Paragon Level 345-346

Bait and Switch

A sponsored ad for League of Angels in Facebook is using a screenshot from Diablo: Reaper of Souls. I don't think they did this deliberately but someone in LOA's digital media team is going to get it big time for this.

First Look at Season 3

Season 3 begins April 10 at 6 p.m. PDT in North America, 6 p.m. CEST in Europe and 6 p.m. KST in Asia. Check out the official blog for more details. Click here.

Time to get Buffed

Experience buff, that is!

Reaper of Souls is turning one year old and to celebrate, all heroes who log in to Diablo III this week on any platform will receive a +100% bonus to Gold Find and EXP! This bonus Gold Find and Experience period begins in the Americas region on Monday, March 23 at 12:00 a.m. PDT and ends on Monday, March 30 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

For more details, check out the official blog here.

Paragon Level 340

Season 2 is Ending Soon

Specifically on the following dates and times for each region:

North America: Sunday, April 5 @ 9:00 p.m. PDT
Europe: Sunday, April 5 @ 9:00 p.m. CEST
Asia: Sunday, April 5 @ 9:00 p.m. KST

More details here.

XP Bonus Alert

Season's Greetings

Paragon Levels 310-334

Massacre

What a Treasure Pygmies massacre site looks like.

BORED

Come ON, Blizzard, come up with Season 2 already because I'm so stone cold BORED. I mean, Season 1 has gone on long ENOUGH. I was playing the other day and my eyes suddenly glazed over and my character died. I didn't care. I just exited the game. Could it be I'm finally, completely bored with the game? I did try the new 2.1.2 patch on the PTR, but it's just more of the same. I easily got bored with that as soon as the community buff wore off. As in I stopped cold when that buff went off line. I wasn't having fun anymore.

Right now I'm playing something else. Hey, I'm actually playing DRAKENSANG again!

Playing Patch 2.12 on the PTR

I couldn't wait for the patch to go live so I tried it on Blizzard's Public Beta Testing System, PTR. I've had to redownload the game, but it was worth it! To fully test the system, they allowed ridiculous boosts to the bonus features:

And because of this, look at this! The inventory below is the result of just ONE Nephalem Rift on Torment 3:

Holy crap, right? I mean, sure...my character and all these items will be deleted when the patch goes live but, in the meantime, I'm having LOTS of fun!

SALE! SALE! SALE!

This week only: save 50% on Diablo III and Reaper of Souls! Click here.

Paragon Level 302-309

Silly me, I forgot to hit the screenshot button when I leveled up in 306 and 307.

100M of Gold

This is the first time I've ever gone past 100M of gold!

I've been spending my hoard perfecting my gems and thus only went as far as 20M at any given time. However, after acquiring The Boon of the Hoarder from the Vault, my fortunes have changed for the better.

Of course, opportunities such as the screenshot below also helps a lot.

Screenshots from The Vault

Screenshots from my adventure in the Treasure Pygmy's Vault.

Getting Ready to Level-up my Legendary Gems

Legendary Gems

So, I've reached Paragon Level 301.

After much consultation with fellow D3 Addicts, Gerry and Aldwin I've picked two gems from my legendary stock - the Wreath of Lightning and the Boon of the Hoarder and installed it on a couple of rings I've been saving for just this occasion.

I actually had to sacrifice a little over 200,000 worth of DPS (from 1,650,000+ to 1,450,000+) to be able to use these babies but it's totally worth it, especially with the Boon. I'll never have to worry about money ever again!

I'm currently working on upgrading and perfecting these gems but I'm already thinking of adding a third Legendary Gem to the mix, this time for an amulet.

Any suggestions?

The Vault is the Gift that Keeps on Giving

A nice little Legendary Gem I got after killing Greed from The Vault is this "Boon of the Hoarder". At rank 12, it gives 43% chance on killing an enemy to cause an explosion of gold. At first it didn't seem like much, but when I tried it, it was amazing. When it said "explosion of gold" it wasn't kidding! At 43%, nearly half of monsters I kill give up an incredible amount of gold.

Here's what gold I got from simply finishing a cursed chest bounty:

I got around 650 thousand gold from this!

A typical Torment 1 run on a Nephalem Rift gives me anywhere from 1-3 million gold!

300 at Last!

I've been busting my ass (whenever I have free time that is) to level up my character to be able to play more comfortably and competitively on Public Games on Torment Level 4.

I've finally reached Paragon Level 300 earlier today and I've got a new Paragon Portrait for my troubles!

Going to spend next week participating in Torment 4 Public Games and maybe see if I'm strong enough to survive Torment 5.