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If I was in Blizzards shoes I wouldn't add this change. Reason being that I bet they get a lot more complaints about "the system selected the wrong class and I wasted my shards" rather than what they receive now for people having to switch characters. They have to cater for simple minds.

Nice work. It's very useful.

I don't know why people jump on the what's next bandwagon not even 2 weeks after a patch has just been released. Enjoy the current game rather than looking for future changes.

TX is ridiculously easy but that's fine, we have grifts.

With so many sets it'd be nice to have more stash space.

Augmenting is fine. I don't think an ilvl system could be implemented to update all stats slightly.

It would be nice if they dropped a bombshell and announced a new expansion to be released somewhere around May-Sep. It will have been 2 years since RoS was released. We don't necessarily need new campaign content, just give us 2 new classes - Druid (agility) and Necromancer (int).

Will the extra life make you clear rifts 4.1% faster? Doubt it.

An argument could be made for certain classes running the CDR gem that the extra CDR lets them clear faster or do higher difficulties more efficiently leading to more XP per hour than running a ruby.

Damn I know this feeling haha. I've blown through ~600 FS in the past day upgrading gear and trying to craft the elusive perfect hellfire neck. I crafted 35 Hellfire necks and had no luck.

I'm running a speed farming T8 HotA build with Sages. It gets about 500 DBs and 55 legs per/hour. Use those DBs to upgrade rare items in hope of upgrades, if not DE them so it works out to 75 FS per/hour.

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Hello Everybody,

This post may be a little long but I hope you will all read it, especially those who may feel the same but couldn't be arsed to make a post about it.

It has been 3 weeks today since Season 5 started and I wanted to make a thread to hopefully convey the general feel me and my friends have gotten from Season 5 and why it has been the least pleasant season so far for my friends and myself.

In terms of the quality of the game, it has never been better, the content and the diversity of viable builds is at an all-time high and I'm very impressed with how the game has evolved.

What has made this season the least pleasant and the reasons I have barely played since the first weekend are all based around the choices Blizzard have made to speed up progression. The primary reason S5 has fizzled into shit for me is, because of Haedrig's Gift and what I want a season to be like contradict each other.

A new season is supposed to be a fresh start, everything from the beginning which is what I love most. Leveling has always been pretty fast, and since the introduction of Adventure Mode, leveling time is almost non-existent. Me and my friends are by no means speedy levelers, we do every bonus bounty in each act once for a few cubing materials for any legendaries we may need for our builds, then Rifts til 70 and that takes us approximately 4-5 hours. Then ZK on T2 is stupidly easy, then with the 4piece of our sets we can easily do GR20 solo.....within one hour of being level 70 MOST people have started doing Torment 6 completely bypassing 5 torment levels. . . .Which is where my problem lies.

The most fun part of a new season is gradually progressing through the torments, replacing gear pieces bit by bit with whatever hash of legendaries you can put together until you get those important set pieces, which in turn enables you to progress to the next difficulty. There was absolutely NONE of that this season, as soon as the 6piece of your set is done and you get a semi-decent ancient weapon you can steam T9 until T10 is enabled. I was doing T9-10 with an ancient FotVP on my Barb in about 2 hours after hitting 70. . .with legendaries raining down on me. Then the boring part starts. ...grinding GRs to level paragons and gems.

I have played this season the least out of any of the seasons, playing no more than the first weekend, yet I progressed further than any other season I have played previously, which to me, implies the progression curve is fucked.

Seasons no longer reward hard work, because nothing is hard, the hardest part about Season 5, is finding the will to actually click "Play" on my launcher...which hasn't happened since the first weekend of S5.

I hope this thread wasn't too much of a mish-mash of thoughts and complaints, I was finding it hard to convey why I won't be returning until Season 6.

TL;DR - Haedrig's Gift is a shit idea and ruined Season 5, and in my opinion, goes entirely against what a season should be about.

To me the end-game is seeing how high you can get in the GR's. Incremental improvements in gear and builds serves to meet that goal.

Try HC as one of the other posters suggested, it's not for me personally but I bet it removes a large percentage of "making the hunt too easy".

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What amazes me is the standpoint that because I can't prove something, means that it doesn't exist. I wish there were a little more room for diplomacy in some of these discussions. That last sentence was not directed at Shaggy - just a general observation of many standpoints from posters about issues they don't believe in.