Sunday, June 10, 2018

Diablo 3 Season 13 Review

Well Diablo 3 Season 13 ended last week and I wanted to go over what I accomplished in season 13.  It was a very good season for me.  I think I played as well as I could for this season.  My main goal was to play with the Witch Doctor again this season and try competing in the Solo self found league that Leviathan set up.  I managed to hit greater rift 98 and I almost hit greater rift 99 (I was about a couple seconds off from completing it).  I kind of felt frustrated about not reaching greater rift 99 and I lost one of my characters because I died trying to finish off a greater rift 99.  My greater rift 98 helped me reach rank 38 on the NA leaderboard, which is pretty good since I was playing by myself.  I think it was the 3rd best for the Witch Doctor in the solo self found league.  I managed to get to paragon level 1079 and my current non-seasonal paragon level sits at 1641.

For the majority of the season, I was playing with the Helltooth set, which is my favourite Witch Doctor set.  I now realize how to optimize the Helltooth set perfectly and it's play style is pretty simple to work out.  This season was the first season of playing with the Witch Doctor after the buffs from patch 2.6.1.  The previous season was spent playing with the Necromancer so I didn't have the time then to play with my favourite class.  I did manage to find a primal Sacred Harvester but again I lost my Witch Doctor when I was trying to do a greater rift 99.  I had some very nice gear when my Witch Doctor died, most of my ancient gear had a Caldesann's of +400 intelligence on it.  I also managed to find a good Traveler's Pledge and a decent Compass Rose.  When my Witch Doctor died, I wasn't left with much gear so I couldn't get back to the level that I was on (I am kind of working on it right now during the off season).

For season 14, I might be going back to play with the Witch Doctor again.  I might try a different strategy this time though.  Since the free set for season 14 is the Zunimassa set, I might try to build a Zunimassa set that is for the end game.  I know some people have managed to hit greater rift 100 with the Zuni set so it should be possible for me too.  I also might try and play with the Wizard since I haven't played a Wizard for a very long time.  The only thing that holds me back from playing the Wizard is that I don't really like playing with that class and I don't really like any of the Wizard sets play style.  Season 14 is going to be the first season with a theme to it.  Season 14 will have double goblins spawning so it should be kind of interesting to see.  I hope everyone had a successful season 13 and I hope everyone enjoys playing season 14.