Is there a good reason to play a non-Seasonal character?
Only on console if you are playing couch co-op and want to share the loot rather than watch your partner have to destroy a perfect ancient item that you could have used.
I'd say it depends on when you started playing and how far along your non-Seasonal account is. Playing a non-Seasonal account means that you can keep incrementally pushing your account forward as you take advantage of your large stash of paragon levels/gold/gems/crafting mats/whatever. For Seasonal, you only have what you've accrued in this Season.
If you are just starting out and there's a Season active, you should play Seasonal. If you have an ancient account with super-geared characters that are nearly-optimized and you're very bored of trying to squeeze out an extra 0.5% damage from your gear, you should play Seasonal to refresh yourself. If you are really into the idea of playing the same character and slowly and incrementally improving them AND/OR the idea of starting a new character with no fat wallet of gold/stash full of useful items turns you off, maybe non-Seasonal is your thing.
For what it's worth, I was very resistant to Seasons for a while because it felt like splitting my effort and wasting time re-building a stash of resources, but then I tried it last Season and had an absolute blast and am very looking forward to the next season.
I can't figure out what class I want to start this season. I usually go WD or Necro but want to try something new out. I should look at my stats thingy and pick the least played class out. Probably Wiz.
DaimarA Million Feet Tall of AwesomeRegistered Userregular
edited January 2019
Rhykker has a pretty good breakdown of how strong each class will be based on their free set, looks like I'll be starting off with DH and doing an alt Monk. I will probably only do the two, I hope.
What is really funny to me here is scanning my seasonal times, most of this time is still from vanilla. My main barb has 1405 hours on him now, and 1200 of that was from before RoS.
I miss vanilla a lot.
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KlatuAussie Aussie AussieOi Oi OiRegistered Userregular
Where are you getting these percentages from, the player profile page only shows total hours on a char? Or are you taking those and calculating it elsewhere?"
Most my Barb hours came from vanilla D3, since that was the class I really worked on to push through Inferno with. Then my DH got a ton of hours in early RoS, first with a shitty Pride's Fall + Cluster Arrow evasive/glass cannon play style, and then whenever they first made the Marauder set into the bad-ass Sentry spamming thing (along with getting a Kridershot), DH became by far my most powerful character (in part because my others were so neglected).
I'm a little surprised that Necro ended up being 40-50% higher than Crusader, just since I only really played Necro for one season.
Doesn't one of the season chapters require playing through the story?
Not for a long time. One of the conquests requires you to finish it in under an hour, but you don't have to do that conquest, and unless you've done a bit of prep work, you won't do it anyway. Even when I'm "optimised" for it, I still come in with around 1-2 mins grace time, which isn't much given you could fuck up a few times through the run.
With adventure mode unlocked from the outset (on Switch), is there any reason to do the actual campaign? Cuz I’m like... 6(?!) years over that.
You get Leoric's Crown from the Skeleton King so that might speed up leveling to 70.
They changed the drops on Leoric's Crown. Usually you can get it somewhere between 12ish and 20s now during the season in Adventure mode. Of course if you are playing it on console (and in a group) you can see your partner get yours (especially if you are playing different classes) and cry that your drop just went to waste.
I'm not surprised to see me have a very high playtime on WD, as that was the first character I took to 70, he stayed my "main" character until the Necromancer came out, and I sure did put a lot of time into him. I AM surprised to see that my WD playtime is at 47%. I honestly thought I put enough time into the Necro to make it more even, but turns out that's only 13%.
DH is at 20%, and that's entirely a testament to how deeply I dove into D3 for Season 15, as I'd barely played DH before that.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Rrrghh I'm itching to start a new season
I haven't played much Demon Hunter before, but it seems like a good place to start this time around.
With adventure mode unlocked from the outset (on Switch), is there any reason to do the actual campaign? Cuz I’m like... 6(?!) years over that.
You get Leoric's Crown from the Skeleton King so that might speed up leveling to 70.
They changed the drops on Leoric's Crown. Usually you can get it somewhere between 12ish and 20s now during the season in Adventure mode. Of course if you are playing it on console (and in a group) you can see your partner get yours (especially if you are playing different classes) and cry that your drop just went to waste.
Started playing last season, went Wizard. Leaning toward Barb this time. The function of the free armor is the most important thing for me, and I understand the Barb set is pretty open-ended?
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Only on console if you are playing couch co-op and want to share the loot rather than watch your partner have to destroy a perfect ancient item that you could have used.
Steam: betsuni7
If you are just starting out and there's a Season active, you should play Seasonal. If you have an ancient account with super-geared characters that are nearly-optimized and you're very bored of trying to squeeze out an extra 0.5% damage from your gear, you should play Seasonal to refresh yourself. If you are really into the idea of playing the same character and slowly and incrementally improving them AND/OR the idea of starting a new character with no fat wallet of gold/stash full of useful items turns you off, maybe non-Seasonal is your thing.
For what it's worth, I was very resistant to Seasons for a while because it felt like splitting my effort and wasting time re-building a stash of resources, but then I tried it last Season and had an absolute blast and am very looking forward to the next season.
Barb: 10%
Cru: 5%
DH: 20%
Monk: 10%
Necro: 7%
WD: 44%
Wiz: 3%
Barb: 15%
Crusader: 10%
DH: 25%
Monk: 13%
Necro: 7%
WD: 12%
Wiz: 18%
DH is lower than expected... definitely time to bump that back up.
Barb: 3%
Crusader: 7%
DH: 71%
Monk: 1%
Necro: 6%
WD: 2%
Wiz: 11%
Zero's stats:
Barb: 0%
Crusader: 1%
DH: 65%
Monk: 8%
Necro: 4%
WD: 0%
Wiz: 21%
Steam: betsuni7
Also, funny that Zero's DH is at 65% with over 1k hours played.
Steam: betsuni7
Oh? Oh....
I walked right into that one.
Steam: betsuni7
Cru: 11%
DH: 17%
Monk: 15%
Necro: 3%
WD: 4%
Wiz: 7%
Can you tell I am not very fond of int classes?
What is really funny to me here is scanning my seasonal times, most of this time is still from vanilla. My main barb has 1405 hours on him now, and 1200 of that was from before RoS.
I miss vanilla a lot.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
Cru: 16%
DH: 16%
Monk: 4%
Necro: 7%
WD: 27%
Wiz: 13%
I honestly suspected DH would be a tiny bit higher. Not surprised WD is my most played though, and also not surprised Monk is my least played.
Fitting for someone who beat Diablo 3 (and has a PhD in Witch Doctor).
Steam: betsuni7
Ah thanks - no surprise here as I do love my barb:
Barb: 30%
Cru: 18%
DH: 18%
Monk: 10%
Necro: 13%
WD: 7%
Wiz: 4%
Looks like it will be Wiz next season!
Cru: 5%
DH: 35%
Monk: 9%
Necro: 7%
WD: 18%
Wiz: 9%
Most my Barb hours came from vanilla D3, since that was the class I really worked on to push through Inferno with. Then my DH got a ton of hours in early RoS, first with a shitty Pride's Fall + Cluster Arrow evasive/glass cannon play style, and then whenever they first made the Marauder set into the bad-ass Sentry spamming thing (along with getting a Kridershot), DH became by far my most powerful character (in part because my others were so neglected).
I'm a little surprised that Necro ended up being 40-50% higher than Crusader, just since I only really played Necro for one season.
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
Or you want to do achievements.
Not for a long time. One of the conquests requires you to finish it in under an hour, but you don't have to do that conquest, and unless you've done a bit of prep work, you won't do it anyway. Even when I'm "optimised" for it, I still come in with around 1-2 mins grace time, which isn't much given you could fuck up a few times through the run.
You get Leoric's Crown from the Skeleton King so that might speed up leveling to 70.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
They changed the drops on Leoric's Crown. Usually you can get it somewhere between 12ish and 20s now during the season in Adventure mode. Of course if you are playing it on console (and in a group) you can see your partner get yours (especially if you are playing different classes) and cry that your drop just went to waste.
Join us with the DH. You know you want to be one of the cool kids.
Steam: betsuni7
DH is at 20%, and that's entirely a testament to how deeply I dove into D3 for Season 15, as I'd barely played DH before that.
I haven't played much Demon Hunter before, but it seems like a good place to start this time around.
I did DH last season or I would!
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Barb - 7%
Crusader - 9%
DH - 17%
Monk - 62%
Necro - 0% (don't own)
WD - 0% (I actually have leveled one to seventy)
Wiz - 5%
Monk is a good class that Blizzard hates but it is my baby and I love it.
Crusader - 18%
DH - 7%
Monk - 4%
Necro - 5%
WD - 34%
Wizard - 32%
Can't decide if I like throwing spiders or fireballs more.
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera