

Some Legacy of Dreams builds stacking a lot of Elemental Damage or Mask of Jeram builds are going to prefer 15% Damage, 15% Attack Speed or 10% Critical Hit Chance over 25% Elemental Damage because they already have so much of it. Similarly, the Attack Speed affix applies to your Weapon and not as an additive Attack Speed roll. As a result, builds dual-wielding Weapons will see the benefit of this affix halved (at the exception of few skills not alternating Weapons). Note that the Damage % affix is local to your Weapon DPS, meaning it is not a straight 15% separate damage multiplier. Critical Hit Chance is a pretty good choice as well in most cases. A perfectly rolled 15% Damage is almost equivalent to a perfect 25% Elemental Damage roll for most builds. On Weapons, Damage % and Elemental Damage are the most interesting affixes, with Elemental Damage slightly pulling ahead in most scenarios. The Rank 2 power grants one additional bonus affix between these: Also interestingly enough, the presence of Life per Hit on every Lesser Soul Shard (Weapon) is pretty much killing the possibility for any build to make a proper use from Shi Mizu's Haori. Also, the 20-25% Elite Damage is additive with other sources of Elite Damage ( Aughild's Authority, The Furnace) as you would expect.īe aware that Leoric's Crown and Broken Crown do not work with Soul Shards in any way! Even if you have Broken Crown on your follower, you need to have a normal gem in your Helmet for this effect to work since it emanates to you. The Damage Range on the Lesser Soul Shards is local to your Weapon, meaning it is directly applied to your Weapon DPS and is affected by the Damage % affix on Weapons. Even better, the range on those affixes is slightly higher than the normal ranges! This is a good thing as it makes sure your build is not in trouble using a Soul Shard because it desperately needs Cooldown Reduction from a Flawless Royal Diamond socketed into your Helmet for instance. If you have it equipped in your own Weapon and your follower has a Poison Damage Range on its Weapon, then your follower attacks can proc the stacks for you! Moreover, there is one Soul Shard special power that kind of works on followers, the Essence of Anguish stacking effect granting you up to 25% Cooldown Reduction, 25% Movement Speed and 50% extra damage taken at 10 stacks. While this is not gamebreaking, it helps them to proc special item effects such as Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker more efficiently. Eventually you can also use the +15-20% Melee/Ranged Damage Reduction for follower setups not using the Immortality Token (for T16 content or simply builds using Enforcer) to help them survive.Īdditionally, you can get a Lesser Soul Shard with +12-15% Attack Speed for their Weapon. This means you can use a Prime Soul Shard in your follower Helmet to get the +946-1125 to any Main Stat in order to have an easier time reaching their 25,000 Main Stat cap scaling their skills. While Soul Shards Rank 0 and Rank 3 special powers do not work on Followers, the normal offensive and defensive stats accessible with Rank 1 and Rank 2 upgrades are working just fine. Each Soul Shard can be upgraded 3 times using a new seasonal-exclusive consumable, the Hellforge Ember. One of the 3 Prime Evil Soul Shards can be socketed into Helms while one of the 4 Lesser Evil Soul Shards can be socketed into Weapons. There are 7 unique Soul Shards, based on the Lords of Hell, which give players demonic new powers. Power can be alluring, and the road to the Burning Hells is paved with good intentions.

Cunning Nephalem who find and wield these Soul Stones must exercise caution.

These Soul Shards hold immense power-power that once belonged to the Prime and Lesser Evils. Though the Black Soulstone has been destroyed, lingering fragments of The Lords of Hell once contained therein still persist in Sanctuary. This article will cover everything there is to know about Soul Shards, from a global presentation to a detailed explanation of their specificities. In Season 25, Soul Shards are a new type of gem that can be socketed into Helmets and Weapons which grant incredibly powerful effects. With the upcoming 25th Anniversary of the Diablo Franchise, Diablo III is allowing players to fully embrace evil by infusing themselves with the essences of the Lords of Hell, iconic figures of the franchise.
