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1272s hello everyone I'm here to tell you
1274s about a new endgame event called the
1277s abire of zir and the return of a few
1279s malignant Powers my name is Ruben I go
1282s by Bloodshed in the community some of
1284s you might already know me I'm here today
1286s with Alex Yang a systems G designer and
1289s Adam Jackson the lead live class
1291s designer for all of Diablo 4 the avire
1294s of zir is an endgame Pinnacle dungeon
1297s event built into Diablo I they're meant
1299s to be really challenging for the player
1302s the way it works is it's a complete race
1304s against the clock you jump in Kill as
1306s many demons as you can fill up that
1308s progress bar once complete a boss will
1311s spawn kill the boss do this all before
1313s the timer runs out you will not be able
1315s to enter until you complete all seven TI
1318s years of your season Journey event but
1320s once this task is finished go ahead and
1322s head over to the occultist a new recipe
1324s will be available for a blood Forge
1326s sigil so you're going to want to go
1327s ahead and craft one use it consume it
1330s once consumed a portal will open up in
1332s Ked bardu it's a big blood portal you'll
1335s be fine just just go in there don't
1337s worry about it by completing the
1339s abattoir of zir dungeon you will now
1340s earn a brand new Tears of Blood glyph
1344s this incredibly strong item boosts rare
1347s nodes within its range but different to
1349s nightmare dungeons it has a cap 10 times
1352s bigger than normal sigils so I'm curious
1354s just how high players can get it to this
1356s season you will also get a recipe to
1358s craft a blood Forge sigil one tier
1361s higher than what you just completed at
1362s the
1365s occultist for some questions I'm
1367s accompanied by Alex Yang a systems
1369s designer for Diablo 4 uh Question Time
1372s Alex what's the highest level I can get
1374s a blood forged sigil to so the sigil and
1377s dungeon both go up to tier 25 but this
1379s covers a much wider difficulty range
1381s than you might be used to from 25 tiers
1382s of something like a nightmare dungeon by
1384s condensing this large difficulty curve
1386s down to only 25 tiers we want to make
1388s sure that each tier feels like a
1389s meaningful goal that you can strive for
1390s on its own that's awesome uh when can we
1393s expect to play it the abire of Zer goes
1395s live on December 5th 2023 in patch
1398s 1.2.3 as a pinnacle endgame challenge we
1401s want to make sure that you have enough
1402s time to prepare your ideal character for
1403s it so this is around two months into the
1405s season with one month to go for you to
1407s push it to its limits afterwards the
1409s Thematic event will end but you will
1411s have larger leaderboards to look forward
1412s to coming in season 3 awesome Alex thank
1415s you for your time I appreciate the
1416s information and I'm sure the community
1418s does as well enough about zir another
1421s amazing feature being added to the
1422s season of blood is the return and rework
1425s of some malignant powers that players
1428s really seem to enjoy you can expect to
1430s find five different unique rings that
1432s harness the power of the malignant to
1434s recap malignant Powers were a boost in a
1437s previous season that granted you various
1439s abilities in the season of blood though
1441s you can expect to find five of these
1443s powers in unique rings that harness the
1445s power of the malignant starting November
1448s 7th now a good amount of those malignant
1450s powers are incredibly strong the DIA
1453s team are reworking and bringing these
1454s powers back but with a healthy balance
1457s in mind for the long term one of these
1459s in particular is a fan favorite the
1461s sacrus this ring if you don't remember
1464s will AutoCast all your corpse skills but
1466s will have a separate cooldown for each
1468s skill cast Ray skeleton and corpse
1470s explosion cast every 1 to 2 seconds
1472s where corpse tendrils can be cast every
1474s 8 to 16 seconds I didn't get a chance to
1477s play Necromancer I know sadly um in the
1480s season of malignant so I'm excited I'm
1482s stoked to Jump Right In barbarians you
1484s remember Focus raged well it's now
1486s called fur after spending 100 Fury
1489s within 3 seconds your next Hammer of the
1491s Ancients upheaval or death blow is
1494s guaranteed to crit and do more damage
1496s smash very good for Rogues the trickery
1499s power will make a return when you use
1500s the subu skill leave behind a trap that
1503s taunts enemies and explodes demons to
1506s pieces sorceresses can obtain the power
1509s of T Rasha himself gaining increased
1511s damage for each element you deal damage
1514s with and Druids we got to rename here in
1517s exorable force is now called in exorable
1519s will so when you cast your ultimate
1521s skill you pull up to 30 enemies toward
1524s you and deal damage it's so great to see
1526s these malignant Powers return
1528s it's just more tools to build with and
1531s I'm I'm all for
1535s it all right Adam I hope you're ready to
1537s sink your teeth into some of these
1539s questions yeah totally I'm excited to
1541s get into it let's do it I got to ask
1543s well all the malignant Powers eventually
1546s make a return to the game yeah we have
1547s no current plans to bring back every
1549s single bant power but we are taking a
1551s look at what players love and we're very
1553s open to the idea of bring back fan
1555s favorites well I want all of them so
1558s where can I find them yeah so you can
1560s start finding these Powers when you get
1562s into World tier 3 and if you want to
1563s Target Farm them then you'll be able to
1565s get them off of our Sean Target farming
1567s is like one of the coolest features in
1569s Diablo 4 so I love that we have the
1571s ability to do that will every seasonal
1573s theme also make their way back into the
1575s game yeah that's a good question it's
1578s likely you're not going to see every
1579s single part of a seasonal theme come
1581s back into Diablo 4 but we're definitely
1583s taking a look at what parts of these
1584s themes resonate with players and we're
1587s we're open to the idea of kind of
1589s bringing back the things that people
1590s really love to improve the game
1591s experience for everyone all this sounds
1594s absolutely phenomenal thank you so much
1596s for your time yeah thank you hope you
1598s enjoy your time in sanctuary I'll see
1600s you in sanctuary That Just About Does it
1602s for today shout out to you guys for
1604s watching all the way through we
1605s appreciate it and I'll see you in
1607s sanctuary hello welcome Dia 4 Community
1611s to another episode of Diablo 4 campfire
1614s chats my name is Adam Fletcher I am the
1617s director of community here for Diablo of
1619s course I'm joined by two very familiar
1621s faces here uh Mr Joe shell game director
1624s of Diablo 4 Mr Joe pipor who is the
1627s associate game director for Diablo 4 we
1629s have a a quick stream kind of quick
1632s stream to go over some some stuff that's
1634s coming down the road here uh in the next
1636s couple weeks uh which includes uh Avatar
1639s zir and midwinter blight uh so lots to
1643s talk about um what but what's kind of
1645s cool about this stream is that it's uh
1647s it is our final stream of the year the
1649s final stream of 2023 we're closing it
1651s out we're closing it out and this is
1653s actually um it's been a year now since
1656s we started these streams we started with
1658s uh Diablo 4 uh developer up uh updates
1661s uh on was it mid December last year I
1665s believe so we're hitting a one-year
1667s anniversary now and of course uh on that
1669s Deb stream I had these two wonderful
1671s gentlemen who joined us as well so yeah
1674s we uh we have all it's been a year it's
1676s crazy we've all grown so much I know we
1678s went from hand models to holding maps
1680s and things like that to uh campfire
1683s chats which we even brought to BlizzCon
1685s which was actually really cool last
1686s month and of course uh now we're here to
1690s talk about appar of's year um but before
1693s we actually do jump into that I know uh
1696s there is a very popular question within
1699s chat and a very popular question within
1702s the community that we want to address
1704s before we jump in uh which is um is
1707s Diablo for bringing pay for power to the
1712s game yeah no we not um we've been very
1716s clear about this throughout uh very and
1719s I think very consistent about it and
1721s that continues to be true um and that
1723s that also applies to things like um
1726s addressing uh stash uh uh making sure
1729s that players have enough stash space to
1731s store things we talked about this at
1733s BlizzCon we talked about getting aspects
1735s out of your stash inventory we had a
1737s Dash tab in season 2 we think that
1740s having uh enough space for a a regular
1743s player to feel like they are good in
1746s terms of being able to store the things
1747s they need is Baseline functionality yeah
1750s and we have no plans to add uh any pay
1752s for power to the game yeah it's been a a
1755s very popular question this week and of
1756s course we've been seeing it a lot in
1758s chat even as we're we were in our
1760s countdown we wanted to make sure we
1762s talked about it early with everyone to
1765s reassure people that no that is not the
1767s plan for four uh and players are still
1770s going to be able to enjoy it without the
1771s need of of needing to pay for for any
1774s type of power or anything like that so
1777s and there won't be any of that in there
1778s so great to hear uh and I know that we
1781s have a lot to talk about today the first
1783s thing we did want to mention though uh
1785s is actually um midwinter blight which is
1787s an event uh that is actually going to be
1789s coming up here on December 12th uh it is
1792s our holiday event it's actually our
1794s first holiday event it's funny cuz
1796s people have asked us about you know hey
1798s what about Halloween where and you know
1800s we kind of remind people that like
1802s season of blood is kind of
1804s Halloween it's it's very much focused in
1806s around Vamp vampires it's got
1808s Skellington I mean it's got all the same
1810s stuff you expect to get from a Halloween
1812s exactly exactly so midwinter blight
1814s coming December 12th uh is our holiday
1817s event that we uh talked about and we
1819s announced at BlizzCon but we wanted to
1821s talk a little bit more about that today
1824s uh Joe um can you give us a little bit
1826s more info Joe
1828s yeah sure so yeah midwinter blight as I
1830s know that people got a chance to see the
1832s some of the video stuff before and like
1834s we talked about it BlizzCon but Mid
1835s Winter blood is obviously our first like
1838s true and proper you know holiday event
1840s we're BR to sanctuary in Diablo I uh in
1842s it you know we're going to be visiting
1844s the fracture Peaks again where a like a
1846s horrible storm has like descended upon
1848s the people of the yeah here we are the
1850s has descended upon the people of the
1851s fracture Peaks now we're going to be
1853s introduced to a uh a new character named
1856s Gillian like a who's a bar you know
1858s Gillian is here trying to like Rouse the
1860s spirits of the people of kashad trying
1862s to help them work together to push back
1864s against you know a new threat that's
1866s emerging from like the hills and
1867s mountains nearby coming down uh you know
1870s from the glacier and down from the you
1871s know the mountainous Peaks nearby so Joe
1874s can I trust this guy though because I
1876s don't have a good track record with
1878s musicians in I think that anyone that
1880s plays music in the fractur Peaks is
1881s generally trustworthy so I think that
1883s you're going to be looking a little
1884s sketch there trusted all those f I I
1888s don't think that's fair to those of us
1889s who who boast to have nice facial hair I
1891s think that Gillian is a perfectly
1892s trustworthy person so with that in mind
1895s uh so Gillian there trying to Rous
1896s people together and they're going to be
1898s sending the heroes of sanctuary off into
1900s the fracture Peaks to fight against this
1902s new threat the Red Cloak hor and his
1904s minions you know were're out there kind
1905s of like causing great Mayhem they're
1907s kind of erecting these these disgusting
1909s uh snow sculptures uh out of discard
1912s Parts uh throughout the environment yeah
1914s here is a a group of the redcloak terror
1917s Horrors minions just kind of like
1918s running around uh they're very very
1920s dangerous creatures they're but they're
1921s also fun they're kind of like they're
1923s having a good time with it like they're
1924s they're enjoying this season this this
1926s they're in this they're in it for the
1928s spirit of it which is just basically
1929s causing Law Of Mayhem and destruction
1931s and pain for the people so you get a
1933s chance to feel a little bit as you're
1934s going through the uh the event here is
1935s our our main boy the uh the red CL car
1938s himself uh this is going to be your
1940s opportunity to go and fight this this
1942s boss will occasionally pop into the the
1944s content you'll get good rewards from him
1947s as you're kind of progressing through
1948s the event and he will take all of these
1950s these like trophies and things you're
1951s collecting from all of his minions and
1953s kind of as you're engaging in various
1954s events and saving people in sanctuary
1956s able to bring these back to kovas Shad
1958s be able to unlock some really cool
1959s Cosmetics awesome yeah and I know
1961s there's even um a few like kind of
1964s exclusive things for the beyond the
1966s Cosmetics for this event such as we have
1969s an Elixir for instance that actually
1972s grants a little bit uh more um
1975s experience yeah yeah there's an Elixir
1976s that grants 10% extra experience when
1978s you're uh when you're drinking it uh it
1979s also gives you other effects when you're
1981s active inside the fractured Peaks but
1982s you can also just use it for the XP if
1983s you want yeah and I will note the XP
1985s actually does work even outside of fraer
1987s peak so it's like hey it's a an extra
1989s bonus for players if they're looking to
1991s to grab a little bit of extra uh
1993s experience and then there is also for
1996s this event a a a new like offensive
1999s aspect yeah there's a new seasonal
2000s aspect you get to play with kind of like
2002s dovet tales with some of the new shrines
2003s and things we have throughout the
2004s environment so there's a lot of fun
2006s stuff for players to engage with
2007s throughout the season and again like
2008s again a lot of really cool Cosmetics to
2010s collect yeah so yeah it's a lot of cool
2012s stuff coming in midwinter BL and these
2014s um the things some folks might be
2016s wondering if the things like The Elixir
2018s and the aspects persist after midwinter
2020s blight ends and they do right they do
2022s yeah they they will persist after the
2024s event ends but you'll have to you'll
2025s only be able to collect them now during
2026s this period of time exactly so like
2028s stock up there go stock up for the for
2031s the uh The Elixir themselves and of
2033s course uh midwinter blight is on
2035s December 12th so uh make sure to log
2037s again uh and it'll be running through
2039s the holidays um for for players to
2041s actually jump in and uh check out from
2043s that end uh but the next other big thing
2046s yeah that's like two weeks away what's
2047s happening next week yeah what's
2049s happening next week so we're actually
2050s going to go back or to the week prior to
2053s December 12th and uh on December 5th as
2056s you would naturally do you naturally
2058s work out two weeks then come back with
2060s because you're talking through things
2062s organization but yeah we would we're
2065s actually going to move to December 5th
2067s which will the avire of zir this is a
2069s new endgame mode that we're actually
2071s adding to um Diablo 4 uh it's for a
2075s limited time only it's a seasonal event
2077s specifically uh that we announced at
2079s BlizzCon and um we are actually for the
2083s first time on one of our streams we're
2084s going to have a live run through of the
2088s epor Zer uh starring you won't be able
2091s to see this wonderful man uh uh on
2094s camera but he is miked up because we
2096s wanted to hear him struggleing
2097s uh that is uh Filthy Rich he's actually
2101s a senior community manager on the
2103s community team here on on Diablo you may
2105s have recognized his names or his names
2108s his name uh on our forums um po posting
2111s patch notes hot fix notes Etc uh rich is
2114s amazing and he is actually going to be
2116s showcasing a little bit of abatar Zer
2118s for
2120s us had the dog in DIA prac this the dog
2124s wasn't there in case we in case it
2125s wasn't clear that is still a feature
2127s again yeah say hi Rich yeah hi everybody
2130s there we go okay there we go there's a
2131s spin of friendship okay so we are yeah
2133s it's funny it's like last stream of the
2135s year and we're doing it live this is fun
2137s uh now and when we say live we're
2139s talking about this is a this is a live
2143s like he's playing for real right now
2145s that is that is what I was referencing
2146s but I wasn't clear that's true but it is
2148s on a uh Dev server y so we we W run into
2152s other players and it is on a Dev build
2155s so might be some debug text or unless
2157s Dev just happens to run it through who's
2159s also on the Ser could Happ yeah yeah you
2162s might see you might see some weird stuff
2164s folks and if people if I'm fearful we
2166s just we just sent out this megaphone to
2168s the team running over the well anyway
2171s this is the first time we've done
2172s something like that that's absolutely
2173s right and if you complain about it we
2174s just won't do it again and wouldn't you
2175s rather just see really cool stuff I bet
2176s you would so let's yeah let's see all
2180s right so rich what uh what build are you
2182s going to be running here for us today
2183s yeah so uh on my side I'm actually going
2186s to be running
2188s a popular build the ball lightning build
2191s uh I'm going to wait for Joe to kind of
2192s explain some of the earlier stuffs
2194s basically the lot of the gameplay Loop
2196s stuff but uh pretty familiar for those
2198s who've been watching a lot of the
2200s endgame material for ball lightning uh
2203s specifically for this I really focused
2204s around like survivability Mobility uh
2207s with the sprinkle of DPS but I think
2209s before we get into it
2212s sprinkle ball know for it's low it's low
2215s damage output capacity absolutely uh so
2218s yeah so rich here so when you let's say
2221s we're talking about the Avatar of Zer I
2222s know we talked about this before but
2224s they initiated it's going to be a new
2226s endgame dungeon content experience for
2228s players to engage with that really
2229s unlocks after you finish the season
2231s journey of season 2 so if you really
2233s want to go and start kind going through
2234s this content you'll need to have done
2236s all the things in the season beforehand
2238s to be able to gain access to the very
2239s first uh blood forward sigil able to
2242s craft here at the occultist now once
2244s you've taken this sigil know this is
2246s going to open up a new dungeon space is
2248s going to be more challenging than a tier
2250s 100 nightmare dungeon now there are 25
2253s tiers of the uh of the avatars here for
2256s players to engage with and each of these
2258s does get progressively much more
2260s challenging as you step up much more
2262s challenging than say going from like a a
2264s tier you know 75 nightmare dungeon to a
2266s tier 76 nightmare dungeon you know going
2268s from a tier one to a tier two to a tier
2270s three these are really significant steps
2271s by comparison so and we want this cuz
2273s like we're giving like season 2's been a
2275s lot of fun like I'm having a lot of fun
2276s playing even my my firewall sorc right
2277s now uh it is it is uh there's there we
2280s want to make sure that there's a really
2281s good place or place be able to bring all
2283s this power they've been collecting from
2284s like whether they're farming durial for
2286s Uber uniques or just they get a really
2288s really great combination of vampiric
2289s powers when I have a place where they
2291s can go to like to to really show off and
2294s like really push hard into a type of
2297s content that's the the focus here yeah
2299s and you know we mentioned you you
2302s mentioned just now that the uh the
2304s Avatar requires that you've completed
2306s the season Journey right and so the
2308s season Journey the last step of the
2310s Season Journey requires um uh you can
2313s skip two of the things two of the
2314s objectives but there're still difficult
2315s objectives like complete like hild
2317s durial even if you skip like echo of
2319s Lilith and um the the tier 90 nightmare
2321s dungeon requirement and that's not
2324s arbitrary that's because characters who
2327s uh haven't aren't able to do that really
2329s are not ready for Avatar here so I know
2332s there are a lot of folks who are level
2333s 100 out there who maybe haven't
2336s completed this yet we've got this
2337s weekend coming up um so get your get
2340s your season Journey finished exactly and
2342s and if players still haven't completed
2345s by you know this weekend or when avatars
2347s year actually hits they still have they
2349s can still complete it anytime when the
2351s uh seasonal event is actually going on
2353s and jump in uh even afterwards so uh if
2356s if youve got plans this weekend or
2358s something like that and can finish it
2359s don't worry it's okay you can still do
2361s that uh over the next couple weeks
2363s because this event will be going uh
2364s through January um or the beginning of
2366s January
2367s you still have time you still have time
2369s so uh I Know Rich here has actually as
2372s we were talking spawn a a level one uh
2376s Avatar uh using um the the sigils
2379s himself right there so um I think this
2382s is a a good opportunity for for him to
2383s kind of jump in uh yeah so rich has done
2386s a little of this content on his uh his
2388s his character here already um so you
2391s know he's he's he's got a little bit of
2392s a preview of how it's going to play uh
2394s how it's it going to feel to play
2395s through but uh I think it's going to be
2396s pretty fun Let's uh let's see how he he
2398s performs yeah and I think one thing that
2400s I did want to address on uh that I saw
2402s from chat is that uh character that I
2405s have is as close as I can be to being
2407s maxed out you know because you know this
2410s is trying to be as relatively close to
2412s what I've been practicing on which has
2413s been the tier level 100 nightmare
2416s Dungeons and I think there's a few
2418s things that I wanted to call out as well
2421s um on the
2423s actual uh on the actual sigil itself I
2426s think one difference here is that like
2427s I'm not aware of what afflictions I'm
2430s going to encounter in this battle so I
2432s think you know capping things or getting
2434s as close to as cap I can for things like
2437s uh my armor my uh Magic resist my damage
2441s and all those just really trying to be
2443s ready and prepared for any surprises
2445s yeah I know rich is you've you've
2447s because you've played through Avatar a
2448s little bit you've built a little bit
2450s more
2450s survival uh on your on your sorc here um
2454s as opposed to like completely last can
2456s Canon he's a little bit more prepared
2458s than I think some other people would be
2461s um but uh I know with uh us showcasing
2464s here a level one Avatar uh kind of at
2467s least showcases a little bit it how
2469s would you guys compare this to like a
2471s nightmare dungeon in terms of like tier
2473s uh difficulty or like would it be
2475s similar to like a nightmare dungeon in
2477s terms of tier uh with the level one yeah
2480s the level one Avatar of year is like
2482s kind of close to what like a like a
2483s level 104 might be like that's kind of
2485s where things start uh and then things
2487s step up from there now uh you'll see
2490s here right off the bat there's there's
2491s some big differences right like on the
2492s right hand side you see that there's a
2494s bar that's being filled uh you know
2496s Avatar of Zer runs are really races
2498s Against Time uh so rich here is really
2501s focus on killing creatures as fast as he
2503s can uh in an effort to kind of beat that
2505s timer and summon the boss at the end of
2506s The Experience you know uh loose not
2508s dropping for him as he's kind of rolling
2510s through the things we don't want to slow
2511s you down we want to keep you killing as
2513s fast as you can to show off uh your
2515s ability to kind of like survive in these
2516s enir environments now as we step up one
2519s one thing we think is uh is is is
2521s interesting about this is you know we
2523s actually um taking one step back
2525s actually some of the things that that
2526s that Joe's talked about when we were at
2528s the uh at bcon um was our commitment to
2531s uh endgame content and uh and
2533s itemization rewards and things the
2535s things we want to do to make the
2536s continue to make the game better Avatar
2538s of Zer is like it's it's designed
2540s explicitly to appeal to players who are
2541s at this stage of the gameplay experience
2543s and we're looking we're going to be
2544s using it to kind of like think about
2546s itate upon more features like this we
2548s want to bring out in the future that's
2549s one of the reason why it's a seasonal
2551s seasonal event you know it's a fun
2553s experience for season 2 but we'll have
2555s slightly different ideas in the future
2556s of how we want to kind of create similar
2558s content M yeah that's a great Point yeah
2561s and I know um with like we can see Rich
2565s by the way Rich has been so lucky with
2567s shrines every single time we watch them
2569s go through he like consistently gets
2571s artillery shrines which um I'm just
2575s going to claim like like I don't know
2577s Community
2578s manager Community manager RNG yes uh you
2583s know I'm going to be 100% honest with
2585s everyone here and those watching on I
2588s went super tanky because I think one of
2590s the nightmares that I would have is
2591s actually to die in the middle of a demo
2594s uh we'll make that happen I promise uh
2597s but the I know the um with level one as
2600s you can see rich is like well ahead of
2602s time so he's clearly geared out and and
2604s ready for a level one um but at the end
2607s of the the these avatars we'll see here
2609s in a second as he gets to time um we we
2612s do have a little bit of a like kind of
2615s an end period for for players a little
2616s bit more of a challenge towards the end
2618s yeah so uh yeah one thing that's making
2620s this particularly interesting is uh with
2622s the vampir powers in season two uh with
2624s Rich running metamorphosis regularly I
2626s mean he's basically got like permanent
2627s Unstoppable you know he's just kind of
2629s like using flicker step to keep
2630s resetting that unstable currents and he
2632s is just keeping that 4 second
2634s Unstoppable uptime and you summon the
2637s boss and wow that was spicy right off
2638s the bat so every time you manage to
2640s clear one of these levels you're going
2641s to summon three blood Seekers who are
2643s you know pretty strong are going to have
2644s the uh you know affixes of their own uh
2646s you're going to have to go ahead and
2647s clear through the timer is still ticking
2650s but uh you know Rich has got a really
2652s good healthy lead on the timer right now
2653s so I don't think that's going to be a
2654s problem it's just going to be a question
2655s of whether or not he get spiked by
2657s something he didn't expect but with the
2659s amount of barrier you should be able to
2660s pack with your sorc at this point I
2661s don't think that should be a problem
2662s this is a unfavorable Spa I don't like I
2665s don't like this spot
2667s you're you're on some tight Corners I
2669s think in every single practice this has
2670s happened but what I'm what I'm feeling
2673s lucky about is that I don't have a
2674s suppressor which is definitely a for me
2677s my ball lightning but yes I'll pass it
2679s back over to you cuz there's actually
2680s some pretty cool stuff uh to call out
2683s over here yeah so yeah okay so Upon
2685s finishing your first run through the
2686s Avatar of year you're going to actually
2688s you're going to earn your first you're
2689s going to earn rather the special glyph
2691s associated with the seasonal event which
2692s is the tears of blood glyph that you can
2694s see here now Rich already SP spend a
2696s little uh spend some XP on this
2698s upgrading it before but this is an
2699s extraordinarily powerful multiplicative
2702s bonus glyph you get to kind of slot in
2704s you know this has got 200 levels
2706s associated with it for you to upgrade
2707s through over the course of time it
2708s starts out at the size of a Tier 15
2711s normal glyph normal rare glyph so it is
2714s extremely strong right off the bat so
2716s you're going to be able able to use this
2718s to kind of help you get through some of
2719s the more difficult uh tiers as you go
2721s deeper and deeper into the experience
2722s and there's one other really neat thing
2724s about this as well so the
2727s so this experience uh the tears of blood
2730s glyph itself has like a lot of paragon
2732s glyph XP that you need in order to
2733s upgrade it as you continue to like go on
2735s through the experience uh and one of the
2737s things we wanted to do was uh make sure
2739s that if you're at this stage if you want
2741s to experiment with other glyphs you can
2743s still like you get giant amounts of XP
2745s from finishing Avatar
2747s zero 1000 XP Mater get a th000 so if you
2751s want to use this an opportunity to kind
2752s of like rank up some of those other
2753s glits you've got cuz you want to play
2754s with other things for other bills and
2756s other things here's an opportunity to
2758s kind of like go in quickly like level up
2759s a bunch of those other GPS that you have
2761s in addition to like you know not taking
2763s too much time away from your tears the
2764s blood if you're trying to like stay keep
2765s Pace with that uh but we think that's
2767s like an extra fun little bit Yeah Tis of
2769s blood lift super powerful uh for players
2771s to be able to engage with again it's
2772s only here for the season uh and it'll it
2775s be retired at the end of that season
2777s yeah and like we we just saw Rich of
2779s course you know turn through a level one
2780s pretty pretty easily then struggle a
2782s little at the end but it was it was a
2784s little struggle I got a little wasn't
2786s too bad uh but um I I Know Rich like
2789s what key or what sigils do you have here
2792s so I think what I did over there was a
2794s Sigil one uh I think what we were
2796s talking about was trying to make like an
2797s engagement moment uh basically by having
2800s chat almost pick the challenge ahead so
2803s what I've pre-crafted beforehand is a
2805s two a six as well as a 10 funny enough I
2809s create backups for this cuz like hey I
2811s might die but um I think it's just one
2813s of those things where I would love to
2815s reserve of the 10 and Beyond levels uh
2818s for a later moment but Adam you had a
2820s great idea as a as a reminder like tear
2823s for for avatars year go up to 25 so um
2827s there are a significant amount of tiers
2829s and they of course go up in difficulty
2831s by a pretty like almost an exponential
2833s amount as you're going from uh tier to
2835s tier but be curious okay all right like
2838s you already asked the chat and the chat
2840s is already going like screaming 10 so
2842s they just want you to die okay we we
2844s said like we're going to let chat choose
2845s to or 10 we'll see what they say I'm
2847s like it's going to be 10 they're going
2848s to absolutely want to see they're
2849s they're going to want to see 10 so uh
2851s Rich take us into a do tier 10 and let's
2856s see how he does um now are you going to
2859s adjust builds a little bit here too I
2861s just want to call it you I mean a few
2863s things here I think for the the players
2866s at home is that obviously you saw that
2869s the previous one I was geared up to be a
2870s little bit more tanky because the last
2872s thing that I want to do is embarrass
2873s myself and die on there but I think what
2875s Joe and team can do is also explain like
2878s how some of the scaling works as they go
2880s up so I think I'll just go in I think
2882s what I'm trying to balance out now is
2884s just try to add a little bit more uh
2886s damage output by sacrificing some of my
2889s tankiness uh just because I anticipate
2891s that the higher HP is going to be a
2893s challenge and I just I don't want to
2894s lose to the time um and I actually want
2897s to see how far I can progress so let me
2898s activate this uh I was like he went back
2901s in without AC the nerves it's the nerves
2905s yeah it's a Rich's point here I mean
2907s it's not easy to uh to play play games
2909s on stream right no no it's not no so
2912s this is why we're going to have him
2914s narrate a full uh Romeo and Juliet uh
2918s play to us as he's playing yeah to
2920s ensure full color commentary full
2924s concentration on this no so so Rich's
2926s Point earlier about how the scaling
2928s works so as we were experimenting with
2930s this content one of the things we
2931s discovered pretty quickly is we just
2932s didn't want to continue to scale monster
2934s damage up you know in a really really uh
2936s a significant way as you're kind of
2937s going through this content uh we really
2939s want to focus a lot more on Monster
2941s Health scaling as you go uh because we
2943s get quickly get to a point where like
2944s any bat that kind of like Clips you
2946s which is basically just you know
2947s completely ice you unless you're
2948s invulnerable at that point and it it
2950s just makes it a less fun experience
2952s overall so we wanted to make sure it was
2954s much more about like can you beat that
2955s timer can you survive the bosses at the
2956s end you know not as much about like
2958s damage gets so so high over the course
2960s of time that there's just no there's no
2962s opportunity for different class to
2963s really be able to perform right yeah and
2966s the uh the tears of blood glyph really
2968s is going to increase your damage output
2970s yes right so leveling that up did you
2972s actually have that your tears for blood
2974s Cliff uh equipped oh is it equipped so I
2977s did not and I think one of the things
2978s that I wanted to do I mean for me I
2982s think as I've been um going in and
2983s testing it like I think it's actually
2985s been a pretty cool experience to see
2986s like how it's been with and without um I
2989s think just exploring a little bit more
2992s into it as well like while my Paragon
2995s board is optimized for what I have here
2997s it's definitely opening up a lot a lot
2999s more oh hold on a second also you didn't
3001s replenish your potions before you so
3005s this is for the mistakes were made this
3008s is for the stre you're trying to give
3010s yourself disadvantage for for for clicks
3012s I say we got more max potions yeah
3015s that's true rich rich did not do himself
3018s a few favors here one he did not
3020s replenish his potions and then two he
3021s did not equip tear for blood Cliff
3025s because falling behind that timer pretty
3027s quickly at this point because he wanted
3028s to be a show off and is not showing off
3033s well it's you know it's interesting to
3034s see how valuable you were talking about
3036s this earlier how valuable the uh the
3038s vampire vampire powers are in this in
3041s this content as well really configuring
3043s those yeah I mean once you if you're
3044s permanently unstopable like snake family
3046s is a lot less dangerous to deal with
3047s across the board like you don't have to
3049s deal with that like that charging uh
3050s stun you don't have to deal with you
3052s don't have to deal with the paralyze
3053s like there's a you know you have some
3054s advantages I think it's funny that got
3056s snakes randomly twice in a row U but hey
3058s you know that's the nature of of live
3060s gameplay you know and and I I will say
3062s it's not just snakes though you can see
3063s other things in this yeah that's a great
3065s Point each time you enter Avatar of zir
3068s you're going to have uh different
3069s monsters different tile sets different
3072s uh different
3074s layouts and I think the big thing here
3076s is that my eye is definitely drawn into
3078s the timer uh compared to how it was in
3081s the tier one you know I'm definitely not
3084s taking out as many monsters as need to
3086s get the potions and that Tyber is really
3089s hurting my feelings right now that that
3091s and everything I say like the normal
3094s progression for players will be oh oh my
3097s gosh oh well well then that ends the
3100s story of
3102s Rich uh I will I will say that the
3105s normal progression for players is not to
3107s go immediately to a 10 chat chat deemed
3111s that you needed to go to ATT 10
3112s immediately and Rich deemed that he did
3115s not need to
3116s actually equip his tears with blood clip
3118s so um yeah but this takes us to an
3120s interesting point what happens when you
3122s die in in a yeah so when you when you
3124s die in the video game you die in the
3126s video game so actually you're going to
3128s lose your run uh because you have no uh
3129s responds available when you go through a
3131s uh a avatar of Zer run so you'll have to
3134s go back you'll have to make another key
3135s you know that progress is going to be
3136s lost
3137s so yeah so just a a word for warning for
3141s like even like a double like I guess
3146s penal a penalty for for hardcore players
3149s like yeah lose your character and you
3152s lose you lose your you lose your run
3154s huge double
3156s penalty one major penalty and one small
3158s one so yeah I um I do want to just
3161s follow up on the mention earlier what
3163s happens at the very end I think the
3166s trying to return back to the adventure
3169s but yeah surprised by this is something
3171s to what we wanted to call out as well
3173s yeah so like basically if you the
3174s Portal's going to be there uh while the
3176s event is active but unless you've
3177s actually used a Sigil to kick it off
3179s you're basically just going to be able
3180s to come to this like kind of broken
3182s edifice here and there's nothing nowhere
3184s else to go I'd be curious like if you
3186s are in here with like a party can you
3189s revive other party members as uh if they
3192s happen to die uh when a player goes down
3194s the run is over okay whoa okay there we
3198s go so for I know there's a few people
3200s asking questions like hey if I'm running
3202s this with the group if if anyone dies
3204s there it's a it's a it's a done run MH
3207s um so it is it is a little punishing but
3210s at the same time it is endgame content
3212s absolutely well I mean sure I mean so so
3216s uh one of the things really interesting
3217s about uh having content like this at the
3219s end game is we do want to make sure that
3220s there are lots of ways as you've seen
3222s season two to like Farm up different
3223s gear that you want and make sure that
3225s you can get your power your character to
3226s be really really powerful but then when
3229s you get into the next year of content
3230s like do we want you to continually
3232s always get more gear to always replace
3235s the gear that that you have right so
3237s tears of the tears of blood glyph is an
3238s example of us like kind of experimenting
3240s with different ideas of progression for
3241s players and see how these things feel um
3244s as like we want to make sure that
3245s there's always more things you want to
3246s go try to do and always more things for
3248s you to go push for your character uh but
3250s how much you have to like re integrate
3252s you know um aspects of your your build
3255s every time you like kind of go through a
3257s Content here feels like something we we
3259s talk about quite a bit Yeah but uh one
3261s thing I'm really excited about uh for
3262s this is so tears of blood is going to be
3265s like really really powerful again 200
3266s tiers multipli multipli damage increases
3269s it continues to scale up as you go very
3271s very strong it's going to be fun to see
3273s players who are able to see how far
3276s people can skew that like not use the
3277s tears of blood Clift and see how far
3279s they're able to actually get into the
3280s content so I think that's be like that's
3282s be very very exciting yeah I'm I'm
3284s really excited I I'm hoping uh players
3286s end up you know sending us tweets on
3289s social and or sorry it's not tweets any
3292s X posts posts and reposts on social
3296s uh or are posting on Reddit and forums
3298s of like how far they can actually
3299s progress it'll be uh really cool to see
3301s uh where the community kind of lands and
3304s where some of our more uh hardcore
3306s players end up Landing as well
3308s especially hardcore characters people
3309s that really Risk Everything to to try
3312s out this content so um there we go so
3314s that's Avatar Zer Avatar Zer again hits
3317s on December 5th it'll be with our next
3319s uh patch and uh yeah and that will be
3321s next week we actually plan on having
3323s patch notes available on uh diablo.com
3326s uh tomorrow so uh it will be uh
3330s available for people to check out patch
3332s notes uh for that update hitting next
3334s week so thank you again Rich yeah really
3337s appreciate it thank you for for
3339s sacrificing your Dev build character for
3342s this um which is nearly the same as your
3345s your live build yes um this this build I
3348s wanted to make a as close as I can to in
3350s terms of a onetoone representation of
3353s what I have on retail I know for a lot
3354s of the people at home it's important to
3356s try to have and see and play with
3358s something that that's relevant to them
3360s so yeah just try to do that excited to
3362s see everybody online Let's Farm up let's
3365s do this see how high we can get get get
3367s your your season Journey done um because
3370s that is the requirement for for jumping
3371s into avatars year uh and checking it out
3376s cool um so I know one thing that we do
3378s want to talk about as well that we had
3380s mentioned on social and this is just a a
3383s quick mention from us and a quick update
3384s from us
3385s and it is around
3387s itemization so uh one thing we do want
3390s to show off though is we all have well
3393s I'm not zipped up I I'm wearing my
3395s Diablo 4 bomber here oops there we go
3398s but uh but uh some extra but yeah we do
3402s we have these really fancy little shirts
3404s here you guys even remember the cute I
3407s remember yeah this yeah it's uh this is
3411s a this is a playoff of uh uh Adam
3413s Jackson um uh made this wonderful saying
3417s before damage on Tuesdays damage on
3420s Tuesdays and yeah felt appropriate for a
3423s discuss we we felt like this was an
3425s appropriate time to show off uh what
3428s we'll do is we'll we'll take the jackets
3429s off while Rich is playing we won't
3431s forget to do that we were supposed to do
3434s that we were supposed to do that like to
3435s have this be like a better instead
3437s everyone got to watch us awkwardly take
3440s off hoodies and jackets so um but I
3443s think the people loved it obviously yes
3445s uh and I I do want to I do want to give
3447s a a shout out to um uh Ricky on our art
3450s team he sorry Ricky Richie on our art
3453s team who actually ended up making these
3455s uh amazing Dam yeah I love the graphic
3457s design on this Rogue shooting uh through
3460s Tuesday um but itemization um I know we
3464s wanted to talk really quickly about that
3466s and uh Joe yeah okay so there's a lot to
3470s talk about uh at BlizzCon uh Mr Shelly
3474s himself got chance kind of talk about a
3476s few things that we've got coming uh we
3477s we have going on we talk about some of
3479s the problems that we see timization uh
3481s out there today you know I think just to
3483s kind of reiterate some of those points
3485s um as players going through the
3487s experience you know it is um it's
3490s challenging the amount of uh mental uh
3493s bandwidth you have to use to process all
3495s the items you're collecting uh it is
3497s it's difficult to find upgrades because
3501s there's a really low chance for you to
3502s get like a like a perfect rare role and
3504s in general in in args it's okay for it
3506s to be a low chance for the for the role
3508s to be perfect but there's such a high
3510s degree of variability in items right now
3512s as they stand where it's like usually
3514s it's like okay well this item is 80% of
3517s what I want it to be and that could feel
3518s okay to find that pretty regularly but
3520s that could be kind of hard to find right
3521s now in Diablo 4 right and and feels
3524s almost virtually impossible you can go
3525s through 200 pairs of gloves and not find
3527s a perfect pair of gloves you know for
3528s your for your class you now there's a
3530s there's a lot of things that contribute
3532s to this you know there's the uh the
3533s number of different eics we have uh
3536s there is the um the fact that we don't
3538s have a lot of uh things in place that
3542s that that say like you can't have like
3543s multiple skill ranks you know on an item
3545s like right now we allow you to have like
3546s you know three different plus core skill
3548s ranks on an item occasionally and that
3550s doesn't really serve anybody so one of
3552s the things we want to think about a lot
3553s as we're as we're looking towards 2024
3555s because like you know it's December
3556s we're looking back at you know a year of
3558s of talking together and you know trying
3560s to paint a picture of like what we want
3561s moving forward for us you know we want
3563s to be thinking more about like we we
3564s have plans for uh solving these kinds of
3567s problems uh we also see that there's not
3571s enough uh there's not enough like Runway
3573s with items either like they're not
3575s there's a lot more they could be doing
3576s for the player when uh when they drop
3578s for players so one of the things you
3580s want to think about more as we get into
3582s uh as we get into
3583s 2024 is having items really be kind of
3586s like the start of a journey so when
3588s something drops for the for you as a
3590s player we want that to be like cool you
3591s want you want to be able to get this and
3592s say this is awesome I can't wait to do X
3595s Y and Z to this and make it like really
3597s really great right like this is the
3599s perfect thing I need for my build and I
3601s feel that you've got more chances like
3602s to modify and customize that and really
3605s incorporate that into what you want for
3606s your particular play style that's that's
3608s important for like player expression for
3610s build making uh it it does a lot for
3612s just making the uh the game more
3613s exciting versus like every single time
3615s you're looking for an upgrade it's only
3617s whatever immediately drops in the ground
3619s and I kind of have to make a decision
3620s based on that we want to go we want to
3621s go a lot further than that I think in
3623s the future for players now you know
3626s these are one the sorts of things I'm
3628s talking about are pretty big right like
3630s in season 2 we made changes to the
3631s persistance system uh we made changes
3633s like you know vulnerable damage being
3634s multiple making that additive made it
3636s like made I think people did saw like we
3638s made a huge number of changes to the way
3640s that stats work and and and and skills
3642s and a bunch of other stuff right huge
3643s number of changes and the reason why we
3647s did so much of it at once was because
3649s many of these things were very
3651s interconnected and trying to do trying
3654s to improve these systems by doing like
3656s one small portion of it can actually
3657s make everything worse because this is
3659s now like almost like a little island of
3661s a different idea it's floating out and
3662s not integrated properly into everything
3664s else in the game right so as we think
3667s about the sorts of itemization changes
3669s we're looking to make the war changes we
3670s want to make to make things more
3672s exciting for players to Chase and really
3673s like again if Diablo is a game about
3675s killing monsters and getting loot then
3677s killing monsters feels pretty good right
3679s now I think that uh getting loot has
3680s places where we can make improvements
3682s you know we need to make sure that's
3683s holding up it's end of the bargain right
3685s but to make this the sorts of changes
3686s that we're talking about uh there's
3689s basically a number of other things that
3691s are going to need to be adjusted at the
3692s same time so we have plans for a really
3696s really big update uh for itemization we
3698s want to be able to produce uh it's not
3700s coming in season 3 we're looking at
3701s season 4 we want to be able to Target a
3703s lot of these changes to come out kind of
3705s End Mass so in season 3 we're which
3708s we're not talking about today season 3
3709s today you know but there's uh there's
3711s there's still cool stuff that we have
3712s coming up we'll I guess we'll talk we're
3715s about we're about to talk like a tiny
3716s bit about season 3 you know we are
3718s there's still lots of great feedback
3719s that we're getting uh from players about
3721s their experience playing in season 3
3722s right now yeah SE in season two yeah
3724s yeah well sorry yes feedback from season
3726s two that we want to try to like to
3729s incorporate uh into season 3 yeah well
3731s and one of the things that we've seen
3733s with season two right is um this was a
3736s our you were talking about how we made a
3737s lot of changes to itemization we um made
3740s a lot of changes to builds there were
3742s some things that that got less powerful
3744s but we really sort of I think we did a
3747s great job delivering on you know some of
3748s the stuff we talked about back in season
3750s one in terms of um making uh when we
3753s make changes to Stats or classes or
3757s itemization that we make sure that we're
3759s adding lots of new cool stuff and you
3762s know I think we continue to we we plan
3764s to continue to do that with season 3
3765s right so you know um I think we've
3768s talked I've I've said uh on social like
3771s Hey we're not going to we're not going
3772s to Nerf your your builds here for
3775s throughout season two um we were just
3777s playing ball lightning right just live
3780s here um and we think that's really
3782s important because we built Avatar of zir
3786s based on the balance of the game as it
3787s stands in season two um but then as you
3789s get into season two you can at season
3791s three no one's going to say any of the
3793s right season numbers today um but as you
3796s get into season three um you can expect
3798s to see some of those Balance changes
3800s kind of like what we saw in season two
3801s right that's right so we we'll change
3803s along those lines we'll be able to talk
3805s about those as we get a little bit
3805s closer to the season 3 release date and
3807s there's a bunch of other changes we're
3808s making in in season well well there's
3810s there the one thing about I know you
3811s were talking about with itemization you
3813s know we've we're prepping a lot of
3815s changes and we've actually um we have
3817s talked to um at least a group of uh of
3821s Diablo Partners content creators already
3824s about uh some of the the itemization
3826s changes that are going to be coming in
3828s season 4 that's right so um they have
3831s actually uh there are there are people
3833s aware of of some of the the details and
3836s changes that we're actually offering so
3837s and we're we're doing that mostly for
3839s you know we wanted to get some feedback
3841s from and and bounce like some ideas that
3843s we actually had so uh we're really
3845s looking forward to you know actually
3848s going through all of that and making
3849s sure and refining it a little bit before
3851s we actually put it out um uh in front of
3854s everyone uh and so there will be more
3856s news about itemization as we uh go
3858s through season 3 and into season 4
3861s obviously with the the the big changes
3862s that are going to be coming um but we we
3865s have been actually talking with a select
3868s group of people with our Diablo Partners
3869s our content creators uh specifically on
3872s that so uh and I wanted to make sure
3874s like people weren't thinking we're
3874s working within like a a box or something
3877s like that from that in yeah like Jo said
3878s at bliz gon like if endgame content is
3881s our one of our highest priorities
3882s itemization is our highest priority
3884s right like we're actively working on
3885s these things it's just they're going to
3887s take they take time because there's
3888s there they're expansive and it's going
3890s to be better for the game bringing these
3892s things together into one big release
3894s we're very very excited about it it was
3896s really fun talking to content creators
3897s about some of these plans and getting
3898s some of that initial feedback so that's
3900s cool but like we're in motion you know
3901s we're working through these things right
3902s now so but again that's not the that's
3905s not all right like you know as we look
3907s towards season 3 and and talk about like
3909s the sorts of things that players are
3910s having uh some difficulties with right
3911s now you know there's a couple things
3913s that got brought up first is forgotten
3914s Souls yes you know it's it's it's
3916s obviously we we see the players are
3917s having a tougher time getting forgotten
3919s Souls uh in Diablo 4 in season 2 you
3921s know relative to other uh other points
3923s in time uh one of things that we're
3925s doing uh based upon uh that feedback and
3927s feedback about uh about hell tide is
3930s actually increasing the hell tide up
3932s time so basically hell TI's going to be
3933s up every hour for about 55 minutes it's
3936s going be like a 5 minute break and then
3937s it's going to come back up again run
3939s through again it's going to make it a
3940s lot easier for if you to farm those
3941s forgotten Souls out when you're looking
3942s for them yeah we really saw that uh it
3946s worked well with blood Harvest and it's
3947s something we wanted to bring over to
3948s Hell tide I think there are more lessons
3950s from from blood Harvest uh that uh we
3953s can incorporate but this was one that we
3955s thought was really important to get in
3956s for season 3 yeah and this is just part
3958s of like the things we learn through
3959s Seasons that players really enjoy and
3962s and it helps us make the game better um
3964s you know there's even like the idea that
3966s from season one to season two where we
3968s brought malignant Powers kind of back in
3970s those unique rings that we announced at
3972s BlizzCon and are obviously now out now
3974s blood Harvest has taught us a lot about
3976s you know players expectations of like
3978s what they're they're looking for when it
3979s comes to like things like hell tide as
3981s well so it's just some of these
3982s learnings that we continuously apply the
3984s game which has been really great yeah
3986s and I want to talk about another thing
3987s that we saw in season 2 um that I sort
3990s of think I sort of been talking about is
3992s the the 925 problem oh sure um
3994s basically uh when you first get access
3997s to World tier 4 um you can start getting
4001s the highest high power loot immediately
4004s from World bosses and and from Dural if
4007s someone carries you through duriel and
4009s and that to like duriel totally makes
4010s sense it's a super hard encounter it's a
4012s farming encounter right uh it's level
4015s 100 um the world bosses probably
4018s shouldn't have a guaranteed chance to
4019s drop 925 not because we hate having
4023s players have good loot just because you
4025s know when I was playing through it I was
4027s what 72 and all my gear was 925 I felt
4031s like where am I going to go from here
4032s now it wasn't all I had a bunch of
4035s garbage AES right like Joe was talking
4037s about but um but there's another part of
4040s this problem which is that as you get up
4043s two toward close to 100 and reach 100 it
4047s feels like there aren't enough um there
4049s isn't enough Variety in places where you
4051s can get 925 gear reliably like you it
4055s can drop from Varon but it's a very
4057s small chance it can drop from stuff like
4059s Beast ice um and so it feels like you
4061s know things like turning in obals
4063s turning in Whispers doing some of those
4065s other ladder bosses um and even in some
4069s even uh in some cases some of the
4071s nightmare dungeon content y it feels it
4073s can feel like well well I guess I'm just
4075s supposed to do durial and maybe do the
4077s world bosses when they come up yeah it's
4079s not consistent enough from other sources
4080s that aren't durial and aren't the world
4081s bosses so we we we love that you want to
4084s go farm durial for for urban uniques and
4086s for unique items we we we like the idea
4088s that you want to go hit World boss when
4089s it's up and that's and that's fun but
4091s it's it doesn't feel good if those are
4092s the only two ways you to really like
4094s adequately find this kind of uh these
4096s kinds of rewards so there's going to be
4098s a balance so we're going to be certainly
4099s evaluating that and make sure that it
4100s feels like it's a little easier to find
4101s 925s in other like you know top IP items
4105s you know in other other content channels
4106s throughout the game awesome yeah so we
4108s have um some changes coming with with
4111s season 3 to to based off of feedback
4113s that we've gotten from from players with
4114s season 2 uh things around hell TI things
4117s around the 925 uh the the I Lev 925 uh
4121s items specifically so um but yeah great
4124s to hear lots of lots of changes coming
4126s up and of course season 4 we have some
4127s big changes for for itemization that are
4130s uh uh along the road so um I know we
4133s want to jump into Q&A now because and
4136s this is an opportunity for people in
4138s chat to to kind of jump in and ask I'm
4140s so sorry Adam for like ruining this
4141s transition so I I guess one last thing
4143s on timization so uh part of all of this
4147s is trying to find more ways to what's
4150s this I love the the lower the lower
4152s third no no no no back to
4154s itemization as it should be uh so so
4158s part of all this is trying to find more
4160s ways to communicate different ways to
4161s communicate the uh like what our
4163s intentions are what plans are try and
4165s check them against like Dev view the
4166s community you know we don't want to like
4168s we don't want to overpromise underd
4169s deliver we want to make sure that we're
4170s really happy with the plans so we're
4172s we're going through this we we're going
4173s to continue to try to like provide as
4175s much detail as we can as we go we don't
4177s this isn't about kind of creating a
4178s grand reveal that's not the point right
4180s we want to manage expectations and also
4181s make sure that we're really really happy
4182s with what we have so when we deliver to
4184s players to be excited about it so when
4185s we're ready to talk more about about
4187s these things leading into season 4 we're
4188s going to we're going to make sure we do
4189s a whole stream about these changes yeah
4191s it's more about getting it right than
4192s keeping it secret not about it's not
4195s about yeah exactly exactly and that and
4197s then just goes back to like why we've
4199s already started talking to like even
4200s just some of our our Diablo Partners our
4202s content creators a little bit about it
4203s just to make sure that we're not working
4205s within a box where we're we're trying to
4207s get uh this right and and show it to
4210s everyone so um all right so Q&A um uh
4214s this again I'll do my Preamble again uh
4217s this is a good opportunity for people in
4219s twitch chat to be able to uh drop in
4221s questions I know chat's moving quickly
4222s but we have uh our Community team is
4225s actually in there uh like props to to
4229s Lisa Casey in there right now uh and
4231s pulling specific uh uh questions for Q&A
4235s um I'm watching Rich by the way no one
4238s sees this rich is we have a whiteboard
4239s in here rich is like oh mid H yeah yeah
4242s midwinter blight this is a question that
4244s a lot of people have been asking it ends
4246s on January 2nd so people who uh who are
4249s asking in chat uh midwinter blight goes
4252s through January 2nd so everyone is aware
4254s of that and then uh Avatar Zer actually
4256s goes nearly to the end of the season
4258s that's right so uh players can check out
4261s Avatar zero almost all the way through
4264s uh the end of season two uh good
4266s reminders on these end dates um I will
4269s say that there's a question before we
4271s jump into the questions from chat uh
4273s there was a question that we've been
4274s getting a lot online for from console
4276s players specifically related to Gold
4278s trading that I do want to actually
4280s address as well uh there and I've people
4283s send me videos and
4285s totally understand it has become very
4288s very uh tedious to actually trade gold
4290s and since gold gold accumulation has
4293s actually uh grown within season 2 it's
4295s become very tedious as a console player
4297s to trade gold using the UI and the the
4300s user interface within uh within the game
4303s there's been some gold inflation in
4304s season 2 exactly we know and I know they
4306s have to like manually scroll their gold
4308s and it can be a little difficult um I
4311s will say that is being addressed and the
4314s team is is working on a fix for that
4315s we're hoping that will be in uh for
4317s season 3 yep uh so players uh on Console
4321s will get a little bit more um uh I guess
4324s of a relief during that specific point a
4327s lot easier to put in you know you know
4328s 100 million a billion gold whatever you
4330s want to put exactly exactly so uh I will
4332s jump into questions here we have uh po
4337s War Pig uh why is Avatar of Zer
4341s considered a seasonal event and not
4342s normal content
4344s yeah because we want to go away at the
4346s end of the
4347s season that's that's why so because as I
4350s I was kind of talking about a little bit
4350s earlier but like we the Avatar of zir is
4353s a piece of content we're putting it out
4354s there and we're we really want to see
4356s how players interact with it we want to
4357s see uh what what people like about it
4359s what they don't like about it we want to
4360s be able to take that feedback and
4362s incorporate that into more things that
4363s we do you know we are going to be
4365s looking for more like you know um you
4367s know we we say things like you know
4368s seasonal and Evergreen now we are
4370s looking for more Evergreen pieces of
4371s endgame content for players be engaged
4373s with it just kind of continue to level
4374s up you know the base Diablo 4 experience
4376s particularly in that world tier 4
4377s environment you know but we want be able
4379s to do that in a way that is you know
4381s that is intentional right so yeah yeah I
4384s I think you you were saying earlier we
4385s want to make more content like this um
4389s but with Avatar of here this is this is
4391s the the first of its kind this is the
4393s first time we've done something like
4394s this and um so I think I think we're
4396s going to learn some stuff from it yeah
4399s we intend to learn some stuff from it um
4401s question from Breezy seore regarding
4403s Avatar Z will uh we get any sigils or
4406s sigil powder from Avatar Zer dungeons uh
4409s Avatar Zer runs do Dr uh do drop uh
4411s sigil at the end but you don't get sigil
4413s drops as part of the Avatar of Zer runs
4415s Perfect all right and then um I guess
4418s this is kind of similar to uh a question
4421s that you guys the first question which
4422s is from Mr beefcakes gaming saying uh
4425s are we getting any uh are we getting
4427s some sort of variation of this mode in
4429s the in future seasons are uh are there
4431s like more big plans related to
4434s uh endgame Beyond abator Z for for D4
4438s yeah I mean in season 3 we know that
4439s we're going to be launching the uh you
4441s know the the Le The Gauntlet and the
4443s leaderboard systems and trials you know
4445s so like we're going to have some endgame
4446s content there we are looking at more
4448s content just like this and we will be
4450s releasing it as well you know uh during
4452s the course we're talking about some
4453s ideas potentially for season 3 we're
4455s talking about things we want to do in
4455s season 4 so we are we are working
4457s through all of that right now but yes
4459s you will see more content like this in
4460s the future yeah and uh jump into avor
4463s next week and play it and tell us about
4465s it yeah like if you love it then tell us
4467s and we you know we're going to make more
4469s of that yeah um question from
4473s remas this is where I start this like a
4475s year of
4477s this with with an your Twitch names like
4480s mine's Pez radar it's like so simple
4483s come on not everybody can be as clever
4486s as you with Pez radar uh I know so
4488s clever I took a popular candy and mixed
4491s it in with the word radar everyone um so
4493s so Rema says any news on a loot filter
4497s um any plans for that things like that
4500s this is a popular question we tend to
4502s get quite often so yeah I'm sorry
4505s brother yeah well you can answer too I
4508s um I think we answered we we had a
4510s question like this at BlizzCon yes and
4512s um what I said uh which continues to be
4515s true is that we think that being able to
4517s filter your loot efficiently is a
4521s baseline part that should be part of all
4524s auges including Diablo 4 um some of the
4527s changes that uh we're planning uh coming
4530s up for itemization uh in season 4 I
4533s think will help with that um we're going
4535s to look at those uh and look at the look
4538s at the in the context of a loot filter
4540s as well like we're we're certainly not
4542s um against adding a loot filter uh and
4544s it's something that we're looking at
4547s alongside
4549s um uh the changes that we're making but
4551s the changes to itemization
4554s are so significant that if we added a
4557s loot filter today it wouldn't work after
4560s we changed uh after we changed them yeah
4563s there's G to be significant changes so
4565s uh and and we are I call that like some
4567s of the problems the big problems that we
4568s see right now in itemization largely a
4570s lot of it comes down to being able to
4571s parse all this loot that you're
4572s collecting and then like the general
4574s sense that like some aices are just for
4575s nobody like they're not really good for
4577s anybody nobody really wants shine buff
4578s duration you know nobody really wants
4580s you know it's not I shouldn't say no one
4582s really wants three or four resist on an
4584s item but like there are some there are
4585s some people that want three four resist
4586s on item we're probably not going to do a
4587s lot of that in the future you know
4589s there's there's more things we're doing
4589s to make it just easier to parse item to
4591s item you know the sorts of improvements
4593s and benefits and and make it more
4594s exciting for players um question from
4597s its doy uh are there plans for more
4599s butcher style bosses like blood Seekers
4602s would love more types of these
4603s encounters uh especially maybe during
4605s World bosses that would be crazy uh but
4608s yeah having like four butchers spawn in
4611s the middle of a world boss that'd be fun
4612s a different kind of world B that point
4614s exactly um but yeah any any plans for
4616s like I guess that it's that surprise
4618s type of element with with enemies that
4621s come in yeah yeah we love we love that
4623s uh the the gameplay that we're getting
4625s from blood Seekers like dropping into
4626s dungeons occasionally I think you see
4628s even just like the the fights at the end
4630s of the uh the Avatar of Z runs is are
4632s already pretty fun because you don't
4633s really know what combination of aices
4635s and uh and bloodseeker classes you're
4637s going to get when you uh when you kind
4638s of wrap things up uh looking for more
4640s Interruption disruptive content like
4642s that you know the kind of creates this
4644s like these like bolts of excitement when
4645s you're going through like a Content
4646s piece you think you might already know I
4648s think is really cool yeah um so you
4650s mentioned World bosses uh and I was
4653s killing treasure Beast uh last week and
4658s when you stagger treasure Beast you can
4659s actually get one of those little
4660s treasure golins that pops out um but his
4662s loot isn't very good so we're going to
4664s fix that there we go not not exactly
4667s exactly
4669s that Jo Joe had that experience and
4671s wants to I fix look I got I got one raw
4676s height and 300 gold look I'm sorry okay
4679s I'm
4680s sorry um yeah and uh uh yeah a lot of
4683s people are going like treasure bees
4685s what's that that where we tend to use
4687s more internal PRI names prior to when we
4690s actually develop real names the world
4692s boss with a big chest full of exactly um
4694s so ignore our internal hey guys that was
4698s his internal or utilize it and confuse
4700s everyone like we did exactly exactly um
4702s so
4704s uh you guys I I know that um we've
4707s gotten questions about we we still get
4710s questions we're still getting questions
4711s because people didn't see the beginning
4712s of the stream uh we do want to confirm
4714s that we did talk about and address the
4717s um the questions we've been seeing a lot
4718s in the community related to uh pay for
4721s power that I've been swirling around uh
4723s people talking about are you guys
4724s planning on adding pay for power in
4725s Diablo 4 and uh I know that uh we talked
4729s about in the beginning we we have
4730s confirmed that we are not planning on
4732s adding pay for power power in Diablo I
4735s uh so I just want to reiterate that now
4736s because there's a lot of people who
4737s probably missed the beginning of the
4738s stream I do want to just readdress that
4740s there there are no plans for that again
4742s we have no plans to add pay for power to
4744s Diablo 4 yes everyone who sending me
4746s posts on X on x I never going to stop
4750s I'm never going to stop making jokes
4751s about this I I love that I love it so
4752s much uh any every when s post on X like
4755s we get it you know we uh we we still do
4758s not the thing is it's still true there's
4760s no plans to sell Power in Diablo 4 yeah
4763s yeah cool um a question related to um
4768s actually color palettes because we've
4769s been seeing a lot of like customization
4771s and everything um is there it's this is
4773s from Comfortably
4775s dumb uh when are we getting more color
4778s palettes for transmogs uh also pink is a
4781s color they want to make sure people are
4783s aware that pink is a color and they
4785s would like pink yeah yeah that's you
4787s know we don't get enough feedback on
4789s this uh I think uh I think that there's
4792s a lot of cool ways ways to customize
4794s your your um your pigments in the the
4797s Wardrobe and that there are more a lot
4799s more things we could do there um both in
4801s terms of of color paletts and other
4804s things that you could potentially color
4805s too awesome um skull TV asks any plans
4809s to rework some skills or abilities like
4811s The Necromancer could really use some
4813s movement speed or skill abilities to to
4815s help out with you know some of their
4818s movement uh issues that they're having
4819s right now yeah I think ad Jax who's been
4822s on stream before we've talked about like
4823s you know the Necromancer specifically
4825s not having a lot of extra like speed
4826s ability or agility style abilities like
4828s that uh there is room for making these
4831s sorts of adjustments over time there's
4833s not an immediate plan in terms of like
4835s you know in season 3 we're going to do X
4836s like we don't have that you know but we
4838s are trying to make sure that as we
4840s continue to release uh New Seasons make
4842s more unique items make more legendary
4843s powers that we're thinking about like
4845s the ways that players can use them to
4847s kind of augment and uh and and help
4849s parts of their class like we we we hear
4851s you know very frequently like you know
4853s or has a really tough time dropping
4854s vulnerable on creatures so everybody
4856s runs Frost noova like we we we
4858s understand there's things we have plans
4859s for like addressing these kinds of
4861s concerns that players have across the
4862s board over the course of time uh but
4865s we're also always looking for
4866s opportunities within timization to also
4868s you know Buffet these classes and give
4870s them some things uh these extra support
4871s they need yeah um I'm going to take uh
4874s one last question here uh before we kind
4877s of close it out um this is BG fan
4879s Germany will we ever be able to play the
4880s campaign on a higher difficulty
4883s yeah a couple people have asked for this
4886s I think this is an interesting idea the
4887s campaign is something that
4890s um sort of each time you each time you
4893s play uh narrative content like this um
4896s you kind of get diminishing returns on
4899s how exciting it is because some of it is
4900s based on uh on surprise and emotional
4905s resonance right um and some of it is
4907s like another reason to ask this question
4909s actually could be uh Hey I want to fight
4911s andariel more times right um and so one
4914s of the things that was cool to see with
4915s season two is bringing like duriel back
4917s previously only part of the campaign
4919s right uh it'd be cool to do more stuff
4921s like that um but it also could be cool
4923s to play the campaign again on higher
4924s difficulties like we want to have more
4926s ways for players to to play the game
4928s yeah yeah um and I will call this out
4930s Dave B mentions Diablo ebooks with Joe
4932s pipor reading when yeah
4936s Joe uh let me you know Nar I'll work
4940s with my agent and we'll figure out when
4942s I can start
4944s there we go well thanks dve you know
4946s what I appreciate I appreciate people
4948s like to hear the sound of my voice as
4949s much as I like the sound of my voice so
4950s that's all right well um before we wrap
4953s up I know uh Mr Joe shell you would like
4956s to say a few words to the diao community
4958s as we wrap up our final stream here for
4960s 2023 for Diablo 4 um would you have any
4965s parting words yeah I do let me get my
4967s let me get my hat got this hat
4969s specifically for this it's been a long
4970s year there we go go all right now I feel
4975s more I feel more in the holiday spirit
4977s the fact that you own this hat is just
4980s very interesting to um but yeah you know
4983s like we said at the beginning it's been
4985s uh it's been a a pretty exciting year
4988s right like we went from uh testing the
4991s game doing uh beta tests doing open Beta
4994s um getting getting I remember getting my
4996s shavah horn and wearing it uh on my
4998s Mount everywhere uh I still wear it when
5001s I show up to World boss
5003s you got to brag you got to be like you
5005s know I was part of that that group that
5007s exclusive group um getting my my uh wolf
5011s pack Wolf PFF from from participating in
5014s the beta um you know all the the changes
5017s we were able to make uh as a consequence
5019s of of testing in the beta um playing
5021s through the playing through the campaign
5023s right getting to really have Mesto as a
5027s a a huge complex character for the first
5030s time in a in a Diablo game um finding
5032s out out what happens with Lilith um and
5036s um getting to meet all the characters
5037s along the way right bringing the fish
5039s back to uh to that that town in scin um
5043s the major beats uh hey this exactly look
5047s there's there's one Quest designer who's
5049s like I made those I made it's it's a fun
5052s um no but uh it was really the the
5054s campaign in Diablo 4 I think we're
5057s really proud of the work that that we
5059s did there it was really cool for players
5061s to experience that and sharing and for
5063s people who pick up the game now to to
5065s check it out um of course we launched
5068s season one uh and we got tons of
5071s feedback on season one I think we
5073s learned a lot from that we did it was a
5076s real it was a a real learning experience
5078s for us uh those of you whove been with
5080s us for a while I'm sure uh had an
5082s opportunity to give us a lot of that
5083s feedback but one of the things that I
5086s want to point out here is that it it's
5090s it's incredibly valuable to us to have
5092s have players who are passionate about
5095s the game because that's how we get the
5097s opportunity to to make changes to it
5100s right like when you have a game that no
5102s one cares about you just don't get any
5104s feedback about how it can be better um
5107s and one of the reasons we've been able
5109s to do all the things we've been able to
5111s do with you know changes in season two
5113s and uh all the stuff we've been talking
5115s about here today and things that are
5116s upcoming for the game is because of all
5118s of your feedback so please continue to
5120s give us feedback uh about all the things
5122s things you don't like in the game and
5124s all the things you like in the game um
5127s we we love to hear it really um can I
5129s say one thing I'm so sorry yeah you can
5131s so it's it's funny whenever your hat I
5133s don't have a hat I'm so sorry this is
5135s really this is Joe sign up I I just I
5137s one thing like I I I do get asked this
5139s quite a bit like you know how do you
5139s deal with all this feedback sometimes
5141s it's like really really direct and I the
5143s way I sort of think about it is like
5144s whenever someone sends me a message
5146s about uh de before or like we're reading
5148s a community post or you know watching a
5149s video whatever is that we're doing you
5151s know at any given time um even when
5153s people are like angry or disappointed
5155s like everybody ultimately I think
5156s there's one kind of like truism here and
5158s that everybody wants Diablo 4 to be good
5160s yeah they W they went and played the
5161s game hoping for a specific kind of
5163s experience and they want that you know
5165s so even when people are like pretty you
5167s know um you know pointed in the way
5169s they're talking about things they that
5170s they feel it's because they're
5171s passionate about it so yeah it's it's
5173s it's just kind of undergrading your
5175s point yeah yeah I think I I can't say it
5177s enough um blood Harvest Right getting to
5181s do blood harvest in season 2
5183s uh bringing getting six six to eight
5185s people together overloading the The Zone
5187s The Zone cap so you can bring uh 150 uh
5191s lures together farming that getting you
5193s know uh so many uh so many legendaries
5196s that you have to stash them in your in
5198s your your stash Tab and then run portal
5200s back so everybody doesn't leave you
5202s behind um getting farmed Oro right uh
5206s linking linking your mats to make sure
5208s that you don't have that one person who
5210s shows up for the first couple parts of
5212s the road rotation and then mysteriously
5213s vanishes without
5215s contributing um getting to bring holiday
5219s events like uh midwinter bite like we're
5221s really excited to be able to you know
5223s we're all going to go away for the
5224s holidays that's why I've got my hat here
5226s and um it's cool that when we go away
5229s for the holidays we're doing it uh with
5232s a whole bunch of awesome content new
5233s content uh for folks to to play in
5236s Diablo 4 uh and uh it was cool to see um
5240s some of the steam getting getting
5242s nominated for a couple of awards um in a
5244s couple places some some player Choice
5246s Awards I think players can still vote
5248s for that so y um you know we would love
5250s it if if you're having fun if you if you
5253s nominated us for that um and you know I
5257s think this is our this is our first year
5259s of this um it's been it's been a a long
5263s year and an exciting year and we're
5265s really excited for next year and for the
5267s future and for season 3 and all the
5270s stuff we're bringing there and and
5272s itemization stuff uh coming and and the
5276s expansion that we
5277s announced we've got so much stuff to to
5280s bring to Diablo 4 and uh so we hope we
5282s hope you'll join us for that yeah so
5284s thank you guys again thanks to the
5285s Diablo community of course tuning in
5287s through all these campfire chats all our
5289s developer update live streams and we
5291s have a lot more planned for next year uh
5293s our next uh uh stream is actually going
5296s to be uh live from Albany New York yeah
5300s we're going to Albany uh we actually uh
5303s we we have you know of course uh
5304s locations with with multiple teams here
5306s working on Diablo 4 and we have a studio
5308s up in Albany uh that will be ready for
5311s season 3 for a reveal so we'll have a
5312s developer update live stream then and so
5315s we're looking forward to uh going live
5316s from there and and uh checking out
5319s season 3 and revealing more information
5321s about it next time you guys see us on
5322s stream um before we do uh head off of
5326s course uh we want to remind people about
5328s some other Diablo activities that are
5330s also going on uh during the the hall Hol
5332s season um and we have like d2r we are
5335s bringing back the 22 Nights of terror
5337s that was introduced last year so players
5339s will be able to actually experience that
5340s D3 um season 30 PTR notes go live
5345s tomorrow for that so people will be able
5347s to see um uh some of the balance changes
5349s that are coming in uh season 34 Diablo I
5353s and we'll have information about when
5355s that PTR is actually going to start and
5356s of course dark KN of tristam which is a
5358s very popular event that happens every
5360s single New Year will be happening for D3
5363s again uh so players can actually partake
5364s in that and for Diablo mortal we have a
5366s huge update it's actually probably our
5368s largest update since the blood night uh
5370s which is the Splinter Souls update which
5371s will be coming on December 14th so lots
5374s of Diablo activities throughout the
5376s holiday um again thank you to the whole
5379s entire Diablo community on behalf of the
5381s Diablo Dev teams here we're looking
5383s forward to our holiday break and we're
5385s hoping you guys enjoy your holiday break
5387s with Diablo so thanks again we'll see
5389s you uh we'll see you
5391s soon
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