I havent played since maybe a month after original release…how hard is it to get decent gear to get a character online.
Diablo 3 is very easy to get geared up to where you get the engine going. I played very casually, couple hours a day and was fully decked out within 2 weeks.
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Play Seasons in Adventure Mode and you get a full free Class Set for completing the first four Season Journey Chapters. If you don’t like the free Set, use it to farm higher Game Difficulties to get a Set you want and your support items.
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Do you get anything for completing the story? Feel like id wanna do it again
Adventure mode and tiers.
There is nothing special for completing the story.
At one time you had to in order to unlock Adventure mode in Non Season.
That is no longer the case.
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Campaign Mode is the actual Diablo III game. You can still farm the same items, but there’s no “free” Set. You have to find the individual pieces. You can’t go anywhere you want in Sanctuary. You have to complete Quests to advance and have access to other areas and Waypoints. There’s no Altar and no Kanai’s Cube.
There’s Events and Achievements you can earn. But, it’s different than the Season Journey, which must be done in Adventure Mode.
Simply put:
- Campaign Mode is great for the lore and learning how the game works.
- Adventure Mode is end-game content. Seasons are done in Adventure Mode.
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Thank you! Exactly what i needed to know
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Make sure you have the xpac, Reaper of Souls. If you don’t you will miss most of the current game.
If you play seasons, it is super easy.
If you play solo, you can go from 1-70 and have the 13 pieces for your build in less than 10 hours. If you are pro, you can do it in less than 2. They won’t be perfect, but you can cruise T16 (top farming difficulty).
If you get a power-level and gear leech, you can have your 13 pieces for your build in 30 min or less.
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couple hours a day is very casually?
In the past years, I had weeks where I get a couple hours of game time in tops - in a whole week! What is that then? 
20 years ago I would’ve called 2h/day very casually as well. But that was 20 years ago. 
I doubt that if you haven’t played the past 12 years. All those guides won’t help you much since you don’t understand the vocabulary and the abbreviations and the game mechanics that are being used / described. So you fumble around and try things out and make mistakes and so on. In the beginning, I sold unused items instead of salvaging them - until someone here told me about it. I didn’t save the one gem which is needed in the beginning at the altar so had to use one three or four levels higher (which I had upgraded earlier and thus spent / wasted money on). All those little things which an experienced player knows by heart. I’m not complaining, just giving another perspective and/or expectation managment for OP.
I’ve now gotten 4 of those mentioned 6 set pieces for the season journey (playing necro). But three of them are inferiour to the stuff I’m already wearing. I have rerolled one stat on an unneeded item before to get lvl 2 or 3 season journey, so am aware of that. But I think there is another way to improve items besides that - I just haven’t figured it out yet.
Very… very casually.
I think there is casual as in hours per day, and then there is casual in terms of chilling vs try-harding with the time you do play.
As above, if you know what you are doing and you have people that boost you, then you can be geared in an hour. Without boost, speed runners do it in a few hours. That requires that you know the game very well and can make decisions on what gear to keep or discard instantly, know exactly what activity to do when, etc. Essentially no time spent in town, just straight from one thing to next.
An effectively new player like you will need way more time as you go through and learn the game. You will be spending most of your time in town reading gear and figuring out what to equip, what to do next. And you will be way slower clearing mobs, and most likely you will be doing the “wrong” (as in, not optimal for speed run) activity on the “wrong” difficulty with the “wrong” gear. If you want help getting faster, you can ask here with details, and ppl will help. If you just want to chill, then do that. 
Set bonuses are typically worth way more than the stat rolls. The green/red ± stats (that typically are around 10% increase or decrease at most) when you mouse over do not take into account the set bonus, which are often much bigger bonuses. So do equip the 4-piece set even if it shows red numbers. Should help you get the last two pieces, and the 6-piece bonus is usually where the HUGE damage is.
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I explained the same kind of thing this morning, to a player (A wizard), who did not want to go from a 2-handed weapon to a 1-handed weapon plus a source.
I asked him to look at the bonuses given by his 2-handed weapon, and to look at the bonuses given by the weapon and the source.
A few minutes, I was entitled to a thank you
Did you mean that you received a thank you from them?
I’ve read many of your posts and you don’t seem to be the kind of person who believes they’re “entitled”.
Definition – Entitled
believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
“kids who feel so entitled and think the world will revolve around them”
(/offtopic)
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Stupid translator 
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