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Every new season of Diablo 3 introduces new, limited-time features to the game that help change upwards how people play. For Season 24, it was ethereal items. For Flavor 25, information technology's Soul Shards. So, as you start grinding through this new stage of Diablo 3, what are these new Soul Shards?

All nearly Soul Shards

Soul Shards are basically a new socketable item for the game. Socketable items are things like gems, runes, and jewels that have been used throughout the franchise to buff character stats, just for a toll. For instance, the Remnant of Hurting shard reduces your crit chance by 15%, but whatsoever attacks against incapacitated enemies become automatic disquisitional hits. This can exist absolutely game-changing for Monk characters congenital on stunning enemies or Wizards who dearest freezing foes. Like all Diablo 3 items, though, some of the stats do randomize, so pay close attention to what each of your Shards says in their descriptions.

For flavour 25, at that place are seven different Soul Shards that enemies tin can drop. These are:

  • Essence of Anguish: Human activity I, boosts poison damage
  • Dregs of Lies: Human action 2, boosts pet damage
  • Stain of Sin: Act 3, supports long fights and extra damage to elites
  • Fragment of Destruction: Act III, lets you lot move through enemies and damage them
  • Remnant of Pain: Human action Iv, boosts oversupply control moves and crit chance
  • Sliver of Terror: Deed Iv, decreases cooldowns and increases damage and resistance
  • Shard of Hatred: Act V, deals more damage in close-up fights

How to subcontract them

Soul Shards drop from the bosses of their respective Act, so the Essense of Anguish will drib from anyone in Act one: Butcher, Skeleton Rex, or Warden included. At present, similar whatever detail in Diablo 3, y'all won't get the detail every time you beat them, so sometimes you lot have to get around and subcontract bosses until they driblet the item you desire. But for a Diablo 3 role player, that kind of grinding should be piece of cake. Since you can't get your season rewards without fighting a decent amount of the principal bosses for achievements and bounties, you lot'll stop upwardly with dozens of Soul Shards in no fourth dimension. Compared to the Staff of Herding grinding, this is nix.

Are they reusable?

Functionally, Soul Shards are just like any precious stone. Because of that, you should exist able to go upward to the Jeweler, Covetous Shen, and ask him to remove the Soul Shard from your item. This will inevitably come up at the cost of your detail, but as long as you aren't sentimentally attached to your helm, removal should just cost a few thou gold. This way you can use Soul Shards when you go them, simply can always take them out and upgrade them when you lot can. Equally long as you lot didn't waste a rank 0 Soul Shard on the rarest detail in the game, yous should be okay.