Whatever game mode, the game should never kill the player! Bad enough to lose your character.
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Has anyone tried to level up conventionally; starting with 0 paragon and then testing the scream drops and gearing as a fresh 70 - let me know your experience; I’ve not had time to complete mine yet. Thanks
From what I’ve seen so far screams drop pretty early on in GR tiers at a very surprising rate; it seems a fresh 70 can easily get into an echo, but this was not on a fresh 70 that I tested nor was it with zero paragon.
I was seeing huge drops and XP averaging between 60-100 Rank every attempt which I dunno; maybe it’s a little too fast?
It’s so fast that I would think this is the final season before D4 beta 
My understanding is that the petrified screams are guaranteed from killing an RG. But you will get more answers on the PTR Feedback forum.
Most of the chit chat will move there now that the forum is open again.
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I can’t start a PTR game at the moment, I get a 30002 error code…
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same here, been happening since late last night
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Been having issues with making a game all day yesterday and today and the one time I did get into a game the latency and lag was so bad that I couldn’t even see my character on the screen or close out the game through the ESC menu I had to end it through task manager
Is there any updates on PTR? I have been trying to start the game since 10 AM PST and it keeps giving me a warning message for game creation: code 30002 and game joining code 30002. This the worst start to a season since I have been playing since season 5.
PTR is back up. I have a post here to address some of the fixes and changes.
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Has the issue with live-to-PTR copying been resolved?
This is confirmed updated and fixed. I’ve also included this in the list for the 3/11 update for clarity and confirmation.
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Great, thanks.
Honestly I think ss26 will be a boring season again. Nothing new is here except legendary gems can be socketed on armors. In my opinion, reworking the gameplay, items set like Tragoul avatar, Tal rasha is gonna have more fun
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Are you sure about that? You might want to see this. 
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Thanks for your update. But, I mean nothing new is on at season 26 if everything won’t be changed from now. Echoing nightmares just like the Trial about 6 or 7 years ago. Buffing Raekor set and Nerf Fire ally monk, it is so boring. Why dev don’t remake the set items like Tragoul Avatar or Tal’ Rasha…
Please bring back soul shards or let us insert level 25 gems in armors. What we have now, echoing nightmares, it’s really not a new thing. I am glad it’s included, but it’s not exciting as soul shards were. I feel the season 26 is going to be underwhelming.
This game is ten year old and I don’t think many people played it anymore. So I don’t understand why blizzard is so restrictive with D3. What do blizzard have to lose besides more players. I get that they won’t add new contents, but why not bring back changes that they already made like soul shards, fourth cube slot, etc.
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Still can’t get in since yesterday. Error 1011
I’ve very liked the season, where you can cube 4 items… not much change but has a huge possibility. Make it “real”!!
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I have to agree with others, I’m not impressed… changes with maps and closing rifts OK… new game mode survival bounty rift looks boring compared with shadow clones who were part of GR… some dmg bonus ? last season with new gems was a little much… season 24 was great… there was dmg bonus, something to collect, idea with a rare weapon that u want to find… not a social experiment where you lock yourself in a room with friends… almost no changes in sets 
… otherwise the barb that plays the petanque with the stone looks really awful… a lot of runes look great but it makes no sense to use them and that’s a shame…