So I was finally able to hit 85, while trying some new stuff out.

A few notes. I switched out another crusader for a wizard on another account (My kids both have D3, but they never play, so I can use their (actually my) accounts as well). I had a friend power level my wizard to 500+ paragon in a few hours, while I played my main accts mostly - and just moved the wiz around to get gear and get on the same map. I was CRAZY lucky with gear on my wiz and played him solo a bunch.

The only reason I did the wiz on another account was because my stash and character slots are totally full. Having looked back, that wasn't a great move, I should have created it on an account I already had 1000+ paragons on. So I started gearing up a wiz on one of my 4 main accounts.

So for the 85 run, I had 1 wiz - with like 3 "Despair" upgrades on my items - but good items. 1 crusader (almost all 75+ despair upgraded), 1 support monk, 1 support barb.

The crusader was good at picking up the globes because I ran him around randomly to get globes. The Wiz, monk, Barb pretty much just stacked on each other the whole time, while the wiz did the tornadoes with no specific positioning strat.

So after this, I'm, figuratively, going to start from scratch with a new group comp or two. I think Crusaders are awesome for farming up to 70 or so, and getting keys, and a lot of fun to play, but I have some other ideas I'd like to try. But first I have to gear the new comp. I was able to do 80 with my other wiz, but got way behind at 83 - but my gear is also terrible at this point on my other wizard.