Season 2 - what are you playing?

[Kicksome]

I'm trying to figure out what to play for season 2 - which starts on Feb 13th, 2015.

Devile mentioned he was going to do 4x monks.

I'd normally do crusaders, but the unique seasonal item they get is some belt that looks pretty crappy.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm thinking monks also, the s2 monk bracers seem like they might be crazy good.

http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Gungdo_Gear

Exploding palm on death explosion applies exploding palm.

[Devile]

DHs get a bow which IMO is not good so I rather farm non season. Wizards and WDs kinda suck right now until they get a fix which won't happen until S3, unless Blizzard wants to screw this season too by adding an important patch mid-season. Barbs have a single build and suck for multibox cause all the dsync, not to mention single target blows. Crusaders are pretty good and fun to multibox but there's no incentive to play S2. The new belt seems lackluster unless they changed something since PTR which is unlikely.

That leaves us with monks. Gungdo Gear is prolly the only interesting item from S2. There's a lot of hype about that single item and a lot of ppl will play monk just cause of it. That doesn't sound good and feels like Blizzard will eventually nerf it. Yet, there aren't any more options IMO.

U can always play whatever just for the fun of starting over, but I'm not too excited about it.

[Meeo]

im Going monkx2 right now, still debating to go x4 for friday. having a hard time figuring out to make the jump from dual box to quad-box.

[Devile]

Why having a hard time? Besides hardware requirements, I find x4 being a lot more fun and challenging than x2.

[Meeo]

Could be a psychological thing more than anything really. Learning curve/getting use to out-of-sync/ getting back in-sync. Im getting old hahaha. I probably will just break down and 4 box, just gotta pull the trigger really.

[Yelgis]

I plan to start with Crusaders x 4. They are studier than most and have several good skills and a nice progression for leveling initially. Then I plan to go for the new weapon gem and get it maxed quickly so I can level my other teams. I have some experiments I wan't to do with a Barb x 4 build and a Wiz x4 build. After that I may join the bandwagon and do at least a monk. Not sure if I will multibox a full team of them though.

[Devile]

New weapon gem?

[Meeo]

One of the new gems announced in the last Tavern talk 2/10, was about a new weapon gem. The idea is more for twink characters.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gem-of-ease

It doesn't say its for weapons on the image, but Wyatt confirmed it on the Tavern Talk. The idea is to level 1 character to T6 capable, get the gem, level the gem. Give the gem to alt and level them up. Its multiplicative with the XP bonus provided by the different difficultly and stacks with the Helm Gem xp bonus %.

Youtube going over the gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_42...ature=youtu.be

Other items for season 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comm...eason_2_items/

[Zartok]

I am struggling to choose between 3x crusaders or 3x demon hunters (might go 4x tho) but I like to have 1 slot open for a friend.

I think I'm going 3/4x demon hunters because I have not had them at high tier yet, also it looks fun to throw out 16x turrets.
If not it looks awesome with 4x stampede

[Zwizm]

Monks were my first love, so I'm definitely going Monks (x4) exclusively for Season 2. The dream is to reach Para 600 and be able to do GR 48's by the end of the season. And to those on the fence, just the 4 player bonus in itself is worth making the move from 2 or 3 accounts imo and you can always make room for a friend.

Season 3 will be Wizards for the new set/item's that will be available that, I hope, will put them back in the meta for 50+ GR's. I have no hope for WD's unless they buff Carnevil and severely reduce the lag associated with the build cause the potential is there