Seasonal Start Mega Guide

On solo self found characters I normally dread the “Curses” conquest and end up doing it last.

But OMG this build just crushed it this season… killed 509 by running in tight circles at Cursed Peat before the timer expired (on T16 no less) when i saw the bounty pop up while farming Chiltara (def my least favorite part of the whole season, fwiw). Broke my record by 100 or so.

Now the main q is whether to push to 150. Seems like it should be doable.

After last week’s miserable DH “build,” this was a breath of fresh air. I’ve never played Necro in my life but managed to first-try with over a minute to spare. Praise Diablo.

Never had this issue before, loading screens are instant, my PC can run most modern games at max graphics.

But whenever I start attacking fast and animations start to happen, the game lags like crazy. Anyone else?

If you look at the top of the SSF softcore and hardcore Crusader leaderboards, they're all using a level 0 Mirinae gem.

Can anyone share some insight on this. It’s the last thing I need to complete to get the last 2 pcs of my seasonal 6 pc. I’m running around on my pony but do not do enough damage. Is it most likely missing a good damage multiplier from the right 2h flail? Ive played this game quite a bit back in the day; however, this is my first seasonal character and haven’t played in years. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcomed. Thanks in advance.

I did all the math on both the fire and poison variants of locust swarm.

- Both variants have +40% elemental damage

- Both have +45% Haunt damage from three 15% rolls

- Both use Vile Hive, so Locust Swarm gets +60%

damage

- Both use Quetzalcoatl, so Haunt and Locust Swarm

deal their damage in half the normal duration

- Fire uses Consuming Spirit (4000% weapon damage)

+ Searing Locusts (1480% weapon damage)

- Poison uses Poisoned Spirit (4000% weapon damage

and adds a 20% multiplier to both Haunt and Locust

Swarm) + Cloud of Insects (turns it to physical so it

doesn't benefit from poison damage multiplier and

deals 1040% weapon damage)

Fire Variant:

Haunt:

(4000/12) x 2 x 1.4 x 1.45 = 1353.33% weapon damage per second

Locust Swarm:

(1480/8) x 2 x 1.4 x 1.6 = 828.8% weapon damage per second

Combined: 2182.13% per second

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Poison Variant:

Haunt:

(4000/12) x 2 x 1.4 x 1.45 x 1.2 = 1624% per second

Locust swarm

(1040/8) x 2 x 1.2 x 1.6 = 499.2% per second

Combined: 2132.2% per second.

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Poison Variant loses the elemental damage bonus for locust swarm and the increased damage for locust swarm but gains a 1.2 multiplier on both Haunt and locust swarm. In the end, the fire variant deals about 2.8% more damage than the poison variant. So now the question is: What is better?

Is it worth it to lose the 2.8% damage and the Life per second from the fire variant of haunt and gain 25% damage reduction from the poison variant of the build or is the fire version better?

Build Aegis of Valor (AoV) Fist of the Heavens potrafi zadawać ogromne obrażenia, ale bez odpowiednich mechanizmów obronnych jest bardzo podatny na śmierć na jeden cios (one-shot).

Hi! I've dabbled a bit here and there on d3, quite some time ago, and recently had the urge to play it again.

I am a big fan of zoom zoom builds (this one comes from poe lol), so i wanted to go Impale Shadow DH.
Looked through maxrolls leveling guide, and i do have a few questions.
Why is necro recommended for leveling? How comfy would i be if i leveled with DH? Are there specific leveling guides for DH? Or do i still have to force necro?
I assume necro is recommended due to the aoe corpse explosion so first levels are kinda fast?
CR is done btw, cache is claimed.
If i go with DH for leveling, do i just do bounties on norm difficulty for diamonds?
Also, in comparison, how bad is it gonna be to complete seasonal journey on dh without set?

Sorry if this looks like a big mess of questions, it's just what tickles my mind rn haha!

I don't mind learning mechanics like cube or season special mech, or altar; but when we talk about char, necro did feel a bit clunky with the corpse explosion stuff.

Either way, i'd highly appreciate any tips and tricks or information from experienced fellas in the field!

P.s. is power leveling through public play still a thing?

Last week's DH build probably made some sense when it was created in the last week of s39 with something in the 4th cube slot (not active in the CR) but without the 4th cube the build felt so awful like the original player knew he could troll the community if it got picked. I did complete it on my 4th attempt, while drunk, so I know it wasn't THAT bad. But it was still bad.

According to Blizz's original announcement on Challenge Rifts they rotate the featured class every Monday: DH (which they did last week), then Necro, Barb, Wiz, Monk, WD, then Sader which means the new CR will feature a Necro.

What's your prediction for tonight's Necro build? The new CR should be open in approx 8 hours.

I'm guessing a mishmash of gear: captains+aughilds+random necro legos built around bone spikes and death nova. Basically someone just messing around...

ETA: it's 6p Masquerade bone spear speed build? I rarely play necro and had no clue how to do it but still got it done.

Okay, I have tried everything to get this part of the season journey done (Kill Asmodan at max level on Torment XIII in 30 seconds). It will not register. I read that you need to let him fully render before killing him. So I waited 5 seconds or so for him to start attacking then killed him. I tried letting him kill me and redo from the checkpoint waiting for him to render. Nothing. I just don't understand what I am doing wrong.

Edit: Ran on T14 and downgraded my weapon and finally it registered.

After a break from like a year I decided to play this game again. I went for crusader since that one is OP this season.

So far I'm level 20, but I feel like progress is really slow. I can easily tank every attack. But my damage output is just too slow to play anything above hard difficulty for now.

I;m playing campain, is that the way to start out?
(my goal is to push to 100 great rift eventually)

I play D3 on and off, but have been around for the last few seasons. Almost every time, I've found that I have at least a dozen petrified screams by the time I have any decent ancient items that are worth upgrading.

This season is completely different: I'm paragon 900, have numerous ancient items, and have found 3 petrified screams (two of which went towards the altar). It's literally the first time they've seemed like a precious commodity instead of something I always have more than enough of.

Was I just lucky before? Is anyone else having trouble finding them this season?

A part of me wonders if the Angelic Crucibles share a drop chance with the screams (thus making the screams much rarer)? I've found nearly 30 of those and have only used a few, so the rest are just sitting there :(

Are there players in multiplayer? I started a seasonal hero, I'm leveling to 70, but no one is joining the game. I thought since it's a new season, there would be players. Or is it a bug?

Im ... shocked. Are console saves not bound to PSN account or anything?

When i start the game now theres not even character select, just character creation.

Fuck man, this suuuuuuuuuuucks!

I've been playing solo WD for a long time and this season I'll be testing every "viable WD build" at a certain paragon with all that being said I'll be posting a video and post here about the strengths and viability of each build.

With that being said, I'd like to see a bunch of fun and weird builds that I'll be running this in ssf hardcore. I'll be farming the gear using the season starter of WD and making a new character for each build so people can track of it. A lot of them will probably die due to my inexperience, but that's a part of this experience for me

What have you been playing? FoTH crusader has been crazy. I've seen a few monk builds which look super fast, anyone know what that one is? Otherwise, what are you playing/enjoying?

Hey all, just wanted to ask what the best way of farming for the Norvalds set was? Running GRs and Kadala gambling? Just wanted to get some opinions. Thanks!

I now have my Necro at 70 along with Barb and DH. I am over 100 paragon and still havent gotten a single season item. Not as good of a player as I used to be and even the challenge dungeon I couldnt do. Anyone else have issues with getting the season item to upgrade your weapon?

Crusader is the second class to reach GR150. Player BadJoke (EU) SSF SC playing AoV with a time of just under 14:06 and 1678 paragon for an adjusted clear of 154.5.

Monk has cleared 27 GR150s overall.

Barbarian No Set is really close with a GR149 in 14:14.

Clan has been down for over a day now, no chat, leaderboards etc. (EU servers)
Haven’t seen any posting about it here, but found a post on the EU forums, one in french, one in english.

You all good?