What is your penalty in i5 dungeon? Maybe you can push your character to the limit like how we used to push high GR in Diablo 3 despite of the overwhelming stat difference. 
Well don’t expect your issues to be fixed unless you can upgrade all your set items for 3 more steps. They really made a paywall for pve which is alerting tbh…
Set Items Rank Increase
The new maximum Rank for Set items has been increased to 25 to further reward you for completing Challenge Rifts.
Small increase.
From what I remember, I think the Rank 19 to 20 upgrade was around 1800 Cryptic Crystals. If that’s right, I’d expect the Rank 20 to 21 to cost 1900. I currently have 5659 in stock. If I do another couple of Challenge Rifts I should have enough for 3 rank upgrades…
This, however, fixes nothing. I’m currently around 400 CR too low to be doing INF5 dungeons. Getting three 12 CR upgrades from the rank-ups still leaves me around 360 CR too low.
How does this help?
It’s blizz 
but yeah I know like ooh a shiny distraction attempt
Can’t even start challenge dungeons below cr, I’m guessing you can bypass in a party as always but still a couple hundred cr difference is a joke.
You can’t start random challenge dungeons below CR requirement.
However, you can if you go to the entrance of a specific dungeon.
I zoned into INF5 Mad King’s Breach and opened Inventory to check…
My damage output decreased by 71%.
My damage taken increased by 248%.
I had a try (solo) anyway. The trash was okay but the first mini-boss, whilst I was doing okay damage to it, the incoming damage was awful. I suppose it might be just about be do’able at a push but, basically, fail to avoid a single boss’s big cleave and you’ll be one-shot.
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And it’s not only the bosses, which can mess up the whole ordeal. Tried one normal i5 dungeon (Namari) solo with around 300 cr below requirements. There spawned an ancient elite with the life leech affix…
Couldn’t get him down fast enough, because my damage output was less than his life steal from me. And of course, I couldn’t progress because the barriers don’t open unless everything is killed.
So those type of dungeons are a no go, if you want to farm for greens and don’t want to get carried.
These are the requirements for existing levels:
| Level | Gold | Scrap | Crystal | CR bonus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 26000 | 400 | 300 | 12 |
| 13 | 30000 | 600 | 500 | 12 |
| 14 | 35000 | 800 | 700 | 14 |
| 15 | 40000 | 1000 | 900 | 14 |
| 16 | 50000 | 1200 | 1100 | 14 |
| 17 | 60000 | 1400 | 1300 | 14 |
| 18 | 70000 | 1600 | 1500 | 14 |
| 19 | 80000 | 1800 | 1700 | 14 |
| 20 | 100000 | 2000 | 1900 | 14 |
The next levels could be 2100, 2300, 2500, 2700 and 2900 or they could lower the cost as they did with primary upgrades at lvl 21 and 26 but to have a meaningful upgrade they should have to lower the cost to like 500 per level…
It’s also unknown how much cr each new level gives, could be 14 or higher as well but patch notes are lacking details as always.
according to Dev Disc a cr drop is included just missed in the patch notes as always. We shall see
What is a dev disc?
If your INF5 farming is not going well, it seems like you will have no choice but to go to level 720, 730.
Anyway, your 8 legos are awesome. Played a lot in the open world? Mystery item?
The Chinese update notes have some additional explanation.
It seems that you need to reach a certain Paragon level to upgrade to rank 21,22,23,24,25 respectively.
They probably made an update that will last about a year. We will slowly, very slowly approach rank 25.
Here is what i got from DI discord:
This will be the new req after patch (this might be changed):
Inferno 5 = 44,765 Combat Rating
Inferno 5 Dungeons = 44,945 Combat RatingHelliquary bosses in both difficulties will be adjusted accordingly, but we won’t list them all out individually.
From Auroth
Auroth is DI partner program.
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Wow… I guess people had a lot of complaints.
Disc is short for discord…
How can I enter the DI discord? any link?
Informations are scattered in many places. Blizzard news, Forum, Reddit, Discord, Twitter(X), China…
Updates for this posted here: Upcoming Changes to Combat Rating requirement for Inferno V
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Told you… Happy farming i5 everyone 
Rank 20 → Rank 21, 1300 crystals, 10 CR
Rank 21 → Rank 22, 1500 crystals, 10 CR
What I had enough crystals in stock for…
Plus, the upgrades are also locked behind Paragon levels. 22 > 23 requires Paragon 899.
So we’ll have plenty of time to gather materials.
Please tell me you meant 799 because if if it’s actually locked behind 899, that’s 20 weeks away.
Yeah it’s worse than I thought. Considering that rank 23 is also locked at 899 we can basically gain about 80-90 cr while we are at inf5 meaning that it is indeed impossible to reach the required cr for inf6 without inf6 set items unless someone spends a fortune on high ranked 5/5 gems. It really seems like this is the new norm…
Nope, this was shared by another player
https://imgur.com/a/H4eComC