Joe Shely

Fear not the darkness, for the Light has arrived. Play as the Paladin tonight when you pre-purchase the next expansion, Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred 🛡️🗡️

@RodFergusson Few can claim they shaped the course of Diablo. Your place in Sanctuary is cemented in blood... Respect, Rod. May your next journey be as epic.

After five years of driving the Diablo franchise forward with four big launches, it's time for me to step away from Blizzard/Microsoft, sword in hand, and see what's next. The teams are set up for success, with an exciting slate of releases ahead. I'm incredibly proud of what we've built together and looking forward to what comes next for Diablo, and for me.

Thanks to all the folks who came to see my talk for new and aspiring developers at #GDC2025! If you missed it or weren't able to attend but still want to find out about the simple gameplay framework I discussed, it's now available on the GDC Vault. gdcvault.com/play/1035058/G…

I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking at @Official_GDC next week as part of the Game Career Seminar for new and aspiring developers! Join me in exploring a simple framework for thinking about gameplay and your audience #GDC2025 schedule.gdconf.com/session/game-c…

@PlayLegacyGG @notostudios Congrats!

Introducing ⚔️Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, the first game from @notostudios 👉 Wishlist on Steam now! store.steampowered.com/app/2344320/Le… 🌐 Sign-up for Alpha Playtests at: playlegacy.gg

Hey Barbarian friends - Pull up a chair. It's story time. Bash is still multiplicative and the notes are being updated. Nothing was changed for this and was actually an attempt from the team to fix a tooltip issue. Fixing this tooltip issue caused a multiplicative scaling issue which we experienced internally but no one else actually saw. We fixed that issue, but it accidentally landed in public notes. We are updating the notes to reflect this. Bash stays the same (and is still multiplicative). You may now continue shouting at the minions of hell and not about Bash. 🗣️

As part of this update, we absolutely did not add a small hidden buff to player damage on Tuesdays.

With the launch of #DiabloIV Season 4 we've made exciting gameplay updates, added the Pit, evolved Helltide, and reworked many aspects of loot in the game, including fixing many conditional item affixes (sometimes referred to as "Damage on Tuesdays").

@ckaleiki @Muffinus I can absolutely picture this dog sitting at @Muffinus’s keyboard with a fake mustache. No one would ever suspect.

If @Muffinus was a dog

@zegghead_ I’m thankful we have so many passionate fans who request improvements like this. Our goal is to keep making the game more fun.

@_DonAdams This problem is missing key information. Do both walls have yellow paint or only the right wall?

frog just needs to learn to wall jump, this is Level 1-1 shit come on frog get it together

I want to emphasize that our focus in Season 4 is what we see as the soul of a Diablo game, its systems. We have a host of changes coming to itemization, endgame, and classes for both Eternal and Seasonal players. Stay tuned for more details in the patch notes next week! 2/2

I love that many of our players define ARPG to mean exclusively "games in the style of Diablo" (sometimes also referred to as hack 'n slash or dungeon crawlers). 1/2

@zhubaohi Significantly higher than overworld, but Duriel and Andariel will still be the best places to target farm Uber Unique items.

@JoeShely Thx for the info! Is this "small chance" similar to drop rates from overworld? Or similar to regular duriel drop? Or in between?

In the #DiabloIV Season 4 update, not only is Andariel being added to the boss ladder for another way to hunt Uber Uniques, all other ladder bosses like Lord Zir and Beast in Ice will gain a small chance to drop Uber Unique items.

@Nabster_Gaming @AZJackson85 Adam has a lot of exciting #DiabloIV class updates to share, especially about Dust Devils and Minions!

Did @JoeShely evolve into @AZJackson85 ??? #DiabloIV

1.3.2 Patch Notes are now available for #DiabloIV. This patch introduces Uber Unique crafting. 1.3.2 will ship next Tuesday Feb 13 on all platforms. news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/…

Just a friendly PSA from the #Diablo4 team here Hang onto unused Uber Uniques. The team has some plans for something in a future patch which we will share soon, but figured this heads up was warranted for those that may have some Uber Uniques they aren't utiliziing. us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/psa-ha…

Later this evening we will be updating #DiabloIV with a client patch on all platforms. This patch will be addressing some feedback we have been hearing on the Seneschal Construct, Vaults & Arcane Tremors and the Echo of Malphus. Patch notes are linked below. news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/… Separately we have another patch planned for late next week, but we are aiming to have those notes available for players a few days prior for players to check out. Thanks again everyone for the feedback. We will send out a note when this patch tonight is available for download.

It's cool to see players diving into #DiabloIV Season 3! We can't wait to launch Trials later in the Season. We're carefully reviewing feedback, especially from folks who have played many hours already, and we've agreed on several things that can be improved. More details soon