Completed Chapter IV of the Seasonal Journey (unsurprisingly, the last objective I needed was having level 70 legendaries equipped in all slots). I used the cube to give me the last piece. Continuing on with the Slayer part of the Seasonal Journey wasn’t something I was interested in doing.
I rolled a monk in S4 as I haven’t really played my non-seasonal one in awhile (so it has crap gear). I wanted to see how much of the new Uliana’s set I could get before I reached the above season ending goal. I managed to get 2 of the set items as well as a really poorly rolled Lion’s Claw shortly after I dinged level 70 when I spent shards after hitting the cap. But that’s been about it with drops (heck, the drops in the few Greater Rifts I did were terrible; only magic and rares).
Basically, I’m not a fan of how they are continually using certain item rewards as an incentive to play seasons; the incentive should be the entire fresh start/starting off from the same level field for those interested in the leaderboard part, and the cosmetic rewards. So I’m just trying to spend the absolute minimal amount of time playing seasons instead of falling into the “hamster on a wheel” progression based achievement system to force players into the Greater Rift meta.
Playing solo, acquiring the new act specific materials is just way too slow going at lower Torment difficulties. And the rate of Death Breath’s acquisition is even worse.
Basically, my play time is better off in non-seasonal since I have two softcore classes now that can at least farm T7-T8 bounties/rifts without problems (I’ve put hardcore play on the backburner). Thus even my blood shard acquisition will be better where I’ll probably be able to get all the set items faster on non-season. I can wait for the Lion’s Claw.
Co-op play to increase the drop rate chance as well as XP? Nope, not going to follow their methods of “making co-op matter”. I’m so done that I already stashed everything into the characters personal bag to reduce the mailbox clutter at the end of the season.
