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Blizzard is in Diablo 3 in anticipation of a new Season to begin in only a few short weeks, and revamping how players see and compete for a spo🤪t on the leaderboards for Solo Greater Rifts.
In the current list of PTR patch notes, Blizzard states that solo leaderboards will now contain a total of s💃even sorting filters for each class. The newest filters will let you search by Class Sets, No Class Set, and Overall, the last of which is the default filter. The developer notes state that the current form of Leaderboards is fine for showing the strongest build for each class, but usually resul🌊ts in showing only a small percentage of the wide variety of builds available.
This should come as no surprise to Diablo 3 veterans. If you have played a Hardcore Seasonal Demon Hunter in the last year, for example, you may have looked at the So♔lo leaderboards for several seasons only to find the top few hundred spotsꦫ all using virtually identical Impale builds. You might spot the odd Multishot build, but these would have been outliers at the highest ranks of play.
This change to filters should help profoundly change how you view personal goals in each Season. Whereas until now it might not have seemed worthwhile to focus 🐟on non-meta builds, now you could strive to be the best player in a region using other𝔉 set bonuses. There still may be one meta build that is more powerful than others for solo play but allowing for filtering by different sets allows for a different experience, and more importantly, a different type of goal setting every few months.
This new filter is a great first step towards making Solo Greater Rifts more enjoyable with each Season and could even push players to be morౠe competitive. The PTR notes do not state whether these filters will only be usable during a Season, or if they will carry over to the official Diablo 3 website where the leaderboards are archived after each Season wraps up. If the new filters do carry over to the archived leaderboards, you can bet that more players will be competing to be the best at their preferred builds each Season.
There is also a complete Follower overhaul happening in the PTR right now as well, and that too should have a profound change in how you can climb the leaderboards. Overall, this change to filtering leaderboards looks to be excellent, an😼d we cannot wait to see it live in game when the new Season launches🅺 in just a few short weeks!