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Daily Mirror
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Diablo 4 Season 8 start time and everything new that's coming with the seasonal update
The delayed Season 8 of Diablo 4 is finally upon us, as we say goodbye to the Season of Witchcraft next week. The new season of Diablo 4 starts next week, and brings a new IP collab with it alongside the usual fare of seasonal content we've come to expect. Diablo 4 Season 8 starts next week, with Belial's return setting players up for a revamped boss ladder system, a new Berserk collab, new Boss powers to collect for the seasonal mechanic, a new questline, and a new battle pass system among a host of other changes. Activision Blizzard 's selling point for the new battle pass system – officially called Reliquaries – is that you can claim the rewards in whatever order you like, similar to the overhauled Warzone and CoD battle passes that Activision pivoted to with the release of Warzone 2.0. Reactions to the impending system tweaks have been mixed, with the Diablo 4 2025 roadmap also being something of a swing and a miss, thanks to a lack of fresh content this year, and most of the major changes landing in 2026. But there's still lots to tuck into when Diablo 4 Season 8 starts, and here's a rundown of what Season 8 has to offer: A new questline New NPC: Sayeena a retired Vizjerei mage New NPC: Jarius, who claims to be a Cathedral of Light knight 24 Boss Powers New Apparition Incursion event Three-tier Lair Boss system replacing Ladder Bosses New Legendary and Unique items New Reliquariy Battle Pass Seasonal rewards including Iris the Cat pet It's mostly the usual fare we see with the dawn of a new season in terms of seasonal mechanics and rewards, with the Lair Bosses and new Reliquary system being the major tweaks. But when exactly does Diablo 4 Season 8 start? Here's what you need to know. Diablo 4 Season 8 start time Diablo 4 Season 8 starts at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST on Tuesday, April 29 as confirmed by Blizzard in a blog post. This is in line with past season start times and is generally when the developer deploys major updates to the games. The new season was set to start mid-April initially, but Diablo general manager, Rod Fergusson, confirmed a two-week delay in a tweet back in February, that saw the end of Diablo 4 Season 7 pushed back from Tuesday, April 15 to Tuesday, April 29. The extra time was was attributed to Diablo 4 Season 8 taking "a couple of weeks longer to bake anticipated". As with most seasons so far, this one is expected to run for three months, taking us through to the end of July, which is when we'll see Season 9 and the promised keyboard and mouse support roll out for console.
Time Business News
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Business News
IGGM.com Diablo 4 Season 8 Guide: How To Get Lilith's Wind Of Hate Boss Power?
Undoubtedly, the most attractive new content in Diablo 4 Season 8, which will be launched on April 29, should be the boss power, because like other seasonal powers before, the boss power is the most intuitive way to help you in the new season. In order to fully ensure that boss power can help you cope with most situations, Diablo 4 brings up to 24 boss powers for Season 8, and the most difficult to get and powerful ones are 5 legendary boss powers, which come from the 5 most powerful lair (endgame) bosses in the game: Andariel's Flaming Skull Belial's Eye Beams Duriel's Burrow Harbinger of Hatred's Volley Lilith's Wind of Hate In addition to the ultimate boss Belial of this season, the most eye – catching ones should be Lilith and Lilith's Wind of Hate, because she is one of the main villains of Diablo 4, and has brought you endless nightmares in the past few seasons, but it is precisely because of this that you will want to get her power more. Based on this, we will introduce you to how to get Lilith's Wind of Hate, a boss power belonging to Lilith. Before you get this power, it's important to understand its effects so you can determine when it's appropriate and switch powers before a fight begins. Each boss power in Season 8 consists of a main power and a modifier power, and you can equip one main power and three modifier powers in a single battle. The main power effect of Lilith's Wind of Hate allows you to attack enemies with a spike wave that lasts for 2 seconds while casting a skill, causing them up to 1,925% physical damage! And every time Wind of Hate hits an enemy, their damage increases by 60%, up to 300%. As for the modifier effect, when you use the main boss skill to hit an elite enemy other than the world boss, a Blister Clone that lasts for 15 seconds will be created at 10% of their maximum health. Killing the clone will reduce the health of the corresponding enemy by 10.25%. A single elite enemy can have up to 3 clones active at the same time. First of all, considering that Lilith is a very strong lair boss, you must accumulate enough Diablo 4 g old and good enough gear, as well as power from other bosses, by completing other tasks or defeating other bosses in advance, and use them as the basis for your fight with Lilith. Generally speaking, you must unlock the boss battle with Lilith after your character reaches level 60 and unlocks Torment difficulty level 4. Then go to the southwestern Fractured Peaks and find the entrance to Echo of Hatred next to Nevesk waypoint. At this time, you will receive a task called Echo of Hatred in your quest log. Visit it and enter the corresponding dungeon to start the battle. Before Season 8, in addition to the preparations we have mentioned, you also need to collect materials for summoning Lilith by killing other bosses to summon her. However, Season 8 has made changes to the endgame boss mechanism. Not only has it been renamed lair boss, but it has also cancelled the summoning material. Instead, you need to farm lair keys to open the hoard and take away the loot after winning. This fight is divided into two phases, and in both phases the boss will have a full health bar at the beginning of the fight. Here are the different ways to deal with each phase. When Phase 1 begins, Lilith will first create Blood Blisters, and Blood Orbs will further spawn around her. All you have to do is destroy the blood blisters and be careful not to be hit by the blood orbs. However, in order to ensure that you don't lose health in this phase as much as possible, it is best to exchange some healing potions with Diablo 4 items in advance, just in case. Towards the end of this phase, the boss will continue to summon Oppressors to assist her. Fortunately, the health of this enemy type is very low, so it shouldn't be a problem for you to destroy them. At the end of this phase, Lilith will also summon Triangle Wave. You need to stay in the outer circle of the arena before the boss lands to avoid the inner wave, and then immediately move into the boss circle to continue to avoid the outer wave. Once Lilith lands, you must deal as much damage to her as possible – in fact you should kill the boss as soon as possible in the first phase to avoid the damage debuffs she may continue to cause you. All you have to do in this phase is to always avoid the blood orbs and void orbs generated by the blood pools, and when the boss destroys the platform, you can avoid it while attacking her until her second health is reduced to 0 and all three platform parts are destroyed. After winning, if you get Lilith's lair keys beforehand, you can open more loot in addition to the regular D4 gold rewards, as well as the focus of this time: the boss power Lilith's Wind of Hate! The above is all we have introduced to you this time. If you think it is of reference value, please complete the relevant battles as soon as possible after Season 8 starts! I wish you success! TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Diablo IV's New Roadmap: Belial, Boss Powers, and Big Anniversary Plans
As the Age of Hatred wears on, Wanderers should be wary of new demonic terror coming to Sanctuary in 2025, as Belial's return is imminent in Diablo IV. Wanderers started the year with Diablo IV's Season of Witchcraft, and Blizzard has deployed a steep list of patch notes that launched on March 4 (like every season before it) after the season has been active for months. Since the launch of the Spiritborn class, the dev team has been working to balance the class appropriately for adventures in Sanctuary, releasing notable Quality of Life improvements every month. Now that it is April, Blizzard Entertainment has provided a new roadmap detailing the future of Sanctuary and what Wanderers will have to confront over the remaining second year of Diablo IV. Since Diablo IV launched nearly two years ago, the state of the game looks wildly different from its June 2023 release. Now, there's a new Vessel of Hatred expansion for fans to test their mettle against, Uber bosses populate Sanctuary, and each season so far has introduced a new gameplay element — for better or worse — to provide fresh experiences for players globally. With the new roadmap, fans can plot out the next few months, as Blizzard has detailed the upcoming seasons arriving in Sanctuary. After the Season of Witchcraft concludes on April 29 (moved up from the previous date of April 15), fans will be treated to the Season of Belial's Return, allowing Wanderers to face off against the Lord of Lies. That's not all — the seasonal story also centres on Belial's return, bringing more boss-focused content and challenges. For the first time since the game's launch, Diablo IV is forgoing the mid-season patch in favour of a major update at the season's start, allowing fans to rely on consistency from April to June. Along with the new season, fans will gain access to the seasonal gameplay element of Boss Powers, allowing Wanderers to deploy powerful boss abilities against enemies. Specific foes — including world bosses, new event bosses, Lair bosses and even Uber Lilith — enable players to collect their powers and turn them against the tides of Hell. There are 24 unique Boss Powers available, each with a Main Power and a Modifier Power, opening a new realm of build possibilities. Belial's Return starts on April 29. Beyond that, new IP collaborations and a two-year anniversary celebration await Wanderers in Sanctuary. Fans can find all the new seasonal information on Blizzard's official website.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Gardening in the Demon-Haunted World
From the G-File on The Dispatch Dear Reader (especially those of you under pressure), Let's pretend Festivus came early this year. By which I mean, I'm going to begin by airing a grievance. The 'parking spots available' sign at Reagan National Airport is a tool of Xezbeth, Belial, or one of the other ancient demons of deception. I once read that in an astounding number of elevators, the 'close door' button does nothing. Also, in many cities, the 'press to walk' button is just a sop to the human desire for agency and control, but actually does nothing. This enrages me, but nowhere near as much as the 'spots available' sign, which seems to just generate random numbers to get people to drive through the garage like a mouse following up on a rumor about cheese at the end of the maze. I imagine that Xezbeth, Belial, and the gang are at the foot of Lucifer's throne laughing their asses off as I drive in desperate pursuit of these utterly fictional parking spaces. Of course, I'm joking. Not about the Perfidy of the Parking Sign, but about the demon thing. Yet, a lot of people these days aren't joking when they talk about demonic forces at work in America. Tucker Carlson recently revealed that he was attacked by a demon in his sleep. His bookshelf has a book on casting out demons. Eric Metaxas talks about demons all the time. And many people sincerely believe that Trump critics are possessed by demons. We talk a lot about 'demonization' in our politics these days, but most of the time people mean it figuratively and analytically—not, you know, literally. What got me thinking about this was a video tweeted out by Benny Johnson defending the market chaos as an effort to 'cast out' the demons controlling America. Now if you watch the clip, it's reasonable to assume he's speaking figuratively. But I don't know why he should get the benefit of doubt since he calls people literal demons all the time. One of the problems with demonization, in the political science-y sense, is that it gives the demonizers permission to ignore not just the humanity of political opponents but any arguments they might offer. You say the bond markets are tanking and that is bad. The Benny Johnsons get to say, 'Not today, Satan. I'm not listening!' I'm not going to get into the debate over whether demons are real. My only point is that reason and facts have no purchase on the intellect once you accept that your opponents are demons or operating on the orders of them. Personally, I think it's a tell that someone's arguments are weak once they resort to demon talk. Maybe not when someone is floating above their bed and talking about Zuul. But I don't want a doctor, lawyer, or financial adviser whose first impulse is to attribute problems to demonic forces in their analysis or prescriptions. That's just me. The nice thing about demonic possession talk is that it's honest. It puts its unfalsifiable claims out in the open for people to accept or reject. There are a lot of other kinds of arguments that amount to the same kind of argument, but they hide the dybbuk in the details with fancy language that sounds more technical, scientific, or just clever. Arguments about 'white supremacy,' 'patriarchy,' 'the deep state,' 'globalism,' 'the Jooooz,' 'the 1 percent,' often operate the exact same way. They point to something 'bad' and work backward to build the case that 'hidden forces'—whether it's the Pale Penis People, the deep state, the bagel-snarfers or whomever—have expertly pulled strings from their Star Chambers to make it so. The bad thing—real or alleged—is the proof that evil human will is at work. These evil puppeteers are what you might call secular demons for those who reject explicitly religious talk. This was Marx's view of the 'Jewish spirit' running through capitalism and Hitler's view of the 'Jewish bacillus' running through both capitalism, communism, and anything else he disliked. And it's the view of countless antisemites on the left and right today. The human impulse to respond to misfortune, crisis, or mere inconvenience and disappointment by asking 'Cui bono?' is sadly wired into us. It's not always stupid or wrong to ask 'who benefits' in a given situation. But it's conspiratorial madness to ask it in every situation. If, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, you can look out the ravages of a wildfire and think Occam's razor points to Jews using their weather satellites to make a few shekels, you're not—let me say this nicely—a particularly reasonable person. One last point on antisemitism since we're on the cusp of Passover. I will never stop marveling at how people can look at the history of Jews, starting with the story of Passover itself all the way through the hundreds—thousands?—of pogroms, inquisitions, retail cruelties and wholesale genocide, and conclude 'Man, those Jews really run everything.' Let's switch gears. I tried to make a point on the solo Remnant this morning and I don't think I did a very good job, so I'm going to try again here. A quick recap: I've written a bunch of times about the 'English garden.' Here's how I put it most recently (feel free to skip if you know this stuff by heart by now): One of my favorite metaphorical illustrations of how to think about the role of the state is the difference between the English and French garden. I wrote about it in my book and here and here. For those who don't know or remember, the basic idea is that the hyperrationalist French gardens with conic shapes, right angles, and other geometric shapes represent one Enlightenment view of how government should operate, imposing a human vision of nature on nature. The English garden, meanwhile, represents a different model. It establishes a space, free of external threats and invasive weeds, that allows the plants of the garden to grow free into the best versions of themselves. I find this metaphor to have enormous explanatory power about the differences between two different approaches to politics, but also to economics. In politics there are people who argue that the state (or movement, cause, faith, etc.) must be salvific. Literally, it is the view that you can deliver the people—all of the people—to some perfect society. The language of this political tradition is all about movement, destinations, marching together, and the like. Nobody is left behind, everyone is included. This is the worldview of all the modern totalitarian movements, and many ancient ones. The problem is that when you try to implement the ideal, i.e. put your idea into practice, lots of people don't want to go where you're trying to take them. The totalitarians, or to be more polite, the utopians, get angry at the slackers, wreckers, dissidents, and traitors (whether they're class traitors, race traitors, or traitors to the nation depends on what your Shangri-La at the end of history looks like). Also, because you're invincibly confident in the righteousness and rightness of your cause, you assume that any difficulties you run into must be the handiwork of, well, demons—literally or figuratively. So they must be eliminated, cast out, defeated—again, literally or figuratively. This is where the gun comes in. By the gun, I mean actual guns—or men carrying them—but also force. Government is force. It has a monopoly on legitimate violence. This is one of the points that libertarians have always understood better than any other school of politics. Defy the government about pretty much anything and, eventually, people with guns show up to force either compliance or punishment. Refuse to pay your parking tickets long enough, and eventually the state, armed with guns, will come to collect. But that's not really the point I want to emphasize. Government force is more supple, complex, and diverse than just sending in the gendarmerie. The way of the gun can manifest itself with legislation, presidential executive orders, bureaucratic regulations, or even just through the threat of them. There's a gun somewhere in there, but the point is that government has force, power, and the ability to use it. (Think of it this way. Donald Trump didn't threaten violence against law firms with his outrageous executive orders. But a gun will enter the picture if one of the target lawyers tries to enter a government building in defiance of it.) Which brings me to economics. On Monday, Trump acknowledged the pain and turmoil he inflicted on the global economy. Then, he said, 'I don't mind going through it because I see a beautiful picture at the end.' That's the salvific, French garden approach. I am going to bring all of us to a better place, a promised land. This way of talking and thinking about politics and economics is hardly unique to Trump. When Barack Obama promised 'fundamental transformation' and talked about how, 'We are the ones we've been waiting for,' he was tapping into the same unconstrained vision. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, FDR, Woodrow Wilson: They have all thought this way. For most of my professional life I've been beating up on this worldview. The idea that some politicians, surrounded by experts and technocrats, can run or transform the economy, and deliver all of us to a better place through the application of will, intellect, and governmental force is what Friedrich Hayek called the 'fatal conceit,'—'the idea that man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes.' He derived the title from a line from Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations: The man of system … is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. … He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces on a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces on the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might [choose] to impress upon it. For most of my life, this observation drew blood almost entirely on the left, and applause almost entirely from the right. But in recent years, similar men of the system have proliferated on the right. The Peter Navarros and Oren Casses try to make Trump's actions make sense as an explication of their system. One of the more amusing problems they face is that Trump hates to concede anything to their expertise, preferring to ground his erraticism as the ingenious product of his instincts. So the right's new system-men have to rush in after every zig and zag and insist the 'plan' is working, like the compulsive gambler who insists every loss is proof that his system is about to pay off. Now, for the garden. The market system is man-made, just as gardens are. But it is not the product of any individual will. It is a crowdsourced network of institutions, constructed over generations of trial and error, learned best practices, and the accumulation of common law and legislation alike. Just as no one person knows how to make a pencil, no one knows how to create a global system of finance and trade. But, together, over time, we made it. And it has delivered massive abundance. The problem with the garden system is that when it's working, you don't notice its operation. You take it for granted just as you take for granted that you will get light when you flick a switch and hot water when you turn a faucet. When it's operating properly, the garden system has few active defenders or explainers. This leaves the field vulnerable to people of the gun to promise a better way. The gun people stoke grievances and resentments about how the status quo isn't doing enough for you. They insist they have a better way grounded in their own righteousness and superior intellect. They tell us that we can keep all of the wealth we have but produce even more wealth if we just do X or Y. We can afford so much more than what the golden goose is giving us. But bad people—'millionaires and billionaires,' 'globalists,' corporations, Wall Street, Jooz, demons—are actively preventing you from enjoying the salvific bounty promised by the saviors. It is only when someone tears down or batters these Chestertonian fences all around us that we discover those fences are there for a reason. Few people think about the value of the dollar as the global reserve currency or of the full faith and credit of America's bonds until some expert or experts act on their ignorance and ingratitude. That's where we are now. One man is singlehandedly taking a plow to the garden because he is confident that he knows better than, almost literally, everyone. And his defenders have few, if any, serious arguments in his defense beyond 'trust him.' Perhaps paradoxically, I've come to wish that the champions of the garden had a little more stomach for the way of the gun. I don't mean that they should use government force to impose their own private nirvanas. I simply mean that I wish that there were more gardeners, more people willing to deny attempts to muck with the system, to dismantle the rule of law, to defend the norms and customs, that have made our manmade system so successful. That's what the keeper of the English garden is supposed to do. The night watchman state is small—but the watchman is still necessary. The depressing thing about all of this is what so many on the right have forgotten. The hopeful thing is that many others, on the right and the left, are relearning the value of what they took for granted. I don't put a huge amount of faith in the notion that the lesson will be permanent, because no lessons are. But when we get through this nonsense, it may be a while before we have to learn it again. Check out our most recent editorial: 'Rather than committing to meeting the challenges incumbent upon leaders of the free world, the White House and its ideological allies seem dead set on shedding the job title entirely, as if it were just another target of the Department of Government Efficiency.' The demon that helped Jonah write this G-File also requests you cast a vote for the Dispatch for a 2025 Webby Award. We're not saying the demon will follow you around if you don't, but he is rather persistent. Canine Update: First, let me offer my heartfelt congratulations to Gus, the winner of the first annual Dispawtcher March Madness Bracket. I'm not nornally a 'You're All Winners!' kind of guy. But these were all great dogs, except for the contestants who were in fact, cats. Those were good cats. Thanks to everyone who participated. Not too much to report this week closer to home. Zoë has become oddly attached to me of late, eagerly following me all over the house. I don't understand why, and the Fair Jessica resents it a bit. But it's kind of nice. One theory is that she's responding to the collusion of Pippa and Gracie in colonizing TFJ's lap, even though they do not recognize each other's claims to that territory. Pippa is just Pippa. She still demands her belly rubs before leaving the house and a personal invitation most days before she'll agree to receive treats. She's more selective about when she'll do her fetching work these days, but she always requires a ball when we leave the house. Yesterday, she had a bit of a gurgly tummy and decided to go to bed before treat time, but she was back at it this morning, albeit a bit rusty on her catching. Chester is back to his daily shakedowns. And the various members of the midday pack, including their buddies Scout and Clover, are doing fine. There was some controversy the other morning when it became clear that raccoons had gotten into our garbage. It's possible it was some other kind of critter. But just as doctors say—in the spirit of Occam —'when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras,' when I see torn up garbage bags and rifled food products and chicken bones, think raccoons not lemurs. It's funny, you can always tell there were overnight incursions into our territory the moment we leave the house. Zoë smells evidence of nefarious activity instantly, and it takes me an extra five minutes to get her in the car. The Dispawtch Owner's Name: Alex Keene Why I'm a Dispatch Member: We cannot escape bias. Mine is that I am conservative, but I am not a Trump supporter. There are few newspapers that provide an outlet for readers like me. Personal Details: I write a baseball blog on the Cleveland Guardians. Pet's Name: Kodiak Pet's Breed: Pomsky Pet's Age: 7 Gotcha story: My husband lost his dog after he moved to Cleveland, and my aunt happened to be friends with an Amish family looking to sell a pomsky puppy they recently adopted. She sent me a picture, we went over to visit, and he was too cute to leave behind. Pet's Likes: Treats, walks, belly rubs, and stealing my spot whenever I get up from the couch. Pet's Dislikes: He HATES IT when I try to take a picture of him, I usually have to trick him to look at the camera. He has a near instinctive realization when I take out my phone that a picture is incoming. Pet's Proudest Moment: When he finally caught a squirrel in the backyard. I wasn't paying attention and he bolted behind the house and nabbed it. I made him let the poor squirrel go (who thankfully was not seriously hurt). Bad Pet: Nobody would dare say such a thing. Kodi is the perfect dog Do you have a quadruped you'd like to nominate for Dispawtcher of the Week and catapult to stardom? Let us know about your pet by clicking here. Reminder: You must be a Dispatch member to participate. ICYMI —Shot in the foot —Free trade 101 —Theyman's terms —17-dimensional chess —Nikes on my feet —Invisible hand —Save me! Weird Links —Sport mode —Because I said so —Floridamaxxing —Say It Ain't So —Mental health matters —Trade you a Steve for a Jonah? —Legal loopholes —Expect Something More with AAA
