Yep, me too. My guess would be that it was multiple good maps with swarms, or he found some Illusionist Nightmares.
Does manual casting rend proc lph?
Probably, when you first cast it (not on Rend ticks). But, LpH only procs once per cast (so, if you hit 30 enemies, still only one LpH proc). So, not a huge amount of healing.
Hmm, need to play around and see if double rends can sustain the incoming dmg or just do rapid fire taps instead.
So I am just keeping my tradition alive but now end of season speed trials are 125s. 120s are retired. This was only 10 runs as they are slightly slower then I would like to run normally. 7740 paragon at the time of trial.
Best 5:24
Average 5:54
Worst 6:48
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So, you going to work on trying to bring down your 125 time, or lower your level to 123s or something like that?
The next one I do will be a bit faster so 125s will be ok.
So my thoughts on this ethereal build after two days of seasons are that it is god awful squishy. So much so that it’s not worth the trouble to me personally. I was more so interested in its group viability and well at 900 paragon 100+ it is still very under powered compared to DH/monk/wiz. Also no one in my normal group is planning on pushing metas this season so I think Im done with season unless they do double bounties at some point.
It will be a fun build once people attain great weapon rolls and 4k+ para. Good luck to you season boys. Back to perfecting this non season build.
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I was holding off for this post. Confirms my thoughts, I’ll see you on NS bro. 
Kind of figured that would be the case. Losing the IB set’s Armor and IAS is a big deal when it comes to toughness, especially for low-Paragon players.
Is there anything that can be given to the follower for emenation to vastly increase toughness?
Not on follower, but you can swap out Mantle for Stone Gaunts. Lose a bit of dps, but you’ll be even tankier.
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Correct. We gain a big boost in damage but with a big trade off of defense or speed. Even in t16 while farming for keys I had to drop the ethereals for BK’s. The speed and resource help is too much to give up. Ill play season if it benefits my non season paragon over the course of 3-4 months. I just don’t see that happening. Pretty much any build that uses a set bonus for its non season version has to make an important trade off to use the ethereals.
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Hmm, I guess it depends a bit on how you’re planning on getting the paragon.
If you’re getting it via solo XP runs, then I think you would need to reach roughly 20k STR in season to match your damage with 50k STR in non-season. If you were getting the paragon via group runs, then you’d be playing Zbarb and the ethereals wouldn’t matter that much for you personally, though they would make your group dps kill things faster. Though there too, that dps character would probably need to get to around 20k STR to be competitive with a non-seasonal dps with 50K.
If you were going to play a lot, there’s really no doubt in my mind that you’d get XP faster in season. 3-4 months is a long time, and I imagine we’ll be seeing people hit the 3k paragon mark by the end of this week.
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There’s some streamers around 2500 already. 3000 by the weekend seems pretty realistic for those guys.
takes them a week, meanwhile I only have a little over 3k total in non-season
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And just like that I am done with rings. My band of might finally dropped. 2.1% damage increase. Time to move onto the next project. Perfect quad gloves and triple off hand istvans.
Great way to start a season.
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Lol, yeah! Well, that’s why, when I’m looking at a clear, I just adjust it up or down in my head based on paragon.
Gratz, Chris! Your long wait is finally over.
So, once you’ve got your near-perfect gear set, are you going to start grinding for pieces with perfect secondaries, too?
I will hunt for the ones that matter. Secondaries like melee reduce damage or resists. I only have a few I would like to change out.
Well then perfect quad gloves just dropped. The luck i’m having!!!
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Look away for a minute whilst I prepare my face to not look jealous. 
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Post that and don’t attach a pic? You’re a jerk! 
Dang, so close, yet so far!
https://i.imgur.com/MljBiRd.jpg
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