Diablo 4 Season of the Construct: Governing and Tuning Stones Explained

Diablo 4's Season of the Construct is set to bring a new wave of content to the game, including a new seasonal mechanic involving Governing and Tuning Stones. These items will help you refine your Seneschal Companion, providing them with different attacks and abilities to aid you in combat.

What are Governing Stones in Diablo 4 Season of the Construct?

Governing Stones are one of the new seasonal mechanics in Season of the Construct. These items are used to alter your Seneschal Companion and give them different attacks and abilities. You can have two of these equipped on your Seneschal Companion at any given time. The abilities provided by Governing Stones can include ways to support, damage, or tank, allowing your Seneschal Companion to fulfill any given role.

Here is a list of the Governing Stones available in Season of the Construct:

• Autodefense: The Seneschal Construct activates an antimaterial field around itself, shooting down enemy projectiles. Boss and Player projectiles are excluded.
• Bushwhack: Quickly ambush enemies, dealing damage to each target. The construct may strike the same target multiple times.
• Firefly: Deploy a small construct that lands on the target and explodes 3 times, dealing damage.
• Focus Fire: The Seneschal Construct channels a ray of fire onto targets, dealing damage over time.
• Gyrate: The Seneschal Construct whirls its legs around quickly, dealing damage to all surrounding enemies.
• Impale: Perform a line attack to all enemies in front of the Seneschal Construct, dealing damage.
• Lightning Bolt: Launch a bolt of Lightning at the target, dealing damage. The bolt arcs to other targets, dealing a portion of the original damage.
• Protect: The Seneschal Construct materializes a protective Barrier on the player for a portion of their Maximum Life.
• Reconstruct: The Seneschal Construct channels a reconstruction beam, Healing the player for a portion of their Maximum Life over time.
• Slash: Pummel enemies in front of the Seneschal Construct, dealing damage.
• Tempest: Electrically charge an enemy, causing them to deal damage to themselves and additional damage each second over time.

What Are Tuning Stones in Diablo 4 Season of the Construct?

Tuning Stones are similar to Governing Stones, but are used to augment and modify the abilities provided by Governing Stones. These items give you more control over how you build your Seneschal Companion, allowing you to increase the radius of moves, add a buff to the player, improve damage, and provide bonuses like damage and DoTs. You can equip six of these stones, three for each Governing Stone.

Here is a list of the Tuning Stones available in Season of the Construct:

• Voluminous: Increase the effect size of the supported skill.
• Swift: The supported Skill gains an Attack Speed bonus.
• Breaking: Damage from the supported Skill instantly destroys enemy Barrier effects. There is a chance to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.
• Tactical: Decrease the cooldown of the supported Skill.
• Efficiency: When the supporting skill deals damage, you gain Critical Strike Chance to the same targets hit.
• Devastation: The supported Skill gains a Critical Strike Damage bonus.
• Safeguard: When used, the supported Skill grants Damage Reduction to you.
• Frigid: A portion of the supported Skill's damage dealt is applied as Cold damage over time and applies Chill.
• Burning: A portion of the supported Skill's damage is applied as Burning damage over time. Burning enemies take bonus Critical Strike Damage from the Seneschal Construct.
• Electrocution: A portion of the supported skill's damage dealt is applied as Lightning damage over time and has a chance to Stun enemies.
• Bleeding: A portion of the supported skill's damage dealt is applied as Bleeding damage over time. Enemies take bonus Bleeding damage from all sources while moving.
• Poison: A portion of the supported skill's damage dealt is applied as Poison damage over time. This poison has a chance each second to spread all Poison damage to an additional enemy.
• Dusk: A portion of the supported Skill's damage dealt is applied as Shadow damage over time. Afflicted enemies who attack have a chance for their attacks to be interrupted. Does not interrupt Bosses.
• Duration: Supported Skills have their durations increased.
• Fortify: When the Seneschal Construct uses the supported Skill, you gain Fortify. Skills with slower attack speeds or skills with cooldowns will increase the amount of Fortify granted.
• Resource: Player gains an amount of Primary Resource when the supporting Skill first deals damage.
• Initiative: The supported Skill will cause the Seneschal Construct to teleport to the target if out of range. Can only occur once every so often seconds.
• Arcing: The supported Skill can hit additional enemies.
• Multishot: Supported Projectile skills launch additional projectiles.
• Piercing: The supported Projectile Skill will pierce multiple enemies.
• Gripping: Damage and effects from the supporting Skill to Distant enemies pull them towards the Seneschal Construct. Can only occur once every so often per enemy.
• Registered Damage: Any damage caused from the supported Skill is registered. The registered damage explodes at effectiveness when the target dies as Fire damage.
• Seeking: The supported Projectile Skill will auto-seek enemies for a limited duration.
• Slowing: Damage from the supported Skill Slows enemy movement speed for a limited duration. The closer the enemy is to the Seneschal Construct, the greater the Slow amount. Enemies may be slowed up to a maximum amount.
• Mockery: Damage done by the supporting Skill Taunts enemies hit for a limited duration of time. This can only occur once every so often per enemy. Does not work on bosses.
• Evernight and Genesis: Information on these Tuning Stones is not currently available.

How to Get Governing and Tuning Stones in Diablo 4 Season of the Construct

To get these abilities and modifiers, you'll need to earn and craft them during the seasonal resources and content. Vault Dungeons are one of the primary ways to get these items, as they are the reward from Wardwoven Chests you find and earn during a successful run. The more you maintain a layered buff called Zoltun's Warding during your run, the greater the rewards. There are also Arcane Tremors Events, which reward Stones after you defeat all the Construct and complete the Event.

Additionally, it is possible to craft these Stones using the Shattered Stone resource you'll earn during the season. This can be done at the Jewelers found across Sanctuary.

How to Upgrade Your Stones in Season of the Construct

To level up these stones and reach their full potential, you'll need to fuse duplicate versions of the same stone to increase its power. The more you do this, the stronger these Stones become. By collecting Stones from Vault and Arcane Tremors and crafting them using Shattered Stone, you should be able to quickly level up your primary stones.

By leveling up your Governing Stones, you will increase the potency and damage, whereas with Tuning Stones, you will enhance their abilities and effects.