With aggressive gearing and deep class knowledge, you can probably make nearly anything 'work'. These are not meant to say that you cannot make any class or build viable or fun. These are meant to examine overall trends we're seeing on the top-tier Normal Seasonal leaderboards. The numbers presented are a snapshot taken on Friday, March 3rd, and will go out of date quickly. In all cases but one, the Haedrig's Gift set is falling to second place, and in one case (Necromancer), it's already fallen to third place.

Although you can get the full Haedrig's Gift set within several hours of play, not one of these sets is leading their class in overall Leaderboards. Leaderboards will also be attached to Seasons and Rifts, allowing players to compare their runs to those of other Diablo 3 players.Looking at the first week of Diablo III Season 28's leaderboards has been interesting, particularly watching how players are beginning to migrate away from the free Haedrig's Gift sets to those gearing strategies to ensure high-tier success. Both Seasons and Rifts will feature rare, exclusive loot, including new Legendary items for completing Seasons. Rifts will get progressively more difficult and will continue until the player falls or until time runs out. The upcoming 2.1 patch will also introduce Rifts for Adventure mode, which introduces intense tiered challenges with the goal to try and progress as far as possible. There's more information of that to come, and we're not making an announcement of when, but that's coming in the first major content patch - not the first patch, but the first major content patch. We're still working on them, but the general gist is that you'll level up a new character, we'll have specific ladders for Seasons, and also some goodies that will drop along the way. 'I'm happy to say that as part of our first big content patch in a couple of months, we will be releasing Seasons, which will include a ladder-like aspect to them. 'One of the features you guys have asked about a lot, that we have done a lot of research for, is something called ladders,' Mosqueira stated on the stream, transcribed by Diablo Fans (via Eurogamer). Game director Josh Mosqueira jumped on Diablo's Twitch channel to announce that ladder-like 'Seasons' and 'Rift' challenges will debut with the game's first major post-Reaper of Souls content patch, set to deploy this summer. Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls just released late last night, but Blizzard is giving players something to look forward to in the months ahead.

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