This is Jen, and I am just about ready to put up another Shattered Soulstone podcast for those of you who are still paying attention to it. And I've got a lot of stuff. There's stuff from Diablo Immortal. There's stuff from Blizzard. There's some other stuff that doesn't really connect specifically to it, but kind of. So here's where we're gonna start. And there's a lot of Diablo Immortal stuff going on in here. So here we go. Before we get to the rest of it, there is a season 34 in Diablo 3
that is live right now. It was posted on X or Twitter, whatever you like to call it. And it's, it looks like it's going to be pretty good. I haven't really delved into much of this yet. I will when I'm done with this episode. And, yeah, it's, it's season 34. It's live now and it's, started on January 31st. So we're not missing too much because today's, you know, February 1st. In addition, Blizzard Entertainment posted some relief for people whose houses were impacted
by the wildfires in Southern California. I am in California. I am not near that vicinity that had this happen. So this one is titled Blizzard Entertainment Donates USD $1,000,000 to Direct Relief for wildfire impacted communities in Southern California. This is from January 2023, and there's just a little bit of stuff in here.
The recent fires in the Greater Los Angeles area have had a devastating impact on so many lives, including friends, loved ones, colleagues, and members of our player communities. In the face of such hardship, we're committed to supporting those affected. To help provide support to wildfire impacted communities in Southern California, Blizzard Entertainment is donating USD
$1,000,000 to Direct Relief. This donation will support Direct Relief's efforts in providing immediate and long term aid and resources to impacted residents, community health centers, and first responders. Our hearts remain with those affected both in the immediate need for relief and the continuing journey ahead, towards, sorry, a long term recovery. Diablo has a thing about the vessel of hatred on January 30. It went up on, Axe Twitter, whatever. And,
so this is what they wrote. Hell welcomes all. Thank you to the gaming accessibility conference for recognizing Diablo 4's achievements in making sanctuary accessible to all players. Below that is a screenshot of the game accessibility conference. Best blind and low vision accessibility goes to
Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred. And I think that's really cool because there are people who play video games that they're into and they wanna do, but sometimes the game they choose, which is not particularly this one is Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred. Sometimes they're not gonna be able to see it, or maybe it's gonna be harder for them to do. So, to have this Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred being more accessible to people that may have, maybe legally blind or different things like that.
It's really cool that they're doing this. They actually won the game accessibility accessibility conference. Best blind and low vision accessibility was kind of the title that he was given. So I think that's really cool. Okay. So on January 10, there's a little bit more here. I did say there was the anyway, I'll just get into it. So season 34 is Lights Calling. This is of course for Diablo 3.
And, it was supposed to start on January 22, but they moved it to January 31, which would have been yesterday. So here's what we have on this. There's a season theme. There's, I'll just read it to you. Okay. So season theme, looking to turn the tide of an unremitting war between light and darkness, the angels of the high heavens have embedded a token of their righteousness in sanctuary.
Cunning Nephilim seeking an advantage in combat will undergo an angelic trial, crystalizing a symbol of their morality into pure, other word worldly perfection. The specific celestial force imbued within by the divine is unknown, an answer waiting to be sought on the battlefield. Go forth, Nephilim. Season 34 reintroduces light's calling. Valiant Nephilim who recover angelic crucibles, a new consumable item, may use them to sanctify any equippable legendary item, infusing it with 1 of 3 new
class specific powers at random. We wanted to use the angelic crucibles to lean into the expertise of each class, further exemplifying its respective prowess, but through a nuanced lens. The high heavens are home to ethereal splendor bursting with boundless radiance. We wanted to provide players with the taste of untainted power as doled out from heaven itself. Then we have the cosmetic rewards. So for this one, in season 34, awards originally available from season 10 are returning.
In addition to the head and shoulders slots of the exclusive conqueror set, you'll be able to earn the black soulstone themed portraits and the scholarly lore master pennant first introduced in season 10. There's pictures of those. However, we know it's nice to have something new to aim for if you've been if you've participated in previous seasons. We're continuing to provide new end of journey rewards as introduced in season 17 with 2 new cosmetic ones for those who
complete the entirety of the season journey. Prove your worth along the shades of the Nephilim and complete the season 34 guardian journey to earn the book of Cain Pet and the lost civilization portrait frame. So the book of Cain Pet is literally a book and it's got, you know, it's a walking book. It has arms. It's holding a staff. It has a colorful gold embedded thing on the front of the book and a little bit on the back and scrolls on its back. It's pretty neat.
And then the portrait frame is, kind of it's like green and gold and has some stuff on it. So there's that. If you want to hear about the rewards for this one, here we go. Season journey rewards. If you've been diligently slaying demons before and reached conqueror in the season journey each time, you've surely accrued a few extra stash tabs. You'll earn one additional tab each season by finishing the conqueror tier or a maximum of 5.
Guardian of sanctuary, finish a level 70 Nephilim rift on torment 13, I think it is, difficulty within 5 minutes. That's that's interesting. Gem of my life, level 3 legendary gems to level 55. All I do is win, complete 2 conquest this season. Life goes on, kill Magda at level 70 in under 15 seconds on torment 13 difficulty. Money ain't a thang, t h a n g. Slay greed on torment 13 difficulty. Treasure goblins outside of Nephilim rifts will sometimes
open portals to greed's domain, the vault. Take u there, just a letter u in the middle. Reach greater rift level 60 solo. Greater rift keystones could be obtained from any Nephilim rift guardian. Power amplification. Use kunai's cube to augment an ancient legendary item with a level of 50 plus gem. And cubic reconfiguration. Use kunai's cube to reforge a legendary gem.
For the seasonal conquest, seasonal conquests are additional goals you can complete as part of our season journey to earn all the cosmetic rewards you'll need to complete at least 3 of the conquests below. The challenges are available in season that are available in season 34 include sprinter and speed racer task you with completing acts 1 through 4 at max level in under 1 hour. Wanna go fast while killing thing? Boss mode in
Worlds Apart are right up your alley. On a Good Day and I Can't Stop are making a return if leveling your legendary gems is more your thing. And finally, if you're keen to prove your mastery of various class sets, years of war and dynasty will be returning along with master of the universe and master of sets. Best of luck. And then there's Hadrick's gift. So I'm just gonna go through what it is. If you're playing a barbarian, you get horde of the 90 savages.
The crusader has aegis of valor. The demon hunter has gears of dreadlands. Monk has patterns of justice. Witch doctor has monk Dougu's regalia. Wizard has typhoons fail, and the necromancer has masquerade of the burning carnival. Scooting over to Diablo Immortal, we have a thing that was on, posted on X or Twitter. I still think of it as Twitter. As Tong Xi's renewal, it's a lunar year event play now on February 12th. So that's coming up. You can't play it today because today is February 1st.
So you'll get there if you want to do that. And it says complete tasks, defeat new monsters, and earn rewards with our limited time event celebrating Lunar New Year, Tang Xi's renewal. Play now until February 12th. Oh, okay. We can play it now. That's great. I didn't it's sometimes they put in things and I'm like, I think they mean later, but no, it's it's there. Also for Diablo Immortal, do not gaze directly into the serpent's eye for you may never
return from its stare. Celebrate the year of the snake with our celestial serpents phantom market available until February 12. And more from Diablo Immortal, happy year of the snake from Diablo Immortal. Celebrate with our Tong Xi's renewal event available now until February 12th. And another Diablo Immortal 1, for those of you that play, it's almost a Lunar New Year and celebrations have come to sanctuary. Visit the Wolfsong Tavern in Westmarch during Tong Xi's renewal to join the festivities.
And one more, upgrade your gems like never before during our gem surge event. From now until February 13th, you can earn polished jade to upgrade your legendary gems all the way to 5 star quality. Play now in Diablo Immortal. Diablo 4 has a thing here called pursue Celestial Fortune in Lunar Awakening. So it's kind of as I've noticed when I've started putting together this stuff, there's a lot of things that overlap. Like the Diablo Immortal stuff will have some things that also kind of match
sort of the Diablo 4 stuff. So, you know, it's kind of neat. So here's what we've got. Pursue celestial fortune and lunar awakening. The long awaited celestial journey has returned from February 4, 10 AM to February 18, 10 AM PST. Players in both seasonal and eternal realms can bask in the moonlight of the lunar awakening limited time event. A mysterious phenomenon is manifesting throughout the shrines of sanctuary, enchanting them with immense and prosperous power. Enchanting them
with immense and prosperous power. Celebrators attribute this behavior to their ancestor, blessing them from beyond the grave in commemoration of this joyous occasion. Activate any shrine found in sanctuary, non Hantu included, to earn 100% bonus experience multiplicative for 2 minutes and an enchanted power, all while earning ancestral favor reputation. Lunar awakening has dawned. And there are pictures throughout this.
Everything I'm going to talk about today will be in the show notes and you can check it out. To fully enjoy the revelry of lunar awakening, travel to Ked Bardo and head to the northern section of town. Once you're there, you'll meet Ying Yu, the leader of the lunar night market. This market is your central hub for lunar awakening, where you'll redeem your ancestral favor reputation for unceasing gifts from the ancestors caches and decorate lunar renewed
renewal themed rewards. Lunar shrines are spread throughout sanctuary. Fight your way through both dungeons and the wilderness, activating lunar shrines and slaying monsters to earn copious amounts of ancestral favor reputation. Lunar shrines and ancestors favor. Lunar shrines with the auspicious powers granted to them by the returning spirits of ancestors.
During lunar awakening, all shrines have been replaced with lunar shrines, which below which bestow a 100% experience bonus when activated with an updated appearance to honor the year of the snake. So that's part of Diablo Immortal as well. Lunar Shrines function similarly to typical shrines, but they have been augmented for an extra punch to celebrate this festive event. These shrines also have a unique map icon so you can
spot them from a distance. Lunar shrines provide an exciting bonus effect on top of their regular shrine power. The lunar shrine effects listed are listed below. Here's what we've got. Artillery shrine casts have a chance to summon a holy bomb. Wow. Blast wave shrine, each explosion summons a cluster bombardment. Channeling shrine, increased attack speed and chance to reset cooldowns. Conduit shrine, summon frequent powerful shocking strikes. Greed
shrine, chance to summon a treasure goblin. While the shrine is active, kill summon a treasure goblin. Lethal shrine, chance to instantly execute a stuck a struck monster causing fear on surrounding monsters. Note this includes elites, but excludes bosses and other players. Protection Shrine. You reflect all incoming damage. Damage reflected scales with level and
difficulty. On top of these powerfully amplified effects, miserly spirits spawn immediately when a Lunar Shrine is activated, allowing you to immediately capitalize on the shrine specific gameplay augmentation. You can also conquer reputation levels to earn awards. There are 10 ancestral favor reputation levels in total to earn with rewards, such as a resplendent spark and 6 different lunar themed cosmetic rewards to unlock, including the new Trigoul's
consort mount. There's an asterisk after that. Previous lunar rewards such as the lunar scepter, dragon's courage, moon moonshot bow, dragon's tapestry, moon's boot bounty, and Tragoul's consort charismatic can only be earned once, so you can't like scale them and take more. Once you've climbed through the reputation levels, continue earning additional rewards in the form of unceasing gifts from the ancestors. And there's these opulent garments, that are in Tehale's shop. I don't usually
purchase things from that. They look really cool, but it's just not for me. But if you like it, there's, you know, you'll find this when, when I put the show notes together. Almost done here. Alright. Diablo on x says, at long last an altar to worship at home. And then below is an embedded, thing. And it's it's a lilac shrine, is what it is. It's just a lilac shrine, and it looks a lot like the ones in the game. So this is from good smile_us that does stuff with these kinds of things,
little statues and such. And so, so good smile wrote, all hail the queen bow down as Lilith makes her grand entrance into the pop up parade SP line. Call upon her divine presence when retribution is at hand. Preorder her now at goodsmileonlineshopus. There's a link to that and then there's a picture of Lilith in there, the little statue. We also have some Diablo 4 patch notes in here. So Diablo 4 team has been monitoring your feedback as we introduce patches to keep
your experience in Sanctuary smooth. We will update the below list and denote whether the fixes are intended for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, or all platforms. So for vessel of hatred, here's some game updates. The tooltip for the I'm gonna say Kaxrun, q a x, has been updated to more accurate accurately describe its functionality. The icons for various unique spirit board rings have been updated to make them more visually
distinct from each other. Bug fixes. Dark Citadel fixed an issue where the player could get stuck outside the maze, during the Farrock encounter. Fixed an issue where incenses of fortitude and rushing wind did not persist after dying. Fixed an issue where the bosses Voroshock and Husert could target players in stealth. Fixed an issue where players could infinitely revive themselves during the impending doom wipe with scrolls of generosity. Fixed an issue where loot could disappear when
returning via a party member's portal. Fixed an issue where the witch powers could be swapped during a cuirass undercity run. Fix an issue where the description for resolute tributes did not inform players that it does not affect the whole party. Fix an issue where the QA rune was listed as a rare rune at the jeweler when it is a magic rune. Fixed an issue where the hireling commander achievement wouldn't be granted when playing on console if it was first earned on PC.
Fixed an issue where tempering a glaive or quarterstaff did not contribute towards the potent alterations achievement. And then there's the base game season of witchcraft. And here's what we have. The spawn rate for forgotten altars has been increased. More ravens of the tree will now appear in headhunt zones. Some have been saying there's now more unkindness in the area. Additional UI elements have been added for tracking head hunt progress. 2 new whisper bounties have been added.
New icons for head hunts have been added for visual distinction. All existing UI elements have been adjusted to better convey progress of activities and where important points of interest are notable and notable monsters are. An additional UI element has been added to track progress towards spawning head rotten bosses. There's an armory thing. There's some bug fixes.
Season of the witchcraft has a whole bunch of stuff in here, and I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna put it on my site, and then you can, like, you know, check it all out. And then there's another one I haven't actually looked at yet, but it's, a video from Diablo. And it is, Diablo 4 season of witchcraft. It's titled the 7 brides of the serpent. This thing is 25 minutes long, and it's got, like, a bunch of artwork and stuff. I'm sure there'll be
music. I haven't actually looked into it yet, but I'll I'll do it a little bit later so I don't take up all of your time listening and have making you listen to this. But everything that I'm going to, do is going to be up on the Shattered Soulstone website, very soon. And thank you all for listening.