im not here to complain, just feeling so weird since 2.1 came out. patch 2.1 is a giant leap indeed, and i love diablo 3, ty blizzard for your efforts !
seasons: world 1st lvl 70 dinged within 50 mins of season launch by abusing 4 bounty quests on t6, streamers abused Gr exp bug gained 250 paragon lvls within 4 hours, imo season-only legs are not attractive at all except sader shield. season according to blizz :" fresh start for everyone ! " and then you can pop into adventure mod on T6 with your newly created season toon.
greater rift: you dont have to worry about your gears being average coz even top geared players cant progress with shitty maps + annoying A4 A5 mobs and elites with shielding and kill combos. and yeah , top 10 4 men teams always be 3 DH + 1 monk combo, wondering why ?
leaderboard: Luckyboard or let'sbesmartandabusebugstowinboard ?
overall: i felt my heart being punched while typing all these, i need my pills ......
I'm going to echo a little bit of what Astrayon said as well, half the point of the leaderboards and seasons is to find these exploitations (if that's what you want to call them) and get rid of them. I'm 100% sure you can expect to see a change to the Marauder's sets or probably more likely the sentries. They've already fixed the bounties that people were abusing, and the people that can be identified as abusing the bug for grifts will be banned. I'd say that as a whole, this season was a big success if for no other reason than the next one will be even better. Will you be able to compete on the leaderboards? Almost certainly not. There are people who devote their lives to the first days/weeks of a season. Does that mean it isn't fun for you? I don't think so. If it isn't fun for you, there are plenty of other things for you to do. Personally I found it very interesting to have a "second chance" to experience the game for the first time. I'll admit, I ended up abusing a couple of the bounties because 61-70 is absolutely terrible, so on a personal note, I hope that some attention is payed to why people felt the need to abuse those bounties instead of just deleting the bounties.
As to the specific bonuses for season, I agree, they are a little weak. I was very disappointed that not only were the legs unimpressive for the most part, but that by the time you get to use them on your main character, they will be available in the leg pool, so you could have just farmed them with your main after the season ends as well, but Bliz seems to be on a big push to not "force" people to play a certain way. That said, the Krelm's belt is awesome
both the comments above are somewhat the way I feel about season. I did invest about 10hrs? and all i did was bounties and rift, aiming to hit 70 asap and try to get those season-spec legs. I dun have a lot of online time, so in the end, i would rather focus on my mains which is more rewarding imo. It will be more fun if my frens were all on and doing the season together, else..its just a waste of time for me...in the end, seasonal legs will roll-over..and the clockworks starts again..
DH is getting the nerf-hammer soon, and I reckon that the sentries will have a hp bar so they dun stay 'immortal'....it was fun while it last..
Both of those require knowing 3 people capable of doing t6 rifts. I don't know those kind of people in the first week or two of seasons. If you're playing solo and not using exploits, then 61-70 is not fun.
you are a little bit in the dark on this one i think. There are several ways to do this now, far more effectively, let me mention a few:
softcore: t6 rifts, let the low level run in the back - 4 t6 rifts is enuff for a 1-70. 45 mins MAX
hardcore: ccor t6 untill 64, then u swap down to t4 and do the rest to 70, 1 hour MAX
this is probably the 2 "most" effective ways there are right now.. (exploits not accounted)
I said 3 hours because that's the longest it should take. Not because it takes anything close to tht amount for someone with half a brain. The point was that 61-70 doesn't take long and is easy.
Hell I just ran my HC sader thru all of the game in like 3 hours. I didn't have adventure mode on HC grahhhhhh
Now it's gonna take me maybe a few hours to get to 70. When I get my computer running again. /sigh
i completely disagree that this patch is for finding and fixing exploits, they had a ptr for monthes for that and this exploit was in the ptr and still was not fixed not to point any fingers, but this WAS addressed in the ptr. it should have been fixed before launching seasons. does not mean people should be taking advantage of the game. although if you want to compete its probably a good idea to exploit with everyone else to stay on an even ground, not like theyre banning anyone Kappa
seasons: world 1st lvl 70 dinged within 50 mins of season launch by abusing 4 bounty quests on t6, streamers abused Gr exp bug gained 250 paragon lvls within 4 hours, imo season-only legs are not attractive at all except sader shield. season according to blizz :" fresh start for everyone ! " and then you can pop into adventure mod on T6 with your newly created season toon.
greater rift: you dont have to worry about your gears being average coz even top geared players cant progress with shitty maps + annoying A4 A5 mobs and elites with shielding and kill combos. and yeah , top 10 4 men teams always be 3 DH + 1 monk combo, wondering why ?
leaderboard: Luckyboard or let'sbesmartandabusebugstowinboard ?
overall: i felt my heart being punched while typing all these, i need my pills ......
As to the specific bonuses for season, I agree, they are a little weak. I was very disappointed that not only were the legs unimpressive for the most part, but that by the time you get to use them on your main character, they will be available in the leg pool, so you could have just farmed them with your main after the season ends as well, but Bliz seems to be on a big push to not "force" people to play a certain way. That said, the Krelm's belt is awesome
DH is getting the nerf-hammer soon, and I reckon that the sentries will have a hp bar so they dun stay 'immortal'....it was fun while it last..
Hell I just ran my HC sader thru all of the game in like 3 hours. I didn't have adventure mode on HC grahhhhhh
Now it's gonna take me maybe a few hours to get to 70. When I get my computer running again. /sigh