Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

They didn't say they're balancing it for T10. If they did want that, they'd just nerf it way more. They said they want it to be competitive with sets, just not outright better, and that if they succeed in doing that, you'll also be able to make large variety of T10 viable builds on it since it offers a lot more freedom than sets.

And 100% is actually not far off, when considering full ancients. Most sets provide 800 to 1500% damage, then some side stuff like utility or making some non viable skills into spammable skills(like natalya with RoV) and then some damage reduction. They're then supported by a couple of key legendaries that reinforce the build's strength. At 100%, you're within the acceptable damage boost(1200-1300% with full ancients), and the additional legendary affixes are supposed to let you balance out F+R or whatever other legendaries you have. Stuff like Cindercoat, Tasker and Theo, Depth Diggers and such are extremely potent legendaries that don't see a lot of use in normal builds due to the requirement of having 6pc, quite often without RoRG(so you can F+R and cube unity or CoE, or do an obisidian+unity+CoE combo and so on).

I think maybe they'll need to boost the damage a bit more due to F+R balancing, but they shouldn't be that far off I'd say. If the build can clear 75 as you said, then it's good enough, it doesn't need to do really much more. That's way above T10, that's basically when farming T10 is viable actually, since it means you'll mow down T10 just as fast as any other difficulty.

Should be soloable with monk with In Geom, but it takes a ton of fishing. Doing it in a group also requires fishing, just less so.

Arcaus_sl said:

Instead of doing T10 in under 3 minutes, do the bosses. Get a chicken build doctor to do the long runs, have everyone else do the short ones. Note you need to be in the boss fight to get credit for the achieve.

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You need T10 in 3mins for the last step, it's not a conquest. The conquest is T10 is 2mins, and it's a pointless one since there's many conquests. They're different things(and obviously the actual objective being 3mins instead of 2 is a ton easier, but still annoying).

Clearing the campaign is mostly gonna be a team thing. You need people spreading out to find next place and shit and use teleports around. I don't think it's doable solo, back during first season I did a lot of story farming with my DH and Danetta's set(which is among the highest sustained speed in the game) and I don't think it was anything close. Unless they mean each act under an hour, but everything under an hour seems pretty crazy. If it's each act though it's pretty easy, just need a bunch of speed, most classes can do it.

GR45 with no set is easy, even if they remove the 2piece sets. Mostly it's stacking a bunch of legendaries and using certain builds with lots of elemental stuff, but with all the new powerful legendaries, it should be no problem, especially with the new main stat scaling mechanic with legendary gems.

Master 8dungeons is also super easy, though it requires leveling an alt and playing it for a while to get full sets.

Clear GR55 with 6 sets is similar, you need 2 classes, but if you can do one you can do the other pretty much. It's easy to do GR55 with 6pc sets and other basic stuff.

Finally gold one is easy if you just use the greed legendary gem, especially with pets picking up gold. You just need to rift with it for a while and you'll get it on T10 on large maps especially with a gold goblin. That or a bandit shrine with several gold goblins, or a goblin pack rift.

So you have 3 conquests that can be done without alts, but one of them looks ridiculously annoying unless you do a full group with smart people(story in under an hour), however if you do bother leveling an alt and playing it for a while, you'd easily do the alt based conquests.

With 2 more stash slots, I think it'd be viable to play 2 classes, or more.

Arcaus_sl said:

How difficult is "Master a Set Dungeon"? Does your set need to be rolled well? Set Dungeons are solo right so you can't gimp people through?

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Set dungeons are scaled like shit and basically if you can enter, you can do them. Some require you to do stupid shit like group up mobs before you blow them up or just stand there and get yourself killed(with firebird) and so on. You can kinda read the conquest as "Gather 8 full class sets". Doing GR55 is actually harder than that, but not that much I'd say. With like 400-500paragon and some legendary gem main stat buffing on some ancients and a bit of fishing you could fairly easily do that too with all the power creep. Hell it's not even solo, so you could just equip your set and join a friend who carries you in a 2minutes GR55 clear if he's geared for ~80, rotate 6sets and done.

Moonarchia_sl said:

I don't see myself finishing the season journey in S4. Just too much fishing and slogging to it. Hopefully S5 is more fun in that regard.

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I don't think it had a lot of fishing or was really that long. Maybe it's a class thing but I played WD and the only fishing I had to do was for T10 in under 3minutes which I did solo, took me about 2hours of resetting games to find the right one, could have gotten it faster with a group but meh. Everything else was fairly straightforward. I mean you do need to grind like 60-80hours to get the gear to do GR60 but that's kinda expected.