**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[pandemonium]

Best EXP route in A1 from my experiences is (which is the best act to EXP in); each # = TP:

1. Festering woods - entire area (usually 2-3 elites in open), each dungeon (1 elite each)
2. Cemetary - hit all 3 dungeons
3. Cemetary - clear most of weeping, including dungeons
4. Fields of Misery - clear the entire zone, skip Kazra and vendor huts, skip "what killed this beast" event and the infected farm event (none of those monsters are worth exp)
5. Leoric's - run backwards, hit the 2 elites inside the manor and then immediately outside. continue on to clear Upper Highlands and any dungeons (stop at Lower)
6. Leoric's - finish up all the way to Butcher

One thing I've noticed is people tend to skip a majority of dungeons if they just happen to find the correct path to the next level. Don't do this. If you want to maximize your EXP/hour, spending 20 seconds pathing backwards to 200 monsters that you would've missed is more worth your time than not. Once you hit 5 stacks, the idea is to continue EXP'ing until you've cleared the majority of the Act. If you've streamlined your runs to 'only' hit 2-3 zones, then you're getting less EXP/hour than you think. Also, you'll see a bounty of legendaries and items more if you stay in game longer. Just TP anytime you run into a dead end and go back to the nearest CP.

Of course, there's the time commitment this amount of run requires since it takes around an hour (highly dependent on the group you get). If you run it solo, it may take you up to twice as long depending on your gear, but at least you won't have to deal with people jumping in and not following the pack and just doing their own thing.

For me, with a Hellfire ring, perfect star ruby in helm (29%), full party, on MP8, the run mentioned above usually nets me around 100-120m. This is about half a level for me now, at 91.

Also, stopping to sell/salvage is a big time waster. I only pick up 1-handed weapons, amulets, rings, gloves, and legendaries. I've been attempting to sell other slot items for more than a year now, unsuccessfully; regardless of how awesome their stats are. With this slim amount of item collection, I usually only fill my bag 1.5x (with 6 reserved for other items).

Here's to 9 more levels!

 

[Adrenaline]

I loaded this back up and actually played (went from 61 to 63) for the first time in about 6 months.

I need to up my dps but the 200 million I have will not afford much of anything.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Adrenaline-1529/hero/827386

I upgraded the gems in my weapons and my IK Chest (50k health without an amethyst in my helm).

I have been trying to get the amulet patterns to drop, but no luck.

 

[bonkers325]

I loaded this back up and actually played (went from 61 to 63) for the first time in about 6 months.

I need to up my dps but the 200 million I have will not afford much of anything.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Adrenaline-1529/hero/827386

I upgraded the gems in my weapons and my IK Chest (50k health without an amethyst in my helm).

I have been trying to get the amulet patterns to drop, but no luck.

just buy them, they're super cheap

 

[redrider4life4]

Yeah the patterns are only 1500 or so

 

[Adrenaline]

They are JC patterns and I am looking under blacksmith would be my guess.

 

[Rhezuss]

Damn I read you guys and i'm le newb! I see you allhave farming tips and patterns...but unlike some other games, I don't really know how to farm a specific area lol...

Do I simply choose the Quest nearest to the area I want to farm and farm there then log out and back in to farm again?!?!!?

You can laugh at me

 

[smackababy]

Damn I read you guys and i'm le newb! I see you allhave farming tips and patterns...but unlike some other games, I don't really know how to farm a specific area lol...

Do I simply choose the Quest nearest to the area I want to farm and farm there then log out and back in to farm again?!?!!?

You can laugh at me

People just find the most optimal routes to farm. For a long time, there was one standard (Act 3 Alkaizer Route) and people just ran that over and over. Blizzard has recently increased mob density in the other acts and gave people some more options.

 

[stag3]

and decreased xp for certain mobs so they effectively killed alkaizer route lol

 

[smackababy]

and decreased xp for certain mobs so they effectively killed alkaizer route lol

Even if they hadn't nerfed the scorpions, it still wouldn't be the best I think. At best, I could get like 60-70m per hour. You can get almost double that now in a group, it seems.

 

[Wyndru]

Best EXP route in A1 from my experiences is (which is the best act to EXP in); each # = TP:

1. Festering woods - entire area (usually 2-3 elites in open), each dungeon (1 elite each)
2. Cemetary - hit all 3 dungeons
3. Cemetary - clear most of weeping, including dungeons
4. Fields of Misery - clear the entire zone, skip Kazra and vendor huts, skip "what killed this beast" event and the infected farm event (none of those monsters are worth exp)
5. Leoric's - run backwards, hit the 2 elites inside the manor and then immediately outside. continue on to clear Upper Highlands and any dungeons (stop at Lower)
6. Leoric's - finish up all the way to Butcher

Nice to see this is still popular. It was one of the first XP runs I started doing, (before everyone was doing alk runs). I found it on some random Diablo strategy guide website.

 

[Adrenaline]

Nice to see this is still popular. It was one of the first XP runs I started doing, (before everyone was doing alk runs). I found it on some random Diablo strategy guide website.

I did runs like these with a friend last year. They occupied a lot of time and were actually fun.

I wish my Monk friend still played.

 

[pandemonium]

Wew doggie, sold a 1374 DPS Skorn with 500 Str and 197% CD on it for 217m! Then proceeded to look for easy upgrades. Then lucked out getting a trifecta roll on an amulet. Life is good!

 

[Grey!matter]

if anyone wants to do mp8+ or do pub games with one less terrible person add me.

durrty#1702

 

[TheInternet1980]

Feel like I've hit a wall. Suggestions on improving my barb?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/TheInternet-1269/hero/19134510

 

[darkewaffle]

Since crit mempos are so 'spensive a "stat" mempo is a pretty good compromise. You can find them with well over 250 Str which will probably be a 3-5k DPS increase, depending just how high of a roll you can find. I don't think an 8 aspd 2XX str mempo is particularly expensive either.

Inna's pants are hard to beat as well. Move speed, aspd, crit chance and two sockets. The ones with a str roll can get pretty pricey, I'd just find a pair with a decent Vit roll to start and throw two str gems in there, should be a pretty substantial DPS increase, not to mention the runspeed.

 

[digiram]

Wew doggie, sold a 1374 DPS Skorn with 500 Str and 197% CD on it for 217m! Then proceeded to look for easy upgrades. Then lucked out getting a trifecta roll on an amulet. Life is good!

No LS on that skorn?

 

[TheInternet1980]

Since crit mempos are so 'spensive a "stat" mempo is a pretty good compromise. You can find them with well over 250 Str which will probably be a 3-5k DPS increase, depending just how high of a roll you can find. I don't think an 8 aspd 2XX str mempo is particularly expensive either.

Inna's pants are hard to beat as well. Move speed, aspd, crit chance and two sockets. The ones with a str roll can get pretty pricey, I'd just find a pair with a decent Vit roll to start and throw two str gems in there, should be a pretty substantial DPS increase, not to mention the runspeed.

You think? I have a 190+, 8 aspd, 3.5% crit mempo right now. 60-70str, would up me that much?

I've been looking at some Inna's, and a decent set of crit Lacuni's...but haven't found anything compelling enough to buy for the gold.

 

[darkewaffle]

Oh, my bad, I was looking at it through google translate and the crit text was covered up by some other gibberish lol. I assumed you were just using a vanilla one.

 

[smackababy]

If you have a crit Mempo, it would not be worth it to switch to a double STR roll Mempo. Crit is very valuable to barbs (and most classes) and scales very well.

I just don't see the value of Inna's though. You get far better stats in something like Depth Diggers, minus the IAS. And even then 8/9% is not a huge increase. I guess if you are a WW barb and want that next breakpoint you need them, but otherwise, I'd go with pure stat pants and Lacuni's. A 6 crit STR and VIT / AR / whatever Lacuni is better than a STR / DEX Inna's.

 

[TheInternet1980]

No WW for me. I hate that build.

I had a some DD's drop for me the other day. Only one socket though. :/

Lacunis are the only obvious upgrade for me right now.

 

[darkewaffle]

I have a hard time passing up aspd wherever I can get it personally, so I like Lacuni + Innas, it's just the most fun DPS stat imo lol. Plus unless you're fortunate enough to have move speed Ice Climbers (or you use something out of the ordinary, like a 300 spear), I think Lacuni + Innas is the most practical way to reach 24, though that may be more subjectively valuable. I just can't stand not having it.

 

[smackababy]

I have a hard time passing up aspd wherever I can get it personally, so I like Lacuni + Innas, it's just the most fun DPS stat imo lol. Plus unless you're fortunate enough to have move speed Ice Climbers (or you use something out of the ordinary, like a 300 spear), I think Lacuni + Innas is the most practical way to reach 24, though that may be more subjectively valuable. I just can't stand not having it.

Movespeed is very important when farming, in my opinion. But, with boots, getting a decent pair of IC's with movespeed (like 150 main stat, whatever else) shouldn't be that expensive. Realistically, boots are probably one of the lowest contributors to your DPS. EHP, on the other hand, they can do a lot and IC's have the perfect combo.

No WW for me. I hate that build.

I had a some DD's drop for me the other day. Only one socket though. :/

Lacunis are the only obvious upgrade for me right now.

I can't see your profile because I am at work, but I guess you're pure smash then? Even then, the 8 or 9 APS from Inna's pants won't increase your swing speed enough to change the DPS you'd get from like a 250 str double socket pants. Plus, you can get more EHP. If you're using a skorn, the APS might be a bit more noticeable, but if you're DW with an EF, I wouldn't bother.

On my barb (which I can link later when I get home), I don't even have APS on my two rings and smash incredibly fast with dual wielding. Having like 70% crit before the HotA fury calculation means I don't not crit often. (and I can still upgrade my Mempo to 6 crit eventually too! currently at 4) Smashing for 1 mil crits 90% of the time like twice a second is a ton of damage.

 

[redrider4life4]

What's a good WD build, I leveled with Acid Cloud and pretty much steamrolled, I can steamroll Inferno MP0, but MP1 gets a bit tougher as I run out of mana at 70k dps. I didn't want to spend too much more money on this guy because as I fiind upgrades for my wizard I will be sending that gear to this guy.

 

[bonkers325]

What's a good WD build, I leveled with Acid Cloud and pretty much steamrolled, I can steamroll Inferno MP0, but MP1 gets a bit tougher as I run out of mana at 70k dps. I didn't want to spend too much more money on this guy because as I fiind upgrades for my wizard I will be sending that gear to this guy.

try a Firebats build with Circle of Bats runed.

 

[smackababy]

I think WD's have mana problems that need to be addressed with specific gear (like how CM wiz's have APOC issues unless they stack it on at least 2 pieces and hit the attack speed breakpoint).