Maybe the original player hastily swapped characters and was missing a Legendary Gem or two when we captured their snapshot. They knew this was a possibility, as they note in the final paragraph:įinally, don’t be surprised if you see some strange builds and gear loadouts pop up in Challenge Rifts from time to time. this weeks is a GR45, equivalent to a T10, which a meta build would complete in 90 seconds give or take, well outside the accepted completion time range).Īlso they've occasionally grabbed the player snapshot in a transient state with things actually being not completable because of missing equipment. Things are usually off-meta because the range they pick from is for lower level GR's that a meta build wouldn't be playing (e.g. There are, as I noted, parameters on the algorithm to narrow the range it randomly picks from to try to exclude things that are too odd (although they've still occasionally grabbed things that were damn near impossible, and ended up rerunning it after complaints from the community, as I noted previously). The first time you beat the original runner’s time each week, you’ll get a satchel full of rewards, including crafting materials and Blood Shards. The enemies, pylons, and the level layouts you encounter will all be exactly the same. When you play through a Challenge Rift, you’re effectively going through an exact copy of the Greater Rift the player completed with that very same character. We recreate that player’s exact character for the Challenge Rift, including their equipment, paragon levels, and skill loadout. To create the weekly Challenge Rift, we pull a “snapshot” of a Greater Rift directly from a given player’s account. They have occasionally rerun the pick algorithm in that case, but only after complaints and on a week that was season start AFAIK.Ĭhallenge Rifts are exact copies of a Greater Rift that has been previously completed by another player.

It's no one's job to pick it, and no one even checks it after the fact unless Raxx or someone complains to the right people about the CR being particularly bad. It is an entirely automatic process, the algorithm just randomly picks a GR run that was in a certain level range and was completed in a certain time range.

You're suggesting they put way more work into it than they actually do.

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