Ty for posting those shards.
They seem sort of lame…
Just like ethereals.
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I’ve gotten 4 of each so far and they all have the same starting special before any upgrades. All were collected pre level 70. Doubt it’s different at 70.
Yup. The initial abilities, plus the stats, then a biss ability would have been far more interesting. A am looking forward to trying a thorns build with the one that increases damage by 75% per skill on CD and the one that allows you to pass through enemies and marking them using those boots and massive CD abilities and no CDR.
Might be some fun times.
All the soul shards in one image
https://i.ibb.co/bgptF25/soul-shards.png
But I think I’ve seen slightly different powers on youtube.
Powers might be random for each shard.
Like a finit set of powers for each shard randomly rolled.
I think this is interesting to change gameplay while leveling.
How do you think they will affect your characters ?
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Sure. Yeah. Solo bounties, rifts and GR’s were no better at all with the follower buffs.
Oh those sneaky, cheating group players, getting the group and solo buffs, if only there was some way I could get group buffs too well then I’d just show everyone how leet I am at this game! It’s just so unfair that I can’t!
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Is that why they just did a total revamp of the follower system?
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But do they work if the follower is using them? That’s the real question.
Followers can equip all legendary jewels too, but I think only two actually work.
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https://i.ibb.co/bgptF25/soul-shards.png
Sliver of Terror (skills in cooldown increases damage + defense)
Useful for Primary skills and Thorns. I’m thinking about Necro Poison Scythe and Necro Thorns. Also useful to fast level if dropped early (+45% XP under lvl 70).
Essence of Anguish (74% poison damage, CDR if poison damage)
Can it work with Gem of Efficacious Toxin ? The cool thing is you can use the same source to make poison damage over and over and get the stacks (different from Nayr’s Black Death). Basically if you use a Poison Corpse skill during Land of the Dead, it will help to further reduce cooldown. Useful for poison + cooldown skills. I’m thinking about Necro Rathma Army of the Dead, Necro LoD Corpse Explosion, Necro Poison Scythe, Necro Pestilence Poison Lance.
Remnant of Pain
Basically a Brittle Touch for everyone. Necro Pestilence should select the Ricochet rune of Corpse Lance to synergize with Essence of Anguish.
What does “incapacitated” enemy means ?
Dregs of Lies (50% less damage in exchace of reduced damage taken)
Good for Z-Necro, Z-Barb, Z-Monk, etc
Stain of Sin (25% damage against elites + auto-collect rift globes)
For Elite Snipers. Can also roll 72% poison damage.
Fragment of Destruction
For mobile builds : GoD, Lazy Inarius, (Trag’oul ?), …etc.
Shard of Hatred
For Barbarian maybe, but seems limited compared to others.
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Some of the stacked rolls on these are crazy.
I’ve seen a +75%cold on a Pain with a stacked +33% damage.
Also, the Hatred one can roll self buffs (15% increase instead of 10%, so 150% dmg at 10 stacks.
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So it seems to me that these soul shards are just Ethereal but portable. 
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Honestly, I’m okay with that. I liked the power of ethereals but felt it was a little too gimmicky getting just the right one for each build. If these are a little more flexible, but still give a nice seasonal boost, that’ll make me happy enough.
Now if I can just get one to drop before I’m level 70, this time.
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Each gem has variants and the can show up anyplace. The main stats seem to work on the followers but not any of the special stuff. Instead of having one OP weapon in S24 now you have some options with the gems.
One Variant of:
The Stain of Sin has a very large Pool of Blood. 
Just like the one Azmodan uses.
The Silver of Terror has a Devastating Ring of Fire after killing 50 enemies. (Diablo) 
* This one has an icon so you can see what # you are at before it goes off.
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They’re blatantly OP for dual wielders , all dual wielding classes are far ahead of non dual wielding so far. Thought it said 1 weapon and 1 helm power only?
If they intended that then it’s clearly going to be a monk/dh/barb season, which I wouldn’t be surprised.
Monk already cleared 150 lol GG, better nerf wizard another 5 GR’s tho 
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That appears to be a bug and will most likely get fixed. If not my Monk will love it.
Allready reported 
Ty, I just found Diablo’s Fire nova variant, so you can definitely call me a happy camper regarding that.
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I am not sure how many variants that each gem has but this is going to be fun.
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What is the drop rate for these shards and at level when these shards will drop?
It’s the PTR so they are showing up all over the place, my first one was at level 11.
The progression in season 25 actual if shard drops are even a third of what they are will be pretty quick anyway. Within two weeks if they do not fix the bug of two one-handeds using weapon shards, I reckon you’ll see the entire 1,000 solo people on the leaderboards all at 150. As you all implied, too OTT if that happened.
Very sloppy and way too obvious, wouldn’t that be like the first thing you’d check to have a trigger on?
So now we have to wait a week for proper leaderboard comparisons unless they handicap themselves? Yep what @Bassdude said but maybe not as extreme since there aren’t nearly as many PTR pushers as live
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