I found some good advice that suggested lowering the difficulty way down, removing any gear that has thorns or any legendary gems that have damaging effects, and using simulacrum + blood nova. The trickiest one was having to kill your shadow clone using simulacrum during the Diablo encounter. There were a few boss-specific ones that required some more forethought, but they weren’t too difficult. Most of the achievements were fairly easy to get through normal play, although things like letting your skeletons kill 500 elites took a bit of time. Luckily I had leveled my non-seasonal necro through the story to test it out when I bought it, so I already had the 2 story-related achieves out of the way going into the season. They’re a pretty sweet black/red recolor of the ones that come with the Necromancer pack, and you get them by completing all of the Necromancer class achievements. I am extremely happy to report that in addition to my season progress, I also picked up the Necromancer wings on Sunday night. I managed to get the Trag’oul and Inarius sets already, so I can try those out and see if I like them better. I’m pretty sure that my ability to push into higher GRs is going to be limited with this set because of that, so I’ve been collecting the other ones too. So far I’ve been modifying it a bit so I can put a move ability on my bars because I find myself dying way too much without it. One thing I don’t like about that build is there’s no room for a movement ability. Even without it I’m getting close to GR60. If Tasker & Theo would drop already then I’d have everything complete for the build suggested on Icy Veins.

That meant that over the course of the weekend I went from being carried by a friend to running T10 and carrying others in return. I got quite lucky and picked up some important cube items while leveling, and the scythe+shield set combo very early once I hit 70. I’ve been using the Rathma set that came as the season journey reward, so I get to have swarms of minions and that’s definitely a play style I enjoy.

I’m still not sure whether it is because it is genuinely fun or simply because it is the first truly new thing we’ve had in D3 in a long time, but either way I’m loving it. First things first: the Necromancer is a joy to play. By the end of the weekend, though, I had completed through chapter iv and a bit more besides. Season 11 started with a very relaxed pace since opening night was a Thursday instead of the usual Friday.

Farming the golden flense