Diablo 3 Patch 2.3 Releasing: How to Prepare (Guide for all classes)

[@GuillermoGarciaHolguin]

I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one hyped for the next Tuesday. I stopped playing diablo because of my full stash. And I really hope that the Kanai Cube will fix that problem. If you are reading this, have a nice day.

[@LennoksUA]

Have nice day too.

[@videoradeon]

Guillermo Garcia Holguin Same.

[@peiyuanli]

+Guillermo Garcia Holguin me too. i had no place to store loots, and did not want to keep others waiting for me. so i also stopped playing.

[@NathanCassidy721]

+Guillermo Garcia Holguin It's fun reading the public chat of all the people wondering how the cube works.

[@joshuadewaal]

+Guillermo Garcia Holguin Next time just create a mule/alt to hold it all.... well the crafting mats anyway

[@videozoom12]

Recently I moved to an area that doesn't allow me to have a decent enough connection to the Internet for online play. I would like to give a big thanks for your talent and expertise so when I do get connected again I can jump right in. You're a fantastic and passionate gamer. Thanks for sharing your talent.

[@4g0ny]

just picking it up again after about a year break, this is exactly what is needed, thank you!

[@aumphp]

your the man makes us non competitors feel good :), also with your ability to make fun of your own mistakes / funny moments , but most of all making boring things feel funny

[@notreveh]

Nice organized video, Rhykker!

[@arnarn2000MSEK]

I love how your subtitles are making fun of yourself. Please don't stop creating videos

[@SharkiceLP]

Wow your videos are of such high quality, and you can really see the high afford you put in every video. I think you really are the best diablo 3 content channel on youtube (especially quality wise). Keep up the good work! And sry for my bad english, greetings from Germany ;)

[@namingsway]

Amazing as always . Keep up the great work .

[@gl1500ctv]

Rhykker, hope to play with ya sometime in S4. What was up with all the rubber-banding in the play in the background of this video. That would have driven me crazy!

[@BryceLovesTech]

I've always dreamed of a viable grin reaper build and it looks like it's going to happen this patch long live Witch Doctor a.k.a. ghetto Necromancer

[@zefragman]

Thanks a lot with this great video Rhykker !

[@shodeb5564]

Rhykker do you play mostly seasonal character or non-seasonal? I feel like when playing as a non-seasonal characters you don't have a goals.

[@pvrhye]

I appreciate the lengthy set-up for the jokes with very short payoffs. He actually had to Photoshop that Delsere's Everything Else to flash for a second on screen, haha

[@FireMarshall75]

Good guide and very informative!

[@sindolorum]

great video as always. cant wait till patch day

[@derderun]

Thank you, Rhykker! My barb is eagerly waiting. Greatings from Germany

[@Rhykker]

derderun Guten tag!

[@LennoksUA]

We wound say Guten Tag because its pretty late in Germany so you should say Guten Abend :D

[@cazhacker7]

Ty Rhykker look forward to playing the new patch!! and now i will be ready cuz of you!!! woooooot.

[@reggaeonabike]

Pride of Cassius falls into Cube+Wear. It is because you can breakdown for ex the Pride and wear a Witching Hour for CHD+AS. Also, imo Season 4 is almost useless for Barbs. Great vid BTW as always

[@quoits]

Great summary Rhykker. Thanks

[@xanakify]

im so hyped i can barely sleep, especially since i got both really well rolled ancient shenlongs

[@mazedmarky]

neat presentation as always, thanks for the vid.

[@Joel-Black]

Perfect video! Thank you master

[@andrewtung7532]

Eagerly waiting for your next upload on the Demon Hunter Unhallowed essence set. Time to farm up and grind!

[@jediberang898]

@rhykker I look at your guide for a quite long time now. thanks for all, they are always clear and accurate. I want to had a precision to your guide: If player is intending to play Non Season; do clean your t6 rift to obtain trial keys now. the t6 key will be useless after patch. all Greater Rift key being unified, you will have more chance to go up in GR , because you can try hard more.

[@goswami]

Hey Rhykker, do you think you will be doing the same leveling strategy as you did for the previous season?

[@omgabaddon]

***** Awesome video as always, too bad 80% of the tips won't work for seasonal characters but the heads up on saving puzzle rings and bovine bardiches, getting rolands to farm for the hammerdin, picking up every single piece of crap we find, etc. are always welcome. I'd like to ask a couple of small questions that you may know the answer for: 1. Puzzle rings and bovine bardiches, do I need to use level 70 versions of those items to open the portals? 2. What's the most efficient farming route for new seasonal characters? Is it better to reach level 70, gear up and start doing conquests or doing them while leveling up?

[@armandomontero2423]

why you will farm something now before if the season dont start until 28?

[@guzacon]

I'll surely go Monk this time. I enjoy the speed, the animations and... big BOOMS all around!

[@cfcgabe7406]

is the patch going to be released for Xbox One on the same day or is this just for PC first?

[@AzureTurmoil]

7:01, you forgot to mention Yang's Recurve for the "wear" section. For the UE build. :P

[@Rhykker]

Azure Nightl It is patch 2.3 only :) You cannot pre-farm it :)

[@AzureTurmoil]

***** Oh this was a section about what to pre-farm, my bad. Yeah I know haha, got tons of rare bows in my stash just waiting to be upgraded to Yang's Recurve once 2.3 is out ^^

[@ech0six]

Because I'm petty, will we get a feat of strength for having done rift trials before they were removed?

[@Judgeharm]

hi Rhykker, I just started pickling up D3 again and I am feeling a little overwhelmed with all the additions. Can you perhaps make a a guide that describes everything that matters between the release of RoS and 2.3 Thanks, great video.

[@Supakick]

You mentioned to craft items before the patch. Which blacksmithing item/set are a good idea to create?

[@CancelerTV]

Hey Rhykker. You left out the new Monk Set/Build, Uliana's Strategem. Seems like it is just as strong as Shenlong on PTR.

[@MichalCieslaNeuromancer]

Nice ona as always Rhykker im gonna play DH as always maybe in season 4 i'll get nice ancient calamity...couldn't get even legendary in season 3 :( Keep up the good work

[@MThre3]

***** one more question :) u said craft set items that use forgotten souls before 2.3. which set items would need to be crafted and on which characters? cause i have most plans and most of my characters kinda have all the sets that u cant craft. so im just interested in which sets(from plans) would need to be crafted

[@I_Ataraxie_I]

Which is so far the strongest char for the new season? Witch Doctor does still very low dmg? So monk is a good start?

[@somestud05]

Great Video here and lots of information thank you. Question...Is there really anything to do to prepare for Season play?

[@zergaholic95]

I will play the reworked Archon(Vyrs) Set. It looks so fu***** cool. Sad that u didnt said anything about the gear for this set. But still a great Video Helps alot

[@Sigel77]

I prepared during the last 2 weeks by going through the 350 key fragments I had spare and speed running t6 with my WW barb. Reached about 10k death's breath (started with 2k), 25k Veiled crystal (I think I had a bit under 10k prior) and finally got my first furnace as a drop on my very last run (I spent all my blood shards trying to get one). Probably gonna try a monk in S4. It's the last class I haven't played.

[@jimcole5359]

Season 4 is looking promising, planning on running the wizard with the Tal Rasha build as I have most of the gear already on my main so can practice :)

[@StringedYak]

Will you be able to roll a rare item into a legendary set item or can you only roll them into regular orange items?

[@AerialAg]

Great video!

[@abdelrahmanahmed2758]

Wow great video i have just found your channel about 3 weeks ago subscribed after seeing the first video. Great videos keep it up. And if u read this i wanted to join ur clan but one is full i tried to join cassie's chairs but i didnt get the accept do u need a specific requirement ?

[@Silverphox13]

Uhgg. I have 1200+ rift key fragments. So annoying when things you've been storing are just deleted.

[@NoSeKe]

What a magnificent video. +1000 internet points for you!.

[@Drachnid]

Rhykker! It might be a good idea to record yourself getting your seasonal items in your mail for a better/faster explanation! Just an idea. ^.^ (For upcoming seasons!)

[@ravssusanoo]

Appreciate the vid. Thanks for the info

[@tahu1235]

still gonna play my marauder set

[@kjtheman]

No need to pick up Veiled Crystal's *Except those that come from RG* Better to farm up White Gear, and salvage those. So instead of 1 Veiled Crystal from a yellow item, or 2-3 Arcane dust from a blue item.. you get 5-8? from White items, and since Quantity from white salvage, can be converted to eithere blue or Yellow, then it would be more worth to pick those up or Go to act 5, and open those armor racks.

[@videoradeon]

Hello Rhykker! You have a great voice! Very impressive!

[@idjekyll]

correct me if im wrong but would any preparation be moot if im starting a new season?

[@davidmurauski9586]

+Rhykker you are awesome! This is the video I've been waiting for! Do you think 12k death breathes? 55k veiled? 10k arcane? 5k forgotten are enough going into patch 2.3? And of course I'll still be farming till the patch drops. I am also Minusxx and do visit your stream whenever I can I very much enjoy it

[@The_Blog]

David Murauski That's like 10 times my stock on everything :P

[@davidmurauski9586]

+BloggingLP hahaha just constantly picking up crafting stuff all the time😜

[@The_Blog]

David Murauski Yeah, I had a break playing the game 4 months ago and 2 weeks ago I started playing again. So I'm currently farming set items and kinda short on crafting materials ^^

[@Dtitilator]

I wondering what kind of DH you were using. Looks badass

[@Rhykker]

Janethan Ricanibante Check my previous video :) Unhallowed Essence demon hunter

[@tremonray2483]

Never knew how bad the subtitles were until today. Rhykker: "Act Specific crafting materials..." Subtitles: "axe Pacific crafting materials...." Rhykker: "Don't farm for Rift Keys..." Subtitles: "Don't farm for refugees..." Subtitles: "Don't farm greater risk keys..." "on a bunch of greater risk keys..." "all greater if he's of every level..."

[@darktrexcz]

Tremon Ray i cant laughing at the "Del Rashas" being "Russians"

[@markyt297]

will the update be coming to consoles the same time as pc?

[@robertmaczko2563]

Has anything changed strategically for leveling our seasonal characters for S4?

[@FrimpHaha]

This patch is going to be sooo good

[@TheCe1ticZombie]

Nice video. Going with Crusader for Season 4 play and Barb for non season play.

[@Zeloh927]

Great video, thanks!

[@paulmaddison6193]

I'm almost always certain what class I'll be playing in a new season. This time however, I honestly haven't got a clue.

[@DoodM4n]

Thanks for the concise information. I will probably keep working on my Whirly-Barb and my minion master WD, still need that stupid dagger though....

[@Vinconex]

Lol not to knitpick on an awesome guide(again) but it was really bugging me you sounded like you were saying "Dal Rasha's" set not "Tal Rasha's" set :) Thanx again for the video cant wait for 2.3 to bring me back to tristram

[@phillakai321]

Hi rhykker thank you for this guide much appreciated, I've played DH all the seasons and im probably gonna switch for barb this one, can you pull big numbers with a barb or do they suck in this patch ? I believe WD always been strong do you think they still going to be top class in s4?

[@nickschroeder7626]

"Set everything but shoulders" "Not shoulders" I may never laugh harder

[@christosama]

Right so I don't play D3 atm. I want to start S4. Is it worth doing all of this prep if I wanna do S4? Like can I make a character now and then transfer all of these crafting items and things over to my seasonal character in the vault?? Ihdk. Need help.

[@weskerend507]

Excuse me, I don't play Diablo 3 on PC, but I'm rather curious: Why are you telling 'us' to farm something before the Season 4 comes? Shouldn't you wait untill it's applied officially? How can you transfer items from the current game to the future new season? Isn't it supposed to reset everything for Seasonal Characters? Thanks in advance!

[@Jamie95C]

Wesker End this guide isnt meant for future season chracters. It is for those who play non season.

[@weskerend507]

Jamie95C Oh, didn't even think about that possibility. It's strange talking about head start on non season, because those who started playing early will "always" have advantage, right? It makes sense, anyway. Thank you.

[@TechNinjaHS]

You forgot to mention Uliana's Strategem when you were talking about Monk Builds

[@Rhykker]

TechNinja HS Uliana's is mostly a season 4 build, from what I've seen - non-season is basically just shenlong. You need a season 4 item for uliana's.

[@fleonard]

***** yeah you need the Lion's Claw

[@Metra1989]

thanks ryk. that was very helpfull ;)

[@martins.7175]

Rhykker, you mentioned not to farm GR keys, does that mean we are still able to recycle keys in 2.3? Season 4? If not don't we benefit from farming now and using them up ASAP? Lastly what will happen to forgotten souls? (not sure why my phone was re-posting)

[@Rhykker]

Martin Sanabia Basically, all realm of trial keys and greater rift keys are turning into a Generic Greater Rift Key. You click on the obelisk, you insert your generic key, and you select what level GRift you want to do. You can farm realm of trial keys now, yes. But don't bother farming the realm of trials, because it doesn't matter if you have a Realm of Trials Key, a Level 1 Greater Rift Key, or a level 67 Greater Rift Key - they all turn into Generic Greater Rift key :) Forgotten souls remain; farm them :)

[@martins.7175]

Thanks

[@muskaos]

I have not given any significant play time to Crusader yet, so Season 4 I will be spamming blessed hammers along with everyone else. Alternate will probably be a WD; I greatly enjoyed the Helltooth set on PTR.

[@Hitman20081]

Good job... I look forward to the new patch.

[@angeredgod]

how does one lvl fast in seasons ? I remember you had a vid once , again thank you dont stop the vids !!!

[@RichardGray353]

Shenlong monk is going to melt faces. I cant wait. Already farmed some spirit guards for the build

[@s-mabdurrazak]

Wait so, I keep missing this information and can never come across the answer - how many extracted legendary affix's from the cube can you apply onto your character? Is it one additional affix per armor? Or just one in total?

[@voodoochicken9592]

1 jewellery, 1 Armor, 1 weapon.

[@sethp5950]

I've only played barb but was thinking of going with another char. Any suggestions? I use raekor's/IK build but was switching over to WW/Wastes since it's superior. Is there a video for the viability of IK in 2.3?

[@boren81]

got my dart Dr. ready and waiting lol been playing around in the PTR with trying to combine that with T1 hell tooth we'll see how it goes lol

[@Kazmodius]

Defenitly experimenting Witch Doctor remade Helltooth or new Arachyr.

[@LordCreo]

I stopped playing D3 before reaper of souls. Do you think its worth trying to start again now, or have I left it too late?

[@bolosandninjarolls]

Absolutely, RoS put so much life into the game. And blizzard actually updates the game often now, so you will always be getting something new. I highly recommend you try it again.

[@maximisersmith1802]

Thanks this is really helpful

[@neoism]

doesnt really matter if you only play seasons.... I havent play non season since s1.... I have to start over anyway...

[@tomorih]

I will start with WD in S4. Next probably will be Monk, and maybe Crusader/Wizz. Depends how hooked I will get to season.

[@bigode00]

I will be playing monk just to change a bit. Is it good?

[@Zesicion]

Im still not sure if I will try the monk or crusader both look strong and fun to play... may i play both if i get time for it

[@V4K4R14N]

Are we talking about seasonal here or no? It's been a long while since I've touched D3 (excited about this patch tho) and I though materials don't transfer over, it's sort of just like starting all over again?

[@Sigel77]

Victus Preparing is for non seasonal only. For seasonal, you're right that you start completely fresh at the start of each season.

[@DeadlyDanDaMan]

I bought D3 specifically because of the 2.3 patch and the addition of the Cube. It's just not Diablo without the Cube man....even if it isn't exactly the same as D2, it'll do for me:) The Cube has become an icon of Diablo, and I was royally pissed when I found out it wasn't in the game at launch. So much so that I boycotted it....until now.

[@TobiB89]

There's one thing I didn't quite get: will my "realm of trial"-keys be converted into the new greater rift keys or will they be gone with the patch? Should I just leave them as they are right now or make them into greater rift keys of any level before the patch goes live?

[@Jamie95C]

***** trial keys will be converted as well. You can do greater rifts, but when asked always choose the key reward. That way you can still use the key which you get in the next season.

[@wr4th1800]

Thanks for these rhykker they are very helpful and I am curious on your upcoming hell tooth build and how that will go - (I keep getting this set and nothing else)

[@Rhykker]

wr4th1800 I easily go GRift 55 with my helltooth build :)

[@Skyfight3r]

You might add Scrimshaw for Main Hand on WD - Zombie Bear Build. I will start with monk or wd on season 4

[@HokeyBugle]

idk if you saw my comment asking for this. if so, thank you so much :3

[@JTshape]

It sounds like you say Del Rasha instead of Tal Rasha when you speak of it around 8:05

[@voodoochicken9592]

Because the build uses both sets.

[@JTshape]

Ah lol got it

[@Dizturbias]

Hey. I've been looking and can't really find any decent info on a good 4 man setup for Grifts. Can you Rhykker or someone else please give me the prefered setup for season 4 (2.3) Thanks in advance!

[@kemp707]

what items would you recommend to spend the crafting materials on? need to waste those forgoten souls....

[@Remjay324]

Depends on the class... But perhaps reaper wraps for resource heavy builds or the Aug set.

[@Busenlilly]

Rhykker, do you know if the item vanishes the moment you get the passive?

[@muskaos]

+Garviel Loken Items are consumed when you extract the bonus.

[@stingersteelers1]

Very exciting to hear it should be on tues can't wait and all of those crafting materials I have like a boat load I just take whatever drops and keep

[@GuiGuib81]

good job rhykker

[@Garuda891]

Wait, am I supposed to believe that you can transfer items that drop now into season 4, or are all of these do's and dont's for the the new season?

[@Remjay324]

It's for non season players.

[@qualikist001]

I'm thinking WD i've always loved the whole pet in your face so its more then likely what im gonna roll this season 4. This patch is looking great

[@koldkustard]

You left out the fact that they changed the witch doc dagger darts build slightly on ptr, nerfed the carnevil so now only the 5 nearest fetishes shoot darts, something I realized last week when checking for changes on ptr, so really now blizz have shaken thing up and i don't know what it top build anymore, I could see how the scaling of the build was going to get out of control but still I am not sure if I agree with how blizz dealt with this...

[@Rhykker]

Kold Kustard Not a nerf :) The darts do more damage now. All my info has factored in this change. This change was because having 20+ darts firing off at rapid attack speed was causing too much lag. Each dart now does about 3x the damage of the previous darts, so things even out.

[@armoredp]

***** So the Carnevil Voodoo mask is a non-set legendary item that retroactively changes? I'm asking because this is usually never the case, but you did include it in wearable gear you need to collect.

[@Remjay324]

+armoredp yes, carn mask is changed. No need for a new one. This change is to prevent lag in high greater rifts.

[@3lit3gn0m3]

***** Yup. It's far from being a nerf. I can't wait.

[@Tainted0ne1138]

Good thing they fixed the rubber banding issue that has been in the game since launch.... Seriously though, rubber banding is annoying.