I hope that the “boss drops” applies to rifts and GRs, I don’t want the stupid D2 grind system where you kill a boss in 30 seconds and create a new game.
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You mean you dont want to test the D3 Servers like the D2R ones 
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Haha, you win the thread for the day! 
“Take a look at the preliminary patch notes below and start theorycrafting how you’ll make the most of the Soul Shard system”
How can we do that when we have zero info as to what they do???
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They want you to actually play the PTR and “break stuff”. That is the intent. If they just came out and said exactly what the shards are no one would need to play the PTR.
Nice… it would still require a mild nerf inna monk … he still stands out a lot. otherwise it looks very promising. Especially Rathma and Arachyr. I’ll look forward to you.
Spider changes are cute. The HOTA buff is insufficient. The theme is cool, but not a fundamental change that this game needs.
The greatest issue with Diablo 3 is that there is insufficient reward for harder content. One is better of speed-running content they can clear quickly, and that makes for uninteresting game play.
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I bet someone from Australia thought about spider changes. I heard spiders are so huge there that they have their health bar and boss music. Joke aside, it’s subtle way to remove the damage over time influence from Witch Doctor slowly. I was expecting them to fix Helltooth but I guess Arachyr needed a lift more than HT Set.
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Read their sentence, they say “take a look at the patch notes and from them theorycraft how to make the most of the new shard system”.
That is impossible from the prelim patch notes…it is only possible from playing PTR.
by the way. Crusaders are going to be pretty stinky now. Can they get something? lol
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Now that PTR is announced, I think S24 to end in 4 weeks or perhaps even on Thanksgiving day?
In regards to the shards sure, but there was an entire section of changes not related to them.
This is not new and they do this in order to get people to play the PTR. Same thing happend with Ethereals and many other season themes. No one knew what they were until people jumped on the PTR. Just the way it is when companies rely on testing from their customers.
They dangle the bait and people will get involved. No bait means no participants.
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I wish they were less spoilery about new stuff in general. Not so much for D3… because, meh. But for D4. Imagine getting D4 and nobody knowing what the last class was. That would be so much better.
Tell us what you are making, how it works, and what the design intend is. Dont tell os exactly what everything does.
Tbf, most previous seasonal themes, they were actually upfront with what the theme did and how it worked. The only seasonal theme that were somewhat unknown to us, were Season 19 Pandemonium (as we didn’t know what all the kill streak bonuses granted), and season 24 ethereals, as we didn’t know what the weapons stats were; however we did at least know that the weapons would roll with a random legendary weapon power and class passive before the ptr started.
This particular season, besides knowing that the seasonal theme revolves around gems that can be upgraded thrice, that are also based on the great evils, and a vague comment on them inflicting new forms of pain and suffering, we know nothing about what these gems can do.
Of course, that’s not to say we need to know everything these gems do. They could simply show us a picture of one or two of them and what they could do in their first forms (in short keep their upgrades hidden). Or at least something akin to that.
I’m going to continue to advocate for the same thing I’ve been advocating for years:
Please, please; please buff Kridershot with a large damage multiplier to Elemental Arrow. Elemental Arrow is one of the coolest skills in the game and it’s an absolute disgrace that it has been left virtually unusable for this many years when all it requires is a damage buff to be viable.
It doesn’t need an over complicated set, just buff the damage.
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0 chance it ends thanksgiving day. they have only ever ended seasons on fridays and Sundays. but i think your right on it being 4 weeks away from ending
yeah true, very low drop rate from anything would be interesting. infuses some luck into discovery. ‘where did you get your first soul shard?’ a cool discussion.
New pet or wings? Details on these socketable items?
It sounds like they want people to farm ubers to get them.
Firebird-Nerf ok it was predictable BUT the nerf hits the Mirror Image AND the Flame Blade Build. Sure most ppl play mirror images cause its way stronger but the flame blade build exists and this nerf would send it to hell. May be consider nerfing the interaction with mirror images cause nerfing the set will also kill the other not-so-famous-but-existing build
Oh and pls give wings for completing journey 
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