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Any idea what these berries are?

For context: our home was built in 2002. The plant producing these berries was part of the original landscaping. Over 2 decades ago, my wife transplanted it to our backyard so that the deer would stop attacking it. This year it started flowering for the first time ever, and then produced these berries.

Here is a tabulation of Season 39 greater rift progress for PC players, as of about 2pm Pacific on Friday, July 3rd. Roughly 1 week into the season.

This table groups together all the clears for each class, worldwide (EU, NA/US, TW/KR), on PC servers only, across SC/HC and both SSF and non-SSF. For each class I tallied the highest adjusted clear across all sets (and no set), number of GR150 clears, the time of the fastest GR150 clear, the lowest paragon GR150 clear, and the GR tier of the Rank 1000 clear (for this one I picked the higher tier between SSF and non-SSF). If nobody has cleared GR150 for a class then that column denotes the highest cleared GR tier in parentheses.

Class	Highest adjusted clear	# of GR150 clears	Fastest GR150	Lowest Paragon GR150	Rank 1000 GR tier
Barbarian	150.4	(146)	–	–	101
Crusader	155.8	3	12:29	1402	110
Demon Hunter	156	7	11:17	1179	121
Monk	147	(144)	–	–	99
Necromancer	159.2	190	6:15	1035	133
Witch Doctor	146.2	(140)	–	–	75
Wizard	157.6	16	9:54	1208	115

Necromancers have swept the board clean, just like in Season 37, but a little off the pace of the open cube, as we have not yet seen a 160+ adjusted clear this season and have only gotten about half as many GR150 necromancers in the first week. The GR150 clear count, fastest GR150, and rank 1000 tier for necromancers are close to, but not quite as strong as, the start of Season 33.

Wizards have a decent lead in 2nd over a near-tie between demon hunters and crusaders. Back in Season 33 the demon hunters were a lot closer to the wizards, but this time around have faded back enough to make crusaders seem close.

Barbarian, monk and witch doctor have failed to clear GR150 yet, and witch doctors are coming in worst overall with the lowest GR tier reached, lowest adjusted clear, and lowest rank 1000 tier.

Enjoy your weekend, fellow Nephalem!

We have dropped down to moderate as of today. Our grass season started in early May and ramped up to very high over only a couple weeks, with a peak count of 1005 particles per cubic meter in a 24-hr period at the end of May.

Season 39 starts this coming Friday, June 26th, 2026. The season starts at 5pm PDT for all console players, no matter where you live. For PC (NA/US) the season starts at 5pm PDT, for PC (EU) the season starts at 5pm CEST, and for PC (TW/KR) it starts at 5pm KST.

This is the first of four guides I am posting for Season 39. The others are:

• S39 – Conquests recommendations
• S39 – Altar of Rites tips and reminders
• S39 – How to power up solo! (will come out tomorrow)

For most players, after leveling to 70, the main focus will be finishing Chapters I through IV of the season journey in order to obtain a full 6-piece armor set known as Haedrig's Gift.

The Haedrig's Gifts for Season 39 are as follows:

• Barbarian: Wrath of the Wastes
• Crusader: Roland’s Legacy
• Demon Hunter: Unhallowed Essence
• Monk: Raiment of a Thousand Storms
• Necromancer: Bones of Rathma
• Witch Doctor: Helltooth Harness
• Wizard: Tal Rasha’s Elements

From a casual perspective, and looking at the GR20 / Torment IV requirements to finish out the 6-piece set, this is a very easy list for everyone except the necromancer.

The necromancer will probably be better off equipping any random legendaries and leveling up the LoD gem to beat GR20. Necromancers can boost this by upgrading scythes or two-handed scythes and filling their weapon and bonus cube slots with generic multipliers and dominate that way. So, don't feel bad at all for them.

In terms of top adjusted clear ranking from Season 33 (see the "Extra Cube" column), the necromancer has the strongest endgame build for its Haedrig's Gift. Wizard is still in the top 10, followed closely by witch doctor and monk. The only gifts that fall outside the upper half of rankings are barbarian and crusader, but can easily pivot to a different build to push with. Here is a full list of their rankings: Necro Rathma (1), Wizard Tal Rasha (10), WD Helltooth (14), Monk Raiment (16), DH Unhallowed (21), Barb Wastes (24), Crusader Roland (33).

Top-ten push builds (again, in terms of you adjusted clear rank) from Season 33 that aren't on the list of usual suspects are: Barb MotE, Necro Masquerade, Necro Inarius. The necromancers get the gains of the generic multipliers I mentioned previously. I am actually not certain why Might of the Earth is so strong.

Note that the casual leaderboard and in-game leaderboards were contaminated by the busted end of Season 33, and shouldn't be relied upon. Here is the disclaimer on the casual board:

>The leaderboard data for season 33 is heavily skewed: After the season accidentally ended early and the following rollback, some people ended up with their non-seasonal paragon points on their seasonal character, while the character would still show their seasonal paragon. Consequently, many adjusted clear values are inflated.

The barbarian (Wastes) and demon hunter (Unhallowed) both start with very good solo speed farming sets. Tal Rasha is also decent for the wizard with the in-geom or aether walker variant. The other classes will want to look to a different set (or no set) to farm with.

For a beginner/casual overall I would recommend the barbarian. The Wastes set gives you a great start, and is an excellent speed farmer. It only needs the Ambo's Pride mighty weapon and the Lamentation belt to really get going, and both can be cubed.

Good luck with your season start, fellow Nephalem, and never forget that town is lava!

EDIT - holy crap 1 week notice, Season 39 starts in a week, season 38 ends in 2 days!

For the past four seasons in a row we have gotten an announcement precisely 14 days in advance. Furthermore, of all the seasons in the recycled theme era, only one (S31) did not get announced on a Friday:

Season	Announce	Start	Days
30	1/5/2024	1/12/2024	7
31	3/27/2024	4/12/2024	16
32	6/28/2024	7/12/2024	14
33	9/27/2024	10/25/2024	28
34	1/10/2025	1/31/2025	21
35	5/22/2025	6/6/2025	14
36	8/29/2025	9/12/2025	14
37	11/21/2025	12/5/2025	14
38	3/13/2026	3/27/2026	14

A slim majority (5 of 9) of seasons have gotten announcements 14 days in advance, with most of the others going longer and Season 30 with an absurdly short notice.

Here is the space to watch for that expected Friday announcement:

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/feed/diablo-3

Here is an overview at D3resource of all the seasons of Diablo III:

https://d3resource.com/seasons/

Grass season just got going a couple weeks ago. As of today we have already hit the very high rank on the meter, and it's not even June yet.

Daily updates here from a sampler in Eugene:

https://www.oregonallergyassociates.com/pollen-counts/

EDIT- Oregon Allergy Associates added these reminders at the page linked above:
• Continue taking your allergy medications as prescribed
• Try to limit time outdoors when pollen counts are high
• Keep windows closed when possible and use air filters if available
• Shower and change clothes after being outside

Over the weekend we got our first non-zero grass pollen reading of the season, at a moderate level. Tree pollen is still high.

Daily updates here from a sampler in Eugene:

https://www.oregonallergyassociates.com/pollen-counts/

Marys Peak, partially obscured by other things, shortly before noon and shortly after, respectively.