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Blizzard Watch Podcast Uncut: Player housing highs and Diablo 4 lows

Added 2025-10-23 19:58:34 +0000 UTC

In this week's preshow, we're all a little bit weird.

The crew spent a while talking idiosyncrasies, which led to the explanation of "Liz Noises." These are not swear words, believe it or not, because Liz leads by example, but she has to focus very hard on Windwalker Monk or she pitches herself off a cliff, according to Phil Ulrich and Joe, who are both in her guild. We'll have to take their word for it. Plus, Joe is into Pokemon again. If the thought of sitting through this makes you make Liz Noises, you can skip to 30:29 to jump past the preshow.

Since Player Housing hit the PTR this week -- for a briefer time than any of us realized -- we had a lot of Housing-related stuff to talk about. Lots of community members took their testing time to do things like build huge mechs made out of wagons in the backyard. Neat! Player Housing just does a lot of stuff like that.

But for every high there must be a low, and this week, that was the discussion of Diablo 4 changes, almost all of which our hosts felt negatively about. They got rid of the seasonal journey, and instead replaced it with... another almost identical seasonal journey. There are fewer potion charges, defensive diminishing return changes, and a whole bunch of other stuff more or less aimed at making the game harder. Our hosts are not feeling that.

Among other things our hosts are not feeling is the idea of doing seasonal bosses, even with their minimal mechanics, in story mode dungeons. It's always those NPCs, man.

We hope you enjoy this week's show. Thank you as always for your support.