Diablo 3 Season 7 Review

Well Diablo 3 Season 7 just finished and I wanted to update as to what I accomplished this season.  My original goal for the season was to hit Conqueror in the seasonal journey and hit paragon 800.  I managed to do both of those goals but not without some hiccups.  I lost a level 70 witch doctor pretty early on in the season but after that, I managed to get into a very good rhythm.  I was really pushing hard at the end of the season, trying to hit greater rift 75.  But that is when I lost my final character.  I tried to do a greater rift 75 and I had plenty of time to finish the rift but then I had Perdition as the rift guardian boss.  I almost killed Perdition but not before he leap attacked me and I died. 

Nevertheless, I ended up the season at paragon 812 (which put me at rank 850 in the America server) and my greater rift level 74 put me in rank 448 of all US witch doctors.  I think I could have done better this season but this season felt way shorter than past seasons.  I only managed to play 120 hours of this season, which is the fewest amount of hours played in a season since season 1 (where I barely played that season at all).  Also, this season there was so much unstable connection between my computer and Blizzard's sever that it limited my overall play time.  Another reason why I didn't do as well was because of the loot drops.  I was having lots of difficult time just trying to find ancient items for my build.  The second character that I lost didn't even have any ancient pants.  Hopefully next season will have better drops for me. 

Overall, my non-season paragon level is at 1105 now, which I am very happy about.  For the upcoming season 8 (which starts this Friday October 21st), I want to set the same goals that I had for season 7.  I will probably play a Helltooth witch doctor again because I am so familiar with it.  Blizzard just announced its schedule for BlizzCon and there is a bit of news to report there.  First of all, I don't think Blizzard is ready to announce a new Diablo game just yet.  There were no panels scheduled for any talk about a new Diablo game.  There is however some information that Diablo 3 might still have new patches coming out in the future.  Most people speculated that Diablo 3 is now in maintenance mode since for season 8, there was no patch associated with it.  I am hopeful that Diablo 3 will continue to receive some updates to its game since this is the reason why people will continue to play this game.  I look forward to see what kind of changes are coming when I visit BlizzCon in November.  On to season 8 for Diablo ...

New Computer

I recently got a new computer.  My old computer was having lots of problems.  Sometimes the computer would freeze at random times and it would run very slow at other times.  The worst was when I tried to restart my computer, Windows 7 wouldn't load for me.  I tried to run a disk scan to try to repair the Windows but that didn't work.  I even tried to start the Windows from an earlier check point but that didn't work either.  I had to dig out my very, very old computer, which I am very surprised that it even works still.  I ended up buying a computer from Cyberpower PC (details on the spec later).  My last ditch effort to repairing my old computer was to install Windows 7 all over again.  This time it managed to fix itself.  I didn't lose any of my previous files but I ended up losing all my programs.  Right now I am just running the barest amount of programs to run my games and my internet.  I don't know how long this computer will last but right now it seems to be working just fine.  I am having no hiccups, no freezing so everything seems to be good. 

As for my new computer, I haven't really used it yet.  I ended up paying lots for my computer but I think it was time to buy a new one anyways.  The following is the specs of my new computer:

• CPU - Intel Core I5-6600K 3.5Ghz 6MB Intel Smart Cache
• Hard Drive - 1TB HDD 3.5 SATAIII
• Video Card - AMD Radeon RX 460 2GB
• Power Supply - 600 Watt Power Supply
•  Motherboard - Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z170 SLI
• Memory - 4GB DDR4-3000 memory 

The new computer also came with a mechanical keyboard (my first mechanical keyboard) and an optical mouse.  The computer has Windows 10 and a very nice computer case.  My old computer also happens to be a Cyberpower computer and I am pretty sure this new computer will end up working well for me as well.  I bought my old computer around 5 years ago (I think) before Diablo 3 came out.  I wanted to be able to play Diablo 3 when I bought my old computer and it is good that I bought a new computer since there might be a new Diablo game coming out soon.

Diablo 3 Season 7 is ending next week so hopefully there will a blog post next week as to what I accomplished during Season 7.  BlizzCon is less than a month away and I am really excited about what Blizzard will be doing for BlizzCon.  There hasn't been much news about BlizzCon yet but the early BlizzCon online sale has lots of nice items up for sale.