Diablo IV | Pre-launch Developer Update | October 2024 | Diablo III Dev Tracker

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1372s	w
1384s	vessel of hatred is the next big chapter
1386s	in the story of Diablo I when we last
1389s	left off we had defeated Lilith and Nel
1391s	was sailing South with misto Soul Stone
1393s	in hand this is a tremendous burden for
1396s	someone as young and untrained as Nel
1399s	but somehow she has found the will to
1400s	fight challenging the Primeval every
1402s	step of the way in this expansion we
1405s	follow their path as Nel seeks salvation
1407s	from Mesto and searches for a way to
1410s	banish him back to the
1413s	abyss as we wrap up Diablo 4 there has
1417s	been a huge battle and Hell between
1420s	anaras the Cathedral of lights and
1422s	Lilith and all of her demons throughout
1425s	this entire campaign in Diablo I you're
1428s	basically trying to defeat Lilith so you
1431s	team up with people like Nel who's this
1434s	young eager character and then you've
1436s	got Laura who is this sort of wise drunk
1440s	he was the Herod so he brings this
1442s	rounded old school thinking he ends up
1445s	being the Catalyst of the group inarius
1448s	believed that if he killed Lilith he
1450s	would be accepted Again by heaven so he
1453s	went after Lilith he actually stabbed
1456s	her and Heaven did not take him back and
1459s	he had this moment of I've been wrong
1461s	this entire time and she used that
1463s	against him and ended up killing an
1465s	Arius
1469s	her goal was to devour her father Mesto
1473s	and we ended up actually stopping her
1475s	and so even though she was defeated she
1477s	kind of gave us a warning of I was the
1479s	only one that could actually save you
1481s	from Mesto Nell is left with the Soul
1483s	Stone and she decides to take the
1486s	essence of Mesto and trap him into the
1488s	Soul Stone lorth is still with us and is
1490s	going to try and help us find
1492s	information on where Nel went and so we
1494s	leave off with her sailing South with
1496s	the stone telling you do not follow the
1498s	world might need you and over time
1501s	things start to unfold and you realize
1503s	that Nel cannot do this alone and so you
1506s	start your search for
1510s	her when we pick up in vessel of hatred
1513s	the Cathedral of light is kind of in
1516s	disarray it became a bit fractured with
1518s	the death of narius so there was a bit
1520s	of a split with the Cathedral of light
1522s	afterwards this created an opening for a
1525s	whole new sect to rise up and take
1527s	things into their own hands hands and so
1529s	you end up with a militant wing of the
1531s	church that is the burnt Knights burnt
1533s	Knights are led by yvar a survivor of
1536s	Hell he's uncompromising he feels that
1539s	he's final judgment and that he's going
1541s	to make better decisions for the church
1543s	they battled in hell and now they're on
1545s	this Manhunt for Nel and for lorath they
1548s	want them to pay for their crimes and
1550s	they think that they should be the ones
1552s	that have a say on what happens to
1555s	Sanctuary metho is the Lord of hatred he
1558s	is probably the one primeval that can
1562s	create the most Dee rooted chaos
1565s	breaking up the people of sanctuary in
1568s	the events of Diablo 2 he was destroyed
1571s	he's been slowly resurrecting himself in
1573s	hell and he wants to come back and bring
1575s	himself back to sanctuary and now that
1577s	he is in this Soul Stone that Nal
1579s	carries this is his opportunity The
1581s	Herald of hatred is mephisto's wolf form
1584s	it's this astr projected form that he
1586s	gets to put out and connect with the
1588s	plag and whisper in people's ears the
1591s	connection between Nel the player and
1594s	Mesto is the fate of the world Nel wants
1598s	to get rid of them but the more time she
1600s	spends with the stone the tighter the
1601s	bond between her and the stone is the
1604s	corrupting influence of mefisto Soul
1606s	Stone is going to potentially convince
1609s	her to bring mefisto back instead of
1611s	destroy him like she originally wanted
1613s	so we need to actually make sure that
1616s	she fulfills her original intent and
1618s	doesn't fault to mephisto's
1622s	influence nyell plans to bring the Soul
1625s	Stone into the Vault of light so she can
1628s	purify the Soul Stone of mephisto's
1630s	essence The Vault of light is this
1633s	really sacred place that akarat created
1636s	his presence is really important through
1639s	the history of sanctuary akarat wandered
1642s	the world speaking the teachings of the
1644s	zachar room Faith his tomb is also said
1647s	to be in The Vault of Light which is in
1650s	nantu akaran is the one who discovered
1652s	the spirit realm when the world Zone was
1654s	forged and Sanctuary came out of it this
1657s	veil was created and that's what created
1659s	the spirit realm demons aren't there
1660s	Angels aren't there it's a very special
1662s	place for Humanity and for a long time
1665s	the spirit realm was not touched and now
1667s	mephisto's corruption is creeping its
1670s	way and that's a fear that everybody in
1672s	nanu is thinking
1675s	about spirituality is really unique to
1678s	humanity and in the jungle it's a big
1681s	part of their culture aru is this elder
1685s	this magical being a spirit born and
1688s	he's really connected to nantu this is
1691s	his home this is his ancestral lineage
1694s	and he's guiding the player on this
1696s	journey to help Nell we actually find
1699s	out that there have been sightings of
1701s	Nell in nanu and we end up following her
1706s	there in vessel of hatred this is a
1709s	story about isolation we start off with
1712s	the concept that Nell is trying to do
1714s	this alone but at some point you realize
1717s	that things are escalating and so we
1719s	morph from this idea of isolation into
1723s	the idea of being stronger together for
1725s	someone that has been through the
1727s	Journey that our Wanderer has that nyell
1731s	has been through you feel there's hope
1733s	that Sanctuary is not going to be lost
1736s	you get to see pockets of sanctuary that
1738s	we haven't been able to see before but
1739s	it's still all in that same tone in that
1742s	same world that everybody loves so
1754s	much hello Diablo 4 Community welcome to
1758s	another Diablo 4 developer update this
1760s	is a very special Diablo 4 developer
1762s	update as this is our pre-launch stream
1764s	before vessel of hatred which is
1766s	actually going to be shipping here uh
1768s	next week which is crazy to think about
1770s	I'm joined here by Mr Brent Gibson game
1772s	director for Diablo 4 I know before we
1775s	have our Big Show uh you wanted to talk
1777s	a little bit about uh vessel of hatred
1779s	and what's to come yeah this is a really
1781s	big week the fact that we're finally on
1783s	the doorstep of shipping vessel of
1785s	hatred is a bit surreal we've been
1787s	working on it for a very long time you
1789s	know over the course of the last five
1791s	seasons so much has changed and we're
1794s	excited to talk about some of those
1795s	details today uh everything kicks off
1798s	with our epic journey through nantu
1801s	where we're going to be telling the next
1802s	chapter of Mesto and it doesn't really
1806s	stop there we haven't talked about it
1807s	much yet but we we've actually created a
1809s	custom Quest at the end of the story
1811s	that leads those players who haven't
1813s	gotten to endgame will get to endgame
1815s	that's awesome along the way you're also
1817s	going to find brand new ways to play
1818s	with the Kos under City we've talked
1820s	about this time attack dungeon uh that's
1822s	super cool we'll go into more detail on
1824s	that today uh we have our Co-op PVE
1826s	experience with the dark Citadel for the
1828s	those hardcore players that like playing
1829s	with friends you're going to have
1830s	something really cool there and we also
1833s	have brand new ways of gaining power
1835s	whether you're hiring mercenaries and
1837s	leveling them up or finding our new
1840s	powerful runes that create Rune words to
1842s	socket into your gear you're going to
1843s	have a lot more ways to actually alter
1845s	the builds that you've been playing with
1847s	all this time so uh at the at the end of
1850s	all this we have the star of our show
1852s	our class that wants to go fast uh the
1855s	spirit born which uh you know everybody
1858s	got a sneak peek at that quite a while
1859s	ago and we have been polishing it and
1862s	getting it ready to make sure that it's
1863s	the most fun it can be at launch yeah
1865s	and it's uh great because like we're
1866s	actually going to be going through all
1867s	these aspects today in the uh the live
1871s	stream with our our our kind of our
1873s	subject matter experts across each of
1875s	them so I know as we mentioned uh next
1878s	week the vessel of hatred will actually
1880s	be shipping uh and be release to
1882s	everyone uh right now the plan is for it
1885s	to be out on October 8th and that is
1886s	still very much the plan the plan uh we
1889s	actually did release a uh a map uh
1893s	earlier this week in our what you need
1894s	to know blog uh that kind of pretty much
1897s	contains exactly when uh each of the
1899s	release dates are are going to be but uh
1901s	players can actually end up doing early
1903s	download right now on uh PC battl net we
1906s	do have uh early download coming up for
1908s	console uh this weekend on the 5th so
1911s	there's a lot of stuff coming down the
1913s	pipe uh a lot of excitement going on the
1915s	other thing that we did talk about as
1917s	well is uh twitch Dr DRS uh we do have a
1919s	twitch drops campaign that is actually
1921s	starting uh at the launch of vessel of
1924s	hatred it's actually going to be
1925s	starting on October 8th in uh Pacific
1927s	time so it's about like 12 16 hours
1930s	somewhere around there afterwards but
1931s	there's some really cool back pieces
1933s	really cool weapons that you can earn
1934s	and it goes throughout the whole entire
1936s	month of October through like that F
1938s	first early part of uh November we also
1941s	have a support of streamer program this
1942s	time around uh which is really cool
1944s	because sport of streamer actually
1946s	really helps out some of the smaller
1947s	streamers that are actually
1949s	to uh you know stream Diablo which is
1952s	really great if you two subs for or or
1955s	if you actually purchase two subs across
1957s	any streamer that is streaming across
1959s	Diablo 4 and has this enabled uh you'll
1961s	end up receiving uh the mount that we
1963s	actually just showed right there and
1965s	then if you do an additional two you
1967s	actually get the mount armor as well so
1968s	it's a really cool way of helping out
1970s	some of the the the smaller and midsize
1972s	streamers out there that uh you know
1974s	really benefit from some of these
1975s	programs and it's it's great to see all
1977s	these new faces as they actually jump
1979s	into vessel of hatred um the next thing
1982s	we do also want to talk about is a cool
1984s	promotion that we're actually doing with
1985s	trolley here in the US uh trolley
1988s	actually makes uh some uh candy uh so
1992s	they're like sour bright crawlers and
1993s	things like that uh there's actually
1995s	some really cool uh uh weapon skins
1998s	available if you actually purchase uh
2001s	trolley uh specific products here in the
2003s	US uh we actually have them here uh on
2007s	set but you can see all the cool weapon
2009s	skins but if you actually purchase these
2011s	and you'll see that they're clearly
2012s	marked with like Diablo 4 they got the
2014s	spirit born on them and you can actually
2017s	end up taking a photo of your receipt
2019s	going to a specific site and then you'll
2021s	end up getting uh kind of the rewards in
2023s	game and you also have a chance of
2024s	actually winning an Xbox too which is
2026s	really cool so uh and this is a cool
2028s	promotion that I think Xbox is actually
2030s	doing across multitudes of titles
2032s	including like World of Warcraft for
2033s	instance cuz this was actually going on
2035s	with the war within uh here at blizzard
2037s	so uh yeah like if you're in the US uh
2040s	look for trolley products thankfully we
2042s	have a whole bunch of bags here so
2044s	expect me to actually be eating these or
2046s	seven bags last two days as we've been
2049s	like prepping for the stream like this
2050s	has been my whole entire diet uh
2053s	actually no I I've been eating normal
2055s	food but at the same time this is like
2057s	my My Kryptonite right here so uh expect
2059s	me to be eating these throughout the
2061s	stream I it's my favorite stream because
2063s	we have snacks now so I'm like this is
2065s	perfect this is perfect um but one one
2068s	thing again we wanted to mention which
2070s	is the release date and I think we have
2072s	a release date map here uh so yeah as
2075s	you guys can see on October 7th in
2077s	Irvine at 4 p.m. Pacific or Pacific Time
2080s	or California time if you want to say it
2083s	uh is when the actual uh uh expansion is
2085s	going to be launching this is a global
2088s	launch so everyone is coming out at the
2090s	same time uh the world is round so you
2093s	can't get everyone in on October 8th so
2096s	that's why there's some in October 7th
2099s	but we wanted to make sure that we could
2101s	get as many people in on October 8th and
2104s	of course a little earlier on October
2105s	7th but everyone's coming out at the
2107s	exact same time so uh looking forward to
2110s	everyone jumping in um we do have an
2112s	actionpack show today a lot of stuff to
2114s	cover um we are going to be hitting up
2117s	on the uh patch 2.0 PTR changes first as
2122s	first up in the agenda because we have
2124s	so many things to share I will know this
2126s	is our 20th live stream for for for
2130s	Diablo 4 that we've ever done which is
2132s	really cool and this is also our first
2133s	time we're actually streaming on Tik Tok
2136s	uh we we already stream on X we stream
2137s	on Twitch and we stream on YouTube so uh
2140s	this is kind of a nice momentous
2142s	occasion but because of how much content
2145s	we have and how many guests we have um
2148s	we are going to say that we will have
2150s	some small little breaks while we
2152s	actually mic new people up bring them
2154s	into the studio and then swap them out
2157s	for other things but we are going to be
2159s	talking first about uh patch 2.0 PTR and
2162s	the feedback that we actually receiv
2163s	received from players and then
2164s	separately we're also going to be
2165s	talking about uh season six season of
2168s	hatred Rising uh and separately we will
2171s	finish off the show with uh all the
2173s	vessel of hatred features and going into
2175s	a little bit more of a deeper dive
2176s	something that you were talking about
2177s	Brent so oh yeah I can't wait I mean we
2179s	have so many people coming in that we're
2181s	having to pack them in rast yeah exactly
2183s	you're going to see you're going to see
2184s	mult multiple levels of people uh in the
2187s	studio so uh we're going to take a quick
2189s	break while we get the the first group
2191s	in for our patch 2.0 PTR feedback
2194s	overview uh so we'll see you in a bit
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2273s	awesome I appreciate everyone uh bearing
2277s	with us as we get
2278s	people miked up we're going to be doing
2280s	this a couple times throughout this
2281s	stream but we're here to talk about the
2284s	PTR learnings from patch 2.0 PTR which
2287s	we had earlier this month super
2289s	beneficial uh ptrs have been great for
2292s	us since we've started uh actually
2294s	hosting them for Diablo I and of course
2297s	this one was a very very big one because
2298s	we have a lot of big changes coming with
2300s	vessel of hatred in season 6 uh but I
2303s	know we want to jump right straight or
2305s	jump straight into it so uh aen uh I
2308s	know you're going to start us off and
2309s	talk about some progression changes yes
2311s	I am so let's yeah like you said Adam
2314s	let's jump oh you actually before we do
2316s	that sorry sorry sorry I just realized
2317s	no one knows who we are yeah know I
2321s	there we go there I was just like wait a
2322s	minute um of course we have some
2324s	familiar faces but if you guys want to
2325s	do quick intros yeah yeah hi I'm Colin
2328s	I'm a lead designer hey I'm aen I'm a
2330s	systems designer hi I'm Charles I'm a
2333s	class designer hey y'all I'm Anthony I'm
2335s	an associate class designer awesome
2339s	great there we go now we got everyone
2341s	settled uh Asen do you want to talk
2343s	about some of the progression changes
2344s	yes absolutely So Adam like you said uh
2348s	the PTR has been just fantastic for us
2351s	it's given us so much data and the
2352s	feedback you guys give is just pivotal
2355s	um to us launching uh in the state we
2357s	want to see the game in and you know
2359s	everyone wants to see the game in um and
2361s	so yeah let's talk about it let's talk
2363s	about some changes we've made because of
2365s	it uh so first of all Monster intensity
2368s	something we saw in the early game was
2370s	people weren't noticing the changes in
2372s	Monster intensity because people were
2374s	skipping through difficulties fairly
2375s	quickly and so we've decided to move
2377s	monster intensity from scaling over uh
2380s	normal hard expert impenitent to scaling
2382s	over torment 1 through four because
2384s	you're going to be progressing through
2385s	torments a little bit slower so you're
2387s	going to be able to feel the intensity
2388s	changes I think a little more potently
2390s	yeah there's a bit more jumps right yeah
2393s	yeah absolutely and again the intensity
2395s	system was essentially monsters just
2397s	become a little bit reliable in their
2398s	damage sort to predict your movement a
2400s	little bit more on the projectiles um
2402s	it's not a massive change but it should
2404s	sort of make the monsters feel a little
2406s	bit more aggressive and and dangerous
2408s	yeah they just become a little more
2409s	lethal I think ultimately uh Beyond you
2412s	know numerical changes uh second up I
2414s	want to talk about is uh one that I'm
2416s	really really happy and excited about
2417s	actually is that Elites unique Elites
2420s	and super Elites are three different
2422s	types of Elites you can actually fight
2424s	uh if if you know that or not that's the
2426s	thing um um and previously they all did
2430s	very different amounts of damage from
2431s	one another like for example a super
2433s	Elite might deal actually two times the
2435s	amount of damage of a normal Elite and
2437s	what that was causing was when an elite
2439s	spawned in AIX like lightning Enchanted
2442s	uh or poison or whatever um the super
2446s	Elites would do two times more damage
2448s	with those affixes but you didn't really
2450s	have any way to tell right there was no
2452s	way to tell if an AIX was spawned by an
2455s	elite or a super Elite and so kind of
2457s	seeming randomly an AIX might deal two
2459s	times more damage to uh to you out of
2461s	nowhere and so what we've done is we've
2463s	normalized the damage that all of these
2465s	different Elite types actually deal so
2467s	that when you do see the affixes that
2469s	they're they're spewing out you can
2471s	expect the damage you're going to
2472s	receive like you know how much it's
2474s	going to hit you more consistent way
2476s	more consistent way more predictable
2477s	which is really helpful for not getting
2479s	randomly one
2481s	shot those yeah yeah um and then finally
2485s	on difficulty we have uh some changes to
2489s	standard difficulty tiers we know some
2491s	of you guys are looking for a challenge
2493s	so let's take a look at what a challenge
2495s	looks
2496s	like all right so we have a level one
2498s	character here in Kovash Shad going to
2500s	the Statue to change their difficulty so
2503s	what are they going to change it to well
2505s	before they could access hard exp uh
2508s	normal hard and expert but now they can
2510s	access penitence at level one mod we
2514s	only play
2515s	yeah why would you play anything else
2518s	yes so you have to beat the uh base
2521s	campaign on your account once and then
2523s	you can go into penitent and let's see
2524s	how that turns out for this person oh
2526s	yeah you hell TI just a few de oh a few
2530s	too many demons just a couple few too
2532s	many demons Mythic unique so so you can
2537s	do penitence at level one now it's
2539s	pretty hard guys so if you plan to go on
2541s	a level one be prepared but seriously we
2544s	know people really wanted to be able to
2546s	push their builds uh as far as they
2548s	could as early as they could and now you
2550s	can so whenever you feel like you're
2552s	ready for penitent during your leveling
2553s	Journey hop in there and see how you do
2556s	yeah I know that was like one of the
2557s	biggest points of feedback we got during
2559s	this PTR which was like Hey we'd like to
2561s	see if penitent wasn't like gated way
2564s	further down the line and if it could be
2565s	brought in so it's now available at
2567s	level one um and you know as we've shown
2570s	in the footage it can be difficult but I
2572s	think what's nice is like if someone
2573s	creates alts and they end up you know
2575s	finding a bunch of Mythic uniques and
2576s	stuff which you can use at earlier
2578s	levels um you then can at least uh uh
2581s	potentially start off in pen and a
2583s	little bit earlier and and you know stay
2586s	with a higher difficulty in that type of
2587s	way which is nice oh yeah yeah we really
2590s	want to embrace like the sort of choose
2591s	your difficulty that we really liked
2593s	with the mine cages in season five four
2595s	and five and again like to your point
2598s	alts just are able to speedrun their way
2600s	to max level right by playing at a
2601s	really hard difficulty so should feel a
2603s	lot better and it feels great to just
2605s	hop into peniton early like when you're
2606s	capable of doing it's awesome yeah we do
2610s	we don't necessarily expect everyone to
2612s	play penet it's really hard so play Risk
2616s	yeah yes yeah you need your character
2618s	needs to be pretty pretty pretty good
2620s	yeah yeah all right let's talk about
2623s	some itemization changes so we got a lot
2625s	of feedback that once you got to max
2627s	level uh and you were you know starting
2629s	that ancestral grind you were stuck with
2631s	these non-ancestral items for a pretty
2632s	long time uh and we do like that but we
2635s	know that we uh people want to see the
2638s	journey for those non-ancestral items to
2639s	be a little punchier um and so we've
2642s	made some targeted changes here to
2644s	ensure that non-ancestral legendaries
2646s	have more uh well punch to them uh so
2649s	we've increased the amount of massw
2651s	working you can put on a non-ancestral
2653s	legendary from 4 to 8 we are also
2656s	allowing them to be tempered twice
2658s	previously both of those values were uh
2661s	exclusive to ancestral items but now
2663s	non-ancestral can go up to that um
2666s	additionally we saw that people were
2668s	going to like the boss ladder or they
2670s	were just finding uniques out in the
2672s	world um and they didn't drop as it
2675s	didn't feel like they were dropping as
2677s	ancestral as often as they should have
2679s	right cuz they're so rare right they're
2680s	so rare and you know you want finding a
2682s	uni uh unique item to be an exciting
2684s	moment and uh so we've tripled the
2687s	chance for them to drop as ancestral and
2689s	this should help a lot especially during
2691s	the boss ladder you know when you're
2692s	killing uh these these Uber bosses and
2694s	they're dropping lots of uniques a lot
2696s	more of them are going to turn out to be
2698s	ancestral definitely and this should
2700s	mean that once you're starting and
2702s	around level 60 you have a lot more
2704s	progression on your equipment that sort
2705s	of bridges the Gap to ancestral we also
2707s	heard a lot of feedback that that se
2709s	second tempered aex really is what
2711s	enables your build to come online and
2713s	that's what we're trying to do with the
2714s	system of ancestral is that you can get
2716s	your build online but then there's still
2718s	items that you can chase that just
2720s	enhance that build right we saw that
2722s	like not having that second tempered AIX
2724s	and not having those eight Masterwork
2725s	ranks really sort of hindered your
2727s	ability to get that build online to get
2729s	into the fun and start blasting yeah no
2731s	that's a great point because we don't
2732s	want you to feel like you have to find
2734s	ancestral for your build to function um
2736s	and you know this change is working
2738s	towards making that true definitely so
2740s	you still have those items you can chase
2742s	but you can still get those endgame
2743s	builds online pretty quickly yep for
2746s	sure uh and finally on itemization we
2749s	are adding some Scrolls of restoration
2751s	to the season Journey uh the Scrolls of
2753s	restoration are the Scrolls of tempering
2756s	uh that we talked about at Gamescom you
2758s	can use them to um reset the uh
2762s	tempering chances on an item uh and we
2765s	wanted to add these to the season
2767s	Journey so you could just have a couple
2768s	of deterministic ways to acquire them uh
2771s	and use them on your
2772s	gear and this of course is not the only
2775s	place you can earn these swir
2777s	Restorations you know you can earn them
2779s	throughout the world there's a there's a
2780s	small drop chance and we'll be actually
2782s	talking about another way of earning
2783s	them later on as well so definitely yeah
2786s	so I I think one thing that I'm excited
2788s	about on the unique changes if you
2789s	equate greater aexes in season 5 to
2792s	ancestral you're actually going to have
2794s	a higher chance to get an ancestral
2796s	unique um compared to getting a greater
2798s	aex on a unique than live right so it
2800s	means that uniques are really exciting
2802s	you might actually get um like the staff
2804s	of endless rage for example maybe you're
2806s	not playing a fireball sorc but now
2808s	you're like oh well I have an ancestral
2810s	version of this unique
2812s	huge so really like kind of gets you to
2815s	experiment a little bit more and we
2816s	really like that aspect about those
2818s	uniques sometimes being a lot more
2820s	powerful yeah no it's it's we we want
2823s	that moment when you see a unique on the
2825s	ground to be really fun and exciting and
2827s	seeing it drop as an ancestral with
2829s	greater fixes is about as exciting as it
2831s	gets for uniques so that's pretty
2834s	cool all right let's talk about some
2836s	player power changes based on PTR
2838s	feedback so I want to start by Framing
2841s	our goals uh for torment difficulties so
2845s	torment one we want all content to be
2848s	available in the game you can fight
2849s	Lilith you can fight the boss slider you
2851s	can go to the dark Citadel you know Etc
2853s	all these activities are available
2855s	tourament 4 is intended to be
2857s	aspirational content and what that means
2859s	is you've already unlocked everything in
2861s	the game when you enter tournament 1 but
2863s	torment 4 is like the essence of Diablo
2867s	like build crafting where you're just
2868s	pushing your character as far as you can
2870s	go and torment 4 exists for that purpose
2873s	for people who want to push their
2875s	character as far as they can go and with
2877s	that said and the reason why I'm saying
2879s	this is because we were seeing that
2881s	people were getting to torment 4 way
2883s	faster and way easier than we were
2884s	hoping for in the PTR and you know which
2887s	is just another great like it's great
2889s	that we did the PTR because we saw that
2891s	um and with that all said we've made
2893s	some changes to kind of keep torment for
2895s	this you know really challenging and
2897s	exciting thing to reach um uh We've
2901s	we've reverted the uh skill damage bonus
2904s	from mainat back to what it was in
2906s	season 5 so we had actually doubled it
2908s	in the PTR but we found that that was
2910s	just giving players too much power too
2912s	uh so we sent it back um and we also
2915s	pulled back on legendary glyph power a
2916s	bit col do you want to talk about that
2918s	yeah so we reduced the scaling on the
2920s	glyphs quite a bit because we found that
2921s	it was really devaluing a lot of the
2924s	aspect roles or roles on your gear like
2926s	when you're getting 2,000 additive
2928s	damage from a glyph it's really hard to
2929s	actually feel anything on your gear
2931s	through tempering or through those aics
2933s	that are dropping um so essentially what
2935s	we've done is pair that back we
2937s	redistribute it we'll cover that a
2938s	little bit on like where we' put some of
2940s	that power but overall we think this
2941s	feels a lot better glyphs aren't just
2943s	carrying like 80% of your power on a
2945s	build and it just feels a lot better so
2947s	that it doesn't feel as sort of
2949s	mandatory that I have to get all five
2950s	glyphs and level them up to actually be
2952s	pushing difficulty it's a lot more about
2954s	what are the aspects you have what are
2956s	the uniques you have what are the nodes
2958s	you're actually getting on the Paragon
2959s	board you think it feels a lot better
2961s	yeah and like I think one of the
2962s	important things to say about this is
2963s	that like it's really awesome to get a
2965s	tremendous amount of power from One
2967s	Source but because there are so many
2969s	different sources of power in the game
2971s	if one source gives too much power it
2973s	makes the other sources feel kind of
2975s	unimportant um and that's not fun so we
2978s	want to make sure that every source of
2979s	power in the game is contributing to
2981s	your build in very meaningful ways and
2983s	so this change is helping other sources
2985s	of power feel really Punchy definitely
2989s	yeah awesome I know uh uh tons of
2992s	changes here with player power uh tons
2994s	of changes with like progression uh in
2997s	including difficulty and itemization um
3000s	do we have anything else on progression
3002s	or I think one thing I think that's
3004s	really important to touch on is the
3006s	torment goals here right cuz it it's a
3008s	definite fundamental shift from season 5
3011s	and that you think about world tier 3
3013s	into World tier 4 and you're sort of
3015s	racing to get to world tier 4 as fast as
3017s	possible because that's where all the
3018s	best items can drop yeah and we've sort
3020s	of just changed that to torment 1 is
3022s	where all the best items can drop it's
3023s	where everything unlocks um but
3025s	essentially tourament 2 three and for
3027s	increase the odds of those things
3029s	happening so it's just efficiency right
3031s	um we don't necessarily want to say You
3033s	must get to torment 4 to experience the
3035s	game or to get the best drops in the
3037s	game similar similar to World tier 4 in
3039s	season 5 it's very different feeling so
3041s	we're we're excited to see how that
3042s	plays out and we want to sort of um see
3045s	what you all think as well yeah and just
3047s	to to reiterate you know all of the
3049s	content all of the best gear can be
3051s	found in torment one so if that's where
3053s	your build feels most comfortable
3054s	farming that's great you can still
3056s	achieve all your your goals you can
3057s	really max out your character there it
3059s	just you get a reward for pushing this
3061s	harder difficulty by more efficiency
3064s	yeah and that's like what affords Tor 4
3067s	the means to or like the space to be
3069s	really hard is because you don't have to
3071s	get there and so it can be really really
3073s	challenging and you know some players
3074s	really love that and that's awesome
3077s	definitely awesome well I know uh the
3080s	next topic we want to talk about is some
3082s	of the big system changes that are
3083s	actually coming uh with um uh vessel of
3087s	hatred but and also changes that we're
3089s	we're applying post PTR from things that
3092s	we actually learned Colin you want to
3094s	walk us through um and start us off with
3096s	some of the Paragon stuff yeah
3098s	absolutely so again we got a ton of
3100s	feedback from the PTR and we took a look
3102s	at Paragon um that was one of the bigger
3104s	changes that we made where we Capp the
3105s	boards um because we feel like that
3107s	gives us a lot more space to increase
3108s	the power of each of these boards and
3110s	make the choice more about what is the
3111s	board you're looking for um so what
3113s	we've done here is we've added a bunch
3115s	of normal notes so the are things like
3117s	stats that Empower those glyphs to
3119s	upgrade that legendary glyph radius we
3121s	added them was kind of sad like there
3123s	weren't actually a lot of nodes to flush
3124s	it out and sort of build up that Paragon
3127s	that extra glyph range that you're going
3128s	to get from upgrading it to Legendary so
3130s	we've done that we added around eight to
3132s	every board um and then the starting
3134s	board I think we went to like 12 or
3135s	something like that just cuz you know um
3137s	the starting board should feel really
3139s	good with that first glyph um the next
3141s	thing we've done is we've taken a look
3142s	at a lot of the rare and Magic nodes and
3144s	we've just made them generically more
3146s	useful so you think about like
3148s	two-handed bludgeoning damage on the
3150s	Barbarian is like okay like I guess I
3152s	guess I can only benefit if I'm doing
3154s	this one very specific thing and we've
3156s	just open that up to say damage right
3158s	that's going to scale everything across
3159s	your character as opposed to like while
3161s	you're doing this sort of obscure thing
3164s	um so we think that feels a lot better
3165s	we've also just sort of taken a look at
3168s	what are the affixes we're giving like
3169s	potion healing like I know
3172s	you're all going to be really sad my I
3175s	know you're all super sad to see
3178s	potion healing out but we've just
3179s	changed it to Healing received we've
3181s	also just taken a look at things like
3183s	damage reduction from dots and made it
3184s	damage reduction so it should be a lot
3186s	more generically useful and those boards
3188s	should feel a lot more Punchy and
3189s	open-ended which we really like and
3191s	that's sort of doubling down on the SP
3193s	of what we've done with season 4
3195s	itemization right just sort of taking
3197s	back some of these conditional things
3198s	aren't necessarily adding a ton of value
3200s	to your build identity just opening
3202s	things up and then the next thing we've
3204s	done is I we talked about redistributing
3206s	some of the power on those glyphs and
3208s	we've taken a look at all of our nodes
3210s	all the magic and rare nodes and we've
3211s	just buffed all of them so we've doubled
3212s	all the additive bonuses on rare and
3214s	Magic nodes um we've increased the
3216s	damage reduction values by about 1.5x so
3219s	they should feel a lot more chunky and
3221s	as you're journeying through Paragon
3223s	right it should feel like you have more
3224s	options than to just bum rush every
3226s	glyph socket and every legendary node
3228s	there should be some pretty Punchy like
3230s	um damage sources that you can get uh
3233s	damage reduction sources you can get
3235s	we've also done things like all the
3237s	resistance nodes you have um on the
3239s	Paragon board actually give Max
3240s	resistance as well now so it's pretty
3242s	powerful we've done a lot of changes
3244s	there um so this is one of the first
3246s	steps we're taking to really improve the
3248s	Paragon system uh with the new sort of
3250s	philosophy of like we want you to pick
3251s	what boards you want um and and we
3254s	expect to be updating more in the future
3256s	oh yeah absolutely and I think that this
3257s	hearkens back to what we were just
3259s	saying which is that you know it's
3260s	really fun for all of your sources of
3262s	power to be meaningful and so we're
3264s	basically just taking like the tons and
3267s	tons of power that was in glyphs and
3268s	kind of slightly redistributing it to uh
3271s	Paragon so going through your Paragon
3273s	board is just more interesting and fun
3275s	definitely cool um next up we got I
3278s	think infernal hordes yes yeah so if you
3281s	remember uh infernal hords was under
3283s	construction during the PTR as we were
3285s	fitting in like how does how does this
3286s	going to work with the greater equipment
3288s	chest turning in into ancestral items um
3292s	and there are three things that we
3293s	really wanted to tackle as a part of of
3295s	this release right infernal hordes is in
3297s	Eternal game mode so we wanted to take
3299s	the learnings we got from season 5 and
3300s	apply it to um this next update so one
3303s	of the things we saw was that loot was
3305s	just dominating the reward landscape
3307s	here like getting 200 legendaries from
3310s	one source of activity is is cool for
3312s	season 5 and it's the brand new activity
3313s	for season 5 that's awesome but we
3316s	wanted to just readjust it refit it back
3318s	in we still have the Codex of power that
3320s	lets you store all these legendary
3321s	Powers so we felt like we wanted to take
3323s	more of a quality over quantity approach
3325s	here and one of the the things that was
3327s	sort of frustrating about that quality
3329s	Miss um was that you didn't really have
3331s	a way to reliably Target those unique
3333s	items that were coming out of infernal
3334s	hordes if you think about it you had to
3336s	open a chest and just hope that you're
3337s	going to get one of the unique items out
3339s	of this um chest and uh that sort of led
3341s	to a frustrating and tedious reward flow
3343s	where you're just constantly opening up
3345s	these 28 or chests over and over and
3346s	over uh I know I I I've spent you know
3349s	probably more time opening the material
3351s	chest and actually I mean I think that's
3353s	everyone's favorite pastime of just like
3354s	running around the material chest down
3357s	on the like oh my God give me my
3359s	so it it takes forever um so we've
3363s	taken a look at you know how we're going
3365s	to actually um deliver these Keys we've
3368s	taken them out of the crafting system
3369s	but they're not too rare they're they're
3370s	just uncommonly found throughout the
3372s	world we want this to be like an oh
3373s	moment when the key drops just cuz
3375s	you're going to get a ton of XP from
3377s	killing the hordes going to get a ton of
3378s	materials and a a ton of items as well
3382s	um so we think that's that that will
3383s	make the keys feel a lot more
3385s	interesting and it's not going to blow
3386s	your as much you really want to use them
3388s	when you get them um so the next part
3391s	here is uh if we could go back to the
3393s	slide oh if we could go to infal hordes
3396s	there you go um the council boss no
3398s	matter what as long as you kill that
3399s	Council um they're going to drop uh
3401s	dungeon Boss Loot which is going to be
3403s	legendaries crafting materials gold Etc
3406s	on top of the infernal horde unique
3408s	items and that's going to scale a
3409s	torment so guaranteed every single time
3412s	you kill that Council you going to get
3413s	unique items that are specific to
3415s	infernal WS that's great because those
3417s	infernal horde uniques are pretty sick
3419s	definitely so no more waiting at the
3420s	chest to get that drop it's just going
3422s	to happen and it it feels a lot more
3424s	like the boss ladder where it's like
3425s	okay I want to get infernal hord unique
3427s	items I'm going to be able to reliably
3429s	get those and get a pull at the the sort
3430s	of slot machine there um and then the
3432s	next thing here is we've updated the
3434s	chests so the chests of Greater
3435s	equipment are going to drop those
3437s	Scrolls of uh restoration or retempering
3440s	so you're going to be able to get them
3441s	reliably from The Infernal hordes um not
3443s	just uh the the dark Citadel and that
3445s	that should feel pretty mediate and good
3447s	and then we've also guaranteed some
3450s	amount of ancestral items from that
3451s	greater equipment chest and ancestral
3453s	items are very much more coveted than
3455s	just greater aex item so that should
3457s	feel pretty meaty and then the chest of
3459s	materials is now just going to convert
3460s	all your Aether into materials you don't
3462s	have to like constantly the
3465s	CH turn it into a bunch of Master
3467s	working materials gems it should feel a
3469s	lot more Snappy and you know less time
3471s	looting more time playing and the gold
3474s	chest is the same yeah cuz yeah just
3477s	givy punch uh next up I know we have um
3480s	the the uh the rewards stff we we kind
3483s	of spoiled
3484s	your yeah so um so we can just skip this
3487s	CU
3488s	everyone's yeah um so rewards uh this is
3491s	just a bunch of miscellaneous tuning and
3492s	making the game feel better and more
3494s	rewarding yeah um so we've significantly
3497s	increased the ancestral drop rate from
3498s	Nightmare Dungeons and Whispers thank
3500s	you to the person who ran a thousand
3504s	night definitely fix the the the problem
3507s	there and that should feel a lot more
3509s	rewarding um we've also added just
3511s	experience to the nightmare dungeon
3512s	completion which just feels better as we
3514s	grinding that Paragon also while you're
3516s	leveling up it's like a pretty good hit
3518s	of XP and then we've also done uh
3520s	miscellaneous Buffs to just
3521s	miscellaneous things so hellborn will
3524s	drop loot butcher is going to drop a
3526s	guaranteed axe I believe a butcher's axe
3529s	um the world boss treasure goblins those
3531s	are all going to drop a lot better fot
3533s	um it's also going to scale with torment
3534s	which should feel good yeah I mean it
3536s	makes sense for these like I guess the
3538s	hellborn is not exactly a random
3539s	encounter and I just the world boss but
3541s	like the Butcher and the treasure go and
3542s	these like big media encounters like it
3544s	makes sense for like these to occur and
3546s	you're like give me like good loot
3547s	because this is uncommon this doesn't
3549s	happen that frequently I want it to be
3551s	amazing it it's an exciting moment and
3552s	and the loot should reflect that yeah I
3554s	love that loot explosion you know yeah
3557s	treasure Goblin yeah yeah nothing beats
3559s	finding a treasure Goblin at like level
3560s	five you're just chasing it around using
3563s	your like basic attack yeah and it
3564s	guaranteed drops a legendary no matter
3567s	what level you are so it should feel
3568s	pretty good um the next thing here is we
3571s	really love uh how players or how you
3574s	all have sort of embrace the stronghold
3576s	experience bonus um we've actually just
3577s	done that across the game so campaign
3579s	feels really good in terms of experience
3581s	granted um side quest should feel really
3583s	good especially in the hu um but what we
3585s	saw with uh the stronghold experience in
3588s	the PTR is that two levels felt a little
3590s	bit aggressive and like sort of forced
3592s	you to do strongholds over and over and
3594s	over we've just paired that back down to
3595s	1.25
3597s	levels which is still really meaty like
3598s	you're getting an entire level from
3600s	doing these um it's really fulfilling
3602s	what we had hoped strongholds uh were
3604s	going to provide which is an alternative
3606s	means to level if you want to ride
3607s	around the open world and do a bunch of
3608s	strongholds that's absolutely a viable
3610s	way to level up now um we think that
3612s	like all the quest content in general
3614s	just feels a lot better because they're
3615s	a lot more generous there um the other
3617s	change I'll note here is that a bulk of
3620s	that experience is going to be from
3622s	killing the boss and it's a first time
3624s	reward so that means you're not going to
3625s	be able to of you know cheese running
3628s	strongholds over and over and over thank
3630s	you thank you Rax for showing that with
3632s	your your friends from your from your
3634s	chat that that did that in 20 minutes
3637s	we hey it was a good video I mean in all
3641s	fairness cool um and then the next one
3644s	here is we heard a ton of feedback that
3646s	rare and magic items just felt like
3648s	they're adding a lot of noise to
3649s	tournament we're dropping a lot more of
3650s	them um now they just get Auto salvaged
3652s	and torment hooray so get them out of
3655s	here yeah get them out um and then the
3657s	next one is just a nice quality of life
3659s	the Paragon glyphs now drop from the pit
3661s	so when you're doing a bunch of pit runs
3662s	you're also going to be getting glyphs
3664s	you just means you don't really have to
3665s	like go out and do other things if you
3667s	have a bunch of keys for the pit yeah I
3668s	mean that's really nice too because you
3670s	know theoretically you could enter the
3671s	pit and not actually have a glyph but
3673s	now you will so you can find one and
3675s	level it up if that's what happens
3677s	awesome and I know last but not least we
3679s	have kind of itemization CRA this is
3681s	some some big stuff here um uh that I
3683s	know will excite players for sure yeah
3686s	so one of the things we've heard a ton
3688s	um from the uh the player base and and
3690s	you all is that uh I wish I could make a
3693s	Mythic unique deterministically if I do
3696s	everything at a season if I kill Uber
3698s	Lilith if I do The Season's journey I
3700s	want to be able to get a Mythic unique
3701s	and we saw this as an opportunity to
3704s	essentially create an identity between
3706s	the Rune crafting of Mythic uniques and
3708s	the blacksmith we moved it from The
3710s	Alchemist to the blacksmith um the
3711s	blacksmith version of crafting Mythic
3713s	uniques so now what you're going to be
3715s	able to do is you're going to able to
3716s	take two respondent Sparks to the
3718s	blacksmith and get a random Mythic
3720s	unique that means no matter what as long
3721s	as you do everything in the season
3723s	you're going to get a Mythic unique and
3725s	if you take those respondent Sparks and
3726s	you decide I really want a specific
3728s	Mythic unique um you'll be able to take
3730s	a set of runes and actually pick which
3732s	one and what that does is uh the runes
3735s	are a lot more flexible they can be
3736s	traded you can also get some incremental
3738s	progress right because they drop a lot
3740s	more frequently than Mythic unique or
3741s	Sparks in general um so what this means
3744s	is you now have two really clear means
3746s	to ort of Target U Mythic uniques and
3748s	you know you now have a guaranteed way
3750s	to make a Mythic unique at the end of a
3751s	season which we think will feel really
3752s	good something that's kind of cool about
3754s	that is that it gives runes this like
3755s	intrinsic trade value which I kind of
3758s	love like they they have this big
3760s	purpose uh towards crafting one of the
3763s	best items in the game which is really
3764s	cool I finally finally can get my uh
3767s	starless Skies
3769s	yeah cool um and then the next one here
3772s	is you're going to be getting a lot of
3774s	Salvage and torment because everything
3775s	is getting Auto salvaged so we figured
3777s	you know what we should probably give
3779s	you some purpose and value to that
3781s	Salvage and now you can take it to the
3782s	blacksmith and Forge random legendary
3784s	equipment at the blacksmith yeah this is
3786s	huge I love this change and it also has
3788s	a chance to be unique or Mythic and
3791s	sometimes in sual so it's uh it's
3794s	definitely a great place to dump all
3796s	that Salvage excess Salvage that you
3797s	have um and then the next one here is
3800s	more just sort of a quality of life and
3801s	nicity we added runes and we're putting
3804s	way more sockets on gear uh we allowed
3806s	you to add sockets to gear with just the
3808s	general Salvage material you don't need
3810s	scattered prisms anymore um scattered
3812s	prisms are required for ancestral items
3815s	uh and that just essentially means you
3816s	know ah I'm missing a socket you can
3818s	pretty add easily add one um and then
3820s	the next one here is uh mostly quality
3822s	of life for alt characters but the
3823s	Jeweler no longer has a level
3825s	requirement to engage with the Jeweler
3827s	um previously on the PTR you had to like
3828s	trade gear to your main character out of
3830s	socket it was super uh tedious and uh we
3833s	we just uh made it not like that awesome
3836s	so tons of big changes coming across
3838s	multitude of systems within uh D4 thanks
3841s	to a lot of great feedback that we got
3842s	from all the players within the
3844s	community content creators Etc so thank
3846s	you guys so much for that thank you
3847s	Colin for walking us through that uh
3849s	next up we want to talk about some of
3851s	the the class uh changes and everything
3853s	and so uh Charles here is going to walk
3855s	us through it yeah I'd love to talk
3857s	about some of the class changes that we
3858s	saw in the PTR once again I want to
3860s	thank all of the players uh who you know
3862s	gave a lot of detail uh detailed
3863s	feedback a lot of data on you know how
3866s	classes were performing all the
3867s	different builds and the new new items
3869s	new effects and all that kind of stuff
3871s	new skills um it's been really helpful
3873s	and in helping to make sure that we make
3875s	uh all our class designs as as fun and
3877s	engaging as possible uh I do want to say
3880s	that you know this patch is is huge
3882s	there's lots of changes you know as I
3883s	said a lot of new class stuff but a lot
3885s	of new system stuff across the whole
3886s	game uh and so we do expect some level
3889s	of like volatility here and you know uh
3891s	when a lot of things change there's a
3893s	lot of unknowns and so um that's just
3896s	the the mindset we're we're approaching
3897s	this patch with uh and what I'm going to
3900s	be talking about here is not a complete
3902s	detailed list of everything that we've
3903s	changed from the PTR to live uh it's
3906s	just kind of some samples and kind of
3907s	talking through our learnings and what
3909s	we saw on the class design team and what
3910s	we're thinking about uh and so make sure
3913s	you check out the full patch notes once
3914s	we're done with the stream uh and also
3917s	if you uh a lot of the changes came in
3919s	the PTR initially so definitely check
3920s	out those if you're unfamiliar because
3922s	there's tons of class changes there as
3924s	well oh yeah so uh starting with the
3927s	Barbarian uh we generally saw that
3929s	Barbarian class was a little bit too
3931s	weak on the PTR and I think even on
3934s	season 5 I think it's just generally
3935s	considered a little too weak um
3937s	historically though it's it's been one
3939s	of our stronger classes uh but you know
3941s	in recent Seasons it's Fallen a little
3942s	bit on harder times so a lot of our
3944s	Focus here is uh Buffs to some underuse
3947s	utilized skills and legendaries and
3948s	uniques so we've got updates to upheaval
3950s	to make it just a little bit more Punchy
3952s	hits a little bit harder uh we've got
3954s	updates to some of the uniques that talk
3956s	to other core skills um like uh hammer
3959s	of the Ancients and double swing to to
3960s	give them a little bit more damage boost
3962s	as well and finally there's a a buff to
3965s	the Marshall Vigor passive that is a
3967s	passive in the skill tree that gives you
3969s	some damage reduction from Elite enemies
3970s	including bosses and it might seem
3973s	pretty small on paper it's just 4% to 6%
3975s	but for every skill rank you have in
3977s	that you get that much more and really
3979s	when you're fighting the late game
3980s	tormented bosses and high torment tiers
3983s	it's going to be a pretty noticeable
3984s	amount of survivability uh against those
3986s	fights for barbarians yeah those passive
3987s	skills add up really quickly when you
3989s	start getting a bunch of ranks in them
3991s	and stuff so for sure absolutely uh
3993s	moving on to the Druid uh we also think
3995s	the Druid was a little bit on the weaker
3997s	end of the classes um I think there was
4000s	a few bugs on the PTR that that we're
4002s	addressing as we go live uh where some
4004s	of their their effects um specifically
4006s	in the Paragon and some of the key
4008s	passives weren't quite working exactly
4010s	how we intended uh so they might have
4012s	been a little bit weaker due to that on
4013s	the PTR specifically uh so we're
4015s	definitely addressing those um I also
4017s	want to talk about Nature's Fury this is
4020s	a key passive that uh whenever you cast
4022s	an earth or storm skill there's a chance
4024s	to cast uh the same skill of or uh to
4027s	chance to cast a skill of the opposite
4029s	type and uh this was causing some
4031s	unintended interactions with one of the
4033s	unique items the the earthbreaker ring
4036s	that ended up uh proing or triggering
4038s	Nature's Fury way more often than we
4040s	intended uh that's because we we have
4042s	this concept of casts um where you
4044s	actually need to press the button and
4046s	then hey you did one cast um and we
4049s	whenever we do something like autoc
4050s	casts which is like hey I I triggered a
4053s	free skill with Nature's Fury that
4055s	shouldn't kind of recursively Trigger or
4057s	or trigger the um other effects that are
4059s	looking for casts um but in that
4061s	particular interaction it was and so
4063s	we've uh fixed that interaction but then
4065s	thrown some uh some pretty big Buffs to
4068s	those items and and the uh things
4069s	affected in that build we still expect
4072s	those kind of things especially
4073s	Landslide builds that use this a lot to
4075s	still be very powerful builds going
4077s	forward but we just didn't want that one
4079s	particular unintended interaction to be
4080s	happening and that kind of over shines
4083s	you know all the builds right when you
4085s	have like one build that's you know
4087s	crazy over you know the top so exactly
4090s	yeah especially whenever there's one
4092s	build that's so dominant that it really
4094s	makes it feel like hey I'm playing the
4095s	class wrong if I'm not doing this and
4097s	that's not something that we want we
4098s	want you to be able to play all the
4100s	different ways of playing the classes
4101s	and and feel like it's it's a valid and
4103s	and viable choice to to compete um or to
4106s	complete the
4107s	game uh some of the other changes on
4109s	Druid as well we've got uh some updates
4112s	to Great staff of the Crone this is a
4114s	one of my favorite items that lets your
4116s	your claw and storm strike build kind of
4118s	synergize really nicely um we've got uh
4121s	just a lot more damage on werewolf
4122s	skills through the Lust For Carnage
4124s	Paragon node basically the same
4125s	functionality but just added 50% bonus
4127s	damage there we saw werewolfs was was
4130s	particularly falling behind and an
4132s	update to the Untamed par legendary
4134s	Paragon node this is the new one that
4136s	talks to companion skills uh previously
4138s	it just gave skill ranks which uh kind
4140s	of fell off as you got a lot of skill
4141s	ranks now it's just multiplicative
4143s	damage and I'm really looking forward to
4144s	seeing uh some companion DRS in the new
4147s	season especially with the new key
4149s	passive all right uh moving on to the
4151s	Necromancer so the Necromancer is a
4154s	class that I think we saw a lot of
4156s	variety for like blood bone and Shadow
4158s	builds uh a lot of those were competing
4160s	very well but Necromancer is really all
4163s	about minions right and unfortunately we
4165s	saw minion builds really falling behind
4167s	from where we want and and we know that
4169s	that minion builds are like the you know
4171s	the most appealing part of a necromancer
4173s	and so on the class design team we're
4175s	really committed to to making sure that
4176s	you know minion Necromancer is good and
4179s	we're going to you know see some massive
4180s	Buffs to this patch and we're going to
4182s	continue monitoring to make sure that
4184s	you know the minion fantasy is really a
4186s	powerful and compelling one we also saw
4188s	that Necromancer was one of the
4190s	squishier classes it it had a little bit
4191s	less defensive um oomph than we really
4194s	wanted and so we've made some updates
4196s	here uh to reap it's going to give a
4198s	little bit longer damage reduction just
4200s	makes that a little bit more usable for
4201s	that um that function same with necrotic
4204s	fortitude gives a little bit more
4205s	barrier this is kind of a passive
4206s	barrier generation so just a little bit
4208s	more survivability in that late game and
4211s	then the rest of it here is just talking
4212s	about minion Buffs right we've got uh
4214s	kalin's edict the key passive this is
4216s	going to uh previously it just gave you
4218s	attack speed for your minions now it's
4220s	also going to give you bonus
4221s	multiplicative damage for all your
4223s	minions a bunch of the legendaries and
4225s	uniques that talked to minions like ring
4227s	of Mandel and shade Mist that damage is
4229s	now properly attributed to your minions
4232s	rather than the Necromancer themselves
4234s	which means if you have bonus Golem
4236s	damage for instance and your Golem
4238s	sugars ring of menel it's now going to
4240s	benefit properly and it's going to be
4241s	multiplied up by those those multipliers
4243s	so pretty big Buffs for those
4245s	legendaries and uniques yeah that's a
4246s	lot of power for sure oh
4249s	absolutely um so uh moving on we've got
4251s	uh next class we'll talk about the Rogue
4254s	uh I think the Rogue in general was uh
4256s	performing pretty well across the board
4257s	in the PTR I think we got a lot of
4259s	positive feedback like hey yeah Rogue
4260s	feels great like just you know um wi yes
4265s	the dance of knives skill in particular
4267s	it's awesome yeah was really happy with
4270s	where dance of knives landed um as the
4272s	new skill it found a lot of use in in a
4274s	variety of builds and and people have a
4275s	lot of fun playing with it uh we did
4277s	notice a little bit of the the melee
4279s	Focus builds with flurry and twisting
4282s	blades falling behind just a little bit
4284s	uh so a few of our here are focused on
4287s	enhancing the legendaries that talk to
4289s	those two encircling blades and blade
4291s	dancers in terms of key passives we saw
4294s	victimize did have a bug that caused its
4296s	damage scaling to be uh higher than
4298s	intended and so we we fixed that that
4301s	math calculation on on how it kind of
4303s	scales damage based on other damage uh
4305s	because it was really just a little bit
4307s	too dominant and now we think with this
4308s	update it'll still be a competitive
4310s	choice but it won't completely outshine
4312s	every other key passive on the on the on
4314s	the Rogue
4316s	and some nice little Buffs here to rain
4317s	of arrows uh just to make it work a
4319s	little bit better with imbuement skills
4321s	uh love me some some rain of arrows it's
4323s	very flashy skill especially with all
4324s	those colors with the uh the imbuements
4326s	on
4327s	it all right and uh finally the sorcerer
4330s	uh the sorcerer was definitely the
4332s	strongest class I think we saw on the
4333s	PTR uh by a fair margin just a little
4336s	bit you it was it was quite strong um
4339s	people are having a lot of fun with um
4341s	sorcerer builds uh especially with the
4343s	new key passive Enlightenment and uh
4346s	Enlightenment had an issue where it it's
4348s	all about alternating skill cast Okay
4350s	you cast a fire skill you cast a
4351s	lightning skill you cast a cold skill
4353s	and you get these Stacks really quickly
4355s	uh unfortunately it was stacking up
4356s	unintentionally from some of those autoc
4358s	casts that we were talking about earlier
4359s	with uh Nature's Fury where uh when you
4362s	trigger bonus uh casts from like
4365s	unstable currents it was actually
4366s	ramping up the enlightenment way too
4368s	fast and so we fixed that interaction
4370s	but we think despite that Enlightenment
4373s	is still one of the strongest key
4374s	passive of
4376s	um uh so it's just brings it down a
4378s	little bit um but we still think this is
4379s	going to be really powerful and
4381s	compelling new uh new key passive to
4384s	play with once we go live two other
4386s	changes here with the flame Scar and
4388s	Oculus uniques uh this is kind of adding
4392s	in this chance to deal double damage
4394s	affixes for incinerate and teleport
4398s	respectively this uh Harkens back to
4400s	what uh I talked about on the PTR stream
4403s	uh where we're adding these
4404s	multiplicative damage bonuses into
4406s	tempering for weapons and of course we
4409s	can't temper onto unique items but for a
4412s	lot of the unique items that are about
4414s	very specific skills such as flame Scar
4416s	and Oculus we've taken a p to add in
4419s	some of these affixes that that enhance
4421s	those skills in multiplicative ways to
4423s	really make sure that you know
4424s	incinerate is gets the the same benefit
4427s	from using that unique uh as opposed to
4430s	just a legendary that you would temper
4431s	this aex onto anyway it's a massive buff
4434s	yes absolutely
4436s	like pull out a ruler like is it
4442s	actually yeah incate size and and
4444s	teleport size maybe not the most
4446s	compelling aics now you just get some of
4447s	this multiplicative damage um if
4449s	somebody wants to make a you know an
4451s	Oculus build where most of the damage
4452s	comes from teleport that's going to be
4454s	awesome we'll see if you can can manage
4456s	to make that work yeah I love that idea
4458s	oh my God I already have a build page sa
4461s	to see that yeah nice um so yeah once
4464s	again I just wanted to uh you know thank
4466s	everyone for for all the great feedback
4468s	uh we on the class design team in
4470s	particular are always reading and
4471s	listening to feedback on on you know how
4474s	you're playing the classes what builds
4475s	you're finding fun what what things are
4477s	over or underpowered um we listen to it
4480s	we read your feedback uh we watch the
4482s	videos that you make we we really
4483s	appreciate all of it and uh it really
4485s	helps us to make the game as best as
4486s	possible awesome thank you so much
4488s	Charles for walking all the changes
4490s	coming for class design it's actually
4492s	not all the changes that we saw right
4493s	here as Charles mentioned we do have
4495s	patch notes actually going live after
4497s	this stream um and I will caveat you
4500s	will see
4502s	2.0.1 patch notes and you'll see
4505s	2.0.2 patch notes so there's 202 and
4508s	2011 202 is actually not in on like
4512s	people's PCS yet you haven't pre-loaded
4514s	that that is going to be the the the
4515s	last update you'll need to grab before
4518s	uh we jump into launch for vessel of
4520s	hatred but you will get all the patch
4521s	notes uh after the stream so you can dig
4523s	through all the class changes uh that we
4525s	didn't cover and all the ins and outs of
4527s	it uh between now and what we had for
4529s	PTR so last but not least we have run
4533s	words so uh I think uh we're going to
4536s	jump straight into it so you want to go
4538s	ahead yeah absolutely so again awesome
4541s	feedback we got lots of different things
4543s	that came in and we've heard multiple
4546s	times in uh a couple different things
4549s	with the Rune words that really just
4551s	people kept repeating over and over
4553s	again really mostly stemming down to two
4555s	major issues with the whole system and
4558s	uh so previously we had on the PTR um we
4563s	had the the legendary runes that were a
4565s	lot stronger you know because you want
4567s	to reach that point eventually to where
4569s	you you get the powerful runes and then
4571s	you play the game that way um well that
4573s	was kind of outshining a lot of the
4575s	other possibilities and like the idea
4576s	that we had with the runes where you're
4578s	mixing and matching creating different
4579s	combinations so what we are ending up
4583s	doing now uh is we are taking that top
4585s	end and we're going to bring it down and
4587s	then on the flip side the second thing
4589s	that we heard a lot of is uh those that
4593s	those bottom runes those uh I I don't
4595s	want to say bottom runes the magic and
4596s	rare runes that you find a little
4598s	earlier uh especially uh those Runes of
4600s	ritual where you are those are the ones
4602s	where uh you're actually like doing
4604s	things to gain offering to then uh
4606s	invoke those those Runes of invocation
4609s	those powers that you have um those were
4613s	uh intentionally a bit lower so that you
4615s	have some progress but it felt like when
4618s	when you get them it wasn't enough you
4620s	you didn't get to really feel those
4622s	runes uh happen and pop off when you get
4625s	them um so on the other side we are
4628s	taking those that bottom end and
4629s	bringing it up so together we're kind of
4633s	I don't want to say flattening out but
4635s	uh we are making it a lot more options
4637s	for the players to uh really have
4640s	choices throughout your whole journey
4642s	rather than just a linear you know get
4644s	the stronger one then obviously it's
4646s	stronger and uh what this will also do
4648s	and and the focus on this is to also
4650s	make those utility runes really really
4653s	potent and and really pop off and a lot
4656s	more visual things to happen uh and then
4658s	finally we removed a couple runes that
4660s	weren't quite meeting our expectations
4663s	um we have this thing that we say uh
4665s	every once in a while which is like
4667s	condense the fun and we we want to make
4669s	that you know like uh the the ideal
4672s	situation where we have you know the
4674s	rooms that we have are are the ones that
4675s	are that are cool and fun and and not
4678s	like overblow it with just a bunch of
4680s	things that don't you know don't always
4682s	like meet those expectations yeah we
4684s	want you to have lots of options and we
4685s	don't want individual runes or or
4688s	effects to really overshadow everything
4689s	else but it does that does mean that you
4691s	know we want to make sure that all the
4693s	options are really compelling and so
4695s	ones that aren't meeting our bar we just
4696s	would rather take them out rather than
4698s	leave them in yeah absolutely I think
4700s	we're always going to be adding to the
4701s	Rune system right so we want to leave
4703s	ourselves the space we didn't want to
4705s	water down the pool with things like the
4706s	lightning bolt the effect run it's like
4709s	that didn't really have it was an
4710s	evolutionary dead ends we didn't
4711s	necessarily have any way to juice that
4713s	up um so we want one of Rune drops for
4715s	it to feel like oh there's this new toy
4717s	I can play with right it's important
4718s	that every choice in the Rune system is
4719s	Meaningful like every every possible
4722s	Rune you can take or combination like
4723s	there's something there right yeah you
4726s	want to feel it for sure and it it
4727s	doesn't want to be something that you
4729s	know you just like oh I got this Rune
4731s	and it's like well let me find another
4733s	one so
4736s	all right so here's some examples of
4738s	some of the the big outliers um we heard
4740s	lots lots of feedback around these two
4742s	especially um that war cry Rune uh so
4746s	with while it was giving berserking to
4748s	everyone it was a big Power bonus and so
4751s	we're going to bring that down a little
4752s	bit by just it's no longer going to give
4755s	that uh that enhanced version it's just
4758s	the Baseline version so it no longer
4759s	gives berserking to all players that
4761s	does mean it still works for barbarians
4763s	because that is their skill they should
4765s	still be able to gain that power as they
4767s	would expect uh and then down with the
4770s	the yam which is that Druid petrify the
4772s	Rune itself is not changing um what's
4774s	actually changing is on Druids
4776s	themselves their uh ultimate there is no
4780s	longer going to give that critical bonus
4781s	Baseline it's not going to be the
4783s	enhanced version so if you want that as
4786s	a druid you can still get that big
4787s	powerful critical damage bonus but now
4790s	that Baseline is going to be that big
4792s	stun that big AOE moment that you see
4794s	everything on the screen freeze and also
4797s	just juice you up with a bunch of
4799s	resource and this is general like class
4802s	resource so unlike uh what it'll say for
4804s	the Druid is it says their Spirit goes
4806s	up on the Rune it says it is your
4809s	resource so everyone gets this huge big
4812s	moment uh where you can kind of reset so
4814s	so if I'm a sorcerer it doesn't generate
4816s	Spirit it generates Mana for it you
4819s	don't just get a second bubble that
4821s	fills up the
4823s	spirit that be weird
4827s	I like that this puts a lot more
4828s	emphasis on the utility of runes which
4830s	is sort of what we had been originally
4832s	intending right not every choice is
4834s	going to be a multiplicative damage
4835s	Source um so you should have a lot more
4837s	options it's more focused on utility
4839s	yeah absolutely stealing other classes
4841s	power yeah obviously multiplicative
4843s	damage is probably the single strongest
4844s	thing you can do in an arpg and and just
4847s	when we notice the these ones were
4849s	really those ones that are overshadowing
4851s	every other option uh we still think
4852s	those will find a great Niche for the
4854s	builds that want it but they won't be
4855s	the only choice that no one else can use
4857s	anything else for absolutely
4860s	absolutely all right so uh here's some
4862s	examples uh again I want to preface this
4865s	is not all of them there are a bunch of
4868s	changes you guys will see them in the
4869s	patch notes as we had already talked
4871s	about um but some of the big ones that
4874s	uh I wanted to show off here uh so
4876s	Spirit born Vortex that's the one that
4878s	pulls everyone in you group everything
4880s	together that is going to be almost uh
4883s	you're going to be able to get that off
4885s	almost twice as often as it was before
4888s	uh so you're combine that in with
4890s	something that you know has some grindy
4893s	uh damage in the middle and you're going
4894s	to be just having this pop off all the
4896s	time um as well as uh so we call them
4900s	sub Powers those are things like uh the
4903s	sorcerer meteorites or like the
4905s	Barbarian earthquakes um those things
4908s	that uh happen based on other things but
4911s	they create like another power that
4912s	comes out we are juicing those up a lot
4915s	L more so these should be uh some of the
4917s	most powerful versions of these sub
4920s	powers in the game from these runes and
4923s	as you can see here meteorites is
4924s	jumping up a whole bunch as well as the
4926s	offering cost is going down so you're
4928s	going to be able to summon a lot more of
4930s	these as well and then one of the other
4932s	uh things uh I saw feedback was around
4936s	the uh the SE Rune I don't know exactly
4939s	how to say it myself I'll have to ask
4941s	even about that after this but uh uh
4944s	where you summon spirit wolves uh and
4946s	they didn't feel as uh they didn't feel
4950s	as impactful because their their AI was
4952s	not not as poppy as like say the uh the
4955s	necromancers minions running around a
4957s	lot more quickly so we adjusted that and
4961s	uh so we're going to have a video coming
4962s	up here in a second and we can see uh so
4965s	now you're going to summon those wolves
4968s	they're going to pop up and do their
4969s	attack and if you jump to the next pack
4971s	they're going to jump forward except
4972s	this is going to happen a lot more
4974s	frequently than before
4975s	so now if you say fight that pack jump
4978s	to the next one every time those run
4981s	those wolves are going to just keep
4983s	jumping and keep leaping and this works
4985s	in uh ranged as well so if you're
4988s	fighting uh some enemy over here to the
4990s	left and you fight uh you attack them
4993s	your wolves are going to jump
4994s	immediately over there and then if you
4995s	switch to this other group on the right
4997s	those wolves are going to jump across
4998s	the screen because we've also increased
5001s	uh that aggro range as well for that
5003s	yeah they feel a lot more respons
5005s	and and like even in that clip we saw
5007s	them jump into the pack at basically the
5009s	same time we did right they are right
5010s	there with you they're not lagging
5011s	behind and and that's that's always like
5013s	the worst feeling when you're like hey I
5014s	Su this thing where they what are they
5018s	doing they no longer lazy dogs yeah yeah
5021s	they were tired they were tired tired
5024s	little pups you
5026s	know uh and then here are some examples
5028s	of those rins of ritual again those are
5030s	the ones that uh are generating this
5032s	offering and uh so these are mostly
5035s	going to be changes to those magic and
5037s	rare runes where we've taken that
5039s	offering they give and we've really
5041s	knocked it up to be a lot closer to
5043s	where those legendary versions of these
5045s	are and that should hopefully give us a
5048s	lot more options when it comes to
5050s	deciding which combination of which
5051s	runes that we are using so it also just
5054s	means things are a lot more reliable
5056s	like you're actually getting procs way
5057s	more often with these Buffs yeah you
5059s	actually get to see the you know the fun
5061s	happen right see see those effects
5062s	happen a little bit more often yeah so
5065s	tons of runee changes that are coming um
5067s	and as Anthony mentioned we there's way
5071s	more details in the actual patch notes
5074s	themselves uh so people can check that
5075s	out after uh the stream along with all
5078s	the class changes the system changes the
5080s	progression changes it's all detailed
5082s	out there for players specifically you
5084s	know I had one thing because I think we
5085s	might have forgotten it and you know I'm
5087s	very concerned about monitor violence we
5091s	heard a lot of people were wanting to
5093s	punch their monitors oh that's right
5097s	when you get a greater AIC on impairment
5099s	resistance so as monitor enthusiasts
5102s	we've just removed that from the aex
5104s	pool so please
5106s	don't punch less punching of monitors
5108s	save the
5109s	monitors and and one thing I do want to
5111s	call out on Rune words we actually funny
5113s	enough we we got a lot of feedback about
5115s	players saying like hey we noticed like
5117s	different art on some of the classic
5119s	runes that they may have seen from like
5122s	back in D2 uh that art has been updated
5125s	to match uh what you saw in D2
5128s	so
5130s	yes yeah shout shout out to to the
5132s	history of runes there for everyone so
5135s	uh thank you guys for for uh jumping
5138s	into this and I will say like this team
5140s	is is going to be staying Vigilant
5141s	through the launch of vessel of hatred
5143s	uh with our live Ops teams here um shout
5146s	out to our live Ops Team who will be
5149s	helping us out through uh multitudes of
5151s	patches hot fixes we're we're going to
5153s	be paying attention in community um and
5155s	hearing all the feedback that players
5156s	have and we'll be jumping on a lot of
5158s	the the the big things that we do notice
5160s	and we do want to jump um like kind of
5162s	address uh earlier on especially right
5165s	after launch so our Cadence is going to
5167s	be quick uh so do expect that we'll be
5169s	posting all notes all hot fix notes Etc
5172s	uh whenever they do come up so thank you
5175s	guys again for joining us uh today to
5177s	talk about the PTR learnings next up we
5179s	actually are going to start talking
5180s	about the uh next season coming to uh
5183s	Diablo 4 which is season six and that
5185s	will actually start with the launch of
5187s	vessel of hatred we're going to do
5188s	another quick mic swap musical chairs
5191s	thing maybe we turn on Benny Hill Music
5193s	or something like that but we'll be
5195s	right back here with our next group uh
5197s	to talk about season six
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5425s	all right we're back sorry for that I'm
5427s	glad you guys got to watch uh uh dancing
5430s	demons and everything like that and and
5432s	see our release date map but we're back
5434s	here to talk about uh season 6 this is
5437s	the new season uh coming with the launch
5439s	of vessel of hatred and I'm joined by
5441s	this wonderful group here Brent who we
5443s	already know our game director here but
5445s	uh Tim Don do you want to introduce
5446s	yourselves yes uh my name is Tim Isme I
5449s	am one of the lead producers on Diablo I
5452s	I mostly work on Seasons uh Don Adams
5455s	I'm the lead season designer for season
5456s	six the season of hatred Rising also
5459s	known as content supervisor also known
5461s	as
5462s	cont time to time there we go um awesome
5466s	so as Don just mentioned Here season six
5469s	is season of hatred Rising uh Tim do you
5473s	want to explain to us what hatred rising
5475s	or Brent oh yeah I'll take this one um
5478s	yeah so when we started off with this we
5480s	really knew we wanted to make sure that
5483s	we were launching a brand new season
5485s	right alongside a vessel of hatred we
5487s	wanted that to be day and date um so
5490s	like continuity was really important to
5491s	us and so the idea that the hatred of
5496s	Mesto and nantu is is spilling out into
5500s	the rest of sanctuary was kind of the
5502s	anchor that we're holding on to and we
5504s	started talking about what that would
5505s	mean to make a whole season around that
5507s	awesome and I know with uh uh kind of
5511s	like what players hearing hatred Rising
5514s	their hearing about you know misto and
5516s	his hatred potentially leaking out into
5518s	nantu maybe the rest of sanctuary like
5521s	what can players expect with this this
5522s	actual season uh yeah so a lot of
5525s	actually what is going to be the core of
5527s	season six and the season six experience
5529s	players have already gotten exposed to
5531s	so anybody who's playing on the PTR has
5533s	been reading about the changes we put up
5535s	there uh fundamental to the release of
5538s	vessel of hatred season six brings big
5540s	changes where every single class is
5542s	going to gain access to new skill points
5545s	they're going to gain new skills across
5547s	all the classes they're going to gain
5548s	more Paragon points new legendary
5551s	Paragon glyphs these are all changes
5553s	that are being added to the base of the
5555s	game meaning you do not need to have
5557s	vessel of hatred to gain access to these
5559s	you also will still have access to these
5561s	after season 6 these are permanent
5563s	changes to the game on top of that we
5565s	got the standard new legendary aspects
5567s	we have new unique items and new Mythic
5570s	items crazy powerful Mythic items that
5573s	are going to unlock just new levels of
5575s	power that were not possible before in
5577s	the game now to go along with this power
5579s	we will be adding these new difficulty
5582s	levels that again we saw on PTR so you
5584s	have the ability to challenge these new
5586s	levels of power I want to say that it's
5589s	all going to even out well honestly
5591s	despite the tireless efforts of our
5593s	designers just constant trying to get
5595s	that balance just right based on all the
5597s	feedback that comes in I know that maybe
5599s	it'll be out for a day before someone's
5601s	posting a video and saying oh look at
5603s	this I do a trillion d and just it'll go
5605s	all over the Internet like I've never
5607s	seen numbers this big and that's yeah
5609s	but we tried we tried to get it there
5610s	you're going to see crazy builds those
5613s	are going to link into new difficulties
5615s	that were never there before to try in
5617s	all this new content yeah awesome yeah I
5619s	know uh all these things that players
5621s	got to experience a little bit in PTR
5622s	they got to see it they got to check it
5624s	out early but of course there is more
5627s	kind of associated with uh this specific
5629s	season so uh Don uh do you want to talk
5632s	a little bit more about what what
5634s	players can also see beyond what Tim
5636s	kind of walked through yeah absolutely
5639s	so you know as we mentioned this is the
5640s	season of hatred Rising so we really
5642s	wanted to theme it around uh M Fisto's
5645s	hatred creeping out of nantu and into
5646s	the rest of the rest of the world so
5648s	let's go ahead and take a look at our
5650s	visual aid here um
5653s	beautiful I was I was promised official
5655s	documents I was promised that this would
5657s	be turned into real art when I sent this
5659s	over I didn't I didn't think we'd be uh
5660s	showing this but um hopefully this will
5663s	all make sense by the end of the
5665s	presentation just for now just take it
5666s	in there go yeah every everyone loves
5669s	designer art it's it's it's core to all
5672s	our our our live streams that we do art
5675s	by Don Don Adams here so yeah and I I
5678s	frankly I think it speaks for itself I
5679s	don't really know that there's much more
5681s	to
5682s	say but let's let's go on and uh go
5685s	ahead to the next uh slide here and
5686s	let's take a look at some real art uh to
5689s	to get you ready for the season here um
5691s	this is of course amazing uh key art
5694s	from uh Dave Raposa um I just love
5697s	kicking that demon in the face that's
5699s	makes me happy every time I see it um
5702s	let's go ahead and uh move on to the
5704s	next slide and I'll get into some actual
5706s	details about how this stuff shows up in
5708s	the world what you're going to be
5709s	looking for when you're hunting these
5710s	guys down so you're going to see these
5712s	hatred Rising Zone events that cycle uh
5715s	frequently throughout the world uh when
5717s	these are up the everything in that area
5718s	is going to be corrupted by hatred
5720s	you're going to be seeing environmental
5721s	changes lighting changes the monsters
5723s	will actually have you know kind of
5725s	hatred uh gummy goop on them um you can
5728s	be ambushed from portals randomly um and
5731s	really all this is just setting the
5732s	stage for the realm Walker so you'll
5735s	have a separate um uh event icon that'll
5737s	let you know when the realm Walker is
5739s	going to be up it's it's a world event
5740s	so it'll be in that list on the map with
5743s	uh you know other like World bosses and
5744s	Legion Events and stuff um and we have
5747s	some video here to kind of show you what
5749s	it looks like um oh actually I think we
5751s	have another slide about the realm
5752s	Walker first sorry yeah so this is what
5755s	he looks like in game he's awesome uh
5758s	they these are just big uh hulking kind
5759s	of monstrosities stomping around uh you
5762s	know just spreading misto uh hatred um
5765s	they summon in monsters from a plane of
5769s	Hell through this portal on their back
5771s	um and a lot of the monsters they summon
5773s	most of them are are actually new
5774s	monsters from vessel of hatred of the
5776s	hollow family which are super cool and
5778s	gross uh so I think now we can uh take a
5780s	look at what it actually looks like in
5782s	game uh so here's some players waiting
5784s	for him to
5785s	spawn he starts burrowed like that and
5787s	you can kind of click the portal to
5789s	summon some stuff to fight while you're
5791s	getting warmed up here I just love these
5794s	enemies like they're so cool the hollows
5796s	uh so he busts out of the ground and
5798s	this is actually uh we want to do
5800s	something new uh uh with this with this
5802s	event um and lean into the fantasy of
5805s	this this giant thing just like stomping
5807s	around so it's actually a walking world
5810s	event he he has several different paths
5811s	he can take throughout each area he
5813s	walks through The Zone and as he walks
5815s	he just leaves this you know chaos
5817s	behind him in his wake he's summoning
5819s	tons of Hollows and you know if you get
5821s	in front of him he just punts you out of
5822s	the way and keeps going you actually
5824s	can't even damage him directly in this
5826s	phase uh but if you kill enough of the
5828s	ads that he's spawning it'll create
5830s	these uh bloodbound Guardians killing
5832s	these will shave some of the HP off of
5834s	the realm Walker so uh when he reaches
5837s	the end of his path and you can actually
5838s	fight him you'll have you know less uh
5840s	less HP to burn through so this is a
5842s	nice way to incentivize actually you
5844s	know participating sticking sticking
5846s	around for all this chaos obviously lots
5848s	of XP and whatnot from the mobs as
5850s	well uh so this is the uh the uh the uh
5855s	event that he kicks off when he actually
5857s	gets to his destination when you
5859s	interrupt this ritual by destroying all
5861s	of these uh these destructible hatred
5864s	spires that's when you'll actually be
5865s	able to fight him
5868s	directly and I think we're going to see
5870s	that here very quickly this is a really
5872s	cool uh encounter there's just Lots of
5874s	uh you know he has a big big smashy
5876s	attacks he sprays a lot of damage
5878s	everywhere okay so they've taken him
5880s	down and when he dies uh that weird
5883s	portal on his back drops down and stays
5885s	open and there's only really one thing
5888s	to do with a weird portal yeah you go in
5891s	the portal your option so Port are made
5894s	for successfully killing the Rome walker
5897s	uh taking down this massive demon
5900s	finally grants you your reward of more
5902s	demons so you're going to go into the
5904s	seething realm this is part of the misto
5906s	area of hell so you are going to have to
5908s	continue fighting in here it is not a
5911s	Barren landscape but the demons you
5913s	fight in here comparatively if you were
5915s	strong enough to take down a bron Walker
5917s	don't be too worried I think you're
5918s	going to be able to manage the Demons
5920s	Inside of the sething realm as well this
5922s	dungeon is a little bit more of a reward
5924s	dungeon so once you get in here you're
5926s	fighting your way through to get uh
5928s	specific Buffs at the end of it so if we
5931s	want we can jump into the video here
5932s	yeah this is the first section and this
5934s	part you're just kind of mowing through
5934s	some of these smaller guys you're really
5936s	just looking for a specific gate here
5938s	there's a portal that you're going to be
5939s	activating and making an important
5941s	choice there about which section of the
5944s	seasoning realm you go into here it is
5946s	this is the gate here so you're going to
5947s	click on this you now have options based
5949s	on a few consumables that you can put in
5951s	you can go into sections that are more
5953s	focused on equipment bonus a gold bonus
5957s	uh you can get a socketable bonus you
5959s	can get uh more endgame items with like
5961s	compasses and uh materials so you're
5965s	going to pick one of these and decide
5966s	that's the section I want to go into
5968s	you're going to get some drops similar
5970s	to that in this section of the dungeon
5973s	but more importantly this is going to
5974s	set you up for the type of buff you want
5976s	to get at the end of the dungeon so
5978s	again this is not an empty area you are
5980s	going to have to fight through it you're
5981s	going to encounter more Hollows in here
5983s	some more Elites all of this leading up
5985s	to a chest at the end here's your reward
5987s	so finally just click on this you get
5989s	your reward I'm just kidding yeah of
5990s	course it's a cursed event of course
5992s	you're going to have to fight even more
5994s	demons this nothing's free in hell this
5996s	is just how you got to do it so you
5998s	fight your way through some more Elites
6000s	but don't worry I believe in you you can
6002s	get through this if you kill the last
6004s	guy was there's one more there take him
6007s	down come on you can get it all right so
6008s	he goes down now you get your prizes
6011s	you're going to open these chests
6012s	there's a variety of loot that you get
6014s	but one specific item that you're
6016s	looking for in here which is going to be
6018s	a seething opal so these little there
6020s	they are yeah little seething Opals they
6022s	got a little seasonal marker on them
6024s	this is special to season 6 when you get
6026s	these I'm going to take a look here this
6028s	is going to be a buff you get based on
6030s	the one that you chose there are some
6031s	fundamentals you always get so a
6032s	seething opal always gives you a 15%
6035s	bonus to experience this is especially
6038s	cool because it Stacks with Elixir you
6040s	can have an Elixir and a sething opal
6042s	active at the same time that's a huge
6044s	bonus on top of that any seething opal
6046s	that you use is going to allow you to
6048s	now get reputation with the remnants of
6050s	the zachar room Don will talk about that
6052s	more in just a second but that's going
6053s	to be the reputation track for season 6
6056s	and then beyond that you will get a
6058s	bonus depending on which portal you went
6060s	through which section of the seing realm
6062s	you decide to go into here we here yeah
6064s	if you got a if you want to snapshot
6066s	this anybody who's screenshotting these
6068s	are some of the bonuses you can get as
6070s	you can see on here you're getting uh
6071s	maybe more items maybe more gold uh more
6074s	socketable so these bonuses are going to
6077s	occur while fighting anything while
6078s	having this buff active so equipment as
6081s	an example maybe I wanted more items to
6082s	be dropping when you kill monsters
6084s	there's a chance that they're going to
6086s	drop a cash that is going to give you
6087s	some additional loot uh and if you're
6090s	playing content in let's say further in
6091s	the end game that uh monsters don't
6093s	traditionally drop loot not to worry
6095s	we've adjusted that as well if you play
6097s	through the pit as an example we have
6099s	added an additional drop at the end of
6101s	the pit again that procs based on which
6104s	sething opal that you chose uh there are
6107s	a couple up here at the end uh oh the
6108s	socketable one I should mention that one
6111s	is special to you do have to have vessel
6113s	of hatred for that one this one is more
6114s	for people that are trying to get more
6116s	runes so you know obviously you need to
6118s	have vessel of hatred to get runes so
6120s	that's what's going to make this
6121s	valuable to you it's cool to also see
6124s	like boss summoning items on here
6125s	infernal compasses as well infernal
6127s	compasses themselves are going to be
6129s	very uh valuable because it's it's as
6132s	Colin was mentioning before um they like
6135s	we saw what uh uh you can end up getting
6138s	in infernal hordes and everything like
6139s	that that you it's just another
6141s	opportunity to get more compasses for
6143s	for getting in there yeah seething opal
6145s	of Torment I think is great I think that
6147s	grape flavored opal is going to be very
6149s	popular the gra yeah the grape one is
6151s	going to be pretty popular and a
6153s	question I just quickly solve because
6155s	you you mentioned stacking with Elixir
6157s	um does it also stack with incense yes
6160s	it will stack with in there you go so
6161s	there that's a that's a triple stack of
6163s	uh XP right there cool so that's awesome
6167s	so obviously like uh you know we're
6169s	we're seeing the rewards here and one
6171s	thing that you had mentioned which was
6172s	the the Zach room REM like what Don can
6175s	you like talk to us a little bit about
6177s	kind of uh what that progression track
6179s	is going to be yeah sure so um these are
6183s	the zachar room remnants you you've
6184s	probably seen these guys in howar these
6186s	are the Crusaders with the rusty armor
6188s	that have just been kind of bombing
6189s	around uh since they you know they
6190s	failed to find akarat's tomb um they
6193s	have a very personal connection with
6195s	misto you know he he of course destroyed
6197s	basically the zachar room order um many
6200s	years ago um and at this time they're
6203s	still just not really ready to stand up
6205s	and and fight this at full force right
6208s	they've been dealing with cultists and
6210s	and they're just not at their full
6211s	strength so um you'll meet this Crusader
6214s	uh right at the start of the Season who
6216s	will give you a very simple intro Quest
6218s	basically to guide you to kill a realm
6220s	Walker clear a seething realm um and
6223s	he'll be your point of contact for uh
6225s	reputation rewards following that so um
6229s	you know basically we built this in a
6232s	way that you with the opal's giving rep
6234s	for all sorts of different activities um
6237s	the idea is that you can you know go and
6239s	kind of do whatever you want to do as
6241s	long as you're checking in periodically
6242s	with the realm Walker and keeping a
6244s	stack of these Opals on hand um it's
6247s	very open-ended how you how you want to
6248s	push this reputation track yeah it is
6250s	always nice to see that anywhere that
6253s	new demons occur in the world there is
6255s	always some faction out there that's
6257s	trying to take care of them and would
6258s	appreciate your help so the zacher woman
6260s	here they've had a rough go of it but if
6262s	you can help them out I think that we
6263s	can handle this problem they're not at
6265s	their best right now yeah you know one
6267s	of the things that I really like about
6269s	the way we've looked at this whole
6270s	package is that not only have we done uh
6273s	a bunch of diligence in making sure that
6275s	the story is uh taking part in Olive
6278s	Sanctuary we're touching on some really
6280s	cool lore stuff that uh has existed uh
6284s	for a long period of time but we're also
6286s	leaning into a theme of giving the
6288s	players more control over the experience
6291s	and so whether it's the choice of reward
6293s	or being able to stack these rewards to
6295s	get specific outcomes you're going to
6298s	see that not only in uh in the season so
6301s	everybody's going to get access to this
6302s	in the season but we have that theme
6304s	also creeping into some of the stuff
6306s	you'll see with the vessel of hatred
6307s	content in just a few minutes yeah yeah
6310s	so hopefully the the hieroglyphs that we
6312s	saw at the beginning uh the designer
6314s	hopefully this makes sense now right you
6316s	kill the real Walker to get the portal
6318s	you do the portal to get the Opals and
6320s	then you go do uh you know the MS paint
6322s	sort of shape of all the other
6324s	activities that are in the game you can
6325s	also just chain run the realm Walker if
6327s	you'd like as well he's up very often um
6329s	and I expect people will kind of you
6331s	know go back and forth on how often
6332s	they're interacting with them you might
6333s	want to Stack a bunch of Opals for the
6335s	weekend or something right if you hate
6337s	realm Walkers and you're like I just
6338s	want to kill realm Walkers all day you
6340s	can what I love about the season is
6342s	exactly that you can get the opal it's a
6344s	great buff and now go play other content
6346s	including the new content that's coming
6348s	out in vessel of hatred if you bought
6349s	the expansion got a lot of options there
6351s	so you don't have to just play the
6352s	seasonal content and you'll play this
6354s	other stuff while still having the buff
6356s	including the vessel of hatred Campaign
6358s	which is kind of a first right you'll
6359s	need to have completed the base campaign
6361s	but um you can play The Vessel of hatri
6362s	campaign alongside the season six
6364s	content which is pretty cool yeah so
6366s	huge huge for for people that you know
6368s	have base game or vessel of hatred can
6370s	partake in in the uh the content for
6373s	this season uh Don Tim thank you guys
6377s	for walking us through all the uh season
6380s	of hatred Rising content that's coming
6382s	with the launch of vessel of hatred this
6384s	is starting right at the beginning right
6386s	when vessel of hatred actually uh comes
6387s	out which is on again October 7th at 400
6391s	p.m. for some people for for 400 p.m.
6393s	Pacific time which is I no for everyone
6395s	because it is one Global release so yeah
6397s	so it'll be seventh for me yeah seventh
6400s	for us here in California but for other
6402s	people if you follow time zones that's
6405s	what it will end up being so uh we'll
6406s	see Tim more uh during our Q&A at the
6409s	end uh but we are actually going to jump
6411s	into some of the vessel of hatred
6413s	features uh next we're going to do
6415s	another musical chair as bendy Hill
6416s	style uh swap out some mics and
6418s	everything but we have a lot to talk
6420s	about we got Spirit born stuff to talk
6421s	about we got kir under City uh or Cass
6425s	under City to talk about been doing that
6427s	quite often this week uh dark Citadel
6430s	and of course mercenary so we'll be back
6432s	with a whole new crew here in just a
6434s	couple minutes
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6756s	now
6774s	I'm in the middle of
6776s	chewing welcome back guys we are
6779s	here sorry to talk about vessel of
6783s	hatred content uh this is all the new
6785s	content that's coming with the expansion
6787s	we've actually talked about this before
6789s	in specific moments but uh we didn't do
6792s	like kind of big bigger deeper Dives on
6794s	this uh Beyond like the the spirit porn
6797s	where we had a separate stream on but we
6798s	actually even have additional updates on
6800s	that um but I want to let you guys
6802s	introduce yourselves as you can see BR
6804s	Brent is now moved to being next to me
6807s	he just wanted to be a little closer
6808s	that's all uh but dck do you want to
6811s	kick us off yeah hey everyone I'm Derek
6813s	Nunes lead season designer and I'll be
6815s	chatting about the curos unded a
6818s	few Bjorn uh Bjorn mikkelson a class
6822s	designer for Spirit born hi I'm Dan BRS
6825s	I'm a lead game designer and I'll be
6827s	talking about mercenaries awesome cool
6829s	so uh you know tons of content coming to
6832s	uh vessel of hatred I know um players
6835s	have heard us talk about it a little bit
6837s	but um Brent did you want to talk about
6840s	any content specifically before we jump
6842s	in yeah I mean just kind of teeing up
6845s	the next big thing that we want to talk
6846s	about is just kind of how well the
6848s	spirit born reaction has been since
6850s	we've announced it it's been amazing to
6853s	see folks so excited about it uh it's
6856s	something that we've been pouring a lot
6857s	of love into we wanted to make sure they
6858s	were adding something fresh to the game
6860s	and I really feel like we're there but
6862s	but when we released it we actually
6865s	still had work to do and so throughout
6867s	the PTR um and the last few weeks of
6872s	development here we've been putting a
6873s	lot of effort into polishing things up
6875s	and I'm super excited to hear beor talk
6877s	about what we've got in store yeah lots
6879s	of internal testing we had players
6880s	actually check it out at Gamescom as
6882s	well which was really cool so uh as we
6885s	all know Bjorn was on our our spirit
6887s	born reveal stream and he's back to talk
6890s	more about Spirit born so here is Spirit
6893s	beorn to talk more about the
6897s	spirit it's it's it's hard for me to
6900s	actually say Spirit born now because I
6902s	just say Spirit born so there we go
6905s	awesome yeah um yes I mean we've seen a
6907s	lot of the sort of in development side
6908s	of it and we're just going to talk about
6910s	a few kind of final touches the final
6912s	version of a few things uh that we want
6914s	to hit on quickly here in this
6915s	presentation uh so starting off we're
6917s	going to talk about a couple of updates
6920s	uh to the Spirit born's passives uh
6922s	first off we have three additional
6924s	passives which have been added to the
6925s	tree uh each of these kind of uh
6928s	amplifies how the skills work uh that
6931s	they relate to so we have one for core
6932s	skills uh one for potency skills and one
6935s	for Focus skills and that sort of lets
6936s	you kind of go more all in on any of
6939s	those skills um there's also here on the
6941s	far side of the slide an update to
6943s	noxious resonance which is one of spirit
6945s	born's key passives uh we really wanted
6948s	to kind of clarify how this mechanic
6950s	Works how it scales uh and kind of
6952s	answer some lingering questions about
6954s	exactly how it works um but it's still
6956s	largely based around exploding the
6958s	poisons on your enemies uh moving on to
6960s	another thing uh we're going to have a
6962s	small update to the Jaguar primary
6965s	Spirit Hall uh this will still uh do
6968s	lots of damage whenever you spec into it
6970s	it's all about damage with the Jaguar uh
6972s	but this has focused it a little bit
6974s	more about uh multi-attack skills High
6977s	attack speed um and really like allowing
6979s	you to ramp up the damage that you can
6981s	get it uh because now it's also based
6983s	around the damage that you did in a
6985s	short window so that lets you sort of
6987s	echo all of that damage that you did uh
6989s	the faster you're attacking um moving on
6992s	to another small or sort of mediumsized
6995s	update uh there was some confusion
6997s	around Spirit feathers storm feathers
6998s	the eagle Hall how all that kind of
7000s	works together so this has been unified
7002s	into a New Concept just called storm
7004s	feathers uh what this is is this is a
7006s	buff that you can get this increases
7008s	your movement speed and it Stacks
7010s	duration um and now all of these things
7013s	they all speak to the storm feather
7014s	concept so you can get them you can
7016s	modify them you can make them do
7018s	different things uh and you can even
7020s	like use it to make kind of some crazy
7022s	builds I think we have a video for it um
7024s	where you can just kind of have feathers
7025s	going all over the place um as you're
7027s	doing it and you can even use like
7029s	torine and various Paragon that
7031s	increases uh storm feather potency uh
7033s	that will speak to all of these aspects
7035s	as well as the uh Eagle primary hall and
7038s	then moving on to the last thing we've
7040s	got uh should be our you unques um so
7044s	some of you might have gotten to see
7045s	some early versions of these uh but we
7047s	want to kind of show off the the final
7049s	versions with all of their stats in all
7051s	of their Glory uh so to start off we
7053s	have six uh unique Spirit born Rings
7056s	each of these kind of emphasizes a
7058s	combination of two Spirits uh and really
7061s	lets you sort of tailor how you generate
7063s	your resource uh to sort of make the
7065s	build that you're looking to make then
7068s	moving on to our unique armors uh we
7071s	showed off the of the earth boots that
7073s	turns your sore into aade uh and
7075s	everybody really loved that uh a couple
7077s	other examples we've got a craze of the
7079s	Dead God uh which allows you to turn
7082s	poisoning all damage coming at you into
7084s	poisoning damage and then sort of throw
7086s	that back out at your enemies in the
7087s	form of touch of death uh which is
7089s	pretty neat and then we've also got our
7091s	Helms uh we have two different unique
7094s	Helms uh one is focused more more along
7097s	the lines of letting you sort of mix and
7099s	match Spirits uh while the other one is
7101s	more about kind of doubling down on
7102s	using a single spirit and then finally
7106s	we have our unique weapons we've got
7108s	several glaes and quarter staffs um we
7111s	already showed off the basic one but
7112s	we're going to quickly show off uh sort
7114s	of its counterpart which is the one for
7115s	your core skills uh so this one um
7119s	allows you to sort of spam your core
7121s	skills almost as if they were Basics
7123s	that's sort of reduced damage but when
7124s	you're at maximum Vigor it ramps up to
7126s	be a maximum size guaranteed crit just
7129s	massive screen clearing uh version of
7131s	the core skill
7133s	um so we think that one's pretty fun too
7135s	and then lastly I believe I have a slide
7137s	just for yeah there we go um our drop
7140s	tables for the bosses so if you're
7142s	looking to Target Farm any of these
7144s	specific ones similar to the other
7146s	classes you can kind of Farm These based
7147s	on different bosses so take a screenshot
7149s	of this um and go for it awesome yeah
7153s	tons of uh updates I you know we've done
7155s	so much internal testing we've heard a
7157s	lot of feedback because we had that deep
7158s	dive blog we've seen people Theory craft
7161s	uh we've seen people actually play it at
7163s	Gamescom we've had a couple content
7164s	creators like during the spirit born uh
7167s	live stream and and even during our like
7169s	kind of a preview event they actually
7171s	got to try it out and stuff so hearing
7173s	all this feedback and then you know
7174s	applying uh some of the feedback and
7176s	some of the internal feedback that we
7177s	ended up getting and seeing all the
7178s	changes here and updating everyone has
7180s	been really cool to see so thank you
7182s	again Bjorn for for uh walking us
7184s	through the spirit born it's a the class
7187s	is incredibly fun uh I day one is what
7191s	it's what I'm playing for vessel I think
7192s	most of us are but uh yeah it's a ton of
7195s	fun to to check out uh next up that what
7197s	we wanted to talk about is uh Kass under
7200s	City this is actually a feature uh that
7202s	we did uh announce with Gamescom um but
7205s	we didn't really get a a ton of
7207s	opportunities to really kind of like
7208s	dive deeper into uh what Cur under city
7211s	is so uh Derek uh you want to take us
7214s	through this yeah absolutely so uh the
7217s	curus under city is a brand new dungeon
7219s	experience that players our vessel
7221s	hatred players will be unlocking
7222s	throughout the course of the campaign
7224s	it's appropriately located in the new
7227s	capital city of Kos but it's the part of
7230s	town that's not recommended that the
7232s	standard citizen you know Venture into
7233s	it's a a section of the kuros town that
7236s	is still Infested by the jungles in
7239s	nantu and kind of uh overrun with the
7241s	worst of the worst it's a nantu is Most
7244s	Wanted inside the various districts that
7245s	make up the under city um throughout the
7248s	course as players are unlocking it
7250s	they'll meet a new character named seex
7252s	that kind of teaches you the you know
7254s	laws of the unders City and how to
7255s	commune with the spirit Flames to uh
7257s	Traverse um you know its treacherous
7260s	depths basically um so that's kind of
7262s	like the uh narrative setting for it but
7264s	let's dive into the actual experiential
7266s	standpoint which we see here already um
7268s	so the curos under city is an intense
7270s	multifloor time attack dungeon where
7273s	players will be racing against an
7274s	aggressive countdown timer to reach the
7277s	district boss with as high of a Wards
7280s	upgrade meter builtup as possible and
7283s	try not to let that timer expire um so
7286s	fun little uh novel wrinkle here is that
7289s	killing certain monsters we referred to
7290s	as Afflicted will give you time bonuses
7292s	to extend your time in the unders City
7295s	and just killing monsters in general and
7297s	uh completing dungeon activities will
7300s	build up this reward upgrade meter
7302s	referred to in-game as Attunement as far
7305s	as the UND City's role it's one novel
7308s	new novel leveling content um but its
7311s	power really comes into the fact that
7313s	it's brand new opportunistic content
7315s	that allows players to make very
7317s	efficient very specific progress towards
7320s	rewards goals as the opportunities arise
7323s	I'll dive deeper into that in the next
7325s	few slides but um for now just want to
7327s	kind of set the stage that theander city
7330s	does not necessarily have any objective
7331s	aside from get to the boss Beat the
7333s	Clock and do so with the highest amount
7336s	of rewards upgrades built up as possible
7338s	how the players go about doing that is
7340s	entirely up to them uh cuz this is again
7342s	a a dungeon that celebrates you know
7345s	autonomy flow and
7347s	variety this is a good example we were
7349s	talking about earlier when we're looking
7350s	at the new modes that we have we want
7353s	that player agency to come back to the
7354s	player play your way and I think this is
7356s	a perfect example of that yeah
7358s	absolutely so let's dive into the next
7361s	slide
7362s	here cool so I mentioned opportunistic
7366s	content and this is where the unders
7370s	City's primary role in the reward
7371s	structure is so we have dungeon keys
7373s	that Grant you access to dungeons the
7376s	UND City's version of a dungeon key is
7378s	in the form of tributes so you can hop
7381s	into an unders City run without a
7383s	tribute just do the thing know the base
7384s	run but when you start applying tributes
7387s	this is where we allow you to define the
7390s	specific reward upgrade opportunities of
7392s	your next unders City run at the cost of
7395s	increasing the runs challenge so you can
7397s	see an example of a tribute here this is
7399s	the tribute of Radiance and when you
7401s	slot this in so long as you complete
7405s	your unders City run with at least
7406s	Attunement rank one we will guarantee
7409s	that you get ancestral legendaries at
7411s	the end um we'll dive a little bit
7413s	deeper into some of the nuances you can
7415s	see that it has dungeon a affixes that
7417s	Define the specific challenge so you you
7418s	know the higher and more powerful the
7420s	tribute the tougher the challenge is in
7422s	the form of you know blower starting
7424s	time time bonus penalties and potion
7427s	drop penalties um but the fund doesn't
7429s	really doesn't stop there in fact we're
7431s	just getting started um once you apply a
7433s	tribute you now unlock the ability to
7435s	define a bargain each tribute has a list
7439s	of Bargains mapped to it so this tribute
7442s	of Radiance has a you know a collection
7444s	of them we're just picking out a couple
7445s	that seem pretty fun to show off and
7448s	Bargains allow you to further customize
7451s	your rewards at a varying material cost
7453s	um so we have one here skill ranks
7455s	legendary armors will always possess at
7457s	least one skill rank AIX um for you know
7460s	x amount of gold here and then the
7461s	passive r ranks which you'll see a
7462s	little bit more later uh the legendary
7464s	amulets will always possess at least one
7467s	passive rank AIX um so let's go into the
7469s	next slide just to again recap the full
7471s	flow and we're going to see a video of
7473s	all this to let it all kind of like soak
7475s	in and and see like the full uh flow of
7477s	the unders city so we have the frontend
7479s	experience where you interact with the
7480s	spirit braer you can jump directly into
7484s	your District run or you can optionally
7486s	apply a tribute and then a bargain to
7489s	specify the you know rewards opportunity
7492s	your next run so let's go see this in
7495s	action look at that so this is the Hub
7500s	of the unders City and that's the spirit
7502s	braer that I was mentioning you can see
7504s	that we have the base you know the base
7505s	run rules you know starting time no no
7508s	time bonus penalties no potion drop
7510s	penalties and we have uh the opportunity
7513s	to apply a tribute um we have four
7516s	tributes here so you know we'll show
7518s	these in a still shot later so you don't
7520s	have to like worry about oh what does it
7521s	say um but we have four tributes here
7524s	that range from Magic uh all the way to
7527s	Unique uh to you know accommodate your
7529s	your leveling Journeys so for now we
7533s	applied the legendary tribute that'll
7535s	guarantee uh ancestro uniques at the end
7538s	of your run and again this is the list
7540s	of potential Bargains that I mentioned
7541s	that each tribute has each tribute has
7544s	like varying quantities of Bargains
7546s	attached to it um so we're going to pick
7548s	the passive rank uh legendary amulets
7550s	for the low low price of50 million
7553s	gold the spirit flame Services don't
7555s	come cheap but they're worth it so we
7559s	got the portal open and we're going to
7560s	hop into the run we're going to have
7562s	this play a couple times uh first I just
7564s	want to point out the HUD because this
7566s	is really kind of your guide through the
7568s	experience so you can see at the top
7570s	once we exited that Spirit Aura uh the
7572s	timer starts and that's a nice little
7574s	you know timer at the top right hand
7575s	corner of your screen we also display
7577s	the number of floors that you have you
7579s	know left to Traverse uh very key
7581s	information right there to the right
7584s	hand side of the objective tracker we
7585s	have the Attunement meter and it's
7587s	segmented into four ranks again as I
7589s	mentioned achieving rank one is the bare
7592s	minimum requirement necessary to get the
7594s	value of the tribute that you slotted in
7597s	all subsequent ranks uh further enhance
7599s	the value of that reward so while you
7601s	certainly want to strive to get you know
7604s	a t minut rank four to maximize your
7606s	payout it's not necessary if you're
7608s	feeling the pinch of you know the time
7610s	pressure that if you at least get at
7612s	tumit rank one you can you know run it
7614s	to the boss room and still come away
7617s	with the thing that you're looking for
7619s	um going to point out a couple things
7621s	here uh you might have seen let's do the
7623s	spirit Beacon so the spirit Beacon is
7625s	one of our activity types and completing
7627s	it both gives you Attunement a good
7629s	splash of Attunement and it applies a
7632s	momentary you know Spirit buff that
7634s	increases your movement speed and
7636s	reduces your was it the skill uh cool
7638s	Downs
7640s	again you got to move fast in the inner
7642s	city so these Spirit beacons are
7644s	incredibly useful for getting you to the
7646s	next um location whether it's another
7648s	Spirit Beacon or the exit um we're also
7652s	kind of showing here the Lesser
7653s	Afflicted as you can see you know
7655s	they're clearly marked in the game world
7658s	uh they're all you know orangey glowy so
7660s	you can you know keep your focus on the
7662s	combat and killing them is what gives
7665s	you the time bonuses to extend your run
7669s	um I think that's kind of the long and
7670s	short of the UND run again this is an
7672s	example floor one there's still two more
7674s	floors to Traverse to get to the boss
7676s	room um but uh yeah let's uh hop there
7680s	we go we're into the boss room um so in
7682s	this case you know we have finished uh
7683s	all three floors and we made it to the
7685s	boss room one thing you notice that that
7686s	time expiration it stops time drain
7689s	stops in the boss room so you just need
7690s	to make it to the boss room before that
7692s	timer hits zero um this is Aaliyah um
7695s	one of our three uh District bosses and
7699s	it's important to call out that there
7700s	are three total districts to explore in
7702s	the under City again that's kind of
7704s	tapping into the variety um aspect of
7706s	things uh so Aaliyah is again just one
7708s	of three um henchmen that own the uh
7711s	various districts so in this case we're
7714s	at the tail end of this fight we just
7716s	you know killed AIA and we see that we
7720s	ended this run with a full reward
7723s	upgrade of four so now we're going to
7725s	get the best possible payout for this
7727s	and we came in here looking for
7729s	ancestral uh legendaries and
7732s	as the spirit Flames promised ancestral
7735s	legendaries is what we get and you know
7737s	the greater affixes and we also see that
7739s	we got an amulet um if we were to dive
7741s	into like the amulet we would have SE
7742s	that the bargain would have applied to
7744s	it as well so the player would have
7745s	gotten specifically what they came in
7747s	here for um so that's a really quick
7752s	snapshot of just like the I guess like
7754s	the structure of an unders City Flow I
7757s	want to take this time just to dive into
7759s	a little bit more details on the
7760s	tributes that we on the gameplay footage
7762s	and spend a little bit more time with
7764s	them so this is an example of four of
7768s	our eight total tributes um these are
7770s	hand selected primarily just to Showcase
7772s	how the tributes are tuned to progress
7776s	with your leveling Journeys so we start
7778s	off here with the tribute of growth this
7780s	is usable in all difficulty levels this
7783s	is the tribute that rewards additional
7785s	experience when you complete the unders
7787s	city um so this is great you know for
7789s	leveling up your alts leveling up your
7790s	character in general and you can see
7792s	here that we start applying the first of
7795s	the you know I guess penalties or
7797s	challenges for this in the sense that we
7799s	have lower starting time we actually
7801s	incur a Time bonus penalty now and we
7803s	have potion drop penalties um something
7806s	also to note is you know this is just
7808s	found randomly in sanctuary so as you're
7810s	just doing your standard leveling stuff
7811s	like the hell Tides or whatever you will
7813s	get these types of tributes to say you
7815s	know point you to the unders City every
7817s	now and again um so let's go back to the
7820s	tribute gallery as I like to call it can
7823s	we go back to that last slide that we
7825s	had up there there we go yeah all right
7827s	cool thank you um and then we get to
7829s	from there it just gets progressively
7831s	more challenging but also progressively
7832s	more rewarding for the players um so
7834s	tribute of Harmony rewards guaranteed
7837s	runes this is a torment uh tier
7839s	difficulty um and you can see you know
7842s	we just amp up the challenge which each
7844s	with each one uh the tribute of Radiance
7846s	is the one that we just saw in action
7848s	that we guaranteed ancestral legendaries
7851s	and the tribute of ascendant as example
7852s	kind like the cream of the crop uh
7854s	tribute unique tribute that um
7857s	guarantees several uniques with an
7859s	increased chance of a Mythic unique um
7862s	and I just want to call it out here that
7864s	I know that the last two tributes say
7866s	that you know their Resolute tributes
7867s	and they only you know apply rewards to
7870s	the player that offered it we do have
7873s	variants of both of these that work in
7875s	party um so that you know whole is
7877s	covered the rest of the tributes that
7879s	don't have that distinction they reward
7881s	everyone of the it's just these last two
7883s	that you know kind of had that little
7884s	you know Aster on it um yeah and I think
7888s	uh that's that's the gallery of the
7890s	tributes and uh again these are mapped
7892s	to the rest of the the rest of them are
7894s	mapped to a variety of content like the
7896s	whisper caches the summoned Lair bosses
7899s	and a variety of things that I'm
7901s	forgetting on the spot here but yeah
7903s	this is a fantastic uh activity to do
7906s	when you're somewhat in the mid game of
7910s	of your journey so you're going going to
7911s	be introduced to this as you're making
7913s	your way through the campaign and uh but
7916s	the thing I like about it is with all
7917s	the progression changes that we've been
7918s	looking at this also scales with you and
7920s	so this is the type of activity that's
7922s	going to stick with you for a while it's
7923s	a great way to get control over looking
7925s	for the items you're looking for and the
7928s	time attack feature of this is really
7929s	great yeah and I think the the big thing
7932s	here is like it you can do it Solo or
7934s	you can do it with a a group so it's
7936s	it's it's not like you you you have
7938s	other options if you want to bring in a
7939s	full party or if you like to just uh
7941s	conquer it yourself um and I know a lot
7943s	of people in chat are going like hey 50
7945s	million for for all that there there are
7947s	I'm not sure if you guys saw all the
7948s	different Bargains and everything
7949s	there's a there's a plethora of
7951s	different costs for a lot of different
7953s	uh options and depending on what you're
7955s	looking for you can obviously Target
7956s	specific things you may specifically
7958s	want you know uniques or something like
7961s	that and that like chaotic uniques I
7963s	think had like an obal requirement or
7964s	whatever so there's a lot of different
7966s	bargain options for players to get and
7968s	if you are looking for specific rewards
7970s	you have an additional Avenue to do so
7973s	which is really cool with Cass under
7975s	City so yeah awesome well there we go I
7979s	think there's
7983s	more yeah the Cur under city is the gift
7986s	that keeps on giving so one additional
7989s	activity that you'll uh discover as
7991s	you're you know romping through the
7992s	unders city is our unders City unique
7994s	treasure Goblin the portal prankster um
7996s	we'll show some gameplay footage in just
7998s	a moment but first just want to you know
7999s	call out killing him will reward a bonus
8003s	chest at the end of the dungeon and in
8006s	addition that contains uh just standard
8008s	you know treasure Goblin loot runes and
8010s	more tributes so it's a really good a
8013s	very juicy reward to go after uh the
8015s	portal prankster when you run uh come
8017s	across him but you would be doing so at
8019s	your own Peril because you'll see in
8020s	this video that he has a particular
8023s	mechanic to him that uh makes a little
8025s	bit tricky when you have a
8027s	continually timer that that's
8030s	continually counting down uh so you'll
8032s	see here that when he's aggroed he opens
8034s	up a bunch of portals and just like
8035s	Benny Hills through them um it's a Chase
8039s	so this is kind of T tapping into the
8040s	risk fors s reward nature of the under
8042s	City where you make decisions based on
8045s	how confident you are at the current
8048s	state of your run um and again killing
8051s	him is very lucrative he doesn't drop
8053s	anything aside from Attunement right
8054s	from the gecko but all of his rewards
8056s	are funneled at the end of The
8058s	Experience so again a variety of the
8060s	spice of life in the under City and just
8063s	yeah really excited to get this into the
8064s	hands of uh players yeah it's cool to
8066s	see a new Goblin variant right there and
8069s	then of course uh you know the ultimate
8072s	troll Goblin as you can see in the the
8074s	gameplay and that that's that's the risk
8076s	reward you were talking about like do
8078s	you spend the time and chasing after
8081s	this this this specific goland it's
8082s	bouncing between different portals as
8084s	your time is ticking down and you're
8086s	trying to you're trying to progress and
8088s	get better rewards and of course if you
8089s	succeed and you get everything you get
8091s	that extra chest at the end which is
8092s	really awesome so it's worth it yeah
8095s	most definitely is worth it especially
8096s	since you get so much uh progress added
8099s	once once you do actually take down the
8101s	goblin as well so uh thank you Derek for
8103s	walking us through this um we have a
8106s	bunch of seats here uh we actually have
8108s	a non like physical seat here because we
8112s	do actually have one other person that
8113s	we're going to be tapping into to talk
8115s	to us about the dark Citadel and this is
8117s	Mr Jason Bentley who is live via
8120s	satellite
8121s	yeah that's I to say satellite uh from
8124s	the East Coast uh Jason is our lead raid
8126s	designer on dark Citadel and uh Jason do
8130s	you want to uh talk to us a little bit
8132s	about
8133s	it absolutely thanks for having me uh as
8136s	you heard I'm the lead for the dark
8137s	Citadel and we're going to talk about
8139s	rise of the kazra this is the very first
8142s	multiplayer Focus piece of content for
8144s	Diablo
8149s	I so as you can kind of guess this whole
8151s	thing is about Essence and souls and
8154s	sealing them and owning them and just
8158s	using it as power go
8162s	ahead so why are we here we're here to
8165s	fight the first kazra they are taken
8168s	over the crater left from the Mage Clan
8170s	Civil War blasted a hole into the ground
8173s	and they've moved in and they're using
8175s	all the souls from the dead clan um dead
8178s	Mage clan people to power they crazy
8182s	experiments they're really really evil
8184s	they are taking people they take uh
8187s	their own kind and they turn them into
8189s	like power sources and batteries and
8190s	they use them and they're all about
8192s	resurrecting their dead God Z
8198s	girl this all takes place in or it
8201s	starts in nantu you start out the whole
8204s	quest line in kurast they're going to
8207s	people are going to tell you how bad
8208s	this is they really don't like having
8210s	their friends and family stolen and
8212s	taken and drained and having hus
8215s	returned so you're going to go on a
8217s	quest to go find out what's happened to
8218s	these people and see if you can go help
8221s	uh a lot of other Heroes have actually
8222s	tried this and they have all failed so
8225s	really when you get through this entire
8226s	experience what you really come back
8228s	with is only together can we Prevail we
8231s	need to bring some friends with you to
8232s	come to do this content you're not going
8234s	to be able to do it on your
8240s	own once you get through all of this
8243s	this actually only happens at tournament
8245s	one so this is not a uh early leveling
8248s	experience this is something when You'
8249s	you're really into the game and you
8251s	really need to like move your build
8253s	along um so once you enter tournament
8256s	one you can go on this Quest and access
8258s	the ancient Nexus which is its own town
8260s	space with a waypoint of all its own
8262s	which gives access to the three dungeons
8264s	you can see here these dungeons have
8266s	multiple boss fights in each one and
8269s	they each take a little bit of time to
8271s	get through through uh practice will
8273s	help you optimize these runs experience
8275s	will help you uh show expertise and and
8279s	shepherding other people to show them
8281s	how to complete these mechanics and
8283s	communication is not required but it
8285s	definitely leads to better outcomes
8287s	there's a lot of new challenges and
8289s	mechanics and there's really no mercy
8292s	for the hardcore players so you have to
8293s	be good too as you can see right now
8295s	we've actually got one party split
8297s	across two different Realms doing
8300s	different mechanics and help each other
8302s	and bring coming back together to bring
8304s	down the boss it really takes at least
8307s	two players to to do these
8314s	mechanics we have multiplayer boss
8316s	fights through the entire experience and
8318s	we always say the players are stronger
8319s	together it's tuned for four players two
8323s	players can do these these mechanics but
8326s	it means you have to handle the
8327s	mechanics and the uh monsters and the
8329s	bosses by yourselves we're not going to
8331s	duck the uh difficulty for fewer
8335s	players we have lots of crazy mechanics
8338s	going on we've got people relying on
8340s	each other to get through all of this um
8343s	there's a lot of hero moments in this
8345s	content the best moments we had when we
8347s	were play testing this is somebody's
8349s	dead and the other person's running
8351s	around and they they click the Switch or
8353s	they res the other their friend right in
8355s	time to jump through the portal or kill
8357s	the boss and everyone's just screaming
8360s	and having a great time it's really
8362s	really fun to work together and see
8364s	those moments where like depending on
8366s	your your party members really pays
8371s	off we also have an exclusive monster
8374s	family for the for the dark Citadel uh
8377s	these are the newest smartest monsters
8380s	you have met these are the first Kaz
8382s	they're pretty evil people uh shout out
8385s	to the first CER monster family team
8387s	they did a great job on all these guys
8389s	they are awful they're decadent they're
8391s	sophisticated they use a lot of magic
8393s	they do a lot of crazy things to like
8395s	bring down the
8402s	party these are cool looking enemies
8405s	that's for sure um I know with uh uh
8408s	with at least dark Citadel of course
8410s	there's always awesome rewards that are
8413s	kind of associated with this Jason do
8414s	you want to uh talk to us a little bit
8417s	about
8418s	those absolutely I think we have that
8421s	up yeah let's see if we can get that
8423s	queued up here the the joys of of well
8428s	we do have we did it oh actually the
8430s	quick quality of life Improvement here
8432s	we actually have a marker system to to
8433s	help uh parties get through the
8435s	experience uh you can just drop them
8437s	into your emote wheel and then as you're
8440s	running through the experience you can
8441s	use those emotes to indicate to your
8443s	friends and party members hey I found
8445s	something of Interest or hey it's over
8447s	here this is the way forward and then a
8449s	really nice thing is this is avail
8451s	aailable outside the Citadel as well
8452s	it's not exclusive so you'll be able to
8454s	use this through wherever you go with
8455s	your party we also have a combat log
8458s	during the Citadel experience to help
8459s	you understand what's happening uh
8461s	especially where you're taking damage
8463s	from and in big moments and you've heard
8466s	about the party finder that's also
8468s	created with obviously Citadel in mind
8470s	but it it supports everybody else but we
8473s	want to make sure we facilitate getting
8475s	lots of people into this content yeah
8478s	hopefully now we can talk about Rewards
8480s	well before we into that I do want to
8481s	make mention cuz that was a really
8483s	interesting screen to see the
8484s	communication stuff and talking about
8486s	party finder one of the things that
8488s	we've seen since launch is that our
8491s	Cooperative player basis is growing you
8493s	know it's growing steadily uh and so we
8496s	wanted to make sure that we did a couple
8497s	of things first off we wanted endgame
8500s	content for them right that's what this
8501s	is all about is making sure that we have
8503s	that really aspirational end game
8506s	content for folks who like to play with
8507s	their friends um the other thing is is
8510s	that we know that we could let this
8512s	spread out into more segments of the
8514s	game and so the party fighter was
8516s	originally a discussion that we had for
8518s	how to support the dark Citadel um but
8521s	it is now uh benefiting all the other
8524s	activities in our game as well so for
8526s	those of you who experien you're seeing
8527s	the the early stages of us really
8530s	expanding getting people together in the
8532s	content that is the best inside of the
8535s	game and so it's really exciting but it
8537s	does boil down to that communication and
8539s	that marker system is something that can
8541s	be both used in The Citadel as well as
8543s	outside of the Citadel and um I think
8546s	that that's going to be really valuable
8547s	for accessibility for a lot of folks out
8549s	there yep most definitely all right now
8551s	on to rewards now we'll talk rewards
8553s	sorry I had to get that in there
8555s	absolutely so you're actually chasing a
8558s	weekly reward that resets on the the the
8561s	Tuesday or the day of the week that we
8563s	we set so really that's going to drop a
8567s	massive ancestral uh Loot drop each time
8570s	you pop that open which is only happens
8571s	when you complete all three dungeons
8573s	you're going to want to chase that thing
8575s	that is a huge important drop for a week
8578s	but beyond that there's lots of rewards
8580s	for repeated runs the Citadel coins are
8582s	going to allow you to purchase all these
8585s	consumables and you can maximize the
8587s	number of coins you get per run by
8589s	killing treasury monsters and playing on
8591s	higher difficulties like it really
8593s	scales up the Citadel coins you get and
8596s	why do you care about those well a these
8598s	rewards make or so these consumables
8601s	really make it uh easier and more fun to
8603s	play with groups and parties but it also
8607s	allows purchase of the scroll of
8608s	restoration so if you want to like just
8611s	chase down and buy Scrolls this is a
8614s	great place to get do
8615s	that six slide for production right
8619s	there this live right yeah exactly um no
8623s	that's actually really cool to see and
8624s	and again the scroll of restoration
8626s	being a reward in dark Citadel and like
8628s	what we talked about earlier you
8629s	actually do get to guarant ones in the
8631s	season Journey um and at the same time
8634s	those are something that you can find
8635s	all around the world but dark Citadel is
8636s	like also just like that guaranteed way
8638s	of being able to get it as well um so
8640s	there's a lot of different variety and
8642s	of rewards um but it goes beyond what we
8645s	just showed right there there's actually
8647s	some really really cool stuff as well
8648s	that I know Jason wants to show off
8650s	as absolutely I would love to end up on
8654s	just the way everyone can show off their
8657s	ability to just play this content to the
8659s	top levels so we're going to show you
8661s	our Premier Gear there's actually two
8663s	levels of gear that you can get from
8665s	playing the dark Citadel there's the the
8667s	normal level gear which you'll get from
8670s	torments 1 through three and it's pretty
8673s	accessible but what you're seeing right
8674s	now is their Premier content which comes
8676s	from only completions in tourament 4 so
8682s	I hope this is as exciting for everyone
8683s	to get as I'm excited to give it to you
8685s	so I'll see you in the Citadel and thank
8687s	you for letting me show this off awesome
8690s	thank you so much Jason to this Mount go
8693s	back to go back to the m go back to the
8695s	Mount I know you're probably like oh we
8697s	got to scroll through everything uh but
8700s	okay there we go the mount is sick oh
8703s	see there we go okay yeah the the mount
8707s	is sick I that's something that I think
8709s	a lot of people are going to be kind of
8711s	like chasing after for sure with the
8712s	dark Citadel Jason thank you so much for
8714s	walking us through that uh really
8716s	excited for it and what's cool is like
8718s	as Jason mentioned dark Citadel itself
8721s	like you can do with a group of four you
8723s	can even attempt it to go for for two
8725s	people if you're really skilled you have
8726s	that option of being able to do it uh
8728s	the party finder featured now being a
8730s	part of the the game now you can
8733s	actually access party finder find other
8735s	people that may want to jump into dark
8737s	Citadel and group up with them and of
8739s	course we have the additional
8739s	communication tools with all the
8741s	different pings that you can end up
8742s	using and markers that you can end up
8744s	using to help kind of guide that whole
8746s	entire group there so lots of cool stuff
8748s	coming with dark Citadel really cool
8749s	endgame content that's coming to a
8751s	vessel of hatred and I can't wait to see
8753s	people jump into it can't wait to jump
8755s	into it myself um but of course uh we
8758s	have one last topic that we do want to
8760s	talk about with vessel of hatred and
8762s	that is our mercenaries feature that is
8765s	uh something that we did announce during
8767s	Gamescom but we do want to go into a
8768s	little bit of a deeper dive today on
8770s	that specifically uh so Brent Dan uh do
8773s	you guys want to take us through
8774s	mercenaries yeah just to kick it off you
8777s	know mercenaries is one of those Legacy
8779s	features that you've seen in multiple
8780s	Diablo games and when we started talking
8784s	about this very early on we're like What
8785s	is the approach that we can take that
8787s	really complement everything else that
8789s	we're doing in Diablo for that is that
8791s	is different obviously we've been
8792s	touching things like itemization and uh
8795s	we've been doing a bunch of reworks on
8797s	class builds so we knew a couple things
8799s	here first we wanted to make sure that
8802s	the system uh was built in a way that
8804s	could complement your build type right
8807s	so every build type has a little bit of
8808s	a soft spot and Mer mercenaries is a
8811s	really good way of um You Can level them
8814s	up in a way that can actually fill in
8815s	that soft spot um and the uh other thing
8819s	that we really wanted to make sure of is
8821s	that they were always useful right and
8824s	so as you play along the game like
8827s	you're interacting with them in way
8829s	different ways than you would just by
8832s	leveling up and using them basically as
8835s	is a a a power item right and so uh the
8839s	way that we folded this in is is far
8841s	more robust than we've seen in other uh
8843s	systems in the past and yeah I can't
8844s	wait for Dan to show it off awesome yeah
8846s	let's dive into it so uh I think we can
8849s	go to the first slide awesome so we
8851s	announced these characters at uh
8852s	Gamescom and these are the four
8854s	mercenaries that you're going to meet as
8855s	you play vessel of hatred early on in
8857s	the campaign you're going to meet re
8859s	here the guy in the middle and you're
8860s	going to lend him a hand in kind of
8862s	tracking down these other characters
8863s	doing their quest lines and unlocking
8865s	them and they're like really involved
8867s	quest lines they're pretty awesome they
8868s	have cutcenes they have you know a lot
8870s	of narrative backstory where you kind of
8871s	get to know more about these characters
8873s	uh and they have a lot of personality so
8875s	they're they're pretty interesting um
8877s	and we really want to make them feel
8878s	like characters that live in the world
8879s	they don't just sit in The Hideout the
8880s	whole time when you're running around
8882s	and you you might see an event where
8883s	they're actually participating in the
8885s	event so you may even run into some of
8887s	these characters before you unlock them
8890s	cool so today I'm going to cover a
8892s	little bit more detail than what we
8893s	announced at Gamescom I'm going to talk
8896s	about play style and perk for each
8898s	mercenary I'm going to talk about
8900s	reinforcement which is a new way to
8901s	interact with mercenaries and then we're
8903s	going to talk about bartering and
8904s	progression at the
8906s	end all right so I'm going to talk about
8908s	the play styles for each mercenary and
8910s	to start I want to just show an example
8912s	of a skill tree so every skill tree for
8915s	a mercenary at the very top the starting
8917s	node is their perk and this is a passive
8919s	bonus you get whenever a mercenary is
8921s	hired into your party and they're pretty
8923s	awesome they're really powerful
8924s	hopefully when you hire a Merc you feel
8925s	like they're changing the way you play
8928s	um and then every skill tree has six
8929s	skills and and 12 upgrades so let's dive
8933s	into some examples so for here he's
8936s	really like the tank if you need someone
8938s	to help protect you uh and his skill
8940s	trees kind of split up into um a tower
8943s	Shield which is about getting in the
8944s	thick of battle tanking things for you
8946s	taunting and he also has a round Shield
8949s	which is sort of themed around being a
8950s	holy
8952s	protector so the top node that you start
8954s	with for here and this is when you hire
8955s	him to your party is Valiant and what
8958s	this does is basically if you take a lot
8960s	of dam Dage in one hit he's going to fly
8962s	in negate that damage block it for you
8965s	and he's going to knock down enemies uh
8966s	he's also going to Grant you Unstoppable
8968s	so he can really save your life so
8970s	here's an example where this uh this
8972s	Beast is going to hit me and these guys
8973s	hit pretty hard so here comes boom so
8976s	we're here kind of leapt in he negated
8977s	that damage uh and he knocked them down
8980s	so that's awesome I imagine hardcore
8982s	players will uh gravitate towards this
8985s	unless they are risk taker so definitely
8988s	a very powerful perk cool let's talk
8991s	about some
8992s	upgrades um I think we skipped ahead a
8995s	slide if we want to go back
8998s	one there we go cool so um we're here's
9002s	some upgrade examples on re skill tree
9004s	the first one draw fire we're going to
9005s	show a video in a second whenever I use
9007s	a healing potion re here is going to
9008s	taunt enemies uh near him so if you're
9011s	in danger you need health it's going to
9013s	help save you iron Wolf's virtue when uh
9015s	re's valiance is triggered he heals you
9018s	uh and his cool down is reduced so you
9020s	can just get it to happen more often and
9022s	he has a shield throw which uh some D3
9024s	Crusader players might love where he
9026s	Chucks his shield it bounces off some
9027s	targets and this kind of marks them so
9029s	you can sort of play whacka and if you
9031s	hit those targets you'll get healed back
9033s	so it's another way to keep yourself
9034s	alive all right cool let's check out an
9036s	example for draw fire so you're going to
9039s	see I use my potion uh the UI would help
9041s	you show that but yeah I use the potion
9043s	right there we here taunted everybody
9045s	sweet I did not die and I'm happy all
9048s	right let's go to the next one
9052s	so varana we call her the Berserker
9054s	Crone she she is a reformed cannibal uh
9057s	she's got a pretty interesting backstory
9059s	I love her personality she's kind of
9061s	zany and crazy uh she's also the cook
9064s	for The Mercenaries and I don't know if
9066s	I would eat her food I don't really
9068s	trust her but uh her skill Tre is kind
9070s	of split up into two themes dual wield
9072s	axes which is all about visal Cleaves
9075s	and bleeds and large mace which is heavy
9079s	slams so you may be familiar with the
9081s	masac bonus from D3 her perk is very
9084s	similar uh where basically you get this
9086s	bonus we could jump to the video and as
9089s	you kill monsters you're going to see
9090s	when I get 10 kills the masacre bonus
9092s	kicks in it's going to show up above her
9094s	portrait on the left side of the screen
9096s	so it should say times 10 cool I now
9098s	have a Mas bonus started as I build this
9100s	up and I get it to higher thresholds I'm
9102s	going to get more and more movement
9103s	speed so you're kind of encouraged to
9105s	play more aggressive keep this keep this
9108s	going before it runs out of time uh and
9110s	it sort of snowballs into this fun
9111s	gameplay where you're going really fast
9113s	so you can embrace your inner Sanic and
9116s	uh go real fast with varana as your
9120s	hired
9122s	Merc all right got some upgrades for
9124s	varana so dismembering is
9128s	um oh yeah sorry so this one uh it's
9131s	going to guarantee an overpower she's
9132s	going to knock people down and you get a
9134s	guarantee to overpower so if you're
9134s	playing Barb it's going to be really
9136s	useful reprisal is when you get cced
9139s	varana is going to LEAP on the enemy
9140s	that inflicted it and knock them down so
9143s	this can also save your life and no
9145s	Escape is varana does whirlwind this
9147s	makes it really big and as she's
9149s	spinning around she's kind of grouping
9150s	enemies up for you so that can be a fun
9152s	one I think we showed both so yeah
9154s	dismembering here so she's going to set
9156s	us up we get a guaranteed overpower you
9158s	do a bunch of damage sweet uh that feeds
9161s	into you know a lot of builds and then
9162s	we have risal here so I got chained by
9164s	that monster she leapt on them knocked
9166s	them down basically canceling that for
9168s	me
9170s	all right cool uh subo the Bounty Hunter
9174s	he's themed on Long bows which is uh
9176s	precision shooting and traps the other
9178s	side of his tree is crossbows heavy
9181s	bolts and
9182s	explosives uh and his perk is kind of
9184s	broken up into two parts so he has a
9186s	passive uh component which is he reveals
9188s	enemies on and materials on the mini map
9191s	and his active component is that he we
9193s	call him the Bounty Hunter because he's
9194s	going to call out targets during combat
9196s	and if you kill that Target you get a
9198s	bunch of resource back and also the you
9200s	do that the more often he's going to be
9202s	casting Seeker so you're you're uh kind
9204s	of trying to keep this up where you want
9206s	to make sure you're killing his targets
9207s	and spending your resource before you do
9209s	so and this lets you just cast more
9211s	abilities which always feels great all
9214s	right let's check out an example so I'm
9216s	in town I'm going to walk out here with
9219s	subo and you can look at the mini map
9221s	top right and it's starting to populate
9223s	with uh herbs and or veins and you'll
9226s	see all the monsters on the mini map as
9227s	well so that's kind of his scouting
9229s	component
9231s	and uh sorry we're going to have to Loop
9233s	this one because I I talk too slowly but
9235s	he uh also is marking a Target and you
9238s	saw when I killed them I got a bunch of
9243s	resource yeah I know I know a lot of
9245s	people with subo especially because the
9247s	fact that he highlights like or veines
9250s	and things like that are pretty huge for
9252s	people especially with all the changes
9254s	that we're adding to like how materials
9256s	can also be used to maybe craft like
9258s	legendaries and stuff so uh was kind of
9260s	like my personal favorite but it
9263s	definitely Embraces I think what Brent
9264s	was talking about too where mercenaries
9266s	are really about utility and they kind
9268s	of add choices that maybe you wouldn't
9270s	necessarily pick on your character uh or
9272s	they help you just kind of like fill
9274s	gaps in your build or maybe encourage
9276s	you to do you know have more diversity
9277s	in your build maybe they expose new
9279s	options for you so it's pretty
9280s	interesting all right cool um we're
9283s	going to show off some subo upgrades so
9285s	first we have share a drink which is uh
9287s	whenever he throws his moltov there's a
9289s	chance for him to drop a healing potion
9290s	for you Mastermind subo's wi trap and
9293s	tripmines gain 60% size uh and then you
9296s	and subo both have increased crowd
9297s	control
9299s	duration thrill seeker is um going to
9302s	reduce cool Downs for every monster hit
9304s	so here's example of Shar drink he threw
9306s	a moltov he dropped a potion for me and
9308s	that can just help you more consistently
9310s	get potions which could definitely be
9312s	useful for a lot of
9314s	players all right alkin says definitely
9317s	a fan favorite uh we call him the
9319s	Forsaken child
9320s	his tree is sort of split up into two
9322s	magic types Fire magic which is all
9324s	about burning enemies and making them
9326s	suffer and Shadow Magic which is uh
9329s	haunting Souls that kind of like apply
9331s	dots and spread to enemies uh his perk
9334s	is dependent on what your skill tree
9337s	choices are so if you're on the fire
9338s	side of the tree or the shadow you will
9340s	get different uh Buffs and debuffs so
9343s	every once in a while he's going to turn
9344s	into a demon of one of those forms if
9345s	he's on the shadow side you and all the
9348s	enemies around him become vulnerable
9350s	if he's on the fire side he's going to
9352s	make it so all your direct damage
9354s	applies um burn to enemies but it's also
9357s	draining your resource so he's really
9358s	themed around this kiss curse mechanic
9360s	and whenever this happens it can be a
9362s	huge benefit but also there's some
9364s	downsides to it
9365s	potentially all right cool so he's
9367s	casting some fire skills we're going to
9368s	see Alin on the left he's turning into a
9370s	fire demon uh this gives him a whole new
9372s	skill set he's got imulation he's
9373s	burning nearby enemies uh and he's
9375s	helping kill everything and then you can
9376s	see when I'm doing direct damage it's
9378s	applying burn uh but also resources
9380s	training this is if I'm on the shadow
9382s	side he turned into a Shadow Demon at
9383s	the top he's going to do a cool ability
9385s	where he pulls everyone in a line lines
9387s	them up for you that always feels really
9389s	good um and yeah in that one he's making
9392s	everyone
9393s	vulnerable Sweet let's talk about some
9395s	upgrades for alkin so I think this will
9398s	be a lot of people's favorites ember's
9400s	gift whenever he casts Firestorm if you
9402s	stand in it you're getting 33% of your
9405s	primary resource per second and we're
9407s	going to show a video of that in a sec
9409s	terrify uh he does haunt yeah thank you
9413s	he's got 30% chance to apply
9415s	invulnerable vulnerable to enemies so
9417s	another way to get keyw applied to
9418s	things and burning chaos that's his old
9420s	whenever you cast your old it resets his
9423s	wave of flame is really cool it's this
9425s	giant fire wave that destroys enemy
9428s	projectiles you can kind of like run
9430s	with it and fight inside of it and uh
9432s	I've seen a lot of people get used out
9433s	of that cool okay let's check out
9436s	ember's gift so he's going to cast
9438s	Firestorm and look at my resource it's
9440s	just flying up really fast while I'm
9442s	standing in this area so um it's a good
9444s	way to to kind of have this happen and
9446s	then you just get to spam a bunch of
9447s	abilities and murder
9449s	Monsters uh so yeah here's a here's a
9452s	quick example of you know we do have a
9453s	lot of keywords and um ways for
9455s	Mercenaries to utilize them and spread
9457s	them to enemies so that can help with a
9459s	lot of builds too yeah it's nice having
9461s	a a an option to like add vulnerable to
9464s	to more enemies especially like AOE
9467s	doing AOE or anything like that so yeah
9469s	really cool to see I know um of course
9472s	we have there's other mechanics with
9474s	with mercenaries that we did want to uh
9476s	talk about so Dan do you want to jump
9478s	into how reinforcements actually works
9480s	yeah let's talk about
9482s	reinforcements um so I guess before I
9485s	explain reinforcements there are two
9486s	methods of using mercenaries one is
9488s	hiring them and that's for solo players
9490s	so if you're playing solo you're not in
9492s	a party you can hire a mercenary
9494s	everyone at all times can also have uh
9497s	can have a reinforcement so if you're in
9498s	a party everyone has a reinforc M if
9500s	you're solo you get both uh and if
9502s	you're playing solo they have to be two
9503s	different characters so your hired
9504s	mercenary has to be different from your
9506s	reinforcement all right what the heck
9508s	are reinforcements uh so reinforcements
9511s	are a new way to interact with mercs
9512s	where you can kind of call a mercenary
9514s	into battle have them perform a skill at
9516s	an opportune moment and you get to sort
9518s	of control when that happens and this
9520s	reminds me a lot of like old school
9522s	fighting games where you could kind of
9523s	cast that ability and a character will
9525s	flying off screen he'll do something
9526s	really cool hopefully that helps you a
9528s	lot and uh that's you know I think very
9531s	much inspired by that yeah it's like a
9532s	cyst they jump in they do something and
9534s	then they like pop back out so it's
9536s	really cool so you're going to choose an
9537s	opportunity which is uh when does it
9539s	happen you could link this to any of
9541s	your action bar slots so you could say
9543s	hey when I press one and I teleport the
9546s	mercenary does this skill and then you
9547s	choose a skill that you have unlocked
9549s	for that mercenary all right let's check
9551s	out some examples so this one's quick
9553s	I'm going to cast teleport and you'll
9554s	see we here up here and then he sort of
9556s	flies in battle he does this triple slam
9558s	he groups everyone up grouping enemies
9560s	up is always good thank you for here I
9562s	drop a meteor on their head uh in this
9564s	one we cast bone prison and old can
9567s	shows up and cast Firestorm for me
9569s	there's going to be a lot of
9570s	combinations here I think with you know
9572s	all the different player abilities and
9573s	all the different reinforcement skills
9576s	so I think it'll be really interesting
9577s	to see how players utilize the system
9579s	you can use it more defensively or more
9582s	offensively and um hopefully you agree a
9584s	lot of the skills uh give you added
9587s	utility so I think there's a lot of
9588s	opportunities here to mix and match
9590s	which would be cool another thing I'm
9592s	excited about that is that the system is
9594s	built to grow and so our ability to add
9597s	more conditions in which you bring them
9599s	in and continue to grow potentially the
9601s	powers that we could see too it's a very
9604s	robust system that can go pretty long
9605s	way so it's great yeah cool awesome and
9609s	I think finally we want to talk about
9611s	some bartering yeah we're going talk
9612s	about Rapport which the progression and
9615s	then bartering but they're all it's all
9617s	tied together all yeah so Rapport is the
9620s	progression for Mercenaries and uh we
9623s	could go ahead and jump to the first
9626s	slide so this is what the Rapport looks
9628s	like you may be familiar with this type
9630s	of UI uh in this example we're rank five
9633s	the first four skill ranks are how you
9635s	get your skill points for the skill tree
9636s	we want you to unlock all the cool fun
9638s	abilities for mercs pretty quickly and
9640s	up front after that point it's all about
9643s	upgrades for bartering and bartering is
9644s	we're going to show it off in a second
9646s	um but progressing your mercs improves
9648s	the bartering system
9650s	which is kind of a way to trade with mer
9652s	mercenaries at The Hideout and get
9653s	really useful items so um the very last
9657s	rank we hovered over it quickly there
9658s	you can actually repeat the very last
9660s	rank for Mercenaries and continue to
9662s	earn the currency so if you say hey I
9664s	really like Alin I don't want to level
9666s	any anyone else up you could just keep
9668s	playing this character and you'll you'll
9669s	keep getting resources uh hopefully
9671s	we're encouraging you though with these
9672s	upgrades to kind of rank up all your
9675s	mercs and keep making bartering better
9677s	all right let's talk about bartering
9680s	so at The Hideout you can talk to Fiera
9683s	and uh she will pull up UI where you can
9686s	you could trade for items a lot of them
9687s	are legendaries and as you upgrade your
9690s	mercs you're going to you're going to
9691s	basically increase this list so you can
9693s	find more interesting things hopefully
9695s	you can find some really cool legendary
9696s	items that you're excited about um as
9698s	you upgrade your Merks you're going to
9699s	get more chances for legendaries and
9702s	each mercenary has an aspect category
9704s	associated with them so oldin for
9706s	example uh gives you resource uh um
9710s	aspect caches so if you level up alkin
9713s	that has a chance instead of getting a
9714s	resource legendary you're going to get a
9715s	resource legendary aspect cach and in
9718s	this case we open one of those caches
9720s	sweet I got a bunch of items um this
9722s	it's not you know exactly Target farming
9724s	but it's a way to increase your chances
9726s	of you know things you may be looking
9728s	for there's going to be a lot of other
9729s	really useful items in here like uh
9731s	crafting materials boss summoning parts
9734s	um some masterworking recipes things
9736s	like that and that's it so you can uh
9740s	restock the supply on this and this the
9742s	currency you re uh you reroll this
9745s	inventory with is the same currency that
9747s	you're spending to buy items so you kind
9749s	of have to pick and choose like do I
9750s	want to roll or do I want to wait and
9753s	hopefully you see things that you're
9754s	interested in and you buy them and then
9756s	every day when you log in you get one
9757s	free reroll uh just trying to be nice to
9761s	the players hopefully uh you get what
9762s	you want without having to waste all
9763s	your pil marks and I think that's all we
9766s	have for Mercenaries today so thank you
9768s	for awesome yeah I love I love hearing
9770s	about the bartering system because it's
9772s	just another like Avenue for like hey if
9774s	I if I need masterworking materials or
9776s	if I need boss summoning materials I can
9778s	literally go and check and see if I can
9780s	barter for it now uh as a another
9783s	opportunity for getting those specific
9785s	things which is really really cool to
9786s	see so uh Dan thank you very much for
9789s	walking us through uh the The
9790s	Mercenaries coming to vessel of hatred
9792s	and so everything that this group
9794s	actually talked about here this is all
9796s	uh exclusive to vessel of hatred so with
9799s	the EXP expansion and anyone who
9801s	actually ends up purchasing the
9802s	expansion they'll be able to access all
9804s	the different features that we talked
9805s	about from Spirit born to Cass under
9808s	City to uh dark Citadel and of course
9810s	the mercenary so lots of stuff in the
9812s	expansion specifically for this um that
9815s	we're all excited for everyone to jump
9816s	into uh October 7th 4M Pacific in
9820s	California globally wherever your time
9822s	zone is that it's to tied to that that
9825s	is when it will end up hitting so we
9826s	have a cool map um but I know uh we
9829s	talked about a lot today we do want to
9831s	of course do our our normal Q&A that we
9834s	we always do at the end but before we
9836s	actually end up doing that I know um
9839s	Brent you wanted to talk a little bit
9840s	about uh the the journey here yeah
9843s	honestly you know we we talk at the team
9845s	level a lot about our communication with
9847s	the community at this point and I've
9849s	said it a few times where it's like it
9851s	feels so good to be in a dialogue now uh
9854s	and everybody at home you've heard us
9856s	said we're listening we're listening I
9858s	actually feel like we're well beyond
9859s	that that point at this at this moment
9862s	like we really feel like the community
9864s	is now one of our team members and we're
9867s	developing together at this point and
9869s	and we're we're starting to all pull in
9872s	the same direction and we've learned so
9874s	much right we come out with season 1 we
9877s	took some lumps there right we knew we
9879s	had a lot of work to do and all the
9882s	dialogue that we've had has led up to
9884s	like things like the success of season
9886s	four and season five um and so the fact
9889s	that the community is is really a part
9892s	of our team now uh it shows us a great
9894s	pathway we still have a lot of work to
9896s	do you know there's things we want to
9898s	get to Y Armory yeah Armory which in
9902s	development yeah so uh we we talked
9904s	about that a little bit of Gamescom but
9906s	these are the types of things that are
9907s	really fine-tuning the way we could get
9909s	there and honestly we couldn't get there
9911s	without all of you at home thank you for
9913s	staying with us on this journey can't
9915s	wait to get to the Q&A yeah so yeah and
9918s	I again like just to reiterate like what
9920s	what Brent was saying I think um the
9922s	community speaking about how they really
9924s	wanted us to have a PTR having those PTR
9926s	moments having players in earlier being
9928s	able to provide that feedback huge shout
9930s	out to you guys for being able to uh
9933s	help us out with that that this journey
9935s	that we've been on you know we've made
9937s	some massive strides since the from
9939s	since the first season and it's only
9941s	getting better from here which is really
9943s	cool so um awesome well I think we're
9946s	going to jump into the Q&A we're
9947s	actually going to bring some people in
9948s	from before swap people out do the
9951s	musical chair thing again musical chairs
9954s	thing again uh and we'll see you here in
9957s	a minute for the Q&A if you guys have
9958s	questions please start teeing them up in
9960s	in chat and uh we'll try to get to as
9962s	many questions as possible so we'll see
9963s	you in a minute
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10259s	all right we're back for Q&A welcome
10262s	back
10263s	everyone
10266s	wave like all right it's been a long
10269s	it's been a long stream holy cow uh
10271s	we're we're at almost two and a half
10272s	hours we're going to do about like 10
10274s	minutes of Q&A and then we'll have a
10275s	quick little outro just to uh get
10277s	everyone teed up before we head into uh
10280s	Pat being released and of course the
10281s	expansion so um I know we have uh uh
10285s	some some of our faces from earlier so
10287s	we can try to hit as many topics as
10289s	possible um but I know one big question
10291s	that we have been getting specifically
10293s	about or specifically with vessel of
10296s	hatred and of course like the base game
10298s	um I think we have a cute upload like
10299s	how will crossplay work for those
10300s	playing with and without the expansion
10303s	um this is actually a really good
10304s	question because you know we people are
10308s	thinking like oh are you guys like
10309s	funneling them off or like if if you
10311s	only have Diablo 4 they just like
10313s	shunned off to some island or something
10315s	like that and that is that is not the
10317s	case you can still play with friends uh
10319s	who may only have the base game even if
10322s	they're on Xbox and your PC or
10324s	PlayStation and PC etc etc so there is
10327s	that option um what's also kind of cool
10330s	is uh an interaction that I know that um
10333s	if let's say you owned it on PC and
10335s	Battlenet for instance and then uh for
10338s	vessel patri but then the base game was
10341s	only on Xbox for your own personal Xbox
10343s	and you jump back over to your Xbox if
10345s	you have like Rune words on your on your
10348s	sorc for instance uh you still can
10351s	actually use those run work yeah so it's
10354s	it's it's still something that's going
10356s	to be there I know that um one of the
10358s	the the things that um the team was
10360s	looking at was like Hey if you if you
10362s	earned it in the other game you can
10363s	still use it so um it's more so the
10367s	things within vessel of hatred like
10369s	Spirit born or the region of nantu uh
10373s	those things just wouldn't be available
10375s	for that base game user or if you jumped
10377s	over onto the base game so yeah that's
10380s	also why we gave everyone the 10 levels
10381s	we want everyone to be able to play with
10383s	each other everyone is going to be able
10385s	to be at the same eye power all that
10386s	good stuff yeah so it's a it's a cool
10388s	little uh like extra thing for for for
10391s	people and I know it does clarify uh a
10394s	lot specifically on that um this was
10397s	probably the biggest thing that people
10401s	asked about during PTR and so
10404s	Brent uh this is from razzled Dazzle
10408s	darus uh this is actually from a lot of
10410s	people uh speaking of D2 like speaking
10413s	of D2 I'm wearing my D2 jacket uh will
10417s	we get the D4 campfire screen back so uh
10421s	we were talking about it during the
10422s	intertial just a little bit uh yeah I
10424s	think if if we could feel a Vibe through
10427s	a monitor like that was the moment that
10431s	uh that came through you know we we hear
10433s	it loud and clear one of the things that
10435s	we are doing is trying to set ourselves
10437s	up for success for adding more classes
10440s	to the mix and uh so the campfire is one
10443s	of those things where we're taking a
10444s	look at it and trying to figure out how
10446s	how that would work and uh so we updated
10449s	it where we are kind of like really in
10451s	and you don't get that initial setup uh
10454s	so that is something that like
10455s	immediately when the feedback started
10457s	coming through the team started to
10458s	mobilize and and talk about what we can
10460s	do turning it around in time fast enough
10463s	for like vessel of hatred was um we had
10466s	other things like balance and polish
10467s	that we really wanted to pay attention
10468s	to make sure some of the UI elements for
10471s	some of the new features were in a good
10472s	spot so we hear you um uh I love the
10477s	fact that the nostalgia means so much uh
10480s	and so the the team is actively talking
10482s	about it and we'll be able to get back
10483s	to you in the future awesome yeah that
10486s	was uh by far a very very popular topic
10490s	after after PTR they're like where's the
10492s	campfire see like the Flames kind of
10494s	like in the screen but where is like the
10496s	fullon campire um we have a question
10498s	from Ram zero uh which is uh will there
10501s	be more renowned and statues of Lilith
10504s	in this expansion how does that
10506s	specifically work yeah we're not going
10508s	to be doing statues of Lilith
10509s	specifically um we're going to be having
10512s	a a new Statue type uh tenur ten of
10516s	accurat which is it's not going to give
10518s	you any um points but it is working
10521s	towards Renown and so there's still a
10523s	lot of discoverability In the Zone but
10525s	we're we're shifting things to work more
10527s	for Renown yeah and and statues of L of
10530s	course are still
10533s	in thank you for clarifying um the stats
10535s	we're just not giving stats for the the
10537s	tenants of acat because we saw how
10538s	frustrated players were with like having
10540s	to do this sort of activity to get more
10542s	powerful so it's a lot more leaning into
10544s	the collectible aspect yeah we didn't
10546s	want these to feel like a chore that you
10547s	needed to do in order progress your
10549s	player power it's all about the the
10550s	discoverability right in the in the new
10552s	Zone yeah and I I and I will say that uh
10555s	the other thing with um Renown
10558s	specifically like there was we made
10560s	changes something we talked about during
10561s	the PTR but we kind of uh optimized it a
10564s	little bit better because there was like
10566s	Paragon points at the last tier of
10568s	renown and that's actually been like
10570s	swapped back around now so it's more of
10572s	like the oal upgrades are at the last
10574s	year it's easier to get that potent
10576s	power from Paragon we also just sort of
10578s	reduced how much Renown you need for a
10579s	lot of these things so if you missed out
10581s	on Renown when the game came out it's a
10583s	lot easier to get that power yeah it's
10585s	good good way for people like especially
10587s	friends who maybe are jumping into de
10588s	before just to like kind of catch up
10590s	specifically um from that end um one
10593s	thing this this just on on me that I did
10595s	want to also mention is that you know
10597s	back in um season three we introduced uh
10602s	The Gauntlet uh and that that has you
10604s	know the leaderboard mechanics and stuff
10606s	like that one thing I do want to
10607s	actually do a quick call out on is like
10609s	when season six starts and when vessel
10611s	of hatred actually does ship uh we do
10613s	plan on actually sunsetting uh The
10615s	Gauntlet and and the leaderboard
10617s	functionality there does that mean
10618s	leaderboards are going away forever no
10621s	that doesn't mean leader boards are
10622s	going away forever we're actually
10623s	looking at new ways of potentially uh
10625s	finding a home for it yeah i' rather say
10628s	like leader boards are vaed as we do a
10630s	big reassessment on how that applies to
10633s	the the new progression actually that
10634s	we're looking at uh releasing with
10636s	season 6 so I think that there's a lot
10639s	of opportunity there but uh again we're
10641s	we've made so much change it's a time to
10643s	take a deep breath and then take a look
10645s	at the things that we really want to
10646s	invest into yeah awesome um almost
10649s	forgot about that I wanted to mention
10651s	that um there's a question from avian
10653s	which is saying like hey how does group
10655s	finder work um this was actually
10657s	available during PTR and I know not
10659s	everyone got to experience PTR but uh
10662s	kind of like party finder itself of
10664s	course you know you can use it across
10665s	multitudes of activities from dark
10667s	Citadel Beyond dark Citadel which is uh
10670s	being introduced in vessel of hatred but
10672s	uh it is a feature that you can also use
10675s	um or that that allows you to actually
10677s	use filters and different ways of
10679s	searching uh uh for specific groups and
10682s	people so uh we do recommend jumping in
10685s	checking out group uh the the party
10686s	finder it's actually super super awesome
10689s	uh and I know there's going to be
10690s	improvements that will continuously be
10692s	made to it yeah another system that
10693s	we're trying to develop in a way that
10695s	can grow with the player and so uh we
10697s	got it out into PTR try to get an
10699s	initial round of feedback on the types
10701s	of filters that we can potentially see
10703s	you know as we add activities to the
10704s	game we want to make sure that those are
10706s	plugging into it as well we do think
10708s	that this game is a ton of fun if you're
10710s	playing together and so we've designed
10712s	it to do exactly that um we have a
10716s	question regarding Opals and tributes uh
10719s	that we kind of showed off tributes of
10720s	course being part of cir under City
10722s	Opals being part of the new season uh
10725s	this question was from PVE sweat
10729s	[Laughter]
10734s	great I think the initial reaction is
10736s	seeing new seeing some of these new
10738s	consumables um so Tim I think this would
10740s	be a question for you like seeing these
10742s	new consumables are they actually like
10744s	stackable in inventory like how yeah
10746s	yeah yeah you can stack them in
10747s	inventory in fact if you want you have
10749s	the option you can go just Farm the Run
10750s	Walker over and over again get a whole
10752s	bunch of the Opals um and then just okay
10755s	I'm going to play now for hours and
10756s	hours with the buff active if that's you
10758s	want to do and tributes as well are
10760s	stackable awesome I did like the fact
10762s	too I don't know I can't recall if we
10764s	mentioned it but you get two tributes
10766s	with every drop yes and so you sorry two
10769s	opal two opal sorry yeah so you can like
10772s	use one now and save one for later and
10774s	so you can really determine like you can
10776s	actually stack these up for a longer
10778s	play session uh later on if you wanted
10780s	to play in the weekend and actually
10782s	really dig in um there is a question
10786s	regarding mercenaries it's actually a
10787s	question I've seen
10789s	uh there maybe it's a two-parter but uh
10792s	a lot of people are asking specifically
10794s	like hey uh do mercenary how does the
10797s	progression of mercenaries kind of carry
10799s	over um is it something that's across
10801s	like the whole entire account or uh is
10804s	it like from season to season how does
10806s	that specifically work yeah so they're
10808s	partition wide so if you're playing in
10809s	the season um and you unlock the mercs
10814s	and you progress a bunch of them and
10815s	then you roll an ALT that progression is
10817s	still there uh but we do reset every
10820s	season because it's a part of the power
10822s	journey and we want to make sure you're
10823s	doing that but as you're playing there's
10825s	a lot of benefits to investing into them
10827s	if especially if you're going to roll a
10828s	second
10829s	class um there is a question I I'm not
10834s	sure if others will be able to get this
10835s	one but uh this might be tied to some of
10838s	the the Rune word stuff that we showed
10840s	but this is God King moonin says uh how
10845s	do those uh spirit wolves damage scaling
10848s	work I I think they're talking
10850s	specifically about uh the Rune words
10853s	that we were showing and everything like
10854s	that yeah I can talk a bit about that um
10858s	believe the the uh spirit wolves uh are
10863s	not currently scaling with things like
10865s	um if you have summoning damage for a
10868s	necromancer a lot of that damage scaling
10870s	talks directly to your skeleton summons
10872s	at the moment uh so it I don't believe
10875s	they'll necessarily scale with um those
10877s	sources I'd have to check on
10878s	precisely which ones um it does U but
10882s	that's definitely something that that
10883s	we're aware of and and really want to
10885s	make sure that we can deliver on that
10887s	fantasy and and we'll be looking at
10888s	making updates to uh to minions and
10891s	summons as a general matter going
10893s	forward uh to really make sure that
10894s	they're they're scaling with the right
10896s	things that that players expect uh to
10898s	really make those builds uh you know
10900s	feel natural and synergistic uh as you
10902s	would expect um so that's definitely an
10904s	area of focus for us moving forward yeah
10906s	we definitely have talked a lot about
10907s	this on it'd be cool if you could be a
10909s	Summoner Barb called ancients and like
10912s	having them dealable gear damage so
10914s	that's something we definitely talk a
10915s	lot about yeah we don't have any
10917s	particular thing to announce or or the
10919s	exact um initiative at at this moment
10921s	but uh it's definitely on our radar and
10923s	it's something we are actively working
10924s	on and talking about um all the time
10926s	awesome um I know that uh I am the burm
10931s	as this is back to Tim actually because
10933s	I think you had mentioned like oh
10934s	farming realm Walkers and they're going
10936s	like okay so is it a world event how
10938s	often does it spawn like what like do we
10941s	have like specifics on that we can help
10943s	clarify on that specific question uh it
10945s	is a world event yeah and it is really
10947s	focused around just that boss it's not a
10949s	world boss exactly it is a world event
10952s	uh like was explained by Dawn earlier in
10954s	the cast uh the you have to kind of
10956s	follow him for a while before you're
10958s	allowed to kill him but it is something
10960s	that you do with other people in the
10961s	area there's likely to be a bunch of
10962s	other people helping you take down this
10964s	boss and then the Run Walker itself does
10967s	pop up in another location in sanctuary
10970s	pretty much right away there's a slight
10971s	break but at any given time we want the
10973s	experience to be I log in I'm ready to
10976s	go play I see like I don't have any
10977s	Opals can I go get some we want the
10979s	answer to pretty much always be yes like
10980s	there's always a ram Walker up somewhere
10982s	that you can go kill so um I guess you
10984s	could get slightly unlucky like it was
10986s	he just died but you're not waiting more
10988s	than a few minutes before another one's
10989s	going to pop up and you can go kill that
10991s	one so if you want to chain Farm them
10993s	you can yeah just run back to town
10994s	vendor some stuff by the time we come
10996s	back it'll probably be like you know an
10997s	ideal time to Farm it so it's actually
10999s	really good to hear that it's just
11001s	always available for players uh pretty
11003s	or nearly always available for players
11005s	uh question from Plucky villain for
11007s	season 6 on live like from a tuning and
11009s	balance perspective uh is pit 100 still
11012s	intended to be like that unobtainable
11014s	goal or is there uh are we expecting
11017s	some of like the most skilled players
11018s	and dedicated players to kind of clear
11020s	it yeah I'd say we will be surprised but
11025s	not surprised I guess to see people get
11027s	to pit tier 100 just with the amount of
11029s	things that we're adding into the game
11030s	Charles you know in our previous segment
11032s	talked about how much volatility has
11034s	been introduced in the expansion we
11035s	actually think that's really fun like
11037s	there's a ton of new things to explore a
11040s	ton of new things to Break um and we
11042s	think that probably most people won't
11044s	get to 100 but you might get a surprise
11047s	if you go to 100 and and go past it yeah
11050s	we might have done something there yeah
11052s	we talked quite a bit about where the
11053s	deep end of the pool is right and so
11056s	around 80 around 80 yeah but uh yeah I'm
11059s	really looking forward to see which kind
11061s	of streamers out there actually push way
11063s	past that so we could take a look
11064s	definitely um your Sparrow asks uh if we
11067s	complete the campaign in an eternal
11069s	realm will we be able to skip it when we
11071s	create a seasonal character yes as soon
11073s	as you complete the campaign for the
11075s	first time you'll be able to skip it
11076s	very similar to what we did in the base
11077s	game yeah and I I think there's actually
11079s	like additional nuances that we've added
11081s	with like vessel hatred like for
11083s	instance if you are brand new to Diablo
11086s	of course we recommend you start from
11087s	the the the the base game and experience
11090s	the campaign and that Journey but uh
11093s	even if you are coming into Diablo 4
11096s	with vessel of hatred and you just want
11098s	to start with vessel of hatred you
11100s	really just need to complete that
11101s	prologue of the base game and then you
11104s	will then get that option I believe to
11106s	skip the base campaign and you can
11107s	actually jump into the uh the expansion
11110s	campaign you actually don't even have to
11112s	complete the prologue oh there we go you
11114s	took out that you're a liar you're a
11116s	liar and we've taken great care of you
11118s	too so like if you're new and you're you
11121s	skip forward when you go to go into uh
11125s	vessel of hatred we actually do Recaps
11127s	so we'll catch you up on the story even
11128s	if you decide to do it so if your
11130s	friends are all way ahead of you and you
11132s	want to skip so that you can catch up
11134s	you're good yeah we got one of those
11136s	like in the last episode of
11139s	whatever really good yeah it's actually
11141s	really cool to watch so just in case if
11142s	you're new to everything there's another
11144s	detail too which is like if once you
11145s	play through the vessel of hatred story
11149s	section um we want way more players to
11152s	get into the end game we notice that
11153s	there's a lot of folks out there that
11155s	once they get their the big uh story
11158s	beats done um it's not really clear on
11160s	where to go from there and so we created
11163s	a custom Quest that can actually Bridge
11165s	you out into the endgame and so if you
11166s	can continue following your golden
11168s	bobles that would be super good cool
11171s	we're seeing a sign in the yeah I'm
11176s	looking at
11178s	oh I was like what what is no one can
11181s	see it obviously they think we're psycho
11183s	because we're like looking the co view
11185s	is behind this camera Productions like
11187s	holding up the sign and stuff everybody
11189s	that makes us look good is back there so
11190s	thank you guys yes thank you very much
11192s	um we're going to take uh I guess like
11194s	one more specific question here let me
11197s	see um this is actually a question
11199s	regarding uh people that are running
11202s	specifically uh in in dark Citadel like
11206s	if if someone leaves uh dur dark Citadel
11208s	like what happens to the group
11210s	specifically there can they all just
11211s	leave they're not like locked in there
11213s	everyone like oh gosh I'm stuck in that
11215s	that that type of situation or if I can
11217s	conquer it with like maybe it if if it's
11220s	four people and we dropped it three like
11222s	you can adapt and kind of work your way
11224s	through it you can like we said uh your
11227s	the game is the The Citadel is balanced
11229s	for four but if that was to drop as long
11231s	as you got two strong players still in
11233s	the mix you should be good to go so yes
11236s	it makes it more difficult I'd have a
11237s	firm conversation with the person who
11239s	decided to drop in the middle of a fight
11241s	um but uh but yeah it's you're still um
11244s	going to be able to progress through it
11246s	awesome cool well I know uh we've been
11248s	going for a while here um and uh we
11251s	wanted to grab as many questions as
11253s	possible so we don't keep people too
11254s	long because the biggest thing as well
11256s	is like after at the end of the stream
11257s	we are releasing the patch notes and I
11259s	know a lot of people want to dive into
11260s	the patch notes but um I guess before we
11263s	kind of uh uh drop off like uh Brent I
11266s	know you wanted to give a quick message
11268s	out as well yeah you know we uh we saw
11271s	this really cool piece of art that was
11273s	made by one of our art directors on the
11275s	team and it just really reminded us that
11278s	there are hundreds of people working on
11281s	this game all of the time and these live
11284s	streams are for our community but it's
11285s	also for all the folks who have been
11287s	working tirelessly over the
11290s	last dozens of months on trying to make
11293s	this a reality and so we just want to
11294s	say thank you to everybody that's
11296s	putting the hard work in we're still
11298s	putting the hard work in today like
11300s	we're working all the way up through
11301s	this and so we love the team we love you
11304s	guys keep up the good work and uh yeah
11306s	we'll see you on the other side of uh
11308s	October 8th October 8th yeah a huge
11311s	shout out to team three team Diablo you
11313s	guys kick ass yeah best team we're we're
11316s	we're super proud of everyone with the
11317s	vessel of hatred and everything uh and
11320s	we're super excited for October 8th
11322s	there's a lot of stuff coming up we have
11323s	patch notes immediately after this
11325s	stream I want to give a huge shout out
11327s	to every everyone here and of course who
11329s	was on the the live stream today uh it's
11331s	always fun doing these live streams it's
11333s	a big scramble this is the most uh this
11336s	is the most amount of people we've ever
11337s	had on a live stream so huge shout out
11339s	to our production team and of course our
11341s	community team like with with Mr Filthy
11344s	Rich back there who organizes all these
11346s	uh great that's his that's his handle
11348s	guys who handles who handles handles
11352s	haha all these specific streams every
11354s	single time this is our 20th stream it's
11355s	crazy to see how everything has grown uh
11358s	big reminders on Twitch drops we have
11359s	all the information on diablo.com Twitch
11362s	drops will actually start on October 8th
11364s	and uh if you're in the US you can grab
11366s	uh trollies and and grab more in-game
11369s	stuff as I eat trollies all day um and
11372s	then another big thing that I do want to
11374s	give a quick call out in the coming days
11375s	you guys are actually going to hear
11376s	about another cool uh partnership we're
11379s	doing with Discord which we'll offer up
11381s	another opportunity for some cool
11382s	in-game stuff so and you'll we'll be
11385s	talking about that here in the coming
11386s	days um but thank you guys again for
11390s	tuning in to our pre-launch stream lots
11392s	of stuff to check out in the patch notes
11394s	immediately after the stream and uh
11397s	again a huge thanks to everyone here we
11399s	will see you guys October 8th in nantu
11403s	we're excited and we can't wait to jump
11405s	into vessel of hatred we'll see you guys
11409s	[Applause]
11427s	[Music]
11447s	[Music]
11455s	[Music]
11482s	[Music]

Diablo IV | Pre-launch Developer Update | October 2024

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