Diablo III has a set of three Achievements that can be earned by killing a certain number of Champion monsters. The three Achievements in this set are called “The Takedown”, “Not So Tough Now”, and “Champion’s Collection”.
Champion monsters are blue (and typically come in packs of three or more). If you play Diablo III long enough, you will eventually earn all three of the Achievements in this set. Just keep going after the champion packs!
A Rare Phenomenon is the third part of a series of Achievements. Each of the three requires players to kill a certain number of the Rare enemies that are on the list. Keep playing Diablo III, and you will eventually earn all three of these Achievements.
Rare monsters are yellow and are tougher to kill than the blue Champion monsters. They always have minions linked to them (which are harder to kill then the regular versions of those type of monsters).
Season 11 of Diablo III started on July 20, 2017. This one is being called the “Season of the Necromancer” because it is the first Season after the Rise of the Necromancer Pack became available. I was lucky enough to be included in the Necromancer beta – but I haven’t bought the pack yet. (I’ll explain more about that later in this blog post.)
I tend to wait a day or two before jumping into a new Season because I’m still traumatized from the difficulty we all had on Launch Day of Diablo III. There is a reason why my first Diablo III character, a Demon Hunter, was named ThirtySeven. I like to give the game some space and start a few days later, in the hopes of avoiding lag.
This is The Bumble. I got him from a Menagerist Goblin sometime after Season 10 ended and before Season 11 started. The flavor text for this pet says: He likes the snow, but he’ll follow wherever you go.
Every so often, I like to do a “Wrap Up” blog after a Season ends. There are many Seasons where I get to the end and simply don’t have anything additional to say about it. The “Wrap Up” gives me an easy way to stick together a lot of stuff that I didn’t cover in the other blogs about that Season, but still wanted to mention.
Season 10, without a doubt, was one of the most fun. Part of the reason was because I was playing a Crusader. I’ve played this class before, so I went in with a good idea of how they work. To me, it feels like I make more progress through a Season when I play a Crusader than when I play any other class.
My main goal for Season 10 was to complete Chapter IV of the Season Journey. Typically, players have to get at least that far in order to get the special rewards that are only obtainable during a specific Season. By the end of Season 10, I had not only completed my goal, but also finished off a couple of Slayer objectives.
Chapter III of the Season Journey went rather quickly. I tend to do all the Bounties, in all the Acts, right away. It’s a good way to level up a new character and gather the items you need in order to put things into the Nephalem Cube. There are Seasonal Achievements for completing each Act’s Bounties – and they count towards Chapter III.
The screenshot above shows what Everard the Crusader looked like after he hit Level 70 and had 12 Paragon points. The pet came from a Menagerist Goblin, who dropped it for me a few Seasons ago.
Chapter II of the Season Journey took a little longer for me to complete than Chapter I did. I think the reason was because Chapter II had 11 objectives to complete (while Chapter I only had 9 objectives.) Part of my video game playing time was spent in the Necromancer beta, instead of working on Season 10.
It didn’t take long for Everard the Crusader to become super shiny! The screenshot above was taken not long after he hit Level 30.
Season 10 of Diablo III took place at the same time that the Necromancer beta did. I ended up deciding to split my time between the two of them, rather than put all of my video game playing time into one (and missing out on the other). Despite this, I ended up making about as much progress as I hoped to in Season 10.
If the Necromancer beta had happened before Season 10 started, or after it was over, I might have gotten farther in Season 10. Overall, I’m happy with where I ended up by the end of it. Season 10 started off with several new changes that, in my opinion, improved the game.
This is my third, and final, blog in my series about the Necromancer beta. The Necromancer is a super fun class to play, and I had a good time trying it out. I never made it to Level 70, so I didn’t get to try out the Necromancer sets. Even so, right from the start, it felt like I got a satisfying amount of Skeletons and Golems to command.
What you see in the screenshots in this blog might, or might not, change before the Necromancer Pack is launched. That’s the nature of a beta. I find it exciting to see how things iterate before they go “live”.
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