On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
what quest do you start with?
The Black Soulstone (Soulstone Chamber)
In your last run you can kill kulle (and belial) if you feel like it but note that this will reset your checkpoint. So if you still want to continue doing this the next time you play and wish to keep the checkpoint, don't. Also it may not really be time efficient to kill belial (save the villagers quest -.-).
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
I'll have to look into that, but I can't do that in 30 mins. Heck it takes me 30 mins probably just to clear vault alone. I play a barb, but not great gear as I'm stuck on act 3 and can't progress after beating ghom. I can deal with the elites in act 2 thanks to earthquake and wotb, but it still takes time, cause I don't have high dps, only around 9k. I bought a 699 dps weapon for it's 824 loh and 3% life conversion for about 1300 loh total now, so it's slow and steady for me.
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
what quest do you start with?
The Black Soulstone (Soulstone Chamber)
In your last run you can kill kulle (and belial) if you feel like it but note that this will reset your checkpoint. So if you still want to continue doing this the next time you play and wish to keep the checkpoint, don't. Also it may not really be time efficient to kill belial (save the villagers quest -.-).
ah ok. yer. i kinda do that, but after the vault we do the archives
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
I'll have to look into that, but I can't do that in 30 mins. Heck it takes me 30 mins probably just to clear vault alone. I play a barb, but not great gear as I'm stuck on act 3 and can't progress after beating ghom. I can deal with the elites in act 2 thanks to earthquake and wotb, but it still takes time, cause I don't have high dps, only around 9k. I bought a 699 dps weapon for it's 824 loh and 3% life conversion for about 1300 loh total now, so it's slow and steady for me.
If you're geared enough you can just kill elites (run through all the trash mobs) and save a lot of time.
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
what quest do you start with?
The Black Soulstone (Soulstone Chamber)
In your last run you can kill kulle (and belial) if you feel like it but note that this will reset your checkpoint. So if you still want to continue doing this the next time you play and wish to keep the checkpoint, don't. Also it may not really be time efficient to kill belial (save the villagers quest -.-).
ah ok. yer. i kinda do that, but after the vault we do the archives
It makes sense to add the archives areas to the run too because they are near a waypoint, but I'm not sure about the elite "density" of the area. What is your experience with them?
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
I'll have to look into that, but I can't do that in 30 mins. Heck it takes me 30 mins probably just to clear vault alone. I play a barb, but not great gear as I'm stuck on act 3 and can't progress after beating ghom. I can deal with the elites in act 2 thanks to earthquake and wotb, but it still takes time, cause I don't have high dps, only around 9k. I bought a 699 dps weapon for it's 824 loh and 3% life conversion for about 1300 loh total now, so it's slow and steady for me.
If you're geared enough you can just kill elites (run through all the trash mobs) and save a lot of time.
Yeah gear is my prob. I do run through trash mobs. It's just the most expensive gear I have is my weapon for 1.85 mill. The rest is all <100k a piece. Therefore, while I can beat all the elites, I just can't do it quickly.
None of the farming I've done has given me a gear I can use myself. It's pretty frustrating getting junk after junk. I'm poor too. The highest money I've held is 2 mill, but then I blew it on my weapon cause I was getting frustrated and was going to quit, and wanted to see if more loh would help me survive act 3. It didn't, so I went back to farming act 2, got back up to 1 mill, but am still getting frustrated with the drops and thinking about quitting soon.
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
I'll have to look into that, but I can't do that in 30 mins. Heck it takes me 30 mins probably just to clear vault alone. I play a barb, but not great gear as I'm stuck on act 3 and can't progress after beating ghom. I can deal with the elites in act 2 thanks to earthquake and wotb, but it still takes time, cause I don't have high dps, only around 9k. I bought a 699 dps weapon for it's 824 loh and 3% life conversion for about 1300 loh total now, so it's slow and steady for me.
If you're geared enough you can just kill elites (run through all the trash mobs) and save a lot of time.
Yeah gear is my prob. I do run through trash mobs. It's just the most expensive gear I have is my weapon for 1.85 mill. The rest is all <100k a piece. Therefore, while I can beat all the elites, I just can't do it quickly.
None of the farming I've done has given me a gear I can use myself. It's pretty frustrating getting junk after junk. I'm poor too. The highest money I've held is 2 mill, but then I blew it on my weapon cause I was getting frustrated and was going to quit, and wanted to see if more loh would help me survive act 3. It didn't, so I went back to farming act 2 and am still getting frustrated with the drops and thinking about quitting soon.
I get crap most of the time too but recently I realised (doh should've realised long ago) to look out for gold find equipment. If you get a blue glittering ring 15%gf its a few 100k+ and 16% its even more etc. If you get gold find with pickup radius stuff they sell for quite a bit since the gf bots will buy them. Sometimes I get nothing, except 2 gf items from a run which make me about 500k++ or even millions :p This is good to look out for because even low level rares cans spawn these mods.
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
what quest do you start with?
The Black Soulstone (Soulstone Chamber)
In your last run you can kill kulle (and belial) if you feel like it but note that this will reset your checkpoint. So if you still want to continue doing this the next time you play and wish to keep the checkpoint, don't. Also it may not really be time efficient to kill belial (save the villagers quest -.-).
ah ok. yer. i kinda do that, but after the vault we do the archives
The archives are decent too, though I sometimes feel that they can slow down the elites/min rate of the farming run. You'll get 2-4 in each of the 3 sub dungeons, but there are some annoying types in there (flying bird, baneling that doesn't give NV when it explodes, little guys that bury underground, ghost with slow). Also, losing the checkpoint for VotA can suck as sometimes it'll take 5+ minutes of running around just to find it.
Meanwhile, between the black canyon mines and the road to alcarnus I often get my 5 NV stacks in 4-6 minutes, so restarting more frequently is not that much of a pain.
The archives are decent too, though I sometimes feel that they can slow down the elites/min rate of the farming run. You'll get 2-4 in each of the 3 sub dungeons, but there are some annoying types in there (flying bird, baneling that doesn't give NV when it explodes, little guys that bury underground, ghost with slow). Also, losing the checkpoint for VotA can suck as sometimes it'll take 5+ minutes of running around just to find it.
Meanwhile, between the black canyon mines and the road to alcarnus I often get my 5 NV stacks in 4-6 minutes, so restarting more frequently is not that much of a pain.
Besides the vault has also a nice chance to spawn a goblin, id say i get one once every 3 runs, ive even been lucky and got 2 goblins in it several times.
i discovered the spot by accident actually, doing a longer run i found like 10-12 elites and 2 goblins in the vault and since i ended it there i kept the wp. so next log in started it there and had a nother nice run... been farming it like 2 weeks now.
i actually do the following route:
vota path to alcanus + the area just out + the area where u free the prisoners just before magda (3-4 elites in this general area) ancient path + i go a bit further in to kill maybe a couple more elites.
i usually can do that in about 30-45 mins and kill around 12-15 elites, plus i usually get at least one goblin between the 3 goblin areas if not more.
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
what quest do you start with?
The Black Soulstone (Soulstone Chamber)
In your last run you can kill kulle (and belial) if you feel like it but note that this will reset your checkpoint. So if you still want to continue doing this the next time you play and wish to keep the checkpoint, don't. Also it may not really be time efficient to kill belial (save the villagers quest -.-).
ah ok. yer. i kinda do that, but after the vault we do the archives
The archives are decent too, though I sometimes feel that they can slow down the elites/min rate of the farming run. You'll get 2-4 in each of the 3 sub dungeons, but there are some annoying types in there (flying bird, baneling that doesn't give NV when it explodes, little guys that bury underground, ghost with slow). Also, losing the checkpoint for VotA can suck as sometimes it'll take 5+ minutes of running around just to find it.
Meanwhile, between the black canyon mines and the road to alcarnus I often get my 5 NV stacks in 4-6 minutes, so restarting more frequently is not that much of a pain.
Yea. I find the elites in the archives to be too annoying (those f'ing Baneling elites) and the spawn density to be lacking.
Black Canyon and Alcarnus are great. I also like to use the Oasis because its easy on my eyes.
If you are tired of Act I and you can hang with Act 2, I'd definitely advise some variation on VOA farming. I love clearing that place.
On July 04 2012 19:17 Canucklehead wrote: I've been unlucky with farming. I farmed act 1 inferno for a bit and got junk. I got lvl 63 drops at times, but they were shit blues or I get a weapon with decent stats and it's 200 dps or something low! I stopped farming act 1 cause the ranges on the rolls are too low that I never got anything good. I started farming act 2 now and still not getting anything great.
The place I've been farming is desert oasis from the soul stone checkpoint. A bunch of elites in the desert and then all the dungeons there have a lot of elites. Go to vault of the assassin's and I once got 8 elites in there. Then you can do the other dungeons there like caves of betrayal (I think) and another dungeon. A bunch of elites in those caves too, then you can go kill kulle and after that do another area if you want.
There is a "Vault of the Assassin" run and it goes like this:
1) Sewers of Caldeum : 1 Pack 2) Black Canyon Mines + Howling Plateau : 3-6 Packs 3) Road to Alcarnus : Goblin (?) + 1-2 Packs 4) Ancient Path : Goblin (?) 5) Vault of the Assassin : 7-12 Packs Takes about 30 minutes or less.
The first run you do you need to look for the VotA spawn. When you leave, make sure your checkpoint is that the start/end in the VotA. The next runs you do, you spawn in the VotA when you create game. TP and use waypoints to get to the elites/goblins in 1-4. Remember NOT to TP when in other areas or you will have to find the VotA again.
what quest do you start with?
The Black Soulstone (Soulstone Chamber)
In your last run you can kill kulle (and belial) if you feel like it but note that this will reset your checkpoint. So if you still want to continue doing this the next time you play and wish to keep the checkpoint, don't. Also it may not really be time efficient to kill belial (save the villagers quest -.-).
ah ok. yer. i kinda do that, but after the vault we do the archives
The archives are decent too, though I sometimes feel that they can slow down the elites/min rate of the farming run. You'll get 2-4 in each of the 3 sub dungeons, but there are some annoying types in there (flying bird, baneling that doesn't give NV when it explodes, little guys that bury underground, ghost with slow). Also, losing the checkpoint for VotA can suck as sometimes it'll take 5+ minutes of running around just to find it.
Meanwhile, between the black canyon mines and the road to alcarnus I often get my 5 NV stacks in 4-6 minutes, so restarting more frequently is not that much of a pain.
If you are tired of Act I and you can hang with Act 2, I'd definitely advise some variation on VOA farming. I love clearing that place.
same. they reallly add such areas to each act. a high elite density area that is fun to clear if you really can handle the act.
I tested a VotA run yesterday and it worked really well. Act 1 really drops nothing and Act 3 is too hard for me so this was perfect I don't know if anyone else knows about it, but there is a spot in VotA where ANY elite will get stuck, so if you're ranged you can just take them off from a distance. There are a few spots like that in the shadow dungeons as well. I guess that's why people do this run
On July 10 2012 22:33 scDeluX wrote: My act 3 run is
Keep Depth 1-2-3 Bridge of corsikk (cavern of ice) Arreat core
When ppl wanna keep going
1 in stonefort 1 in skycrow battlement Clear both "tower" levels
Why not Cydaea/Azmo? IMO one of the biggest draws of A3 over A2 is the back-to-back loot pinatas that are Cydaea and Azmodan. Plus the area leading up to Cydaea a lot of the times you can get free elite kills if they spawn in certain locations.
Also are there any wizards running A2? To me it seems the most efficient farming method is being geared enough to run past trash and just kill elites, but I'm not sure if that's possible as a wizard. If so what build are you using?
On July 10 2012 22:33 scDeluX wrote: My act 3 run is
Keep Depth 1-2-3 Bridge of corsikk (cavern of ice) Arreat core
When ppl wanna keep going
1 in stonefort 1 in skycrow battlement Clear both "tower" levels
Why not Cydaea/Azmo? IMO one of the biggest draws of A3 over A2 is the back-to-back loot pinatas that are Cydaea and Azmodan. Plus the area leading up to Cydaea a lot of the times you can get free elite kills if they spawn in certain locations.
Also are there any wizards running A2? To me it seems the most efficient farming method is being geared enough to run past trash and just kill elites, but I'm not sure if that's possible as a wizard. If so what build are you using?
Probably because he's ranged and spider pisses him off.
There's a video of a melee wiz doing act 3 in under an hour (he runs past trash)
Seriously it seems that bosses don't even worth it. They take 2-3 times longer to kill than and average elite pack and they give the same loot (1 guaranteed rare).
I don't know maybe I'm missing out and their loot table is better than elite but from what I seen I don't get better loot from Azmo than any elite packs. Has Blizzard ever publicized that bosses get better % drop chance or something along those lines?
On July 11 2012 01:45 scDeluX wrote: Seriously it seems that bosses don't even worth it. They take 2-3 times longer to kill than and average elite pack and they give the same loot (1 guaranteed rare).
I don't know maybe I'm missing out and their loot table is better than elite but from what I seen I don't get better loot from Azmo than any elite packs. Has Blizzard ever publicized that bosses get better % drop chance or something along those lines?
i dunno about you but bosses are much easier to read and have patterns. you can't really die versus azmodan/cydae and if you are, you probably should be farming act1/2. Whereas even with amazing gear, theres still an offchance of dying to elite mobs b/c of shitty arenas (walls, etc), shitty affixes, and their random movement.
EPT
I don't know if anyone else knows about it, but there is a spot in VotA where ANY elite will get stuck, so if you're ranged you can just take them off from a distance. There are a few spots like that in the shadow dungeons as well. I guess that's why people do this run 
