Yesterday was a bit of a rough day, and as a result I poured myself into a very familiar pattern that was Diablo 3. I started the evening in deep turtle mode and then eventually added Grace in the hopes of getting her one of the pieces she was lacking, the Stone Gauntlets. These had dropped probably 30 times for me and I had sharded all but the best ones. Thankfully it was on the second or third rift that a pair dropped and also at some point during the evening I got my Compass Rose, which was the last piece I “needed” for the Immortal Kings Set dungeon.
The funniest part about that is that I ultimately did not end up using the travelers set, because I was struggling with cooldowns. I swapped in my ancient primal flavour of time and the ring of the zodiac I had been using, as well as rolling cooldown reduction on every piece that could support it. I managed to get my cooldown to somewhere in the 50% range and after that the set dungeon was a cake walk. Various guides had said this was the easiest of the Barbarian dungeons and I can believe it. Essentially it just requires you to have Wrath of the Beserker form active. The cooldown reduction allowed me to have this up way more often, and some careful pulling meant that I managed to knock out a few elites during each activation.
The funny thing with set dungeons is that when I ultimately set my mind to do them I ultimately finish them. However they tend to be the thing that I wait until the absolute last minute in a season to do. There is just something about being both on a timer and having to do a bunch of gimmicks that sets my brain into panic mode. There are stories as to why I am the way I am with being on a timer that I won’t go into again, but suffice to say if you tell me I am being times I will do 300% worse. If you quietly time me while I complete something that I think I am just under normal conditions, I do as well as I ever do. So basically I have to trick myself into not really paying attention to the timer, which is exceptionally hard.
At this point in the season I am down to just needing three conquests. In season 21 I have the following to choose from:
Curses! – on Torment X get 350+ kills during a cursed chest event
Sprinter – Complete the entire Diablo 3 campaign mode at level 70 in less than an hour
Avarice – Get a 50 million gold streak in some place other than The Vault
Thrill – Complete a Greater Rift 45 without wearing any set gear
Speed Demon – Beat a Torment X Nephalem Rift in less than two minutes
The ones that involve completing something within a time limit would probably be doable but my anxiety would be at a 45 out of 10 the entire time. Curses is pretty straight forward and we have managed to accomplish this on several seasons so that is a no-brainer. Avarice is similarly a no-brainer and I have even written how to go about accomplishing that in the past. That leaves the only one I have not actually accomplished before being Thrill, where you have to complete a GR45 which I believe is Torment X equivalent without wearing any set gear.
Right now I have been playing with a bunch of options, but in reality the true limiter is that I have not spent time leveling my Legacy of Dreams gem at all. This gem effectively makes each legendary you have equipped work a lot more damage, and after level 25 this goes doubly true for ancients. I want to get this up to around 30 and then give it a shot. I’ve found a bunch of build options for this, and tried an earthquake build last night that I did not love. I figure I will swap over to a Hammer of the Ancients build and give that a shot this evening after have I poured some levels into the gem. After that I just need to find a time and some people to do Curses and finally spend a weekend grinding for bounty chests. Given that I can do T16 pretty easily will need seven rounds of bounties. This will give me the fuel to knock out the final goal… which is to cube 40 items… and I am already at 20.
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