Just an FYI, most of the Ancient drops are currently completely broken and the dev's have no clue why they are rolling without damage stats at all & even sometimes without the mainstat even. Wizard items and shields/offhands/sources/etc.... seem to be affected worse than others. As an added extra bonus, the new wardrobe is also vanishing legendary gems into thin air with no ability to get them back when swapping out saved builds, but on the upside, when it happens, it dupe's all your equipped regular gems and add's them to your loot.
It should be hard to believe that this is even a problem this close to when it's meant to come into effect for the new season, but this is Bliz dev's we are talking about here - and by that we mean the random contractors they brought in to slap this garbage together in a 4 day period because the actual dev's abandoned the game and left it in maintenance mode over a year ago.
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It's a rift. It costs nothing to do. Common sense dictates that you exit the rift and reset the game unless it's an open map level to start with. You are literally wasting your time, otherwise. I'll take a couple of 10 second game resets to find a good map, over wasting 5 minutes going through a cave/tunnel map which you KNOW will have terrible density.
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Use either the LoN Bomb build or Invokers Punish build, but switch out the weapon for a Swiftmount or In-Geom instead. That's literally all you have to do to be able to clear TX rifts in 2 minutes or less, in solo mode. Sometimes it will be 30-60 seconds longer in a group TX rift, because you have worthless Barbs and Monks to carry. I'm only P450 at the moment and I can clear TX rifts in under 2min solo with either the thorns punish or LoN Bombardment builds.
The play-style when used properly is to kill elite/champ/boss packs and ignore all the white trash. You just jump from elite pack to elite pack, ignoring all the useless white trash mobs in between. White trash gives next to no progression, no DB's, no legendary/ancient items, no gems, no cash & no progress bubbles - they are a waste of time & effort.
You need to be using the EXACT set items as listed in the following builds (except for the weapons i talked about), with the stat rolls as best you can manage for what's recommended:
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/69887-2-4-gr87-invoker-punish
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/69853-2-4-gr90-lon-bombardment
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Sadly this is why Barbs and Monks are completely useless in group play (and solo), unless they play as the one specialist support barb in high-end grifts.
All they can do is clear white trash, but white trash clearing is slow and next to useless at progressing a rift/grift compared to just slaughtering elites and nothing else like what Wizards and Crusaders do. White trash clearing is also doubly useless as none of the enemies drop progress bubbles, legendaries, ancients, deaths breaths, gems or much money.
So just do what the rest of us do and quit any pub rift containing Barbs or Monks, then enter one with Crusaders, Wizrads and DH's.
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Have put up another build for this today.
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/71215-2-4-gr45-with-no-set-items-the-thrill-for
If you have most of the LoN Bombardment build set items (none are set pieces except the rings), then you can crush a GR45 with 8min to spare easy, using this build.
I recommend these two guides as well by Zarhrezz and Mad_Tom:
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/70202-the-thrill-punishing-fury-tier-45-with-no-set
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/71190-thrill-conquest-thorns-build-recommendation
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I cleared GR70 in non-seasonal 2 days ago with the Invokers Punish build and I didn't have a single ancient set item at all. My paragon is 770. My gems were all at L50, except for the Invoker thorns gem which was only at 45 at the time.
If you aren't smashing GR70 with 8-10 minutes to spare, you either don't have the correct set items / gear, or haven't bothered to find out how to actually play with the build. It's literally the simplest high-end build that has ever existed in D3.
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Yeah, no one's TOS/EULA can ever over-rule actual law. At worst a developer/company can ban your user account, forcing you to have to just buy the game again and start from scratch. In countries with strong consumer laws, they cant even do that without having to issue you a full refund either.
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Users have been asking about this build for a while, so I've decided to put together an easy build that will clear a GR40 in 6 minutes, even for a sub-P500 level player. The items are so common to come by, you could probably roll half the entire build with 1000 blood shards.
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/59847-2-3-the-thrill-conquest-for-season-journey-easy
Check it out and see what you think. It's not just theory, it's been fully tested, as have the alternate item & gem selections etc... too. I've given a really detailed rundown of the play style and build, as best i could, as i don't have any video recording software installed / know how to use.
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Blizzard have had massive problems since attempting maintenance yesterday for all users from Australia (see here: https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/616044503648985088), Canada, Spain and a few other countries. At first they thought it was with local ISP's, then actually admitted later it was an issue at Blizzard's end with the maintenance update and have been trying to fix it for over a day now.
They haven't advised of any fix date or time for anyone effected, other than to say they are working on it as hard as they can.
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I'm with Telstra and having the same issues - it's not ISP based.
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Battle.net is still down with the BLZBNTBNA000003E8 1118 error code.
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The problem appears to be global & not ISP related. the Battle.net servers have gone down for regular and PTR users alike, as have their forum areas too.
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Same issues here as well. Joined up to see if others were having the same problem too.