Hey Folks. Getting a bit later of a start today than I normally do for a blog post. I had a weird day with a weird schedule… but things seem to have calmed down enough for me to sit down over lunch and make a proper post. Last night I spent some time hanging out with Ace and specifically trying to target a few different seasonal objectives. Initially the idea was that we would knock out the “Pit 75 with 5 mins remaining” and got that on our first attempt with about a minute to spare. From there we decided to make a go at opening 25 of the seasoning root pods within 15 minutes… thinking surely that grouping up we would both get credit. It turns out that we did not… and my spamming the pods meant that I got the achievement and Ace didn’t. So at some point over the next few days we will make another go at it and I will just murder things while they spam the pods.
Since last night I managed to knock out the achievement for opening 10 chests in a single Helltide, which pushed me over the edge and completed my seasons journey. In theory I still have a few objectives left but I really have no pressure to complete them as I have accomplished the thing I set out to do in Season Seven. I have a new raven pet, and also picked up another resplendent spark. Essentially I could stop playing right now and feel entirely satisfied. That said I am probably going to keep playing a bit to see if I can improve my gear and maybe do another round of boss summons trying to more Mythics. We should probably try and link up with Eliyon or Kodra and let them get in on the summoning nonsense to get some good loot from it.
For the New Years event and seasonal reputations I am sitting at rank 7 and rank 18 respectively. I’ve found the most luck so far just hanging out in a Helltide or Witchtide zone and farming the special seasonal altars, rather than grinding out Nightmare Dungeons. More than likely in the coming days I am going to finish up my Coven Reputation and hopefully at the same time finish out the Lunar New Year rep as well. This is going to give me a couple more resplendent sparks that in theory will let me craft another mythic… which hopefully gives me one of the others I want for my build. If I max both reputations that will give me 3 sparks… giving me a second chance pending I get a bad option when crafting the first one.
Past that I think I am done with Helltide and am going to mostly make myself available to help Ace complete the rest of their season journey objectives. Diablo IV is a pretty great game at this point, but very much feels like it takes the same role as Diablo III does. Its a fun game to play for a few weeks with a nice clear progression of objectives to finish. However once the Seasons Journey is over, I find that I lose my desire to keep grinding. Mythics are just unobtainium enough to make them feel like they are not a realistic goal… it is like getting a Headhunter or Mageblood to drop. Whereas Path of Exile has little hits of dopamine along the way… Diablo IV doesn’t really have much in the way of interesting things to farm once you have gotten your build to the point of functional.
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