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| 1147s | for |
| 1231s | we've been saying this whole time that |
| 1232s | hell is coming now hell is |
| 1236s | here something that's always present in |
| 1238s | a Diablo title and we wanted to make |
| 1240s | sure that for Diablo I returning to hell |
| 1242s | was a special moment we referenced the |
| 1244s | endgame cinematic with prava and narius |
| 1247s | taking the fight to hell at the end of |
| 1249s | the game we really wanted to capture |
| 1251s | that experience that sensation of |
| 1253s | battling throngs of demons |
| 1256s | inell in the infernal fors they're going |
| 1258s | to go into to this mode battle waves of |
| 1261s | demons and be able to kind of change the |
| 1263s | shape of the game experience as you play |
| 1266s | it those of you who have joined us since |
| 1267s | base game and throughout the seasons |
| 1269s | will have noticed that we have this |
| 1271s | phenomenon in the world that's going on |
| 1273s | called hell Tides some of you might have |
| 1274s | noticed that hell Tides have been |
| 1276s | getting a lot worse lately and now hell |
| 1279s | is able to pierce the veil that's |
| 1281s | holding hell back from fully invading |
| 1284s | sanctuary and starting to take root in |
| 1286s | sanctuary and we started by asking |
| 1288s | ourselves some questions what is the |
| 1291s | state of sanctuary right before the |
| 1293s | vessel of hatred happened how has hell |
| 1295s | changed now that misto isn't there |
| 1297s | anymore what are the demons up to where |
| 1299s | is Mesto does he have anything to do |
| 1301s | with this or is this just hell rising of |
| 1304s | its own accord as the prophecy |
| 1306s | proclaimed and so we thought to |
| 1307s | ourselves how can we make things even |
| 1310s | worse for the people in sanctuary in |
| 1312s | this season you'll very much get to dive |
| 1314s | into those Mysteries with some unlikely |
| 1316s | allies and really get to the bottom of |
| 1319s | what's |
| 1320s | happening so in this season we play a |
| 1323s | lot with the notion of the enemy of my |
| 1325s | enemy is my friend how far would you go |
| 1328s | to save Sanctuary to save your world |
| 1330s | what price would you pay would you |
| 1332s | sacrifice your soul for this you're |
| 1334s | going to meet a guy named lochran who at |
| 1336s | first seems sort of usual but you're |
| 1338s | going to quickly realize that something |
| 1340s | is off that something is a little |
| 1342s | strange with this guy so lochran and |
| 1344s | Estelle are your allies and they're |
| 1347s | going to help you return to hell both of |
| 1349s | them are experts and demons and they're |
| 1351s | going to use that knowledge to help you |
| 1353s | return to hell and become more powerful |
| 1355s | to be able to battle The Infernal |
| 1358s | hordes The Infernal hordes is a new |
| 1361s | endgame activity in Diablo I it's |
| 1363s | primarily a wave based activity you're |
| 1365s | going to be fighting wave after wave of |
| 1367s | demon forces in hell so if any of you |
| 1369s | have ever played wave based gameplay |
| 1371s | before you'll know that things escalate |
| 1373s | we've got meteor strikes and all sorts |
| 1376s | of things that try to keep you on your |
| 1378s | toes when one thing the infernal hordes |
| 1379s | does differently is the notion of |
| 1382s | infernal offers and between each wave |
| 1384s | you'll make a choice you'll be granted |
| 1386s | an infernal offer and by choosing one of |
| 1388s | three of these offers you're going to |
| 1390s | change the game mode in some way a |
| 1392s | positive and a negative you can imagine |
| 1395s | from the depths of Hell these hands rise |
| 1397s | out and offer you both a boon and a bane |
| 1400s | a kiss and a curse and this is a |
| 1403s | Temptation that the fellow council is |
| 1405s | making to you and in this temptation |
| 1407s | you're offered more power power but that |
| 1410s | power comes at a cost and so you get to |
| 1414s | choose you know which Temptations you're |
| 1415s | going to pursue during your infernal run |
| 1418s | and then customize your experience from |
| 1420s | there one of the guiding principles of |
| 1422s | this game mode is replay it's an in-game |
| 1425s | mode that we want to make sure you're |
| 1427s | playing over and over again so we really |
| 1429s | wanted to create a broad set of enemies |
| 1432s | for you to fight during this mode we've |
| 1434s | got many demons to choose from in the |
| 1436s | Lexicon of Diablo's monster families but |
| 1439s | we're also going to see some other foes |
| 1440s | you might not expect there are going to |
| 1441s | be certain types of enemies like goatmen |
| 1443s | who have been banished to hell that have |
| 1445s | now rallied to Mesto and fight by his |
| 1447s | side and even some unlucky Souls that |
| 1451s | marched on Hell from the Cathedral of |
| 1453s | Light have now been revived in hell and |
| 1456s | fight against you alongside the demons |
| 1459s | basically everything that hell has to |
| 1461s | throw at you we're throwing it at you |
| 1463s | this season The Infernal hordes has been |
| 1465s | built with multiplayer in mind but |
| 1467s | multiplayer is not required we want to |
| 1469s | make sure that solo players still have a |
| 1472s | very fun experience in the infernal |
| 1474s | hordes now that said if you roll in with |
| 1476s | a party you're going to have a lot of |
| 1478s | fun this game mode is going to appear in |
| 1480s | the Eternal and in seasonal realm and |
| 1483s | that means that once the season is over |
| 1485s | it's here to stay The Infernal hordes is |
| 1487s | unlocked at World tier 3 so really what |
| 1490s | you need to do to access it is earn your |
| 1493s | way up to World tier 3 and then complete |
| 1495s | an eternal quest line that takes you |
| 1497s | back to hell and then locks The Infernal |
| 1501s | hordes for World Tier 1 and two players |
| 1504s | we've built out a seasonal progression |
| 1506s | that'll help them become more powerful |
| 1508s | in order to be able to confront the |
| 1509s | infernal hordes first is you can earn |
| 1511s | reputation and that reputation applies |
| 1514s | to a reputation track that earns lots of |
| 1517s | really cool rewards that'll make you |
| 1518s | more powerful as you progress onto World |
| 1520s | tier 3 the other thing we've built are |
| 1522s | micro dungeons called hell breaches that |
| 1525s | offer a glimpse at the infernal hordes |
| 1527s | mechanics and they give you a chance to |
| 1529s | learn the mechanics before you confront |
| 1531s | the infernal hordes at World tier |
| 1535s | 3 the final boss in this season is the |
| 1538s | Fel Council and the Fel council is some |
| 1541s | familiar faces that you might recognize |
| 1543s | from Diablo I these were Priests of the |
| 1546s | zacharo room holy men who were corrupted |
| 1549s | and basically became vessels of hatred |
| 1551s | in their own right the council members |
| 1553s | in Diablo I tried to help contain Mesto |
| 1558s | in in his soul Stone and of course Mesto |
| 1561s | being Mesto slowly but surely corrupted |
| 1564s | them and eventually they had soulstones |
| 1567s | pierced into their hands and became |
| 1569s | super powerful but eventually you |
| 1572s | overcame them and sent them to Hell |
| 1574s | through the course of the story resummon |
| 1576s | them they've been reborn slightly new |
| 1579s | powers but the same animosity toward you |
| 1582s | what's interesting about this boss |
| 1583s | encounter is there five council members |
| 1585s | but you're only going to fight three of |
| 1587s | them at once this allowed s us to then |
| 1590s | create many different flavors of the |
| 1593s | boss fight for the fellow Council in |
| 1595s | fact it's about 10 variations in all and |
| 1598s | so every time you go into that Council |
| 1601s | fight there's a very good chance you're |
| 1602s | going to have a different fight than the |
| 1604s | last time you played it we think it's |
| 1606s | going to offer a lot of Replay for |
| 1608s | players what we also introduced during |
| 1611s | these waves are opportunities for you to |
| 1613s | earn ether earning ether is the resource |
| 1616s | that you gather during the infernal |
| 1618s | horde that you can then spend at the end |
| 1621s | of the activity there's going to be a |
| 1622s | fixed number of waves that you have to |
| 1624s | defeat and once you've completed all |
| 1625s | those waves then you'll face the Fel |
| 1627s | Council defeat them and collect your |
| 1631s | treasure so upon defeating the Fel |
| 1633s | Council The Spoils of Hell will spawn |
| 1636s | and then you consume your burning ether |
| 1638s | and opening those chests now the trick |
| 1641s | is when you are playing through these |
| 1644s | waves that's your opportunity to earn as |
| 1646s | much ether as you can different events |
| 1649s | are going to spawn all throughout the |
| 1650s | waves around the periphery of the arena |
| 1653s | and it's your job to try and defeat as |
| 1655s | many of those events as possible to try |
| 1657s | and gather up all the ether you can |
| 1659s | really skilled players are going to be |
| 1661s | able to really maximize that ether so |
| 1664s | they get the biggest payout possible at |
| 1666s | the end after defeating the F |
| 1669s | Council so with this Burning ether |
| 1671s | you'll be able to get new uniques you'll |
| 1673s | be able to get new legendaries you'll be |
| 1674s | able to get rare materials things you |
| 1677s | might have scoured the whole of |
| 1678s | sanctuary for in previous Seasons or in |
| 1680s | in the base game but now we offer it to |
| 1682s | you here down in the depths of Hell a |
| 1684s | lot of these new uniques and |
| 1686s | legendaries really build on top of this |
| 1689s | idea that they've been forged in hell |
| 1692s | and so they're going to have unique |
| 1694s | looks that you can then make into |
| 1695s | Cosmetics to apply wherever you like |
| 1698s | they can also have unique V effects and |
| 1701s | sound effects to really create the sense |
| 1703s | that they were forged in health one |
| 1705s | particular one that I enjoy using a lot |
| 1708s | are boots boots you say well these boots |
| 1712s | uh not only have been forged in Hell |
| 1714s | whenever you use a power with a cool |
| 1716s | down they shoot out a ring of fire that |
| 1719s | hits everyone around you that's just one |
| 1721s | sample of the the types of powers we're |
| 1725s | exploring so death in The Infernal |
| 1727s | hordes is uh quite a big deal you're |
| 1731s | returning to the realm of hatd where |
| 1733s | Mesto was born like this has to be a big |
| 1735s | deal in the infernal hordes it's it's a |
| 1737s | lot like nightmare d |
| 1739s | you only get a fixed number of revives |
| 1741s | in order to be able to get to the end of |
| 1742s | your run so at lower difficulties of the |
| 1744s | infernal hordes you'll get a number of |
| 1746s | revives shared between your party but at |
| 1749s | higher difficulty levels the game is |
| 1751s | going to start taking away those revives |
| 1753s | and that increases the stakes that you |
| 1755s | have if you die too much you'll be |
| 1757s | ejected from the mode in the infernal |
| 1758s | hordes we created a lot of new ways for |
| 1760s | Monsters to Ambush the players and so |
| 1762s | I'm pretty stoked to see how our players |
| 1763s | respond to these the seasonal quest line |
| 1766s | and the Eternal Quest line they have |
| 1767s | lots of little surprises and twists and |
| 1769s | turns in them and there's even some |
| 1771s | surprises we've buried deep within the |
| 1774s | infernal hordes that hopefully players |
| 1775s | will have a great time |
| 1793s | with hello everyone and Welcome to our |
| 1796s | season of The Infernal hordes developer |
| 1798s | update stream |
| 1799s | my name is Marcus cretz I'm a community |
| 1800s | manager here on the Diablo team and |
| 1802s | today I'm joined by some very familiar |
| 1804s | faces Adam and Adam welcome to the |
| 1806s | stream yeah we did it we took it over we |
| 1808s | took it over it's just Adam Adam and |
| 1810s | Adam show now I don't even have to |
| 1812s | host it feels great yeah and for |
| 1815s | everyone uh Curious in chat Adam is not |
| 1818s | going anywhere um as you all know |
| 1821s | there's a ton going on in yeah Adam |
| 1823s | Fletcher is |
| 1824s | goings |
| 1826s | ader uh there's a ton going on in right |
| 1828s | now we've had a ton of live streams |
| 1830s | there's been so much going on so it's |
| 1831s | just a lot easier to share the load |
| 1833s | amongst all the we we just finished the |
| 1836s | spirit born uh live stream so it's been |
| 1838s | a little crazy and you know Marcus is |
| 1840s | here to help out so you guys may see |
| 1842s | Marcus Moore here uh hosting some live |
| 1844s | streams in the future um but yeah I'm |
| 1846s | not |
| 1847s | disappearing today take over exactly |
| 1850s | today I get to pretend I'm calling oh |
| 1853s | yeah I'm pretty excited about that some |
| 1854s | big big shoes to fill there so yeah that |
| 1857s | is absolutely true uh in terms of |
| 1860s | everything that's been going on in |
| 1861s | Diablo we just had our season The |
| 1863s | Infernal hordes PTR and we've got a lot |
| 1865s | of learnings yeah we and but we we also |
| 1867s | do have one additional person but of |
| 1869s | course we do Mr Dan dangu from Albany |
| 1871s | New York Dan welcome to the stream hey |
| 1874s | how's everyone doing doing great good |
| 1877s | good to see you see Dan Dan's in like |
| 1879s | the Cathedral of light we're in like the |
| 1881s | burning house so yeah it's perfect it's |
| 1883s | uh it's hot over here exactly it tracks |
| 1885s | yeah yeah thanks for joining us today |
| 1887s | Dan |
| 1889s | uh and the season five PTR we've got a |
| 1891s | lot of learnings um this was our second |
| 1893s | PTR for Diablo 4 so we have a ton of |
| 1896s | feedback to get into but we also have uh |
| 1898s | some notes from the community on the PTR |
| 1900s | overall and some learning So Adam do you |
| 1902s | want to walk us through that yeah most |
| 1903s | definitely you know this is now our |
| 1904s | second PTR that we had we had one for |
| 1906s | season 4 and of course one now for |
| 1908s | season five and um you know we've |
| 1911s | learned a lot from these ptrs ptrs are |
| 1913s | incredibly important uh they're huge |
| 1915s | they're really beneficial for the whole |
| 1917s | entire team here |
| 1918s | and I one thing we heard a lot of |
| 1921s | feedback at least from the season 5 PTR |
| 1923s | is is uh is obviously as as you're |
| 1926s | playing through a PTR it's a non-final |
| 1930s | uh thing that you're playing it's still |
| 1931s | very early on there are going to be more |
| 1933s | bugs more issues uh just pres in the PTR |
| 1935s | because we are getting something out |
| 1936s | there a little bit earlier just so we |
| 1938s | can get feedback in on it but one thing |
| 1940s | that I think we uh most definitely heard |
| 1942s | from the community is hey the tools |
| 1944s | within PTR uh at times haven't been the |
| 1948s | the best or the most efficient for for |
| 1951s | players that need to actually test uh |
| 1953s | the content that we actually do have and |
| 1955s | so uh one thing that we did want to at |
| 1958s | least address and highlight and and |
| 1961s | acknowledge is that you know we do plan |
| 1963s | on making the PTR experiences better uh |
| 1966s | in the future we do plan on uh equipping |
| 1969s | more tools uh for players out there so |
| 1972s | they're not having to sit there and |
| 1974s | grind out you know maybe like all the |
| 1976s | the the new legendaries or |
| 1979s | especially like season for example we |
| 1982s | gave a a character copy feature uh in in |
| 1985s | this one and then of course we had the |
| 1987s | Boost feature which came back from |
| 1988s | season 4 uh and when you boosted your |
| 1990s | character a new character you would end |
| 1991s | up getting some of the new uh |
| 1993s | legendaries or uniques uh within uh |
| 1995s | season 5 what happened though is that it |
| 1999s | wasn't all of them and then we had |
| 2000s | players within season 5 having to |
| 2002s | actually go out and spend their time |
| 2004s | that they they probably could be testing |
| 2006s | other things like trying to those items |
| 2008s | and obviously that's like not the most |
| 2011s | efficient thing to do so uh we do want |
| 2013s | to we hear everyone we acknowledge it we |
| 2016s | we we do want to make the PTR experience |
| 2018s | better so I will say that like in future |
| 2020s | ptrs and you'll see this gradually over |
| 2022s | over the next couple ptrs it won't be |
| 2024s | all of a sudden like things will be |
| 2026s | completely different but uh do I I do |
| 2028s | expect like and and players should |
| 2030s | expect like that we will have uh better |
| 2033s | tools for them uh to to properly test uh |
| 2037s | as we gradually go through ptrs in the |
| 2039s | future and we appreciate everyone like |
| 2041s | letting us know like we most definitely |
| 2043s | hear you guys and we most definitely |
| 2044s | want to make that experience better from |
| 2046s | that but ptrs have been great um huge |
| 2050s | thanks to everyone for jumping in and |
| 2052s | and checking it out for sure so yeah |
| 2054s | definitely yeah that feedback is so |
| 2055s | important so you know yeah um increasing |
| 2058s | uh you know how great these ptrs are is |
| 2060s | really really important and I know for |
| 2061s | the season 5 PTR one of the huge |
| 2063s | features that we had in there was the |
| 2065s | infernal hordes itself um so for |
| 2067s | everyone who didn't get a chance to jump |
| 2068s | into the PTR uh Mr Dan tangu can you |
| 2071s | kind of walk us through what the |
| 2072s | infernal hordes is and what players can |
| 2074s | expect yeah absolutely I'll give you all |
| 2076s | a quick recap so um The Infernal hordes |
| 2081s | is a wave-based activity uh with Pusher |
| 2084s | loock choices in between each of those |
| 2085s | waves so imagine waves of monsters |
| 2088s | coming in uh lots and lots of monsters |
| 2090s | in fact and you also have uh some events |
| 2093s | many events that you uh can also |
| 2096s | participate in now in between uh those |
| 2099s | waves uh you're going to be uh making |
| 2101s | What's called the uh infernal offer and |
| 2105s | you're going to pick a boon or a Bane |
| 2106s | and that's going to change your gameplay |
| 2109s | for the rest of the run so it allows you |
| 2111s | to customize what your infernal run is |
| 2113s | going to be like um and so uh we |
| 2117s | probably see right here yep we've got a |
| 2120s | infernal offer that comes up so you're |
| 2121s | going to select one of those and that |
| 2124s | will then change of course uh the rest |
| 2126s | of the Run |
| 2128s | now um when you complete the required |
| 2131s | number of waves then you're able to go |
| 2132s | confront uh the fell Council who you can |
| 2134s | see here and the fell Council as you saw |
| 2137s | from the uh video that just came on |
| 2140s | right before this live stream our uh |
| 2142s | former servants well actually current |
| 2144s | Servants of Mesto uh that you defeated |
| 2147s | in Diablo I and have now returned and |
| 2150s | you must fight them once more and uh |
| 2153s | once you beat them uh you're going to be |
| 2155s | able to spawn what's called The Spoils |
| 2157s | of hell and these are chests uh that |
| 2160s | contain a lot of great goodies uh and so |
| 2163s | with that burning Aether you've been |
| 2165s | collecting all through the course of the |
| 2167s | uh mode you're able to choose what kind |
| 2169s | of spoils you want you've got uh Spoils |
| 2173s | of legendaries and uniques uh and |
| 2175s | there's some absolutely uh great new |
| 2178s | uniques and legendaries in uh season |
| 2181s | five and you can probably Farm about |
| 2183s | half of them uh over half of them from |
| 2185s | The Infernal hordes uh you're also able |
| 2187s | to to spawn uh Spoils of materials and |
| 2191s | buy into that and that will get you gem |
| 2193s | shards that will get you Angels breath |
| 2196s | and of course that'll get you master |
| 2197s | working materials which you absolutely |
| 2200s | need to complete your items Journey uh |
| 2202s | you can also uh cash out and get a bunch |
| 2205s | of gold which you know uh for those |
| 2207s | folks who are rrolling their items in |
| 2209s | order to Masterwork them or to enchant |
| 2211s | their items is going to be hugely |
| 2214s | beneficial and then finally uh there's a |
| 2216s | special bonus chest higher tiers where |
| 2218s | you can get a guaranteed role on a |
| 2221s | greater affex item and so um since |
| 2224s | that's one of the the main chases in the |
| 2227s | you know the the final steps of the |
| 2229s | endgame you know we wanted to make sure |
| 2231s | there was an opportunity for players to |
| 2233s | really you know um get a little more |
| 2236s | lucky with it so um final thoughts on |
| 2240s | the infernal hordes remember that it |
| 2242s | unlocks at World tier 3 uh you need an |
| 2244s | infernal compass in order to unlock it |
| 2247s | and there there's eight levels of |
| 2249s | difficulty for |
| 2250s | it and so yeah that's a quick recap |
| 2253s | awesome uh thanks for walking us through |
| 2255s | Dan uh super excited to jump in and try |
| 2257s | to grab some of those uniques now I know |
| 2259s | uh considering the infernal hordes was |
| 2261s | such a big part of PTR uh we did have a |
| 2263s | lot of community feedback with regards |
| 2265s | to you know getting into the mode you |
| 2266s | know some of the pacing so can you walk |
| 2268s | us through some of those learnings we |
| 2269s | had uh based off the PTR feedback oh |
| 2272s | absolutely so uh there was a lot of |
| 2274s | feedback that came in and so much so |
| 2277s | that we weren't able to address it all |
| 2279s | uh but we did distill down some big |
| 2282s | trends and feedback that we were able to |
| 2284s | tackle and so the first off is that uh |
| 2288s | we wanted to improve access to the |
| 2290s | infernal hordes so um yeah it was just |
| 2294s | too hard to get into the mode regularly |
| 2297s | to test it and folks who wanted to get |
| 2299s | into it very quickly couldn't get into |
| 2301s | it either so we've pretty much |
| 2303s | overhauled access to the infernal hordes |
| 2305s | at this point compasses still exist but |
| 2308s | the drop rates on those have been |
| 2309s | boosted quite a bit you we want you to |
| 2311s | earn around four or five compasses an |
| 2313s | hour so that you can do about four or |
| 2315s | five hour uh runs per hour um so you |
| 2318s | know you've got you know 50% chance to |
| 2320s | get them from item chest and Hell Tides |
| 2322s | unless it's one of those item chests |
| 2324s | that cost you know 250 sinders in which |
| 2326s | case that's a 100% chance I mean you put |
| 2328s | in the time we'll just give it to you |
| 2331s | and then you know nightmare dungeons |
| 2333s | Whispers there's about a 75% chance to |
| 2335s | getting get one from a dungeon complete |
| 2337s | there |
| 2338s | you know Compass tiers at really high |
| 2341s | levels um we wanted to make sure drop |
| 2344s | naturally from high tiered activities |
| 2346s | like nightmare dungeons in the pit uh |
| 2348s | and we've also given you a path to just |
| 2350s | crafting these outright with the |
| 2352s | occultist with sigil power and forgotten |
| 2353s | souls and then finally you know uh it |
| 2357s | was a bug that the first compass that |
| 2359s | dropped from the Eternal Quest it was |
| 2361s | actually a world tier three and if you |
| 2363s | were playing World tier four sorry World |
| 2365s | tier 4 uh yeah had to switch back to |
| 2368s | actually get in the infernal hordes and |
| 2370s | that didn't feel great so we updated |
| 2372s | that as well uh moving along the next |
| 2375s | big thing that we focused on was combat |
| 2378s | uh the pacing of combat wasn't hitting |
| 2380s | our goals and you know we had done a lot |
| 2382s | of internal testing on it um and you |
| 2386s | know folks who weren't as in-game |
| 2388s | focused gave us a lot of feedback where |
| 2391s | you know oh this is super intense could |
| 2393s | we dial it back a little bit so we did |
| 2395s | but then we put it out on PTR and clear |
| 2398s | all said hey no we want more so we're |
| 2401s | giving you more um the first thing that |
| 2403s | we did though is we fixed some bugs uh |
| 2406s | that that actually had a really big |
| 2408s | impact on the experience there was a |
| 2410s | boss a boss Health bug man that is hard |
| 2413s | to say boss Health bug that caused all |
| 2415s | the bosses to be super tanky and at tier |
| 2418s | eight there were some folks who were |
| 2420s | spending almost an hour's worth of time |
| 2422s | in The infernals Horde and that just |
| 2425s | that's not what we wanted so uh we fixed |
| 2428s | those bugs and retuned everything so you |
| 2430s | know it's a much tighter experience at |
| 2432s | this point uh similarly there was a bug |
| 2435s | where difficulty wasn't scaling |
| 2436s | appropriate in multiplayer so we fixed |
| 2438s | that uh and then some tuning things so |
| 2441s | uh the pace of mini events are pretty |
| 2444s | much uh rapid fire at high tiers now you |
| 2448s | know and so you're going to be spinning |
| 2449s | a lot of plates in this mode uh the |
| 2452s | monster spawn rates have also been |
| 2453s | increased to you know really capture |
| 2456s | that feeling of being overwhelmed and |
| 2458s | then finally we reduce the wave timer |
| 2459s | down to 60 seconds um which you know |
| 2462s | just creates a much punchier experience |
| 2465s | for players and of course retuned |
| 2467s | everything and then on top of that we |
| 2470s | said you know what let's just make it |
| 2472s | easier for players to pick up burning |
| 2473s | ather to increase that pace so the pets |
| 2476s | now pick up the burning Aether as |
| 2478s | well and that's not all uh now of course |
| 2482s | you know we're all playing this for the |
| 2484s | rewards right and so it was really |
| 2487s | important for us to improve rewards |
| 2489s | across the board you spend time with the |
| 2491s | mode you want to be rewarded |
| 2492s | appropriately and we weren't hitting |
| 2494s | that Mark in the PTR so uh we raised the |
| 2497s | minimum amount of burning Aether earned |
| 2499s | from any single run first off every |
| 2502s | single source of Aether got boosted by |
| 2504s | one ather and then we added Aether drops |
| 2506s | to the Fel Council so that um you're |
| 2509s | also getting uh you know a lot of bang |
| 2512s | for your buck just by defeating the boss |
| 2514s | as well and that actually scales per |
| 2515s | tier as well next next up we retuned all |
| 2518s | the costs of The Spoils of hell so you |
| 2521s | know the greater equipment that one with |
| 2523s | the greater ax in it used to cost 250 |
| 2526s | Now it only cost 60 similarly we retuned |
| 2529s | The Spoils of equipment and The Spoils |
| 2531s | of materials so now they only cost 28 or |
| 2533s | a piece and then finally we retuned all |
| 2536s | the rewards that were inside you know |
| 2539s | the the chest as well so you know at |
| 2541s | your bare minimum level when you first |
| 2543s | start playing The Infernal hordes and |
| 2545s | you're not sure exactly how it works we |
| 2547s | still want you to feel rewarded just for |
| 2549s | the time that you invested and so the |
| 2551s | rewards at that bare minimum feel pretty |
| 2554s | good now but you know if you are |
| 2557s | spending a lot of time with it you know |
| 2558s | how to optimize this mode we wanted to |
| 2561s | make sure that you know the rewards |
| 2563s | reflected that too so that that higher |
| 2566s | you know um sealing of rewards has been |
| 2569s | raised as well so you're playing at tier |
| 2571s | eight you are going to get significantly |
| 2574s | more rewards than you would at tier one |
| 2578s | awesome awesome yeah that's quite a bit |
| 2581s | that's a lot of stuff I just want Dan |
| 2584s | your shirt is amazing I was interrupt |
| 2587s | but I didn't want to while he was |
| 2589s | talking now I just want that shirt and |
| 2591s | I'm very jealous that I don't actually |
| 2593s | own that shirt so I will message you |
| 2596s | after the stream to let me know where I |
| 2598s | can get this shirt yeah I think someone |
| 2600s | on the team made it so I was like yeah I |
| 2603s | I needed a new shirt for the live stream |
| 2605s | so that is her art 100% yes now we know |
| 2608s | okay now I know and it is totally |
| 2611s | awesome I had to wa it is Aaron I |
| 2613s | totally know we will be touching base |
| 2616s | after the stream yes um yeah Dan that's |
| 2619s | a ton of changes uh it sounds like we're |
| 2621s | really cranking up the intensity for the |
| 2622s | infernal hordes um really really cool to |
| 2625s | see uh super excited to jump into it uh |
| 2627s | so I know for the infernal hordes that's |
| 2629s | one part of the season that's coming but |
| 2631s | there was a lot that players didn't get |
| 2632s | to experience in the PTR uh that will be |
| 2635s | coming with the season so can you kind |
| 2636s | of share what's going to be new for |
| 2637s | players uh coming into season 5 yeah |
| 2640s | absolutely so the PTR was really focused |
| 2643s | on features that were on both the |
| 2645s | Eternal realm and the seasonal realm and |
| 2648s | we have a number of seasonal exclusive |
| 2650s | features that yall haven't had a chance |
| 2652s | to play with yet so we're going to tell |
| 2654s | you about them now uh first up we've got |
| 2656s | the seasonal progression so you're going |
| 2658s | to see uh what we call the reputation |
| 2660s | system uh in some footage here in just a |
| 2663s | second and the reputation system is |
| 2666s | something that we had in season 4 and |
| 2669s | actually earlier in some events and we' |
| 2671s | brought it back here because it serves |
| 2672s | as a great backbone for the season and |
| 2675s | we've evolved it in some significant |
| 2677s | ways uh so first off how you earn |
| 2679s | reputation is a bit different now it was |
| 2682s | really important for us in season five |
| 2683s | to give you more of a play uh give you |
| 2686s | more choice in how you wanted to earn |
| 2688s | your |
| 2688s | reputation so previously in season four |
| 2691s | you earn reputation through just playing |
| 2693s | hell Tides as you should cuz we made a |
| 2695s | lot of improvements to Hell tides in |
| 2696s | season 4 but here we wanted to broaden |
| 2699s | it out a bit more so you earn reputation |
| 2701s | in season five by just defeating |
| 2704s | powerful Servants of Hell uh Elites |
| 2707s | hellborne Champions bosses so on and so |
| 2710s | forth right and so that gives you a lot |
| 2713s | more choice to say Hey you know I can |
| 2715s | earn reputation in Hell Tides or I want |
| 2717s | to earn it in the infernal hordes or |
| 2719s | honestly I want to take a break and do a |
| 2720s | stronghold you'll get reputation there |
| 2723s | too um another small tweak that we made |
| 2726s | that's pretty important is that when you |
| 2728s | pick up reputation um you actually get a |
| 2731s | small boost in XP as well so as you're |
| 2735s | continually filling out your reputation |
| 2737s | track uh you're starting to level up |
| 2739s | just a little more quickly than you did |
| 2742s | before now um another thing that you |
| 2745s | might have seen are these big green |
| 2747s | tiles in the reputation system and those |
| 2750s | are seasonal quests so we made it very |
| 2753s | clear that hitting certain tiers of your |
| 2756s | reputation system now unlock the |
| 2758s | seasonal quests and it actually starts |
| 2760s | to weave The Narrative through the |
| 2762s | progression a bit more which uh we |
| 2764s | really like the feel of and we hope to |
| 2766s | build on in the future and then finally |
| 2769s | you know again it's all about the |
| 2770s | rewards right so there's lots of great |
| 2773s | returning rewards in the uh reputation |
| 2775s | system you're going to be able to earn |
| 2777s | you uniques specifically class-based |
| 2779s | uniques they're going to help you uh |
| 2782s | figure out what you want your build to |
| 2784s | be early on in the season you're also |
| 2786s | going to be able to get get other |
| 2787s | powerful equipment big drops of crafting |
| 2790s | materials and of course at the very end |
| 2792s | of the reputation track will be a |
| 2794s | resplendant spark that you can use to |
| 2797s | ultimately craft a Mythic |
| 2800s | unique um next up we've got the seasonal |
| 2803s | quest line you know I was teasing it up |
| 2805s | a little bit with the uh reputation |
| 2807s | system there uh so the season of The |
| 2810s | Infernal hordes has a rather unique |
| 2812s | narrative flow uh because we have an |
| 2815s | eternal quest line that |
| 2817s | introduces you know a big new feature |
| 2820s | that takes you back to hell right and so |
| 2822s | we wanted to make sure that was |
| 2824s | available to everybody not just seasonal |
| 2826s | players and that also starts at World |
| 2828s | tier |
| 2829s | 3 now those of you who played the PTR |
| 2832s | have already seen it that's the one that |
| 2833s | features lcan helping you to to get back |
| 2836s | to hell and confront the infernal hordes |
| 2839s | but we've developed an additional |
| 2841s | secondary well not really secondary an |
| 2844s | additional seasonal quest line named of |
| 2847s | lambs and wolves uh which we're kind of |
| 2849s | teasing right here and new NPC name |
| 2852s | Estelle is guiding you to become more |
| 2855s | powerful before you join lran to uh |
| 2858s | Journey Back To Hell now this one's |
| 2860s | going to be a little closer in tone to |
| 2862s | the iron wolves um uh quest in season 4 |
| 2866s | but it's going to be a bit more |
| 2867s | expansive than that and like I said it |
| 2869s | weaves in and out of the seasonal |
| 2871s | progression so how do they relate to one |
| 2873s | another well the seasonal quest line is |
| 2876s | exclusive to se season five and so you |
| 2879s | are able to uh get a really more |
| 2883s | complete picture of the story by playing |
| 2886s | both uh the seasonal quest line and the |
| 2889s | Eternal Quest line you can kind of think |
| 2891s | of the seasonal quest line as almost |
| 2892s | like a prequel to you Unlocking The |
| 2894s | Infernal hordes and uh but we also |
| 2898s | wanted to make sure that our Eternal |
| 2899s | players don't get left out this is an |
| 2901s | eternal mode that we're introducing |
| 2902s | after all with the infernal hordes and |
| 2905s | so you know the infernal or rather the |
| 2906s | atal quest line here which is uh named |
| 2910s | eyes of the enemy um is going to be |
| 2913s | available for all players and won't go |
| 2915s | away after the season ends so it's going |
| 2917s | to be there forever so if you decide |
| 2920s | sometime down the road that you want to |
| 2922s | check out the infernal hordes and say I |
| 2924s | don't know season six you can do that |
| 2926s | right and so uh yeah that's where we |
| 2930s | ended up with the uh quest lines this |
| 2932s | season and then the final thing I want |
| 2935s | to introduce are the hellbach dungeons |
| 2937s | which we've gotten a few teases of |
| 2939s | before but we can go into more detail |
| 2941s | here so these are all new micro dungeons |
| 2944s | uh to show that hell has started taking |
| 2946s | root in |
| 2948s | sanctuary now since the infernal hordes |
| 2950s | is an endgame activity World tier 3 plus |
| 2953s | we wanted to make sure we had some |
| 2954s | content that targeted our world tier one |
| 2956s | and two players and so you go into these |
| 2959s | it's going to be a great source of |
| 2961s | reputation it's going to be a great |
| 2963s | place to get some powerful items and um |
| 2967s | it's a pretty cool place to just kind of |
| 2970s | experience what the gaml is going to be |
| 2972s | like down the road now originally we had |
| 2975s | kind of patterned these off the uh |
| 2976s | danheim tunnels you know uh if you all |
| 2979s | remember those uh but you know with the |
| 2982s | introduction of Hell tide and in season |
| 2984s | 4 we had to change change up change it |
| 2987s | up a little bit because I don't think |
| 2989s | that alone would have sufficed and so |
| 2992s | what we did is we pulled in a lot of |
| 2993s | elements from The Infernal hordes and |
| 2995s | we're using this as an opport |
| 2997s | to introduce those elements so you see |
| 2999s | right here we've got a simple infernal |
| 3001s | choice that shows you know that |
| 3003s | basically says okay do I want my boss to |
| 3005s | be a little simpler or a little more |
| 3007s | difficult and you get to choose |
| 3008s | hopefully the person playing chose the |
| 3010s | more difficult one I didn't see but um |
| 3013s | you're going to be rewarded a lot more |
| 3015s | for taking that risk of making the boss |
| 3017s | more difficult and you're going to be |
| 3019s | earning burning Aether and at the end |
| 3020s | they're going to be some spoils that you |
| 3022s | can spend on and like I said you'll get |
| 3024s | some really powerful gear that should |
| 3026s | help you on your journey toward uh |
| 3028s | encountering the uh infernal hordes so |
| 3032s | uh if you want more details on these I |
| 3034s | recommend that you you check out our |
| 3035s | blog that came out two days ago and uh |
| 3038s | yeah thank you Dan that's awesome I I |
| 3042s | gotta say uh chat got pretty excited |
| 3044s | when you mentioned domain tunnels they |
| 3045s | kind of blew up there so definitely |
| 3048s | definitely a fan favorite everyone |
| 3049s | remembers the dopamine tunnels yeah |
| 3052s | right right the uh and it it's it's |
| 3054s | great that there's now like |
| 3055s | opportunities for players within like |
| 3057s | tier one and two to actually be able to |
| 3059s | have other options of leveling up and uh |
| 3062s | with the with these uh new help breaches |
| 3064s | it's yeah it's a good way the new |
| 3067s | content exactly yeah then you get into |
| 3070s | those infernal hordes in World Tour 3 |
| 3071s | and enough away you go yeah that's |
| 3073s | awesome uh Dan thanks so much for |
| 3075s | joining us uh as Dan had mentioned we |
| 3076s | did publish the season the infernal |
| 3078s | hordes blog a little bit earlier this |
| 3079s | week we are going to have patch notes |
| 3081s | that will publish following the Stream |
| 3083s | So for any details we reveal across the |
| 3084s | stream you can check those out for more |
| 3086s | information Dan's going to join us |
| 3088s | towards the end of the stream for our |
| 3089s | Q&A so if you have any questions please |
| 3091s | drop those in twitch chat and we'll be |
| 3092s | pulling them uh to get into those |
| 3094s | towards the end of the stream so we just |
| 3096s | touched on a ton of stuff that's coming |
| 3098s | in season The Infernal hordes itself but |
| 3101s | based off the PTR we also have a ton of |
| 3103s | changes coming across sanctuary and to |
| 3105s | walk us through from the other end of |
| 3107s | the stream Mr Adam I get to pretend like |
| 3110s | I'm I'm I'm the person on the panel uh |
| 3113s | uh I'm going to you designed and did all |
| 3115s | this EXA |
| 3118s | we have a a fantastic uh design team |
| 3120s | here and I am uh going to bring in my my |
| 3123s | inner Colin finer uh to to talk about |
| 3126s | some stuff but yes as Marcus mentioned |
| 3127s | there's a lot of changes a lot of the |
| 3129s | stuff that we actually did talk about in |
| 3130s | the blog and some of the stuff that |
| 3132s | people heard from PTR but there have |
| 3133s | been changes even since PTR and we have |
| 3136s | a few new things in here that will also |
| 3138s | uh squeak in here as we're we're talking |
| 3140s | about it but um one big topic I know |
| 3142s | that everyone brought up after PTR and |
| 3145s | that we even brought up even during our |
| 3146s | PTR stream was hell ties specifically um |
| 3149s | one big topic within hell Tides was |
| 3152s | banful Hearts uh if you guys remember |
| 3155s | back during the PTR stream we talked |
| 3156s | about how uh season 4 everyone had a |
| 3159s | plethora of banful Hearts I mean it felt |
| 3162s | like everyone was always carrying about |
| 3163s | 100 to 150 at any given time and you |
| 3166s | could deposit as many to your heart's |
| 3168s | desire and still always have that same |
| 3170s | amount U we wanted painful Hearts to |
| 3172s | feel a little bit more special uh and so |
| 3174s | during the PTR we actually did take the |
| 3176s | number |
| 3177s | down in terms of how many you would be |
| 3179s | able to earn uh we did hear everyone's |
| 3181s | feedback people were like that that |
| 3183s | feels kind of crappy so we most |
| 3186s | definitely uh readjusted the drop rate |
| 3188s | of binful Hearts to really kind of close |
| 3191s | that Gap in between season 4 and season |
| 3193s | 5 PTR we wanted to make sure that was |
| 3196s | you know it feels better like you won't |
| 3199s | have 150 on you at all times most likely |
| 3202s | but you still have plenty now to to be |
| 3205s | able to uh summon the maiden as well so |
| 3208s | some of the changes that we have coming |
| 3210s | up for baneful hearts and and the uh |
| 3212s | rates that will help with this is we're |
| 3215s | uh bumping up the drop rates off of |
| 3217s | Chess within uh hell tight specifically |
| 3220s | um players will also be able to get a |
| 3221s | guaranteed heart drop off of Hell TI |
| 3223s | commanders now um and then one big thing |
| 3226s | is uh within World bosses Yeah we |
| 3228s | actually have an image of like where |
| 3229s | you'll be able to now get your your hard |
| 3232s | drop rates guaranteed uh is World bosses |
| 3234s | sometimes World bosses actually do spawn |
| 3236s | Within a hell tide zone and we thought |
| 3238s | it would be kind of cool that you know |
| 3240s | hey you killed the world boss there and |
| 3242s | a hell tide happened to be present in |
| 3243s | that specific Zone where the world boss |
| 3244s | is now you'll just get a guaranteed |
| 3246s | three within that that world boss kill |
| 3248s | which is kind of nice so um we're also |
| 3251s | bumping up the drop chance uh to like |
| 3253s | local events uh Mastery chest within |
| 3255s | hell tide and of course harbingers |
| 3257s | within it as well and then one big |
| 3258s | change that we're doing within this as |
| 3260s | well is uh the blood Maiden within World |
| 3262s | Tier 1 and two uh in season 4 and even |
| 3265s | season 5 PTR you would have to deposit |
| 3267s | uh three hearts uh just like World tier |
| 3270s | 3 and World tier 4 We're actually |
| 3271s | tweaking that down to just two so for |
| 3275s | World tier one and two so uh there'll be |
| 3277s | one less like alter pedestal for you to |
| 3280s | deposit a heart for for uh to summon the |
| 3282s | blood Maiden within World tier one and |
| 3284s | two which should help out with you know |
| 3285s | just makes your farming a little bit |
| 3287s | quicker in the early levels exactly |
| 3288s | exactly and it doesn't feel like you're |
| 3290s | needing to put in that many for those |
| 3293s | earlier levels that much easier to chain |
| 3294s | a ton of blood means back to back to |
| 3296s | back exactly yeah so uh next thing we |
| 3298s | did want to talk about is uh uh within |
| 3300s | hell Tides as tortured gifts uh the |
| 3302s | another change for World Tier 1 and two |
| 3304s | uh there will be less sinders required |
| 3306s | to open up uh the torture gift chest |
| 3309s | within uh World Tier 1 and two so it's |
| 3311s | dropping from 100 to 75 |
| 3313s | specifically um and then uh this is |
| 3316s | something we talked about in the last |
| 3317s | stream where it was like really |
| 3318s | difficult for players to actually kind |
| 3320s | of go through a hell tide and complete |
| 3324s | uh you know a a full-on like you know |
| 3327s | Treo Whispers like progression line |
| 3329s | within a hell tide uh so now you'll |
| 3331s | actually be able to earn all 10 Grim |
| 3333s | favors within a hell tide for sure uh |
| 3336s | when it's in one Sub Zone um and |
| 3338s | actually deposit that within the tree of |
| 3340s | Whispers and get the the the whisper |
| 3342s | cash out of it uh I know sometimes it |
| 3344s | would take like PE sometimes two hell |
| 3346s | ties to actually do it or you would have |
| 3348s | to leave the hell tide and go to a |
| 3349s | non-el tide zone to kind of finish it |
| 3350s | off and stuff and so we wanted to make |
| 3352s | sure that was more efficient uh |
| 3354s | specifically within hell tides and and |
| 3356s | then this was a big thing big one uh so |
| 3360s | you know we talked about during the |
| 3361s | season 5 PTR stream that we were uh that |
| 3364s | profane mind cages were a season four |
| 3365s | mechanic it was it |
| 3367s | was and so it was uh it was removed from |
| 3372s | from season 5 heard the feedback and |
| 3375s | people were like wow we really miss mine |
| 3377s | cages bring them back what's going on uh |
| 3380s | so we did bring them back and we brought |
| 3381s | them back like in like a cooler form so |
| 3384s | now you can actually stack up so one |
| 3387s | profane M cages are coming back for |
| 3388s | season 5 you can actually stack these |
| 3390s | now up to 3x in season 5 this is season |
| 3394s | only so this is only on the uh the |
| 3396s | seasonal R specifically but now stacking |
| 3398s | up to 3x does actually boost up uh |
| 3401s | monster pretty significant yeah so |
| 3404s | you'll end up uh you could knock monster |
| 3407s | levels up you know 30 levels if you |
| 3410s | wanted to uh and you will benefit or |
| 3413s | maybe suffer suffer quite a lot uh but |
| 3417s | uh it does give players the option now |
| 3419s | to use uh that and so profane M cages |
| 3421s | are back and in a kind of a cooler form |
| 3423s | for season 5 which really cool and we |
| 3425s | really appreciate the feedback we heard |
| 3427s | from players regarding hell tides on on |
| 3429s | that um next overall just general game |
| 3432s | updates that we do have uh one big thing |
| 3434s | that we're doing is uh we are boosting |
| 3437s | uh legendary drop rates off of really |
| 3439s | pretty much almost like all most content |
| 3441s | like hell Tides nightmare dungeons |
| 3443s | infernal hordes uh for any Monster uh |
| 3445s | that is 100 or higher so you'll be able |
| 3448s | to see and just obtain more legendaries |
| 3450s | that way uh less rares things like that |
| 3453s | uh separately enchanting one big thing |
| 3455s | we heard is you know people were somwhat |
| 3459s | you know blocked a little bit with |
| 3460s | angel's breath um and so we did remove |
| 3463s | Angel's breath as a cost towards uh |
| 3466s | enchanting it's no longer required uh |
| 3468s | we've actually now kind of just swapped |
| 3470s | this over to the respective legendary |
| 3472s | Salvage so for instance armor it would |
| 3474s | be coiling Wards weapons baleful |
| 3475s | fragments and then obstru Sig sigils |
| 3478s | that tongue twister there OB sigils |
| 3481s | abstruse sigils uh but uh you now have |
| 3484s | the ability of being able to do |
| 3486s | enchanting just note that of course go |
| 3488s | cost are still associated with |
| 3489s | enchanting uh but now it's a little bit |
| 3492s | a removing a little bit of that friction |
| 3494s | with with the Angel's breath requirement |
| 3496s | and then this is something that we had |
| 3497s | talked about beforehand which is just |
| 3499s | crowd control uh overall within season 5 |
| 3501s | is going to be a lot better I know uh |
| 3503s | crowd control can be sometimes painful |
| 3505s | either knock down |
| 3507s | knock down and Frozen for a million |
| 3509s | years cry and then dying horribly and so |
| 3513s | CC duration has been essentially just |
| 3515s | pretty much reduced like across the |
| 3517s | board to like 1.5 seconds Max and then |
| 3520s | uh one cool feature is you can also spam |
| 3523s | potions now while you're CCD uh really |
| 3525s | good for like like you know people in |
| 3527s | hardcore or like maybe it's like it |
| 3529s | creates more desperate moments of like |
| 3532s | I'm still dying don't matter what but |
| 3535s | you now have the ability of able to |
| 3537s | potion specifically um if you are CC |
| 3540s | which is really nice we were talking |
| 3542s | about like |
| 3544s | charging when they St you and they do |
| 3546s | the poison AOE as a keyboard Slammer |
| 3548s | myself thank you yes exactly um next |
| 3552s | update we have is World bosses so uh |
| 3556s | funny enough uh this actually fell into |
| 3558s | season 5 PTR but that we forgot to |
| 3561s | actually put it in season 5 PTR notes |
| 3563s | nor and we actually forgot to actually |
| 3566s | mention it we got a lot of reports of |
| 3567s | people going like hey why are World |
| 3569s | bosses like tankier and harder to kill |
| 3571s | fight back now what going on uh so they |
| 3574s | actually had a feature called resilience |
| 3575s | on there essentially resilience uh |
| 3577s | normalizes damage across like all World |
| 3579s | content so it's like if you shared World |
| 3582s | content so like if a bunch of people are |
| 3583s | all coming into a world boss you're you |
| 3586s | should expect to find that the world |
| 3588s | bosses will be a little bit more tankier |
| 3590s | a little bit longer in terms of the |
| 3592s | experience that you're having as you're |
| 3594s | you're fighting against them um uh and |
| 3597s | less you know like hey I blinked and |
| 3600s | it's gone oh oh sweet the boss was here |
| 3602s | for 3 seconds nice yeah EXA three man |
| 3605s | mine they barely even spawn in it was |
| 3607s | actually present in PTR and we actually |
| 3609s | got a lot of people that were going like |
| 3610s | hey I think this is a bug and uh it |
| 3612s | actually wasn't a bug it was just |
| 3613s | something we for we forgot to actually |
| 3615s | mention uh in the in the patch note so |
| 3618s | that is our bad but we do want to make |
| 3620s | sure that everyone's aware that world |
| 3621s | losses now have a feature called |
| 3623s | resilience and that will end up helping |
| 3625s | out with those encounters specific |
| 3627s | separately for bosses um Pit Boss damage |
| 3630s | has been reduced pretty much across the |
| 3632s | board um and then uh one big thing that |
| 3635s | we did want to call out is uh we we got |
| 3637s | a lot of feedback within you know um |
| 3640s | season 4 and and of course the PTR for |
| 3643s | season 5 uh we we well we saw some |
| 3645s | people uh address the changes that we |
| 3648s | were having there um but Pit Bosses had |
| 3651s | uh this tendency within season 4 to have |
| 3654s | like very sharp damage |
| 3657s | uh where it would scale up really hard |
| 3659s | and there there were times where you |
| 3660s | would run into a specific pick boss and |
| 3663s | you um could potentially just get one |
| 3665s | shot based off of like those they're the |
| 3669s | shadow boss like like that |
| 3671s | would one shot you and laugh as they |
| 3674s | left and you died yeah so now uh there |
| 3676s | is a feature within season five where |
| 3678s | those Shadow Pit Boss like aexes will |
| 3681s | appear and they will actually leave kind |
| 3683s | of a stacking debuff onto uh players uh |
| 3686s | now so uh and it can go up to three |
| 3688s | times and then obviously when it gets to |
| 3690s | the max you have a very good chance of |
| 3692s | getting like heavily like like punished |
| 3695s | punished for for taking up to three |
| 3698s | debuffs uh from that end this is really |
| 3700s | to um allow a little bit more |
| 3703s | flexibility for players you know based |
| 3705s | off of the feedback we heard regarding a |
| 3707s | lot of the one shots and things like |
| 3709s | that uh you now have the ability of |
| 3710s | being able to you know take a couple of |
| 3712s | these debuffs and maybe not like |
| 3714s | completely get punished from that it's |
| 3716s | less about like the Perfection kind of |
| 3718s | involved but more so um uh being a |
| 3722s | little bit more forgiving in some of |
| 3723s | those uh opportunities now if you are a |
| 3725s | person that just like like face tanks |
| 3728s | things and goes in and immediately takes |
| 3730s | 3 debuffs uh you're probably still going |
| 3732s | to uh learn that you know that damage is |
| 3735s | still going to be very sharp with the 3D |
| 3737s | so um but it it is something to to help |
| 3740s | out uh in regards to that to be clear |
| 3742s | how that debuff works is every time that |
| 3743s | you get hit with one of those Shadow |
| 3745s | boss mechanics you'll take the debuff |
| 3747s | and it increases all of your damage |
| 3748s | taken so the regular boss is going to |
| 3750s | hit you harder and the shadow bosses are |
| 3751s | going to hit you harder too ex so you |
| 3753s | know you just don't want that to ramp up |
| 3755s | too much because then everything is |
| 3756s | going to be more punishing exactly |
| 3757s | there's a few people already asking |
| 3758s | about those uh debuffs in chat so yeah |
| 3761s | it just increases all your damage taken |
| 3762s | so basically you know you get some |
| 3764s | freebies of getting hit by them you |
| 3765s | really don't want to but then after that |
| 3767s | you got to watch out because then it's |
| 3768s | about as hard as season 4 was exactly so |
| 3772s | um and then another big thing so this |
| 3773s | was something that was actually not |
| 3775s | present in in the PTR but it's something |
| 3777s | that we've heard a lot of feedback about |
| 3779s | and actually a ton of feedback about uh |
| 3782s | and this is group play in uh in pits uh |
| 3785s | in season 4 the way that it worked was |
| 3787s | uh if you were in the pit and you were |
| 3790s | the party leader uh you had three |
| 3792s | friends that joined along you would |
| 3794s | essentially get through the pit you |
| 3795s | would get all the masterworking |
| 3797s | materials uh for yourself 100% of them |
| 3800s | and then everyone else around uh that |
| 3802s | joined you would only get about like 50% |
| 3805s | and uh it felt pretty punishing uh for |
| 3808s | for people to really kind of join up |
| 3809s | with friends and run through pits and we |
| 3812s | heard a lot of feedback of like hey it'd |
| 3813s | be great if like if I'm just joining my |
| 3815s | friend we can all just get you know uh |
| 3817s | 100% of the pit material rewards and so |
| 3820s | that is being tweaked for season 5 now |
| 3822s | the whole entire party itself will end |
| 3824s | up receiving uh 100% of the uh the the |
| 3827s | materials that you end up receiving at |
| 3828s | the end of the pit um so we appreciate |
| 3831s | the feedback thank you guys for for |
| 3832s | letting us know and and this is |
| 3834s | something that wasn't in PTR but will be |
| 3835s | for season |
| 3837s | 5 uh next up we have endgame bosses um |
| 3841s | so this is something of course we talked |
| 3843s | about during the PTR and we do want to |
| 3844s | highlight again because I think this is |
| 3846s | amazing and will save a whole lot of |
| 3847s | time uh you can now resummon endgame |
| 3850s | bosses uh immediately after you end up |
| 3853s | killing them so as you're going through |
| 3854s | the different boss ladders and stuff you |
| 3856s | can uh just resem the alter will |
| 3858s | reappear as you can see in the footage |
| 3860s | and uh throw in the the the mats and Bam |
| 3864s | again you're fighting daral which is |
| 3866s | nice no more exiting the dungeon |
| 3868s | resetting the dungeon running back and |
| 3870s | then having to do it over again this |
| 3872s | should save up a whole lot of time this |
| 3874s | should help a whole lot with farming as |
| 3876s | well specifically for gear and you'll be |
| 3878s | hearing a lot about all this new |
| 3880s | gear from from Adam here in a second um |
| 3883s | but there were some additional changes |
| 3885s | as well to some of the endgame bosses |
| 3886s | that we do have um like for instance the |
| 3889s | first one we going talk about is the |
| 3890s | Beast and Ice the Beast and Ice of |
| 3891s | course had required a Sigil to actually |
| 3894s | summon uh you would to actually create |
| 3897s | the dungeon to to go in to fight the |
| 3899s | Beast and nice there's no longer a Sigil |
| 3901s | that will be required um and also the |
| 3903s | Beast and nice is now way close to the |
| 3904s | dungeon it's going to be a short Dungeon |
| 3906s | Crawl similar to the other endgame |
| 3908s | bosses so you're not having to you know |
| 3910s | go through a lengthy dungeon D just to |
| 3913s | get to the likewise no more sigil dust |
| 3915s | will be required for summoning the Beast |
| 3917s | and ice and then of course we thought |
| 3918s | about internal players in this situation |
| 3919s | because some of them have actually |
| 3920s | crafted a bunch of uh sigils and now |
| 3923s | since sigils are no longer uh required |
| 3925s | uh you can still use those leftover |
| 3927s | sigils to immediately resummon the Beast |
| 3930s | and nice without needing the the mats |
| 3932s | that were that are still required for |
| 3933s | the Beast and ni so it's kind of a a |
| 3935s | nice benefit to them and then of course |
| 3937s | Von also got some updates um Von |
| 3939s | required a bunch of different body parts |
| 3941s | and now uh Varon just requires malignant |
| 3943s | hearts and of course we thought about |
| 3945s | eternal players in this specific |
| 3946s | instance Eternal players can convert |
| 3948s | their old part uh their old body parts |
| 3951s | uh two hearts yeah uh by going to The |
| 3953s | Alchemist that's a magical Alchemist I |
| 3957s | uh but uh if you ever need a spare heart |
| 3959s | you just go to an alchemist that's just |
| 3960s | how it works swap it out yeah that's |
| 3962s | just how it works um but yeah some |
| 3964s | changes coming to that uh and then |
| 3966s | separately endgame bosses uh for for |
| 3969s | endgame bosses the boss ladder uh bosses |
| 3972s | um they won't be dropping rare items |
| 3974s | anymore they're actually just going to |
| 3975s | drop additional gold and of course you |
| 3977s | you'll have your opportunity of getting |
| 3978s | legendaries and uh uniques and Mythic |
| 3981s | uniques from from them so uh but now we |
| 3984s | just remove the rare item drop uh drops |
| 3986s | from them so it it takes up like less of |
| 3989s | the uh the drop chances that you could |
| 3992s | get in terms of uh their their specific |
| 3995s | tables and then on tormented bosses |
| 3997s | tormented bosses now drop five time as |
| 4000s | five times as many boss mats as before |
| 4002s | and of course uh all tormented bosses |
| 4004s | have a better chance of dropping a |
| 4006s | Mythic unique um so we are boosting up |
| 4009s | the the Mythic unique drop there there's |
| 4010s | actually specifics on all this stuff in |
| 4012s | the patch notes that people can read |
| 4014s | afterwards and we've also reduce the uh |
| 4017s | the stigi and stone cost for uh the |
| 4020s | tormented bosses before it was two and |
| 4023s | now it's dropping to one so it should |
| 4025s | help out with players wanting to |
| 4027s | experiment or try out uh some of the |
| 4030s | more difficult uh and game bosses that |
| 4032s | are available which are their tormented |
| 4034s | versions and then uh one big thing that |
| 4036s | is happening and this is uh this is |
| 4038s | something that was kind of mentioned in |
| 4039s | the blog but uh and people will see more |
| 4042s | specifics in the patch notes uh |
| 4043s | experience is changing um uh in terms of |
| 4046s | like the XP bonus from killing higher |
| 4048s | level monsters it's no longer capped in |
| 4051s | um I believe it's now well it's it's |
| 4054s | used to be 10 level more it's still |
| 4057s | capped shall I say it's capped to 30 |
| 4059s | levels that's actually in correct on the |
| 4060s | slide but um it used to be 10 levels |
| 4063s | it's now 30 levels and that's across all |
| 4066s | World tiers so uh if you have for |
| 4070s | example if you are a level 5050 |
| 4072s | character and you kill a level 80 |
| 4075s | monster |
| 4076s | in season 4 you would only get uh level |
| 4082s | expence now you'll get up to that level |
| 4084s | 80 experience so uh it should help out a |
| 4087s | lot if you are willing to go through |
| 4088s | more challenging content bam you get |
| 4090s | more XP for it so which is really cool |
| 4092s | and it's also really nice that because |
| 4094s | it it plays really well into the |
| 4096s | stacking profane mine |
| 4098s | cages available because that can |
| 4101s | actually also increase monster level by |
| 4103s | 30 levels as well so it's kind of a um |
| 4106s | a cool little H add-on you could say |
| 4108s | from that so yeah pretty sweet uh yeah I |
| 4111s | think that's it for General game updates |
| 4113s | yeah |
| 4116s | but yeah as I talked about a bunch yeah |
| 4121s | it's all on the patch notes you guys |
| 4122s | will see the patchet afterwards um but |
| 4124s | uh yeah yeah really amazing to have all |
| 4126s | those changes uh chat was absolutely |
| 4128s | lighting up regards to all the you know |
| 4130s | changes of the pit and of course even |
| 4132s | though we've shown the the boss |
| 4133s | summoning reset again they got just as |
| 4135s | excited so so awesome to see and I you |
| 4137s | know we really appreciate everyone's |
| 4139s | feedback during PTR and hearing |
| 4141s | especially about the hell tide stuff and |
| 4143s | you know we totally hear you guys and we |
| 4144s | want to make sure that you know people |
| 4146s | got to experience still still enjoy hell |
| 4149s | TI to the the |
| 4152s | fullest you know what I mean exactly |
| 4154s | exactly no it's really cool to see those |
| 4156s | profane mind cages coming back but yeah |
| 4159s | Adam thank you so much for that yeah uh |
| 4161s | and now everyone hope you're comfortable |
| 4163s | because we got a ton to go over with |
| 4165s | regards to uh updates uniques some bugs |
| 4168s | fixes a ton of class balance changes uh |
| 4172s | who better to walk us through Mr Adam |
| 4173s | Jackson yeah let's do it so we got a lot |
| 4175s | to talk about today I'll try and go as |
| 4177s | quickly as possible um so yeah firstly |
| 4179s | you know thank you all for your feedback |
| 4181s | and comments you know we got a lot of |
| 4182s | class related feedback on the PTR a lot |
| 4185s | of balanced feedback a lot of just how |
| 4186s | it feels to play Things um and we |
| 4188s | actually reacted pretty heavily and did |
| 4191s | a lot of changes between PTR and season |
| 4192s | 5 launch uh some of which I think some |
| 4195s | people know and some things are going to |
| 4196s | be new for you today so uh really yeah |
| 4198s | we have a lot of things that that |
| 4200s | changed uh in many ways honestly it's |
| 4203s | going to feel like almost from a balance |
| 4205s | perspective and kind of a what your |
| 4206s | class can do in your journey it's going |
| 4208s | to feel almost like a very different |
| 4209s | game compared to what you experien on |
| 4210s | the PTR I'm going to go through a lot of |
| 4212s | like the systemic reasons why and then |
| 4214s | some specific things that we did to |
| 4215s | every class as well as of course |
| 4217s | updating all of our uniques and kind of |
| 4219s | the impact that you can expect from that |
| 4221s | so uh lots to talk about so first we're |
| 4224s | going be talking about bug fixes um |
| 4226s | we've got quite a few to go through um |
| 4228s | that I think are pretty notable again |
| 4229s | we're going to be doing the class |
| 4230s | balance updates after that and then the |
| 4232s | unique changes so those will be the |
| 4234s | three things I'm going to be covering |
| 4236s | today so uh firstly as usual you know |
| 4238s | we're going to be publishing the patch |
| 4239s | notes right after this so you can read |
| 4241s | all of them I'm not going to cover |
| 4242s | everything today but just some of the |
| 4244s | more notable ones uh so first uh is one |
| 4247s | on the Necromancer that we've heard |
| 4248s | about for a while now it's a shielding |
| 4250s | storm uh this is a legendary that when |
| 4252s | your bone storm damages enemies you get |
| 4254s | a barrier equal to your Max life uh it |
| 4256s | used to be based on your base life |
| 4258s | instead of your max life and now we |
| 4260s | finally fixed that uh to be clear this |
| 4262s | is a pretty huge buff um we may have to |
| 4265s | re re-evaluate the power of this a |
| 4266s | little later but we're going to see how |
| 4267s | it goes but now that barrier is going to |
| 4269s | be very significant as you're hitting |
| 4271s | enemies with this |
| 4272s | aspect uh next we got a couple on the |
| 4274s | Barbarian uh the first one is the |
| 4276s | Twister glyph this is a paragon node |
| 4277s | glyph it wasn't properly giving you a |
| 4279s | bonus multiplicative damage when casting |
| 4281s | dust lbls so dust double builds will be |
| 4283s | a little bit stronger we also an issue |
| 4286s | with the tempering earthquake duration |
| 4288s | um beforehand there was a bug where it |
| 4290s | was actually lowering the DPS of |
| 4291s | earthquake CU it was increased the |
| 4292s | duration and then your DPS would go down |
| 4294s | so we fixed that so it's now actually |
| 4296s | just going to make you hit |
| 4298s | harder uh next one uh I'm going to call |
| 4301s | our one of our content creators Woody |
| 4303s | Joe uh here this is why we have PTR uh |
| 4306s | he found a neat little oversight that we |
| 4308s | had with a passive called trick attacks |
| 4310s | and I'm actually going to go over this |
| 4311s | in a little bit of detail |
| 4314s | because seems |
| 4316s | 39 rank offensive passive is pretty good |
| 4320s | so uh a little bit of background to this |
| 4322s | basically we changed how this passive |
| 4324s | trick attacks what it does it went from |
| 4326s | something that was more utility based |
| 4327s | where it was around CC and we turned it |
| 4329s | into damage but we didn't update under |
| 4332s | the hood for like tempering and where it |
| 4333s | can appear from a utility to a damage |
| 4336s | recipe of where it would show up and so |
| 4338s | it was appearing on utility which is a |
| 4339s | lot more uh common than damage and then |
| 4342s | you could get it to silly ranks like |
| 4343s | this so to fix this um right now or on |
| 4348s | the PTR I should say it was on this |
| 4350s | recipe called Alchemist control where it |
| 4352s | was with chilling weight and Shadow |
| 4353s | crash which are also like CC based uh |
| 4356s | passives um for season 5 launch we're |
| 4359s | actually going to be disabling this |
| 4361s | recipe from dropping you won't be able |
| 4362s | to see it for a patch uh while we fix |
| 4365s | this bug and what we're going to do is |
| 4368s | once we reenable the The Alchemist |
| 4370s | control WP to drop trick attacks won't |
| 4372s | be on here anymore what we're actually |
| 4373s | going to be doing is we're going to be |
| 4374s | taking flurry size from another recipe |
| 4377s | called Rogue Innovation here um we're |
| 4379s | going to be moving flurry size which is |
| 4380s | more of a utility based thing and moving |
| 4383s | that over to Alchemist control and then |
| 4384s | just removing trick attacks from |
| 4386s | Alchemist control so the net effect of |
| 4388s | this will be that now both recipes will |
| 4391s | have or yeah both tempering recipes will |
| 4392s | have three different options of what you |
| 4394s | can have there and Rogue Innovation will |
| 4395s | actually have a little bit of a buff |
| 4397s | here too because instead of having four |
| 4398s | things to you know roll for your tempers |
| 4400s | we're only going to have three so it'll |
| 4402s | be a little bit easier to get what you |
| 4403s | want |
| 4406s | uh next we're going to be talking about |
| 4407s | uh some generic class balance updates so |
| 4410s | kind of to set you up a high Lev theme |
| 4412s | that we're going to see in our feedback |
| 4413s | from PTR was barbarians are really |
| 4415s | really good and oh every other class is |
| 4417s | kind of a little bit weak it feels like |
| 4419s | compared to barbarians so uh we did a |
| 4422s | lot of things to address this so first I |
| 4424s | want to go into detail a little bit of |
| 4425s | how we feel about barbarians and where |
| 4427s | they're at and what we want to do um we |
| 4429s | feel like one of the bigger reasons why |
| 4431s | barbarians are so strong is that they |
| 4432s | kind of have two class mechanics |
| 4434s | compared to other classes right they |
| 4435s | have the expertise system which is like |
| 4437s | a normal class mechanic where you know |
| 4439s | they have this fantasy of leveling up |
| 4440s | their weapons and then they get bonuses |
| 4442s | but then they also get more item slots |
| 4443s | compared to other classes so they get |
| 4445s | more access to more legendary |
| 4447s | Powers um as far as how we tackle this |
| 4450s | we don't want our only solution to be to |
| 4452s | Nerf barbarians right like a common |
| 4454s | thing that we hear is like hey they have |
| 4456s | more item slots maybe you should just |
| 4458s | get rid of the item slots so that |
| 4459s | everybody has parody right like that is |
| 4461s | a way to make parody but you know it |
| 4463s | takes away from their theme of being a |
| 4464s | master of weapons and it's not very fun |
| 4467s | um so that's not the only thing that we |
| 4469s | want to do in this situation uh the |
| 4471s | other thing is that we want to keep |
| 4472s | their class identity right um another |
| 4474s | common suggestion we hear is well just |
| 4476s | give all the other classes more item |
| 4478s | slots so that they're the same as |
| 4479s | Barbarian right and similarly kind of |
| 4481s | like how necromancers have minions we |
| 4483s | don't want to give every class minions |
| 4484s | just because you know they don't have |
| 4485s | access to the cool thing that |
| 4486s | necromancers do we don't want to just |
| 4488s | give every class you know more slots so |
| 4491s | that they're exactly the same as |
| 4491s | Barbarian we want to really try and keep |
| 4494s | what makes them feel special as a |
| 4495s | special thing and find other ways to |
| 4498s | kind of bring parody to the classes so |
| 4501s | here's kind of our strategy of what |
| 4503s | we're thinking of with barbarians we |
| 4504s | have a few different things that we're |
| 4505s | going to be doing uh one is we're |
| 4507s | actually going to be adjusting how much |
| 4508s | damage all the classes get from their |
| 4509s | core stat and this is going to bring |
| 4511s | other classes up to the level of |
| 4512s | Barbarian I'm going to be going over |
| 4513s | that in a little bit uh we are going to |
| 4516s | be reducing the power of Barbarians as |
| 4518s | part of our solution but again I want to |
| 4519s | point out it's not the only thing that |
| 4521s | we want to do and then we also want to |
| 4523s | Target the other class mechanics and |
| 4525s | really bring them up to the level of the |
| 4527s | Barbarian effectively having too and |
| 4529s | making the other classes feel cool in |
| 4531s | the way that makes them thematic and |
| 4532s | awesome uh we already actually |
| 4534s | experimented with this in season 4 this |
| 4536s | was an intentional thing that we did and |
| 4537s | we wanted to see how it went with the |
| 4539s | Necromancer uh if you remember we buffed |
| 4541s | minions very heavily and we also buffed |
| 4543s | the Book of the Dead their class |
| 4544s | mechanic very heavily uh not just |
| 4546s | numbers but also in the cool Factor |
| 4548s | right you have mechanics like you know |
| 4549s | your minions can throw bone Spears or |
| 4551s | you know your Golem can do bone spikes |
| 4553s | everywhere and make enemies vulnerable |
| 4554s | we want to do this kind of treatment to |
| 4556s | the other class mechanics uh just to be |
| 4559s | clear we're going to be probably doing |
| 4560s | this after the vessel of hatred |
| 4561s | expansion launches so it'll be a little |
| 4563s | bit so we are doing some things in the |
| 4565s | meantime to catch them up but you can |
| 4567s | expect uh in the future we're going to |
| 4569s | be doing kind of a big overhaul to the |
| 4570s | other classes similarly to the Book of |
| 4572s | the Dead and so their cool factor and |
| 4574s | their power level is going to be going |
| 4577s | up so let's talk about that course stat |
| 4579s | update that I talked about uh previously |
| 4581s | so basically what we're doing here is |
| 4583s | we're going to be changing the amount of |
| 4584s | damage that every class get gets from |
| 4585s | their core stat so if you didn't know on |
| 4588s | live right now when you log into the |
| 4589s | game you get about 1% more damage per 10 |
| 4592s | stat of your class so as an example you |
| 4595s | know the the I don't know pick one the |
| 4598s | Sorceress you know with intelligence you |
| 4599s | would have 10 int and then you get 1% |
| 4601s | more damage if you had 100 in you'd have |
| 4603s | 10% more damage and so on so now it's |
| 4606s | going to actually depend on the class |
| 4608s | what that ratio is of how much damage |
| 4609s | you get per your core stat so the |
| 4611s | Barbarian is going to be staying exactly |
| 4613s | the same uh 1% more damage per 10 |
| 4615s | strength the Rogue is going to get a |
| 4617s | little bit of of a buff here because |
| 4619s | they do have a little bit more uh slots |
| 4620s | compared to other classes so they're |
| 4621s | going to be getting 1% more damage per |
| 4623s | nine decks and then the other three |
| 4625s | classes the Sorceress Druid and |
| 4627s | Necromancer are going to be getting 1% |
| 4628s | more damage per eight core stat so you |
| 4631s | know without doing a lot of math the |
| 4632s | tldr here is barbarians are staying the |
| 4635s | same uh Rogues are going to get a bit of |
| 4636s | a bump a bit of a buff and the other |
| 4638s | three classes are going to get even more |
| 4640s | damage so as you get that core stat |
| 4641s | which you get very commonly you know in |
| 4643s | gear and Paragon and other places you're |
| 4645s | just going to be doing more damage it's |
| 4646s | just a passive way that we're going to |
| 4648s | be catching up the classes uh stat-wise |
| 4652s | so next let's move on to kind of our |
| 4654s | class updates so I'm going to be going |
| 4656s | through all the different classes and |
| 4657s | talking about kind of what our updates |
| 4659s | are going to be for them um some of the |
| 4661s | things you can expect uh that are |
| 4662s | different from PTR to |
| 4665s | launch so Barbarian um you know |
| 4668s | currently Barbarians in addition to |
| 4670s | having more item slots I have some of |
| 4671s | the best key passives in the game like |
| 4673s | in season 4 and on live um one of the |
| 4675s | bit the very main ways that we're |
| 4677s | targeting bringing them down is reducing |
| 4679s | the power level so that really their key |
| 4681s | passes are comparable to other classes |
| 4683s | uh we on the team felt like you know |
| 4685s | they already have all these other things |
| 4686s | are really strong going for them they |
| 4688s | don't need like overly sted way powerful |
| 4691s | key passives that do like you know over |
| 4693s | 100% multiplicative damage when the |
| 4695s | other classes are doing way less um so |
| 4698s | you did see that on the PTR we did see a |
| 4700s | lot of feedback on like why are we |
| 4702s | bringing down walking Arsenal to have |
| 4703s | parody when you know it wasn't even |
| 4705s | really meta compared to the other key |
| 4706s | passes and I just kind of wanted to |
| 4708s | bring some light to this of how we think |
| 4710s | about it um the reason why we brought |
| 4712s | Rocky and Arsenal to be level with the |
| 4713s | other ones when we brought them to be |
| 4714s | equal to other classes is that you know |
| 4717s | we want all the key passes on Barbarian |
| 4719s | to have parity with each other if we |
| 4721s | just brought down the other key passes |
| 4722s | that were way overperforming and didn't |
| 4724s | bring walking Arsenal down to be even |
| 4726s | with them then really walking Arsenal is |
| 4727s | just going to be the best mandatory pick |
| 4729s | and every Barbarian Build is going to |
| 4730s | have to interact with this system and we |
| 4732s | did we really wanted them to be equal |
| 4734s | with each other so that you know there's |
| 4736s | actually a choice when you get to your |
| 4737s | key passive of which one to take so I |
| 4739s | just wanted to clarify that of you know |
| 4741s | what our thinking was |
| 4743s | there but you know it's not all doom and |
| 4745s | gloom for barbarians uh you know we did |
| 4747s | hear feedback of like man it really |
| 4749s | sucks you know I understand that they're |
| 4750s | being brought down and it's fair but you |
| 4752s | know we want to have some things to look |
| 4753s | forward to so we did introduce a number |
| 4755s | of Buffs coming in between PTR and live |
| 4757s | so that you have some things to look |
| 4758s | forward to and new build paths or your |
| 4761s | you know underperforming builds are not |
| 4763s | being brought down as well um so I'm |
| 4765s | going to give a couple of examples here |
| 4766s | one is Hammer the Ancients uh we |
| 4768s | increase ex damage Baseline by 10% uh |
| 4771s | and we also adjusted the of ancestral |
| 4772s | Force legendary uh one of the trouble |
| 4775s | troubling things that this build has |
| 4776s | problems with is like single Target |
| 4778s | damage against bosses and things you |
| 4780s | know it does really good in AOE and |
| 4781s | brings down enemies but EX single |
| 4782s | targets a little bit lacking so we're |
| 4784s | upgrading this Legendary Power so now |
| 4786s | it's going to be doing more damage |
| 4787s | against bosses so it'll kind of help you |
| 4789s | with that single Target |
| 4791s | issue another one is upheaval uh |
| 4793s | upheaval builds can rejoice and also a |
| 4795s | little bit of a preview of kind of how |
| 4797s | we're changing uniques which I'll be |
| 4798s | going over a lot more later uh but we're |
| 4800s | increasing upal damage by about 15% and |
| 4802s | we also uh rounded out hellhammer now |
| 4804s | it's quite a bit more powerful I can |
| 4806s | point out a bunch of things here of How |
| 4808s | It's better but you can see uh it gives |
| 4810s | more skill ranks of upheaval compared to |
| 4812s | before uh the damage of its burning on |
| 4814s | the ground just Baseline went up it also |
| 4816s | has scaling on the burning damage so you |
| 4819s | know before the burning damage wasn't |
| 4820s | really a meaningful part of the unique |
| 4822s | um one of the things you're going to see |
| 4823s | with uniques across the board is they're |
| 4825s | going to be a lot more about the |
| 4826s | Thematic of what the unique is and |
| 4828s | that's where their power is going to be |
| 4830s | so here the burning ground actually will |
| 4831s | scale with your strength at a pretty |
| 4833s | significant degree so you know it'll |
| 4835s | actually be doing meaningful damage |
| 4836s | hopefully um you can also see X inherent |
| 4839s | AIX now is damaged to burning enemies um |
| 4841s | instead of overpower damage so it's |
| 4843s | going with that theme of hellhammer |
| 4844s | burning the ground it's also giving you |
| 4846s | uh skill ranks of wall up a passive so |
| 4848s | that's more multiplicative damage you |
| 4850s | also get upheaval size so now you're |
| 4851s | burning ground and your upheaval is |
| 4853s | going to be bigger so there there's just |
| 4854s | all kinds of new things going on it's |
| 4856s | going to be a lot cooler a lot more |
| 4857s | powerful um and hopefully a lot more fun |
| 4860s | yeah Hull Hammer looks absolutely insane |
| 4862s | yeah and 300 strength also by the way no |
| 4865s | big deal 360 strength yeah no big deal |
| 4867s | no big deal um it's going to be pretty |
| 4869s | good uh so next the sourceress uh we got |
| 4871s | a whole lot of feedback that you know |
| 4873s | the Sorceress isn't powerful enough |
| 4874s | compared to other classes we got so much |
| 4877s | I I'm going to stop us right here we got |
| 4879s | so much feedback about the just a little |
| 4881s | bit and the Druid and the Druid and |
| 4885s | I will just note like we hear you guys |
| 4888s | we absolutely do okay now you may |
| 4890s | continue so uh for the sorcer |
| 4893s | specifically we heard feedback that |
| 4894s | they're not powerful enough so we did |
| 4895s | quite a few things to address it um |
| 4898s | firstly they've got a lot of large Buffs |
| 4899s | to their uniques um I would say even |
| 4901s | more than other classes your uniques are |
| 4903s | going to feel really good uh is the Hope |
| 4905s | and I think we've hit it and I'll be |
| 4907s | going over some of them a little bit |
| 4908s | later um we also buffed all of their |
| 4910s | core and Mastery skills by about 15 to |
| 4912s | 20% so just Baseline remember this is an |
| 4914s | addition to the core stat buff all of |
| 4916s | your core Mastery skills are also |
| 4918s | getting buffed Baseline by a pretty |
| 4920s | significant degree so you're just going |
| 4921s | to hit |
| 4923s | harder um we also did multiple defensive |
| 4925s | Buffs you know we heard a lot of |
| 4926s | feedback that they have trouble |
| 4927s | surviving in situations that the other |
| 4928s | classes can kind of get away with um |
| 4930s | these are some examples we did more than |
| 4932s | this but ice armor your base shield |
| 4934s | amount is going up from 40% to 56% of |
| 4936s | your max life uh snow veiled aspect this |
| 4940s | one was updated from PTR to launch so on |
| 4942s | PTR it was that your ice armor gave you |
| 4945s | Unstoppable and gave you armor and on |
| 4947s | launch you're still going to get |
| 4948s | Unstoppable but you're going to get |
| 4949s | damage reduction which you know anyone |
| 4950s | who knows how the defenses in this game |
| 4952s | work is way more significant than just |
| 4954s | getting armor yeah when you hit that |
| 4955s | armor cap it's kind of like you just |
| 4957s | want to gobble up Dr like Pac-Man as |
| 4960s | much as you can get more the better and |
| 4961s | this is going to give the Dr is going to |
| 4963s | be huge very big um also we did multiple |
| 4966s | Buffs to the Paragon board again this is |
| 4969s | not covering everything um but one of |
| 4971s | the things is that you know we put a lot |
| 4972s | of caps to make sure that some Paragon |
| 4974s | noes just didn't go of control compared |
| 4975s | to everything else but we heard feedback |
| 4977s | that you know those caps were a little |
| 4978s | bit too punishing so we increase them an |
| 4981s | example here is burning Instinct where |
| 4983s | you know on PTR it capped at 40% more |
| 4985s | multiplicative damage and we increased |
| 4987s | that up to 80% so now your burning |
| 4990s | damage that's based on your crit strike |
| 4992s | uh multiplier is going to be going up |
| 4994s | your total amount is going to go up but |
| 4995s | then also the rate that you get it it |
| 4997s | used to be 1% per 50 int now it's 1% per |
| 5000s | 20 in so you going be getting more |
| 5002s | efficient Bane for your buck for your |
| 5003s | int and a total cap that's much |
| 5007s | higher uh so Druid similar to sorceress |
| 5010s | surprise surprise got a lot of feedback |
| 5011s | that it's not powerful enough compared |
| 5013s | to uh the Barbarian or other classes so |
| 5016s | we've got a lot of multiple quality of |
| 5018s | life and damage Buffs coming in again |
| 5020s | these are just some examples um also you |
| 5022s | got remember the uniques are going to be |
| 5023s | coming in as well uh Boulder damage went |
| 5026s | up we increased the damage uh across the |
| 5028s | board of their like core skills mostly |
| 5029s | and we missed Boulders so we're you know |
| 5031s | increasing their damage a bit uh we also |
| 5033s | got a lot of feedback that you know we |
| 5034s | came out with this really cool unique |
| 5035s | for cataclysm that made the lightning |
| 5037s | bolts smart and Target enemies and then |
| 5039s | a lot of people were like hey why why |
| 5041s | does it have to like get a unique to |
| 5043s | make my skill be smart and we agreed so |
| 5046s | we just made the skill smart Baseline so |
| 5048s | now those lightning bolts from the |
| 5049s | ultimate will just Target enemies uh |
| 5051s | Perfect Storm the storm key passive is |
| 5053s | getting ex damage boosted from 30 to 40% |
| 5056s | um seismic shift this was an aspect that |
| 5058s | we think is really cool where your Earth |
| 5060s | Spike kind of goes in a line and does a |
| 5061s | bunch of Earth spikes uh used to have a |
| 5063s | kiss curse mechanic and it no longer |
| 5065s | does so before it used to like give you |
| 5067s | this big bonus of you know way more |
| 5069s | resource redu uh gen and more damage on |
| 5071s | it um but it added a cool down and now |
| 5074s | it just doesn't add a cool down so you |
| 5075s | can spam it and cast a bunch of Earth |
| 5077s | spikes everywhere should be a lot more |
| 5079s | fun um also similar to the Sorceress |
| 5081s | we're buffing their uh little bonus cap |
| 5083s | on their legendary Paragon nodes so an |
| 5086s | example here you know they went from 40 |
| 5087s | to 60% so you've got thunder struck earn |
| 5090s | Devastation and survival instincts um |
| 5092s | we've got a little visual there at the |
| 5094s | bottom note but you can see that that uh |
| 5096s | top end of the damage is now 60% so it's |
| 5098s | going to be better than PTR um also we |
| 5101s | came out with that new unique I mention |
| 5102s | for cataclysm uh it used to be on the |
| 5104s | gloves on PTR which a lot of people |
| 5106s | which we agreed with you know it kind of |
| 5108s | felt bad that you know you've got the |
| 5109s | two storm related uniques on the same |
| 5112s | slot you can't take them together um it |
| 5114s | was competing with unsun Aesthetics |
| 5116s | wraps uh this was the lightning storm |
| 5117s | unique um but now it's going to be on |
| 5119s | the rain slot so now you can take them |
| 5120s | both together so they're not competing |
| 5122s | with each other |
| 5123s | anymore um next is the Rogue so uh to be |
| 5127s | frank the Rogue is we feel like it's in |
| 5128s | a pretty good spot so we didn't do as |
| 5130s | many changes compared to other classes |
| 5132s | we did still do a few that I'll mention |
| 5133s | today but they got the least changes uh |
| 5136s | the first one is flurry so as you know |
| 5138s | if you played the PTR flurry got some |
| 5140s | pretty dramatic updates right both of |
| 5142s | their uh their enhancement and both of |
| 5144s | their choices that you could pick on the |
| 5146s | base skill got changed and and made a |
| 5148s | lot better um we saw that you know a lot |
| 5151s | of the output of flurry was related to |
| 5153s | doing the mechanics that the enhancement |
| 5155s | and the advanced flurry were requiring |
| 5157s | to do like casting it a bunch of times |
| 5158s | in a row and stuff like that and we |
| 5160s | wanted to move some of that damage from |
| 5162s | those enhancements and things into the |
| 5163s | base skill so the enhancement and the |
| 5165s | and the advanced for still going to be |
| 5166s | pretty potent but we lower their damage |
| 5169s | and instead just juice the base skill |
| 5170s | even more and what this is going to mean |
| 5172s | is really just that you're going to be |
| 5173s | more consistently doing that damage and |
| 5175s | you're going to be less reliant on doing |
| 5176s | the stacking mechanics to get |
| 5178s | it uh next wind force uh you know this |
| 5181s | one has had a troubled history of just |
| 5183s | trying to find ways to make it really |
| 5184s | good and useful um instead of knocking |
| 5186s | back enemies when it procs it's going to |
| 5188s | knock them down now so you no longer |
| 5189s | have to worry about like knocking |
| 5190s | enemies out of your CC you know or you |
| 5192s | want them to be grouped up next to you |
| 5194s | and then you're just knocking one of |
| 5195s | them or a few of them away now they're |
| 5196s | just going to go in place um we have a |
| 5198s | before and after here again a little |
| 5199s | preview of what we're doing with our |
| 5201s | uniques um but yeah windforce uh you can |
| 5204s | see some of the things here as a preview |
| 5205s | it's going to give you move speed |
| 5206s | Baseline which is uh pretty interesting |
| 5208s | as a stat on a bow um you've got chance |
| 5211s | for double projectiles for your barrage |
| 5213s | you've got uh a couple a couple passive |
| 5215s | upgrades there and then as you can see |
| 5217s | the damage went up but also now it |
| 5218s | knocks down enemies instead of knocks |
| 5220s | them |
| 5222s | back last but not least the Necromancer |
| 5224s | uh we've been hearing a lot of feedback |
| 5225s | that blood Necromancer players are a |
| 5227s | little sad they just aren't really |
| 5229s | catching up to the other versions of |
| 5230s | necromancer so we've buffed up a bunch |
| 5232s | of their tempering recipes and the |
| 5233s | damage on them we're also buffing their |
| 5235s | legendary Paragon nodes here's some here |
| 5237s | that we did a blood bath this one just |
| 5239s | makes your overpower damage go up it's |
| 5241s | being doubled from 35% to 70% so that's |
| 5244s | pretty me uh blood begets blood that |
| 5247s | damage bonus when you're picking up |
| 5248s | blood orbs is being doubled and the |
| 5250s | maximum amount is being doubled so |
| 5251s | you're getting more per stack and uh you |
| 5253s | need less Stacks to get to your max |
| 5255s | damage so pretty good there and then |
| 5258s | last but not least here a lucky hit uh |
| 5260s | we've heard a lot of feedback from |
| 5261s | Necromancer players that you know they |
| 5263s | kind of rely a lot on the miasma corpse |
| 5265s | explosion to get their lucky hit procs |
| 5267s | off and that their other skills don't |
| 5269s | really compete and so they can't really |
| 5271s | have fun with lucky hit based builds you |
| 5272s | know more generally so we just lucky hit |
| 5275s | on a bunch of different skills so you |
| 5276s | could see there what all the numbers are |
| 5278s | um again those will be on the patch |
| 5280s | notes but really they're just going to |
| 5280s | be lucky hitting more often and getting |
| 5282s | cool procs |
| 5284s | more all right so next uh let's talk |
| 5286s | about uniques a little bit right we've |
| 5288s | got super cover super um as we promised |
| 5292s | you know in the PTR stream uh you know |
| 5295s | we said that you know we had this kind |
| 5296s | of different philosophy when it comes to |
| 5297s | uniques and we went to detail there and |
| 5299s | we updated our uniques coming into |
| 5301s | season 5 but we didn't update all of our |
| 5302s | existing uniques in the game yet so |
| 5304s | we've done that past now um we've |
| 5306s | updated nearly every unique in the game |
| 5308s | and I'm going to do a little bit of a |
| 5309s | recap of kind of how we thought and then |
| 5311s | giving you some examples of what we did |
| 5313s | so these updates are fairly dramatic um |
| 5315s | they're going to be showing you three |
| 5316s | from each class as well as three generic |
| 5318s | ones to give you a really mey idea of |
| 5320s | the different categories and ways that |
| 5322s | we thought of updating uniques and kind |
| 5323s | of you know what you can expect uh for |
| 5325s | your builds yeah and I know um and |
| 5327s | Marcus is going to remind us about this |
| 5329s | at the end as well but like you'll be |
| 5331s | hearing it a lot but I will say uh we |
| 5334s | are showing three here in three for |
| 5335s | every class and three generic ones but |
| 5337s | every single unique is actually uh in |
| 5341s | the patch notes uh and we have a before |
| 5344s | and after in the pat notes so you guys |
| 5346s | will have easy access and you can easily |
| 5348s | compare the two compare the difference |
| 5350s | so after the stream you'll be able to |
| 5352s | compare and so we're just only covering |
| 5353s | a small amount here we'll see everything |
| 5356s | just a little sample serving the pat |
| 5358s | notes are absolutely massive so you'll |
| 5360s | have a lot to lot to snack on there yeah |
| 5363s | um so yeah um so one of the things is |
| 5366s | your general power level of unique |
| 5367s | effects is up and by unique effects I |
| 5369s | want to be clear that is like the thing |
| 5370s | at the bottom that is like you're you |
| 5372s | know deals 40 to 60% more multiplicative |
| 5375s | damage or whatever that number is going |
| 5377s | to be up on the higher end so instead of |
| 5379s | 40 to 60 you know it'll be 40 to 80 or |
| 5381s | 40 to 90 or 40 to whatever right so that |
| 5384s | power level is just going to be |
| 5385s | generally up almost across the board and |
| 5388s | then really what we targeted for these |
| 5389s | updates is the stats on the uniques so |
| 5392s | the stats are going to pretty much break |
| 5393s | every rule that that uh we had in the |
| 5395s | game before when it comes to being a |
| 5396s | cool item so some things that you're |
| 5398s | going to see and I think I got an |
| 5399s | example of most of if not all of these |
| 5401s | but you're going to see uniques that |
| 5402s | have different inherence compared to |
| 5404s | other stats so you know your boot |
| 5406s | inherent you know could be something |
| 5408s | that's not even related to boots or |
| 5410s | movement anymore it could be something |
| 5411s | else or sometimes we had more inherent |
| 5413s | stats so something that didn't exist |
| 5415s | before you know some items can have two |
| 5417s | inherence instead of just one which is a |
| 5419s | pretty big difference we have uh a lot |
| 5421s | more that have stats that break normal |
| 5423s | slot rules so you know things like |
| 5424s | movement speed on bows or cooldown |
| 5426s | reduction on weapons stuff like that um |
| 5428s | uniques also can now have tempering |
| 5430s | affixes right none of them really did |
| 5431s | this at the in season 4 but now that |
| 5433s | tempering is in the game and uniques |
| 5435s | have to compete with these really great |
| 5436s | tempered items uniques can have that too |
| 5439s | um they can also have much higher |
| 5440s | potential stat values compared to normal |
| 5442s | item so you know if a normal item has 20 |
| 5443s | to 40% more damage a unique can be like |
| 5446s | you know 1 to 300% more damage or |
| 5449s | whatever right and we even do this with |
| 5451s | the tempered affixes so youi can have |
| 5453s | Juiced up versions of tempered aices |
| 5455s | that make them solve those problems much |
| 5457s | quicker um also we've introduced a lot |
| 5459s | of stats that really have powerful |
| 5461s | effects on them sometimes even a single |
| 5463s | stat on a unique can have the impact |
| 5465s | that a Legendary Power normally would on |
| 5467s | an item as far as what it does to a |
| 5468s | build and we'll have a couple examples |
| 5470s | of that where like a stat on an item is |
| 5472s | actually giving you a new effect that |
| 5475s | that didn't exist before that you could |
| 5476s | do yeah that's awesome um yeah so again |
| 5479s | we're going to be going through you know |
| 5481s | three examples uh per class and three |
| 5483s | generics and I'm going to just try and |
| 5484s | quickly go through and kind of point out |
| 5486s | some of the the key things that are kind |
| 5488s | of neat about the items so we're going |
| 5489s | to shotgun this a little bit and yeah |
| 5491s | you're going to see some cool items so |
| 5492s | let's get to |
| 5493s | it yeah so first penitent Greaves uh |
| 5496s | this is a generic unique uh you can see |
| 5498s | here this one now has two inherence as |
| 5501s | opposed to one um another thing that you |
| 5503s | can notice is that normally you know the |
| 5504s | inherent the evade grants more move |
| 5506s | speed is only for one second and this |
| 5508s | one is not only has two inherence bugs |
| 5509s | for two seconds so you'll evade and like |
| 5512s | you know boost around at crazy Sonic |
| 5513s | speed for a couple seconds which is |
| 5515s | pretty neat and now you can run through |
| 5516s | enemies while you do it um we've also |
| 5520s | got some neat stats there of like crit |
| 5521s | chance against chilled enemies and chill |
| 5523s | potency there that are that are new to |
| 5524s | the game here fist of Fate this one a |
| 5526s | lot of people saw uh a little bit early |
| 5528s | and they were very happy about so one |
| 5531s | thing I think that's kind of cool is |
| 5532s | that um with our uniques we're really |
| 5534s | trying to like double and triple down on |
| 5536s | the fantasy of the item so you know |
| 5537s | something's about cold or something here |
| 5539s | like this the Fate is about like RNG to |
| 5541s | the max so we're really going hard on |
| 5543s | like what the theme is so here you can |
| 5544s | see like your attack speed can go from |
| 5546s | 0.1 to 8.7 and everything on it is like |
| 5549s | has a huge range of what you can roll so |
| 5551s | like a a greater AIX fix of Fate could |
| 5553s | be like a best and Slot item for a lot |
| 5555s | of builds the lucky hit chance on this |
| 5558s | yes this is the one that people point |
| 5559s | out that we it's just crazy I talked |
| 5561s | with our one of the people on our team I |
| 5563s | want to shout out Alex on our team who |
| 5565s | did a lot of this work and uh we had a |
| 5568s | choice here like are we going to go |
| 5569s | crazy or or go conservative like you |
| 5571s | know let's just go crazy like this might |
| 5573s | be insane it might actually best and |
| 5574s | slot and break stuff but it's really |
| 5576s | cool so yeah greater AIC G fist of Fate |
| 5579s | there is going to be really cool uh next |
| 5581s | the grandfather uh Mythic unique example |
| 5583s | here you know a lot of people had issues |
| 5584s | with the ignored durability loss uh you |
| 5587s | know where you would like Masterwork hit |
| 5588s | that or something and then you're not |
| 5589s | getting anything we just moveed that |
| 5590s | into be a you know a baseline inherent |
| 5593s | AIC now so you don't have to worry about |
| 5594s | that and then replaced it with something |
| 5595s | useful with a Max resource and I I will |
| 5598s | note like even in season 4 because that |
| 5601s | durability loss was kind of uh was |
| 5603s | actually his |
| 5605s | uh stat item sometimes when you found a |
| 5608s | greater AIX version of a |
| 5610s | grandfa it would actually apply to that |
| 5612s | that that is now yeah that's all gone |
| 5615s | it's just inherence can't be grater |
| 5617s | which is something that we thought of a |
| 5618s | lot with this so yeah so now let's go |
| 5621s | into the classes uh Barbarian this is |
| 5623s | Battle trance this one exists already on |
| 5625s | live um probably the the two big things |
| 5628s | here one is you know you have two |
| 5629s | different passives now that you get um a |
| 5631s | lot of times we're adding skill ranks to |
| 5633s | passives cuz that's a way to add |
| 5634s | multiplicative damage or just Buffs to |
| 5636s | really cool effects on a on a unique via |
| 5639s | their stats the other thing to point out |
| 5641s | here is the actual effect before it was |
| 5643s | giving you increase attack speed to all |
| 5645s | of your other skills when you had frenzy |
| 5647s | Stacks now you're going to be getting |
| 5648s | damage and attack speed you know we |
| 5650s | heard a lot of feedback from players |
| 5651s | that it they would hit attack speed cap |
| 5653s | and then this unique wasn't really doing |
| 5654s | very much for them so now you're also |
| 5656s | just going to get damage in addition to |
| 5657s | making it easier to hit that cap for |
| 5659s | your other skills so it's just you know |
| 5661s | more stats stronger um next of the |
| 5664s | ravenous uh couple things here one is |
| 5666s | it's giving you skill ranks of Ren which |
| 5668s | is pretty significant and remember that |
| 5670s | two to three might not seem so |
| 5671s | significant but when you greater AIC |
| 5673s | that and then Masterwork it like your |
| 5675s | potential of more damage on this goes up |
| 5678s | very significantly um we're also giving |
| 5680s | you skill ranks and brawling skills |
| 5681s | still um thing to point out here is your |
| 5684s | Rens duration this will also just |
| 5685s | increase the throughput damage of it has |
| 5687s | been doubled so that's just more damage |
| 5688s | on Ren in addition to the skill ranks |
| 5691s | and then also at the bottom small little |
| 5693s | detail but before you could only uh |
| 5696s | apply that special effect of your |
| 5697s | brawling skills applying your Ren bleed |
| 5699s | every 4 seconds and now it's every |
| 5701s | second so now if you're able to spam |
| 5703s | brawling skills you're just going to be |
| 5704s | applying Ren bleeds to enemies and you |
| 5707s | know stronger Ren bleeds like crazy so |
| 5709s | it's a pretty big power |
| 5710s | boost next the fields of crimson uh the |
| 5714s | thing I really want to call out here I |
| 5715s | mean there's a lot of things that are |
| 5716s | kind of unique and different but is that |
| 5719s | uh one kind of rule that we had with |
| 5721s | item stats that we're now changing and |
| 5722s | breaking is we never really buff to |
| 5724s | things like enhancements or um like the |
| 5727s | ab like the different Choice upgrades |
| 5729s | that you could do for a skill um this |
| 5730s | one actually Buffs enhanced ruptures |
| 5733s | explosion size so you know normally when |
| 5735s | you rupture an enemy it does that |
| 5736s | explosion this will make that explosion |
| 5738s | be way bigger so it's kind of a neat way |
| 5740s | that we can manipulate uh player power |
| 5742s | via |
| 5744s | stats uh next let's move on to the |
| 5746s | Sorceress so the staff of endless rage |
| 5748s | we actually have a combo here that we're |
| 5749s | going to show a little video of before |
| 5751s | and after with this uh Fireball builds |
| 5753s | um the staff now does some and the |
| 5755s | gloves would be doing some unique things |
| 5757s | to Fireballs one is but plus Fireball |
| 5759s | projectile speed so this is actually |
| 5761s | going to make your Fireballs fly through |
| 5763s | the air faster or bounce quicker and so |
| 5766s | you'll be able to get through them and |
| 5767s | they'll you know finish their path |
| 5768s | faster you've got the tempering recipe |
| 5770s | now so it doesn't compete with your |
| 5771s | chance to cast twice and you can see |
| 5773s | there it goes up to 75% just on that one |
| 5776s | stat so it basically almost solves it |
| 5778s | for you by itself which is pretty huge |
| 5780s | you've got some massive skill ranks to |
| 5782s | Fireball so now again way more |
| 5784s | multiplicative damage than before um and |
| 5786s | then you know can see at the bottom that |
| 5788s | the the upper end of that damage is |
| 5789s | going up per the same as most of our |
| 5792s | uniques and next this combos with the |
| 5794s | gloves of the Illuminator a couple |
| 5796s | things to to kind of gloat on here is |
| 5798s | the Fireball Fireball attack speed is |
| 5800s | going up by a much bigger amount than |
| 5801s | other classes or than normal attack |
| 5804s | speed sorry on other slots also you get |
| 5806s | Mana when Fireball explodes uh I played |
| 5809s | with this build and I think it was |
| 5810s | season one and I constantly ran into |
| 5812s | Mana issues cuz you always want to spam |
| 5814s | this as much as you can so when you |
| 5816s | think of this stat you know you can |
| 5818s | grater this you can temp or Masterwork |
| 5821s | this and you kind of combine you combine |
| 5823s | you combine this with the attack speed |
| 5825s | here and then you combine it with the |
| 5826s | projectile speed yeah and you get a lot |
| 5828s | more Fireballs remember every time that |
| 5829s | it explodes which when you when it |
| 5831s | bounces it's exploding yeah and when |
| 5833s | you're splitting and getting more from |
| 5835s | multiple projectiles you're getting more |
| 5836s | bounce explosions so it's giving you a a |
| 5839s | resource engine you're essentially a |
| 5841s | fireball machine gun isett so we've got |
| 5843s | a little bit of a season 4 to season 5 |
| 5845s | comparison here of what it looks |
| 5847s | like a little video so in season 4 you |
| 5849s | can see you know every third cast gives |
| 5851s | you three but season five you're going |
| 5853s | to randomly get three three and then |
| 5856s | sometimes even more when it combines |
| 5857s | with a double projectile bonus so you |
| 5859s | can actually really fill up your screen |
| 5861s | with with Fireballs everywhere and every |
| 5862s | one of those bounces is giving you Mana |
| 5864s | back to to cast more that's ludicrous so |
| 5867s | it's it's pretty cool it's its own |
| 5869s | little engine uh next we've got blue |
| 5871s | rose um probably the cool thing to point |
| 5873s | out here is there's a chaps for ice |
| 5876s | spikes to explode twice so this is also |
| 5879s | something that we haven't really done |
| 5880s | where we have these we call them sub |
| 5882s | Powers internally but you know these |
| 5883s | things like dust lels or ice spikes that |
| 5885s | are like powers that generate when you |
| 5887s | cast a skill that are usually through |
| 5889s | legendaries or uniques we generally |
| 5891s | don't manipulate them too heavily like |
| 5892s | this but we're going to be experimenting |
| 5894s | more with that in unique uh stat affixes |
| 5896s | so here you know your ice spikes can |
| 5898s | actually like double proc so they get |
| 5900s | you know double explosions and then any |
| 5901s | other things that would proc off that |
| 5902s | would be uh which is pretty |
| 5906s | neat all next let's move on to the Druid |
| 5909s | um so waxing gibbis uh this is the shred |
| 5912s | to Druid unique um so what we did here |
| 5915s | that I want to point out you know in |
| 5916s | addition to the fact that you need to |
| 5917s | get a bunch of skill ranks to shred and |
| 5919s | toxic claws which is a bunch more |
| 5921s | multiplicative damage so power level is |
| 5922s | going up significantly um is blood how |
| 5925s | grants stealth for a few seconds so |
| 5927s | what's really cool about this is you |
| 5929s | know we basically added a new mechanic |
| 5930s | via a simple item stat in this unique |
| 5932s | and it combines with the unique effect |
| 5934s | right so before on live you know you |
| 5936s | kill enemies with shred you go into |
| 5938s | stealth and then you come out you |
| 5939s | guaranteed crit so as you're killing |
| 5940s | enemies over and over you're just |
| 5941s | critting constantly as you go in and out |
| 5943s | of stealth but you couldn't really do |
| 5944s | that against bosses you had no other |
| 5946s | ways to get into stealth but now we've |
| 5948s | created an alternative way where if you |
| 5950s | cast blood howl or get the blood howl |
| 5951s | effect in other ways you'll go into |
| 5953s | stealth and get this proc and now you |
| 5955s | can get this you know against single |
| 5957s | bosses or in situations you couldn't |
| 5958s | before so we've given you a potential |
| 5960s | way to create your own engine which is |
| 5962s | pretty neat to get those infinite crits |
| 5965s | uh next great staff of the Crone I |
| 5967s | believe we showed this one earlier to |
| 5968s | people but uh what just wanted to point |
| 5970s | out you know what was special about this |
| 5971s | um storm strike chaining to additional |
| 5973s | targets you know things like this again |
| 5975s | it's a single stat that does something |
| 5977s | that kind of really changes how the |
| 5978s | unique works right it's going you're |
| 5980s | going to get all the different procs and |
| 5981s | different effects by changing to more |
| 5982s | enemies more often um you can also see |
| 5985s | here that the upper end of that damage |
| 5987s | that you could get is going up from 150% |
| 5989s | to 200 so it's just |
| 5992s | better and last not least we got Storm's |
| 5994s | companion this one I again wanted to |
| 5996s | highlight another new thing that we're |
| 5997s | doing um and I want to call out here is |
| 6000s | the lucky hit chance for the pack leader |
| 6002s | Spirit Boon so normally we never really |
| 6004s | manipulate class mechanics um but here |
| 6007s | you know this pack leader this isn't |
| 6009s | like a passive or in the skill tree this |
| 6011s | is in the spe Boon your class mechanic |
| 6013s | and this increases that lucky hit chance |
| 6014s | to get a reset on cool down on the cool |
| 6016s | Downs of all your companion skills so |
| 6019s | again this is something that you know |
| 6020s | normally we don't get to manipulate and |
| 6021s | now you'll be able to to do and I think |
| 6023s | it'll be pretty cool we have also |
| 6025s | decided that pack leader is two words |
| 6027s | instead of one yeah yeah everything's |
| 6029s | getting updated yeah everything |
| 6032s | everything's up everything's |
| 6035s | changing all right moving on to the |
| 6037s | Rogue uh Eagle Horn uh let me see what |
| 6040s | did I want to I think just pointing out |
| 6041s | here this was about uh moving the the |
| 6044s | tempered recipe the penetrating shot |
| 6046s | projectiles can cast twice again another |
| 6048s | example of that we're also giving you a |
| 6049s | bunch of skill ranks to penetrating shot |
| 6051s | again this is a way that we're adding |
| 6053s | just like raw power and damage in ways |
| 6056s | that aren't in the unique effect so |
| 6058s | these stats on these things can be very |
| 6060s | strong out the gate and then again |
| 6061s | tempering and masterworking just makes |
| 6063s | these go go really really |
| 6066s | high uh next word of a con this one was |
| 6069s | a really H silly fun one that we liked |
| 6071s | um you see there the one I want to point |
| 6073s | out well one is the ultimate damage |
| 6074s | actually ultimate skill damage for the |
| 6076s | Rogue uh is kind of a premium because |
| 6078s | they have that Paragon node that makes |
| 6079s | it turn into multiplicative damage for |
| 6081s | all your skills so that's actually |
| 6082s | pretty meaty um it's also way higher |
| 6085s | value than normal also the chance for |
| 6087s | rain of arrows waves to cast twice so |
| 6090s | normally we don't do you know chance to |
| 6092s | double cast on ultimates but again |
| 6094s | uniques get to break the rules so now |
| 6096s | you've got you know Juiced up Rain of |
| 6098s | Arrow's cooldown reduction they can cast |
| 6100s | twice and they hit way harder on the |
| 6102s | rain of arrows themed unique so again |
| 6104s | really trying to bring out the theme and |
| 6106s | the the fantasy of these uniques in the |
| 6108s | stats in the effects to really create |
| 6110s | something |
| 6111s | special and next SA to Signet I was |
| 6114s | running this in season 4 I'm a little |
| 6116s | sad that I'm going to be doing something |
| 6117s | else in season 5 uh but I loved my stun |
| 6119s | grenade build but here you can see a |
| 6121s | bunch of grenade damage obvious theme |
| 6123s | for the grenade build we're also giving |
| 6125s | you a lot of your stun grenade size here |
| 6127s | and then again a new AIX that kind of |
| 6129s | creates your own engine you're getting |
| 6131s | plus one energy when a stung grenade |
| 6132s | explodes and this is each individual |
| 6134s | grenade right so you usually release a |
| 6136s | cluster of these things so now again I I |
| 6138s | spent a lot of my time in season 4 |
| 6140s | trying to solve resource and get ways to |
| 6143s | to cast us a lot to throw out those stun |
| 6144s | grenades and now this kind of crate |
| 6146s | helps its own engine um also one thing |
| 6149s | to point out here is that it's no longer |
| 6150s | just a flurry unique um it's casting a |
| 6153s | core skill throws sling grenades so it's |
| 6155s | a lot more generically applicable you |
| 6156s | can use this with you know all the |
| 6158s | different core skills not just |
| 6160s | flurry U next Necromancer um the big one |
| 6163s | I wanted to point out here we're going |
| 6164s | to be showing both of the blood surge uh |
| 6166s | uniques and how they've been updated and |
| 6168s | they combo with each other uh we have a |
| 6170s | stat here that blood surge drains more |
| 6172s | times from Elites so to be clear this is |
| 6175s | the drain not the explosion um but the |
| 6177s | drain does feed into the explosion |
| 6179s | damage and there's a lot of like Synergy |
| 6180s | and Things based on draining enemies so |
| 6183s | now you know one of the problems that |
| 6184s | blood surge has always had is you when |
| 6186s | you're fighting a single Target or a |
| 6187s | boss you know you only drain one enemy |
| 6189s | and then you're not getting your like |
| 6190s | explosion damage up but now you're going |
| 6192s | to be draining multiple times from those |
| 6194s | Elites so you're going to getting you |
| 6196s | know more life back and other procs when |
| 6197s | you drain but also your explosion will |
| 6199s | be uh more significant now against |
| 6202s | them um next death speakers pendant this |
| 6205s | is the other blood surge unique um we |
| 6207s | also added another thing that combines |
| 6208s | with the other unique where you're |
| 6209s | getting Essence per enemy drained right |
| 6211s | and so now as you drain enemies for the |
| 6214s | explosion you're going to be getting |
| 6215s | more Essence back to cast the skill and |
| 6217s | spam it more we're also giving you a |
| 6218s | bunch of ranks to blood surge which you |
| 6220s | know just makes sense so you know 50% |
| 6223s | you know before masterworking in |
| 6225s | tempering multiplicative damage is |
| 6226s | already a giant buff to this but then |
| 6228s | also you can see that you know the |
| 6230s | numbers also went up on this as well so |
| 6231s | it's just going to be uh going to be |
| 6233s | pretty |
| 6235s | significant can't wait and last but not |
| 6237s | least uh Greaves of the empty tomb this |
| 6240s | is your sever unique lots of stuff to |
| 6242s | point out here one is you have multiple |
| 6244s | inherence so you know normally you can |
| 6246s | only get three max of eight charges you |
| 6248s | get more here we also had a fun little |
| 6250s | thing where your aade now leaves behind |
| 6252s | desecrated ground because this is the |
| 6253s | desecrated ground unique uh we also have |
| 6255s | chance for sever projectiles to cast |
| 6257s | twice we have sever size here um we also |
| 6261s | give you ranks to Reapers Pursuit so |
| 6263s | this is about just like moving and |
| 6264s | grooving like going around um one thing |
| 6267s | I want to point out here as well is this |
| 6269s | new aspect of creeping Mist that came in |
| 6271s | and you can combine this with the |
| 6272s | Greaves of the empty tomb so this new |
| 6275s | aspect um you know we heard that necro |
| 6277s | players want mobility and boy did we |
| 6279s | give you Mobility so what this does is |
| 6281s | when you evade during first of all you |
| 6283s | get evade cool down reduction so you |
| 6284s | evade more um but when you evade during |
| 6286s | blood Mist you travel twice as far and |
| 6288s | both when you enter and exit blood Mist |
| 6291s | it reects your evade cool down and one |
| 6294s | of the things that makes this crazy |
| 6295s | where we might actually be crazy and I |
| 6297s | hope we don't have to revisit this but |
| 6299s | we're going to see is that that reset of |
| 6301s | your V cool down counts for all of your |
| 6302s | charges of evade so what this means is |
| 6305s | and we have a video is that you can |
| 6306s | evade five times then evade in blood |
| 6310s | mist and then evade five more times so |
| 6313s | see here then you're evading in blood |
| 6314s | mist and you're leaving behind that |
| 6315s | desecrated ground everywhere around you |
| 6318s | know y it's like an ice skating R so |
| 6320s | every time you cast blood Mist you're |
| 6322s | going to be getting 10 of |
| 6324s | it's silly and hilarious um but we're |
| 6327s | putting it in the game and I hope we |
| 6329s | don't regret it necros are going to be |
| 6331s | zooming yeah they're going to be zooming |
| 6333s | with this so yeah so that's kind of our |
| 6335s | preview of our uniques and kind of |
| 6336s | what's coming into the game again we're |
| 6338s | pretty excited about it I think it's |
| 6339s | going to be pretty cool yeah but yeah |
| 6341s | Professor Adam Jackson Take a Bow that |
| 6343s | is that is incredible and again that's |
| 6345s | not even everything there's a lot of |
| 6347s | stuff at that level patch notes after |
| 6349s | the stream we will be showing uh |
| 6351s | comparison to every single unique and |
| 6352s | there changes from season 4 to season 5 |
| 6354s | I you can go in there and check out all |
| 6356s | those changes but that was a great great |
| 6357s | overview of all those changes that is uh |
| 6360s | really really exciting uh this brings us |
| 6363s | to our Q&A portion of the show let's all |
| 6365s | shift our legs at the same time yeah |
| 6367s | yeah uh so we've been following Along on |
| 6369s | Twitch chat and we picked out a bunch of |
| 6370s | questions and we're g to kick it off |
| 6373s | tossing it over to Mr Dan |
| 6375s | tangue how do reward choices work in |
| 6377s | multiplayer parties for infernal hordes |
| 6380s | does the leader choose the reward for |
| 6381s | everyone or can each player choose |
| 6385s | all right so yeah let's talk about this |
| 6387s | um in the infernal hordes when you're |
| 6389s | collecting burning e ether uh each |
| 6392s | individual collects their own burning |
| 6394s | ether and we did this for the very |
| 6397s | reason that you're you're asking |
| 6398s | questions about we wanted players to be |
| 6400s | able to go in and choose the rewards |
| 6401s | that they want to choose not necessarily |
| 6404s | what somebody else gets to first or what |
| 6406s | the party leader wants so every |
| 6408s | individual party member will have their |
| 6410s | own choice of |
| 6412s | rewards awesome awesome thanks for |
| 6414s | letting us know Marcus you got to read |
| 6416s | the names oh my goodness did I did I not |
| 6418s | say |
| 6420s | El I won't forget you thank you Adam |
| 6422s | alri thank you for that question course |
| 6424s | you're be ackler |
| 6427s | for it's a great thing to call out the |
| 6429s | ladder behind you CU our next question |
| 6432s | is from dartless or actually I think we |
| 6435s | have a question here on the the the |
| 6436s | lower third which is uh um this one this |
| 6439s | one I we've gotten a lot of these |
| 6441s | questions so I do want to actually |
| 6442s | address this one |
| 6444s | going more about vessel of hatred you |
| 6446s | know we just had the spirit reveal we we |
| 6448s | showed off the spirit I will note that |
| 6450s | uh we also are going to be at Gamescom |
| 6453s | there's actually some Gamescom news that |
| 6454s | came out this morning the spirit borne |
| 6456s | will be playable at Gamescom so you go |
| 6457s | to the Xbox Booth you'll be able to play |
| 6459s | it there so if you're you're you're |
| 6460s | attending that show it would be really |
| 6461s | awesome there's actually going to be |
| 6463s | more news coming out uh uh at that time |
| 6465s | so of course tune in and and I will say |
| 6469s | like you guys have only heard a very |
| 6472s | small no there there's |
| 6474s | fraction yeah of vessel of hatred so |
| 6477s | we're really excited for Gamescom so you |
| 6479s | guys will hear more then so stay tuned |
| 6481s | yeah grab your tickets and come to |
| 6482s | Gamescom because we'll be there it'll be |
| 6484s | super super yes exactly go to Germany go |
| 6486s | to Germany come to come to Cologne um |
| 6489s | there was some people confused in chat |
| 6492s | uh this is a question from dartless who |
| 6494s | was saying we can temper uniques now did |
| 6495s | I mishar that maybe that was a mistake |
| 6498s | being said So Adam 100% clear cannot |
| 6500s | temper uniques we want them to be |
| 6502s | different in that they do not engage |
| 6504s | with that system at least for now um but |
| 6507s | no you're going to be what we what I |
| 6509s | wanted to say or be clarify on is that |
| 6510s | you can get tempering affixes on uniques |
| 6513s | like they they'll just drop with those |
| 6515s | affixes or whatever but you can't like |
| 6517s | go to the to the blacksmith and |
| 6518s | manipulate them in that way you can't |
| 6520s | temper them Goa cool cool thanks for |
| 6521s | clarifying that TR |
| 6525s | Adam uh it's doy has a question for |
| 6528s | danant tangue are there any plans to |
| 6531s | continue iterating on the infernal |
| 6532s | hordes in the future since it's a |
| 6534s | permanent addition are there going to be |
| 6536s | more Boons and Banes |
| 6538s | coming yeah that's a a great question |
| 6542s | and yeah just to reiterate what you had |
| 6544s | pointed out there uh this is an eternal |
| 6547s | realm feature that's going to appear in |
| 6550s | the game forever more and so this is |
| 6552s | just the first version of it I mean you |
| 6554s | think back to what hell tide was in the |
| 6556s | base game and how we've iterated on that |
| 6559s | over time to get it to where it is we're |
| 6561s | going to continue investing similar |
| 6563s | levels of effort into the infernal |
| 6564s | hordes too and so uh Boons and Baines is |
| 6568s | something we heard a lot about uh |
| 6570s | feedback uh during the PTR and so we |
| 6574s | absolutely want to make more |
| 6576s | improvements to the the Boon and bins |
| 6578s | and so stay tuned um that's not going to |
| 6581s | hit in season five uh but we'll we'll |
| 6584s | figure out where we can get it in in |
| 6586s | future Seasons awesome great to hear |
| 6588s | that we're going to continue tinkering |
| 6589s | on that feature in the in the seasons to |
| 6591s | come uh got a really interesting |
| 6594s | question from manoor imp with regards to |
| 6597s | those Mano imp we know Mano imp uh with |
| 6599s | regards to the damage increase per class |
| 6601s | resource sure uh they're asking is the |
| 6603s | spear born getting 1% damage at seven |
| 6605s | points if it's their main stat uh just |
| 6607s | because they have a lower amount of |
| 6608s | weapons yeah uh TBD TBD I don't want to |
| 6612s | go on a MTH on Spirit born yet but uh |
| 6615s | they'll be getting similar treatment to |
| 6617s | all the other stuff all of this is kind |
| 6618s | of Evergreen so awesome awesome uh luk |
| 6623s | we luk we uh when will we see the |
| 6626s | overhaul of the Paragon system uh would |
| 6629s | you consider removing the Paragon |
| 6632s | limit |
| 6633s | uh there are going to be changes to |
| 6636s | Paragon but we uh aren't talking about |
| 6638s | uh those changes yeah awesome yeah |
| 6640s | awesome TBD TBD TBD stay tuned uh love |
| 6645s | this name chicken wi |
| 6646s | 929 uh can the reputation rewards for |
| 6649s | season season of The Infernal hordes be |
| 6651s | earned on only one character or all your |
| 6654s | seasonal |
| 6655s | characters um I believe it's uh uh all |
| 6659s | characters similar to like what we have |
| 6660s | for season 4 uh so you can actually go |
| 6663s | back in and just play like hey go |
| 6665s | through the reputation board and then uh |
| 6667s | get another resplendant spark really the |
| 6670s | question be honest really that's truly |
| 6672s | the question we get yes you can you can |
| 6674s | get character specific so you can yeah |
| 6678s | nice um systematic 5K Adam Jackson will |
| 6683s | existing uniques be updated with these |
| 6685s | new unique changes yeah we we get this |
| 6687s | every round that we update them it's the |
| 6689s | same rules as always which is the unique |
| 6691s | power when we update that is your your |
| 6695s | existing uniques will get that right so |
| 6696s | when we increase your damage range or |
| 6698s | whatever that's going to get but the |
| 6699s | stats those are going to be Legacy on |
| 6702s | any items that exist so you're going to |
| 6703s | have to reform your unique to get the |
| 6705s | new stats that are on them and that's |
| 6707s | kind of the way that they're going to |
| 6708s | work going forward unless you say |
| 6710s | otherwise yeah it's it's it's just how |
| 6712s | things work under the Hood um for when |
| 6714s | when we do changes on them so yeah |
| 6718s | nice um Pudge pudore BP are there any |
| 6723s | plans for clan rework SL |
| 6726s | improvements um there are I know there |
| 6728s | are some uh changes coming for uh some |
| 6732s | social features we're just not ready to |
| 6735s | talk about them now but but you'll you |
| 6738s | guys will hear about them soon awesome |
| 6740s | awesome uh this one's kind of a design |
| 6742s | philosophy question for Adam Jackson |
| 6744s | Evans 423 wants to know how future proof |
| 6747s | is the system of static uniques when |
| 6749s | adding new SL better tempering effects |
| 6751s | in new content how future proof are |
| 6754s | static uniques when adding new |
| 6756s | tempers um let me |
| 6759s | think semi right because like I think it |
| 6762s | is something where if we add like new |
| 6764s | tempers or new affixes or whatever we |
| 6767s | will probably need to go back and update |
| 6769s | uniques that that we wanted to apply to |
| 6771s | and and make it you know work again um |
| 6774s | our hope is that these uniques are going |
| 6775s | to be pretty like future proof in that |
| 6778s | they're going to be very meaty in the |
| 6779s | amount of power that they give you um |
| 6781s | they're also extremely thematic but I |
| 6782s | think we do reserve the right like hey |
| 6784s | if we find a new idea for uh existing |
| 6787s | passive or existing temper that that is |
| 6789s | introduced to the game and we want to |
| 6790s | put it on we we can do that um I will |
| 6792s | say also one thing that we want to do |
| 6794s | more is like just come up with really |
| 6795s | crazy new ones that aren't even really |
| 6797s | tempering recipes but just like crazy |
| 6799s | effects right like blood how grants |
| 6801s | stealth or you drain more with your you |
| 6803s | know blood surch stuff like that so I |
| 6805s | would expect we'll probably be updating |
| 6807s | them as we go forward not probably as |
| 6808s | dramatically as this all at once but I I |
| 6811s | foresee this probably likely yeah nice |
| 6813s | yeah always tinkering always updating uh |
| 6815s | yeah speaking of which about tempering |
| 6817s | one thing that we forgot to mention and |
| 6819s | I know we mentioned it the PTR stream |
| 6820s | last time I'm sorry my earpiece just |
| 6822s | keeps falling off uh look like I'm like |
| 6824s | scratching my ear but I'm not uh the uh |
| 6827s | greater a I know there was a lot of like |
| 6829s | feedback after season 4 regarding um uh |
| 6833s | tempering and potentially bricking items |
| 6835s | and one update that we talked about |
| 6836s | during the PTR stream and I want to |
| 6838s | mention it wasn't in PTR but is in uh |
| 6841s | season five specifically is uh gritter |
| 6845s | affixes will actually get additional |
| 6847s | temporary roles on them based on the |
| 6849s | greater AIX you know quality of of what |
| 6852s | they are so uh for for um like like |
| 6856s | greater aics one star ones you'll end up |
| 6858s | getting one additional temporary roll um |
| 6860s | and then a Grows by how many Star that |
| 6863s | there are so that is going in season |
| 6865s | five so and I we mentioned it last |
| 6867s | stream I just wanted to reiterate it cuz |
| 6868s | I actually forgot we should have mention |
| 6870s | it yeah great great to mention that Adam |
| 6872s | that's awesome uh we got a easy one here |
| 6876s | from Z weapons uh what is a Mythic |
| 6878s | unique there was a purple |
| 6881s | item yeah you can tune into to our last |
| 6883s | stream for it but yeah basically what |
| 6885s | was Uber uniques is what people call |
| 6887s | them um it's basically like you know the |
| 6889s | the really best items in the game that |
| 6891s | have like perfect stats and everything |
| 6893s | we rebranded them to Mythic uniques they |
| 6895s | now have their own special color special |
| 6896s | beam when they drop they just got a |
| 6897s | whole treatment to really make them feel |
| 6899s | like the the penultimate items that that |
| 6901s | they are in the game yeah yeah that's |
| 6903s | awesome uh Sophie |
| 6905s | 0257 uh are they going to make it so |
| 6908s | that we can pre-download the update or |
| 6910s | will it be available only on the 6th |
| 6912s | that's a great question based off uh |
| 6915s | feedback from season 4's launch the |
| 6917s | patch will be available to download |
| 6919s | roughly an hour before season of The |
| 6921s | Infernal hordes launches so that season |
| 6922s | goes live at 10:00 a.m. and roughly an |
| 6924s | hour before you'll be able to |
| 6926s | pre-download the patch to get into the |
| 6927s | game and get ready for the season yeah I |
| 6928s | I know a lot of people are probably |
| 6929s | going like why not multiple days and |
| 6931s | things like that we're getting there |
| 6932s | we're trying but no it's it's it's uh we |
| 6935s | we got a lot of feedback about you know |
| 6937s | how things started immediately on the |
| 6939s | like you could download and actually |
| 6941s | start the season of course we want to |
| 6943s | make sure that people can be as prepared |
| 6944s | as possible so uh 1 hour before the |
| 6946s | actual uh season starts like you should |
| 6949s | be able to actually download and get |
| 6950s | that all prepared so like as soon as uh |
| 6952s | um uh the season the time for the season |
| 6955s | begin which is roughly like 10: a.m. |
| 6958s | Pacific on on the day of uh you you can |
| 6960s | just jump in without needing to download |
| 6962s | so yeah yeah uh skull MTV hey great job |
| 6967s | thanks uh any plans to rework |
| 6969s | masterworking and brackets higher cost |
| 6971s | but you know you can choose upgrades and |
| 6973s | tempering to make these systems have |
| 6975s | less |
| 6976s | RNG um nothing to announce at this time |
| 6979s | uh we definitely have heard the feedback |
| 6981s | we are starting with the first step of |
| 6982s | like you know one of the things that we |
| 6984s | know feels really bad for players like I |
| 6986s | got a uh how do I say the more greater |
| 6989s | aices you have on an item the higher |
| 6991s | stress and investment you have to like |
| 6992s | make it work the way that you want so we |
| 6994s | are relaxing that make it a little bit |
| 6995s | easier um another thing that we're |
| 6997s | thinking about that's a little lighter |
| 6999s | is like the tempering recipes making |
| 7001s | them have like three on average instead |
| 7003s | of four or more um something that we're |
| 7006s | talking about moving towards but nothing |
| 7008s | like of overhauling the system and doing |
| 7010s | a major change at this time that we have |
| 7011s | to announce cool thanks Adam uh Dan |
| 7015s | tangue from holy smokes uh their name |
| 7017s | isn't for Holy Smokes their name |
| 7019s | is I thought it was Dan tangue asking a |
| 7022s | question and I was like wait what no no |
| 7024s | no uh their name is Frodo Bolson froto |
| 7028s | Bolson but all the O's are zeros uh how |
| 7031s | does the infernal hordes work in groups |
| 7033s | uh do you need one comp only one Compass |
| 7035s | per |
| 7036s | group um so the infernal hordes you only |
| 7039s | need one Compass per group in order to |
| 7041s | be able to get in yeah |
| 7043s | sweet just like uh nightmare dungeon |
| 7045s | sigils |
| 7046s | awesome all right rasque any news on |
| 7050s | reworked nightmare |
| 7053s | dungeons nothing nothing to announ to |
| 7056s | nothing to announce today yeah nothing |
| 7057s | to announce today sweet uh green zombie |
| 7060s | Studios can we expect cool new transmogs |
| 7062s | in season five from salvaging |
| 7065s | items um I am not sure I know like the |
| 7069s | the season five does have over has a lot |
| 7073s | of new legendary aspects and uniques |
| 7075s | like there's like 50 new legendary |
| 7078s | aspects and uniques being added into |
| 7079s | season 5 so there's a lot of of like uh |
| 7082s | more the the the backend type of stuff |
| 7085s | that that affects a more so on the |
| 7086s | gameplay but I'm not exactly sure if |
| 7088s | there's a ton coming |
| 7089s | out so we can actually uh there are a |
| 7094s | couple of um new uniques in Hell uh that |
| 7098s | you can earn that will have all new |
| 7099s | looks to them that you can Sol the use |
| 7102s | cosmetic yep bam there you go Dan the |
| 7104s | Savior from Albany there you go fro |
| 7108s | Bolson uh hot pancakes are there still |
| 7111s | plans for rare and magic items I guess |
| 7114s | in terms of like a rework or changing |
| 7116s | their functionality in any way yeah I'd |
| 7118s | say nothing to announce today for that |
| 7121s | yeah cool |
| 7124s | nice all right uh checking through Mack |
| 7128s | and D's uh can we expect skill trees or |
| 7131s | support gem to change the way skills |
| 7134s | work can we expect skill trees or |
| 7137s | support gems to change the way the skill |
| 7139s | works I mean we're not doing any skill |
| 7141s | tree overhaul right now in season five |
| 7143s | um I do think we have talked a bit on |
| 7145s | the team about having a desire of the |
| 7148s | the upgrades for skills being like more |
| 7150s | impactful and really impactful um |
| 7152s | nothing to announce today but it is |
| 7154s | something that is on our radar and I |
| 7155s | think is cool I think one example that |
| 7158s | that we talk about a lot on the team is |
| 7159s | like the kick upgrade for the Barbarian |
| 7161s | where normally you know when we |
| 7163s | originally designing kick it was this |
| 7164s | idea that you have this like skill where |
| 7166s | you hit enemy you care about the |
| 7167s | geometry of the place around you you |
| 7169s | want to hit them into the wall and then |
| 7170s | they get knocked down take a bunch of |
| 7171s | damage and all this stuff um that part |
| 7173s | hasn't really played I think as well cuz |
| 7175s | the pace of our game is so fast but one |
| 7177s | of the upgrades for kick um especially I |
| 7179s | remember in the early beta like way |
| 7182s | before maybe it was Alpha even um kick |
| 7184s | you know it converts kick from this |
| 7186s | cooldown based geometry skill into just |
| 7188s | a Powerhouse where it just spends all |
| 7190s | your resource and does a buttload of |
| 7191s | damage to an enemy |
| 7193s | um and it was like one shotting World |
| 7194s | bosses and stuff back then like it was |
| 7196s | it was hilarious I think I remember that |
| 7198s | but the the the the skill still has that |
| 7200s | upgrade but I referenced that upgrade a |
| 7202s | lot because I think it's really cool |
| 7203s | when you can convert a skill to like |
| 7205s | used to be cool down and now isn't or |
| 7207s | used to be about this utility and now |
| 7209s | it's just damage or vice versa where it |
| 7211s | like really changes what a skill does um |
| 7214s | we think it's really cool uh it |
| 7215s | definitely would be a lot of work to |
| 7217s | like do that to every skill but I think |
| 7219s | it's something that's worth talking |
| 7220s | about and pursuing so it is on our radar |
| 7222s | something to do but nothing to announce |
| 7224s | today for it awesome that's really cool |
| 7225s | thanks Adam yeah uh and that brings us |
| 7227s | to the end of our Q&A so I want to give |
| 7228s | a huge thank you to Adam and Adam and |
| 7231s | daning all those questions Adam squar |
| 7233s | Adam squar back in Action hey just like |
| 7235s | the PTR stream back there go screw those |
| 7238s | Joe's got him |
| 7240s | yeah I'm just |
| 7243s | kidding uh and that brings us to the end |
| 7245s | of our season The Infernal HS developer |
| 7247s | update stream just a few notes before we |
| 7249s | close out the stream just want to take a |
| 7251s | moment to thank every for tuning into |
| 7253s | our spirit born showcase a few weeks |
| 7255s | back yeah uh it was really cool to show |
| 7257s | off that new class it was such a huge |
| 7258s | moment for the team uh so really want to |
| 7260s | thank you all for uh coming to check |
| 7262s | that out and if you want to play the |
| 7264s | spirit borne in person as Adam mentioned |
| 7266s | earlier we are going to be a Gamescom so |
| 7268s | get your tickets come to Gamescom in |
| 7270s | Cologne Germany and |
| 7287s | I just went up through the roof um but |
| 7289s | speaking of the spirit borne uh you can |
| 7291s | pre- purchase vessel of hatred today and |
| 7294s | instantly oh can they hear Audio Oh can |
| 7296s | everybody hear us twitch chat where did |
| 7299s | the sound we're good now we're good now |
| 7301s | awesome all right thank you chat for for |
| 7303s | keeping us up to date uh speaking of the |
| 7306s | spear born you can pre- purchase vessel |
| 7307s | of hatred today to get instant access to |
| 7309s | some items in game before the expansion |
| 7311s | goes live this October for season of The |
| 7314s | Infernal HS this season goes live on |
| 7316s | August 6th at 10: a.m. the patch will be |
| 7319s | available for pre-download roughly an |
| 7321s | hour before and 10 a.m. is in Pacific |
| 7323s | time uh for anyone wondering patch will |
| 7325s | be available for pre pre-download about |
| 7327s | an hour before the season goes live so |
| 7329s | you can get in and get ready for the |
| 7330s | season to start uh the 150 patch notes |
| 7333s | are going to go live after this stream |
| 7336s | for season 5 so for anything we talked |
| 7338s | about across the stream today that'll be |
| 7339s | available see all the uniques and |
| 7341s | everything check out those gifts they're |
| 7343s | pretty they're pretty spiffy team worked |
| 7345s | pretty hard on those we also had the |
| 7347s | seasoning and fertile hordes Deep dive |
| 7348s | blog go live earlier this week so a ton |
| 7350s | of information there as well uh stick |
| 7352s | around after the stream because we're |
| 7353s | going to be raing uh some Diablo content |
| 7355s | creators so go and check them |
| 7357s | out for Adam and Adam and Mr Dan tangue |
| 7361s | and Albany thank you guys so much for |
| 7363s | joining us uh for this developer update |
| 7365s | stream today yeah thank you so much |
| 7366s | really awesome to go through all the |
| 7367s | changes and uh from all of us here thank |
| 7370s | you so much to everyone at home for |
| 7372s | watching watching and checking out the |
| 7373s | stream and we will see you all in |
| 7375s | sanctuary yeah yeah uniques woo |