That is hilarious. I'll one up you though, I can't believe you all are playing D3 after a majority of us abandoned it 3 weeks after its launch all those years ago because it was garbage. Still garbage, just with more boredom.
@@Johanthegnarler D3 wasn't really complete until RoS, so I don't blame you. You could give it another try, it's a much more polished and complete game now.
@@TheCxrrupt I'm subbed to rax, he auto played, and I decided to see what he was doing for 3 minutes before leaving. Enough time to laugh at a comment and start shit apparently.
Excellent video, 9axx. Way back, I used to like bounties. Then I figured out they gave so little benefit. Once bounties actually mean something, I think I’ll enjoy them again.
@@mattb6646 I guess what I mean is that they're typically so incredibly loot inefficient. Sure, you can use mats for rerolling, but that has typically been a pretty low priority compared to so much else. In other seasons, blasting 90s with only half ancient gear for paragons and loot and gem increases makes so much more sense, and rerolling only really matters if you're making more serious pushes. It's one of the final steps in gearing up, and really skippable for more casual play. Meanwhile, I don't really hate playing them, and used to level up by doing bounties (until figuring out it's super slow). But the rewards just aren't worthwhile. But between the Paragon cap and the season theme, it'll make more sense than it has in ages.
@thebitterfig9903 oh I agree they suck, just saying they were necessary. I always did them in groups makes them much faster... that one thing alone is deterring me from trying the ssf mode this season. I used to do ssf in PoE but you could choose to switch to trade league at anytime, and not be aloud back into ssf
@natel7382 do the 5 for your season journey and then you'll never need to do bounties again this season. The diabolical fissures pop up really often and have anything upto 15 levels whoch gives 60 of each material. Minimum you'll get for a fissure is 20 which is way faster than bounties. Really looking forward to it!
i am a university prof and love how you can teach. you are interesting and well-paced. you can hold a narrative and make the audience what to know what comes next (even if we've watched your guides for many season). now if i could just get Paint to be as cool... i have a blue hoodie, but my lectures are no where near as effective. can't be just the hoodie, so it must be paint i'm missing
I'll never forget when I first discovered augments, a dude I was playing with was like yo I have to go agu my gear, I said what? He then showed me the true path to power. Ever since it's been... ROFLPAWN
one important detail is that when you enter the vision of enmity theres a chance additional fissures are created inside the vision "The Visions are quite unstable and have the potential to produce additional Fissures after enemies are dispatched inside-keep an eye out for these opportunities to maximize your chance of earning useful gear." I'm pretty sure this means you can enter a portal inside a portal but it may be a low chance :D I'm 99% sure thats what it means, but please correct me if I'm wrong
This is all good advice, but some changes needed for hardcore. Example: I would not start in on petrified screams trying to get those to 125 (or more) with your first character! I always wait until I have another character built (with gear and mats runs from my main) BEFORE I start doing hardcore screams. We do not want to start over from scratch because something gotcha in there.... I have most gear augmented and full set + keys + mats before I jump in one of those. YMMV, of course.
With my luck I'm going to swim in VoE's. That ring of Royal Grandeur has the tendency to drop after dozens of bounty-runs in Act 1. Sure is a nice change of doing content as I experienced it on the PTR. Now I just need to decide if I go for Witch Doctor, knowing I wont be playing the class for maybe forever, or Necromancer. Good luck to all the pusher and who knows maybe I get my name on the leaderboard as well.
It's actually quite fun how huge nerf in D3 looks like a lot of fun, and lesser nerfs in D4 make me play something else. Please, Blizzard, bring D3 team to help you with D4.
to be fair, the nerfs that resulted from losing Altar isn't actually fun. What was fun was the paragon farming finally being eliminated, and that is only "fun" because it was extremely unfun trying to compete on the leaderboard against botters/nolifefarmers.
I think the devs are really going to take this opportunity to balance everything out like you said in S30, balance the Altar, balance the sets so I'm gonna push some off-meta builds in SSF to help facilitate this because why not? Not getting anywhere near 150 this time. I guess it's fair because last season they hyped it and delivered as the blow off, this season they did disclaim it wouldn't be that powerful.
@@etrosknight2254 exactly. i mostly didn't group even for bounties unless I happened to be teaming up with my brother a few hundred miles away. this just means (a) everyone else will be doing bounties the same way I am, and (b) the bounties will be more meaningful than they used to be. all win.
I don't think getting the full set is enough to speed run GR70 LOL... it's obviously going to be easier for certain classes than others. my wizard with the full firebird set barely makes it through GR65 without constantly dying and I've got about 350 paragon. I can push GR70 with effort, but it's not gonna be a sub-5 min speed run with no deaths lol
bounties are almost obsolote and so are regular neph rifts since diabolical fissures give both bounty mats and keys. but, i still have to do bounties to get my royal rings, gloves of worship, and avarice bands right?
are sanctified items available in season 29? EDIT: never mind. I confused sanctified items from a previous season with primordial ashes used to craft a primal ancient
Agree. I usually build a speed build (DH or Monk) so I can do those bounties fast as possible. No screwing around with mobs, picking things up, etc. Just get it done then lather, rinse, repeat.
Thanks for your video D4 orphan here. I watched your video on augmenting gear but you said it was outdated due to Whispers of Atonement. I have a lot of them at 125 and don't know how to use them. I learnt Fishing and dream rifts new from the video very helpful. The season overview was very helpful and also as a first time player of D3 what has changed form previous season. I like the paragon cap as a fair system too and putting points into one or two stats. I have full set mostly ancients but want to augment gear know and guessing the whispers of atonement level up gems for augments quickly or am i WRONG?
Just curious, what's the bs? I've started the season and it's Saturday, and people are already over 800 paragon. I thought that was the season limit. Another Blizzard fuck up?
Id still like to see them do up to season 30 if not just keep going with seasons . . but if there has to be a last one the Final season ( and I know its all over the place that 29 is the final ) would be awesome if they just combined Every season before with some additional surprise for that season . . then again wish in one hand spit in the other and see which fills up first . . . Love your content, would be a shame if these were your last diablo 3 videos . . **edit** I typed that before you said anything about next season . . .
awesome vid i knew errthing but the dream rifts how crazy quit playing years ago but always liked it still better than crappy bad d4 an could have been so much better if wasnt neglected for years what a shame imo if all arpgs did wat poe does an keep the good stuff from a season an then keep building an adding more every 3 months all arpgs would be so much better an have so much more content but of course blizzard doesnt care to much about the consumer just greed an money but oh well im ready for one last glorious ride for a could have been greatest game ever thanx for all the vids raxx help a lot :)
am i one of those few people who think p800 is too low ? seriously even i can do that in 2 days ... then what ? lvl up gems, takes 1-2 more days, then push 1-2 more days, then you're done with season ... i was kind of enjoying farming some paragons, usually i was going up to 2000-3000 each season, now ? i really don't like this change, 800 is way too low !!!! i guess season 28 was my last season
i am curious ..did blizz change the no.s for mobs and GR's for how you can defeat them or did they raise how hard the characters hit ? Because now you can't put thousands of paragon into main stats health etc ,, So you wont be as strong as prior seasons ?
Imagine if blizz choose to add all the other powers from previous seasons and smash that all together, because this is the last season of its own. like hypothetically there would not be anymore seasons after this one. of course there will be just recycled ones, but still that would've been massive cluster fuck of entertainment.
How are public bounty games going to work with visions of enmity? Are we going to have to abandon in progress quests to go do the vision that someone else finds and then come back? That would be rather clunky.
I hope (and also assume) its gonna be like this: u join a group, u go look for a VOE rift, u all go there, u clear the rift, and u reset the game. its similar to how we used to farm goblins or goblin rifts or xp pools i would say.
This season is absoulety terrible for crusader SSF if you are considering playing it DONT. Invoker thorns "build" is literally hold right click and are extremely squishy. Good luck in farming RROG can spend hours doing solo bounties to not get it. Blizz actively killing a game that could be profitable, waited 29 seasons and still couldnt get it right.
WELL I didnt think we would be back to playing D3 a mere three months after the release of D4, but....here we are!
That is hilarious. I'll one up you though, I can't believe you all are playing D3 after a majority of us abandoned it 3 weeks after its launch all those years ago because it was garbage. Still garbage, just with more boredom.
@@Johanthegnarlerwhy are you still here watching/commenting on d3 videos??
@@TheCxrruptit's the only place he can find human interaction.
@@Johanthegnarler D3 wasn't really complete until RoS, so I don't blame you. You could give it another try, it's a much more polished and complete game now.
@@TheCxrrupt I'm subbed to rax, he auto played, and I decided to see what he was doing for 3 minutes before leaving. Enough time to laugh at a comment and start shit apparently.
Excellent video, 9axx.
Way back, I used to like bounties. Then I figured out they gave so little benefit. Once bounties actually mean something, I think I’ll enjoy them again.
They only useful for the mats which you need some of
@@mattb6646 I guess what I mean is that they're typically so incredibly loot inefficient. Sure, you can use mats for rerolling, but that has typically been a pretty low priority compared to so much else. In other seasons, blasting 90s with only half ancient gear for paragons and loot and gem increases makes so much more sense, and rerolling only really matters if you're making more serious pushes. It's one of the final steps in gearing up, and really skippable for more casual play.
Meanwhile, I don't really hate playing them, and used to level up by doing bounties (until figuring out it's super slow). But the rewards just aren't worthwhile. But between the Paragon cap and the season theme, it'll make more sense than it has in ages.
@thebitterfig9903 oh I agree they suck, just saying they were necessary. I always did them in groups makes them much faster... that one thing alone is deterring me from trying the ssf mode this season. I used to do ssf in PoE but you could choose to switch to trade league at anytime, and not be aloud back into ssf
9axx. Lol😊
@natel7382 do the 5 for your season journey and then you'll never need to do bounties again this season.
The diabolical fissures pop up really often and have anything upto 15 levels whoch gives 60 of each material. Minimum you'll get for a fissure is 20 which is way faster than bounties. Really looking forward to it!
"We need a program sophisticated enough to handle all this....paint."
- Raxx
i am a university prof and love how you can teach. you are interesting and well-paced. you can hold a narrative and make the audience what to know what comes next (even if we've watched your guides for many season). now if i could just get Paint to be as cool... i have a blue hoodie, but my lectures are no where near as effective. can't be just the hoodie, so it must be paint i'm missing
University of braindead?
Same and same. fabulous no-nonsense, no-ego instruction that lays it all out clearly without belittling anyone. first-rate.
And here i am with a tear in my eye, watching Raxx explain what i should do in D3 probably the last time.....
Actually so hyped for SSF this season. After years upon years of getting demolished by group farmers it's finally time to shine !
I always know it’s coming, but every time you put paint on the screen I get the giggles
Awesome guide Raxx, you perfectly laid out the milestones people should reach and how to achieve them
honestly, Dungeons in D4 feel like Bounties from D3
Also bad maps, like Corvus, Caves and Keep
I just love the bits in your videos like exchanging R for 9 twice and your Diablo 4 pun.
even though I know everything you talked about, it's nice to watch your d3 videos ;)
Can't put into words how helpful this is for people who aren't super familiar with how all this goes. Been looking for something like this
Here's to the run - once more for the road. As ever, always enjoy hearing Raxx lay out the details. Wouldn't be a D3 season without it at this point.
I'll never forget when I first discovered augments, a dude I was playing with was like yo I have to go agu my gear, I said what? He then showed me the true path to power. Ever since it's been... ROFLPAWN
one important detail is that when you enter the vision of enmity theres a chance additional fissures are created inside the vision "The Visions are quite unstable and have the potential to produce additional Fissures after enemies are dispatched inside-keep an eye out for these opportunities to maximize your chance of earning useful gear." I'm pretty sure this means you can enter a portal inside a portal but it may be a low chance :D I'm 99% sure thats what it means, but please correct me if I'm wrong
You are correct. I played through the PTR with a few characters. They can keep going for a while :D
They always spawn. Cant remember for how many floors but if you hear a goblin you're on the last floor and you get a chest.
I got 11 portals playing with a random (2 persons) in T16. We've got goblins twice and it seemed bugged like it was never ending lmao. Was fantastic 😍
Back when completing a season was fun.
It can be again, we left D3 but it never left us
This is all good advice, but some changes needed for hardcore. Example: I would not start in on petrified screams trying to get those to 125 (or more) with your first character! I always wait until I have another character built (with gear and mats runs from my main) BEFORE I start doing hardcore screams. We do not want to start over from scratch because something gotcha in there.... I have most gear augmented and full set + keys + mats before I jump in one of those. YMMV, of course.
Repeatedly writing 9 instead of R was the best bit.
Thanks for the video, 9axx. Much appreciated.
With my luck I'm going to swim in VoE's. That ring of Royal Grandeur has the tendency to drop after dozens of bounty-runs in Act 1. Sure is a nice change of doing content as I experienced it on the PTR. Now I just need to decide if I go for Witch Doctor, knowing I wont be playing the class for maybe forever, or Necromancer. Good luck to all the pusher and who knows maybe I get my name on the leaderboard as well.
It's actually quite fun how huge nerf in D3 looks like a lot of fun, and lesser nerfs in D4 make me play something else. Please, Blizzard, bring D3 team to help you with D4.
to be fair, the nerfs that resulted from losing Altar isn't actually fun. What was fun was the paragon farming finally being eliminated, and that is only "fun" because it was extremely unfun trying to compete on the leaderboard against botters/nolifefarmers.
So they could turn it into another easy handholding faceroll cartoony game with no challenge whatsoever? No thanks.
@@Killer4funWell D4 is already like this, aside from the cartoony look
Thanks Raxx great content as usual. Looking forward to the season.
As always, great job and thx for your work!
I think the devs are really going to take this opportunity to balance everything out like you said in S30, balance the Altar, balance the sets so I'm gonna push some off-meta builds in SSF to help facilitate this because why not? Not getting anywhere near 150 this time. I guess it's fair because last season they hyped it and delivered as the blow off, this season they did disclaim it wouldn't be that powerful.
Nice work again Rax as per normal....cheers for all the content and have a great Season.
another awesome video Raxx as usual you always put the hours in to help out all players looking forward to new season as a casual player respect
Great video and information. Can't wait to play the season once again in Diablo 3 :) Thanks Rax!
This might be my favorite season yet. SSF and (I love bounties)
u love bounties? u realize u got to go do full acts of bounties by urself if ur doing SSF? so much fun .. :x
@@tomhendriks8304 I like bounties too, and oh no now we have to do them solo??? Guess what most people play solo anyway that's why we're playing SSF
@@etrosknight2254 exactly. i mostly didn't group even for bounties unless I happened to be teaming up with my brother a few hundred miles away. this just means (a) everyone else will be doing bounties the same way I am, and (b) the bounties will be more meaningful than they used to be. all win.
Exactly what i re been doing for years but very reassuring to hear it from Raxx
Me being rigged I usually have a separate game every season of just trying to get a Ramaladni's gift before Paragon 500. ;) Some seasons can be cruel!
I don't think getting the full set is enough to speed run GR70 LOL... it's obviously going to be easier for certain classes than others.
my wizard with the full firebird set barely makes it through GR65 without constantly dying and I've got about 350 paragon. I can push GR70 with effort, but it's not gonna be a sub-5 min speed run with no deaths lol
Raxx will you do videos for season 30? ❤
bounties are almost obsolote and so are regular neph rifts since diabolical fissures give both bounty mats and keys. but, i still have to do bounties to get my royal rings, gloves of worship, and avarice bands right?
Thank you for another very detailed training video!
do not remve SSF from the game. must be a feature forever
Can you get more than one set from Seasonal Journey if each character is solo self bound?
are sanctified items available in season 29? EDIT: never mind. I confused sanctified items from a previous season with primordial ashes used to craft a primal ancient
I'll be on the DH leaderboard. 😉
Great guide thank you
I thought I can only pick up the set parts from the Seasons Journey after completing all four?
Awsome video 9axxante9ax!
Thank you this was very helpful
Me who loves bounties because I like speedy builds : I see this season as an absolute win!
Agree. I usually build a speed build (DH or Monk) so I can do those bounties fast as possible. No screwing around with mobs, picking things up, etc. Just get it done then lather, rinse, repeat.
Welcome back to making D3 content!
In what difficulties should I run the GR 90 -GR 110?
Do you get any buffs to drop rates for ssf? Or any benefits?
Thanks for your video D4 orphan here. I watched your video on augmenting gear but you said it was outdated due to Whispers of Atonement. I have a lot of them at 125 and don't know how to use them. I learnt Fishing and dream rifts new from the video very helpful. The season overview was very helpful and also as a first time player of D3 what has changed form previous season. I like the paragon cap as a fair system too and putting points into one or two stats. I have full set mostly ancients but want to augment gear know and guessing the whispers of atonement level up gems for augments quickly or am i WRONG?
I think its challenging to finish even crap layouts. Skipping is maybe more effective but not better imho
Just curious, what's the bs? I've started the season and it's Saturday, and people are already over 800 paragon. I thought that was the season limit. Another Blizzard fuck up?
Amazing guide Raxx as usual
What's a blue vinnyet or whatever word you're saying?
g9eat video as always
does the SSF option gonna have shared inventory between characters?
will the visions of emnity be available on a non seasonal character?
"All of the full sets can obliterate a GR70"
Might of the Earth has something to say about that
Yeah was thinking same thing about Monk's Sunwuko. It's extremely weak without the amplifying legendaries.
Im so excited to be encouraged to do bounties this season because i still dont have rainbow wings ^.^
Id still like to see them do up to season 30 if not just keep going with seasons . . but if there has to be a last one the Final season ( and I know its all over the place that 29 is the final ) would be awesome if they just combined Every season before with some additional surprise for that season . . then again wish in one hand spit in the other and see which fills up first . . .
Love your content, would be a shame if these were your last diablo 3 videos . .
**edit**
I typed that before you said anything about next season . . .
Whenever Raxx said visions of enmity....I kept on thinking about visions of escaflowne lol.
I tried to like D4, really, I did, but here I am back in the D3 again... It's sort of strange...
awesome vid i knew errthing but the dream rifts how crazy quit playing years ago but always liked it still better than crappy bad d4 an could have been so much better if wasnt neglected for years what a shame imo if all arpgs did wat poe does an keep the good stuff from a season an then keep building an adding more every 3 months all arpgs would be so much better an have so much more content but of course blizzard doesnt care to much about the consumer just greed an money but oh well im ready for one last glorious ride for a could have been greatest game ever thanx for all the vids raxx help a lot :)
are the console leaderboards still full of hackers or was this fixed?
beyond stoked for this season
G9!!!!!! Do VOE offer Forgotten souls, plain materials etc? Rerolling is expensive unless you have a bot.
We can sanctify an item in S29? Thought was S27?
ok,i get it...capped paragon,but where will the xp go then?
What would be better , leveling bountys because U still need IT or Level Like First Born and after this u Go bountys
Paint is the Key for all things informative. :P
Rex please i need to finish the last 3rd conquest finish the all acts in one hour i need guidance 😢
am i one of those few people who think p800 is too low ? seriously even i can do that in 2 days ... then what ? lvl up gems, takes 1-2 more days, then push 1-2 more days, then you're done with season ... i was kind of enjoying farming some paragons, usually i was going up to 2000-3000 each season, now ? i really don't like this change, 800 is way too low !!!! i guess season 28 was my last season
i am curious ..did blizz change the no.s for mobs and GR's for how you can defeat them or did they raise how hard the characters hit ? Because now you can't put thousands of paragon into main stats health etc ,, So you wont be as strong as prior seasons ?
They didn't change anything, we'll just be way weaker this season
thx ..and damn huh ..@@etrosknight2254
The paragon changes slightly increase power for some builds (relative to if they didn't change paragon at all and just capped it at 800)
G9 must be the European version of Greater Rifts? 😛
oh god, and I had done 8000 bounties for achievement in last month....I'll try not to vomit in S29
When I think of hitting paragon 800 in d3 vs lv 100 in d4 I suddenly remember why I've stopped playing d4
9axxanterax is the new meta!
Love your "R"'s lol.. 9
Take yo time and enjoy the game. Don’t worry about rushing just to stop playing
Imagine if blizz choose to add all the other powers from previous seasons and smash that all together, because this is the last season of its own. like hypothetically there would not be anymore seasons after this one. of course there will be just recycled ones, but still that would've been massive cluster fuck of entertainment.
Balancing paragon will be fun
"and GR90 is where the really good-- did I do it again? what is wrong with me?" 🤣
Paint?? Woah, busting out the big guns!
not a fair Ladder on Console, PS5 still has the GEMS glitch, and that exploit has killed the Ladder for Playstation
Nice.
G9EAT!
blueboy quit d4?
G9eat video.
Here I am D3 again again and...again.
and btw D3 should never die
bounties are fun now? hell yea
How are public bounty games going to work with visions of enmity? Are we going to have to abandon in progress quests to go do the vision that someone else finds and then come back? That would be rather clunky.
I hope (and also assume) its gonna be like this: u join a group, u go look for a VOE rift, u all go there, u clear the rift, and u reset the game. its similar to how we used to farm goblins or goblin rifts or xp pools i would say.
I'm aiming at top 100 EU, botters will take over anyway but first day is fairest one.
A great guide, Raxx! But why not speed Gr100s? You'll get, at least 1-2 Legendary Items more.
Hey Raxx, you wanted to write "GR" but you literally wrote "69". I won't comment on that but still. ^^
This season is absoulety terrible for crusader SSF if you are considering playing it DONT. Invoker thorns "build" is literally hold right click and are extremely squishy. Good luck in farming RROG can spend hours doing solo bounties to not get it. Blizz actively killing a game that could be profitable, waited 29 seasons and still couldnt get it right.
great video
You didn’t even watch the video?
@@Akito_ktr😂😂
You are a Beast. Like the daddy of gaming we don’t deserve.
Laughing as you make your capital R’s into 9’s and getting angry over it haha!
I was gonna ask is anyone else playing D3 again after the disappointment of D4? Well apparently so!
Why this dude still playing Diablo 3
finally i can push and not be beaten by bots
bots still have the advantage
but its like 25% more power instead of 200% more power
The massive increase in D3 content is very telling.... (about quality of D4 right now, sadly)
G990 Gang