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I dunno about season 2 honestly, I got a toon to 70 just for the free gift at the end of the season - so, I'm not sure if I'll do it all again.

Then again, if people will actually be playing I might do it just for for that co-op itch I have.

Anyone 'for sure' doing Season 2?

Yep. Rolling with a monk.

It's not bad. I could probably level faster grouping, but I've gotten
my season 1 DH to 40 in the last couple days (no other season
toons).

 Frankenberry wrote:
I dunno about season 2 honestly, I got a toon to 70 just for the free gift at the end of the season - so, I'm not sure if I'll do it all again.

Then again, if people will actually be playing I might do it just for for that co-op itch I have.

Anyone 'for sure' doing Season 2?

Yup... I'm rollling another wizzy.

What do they get next season?

 malfred wrote:
What do they get next season?

Class Legendaries, they are quite interesting. There is also some seasonal items and seasonal gems.

Oh, I'm aware of that. I was wondering what the wizard one was.

Monks are getting Gungdo Gear Exploding Palm spread!

 malfred wrote:
Oh, I'm aware of that. I was wondering what the wizard one was.

Monks are getting Gungdo Gear Exploding Palm spread!

Halo of Arlyse
New Legendary Ring
Your Ice Armor now provides 50-60% Melee Damage Reduction and automatically casts Frost Nova whenever you take 10% of your Life in damage

Its pretty fething awesome in my opinion.

Crusader
Belt of the Trove
New Legendary Belt
Every 6-8 seconds, Bombardment is cast on a random nearby enemy
Demon Hunter
Odyssey's End
New Legendary Bow
Enemies snared by Entangling Shot take 20-25% more damage from all sources

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/17561388/patch-212-now-live-1-13-2015

I'm probably going to do Season 2 with a Crusader. I did Season 1 with a WD just to get to 70 and get the transmogs.

I'm level 63 now. Should hit 70 on season 1 today or tomorrw.

Nice. I hit 70 on like Thursday, and I've got like 8 paragon levels now. It's the only character I've actually leveled though, so leveling a new character for season 2 doesn't seem so daunting since it's only my second.

Got it. Now I have to get my gear up to be Torment ready.

Are there any kind of general guidelines for what kind of gear do you need for Torment?

Not really. I always just followed the general principal of balancing
living long enough to kill lots of stuff at a steady pace. A few things
are done, like socketing Emeralds into your weapon and main stat
gem into the rest of your gear, but that's all I can think of.


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In other news, I don't know how I'm going to stand leveling a
monk when Demon Hunter with Multi shot was disgustingly
easy to level.

I got my season 1 character to level 70 and paragon 280 but I won't be able to play until the season ends on the 3rd. Good enough! That should bring my standard account to paragon 400 or so with the extra xp. I got my DH doing 250ish million crits with daggers and 2-6 million crits with normal attacks with all 5 sentries up.

For season 2 I am going to run either a barb or a crusader, have not figured that one out yet.

@Hordini, for torment levels do what malfred said with the gems first. I tend to put a couple diamonds in my armour as well since I normally run low on resistances. Crit hit and chance are useful for higher torments so go for 10 critical hit chance for every 100 critical hit damage (I have 40% chance with 450% damage on my DH). For paragon levels focus on your base stat line (Str, Dex, Int) for the next go for crit damage unless you are using a two hander and go for attack speed, then go for resistance to all and for the last tree go for life on hit.

Got some stuff on my Demon Hunter. Used the Enchanter to
add a socket to an Etrayu that dropped, mostly to get my DPS
up. Re-worked my skills to those cold builds so that I could do
extra damage with the passive.

Welcome to Torment 1.

And when my seasonal demon hunter goes normal, welcome to
Torment 2 or 3.

Once you can do Torment 1, do Rifts until you get a trial key.

Use the trial key to open a trial but don't bother fighting. Portal
to town and let the timer run down and start with Greater Rift
Level 1. Take your time and sandbag through the greater rift
and try to finish with under 5 minutes . Then when Urshi shows
up, ask her to level up your Rift Key so that you can do that again.

What that does is let you farm legendary items a little more
consistently than just dungeoning. I always found the method kind
of slow, but realized that it's a good fit for Seasonal play.

I like just started up Diablo 3 three days ago and have a lvl 50 Barb, but haven't done anything with Season 1. I will be doing Season 2 though, and would greatly love to party with some people

Season 2 Start Times:

Season 2 will be starting at the following dates and times for each region:
North America: Friday, February 13 @ 6:00 p.m. PST
Europe: Friday, February 13 @ 6:00 p.m. CET
Asia: Friday, February 13 @ 6:00 p.m. KST

No rest period? It's literally just Season End, Season Begin?

Seems kinda strange tehre's no preseason....

There's ten days rest, it ends the 3rd. Tens days is enough for me to swap stuff around on standard and play around with some of my toys.

Do we gain access to our season 1 characters?

 malfred wrote:
Do we gain access to our season 1 characters?

Season 1 characters are supposed to revert to regular characters.

 Slarg232 wrote:
No rest period? It's literally just Season End, Season Begin?

Seems kinda strange tehre's no preseason....

There is no off season....

Well there is technically, we are in the off season.

If anyone wants me to join in hunting and killing stuff with my really overpowered mage build just ask.

Tal Rasha is making a come back hardcore.

Nice.

Maybe I'll roll mage in seasons and, you know, finish leveling him this time.

I'd play with people more but I have to be ready to pause game at any point.

 malfred wrote:
Nice.

Maybe I'll roll mage in seasons and, you know, finish leveling him this time.

I'd play with people more but I have to be ready to pause game at any point.

I can do that ingame... just go back in town and give ETA when you're coming back.

I can always putz around with my loot.

I don't think I'm on the same schedule as most. I've played a bit
with Caldor and that's about it.

^yeah I work night shift so I'm completely backwards from the rest of you (schedule wise).

What are you guys' thoughts and feelings on boosting? Do you do it?

 Hordini wrote:
What are you guys' thoughts and feelings on boosting? Do you do it?

its fine as long as you aren't using a bot or hacking.

I mean during seasonals I did that quite often and I would like to have three level 70s. (Demon Hunter and Crusader and wizard)

Doesn't matter. Getting to 70 is super easy these days.

And if that gem of ease drops? Won't matter a bit. .

 malfred wrote:
Doesn't matter. Getting to 70 is super easy these days.

And if that gem of ease drops? Won't matter a bit. .

Sadly the whole season gave me back all my gems. So no dice....