Hey guys, just wanted to help some newbs out by posting helpful information. What do I mean by helpful? Well just the stuff I have had to explain repeatedly and have finally decide to put into one place.
First thing you should do in Diablo 3 is turn on elective mode. Its under options, game settings, and is the bottom right option. It allows you to set any skill to any button, even multiple skills from the same set. (like 4 deff skills, for instance)
This is radically different now. At this point what you should be doing is using an auction house app on your smartphone to see wha tto sell and what to merch.
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Next, you want to stop putting garbage on the auction house. Each item that does not sell will sit on your account for days, eating up one of your ten slots. Do not sell your junk, merch it or deconstruct it. Want to know what is worth selling? Use this easy to follow guide:
-Nothing before you hit level 30. But really, those fools have no gold.
- Armor: (pre lvl 50)
Anything with a decent armor rating, VIT and a third stat. Once you figure out what to sell, go look up that stats on the market for a like item, sort by buyout, now undercut a similar item to make sure yours sells.
(after lvl 50) people are going to need higher armor or more stat lines. Different classes use different things, but generally a high VIT with two or three added stats sells. Anything with those pluse attack speed nees to be looked up because they are generally an easy 50k.
-Rings/Amulets: Found a ring with flat damage and attack speed? Easy money! Make sure you look up the going rate. Sockets are the best third stat but only if it has those first two.
-Weapons: After normal mode, weapon damage will scale very rapidly. the safe bet is to sell what you have equipped every time you find something better. Look up the price range before hand.
Finally, merching things for cheap at 1k min 5k max is what I do to fill empty spaces when there is nothing that good to sell. Always with decent items, just those almost good items. And use your transaction history to look at what you paid money for before you merch your used junk.
(these are the most recent, from today, I sell about twice this in a day)
Its real, and its awesome. to get it make the staff of herding with these items:
Black Mushroom -- Found rarely in a room on Cathedral level one, in early Act One.
Leoric's Shinbone -- Found rarely in the fireplace in Leoric's Manor, in late Act One.
Wirt's Bell -- An Act II vendor (Squirt)sells it for 100,000 gold on her Potions and Dyes tab.
Liquid Rainbow -- Spawns in the Mysterious Cave in the Mysterious Chest in the Oasis, Act 2. Save the old man and he will open the chest.
Gibbering Gemstone -- Random drop from Chiltara in the Caverns of Frost, Act 3. It’s in the Ballistae fight area. If you get Ice Caverns exit out try again. The mob is random.
Plan: Staff of Herding -- To teach the recipe to Haedrig. Drops randomly from Izual, Act 4.
Upgrading: Enter act 4 on nightmare ect., talk to the merch near the healer, buy the plans for 1 gold. It is not a random act3 merch item. People who tell you that are trolling you.
To use the staff exit New Tristram to the right and follow the road until its split by a fissure. with the staff in your inventory walk by the cow bones and the ghost of the cow king appears.
Run act3 up to catapults in the highest difficulty you can manage.
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Well then you are reading the right thing. To do this you need a lvl 50ish character and the ability to solo azmodan relatively fast. Aw hell just watch the video:
The reason you do this is for the quest rewards. The reward xp is 90k for a run, and about 30k per min if you do it right. This guy is skipping the mobs but with a demon hunter I was killing the mobs and still making decent time. Another thing he did wrong was he left the game with returning to town, you return in 4 sec and skip the 10 sec log out time, so if he was really trying for the fastest grind he would save 6 sec.
Some things to note: Space bar skips dialog, enter works for hitting enter, and azmodan should die in half that time if you dont suck. I will upload a vid if you want my fastest time is about 2min.
Go back and look at my whimsyshire pic. Thats my character doing cluster shot with the "loaded for bear" rune. My passive gives me a lot of extra crit. And another one builds up chance to crit over time. Meaning that if I waited long enough (like 20sec) I would crit with everything for a brief moment. Using a combo like say... rain of vengeance, mark of death, and furry (rain and furry hitting at the same time with the delay) will let me crit about 20 times for an increased 12% damage. 20 x 30k (average) + 12% = dead boss. You cant tell that from my DPS rating.
All that means is that the fancy smancy damage algorithm they use cant be relied upon for determining your real potential. Actually using skills and passive with synergy will allow you to do far more damage than your DPS rating. So dont build a character just to increase that one stat. My last piece of advice is focus more on learning the skills and combos than relying on gear to carry you.
Here is that same act 3 to act 4 run (without sound haha, I forgot I had that turned off) to demonstrate what I mean about my damage output. Of course, Im lvl 60 at this point, but we are just looking at the damage and skill sets:
Im using vault in my left click slot for the first time, I was surprised to see that unless I hit shift I was firing a normal shot. Its almost like getting another skill slot. For furry I have mark with mortal enemy so that I generate furry on hit, but normally that might not be enough.
also for people looking to lvl up more lvl 60 characters fast there are a few methods left, but they are expected to be fixed on or before the above patch. Look on google, we are hitting lvl 60 at 16 hours game time right now.
"Prediction: Zenimax Online is making an MMO set in the elder scrolls universe" -BobTD 8-25-2010 (search it on the forum)
Well Im going to necro revive this because most of it has changed by now. What we are really looking at right now for xp is running act 3 up till the catapults for the best xp. Thats currently the best xp in the game and inferno farming it is the fastest way to build up paragon lvls.
My DH has been pretty much the same because they get pretty hard to play in inferno mode. Im having a lot easier time with my recent Wizard build:
Using that website you can track my gear and build real time, along with a lot of people better than me. The skills might look strange at fist so let me explain:
Pre inferno build
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Active Skills
Electrocute - Chain Lightning
Blizzard - Stark Winter
Archon - Pure Power
Magic Weapon - Blood Magic
Familiar - Sparkflint
Energy Armor - Prismatic Armor
Passive Skills
Evocation
Glass Cannon
Cold Blooded
Inferno build
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Active Skills
Energy Twister - Storm Chaser
Teleport - Safe Passage
Diamond Skin - Diamond Shards
Frost Nova - Deep Freeze
Explosive Blast - Chain Reaction
Energy Armor - Prismatic Armor
Passive Skills
Blur
Critical Mass
Astral Presence
Alright, on my infero build I just managed to kill Zoltun Kulle on inferno without taking a single point of damage. I will upload a vid at some point because its not that hard to do with this build. What this build does well is reduce your cooldowns for every crit, and give you a lot of chances to crit. This allows you to keep both frost nova and diomond skin up at all times. Right now I have about 35% chance to crit:
Im working on getting that higher, but right now I am just barely able to run this build with unlimited arcane power and cooldown reduction. I can effectively cast frost nova and maintain diamond armor faster than they wear off. Critical mass gives you a "chance" for all your cooldowns to be reduced by 1 sec on a crit. My weapon is generating arcane power on crit, and my frost nova can increase my chance to crit by 15%.
why I use Energy Twister - Storm Chaser is because that "chance" to proc on my passive is different for each skill and rune. This skill has the highest internal proc rate for my passive at 40% more often than any other skill. Im not even using a signature spell to activate the rune because at this lvl of gameplay that would be a waste.
Even with this build and gear Im just barley starting to get up to the higher lvl of gameplay. Compared to real hardcore players my character is not very impressive. So far my equipment is broablay under a mil gold in value. What really needs to happen for me to progress is I need one good drop so that I can sell it and start moving my gear up to about half way. At that point I should be able to start running act3 start to finish and look at increasing my gold find a little along the way.
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bought release day too, xD
