Now that I have hit 100 on the Barbarian.
The Good:
Blood Harvest is by far the best way to level
all around. You get tons and I mean TONS of legendary drops right off the bat. Even if you can't use em, just pull the aspects off em for later. Tons of exp. Tree of whispers to at least half full if not more.
Completing the whisper events in the zone gets you MILLIONS of gold. So much so that I am perfectly fine with re-rolls on gear in the millions.
At this point I have every possible unique minus ubers for my Barbarian multiple times over. So many that I needed to start salvaging them at the blacksmith. Pic below of what I needed to salvage yesterday.
I didn't know they re-worked the uniques. My god, they are actually usable! Like game/build changing usable. Every single one. I'm even considering using The Butchers Cleaver.
Most of my drops are IP 900+ now. Not sure when that changed.
The vampiric powers are PERFECT for how I play. Well I guess anyone plays. My build is so stupidly unkillable and as long as I can get a boss to hit me consistently, the damage is nutzo. Trash is trivial.
Bank space does become a problem later. Too much viable loot that you MIGHT use for a new build later that you want to save.
Gold at this point is trivial. A couple times while leveling, I have had well over 200 million.
My thorns build. I literally stand there and everything dies up to NM 90. After that I have to go into "The floor is lava" mode.
Helltides and Blood Harvests are a joke. I show up. It dies instantly. Even OFF SCREEN.
Every boss is a joke. Even Duriel who is supposed to be the toughest in game. I can't wait for him to eat me and take some thorns in his belly.
The leveling speed after 80ish? slows down a bit. But that is in relation to how fast you were leveling previously. It's still fast. There were several 100's day two of release that I saw. Myself, I was like 40 playing totally casual in a day. Don't forget to use your ashes.
The Bad:
99% of the loot is still useless. I only loot whatever piece of gear I am trying to upgrade and legendry's. Even that fuckin sucks because they made it rain legendry's.
The World Boss was buffed, and it showed. For like 3 days. Now I am lucky to get a couple shouts in before they die.
I have not grouped once.
You have to do the strongholds all over for some of the tele pads and legion events. Just annoying really.
Still have to fuckin reset paragon board manually. At least it's cheap to reset now though.
Finally:
Overall I must admit, the game is waaaaaaay more fun now. You feel OP as fuck around level 70. There is always something going on that you can complete. They need to figure out power levels to make it fun but challenging. Get the damn loot filter in already, and a quick erase of the paragon board.
7/10 for season 2.
Pic of yesterdays uniques that had to go....
. You were one of the ones stomping their feet and throwing a tantrum qhen everyone was enjoying it and now that they're improving it you're back losing your shit again.
