[2023] Diablo IV Campfire Chat - October 2023 | Diablo III Dev Tracker

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1435s	season 2 will be our biggest update to
1437s	Diablo 4 since launch with a new quest
1440s	line events to play as you drive back
1442s	The vampiric Horde Unholy vampiric
1444s	powers to wield and new endgame
1446s	encounters to test your skills and
1448s	players will need to harness the enemy's
1450s	own blood magic against them to end this
1452s	new evil before it's too late in Diablo
1455s	4 the season of blood in season 2 the
1458s	people of sanctuary have a new danger to
1459s	face Invasion by an army of vampires
1462s	this shadowy vampire cult has laid claim
1464s	to large areas of the world and have
1466s	begun abducting innocent citizens to use
1468s	in their dark rituals everyone's lives
1470s	are at risk including your own in season
1472s	2 players are going to uncover a plot
1475s	led by a new ancient vampire named Lord
1477s	zir who's awoken recently Lord zir is a
1480s	remnant of a lost age before they were
1482s	humans in sanctuary it was inhabited by
1484s	the first born children of anaras and
1486s	Lilith who are known as the Ancients but
1489s	because of anari's actions the Ancients
1491s	had their powers drawn away from them
1493s	but some among them were not strictly
1495s	subject to a true death zir and his Co
1498s	cohort were banished to sleep for an
1499s	eternity in the city the Ancients but
1501s	due to the events of Diablo 4 the city
1503s	began to awake with dire consequences
1506s	for the humans living on the surface
1507s	above during the evance of season 2 the
1509s	player is going to contract a vampiric
1512s	curse but they're not under Lord zier's
1514s	control which gives them a unique
1516s	opportunity to Strike Back Against The
1517s	Cult and stop lord zier's plans we'll
1519s	encounter a variety of new characters
1521s	this season including band of vampire
1523s	Hunters one with a particularly shadowy
1526s	past seek out Army kill as many as you
1529s	can Aris is a professional vampire
1531s	Hunter she's crossed and recrossed the
1533s	Wilds of sanctuary putting an end to the
1535s	undead since long before the events of
1537s	Diablo I I need to go after the
1540s	magistrate and you're going to have to
1541s	come along Aris is played by actor Jemma
1543s	Chan it's exciting to see more film and
1545s	television actors lending their talents
1547s	to the Video Game World Gemma brings a
1549s	wealth of experience to the table from a
1551s	wide variety of roles she was a great
1553s	choice to breathe life into this
1554s	character of a world weary but
1556s	determined vampire Hunter with a lot of
1557s	emotional complexity that's a bite
1561s	mark you're changing aren't
1564s	you no from the depth of that wound you
1566s	should have already she is strong she's
1570s	compassionate towards others but she's
1572s	also witnessed a lot of horror in her
1574s	life so she's pretty emotionally guarded
1578s	and stubborn and fixed in her worldview
1580s	oh you're going to change I'm sorry but
1583s	whatever's preventing your Cravings
1585s	won't last forever and never do she
1587s	realized is that the player character
1590s	has these vampir traits which makes him
1592s	a useful tool but potentially disposable
1595s	one this is madness perhaps that's what
1598s	it
1599s	takes one of the core seasonal Mechanics
1602s	for this season are vampiric powers
1604s	vampiric powers can be acquired by
1606s	defeating blood Seekers and minions of
1607s	Lord zir in order to acquire potent
1609s	blood which allows you to unlock or
1611s	upgrade vampiric Powers when you collect
1613s	all of these various Powers they have
1615s	costs which are going to be detailed as
1616s	part of the pack system so armor pieces
1618s	that you collect during the course of
1619s	the season are going to have these packs
1621s	associate with them there are three
1623s	types of packs and you can use the Boon
1625s	they provide in order to fuel the blood
1627s	seals for various vampiric Powers you
1629s	can combine the power of different blood
1631s	seals in the sanguin circle so long as
1633s	you have the appropriate combination of
1635s	packs in order to power them one thing
1637s	we've really tried hard to do is to
1639s	provide powers that enhance every build
1641s	so that there's no one right way to play
1643s	when pursuing that vampire fantasy
1645s	there's one in particular that I like
1646s	where as the player dashes they turn
1648s	into a cloud of bats they'll curse
1649s	creatures they pass through along the
1651s	way as you kill those creatures you're
1652s	going to actually steal their souls when
1654s	you use certain abilities on your
1655s	character all of those souls are
1657s	Unleashed dealing devastating damage to
1659s	nearby creatures there's also an ability
1661s	called Rising Moon where you can stack
1663s	basic skills and after you reach a
1664s	maximum number of stacks you go into a
1666s	vampiric blood rage if you can't get
1668s	enough of bats there's even a vampire
1670s	power that allows you to summon a bat
1671s	companion they'll take a bite out of
1673s	your enemies and have a chance to stun
1675s	them Lord zier's Army is pushing across
1678s	sanctuary in an event called the blood
1680s	Harvest which will always be active
1682s	somewhere on the map but will change
1683s	locations in a cyclical way blood
1685s	harvests are large scale open world
1687s	events where vampires have overwhelmed
1689s	an area in the hopes of enslaving the
1691s	populace harvesting their blood and
1693s	siring more vampires players will
1695s	venture into these areas to rescue
1697s	prisoners stop Sinister rituals and hunt
1699s	for high value enemies of course they'll
1701s	be rewarded for their efforts with a
1703s	variety of new items as well as the
1705s	potent blood that fuels their vampiric
1707s	powers
1710s	in season 2 the season of blood we're
1711s	going to be adding five new returning
1714s	endgame bosses for players to engage
1715s	with once they get into World tiers 3
1717s	and four players be able to earn the
1719s	materials to summon these bosses by
1720s	completing Whispers And by completing
1722s	hell tide events we have some new
1724s	enemies with powerful Elemental attacks
1726s	giving players more reason to seek out
1728s	and equip gear that enhances their
1730s	resistances what sets these new in-game
1732s	bosses apart is that they offer a new
1734s	way to farm uniques so if there's a
1736s	build defining unique you're after
1737s	you'll be able to Target Farm specific
1739s	bosses and our most challenging boss
1741s	that we're going to be adding as part of
1742s	season 2 is also going to have an
1744s	opportunity to drop extremely rare
1746s	unique items that players have been
1747s	hunting
1750s	for we're also going to be adding some
1752s	quality of life updates in season 2 the
1754s	first of which is we're going be taking
1755s	our gem system and making so when gems
1758s	drop for the player you're actually
1759s	collecting materials they're going to be
1761s	stored differently they're not going to
1762s	go into your inventory the same way to
1763s	help alleviate some of the concerns
1765s	about inventory space to players you've
1766s	talked about before as long as you
1768s	finished the prologue you can now choose
1769s	to skip the rest of the campaign and
1771s	dive straight into creating a seasonal
1773s	character if you previously unlocked a
1775s	mountain diablo 4 will be immediately
1777s	available to use when you begin your
1778s	journey through the season of blood and
1780s	we've made it so that Renown rewards
1782s	persist through Seasons so that the
1783s	reward is now account bound as we do
1785s	with every new season we'll be adding a
1787s	new season journey and a new battle pass
1789s	filled with new like vampiric themed
1791s	Cosmetics for them to collect and we'll
1793s	also be adding some new town portal
1794s	Cosmetics both in the free and paid
1796s	versions of our battle pass in season 2
1797s	too we'll also be making a number of
1799s	other changes to the game updating
1801s	unique powers and items reviewing
1803s	legendary aspects for different classes
1805s	we're going to be updating stats like
1806s	our resistance values across the game
1808s	and a number of other balance tweaks to
1809s	make sure the game is as fun as possible
1811s	for players one of the most exciting
1813s	things for me about working on seasons
1815s	is that uh Sanctuary is a big place and
1817s	there's a lot going on the prime evals
1820s	and the Angelic forces are still very
1822s	much in play but I think players are
1824s	going to enjoy seeing some more human
1826s	scale dramas play out Diablo 4 second
1829s	season will be our largest content
1830s	update yet but we're only getting
1832s	started along with providing new quest
1834s	lines powers and events each season
1837s	we'll continue to improve upon
1838s	established systems by listening to
1840s	player feedback to make your adventure
1841s	in sanctuary the best it can be we're
1843s	incredibly excited for you to explore
1845s	more corners of sanctuary so come join
1847s	us in the
1856s	hunt
1860s	Diablo for campfire chat I am Adam
1863s	Fletcher I'm the uh Community lead here
1865s	for the Diablo franchise and I'm joined
1867s	by two people here one of them familiar
1869s	face one of them a new face yeah feel
1871s	free to introduce yourself you guys hi
1873s	everyone I'm Charles Dunn I'm an
1874s	associate game designer working on the
1875s	live balance team and hey everybody I'm
1878s	Adam Jackson I'm the league class
1879s	designer for Diablo 4 and as you guys
1882s	know like last week we talked a lot
1883s	about season 2 we actually revealed on
1885s	kind of like all the details about
1887s	season 2
1888s	uh we went into a bunch of different
1890s	updates that are going to be coming with
1892s	season 2 and then this stream was
1894s	specifically for class updates talking
1897s	about resistances talking about updates
1899s	to damage buckets and more we actually
1901s	have a lot to talk about hopefully
1904s	hopefully you guys like numbers cuz I
1906s	brought some designers uh uh hopefully
1908s	you guys like uh to hear about all these
1910s	these changes that we're going to be
1911s	going through but at the same time we're
1913s	also going to be talking about uh some
1915s	future updates that are coming for the
1917s	game as well we will talk about the
1919s	first update that's going to be hitting
1920s	after season 2 launches which is uh
1923s	patch one to1 uh so we'll be uh hitting
1926s	on that at the end of the actual stream
1929s	but before we kind of like jump into one
1932s	121 I know that you guys have a lot to
1935s	talk about regarding classes resistances
1938s	damage buckets unique
1940s	items take it away Adam yeah totally so
1944s	uh yeah we can start jumping to slides
1945s	so the class team and really the whole
1947s	deal four team has been very busy with
1950s	uh improving the game so our strategy
1952s	for the season of blood is kind of a
1954s	five-point strategy uh the high level
1956s	goal here was we were focusing on
1958s	addressing player feedback and really
1959s	making systemic improvements to the game
1961s	we wanted to improve the whole
1963s	foundation of the game from the ground
1964s	up as much as we could so our strategy
1967s	for the season of blood firstly we want
1969s	to update Elemental resistances uh we've
1971s	heard feedback that you know they
1972s	weren't quite hitting the mark that we
1973s	wanted to and so we're making some
1975s	changes there we're also looking to make
1977s	niques more exciting and impactful uh
1980s	we're also going through every class uh
1982s	systemically and looking at improvements
1983s	to address commonly talked about issues
1985s	that we've kind of heard from the
1986s	community and from playing the game
1988s	ourselves uh we're also updating damage
1990s	buckets and the underlying math of how
1991s	the game works to make it a little more
1993s	uh even and have better parity between
1995s	builds and classes and then the final
1997s	one is really making all these changes a
1998s	bonus and making it feel like this is a
2001s	a large Improvement to the gra to the
2002s	game from the ground up so I think we'll
2004s	take it away with Charles first to talk
2005s	about Elemental resistances yeah let's
2007s	talk about resistances So currently in
2010s	the season of the malignant on live
2011s	right now resistances are calculated in
2013s	a way called inverse multiplicative so
2016s	what this means is that if you have say
2018s	20% poison resistance and then you grab
2021s	another piece of gear that has 20% more
2023s	your character stat sheet will actually
2024s	show that you have 36% poison resistance
2027s	and that's because there's a diminishing
2029s	returns on the more resistance you get
2031s	it will never quite get you up to 100%
2033s	it's always kind of like 20% of the you
2036s	know the remaining amount
2038s	so it doesn't quite get you up to 100%
2040s	um and this means that you can stack
2043s	resistances essentially infinitely
2045s	there's no hard cap you know you could
2047s	get resistance on every piece of gear
2048s	and it would contribute to reducing that
2051s	damage that you're taking additionally
2053s	right now armor contributes both to uh
2056s	Elemental damage reduction it kind of
2058s	gets factored into this calculation and
2060s	it also reduces the physical damage you
2062s	taken uh from just enemies regular
2064s	attacks instead of uh the elemental
2066s	attacks so going forward into the season
2068s	of blood resistances are going to change
2071s	how they're calculated and they're now
2073s	going to be additive so that means if
2076s	you have the 20% poison resistance and
2077s	you have another piece that has 20% more
2080s	you're going to have 40% resistance on
2082s	your character stat sheet exactly as you
2084s	would expect although since this adds up
2087s	uh additively now we do need to add a
2089s	cap so the resistances are going to be
2091s	capped at a baseline of 70% so your
2093s	character can stack as up to 70%
2097s	resistance
2098s	there are some effects in the game that
2100s	allow you to go up to 85% with various
2103s	um effects that increase your max
2105s	resistance but those are ra rather rare
2107s	because they are quite
2109s	powerful additionally armor is also
2111s	going to only affect physical damage as
2114s	it used to do both it's now only going
2116s	to be calculated when you're taking
2118s	physical damage and not when you're
2119s	taking Elemental
2121s	damage additionally to kind of make
2124s	everyone have a baseline level of
2125s	resistances we're going to be updating
2127s	rain
2127s	so that they have all resistance at all
2130s	times uh ring amulets already have all
2132s	resistance but Rings used to have two
2135s	separate Elemental resistance they could
2137s	have say fire resistance Plus Cold
2139s	resistance now they'll have all
2141s	resistance along with one random one
2144s	such as fire
2146s	resistance and in order to really make
2148s	sure that your character can survive a
2149s	lot of these Elemental damage that the
2151s	monsters are going to be thrown out at
2152s	you you definitely want to be able to
2153s	stack a lot of this resistance but
2155s	there's a lot of options to get it you
2156s	can get it through gear affixes through
2158s	Paragon points skill tree nodes uh as
2161s	well as consumables and and variety of
2162s	other
2164s	sources so let's talk a little bit about
2167s	the overall impact that you're going to
2168s	see as a player uh first and most
2171s	importantly resistances are going to
2172s	matter a lot more in season of blood
2175s	they are just going to be a very
2176s	important part of uh building your
2178s	character you're definitely going to
2179s	want to look to try to cap up at that
2181s	70% Mark as you're getting into the late
2183s	game and fighting the most dangerous
2184s	monsters they're also going to be a
2186s	little bit more complex there's a little
2187s	bit of a puzzle to solve here with
2189s	hitting that cap you going to want to
2192s	get you know
2194s	resistance yeah resistance stonks for
2196s	sure you're going to care about them
2198s	you're definitely going to want to be
2199s	caring about resistances as you're
2200s	building your character in in season of
2202s	Blood let's talk a little bit about our
2204s	overall goals for the elemental
2206s	resistance system and I think it's
2208s	important to talk about goals when we're
2209s	talking about these really big systemic
2211s	changes because as we're going through
2213s	and tuning a lot of the numbers and the
2215s	balance of everything that's coming in
2217s	season of blood I mean there's a lot in
2219s	season of blood obviously um we are
2222s	going to be looking at the tuning and
2223s	balance of these systems through the
2224s	lens of these goals so if it turns out
2227s	that some of our exact tuning you know
2230s	maybe isn't hitting these goals then
2231s	we're going to be re-evaluating them and
2232s	that's why we really want to share our
2234s	goals for these systems with you so the
2237s	first one is that we want this system to
2238s	have an end point players should be able
2240s	to hit that 70% cap at roughly level 80
2244s	for most resistances this isn't going to
2245s	be something that you're chasing up to
2247s	level 100 and you need absolute best
2249s	possible gear in order to hit this cap
2251s	it's going to be something that's very
2252s	achievable for most players as they're
2254s	getting into the late game around level
2257s	80ish our second goal is that all
2259s	players even if they're not paying too
2261s	close attention to this shouldn't fall
2263s	too far behind that's why we're adding
2264s	the all resist to rings and amulets this
2267s	is a fail safe to ensure that players
2269s	will always have some baseline minimum
2271s	amount of resistance so they're not
2272s	getting completely destroyed by
2274s	Elemental damage if they're not really
2276s	optimizing this
2278s	and finally this is going to be a puzzle
2280s	to solve for players as you're building
2282s	your character and there's a lot of
2283s	paths to solve it this isn't a situation
2286s	where you need the absolute best
2288s	possible gear to solve this it's that we
2290s	give you a lot of different options you
2292s	can get affixes of resistance through
2293s	Paragon Elixir gems in particular is
2296s	very
2297s	important uh and it's all about
2299s	optimizing your character to find the
2301s	best way for you to reach the resistance
2303s	cap rather than can you reach it at all
2306s	I really want to highlight this Elixir
2307s	here we've updated all of the elemental
2309s	resist Elixir so that they also include
2311s	you can see here a maximum uh poison
2315s	resistance increased by 6% and that's
2317s	really impactful especially because the
2321s	uh the resistance that you get kind of
2325s	in excess of 70% is disproportionately
2328s	valuable just to give you an example
2330s	let's say you're going from 0%
2332s	resistance up to 5% resistance what that
2336s	means is well you're taking 5% less
2338s	damage you would have taken 100 damage
2339s	now you take 95 but if you're already at
2342s	say 70% resistance at the cap and you go
2346s	up to 76% resistance what that means is
2349s	if you were to take 100 poison damage
2352s	well you at 70% you would have taken
2354s	actually 30 but now at 76 you're only
2357s	taking 24 because you have 76%
2360s	resistance and that's actually a 20%
2363s	damage reduction you're gaining a lot
2365s	more effective life whenever you add
2368s	that extra cap at the end so really
2370s	getting to that cap and pushing above
2372s	the cap is a great way to give you a a
2375s	better Fighting Chance against some of
2376s	these uh late game bosses who are all
2379s	have these Elemental effects and uh yeah
2383s	these uh these Elixir are going to be a
2385s	key Part Of Your Arsenal to take on
2387s	those late game
2390s	bosses all right uh I think we want to
2393s	move on to the next to the uh to uniques
2396s	yes Adam take away yeah so firstly uh
2399s	talk a little bit about those goals
2401s	really quick something that is really
2402s	important to me and the team is that you
2404s	know when we're talking to you about the
2406s	updates we're doing to the game that you
2407s	understand kind of why we're making
2409s	these changes and what our goals are
2411s	because you know you're going to see as
2412s	we go through all these we're changing
2414s	like a lot of how the underlying math
2416s	and other systems of the game work and
2418s	you know the odds are high that we don't
2419s	nail everything perfectly but if you
2421s	understand what we're trying to do and
2423s	we're more transparent about that than
2424s	when you're having discussions with each
2425s	other when you're giving feed back to us
2427s	they can just be a little bit more high
2428s	level and better sources of information
2431s	when you also understand why we're doing
2433s	things so now moving on to uniques uh
2435s	let's get into it so generally uh we
2438s	feel and we've heard the feedback that
2439s	they're just not exciting enough for the
2441s	endgame Chase items they're supposed to
2443s	be really really awesome and cool
2445s	they're they're just not hitting the
2446s	Markle all the time uh too often players
2449s	really don't feel good when they drop
2450s	and really what uh is an alarm Bell for
2453s	for me personally is that you know when
2454s	there's a unique fig your build and it's
2457s	intended to be good for that build let's
2458s	say like a fireball unique for a
2460s	fireball Sorcerer And then a fireball
2462s	sorcerer doesn't even want that right
2463s	like we don't want that situation to
2465s	happen whether it's because the unique
2466s	effect isn't good enough or the stats on
2468s	the gear aren't good enough uh we want
2469s	to make sure these are exciting and
2471s	awesome and attractive to get so we did
2473s	a giant pass and we updated nearly every
2475s	single unique in the game uh not all of
2477s	them but pretty
2479s	close so we have a four-fold strategy
2481s	and I'm going to go through here using
2483s	some fake examples of kind of what we
2485s	did and then we're going to go through
2486s	some real examples of actual changes
2488s	that we made to the game so the first
2490s	one and by the way we're also not just
2491s	doing this in season a this is kind of
2492s	how we're going to be looking at making
2494s	uniques uh unique uh going forward so
2497s	first one is adding new stats to them so
2499s	as an example here you know increased
2501s	tornado duration isn't really a stat
2502s	that exists in the game that can be on
2504s	gear but it could potentially exist on a
2506s	unique uh the next one is giving larger
2509s	existing stat ranges so as an example
2511s	here you know bonus fire damage would
2513s	normally roll between let's say 15 and
2514s	25% I just made these numbers up but you
2517s	know on a unique it could be between 30
2518s	and 45% or some even higher number right
2520s	like we can mess with those ranges and
2522s	make them uh more
2523s	attractive the next one is overriding
2525s	slot rules so the example here you know
2528s	weapons normally can't Ru cooldown
2529s	reduction which is a really powerful
2530s	stat on an item but on a unique it
2532s	potentially
2534s	could and then the last one is updating
2536s	unique effects um this is really like
2538s	actually updating the the special thing
2540s	that the unique does that adds to your
2541s	player power so the example here you
2543s	know a unique can normally require
2545s	hitting enemies from behind on Tuesdays
2547s	but now it'll just work when you hit
2549s	enemies right we we just make it easier
2551s	and more
2552s	consistent I love damage on Tuesdays
2554s	it's my favorite epics me too Tuesday is
2556s	a good day yeah all right so now let's
2558s	do go through some actual changes so the
2560s	first one is fist of Fate this is our
2562s	our favorite random item where
2564s	everything's just lucky hit and
2565s	chance-based um one of the the issues
2568s	with this unique is that you know
2569s	because a lot of your stats on your
2571s	gloves are damage related and this one
2573s	doesn't really give you that direct just
2575s	damage power we're taking one of the
2577s	lucky hit effects and changing it to a
2579s	new stat that doesn't exist anywhere
2580s	else in the game that's basically a
2582s	chance to give you a damage buff for a
2584s	certain amount of time so now this will
2586s	make up for some of that you know not
2587s	giving you your you know skill rank
2589s	stats or other things but now it gives
2591s	you some
2592s	damage uh next one we've got the grasp
2594s	with Shadow this is a rogue unique
2595s	that's themed around Shing sh Shadow
2598s	clones to do damage uh you can see on
2600s	the left that's the old version The
2601s	Shadow clone damage range was between
2603s	you know 14 to 21% and now it can roll
2606s	between between 31 and 52% so it's much
2611s	higher and next one we've got hellhammer
2613s	we've actually got a couple of things
2614s	going on here uh you can see here first
2617s	one is again increasing the stat ranges
2619s	the damage to burning enemies goes from
2621s	14 to was at 28% and now it's going to
2625s	42 to 70% so a lot more damage to
2627s	burning enemies and then the next one is
2629s	actually overriding the slot Rule and
2631s	adding a new stat that can't normally be
2632s	on weapons which is ranks to upheaval
2635s	and when we start going later in the
2636s	presentation you're going to learn that
2638s	skill ranks are really really powerful
2640s	in the season of blood and going forward
2642s	so this is going to make this item much
2644s	more attractive than it used to
2646s	be and then the last one updating unique
2648s	effects this is another Barbarian unique
2650s	ancients oath so before it was that
2652s	steel graphs launched two additional
2654s	chains which it's still doing is pretty
2656s	neat um and before it was that it slowed
2658s	enemies that got hit and you know we
2660s	found really that adding a slow to
2662s	enemies isn't really quite uh the
2664s	powerful effect that we want so instead
2665s	of doing a slow
2667s	um now it's going to give you a whole
2668s	bunch of multiplicative bonus damage to
2669s	anything that you grab so again just
2671s	straight up a lot more powerful than it
2673s	was
2675s	before all right now we're also going to
2677s	be adding some new legendaries and
2678s	uniques to season 2 uh so here we're
2680s	going to go through some of the uniques
2681s	specifically that we're adding that you
2682s	can be chasing when you're going through
2684s	Diablo
2685s	4 so this first one is called flicker
2688s	step uh this one is basically when you
2690s	evade through enemies you're going to
2692s	reduce your ultimate cool down by a
2694s	pretty chunky amount so you can see here
2696s	as the player is evading through enemies
2698s	their ultimate cool down is uh getting a
2700s	lot shorter so you can you know try and
2702s	create an ultimate build where you're
2703s	just focus on using your ultimate a
2704s	bunch of
2707s	times uh the next one is scoundrel's
2709s	Leathers this is our new rogue unique uh
2712s	this one says that when you have inner
2713s	side active and you have that unlimited
2714s	energy then on cast when you cast a core
2717s	skill uh you have a chance to spawn a
2719s	random trap and this random trap can
2721s	also be death trapped so it's pretty
2724s	cool and last last but not least this is
2727s	one of my favorite ones is dolman Stone
2729s	this is for the Druid and it says that
2731s	when you cast hurricane and then you
2733s	cast Boulder while your hurricane is
2734s	active your Boulder will actually spin
2736s	around you and get caught in the
2737s	hurricane and yes you can actually have
2739s	multiple Boulders going on at
2742s	once it's pretty
2747s	awesome all right next we're going to be
2749s	talking about class Improvement so this
2750s	is the next part of our strategy which
2752s	is really looking at the issues that the
2753s	community's been talking about with
2754s	every class and uh before you actually
2757s	jump in because I know we're we're a lot
2758s	of people are seeing the uh the item
2760s	levels on some of those
2763s	uniques and stuff and I know last week
2765s	we had talked about uh uh item level
2768s	being 920 but then uh there some some of
2771s	the uniques that we we showed earlier
2773s	for instance actually ended up
2774s	showcasing like 925 or or other numbers
2778s	Beyond so yeah I wanted to be clear yeah
2780s	925 is going to be the new maximum uh
2783s	range that you can get for your gear so
2785s	925 is the max I power you can get to
2787s	yeah so it's Che it's us clarifying
2789s	essentially last week where we said 920
2792s	but it's actually 925 uh so we just
2795s	wanted to clear that up with everyone to
2797s	make sure that people understood
2800s	yep all right so next let's talk about
2802s	uh the unique that you can get in the
2803s	game so as you know oh we can go to the
2805s	next
2807s	slide oh it's good oh I don't oh there
2809s	we go okay cool sweet yeah so here we're
2812s	just going to give you a preview here so
2814s	you can now Target farm uniques and to
2816s	be be clear here with these new bosses
2817s	that we're adding in the season of blood
2820s	these are the uniques that the boss will
2821s	be able to drop now you can still get
2823s	uniques from all content in the game um
2826s	it's just a rare chance to get any of
2828s	them but you have a much higher chance
2829s	to get these specific uniques off of
2831s	these specific bosses so here you can
2833s	see a list that was the first one next
2835s	is Varan here so if you're chasing any
2837s	of these you know you want your staff of
2839s	endless Rage or your you know mad Wolf's
2841s	Glee as a druid this is who you're going
2843s	to be Target farming next we we've got
2846s	Lord zir so here's the list we can stay
2848s	here for a few seconds and just yeah
2851s	we'll post we'll post these lists on the
2853s	uh on on the site so that players can
2855s	actually um reference back to these if
2857s	they need to after the stream but these
2859s	are uh these these are all the I know
2861s	we've gotten a lot of questions about
2863s	like hey you talked about Target farming
2865s	like what can I actually Target Farm off
2867s	of these new bosses and so uh we wanted
2869s	to make sure that we actually showcase
2870s	that list here so every player can
2872s	actually see all the the uh uniques that
2875s	they can actually Target farm
2876s	specifically from these bosses yep so
2878s	this is the Beast and Ice these are all
2880s	the uniques you can get
2883s	there and then last one is duriel so
2885s	here's all the uniques and a lot of the
2887s	uniques here by the way on durio are are
2889s	going to be new ones coming in for the
2890s	season so he's got a lot of pretty
2892s	powerful ones and then they're last but
2894s	not least are the Uber uniques that have
2896s	a higher chance to drop from him so this
2898s	is his loot
2902s	table give yourself a
2905s	Sho yeah yeah Uber uniques will
2907s	definitely be more achievable in this
2909s	season they'll still be very rare but
2910s	you know if you're getting duriel on
2911s	farm and you're killing him a bunch
2913s	you're probably going to be able to see
2914s	one of them throughout a season most
2916s	definitely will'll be able to uh see one
2917s	if you're you're really farming on on
2919s	durial and at the same time um you'll
2922s	probably know a lot of people within
2923s	your own clan that actually will end up
2925s	having Uber uniques this season uh and
2928s	and again these bosses are available in
2930s	season 2 but they're also available in
2933s	the Eternal realm on day one with uh
2935s	October 17
2937s	so all right so now let's get to the
2940s	class improvements so yeah our strategy
2942s	here was addressing issues with the each
2944s	class of the community is talking about
2946s	um these changes are mostly unique to
2948s	each class and they're meant to Target
2949s	specific pain points that players have
2951s	been having uh what you'll be seeing
2952s	here today by the way in this
2954s	presentation are just some examples it's
2955s	not a list of all the changes if we did
2957s	that we'd be here all day but we will be
2959s	coming out with patch notes and a Blog
2961s	explaining things uh pretty soon right
2963s	after the stream we're going to give you
2965s	a preview kind of what what you can
2968s	expect so the first one is a general
2971s	change and this is that fortify amounts
2973s	uh when you gain fortify are going to be
2975s	changed from being based on your base
2977s	life to your maximum life and what this
2979s	means is that increasing your maximum
2981s	life is going to make these effects
2982s	stronger and this is across the board
2984s	yeah I think this is a really important
2985s	change for any kind of build that's
2986s	trying to you know build really tanky
2988s	they want to build fortify they want to
2990s	build max life and and previously
2993s	whenever it fortify was based on your
2996s	base life building more maximum life
2998s	actually meant that it was harder to get
3000s	your character fully fortified well
3001s	because you had more life to to fortify
3003s	through and so with this change you can
3005s	see here in this example on the left uh
3008s	the pretty much the same character
3009s	almost the exact same life total uh
3012s	before you would get about 368 fortify
3015s	with this effect and now the exact same
3016s	effect exact same character now gets 677
3021s	so almost double amount if you are
3023s	building a lot of Maximum life like this
3024s	character is you're just going to see a
3026s	lot more fortify values which means it's
3028s	it's a lot easier for your character to
3030s	get into that powerful fortified
3036s	State all right next we're going to talk
3039s	about some class adjustments here so
3041s	during our season of the lant live
3043s	stream if you remember we talked about
3044s	how sometimes we're going to need to
3045s	make adjustments to things that are
3047s	overperforming right so I want you to
3050s	imagine for a little bit that you have
3052s	your perfect game that you're creating
3054s	right where your power level of
3055s	everything in the game is here
3057s	balance-wise right everything's exactly
3059s	the same um firstly uh you know we live
3062s	in the real world so nothing no game's
3064s	really exactly like this it's more like
3066s	something like this right where you have
3067s	a range where you know your lowest power
3069s	thing and your highest power thing are
3071s	within here and this is actually better
3072s	for a healthier game because if
3074s	everything's exactly the same then you
3076s	know your power level can get kind of
3078s	flat and boring right if like Fireball
3080s	does the exact same as upheaval does the
3082s	exact same as everything else um your
3083s	game can end up kind of flat so some
3085s	variances pretty good right but then
3088s	sometimes you know when things get out
3090s	of this range that's kind of a sweet
3091s	spot if something is like way up here
3094s	then this can warp the design and warp
3096s	what players are doing and warp even the
3097s	perception in front of the game so one
3099s	of the things that we had talked about
3100s	during that stream is when we have
3101s	things that are up here usually this is
3103s	due to either like unplanned synergies
3106s	you know or um something that's bugged
3108s	or working unintended it can get out of
3109s	the range and so we're committed now
3111s	that when things get out of range too
3113s	far we're going to bring it back to that
3115s	normal Realm where everything is um so
3119s	in the season of blood we're really
3120s	looking at three situations here where
3122s	this happens sometimes builds and play
3124s	Styles can just dramatically be
3125s	outperforming others another one is
3127s	fixing unintended interactions that
3128s	result in extreme outliers these are
3130s	usually like bugs or other things like
3132s	that and then designs and this is kind
3134s	of future proofing but we're looking at
3135s	designs that have the potential for
3137s	infinite power scaling so that going
3139s	forward uh particularly when we're
3140s	adding leaderboards into the game uh we
3143s	really want to make sure that the power
3144s	levels of things isn't too out of whack
3146s	and particularly for too long of a time
3148s	so we're going to be more committed to
3150s	to looking at these things more often so
3152s	in the season of blood we don't really
3154s	have too many of these and to be clear
3156s	the overwhelming majority of our changes
3158s	are going to be Buffs uh but these are
3160s	some adjustments to get ahead of first
3162s	to make sure that those power levels are
3163s	kind of the same we can go to the next
3165s	slide here so the first one is
3168s	Necromancer uh if you've played a bone
3169s	spear necro you probably saw this coming
3171s	a little bit um but oopi Essence your
3174s	key passive uh we're reducing your
3176s	damage bonus from 1 to
3178s	.5% and to be clear here even after this
3181s	change this key passive is still
3183s	probably a contender for being the
3184s	strongest one in the game uh it's really
3186s	really powerful it adds a ton of damage
3189s	and really what this lets us do actually
3190s	and you'll see when you get to look at
3192s	our patch notes it gives us some room to
3193s	add power in other places in in bone
3195s	necro um rather than it all being
3197s	centralized only around the key passive
3200s	we're also reducing the bone graph
3201s	legendary Paragon node Max exence per
3203s	stack a little bit um you're still going
3205s	to be able to get get a ton of Maximum
3206s	Essence in the game but we're just
3208s	bringing these uh down a little
3210s	bit and then the next two these are
3212s	going to be kind of themed we've got the
3213s	Barbarian the Supreme Wrath of the
3215s	Berserker um this is the one where while
3217s	your Wrath of the Berserker is active
3219s	when you spend Fury you get uh damage
3222s	bonus on berserking multiplicatively and
3224s	this could scale infinitely and now
3226s	we're just adding a cap to it and then
3228s	the next one similarly for the Druid the
3230s	aspect of the rampaging we Beast uh the
3232s	crit strike damage bonus is now going to
3233s	be capped at 200% and again these
3235s	numbers are still really high at you
3237s	know 1002 100% multiplicative bonus
3240s	damage we're not really looking to just
3242s	you know Nerf these things to the ground
3244s	or anything we're just making sure that
3245s	there's a cap on the maximum amount you
3247s	can get so that in the future when
3248s	players you know it lets us add things
3251s	like increasing the duration of these or
3253s	making an infinite duration or doing
3254s	other things like that that we wouldn't
3256s	be able to do if these were just
3257s	uncapped
3259s	forever all right so now let's get to
3261s	specific classes and kind of uh the cool
3263s	things that are coming so first that
3265s	we've heard from Barbarian players that
3267s	their Paragon boards are just kind of
3268s	weak right they're not particularly
3270s	impactful or exciting um we're going to
3272s	look here at one example and we've
3273s	changed quite a few of these uh this is
3275s	the decimator Paragon node uh beforehand
3278s	we kind of turn into a meme you know it
3280s	gave you a low chance to apply
3281s	vulnerable to enemies uh with when using
3283s	a specific weapon two-handed slashing
3285s	weapons and now you can see in the
3287s	season of blood instead it's still going
3289s	to be themed a little bit around
3290s	vulnerable but now when you make enemies
3292s	vulnerable you just get a a percent
3294s	damage bonus and then when you overpower
3296s	vulnerable enemies you double that and
3298s	you get a a 20% multiplicative damage
3300s	bonus so it's much more powerful than it
3302s	was before and is on par with other
3304s	similar
3305s	effects next one now is berserking a
3308s	berserking barbarians are going to be
3309s	eating pretty happy this patch uh the
3312s	damage bonus used to be additive so you
3314s	know when you went to the berserking
3315s	state and you got that you know damage
3317s	bonus it was only additive with your
3318s	other damage bonuses bonuses and now
3320s	it's going to be multiplicative so your
3322s	just being in berserking in general is
3323s	going to be much more lucrative for you
3326s	and next uh the of ancestral Force
3329s	legendary everyone's favorite uh game
3331s	mechanic in the game uh before it was
3334s	that you know when you use Hammer the
3335s	Ancients it nuked out some damage and
3337s	then a little explosion and then that
3339s	damage kind of had a separate value and
3341s	so sometimes you'd be motivated to you
3342s	know turn around and attack and not hit
3344s	the enemy directly because you want to
3345s	hit him with the explosion and not your
3347s	normal hit um now it's just going to
3350s	cause the Quake to happen but it just
3351s	increases the damage of the base skill
3353s	and then the quake and the base skill
3354s	just do one source of damage so now
3356s	you're not motivated anymore to do any
3358s	strange
3360s	Behavior next one let's talk about the
3362s	sorcerer so incinerate uh is getting a a
3365s	pretty big buff here the ramp up time uh
3367s	so for those of you who don't play you
3369s	know or play incinerate builds before
3371s	used to be that ramped up over 4 seconds
3373s	so you would you know Channel your
3374s	inserate on an enemy and the Damage
3376s	would go up and go up and go up over 4
3377s	seconds and now we're cutting that in
3379s	half to two seconds the total damage
3381s	that you're going to get is still the
3382s	same we're just making it much easier
3384s	for you to get that Max maimum amount
3386s	and now you can reposition a lot more
3388s	often and next one enhanced Frozen orb
3392s	uh we uh buffed this so that now it
3394s	grants additional explosion damage
3395s	against Elites this includes bosses as
3398s	well so normally you know Frozen orb
3400s	damage is kind of a big AOE damage so a
3402s	single Target isn't that great so in you
3404s	know boss scenarios it's not really as
3406s	good and now we've added a tuning knob
3408s	here so now we can make this you know
3409s	much better or more comparable to other
3411s	builds when it comes to to Big single
3414s	Target enemies
3416s	and then last but not least uh we've got
3417s	some feedback that the winter and
3419s	electrocute Paragon glyphs didn't really
3421s	have a place where you could be where
3423s	they could be used on the Paragon board
3425s	so we've adjusted either the glyphs or
3426s	the board itself so now these can be
3428s	slotted and actually give you a a good
3430s	bonus effect like the other glyphs
3432s	do all right let's talk about Rogue a
3435s	little bit now so unlike maybe the Barb
3437s	and the sorc that we just talked about
3439s	we felt that Rogue was honestly in a
3441s	pretty good place we didn't have as many
3443s	pressing issues there weren't as many
3444s	things that really needed to address on
3446s	Rogue uh there there were still some
3448s	things that we saw but not quite as many
3449s	as other classes the one area that we
3452s	saw was with basic skills pretty much
3454s	every rogue build was running puncture
3457s	now puncture is a great skill it does a
3459s	whole lot of really cool things but
3461s	basically the other four basic skills
3462s	were just not seeing really any use at
3464s	all and there was a variety of reasons
3467s	there and so we have taken a look at at
3470s	the four of those to update them uh
3472s	mainly looking at their lucky hit chance
3473s	for blade shift and forceful Arrow
3477s	bringing those up to the 50% chance to
3479s	kind of keep them on par with the other
3480s	Basics and then enhanced blade shift the
3483s	upgrade to Blade shift will now
3485s	immediately give you the full movement
3487s	speed bonus prior you had to move
3488s	through enemies and it took a little bit
3490s	time to ramp up we're just going to give
3491s	that full move speed bonus right off the
3492s	bat and then heartseeker the Critical
3495s	Strike chance that you get whenever
3497s	heartseeker hits a Target it previously
3499s	stacked up at 3% per cast per stack and
3503s	that meant you needed to hit an enemy
3504s	five times before you got the full 15%
3506s	bonus and five times is a lot so now
3508s	we're going to increase the gain per
3511s	stack up to five% per stack so you can
3514s	get that full bonus within three hits
3515s	which is very conveniently the same
3517s	number that you need to max out your
3518s	combo points so heartseeker might see a
3521s	little bit more play in combo Point
3522s	builds going forward additionally we
3525s	also took a look at the impetus passive
3527s	and this one we just made it occur a
3529s	little bit more often you only need to
3530s	move 12 instead of 15 M and but more
3533s	importantly it also increases the damage
3535s	of your next nonbasic attack prior it
3538s	just said your next attack and that
3540s	meant that you you know you would
3542s	occasionally use a basic and then you'd
3544s	get the bonus on the basic which didn't
3546s	do a lot of damage now you're definitely
3547s	going to be getting this full bonus on a
3550s	higher damage skill like a core skill
3552s	whenever you uh get to trigger the
3554s	impetus
3555s	passive let's talk about Druid yeah so
3558s	similar to lead to the Rogue the druid's
3560s	in a pretty good place uh so not quite
3562s	as many updates as other classes but we
3563s	F still found some room to make J
3565s	players happy uh first one is Ravens uh
3568s	Ravens is getting pretty good Buffs
3570s	across the board uh the passive damage
3572s	is being increased by 20% that's the
3573s	little Ravens that pick your enemies to
3575s	death uh the active damage is also
3577s	getting increased by a whopping 55% so
3580s	that's the actual circle of Ravens that
3581s	hit enemies and then enhanced Ravens the
3584s	bonus Critical Strike chance that you
3585s	get is going to be increased from 5 to
3587s	8% so across the board just a much
3588s	better skill and then rabies rabies is
3592s	also getting a pretty big damage buff
3594s	and then we're also o making one of the
3595s	upgrades which is natural rabies uh it
3597s	used to make it that your rabies spread
3599s	twice as fast or 100% faster we're
3602s	giving half of that base line so now
3603s	your rabies is going to actually just
3605s	spread between enemies 50% faster so you
3607s	don't have to wait as long for them to
3608s	get infected and then the natural rabies
3610s	will increase that by another 50% to
3612s	make it 100 R feels a lot better to play
3615s	with now it spreads out to the whole
3616s	pack right away yeah a lot quicker a lot
3618s	easier to use
3620s	yep and now Necromancer players so
3622s	Necromancer players will be pretty happy
3624s	here we got a lot of stuff coming for
3625s	you and again this isn't even all of it
3627s	waiting to reach out after this so
3630s	minions uh Buffs lots of them um first
3633s	thing is death's defense this is a
3635s	passive that was kind of mandatory for
3636s	Minion builds this was really our fail
3638s	safe that you know a boss or other big
3640s	hit from enemies would just one shot all
3642s	of your all of your minions um basically
3645s	now that passive is Baseline so now they
3647s	can't get hit for more than you know so
3649s	much of their life without uh you know
3651s	having this defense in there I'll also
3653s	add in that uh this this Baseline
3656s	functionality that your minions can't
3657s	take more than 30% life this applies to
3659s	all player pets across the game
3660s	including Druids wolves that's just how
3663s	our pets now work and of course we've
3665s	redesigned the death defense passive to
3667s	give you another alternative if you want
3668s	even more defense on your minions yeah
3670s	good clarification jid's eating even
3672s	better today too yes yes um next Golem
3675s	uh basic attack damage is getting
3677s	doubled we're insane um but yep so it's
3680s	going to get a lot stronger your blood
3682s	Golem and your Iron Golem's active
3683s	damage is also going up the blood Golem
3685s	by 55% the Iron Golem slam is going to
3688s	be 15% better um also many of your
3690s	minion Paragon no damage values have
3692s	been increase so that scaling uh minion
3694s	damage into the mid and late game is
3696s	also going to be a lot
3697s	better uh cold breiner aspect uh this
3700s	one uh used to say that you know your
3702s	your cold skeletal Mages could cast
3704s	blizzard you know kind of made sense
3706s	thematically cold Mages blizzard cold
3708s	things um but now we're opening this up
3710s	to more builds so now this aspect still
3713s	makes your mes cast blizzard but now you
3714s	you can take any Mages that you want not
3716s	just cold
3718s	Mages and next uh so we had some AIX
3721s	reductions here so before we had your
3724s	the Thorns related affixes we had one
3726s	that was specific for your skeletal
3728s	Warriors one for your skeletal Mages and
3729s	another for your Golem and now we're
3732s	basically just cleaning that up so now
3733s	instead of having three separate affixes
3735s	we now have one unified your minions
3737s	inherit Thorns AIX and that can appear
3739s	on rain shields and gloves so now you're
3741s	going to have a little bit less spam of
3742s	affixes that you're not interested in if
3744s	you're not looking for thorns in your
3746s	build and last but not least shields uh
3749s	this just makes sense Shields have armor
3751s	on them so now when you're when you have
3753s	a shield as a necro it has armor
3756s	cuz they protect you that's what they do
3762s	yes all right so let's talk a little bit
3764s	about the damage bucket changes and when
3766s	I refer to damage buckets I'm mainly
3767s	talking about Critical Strike damage
3769s	vulnerable damage and overpower damage
3771s	as well so in season of the malignant
3775s	vulnerable and Critical Strike damage
3776s	were different buckets and mixing these
3778s	two so if you critical struck a
3780s	vulnerable enemy would kind of multiply
3782s	all of your Critical Strike damage by
3784s	all of your vulnerable damage and you
3785s	just get more than the sum of your parts
3787s	like dramatically more and this meant
3790s	that the optimal way for basically every
3792s	single build in the game to play was to
3793s	stack Critical Strike damage was to
3795s	stack vulnerable damage and then just
3797s	make enemies vulnerable and then crit
3799s	them that's how you did most damage in
3801s	season of malignant no matter what your
3802s	build no matter what your class and so
3804s	that meant that say If an item dropped
3806s	that had plus crit chance plus crit
3808s	damage and plus vulnerable damage that
3810s	was best in slot for literally
3812s	everyone and that was unhealthy it was
3815s	leading to a lot of stagnation a lot of
3817s	builds that could not fully utilize
3819s	Critical Strike or vulnerable say builds
3820s	like dot builds because dots can't crit
3823s	they they couldn't really capitalize on
3825s	this in the same way and they got left
3826s	behind builds that
3828s	could so on the next slide I think or uh
3832s	yeah so so moving forward into the
3834s	season of blood
3835s	Critical Strike damage vulnerable and
3837s	overpower as well are going to be
3840s	different buckets but mixing them will
3841s	only give multiplicative damage bonuses
3843s	capped at a certain amount so if an
3845s	enemy is vulnerable You're Going To Deal
3847s	20% more damage to them and it doesn't
3849s	matter how much additional plus
3851s	vulnerable damage you get it's not going
3853s	to increase the 20% multiplicative
3855s	amount same with Critical Strike it'll
3857s	give you 50% multiplicative damage and
3860s	then overpower as well if you overpower
3862s	an enemy similar to crit it will give
3864s	you up to 50% uh bonus damage based on
3867s	your health total uh overpower
3869s	calculations are um are we're not going
3873s	to get into all the details of exactly
3875s	how overpower is calculated in season of
3876s	the blood here but you can definitely
3877s	check out the patch notes for a more
3879s	explicit detail there but basically know
3881s	that it has a multiplicative aspect up
3883s	to 50% just like crit and vulnerable and
3886s	it'll scale and just be better trust us
3888s	it'll be good yes overpower is was
3891s	definitely not overpowered in season of
3893s	the malignant it was rather on the week
3894s	weekend and here going into season of
3897s	blood it is going to be much more
3898s	powerful I really expect blood necros
3901s	and uh wear bear Druids to be doing very
3904s	well in this season so let's go over a
3906s	an actual example here with numbers just
3908s	to clarify what I mean so if you have
3911s	150% Critical Strike damage that is
3914s	includes that's what it shows on your
3916s	character sheet right that's that's how
3918s	much uh Critical Strike damage you have
3920s	you it also factors in this 50% bonus
3923s	damage that you deal anytime you
3925s	crit and similarly if you have 200%
3927s	vulnerable damage it also factors in
3929s	that 20% vulnerable damage that is just
3931s	Baseline to vulnerable
3933s	application previously we would take the
3936s	entire 150% and multiply it by 200% and
3939s	that would be your damage output it
3940s	would scale really high but now we're
3944s	going to take the whatever damage you
3946s	would deal and we're going to multiply
3948s	it by 1.5 because it's a crit and then
3951s	we're going to take that result and
3952s	multiply it by 1.2 because the enemy is
3954s	vulnerable and that's why the 50% and
3957s	the 20% combin to 80 it doesn't combine
3960s	to 70 because you're multiplying them
3962s	together like I said so you still get
3964s	some uh Synergy where it's greater than
3966s	the sum of its parts but no longer is it
3968s	the full 150 and the full 200 we're just
3971s	always going to take the 50 and the 20
3973s	and so that should give us uh a bit more
3976s	uh scaling will be a bit more consistent
3979s	across crit and vulnerable and you're
3981s	not going to be incentivized to every
3983s	build has to Str uh stack Critical
3985s	Strike damage and has to stack
3986s	vulnerable it it'll still be valuable to
3988s	do it for builds that are interested in
3989s	that but it's not going to be the best
3991s	in slot for every single build every
3993s	time want to say one of the things we
3995s	wanted to do here was still motivate you
3996s	and you should be glad to be mixing
3998s	multiplicative buckets it's still an
4000s	interesting thing to do just your
4001s	opportunity cost isn't insane if you
4003s	don't so now you can do other
4006s	things yeah so the overall impact that
4009s	players are going to feel in season of
4010s	blood with this is that the nominal
4013s	damage numbers that you're doing are
4014s	going to go down slightly and that's
4016s	because you just don't have this massive
4018s	multiplicative bonuses but we're not
4020s	here trying to make the player uh weaker
4023s	against Monsters what we actually did
4025s	was we went through and looked at all
4026s	the monsters in the game and retuned
4028s	them to make sure that players who are
4031s	you know optimizing their build and have
4032s	strong builds are still approximately as
4034s	equal against Monsters as they were
4036s	before mixing damage types as we said
4038s	was going to be less required it's still
4040s	powerful to do but it's not going to be
4042s	the end all Beall of the only way you
4043s	can build your
4045s	character and of course building
4047s	individual damage types are going to be
4048s	more equal in value mainly like I said
4049s	about overpower overpower builds are
4051s	just falling behind same with things
4052s	like dot damage builds or minion focused
4054s	builds those are going to come up and be
4056s	much more comparable to builds like
4058s	Critical Strike focused ones or
4059s	vulnerable focused ones and so on yeah
4062s	so we have a little visual here but
4064s	imagine this is like this the current
4065s	season where criton vul builds are just
4067s	really high up there they're doing a ton
4068s	of damage they're wiping everything and
4071s	then all the other builds are kind of
4072s	pretty far behind right if you're not
4073s	mixing the these two things then you're
4075s	you're just less effective in season two
4078s	what we're doing is we're bringing them
4079s	together and then what we're going to do
4082s	after that is balance Monster Power
4084s	around this so you know again our goal
4086s	is not to make you weaker it's to make
4088s	everything have more parity and we're
4090s	going to balance the whole game around
4091s	this new world that we live in in the
4093s	season of blood yeah it's not about
4094s	bringing crit and V down it's about
4097s	making sure other builds can reach that
4099s	same level of power that crit and V
4101s	builds experienced in season of
4102s	malignant it'll just open up the the
4104s	space for more builds to reach that type
4106s	of power level with a variety of skills
4108s	and affixes and not just crit and
4112s	bom so let's talk a little bit about the
4114s	overall goals for the damage bucket
4116s	changes first and foremost we really
4118s	want players to be rewarded for
4119s	investing into their primary Vector of
4121s	damage so for example if you're a blood
4123s	Necromancer who really likes to
4124s	overpower enemies you're going to be
4126s	rewarded for investing in plus overpower
4128s	damage as well as other tanky stats that
4130s	scale it like health and fortifi
4133s	generation and then once you invest in
4136s	that as like the main bulk of your power
4138s	you can find other ways of increasing
4140s	that maybe you do find a way to apply
4142s	vulnerable but it's not going to be the
4144s	main focus of your build you can also
4146s	get a lot of skill ranks to increase
4147s	whatever your core skill rank is those
4149s	still increase your core skill damage
4151s	multiplicatively with skill ranks which
4153s	goes back to what Adam had said earlier
4155s	about how powerful skill ranks are going
4157s	to be going forward into season of
4159s	Blood also we don't want this to just
4162s	make the game simpler we know that right
4164s	now players find they feel like you know
4167s	they're getting crit and vulnerable on
4169s	their gear and that's great that that
4170s	adds an interesting layer of of the item
4173s	Chase like hey you found the best and
4174s	Slot item and with this change it's not
4177s	going to be that exact same but Our
4179s	intention is not to make the itemization
4181s	game simpler or uh more boring because
4185s	we're actually making a bunch of other
4187s	changes to make this a bonus to find
4190s	other ways of scaling your character in
4191s	interesting ways that Adam's gonna talk
4194s	about here
4196s	yeah so last but not least we're going
4199s	to talk about making it a bonus and I'm
4201s	going to kind of uh expose a a gap in
4203s	our armor here what we were really
4205s	afraid of when we were looking at doing
4207s	these changes is that in a vacuum if we
4209s	did this in nothing else we think that
4211s	it could be a negative experience to the
4213s	game kind of what Charles alluded to um
4215s	what I am terrified of is that we do
4217s	these changes and the reaction basically
4219s	is wait you're lowering my damage and
4220s	you're making it less rewarding to try
4222s	and build crit and vul this is awful I
4224s	hate it right um this isn't our goal and
4226s	we knew that we had to combine this with
4228s	some other systemic updates to the game
4230s	to make sure that this new world of
4231s	itemization damage buckets and builds
4233s	was something that's interesting and
4235s	kind of has some meat to it as a
4237s	player um and also what we mentioned
4239s	before is that we are again going to be
4241s	tuning monsters to be more appropriate
4242s	with the new player power level uh our
4245s	goal here is that your player power
4246s	difference should be minimal if anything
4248s	you'll probably feel more powerful
4250s	compared to before just because of all
4251s	the unique upgrades and other you know
4253s	class updates and changes that we're
4255s	making to the game so we you shouldn't
4257s	really have a huge difference in how you
4258s	feel going through mobs and Dungeons and
4260s	things um just you're having more
4262s	options of how you do
4264s	it so here's the other big part of our
4267s	updates we're adding effects to kind of
4269s	give that scaling back but instead of
4270s	having it be Baseline we're going to do
4272s	it through player interaction so if you
4274s	remember before that little graphic of
4275s	like you know the crit and Vol was
4276s	really high and the other player power
4278s	was down below how are we bringing these
4280s	things together well we're going to
4282s	bring that player power up for the other
4284s	builds through these kind of designs and
4286s	effects so the goals with these changes
4288s	before we get into them are twofold the
4290s	first is we want to add some
4292s	multiplicative power back to the player
4294s	but in a more interesting way because as
4296s	we mentioned before we are removing
4297s	multiplicative power um by capping it
4300s	with crit and vul so we wanted now like
4303s	the upside of that is that we can
4304s	actually give it back but we can do it
4306s	now in choices that you make as a player
4308s	rather than it just being an underhood
4309s	thing about how the game works and then
4311s	we also want to try and make the
4312s	itemization experience better uh part
4314s	particularly in the latter portions of
4315s	the game uh we want the the stats you
4317s	chase on your items kind of be more
4318s	tailored to your build and be a little
4320s	bit more interesting um this isn't the
4322s	end all be all of our plans for
4323s	itemization but this is just one way
4325s	that we think we can try and make your
4326s	your stats and your gear and how they
4328s	mix with your build a little bit more
4330s	interesting so now let's go through an
4332s	example so this is kind of these kinds
4335s	of effects are what we added kind of all
4337s	over the place on all the classes of
4338s	ways to give you multiplicative power so
4341s	on the left here is the old Elemental
4343s	Elemental summon
4344s	Paragon node legendary uh Paragon
4346s	legendary node on the Sorcerer And
4348s	before it basically said you know we
4349s	want you to put all the conjuration
4351s	skills on your bar and when you do they
4353s	have reduced cool down and Mana cost per
4354s	skill you have this is your Hydra your
4357s	ice blades and your Lightning Spear
4359s	right we have one for each element now
4362s	you're still going to get that um you
4363s	can see on the right this is the season
4364s	of Bloods design so they still get
4366s	reduced cooldown and Mana cost but now
4368s	we've given you a goal to Chase and a
4370s	way to multiplicatively scale their
4372s	damage so the way it works here is that
4376s	those conjuration skills are all going
4378s	to deal multiplicative more damage based
4381s	on the total amount of your bonus damage
4383s	stat with fire lightning and cold so
4386s	here you can see and I think these
4387s	numbers actually match to what the
4388s	current bonus is so what we want you to
4390s	do here is you go to your character
4392s	sheet you're like okay I want to get
4393s	bonus damage of fire lightning and coold
4395s	these you know are like your plus fire
4396s	damage on your gear or whatever right
4398s	normally these stats aren't very
4400s	attractive but now they're going to be a
4401s	lot more attractive because they will
4403s	multiply atively turn or these additive
4406s	stats will now turn into multiplicative
4408s	stats if you take this node and you go
4410s	for this specific
4411s	build and the other really neat thing
4413s	about this is that it makes your Paragon
4415s	board or Paragon nodes and even we can
4418s	make items or other effects more
4419s	interesting where we say Hey you know
4421s	you get a bonus non-physical damage that
4423s	will actually triple dip with this
4425s	Paragon node uh uh Legendary Power
4429s	because it will increase your damage
4430s	with fire lightning and cold and so it
4432s	actually will triple the am amount that
4434s	this one node would give you in value
4435s	for this one Legendary Power and we've
4438s	added these effects kind of all over the
4440s	place you're going to see a lot more
4441s	scaling you're going to care about
4443s	different stats that you didn't care
4444s	about before because now they can be
4445s	multiplicative depending on what you get
4448s	um here's another one this is one for
4450s	the uh Rogue this is a a redesign that
4452s	we're doing for no Witnesses so what
4455s	this does is this one makes you care
4457s	about your damage with ultimate stat so
4459s	this was a stat that could appear on
4461s	your gear it usually wasn't very good no
4462s	one really tried to chase it
4464s	but this says that now your ultimate
4465s	skills on your Rogue will deal
4467s	multiplicative more damage based on that
4470s	stat and when you cast your ultimate
4473s	that multiplicative damage will apply to
4474s	all of your skills for 8 seconds so this
4477s	kind of enables a complete new build
4478s	with the Rogue where you want to spam
4480s	you know rain of arrows or whatever
4481s	ultimate you can as often as you can
4484s	because even just using the ultimate is
4486s	going to give you a multiplicative bonus
4487s	and that bonus on all of your skills
4489s	will be based on this damage with
4491s	ultimate uh stat that you can get via
4493s	gear and Paragon in other places yeah I
4495s	think Rogue is my favorite class to play
4497s	that new flicker step unique on where
4499s	when you're evading through enemies you
4501s	get a lot of ultimate cooldown reduction
4502s	it lets you trigger no Witnesses more
4504s	often you want to build a lot of
4506s	ultimate and you can play it you know
4507s	with rain of arrows or Shadow clone or
4509s	death trap any of them it it just feels
4511s	really good and a much more cohesive
4513s	package that lets you scale to a really
4515s	strong late game build and is not just
4517s	based around crit and V it's now based
4519s	around ultimate skill damage yeah and to
4521s	be clear here this will be on all the
4522s	classes got some amount of this and it's
4524s	not only on the Paragon board some of it
4526s	your key passes will be doing it some
4528s	uniques will be doing this um there's
4530s	kind of a bunch of places and I believe
4532s	last but not least so if you remember
4534s	last time uh we were on stream and I
4536s	talked we I brought up how we had a
4538s	stated goal of trying to scale effects
4541s	that don't really scale very well um
4544s	these are generally effects where
4545s	there's a legendary power that spawns a
4547s	thing like let's say earthquakes with
4549s	the Barbarian or um dust devils on the
4553s	Barbarian things like that um and those
4555s	effects didn't really scale very well we
4557s	wanted to add things that do so in the
4559s	season of blood we've added some things
4560s	this isn't going to be everything we do
4562s	forever this is just the beginning but
4563s	we've got two new Paragon glyphs per
4565s	class where we are going to be adding
4567s	these scaling effects so now you can
4568s	create builds hopefully that you weren't
4570s	really able to before and we gave you a
4572s	way to scale them um and again we're
4574s	planning to do more of this kind of
4575s	design in the future I think it's very
4576s	interesting and um yeah so here's going
4579s	to be some examples so the first one is
4580s	Rumble this is a new Barbarian glyph and
4583s	it's basically going to let your
4584s	earthquakes scale multiplicatively with
4587s	all the strength that you get in an area
4589s	around the glyph when you slot it and
4591s	then you also deal uh more damage based
4594s	on uh each active earthquake that you
4596s	have so you want to get a lot of active
4597s	earthquakes and it makes you more
4599s	powerful just to clarify I think when
4601s	you building strength around this this
4603s	will give additive damage to your
4604s	earthquakes most glyphs on the the top
4607s	section is all additive damage oh yeah
4609s	good clarification the second half the
4611s	additional bonus gives you a multi lica
4613s	bonus based on how many earthquakes
4615s	you're you're creating so you it's still
4618s	great for earthquake builds because it
4619s	increases all of your damage that way
4621s	yeah um next is the stalite this is for
4624s	the sorcerer so we're giving you a way
4626s	to scale your ice spikes uh per
4628s	intelligence P purchase within range and
4630s	then also your ice spikes are going to
4632s	have a higher crit
4634s	chance and then uh we've got explosive
4636s	this one is for the Rogue and this one
4638s	lets you scale your stun grenade damage
4640s	with dexterity and then also you're
4642s	going to get damage reduction whenever
4643s	you drop a stun
4648s	grenade all right I know we've gone
4650s	through a ton of slides here a lot of
4653s	slides a lot of stuff to actually cover
4654s	um regarding class changes of course all
4656s	the damage bucket changes and everything
4658s	um one thing to note is I know we we
4660s	only highlighted a few specific things
4662s	on classes as we've mentioned uh patch
4664s	notes are actually going to be coming
4666s	after the stream uh so you'll be able to
4668s	read through every single class change
4670s	all the different uh changes that we
4671s	even talked about last week uh on the
4673s	stream uh and other items including bug
4677s	fixes and
4678s	everything there's it's a it's a pretty
4680s	lengthy patch notes uh it's it's by far
4684s	our largest one yet for sure uh in fact
4686s	I think if you add up all our patch
4688s	notes beforehand this one ends up like
4691s	being like half of like all our prior
4693s	patch notes combined
4694s	so sign a lot it was a lot for us to do
4697s	yeah yeah so uh patch nights will end up
4699s	going live here after the stream so you
4701s	can check it out on Diablo 4.com um we
4704s	do want to talk about uh some of our
4706s	future changes that are also going to be
4708s	coming postseason 2 uh for instance
4710s	patch 121 we haven't even hit patch one
4712s	120 patch one 120 is coming out on
4714s	October 17th with the start of season 2
4717s	but patch 121 is actually going to be
4719s	coming out um uh after season 2 but
4723s	before Bliss con um but we did want to
4725s	actually cover what would be in patch
4728s	121 and we also wanted to talk about how
4731s	uh feature content pieces like within
4733s	season two we're going to be constantly
4735s	updating and adding new features uh to
4738s	to the game within season 2 and uh
4740s	players will hear more about that uh at
4742s	like BlizzCon and and future streams but
4745s	one big thing that we are adding in one
4747s	12 one is a training dummy kind of a a
4751s	Target dummy where you can actually uh
4753s	uh practice bills test out different uh
4756s	uh you know items and everything like
4758s	that this will be located in Kad uh in a
4761s	seller and you can actually custom it
4763s	and change it from like a normal
4765s	training dummy to you know adding
4767s	additional ones or boss ones and you'll
4769s	actually be able to uh test out
4771s	different builds so this will be coming
4773s	in one 12 one just a reminder one I'm
4775s	going to continuously say that so people
4777s	don't go
4778s	like on October 17th 121 uh but this
4782s	will be uh towards the end of this month
4785s	we'll have more information as that
4786s	actually hits and then the other feature
4788s	that we're going to be adding and this
4789s	one's a big one that I know people have
4791s	been asking for in 121 there will be a
4794s	option for you to be able to reset uh
4796s	your Paragon board uh which we know that
4799s	everyone has been asking for and it's
4800s	something that we've been wanting to put
4801s	in and so easier resps yeah easier resps
4805s	it's going to be way better for players
4807s	uh and so in one 121 that feature will
4809s	actually be coming uh and again like
4811s	like I said towards the end of this
4813s	month we'll have that we'll we'll talk
4815s	more about that there will be patch
4816s	notes associated with that update and of
4818s	course we'll have more updates to season
4821s	2 that we'll be talking about at
4822s	BlizzCon so so uh you should make sure
4824s	to check out BlizzCon if you're going or
4826s	if you want to go you can still grab a
4827s	ticket and of course uh we also
4830s	yesterday announced the uh BlizzCon uh
4833s	uh collection uh which has a bunch of
4835s	Diablo 4 stuff along with some World of
4837s	Warcraft Hearthstone OverWatch items in
4840s	there but with the uh Diablo 4 items it
4842s	does include a uh like a to like the
4845s	Legendary Collection actually includes a
4846s	token for the premium battle pass the uh
4849s	premium battle pass we've been getting a
4850s	lot of questions about this the premium
4852s	battle pass token in that can be used
4854s	for uh season 2 if you want or it can be
4856s	used for any future season uh so you can
4858s	use that token you can save it if you
4860s	like um and that is included in this and
4863s	it also has some really cool mounts with
4864s	some cool effects and mount armor and
4866s	everything so um but that is available
4868s	on the uh the battl net shop now for uh
4872s	and that is the pcon collection cool um
4876s	we have some uh Q&A that we do want to
4878s	go over uh today um I know that players
4881s	if you have questions uh feel free to
4883s	jump into twitch chat uh and ask your
4885s	questions I will butcher your names
4887s	guaranteed it's a promise I do every
4889s	stream that's why they bring me here um
4891s	uh but we will uh we'll be answering
4893s	questions on Twitch chat but the first
4895s	question I know that we we've heard a
4897s	lot about is uh what are your plans for
4899s	like underperforming skills because it's
4901s	been something that um you know we we've
4903s	heard a little bit about it today but I
4905s	think um it's something that we've been
4907s	hearing for the last you know couple
4909s	months of like hey some of these builds
4911s	just don't feel viable it feels I'm
4913s	going under one build like what are you
4915s	guys planning on doing that totally um
4917s	well first we plan to redo all the
4919s	underlying math of the game and change
4921s	how all the builds work and change all
4923s	the not so skills specifically um yeah
4926s	there are definitely skills that are
4927s	underperforming that um don't have as
4929s	wide of a use case as we would want um I
4932s	would say we we're going to try and look
4934s	at them at an individual basis on a
4935s	skill by skill there are definitely ones
4937s	that I've that we've identified as a
4938s	team that we're already uh going to
4940s	start taking a look at um you know we we
4943s	learn a lot when we launch the game to
4946s	millions of people right of course we
4947s	have ideas that sometimes pan out
4949s	sometimes they don't and when they don't
4951s	we have to kind of re-evaluate well what
4953s	was the purpose of it can we still keep
4954s	the heart and the spirit of the skill um
4957s	without changing it completely or
4958s	sometimes we do need to change it and
4960s	make it like fit an actual use case
4961s	that's unique that isn't that doesn't
4963s	fit any other skill so it it kind of
4966s	depends what our answer is on a skill by
4968s	skill basis but it is definitely a goal
4970s	of ours that we don't want a skill to
4972s	just languish forever and just not
4974s	really have a use case or be useful um
4976s	to clarify though I do think it's okay
4978s	that a skill is a little more Niche and
4981s	maybe is it like we're not saying every
4982s	skill needs to be used equally by every
4984s	player no I don't think that's a
4987s	reasonable expectation I don't know if
4988s	it's very healthy right I think it's
4989s	there's something attractive about
4991s	feeling smart that you're able to find
4993s	this Niche use case or you're playing in
4995s	a unique way that not many other people
4997s	do but if a skill isn't fulfilling even
4999s	a any purpose or the purpose it was
5001s	intended for then think that's grounds
5003s	to to reevaluate and try and find
5005s	something that that works better for it
5007s	yeah definitely and there's a few
5008s	different ways that a skill can kind of
5011s	fall short right it it's not just always
5013s	a matter of numbers right it's not just
5015s	oh just crank up the damage on it um you
5017s	know if the if the damage is crazy of
5019s	course it'll be usable but that's not
5021s	the right answer all the time uh
5023s	sometimes you know we looked at we
5025s	talked about puncture earlier today on
5026s	the Rogue and if you look at just pure
5028s	damage puncture compared to the other
5030s	Basics on Rogue about comparable like it
5032s	it wasn't n an outlier in one way or
5034s	another but we saw so many players
5035s	playing puncture because of its
5036s	interaction with other systems right we
5038s	had it hey puncture is a really easy way
5040s	of applying vulnerable and in season of
5042s	malignant vulnerable was really valuable
5044s	so we're not only tackling this on
5047s	making the other options more usable and
5049s	and interact in a more in an easier to
5051s	use way but also you know adjusting the
5054s	systemic issue like hey vulnerable is
5055s	too mandatory so you have to take the
5057s	thing that applies vulnerable and now
5059s	that that's less of a hard requirement
5060s	we're hoping that that brings these
5062s	other Basics to the four and we're going
5064s	to take a similar approach when we look
5065s	at other underperforming skills as well
5068s	yeah I think that's actually a really
5069s	good point is that you know we talked a
5070s	lot about base systems of the game in
5072s	the season of blood and a reason why
5074s	we're really looking at all these base
5076s	systems and and changing them pretty
5077s	significantly is that we want a stronger
5079s	foundation so that we can identify these
5081s	outlying skills or effects and now we
5083s	can fix them in a way that's more
5085s	healthy for the overall game because
5086s	when the overall systems are healthy
5088s	then we can go back and look at the
5090s	outliers and fix them in a good way um
5092s	you know like we could have fixed
5093s	puncture by just taking away the
5094s	vulnerable application right but really
5095s	the problem is vulnerable not puncture
5098s	necessarily so all right we have a
5101s	question here from Zig Zog uh are
5103s	channeling skills still not allowed to
5105s	overpower after this patch considering
5107s	the scaling changes uh this is true yes
5110s	uh it's just part of the the way Diablo
5113s	4 works is that channeling skills do not
5115s	overpower um that's partially because it
5118s	would just if you overpower is
5120s	determined on a skill cast BAS so when
5123s	you cast a skill uh the game determines
5125s	hey did you overpower or did you not and
5128s	if you overpower the channel skill then
5130s	you know Channel skills can in theory go
5132s	on forever and that would just be a
5134s	situation we don't want to live in where
5135s	you're just fishing for procs basically
5137s	of overpower and then as soon as you get
5138s	it you you let it go forever that's not
5141s	really the kind of gameplay we want to
5142s	encourage in Diablo 4 and so uh it's
5146s	true that yes uh channeled skills do not
5147s	overpower uh but we're still looking uh
5150s	when we're looking to balance uh
5152s	channeled skills such as incinerate uh
5154s	we know that going in yeah they should
5156s	be balanced and tuned around the fact
5157s	that they can't overpower and actually
5159s	to allude to that cuz that's a good
5160s	Segway um if you remember back I talked
5162s	about the the Barbarian and the Druid
5164s	how we're capping that unlimited uh cap
5167s	of power that you can get that's kind of
5169s	also why overpower doesn't work on
5170s	channeled skills is that if we made it
5172s	work we would have to tune and balance
5174s	all of overpower around the potential
5176s	infinite duration that a channeled skill
5177s	has and that means that now overpower
5179s	only gets used for channeled skills cuz
5181s	that's the only place that it's going to
5182s	be good and then everything else doesn't
5184s	feel as good because of it that's why
5186s	we're adding these caps and things to
5187s	some places is that it's not really
5189s	because we don't like people to get a
5191s	lot of power it's that everything else
5193s	must become weak for one thing to be
5195s	even reasonable let alone strong if we
5197s	allow infinite scaling of things and
5200s	over that makes you know while that one
5201s	thing might be really cool it makes the
5203s	overall game much less fun or
5206s	interesting um I'm going
5208s	to Spitfire a few questions I'm just
5210s	going to answer really quick just so I
5211s	can like sure a lot of questions here uh
5214s	yeah totally um are there uh plans on
5218s	like yearly road maps and road maps for
5219s	the game uh blz conon stay tuned uh the
5225s	uh in regards to um we've getting a lot
5228s	of questions about social features and
5230s	like group finders and and and uh uh
5232s	Clan features and everything those are
5234s	things that we're looking at and and and
5236s	most definitely have been taking in a
5238s	lot of feedback nothing to announce
5240s	today but it is something that I know
5241s	the team is very much uh uh reading and
5244s	seeing uh does this mean that Tempest
5247s	Roar only drops from from durial or can
5249s	it drop from other rare moms no it can
5251s	drop from other rare mobs uh duriel just
5254s	happens to have a we we were showcasing
5257s	the the specific uh uh drop tables for
5261s	uh uniques for these bosses here so
5263s	you'll know like hey if I want to get a
5265s	tempest Roar on a druid or something I
5267s	can actually farm durial and have a
5269s	better chance of knowing that I wanted
5271s	to clarify you can still get them in the
5273s	other parts of the game when you finish
5274s	nightmare dungeon or go through it they
5275s	can still drop off of mobs be end of The
5278s	Nightmare dungeon reward you still get
5279s	them out of heal tide all those things
5281s	just go doing this you have a higher
5283s	chance to get these specific things y um
5286s	let's see we have uh a question from sck
5290s	and Boppers uh will we be seeing more
5293s	support or basic Focus builds this time
5296s	around I basic skills I guess so yeah
5299s	basic builds basic skill builds yeah
5302s	yeah there's not as uh much support like
5306s	um building your entire build around
5308s	dealing damage with basic skills that's
5310s	not something that we have a ton of
5311s	support in the game for right now or in
5314s	season of blood but it's definitely
5315s	something on our radar is like hey this
5317s	is a cool idea of of making your basic
5319s	skill kind of flipping it on its head
5321s	right basic skills right now are a bit
5322s	more of a setup a bit more of a
5323s	generator type of skill uh that's
5326s	definitely design space that we are
5327s	looking into and and will be be making
5330s	designs for in the future um don't have
5332s	any specifics to share yet obviously but
5333s	it's certainly on our radar to enable
5335s	those going forward yeah we know it and
5337s	we think it's cool too y um here's some
5341s	more designer specific questions uh from
5343s	Lucky Luciano I know that person uh how
5346s	are the uh how are the Necromancer and
5348s	sorcerer uh sorceress classes uh being
5351s	balanced to account for the CH for the
5353s	changes to resistances which
5355s	intelligence characters inherent
5357s	inherently benefit from sure uh I could
5360s	take this one so one thing to keep in
5363s	mind is when you're making a fantasy
5366s	arpg or a fantasy based games we do
5369s	actively want there to be some
5371s	differences between the classes where
5373s	some are better or worse at some things
5375s	than others right we want them to have
5376s	bounds for picking your class so that
5379s	there're you know you feel different
5380s	than all the other ones right if
5381s	everyone was just like a blank class
5383s	that would be a very different game than
5384s	what we made for Diablo um so that was
5387s	partially why when we talked about
5389s	resistances we talked a lot about how
5390s	our goals are that everyone can kind of
5391s	comfortably get there because what we
5393s	didn't want was if resistances really
5396s	matter and you can't get to cap or you
5397s	can only get to cap at like level 100
5399s	with max out gear and even then you may
5400s	not be able to and you have to like do
5401s	this really complicated puzzle then
5404s	those classes would have a really large
5406s	advantage over the other ones in the
5407s	elemental resistance realm right and a
5409s	lot of our bosses and things do that
5410s	type of damage so it would actually be a
5412s	really big balancing issue um because of
5414s	that we made it that it's a very
5416s	achievable goal this goal might be a
5418s	little bit easier to get on Sorcerers
5419s	necromancers or whoever you know they
5421s	have the in scaling with element or
5422s	resistances or whatever stat may have
5423s	you um and we also even purposely make
5426s	effects like uh passive nodes or Paragon
5429s	nodes or other designs that are class
5431s	specific different classes can get to
5433s	different break points easier than other
5435s	ones and that's by Design kind of if you
5438s	remember what I talked about like the
5440s	perfect balance world and we have like a
5442s	gap this is the world we actually live
5443s	in we want like barbarians to be better
5445s	at some things than necros or Druids to
5448s	be better at some things than Rogues and
5450s	vice versa right um
5452s	that makes for a more interesting and
5454s	compelling experience where your class
5457s	uh experience when you're playing
5458s	through the game feels different right
5459s	like if you play a sorcerer for the
5461s	first time and when you played a
5462s	barbarian your whole life you're like oh
5463s	wow it's really nice that it's easier
5465s	for me to fix this resistance game than
5466s	when I'm playing on my Barb or hey when
5468s	I'm playing on a Barb compared to a
5469s	swords it's really nice I have all these
5470s	Unstoppable skills that move me around
5472s	everywhere um you know like there's we
5474s	want there to be kind of differences in
5475s	pros and cons to things so um really
5478s	when we when we need to make a change is
5480s	when it gets out of that Realm that's
5482s	kind of reasonable right if something's
5483s	too far down even where you know it's
5486s	too painful to play a class for some
5487s	reason right like we've heard some
5488s	feedback from Necromancer players where
5490s	we don't give them a ton of mobility and
5492s	they're you know kind of sad hey we
5493s	don't have enough and we need to get
5495s	brought up here well we're okay with
5496s	being a little lower we just what's what
5499s	we're at is not acceptable then same
5500s	thing on the high end right where maybe
5502s	it's too easy to get things then we need
5503s	to bring it in so um yeah the answer is
5507s	we we made resistances this way knowing
5509s	this in mind so that you know barbarians
5511s	EX still going to be very easy for you
5513s	to get to this cap uh just by playing
5515s	the game and doing a little bit of
5516s	planning so we don't expect that there
5518s	be a huge power discrepancy especially
5519s	since everyone's going to get to that
5521s	cap eventually anyways awesome we have a
5524s	question from psychop Fant uh which is a
5527s	good question it's for barbarian
5528s	specifically uh what are your plans to
5530s	address Barbarian resource generation
5532s	and uncoupling it from
5534s	shouts yeah see in the seasons of blood
5537s	or in the season of blood we haven't
5539s	completely uh answered the shout issue
5542s	which we're aware of like you know
5543s	players want to put on all the shouts
5544s	and then shout all the time um and just
5548s	yell at enemies a lot I guess they shout
5550s	out me a lot we're we're still looking
5552s	at what we want our solutions to be
5554s	we're also looking at similar thing with
5556s	um Sorcerers with equipping defensive
5558s	skills um where they want to take like
5559s	you know Frost Nova and uh flame shield
5562s	and teleport and do all of them um it's
5565s	a deeper issue to solve that I think
5567s	requires us to really look at why people
5569s	are picking them and to make sure that
5571s	they're still okay picking some just not
5572s	picking all of them all the time uh we
5574s	don't have anything to announce yet but
5576s	it is something that we are aware of uh
5578s	but it's a little bit more complicated I
5580s	think one of the things I'll just be
5582s	transparent about how at least for
5583s	shouts we're thinking is one of the
5585s	issues that made it hard was that we we
5588s	designed a lot of our passives and our
5590s	legendary effects and other things that
5592s	said when you shout gain X and so right
5597s	away that becomes triple more powerful
5599s	when you make put on three shouts
5601s	instead of one and we didn't balance it
5603s	that way where you know we expected
5605s	everyone to just always take the three
5606s	things same with defensive skills or
5608s	anything else that's synergistic like
5609s	that on the one hand we like these kinds
5611s	of designs like hey your score skills do
5613s	more damage or your other things you
5614s	know of a category do more to make you
5616s	think about mixing the category but when
5618s	we go too far and we definitely I think
5620s	did with shouts as an example then it
5622s	just says hey do all of them or don't do
5624s	any of them and the answer right now is
5626s	really do all of them because they're
5627s	all really strong independently um so we
5630s	may need to like decouple them which is
5632s	is like hey instead of all your shouts
5633s	get increased duration or you always
5635s	heal when your shouts are active it'll
5636s	be when specific shouts are but then you
5639s	know that doesn't feel good it's kind of
5640s	limiting because we're kind of telling
5641s	you what to do so we have to try and
5643s	walk that balance really well which is a
5645s	a difficult tight rope to
5647s	walk um a question here regarding um
5651s	glyphs um
5654s	from Max 78 sorry I don't want to
5657s	butcher the name any plans on making
5659s	more glyphs or bonuses spell agnostic
5663s	uh yes so as we're making more content
5666s	going forward in in uh future Seasons
5668s	we're going to be making a lot more gphs
5670s	uh and you know that is definitely
5673s	design space is to work on categories of
5676s	of skills or uh either other unique
5678s	effects uh it's not always going to be
5681s	and honestly we we showcased three
5682s	glyphs here on this stream and we're
5684s	adding in 10 new glyphs in season of
5687s	blood uh and and they're not all that
5689s	exact same design yeah uh so yes the the
5692s	design space for making new glyphs uh is
5695s	definitely very open and it's something
5696s	we're going to be exploring going
5698s	forward awesome uh this is actually a a
5701s	good question because we talked about CC
5703s	last week which is from mastaz so what's
5706s	the reduction for cc I know you said
5708s	against the
5709s	player uh but with an overall reduction
5711s	does that reduce the sorcerer's ability
5714s	to CC uh enemies specifically and then
5717s	the amount applied to enemies no no we
5719s	didn't do any changes or significant
5721s	changes to outo CC this is only incoming
5723s	cc to the player not CC of you to the
5725s	monster that's actually a really good
5726s	question because I I know when you hear
5729s	like oh reduction is CC it's like oh no
5730s	I'm going to C enem way
5732s	less just just on the player itself
5735s	because we have heard a lot of feedback
5737s	from players about you know you just
5739s	sometimes you just get especially in
5740s	higher level done get completely stuck
5743s	and all the the CC changes are actually
5745s	noted in the patch notes so you'll be
5747s	able to read more about that um question
5750s	from Darth microtransaction
5752s	DM know who DM is he's a he's a a Diablo
5757s	partner that we have how many uh total
5759s	new legendaries and new unique items are
5761s	coming in season 2 uh any U uh new Uber
5764s	uniques uh yes there are all three of
5767s	those that are being added we show we
5769s	well we well well new new uh new Legend
5774s	new not new not not Uber sorry that is
5778s	all in the um patch notes so you'll read
5782s	in the patch yeah you'll get to see them
5783s	very soon I don't have the exact number
5784s	off my head I it's a pretty total I
5787s	believe 18 yeah there's five class
5790s	legendaries five class uniques and then
5794s	two generic legendaries and six uh us
5798s	just Rand want give you'll see it
5802s	there's a good number check the patch
5803s	notes yes um all right we're going to
5805s	take one more question here and this is
5806s	from uh cier uh with the changes to
5810s	damage buckets it'll be much harder Ed
5812s	to just stack very high damage to
5814s	overcome some of the hardest content
5816s	like uber do you plan to make
5818s	adjustments to bosses to account for
5819s	lower damage ceilings oh how far do I
5822s	want to go into this
5824s	answer we've had a lot of conversations
5827s	about this
5829s	um yeah I'll just I'll get all right so
5832s	yes um we did look at Monster Power and
5836s	boss power and specifically Uber Lilith
5838s	as well so why don't we talk about Uber
5840s	Lilith tuning cuz we did actually tune
5841s	her a little bit specially in the season
5842s	of blood and going forward so our idea
5844s	with tuni Uber Lilith and this
5846s	aspirational very difficult content
5848s	right um kind kind of a little history
5851s	lesson right when when the game came out
5853s	Uber lth obviously was very very hard
5855s	right I say her power levels up here
5856s	right everything else like comparably is
5858s	somewhere around here she's ridiculously
5860s	crazy hard really the only builds that
5862s	were able to beat her were builds that
5864s	had either like really really strong
5866s	interactions like bone spear necro where
5868s	it was just like really really overtuned
5870s	or ones that were bugged right where you
5873s	know they just got like 100x more power
5874s	than other things and it wasn't really
5876s	intended um we don't really want our
5879s	aspirational content to live in that
5881s	space where like only oversights can
5883s	really beat it comfortably we our goal
5885s	for it was always that most builds would
5887s	be able to beat it and it was kind of an
5889s	achievable goal but it was hard and
5891s	obviously having that balance in a
5893s	multiplicative uh scaling game is really
5895s	hard it turns out um in season of blood
5898s	one thing that is really nice and is an
5900s	advantage to all of these overhauls that
5902s	we're doing to our math and the power
5904s	level of the classes is that before like
5906s	we talked about the difference of
5907s	multiplicative power of the crit V and
5908s	everyone else was crit V was way up here
5910s	and could compete with her everything
5912s	else couldn't really so you kind of were
5913s	forced into these builds to have a fair
5916s	chance at the fight which isn't really
5917s	the world that we want to live in now
5919s	that we've kind of you know stabilized
5921s	the ground of all the builds you know
5922s	they can't in theory I'm hoping can't
5925s	get as crazy of a difference in power
5927s	level between each other that means that
5929s	now we can more finely tune things like
5931s	uber Lilith like any other endgame
5933s	content that we make that they can be
5935s	more stable as far as who can beat them
5937s	so we took a look at Uber Lilith and
5939s	you'll see that uh We've tested her
5942s	internally with builds that aren't those
5944s	ones that we know are crazy and tuned
5947s	her at a to a degree where we believe
5949s	these average builds will be able to
5951s	defeat her obviously there will be
5953s	variants you know like I said the top
5954s	ones and the bottom Ones Will there will
5956s	be some but it'll be much more in line
5958s	with one another so uh we did take a
5961s	look at that specifically and we do
5962s	believe that just the the foundation of
5964s	the game as a whole will mean that more
5966s	players and more builds will be able to
5968s	do more content yeah it goes back to
5970s	what I was saying in the damage bucket
5971s	discussion was that Our intention is not
5973s	to just bring everyone down it's to open
5976s	up the room for more builds to reach
5978s	that same level of power let more builds
5980s	take on Uber Lilith and not just have to
5982s	rely on either crit vulnerable
5985s	interaction or rely on bugged
5988s	interactions yeah at the end of the day
5990s	what this will likely mean also is that
5991s	if you were a crazy strong build or if
5993s	you find something that's crazy strong
5995s	she'll probably be easier compared to
5997s	life but then your average person she'll
6000s	she'll be much more doable you still
6002s	have to play really well though it's a
6003s	hard fight still she still hard it's
6005s	still a hard fight yeah and I think
6006s	there's also even just changes that you
6007s	guys had already talked about regarding
6009s	like resistances and things like that
6010s	that will also be the found everything
6013s	is different I think overall it'll be
6015s	more achievable um awesome well uh thank
6018s	you Adam thank you Charles for for
6020s	joining us and everyone for for
6021s	listening to a bunch of designers of
6025s	math go into numbers and math and
6027s	everything for you guys regarding class
6028s	changes and all the other damage buckets
6030s	and resistance changes that are coming
6031s	to the game uh just a reminder season 2
6035s	season of Blood starts on October 17th
6038s	that is the same day season 1 season of
6040s	the malignant ends so uh you guys will
6043s	find that the transition between seasons
6045s	will just be uh fluid uh from one season
6048s	to the next uh but that will begin on
6050s	October 17th also of course like what we
6053s	announced last week Diablo 4 is coming
6055s	to steam so you can wish list that now
6057s	so if you prefer to play on Steam you
6059s	have that uh option of being able to
6061s	grab uh Diablo 4 on Steam and so you can
6063s	go there and wish list uh Diablo 4 there
6066s	right now and it will be available on
6068s	October 17th that does support cross
6070s	progression and uh uh crossplatform play
6074s	so if you do want to play with other
6075s	people on Battlenet or on consoles you
6079s	still can and if you want to carry over
6080s	your progress from B net or consoles
6082s	over to steam you still can as well uh
6085s	from there but October 17th season 2
6087s	season of blood and at the same time uh
6090s	one 121 just a reminder the the uh
6093s	Target dummy that we talked about and
6096s	the uh reset Paragon uh board feature
6098s	will be coming in one 121 that will be
6100s	landing in late October uh and before
6103s	BlizzCon so make sure to uh tune in for
6107s	those notes do I have anything else I
6109s	say oh biscon make sure check us out
6112s	yeah blon is going to be really cool so
6114s	uh thank you guys again thank you
6115s	Charles thank you Adam and we'll see you
6118s	guys in game thank you so much see you
6119s	in
6134s	[Music]
6140s	game
6148s	[Music]
6189s	[Music]

[2023] Diablo IV Campfire Chat - October 2023

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