It's what I suppose every week. Challenge Rifts are a reward for players that come up with the most stupid build you can come up with.
Or a reward for handicapped players to introduce "their" builds.
Sounds cruel, but it's just the way it is. Blizzard should at least communicate it that way 
please dont start arguing about the missing gem in the pants. there are so many things wrong with this build that the missing gem in the pants really can be neclected. it's just a stat stick tbh.
this has to be the worst CR i've ever played. period.
It's not even a build. I mean really at this point we could just randomely get a build generated. get 6 skills with 1 out of the 5 runes randomely. random available gear slots for each piece, and so on...
Sure the most stupid thing about this CR is that you cant survive. And thats in GR50....
Basically it's a disintegrate LoN build, where you need to hit in melee with spectral blade to refresh your ressource (insta dying). the addition of meteor is a complete wasted slot since the meteors from etched sigil fall down when mobs are dead.
trapped as a gem choice, with no slow in this build (occasional thunderfury proc maybe) and you need to hit mobs in range if you wanna clear the rift. I could continue noting the negatives and still struggling to find any decent synergies, but I guess CRs are just not worth even looking at anymore.
Each and every week I think the build gets chosen by a team that tries to find the most stupid build to let everyone "enjoy" such freaking setups that are based around stupid ideas with non existant synergies...
you shouldve featured a FB instead of a Tal Rasha build here. It's much more popular if you look on the leaderboards and the reason for that is because it's ~2-3 GR level stronger due to the fact that you can fit in the Endless Walk set.
The Tal Rasha Meteor builds however are more user friendly due to the fact that you don't need to hunt elites and have stable dmg output and defense for that reason.
yep, this was also useless to me.
With currently the leaderboards being down I had absolute no incentive to go for some NS demon hunting.
I start the season on day 1 when this goblin buff is obsolete again.
I know why they didn't do that, but we needed that event simultaneously with the patch to make any sense and not 2-3 weeks afterwards...
yeah i also only do them for the mats, but the EU monk uliana one is fun. actually the first CR i enjoyed. def overkill for GR45 and stricken(!???), but I'm used to run CRs that have bad builds it lasted only 3min+ though.
but maybe it helped me decide which class to pick next season ... 
enough qq with no sense everywhere about shrouded moors in greater rifts. the map is very good!!! in greater rifts, it's rifts where it sucks. the biggest fail in rifts....now they remove it for greater rifts. It's so much facepalm I can hardly believe it...
all those PTR item strings are "rings" as placeholders for any item really.
wonder why you picked that particular one, when there is literally every item currently available marked as a "ring".
The one you linked is like you said the Wand of Woh
Armor of Akkhan not have 50% dmg reduction, so buff for Condemn and Heaven's Fury are useless, same with barb Might of the Earth is like around gr 75 you get 1 shot form everthing. Im done some on my crus tests when Bracer of Fury debuted, and dmg was ok but toughness rly problem even with unity.
if you're getting one shotted on your EQ barb in GR75 you really doing something wrong. no offense, if you use that really strong 4 piece mitigation tool of the EQ set and cube band of might you sit around 300m toughness even before paragon 800 with non ancient gear.
300m toughness and those constant APD procs are just like a piece of cake to survive if you compae it with other classes / sets.
At least for the Barb your statement is not true. With those changes I'm thinking about pushing my EQ barb from 94 to around 105++ and that without getting any survivability buffs.
the OoID Buff is crazy for the Wiz, from 60% to 80% dmg mitigation. So twice as strong as it already was before. Seems OP.
It's the strongest dmg mitigation tool out of any class if it makes it live like that (even better than 4 Piece Roland). And on top of being the best dmg mitigation tool in the whole game it also has a buffed dmg increase component.
This and a good dmg mitigation set (like DMO) could even make the halo+apd combo obsolete.
But whatever all those numbers are just PTR numbers, even though I know Blizzard won't get the numbers right even when it hits live
Since the weapon is part of a set that won't uses an offhand, 10% dmg > 7%ias when you won't benefit anything from any procs.
So when comparing 7ias to 1k int you need like what? almost 2k paragon and all gear augmented with 100s to get more value out of 7ias.
In the end it's always better to roll off mainstat on weapon but most of the time the benefit of rolling mainstat off is very tiny and I have seen people below 1k paragon doing that. Even tho it's the perfect weapon in the end it might be better to not roll it at all before season ends
I won't play a MOBA I dislike just for getting a cosmetic reward. But wishing every other player GL HF and if you just rush it, fast runs.
100% agree with you Saucey.
Diablo 3 is a very easy game. It appeals to alot of players that can't properly play video games.
Trust me, I don't want to be rude but I got several friends (I like them but they can't play) that can't handle 75-80 solo and, when I look at their gear/paragon/whatever they could hand me their character and I finish almost 90 w/o fishing.
The fact is depending how much determination someone is willing to invest into the game the GR70 requirement locks some of those players out.
I think that's a really bad thing.
But tbh, someone shouldn't even argue since if Primals will go live as they intended now they are not really a new tier of items. Someone can as well forget about those.
As of right now they are like nothing else than usual Ancients...
Boring change. In fact it's not even really a change to ancients. It's like almost the same as before.
Why not keep primals as they were first introduced? It was not perfect but at least something new.
Now it's just like no change at all.
I hope they re-consider this. But after all there were just too many whiners. So we end up with the complete same items again.
It would've at least added some sort of item hunt. Now it's just so dull... they could as well delete Primals completely.
I've read some really interesting changes that they couldve make to Primals (e.g. not craftable, higher stat values like crit, cdr & ats, 2 re-rolls at the mystic). But they are all gone, now we're (hopfully not) ended with no change at all...
Now this is what I get from the patch.
Randomly getting kicked out of the game, screen freezing, map/interface disappearing, many performance issues overall
Rifts got: endless dead ends (which were at least filled with mobs before), very weird elite distribution (they changed something here), big areas with no mobs at all - I admire the bigger mappool in grifts, but seriously that's a downgrade...wasn't this supposed to improve?
Reflects dmg on elites is instant skip for me. The dmg is completely out of control in my opinion.
In melee range you can't see when it's activating and you just getting mauled instantly.
I'm usually not that kind of a guy, but yeah those are the obvious changes for me in that patch.
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I could also read that you are passionate about it. that is what it's all about. do what you want and don't care if it's needed or whatever. It's what actually brings the most joy in life.
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out of your list "no set items dropping" is BY FAR the most interesting, the rest is pretty much almost the same. Double goblins, is like a 10-20% faster progress early season, but overall has no real impact on the game.
We shouldnt get all too excited about themed seasons. But at least it's something. I expect xp buff and double blood shards as themes going forward. So nothing to get crazy about
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a new portrait frame is the bare minimum we will get
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for a primal kinda bad rolls since it's the worst you can get (100 chd and socket are fixed for primal travelers pledge)
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I switched back from Crusader to my beloved Wizard because of the issue of Speed runs (T13 and low GRs)
Condemn, just is not as fast as Wiz or Monk. However you slice it you need some kind of Teleport for mobility to keep up.
I tried everything making my Crus at least as fast as possible (which also was a demise cus I had more trouble picking up items with too much speed),
with instant casts (Unleashed, ...it's beyond me how some Crusaders run Vacuum in speeds, can't even comfortable use Steed Charge this way without waiting an eternity for the next Condemn cast....)
and not dependant on Focus Restraint (no Generator Skill every 5 Sec which makes every build kinda uncomfortable for me too, it's time not moving, not picking up nor killing monsters...).
So from a really optimized point of view Crusader is weak for speeds.
Just saying, overall every average player can be fast with every class and enjoy it. For me, I can't go back cus I feel that it lacks a bit.
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there is a reason that many games nowadays have a "colorblind" mode. I also can distinguish ancients pretty easy but primal I need a second look. At this point I'm farming and therefor salvaging too fast to NOT salvage primals by mistake every now and then.
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I also finished it today in 6:30ish. But to be fair I tried it alot. It's a really difficult challenge.
Also it should be obvious that first you need to get used to the build, which 1) is not everyones taste and 2) is pretty difficult to get into. At least when you wanna be efficient, which you need to be in this CR.
Compared to wudijos original run I think it's better to grab the shield and immediately go the lower pathway in the battlefields. There are 4 elites pretty close with alot of density as well. It's really one big chunk of progress you can make during this period, especially with shield (since I think it's very difficult to survive the battlefields mobtype without it)
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i like it, i didnt yet manage to finish it, but what I think is really frustrating, that if you manage to get use to the build and pylon locations and all that stuff, you still need crit luck on boss to finish it in time. i think this is kind of ridiculous.
wudijo is a complete dh nerd, but I give him that that really he did that one on the first try, which is kinda beyond me right now
one thing is for sure, it's actually the first time I will clear this CR for the sake of the challenge and NOT for the mats, cus obviously it's easier to do bounties in that regard...
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that's why "like Emmo said"... he should check his overall gear. I highly expect no matter which class and build that at least there are some additive dmg bonuses already available equal to 40% (so same existing value like like fire neck + bracer), hence suggesting Magefist
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Like Emmo said,
one thing to note as well, is that the Strongarm effect wont apply to mobs that cant be knocked back like Rift guardians and alot of big monster types. Also crowd control immunities can affect the uptime on Strongarms.
If your question was regarding Solo play I would say Magefist would provide the better overall value.
The Strongarm effect however is prefered to use in group, since it will buff the dmg of all party members done to those mobs.
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since you should NOT build your leap rotations about earthquakes but mainly to keep your defensive set bonus up, the main advice here is to change hellfire/focus/restraint to the endless walk set + convention of elements.
I wonder why you use lut socks in cube. Get some useful item there. Cindercoat comes to mind if you're using Fire Seismic Slam.
Regarding your question if AS or AD, I would overall say it depends...CDR can be a good stat if you're using CoE, maximizing Wrath of the Berserker with your prefered CoE element up together with WotB most of the time. Or even RcR.
You also should consider going Bloodshed on Battle Rage. If you die too much that way, you can go Endless Walk + Unity instead.
GL
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well yes, the only excuse I can understand if you're looking for those very awkward wings. I would gladly accept this interruption though if it would be the only one.
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My rule for bounies is. dont pick up anything (almost no legs, for sure no dbs) don't do any bonus stuff (vaults, rainbows, bandits), dont open bounty reward chests. it's very frustrating that people - even at pretty high level - really still think that is of any benefit.
if everyone would just farm bounties like that we would all be in a normal Nephalem rifts again much faster and can farm all that stuff I mentioned much faster which you thought you missed out in not doing/pickin up/whatever in the bounty run.
And yes in an average pub bounty game I clear almost 3 entire acts myself. People are inefficient and claim you're a bot if you're efficient. It would be funny if it wasnt so sad
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The game just is kinda dead. People are not playing anymore or ...yeah botting.
I'm still ranked 2 solo Wiz in EU and that is basically since season start and without really trying too hard...
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