Got 960+ in the “Not a Cow” level with two different sets. Might have to seriously go for the 1k kill streak next season.
It’s tempting to throw some DH side eye at the Barbs who got buffs this patch, and will get new sets in the future. Heck, all we’ve asked for is to get our DH Builds post pinned.
I just read the notes. Basically, here is the summary:
Seasonal buff announced based on kill streaks: a stacking bonus of 0.05% movement and 0.1% damage per stack up to 1000 kills, additional effects occur at certain kill numbers, the stacks disappear after 5 seconds of not killing or hitting anything (similar to Gogok), stacks are shared in a group setting.
Crusaders and Monks got their new sets with a few adjusted supporting legendaries (Fist of Heavens-oriented for Crusader and Tempest Rush/Sweeping Wind-oriented for Monk)
Barbs got a number of adjustments on various legendaries and sets for Rend, Seismic Slam, Hammer of the Ancients, and Call of the Ancients
Wizards got their Chantodos pruned (goodbye Vyr’todo GR dominance)
Necromancers got their Bone Ringers capped at 60 (goodbye thorns Necro RGK)
Witch Doctors and Demon Hunters got NOTHING LOL
Squirt’s Necklace bug (buff loss due to ground effect) fixed
Misc minor QoL stuff: auto-pickup GR keys, LoD gem is now a higher priority gem drop from GR boss
From the DH perspective, we now can probably participate more often as RGK but since Starpact was not nerfed, Wiz still are WAAAY far ahead for trash clearing.
TL;DR:
Barbs @ refurbished toys
Crusaders @ new toys
Demon Hunters (do we still exist?)
Monks @ new toys
Necromancers @ Bone Ringer nerf, @ no other nerfs
Wizards @ Vyr’todo nerf, @ no other nerfs
Witch Doctors (do we still exist!?)
Eh… nothing for us this time around. This was basically the melee classes patch. Hopefully we get our set next patch and are not the last class to receive them.
Yeah I think 200 or 300 for the max bonus would be more reasonable, with say a 10 second timer between hits to account for bad rifts with dead spaces at entrances/exits to floors. The only times I’ve gotten a 1k+ kill streak myself was in Not the Cow Level.
I’d even say 400 might be fair, since the ??? surprise might be worthwhile. But I definitely agree, it’s at least double what it probably should be for the stacks/bonus component.
I’ve made the 1k kill streak a whole one time in D3 - act 1 map farming paragon at the start of a season up to about 500. It is nigh on impossible to do unless you get fatties and zombies.
It should make for some insane farming speed clears though on the right maps, especially when stacked with other speedy builds. Looking forward to echoing fury with this one.
Ruins of Corvus could also work. Run through it, opening all the doors and making all the little creepie-crawlies come out of the walls, then run back through killing everything. Combine that with a Boon of the Hoarder on T16 and you’ll also get a massive gold streak.
I’m pretty good with just getting Squirt’s fixed for now. That is if they really fixed it as in Boss’s ground effects don’t take the buff away, frozen, anarch charges, poison clouds, all that stuff.
But from the look of it, it might be just the ground stuff that got fixed. I guess that’s not too bad but anarch’s taking the buff away too was also super annoying.
Yep…an amazing spot outside the meta 99% of the time…(and no, I’m not qq’ing about me not being in the meta, speaking on behalf of the top DH’s that should be).
Pulled this from a Nev post in General with tons of qqing about Chantodo nerf…
On a related note, because I totally forgot to put this in the patch notes and it’s my bad, we are adding new cosmetics next patch for Season 19. Just like the Galactic Wings in S17, there will be a pet and portrait frame available for completing the whole Season Journey. This is in addition to the Season 7 rewards that will be making a return for completing Chapter IV.