In Diablo 4, players will receive a mechanical companion – the Steward – in Season 3. You can find out how it works and what powers the guiding and tuning stones have on MeinMMO.
“Season of the Construct” starts on January 23 in Diablo 4 and brings several new features. The main feature will be a mechanical companion that you can customize with different stones:
- You can equip 2 guiding stones that determine how your companion behaves – one for each attack.
- 6 tuning stones act as “runes” or affixes that change or enhance abilities.
- In total, there are 12 guiding stones and 27 tuning stones.
Below you will learn what the Steward is and what guiding and tuning stones will be available.
The Steward, a loyal companion in Sanctuary
What is the Steward? The Steward is a mechanical companion that supports you in battle – or keeps your back covered. You can customize the Steward to fit your builds, allowing you to get the most out of them in combination with your companion.
How do I get the Steward? You will receive the Steward companion during the seasonal questline. This way, the Steward will complement your adventures in Season 3 of Diablo 4 by equipping him with guiding and tuning stones.
Once you have obtained your Steward, he will follow you throughout all of Sanctuary until the end of the season.
All guiding and tuning stones and their powers
What stones are available? In total, there are 12 guiding stones and 27 different tuning stones with varying rarity. With the stones, you can customize your Steward to fit your playstyle and your build.
You can increase the experience level of the stones by collecting or crafting duplicate stones and combining them. The guiding stones determine which attacks your Steward can perform, while the tuning stones complement and enhance these abilities.
With guiding stones, your Steward can attack from stealth and deal massive damage to enemies, unleash bolts or fire beams, or provide healing or an adrenaline boost to the player character, thereby increasing their damage.
All 12 guiding stones and their powers to expand
- Auto-defense: The Steward construct activates an antimatter field around itself, shooting down enemy projectiles in the air. Cannot shoot projectiles from bosses or player characters.
- Ambush: A quick attack from stealth that damages any target. Can hit the same target multiple times.
- Fireflies: Deploys a small construct that lands on the target, explodes 3 times, and deals damage.
- Focus-fire: The Steward construct channels a fire beam onto the targets, dealing damage over time.
- Whirling: The Steward construct whirls its legs rapidly, dealing damage to all surrounding enemies.
- Piercing: Executes an attack against all enemies in a straight line in front of the Steward construct, dealing damage in the process.
- Lightning strike: Strikes a target with lightning, dealing damage. Bounces to additional targets, dealing a portion of the original damage.
- Protection: The Steward construct creates a protective barrier equal to a portion of its maximum health around the player character.
- Reconstruction: The Steward construct channels a healing beam that heals the player character over time for a portion of their maximum health.
- Slashing: Strikes opponents in front of the Steward construct, dealing damage.
- Storm Chaser: Inflicts an electrical charge on an enemy, dealing damage to itself and other enemies every second. If the enemy is killed, Storm Chaser jumps to another enemy and gains a longer duration and additional bonus damage. These bonuses also apply when Storm Chaser is applied again to the same enemy.
- Adrenaline Boost: Administers a quick adrenaline boost, causing the player character to deal bonus damage temporarily.
The tuning stones can grant bonuses to effect size or attack speed to supportive skills, reduce their cooldown, increase their duration, or decrease the movement speed of affected enemies.
All 27 tuning stones and their powers to expand
- Voluminous Support: Increases the effect size of the supported skill.
- Swift Support: The supported skill receives an attack speed bonus.
- Shatter Support: Damage dealt by the supported skill instantly destroys enemy barrier effects. Additionally, there is a chance to make enemies vulnerable for 2 seconds.
- Tactical Support: Reduces the cooldown of the supported skill.
- Efficiency Support: Causes the supported skill to deal damage, granting you critical hit chance for affected targets.
- Devastation Support: The supported skill receives a damage bonus for critical hits.
- Safeguard Support: When the supported skill is used, it grants damage reduction.
- Cold Support: A portion of the damage dealt by the supported skill counts as cold damage over time, causing chilling effects.
- Burning Support: A portion of the damage dealt by the supported skill counts as burning damage over time. Burning enemies receive additional critical hit damage from the Steward construct.
- Shock Support: A portion of the damage dealt by the supported skill counts as lightning damage, which has a chance to stun enemies.
- Bleeding Support: A portion of the damage dealt by the supported skill counts as bleeding damage over time. Enemies receive bonus bleeding damage from all sources while moving.
- Poison Support: A portion of the damage dealt by the supported skill counts as poison damage over time. This poison damage has a chance to spread to another enemy every second.
- Dusk Support: A portion of the damage dealt by the supported skill counts as shadow damage over time. For attacking enemies affected by this, there’s a chance their attacks will be interrupted. Bosses cannot be interrupted.
- Duration Support: Increases the duration of supported skills.
- Stalwart Support: When the Steward construct uses the supported skill, you gain Stalwart. Skills with lower attack speed and skills with cooldowns increase the granted amount of Stalwart.
- Resource Support: The player character receives a portion of primary resources when the supporting skill first deals damage.
- Initiative Support: The supported skill makes the Steward construct teleport to the target if it is out of range. Can only happen once every few seconds.
- Arc Support: The supported skill can hit additional enemies.
- Multi-shot Support: Supported projectile skills fire additional projectiles.
- Piercing Support: The supported projectile skill pierces additional enemies.
- Pulling Support: Damage and effects caused by the supporting skill on distant enemies pull them towards the Steward construct. Can only occur intermittently per enemy.
- Registered Damage Support: All damage dealt by the supported skill is recorded. The recorded damage explodes with effectiveness as fire damage when the target dies.
- Seeking Support: The supported projectile skill automatically seeks out enemies for a duration.
- Slowing Support: Damage dealt by the supported skill slows the enemy’s movement speed for a limited duration. The closer the enemy is to the Steward construct, the greater the slowing effect. Enemies can be slowed up to a maximum amount.
- Taunting Support: Damage dealt by the supporting skill taunts affected enemies for a limited duration. This can only occur intermittently per enemy. Does not apply to bosses.
Where can I find the stones? There are various ways to obtain the tuning and guiding stones. By completing vaults, the new dungeons in Season 3, you will receive a random tuning stone. You can also find the stones in so-called wire-woven chests that await you at the end of the dungeons.
If you’re lucky, you can find both types of stones as loot from vaults. By defeating constructs in the vaults, you will receive “Shattered Stone,” which you can use to craft stones at jewelers.
In addition to the described stones, there are two more secret tuning stones, of which only the names are currently known. The stones “Eternal Night” and “Genesis” are said to grant you powers that far exceed those of ordinary humans: Diablo 4: Season 3 offers you 2 powerful Uber Uniques for your new companion – What Blizzard says
