Preorder Prava – Episode 459

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Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary. This
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is episode
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459
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of Shattered Soulstone, your Diablo community podcast.
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This episode is called preorder
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Prava.
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It is August 10, 2024,
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and this is Jen. Now I'm gonna start
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out. I know I skipped a lot of,
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times I should have been doing an episode,
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but the problem is I'm immune compromised, and
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I had a sinus infection that would not
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go away. I got, in touch with a
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doctor on the Teladoc thing,
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and the medication they provided made me sicker.
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I'm just finally getting over a lot of
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that. So that's why you didn't have any
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episodes for quite some time, because I was
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literally too sick to do it. And, this
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doesn't happen a lot, but sometimes it does,
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and then it takes me a while to
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get better.
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So there we are. That said, I have
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gathered up a bunch of things that have
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to do with Diablo 4 and other stuff.
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And I'm gonna start off with an article
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from gamespot.com.
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And this one is titled Diablo 4 Vessel
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of Hatred
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May Have Players Deal less damage, and that
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could be good. And this is written by
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Cameron Kosh or Koch
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on July 22, 2024.
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Yes. That was a while back, but I
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think it's a good article. So I'm just
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gonna like read through part of this for
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you.
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In addition
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to the headline I just read, there is
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a smaller one saying a level and number
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squish could be coming in Diablo 4's first
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expansion, which would be vessel of hatred. So
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here we go with Cameron,
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Koch or something like that. The writing. Okay.
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Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is coming in
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October,
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and players now have reason to believe there
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will be major changes to the game's max
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level, paragon system, and even the amount of
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damage players deal come the release of the
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game's first expansion.
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Blizzard recently gave players an in-depth look at
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the expansion's new class, the spirit born, as
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pointed out by wow head and discussed on
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places like the Diablo 4 subreddit,
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nestled among the new spirit born gameplay footage
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from various media outlets and content creators is
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evidence that the game's maximum level cap might
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be going down from level 100 to just
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60. It also indicates a major change in
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the way the game's paragon points are distributed.
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There are a few clues as to why
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this might be the case. Spirit borne gameplay
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footage shows XP bars post level 50 without
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the paragon point unlock nodes seen in the
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current version of the game. Instead, it looks
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like players may earn paragon points each, quote,
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level, end quote, after max in a way
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that could be closer to how players earned
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paragon points in Diablo 3. That being said,
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it is unlikely players will be able to
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earn quote infinite end quote paragon points like
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in Diablo 3 as that would require blizzard
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to completely rework Diablo four's existing paragon board
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system.
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Other evidence suggesting a new lower max level
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is an in game tooltip that states the
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amount of armor players will need at level
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60. In the current game, the tooltip references
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the amount of armor needed at level 100.
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The healing potion upgrades from the alchemist shown
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in the spirit borne gameplay footage is another
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indication with the new upgrades looking like they
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will cap out closer to level 60 instead
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of level 90 like in the current game.
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Going hand in hand with the max level
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and paragon changes looks to be a damage
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number squish. It's something many players have requested
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given that damage values in Diablo 4 can
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currently be in the 1,000,000 or even 1,000,000,000,
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making them extremely hard to read, and reoccurring
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boss requiring bosses to have the health in
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the trillions in order to compensate.
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Goes on from there. And at the bottom,
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there are some imagery from the vessel of
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hatred, just screenshots of it. It's pretty neat.
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Moving on, we have,
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recently ish, well, actually I guess it was
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July,
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26. So not that long ago, there is
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on the US blizzard forums for Diablo
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Immortal and it's titled introducing your new Diablo
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Immortal community manager. And this manager is going
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by the name of Ghost Signals,
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and he is a community manager. So here's
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what he wrote on there. Greetings,
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adventurers. I am Ghost Signals, the newest addition
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to the Diablo Immuta Immortal community team. I
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am so excited to be joining the team
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here at Blizzard, but even more so, I
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am excited to be joining this community of
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passionate Diablo Immortal fans. I am here because
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our amazing community team, which works across all
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of the Diablo games, has been stretched pretty
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thin. There's a lot of work that goes
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into bolstering and building the communities of a
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game, and with the addition of a Centimeters
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dedicated only to Diablo Immortal, we can give
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you all the attention that you
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dedicated only to Diablo Immortal, we can give
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you all the attention that you deserve. My
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mission as your dedicated community manager is to
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help this community thrive and grow and to
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work with you all to build spaces like
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this. I'm gonna of
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Diablo
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of Diablo Immortal, help each other get better
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at the game, and stay informed with a
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little with all things happening in the game.
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And it goes on to,
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a lot. There's a lot more in here.
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So that's like the first part. And then
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he's got a section here that says a
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little bit about myself. And he wrote, I've
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been working in community management for for about
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10 years now, specifically on mobile and free
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to play free to play GES. That's either
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a typo or I don't know what this
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word is, with passionate communities like yourself. I
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believe in meaningful communications that keep players informed
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and prepared. This means that I will always
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do my best to answer questions and deliver
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timely communications and responses, but that doesn't mean
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that I will be able to answer every
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question that is posted and especially not when
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they are specific to individual players slash accounts.
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I, unfortunately, This
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means that This means that the inflection slash
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emotion behind those words might be left to
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interpretation,
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but I ask that you try to and
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read them as neutrally as possible.
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I think player feedback is one of the
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greatest, most powerful tools to improve a game,
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and I will always welcome feedback, but it
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needs to be done constructively.
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Be passionate about what you have to say,
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but let's keep it professional. If you don't
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like something, you need to tell us why
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so that we can address the root cause
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of the issues. Insults and rants tend to
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derail your feedback, and I don't want that
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to happen, he writes. However, player feedback is
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not the only metric on which decisions are
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made, and we should be honest about that.
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Sometimes decisions that are unpopular
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will be made for the sake of the
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long term health of the game, and sometimes
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player feedback
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just doesn't fit in the future plans of
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the game.
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And then there's more in here, and you
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could follow him on Twitter,
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slash
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x. So he's on there. And again, his
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name is ghost signals. There is stuff,
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posted a while back. I think I may
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have talked about this the last time I
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did a show and it's the Blizzard gear
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store, the new Diablo 4 Spirit Born merchandise
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now available.
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And so there's mostly t shirts and things
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like that. There's a Spirit Born black t
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shirt for $30 It has, it's green. I
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don't know if it glows in the dark
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or not, but it's got some of these
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little images here of different kinds of things.
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Some of them have wings and,
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some of them look like a bug and
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things like that.
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Then you've got the vessel of hatred glow
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in the dark black t shirt also for
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$30,
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which has the iconic image of the
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character you've seen as soon as, they started
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hyping Vessel of Hatred. And And so it
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looks like a person wearing, like, a jaguar
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or something on their head and a bunch
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of ruins all the way around it.
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That's $30 There's a red, like, bright red
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Lilith red t shirt for $35
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It has an image of
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you've probably seen before of, like, Lilith statues
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and things like that in game or out
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of, because there are some, that are other
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than that. And above it, like, above that,
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you know, sort of, black and gray image
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on a red red t shirt, it says
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Lilith with the letters all kind of squished
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together and some gold,
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inlay around her. So that's kinda neat. And
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then there's the Mephisto black t shirt for
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$35, which I bought because I think Mephisto's
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incarnation
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in Diablo 4 is awesome, and I just
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thought it was so fun. So I have
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one of those right now.
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I'm not sure how long these things are
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gonna stay in the blizzard store. There's a
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link I'll put I'll put links up on
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everything when I'm done, talking to you about
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all the stuff I was gonna tell you
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about.
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And you can, you know, find your way
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to the
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merchandise store when you're ready. This episode is
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called pre order Prava because you can now.
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It's the book of Prava. Now, if you're
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new to this kind of stuff, there's a
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lot of books
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that have to do with it. There's book
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of Tyrael. There's book of Lorath. There's book
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of there's so many of them. And some
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of them are art books, and some of
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them are not. But these types of books
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focused on a particular character in the game
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are usually focused on, like, what's their background?
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What did they do? How are they doing
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things? How did they get to where they
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were? You know, that kind of stuff. So
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this is from pure Diablo, and I'm going
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to read you just a tiny bit because
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it looks like they did a very short
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interview. Well, I'll just start reading it to
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you. But the picture of this thing is,
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you know, you'll you could see it in
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the show notes later,
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because those would be up. It's got, like,
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a palm with some fire behind it and,
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arrows coming from either side. It's very gold.
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It's got, like, what looks like a leather
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strap going from top to bottom of the
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book and across, and the hand thing is
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on top of it. There's a bunch of
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runes. It says and gold and book of
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Braava. So that's, you know, something. So here's
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a little bit from this particular article from
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purediablo.com.
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In her recent interview with game director Brent
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Gibson and associate narrative designer Alainie Rivera Colon,
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our friend Jen of Hatred, which is not
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me, asked them about the lore for the
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vessel of hatred. In the book of Lorath,
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which was released last year along with diablo
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four, more details were provided about lorath and
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Norell's journeys from the end of diablo 4
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main campaign to just prior to what was
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presented in the vessel of hatred release date
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trailer. However, there is a new book titled
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the book of Prava that will be released
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in October
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alongside the vessel of hatred expansion.
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Alaini had this to say when she asked
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when asked about whether the book of prava
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will be directly linked to the vessel of
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hatred. She said
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this, Brahma is still tied to the player.
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So I think regardless, you can probably read
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in for some interesting points, but I don't
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know if there's going to be anything in
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there that's necessarily spoiling anything.
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I think if anything, it just gives it's
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just giving players ammo to say I cannot
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wait to play expansion and see what happens.
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Brent also responded to the same question.
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He said I'm a hyper lore nerd, and
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I will bow to our writing staff. They
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create way more lore than we'll ever expose
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in just the game, especially with spirit born.
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It's a class that we want to see
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have life after the expansion. Right? So we
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developed the lore in a way that can
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be used for more things like books and
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novelettes and blog posts and merchandise and all
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these other
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things. The lore is integrated, you know. We
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don't release a book without thinking about its
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impact on the canon and how that's going
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to build out to everything else, and, obviously,
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a lot of the material we're releasing right
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now has to do with the time period
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that we're dealing with right now. So definitely
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check it out. If you're a lore person,
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it will definitely be worth it and you
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can pre order it now from Amazon. Let's
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see how much that's gonna cost us. Okay.
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So here we go. It's gonna be it's
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a hardcover book like the rest of them
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are and it is going to be released
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on October 1,
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2024.
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And what does it cost?
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I do not know what it costs.
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Let's see. You can preorder it now. Oh,
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okay. It is hardcover
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$29.95.
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That's that's what it is. So I'll throw
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that in the show notes as well. From
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Wowhead,
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posted by populartopular
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about Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder season 8 coming
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August 23rd, which is not terribly far away.
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But if you only like playing Diablo
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2 resurrected,
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there's some things in here about it. And
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it's there's not a lot of
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a lot of things, but there's some things.
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So there's this, you know, creepy looking skull
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thing with ladder season 8 next to it.
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And here's the blue notes for this one.
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Sanctuary's denizens will be happy to set their
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sights on you again, traveler. Countless demons have
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met their timely demise at the end of
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your weapon, and yet their onslaught
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doesn't relent. Sanctuary needs a savior. Return on
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August 23. I think these things are lining
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up right around there,
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to wreak havoc among the burning hell's ranks
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in ladder season 8. So here's some patch
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notes.
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This patch goes live on August 20. It
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introduces a variety of bug fixes to various
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systems and updates to player reporting. And then
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it says general player reporting has been updated,
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but but we don't know what was updated
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from that. Gameplay
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fixed an issue where assassin's blade fury skill
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would stop channeling when the monster initially targeted
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died,
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fixed an issue where assassin's dragon tail would
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sometimes not properly inconsistently
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cut consume charges.
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Not sure exactly how that was worded, but
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that's what it says. Fixed an issue where
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dragon tail could cause desync and rubber banding
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issues in both online and offline play. Fixed
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an issue where the act 3 mercenary would
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target ravens with enchant.
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Fixed an issue where joining a new game
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as a terror zone rotation began could cause
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a failure to join the game, fixed an
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issue where skill could become unbound while weapon
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swapping, fixed an issue where missiles could desync
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if a skill was aimed at a target
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that was standing on top
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of an item.
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Oh my gosh.
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Okay. User interface and user experience fixed an
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issue where the tooltip and the character screen
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for Amazon's lightning bolt displayed inaccurate data, fixed
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an issue where the character list would resort
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whenever the game was relaunched. That's a problem.
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There's a developer's note on that. This issue
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has been fixed for PC only. We anticipate
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a fix for consoles coming soon and we'll
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keep you updated.
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Also fixed an issue where the tooltip for
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slow missiles didn't display accurate information for what
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affects the next level of the skill would
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do and fixed an issue where v wasn't
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an arrow between the lightning and chain lightning
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skills in the skill tree when using controller.
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So it'd be like if you've got an
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Xbox or something. So season 8 is gonna
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start. I think we have it up here.
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Where did it go? August 20. So if
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you're into that, that's when you start. There's
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a whole bunch of things in here that
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are left over, and there's like new things
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added to the stash.
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Once season 7 ends, all ladder characters will
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be transferred to their respective non ladder group.
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All items in that character's group shared stash
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will go into a new withdraw only set
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of shared stash tabs denoted by a check
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marked passed box. Any items from ladder season
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6 stored in the withdraw only tabs will
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be lost at this time. You will have
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all of the ladder season 8 to withdraw
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any items you would like to keep from
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season 7. When ladder season 8 ends, this
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withdrawal only set of stash tabs
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will be overridden with any items in the
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ladder season 7 shared stash. Be sure to
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get any items out before then, or they
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will be lost forever. So that's what's going
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on there soon ish. Over on Wowhead again,
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we have an article titled
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Diablo 4 season 5, season of the infernal
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hordes now live. Now I've been looking at
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some of this stuff actually on Instagram when
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I was too sick to play anything, you
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know,
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and,
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it's an interesting
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grouping of
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demons and
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monsters and and all kinds of stuff. So
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this one was written by Blaney
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Wow. So I'm gonna read you a little
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bit about this. And there is a gameplay
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trailer embedded in this that I'm not gonna
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actually post here or, you know, run through
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here because you probably will wanna see it
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yourself instead of, like, hearing and wondering what
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the visuals were. So here we go. The
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5th season of Diablo 4, the season of
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the infernal hordes, is now officially live with
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sweeping changes to a number of legendary aspects,
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unique, and mythic items along with the new
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mother's gift reputation
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and infernal hordes endgame mode. There's plenty of
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content to test, and then there's the video.
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Our overview linked below covers everything coming with
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the season along with links to our guides
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on each piece of content and how best
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to get yourself started in season 5. The
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seasonal journey will also be helping players once
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again start to create certain builds for each
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class with the aspects granted being specifically tailored
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to archetypes. They were confirmed on twitter by
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Adam Fletcher to be the barbarian gets weapon
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swapping slash knockback, the druid gets cataclysm
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companions.
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Necromancer gets bone spirit and prison and also
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bone golem. Rogue gets flurry and dark shroud
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and also mobility.
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Sorcerer gets chain lightning and mana. These will
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allow you to focus on leveling faster with
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certain builds due to the power increases you'll
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receive by completing the season journey. For example,
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as a rogue you'll benefit from running the
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flurry leveling build or as a sorcerer the
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chain lightning leveling build. With that being said,
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leveling is now fast enough that you can
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definitely choose to play what you find fun.
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Leveling isn't the only new thing to this
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season, though. We've updated our guides with the
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freshest information, giving you everything you need to
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know all in one spot. And that part's
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coming from Wowhead.
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And there's tier lists in here
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you can check out too, but, basically,
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it's live.
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This was posted 4 days ago, so you
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can get in there. We've also got from
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Blizzard watch who are also really cool people.
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Similar,
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but different.
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This one's titled everything you need to know
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about Diablo 4 season 5 and its infernal
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hordes now live written by Elizabeth Harper. And
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there's the iconic photo of all the types
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of classes you can play standing around a
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campfire. You've probably seen that one before. If
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you're still playing the game, you probably have.
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Diablo 4 season 5 is now live. Much
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like, and much like season 4, this is
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another season that focuses on buffing the base
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game with new gameplay that isn't season specific.
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Loot overall got buffed last season, so this
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season focuses on buffing uniques, which were feeling
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pretty weak in season 4. We also have
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more end game activities with the hellish new
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infernal hordes event and fell council battle. But
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whether you're eager for another new end game
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event or not, there's a lot to look
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forward to next season which will be a
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brief one lasting only until the expansion launches
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on October 8th, but it will add a
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lot of content for both seasonal and non
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seasonal characters. Here's what we know about Diablo
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4 season 5 and the short season 5
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schedule. What are infernal hordes?
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Mark marking their debut in season 5, these
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hellish new dungeons throw waves of enemies at
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you and in between each wave you can
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choose a new infernal offer, which adds a
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new challenge to the next wave and more
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rewards to go with it. Each wave is
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a quick 90 seconds, and you will need
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to survive them and kill all enemies.
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As you progress, you'll earn burning ether, which
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will unlock spoils of hell at the end
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of the run, rewarding gold, materials, or gear.
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If you complete every wave, you'll go on
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to battle the Fell Council, the same Zaccarim
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priest who guarded Mephisto's soul soul stone in
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Travancall,
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a place we'll be returning to in vessel
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of hatred. There are 5 fell priests to
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fight, but the encounter will pit you against
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3 of them at random, making each run
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a bit different. Infernal hordes have 3 tiers
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of difficulty with tier 1 available in world
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tier 3, tier 2 available in world tier
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4, and tier 3 available in world tier
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4 at level 100.
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Now that might be a problem if they're,
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like, if 100 is the top and that's
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what it's been, I'm not sure that, you
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know, if they cap it at 60 and
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you go into this, I'm not sure if
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they're, like, making that balance or not. Not
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I'm not talking about, you know, Blizzard Watch,
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but,
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if Blizzard itself is, like, trying to I
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don't know how that's gonna work.
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Like, world tier 4 at level 100, but
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if you can't do level 100 and you're
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stuck at 60, how is this gonna work?
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I'm not sure, but, might give it a
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try.
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Rewards will scale with difficulty, so expect more
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gold and better gear as you progress, but
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the hardest part of the infernal hordes may
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actually be getting to them. The event requires
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an infernal compass to start, and after getting
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the first one through a quest, the rest
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are rare drops from everyday game activities. Finding
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more compasses and highly higher quality compasses to
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even start this event can be a challenge.
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Drops were scarce on the PTR, but have
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reportedly been buffed. So we'll see how it
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looks now that the season has started. So
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that's pretty much there. There's also other stuff
547
00:20:35,970 --> 00:20:37,330
in here that's pretty neat to,
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skim through.
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Most season 5 features will also be on
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the eternal realms. Not sure what that's supposed
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to be. Season 5 will be the shortest
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season yet.
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What about season 6? Here's what they wrote.
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We all know about season 6. All we
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know about season 6 is that it will
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start on October 8 alongside vessel of hatred.
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That feels like an odd time to launch
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launch a season
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as we'll probably all be jumping into the
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new story with our favorite characters, though I
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suppose it would be a good time as
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any to roll a new spirit born alongside
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the new season. However, the timing makes me
564
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wonder if we'll get another lightweight season that's
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primarily focused on overall gameplay changes in the
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expansion rather than offering a unique theme to
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play with. With season 5 still on the
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horizon, I don't expect any news about season
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6 soon, but I'll update this post when
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we have details. So that's from Blizzard watch.
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And this one is kind of ominous to
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me in in several ways.
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So this is from Wowhead, and it is
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titled Diablo 4 season 5 patch 1.5.0,
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now live for pre download. It wants 6.66
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gigabytes
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so your computers might cry at that one,
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depending on how
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00:21:45,795 --> 00:21:47,555
useful your computer is with, you know, these
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types of things. Like, I I can't play
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00:21:50,115 --> 00:21:52,595
Diablo 4 on my computer directly. I do
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this through Xbox instead, so we'll just see
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how that's gonna go. This one is written
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4 days ago by Garbanath,
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and also, you know, this is from Myohed.
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So here's a little bit about that. Diablo
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4 patch 1.5.0
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is now available to download. This patch includes
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new and reworked unique and legendary items, class
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updates, and new infernal hordes game mode, and
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more. According to the Diablo 4 community manager
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Marcus Kretz, season 5 is on track to
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release at 10 AM PDT, and Blizzard will
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be on standby to address any issues should
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they arise. And there is a screenshot from
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x
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from Marcus,
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Kretz, and he says happy Diablo 4 season
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of the infernal hordes launch day. Patch is
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now available for download on all platforms. Season
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goes live in under an hour at 10
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AM PDT. This was posted on August 6,
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2024, by the way.
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Team will be all eyes looking for any
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issues post launch. Super psyched. See you in
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00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,200
there. There's a little bit more here. Patch
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1.5.0
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is bringing a lot of changes to the
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game, and players appear to be in agreement
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on one thing. Season 5 is shaping to
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be one of Diablo 4's best seasons yet.
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We're looking forward to trying out the new
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mini hellfire breaches in preparation of infernal hordes.
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So and then they ask what class you're
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playing, which, I don't think everybody's gonna jump
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in on that one. And then we've also
617
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got and this is kind of weird to
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me, but I'm just going to put it
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in here anyway. So this one is also
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from Wowhead. This one is written by Jen
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Artross, which again is not me. And so
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00:23:24,190 --> 00:23:25,330
the topic of this,
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00:23:25,710 --> 00:23:27,710
I guess the title of this one is
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beauty and sin sets return.
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New strappy leather cosmetics for necromancer and sorcerer
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in Diablo 4. So here's some stuff about
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that. Now these are things you have to
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00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,519
purchase. It's in, Tejal's shop, and everything just
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00:23:43,519 --> 00:23:45,440
about everything in Tejal's shop is,
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something you have to pay for. Once
631
00:23:49,664 --> 00:23:49,723
in a while, there's something freebie in there,
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00:23:49,723 --> 00:23:51,025
and that works out pretty good. But in
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00:23:51,025 --> 00:23:53,025
any case, this is, this is what we
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have here.
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00:23:54,144 --> 00:23:57,110
So Tehal's shop got has gotten new Diablo
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4 cosmetics in stock for season 5, and
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2 in particular stand out. Rather strappy sorcerer
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and necromancer
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sets. Take a look at the models below,
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which I will try to describe to you.
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It's possible that given the expansion of the
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beauty in sin motif, barbarians and druids may
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get their own version of this set in
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the future. So here's for the necromancer. So
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00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:19,839
if you're playing a necromancer, whether you're playing
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a male necromancer or a female necromancer,
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the
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00:24:24,525 --> 00:24:26,545
leathery looking outfits are
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not exactly
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completely equitable.
651
00:24:30,429 --> 00:24:31,710
I'm just going to explain it a little
652
00:24:31,710 --> 00:24:33,710
bit. So this is called the sinful bridal
653
00:24:33,710 --> 00:24:34,609
chest armor.
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00:24:35,150 --> 00:24:37,630
It also comes with a lovely rose petal
655
00:24:37,630 --> 00:24:39,855
animation tying it to the beauty and sin
656
00:24:39,855 --> 00:24:42,674
collection. So if you're playing a male necromancer,
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00:24:43,294 --> 00:24:44,034
you have,
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00:24:44,494 --> 00:24:46,194
boots with some gold on the sides.
659
00:24:46,494 --> 00:24:48,299
You have pants that go all the way
660
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up to your waist with a gold belt
661
00:24:49,659 --> 00:24:51,599
around it. You have armbands
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and a little bit like, you don't really
663
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have a shirt, but you have some, like,
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leather straps around your stomach area,
665
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and your shoulders actually have more,
666
00:25:01,605 --> 00:25:03,365
content right there than that. There is a
667
00:25:03,365 --> 00:25:05,950
gold thing that covers the necromancer
668
00:25:06,410 --> 00:25:09,450
male necromancer's face all the way up, and
669
00:25:09,450 --> 00:25:11,369
there's like a you can look at this,
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I'll put it in the show notes, and
671
00:25:12,625 --> 00:25:14,304
it sort of like spins them around so
672
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you could see the whole effects of the
673
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outfit. So he's got pants, he's got the
674
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arm guards, He's got all of this stuff.
675
00:25:20,250 --> 00:25:21,369
And then when you look at the one
676
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for the female necromancer,
677
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you have boots that look about the same
678
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as the one that the the men are
679
00:25:27,130 --> 00:25:27,630
using.
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00:25:27,930 --> 00:25:29,414
And then there's,
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00:25:30,115 --> 00:25:33,095
one leg that has, like, a lot of
682
00:25:33,315 --> 00:25:33,815
covering.
683
00:25:34,275 --> 00:25:35,795
They both one of them has less covering
684
00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:37,315
than the other. I guess the second one
685
00:25:37,315 --> 00:25:38,899
has more covering than that, and there's some
686
00:25:38,899 --> 00:25:40,599
straps around the,
687
00:25:41,059 --> 00:25:44,259
leg of the female necromancer. They have arm
688
00:25:44,259 --> 00:25:46,339
guards and the same type of things on
689
00:25:46,339 --> 00:25:47,000
their shoulders
690
00:25:47,345 --> 00:25:48,865
as the males do, but they also get
691
00:25:48,865 --> 00:25:51,424
a corset thing. And instead of actual pants,
692
00:25:51,424 --> 00:25:53,984
they're wearing, like, underwear with a gold belt
693
00:25:53,984 --> 00:25:55,984
around it. Are people gonna enjoy this? Are
694
00:25:55,984 --> 00:25:58,019
people gonna not enjoy it? I really have
695
00:25:58,019 --> 00:26:00,519
no idea. There's also some kind of mask
696
00:26:00,579 --> 00:26:02,500
with gold around it and spikes coming out
697
00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:04,565
of it and some kind of,
698
00:26:05,605 --> 00:26:07,684
weapon that looks like, I don't know, like
699
00:26:07,684 --> 00:26:10,164
a gold horse head and skeleton, kinda. I'm
700
00:26:10,164 --> 00:26:12,184
not sure. And then for the sorcerers,
701
00:26:12,484 --> 00:26:15,359
same thing. So it's the sinner's presence chest
702
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,519
armor that comes with a lovely rose petal
703
00:26:17,519 --> 00:26:19,679
animation, tying it to the beauty in sin
704
00:26:19,679 --> 00:26:20,179
collection.
705
00:26:20,639 --> 00:26:21,759
These people get more,
706
00:26:22,734 --> 00:26:25,075
armor than the necromancers
707
00:26:25,375 --> 00:26:25,875
did.
708
00:26:26,255 --> 00:26:28,095
So there's a male and a female version
709
00:26:28,095 --> 00:26:31,055
of this, and the male figure here who
710
00:26:31,055 --> 00:26:32,980
is a sorcerer has,
711
00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:37,119
a sort of a little flared neck thing
712
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,119
that goes over their shoulders as well. They
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are covered
714
00:26:40,295 --> 00:26:41,194
with straps
715
00:26:41,815 --> 00:26:42,694
across their,
716
00:26:43,255 --> 00:26:43,755
torso,
717
00:26:44,214 --> 00:26:45,815
and that leads to, like, a belt and
718
00:26:45,815 --> 00:26:47,470
then another belt with, like, a little star
719
00:26:47,470 --> 00:26:48,829
on it. And they have a full set
720
00:26:48,829 --> 00:26:49,490
of pants
721
00:26:50,109 --> 00:26:52,829
and boots and, like, knee pads and bracers.
722
00:26:52,829 --> 00:26:54,509
Okay. And so there's a thing in here
723
00:26:54,509 --> 00:26:55,549
if you want to see how it looks
724
00:26:55,549 --> 00:26:57,505
all the way around. And then with the
725
00:26:57,505 --> 00:26:58,005
female,
726
00:26:58,944 --> 00:27:01,744
sorcerer, it's similar. They have the same, I
727
00:27:01,744 --> 00:27:03,825
think it's exactly the same, the shoulder pads
728
00:27:03,825 --> 00:27:04,325
basically,
729
00:27:04,865 --> 00:27:05,765
and the neck
730
00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:07,720
guard. They do have the braces on their
731
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,140
arms, and they have, like, this
732
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:11,180
pentagon
733
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,634
coming from the thing around their neck. And
734
00:27:14,634 --> 00:27:16,894
there's, like, this very small leathery,
735
00:27:18,315 --> 00:27:19,295
gold and black,
736
00:27:19,914 --> 00:27:23,035
bodice kind of thing. There's the same belt
737
00:27:23,035 --> 00:27:23,934
that the male
738
00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:27,529
sorcerers have and they also get a cape
739
00:27:27,529 --> 00:27:28,430
and boots
740
00:27:29,049 --> 00:27:30,890
that go almost all the way up to
741
00:27:30,890 --> 00:27:33,325
where the belt is. And so this this
742
00:27:33,325 --> 00:27:35,325
one at least looks like they have clothing
743
00:27:35,325 --> 00:27:38,284
on, whereas the necromancer ones kind of don't,
744
00:27:38,284 --> 00:27:39,825
especially the female ones.
745
00:27:40,365 --> 00:27:42,269
So whatever. If that's your thing, go for
746
00:27:42,269 --> 00:27:44,450
it. Be happy. You know, whatever. And
747
00:27:45,549 --> 00:27:47,309
that's just how this goes. And then we've
748
00:27:47,309 --> 00:27:49,950
got okay. There is some others. There's a
749
00:27:49,950 --> 00:27:50,849
rogue set,
750
00:27:51,164 --> 00:27:53,805
a transmog, first made available in October of
751
00:27:53,805 --> 00:27:54,305
2023.
752
00:27:55,005 --> 00:27:57,164
And they yeah. There's male and female for
753
00:27:57,164 --> 00:27:59,244
that too. So what we have here now
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00:27:59,244 --> 00:27:59,744
is
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00:28:00,285 --> 00:28:02,789
a male rogue who is wearing,
756
00:28:03,329 --> 00:28:05,589
a necklace kind of thing that contains
757
00:28:05,970 --> 00:28:07,730
connects to a strap around the top of
758
00:28:07,730 --> 00:28:10,704
his chest. He's got full arm bands and
759
00:28:10,704 --> 00:28:13,345
gloves. He's got pants. He's got the gold
760
00:28:13,345 --> 00:28:15,765
belt. He's got boots all the way up
761
00:28:15,904 --> 00:28:18,065
to his thigh. You could see it's been
762
00:28:18,065 --> 00:28:19,400
around. If you when you look at this,
763
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,240
you can turn around and see how those
764
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:22,619
things are holding up.
765
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,759
And then you've got the,
766
00:28:25,934 --> 00:28:27,875
the other rogue, the female rogue, and
767
00:28:28,174 --> 00:28:29,695
this one has the boots all the way
768
00:28:29,695 --> 00:28:31,134
up to about where their knees are and
769
00:28:31,134 --> 00:28:32,515
has some little strappy things
770
00:28:32,815 --> 00:28:35,615
and, definitely has the armbands up to past
771
00:28:35,615 --> 00:28:38,740
their elbow. They also have a, like,
772
00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:40,019
sort of
773
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,080
like, yeah, sort of like both of them
774
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,605
have, like, a right around their head, like
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00:28:43,605 --> 00:28:44,964
a little band with a gold thing on
776
00:28:44,964 --> 00:28:45,865
it. And,
777
00:28:46,244 --> 00:28:47,704
with the female rogues,
778
00:28:48,164 --> 00:28:50,424
they're wearing, like, this weird bodice thing.
779
00:28:50,724 --> 00:28:53,180
And don't know. Maybe people think that's cool.
780
00:28:53,180 --> 00:28:54,779
Maybe they don't like it. Maybe they do
781
00:28:54,779 --> 00:28:55,440
like it.
782
00:28:56,059 --> 00:28:57,740
I'm not sure. But it just feels weird,
783
00:28:57,740 --> 00:29:00,134
because it almost looks like, you know, in
784
00:29:00,134 --> 00:29:01,654
all of these that I've been looking at
785
00:29:01,654 --> 00:29:05,274
here, the male characters are mostly covered,
786
00:29:05,575 --> 00:29:08,000
whereas the female ones are not. So it's
787
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up to you if you wanna play you
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know, if you wanna go to Tehale shop
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and buy any of these, that's fine. You
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like it. You enjoy it. Go ahead. It's
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it's, you know, no reason not to. I
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have no idea what they're gonna cost, and
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I don't know if they're still in there,
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but they might be. Then we have the
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last thing here. So this one is, from
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Wowhead posted by drapes, g r a p
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e z or drapez. I'm not sure. So
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this is about
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free in game content and stuff like that.
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So treasure goblin funko pop figure, that's one
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of them, Anarius and Lilith Stein,
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red Lilith statue and d two r vinyl
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box set on sale in the blizzard gear
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stores. This is from 3 days ago.
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00:29:48,284 --> 00:29:50,684
So here's what we've got. Season 5 of
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Diablo 4 has officially launched, and to celebrate
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some items have gone on sale in the
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Blizzard gear store, including one with an in
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game reward attached. Just in time for the
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season of infernal hordes, Blizzard together with funko
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pop, has released a miniature gold treasure goblin.
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This 4.5
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inches tall treasure goblin, who looks like he's
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been straying too close to some of Erevis's
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attacks,
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comes with the weight of gold mount bundle.
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This bundle
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includes an ingot,
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caras bullion
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and sanctus and
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cloth ulnas
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tithe.
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I have no idea what these things are.
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Purchased the funcopop figure of the funcopop figure,
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sorry, comes with a digital code that can
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be exchanged for the mount bundle through the
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in game store.
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This specific mount bundle is priced at 1500,
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whatever the Diablo
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currency is, or $15 USD.
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So it's a pretty good deal if you
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are into collecting mounts, mount armor, and mount
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trophies. And there's a picture of this in
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here, and it is a treasure goblin. He's
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completely in gold, which is kind of interesting.
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Other than that, there's a lilith stein, which
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is interesting. It looks like a beer stein,
838
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like a big one. It's black. It's got
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her image on it in various parts. So
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this is,
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on sale now as far as I can
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00:31:09,634 --> 00:31:11,714
tell. When was this posted? 3 days ago.
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00:31:11,714 --> 00:31:13,714
So it's probably still in the shop. Yeah.
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It is a 24 ounce limited edition stein
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with images of Lilith and Denarius displayed on
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the sides, a 12
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00:31:21,269 --> 00:31:25,234
inch tall red Lilith statue and a 3
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by
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LP vinyl deluxe box set of the Diablo
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2 resurrected soundtrack,
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00:31:31,234 --> 00:31:32,035
which only,
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of which only 1500
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00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,500
were made. The Lilith and Inarius
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00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:38,339
24 ounce stein
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00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,440
is now a $100 instead of $200. It's
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a black covered stein. It's nice if you
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00:31:44,045 --> 00:31:45,884
collect steins. If you don't, it's no big
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00:31:45,884 --> 00:31:47,744
deal. And they do still have the Lilith,
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00:31:48,285 --> 00:31:50,779
red Lilith statue, the 12 inch one that
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00:31:50,779 --> 00:31:51,680
used to be $120.
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00:31:52,220 --> 00:31:54,299
It's now $70. So if you dig that,
862
00:31:54,299 --> 00:31:55,759
you can get it from the store
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00:31:56,059 --> 00:31:57,865
as long as it lasts. And then at
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00:31:57,865 --> 00:32:00,024
the end, the deluxe vinyl box set for
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Diablo 2 resurrected
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00:32:02,345 --> 00:32:02,845
is,
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00:32:03,224 --> 00:32:06,119
it's a 3 XLP on marbled vinyl. So
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this is like,
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if you have a turntable, this will help,
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00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,339
but otherwise, I'm not sure.
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00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,404
There's, some dice. There's,
872
00:32:13,965 --> 00:32:16,205
like a little what is this here? A
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00:32:16,205 --> 00:32:17,424
pentagram coin,
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00:32:17,884 --> 00:32:19,105
a collectible horadric
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00:32:19,644 --> 00:32:21,799
cube pin, and a miniature cinematic
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00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:22,920
scroll,
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00:32:23,380 --> 00:32:24,920
bonus die cut picture
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disc.
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00:32:26,420 --> 00:32:28,900
So this seems like something I wouldn't do
880
00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:30,904
because I just can't imagine
881
00:32:31,525 --> 00:32:34,025
I just can't imagine being this into Diablo
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00:32:34,565 --> 00:32:35,144
2 resurrected
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00:32:35,525 --> 00:32:36,664
to get, like, 3
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00:32:37,045 --> 00:32:39,065
marbled vinyl things. You know?
885
00:32:39,789 --> 00:32:40,529
I yeah.
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00:32:41,150 --> 00:32:43,150
But other people will probably really like them.
887
00:32:43,150 --> 00:32:45,170
It's just not for me, and that's okay.
888
00:32:45,230 --> 00:32:47,630
And that's where I'm going to end the
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show. I promise I will try to get
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00:32:49,535 --> 00:32:51,855
better at well, I'm better now from what
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00:32:51,855 --> 00:32:52,515
I was,
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00:32:53,055 --> 00:32:54,335
been from what I was when I got
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00:32:54,335 --> 00:32:57,329
sick. So there'll be more shows, and I'm
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I'm gonna just close out the show now.
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You have been listening to episode 4 59
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of the shattered soul stone, your Diablo community
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podcast. Missed an episode? You can find the
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show blog and listen to the show archives
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at www.shatteredsoulstone.com.
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Come join us in game. Our in game
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You can also join us on Discord for
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