The 25th season will start on December 10! Read on to learn more about Soul Shards and the new balance changes in Patch 2.7.2!
New Season Theme
Although the dark soul stone has been shattered, the lingering soul fragments of the hell lord who had been trapped in the soul stone are still scattered in the sanctuary. These soul fragments possess tremendous power that once belonged to the Demon God and Demon King. If the cunning Nephitian finds these soul stones and uses the power contained in them, you must remember to be cautious. Power is tempting, and the road to the hell of flames is paved by kindness…
As the 25th anniversary of the Diablo series is approaching, we hope that players can delve into the dark side of Nephitian in the past. In Season 25, players can inject the essence of the Hell Lord into themselves, embracing evil in this way. Players will embark on a journey of the season to explore and upgrade the soul fragments from the 7 helllords, these fragments are full of demonic power. Players can become the spokespersons of the demon gods and kings, bringing new pain and torture to the demons in the sanctuary. We can’t wait to see players get soul fragments to unlock their true power.
Season Decoration Rewards
Since the 17th season, we have reintroduced the previous rewards so that players who passed by in the first event have a chance to receive these rewards. In Season 25, it was the turn of the rewards from Season 13 to return to the game. In addition to the helmet and shoulder pads dedicated to the Conqueror suit, the avatar with the theme of Imprison will also be available for access.
Players who love to collect pets will also be happy to see the return of Brain’s Pet Bear! When you travel together, you may ask him why he is covered in blood, or you may try to remove the sharp objects he carries with him. We strongly recommend against this.
But we also know very well that if players have already participated in the previous season, they might as well pursue some new goals and rewards. We will continue to provide new journey end rewards in accordance with the usual practice since the 17th season and provide two new decoration rewards for players who complete the entire season’s journey. Stand the test of the Hell Lord and complete the 25th season of the Guardian Journey to get the Tristram’s Pain avatar and the Dark Noble pet.
Season Journey Rewards
If the player has been playing the game diligently in the past few years and has reached the conqueror level every time during the season journey, some extra storage box space will be accumulated. Players who have not yet obtained 5 storage box space bars through the season journey can still unlock an additional space bar by completing the following tasks at the conqueror level:
- Complete a Torment XIII Secret Realm in 5 minutes
- Complete the 60th floor of the Great Secret Realm in single-player mode
- Kill Greedy on Torment XIII difficulty
- Kill Cyndia in 15 seconds on Torment XIII difficulty
- Reforge a legend or set item
- Strengthen an ancient item with at least level 50 legendary gems
- Upgrade three legendary gems to level 55
- Complete two conquests
- Season Conquest
Speaking of conquest, we are also rotating this content! Did I hear you like speed pass? Sprint ace and sprint master’s return. I heard that you like to test your courage in the Great Secret Realm? Divine power and guts are also returning. If the player wants to use the cursed treasure chest to refresh his record of kills, then curse life!
Lianzhu with the stars is the best help. Music players who prove how far they can go without a set of items can also have fun playing with heartbeat and superhumans. Finally, if you are keen to show off your mastery of the suit dungeon, you can use the universe insight and suit master to show it again.
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Hedrig’s Gift
Finally, as before, after completing certain chapters of the season’s journey, you can get a brand new professional suit from Hedrig’s gift. We list the available packages below. Here is an explanation of the specific rules to players who have just participated in the season:
Completing Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of the season’s journey will reward you with 3 gifts from Hedrig. Each gift contains several parts of the player’s professional suite. In each season, whether in expert mode or non-expert mode, players can only unlock a set of professional suits in this way, so choose wisely!
When opening each Hedrig’s gift, the set items obtained depend on the profession of the character the player is playing. To collect a complete set of professional suits, you need to open all three gifts with the same character.
The following is the content of Hedrig’s gift from Season 25:
- Barbarian-Power of the Earth
- Crusaders-Evoker’s Thorns
- The Demon Hunter-Shadow Costume
- Monk-Battlegear of the Monkey King
- Necromancer-Blessing of Inaris
- Witch Doctor-Jade Soul Master’s Battlegear
- Sorcerer-Phoenix’s costume
Season
The 25th season introduced a new mosaicable item called Soul Shard. Nephitian can find 7 unique soul fragments from the Hell Lord, which will give players new powers like demons. Devil soul fragments have three, you can choose one of the helmets to the mosaic, but the devil soul fragments have four, you can select a mosaic to weapons. Each soul shard can be upgraded three times, which requires the use of a new season-exclusive consumable: the embers of the Hell’s Forge.
Soul shards and embers of Hell’s Forge can be dropped anywhere in the Sanctuary, but the chance of soul shards falling from the boss is higher. Soul fragments cannot be traded, but they can be broken down or used in the despair of Khadshan. You can only equip one Demon Soul Shard and one Demon Soul Shard at the same time. Finally, Soul Shards and Embers of Hell’s Forge are only dropped during the season game, and will not be transferred to the player’s non-seasonal characters after the season is over. Please refer to the content below to learn about the abilities of each soul fragment:
Demon Soul Fragment
Shards of Fear
- Basic ability: Your cooling time is increased by 25%. Every time a skill is on cooldown, the damage you receive will be reduced by 12.5%, and the damage done will be increased by 12.5%.
- Additional capabilities:
- Every time a skill is on cooldown, your attack speed and critical strike chance will increase by 5%.
- After destroying 100 enemies, you will cast a destructive ring of flames.
- If there are 3 or more skills on cooldown, your lightning and fire skills damage will increase by 50%.
- Splinter of hatred
- Basic ability: When there are 3 or less enemies within 25 yards, your damage is reduced by 15%. If there are more than 3 enemies within the same distance, the damage caused by each enemy will increase by 5% (up to 50%).
Additional capabilities:
- Destroying an elite enemy will drag all enemies within 40 yards to the death location of the elite enemy.
- Your movement speed is increased by 50%. For every enemy within 25 yards, your movement speed will be reduced by 10%, up to 70%.
- Now you will do 10% extra damage to each enemy instead of 5% (up to 100%).
Destroy the fragments
Basic ability: You can pass through the enemy unhindered. Every enemy you pass through will be marked by Mark of Destruction for 7 seconds. Every time a marked enemy dies, one of your skills on cooldown will shorten its cooldown by 1 second. If the Mark of Destruction expires before the enemy dies, you will take damage equal to 2% of your maximum health. If your health is below 35%, you cannot apply the mark.
Additional capabilities:
- If the enemy dies while Mark of Destruction is in effect, you have a 25% chance to restore 5% health.
- When you apply Mark of Destruction to an enemy, your movement speed is increased by 5% for 7 seconds. Up to 10 floors.
- Now, you will leave a trail of flames behind you, this trail can instantly destroy enemies with a mark of destruction with a health value of less than 10%.
Devil Soul Fragment
Sin stain
- Basic ability: The damage you cause is reduced by 25%. When you destroy 50 enemies, summon a blood pool, which increases the damage taken by elite enemies by 150% for 15 seconds.
Additional capabilities:
- Now, the blood pool will invalidate the elite affixes within its range.
- When you kill a team of elite enemies, you will get an extra Rift Progress Orb.
- Now the blood pool will collect the Rift Progress Orbs.
Lie scum
- Basic ability: The damage you cause is reduced by 25%. The damage done by your pet is increased by 25%.
Additional capabilities:
- Destroying an elite enemy can shorten all your active cooldowns by 5 seconds.
- When you take fatal damage, it creates a shadow that will prevent you from dying, restore your health to 35%, and give all team members +225 all resistances when the shadow is in effect. The shadow will only last 15 seconds.
- Every time your pet attacks an enemy, your damage will increase by 0.5% for 5 seconds. Stack up to 100 times. When reaching 100 layers, the number of layers will quickly reset to 0.
Remnants of pain
- Basic ability: Your critical strike chance is reduced by 15%. Attacking an incapacitated enemy will automatically trigger a critical strike.
Additional capabilities:
- Attacking an enemy with frost damage has a 50% chance to freeze it. Increases the damage of Frost skills to frozen targets by 20%.
- When your movement speed bonus exceeds 50%, you can gain the ability to ignore collisions. When you pass through an enemy, you can knock it back and stun it for 2 seconds.
- When you hit an enemy critically, the attack speed of all players is increased by 5% for 5 seconds. Up to 10 floors.
Painful soul
- Basic ability: When you cause poisonous damage to an enemy, your cooling time is shortened, your movement speed is increased by 2.5%, and the damage you receive is increased by 5% for 10 seconds. Up to 10 floors.
Additional capabilities:
- When dealing toxic damage to an enemy, your movement speed and cooldown reduction effects can stack up to 15 times.
- When you deal poisonous damage to an enemy, all poisonous damage they take within 10 seconds is increased by 50%.
- Destroying an enemy will cause damage equivalent to a lethal attack to all enemies within 25 yards.
Thing
Universal
- Abyss Digging Pants: The damage of main skills is increased by 80-100%.
Barbarian
- No mercy: When the Fury of the Berserker and Call of the Ancestor are both activated, the damage of the Ancestor’s Hammer is increased by 600-800%.
Witch doctor
Shukrani’s victory: After the initial soul walk duration ends, unless you launch 3 attacks or there are elite enemies within 20 yards, the soul walk will continue. Attacks in the soul realm can cause 75-100% additional damage.
Lakumba’s Wrist Ornament: If your soul harvesting level reaches at least (1-3), all damage you take will be reduced by 60%, and each soul harvesting level will reduce the damage taken by an additional 2%.
Binding of the Spider Queen: The corpse spider will cause an additional 600-800% damage and release a web when it touches an enemy, slowing the enemy by 80%.
Alanya Young Spider: The corpse spider will cause an additional 75-100% damage, and every time the corpse spider attacks the target, it will increase the damage it takes by the corpse spider by 1% for 5 seconds.
Arakil’s Soul (2-piece set bonus): Summon a permanent spider queen and connect it to you with an infected spider silk. Enemies caught by spider silk will be infected. When a corpse spider attacks an infected enemy, it will cause equal damage to all infected enemies. The queen will move to the location where you cast the corpse spider. Corpse spiders now have health when called.
Arakil’s Soul (4-piece buff): The queen can now leave a web for 15 seconds and slow down enemies. Infected enemies will continue to be infected while in the web. The damage you take in the web is reduced by 75%, and the effect will last for 4 seconds after leaving the web.
Arakil’s Soul (6-piece set buff): The damage caused by your biological skills is increased by 25000%. Biological skills include Corpse Spider, Toad Plague, Fire Bat, Plague Swarm, Hex, and Piranha.
Demon Hunter
Predator’s Leggings (4 piece set bonus): When you cast Elemental Arrow, Wheel Blade, Shadow Throwing Knife, Multi-shot or Cluster Arrow, the Tower of Arrows will also be simultaneously cast, and the hatred value consuming skills you equipped will also be automatically cast .
Predator’s Leggings (6 piece set bonus): For each active arrow tower, your main skills, elemental arrows, flywheel blades, shadow throwing knives, multiple shots, cluster arrows, pets, revenge, and towers are caused by your main skills Damage increased by 12000%.
Shadow Costume (6-piece buff): Shadow Throwing Knife causes an additional 75000% weapon damage to the first enemy hit, and 25000% damage to subsequent enemies.
Gunner Ammo Pack: You can get two additional arrow towers. The damage done by Cluster Arrow is increased by 150-200%.
Necromancer
Rasma’s Bone Armor (6 piece set bonus): For each activated permanent servant, the damage of your army of dead is increased by 1750%, up to 31500%.
Magician
Phoenix’s costume (6-piece buff): When the target is ignited, your damage is increased by 5000%. When using a non-guided fire spell to hit an ignited enemy, the ignition damage is multiplied by the number of stacks of “flame burst”. Pets cannot trigger this effect.
Bug fix
- Fixed a bug where the pets summoned by the player could not trigger the effect of the Eye Ring when the Eye Ring was equipped on a follower.
- Fixed a bug where the stack of kinetic energy would always not be applied correctly when using Calamity and Ciri’s No. 9 Quiver.
- Fixed a bug that the effect of healing mantra provided by the healing mantra per second could not be applied to the shield generated by the fire wildebeest gizzard.
- Corrected the bug that the phantom body could not get the damage bonus from the rough to extreme boots.
- Corrected the bug that the activated phantom: Fire phantom would not attack Rift Guard Perendi.