What is the the reason to play Season mode if I’m am not pushing the leaderboards? I only started in season 16 and I am very casual. Highest paragon I have ever reached in a season is 800. Would it be best for a player like me to be in non season? Are there some game modes or mechanics not available to non season players?
Season =
- Cosmetics like portraits and pets.
- Stash tabs, to a limit, upon completion of the Journey.
- Use of the season theme (with very few exceptions) so you can see what Ethereals, for example, are like.
- the rush of building over, to push again.
Some people play both, doing non-seasonal between releases. Things like XP earned and materials carry across from season to non-seasonal so you might only make it to P800 in a season, but that might mean the NS guy gets a significant boost.
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You can push your own leaderboard and see how high you can go with a class or a build compared to non season. Even though the ethereal weapons will be gone after season you’ll still have your high level gems and the value of your paragon points for non season.
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Seasonal themes are a thing. This season with Ethereal items has been pretty powerful for almost every build (but also polarizing to some in the community).
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you get seasonal rewards…pet/frame/stash(if you’re not maxed)
on top of that this season you get the ethereal transmogs as well if you collect all 21 before the season is over.
Seasons bring more power. Meaning you get to do torment levels faster and higher GRs faster.
And thus you get to level your gems higher.
Now, for example, we have ethereal weapons which are way stronger than anything on non season. Those will be removed at end of season.
The benefits gotten from that more power like your gems, augments etc. will carry over to non season.
So, yes, there is benefit in playing season other than leaderboards.
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To illustrate your comment:
Non-season : 125 with Caldessan
Season : 120 without Caldessan
And I play WD 
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Just play like YOU want.
Don’t look at leaderboard(s)
You like “this” build? Play it.
To be honest, this season is perfect to push, we got Ethereals, in solo.
To further your perspective:
Non-Season: most P10k players can’t reach GR150.
Season: most P5k players can reach GR150.
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Playing Seasons, along all the other suggestion above, also provides the thrill / challenge of starting a new character from scratch. You also competing in a more even footing in terms of paragon levels. You don’t need 10K paragons since everyone starts at 0.
For me, I like the seasonal themes. Playing on normal mode is an endless grindfest. At least Seasons gives you a break and an opportunity to focus on a new build, or another character altogether.
It’s all about the seasonal theme or rewards for me. If I like the theme or don’t already have the rewards, then I’ll play the season. If I don’t like the theme or already have the rewards, then I don’t play the season.
Double bonus this time out, didn’t have the pet and I wanted the transmogs.
Fixing:
Doesn’t WANT/CARES 150
Non season is a ghost town. No public games. Non Season is very lonely. Everyone plays seasons. D3 is a Multiplayer Online Single Player Game, designed to give most rewards to team play. You can play nonseason if you just like playing with yourself.
Another thing in season for some (like my lady) is that some of the achievements reset, allowing/encouraging them to be completed again, as a sense of progress. I personally don’t enjoy them, but she does so we do the ones we can – still have not figured out how to get Leoric to kill his own skeletons; he either cannot hurt them or he dies in under 5 seconds when attacked.
Yes, I’ve seen videos.
The methods do not work - Leoric literally deals 0 damage to them, regardless of the difficulty and regardless of waiting for upwards of 5 minutes in some cases to make sure he “rages.”
He only damages the skeletal minions when he does his sweeping mace attacks, i.e. he’s moving forward and cleaving. Your hero needs to have high survivability, no thorns, and stand away from the boss with the adds so that when he does the move towards you, he hits the skeletons. You should have low damage so that you can get the health of the minions low, so that his cleaves finish them off. When I did this one, I think the encounter took 10-15 minutes to get him to kill enough minions.
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I did it years back and I remember taking a long time. I haven’t tried it lately so it may be bugged.
Edit: Reading Meteorblade’s reply, it does jog my memory that I had to dismiss my follower and lower my damage. I think I had to do it on a low torment level also. In any case, good luck!
Yep, do it on T1, i.e. the lowest difficulty you can do it on to get credit. As you increase the torment level, his minions gain HP faster than he gains damage. So you want to do it on as low a difficulty as the achievement allows.
Yeah that’s about right. There was one season where I got a bit unlucky with his swipes and it took closer to 20 minutes.
You can speed it up a bit by standing next to the guys that are lowest so that when he swipes at you he also hits them. That can help a bit if there’s a couple archers at low health, it goes a bit faster if you can convince him to swipe the low health archers instead of the newly spawned melee ones. The archers will back away from you so he’s less likely to hit them, if you see him about to start his swipe animation you can go stand next to some low health archers to try and make him hit them.
I usually just stack a bunch of regen and go AFK though. It’s pretty annoying to sit there for 15 minutes and babysit. Not very engaging “gameplay”.
I came from 10+ years in D2 and season is the only game for me.
So season in D3 is the way to go too.
If you don’t mind the same hero with same gear year after year then play NS.
I would go crazy!
I love the idea of fresh start.
This season has been tough with the pandemic for me.
GLHV