Travis Day at Blizzard recently announced that magic find is essentially being removed from Diablo 3.
No more magic find in Diablo 3. Well, almost no more magic find. Blizzard is trying to phase out magic find as much as possible. MF is being removed as an affix from gear. Blizzard is also changing how MF interacts with different item qualities. MF will apply 100% of its benefit to Blue items, 30% to Yellow items, and 10% to Legendary and Set items. This means someone with 300% MF will end up finding roughly 30% more Legendary and Set items than someone with 0%.
Are you going to play Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls? If so, are you doing anything now in advance of the release? In this video we talk about some general recommendations to prepare for the up coming changes to Diablo 3.
Farming paragon experience in Diablo 3 is all about finding the right monster power, spec, and route. That is if you want to get through the levels quickly. In this video we take a look at a simple, quick, effective paragon experience farming route for Act 1.
It seems that Blizzard is really pushing to find a good solution to replace the current lifesteal mechanics in Diablo 3. As it stands now most characters are geared to 100,000 DPS or better. At these damage numbers, life steal is just too powerful.
Many heroes die today due to lag, disconnects, or high spike damage - which in some cases has to be a big enough spike to one shot someone. This is largely due to life steal healing for much more life in a very short period of time on account of very high damage out put, and increased monster density on higher monster powers of Inferno.
Check out the video for more information on this. Links back to the pages that are shown in the video are available on the YouTube watch page where this video is being hosted. Read the source pages if you want to get a broader picture of what has been stated to draw your own conclusions.
Kripparrian, a fairly popular gamer on YouTube, likes to speak his mind quite a bit. And he should - that's what freedom of speech is all about, right?
Unfortunately what he said recently in regards to an up coming patch to Diablo 3 is highly misinformed. He hasn't even played the game in something like 6 months or more, and clearly doesn't even stay up to date with the current state of the game. Yet he just milks his subscribers for cheap views and easy money.
Check out this video to see what I think of his comments regarding the up coming loot 2.0 changes, and for a link to Kripparrian's video on the subject as well. The link to Kripp's video is within my YouTube video's description. You will probably have to view the video on YouTube to access this information.
Diablo 3 archon wizard gear shown in this video which provides about 150K DPS - 155K as shown in video on a paragon level 40 character - which cost well under 10 million gold. The total spend here was just shy of 8,700,000.
The current cost of gold on the RMAH on America's server is less than $1.50 per 50,000,000 gold. Between this video and an earlier video on how to gear a critical mass freeze wizard for under 10 million, you could probably spend $5.00 and gear all 5 hero classes in at least one play style, maybe even two.
In Diablo 3, some people like to use a stone of jordan for certain specific purposes. Tempest Rush monks like them as they are a good source of additional spirit regeneration. Sometimes people will use these rings to help reduce the cool down timer on a certain skill, or to improve the damage of a skill.
Another somewhat common use is to switch over to an SOJ for elite fights. If you already have a very large amount of DPS output, it can be beneficial to take a sheet DPS hit in exchange for up to 30% extra damage against elites while you're fighting elites.
Check out the video to learn a bit more about the Stone of Jordan.
What is black weapon damage in Diablo 3? Black weapon damage is physical damage, or weapons that do not have any elemental damage attached to them. Learn what items can boost your DPS when using a black weapon in this video.
Should you use a ruby or an emerald in your socketed weapon? It depends on your stats.. offense and defense. Also depends on how much critical hit chance and critical hit damage you currently have. Generally speaking you want a 10:1 ratio for critical hit damage:critical hit chance. In other words, if you have 50% critical hit chance, you will want to have about 500% critical hit damage ideally.
Here we take a look at a Diablo 3 Act 3 Key farming route. Getting a few stacks of nephalem valor before venturing off into the Stonefort is usually a pretty good idea - after all you do need a full 5 stack for any chance of a key dropping from the key wardens.
Blizzard released information today stating that stacks of gold for sale on the real money auction house (RMAH) are going from 10,000,000 to 50,000,000. Seeing as how a stack of 10,000,000 gold generally sells for about $0.25 USD, and you have to spend a minimum of $1.00 per transaction, this means that you had to purchase 40,000,000 gold at a time for about $1.00 minimum.
After the scheduled maintenance on July 30th, 2013, all new auctions for gold will be stacks of 50,000,000 and will likely sell for the usual $0.25. Since you will still have to spend a minimum of $1.00 per transaction, this means you're going to be able to pick up 200,000,000 gold for about $1.00 USD! This means $10.00 gets you 2,000,000,000 - that's two BILLION gold.
This change will probably be a good thing for new players - people who have little to no gear, as much low end gear is difficult to sell lately and the prices are rock bottom. This also puts a lot of cash into the hands of players who want to use their demonic essences to craft their bind on account (BoA) items. By the same token if you don't already have 100K+ DPS, and unless you're playing hardcore or strictly self found only you have little excuse to be under 100K at this point, you should be able to spend $1.00 and easily break that 100K DPS barrier. With a little research on YouTube and a bit of patience on the auction house you'll be able to easily farm MP5 for demonic essences.
Check out the video to learn more - and see the video description on YouTube for a link to the post Blizzard made on the Diablo 3 forums.
Wonder how to farm keys in Act 2? Vault of the Assassins (VOTA) can help with that! Get your stacks quick and easy, and then head out to start farming your keys in the Dahlgur Oasis. If you're not sure what this is, watch the video to find out.
An added bonus here is that this is one of the best, if not the best, areas to farm Demonic Essences as well. So, really, you're going to be farming Demonic Essences as well as your Act 2 key to make your Infernal Machines, which you'll need to go after Ubers for your Hellfire ring components. Weeeee!
Have you ever considered an Andariels Visage for your #Diablo3 gear setup? If you're on a budget, you just might want to shop around for one. They are a great source of cheap damage. Yeah.. they aren't a crit Mempo of Twilight - but what is? Other than a crit Mempo of Twilight, of course!
Watch this short video for more insights on the Andariel's Visage now!
Check out this video to see how quick and easy it really is to power level your friend's new character all the way to 60!
You do not have to have a Leoric's Signet. You do not need to hunt down a Cain's set. You do not even need to bother trolling the auction house for various bonus experience items, or any other items for that matter. Watch the video to see proof of how easy this can really be.
Before spending a lot of gold on your monk weapons, check out this video if you're planning to use a dual wield sweeping wind cyclone build. Here you will learn a bit about the how and why people like to use a Won Khim Lau.
Don't feel like you have to have a Won Khim Lau. For a build like this they really are great, and sometimes you can even find a pretty good deal on one. However it is often times much easier, and much cheaper, to find a simple rare weapon instead at a lower price. Watch the video to learn more.
Looking for an act 3 paragon farming route? Watch this video! This is essentially the Alkaizer farming route, but if you've never heard of that, you might want to watch the video. If you have then you can really just skip this as you won't learn much of anything new.
This route isn't as popular as it once was because of experience nerfs to some of the monsters, as well as the fact that a lot of people got really tired of farming Act 3 for so long. Now with increased monster density in other acts, people will farm Act 1 quite frequently. As well the monsters tend to get more and more difficult the further you progress into the game which just means that the monsters are also typically easier to kill in Act 1.
If you want to see a pretty good farming route for getting your paragon levels up in Act 1, check out this video!
It is common to start in The Festering Woods for a quick and easy 2 - 5 stacks of Nephalem Valor. From there you could go to The Cemetery of the Forsaken, or simply start in the cemetery. Once in the cemetery you will want to check the outside area for an elite or champion pack assuming you're on a low enough monster power to efficiently take them down. After that you will want to proceed into the various crypts.
After the cemetery, head south through the gates into The Weeping Hollow. The Weeping Hollow is a very popular destination for all kinds of farming ever since Blizzard increased monster density. The Fields of Misery is also a great place to farm and is usually the next destination. You will also have a chance to get an Act 1 key while in he Fields of Misery.
I like to include Leorics Manor as well as there are usually about 70 mobs inside that you should be able to clear within a minute or so.
After that you could head down to Halls of Agony level 2, rush over to the Highland Passage and on into The Cursed Hold. Clear a bunch of mobs in the Cursed Hold, town portal, leave game, resume game and start it all over again.
What monster power should you be farming paragon experience at? Well, that depends! It will depend on whether you are in a multiplayer game and if so how well you and the other players are geared.
Paragon leveling is all about speed; primarily killing speed and travel speed. You want to test an area to see how high you can set the monster power to while still being able to one shot the weak or normal white mobs. Note that some of these trash mobs will have a good chunk of health - you're looking for the normal, every day, run-of-the-mill trash mobs.. Not super weak, like the scorpions in Act 3, and not the tougher Savage Beasts or Trees in Act 1. Just the normal mobs.
Once you find the monster power that you are able to one shot stuff at, do a few tests runs through your favorite map. Take note of how much paragon experience you have before you start the run so you can see how much you have gained. Take note of the time as well or use a stop watch so you can keep an accurate track of how long it takes you to do the run.
After you do this a few times, you will want to lower the monster power 1 level and run through the same route on the same map that you just tested. As you do this you will want to keep track of your paragon experience gained and the time it took.
Take the average of time spent to paragon experience earned for 2 or 3 different monster powers, after you have found how high you can go while still being able to pretty much one shot the regular trash mobs. Then you will know what monster power you should be farming with your current gear, build, and class in that patch version.
A look at the auction house regarding selling crafting materials that you have salvaged from your new player gold and essence farming runs.
Be careful what unit price you post your items at as there is no 5 minute grace period for this auction postings. If your prices are very low, you will sell out everything you posted to the auction house instantly. On the flip side, you can also post your items at a higher price and just let it ride for a while until inventory runs low and only higher priced materials are available.
