Coming to you from somewhere in sanctuary, this is episode 456 of Shattered Soul stone, Your Dia community podcast. This episode is called whole lot of hatred. This is posted on 06/29/2024, and this is Jen. So I'm gonna be gonna go through some of the stuff I've been gathering in the month of June because I had a lot of things going on honestly. And so I
didn't get a lot of shows in. But this 1 this 1 has stuff and some of some of it, you may have noticed before, some of you may have read some of these articles, but I just figured I'd go ahead and keep going with this show because I didn't do it for, like, almost a month. So here we go. I've got an article here from Ko talk called dia immortal in wired blizzard to add a new kind of class to dia 4, which sounds weird to begin with, but I think It's interesting that,
let's see. Zack Z who wrote this on June twelfth of this here. Kind of is mixing the 2 ideas together between Dia Mo and dia 4, and I think that's kinda cool. So I'll read you a little bit of this. It does have some really neat pictures in here, like, a couple of them and the official release of the vessel of hatred trailer thing. So I'll just read you some of this, and then we'll just keep going. So he wrote. Dia 4 is first big d see expansion vessel of hatred arrives on all platforms
later this year. The upcoming Dlc is adding not only a new region to explore and loot, but also a new class, the spirit born, never before seen in the franchise. And according to Blizzard, the decision to add a new class came after Dia mo did so successfully. Announced a back in November of 20 23. Vessel of hatred is the first paid expansion for Dia 4, which itself launched in June 20 23.
It arrives later this year after months and months of most slate well received updates and fixes to the core game, including a massive loot overhaul in April. So the game is in a good place, and it seems like the perfect time to add a fresh realm to explore and a new class to play.
But we might have gotten a more traditional pre sting dia class in this expansion if a immortal, The mobile spin off hadn't tried and succeeded at adding a new at adding new archetypes to Blizzard loot focused Arp rpg.
In an interview with games radar plus, Dia franchise boss Rob Ferguson, explained that launching the blood knight in immortal in 20 23 helped to give them, give him and the team the confidence to create Dia spirit board, quote, I think I was more nervous when we did the blood night for immortal because that was the first new class in a decade. Said Ferguson, quote. And so for me, it was like, oh, wow, we're about to do a new
class in a decade, you know? And then when I saw how the blood night went over, I like, oh, okay. People are open to new ideas and new ways of doing this, and then we released the Tempe, and the Tempe was hugely successful too. And there's a little more here, and I'll let you read the rest of it for yourself. I just think it's cool that the combination of the less as you could play in Dia mortal and Dia 4 are kind
of mesh a little bit, you know? And I... I think that's neat because of everybody's gonna play all of the Dia games all of the time, so I figured I'd let people know about it if they maybe don't play Dia, but in any case, I got a lot to talk about Speaking of Dia immortal. There was patch notes on June 20 fifth, which is pretty recent, and it's titled Dia, immortal bug, fixes and patch notes for all platforms. So here's a little bit from that. And
it's listed as blizzard entertainment. So we don't have, like, 1 author on this 1. It's just This is what they do. Okay. The Dia Mortal team has been diligently monitoring your feedback and working to introduce bug fixes and patches to further prove your playing playing experience. As we implement these types of changes for the ios, Android and Pc versions of immortal, we will
update this list. Bug fixes are typically added at higher frequency addressing smaller related issues, they don't require a large download to be applied to the game. Patches are larger client side to updates that require a download for players to obtain new patches will require players to update before they can continue playing. So from 06/25/2024, here are some bug fixes with the gameplay. Fix an issue with Demonic remains not being salvage.
Fixed an issue with survivors bane achievements being earned as expected, while the boss rush modi was applied. Fixed crashing issues with, verge and Eb, fixed an issue where an unintended intentional... Additional path was available in purge the depth.
Then there's the Ui stuff, fix an issue where the server merge overview couldn't be viewed, fix an issue where the return to sanctuary event Ui didn't display properly, fixed an issue with red to dot notifications after using terror essence, fixed an issue with survivors main event duration. So that's the newest stuff coming from Dia Mo from June 20 fifth, which is just a few days ago. We've also got, from Dia 4 under blizzard Entertainment. Again, there is no specific writer on this. But it's
got some cool pictures and things. So this is titled prepare to embody the spirit born, pre purchase vessel of hatred. This was posted on June ninth of this year. Vessel of Hatred, the first expansion for Dia 4 is now available for pre purchase through Battle, playstation and Xbox game stores and steam, and will release on October 8 deep in the jungles of non hot 2, which I'm hoping
Pronouncing right. A conflicted noel is tormented by the malicious wills of her traveling companion S. Can you navigate the terror that lay in wait to save her soul or will it already be too late? Harness the powers of an all new class to survive the deadly wild and fight back the terrible power from within.
Pre purchase vessel of hatred ultimate edition and immediately receive asterisk after that, l core the snow leopard pet, Natalia, the tiger pet and Hi royalty the canine 9 pet, plus the nun na war cat mount bundle, 2, 2 little exclamation or little points after that. Wings of the faith cosmetics 3000 platinum, Armor sets for each class and
more. For an overview of everything we announced today here is a message from game director Brent Gibson, and there is a video that is on Youtube that has been embedded in this particular article. It goes on to say, for more information related to pre purchasing vessel of Hatred and Beyond feast on the details included below. So here's pieces from that. It's got some really cool art in here. So it says pre purchase vessel of hatred today.
The jungles of non hot to bleed across sanctuary when you prep, purchase the vessel of hatred expansion. Not only does pre purchasing grant you access to vessel of hatred when it launches on October eighth, but it also immediate grant you a bev of in game rewards to begin your journey today. Prep purchase the Dia 4 vessel of hatred ultimate edition and received. So this is the big edition. Okay? So this is what it comes with the, you know, the the whole thing of it. So you get dia 4
vessel of hatred expansion. There are 3 asterisk after that. Non hot 2 veil walker Spirit borne armor, asterisk after that. A core snow leopard pet 2 asterisk pre purchase bonus. Mother's lament legendary gem for Dia Mo. That's kind of, again, having dia for and Dabble Mo kind of blending together a little bit here. This would be a pre purchase bonus. He'll royalty the k 9 pet to s there, non hot war cat mount and armor
bundle, 2 asterisk there. 1 premium battle pass token 3000 platinum, Natalia tiger pets, 2 stars there 2 asterisk there. Non hot une earth armor bundle, 5 class armor sets. Wings of the faith cosmetic and on themed town portal, which all look pretty cool. And, again, I'll link all of into the show notes at chad soul dot com. So you can check out all of these wonderful things.
Now if you prep purchase the Dia 4 vessel of hatred deluxe edition, You receive less stuff, but still stuff, so you get the vessel of hatred expansion, obviously, non hot to veil walker spirit borne armor. A course snow leopard pet, repurchase bonus, Mother's lament legendary gem for Dia Immortal, a pre repurchase bonus. Hi royalty k 9 pet, non Hon war Cat Mount and armor bundle and 1 premium battle
pass Token. If you want to prep purchase the addition that gives you the lease stuff, You get dia 4 vessel hatred expansion, A course snow leopard pet, which is a pre purchase bonus and mother's Lament cement legendary gem 4 Dia immortal, pre purchase bonus. So some of this is going to be 4 dia immortal. So if you aren't playing that you'll get these things, but you'd have to play to to get the Dia Mortal gem, you'd have to actually be playing Dia mortal, and that's fine.
Just to, you know, let people know, but the artwork is super cool. It's got, like, this jungle stuff behind it and which expansion, I guess, you choose to purchase, gives you a variety of things. If you want everything, I've just read to everything you can get if you want, like, the whole deal, but, I'm not sure... Like, I know it comes out on October and I'm not sure I need absolutely everything in here, so I'm gonna, like, think about it for a while and figure out, you know, which way I wanna
go with that. I've got a lot of stuff in this episode coming from Wow head because they're pretty good about a lot of stuff, and so I'll just kinda run you through a little bit of that. We've got here posted 2 days ago by si or si. I don't know how to pronounce this, but this
is someone who rights for. Wow head. And this article is titled target farming sources for all new unique in Dia 4 season 5 Pt t. So there is a Pt t. Which honestly surprised me when I heard there was Pt coming out for Dia 4 because I thought they were never going to do those, but instead they are. They're they're doing that. So here's some of this particular article.
In season 5 of Dia 4, not only are we getting tons of new unique we're getting a new game mode, and that means new target farming strategies, exclamation point. Through rigorous testing on multiple classes we've uncovered where all of the new unique can be target farmed, and while this information may change once season 5 goes live. For
now, we've got our answer. As stated by Blizzard, all of the new unique, quote, could be earned by slay enemies across sanctuary end, quote, but certain sources like infer hordes and the boss letter have increased drop rates, which allow for target farming any of these new
unique. Patch 1.5 0 also added the ability to obtain all unique and mythic unique from gambling, whisper, and hell tied chest There's a small little piece here from Blizzard itself that says unique and mythic unique items can now be acquired through whisper caches a p of curiosity and tortured gifts in hell hide. So here's some stuff, and it's kind of a lot. 1 of the things here is Igor gore the Gal saint.
Igor their Gal saint can be found in the halls of the pen located in dry steps just south of it's capital Ke Bai. Collect 2 living steel, world tier 3 or 5 living steel, world tier 4 from Pal chest to fight against Igor or. And it says in here like, what you would get depending on what class you're playing. And what unique you will get as well.
So, like, if you're playing a source where you're going to get the ax axel conduit from Igor gore the Gal saint and item types for gambling health tied whispers you can get. The sorcerer apparently has pants listed. Beyond Fangs tu is for the Dr, who will get gloves, path of Tri is for the necromancer, of course, and that you would give you boots. Shroud of Condo is for a rogue, and that is chest armor and unbroken shade is for the barbarian,
which is an amulet. Then there's infer hoard And there's quite a lot of them actually. So after finishing the infer hoard quest line, which starts with a... Looks like a little cross inside a diamond, called the eyes of the enemy quest in X z, parenthesis. H. Players can use an infer compass to face the infer hordes in the new game mode of the same name internal and infer compass can be found in hell tied nightmare dungeons
and within infer hordes itself. Players have an increased chance to obtain the new unique listed below by spending burning ether to open equipment chest after defeating all of the waves and the fell council bosses in the infer hoard. So this is for season 5, and there's all this stuff in here. There's crown, which is a helm, endurance faith is gloves. Lo, tal is an amulet, rack, wake is boots. Shard of fifth Baratheon is a 1 handed sword. It's light
weaponry, according to this. The basil is staff, a heavy weaponry. The more motor crux for the necromancer is Let's see. What is that exactly? It's a dagger. The third blade for the barbarian is a 1 handed sword, the light weaponry, the u rocks or u umber cro. Is for the rogue, and it's a dagger, and then their v aluminium is for the sorcerer, and it is a heavy staff weapon. So if that's just things to look forward to if you get
the expansion and speaking of the expansion. Wow head is also posted. From 19 days ago, but I think this is still worthy of you know, being talked about. It's about the pets that you can get with the expansion. So this 1 has titled Pets now available in Gal 4 with patch 1.4 0.2, get your free dog, and you've got, like, the pictures here of, like, this little husky dog and this little, like, tiger looking cat and, like, a snow leopard kind of thing. So, here's some from this. This is written by,
constant. I think I'm pronouncing it hopefully. Right? With the vessel of hatred expansion announcement from Xbox games showcase 20 24, Pets have officially arrived in dia alongside the release of patch 0.4 0.2. And then there's some pictures. Players could acquire the Asu pet by completing the faithful companion quest line and Kyo shot. This quest line starts automatically and players requires players to approach a well behaved dog, which is what they're... I've
seen this. I've walked up to well behaved, and it's just says well behaved dog over its head. Reassuring this new companion for their goodness completes the quest at which point players venture to their wardrobe to select their new pet, which is the it's a little brown doc, basically. Much like Dia 3 pets will pick up currencies and materials for their accompanying adventure in Dia ford this includes gold, herbs, or gem fragments crafting materials, forgotten souls, murmur Ob and deb be sender.
If you pre purchase this, you get 3 additional pets on purchase, meaning they can be named by players before the expansions October eighth eighth release. These pets include A core, the snow Leopard, Har karate, the canine Natalia, the Tiger. So If you want pets in Dia 4, you can have them pretty soon. And, you know, I I don't know I would guess and this is typically how things go with companies that make video games is, hey. We have this stuff for you. Here's all
of the things. Oh, you don't have enough money for that. Well, here's about something else you can get, You can still get a pet, you, that sort of thing and I think that's pretty cool overall. I don't know which pet I would pick if I... Or which expansion, which type of expansion I would pick. I don't know yet, but I'll figure it out. Over on Blizzard watch. There is, of course, from June 26. Oh, that's a bit older. Maybe I don't need that 1 so much, but let's see. I think I just
didn't understand what was in this 1. So we're gonna skip that for now. Also, from well head, raids are coming to Dia 4 with a vessel of hatred and this is posted by there. At about 15 days ago. I'm not usually a raid type person. I usually go through the game solo. Sometimes I've played with friends in the game, not too often, but anyway, so this is what the raids are for. And their latest to blog post, a Blizzard announced a new Pv endgame coop op activity that is all in
quotation marks. Coming to Dia 4 with the vessel of hatred, which will be released on October 8 As expected Blizzard announcement that raids will be a thing and Dia 4 remains quite vague about 4 months before the expansions launch. There's a little thing here from Blizzard, new Pv and game and coop op activity, lurking within the shadows lies your next great challenge filled with powerful tribulation and promising rewards. First of its kind to Dia this dungeon.
Will require eager warriors to team up and take down various peril together. More details on this game will be revealed soon. That's all we have in here from them. That's it. There's a very interesting ominous looking fortress that I think this thing takes place in The image itself doesn't provide much information about rating in Dia 4. However, just looking at this concept art alone creates the impression of a vast raid dungeon. Instead of a simple 1 boss arenas like world bosses as we know
currently live in. Blizzard blizzard also mentions that the activity will be the first of its kind to Dia in quotes, raising hopes that more complex end game gameplay could be involved. And there's a little bit more from this as you as you go through. But if you are into, like, doing the rating thing. There's a lot that's not revealed yet, so there should be things that will be interesting. I I would think.
Also from 19 days ago from There, from Wow head, Dia 4 vessel of hatred expansion blog post released. Blizzard released a massive blog post about the dia 4 upcoming vessel of hatred expansion. So here's a piece of it. Vessel of hay are the first expansion for Dia 4 is now available for pre purchase through battle dot net,
playstation and xbox games, stores and steam. It will release on October 8 deep in the jungles of non Hot, a conflict conflicted in Is tormented by malicious wills of her traveling companion Map. Kinda goes on from there, talks about pre purchasing the vessel of hatred ultimate edition and immediately received the the 3 little cute pets, you know? Plus the work at mount bundle, so if you are tired of riding a horse, So I guess you can have a work at.
Yes. Wings of the faith cosmetic, all this other stuff that I mentioned from the other thing. There is a video embedded in here, lots pictures, this sort of thing, and then there's the expansion bundle, for those who have not yet battled against the prop sized return of Lilith, start demon slang today and prepare for the next chapter of Dia 4 to unleash, prep purchase the dia 4 expansion bundle and received the following items You get the dia base game playable
today. Dia vessel of hatred expansion, which has some asterisk after it. That will be available upon vessel of hatred. On 10/08/2024. Mother's lament meant legendary J for Dia Mo, pre purchase bonus, so that's pretty cool. I think that's gonna be... If you haven't played the game. If you haven't played the d apple game, maybe ever. This one's probably a good start, I wouldn't recommend going back to, like, the very first iteration if you can even still find that
thing. I've been playing them since like the nineties. So some people probably are very new to Dia series and, might not know what they're getting into with Dia 4. So it's kind of interesting that They are saying, well, look, you get these cute pets, you know. There's also... Let's see what this is. This is from 7 days ago from Wow head from Garmin off about infer hordes, new game mode in Dia 4 season 5, and some screenshots here of, part of the game. I'm assuming was in
a Pt. I don't really know for sure, but this is what was written here. During the latest Dia 4 camp camp fire chat, Blizzard showed off an exciting new piece of game content coming to Dia 4 in season 5. Players will finally be returning to Hell in the new game content. Infer hordes, exclamation point. Infer hordes are similar to nightmare dungeons, but instead of delving dungeons, players are entering hell itself fend off wave after wave of increasingly difficult hell spawn.
Players will become eligible to enter the infer hordes by completing a quest chain in Za at upon reaching world tier 3. Unlocking access to the infer horde, compass and the abyss scrolls required to upgrade them. The compass behaves much like a nightmare dungeon key opening a portal to hell upon use. There are many screenshots of this within this particular
article. Each infer horde has a set number of high monster density waves lasting 90 seconds each And after each 1, players will be given the opportunity to choose from 1 of 3 infer offers. The infer offer will grant players a boo, bane or bolts that will impact the rest of the run. This mechanic should help keep every run unique while ensuring that the player has a large part to play into weather or not their run is successful. Players who make it through every wave will then be
able to face the boss. 1 of the resurrected council members fallen priests sub Z room. That goes back far in the Lore of the game. Veterans of the franchise will recognize the council members from Dia 2, though they have new titles, spells and abilities for their Dia 4 debut in season 5. And there are 5 of these little guys and they're all each a different color and 1 of them seems to look bigger than the other 1. And it goes on from here. If wanna learn more about that. It's it's right there.
More from a lot of this is relying on Wild head for, and I probably should go pay them some money for this. But In any case, we also have written by J t. Dia 4 season 6. Season 6 we're talking about now. We'll launch with expansion vessel of Hatred interview roundup. And so here's what we have. We've rounded up several recent interviews with Blizzard from various outlets and summarize their key points, including the reveal that Dia 4, season 5 will be shorter than normal and season 6
will launch with vessel of hatred. With the recent to reveal of the October 8 launch date for vessel of Hatred, Blizzard has been conducting a flurry of interviews with various outlets with so many interviews happen at once though things get overwhelming, so we're summarizing Dia 4 interviews that were recently published for those who might not have the time to watch or read them in full. Take a look at
these interviews summarized below. I'm gonna read you a couple of them just whatever order they put them in. That's what I'm giving you. Ig g live with Tiffany Watts. The cinematic release date trailer that was showcased is the toned down version, but there will not be an uncut version released. With the vessel of hatred expansion, there will be new dungeons strongholds and new monsters. Mercenaries will level up with you and have
their own skill trees. There will be even more gruesome cut in vessel of hatred for players to enjoy. And infer feedback is very valuable to Blizzard Dia as a base game also got in internal feedback from Act activation and King. With Microsoft's acquisition, Blizzard asked for internal feedback from some of Microsoft's other studios as they rely heavily on internal feedback early at often in order to adapt and pivot to their final products. I'll read you 1 more.
Games radar plus with Rod Ferguson and Brent Gibson, from Rod Ferguson, quote, we hear very loudly the sword and board Pal Crusader fantasy that we are not currently fulfilling. But we wanted an opportunity to do something that was based within the region we were adding. We wanted to do something new that was creatively interesting and just bring a new experience. Windows central with Rod Ferguson and Brent Gibson.
Rod Ferguson, I don't think the Spirit porn will sat satisfy a sword and board play style. We definitely heard the feedback. We know people are excited about Paladins or sword and board gameplay. But we also knew that, like again, we did a lot of nostalgia in the first 5 classes. So we felt like at least for the first 1, we have to be able to look beyond nostalgia. And start breaking new ground on classes and trying new things.
Having the class spirit borne be the medically relevant was very important to blizzard Rod Ferguson would like there to be more than 1 place to get paragon Gl experience besides nightmare Dungeons. Season 5 will be the last season before the release at the expansion. Season 6 will start at the same time as vessel of Hatred launches. Rod Ferguson says, quote, when you launch something you're always doing it with a set of assumptions. We had the assumption that Dia was
meant to be more Dia like. And so 1 of the assumptions was that people were going to be okay with the long grind for the unique or an uber unique in particular. A closer look at the new region of non hot and its new jungle visuals will be part of the spirit borne gameplay reveal. On July eighteenth, which we've already passed, but anyway, there it is with that. We also have a 7 days ago from constant It's... I think it's how it's pronounced.
From Wow head, upcoming season 5 Pt t changes to bosses in Dia 4, and there is a video or at least a screenshot of a video in here. So I'll just read you a little bit This. The season 5 Pt t campfire fire chat covered some of the upcoming changes to summoned bosses. Including specific quality of life adjustments to the echo of Var and beast in the ice encounters. General changes to bosses in season 5. Bosses
can now be summoned. Multiple times within the same instance, meaning players will no longer need to reset the dungeon before summon a boss again. Summon altar will appear once a boss is defeated. Summoned bosses will no longer drop rare items instead dropping additional gold, which is useful if you've broken all your armor in my opinion. The beast in the ice encounters
is receiving 2 major changes. First players will no longer need to craft a gl glacier F fisher nightmare sigil The beast in the ice can be summoned with distilled fear inside the dungeon, meaning there will no longer be a sigil power cost associated with this boss. The Gl glacier F fisher, Dungeon layout will also be significantly smaller, similar to other boss dungeons.
Existing gl glacier f, nightmare sigil will still be usable to start the beast in the ice account or encounter goes on a little bit from there. I got a couple more things here. Do dia 4 patch 1.43 hot fix 1, and Da visa massage or. I don't know which way that goes. A fixed. Tell rashes ring stacks properly a eli of holy bolt re enabled from 8 days ago by J Art. There's this lovely picture of Lil staring out at you at the of this
article. Blizzard has released the first hot fix for the season 4 mid season patch and Dia 4, including fixes to items such as Da massage, Tele in ir dust to loop and of Holy bolts. Here's some stuff about that. Bug fixes fixed an issue where the poison nova from End industrial
massage, vision. I don't know. That was dealing damage around the player, even though the visual effect was around enemies, fixed an issue where the poison nova from End visa was dealing less damage than intended, fixed an issue where sal an item that had been master worked only once would not fund to master working
materials. That's kind of a thing. Fixed an issue where rapid fire did not always fire the right amount of projectiles when both sc kiss and the aspect repeating were equipped Fixed an issue where Tal Russia's ir loop was not granting the correct damage bonus at full stacks is intended and fixed an issue where eli of holy bolts. Relating to back end surfer crashes. These have been re enabled after this hot fix. Last
thing. Treasure goblins will have him proved loot in Dia 4 season 5, and I am thrilled to hear this because I love chasing the Treasure goblins. I don't always catch them all, but sometimes I do if been play in my barb again, which is like my first character in Dia. And she can she can move enough and really just go after these things. I don't get them all, but I mean, I don't think everyone should just go through the game and only look for Treasure Goblins. You know
what I mean? They'll appear with they here. So this is written by Arc from Wow head, and I'll read you a little bit of this. In the upcoming season 5 of Dia 4 slated to release on August sixth, which coming up. Treasure goblins will have a much heavier sack of loot than previously. Fueled by their ins greed, these little walking treasure chest will be dropping more useful loot soon. You here's a little piece about that. Treasure goblins. The loose quality from Treasure
goblins has been improved. They can now drop 1 to 3 legendary items and 2 to 6 rare items. And higher than the higher the number of legendary drops, the lower the number of rare drops. The opposite is also true. Example, if 2 legendary items drop than 4 errors will drop in addition. Now drop 1 to 2 eli, And are guaranteed to additionally drop common ore, herbs, leather, and gem fragments. Increase the amount of gold that drops examples. Level 1 in world tier 01:40 k gold.
Level 100 in world tier 4. A hundred and 50 gold. In world tiers 3 and 4, treasure goblins also dropped forgotten souls. Additionally, they will now have a 10 slash 20 slash 30 percent chance to drop 1 to 2 scattered prism in world tiers 1 and 2 and world tier 3, and world 2 4, respectively. So that's kinda cool. I love chasing treasure go. I don't always get them
on. Don't think anyone... You know, I don't think anyone specifically gets into the game and says I will murder all the treasure goblins because you can't really. They kind of have an erratic path of running around and throwing things that you hoping you'll go away. And that's gonna be where I'm gonna end this particular episode. You've been listening to episode 04:56 off these shattered Soul, your dia community podcast.
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