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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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10209s | [Applause] |
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 |
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