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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 |
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