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This is episode 4 4 2 of Shattered Soul Stone,
your Diablo Community podcast.
This episode is called Season of the Construct.
It is January 19th, 2024. And this is Jen.
I'm gonna start off with an article on windows central.com
titled Y Xbox Customers are Right
to be Angry about Microsoft putting more
exclusive end games on Nintendo or PlayStation.
This is written by Jez Corden, uh, published a few days ago.
So here's a little piece from this.
It is a long article so I will not be reading all of it word
for word, but at least give you an idea
of what the article's about.
In mid-November, I started sending out feelers to contacts
and sources within Microsoft
to inquire about a tip I'd received that Sea
of Thieves was potentially exploring a PlayStation
or Nintendo Switch version.
I was unable to confirm nor refute those rumors,
but it wouldn't be the last time I'd hear similar.
A few weeks later, Microsoft Gaming
and Xbox Chief Financial Officer Tim Stewart,
caused controversy by saying it wants
to bring its first party games to every screen possible,
including Nintendo and PlayStation devices.
Later rumors began to emerge that indeed games like Hi-Fi,
rush and Sea if Thieves may be slated
to lose their console exclusivity status heading
to PlayStation or Nintendo Switch or both.
Naturally, all of this caused uproar within the Xbox
community Faithful for a variety of reasons.
Besides the most aggressive console fanboys,
nobody is necessarily against more people
getting to play more games.
Gatekeeping sucks in general, whether it's Apple, Google,
Microsoft, or whoever else.
It would be ideal if we could get all
of our content on whatever platform we
feel like getting it on.
And it would be ideal if artists
and creators could hit the biggest audiences possible.
It would be ideal if corporations would still keep prices
low for consumers even if there was reduced competition.
However, we don't live in an ideal corporate world.
Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, I hope I'm pronouncing
that at least close to right, remarked
during the Activision Blizzard acquisition hearings last
year that the only reason they do exclusive games is
because the competition does it.
And that's exactly the reason why most people are quite
rightly irked by these rumors.
However, it goes beyond mere quote, jealousy, end quote
or cons tribalism.
Despite some suggestions I've seen on social media
as the customers investing in the Xbox ecosystem, which
by the way locks you in by preventing the resale of digital
purchases, we deserve to know about things
that can affect the future viability of the Xbox platform.
Eroding the consistency of xbox's first party, in my view,
does exactly that.
Here are some thoughts on why Microsoft would consider doing
this in the first place
and some thoughts on why I think if true those plans would
be incredibly shortsighted.
So here's a little bit about Microsoft's business logic.
I'll give you a few paragraphs of that
and then it'll just kind of go from there.
Um, it is long.
I'm not gonna read the whole thing,
but I will read you a little bit more.
So the first part here that's, you know,
right here on my screen is Microsoft's Business Logic.
There's a graph here of different things
that I'm not gonna go into.
First and foremost, you have to understand
that the cold hard reality is
that supporting other platforms makes
total and complete sense.
The business of gaming is software
and services more than ever.
Despite the emphasis from the games media about hardware
sales, this and NPD rankings that none of it truly matters.
The only few, only a few
of the biggest players in the gaming industry actually even
make hardware with the biggest 10 cent
is shooing it all together.
Consoles, as we all know
and should appreciate by now are sold at cost.
Much like inkjet printers, you sell the printers cheap
and you make money on the ink.
Ink being games, microtransactions
and subscription services.
In this case, every games company takes a slightly different
approach for sure owing to regional factors, legacy
platforms, and so on each place to their unique strengths.
Nintendo is finding room for expansion
by building theme parks
and listening more deeply in their into their beloved Disney
grade recognizable franchises.
PlayStation builds industry leading single player
experiences and cinematic masterpieces.
While Microsoft has leaned into its cloud,
might building potent multi-player service games despite
Sony's massive three to one hardware lead.
By some estimates Microsoft maintains pace in gaming revenue
and part of that is down to strong service type games.
Some of it is a lead in subscription services
and some of it is also a day one support on Steam
for Windows PCs.
Indeed Microsoft is prolifically good at
monetizing its vast audience.
Even without counting Activision Blizzards, maus
or as part of that whole,
when you factor in massive games like Minecraft,
which are on every platform on earth, it becomes easy
to understand why When it comes
to pure cold math games like Sea of Thieves, halo Infinite
or Starfield would also perform far,
far better if they were available across
every platform out there.
And the margins are far,
far better on paper than a raw council sale.
In fact, if someone picked up an Xbox just to play Starfield
and nothing else, it could account
for a net loss versus if they'd just picked it up on Steam.
Instead, that Xbox Console is barely a profitable sale in
its own right, if at all.
And Microsoft will indeed bank on the idea
that those users will go on to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass,
maybe by some Diablo four microtransactions
or potentially explore other games in the ecosystem.
And it goes on from there.
Everything I talk about on the show will be in the show
notes@shatteredsoulstone.com comes out every Saturday.
Moving on to Diablo Immortal, I've got a couple things here.
There is a thing titled Diablo Immortal Bug Fixes
and patch notes for all platforms.
This was from Blizzard Entertainment on January 16th, 2024.
So just recently. So here's what you need to know.
The Diablo I Mortal team has been diligently monitoring your
feedback and working to introduce bug fixes
and patches to further improve your playing experience.
As we implemented these types of changes for the iOS,
Android, and PC versions of Immortal,
we will update this list.
If you are looking for PC specific updates,
please visit our PC known issues blog.
There's a link there if you wanna check that out.
Bug fixes are typically applied at a higher frequency
addressing smaller related issues.
They don't require a large download
to be applied to the game.
Patches are larger client side updates
that require a download for players
to obtain new patches will require players to update
before they can continue playing.
January 16th, 2024.
Bug fixes gameplay fixed an issue
where certain set items couldn't be found in the menu
to craft unless the player filtered for that specific set.
Fixed minor visual issues
with the familiar system fixed an issue
with the Survivor's Bane event
that prevented players from interacting
with its entry point in West March
and has a UI fixed, fixed a visual issue
with the ultimate skill button.
Uh, before that it goes back to January nine, uh,
which has a lot of stuff going on here.
And after that it's December.
So I'll give you a bit about January nine.
Bug fixes for Diablo Mortal, uh, gameplay optimized visuals
of the Wizards Sprite spark legendary effects
by removing its blue frame effect.
Fixed minor issue interface issues
with the Familiars feature fixed an issue
where interrupting the familiars
of system melding process would obscure the results in
confirmation screen until the melding process was run again,
fixed An issue with Hero's journey where some
of its objectives couldn't be completed, fixed.
An issue where skill cool downs weren't triggered.
Fixed an issue with Darkling plane
where it unintentionally linked out
to a region specific survey.
, oh no . So what's Survivor's Bain?
I don't actually know right now,
but they did a lot of things to fix it.
Um, fixed an issue where the milestone rewards wouldn't
grant Battle Points fixed an issue where the events task
to defeat bosses wouldn't.
Grant Battle Points fixed an issue
that depicted the incorrect amount of battle points
for completing 15 and 20 games.
And also reaching Level 20 fixed an issue
where players players didn't receive equipment enhancements
after leveling all their skills to the maximum level,
fixed an issue where enemies would stop
spawning in endless mode.
That seems like a big problem, doesn't it?
fixed an issue
where endless modes timer would unintentionally reset at the
60 minute mark fixed an issue
with onscreen visuals being overly stretched in vertical
mode on mobile devices.
Fixed an issue where the portal which advances players
to the next level appeared at inaccessible locations.
Well, that's just not good at all. Glad they fixed that.
One. Fixed an issue where the, I just read that.
Fixed an issue where they splash screens, uh,
with these splash screens dimensions
and fixed an issue which prevented some players from
interacting with the events entry point.
In addition, we have a full Diablo immortal thing
for the upcoming, uh, season 22.
So it's titled Save Sanctuary from Pestilence
with the Season 22 Battle Pass.
That's from January 15th from Blizzard Entertainment.
Here's a little bit to know about.
Sanctuary is oozing with maladies to be eradicated,
wanderer, go forth and defend your home.
Since our last content update players rung in the new year
with adjustments to a variety of features
and returning events, this content update introduces the
plague Reaper Battle Pass balance changes
for battleground right of exile in all classes,
plus feature updates and more.
As with previous content updates,
there will be server maintenance starting on January 16,
which is already done apparently for servers.
You know, here, there and everywhere.
There is a video you can watch on YouTube embedded within
this news article and it's, it's titled Season 22,
battle Pass Plague Creeper the afflicted infect sanctuary
with their malicious presence track down
and stamp out the source of disease as a plague.
Creeper season the season 22 Battle pass ushers in a period
of remediation for sanctuaries wounds on January 18,
which was yesterday.
3:00 AM server time.
There's some things in here you can pick up.
This Battle Pass hosts 40 ranks worth of challenges
and rewards such as crests, hilts and more.
Starting with this battle pass, players will have the option
to choose between receiving two toric pearls fervent fang,
two star legendary gem
or the new grim rhythm, two star legendary gem.
The new gem can be acquired from rank 40 of the battle pass
and ranks one 20 and 40 of the Empowered Battle Pass.
The grim rhythm legendary gem can also be
acquired from the boon of plenty.
Here's what the gem does.
Description at Rank 10,
dealing damage increases your tax speed by 2.4%
for three seconds stacking up
to 10 times while at full stacks your movement speed is
increased by 12%.
Remember, new rank rewards are available in the Empowered
Battle Pass, such as a familiar contact at Rank one
and rotating cosmetics can be obtained from the Battle
archive Shop for owners
of the collector's empowered battle pass,
such an infectious scourge can't be left to fester.
This battle pass ends on February 15,
3:00 AM server time begin slaying demons
and climbing your way through the ranks today.
And then there's returning events.
The fractured plane is coming back. There's shady stock.
Yakin has once again come into possession
of some liberated merchandise,
likely plucked from a far away excavation.
His state shady stock is in demand
and will be able to peruse from January 23:00 AM
to January 27, 3:00 AM server time
or until West March, guards raid his supply alley of blood.
I don't know what that is exactly.
Quarreling forces threatened
to desecrate hallowed grounds making a point in the conflict
between the forces of shadows
and immortals demolish opposing century Toler towers.
And to dismantle the enemy's team base team space
of operations by shattering their crystal heart,
imbue your adventurer with specialist skills
for a tactical advantage and guard
and bolster your champion's.
Marks to claim the day from January 26th,
which is already passed through February 2nd,
3:00 AM server time fight alongside Sacred guardians
in the alley of blood.
Here are the rules of engagement.
All characters will be set to level 60.
The rank of all legendary gear
and set gear will be set to one.
The rank for all legendary gems on your character will be
set to 10 bonuses from the following.
Our disabled as well, residents, clans
and war bands, normal gems
and charms, heli query, bonuses, stances
and paragon specialization.
There's an infernal knowledge thing going on.
Um, let's see what this wants to do.
It's already started on January 27. No, it's ahead of us.
January 27 through February 3rd
and it's uh, okay,
here's the little storyline with this one.
In sanctuary few are capable to stand against the darkness
and wager their life for the defenseless.
But you adventurer have consigned your days
to thinning out the ranks
of the burning Hells ushering in safety
where all hope was once lost your quest to serve.
The downtrodden grows in complexity.
Equip yourself with the infertile knowledge to prevail
and then you can get these things.
If you complete three tasks,
you get one random legendary item.
Five tasks gives you three rare crests.
Eight tasks gives you one Toric pearl
and 10 tasks gives you one legendary crest.
There's also balance changes going on
and I'll leave you to read those.
I dunno what class you're
playing, I haven't played in a while.
. Um, there's some feature updates
with the Heli Query matchmaking.
In addition to existing Raid Finder feature,
we have added the ability for players
to automatically match, make into heli query raids.
Clicking or tapping the quick matching button,
we'll have the system locate seven other players for you
to topple Hell's Staunchest champions alongside.
To use this feature, players must have unlocked the
appropriate hell difficulty for the boss they wish to fight
and have the appropriate combat rating.
The cre the create raid feature remains unchanged.
There's um, Hali query exit portals
that have some blacksmiths in them.
Maybe I'm not sure about that.
Uh, battleground matchmaking players are no longer able
to allocate Paragon points during a battleground match.
Here's a developer's note.
We have seen players fully revert their paragon points prior
to entering a battleground match.
And once the match began,
they would spend those paragon points on abilities
that would turn the match in their team's favor.
Then after the match was completed,
players would restore their paragon points to
what they originally were prior to the match.
We want to ensure that battleground remains fun for everyone
and have observed how this strategy
interferes with that desire.
There's also Familiars
and this is an article from December of 2022, titled How
to Complete the Season Journey in Diablo Four, season Two.
This is from Blizzard watch written by Elizabeth Harper.
And um, I personally need this one
because I've kind of lost track of where I'm supposed to go
to complete the season journey.
, I know where I can find it within the game.
I am playing on an Xbox
'cause it doesn't play on a Mac, um, in Diablo four.
So yeah, so it's, what it's got in here is step
by step chapter one all the way through, uh, let's see,
destroyer, which I don't think I'll get
to in the next couple days,
but it's possible that I missed some stuff along the way.
And you don't have to do all of them specifically.
Like chapter one says complete six of eight objectives to
to earn all rewards and unlock chapter two
and it kind of goes on from there.
So this is something I'm gonna be looking
at very, very closely.
The next time I try streaming Diablo four
and see how many of these I can get done
or that I've already got done, it seems like a lot.
I know I got into chapter four of that
where you need nine out of 11 objectives
to earn all the rewards and unlock slayer.
I just got to the part where I was trying to find, um,
maybe this, I think it was act, uh, chapter four.
And there's a thing in there that I've read from somewhere
that um, will tell you how to get these like pieces
of body parts to go into a thing under the tree, I think.
And I don't know, I'm still working on that.
There's a lot more to go.
So if this is you, this'll be in the show
notes@shatteredsoulstone.com
and I'll let you know if I get through more of this,
I don't know how that's gonna go.
I've got an article here from Polygon titled Diablo Four's
New season is full of infertile machines
with Scorpion Max from hell.
But don't worry, you have a magical machine, insect
of your own in season of the construct written
by Michael Ward.
And so here's a little bit about that.
Diablo four, season three starts January 23rd,
sending players deep beneath the desert sands of Stan
where they'll face new mechanized menace,
including scorpion like constructs, deadly traps
and the demon malus who is malus.
I've never heard of this demon.
I think he was created out of whole cloth just
to make this season fun, which is good.
To balance the odds, players will get a mechanized ally
of their own known as a chaw as part of season
of the construct.
Blizzard Entertainment revealed the details on Diablo four
season of the construct on Tuesday,
including a new seasonal quest line centered on a corrupted
ancient device known as the loom created by Zoltan.
Cool the power hungry Harri also responsible
for creating the black soul stone.
The loom has been taken over by demonic forces,
which have in turn released a swarm
of constructs into sanctuary.
Also resting in the bowels of that loom, the demon malice.
A servant of Diablo
who has created quote his own private hell
Blizzard says Malus is Diablo four's first stationary boss
and he uses a series of traps against players
as they try to destroy him.
Malus is also responsible
for corrupting the constructs elemental powered devices
that players will battle through the season
for the construct specific items, there is
a YouTube video embedded in this article
if you wanna check that out.
It's the announced trailer of season of the construct.
Players will battle constructs as they explore the loom.
Dive into seasonal dungeons called vaults
and adventure in the overworld
above ground constructs will appear in areas called
arcane tremors.
Season of the construct will give players
their own construct.
A al this autonomous companion will have its own UI
and players will be able
to customize its abilities using items called governing
stones and tuning stones.
Their al could tank monsters to help break up mobs
and heal the player among other talents.
Season three's dungeons Vaults are built around the concept
of traps and hazards, spikes, swirling flame columns
and machines that spew poison gases.
These traps are quote, much deadlier
and require far more complex skills to avoid.
Blizzard says Vaults will offer coveted legendary loot,
however, which can only be earned
by maintaining a new stacking buff called Zoltan's wording.
There's some pictures of this in here as well
and it just goes on from there for a little bit.
I think my highest level character in Diablo four is
around 62 or something like that.
And I figure I'd have to be bigger to get into that thing,
but we'll see what it can do
with it once this thing is live.
Diablo four also posted on, you know, blizzard, um,
support a streamer earn the, uh, ORIC or curriculum mount.
I'm probably massacring the pronunciation,
but this is what it is.
Um, on January 23rd,
Wanderers will combat a new threat under the endless sand
dunes of Keison in the season of the construct.
Forging an opportunity for exploration
and acquiring a new support.
A streamer reward from January 23,
4:00 PM PST February 26th, 1150 9:00 PM PST
giving or buying to Twitch.
Subscriptions of any tier
to any streamer in the Diablo four category will earn you
the Raum speckled marere Mount.
I've got a picture of it in this article.
It is a brown mare.
It's got black, uh, Maine
and it's, you know, just looks kind of standard.
It's got some rope around it that you could use
to I guess guide the horse
and it's got some markings on its face that much I know.
So here's some questions if you don't know how to do this,
support a streamer thing, which I honestly don't know.
So let's find out. How do I purchase
a subscription on Twitch?
Oh, that's how that's gonna go, huh?
Real world money kind of stuff. Hmm, maybe.
So the answer is users must first log into Twitch either
using a PC or mobile device.
Purchases may be made on either a mobile device
or your PC detailed information on purchasing
subscriptions can be found here.
There's a link to that. And information on purchasing
subscriptions can be found in
another place with another link.
Where can I find my campaign rewards once I've earned them?
Answer the campaign reward code will be delivered
to the user's Twitch notification inbox.
Once they have been earned,
the notification inbox can be found to the right
of the top navigation bar on Twitch.
The codes will remain there
until the user deletes the message.
Question, once I have claimed my code from Twitch
for the Arak speckled Mayor Mount,
how do I redeem it in battle net battle.net.
Log into battle.net and visit the account overview menu.
Enter the code in the redeem a code box
and click redeem code.
What should I do if I'm having a problem
receiving my code on Twitch?
Answer is campaign reward.
Code delivery can take up to 24 hours
to be sent once earned, the code will remain there
until the user deletes the message
after completion of a qualifying purchase.
If after waiting 24 hours
and verifying that your purchases were made
to an toward an eligible streamer that was live streaming,
please contact Twitch support while logged in.
Okay, so here's the thing.
This is talking about, you gotta go
to the battle net thing while I'm playing Diablo four on an
Xbox that doesn't have the battle net thing in there.
So I don't really know that I can do this,
but probably most of you can.
So if you wanna get a new little horsey to run around
and season of the construct, it's, it's an option.
And speaking of that, um, max Roll has a article written
by Dred Sy who does such amazing work
with making me understand what's going on
in the seasons .
Uh, so this is season of the Construct Season three preview.
This is posted on January 16th
and I'll, it's got the big video in there.
It's a long video. You know, you wanna get yourself a drink
and be comfy 'cause it's a pretty long video if you're gonna
watch that, maybe you already have.
So this is what he wrote. The Diablo team just dropped a
major news blog about season three, season of the construct.
A good guy, salt and cool still has some toys.
Toys is in italics for us to play around with.
The season theme involves us going to a new hub,
the gate hall located in Keston to access new deadly vaults.
The vaults as well as elsewhere can drop two different types
of new stones governing stone and two tuning stones.
These stones determine the abilities
of your al companion obtained
during the seasonal quest line.
Governing stones determine the attack of your companion
and you can have up to two of 12 possible stones selected
tuning stones, augment the governing stones
and your companion.
You can have three govern,
three per governing stone for a total of six.
There are 27 types
of these stones defeating constructs within vaults can
drop a shattered stone.
A um, that can be crafted at the jeweler into either stone,
uh, crafting or obtaining duplicates
and fussing them with the stones.
You have equipped levels them, you,
you have equipped levels them up to increase their power.
On top of this several known
and unknown quality of life improvements are coming
with season three held, tied uptime changes.
WSAD movement being added.
Uh, that's on your keyboard, which of course I'm not doing
'cause I'm playing on an Xbox,
but that's gonna help a lot of people
to just to move around.
I mean that's WASD is a very old way of moving characters
around on the screen from way back when.
Um, some of us have used it before in the past.
Some of us probably are like, what is that?
Why is, why are they calling it that? You know?
But yeah, it'll help you move your character around.
Um, an extra step stash tab, which we all need
because I have filled mine, you know, um, in season two,
a draft mode for skill point allocation.
Parentheses, paragon two, three question marks end
of parentheses along with others are coming, the gauntlet
with leaderboards appears
to be slightly delayed from the launch of season three.
And here's stuff from the blog post
that is probably from Blizzard
and there's a lot of stuff in here
and it explains what all the governing stones do,
what all the tuning stone abilities are.
I highly recommend you check this out
because Dread site does
very detailed in depth stuff about video games,
especially Diablo stuff.
So yeah, you should check that out.
I think it's gonna be an interesting season.
I just don't know if my character's ever gonna get strong
enough to do it, but we'll see.
I haven't decided what class I'm gonna play yet.
Over on Wow Head from three days ago posted by oxide.
We have extra stash tab added in Dia in season three,
Diablo four and that's really,
there's a piece in here somewhere
that says an extra stash tab is now available
for your adventuring needs.
Proceed to the stash in any capital city
to purchase an additional stash tab.
Um, shortly after the launch
of Diablo four sanctuary goers ran into an issue.
They ran out of space for all their items.
Blizzard has taken small measures
to remedy this over the last two seasons
and the journey into the season
of the construct is no different.
This time around Blizzard is giving players
what they've been asking for more stash tabs.
Well one at least with season
of the construct become comes an extra stash tab
that player can buy outright like they
purchased previous dash tabs.
While this is a step in the right direction
and further emphasizes Blizzard's dedication to listening
to the community, the floodgates have opened,
players have been clamoring for more storage
for several season cycles now and several season cycles.
There's been what two? We're in the second one now. Okay.
Um, anyway, and many have wondered why Blizzard had not
added an extra stash tab as a seasonal reward.
As is the case with Diablo three.
We may very well still end up with that in the future,
but unfortunately it's just too soon to tell.
The good news is the blizzard is listening to the players
and that sentiment seems to be continuing into the future.
We've also got from Diablo four, uh,
it's talking about the construct thing.
So it's titled Unearth a Looming Threat in season
of the Construct posted on January 16.
I'm not sure how much of this is things
that I haven't already said,
but I'll read you some stuff from it.
Ancient forces threatened sanctuary aided
by your Sal companion hazard.
The many traps and devastating constructs
beneath the deserts of kastan.
Deep beneath the swirling sands elemental forces are
amassing for malicious whims of the demon malus.
Only by descending far below the surface will you be able
to cu this cursed threat from its root season
of the construct is going to start on January 23rd.
Of course, prepare to uncover the powerful secrets
of Zoltan KO's loom
with a new Dun dungeon type called vaults,
a seasonal robotic al companion
and weekly leaderboards in the gauntlet.
Several key of key quality
of life features including almost constant held tide events.
Oh neat. Um, arrive
to help aid your conquest while visiting in the
for while fighting in the vaults.
So here's some stuff. Unearth Zoltan KO's legacy in a new
quest line, a new threat lurks bene deep beneath the sands
of Stan where the loom
and ancient technology designed by Zoltan Kool
and Ahan of Kal have been usurped
by the forces of evil.
The demon Malus is responsible for twisting the loom
for his cruel whims.
Zoltan Kools former companion Ayan, leads you
through the treacherous vaults, desperate
to stop the formidable malus
and his deadly constructs from overtaking sanctuary.
There's a lovely photo of that in here
or a screenshot I guess.
Travel to the gate hall, a town center underneath Keison
that serves as your base
of operations in the fight against the constructs.
The gate hall is your conduit
to access the deadly vaults riddled
with elemental hazards and constructs.
These vaults are the key
to harnessing the true potential of the loom.
Travel to the loom to stop the threat at its source
and defeat malice in a new boss.
Fight To play the season of construct seasonal quest line,
you must create a new character on the seasonal realm
and have completed the main campaign.
Take advantage of the Skip main campaign feature once you've
completed the prologue.
If you want to jump right in battle side by side
with your al companion, weld the power of the loom
by acquiring your very own al companion which becomes
available during the seasonal quest line.
In Zoltan's vision, thesal compliments your adventurers by
engaging directly in the fight
or aiding you dutifully on the sidelines.
Using magical governing
and tuning stones recovered from the vaults
and elsewhere in sanctuary, augment your sal
to best suit your targeted build.
For season of the construct governing stones determine which
attacks your sal can perform while tuning stones will
augment those skills and provide greater utility.
This is gonna drive me crazy, I'm sure of it.
, you know you can equip your al
with two governing stones and six tuning stones.
One governing stone for each attack
and three tuning stones to augment the ability.
There are 12 governing stones
and 27 different tuning stones of different uh, rarities
to seek out in the vaults to unlock the full power
of the chaw construct.
It goes on from here for quite a bit.
There's a lot of details in here.
I'm not gonna read them all 'cause it will take forever.
It's also talking about test yourself in deadly
new dungeons vaults.
While I use unle malus screw
and strength harnessing the awesome power of the loom
and corrupting the vast network
of vaults lying dormant originally armed
to keep out any demonic influence,
the various hazards implemented now protect the forces
of evil they once kept at bay.
The vaults are specialized dungeons
that house elemental hazards divide, devised by Zoltan Kool
and ayush themselves amongst the hazard.
Delayed the constructs an entirely new monster family.
Several elemental variants of these monsters lurk
and wait for any unsuspecting wanderers
to fall into their mechanical clutches.
Upon entering the vault. After converting the required
pearls of wording, you can be blessed
by zoltan's wording a special layered blessing which grants
access to riches within the vaults.
Zoltan's wording diminishes stack by stack if you manage
to fall prey to the various hazards
scattered throughout the vaults.
If you manage to keep zoltan's wording intact
after defeating the vault boss,
you'll unlock a hard woven chest which has a higher chance
of granting legendary items.
Using pearls of warding can increase the risk
by exchanging them for extra stacks
of sultan's warding at the vault entrance succeed
and your reward will increase
as well at world tier three nightmare vaults Unlock.
That's not too bad, I got to world tier three before,
but this seems like it's gonna be a lot tougher, you know,
season two, I'm kind of doing
this one I think is gonna be a struggle at first
and then people will figure it out right away.
These vaults function similar to nightmare dungeons,
however, they will have deadly constructs
and hazards scattered throughout
and the heart ward woven chests for these savvy wanderer.
And then there's a bunch of other stuff going on.
There's a leaderboard coming up.
There's quality of life updates in the season
of the construct and you know
how you can put in different skills and things and,
and that's kind of how that one goes.
I think it's gonna be fun.
It might be really frustrating for me at first
because I don't think I'm gonna figure it out right away,
but you know, it can be done.
We've got another article here from Blizzard Watch by uh,
Liz Pat Diablo four, season three Conquer the Creations
of Zol and Cool in season of the Construct
with exactly a week
before launch, we have the first details of Diablo four,
season three season of the construct,
AKA the season of the orange text.
Oh God, yeah I bet it is .
Deep beneath the swirling sands of the deserts,
the demon Malus is amassing an elementally powered army
to conquer sanctuary
and of course it's up to us to stop him.
So join us as we explore the first details of our upcoming
of our coming adventures Deep under the sands of Stan.
This is what we know about Diablo four, season three so far.
There is a video in that one as well.
So here's some stuff, here are the
major features, I'll give you those.
Here are the major features in Diablo four, season three.
Customize your robotic Chel companion.
Acquire a Al Companion during the seasonal quest line
by unlocking the power of the loom.
Thesal is a unique construct.
Companion comp customize your AL'S powers
with a system similar to season two's.
Vampiric powers by using governing
and tuning stones in the run panel.
Level up your existing stones
and in some XP by fussing duplicate stones together
gain a new base of operations in Gate Hall.
The starting point for season three,
the gate hall is a town center situated
underneath Keun functioning as both our base of operations
for this season and our entry
to access the vaults which hold the key
to conquering the power
of Zol Zoltan KO's Loom Explore Zoltan KO's vaults
where the al is the helper of the season.
The vaults are the challenge.
There're specialized dungeons holding a variety of traps,
elemental hazards and constructs.
A new monster family four D four.
These zoltan's warding blessing
and pearls of waring improved the rewards granted from the
vaults, but also increase the risks you can fall prey
to at World's tier three.
The nightmare dungeon form of vaults on locks
with their own vault sigils to craft at the occultist.
Also using pearls of waring.
And of course what would make Diablo four a major Diablo
four patch be without the quality
of life improvements we know and love some change.
And we'll also be coming to the base game with season three.
Hell Tides will be persistently active
with a five minute rest once per hour.
An additional stash tab is joining the mix for us.
Gear hoarders WASD movement is available finally,
without having to apply custom mappings
and a new Respec mode makes build updates incredibly easier
without having to do a full refund
and starting from scratch goes on from there.
And lastly, from six days ago, wow head has posted the Art
of Diablo volume two release date revealed Hint at
expansion release date.
Question mark. This is written by ARC T
and um, yeah, there's a picture of the book that's here.
You can pre-order it if you want to.
Let's see what happens if I click on that button,
it takes you to Amazon.
I don't know if I have this or not, I might, I'm not sure.
Uh, it looks like it's, no, I don't have it
because it is going to be released on July 2nd, 2024.
So none of you have it either, you know, um,
it looks kind of interesting.
I'm always interested in like the Diablo books and the art
and the lore and all of that kind of stuff.
I think it's cool a small portion
of sales from the Amazon link.
If I click that and then buy it
through the Amazon link from the Wow Head article.
If I go through there, wow.
Head gets some support to, uh, keep their, you know,
their website going.
Um, so here's a little bit about that.
Volume two of the art book series will contain over 500
works of art and concepts from Diablo three,
resurrected Diablo Immortal
and Diablo four expect some gloriously gory
and beautiful art from the second volume when it is released
as the first volume of the Art of Diablo did not disappoint.
And there's some pictures in here from the Art of Diablo,
like the first one, uh, something to consider is
that the release date for volume two of the Art
of Diablo might give a hint towards a possible release date
for Diablo four vessel of hatred.
The expansion for Diablo four is officially slated
to be released sometime in late 2024,
but there is a possibility that some of the images
inside the book might contain information about
or insight into the vessel of hatred.
The book of Laura released April 18th, 2023
and Diablo four released just two months.
A just two months after Blizzard is planning
for a huge reveal about the vessel
of hatred in early summer, which is expected to be
around May or June.
The book will release one to two months after,
and if the previous release schedule holds true,
it's possible, albeit unlikely, we can expect a vessel
of hatred to release in August or September of 2024.
Only time will tell,
but we're all excited to see what is in store for Sanctuary.
And that's all I have for you today.
You're probably tired of hearing my voice at this point
and I really wanna go jump back into Diablo four.
So this is where I'm going to end the show.
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