Season 7 templates, team settings, etc.

[Cmoidudu]

I'm creating this new thread so that we don't post anymore in the season 6 thread. Season 7 will begin on August 5, 2016, 5:00 PM local time. It's very unlikely that I'll participate in season 7 from the beginning, but rather from mid-August or so.

At the moment, Witch Doctors seem to have the upper hand on the solo PTR board, however this is probably due to a bug, which is going to be fixed. Other than that, I was thinkng of a team made of 3x DH and 1x WD, but since we are far from having a clean release of patch 2.4.2, this is pretty much irrelevant.

Have a nice holidays, for those who are enjoying them :)

[Shodokan]

I'll either be playing 4x WD or 2x wd + two supports.

If I were to play DH I'd probably go for the hybrid shadow build that gets over a billion toughness to do much higher end rifts.

I'm excited for this patch mostly because of the double key guarantee from TX as that means you can get upwards to 50 keys an hour and the reduced gold required to empower rifts is great.

[ciscokid454]

I am probably going to quadbox either wd with different runes per character or wizards, woh-rasha build plus firebird archon plus tal archon. Should be pretty high greater rift farming and enjoyable.

[Cmoidudu]

For season i'll most certainly quad a single class too. Probably DH or WD, not sure.

For non-season, here is a nice video of 2x WD with 1x Barb and 1x Monk. Of course this will depend on if WDs still do this insame amount of damage when 2.4.2 final is released.

Also dudes are not too high as for Paragon levels, except for a 3100+ guy.

For some reason they seem to be speaking backwards in the video :confused:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGAekA7lb0

Oh I found out why they seem to be talking backwards. Dudes are probably from Sweden :D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDNjDnKxAfA

[Shodokan]

Apparently 3 support + wizard is still going to be the meta.

http://ptr.d3planner.com/604631486

5 trillion damage hits per meteor with no stricken stacks on bosses and ~500 billion DPS from other sources.

[Cmoidudu]

Hum Arcane Power is probably going to be an issue, even with fast-regeneration (belt etc.)... But we'll see.

[Shodokan]

Hum Arcane Power is probably going to be an issue, even with fast-regeneration (belt etc.)... But we'll see.

At 3-5 aps you get about 22 arcane power per attack if it only hits a single target. ~1.5 seconds per meteor which will in a group setting deal 10 trillion or so per meteor and 500billion from other sources per second.

The only problem with the build is it lacks area damage in exchange for attack speed.

[NetQvist]

Well WDs with garg were still the goto for 2.4.2 release but hotfixed to nothningness just before the season start....

[Samefudge]

Yeah, I was going to go 4xWD to start based on the set rewards instead of my usual 4xDH, but now... with DH getting UE out of the gate, I may stay DH, again, and farm up other class sets with DH... again.

[NetQvist]

Decided to run 4x WDs anyways since I needed a change of class, switched 2 of them to some gimp monk and barb support. So far I've done 77 or was it 78, somewhere around rank 800-900 4vs4 at the time but the leaderboards are moving so insanely fast at the moment.

EDIT: Did a 81 in a decent rift now, could probably go one or two higher with decent rifts but I think I need to get some upgrades before doing that, At least it was a top 700 rank.

EDIT2: Up to 84 and then got my ass handed to me in 85, still doable but a bit too luck based right now...

EDIT3: Grinding continues, got a very good rift at GR 88. End result is 10:48 and rank 575 at the time. Ranking with a multibox party in 4man by yourself is pretty hard... I've had rank 1s in solo and 3, 4 man before early season without boxing and that felt easier than this. http://imgur.com/a/vvE83

[Cmoidudu]

So, 4x WD seems the way to go in order to get my last stash tab. I'll login later today and see what I can do... but I'll only have 4-5 days free so it's going to be intensive playing. My girlfriend is going to hate me :(

[NetQvist]

Already 72 hours on my chars just this season, been going ham at it. The 4 min T13 rift is going to require some serious gearing with WDs if you're going for helltooth at least it seems but you'll get the stash before that of course.

[Devile]

Just some useful info you may need:

Avarice Conquest with bounty caches (get mats + do a conquest)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/4xnwpo/guide_to_avarice_conquest_with_caches_t6t11/

S7 Journey
https://d3resource.com/journey/

T1-T13 info
https://d3resource.com/difficulties/

[Cmoidudu]

I went 4 x WD too for a change, even though I said I would go all DH to start. It's been fun, but due to somewhat limited playtime in the last week I am having trouble finishing the stash tab. How did you all do it using 4x WD?
I'm out of the game until august 25, I'm "only" Paragon 440, and i'm using 4x this template :

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/cmoidudu-2696/hero/81972852

Among noticeable things, I'm using a two-handed weapon because as of now I haven't found better ancient weapons. Also I'm using Aquila Cuirass in the cube... Since I'm not using Piranhas, I'm not using Mana... and with both the bonuses of Aquila Cuirass, the perma armor augment from Horrify + Frightening Aspect, and a defensive gem, things are a lot easier.

I'll switch to Tasker and Theo's as soon as I have 4 of those.

[Samefudge]

I've got all that, I'll give it a whirl later, thanks!

[Cmoidudu]

So I'm done with season 7, I know it's been a while but I was pretty busy IRL. I played 4x Heltooth Gargs up to Paragon 670+, tried other specs in the process but didn't like them and/or they weren't as powerful as Gargs.

The longest achievement to get was T XIII Rift in under 5 minutes, because there are so many maps where you just can't complete it, so you have to login, open a Rift, and then log out 8 times out of 10 just because it's a bad map.

As for the conquests, I went for 3x65 gems, and "The Thrill", which is so easy with a Garg spec. I even did it with that character whom I forgot to change cube items, so he ran the Rift (in like 7 minutes) with a Ring of Royal Grandeur and no set item :D

Also I didn't broadcast a lot lately because of the august temperatures, and with 4x Diablo games + mini-maps + all the brodcasting stuff, my PC was over-heating and I had some client crashes every now and then.

[Devile]

I finished the whole season (Guardian) this weekend on my main and Conqueror like 2 weeks ago with my other 3 chars. Managed to do GR80 below para 800 with the S2M2 FoK build (0 augments) and non optimal gear. Very different playstyle and pretty fun IMHO. I'm sure I can multibox it to 80+ on nonseason (got to GR75 on S7) but it kinda requires fishing on the higher end cause you rely so much on elite packs and some maps just dont have enough of them.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Devile-1430/hero/59294275

Much more than I thought I could do with "crap" gear and low para. Didn't wanna waste 50+ gems on it, but with augments and higher paragon, this spec can do 90+ and multiboxing it is extremely easy cause you dont attack much.

[Cmoidudu]

Ah, right, I forgot to link my template. Here it is :

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/cmoidudu-2696/hero/81972852

It could have been better with ancient Sacred Harvesters, but I only found one (out of 4 characters). It's ok, any ancient ceremonial knife does the trick. As for mojos I picked Things of the Deep which make me sort of auto-pick any healing sphere around, but there are plenty of options with mojos.

Now maybe I'll try and see if I can run some sort of "Meta-Team" on non-season, but with the huge 2.4.2 "group buff" nerf, it's not very interesting to invest time to build a team that will maybe reach GR80, when you were running higher rifts pre-patch.

[Ellay]

I love the monks, been playing this season lightly. They seem sort of strong? but overall its hard to keep them together and feel like your not able to output dps like a single main could be doing.
Got the DH's the free set but did not like the UE build - was a bit too boring.
Looking at going with the WD's for the fun and relaxing nature while still feeling involved in the game.
Such limited time these days but D3 allows for 2 minutes of gaming or 60.

[Morganti]

I had a Crusader and added 3 Wizards when I started boxing D3 just this season. I backed off to 4 WD's to figure out wtf I was doing, but now back to gearing/playing the sader/3wiz team. Enjoying boxing a game again, but looting/time spent in town melting/outfitting seems to take...well...4x longer now ;)