It has been a while but Season 22 for Diablo 3 just ended. I didn't think that Season 22 would last this long so it has been a while since I updated this blog. I had a fairly interesting season of playing Diablo. I had some specific goals playing this season and I met some of them. I started out playing with the Witch Doctor again and I managed to do pretty well. I ended up doing a greater rift of 122 which put me at rank 47 for the hardcore Witch Doctor NA leaderboard. I really wanted to be in the top 100 again so this goal was achieved. Unfortunately, my Witch Doctor died due to my computer freezing so I couldn't really push as far as I wanted. After my Witch Doctor died, I really lost motivation to gear up again so I decided to play World of Warcraft with my free 1 month subscription (more on this later). In Season 22, I also played with the Necromancer for a bit and I managed to hit greater rift 105, which put me at rank 918. I think this is the first time that I hit two different leaderboards in a single season. I managed to reach paragon 1379 for the season (which is most ever in a single season) and my overall paragon now sits at 2546. I also managed to hit the guardian seasonal journey again.
Gearing for my Witch Doctor was pretty easy this season. The starter set was Mundunugu's set so it was pretty easy to start doing high greater rifts right out of the gate. The seasonal theme of the extra cube slot and the clone were somewhat helpful, boosting the power level up a bit more. I had some good gear overall, most of my gear was augmented. I really hurt to lose my Witch Doctor because I worked so hard to augment my gear. When I played with the Necromancer, I felt it was a bit more powerful due to the seasonal theme. The Masquerade of the Burning Carnival set (which uses the Bone Spear skill) did a lot of damage. With the extra cube slot and the clone, it felt very over powered. I didn't get to play with the Necromancer a lot but I know that it would have done a higher greater rift if I had focused on playing with the Necromancer more.
After my Witch Doctor died, I decided I wanted to play World of Warcraft for a bit. I bought the Epic BlizzCon package so it came with a free 30 day subscription to WoW. I hadn't played WoW since the Warlords of Draenor expansion so I left my paladin at level 40. Levelling to 50 was pretty easy, I started out playing from the Battle of Azeroth expansion and hit level 50 pretty quickly. I was really surprised at how easy it was to get to level 50 because usually it takes a very long time to level. After hitting level 50, I decided to play a bit more so I bought the Shadowlands expansion and I levelled to 60. The levelling process was a bit more difficult and longer but I really enjoyed the story line quests in Shadowland. After hitting level 60 (which took me about a week), I played around doing world quests and some Torghast. The world quests felt fine, they weren't too tedious and pretty simple to do. There were some quests in the Maw but I really didn't like doing dailies in that zone. I didn't do any dungeons but I managed to enter Torghast and did some content there. Torghast was pretty fun, it was pretty neat to see how you could boost your character by choosing which powers to take. I wish there was a system like this in Diablo so that you aren't always dependent on your gear to tackle more difficult content. I think I ended up hitting an item level of about 170. I wish I had a bit more time playing but after 30 days, it felt like it was enough.
For season 23 (which starts this Friday), I will probably play with the Witch Doctor again. The Witch Doctor is my favourite class but the Mundunugu's set has been nerfed again. It really sucks to have the nerf for this set because other powerful sets for other classes have remained the same. This puts the Witch Doctor at a disadvantage compared to the other classes. There is a new patch that enhances the followers. The new follower system should help the solo players a bit more since group players have a lot more advantages when doing content. I hope everyone had a great season 22 and best of luck to those playing in season 23.
