Went with a necro this season. Running a pet curse thorns build. think i have 5-6 ancients now and rolling right along I can see this build pushing higher end GR once I get better gear.
vyshka
6606
Heh, yeah without the firebird bonus it is even crazier. Will have to see how high I can push after my daughterās party.
vyshka
6607
Can tear through t10 and t11 using the lon bonus. T13 felt like I was probably too squishy. Probably could swap some topaz out for diamonds and try again. Most likely will just farm ~t10 for now.
SamS
6608
Started up a monk just because I havenāt played one since 2012 (jeez this game is old).
Hey, I am slowly working my way through Act IV. For the first time. I suck at playing this game quickly. Itās pretty tough for my Barbarian character (levelā¦ uhā¦ 57 I think). I keep dying if I get boxed in (on Master). So I suck in general. But Iām enjoying it. I keep getting all these new skills, but none of them are as much fun as Cleave with Rupture (where you can end up with a massive chain of things going pop!) which I got right back near the start of the game.
Frozen Orb is hilarious.
Feeling a little squishy for T12+ so far, but thatās with some pretty scrubby gear in a bunch of slots. Really enjoying this build with lightning stuns for defense and crazy orb dps. Good times.
Character link.
Me too! Iāve played it heaps over the years and itās right up there with my all-time favourites, if not the favourite. :)
But I donāt think Iāve ever got far in the actual endgame stuff as I tend to drift off and come back later to start again, over and overā¦ and loving it. :P
I think you should always try slot an escape skill, e.g. Leap will get you out of being boxed in. And maybe drop the difficulty down a notch, since youāre basically still in the tutorial. ;)
Kadath
6612
Reminder that the challenge rift resets today. Itās suuuuper easy this week. Next one is likely to be way more annoying.
Iāve never done those, what do they give you?
From memory, 35 Deathās Breath, 15 of each act 's bounty resources, ~500 Blood Shards, 5 million gold, and I think a bunch of lesser materials. A great boost to starting a season character! :)
Just be aware, you need to start the season character before completing the challenge rift for that character to be able to collect the reward.
vyshka
6615
The LoN season bonus sure makes it easy to run another character. My younger daughter was upset because my character had my older daughterās name, so she wanted one named after her. So I through a gem of ease into a level 70 weapon started up a crusader, got to 70 pretty quickly, then equipped some ancients that were dropped for my wizard. She can run t6 no problem, and it shouldnāt be long before she actually has proper gear for a crusader.
Ah yes, I guess thatās what Leap would be useful for. :) I do like the challenge though. Wading through mobs with things exploding everywhere is enormous fun, but having to think about how I approach fights more carefully is a nice change of pace. Itās manageable, Iāll get there.
vyshka
6617
If you want a real challenge, take a blessed shield crusader build out with a 2h weapon, no shield, and no skills to use the weapon. Oops
Kadath
6618
What @Profanicus said. It is the single best risk vs reward 15 minutes you can spend per week. Unless they do absolutely stupid builds that you need to be Superman to complete. This weekās is very easy. As was last weekās.
Did that challenge rift when I started my hardcore character, was a good idea. Now I can have a few cube items already. Never played necro with that builld before, so had to retry once before I did it.
Cheers for the headsup. Didnāt know it gave rewards.
Yeah, thanks for the heads up. More mats to grind up my spare legendaries with is helpful for sure.
Wizard is a death machine. Iām close to 6/6 Delsereās (and have Focus/Restraint to boot) so I may try that and see if it outperforms the LoN version Iām currently running.
Active defenses on this thing are nuts though. Reactive stuns from Storm Armor + Wyrdward, chill/freeze from Frozen Orb + Iceblink + Frostburn, automatic Diamond Skin from Dark Mageās Shade, plus cooldown bypass on damage for Teleport and Mirror Image from Illusionist passive.
Thunderfury and Ess of Johan on the templar arenāt bad either.
Anyway if I do go through effectively two healthbars before hitting any panic buttons, I still have Unstable Anomaly to get out of death free, because hell if I need any damage from passives.
I am amused.
Every class is amusingly powerful after so many years of mudflation, but not every one can clear over an entire screen of enemies like a wizard or demon hunter.
How long does it take you guys to get to 70 when these new seasons start? Hours?
I started a Wizard last season, played some hours, got her up to 54 and then just kind of moved on. I do that quite often, play adventure mode a bit, then the campaign a bit, back to adventure, etcā¦then get a bit tired of itā¦played up to 50ish so many times.
Had one 70 one time. Got up toT8 I think, dont rememberā¦would ālikeā to get up there again.
Hmm, not sure how much time it took my DH to hit 70 - maybe a few hours at most? My boosted wizard took 15 minutes.
Iāll check my Monk when its 70 to see how much time it takes, although it is on Hardcore mode so I play a bit āsaferā than I would otherwise have done.
Also; I got a leroics crown at level 17 on him, and a gem at 19 so now it has 20% xp bonus. Playing on Normal mode so far, as I do not yet have the dps to venture to a higher mode (with more xp bonuses).
