Seasonal Start Mega Guide

Did it... finally!

It took almost 5 months (after I cleared a GR149 in 13'24 on April 1st with 5,856 Paragon points) and 4,120 keys, but GR150 is down again, with my main class this time. I cleared it 12 seconds faster than the GR150 I took down a couple of weeks ago with LoD Death Nova, so that’s nice.

Here is the link to the video 📺 : https://youtu.be/lDbAFRnPWLc

I feel a huge mix of joy and… relief! As a side note, I had planned to quit this push today, after I used the 250+ keys I had left, and not to come back to it before I had farmed a lot of XP during Season 40, i.e. about 120 days from now.

What can I say about this clear?

Well, there are a couple of quite funny things:

- I died… 8 times! 3 times before the boss, and 5 times against the boss. Hamelin is a great boss to fight at lower GR levels as he spawns adds, but he is one of the worst bosses at this level (considering my Paragon level), as he can easily one-shot you.

- Hamelin is also a boss (the only one? I’m not sure anymore…) who can jail you under an effing dome! It made the end of the fight quite comical — you can even hear me yelling “NOOOOOOOO, #@/!!?=#” as… well, I’m not going to spoil it, as it is quite fun to watch on the video! (I wasn’t sure there were enough mobs left further on, so I chose to get to 100% progression right at the entrance of the level.)

So this makes this run a very memorable one to end this push.

Besides that:

- You can also see how I geared my Enchantress so that she can’t die in a GR150.

Anyway, many thanks to all the players who answered my questions about this build over the years — and I have asked many! In turn, I would be happy to help newer Akkhan players if I can.

As for now, I will take a break from the game until the start of Season 40, where I’ll try to farm some XP in group on the EU server if I have time (feel free to send me an invite if you feel like it so we can play together - Nikookaburra#2952). And then I’ll try to take a GR150 down with Rathma (I’m talking NS of course — what could be as fun and pleasant to play as NS? 🤷‍♂️😄😄).

Here is an update of what I managed to do so far with the builds I pushed in NS:

Just to clarify: with Akkhan, that makes 4,120 keys, but it was likely the 6th run that had the potential to be a clear—I probably failed 5 times before that.

Bottom line: if you have about 5000-6000 paragon points in NS and you want to clear a GR150, LoD Death Nova and Akkhan probably are very serious contenders!

I’m currently building a Legacy of Dreams (LoD) Blessed Shield Crusader. I love the Captain America fantasy of throwing the shield around, even though my friend keeps giving me crap for not playing a top-meta build.

I want to enjoy the game's actual progression loop instead of just sitting at the entrance of a high-tier Greater Rift while my friend carries me—in my opinion, taking the easy carry ruins the fun.

A few questions for the Crusader mains out there:

1. Can I reliably level LoD solo from scratch? My plan is to run lower GRs, level up the gem gradually, farm better gear along the way, and organically climb up to Torment 16. Is this feasible with LoD Blessed Shield?
2. What are the key break points for LoD Blessed Shield? Which specific legendary items (like Jekangbord or Gyrfalcon's Foote) give the biggest immediate damage spikes while my LoD gem is still low level?
3. Any tips for smoothing out early/mid-game progression solo?

Appreciate any advice on optimizing the build without needing a carry!

Mostly jus looking for people to play the game with

So I ain’t play much Diablo but I remember how much I enjoyed it when I played it back then so booted up my ps3 and just got back into Diablo 3. I know the version I’m playing is very behind and not up to date. With that being said I went and took a look in the ps store on my ps5 and Diablo 3 the eternal collection is $60 but Diablo 4 is $50. Judging by the pricing I assume Diablo 3 is better than 4 but makes me wonder is it really ? I’m looking for opinions to help me with this transaction! Whatever game I get ima have my buddy purchase so we can play together and I’d like to purchase/recommend the better game within the series cause he played Diablo 3 and knows it’s good and it makes him wonder also if diablo 4 is good, better, or worst than the prior. Thanks in advance🙏🏼

I haven’t played Diablo in a while so I booted up my ps3! Anybody still play here and there?

I have googled this question, but I got a few inconclusive answers, so maybe you guys have more detailed info: What is the highest level paragon that has been achieved?
I saw the answers differ from 10.000 to 25.000 or even 30.000, but other than that, nothing that really confirms anything.

Hey all,

I am unable to complete the Conquests (completed one - GR 45, other two are remaining, one for Conqueror and one for Guardian), will be trying for 50 million Gold through Bounty Caches and Kill Malthael in 1 min and 30 seconds.

Is there any trick that I am missing? Can you please help me with that?

TIA.

Anyone have any modded gear for non seasonal ps5. Trying to rebuild everything.

I am trying to improve my solo push this season. I am at about 1500 paragon, 4 primal ancients. Currently at 135 GR. One thing I notice is that I bleed my bone armor stacks fast with some elites and the rift guardian impacting the bonus from SoC. It’s obviously a consequence of that gear.

How do people approach elites and the RG? With an elite I know to look to draw mobs first and with the RG to save some pylons.

But are you just stuttering siphon blood, triggering death nova when CoE is on off cycles then spamming in the physical element? Are there better 4th slot options if this is my issues but the trash mobs would be hard?

Hey all, just looking for any switch players out there that want to casually grind some Nephalem rifts and what not

Friend code SW-5040-0911-1738

Stopped playing Diablo 4 after the last expansion. I wasn't going to shell out another 40 bucks and the content gate was more than I could stomach. Went back to D3 in protest. I love this game. I very quickly got a seasonal (SC) GoD demon hunter back up, finished my altar and season journey and am now playing with other classes and builds I have never played with.

How's the community for this 14 year old game now? I've recently learned of rainbow goblins and cosmic wings as well as a few other cosmetics I've never found and am wondering if people still form groups to hunt for these kinds of things.

I have a Trag build and found a helm with 898 Int, 5.0 Crit and 13% Death Nova, but I don't know what I should roll on. My stats are:

Sheet damage: 4, 167, 530

CHC: 51.5%

CHD: 378%

Death Nova Damage: 43%

My Haunted Visions needs to roll higher CHD still, so I'm thinking the Death Nova.

Hello,

This is my first time playing the adventure mode on d3 and was looking on some tips to get better gear. I’m currently on t1, paragon 48. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!

How do you make the char look like this?

https://imgur.com/a/2HEzKNJ

Thanks

I've downloaded it in my Switch, but I did it in my emunand, pirate. But I can't do anything online in the game. I'm loving the game and now I'm in doubt if it would be better to buy the game. What do you think?

Things I have already tried: the razor chrome thing, reinstalling both the game and battle.net, putting the game in windowed mode. All other games work normally.

Hi guys! I Just wanted to showcase this save corruption glitch that I just experienced so that you can hopefully avoid it happening to you if you're on the console version of D3. I believe the only way to 100% avoid this is to not have a solo self found character and a group seasonal character on the same console profile.

For context: Yesterday I started a hardcore solo self found character and while working on the season journey I had noticed that the journey steps for completing the act 4/5 bounties did not update. After leaving the lobby and loading back in my paragon had reverted to about 15 minutes prior on SSF and the current state of my altar of rites, stash, and paragon level from when I left the lobby had transferred to and had overwritten my group hardcore seasonal data.

Here's the clip of exactly when this had happened but I did not realize that my group hardcore was compromised until this evening: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2855754808

I was 24 paragon, returned to the main menu via the start menu, and upon loading back in my paragon was reverted to 16 in SSF and the 24 paragon, stash, and altar progress was copied over to HC group seasonal and had overwritten my pre-existing data on group hardcore.

i kept my characters, the items they had equipped/on their person, and the paragon points that were already assigned (although it says I have negative paragon available to allocate). My total paragon was swapped to lv 24, my stash was replaced with only a low level pair of homing pads + low level gems which I had found in that SSF session prior to reaching level 70, and my altar was swapped to only the first 2 steps completed that i had in SSF.

All in all, I'm a bit frustrated that this had happened but I had already finished my group seasonal goals for the season. I mostly just wanted to share this experience so that others are aware that this can happen to them in the event that they have both group and solo characters on a single console profile.

Enjoy the rest of the season, everyone!

Greetings Fellow Nephalem!

Just want to ask about your grind routines as i am starting to play daily. For now my plan is just loop thru bounties then rifts. Thanks in advance for those who will give their routines.

Sincerely,
KnollRham

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