BobTD
05-26-2012, 12:08 AM
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)
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3436/skillbar1.png
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5738/skilbar2.png
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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.
*outdated*
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.
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6565/auctionf.png
(these are the most recent, from today, I sell about twice this in a day)
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Whimsyshire
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.
http://img137.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img137/1411/happya.png&action=rotate
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I want to level up fast and have stacks of gold!
Run act3 up to catapults in the highest difficulty you can manage.
*outdated*
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPkXgaLzEjc
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.
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Now you can be lvl 60 like me! =D
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5256/bobtd.png
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcWAI941fiI&feature=youtu.be
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.
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I will try to keep adding interesting things as I go. These seem like the basic essentials for now though.
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)
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3436/skillbar1.png
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5738/skilbar2.png
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
*outdated*
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.
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6565/auctionf.png
(these are the most recent, from today, I sell about twice this in a day)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Whimsyshire
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.
http://img137.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img137/1411/happya.png&action=rotate
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I want to level up fast and have stacks of gold!
Run act3 up to catapults in the highest difficulty you can manage.
*outdated*
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPkXgaLzEjc
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now you can be lvl 60 like me! =D
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5256/bobtd.png
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcWAI941fiI&feature=youtu.be
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.
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I will try to keep adding interesting things as I go. These seem like the basic essentials for now though.