Round Table – Patch 2.0.1
Posted: March 7, 2014 Filed under: Show | Tags: 9pad, Breja, clans and communities, class changes, community round table, cursed chests/shrines, Cyberwolf, difficulty 2.0, Dreadscythe, impressions, Jaime, legendary items, loot 2.0, Nevik, paragon 2.0, patch 2.0.1, Scanline, small changes Leave a comment »Show notes originally posted by Nevik
Patch 2.0.1 dropped sooner than many of us expected and with it came a lot of changes to the game. Has it changed the game for the better? And how does it feel without the final pieces of the puzzle coming in Reaper of Souls? We gathered a group of voices from the Shattered Soulstone community to find out their impressions of the patch so far.
Joining us for this round table was 9pad (@9PadGaming), Cyberwolf (@Cybrwolf0), Dr. J Dredscythe (@grindexp), Jaime (@JCMonkeyD3), Jesse (@HomeTownHero008), Scanline (@scanline75), and our very own Breja (@The_Breja).
If you couldn’t make it to our Patch 2.0.1 community round table fret not, there will be more round tables in the future. You can count on another round table happening shortly after Reaper of Soul launches. So go download Mumble to join in on the fun with us.
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Episode 39 – Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
Posted: May 10, 2013 Filed under: Show | Tags: account bans, anniversary event, Auction House, Breja, community round table, Diablo 3, Diablo 3's BIRFDAY, diablo.incgamers, dred, economy, gold cap, gold dupe, hardcore, Jen, ladder, lanntonio, Nevik, new tristram news, One Life to Live, patch 1.0.8, red team gaming, Sibcoe, silver lining, softcore, state of diablo 3, suggestions, tatasinke, twitch.tv, Xanth Leave a comment »Show notes originally posted by Nevik
In this episode, we open the show a little … differently on account of what might be perceived to be the darkest day in Diablo 3’s history. After sharing our thoughts on what transpired we get down to business by discussing what we’ve been up to in-game: Breja level capped his wizard, Jen was able to sneak in some time with their launch-night demon hunter, Lanntonio is fully vested in hardcore, and Nevik did another thing he thought he would never do!
In this episode:
* We read, and respond to, another mountain of emails we received from our wonderful listeners. This batch comes to us from Torrack, Master Do, and Commander Bird. Thank you for the email! Keep them coming, really!
* We received tweets from @Dienforce, @shawno, @Rilandune, @Medros, @eG_acefisher1, @Daladria, @HometownHero008, @Lylirra, and our very own @The_Breja! Thank you for your tweets. Don’t forget that you, too, can send in your thoughts via social media outlets such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter.
* We discuss, at length, the arrival of patch 1.0.8 and the infamous gold dupe bug that proliferated the softcore community and the fallout from for as long as it was available to be exploited. Darkest day in Diablo 3’s history? Quite possibly, but we wrap up the discussion with some positives that we can hope to see come from this debacle.
* In case you don’t follow us on Twitter and missed the exciting announcement, ALL of the Shattered Soulstone will be in attendance at Blizzcon 2013! GET HYPE! We can’t wait for November, but thankfully it is still a ways off to give us plenty of time to plan out what special things we’ll be doing at Blizzcon.
* Next week we will see Diablo 3 turn one year old (well, based on its launch day at least ^^) and we will be holding an event to celebrate! For more details head on over to our Diablo 3 Anniversary Event page.
* We also see the return of a certain special sound-bite. No idea what it could be, really. No really, we have no idea. Nope. Definitely couldn’t be related to something red and intoxicating. NOPE. No way.
We’re still looking for intro submissions for our Intro Contest. Prizes haven’t been nailed down, but at the very least you could win a $20 (US) Battle.net Balance Card! Send your intros to Show@ShatteredSoulstone.com. Keep them shorter than 45 seconds (30 preferably) and make sure to utilize royalty-free music or music from Diablo 3. Deadline for this contest has also not been nailed down, but we’re hoping to have a new intro in time for the anniversary of Diablo 3 going live.
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* Sibcoe and Dred are back and joined by a familiar voice from State of Diablo 3 past as Ken rejoins Red Team Gaming to discuss the current state of Diablo 3 in the 18th installment of Red Team Gaming’s on-going series: State of Diablo 3. One warning though, this episode is a little more heavy on language and is at times NSFW, so we will only be including the link.
* Tatasinke continues to pump out regular editions of his New Tristram News paper.li newspaper. Check it out and subscribe!
* Xanth produces the fantastic column, One Life to Live, over at Diablo.IncGamers.com and recently had a chance to share the enthralling story, Knocking at Death’s Door, of hardcore (near)death of Galxx, a paragon 90 barbarian played by a 54 year old Chicago’ian woman. If this doesn’t get you pumped to play hardcore, we don’t know what will.
* Artist ChaoYuanXu recently completed a breath-taking piece of art featuring the Archangel of Justice (well Wisdom … now), Tyrael. Check out ChaoYuanXu’s other amazing pieces of art over at chaoyuanxu.deviantart.com.
* Back in April Blizzard shared the amazingly cute fan art by Crimson-Nemesis with their Fan Creation of the Week blog post on the official site. Check out more of Crimson-Nemesis’ artwork over at crimson-nemesis.deviantart.com.
* Finally we round out a trifecta of art with an amazing rendition of Mephisto’s Visage by artist/sculptor Evernight. For more pictures of this amazing piece of art, check out the forum thread created by Evernight.
Have a Diablo III related comment, question, story, or rant that you’d like to share with all of us? Send your email, or short audio comment, to Show@ShatteredSoulstone.com.
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Upcoming 1.0.8 Community Round Table
Posted: April 22, 2013 Filed under: Community | Tags: community round table, round table 1 Comment »Show notes originally posted by Nevik
With our last community round table covering patch 1.0.7 being such a success we knew there would be more round tables in the future. That being said, the time has come for us to host another community round table to discuss the juicy patch 1.0.8 tidbits with you, our lovely listeners.
So, how do you, the listener, participate?
As with our previous patch 1.0.7 round table we will be holding our upcoming round table on Mumble, so make sure you have Mumble installed on your computer and go through the audio setup wizard if you haven’t already done so. (The wizard is pretty easy to follow and shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes to complete).
Next step is to check out the Patch 1.0.8 PTR Patch Notes and mayhaps install the PTR client so that you can get first hand experience with the changes coming in patch 1.0.8. Don’t worry if you don’t have time to download the PTR client nor time to spend testing it out, we always love hearing from multiple perspectives and value the thoughts of those on the “outside-looking-in”.
Note: If you still have the Patch 1.0.7 PTR client installed on your computer, open the launcher and the client should update to 1.0.8 (or at least in theory).
So when will we be holding this Patch 1.0.8 Round Table?
Friday, April 26th at 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern
Make sure you clear your calendars on Friday, April 26th at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern. More than likely we won’t start EXACTLY at this time as some “pre-show” will definitely occur to loosen everyone up.
Hope to “see” you there!
Dead and Waiting #3
Posted: April 16, 2013 Filed under: Show | Tags: community round table, dead and waiting, Diablo 3, hardcore, lanntonio, simcity Leave a comment »Show notes originally posted by Nevik
The proverbial hardcore ball continues to roll with our third installment of our Dead and Waiting series. Lanntonio is joined once again by many of the same voices from our community and at least one new one. Who? Well, let’s just say that he’s a HUGE fan of Neil Diamond. HUGE FAN.
Once again this episode is light on the game-talk and heavy on discussing the trials and tribulations of playing hardcore. At some point we will be hosting a more in-game focused hardcore gaming night with a special rule-set so stay tuned!
If you would like to join in on the fun – and we hope you do! – Lanntonio is running these hardcore gaming nights generally every Tuesday night around 6pm Pacific / 8pm Central / 9pm Eastern. All you need to do to join in is have Mumble installed and setup and hop on our mumble server (details can be found in the sidebar).
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