Diablo 3 Season 25 releases December 10th, Captain-Carry.com is here to fill us up on the new gameplay styles, explain the 7 new Soul Shards (season exclusive items) & how the item changes will impact & boost your gameplay. Before we go into the shortcuts & fastest ways to get to level 70 with season launch we would like to shortly elaborate & describe the new socketable season exclusive gear.

Soul Shards

Source: Diablo 3 Season Official 25 Blog
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo3/23746130/season-25-the-lords-of-hell-patch-2-7-2-is-now-live

Essence extracted from the very souls of the 7 prime evils that roamed Sanctuary, these socketable artifacts will completely change the way the game is played in season 25. Out of the 7 Soul Shards, 3 can be socketed into your helm, and 4 into the weapon slot. Here are the details on each:

Sliver of Terror

Base Power: Your cooldowns are increased by 25%. For every skill on cooldown, you take 12.5% reduced damage and deal 12.5% increased damage.

Additional Powers:

Your attack speed and critical hit chance are increased by 5% for each skill on cooldown.

You cast a devastating Ring of Fire after killing 100 enemies.

If three or more skills are on cooldown, your lightning and fire skill damage are increased by 50%.

Shard of Hatred

Base Power: You deal 15% reduced damage while you have 3 or fewer enemies within 25 yards. If more than 3 enemies are within the same distance, you deal 5% increased damage per enemy (to a maximum of 50%).

Additional Powers

Killing an elite enemy pulls all enemies within 40 yards to where the elite died.

Your Movement speed is increased by 50%. Each enemy within 25 yards reduces your movement speed by 10% up to 70%.

You now deal 10% increased damage for every enemy instead of 5% (to a maximum of 100%)

Fragment of Destruction

Base Power: You move unhindered through enemies. Each enemy you pass through receives Mark of Destruction for 7 seconds. Each marked enemy that dies removes 1 second from one of your skills on cooldown. If the Mark of Destruction expires before the enemies die you lose 2% of your maximum health as damage. Marks are not applied if you are below 35% health.

Additional Powers

You have a 25% Chance to restore 5% health when an enemy dies with Mark of Destruction active.

When you apply Mark of Destruction to an enemy, you increase your movement speed by 5% for 7 seconds. Max 10 Stacks.

You now leave a trail of fire in your wake that slays enemies with the Mark of Destruction and are below 10% health.

Stain of Sin

Base Power: You deal 25% less damage. When you kill 50 enemies, you spawn a pool of blood that increases the damage done to elite enemies by 150% and lasts 15 seconds.

Additional Powers

The pool of blood now negates Elite affixes within its area.

You gain an additional Rift Progress Orb when you kill and elite pack.

The pool of blood now collects Rift Progress Orbs.

Dregs of Lies

Base Power: You deal 25% less damage. Your pets deal 25% increased damage.

Additional Powers

Killing an elite enemy reduces all your active cooldowns by 5 seconds.

On receiving fatal damage, spawn a shadow that prevents your death, restores your health to 35%, and grants +225 All Resist to all party members while it is active. The shadow only lasts 15 seconds.

Each time your pet hits an enemy, your damage is increased by 1% 0.5% for 5 seconds. This stacks up to 100 times. When you reach 100 stacks, the stacks quickly reset to 0.

Remnant of Pain

Base Power: Your Critical Hit Chance is reduced by 15%. Attacks against Incapacitated enemies are automatically critical hits.

Additional Powers

Hitting enemies with cold damage has a 50% chance to freeze them. Cold skill damage is increased to frozen targets by 20%.

Gain passability while your movement speed bonus is over 50%. When you move through enemies you knock them back and stun them for 2 seconds.

When you critically hit an enemy you increase the attack speed all players by 5% for 5 seconds. Max 10 stacks.


Essence of Anguish

Base Power: Every time you deal poison damage to an enemy you increase your cooldown reduction and movement speed by 2.5% while your damage received is increased by 5% for 10 seconds. Max 10 stacks.

Additional Powers

Your movement speed and cooldown reduction can be increased up to 15 times by dealing poison damage to an enemy.

When you deal poison damage to an enemy they receive 50% increased poison damage from all sources for 10 seconds.

Killing an enemy deals the damage done by the death blow to all enemies within 25 yards.


Get to 70 First!

We all know how tedious leveling to 70 can be with every season start. Nobody is 70 on day one, nobody is there to carry you in 15 minutes running through Torment 6 rifts. Although some of us enjoy the reminiscent experience of the old Diablo 3 vanilla days doing Tristram Mothers, & chasing after Act II wasps, not everyone wants to do the 1-70 leveling job every 3 months. Although Blizzard reached out to the playerbase and opened Rift runs as a alternative faster leveling road, it still takes 8-10 hours at best to get to 70 with nobody to help out. If this is your cup of cake, we suggest running on Expert (100% bonus xp) or Master difficulty (200% bonus xp)

However, if you are looking for that 15 minutes stroll to level 60, you will have to wait at least 24h for the most dedicated players to not just get to 70, but also obtain the Haedrig gift rewards so they can run Torment 6 - Torment 10 games and carry the rest of the playerbase.

Where To Find The First Players to 70 ?

Luckily there are lots of public groups ingame, just use the communities option in the lower right corner of the screen. Rift It Forward and the 1-70 Boosting communities can come in quite handy for players that are willing to use the ingame matchmaking system and build their comp there. Captain-Carry.com (insert link https://captain-carry.com/diablo-3-boosting-and-powerleveling/) however decided to specialize in Diablo 3 boosting far beyond the 1-70 leveling stroll. Not only you get a free 1-70 run within 15 minutes or less (if ordering T16 Rift/Grift runs), but you can actually get a fully Torment 16 capable builds within days of release and well over 700 paragon levels.

The Best Place To Find Players On Season Start

CaptainCarry is just one of the options, although a boosting website by definition, there are other alternatives for the more lenient player that is not looking for a super fast boost & end game gear. The Diablo 3 Discord community features actually a few Diablo 3 channels with well over 20k-30k users, most of them are active throughout the day from different regions & timezones so finding a group there shouldn't be too difficult either.

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