True, and they likely always will since there is no system that is 100%.
It doesnât hurt to unlock 2x primal as early as you can to accumulate more ashes early or blessed with RNG. Drop rates are much higher early stages than later. Altar power is still substantial during low paragon. There are ways to make up CR cache benefits. maxroll guide is more generic these days and their focus is on other games not 3 so is really that up todate since sVr days.
Behindtimes have some really solid tips.
I have to disagree. In fact, I basically took my S28 tree and inverted it.
I think one of the biggest mistakes people may make this season is focusing on the altar too much. The power spikes come from the shards and the bottleneck to the shards are the embers.
How do they make money when no one watches?
100% agree, but you still want CR cache for altar. You want CC immunity, auto pick/salvage, progress orb, resource on crit as key nodes. These are attainable w/o CR cache. On top of it, you want auto DB, auto orbs, 2x kadala⌠you wont get these on day 1 w/o CR cache. Some on route nodes like 5% elemental / elite/ dmg are minuscule in the long run but hell forge ember chance isnt guaranteed and your soul shard power isnt guaranteed either. So working on altar gives you guaranteed power although miniscule on first couple days. Ofc it all depends how active you are⌠for players who can afford 10-20+ hrs on opening weekends, using cache to level is a big draw back. In s29, it took me 62 mins to lvl 1-70 without using CR cache or 38 mins with CR cache. I am a terrible 1-70 player vs Behindtimes, with altar, that time is sheding by 1/2. So i dont see saving 20-30 mins of time using CR worth the 2 day wait. We have visions now, so perma pool is accessible as 3rd node which not possible during s28.
If it only took you an hour to 70 without a cache, youâre very far from terrible regardless of whom youâre comparing yourself to. 
My comment about the altar was more post-70 than pre-70. In S28, it was a bonafide sacrifice you were making to give up that cache. In S30, we have so many leveling advantages stacked up at once that I think just about any player can get away with not using it. (As a side note, this is what makes D3 seasons so cool that D4 doesnât have - 30 seasons in and we are still discussing leveling tricks!)
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100%. Its just matter of preference. End of day we eventually unlock full altar.
id rather avoid the sweaty tryhard full time please their cash cows streamers⌠Wudjio new s30 stream literally said âthose that even remember d3â coming on dude you was all about it at the beginning of the year now ya got d4 and you just dumped d3 like an ex for the new younger model lol
Anoited is my focus and I get a lot of level 70 Equipment from the smith, after that it is just massacre bonusses + Vision of Enmity for me. Last Season I had a complete set from Visions before I did the season journey. I only have friday about 3 hours to play so for me the CR cache has to be spend asap.
They pay a service to have bots sit in their twitch stream and make it seem like they have hundreds of viewers. Its sad but true (metallica fans?)
I am a twitch affiliate and get payed off ads, problem is I donât stream hardly therefor it doesnât pay the billz in my case, but having hundreds of bots would pay the electric bill, and a thousand would pay all utilities easily.
Then the donations they get from real people helps even more.
I think there is an overall lie going on with streamers though, faking viewer numbers with bots, then theres the cheating. Every D3 streamer I noticed was either directly a cheater, specifically played with cheaters, or hosted cheat clans that fed them on or off camera.
I cant name names here, but theyve had their faces on the launcher and go to blizzcon all expenses payed, to promote Diablo.
You do realize that getting bot viewers costs money. If you want to pay for 250 view bots, it actually costs ~$250 a month for such a service. This ainât cheap and no way guarantees that you will make your money back. If view botting as a service was a sure-fired way to make a profit, those service sites wouldnât be offering them as services and instead being doing it themselves.
Of course, you may be right in that some streamers do use bots to inflate their numbers. Itâs a pretty common practice on Twitch, but itâs also often times a very obvious one. Having huge numbers of viewers that donât interact with the stream will raise eyebrows to new viewers. Also, people that view bot do so because they cannot pull in those numbers otherwise - they lack the personality or creativity to make their streams entertaining to draw in people and keep them there. Adding views from bots will not help them keep real viewerâs attention if they arenât entertaining.
Wudijo and Ryker just recently released tier list videos for D3. They will do what most players doâŚplay the game for a couple weeks and then move on to something else. You canât expect people who make a living playing video games to continue to play a ten year old game that people arenât interested in watching anymore.
Diablo 2 is 23 years old and people still watch pro-player MrLlamaSC continue to play itâŚ
Super Smash Bros. Melee is 23 old and people still watch the pro-player Hungrybox continue to play itâŚ
Chess is 1500 years old and people still watch the pro-player Hikaru Nakamura continue to play itâŚ
I can go on and on.
Sorry, but D3 is not regarded in the same class as any of those games. Most hardcore ARPG players never liked D3 , they REALLY hate D4 and have moved on to POE or still play D2R because in their mind thatâs still the best version of this franchise. Even Wudjo and Ryker are going to be there day one when Last Epoch releases and those are the very few guys left even covering D3 or D4 anymore.
And I say all this as someone who has loved D3 and D4. Iâve had hundreds of hours of entertainment from both(REALLY enjoying this current season.) But we are both clearly in the minority when it comes to our feelings on this game.
When were people ever interested? I donât ever recall those two guys putting up big numbers on twitch at all. Especially with d3.
Raxxanterax streams every single day. He also makes content for maxroll and heâs been doing this for years as a full time job. He focused most if not all of his efforts on Diablo 3 content (streams + guides) prior to Diablo 4âs release but now he announced he wonât be doing that anymore. You donât need to pull in 1,000s of views all the time on Twitch to make a living - a hundred(s) is enough in addition to YouTube advertisements for his Diablo 3 videos, and whatever monetary system maxroll gets whether ads + subscribers for their content. I have a subscription on maxroll so they can continue making Diablo 3 and Diablo 4 content that I consume.
But now? Iâm not sure if they are making enough money to even live off of Diablo 3 content alone, or even want to continue to create Diablo 3 content and streamsâŚ
I agree. I believe the altar will still provide a really good power boost, probably more than any season except 24-28 (other than 26 of course), but it is not such a big deal this season that I feel like concentrating on unlocking everything right away.
After doing the first few for leveling and movement speed and pools I stopped really even caring which ones would be the most efficient to unlock first. I just checked what is available or maybe what is available next. Did try and make a bit of a line to auto pickup but I wasnât all that concerned.
Absolutely I do, however you only need to get things started.
Once you have a cult following, then you lay off the bots.
I donât know of a single D3 streamer with these skills 
yet they claim it pays the bills, I call BS.
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Its the same reason some prospective streamerâs family members will subscribe to their channel even though they have no idea about gaming or just open it up in the background without watching.
Thereâs a guy that does Challenge Rift Guides called Cpt D Honorseeker on youtube. Raxx suggested folks check his channel for future guides since he appears to still play D3 enough and cares enough to show people the way you can beat challenge rifts, which I imagine is what content most folks will be looking for in the future seasons since they can find the past videos on many of the old maxroll streamers channels concerning everything else.