Diablo 3 Season 24 is now over and it has been a long time since I made new blog so it meant that season 24 was a very long season. Overall, I am very pleased at what I accomplished this season. Season 24 introduced a new weapon item called Ethereals and it made all builds more powerful. I managed to do greater rift of 123, which put me at rank 26 for NA hardcore Witch Doctor. My seasonal paragon level hit 1413, which was my highest seasonal paragon ever. My overall paragon is at 2779 now. There were 3 Ethereal items to collect for each class and if you collected all 21 Ethereal items, you unlocked the achievement which gave you the transmog for the items. Since I really wanted to get this achievement, I played all 7 classes this season. I mostly played the Witch Doctor (with 98 hours), but did manage to do pretty well with the other classes. I hit the leaderboard with the Crusader (rank 940 at greater rift 85) and the Necro (rank 626 at greater rift 80). I also managed to do greater rift 86 for the Barb, 90 for the DH, 92 for the Monk, and 91 for the Wizard. I am really happy that I managed to hit the Ethereal achievement and do a very good greater rift for the Witch Doctor.
My first Ethereal that I found really suited my Witch Doctor. I was going to play the Mundunugu's Spirit Barrage build and so I was really surprised that I was able to find a good Ethereal right away. I believe that I was only paragon 10 or so when I found my first Ethereal. Interesting enough, the first Ethereal that I found was the best one that I did find so I ended up using it for the entire season. Playing all the classes was a bit difficult since I normally don't play other classes. It was a refreshing way to play the season though. In the end, I was really pushing hard on my Witch Doctor. I managed to augment all my gear again, so this helped me to push a bit more. I didn't play towards the end of the season because Diablo 2 Resurrected came out and I wanted to try that game and I also I was getting a little bit burned out by playing Diablo 3 a lot.
Diablo 2 Resurrected was a good experience for me to try again. I had played Diablo 2 in the past and I haven't played that game for very long time. Normally I played Diablo 2 in off-line mode so playing Diablo 2 Resurrected through Battle.net was a kind of a different experience. I played with the Paladin a lot when I first started playing Diablo 2 but the game has changed so much since I finished playing Diablo 2. There were new builds to try in Diablo 2 Resurrected for me. I ended up playing with the Paladin again in D2R focusing on the Blessed Hammer build. It was pretty easy to play and I managed to finish Hell difficulty in softcore mode. I did find some cool items like the Herald of Zakarum, which was a shield I always wanted to find in Diablo 2. I haven't done any of the end game modes or much farming after finishing hell difficulty but I did have a good time playing Diablo 2 again.
Season 25 is starting on December 10th and I am excited for this new season. I will probably play a different Witch Doctor build for this season. The Arachyr set got some buffs and might try this build. Another build that I might try is Zunimassa's but that build tends to be less tanky, which means that it is not good for hardcore. Season 25 will introduce new legendary gems that can be put in your helm or weapon sockets. I am looking forward to try these new gems and hopefully end up on the top 100 hardcore Witch Doctor leaderboard. I hope everyone had a good season 24 and I wish everyone a good time in season 25.
