You may be slower with your main, but any legendary you find with it is a potential improvement. However, if you are farming for those primal drops with a different build you are doing very little aside of XP to progress your push build. To me, the primal requirements are THE reason to consider a speed build at some point in time to maximize primals chance per hour (running GR90-GR100 rifts) by efficiently farming the necessary keys. You need a couple of primals to sacrifice, among other requirements, which I believe is going to take much longer than farming the gibbering Gemstone (I just finished farming the Staff of Herding on Typhon as a practice run and it took me 2.5 hours. To complete the season journey and finish the altar you will spend a lot of time in T16.

With the LoD Gem and generic Legendary gear found with the main that will be an easy task. My strategy will be to start with a Wiz and gear up a Monk or DH for speed farming keys and bounties once my main is established.

Personally, as a semi-casual (P2900 SC / P1300 HC last season) I don't see a huge benefit in starting with a farming build to gear up your main unless you're a certified blaster and want to be top ladder early on. The gift set is for the Typhon Hydra build which is reasonably quick in bounties and T16 and allows you to gear up your Meteor build which is very approachable to play and exceptional for XP farming and pushing - very casual friendly. Where it falls short is as a pushing build and DH pushing builds this season are somewhat fickle to play.įor a casual gamer I feel like the Wizard is an allround good choice. Many have already mentioned GoD DH - it's reasonable easy to gear and play, is great to farm keys and bounties, and runs high enough GRs that it's also a great XP farmer if you minimize your time spent in town.

Diablo 3 season 17 speed farming