Episode 46 – The Dark Behind
Posted: August 15, 2013 Filed under: Show | Tags: announcement, archon wizard guide, Breja, console version, Crowd Source Inspiration, Diablo 3, Diablo's Inferno, expansion, expectations, feedback, Gamescom 2013, gold cap, jaetch, Jen, Jen hits 60, lanntonio, legendary survey, loot 2.0, Nevik, Penny Arcade, playstation 3, predictions, PVP Online, rumors, song of the show, The Dark Below Leave a comment »Show notes originally posted by Nevik
In this episode, we are back up to full strength with our 4th Musketeer rejoining us after his massive household move. After catching up with Lanntonio we get down to business by discussing what we’ve been up to in-game: Lanntonio managed to squeeze some game-time in at his parents, Nevik is dropping meteors and loving MP7, Breja has been massively busy with work but managed to sneak in a tiny bit of time in with his demon hunter, and Jen triumphantly hit level 60 with their barbarian and is now in Inferno!
In this episode:
* We read, and respond to, an pair of emails we received from our wonderful listeners. This batch comes to us from Torrack and Scanline. Thank you for the email! Keep them coming, really!
* We received tweets from @Torrack1714, @HomeTownHero008, @NerdyDance, and @ecwctechguy. 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 posed the question as to what you thought (Diablo-wise) Blizzard would be announcing at Gamescom 2013 on twitter. We received many responses from our listeners on twitter and went on record with our own speculative thoughts. Be sure to follow our show account, @ShatteredStone, on Twitter for future Questions of the Show.
* We had some fun with the recent news of Blizzard registering the trademark “The Dark Below” (note: confirmed to be a hoax after we recorded) and discuss the potential of an expansion announcement in the near future.
* We’re still looking for your feedback as to what you would like to see in an expansion and/or your thoughts on Mr. Monstrosity’s ideas presented in his Loot 2.0 thread. Send us your thoughts and ideas to our email: Show@ShatteredSoulstone.com.
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* Our dear friend, Jaetch, finalized his labor of love the Archon Wizard guide. It weighs in at nearly 90 minutes of comprehensive details on how to build, gear, and play the Archon wizard. It is well worth your time to check it out if you’ve been toying with creating one.
* The fine folks over at Penny Arcade and PVP Online recently sat down and played some Diablo III on the Playstation 3 and recorded it for prosperity! The entire thing clocks in over 2 hours, but you can check out the highlights below.
* Flux over at Diablo.IncGamers started up a research project on magic find and legendary item drops. Check out the compilation results of his crowd-sourced research to see if it falls in line with your own experiences.
* If you’re a Pandora member you can now expect to hear music from Blizzard’s stable of games on Pandora’s video game music station.
* Have you acquired enough gear to speed run MP10 Ubers? No? Fret not, neither have we (nor will we likely ever). However, these folks have and managed to defeat all SIX Uber bosses in under 57 seconds. Crazy-sauce.
* In case that previous video soured your mood let this hilarious animation back from the days of Diablo II brighten your day. Make sure to turn on the close captioning for a rough translation of the Korean being spoken in the video.
* Tatasinke is back with another edition of his Paper.li newspaper, the New Tristram News. Check it out and subscribe!
Song of the Show:
This episode’s Song of the Show is our first original piece of Diablo-themed music from SoundCloud user CrowdSourceInspiration titled Diablo’s Inferno. The lyrics should put a smile on your face. You can find more from CrowdSourceInspiration on Tumblr, YouTube, Bandcamp as well as on social media sites Facebook and Twitter.
Note: Diablo’s Inferno isn’t available on YouTube but we didn’t want to leave you without an embedded video to enjoy. So check out KC’s song Better Than the Last.
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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.
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