifting through your uniques to see if |
| 3913s | it's actually one of the mythics uh |
| 3915s | you'll know right away so we're really |
| 3917s | excited about this super happy it was |
| 3918s | able to get |
| 3920s | in all right and last but not least |
| 3922s | let's talk about class updates I'm going |
| 3924s | to cover some generic things across all |
| 3925s | classes and then go through a little bit |
| 3927s | of each one again this is not going to |
| 3928s | be nearly close to everything that we're |
| 3930s | doing just a little taste to teaser for |
| 3932s | what you can expect to see let's start |
| 3935s | with things across all classes um one |
| 3937s | systemic update we're doing to the game |
| 3939s | is invulnerability skills are now going |
| 3940s | to start their cool down when the |
| 3942s | invulnerability ends instead of when the |
| 3944s | skill begins um this is really to |
| 3946s | prevent things like infinite |
| 3947s | invulnerability and really to open up |
| 3949s | design space for us on the team cuz now |
| 3951s | we can be more comfortable adding things |
| 3952s | like you know invulnerable duration to |
| 3955s | skills or or cool down reduction more |
| 3957s | liberally and things like that where we |
| 3958s | don't have to worry about this um this |
| 3961s | is very similar to like you know what |
| 3962s | our previous games have done and some |
| 3963s | other games do and we we think it'll be |
| 3965s | a good fit here the idea isn't really to |
| 3967s | like make it that you can't be |
| 3968s | invulnerable very often it's just to |
| 3970s | prevent like a 100% uptime where you |
| 3973s | actually break down the combat of the |
| 3974s | game and you're not interacting with |
| 3975s | enemies anymore uh the next one is we |
| 3978s | reviewed monster CC and we generally |
| 3980s | reduce the CC duration and frequency |
| 3982s | across the board so you know if you were |
| 3984s | frustrated by getting Frozen for a |
| 3985s | million years and then dying uh that'll |
| 3988s | happen much less often and also to help |
| 3990s | with this uh potions can be used while |
| 3992s | cced even while you're stunned so you |
| 3994s | know while you're Frozen standing there |
| 3995s | and everybody's around you trying to |
| 3997s | kill you you can at least spam potion a |
| 3998s | little bit and maybe survive |
| 4001s | sometimes uh next one we've got some bug |
| 4004s | fixes these are some of the notable ones |
| 4006s | we do have more coming in but these are |
| 4007s | the ones I wanted to call out uh Rogue |
| 4009s | victimize is no longer going to be |
| 4011s | double dipping on its damage which is |
| 4012s | resulting in a lot more multiplicative |
| 4014s | or a lot more damage really than it was |
| 4015s | supposed to have uh damage over time |
| 4017s | effects we getting double the amount of |
| 4019s | percent damage uh that they were |
| 4021s | supposed to and skeleton Reapers were |
| 4023s | getting both Book of the Dead bonuses |
| 4024s | when the second option was selected uh |
| 4026s | and again this is you know just a little |
| 4028s | bit of a preview but we have other bug |
| 4030s | fixes coming but these are some of the |
| 4031s | bigger ones we want to call |
| 4033s | out all right now let's get to the |
| 4035s | classes so Barbarian uh they have a new |
| 4037s | unique coming in this is The Unbroken |
| 4039s | chain this is for you uh support |
| 4042s | barbarians or really just more |
| 4043s | defensively oriented ones um basically |
| 4045s | with this is going to do is create a |
| 4046s | connection between steel grasp and iron |
| 4048s | melstrom where you'll be able to cast |
| 4049s | iron melstrom a lot more often as you |
| 4051s | use steel grasp and also enemies damaged |
| 4054s | by our M storm are going to be doing |
| 4056s | less damage for a little while so the |
| 4058s | idea here is you know you can debuff |
| 4059s | enemies debuff those bosses and make |
| 4061s | them do less damage to you so you can |
| 4063s | survive |
| 4064s | better and next the Rogue uh flurry is |
| 4067s | going to be getting a lot of big updates |
| 4068s | we updated the enhancement and both of |
| 4070s | their upgrades so uh you'll be able to |
| 4072s | see kind of a theme here going on uh |
| 4074s | before you know you you uh damage a |
| 4076s | crowd control or vulnerable enemy for |
| 4078s | the enhancement then you would heal now |
| 4080s | when flurry hits an enemy you can just |
| 4082s | make them vulnerable so actually flurry |
| 4084s | becomes a vulnerable generator here |
| 4086s | which is pretty exciting and it'll also |
| 4088s | deal more damage as you hit vulnerable |
| 4090s | enemies uh Stacks up really high so the |
| 4092s | idea here is with flurry builds you want |
| 4093s | to make everything vulnerable and then |
| 4095s | just keep whacking them with flurry and |
| 4096s | gain a bunch of |
| 4098s | damage and now improved flurry is |
| 4100s | changing before it was about vulnerable |
| 4102s | spreading but now Baseline you can just |
| 4104s | generate vulnerable so we don't need |
| 4105s | that anymore more so now improve flurry |
| 4107s | is going to actually give you a dash so |
| 4109s | now similar to uh things like the shred |
| 4112s | on the Druid um you can kind of Dash to |
| 4115s | your Target and also every time you cast |
| 4116s | flurry now it's going to heal you so |
| 4118s | it's going to be a lot more mobile a lot |
| 4120s | more awesome very |
| 4122s | cool and then last but not least to |
| 4124s | compete with a dash what could we do |
| 4125s | with Advanced flurry well we can just |
| 4127s | add a stupid amount of damage and |
| 4129s | resource cost reduction so before you |
| 4131s | know you had to evade through an enemy |
| 4132s | and then do damage with one cast and |
| 4134s | stun enemies now as you spam flurry |
| 4137s | it'll basically get a big damage bonus |
| 4139s | and its energy cost will go down which |
| 4140s | will let you be able to spam it even |
| 4142s | more often so the idea here is you just |
| 4144s | want to be using it over and over and |
| 4145s | over again and it'll get stronger and |
| 4146s | stronger and ramp up pretty heavily as |
| 4148s | you go I'm excited for flurry Rogues |
| 4151s | very excited yeah they're going to be |
| 4152s | like little huming birds around bouncing |
| 4154s | around and it's going to be great yeah |
| 4155s | ironically I'm playing flurry this |
| 4157s | season so I'm always off by one like I |
| 4159s | always play the F and then like oh we're |
| 4161s | going to massively make it better next |
| 4163s | time but you know it's fine it's fine |
| 4164s | everything's fine um next Druid uh |
| 4167s | Shephard's aspect we've gotten feedback |
| 4169s | from players now for a while now about |
| 4171s | how you know Shepherd's aspect kind of |
| 4172s | dominates The Meta for Druids because |
| 4175s | you're basically both it's both not |
| 4177s | great from a design and a balance |
| 4179s | perspective on the design side you know |
| 4181s | we're telling you to put companions on |
| 4182s | your bar and then they're actually just |
| 4184s | buffing you so you know you make this |
| 4186s | comp companion build fantasy but it's |
| 4187s | actually just making the player better |
| 4189s | and then on the power side you know |
| 4190s | you're just putting you're basically |
| 4192s | just slotting three skills on your bar |
| 4194s | with your companions and then not really |
| 4195s | caring about buffing them or using them |
| 4197s | because they're just kind of there as |
| 4198s | proxies to make you better so we've |
| 4200s | changed it now where you know basically |
| 4202s | it's going to be about the companion so |
| 4204s | your companion skills are all are just |
| 4206s | going to deal damage for every companion |
| 4208s | that you have so you know the the bigger |
| 4210s | your zoo the better your zoo is going to |
| 4211s | perform and to compensate players we're |
| 4214s | doing some pretty massive Buffs to Druid |
| 4216s | skills Baseline to compensate so you |
| 4217s | know your skills are just going to be do |
| 4219s | getting that damage Baseline and in many |
| 4221s | cases a little bit more so you can uh |
| 4223s | check that out when you see the PTR |
| 4225s | notes or yeah the PTR patch notes after |
| 4227s | this um but we basically just buffed |
| 4229s | everything across the board and made it |
| 4231s | so that Shepherds isn't required |
| 4233s | anymore next for the Sorceress uh this |
| 4236s | is axio Conduit I'm really excited about |
| 4238s | this unique um this is your chain |
| 4240s | lightning unique so chain lightning |
| 4241s | builds you find don't have a unique that |
| 4243s | really talks to you and you can see here |
| 4245s | kind of our stats and that new |
| 4246s | philosophy I told you about um you have |
| 4248s | chance to double cast chain lightning on |
| 4250s | pants instead of just a weapon so that's |
| 4252s | pretty cool um so basically the way that |
| 4255s | this Works we're going to have a video |
| 4256s | but I'm going to explain to you how this |
| 4257s | works cuz it actually changes your skill |
| 4259s | pretty significantly so now when you |
| 4261s | cast chain lightning the way it's going |
| 4263s | to work is is it's going to it's going |
| 4264s | to cast and bounce on enemies just like |
| 4266s | before but then it's going to come back |
| 4267s | to you and orbit you a little bit and |
| 4269s | then it's going to go out and hit |
| 4270s | another enemy and then come back to an |
| 4272s | orbit and then come out and then to go |
| 4273s | out and do another enemy and come back |
| 4274s | it's going to do that back and forth a |
| 4275s | few times and every time it comes back |
| 4277s | to you it's going to drain some of your |
| 4279s | mana and after it drains so much Mana |
| 4282s | after coming back 10 times the bolt is |
| 4284s | actually going to explode for a |
| 4286s | ridiculous amount of lightning damage on |
| 4287s | enemies so there's a mini game here |
| 4289s | where basically um oh and by the way you |
| 4292s | can cast multiple chain Lightnings when |
| 4293s | this is out you're basically going to be |
| 4295s | like running a Gambit here and the mini |
| 4296s | game is you want to Stack as much |
| 4298s | resource regeneration as you can so that |
| 4300s | your lightning bolts can survive being |
| 4302s | drained over and over and bouncing |
| 4304s | everywhere so they can last to their |
| 4306s | explosion and do a ton of damage to |
| 4308s | enemies uh one thing I want to call out |
| 4309s | here also is that because it drains Mana |
| 4311s | uh resource cost reduction won't work on |
| 4313s | that drain you're actually going to want |
| 4315s | to focus on gaining resource um which is |
| 4318s | a little bit different and kind of makes |
| 4319s | this build a little special I think and |
| 4321s | unique compared to other |
| 4323s | resource builds based around resource s |
| 4326s | like see it in action here you so you'll |
| 4327s | see what one cast looks like and then |
| 4329s | I'll think we'll see what it looks like |
| 4330s | when you spam it so you can see here |
| 4331s | circles you goes and hits enemies |
| 4333s | circles you goes and hits enemies and |
| 4334s | then it does a big explosion at the end |
| 4336s | that we've tuned the damage to be pretty |
| 4339s | high see there so then it explodes so oh |
| 4343s | wait oh do we have one where it cast a |
| 4344s | bunch of times maybe we don't |
| 4346s | oh there we go there yeah so see here |
| 4348s | you can see that you know as you go like |
| 4350s | keep going going going and they explode |
| 4352s | a bunch of times another thing I want to |
| 4353s | point out is if you're hugging enemies |
| 4355s | in melee range as it's circling you it |
| 4357s | will also hit enemies so you now have a |
| 4359s | way to like really maximize your damage |
| 4361s | by hugging bosses and such uh the damage |
| 4363s | goes way |
| 4366s | up so next last but not least the |
| 4369s | Necromancer uh so we got some feedback |
| 4371s | we've had this for a while and felt this |
| 4373s | on the team where you know the Golem we |
| 4375s | really love you know we love our Golem |
| 4377s | our Golem boys and you know but |
| 4379s | sometimes it can be frustrating where |
| 4380s | you tell the Golem to go somewhere and |
| 4382s | then it kind of takes a while to Lug his |
| 4384s | butt over there and do his slam or his |
| 4385s | shout or whatever and you know things |
| 4386s | can get in the way um and so we we've |
| 4390s | kind of upgraded him a little bit all |
| 4391s | let the video speak for himself |
| 4393s | here but so now you can see uh your |
| 4396s | Golem will Hulk smash and just jump on |
| 4398s | enemies and slam them down so uh this |
| 4402s | will work with all of your golem types |
| 4403s | by the way not just the Iron Golem but |
| 4405s | now your Golem is going to LEAP to the |
| 4407s | area that you tell him to go and then |
| 4408s | castic ability so we're really excited |
| 4411s | about this shout out to Charles Dunn who |
| 4413s | got this uh who got this change in and |
| 4415s | our animators who helped us out uh we're |
| 4418s | we're really pump for it it looks |
| 4422s | amazing um yeah so those were the uh the |
| 4425s | the class and balance changes and I know |
| 4428s | we jumped a slide there how dare you |
| 4430s | production no uh but we are as they wave |
| 4433s | to me like I'm sorry um we do want to go |
| 4436s | into some quality of life updates we do |
| 4438s | have a a significant amount of quality |
| 4439s | of life updates that we do want to go |
| 4441s | through that will be available in uh |
| 4444s | season 5 and you guys will actually be |
| 4445s | able to check this out in the PTR so now |
| 4448s | we can go to the next slide uh where we |
| 4451s | do want to talk about some hell tide and |
| 4453s | Whisper updates specifically um so I |
| 4455s | know this has been kind of at least it's |
| 4457s | been a paino for me and I've heard uh |
| 4459s | it's been a pain point for others is |
| 4461s | that as you guys are going through hell |
| 4463s | tide there are whisper objectives within |
| 4464s | there to help |
| 4466s | your whisper but the issue with the in |
| 4470s | Hell TI is that it can take quite a to |
| 4472s | do um and you know you can you sometimes |
| 4475s | players would have to leave the hell |
| 4477s | tide to go to another area to complete |
| 4479s | some of these whisper objectives so we |
| 4481s | are optimizing this to ensure that they |
| 4483s | don't take nearly as much time uh the |
| 4486s | the ideal goal is to get a bunch of |
| 4487s | value within that those 15 minutes um uh |
| 4490s | to and to potentially end up getting a |
| 4492s | full entire whisper uh uh 10o bar within |
| 4496s | 15 |
| 4497s | minutes full whisper every so that would |
| 4500s | be it'll be a huge help because I know |
| 4503s | uh at least for me I've always had to |
| 4505s | like kind of leave a hell tide and like |
| 4506s | kind try to you know knock some of that |
| 4508s | out well especially help for players |
| 4510s | that are looking for additional gold cuz |
| 4511s | whisper caches have always been great |
| 4513s | sources of gold and now as Adam |
| 4515s | mentioned you can also use whisper |
| 4517s | caches to uh Target |
| 4519s | Farm baby so it's it's keeping things uh |
| 4523s | uh more optimized for players which we |
| 4525s | know will be way better there uh next |
| 4528s | thing we do want to talk about is also |
| 4530s | banful Hearts I know in uh this may not |
| 4533s | sound like a huge quality of life thing |
| 4534s | or a buff of of any sort but we have |
| 4537s | noticed that and uh players have had a |
| 4539s | lot of banful Hearts uh within their |
| 4541s | inventory we do want to make these uh a |
| 4544s | little bit more valuable so they won't |
| 4546s | drop as frequently we know that players |
| 4548s | will still have a significant amount but |
| 4551s | maybe not hundreds and hundreds like |
| 4553s | some people have uh Within their |
| 4555s | inventory but uh players should not have |
| 4558s | any type of issues uh regarding having a |
| 4560s | ton of these painful Hearts but we are |
| 4562s | tweaking the the drop rate because they |
| 4564s | were dropping a little too much |
| 4566s | there tempering the the the the very |
| 4572s | very uh uh I guess like brought up topic |
| 4576s | well like yeah people like about temp |
| 4579s | it's pretty popular yeah so I want to |
| 4581s | take a minute to talk about tempering |
| 4582s | and kind of how the design team sees it |
| 4584s | and kind of what we're Happ Happ with |
| 4585s | what we think could be better and and |
| 4587s | some adjustments we'll be making in |
| 4588s | season 5 so first high level kind of how |
| 4591s | we see tempering um we really think that |
| 4594s | it's important that items have an end |
| 4596s | point where players know kind of that |
| 4598s | the item is done and that they're not |
| 4599s | hoarding lots of them forever on the |
| 4601s | chance that they can all be good right |
| 4603s | one of the big key goals of season 4 was |
| 4606s | that we didn't want you saving a million |
| 4608s | items in your stash space and while we |
| 4610s | know that you know bricking an item |
| 4612s | never feels great we do need that to be |
| 4614s | something that's possible to do in the |
| 4616s | game so that you know when the journey |
| 4617s | is done and you're not just holding on |
| 4619s | to an item forever so that part we |
| 4621s | actually think is working very well |
| 4622s | where you know an item is done and you |
| 4623s | try and go get another one and so you're |
| 4625s | always interested in items and trying to |
| 4627s | you know get have that game Loop go for |
| 4629s | in the game indefinitely um or until you |
| 4631s | feel like your character is is Max sonic |
| 4633s | power um but we do agree with players |
| 4636s | that you know the RNG right now is like |
| 4638s | completely out of their hands which |
| 4639s | doesn't really feel great you know you |
| 4640s | get you get so many tries basically to |
| 4642s | roll and then that's kind of it and |
| 4643s | you're done and it doesn't feel great so |
| 4645s | we're looking at ways um in the future |
| 4647s | for players to have more control over |
| 4649s | that RNG so that you know you have more |
| 4650s | ways to maybe manipulate the tempering |
| 4652s | or get the odds in your favor um and do |
| 4654s | other things like that um One update |
| 4657s | that's going to be coming in season five |
| 4659s | uh it won't be in the PTR but is we're |
| 4661s | targeting for launch is that you know |
| 4663s | we've got a lot of feedback that it |
| 4664s | feels so bad when you know you get that |
| 4666s | like triple greater AIX and it has the |
| 4668s | same number of rolls and then you you |
| 4670s | you brick it and then you have to try |
| 4671s | and go get another one so in season five |
| 4674s | to help with this you know as your item |
| 4675s | gets better basically that you find |
| 4677s | you're going to have more chances to |
| 4678s | temper it so a much better chance to get |
| 4680s | the one that you want um basically the |
| 4682s | way it work is you're going basically |
| 4683s | get one extra roll per grer aics that |
| 4685s | you have so you know you have one grer |
| 4686s | aics one roll three three rolls and |
| 4689s | again just to clarify this is not in the |
| 4690s | PTR but it will be in for the uh the |
| 4693s | launch of season 5 in itself and I again |
| 4696s | just to reiterate we are still looking |
| 4698s | at ways uh to to help out that |
| 4701s | experience within tempering as we've |
| 4702s | noted we we agree with players that it |
| 4704s | doesn't always feel |
| 4705s | and so um you guys should expect to hear |
| 4708s | more updates to tempering after we |
| 4711s | through season 5 for sure yeah all right |
| 4714s | next up weapons yeah so I'll talk about |
| 4717s | this one a little bit uh we took a look |
| 4719s | at this chart yeah this chart uh we took |
| 4722s | a look at inherent affixes on weapons |
| 4724s | and we found that you know a lot of |
| 4725s | inherent affixes like damage to distant |
| 4726s | or some other ones were were a little |
| 4728s | too conditional and didn't get the |
| 4729s | update you know in season 4 that we |
| 4731s | wanted so we went back and made them a |
| 4733s | little bit more generically useful and |
| 4735s | and better across more builds so we have |
| 4737s | a little chart here but you can see kind |
| 4739s | of this is going to be the new inherent |
| 4742s | affixes on all the different weapon |
| 4743s | types so we've made quite a few |
| 4745s | adjustments here you know as an example |
| 4747s | you know vulnerable damage is on uh bows |
| 4750s | and do damage and on axes which I I |
| 4753s | believe vulnerable on Bose is new but |
| 4755s | yeah so we made quite a few updates we |
| 4756s | basically just looked at the matric of |
| 4758s | everything and kind of adjusted it to |
| 4760s | see what makes sense so basically you're |
| 4762s | just going to have you know things that |
| 4763s | actually impact your builds much more |
| 4765s | often on the weapons that that you |
| 4768s | want and as another result of this |
| 4770s | update we are also looking at what |
| 4772s | weapons classes can use and we updated |
| 4774s | them a little bit to try and you know |
| 4775s | let more classes use more weapons we |
| 4777s | want players to be able to create |
| 4779s | interesting builds play the way that we |
| 4781s | want and so we want to open up these |
| 4782s | things as much as we can in our designs |
| 4784s | so now jur are going to be able to use |
| 4785s | two hand pull arms one hand swords and |
| 4788s | daggers uh sorceresses are going to be |
| 4790s | able to use oneand swords and maces and |
| 4792s | necromancers are going to be able to use |
| 4794s | I think it's a ma and axes actually yeah |
| 4796s | despite this Necromancer pictured right |
| 4798s | here that is not |
| 4799s | using well it's using a two-handed sword |
| 4802s | but you can already use a two-handed |
| 4803s | sword but not using a uh yeah and the |
| 4806s | The Necromancer here I know it's |
| 4807s | supposed to say all maces and axes as |
| 4810s | opposed to all swords so um but yeah |
| 4813s | basically we're going to be like opening |
| 4814s | up these classes to use more weapon |
| 4817s | types um and then also some of the |
| 4819s | uniques are going to be updated for the |
| 4820s | classes as well so the butcher's Cleaver |
| 4822s | can now be used for necros uh and |
| 4824s | sorcerer can use Doom Breer and Azure |
| 4827s | wrath now yeah Sorcerers can use uh uh |
| 4829s | Azure wrath kind of like D2 yep fits |
| 4832s | their theme very well too so I think |
| 4834s | that'll be pretty |
| 4836s | cool um some additional quality of life |
| 4839s | updates now we're going to talk about |
| 4841s | some endgame bosses as I have |
| 4844s | experienced as Adam has experienced |
| 4845s | earlier as he mentioned in the Stream we |
| 4847s | are making changes to the Beast and Ice |
| 4849s | um you guys will no longer have to make |
| 4851s | a Sigil to summon the beast in ice which |
| 4854s | is a uh huge Quality of Life Update uh |
| 4857s | the Beast will now live in a standard |
| 4859s | dungeon uh the crawl to get to the Beast |
| 4862s | and ice is much much shorter now it's |
| 4864s | going to be more similar to what we've |
| 4866s | seen with uh some of the the other |
| 4868s | endgame bosses uh and then at the same |
| 4870s | time Eternal players that have maybe uh |
| 4873s | already built out some of these sigils |
| 4875s | we made sure to keep you in mind so you |
| 4876s | can still use the sigils to fight the |
| 4878s | boss you won't just uh you won't need |
| 4880s | summoning materials you can just use the |
| 4881s | sigil right there uh in the uh the boss |
| 4884s | room in itself and uh this no longer |
| 4887s | requires sigil dust to actually summon |
| 4889s | the Beast and ice so some big changes to |
| 4891s | the Beast and Ice to help out that uh |
| 4894s | that whole entire feel uh especially |
| 4896s | when you're really Target farming the |
| 4897s | Beast and Ice uh sometimes it was kind |
| 4899s | of uh brutal to have to go through the |
| 4901s | whole entire dungeon each and every time |
| 4904s | so many times yeah so uh next we have uh |
| 4908s | Varon Varan um the body parts are pretty |
| 4911s | much being reduced to one um I know it |
| 4913s | was eating up a lot of inventory space |
| 4916s | It was kind of hard to manage at times |
| 4917s | and everything so we're optimizing this |
| 4919s | making this better so now you'll just |
| 4921s | need one body part to essentially uh |
| 4923s | summon Varon going forward uh starting |
| 4926s | with season |
| 4929s | five and uh one big thing that we're |
| 4932s | going to call out here before and this |
| 4933s | is kind of like the the cherry on top uh |
| 4936s | we should let's actually just play the |
| 4938s | clip and see if people actually notice |
| 4939s | it and if not then I we'll call what |
| 4941s | could be different this time |
| 4946s | poor durial yeah Mythic unique maybe oh |
| 4948s | no that's not it oh good gear though |
| 4952s | yeah something that is interesting here |
| 4955s | is The Cauldron has reappeared you can |
| 4958s | just resum again there's the ultra right |
| 4960s | there you can now resummon all the |
| 4962s | endgame bosses without needing to run |
| 4964s | out of the dungeon reset the and reset |
| 4967s | the dungeon so this will help a whole |
| 4969s | lot will make things way better in terms |
| 4972s | of like optimizing when you're for time |
| 4974s | and |
| 4975s | espe when you're you're like everyone |
| 4977s | thee so I can reset and like that now |
| 4980s | you'll be able to do that immediately |
| 4982s | for all the endgame bosses which is a |
| 4984s | huge huge feature I know that players |
| 4986s | have been asking for um so that will be |
| 4989s | also incorporated into season 5 so lots |
| 4993s | and lots of changes for season five um |
| 4996s | one other thing um I did want to call |
| 4998s | out regarding tempering because uh just |
| 5001s | to clarify because we've we've got some |
| 5002s | people going like oh I don't understand |
| 5004s | like the greater a stuff like in terms |
| 5006s | of additional roles if you have a onear |
| 5008s | greater AIC you'll get one additional Ro |
| 5010s | if you have like a three star or four |
| 5011s | star or something you would get three or |
| 5013s | four depending the the amount of stars |
| 5015s | that you actually specifically have on |
| 5018s | your uh your item yeah I think it goes |
| 5020s | up to three three three sorry yeah |
| 5023s | four more uniqu yeah yeah if thinking |
| 5027s | razor plate or something like that but |
| 5029s | uh the other thing that I did want to |
| 5031s | call out is that this is actually going |
| 5033s | to be retroactive so uh for for players |
| 5035s | that still have maybe an item that they |
| 5038s | may have potentially bricked and it's |
| 5040s | sitting in their stash you know just for |
| 5042s | like momento purposes or anything like |
| 5045s | that yeah when your character does move |
| 5046s | to Eternal um if it was a greater AIX |
| 5049s | like a three star greater AIX or |
| 5051s | something like that uh you will uh end |
| 5053s | up getting those three additional roles |
| 5054s | uh afterwards so uh that will appear |
| 5057s | after these changes actually are |
| 5059s | implemented with the start of season 5 |
| 5060s | it'll just be on your Eternal character |
| 5062s | obviously because your seasonal |
| 5063s | character will move to eternal um as I |
| 5065s | fix my earpiece that's like falling out |
| 5068s | um but uh one other thing I did want to |
| 5071s | call out as well for season 5 um we have |
| 5074s | some really U big like accessibility |
| 5076s | options that uh are being added to the |
| 5079s | actual game and we really really need |
| 5081s | some testing on this in the season 5 PTR |
| 5084s | this is actually called out in our blog |
| 5086s | we' really love if players can actually |
| 5088s | check them out test them out provide |
| 5090s | feedback I will note we aren't planning |
| 5092s | despite it being in the season 5 p |
| 5095s | we aren't planning on these features |
| 5096s | actually launching with season 5 we |
| 5098s | really want to take the feedback make |
| 5100s | them you know better for for when they |
| 5103s | are ready and right now I think the the |
| 5105s | plan would be that they would be ready |
| 5106s | for season 6 but it's important for us |
| 5109s | to be able to get that feedback so we |
| 5110s | really need people to to actually chest |
| 5112s | test test out these uh these um specific |
| 5116s | uh features we have like an autop pin |
| 5118s | feature we have a compass feature uh and |
| 5120s | then we have like a audio uh navigation |
| 5122s | assistance feature that is coming within |
| 5125s | some of these accessibility features for |
| 5126s | season 5 so really important for people |
| 5128s | to kind of like jump in check it out uh |
| 5131s | give us feedback and then you'll see |
| 5133s | those in uh season 6 uh after the PTR is |
| 5136s | kind of over um but that is kind of like |
| 5140s | a a huge wrap up of all the stuff that |
| 5142s | is coming for uh the season 5 PTR and |
| 5144s | even a little bit more of even even some |
| 5147s | of the stuff for season 5 itself um we |
| 5149s | do want to take some questions and we |
| 5151s | still have Dan on the line um from the |
| 5153s | burning HS of Albany uh he to to answer |
| 5157s | any questions that we may have but I |
| 5159s | know we have a question specifically |
| 5160s | teed up so if you have questions please |
| 5162s | ask them in um twitch chat uh which is |
| 5165s | where we have live chat going on right |
| 5167s | now and we will try to get through as |
| 5169s | many as possible cool but first question |
| 5172s | I believe we have is H because I teed up |
| 5175s | this question um are there any new class |
| 5178s | Buffs coming to season 5 specifically if |
| 5181s | Adam can answer Druid and sorceress |
| 5184s | because I know we hear you everyone |
| 5188s | about jid and sorceress I know we talked |
| 5190s | a little bit about it here but if you |
| 5191s | can like expand on it a little yeah yeah |
| 5193s | yeah yes there are new class Ms cover |
| 5195s | season five covered a little bit um I |
| 5198s | think one thing call out that people |
| 5199s | talk a lot about right now is you know |
| 5201s | how Barbarians in particular are pretty |
| 5203s | strong and then you know the the classes |
| 5205s | that can't get as far as they can in the |
| 5206s | pit you know feels kind of bad um |
| 5209s | there's there's a lot to chew on there |
| 5210s | but I think the the short answer is yes |
| 5213s | we hear you and we're going to be |
| 5214s | looking to beef things these things up |
| 5216s | we do have some specific ways that we |
| 5217s | want to be targeting these things um and |
| 5219s | there's a lot of history to it um |
| 5221s | Barbarians in particular are are tougher |
| 5223s | to balance I think I've talked about |
| 5224s | this on stream a little bit before of |
| 5226s | you know because of their Arsenal system |
| 5228s | they have more items you know anytime |
| 5230s | that we mess with and we've messed with |
| 5232s | like the underlying systems of the game |
| 5233s | very heavily in the last year right |
| 5235s | season two we updated all the combat |
| 5237s | math which of course impacts items which |
| 5239s | impacts character power we've uh updated |
| 5242s | in season 4 all of itemization which |
| 5244s | obviously directly impacts the Arsenal |
| 5246s | system very heavily so when we do these |
| 5248s | large shakeups um it's it's way more |
| 5251s | it's a lot more difficult in the short |
| 5252s | amount of time to get everything you |
| 5253s | know exactly perfect of how it the the |
| 5256s | combinatorics of those effects are going |
| 5257s | to impact classes right |
| 5260s | um so that's one end of it another end |
| 5263s | is what we're trying to do and we |
| 5265s | started this with started with this in |
| 5266s | season 4 is we were we're looking at the |
| 5269s | other class mechanics and we want to |
| 5271s | kind of beef them up and give them the |
| 5273s | treatment that we kind of gave with the |
| 5274s | Necromancer in the Book of the Dead you |
| 5276s | know in season 4 we actually wanted to |
| 5278s | try this as an experiment like hey you |
| 5280s | know the Book of the Dead the minions |
| 5281s | the sacrifice bonuses um they're what |
| 5283s | really make Necromancer feel really cool |
| 5285s | and special and unique so we're going to |
| 5287s | you know try and catch that up so to |
| 5289s | speak to the Arsenal system on the |
| 5291s | Barbarian and not only just increase the |
| 5293s | numbers right because just increasing |
| 5294s | the numbers is kind of easy we even did |
| 5295s | that in the mid-season patch if you look |
| 5297s | at the Druid Boons you know we increase |
| 5298s | them by 50% double them in many cases |
| 5301s | but we think to really help solve that |
| 5303s | on the fantasy and even just a design |
| 5306s | perspective we want to like overhaul and |
| 5307s | really look at these mechanics and make |
| 5309s | them way better and more thematic to |
| 5311s | classes so we don't have anything to |
| 5313s | announce today for season five but |
| 5315s | that's something more longterm that |
| 5316s | we're doing to to help that problem in |
| 5318s | the future in the short term we are you |
| 5321s | know looking at you know fixing the |
| 5322s | issues with these various classes |
| 5324s | buffing them up in different ways you |
| 5325s | know making different builds and other |
| 5326s | things viable and trying to keep that |
| 5328s | parody um we're also looking at uh you |
| 5330s | know Bringing Down the outliers of Power |
| 5332s | with the Barbarian in different ways um |
| 5334s | to make sure that they have more parody |
| 5335s | with other classes as well but that's |
| 5337s | kind of our our short and long-term |
| 5339s | vision of where we want this to be |
| 5341s | awesome um I know uh we have a question |
| 5343s | specifically and this is something I've |
| 5345s | seen a few times regarding uh season |
| 5348s | five for for uh Dan because infernal |
| 5351s | hordes people are seeing this gameplay |
| 5352s | and they're hearing about like okay like |
| 5354s | I can play can I play this on Eternal |
| 5357s | and seasonal can uh I play this is this |
| 5360s | like an ongoing thing going forward like |
| 5363s | what what can players expect Dan |
| 5366s | sure yeah so with season five um we |
| 5369s | wanted to build out the endgame and |
| 5373s | because we're building out the endgame |
| 5374s | we wanted to make sure that any of the |
| 5376s | endgame things we're putting in are on |
| 5379s | both seasonal and eternal and so uh in |
| 5383s | this PTR you'll be able to test out the |
| 5385s | Eternal version of infernal hordes and |
| 5389s | so uh any of the rewards you get from it |
| 5392s | all that's Eternal so all players are |
| 5394s | going to benefit from it awesome yeah so |
| 5398s | all players will benefit from it and |
| 5399s | it's and as Dan mentioned it's a it's a |
| 5402s | a new endgame feature so it's like |
| 5404s | something that will be you know |
| 5405s | continuous Beyond you know even season 5 |
| 5408s | is what we're looking at so um yeah |
| 5411s | players can expect to jump in infernal |
| 5412s | hordes going forward which is pretty |
| 5414s | cool uh and yeah the feedback is going |
| 5416s | to be incredibly important during this |
| 5418s | PTR as Dan mentioned beforehand all the |
| 5420s | specific uh items that we're really |
| 5422s | hoping to get you know uh Fe back on uh |
| 5425s | regarding you know how the boons feel |
| 5427s | how the the rewards feel how the the the |
| 5430s | combat feels and the waves and stuff |
| 5432s | like that will be uh really important |
| 5433s | for us during this specific moment |
| 5436s | um what is the this is another season |
| 5439s | five question and hopefully you might be |
| 5440s | able to answer this Dan um what this |
| 5443s | from Lucky Luciano shout out Dia partner |
| 5446s | uh what is the equivalent pit level of |
| 5448s | the eighth difficulty of like the |
| 5450s | infernal hordes pit level I guess or |
| 5453s | nightmare dungeon or monster level yeah |
| 5456s | you're making me do math here um yeah we |
| 5459s | just adjusted pit levels so tier tier |
| 5462s | eight tier eight of the internal hordes |
| 5464s | is going to be uh equivalent to about |
| 5467s | monster level I think it's 180 to 200 so |
| 5472s | it goes up pretty high that's pretty |
| 5473s | late okay nice nice so a difficult |
| 5478s | challenge for sure um which is good to |
| 5480s | hear uh we have a question from uh zap |
| 5486s | do man you all need easier names I swear |
| 5489s | uh uh do you foresee changes in grouping |
| 5492s | in the pit to allow uh Group Play to be |
| 5495s | more efficient um there will be changes |
| 5498s | it won't be something present in PTR uh |
| 5501s | we'll talk more about it at the season |
| 5503s | five launch but the team is very aware |
| 5505s | of it um because we've heard about like |
| 5507s | hey it's kind of not great to feel like |
| 5509s | I'm getting only 50% of you know the |
| 5512s | rewards Associated when I'm in a group |
| 5513s | Within uh a pit if I'm not the the party |
| 5516s | leader specifically so uh it's something |
| 5518s | that the team's taking in and we will uh |
| 5521s | have an update for players before season |
| 5523s | five and it will be live whatever change |
| 5525s | we have uh live in season five so um a |
| 5529s | question from let's |
| 5533s | see well this one's easy okay robot Jomo |
| 5536s | uh what's the team's philosophy on uh |
| 5538s | rate of power gain uh it seems that |
| 5541s | tempering especially uh players gain too |
| 5543s | much power are too quickly really |
| 5545s | removing the tension from leveling up |
| 5547s | experience any chance to add more |
| 5548s | friction uh to tempering materials costs |
| 5551s | Etc yeah uh we have seen a little bit of |
| 5555s | this and heard this feedback ourselves |
| 5556s | um it's kind of going in two different |
| 5558s | ways here so the leveling experience |
| 5560s | then how tempering messes with it right |
| 5562s | um the leveling experience as people |
| 5564s | probably have seen has been sped up |
| 5566s | quite a bit right we do want people to |
| 5568s | be able to kind of level quickly and get |
| 5570s | to the the fun of the game as quickly as |
| 5572s | possible so we do want them you know we |
| 5574s | don't want there to be a ton of friction |
| 5576s | like you know when we first launched the |
| 5577s | game we we had the idea that like |
| 5579s | getting to level 100 alone was a big |
| 5582s | accomplishment right um and we've |
| 5585s | learned that you know players really |
| 5586s | want to like fulfill their power |
| 5588s | fantasies get to the part where they're |
| 5589s | actually like incrementally increasing |
| 5591s | their characters power and finding |
| 5592s | things to use that power against and so |
| 5594s | they they enjoy that end game a lot and |
| 5595s | we want to get them there in a |
| 5597s | reasonable amount of time so that's the |
| 5599s | part that is like you know hey you know |
| 5601s | it's fine level quicker it's good right |
| 5602s | but then the other part is like |
| 5604s | tempering and kind of the tuning of the |
| 5606s | aexes um we have heard the feedback and |
| 5608s | and kind of agree with it that you know |
| 5609s | the early tempering recipes are are |
| 5611s | really really strong right um that was |
| 5614s | by Design when we launched season 4 uh |
| 5616s | one of the big kind of mandates to the |
| 5618s | team that we felt was important was we |
| 5621s | wanted you know before season 4 we |
| 5623s | constantly got the feedback and and knew |
| 5625s | it was true that you know your item |
| 5627s | stats weren't interesting enough and |
| 5629s | didn't matter enough and weren't very |
| 5630s | impactful and just didn't feel good |
| 5632s | right and so we we very much like Juiced |
| 5635s | them up to be very strong and then this |
| 5637s | new tempering system that manipulates |
| 5638s | them we made it very strong so that out |
| 5640s | the gate our goal was that when you |
| 5642s | temper an item you can really feel the |
| 5644s | damage it wasn't like this incremental |
| 5646s | oh my damage goes up in like 10 |
| 5647s | different places here and there and now |
| 5649s | I'm strong it was like no this one thing |
| 5651s | happened and you felt it and it was good |
| 5653s | and so we're going to you know try and |
| 5655s | walk that line we're going to probably |
| 5656s | go a little more in between here where |
| 5658s | you know we do agree that the tempering |
| 5660s | is warping the early game experience too |
| 5661s | much to the point that it's like you |
| 5663s | pick up an and you don't care about the |
| 5665s | stats because you just temper something |
| 5666s | on and it's like way better right so we |
| 5668s | don't want that but we do still want |
| 5670s | them to feel and be really impactful so |
| 5673s | we have heard the feedback um I don't |
| 5676s | remember don't think we have huge |
| 5677s | adjustments in season five right away |
| 5679s | but we are going to be looking at that |
| 5681s | leveling process and and streaming |
| 5683s | lining that quite a bit um we're having |
| 5685s | time having in talks about that right |
| 5686s | now with various members of the team so |
| 5688s | it will be looked at uh not tons will |
| 5690s | change in season 5 though awesome uh |
| 5693s | question from razzled Daz Dazzle deris |
| 5697s | Razzle Dazzle Daris it's a long name to |
| 5699s | log in on H did you say we can temper |
| 5702s | uniques uh are you open to letting us |
| 5705s | imprint affixes I had this thought we |
| 5707s | can imprint a unique but only once yeah |
| 5710s | uh going back that was kind of what I |
| 5711s | talked about with the unique section we |
| 5714s | right now know I'm not going to say |
| 5716s | never in the future it's definitely the |
| 5718s | obvious thing that we could do like you |
| 5719s | know just add tempering to uniques of |
| 5720s | course um but we we want them to have |
| 5724s | identity that is very different from |
| 5725s | legendaries U one of the concerns with |
| 5727s | that is that the more that you give |
| 5728s | uniques manipulation the more that they |
| 5731s | just turn into legendaries with a |
| 5732s | different item color when they drop on |
| 5733s | the ground right like they're actually |
| 5735s | not different in how they work if we |
| 5736s | were able to manipul manipulate stats |
| 5738s | add stats all those things so we do want |
| 5741s | them to have a different identity in the |
| 5742s | game um so we're not doing it now but |
| 5744s | you know in the future we've talked |
| 5746s | about it we're we're open to the idea |
| 5747s | but we do want to try this first of like |
| 5750s | double down you on what makes it unique |
| 5752s | unique and that you build around it it's |
| 5753s | a there a little bit of friction um |
| 5755s | rather than just turning it into the |
| 5757s | item that you want every time yep uh |
| 5759s | question from baric is uh hey Adam or |
| 5762s | Adams um I have a question for the Q&A |
| 5765s | how is the dev team feeling about the |
| 5766s | reception of season 4 is that making |
| 5768s | them rethink any plans for future |
| 5770s | Seasons I mean I think one thing that we |
| 5772s | can most definitely call out here is |
| 5773s | like obviously season 4 has been really |
| 5775s | great like we've been hearing a lot of |
| 5777s | great feedback from players um and you |
| 5779s | know we're very well aware of like you |
| 5781s | know how everyone's been enjoying it um |
| 5783s | I think one huge thing that's helped |
| 5785s | with that as well was like the idea that |
| 5787s | we had a PTR for season 4 and now we're |
| 5789s | seeing that again for season 5 um so |
| 5792s | like we we know like having that moment |
| 5794s | where players can actually jump in |
| 5795s | provide feedback uh give us some some |
| 5797s | notes on specific things is really |
| 5799s | beneficial especially when we have like |
| 5800s | new huge features like what we did for |
| 5803s | season 4 which was you know obviously |
| 5805s | tempering masterworking uh the pit all |
| 5808s | new hell Tides there was a ton of new |
| 5809s | features and then of course with season |
| 5811s | 5 you know players are now going to be |
| 5813s | able to run through infernal horde uh |
| 5815s | tons of new gear and and uh legendary |
| 5818s | aspects for them so it's just like a ton |
| 5820s | of stuff that we know that we can most |
| 5822s | definitely take feedback on having those |
| 5824s | moments has really helped us with some |
| 5826s | of those decisions yeah I would say on |
| 5828s | on the design team side I know like the |
| 5830s | people on the team are very happy with |
| 5831s | how season 4 went it couldn't have |
| 5832s | gotten better really in our eyes um PTR |
| 5835s | was a huge deal um helped us a lot |
| 5837s | especially on the balance and design |
| 5838s | side to you know get things into a |
| 5840s | better place um another thing I may call |
| 5843s | out with season 4 is that um how to |
| 5846s | phrase |
| 5847s | it |
| 5849s | like you know there's been a lot of |
| 5851s | disruption to the game right and so when |
| 5855s | there's that much disruption of like you |
| 5857s | know we update all the core math and all |
| 5858s | the items and everything you know it's |
| 5859s | very difficult to get things into a |
| 5861s | fine-tuned state right and you know |
| 5863s | without giving anything away we have big |
| 5865s | updates coming in the future with you |
| 5866s | know expansion and other things but one |
| 5868s | of the things that we're we're looking |
| 5870s | forward to I think as a team is when |
| 5871s | we've kind of uh settled down a little |
| 5873s | bit on the big disruptions like |
| 5875s | overhauling all of itemization and |
| 5877s | things like that because um you know it |
| 5880s | becomes a lot more difficult to find |
| 5881s | tune things like balance or even on the |
| 5884s | design side like designs and making sure |
| 5885s | that they work and that we're like it |
| 5888s | iterating and upgrading things versus |
| 5891s | you know changing things around in huge |
| 5892s | ways so while we think it was really |
| 5894s | successful and we're happy with how |
| 5896s | itemization 2.0 turned out um the team |
| 5899s | is looking forward to like making the |
| 5901s | things as they are and make them work |
| 5903s | better and and more do fine-tuning work |
| 5905s | and so I think you can expect in the |
| 5906s | future as a player um you know after |
| 5909s | we've done some more disruption and made |
| 5910s | the game like in a really good place |
| 5912s | we're very happy with it which we're |
| 5913s | really close to now I think um that |
| 5915s | you're you know you have tighter class |
| 5917s | balance tighter designs tighter roles |
| 5919s | for things and just you know the one of |
| 5922s | the things that excites me and excited |
| 5924s | the team about season 4 was like the |
| 5925s | tons of quality of life improvements and |
| 5927s | how much of an impact that makes on |
| 5928s | players which I think we knew but it hit |
| 5931s | home in season 4 right like just the |
| 5933s | Codex a how that changed and how that |
| 5935s | completely fixed you know the hoarding |
| 5937s | of items and things like that I think |
| 5940s | are what really Jazz us a lot because it |
| 5942s | just makes that flow experience better |
| 5943s | like the boss ladder you know being able |
| 5945s | to reset bosses stuff like that I think |
| 5946s | is actually really impactful um and good |
| 5949s | for for the longevity of the game so |
| 5951s | we're excited to do more things like |
| 5952s | that all right uh last question that we |
| 5956s | have here uh is uh |
| 5960s | s well it's just sadan sadan with the Z |
| 5964s | and 666 afterwards very good yeah very |
| 5967s | Diablo theme is specifically asking uh |
| 5970s | what is the seasonal theme um or are we |
| 5974s | like holding back any information right |
| 5976s | now regarding that and stuff uh Dan I |
| 5978s | don't know if you want to clarify here |
| 5980s | or if you want me to you |
| 5983s | can all right so um we haven't announced |
| 5987s | the name for the season yet uh as far as |
| 5990s | I know but the the seasonal theme seems |
| 5994s | I guess fairly obvious um you know we're |
| 5997s | going back to hell and so uh the theme |
| 6001s | is pretty much returning to hell and |
| 6004s | while the infernal hordes is uh just one |
| 6007s | part of that uh the rewards are another |
| 6010s | part and uh when we have our our season |
| 6013s | five live stream uh we'll go into all of |
| 6017s | the rest of the things that we have |
| 6018s | planned for season five exactly yeah we |
| 6021s | have uh we have some yeah we have some |
| 6023s | we have some additional Stu uh to to |
| 6026s | talk about when we we do actually have |
| 6028s | our season 5 live stream we're just uh |
| 6030s | right now the biggest Focus for this |
| 6032s | stream is for people to hear about the |
| 6033s | content that they're going to be able to |
| 6034s | play in PTR um and we want people to |
| 6037s | really hone in and focus in on that uh |
| 6040s | so we can actually get that feedback uh |
| 6042s | for the team here and we can make any |
| 6044s | changes that we may need to so um but |
| 6047s | yeah that is kind of uh going to wrap |
| 6048s | this up for today for for a Q&A um I I'm |
| 6052s | going to lightning round like a few |
| 6054s | quick things I'm sure chat will kill me |
| 6055s | if I don't call it out now we're getting |
| 6057s | a lot of questions about loadouts it is |
| 6059s | again still something that we are very |
| 6061s | well aware of and we we still plan on |
| 6063s | it's just takes a lot of time it's a |
| 6065s | huge huge uh amount of uh overhaul |
| 6068s | changes and everything from that end uh |
| 6071s | separately uh we uh this has been coming |
| 6074s | up a lot auction house there are |
| 6076s | currently no plans right now for for |
| 6078s | something like that but uh we we hear |
| 6080s | you guys we we we feedback things like |
| 6083s | that let us know um but right now those |
| 6085s | are those are the two big things that I |
| 6087s | I I've been seeing a ton in chat I just |
| 6089s | want to address them before people go |
| 6090s | like you're not reading chat you're |
| 6093s | you're in some like alternate universe |
| 6094s | chat or something like that um but uh |
| 6097s | PTR again just to remind everyone starts |
| 6099s | next Tuesday uh it runs for one week |
| 6101s | it's on PC Battlenet only please provide |
| 6104s | feedback on our forums Reddit social |
| 6106s | media our community Discord things like |
| 6108s | that uh we're always looking around uh |
| 6110s | we really are we really value the |
| 6113s | feedback that we get get during these |
| 6114s | PTR processes and of course uh at the |
| 6117s | same time we patch notes on the blog are |
| 6120s | live immediately after this stream so |
| 6122s | check out Diablo 4.com when those do get |
| 6124s | up uh next time you guys see us next |
| 6127s | time we stream is July 18th it's the |
| 6130s | spirit born |
| 6132s | reveal yeah everyone gets to check out |
| 6134s | the uh the the the spirit born so we'll |
| 6137s | be back live on stream on July 18th |
| 6140s | we'll be revealing the brand new class |
| 6143s | coming to Diablo 4 uh that will be part |
| 6145s | of vessel of hatred so really excited |
| 6148s | about that and uh yeah I think that |
| 6150s | wraps it up I want to give a huge shout |
| 6152s | out to Dan and Albany yeah stay cool |
| 6155s | Dan enjoy the |
| 6159s | acol the burning fire under him exactly |
| 6162s | uh and thank you again Adam Jackson and |
| 6165s | from everyone on the Diablo 4 team we |
| 6168s | wish you a wonderful weekend and we'll |
| 6170s | see you in PTR next week thank you |
| 6171s | everybody see you guys |
| 6185s | [Music] |