Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary. This is episode 458 of Shattered soul stone. Your Ab community podcast. This episode is called Spirit born. It is 06/20/2024, and this is Jen. But before we jump into the spirit borne stuff. There's a couple other things I wanted to talk about. There is currently through Amazon, a comic. It it appears to be a comic. Like, I think that's what it is. It's called Dia Legends, necromancer
Rat. It's got a picture of Wrath about with all, like, the bones kind of thing you would see in maybe Dia and, a bunch of sc and things like that around him. So it is called Legends of the necromancer Roth, Dia legends 2. It is a hard cover. That's interesting. I didn't realize it was a hard cover. This is book 2 of 2. So what's the other 1. Let's find that out real quick. That 1 is... It's a 2 book series. Okay. So the 1 it's paired with is 1 from, also from Blizzard, Dia Legends of barbarian,
Bo. So this is Roth. So that's why it's to 1 of 2. It's not that they're making more episodes or series of Roth, but that's kinda interesting overall anyway. So here's a little blurb about it. It says don't miss this exclusive original dia graphic novel chronic, the origins of Roth. Founder of the necromancer class protector of the
balance between life and death. Centuries after Lil ban, her son, Len has buried his lineage, denying his innate ability to control life and death, but when a ruthless queen shatter his peace and summons him to the ruined citadel of the born. Len aria must take up the mantle to save sanctuary from her twist intentions. As his power grows, a familiar voice calls to him from the darkness showing him the potential of his talents, and the perilous
road he must walk to understand them. From the Dia development team and critically acclaimed author dash artist Duo Fred Kennedy, and Adam Go comes a compelling magnificent illustrated new tale legends of the necromancer Rat, Lays bear, how the death of innocence can come to define us or become the catalyst that helps us grow. I think they pretty cool. It looks like, I'm trying to figure out how much it is. I do think it's like a graphic novel kind of thing maybe. Yeah. It's a graphic novel.
And it is 20 dollars and 60 cents. If you have prime, if not, it's probably a little bit more, but I think it's neat, and I'll probably see about getting that if I Remember to do it, but I think it'd be cool to read. I'd like to see the artwork in it, you know, that kind of stuff. And from there, we're gonna move on to spirit borne stuff. There's a thing on the blizzard press center right now that has different things in here from Dia 4. A lot of it is spirit
borne stuff. There is in fact a trailer video whatever you wanna call it it's spirit born class trailer, they're calling it for vessel of hatred, which is coming up soon. Have I purchased this yet Now? I haven't... I'll get there eventually. There's also some screenshots in here of the cent skills, the Eagle skills, gorilla skills and jaguar skills. There's some other art in here that is a look looks a little grayscale in some cases, although the jaguar wire is kind of, like
reddish looking for some reason. There's a picture of a spirit born posing with, like, a that big double handed sword thing, I guess. If you wanna put stuff on if your phone or your tablet. There's images of that that you can just take and, you know, put it there and be happy. I guess, because these are really cool creatures. I don't know a heck of
a lot them yet. I don't think most of us will know exactly what they do until we start playing, you know, vessel of hatred, but there's there's a lot of cool stuff in here So if you wanna do that, you can put, like a gorilla, cent, and some kind of an eagle and and the jaguar just it's kinda neat. I like that they give you their kind of stuff to you you now, for a press real or press kit thing. In addition, On 07/18/2024. Blizzard posted devised your portal to games come.
Now. I don't know exactly what this about, So I'm just gonna read it to you. There's a nice little graphic in here that says portal to games come and has the dia 4 vessel of hatred logo in, wander have learned origins have been said to possess the knowledge to create their own portals, spending time and space to materialize their way to desired destinations Now is your chance to weld such magic for a chance for you and a friend to play the new spirit born class
in dia form. From July 18, to July 25 11:30AM Pd devised your own portal for a chance to win a trip to games come for you and a friend. Games come will be the first public hands on event for spirit born. You'll be 1 of the first to play the new class exclamation point. You'll both be equipped with travel accommodations and tickets to the show in Cologne, Germany from August 21 to 25.
To enter, post your own portal to Games come on Instagram, your portal to Games com, which is in quotes, is up to your interpretation. You can use any medium at your disposal to bring your portal to life in game capture, digital or practical effects, or even paper mach, b as is met... As imaginative as possible. So tag at p dia on Instagram with the hashtags Hashtag portal to games com and hashtag dia
contest, when you post your entry. 5 winners will be selected by our judges based on creativity quality and rev. Rev. Rev. Okay. Don't miss this opportunity to enter the portal to Games com contest for a chance for you and a friend. To win a trip to games come and play the spirit
for in person. We can't wait to see the portals you create to participate you must be 18 years or older and live in an eligible read and for further deep details and rules, check out our forum post here, and there is a link to that, So let's just take a look real quick. Right? Let's see what that is. Okay. Here's... This is mostly just the details of how this is gonna go down. So I'm not gonna read all of this blue text to you, but there is 1 saying Dia 4 portal to Games comp contest
rules. No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win a purchase will not increase your chances of winning and all this kind of stuff. So it's there. It's not something that's that interest thing to go over, but I think this 1 I just read to you will probably suffice for as much as you need to know about that. There's also what appears to be a brand new trailer for vessel of hatred, and I just turned it on accidentally. This 1 is posted on Youtube by Ig igm, and it has
just a quick video. It's about looks like 2 minutes and 24 seconds long. It has a pop up that says likely mature 17 plus, may contain content tend inappropriate for children, and it just kinda goes through, like, this... It starts with, and I'm not gonna play it because that might be copyright infringement, but what it starts with our a bunch of little kids that look like they're in a forest of some kind, and the overview, the whoever is the speaker of this with this with this little video.
Some of the kids are, like, falling over and some of them are surviving. And then it shows you do, number of, like, the gorilla and the jaguar and cent and Missing 1 of those, but it has that. And there's, like, this little kid that's trying desperately to not die as his friends did or his... I don't even if they were friends or if they were sort of chosen, but the a lot of them just fell the heck over,
and you have this... This very small boy who has no hair and has some, like, patterns on his body in, like, white paint. And it just goes from there, and then it shows you some stuff with the spirit borne class, and it's kinda neat. So all of this stuff will be in the Shattered Soul website. As soon as I get this done.
Okay. So in addition to that, if you really like the spirit borne stuff because it's kinda cool, there is an article here from Wow head from 1 day ago posted by Garmin off, and it says Blizzard Gear stored new Dia 4 spirit born merchandise now available. Now they've done this before with other stuff when it was like, a new, you know, a new thing going on in their games. So I'm gonna read you some of this stuff here. It says with the recent spirit
born reveal livestream stream. Blizzard has launched a new dia 4 merchandise on the gear store, including Lilith Fist and spirit borne themed t shirts, Featuring a glow in the dark prince, that's cool. Band t shirt reminiscent designs and fantastic new art to take a look at the newest gear store additions below and check out the Blizzard Gear stores full d Ob 4 stock by clicking the link. There is a link embedded in this wow head article for you. So the spirit born black
t shirt is third dollars. It's green. It's it's saves it's a black t shirt with green on it, that kind of, like, reflects off of it as that it we're metal or something. I think that 1 looks a bit like I'm not even sure. It's got, like, a thing with fangs here and different stuff. I think it's got some of the spirit borne, stuff in it for that. There's also vessel of hatred glow in the dark black t
shirt for dirty dollars. These are all 30 dollars so far, and it's got the spirit born with a bunch of rooms around it and some things on this person's head, and it says Dia 4 vessel of hatred. There's a bright red Lil t shirt for 35 dollars. It's got the image of Lil that you would see if you had 1 of those little statues if you've just seen her in game, and then there's, like, Golden. I don't know. It's not really writing, but, like, a decoration around her.
So that's neat. And then at the top, it says Lilith and kind of, it's not spread out, like you would see it if you were reading it in text, but it's got her name with all the letters kind of jumbled together a little bit. There's a T shirt, which I probably wanna get. That one's also 35 dollars. It is black. It has the head of Mo as a wolf on there with, you know, portions of his face missing and little rooms and things like that on top
of the part that has fallen away. And that's what that's what we have here from Wow head about those. In addition to that. It looks like Wow head has done a little bit of explanation on several of the skills that you can use with different parts of the spirit borne stuff. So this 1, I just picked 1 is called Barricades spirit born trash or build is ready for a vessel of hatred. This is written by J Art trough today. I it looks like. So this is about the jaguar skills. So I'm just gonna
read it that 1. You could find the rest probably, you know, if you just go through Twitter and you'll look up that stuff. It'll be easy enough. Okay. This spirit born class has officially been revealed and, of course, that means builds are being theory crafted
exclamation point. Hot off the press is 1 of the first ready to roll builds for the spirit borne by none other than Dia 4 content creator barricade who has created a jaguar base build based off basic skills and movement abilities designed to cruise through the game and dissolve single targets. Utilize the jaguar spirit hall class mechanic to
turn all skills into jaguar skills. Barricade mixes in eagle and cent move in his rotation while focusing on movement, enhancing and basic skill buff passive, capping the build off with the adaptive stance key passive, and there's a a little box here that says adaptive stance, the base spirit of a skill cast grants, the Eagle 30 percent plus movement
speed, the gorilla 30 percent damage reduction. The jaguar 30 percent attack speed, and the cent 30 percent life steel, casting a skill of a different base spirit swaps to the new bonus, increases all damage by 30 percent with an x in the in a parenthesis there, for 5 seconds. So that's what that is. There is a little video in here, I'm not gonna play because again, that might be copyright,
you know, kind of stuff. So it's like an orange background with the spirit class there and a giant ag maguire behind him, and it's pretty neat. So that's kinda cool. There's also from, wow head, there's is like the spirit born with a green jaguar head and spots on them and all that kind of stuff with the the giants weapon that they're using and off to the side it's got different things, Like, there's a harmony thing. That's the helm. There's aspect of might, which is
let's see. Unlocked by completing a darker in dry steps or sal a legendary item. There's gauntlet pain go gauntlet there's aspect of con concur strikes. There's a dual list aspect. There's an aspect of adaptability when cast below 50 percent maximum resource, basic skills generate 3 of your primary resource once per cast, when cast at above 50 percent maximum resource basic skills deal 30 to a hundred and 20 percent increase damage. There's also a
ring that goes with that. There's aspect of Moon rise, damaging an enemy with a basic skill grants you 4 percent attack speed for 10 seconds, stacking up to 5 times upon reaching a maximum statue you enter a van pure blood rage with this 1 aspect of the moon rise, gaining 40 to 80 percent basic skill damage and 15 percent movement speed for 10 seconds. And then there's the aspect of combined strikes. It looks like an axe.
Each different basic skill you cast increases all of your damage by 15 percent for 10 seconds. And then there's an off hand, looks like a dagger or some kind. Maybe the thing that's actually in the hand of this spirit borne image in between all of these things I've been just talking to you about. I cannot pronounce the name of this, it is the unique quarter staff, so that's actually right. And there's a little spirit borne flavor in here and it says to the silent Heavens
the hunter ed z, if that's right? Raised his staff and sm the newman, released her came his cries as he des the hall ground on the third strike, the spirit answered, And that's was becoming in version 2 of this So there's a lot of stuff, and there's more of it if you wanna look at the Wow head article. I always put things in you know, in the show notes so you can go and check out whatever ones you like. Over on Dia mo, we have, from July 17, which isn't that long ago,
really? And it is talking about this really strange thing that I kinda find interesting. It's it says this sinister forces from 2 to universes have collided. Strike down these emerging dangers and earn the exclusive frost born cosmo met cosmetics in our collab lab event with world of warcraft from now until July 26. So frost board is, I think that's a giant sword. Isn't it? I haven't played wow in a very long time, but I'm pretty sure that's what that is. There's an image
here. On x dot com that has, like, a bunch of, like, blizzard looking winter kind of things going on. So that's kind of interesting there. So it's got a little logo here. It says Dia mo, and then there's a little tiny x in between and then says world of warcraft, and so it's shadow of the frozen thrown, you can play it now and through July 26, which I think might be fun to do for a while. I sometimes play Dia mortal. Sometimes
I forget about it. Over on pure, we have, speaking of the Spirit born, and this is written by Ga, and and he's got this blurb at the top here. Jen of Hatred, which is not me from Windows central shares her thoughts on the spirit born, and there is a lovely photo here. Of the spirit born with some of those creatures that help the spirit born and do what they do. Okay. Dia 4 fans were treated to a special live stream the Xbox studios on July
18. For the full reveal of the Spirit born class, following that was a day of full of gameplay demos featuring some of our favorite twitch streamers, a plethora of reaction videos on Youtube, had written reviews from all the major gaming news outlets by the end of of day virtually every dia gaming celebrity the in the industry had an an opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions about this new class. That was all really wonderful, but you know, I'm always more interested. Says Ga. I
think I got that name right. Let me double check. Yep. That's right. Okay. He says I'm always interest more interested what the casual gaming community has to say about anything new in this game. So I decided to sit down with my friend Jennifer Young, Aka Jed of Hatred. Windows central to have a candid and sponsor free conversation about the introduction of the Spirit class and what it could mean for Dia 4. The next part is literally
titled. Welcome to the jungle. If you're old enough to remember guns and roses when that was hot and new, that's probably where that phrase came from for this. And there is an entire interview here. It's pretty long. So I'm not gonna go through the whole thing. I will give some of it, maybe just the starting point. So Gas says, hello, and welcome back to Pure dia, and thanks for... Thanks very much for agreeing to join me again for another casual dia
chat. I would like to begin by offering my congratulations to you on being 1 of the few journalists who scored an interview with Brent Gibson and Elena Rivera In conjunction with the reveal of the spirit borne class. I thought your questions for them were very insightful. They really hit the mark on what the Dia
Wants to know about the new class. At the same time, we don't necessarily expect the devs to be truly representative of casual dia players, so I thought would very interesting to have you share a bit more of your own personal perspective on what's coming up for Dia 4, given that the expansion will add just 1 more region to the 5 that our exist in the game. It stands to reason that the success of vessel of hatred will rely heavily on player experience with new
spirit the new spirit born class. It's been a long a very long time since the Dia game series has seen the introduction of a brand new class. I believe the last time that happened was with a monk and which doctor classes that were included in the release of Dia in 20 12. Considering the magnitude of this milestone, especially as part of the very first expansion for Dia 4, it seems to me that the devs would want to incorporate as much beta testing as possible. Prior to release on October eighth.
Nevertheless, they've already cited that they want the bulk of vessel of hatred content to remain a secret. So the new expansion will be released without its own Pcr. Do you have faith in Devs dis decision, or are you concerned about the new class having a bumpy start once gamers like Rob 2628 get their hands on it. I think you all know who that is. Right? So I'm just gonna read you a little bit from, Jen of Hatred here. She says, oh, I fully expect it to be a
bumpy start. This is Dia We're talking as much as they can test and test internally. It simply can't match the investigative power of millions of people getting their hands on a new feature and playing it. Let alone the power builders. I don't think it's the again of the world, though, if something has to be fixed and tweaked post launch. I've actually just come out of playing el and ring shadow of the e tree, and were many broken powers or weapons that had to be
fixed with patches. For example, the perfume bottles were absolutely n large enemies. I realized that El ring are more likely to laugh off something like that compared to Dia fans with Dia 4. I also know we are talking about 2 very different sized development teams. Still, I brought up El Ring Dlc specifically here because if that had been play tested in the public prior, it would have ruined a lot of the discovery aspect and boss fights.
I think preserving that eyes is important. I'm staunch in favor of the Pt for pretty much any seasonal update. But I think keeping expansion content under wraps is fair and will be overall more enjoyable for us as players. There's a whole lot more in there and you can check it out once this gets onto to shattered soul dot com.
Icy Veins has this is reported by staff, and it's titled a new skill point cap for a vessel of hatred revealed ever everyone gets more points, and we have a very somewhat disgusting and painful thing for Na who is in and you've seen probably. If this is just a screenshot of that here. In today's new video focusing on the spirit bar, Blizzard showed the new maximum points players will have access to in the
upcoming expansion. The inside the game, the spirit borne video drives into the new class coming in dives into. Sorry. The new class coming in the vessel of hatred. It features gameplay, artwork commentary from the devs, but more interesting it also let's slip a key piece of information, and there is a video here about that. That looks like I must have looked at it a little bit because it's more than halfway way through, but I was just, you
know, trying to find things. As you can see, the spirit board character showcases has 69 available skill points. That's 11 more than the current 58 of available in the game at the moment. Obviously, it's not only the spirit board that get these extra skill points, so all classes can look forward to more skill options, exclamation point, and considering this addition is pretty likely the other classes will be getting new
additions to the skill tree as well. Definitely some passive, but perhaps a few new active skills as well will have to wait for more to be revealed about the expansion to find out. It's also embedded in here the... There's a video with some of the devs talking, and it's titled Dia 4 inside the game, the spirit born, you can watch it on Youtube, but I take a look at it. It's pretty cool overall, but you can get it there. Over, on, an x Rod Ferguson, you probably know
who he is. If you don't know, there's a box next to this post here that says, Rod Ferguson, Sv, Gm of all things Dia at Blizzard escalation point. There's a lot of escalation points going through this 1. Formally known as gears viking. This is my personal account and represents my only only my opinion slash thoughts. There is a lovely picture here of the spirit born and trying to go after creepy looking things. And he says this, I'm still kind of
buzzing from the spirit board reveal yesterday. I'm very proud of what the team accomplished with the deep dive developer stream, and I'm still reading and watching all the coverage from the folks that visited Blizzard to go hands on thanks to everyone involved. That's really nice. You know, That's just really nice. And the last thing I have here is, new mercenary details revealed from Diy before, vessel of hatred, and there's a screenshot here of 4 different mercenaries you could
hang out with a suppose. 1 of them is a very giant man with a huge shield in front of him with ruins, of course, we can't read. He looks pretty strong. I guess, there's a woman who is wearing white paint with, lot of tattoos over that paint or under that paint. And she's carrying an axe and looks very fierce. She looks like she might be an older woman. There's a guy that is wearing green, clothing and some brown leather clothing, carrying a bow. He's got a beard and some,
looks like Arrow... The backs of arrows, like, the the part at the back that you've, you know, that part, there, and he's looking out. Dates people are almost always looking out at the... I've seen this image before. At whoever's, you know, watching this, and then there's a small hair character, gender ind has horns on its head and has ears that look similar to a goat is holding fire in 1 hand wearing a red tu with some kind
of necklace that I can't understand. And has definitely has furry legs and feet and a tail. So these are the mercenaries that you can probably work with. This is written by Da on Wow head. So recent gameplay footage of the new spirit born class coming with vessel of Hatred has also revealed some interesting details about the upcoming mercenary system, which will return with the upcoming Dia
expansion. Mercenaries in dia have a long standing tradition beginning with Dia two's inception of the concept, while changes were remained in Dia 3 to modernize the system, many players disliked the relative simplicity Dia three's mercenaries compared to Dia, and Blizzard may have taken that to heart with this implementation in dia form. There's a vin go here with Rob 2628 who shared the mercenary currency information with within this article with wow heads,
so that's been shared. You could find his video on the spirit born below. There is 1 embedded in this particular article. To continue here is what we currently know and don't know about the mercenary system based on Rob's gameplay play footage. So here's some stuff. In the currency tab, a new currency called pale marks can be found, showcasing the usual placeholder icon. This currency seems to be used to interact with the mercenary system. The first tool tip mentions that pale marks are used to
purchase trade agreements. We assume that these are some sort of character bound items used to buy mercenary equipment. The tool tip also mentions that pale marks could be used to barter for items, which could mean that there would be multiple ways to acquire mercenary equipment by either buying from or barter with merchants, for example, There will be a mercenary den which sounds like a dedicated Npc instance, where trade agreements will be purchase and barter with pale
marks will be possible. It looks like Pale marks will be earned by completing activities together with a mercenary or by increasing your report. Receiving Pale marks will only be possible once you've unlocked barter which will happen after reaching rank 5 report. It's a ra a ppo o team. So report appears like some sort of personal reputation or loyal system based on the relationship and activities completed with your active
mercenary. Much like other reputation systems in dia, increasing reports with your mercenary could reward you not only with pale marks, but also the mercenary equipment and other useful items for hugh and your mercenary. Compared to Dia and Dia 3, the system of Dia appears to be quite complex, especially when it comes to acquiring mercenary equipment. What are your first impressions of the mercenary system? Let us know in the comments says,
There on Wow head. And that's all that I have for you right now. I haven't purchased the spirit foreign thing yet, but I will eventually. It's just a thing I tend to forget about. I'm like, oh, yeah, That. That's that's a thing. That's a thing. Okay. So that's going to be the end of this episode. You have been listening to episode 458 of the shattered soul, your Dia community pie cast. Missed an episode, you could find the show blog and listen to the show archives at WWW
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