The ONLY thing that is shared are available character slots, which is account wide (Non-season\Season\Hardcore\Softcore).

Custerian wristguard bracers (grant XP from picking up gold)

Highest leveled Gem of Ease you can manage to get - Insert into weapon

Level several GoE to lower all 13 pieces of gear to lvl1 equipable

Lvl 23 Cains

Lvl 70 Cains (use 2 from each)

Lvl 23 Borns chest and sword

Gold wrap belt lowered to lvl (through the GoE, practically invicible)

Highest available ruby to go into your helm

RoRG in the cube

Goldskin chest in the cube

Puzzle ring (to open the Vault)

Go in with +XP on the gear (if possible), you may get to 70 in 'as little as ' 1 vault. If all gear is lowered to be all usable on lvl 1 char, the stronger you will be so Torment levels are possible when starting out.

Nice guide compilation, great work. Will you be adding the set dungeon guides as you complete them?

- The Act 5 in Paths of the Drowned, Cursed Peat chest is the best for this conquest. It spawns mainly Boggets [sp] and have very low life so can spawn them very quickly.

- UE DH would be your best setup to get the conquest.

- Also, try in group.

I see I am not alone in my 'lack of passion' for the cursed set dungeons. I took WD for S7 as hadn't played that class in over a year. Arachyr's set dungeon ranks as easy as Barb IK and Crusader Invoker (your opinion may differ though). WD no set was also very simple.

I also base the choice on 2 or possibly 3 of the conquests. S8 is a first for me to do all of them (with WD).

S5 I chose Wizard, ended up rolling a Crusader just to do the 45no set challenge and Invoker set dungeon. Just went for the stash and retired back to NS

S6 chose Barb and DH for the 350 kills at chest conquest. This season played out better, stayed right to the end

S7 chose WD based on comments for the set dungeon being easy. Found the whole journey was rather enjoyable, for the first time. In to the end as well.

S8 most likely will go WD just to ensure I get the final stash quickly. Not sure about after gaining the stash, NS chars need a lot of TLC

Each season I also created a HC char, just to play, not anything serious.

This being said, we do not know what (or if) equipment will be updated. Hoping not too much of a surprise.

For the stash, then back to NS.

One thing I do not understand is the seeming obsession with the cosmetic hoarding this season (haven't played NS so not sure what the momentum is over there).

Essentially, they do absolutely nothing however people seem to flock to them like they're the new found BiS item of all time. Sure, it's a new pet or transmog or whatever, add zip zero ziltch for making the game better. I have 4 pets now, why get more? Every single one you have does exactly the same thing (pick up gold). If one type gathers gold, another gathers globes, then of course get them all and use for your situation\needs of the moment. Couldn't care less about the wings or pennants, they are just in the way and distract (ie gold wings from pre order ROS). Portrait frame? Sure, show your level of completion in the season or if you bought OW, completed lvl 70 in old seasons or hit level 20 in HotS.

I think this sends a message to Blizz that crap content patches are awesome and no new real worthwhile additions are required if people will accept crap as the new best thing since sliced bread. I remember when Seasons was about getting new items ahead of NS, this was a great concept.....

Perhaps I am gravely mistaken however it's what I currently perceive.

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literally every of his class guides were totally bullshit for the first couple of weeks in this season since he simply rushed them without actually playing the buildes himself and used completely nonsense of skills, passives and items. for exmaple F/R without any generator.

I already said, that I didn't stand for all the classes. The DH was mainly made by fst, killstepz and partly in cooperation with Philos.

I'm NOT a super-human, so stop think that. NOBODY is Perfect. I mainly stood for 2 classes, which alone is ALREADY A LOT. I stood for the CRUSADER and WIZARD builds, which turned out pretty good and I KEPT updating them the whole season which is why they are still top builds.

Also, REMEMBER the word THEORYCRAFTING. Many of the builds were theorycrafted ready to be tested out. On the paper it looked awesome and short tests as well, but optimization can always be made which takes WEEKS or MONTHS to do.

It's not like you can predict the future 100 % correct either right?

Anyways I stood only for 2 out of the 6 classes.

If you can do a better job this season, then PLEASE do so. Maybe your a super-human.

How about being thankful for something that was made for free for you, if your too good then do NOT use it. Stay away if you got nothing useful to say. Make your own thread named; "I love to flame and troll people, because I'm bored CLUB".

Fool / Trolls like you, is why the online gaming community is so toxic.

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Drahque,
For what it's worth, so many of us appreciate your guides and fully understand that you can only guess-timate like the rest of us not in the know of things at Blizzard. For the most part that I have seen, you are bang on with the skill trees and builds along the way. Sadly, some people do not see or understand the tremendous effort required to do all the background work and effort to write such terrific readable guides for the 99.99% of us that do not theorycraft or go to the extreme with non tested gear combinations. Even the newest player can look at your well thought out and presented guide and have an easier time with the journey to 70 and far beyond.

Literally, I would be lost without efforts of you and the many others that are generous enough to take the time from busy real life to create such elegant and easy to follow guides.

To you and so many others, there are legions of players that look forward to previews of whats to come and your tireless, uncompensated effort to keep us glued to the game.

I'm sure I am not alone to say THANKYOU for your time and effort to keep all of us on the edge of the chair, anxiously awaiting the announcement for end of season and the begin the wait for the start of the next.

Welcome to my Set Dungeons Build Guides and Videos!

This thread has some general tips and tricks to completing all the Set Dungeons, as well as individual builds and example videos of how to complete each Set Dungeon SOLO!. The videos and guides are based on the current live Patch 2.4, rather than the various PTR (Public Test Realm) versions where Blizzard were balancing the Set Dungeons. If you get assistance with the Set Dungeons, the majority of these are much easier to complete, but I can't really give you many tips there as I've done all of these solo.

Barbarian Build Guide Thread

Crusader Build Guide Thread

Demon Hunter Build Guide Thread

Monk Build Guide Thread

Witch Doctor Build Guide Thread

Wizard Build Guide Thread

Some general comments and tips:

• If you're attempting the Season 5 Conquest for Mastering 8 Set Dungeons and are only plan on playing two classes, by far the two best class choices are Demon Hunter and Crusader. Most of their sets don't require much additional gear so farming up the Sets shouldn't take TOO long and their Set Dungeon difficulty isn't too high. If you have party members to help drop you the various required items, it will speed up the gearing process tremendously. If you play more than two classes, you can pick and choose Set Dungeons from the ranking list below.
• The majority of monsters in Set Dungeons spawn in completely random locations throughout the dungeon! In Set Dungeons where you have to hit a certain amount of monsters with a particular skill, you can constantly restart the Set Dungeon by leaving through the Green Portal that you entered without having to use Town Portal (which takes a long time). This tip will allow you to get the majority of your objectives completed at the start of the dungeon, rather than worrying about it towards the end.
• For players who are unable to select certain skills for their slots, you will need to enable 'Elective Mode' by going to the Game Menu (pressing Escape), clicking the Options tab, clicking the Gameplay tab, then under 'Interface' you need to tick the 'Elective Mode' option. This allows you to pick any and all skills (with some special exceptions) for your Left Click, Right Click, and Slots 1-4.
• The Kanai's Cube recipe (Skill of Nilfur) which converts Set Items into a random item of the same Set will be your best friend, so DON'T scrap any spare duplicate pieces of the Set until you have at least 5 or 6 total items of the Set!
• As mentioned above, it's possible to get party members to assist you in Set Dungeons, which will make the majority of these Set Dungeons easier.
• For Hardcore players, please make sure you attempt these Set Dungeons on 'NORMAL DIFFICULTY'. Also ensure that the rough area around the Set Dungeon is clear of monsters before you attempt it, in case you take fatal damage! When you take fatal damage, a Green Portal spawns in front of you which takes you back to the entrance of the Set Dungeon but DOES NOT HEAL YOU. Therefore a monster can easily take a swipe and kill you. This also means you should avoid using the Moratorium Legendary gem (thanks to user 'Cyberdoc' for bringing this up) at all costs if you play Hardcore, because the gem can 'stagger' and deal damage to you even after you exit the Set Dungeon and kill your character because normal Hardcore death rules apply once you've re-entered the normal world via the Green Portal. An easy fix for Blizzard would be to simply spawn characters at full health when they exit the Set Dungeon, but this is currently not the case.

Below is the overall difficulty of each Set Dungeon - Easiest to Hardest based on my own experiences roughly (your own attempts may vary!). I've started with Easiest so it's clear for anyone wanting to get the Conquest to Master 8 Set Dungeons. Note that the rankings below are just a general idea, it will greatly depend on how comfortable you are with the class and set, as well as supporting gear and RNG in the Set Dungeons.

Difficulty Solo (Easiest to Hardest)

1. Invoker - Crusader
2. Natalyas - Demon Hunter
3. Immortal King - Barbarian
4. Shadow - Demon Hunter
5. Zunimassa - Witch Doctor
6. Innas - Monk
7. Arachyr - Witch Doctor
8. Sunwuko - Monk
9. Earth - Barbarian
10. Light - Crusader
11. Helltooth - Witch Doctor
12. Tal Rasha - Wizard
13. Marauder - Demon Hunter
14. Akkhans - Crusader
15. Vyrs - Wizard
16. Rolands - Crusader
17. Unhallowed Essence - Demon Hunter
18. Ulianas - Monk
19. Raekor - Barbarian
20. Raiment - Monk
21. Delseres - Wizard
22. Firebird - Wizard
23. Jade Harvester - Witch Doctor
24. Wastes - Barbarian

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Sorry I rarely check diablofans anymore, Season 6 kind of killed my enjoyment of the game with the Firebug issues and all.

Anyhow, I just checked all the links in Chrome and Firefox and they appear to work for me, could you post specifically what Guide you're trying to look at and what browser you are using? That way I can refer it to a mod if it's something I can't fix by editing, thanks!

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..’s server DNS address could not be found.

However, I just checked on safari, and it works fine there! This is my go to guide, and I have been slowly working my way through each of the classes :-)

I am sure that I am not the only one to have benefitted from your huge effort, so thank you again on behalf of all!

Sorry I rarely check diablofans anymore, Season 6 kind of killed my enjoyment of the game with the Firebug issues and all.

Anyhow, I just checked all the links in Chrome and Firefox and they appear to work for me, could you post specifically what Guide you're trying to look at and what browser you are using? That way I can refer it to a mod if it's something I can't fix by editing, thanks!

Accessible chests yes.

In coop, if I am in front, yes.

In coop, if I am behind, no.

I play Hardcore so I'll pass.

• Fix the goddamn lag, pretty please with cherry on top.
• Make a legendary gem extraction to the cube possible, we lose so much time swapping these arround. Once these would be in cube, we could upgrade them as they are normal ones, in stash. L gems should drop from guardian only if you finished grift on time. After you get all L gems to cube, you should continue to get random L gems as reward from grifts. To minimize search time for upgrades Urshi could have 2 separate pages, one for cube and one for stash/inventory/equipped gems.
• Make hellfire amulet passives extractable. If this is too op, make it share the slot with jewelry, so we can pick between 6th passive or some or actual rings/amulets we already use.
• Make legendary potions extractable. I can't be the only one who melted his potion by mistake few times, lol. To be fair on these, you can make requirement to find multiple potions of same type to get the opportunity to extract them, just to be sure ppl do not benefit from maximum rolls on potions for no sweat at all.
• Make flawless royal gems slightly better. I mean, OCD in me is screaming every time I see that +280 to stats / +78 to AR / + 23% to life... Please, round up these, give us straight + 300 on stats, +80 or +75 to AR, and +25% or +20% to life. This is way too depressing for us with low calculus skill and great OCDs...
• Make L gem upgrade chance better or at least true. I mean, when 80% upgrade chance fails 3x in a row, its nothing but rage time for players. I would like that 80% is actual 80%, 60% = 60% and not 2%, and so on.
• Give us gem upgrade chance +1% for every minute left on the clock. Make speed grifting more rewarding.
• If grift was not done on time, give us 1% chance to upgrade gems. Or just 1 gem upgrade @ normal upgrade chances. Maybe this will keep some ppl going, instead of leaving when the group is 30 sec behind the clock.
• Make player dots on minimap different colour, so we know who is where just by looking on minimap, if group gets separated at some point. Maybe dots could be different by style for each class or something. If this is too much to ask, give us option to see player names near their dots all the time, if we chose so.
• Give us option to melt white transmogs, our towns are buried in star helmets and amberwings. Add prompt button if needed.
• Give us some more rewards for getting all the way to guardian titles in seasons. idk, maybe an unique dye or something like that.

If you'd like me to release a Word version of the Kanai's Cube Checklist that you can fill in electronically (in Word), you can indicate that by voting up this post.

All these shiny wings and pets. Why people even care? They don't do anything except require more processing power-> MORE LAG. They don't gather gold or boost your character.
I''ve been playing since 2014 and have like 1 wings from purchasing collector's edition of ROS. Still i dropped all these on the ground.
You have nothing more to do guys? Seriously...?
And people spend countless hours farming these stupid goblin rifts and crap. Holy rngesus. And all that for a stupid pet that does NOTHING.

Am i the only one that do not care about cosmetics?

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