At level 74 and I’m just starting to understand D4. Since I’ve only played D3 for the last 10 years, it’s seeing D4 in D3 terms that make it clear.
GRs = Nightmare Dungeons
Sets = Aspects + Paragon Glyphs + Paragon Legendary Nodes
Bounties for Bounty Caches for rerolling material = Helltides for Mystery Chest loot for rerolling material
T16 for GR keys = Tree of Whispers for Grim Favors for loot caches that contain Nightmare Sigils so you can do Nightmare Dungeons
Legendary gems = glyphs
GRs to level legendary gems = Nightmare Dungeons to level Glyphs
Rerolling Affixes at Miriam = Rerolling affixes at Occultist
Bloodshards at Kadala = Obols at Curiosity Vendor
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Great comparison. I too see the similarities.
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i got 2 year old topic on this , time you wake up 
Except as you progressed through greater rifts you got better loot for doing so. Also the NM dungeons more like bounties since all the nerfs to mob density. you just run through ganking the elites and objectives.
Game is more closely related to D3 before they removed the AH. Where high yellows were BiS and legendary items except a couple were pure garbage. Even an echoing fury was garbage if it did not roll higher enough attack power.
Endgame just as barren and useless except we not making money/gold on the ah for it.
GR90 was usually two yellows and the rest legendaries at boss kill. GR100 is all legendaries at boss kill. After GR100, you didn’t get more loot. The goal was to eventually run GR100 in under 90 seconds.
Wudijo put together a nice tier list for Nightmare dungeons that are best for glyph leveling vs XP speed pushing vs solo tier pushing. The XP speed pushing ones have the density. Glyph leveling ones have the fast objectives.
Guarantee you i had every single glyph maxed even the blue ones before some gimp streamer. I did all my leveling in nms not running some cheese xp farm. And pushing as high as possible even though i get no reward for it because if i did not I would of quit long ago.
And you gained exponential xp as well as primal drop rate past gr100. And why would i run a 2 minute gr100 when i could run a 3 minute 140 a few days after season started?
And every single of those features has been made more annoying and/or worse.
sounds like repeated content is the signature style of Diablo
Primal drop rate in D3 is 1 in 100 legendaries whether you’re running GR100 or GR140s. Whichever gets you to 100 legendaries the fastest - which is from running 2 minute GRs.
D3 primals tend to be pretty useless since you never get all the right affixes anyway. You just need one primal weapon or offhand with the right stats. It’s nice that you can craft them now.
I’m not a paragon pusher. I tend to think it’s less skill soloing non-season GR150 at P5000 then at P10,000. Some stat guy on the D3 forums figured out there’s only like 40 people who cleared non-season GR150 under P5000.
This D3 Season is completely OP and broken, but it was fun. When players can solo GR150 in under 3 minutes, the season theme is pretty broken.
In D4, I’m waiting to see who can kill Uber Lilith under P90.