I was like 680 Paragon playing Seismic Slam build with Earth set, did my 70 rift solo for the conquest and doing 74 comfortably in a 3man group with a charge barb + demon hunter (which is not a very optimal group setup at all). My gems are 75 now but were 70 when I did my 70 solo rift. FWIW my spec is not a popular or played spec, my gear is not optimised and I don't have the bonus stats you can get from consuming legendary gems..
So It's safe to say you can go pretty far with a lot of builds, without needing excessive paragons, high level gems or cookie cutter leaderboard builds. I can go above 80 solo with my build eventually if I'm fortunate to get ancient pieces and continue to level paragon.
If you play charge barb then you can go much further, no idea bout boulder toss + earth, tried it and didn't like it.. It's more popular than Seismic Slam, perhaps better.
I was like 680 Paragon playing Seismic Slam build with Earth set, did my 70 rift solo for the conquest and doing 74 comfortably in a 3man group with a charge barb + demon hunter (which is not a very optimal group setup at all). My gems are 75 now but were 70 when I did my 70 solo rift. FWIW my spec is not a popular or played spec, my gear is not optimised and I don't have the bonus stats you can get from consuming legendary gems..
So It's safe to say you can go pretty far with a lot of builds, without needing excessive paragons, high level gems or cookie cutter leaderboard builds. I can go above 80 solo with my build eventually if I'm fortunate to get ancient pieces and continue to level paragon.
If you play charge barb then you can go much further, no idea bout boulder toss + earth, tried it and didn't like it.. It's more popular than Seismic Slam, perhaps better.