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I always found TX in 2 minutes pretty hard to solo - casual player, low para, etc etc.

Anyway with just another friend with me we did it very easily - most of the time in solo is lost due to the port to town -> click to the spirit thing. In two you just melt stuff and as soon the guardian pops, the one who's far from it ports and closes while the other guy kills the guardian.

Really, it doesn't take much more than this.

While i can see the points of pure solo players about a lot of things, i don't think that spending a little time with another player who's wanting to do the same conquest will ruin your game experience at a so fundamental level.

As a mostly solo player, i'm happy that the XP disparity is being dealt and every season the difference is smaller.

i agree with the Conquests being kinda dull. Tbh, i wouldn't be "pushing" GR if it wasn't for them.

Strangely enough i like the 3 gems to 65, but not solo GR75 - maybe becuse i like running GR for a purpose but after that i lose every interest and leveling gems looks funnier than simply climbing the GR levels.

I'm "speedfarming" 65 right now just because i have like 90 keys to burn and i wanted to clean my inventory befor eseason ends (shard everything but sets and complementary gear, etc).

I would like more conquests like the Thrill and clear GR with different sets. Imho they push you towards item hunting, which is more fun to me.

EDIT: i liked also the "cube 100 things" and i'd really like to see stuff like "find all crusader shields/1hand xbows".

EDIT2: stuff like "kill all RG with X and Y items equipped"

Ok, new conquests looks kinda good - three gems at 65 and 75 solo will likely be something people will do in any case.

Boss mode looks really easy if you run in 2+ - i think that with current gear in s5 i can do it also in solo, while it's likley i won't have much time to spare. Anyway, soething easy to do since multiple people will be looking to do it; it's all about if you get credit for the boss kill if you're not there partecipating to the fight.

Curses!/Stars Align....well the act 5 boggarts and act 1 spiders chests are the two best candidates imho. With my HC barb i remeber reaching 300+ mobs on both but still 350+ will be hard. Even in the video they managed to reach 320, which is still 30 monsters short. I don't think it will be easy.

About classes, i wanted to run a WD for S6. I should be able to do everything i need fto complete the season (especially if this time GR 75 solo isn't actually needed as third conquest).

Rapid fire doesn't work with Sentries.

The only real solution is to have the impact of paragon greatly readuced - something that Caldesann already took care of partially and in a decent way.

But the, if Paragon are useless on progression terms (more power), why people should bother doing them?

Atm bots are becoming more a conveninece thing than anything related to progression. yes, they can farm you a lot of keys while you sleep so your playtime will be optimized into GR pushing/farming, but that's it.

Leaderboards are not that affected by paragons, and the race is really between a vey small bunch of players while majorty simply don't care about them - they journey is plenty of rewards for people who casually play the game and gives a lot of satisfaction through clear objectives and cosmetic rewards.

I don't think this thread is going places. Closing.

I like the idea. However bots will still be extremely useful for farming mats/keys (which is the main goal after reaching a certain paragon treshold) but it's something - whch is something much harder to solve.

The idea of capping paragon for leaderboards is nice, since it gives an easily reachable common ground for everyone wanting to compete - though another issue arises: if we assume all people get the same gear and power (as cookie cutter builds won't cease to exist and most people just go copy/paste no them) then the leaderboards become even more a matter of RNG and fishing for the right rift, since the only upgrade would be the one from legendary gems.

I agree that a baseline soft cap for leaderboards should be added - but i would intevene more on the flavour the paragon system gives getting away from boring stats like chc/chd/cdr and working on nice bonuses like "fire skills have a % chance to set enemies on fire" and creating a perk-like structure (somehting similar to d2 skill trees).

Making them work liek the cosmetic pets for items is a no-no imho. Basically they would become a bot that loots stuff for you so you can run faster - imho it's a bad idea because speedfarming trades speed for loots and i think it's a good choice to have.

For the rest, it's quite spot on. Atm there are these main issues:

- a non-immortal follower is a useless follower. Once you reach high levels (but even T10 to some degree) the follower will just charge/die continuosly not providing any actual benefit to our character and making it not worth to have. Add to this that the follower is more needed the more you climb GR levels and that it dies even faster, you get the idea.

- tied to point above, all follower relics are useless if it's not the one providing immortality. This sucks because there's a lot of interesting synergies and potential ideas that would just get scrapped/ignored.

- the paladin problem: paladin is the only one bringing heals to the table (and kinda effective ones) thus is the most chosen if not the only one worth to have in high GR. Enchantress has some uses, while Scoundrel seems to me left in the dust.

As you said, giving immortality baseline (or better baseline on legendary relics adding another effect) and giving to each one an healing skill would make them much balanced and viable.

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Or you can save them for the conquests since wo of them are about sets (GR55 with 6 different sets and master 8 set dungeons).

But it's up to you if you want to do them or not.

Mainly because i love ARPGs, played D1 and D2 for years, and i like to have a game to play for a long time at my pace without being on a schedule.

Unless Blizzard changes stuff and makes the Season journey to be not doable in solo, i'm happy with the game. Plus more time passes more things get added.

Strange not to see an apocalypse/natalya build in the speedfarm section but i assume it gets on par at max with the fast farming UE build.

Nice compilation of builds.

@psyborg: basically yes. Worth noting that Shadow set makes DH one of the mandatory DPS in best group comps, as the highest single target dps.

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What long term goal are you referring to? D2 never had one, it never needed one.

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TY sire. Actually they could make some combo with gems with add effects. Like: 3 sock armor, bane+stricken+pain= added slow or resist slow + xx% dot to ur attack and +xx% to dmg. This can be added as they add more unique gems.

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There is nothing much good in the game in runewords for them to be useful, no hit recovery or cast rate dmg goes to mana and all those peculiar and incredible things that made diablo 2 cool. For RW to be introduced in this game, the game it self needs come changes. Not to mention the dmg is weapon based.