I am very pleased. Took about half the time I expected. Back to NS play now. Although I might just finish out the season on my Crusader now...more on that later.
First, a BIG round of THANK YOUs to all the developers and non-troll posters that made this possible.
I went from zero in Season 5 the day it started, to within 3 weeks, having completed the Conqueror achievement and racked up 930 Paragon points, still over 100 more Paragon than I have in my Non-seasonal account, AND better gear than I currently have for my Crusader.
I started with TarasBulbas Helltooth WD build. I had gotten to around 800 Paragon points, and was breezing through most of the achievements, until I found I could just barely squeak through clearing a TX rift in 6 minutes. 5 minute was going to be rough, and 4 minutes seemed impossible. Then I started reading Dushyanta's post on the LoN Bombardment crusader. It occurred to me that if that build could get me through TX Rift in 4 minutes, it should be fairly easy to swap out the LoN set for 2 other rings and complete the one remaining "Conquest" I needed, GR45 with no set items. And that is just how it worked out. The timing worked out so that I was able to load the Trinity build with most of the changes needed to make that build work.
And work it did! It took a couple of days of tweaking, upgrading certain items. When I finally completed Conqueror and got my stash tab, I had only spent about a week running the Crusader (off and on, I was actually away from home, and running things over Remote Desktop, until we had a storm right after the Tuesday patch and my IPs at home got reset. Still, I got it back up Thursday, and finished up Conqueror late last night.
Assuming things don't get harder, next season should see me finishing Conqueror and getting the stash tab in 2 weeks or less, not 3, and only using up one character slot.
You guys rock!
And yes, Trinity devs will be getting a donation, you earned it!
First, a BIG round of THANK YOUs to all the developers and non-troll posters that made this possible.
I went from zero in Season 5 the day it started, to within 3 weeks, having completed the Conqueror achievement and racked up 930 Paragon points, still over 100 more Paragon than I have in my Non-seasonal account, AND better gear than I currently have for my Crusader.
I started with TarasBulbas Helltooth WD build. I had gotten to around 800 Paragon points, and was breezing through most of the achievements, until I found I could just barely squeak through clearing a TX rift in 6 minutes. 5 minute was going to be rough, and 4 minutes seemed impossible. Then I started reading Dushyanta's post on the LoN Bombardment crusader. It occurred to me that if that build could get me through TX Rift in 4 minutes, it should be fairly easy to swap out the LoN set for 2 other rings and complete the one remaining "Conquest" I needed, GR45 with no set items. And that is just how it worked out. The timing worked out so that I was able to load the Trinity build with most of the changes needed to make that build work.
And work it did! It took a couple of days of tweaking, upgrading certain items. When I finally completed Conqueror and got my stash tab, I had only spent about a week running the Crusader (off and on, I was actually away from home, and running things over Remote Desktop, until we had a storm right after the Tuesday patch and my IPs at home got reset. Still, I got it back up Thursday, and finished up Conqueror late last night.
Assuming things don't get harder, next season should see me finishing Conqueror and getting the stash tab in 2 weeks or less, not 3, and only using up one character slot.
You guys rock!
And yes, Trinity devs will be getting a donation, you earned it!