Man, the IAS nerf dropped my Wiz DPS by around 25%. I now have as much DPS as I did previously while wearing some MF gear. ugh.

All I can really say about the latest patch is that at least Blizzard seems to poop on everybody equally.

I am finding a SHITLOAD more rares though. I found a pretty goddamn good 1-handed Barb weapon I just gave to Garr in the 20 or so minutes I played of Act 3. Also I spent maybe 2 or so hours fully clearly Act 1 from about start to finish using a set of mf/gf gear (about 120 on each without NV, ~200 with 5x NV) that nerfed me pretty bad but I still only died maybe like twice on two different hardcore mobs and once on the boss. But in that 2 hours I cleared somewhere between 300k and 400k in straight Gold, and probably around 500-800k in actually sellable AH stuff. Also on top of that I found a pretty good helmet with high All Resist that I actually put up on the RMAH for like $18 or so (looked like it would have gone for around 1-1.5 million on the Gold AH). Also every time I went back to town my inventory was usually 60+% Rares and not blues. So at least in the loot regard I'm pretty happy, already back up to like 1.2 million after blowing almost everything on that armor not a few hours ago.

Awww yeah, my biggest sell so far!

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This is a pretty damn good guide for how to do a fairly quick runthrough of Act 1 for maximum Elite kills, etc. I just ran it and it took me about maybe 75-80 minutes using my non-MF/GF gear (which kinda sucks), and I cleared about 150k in gold/vendor trash, and it looks like maybe another 200-300k in realistically sellable items on the AH. Also on this run I found what appears to be a pretty fucking insane amulet, but to figure out a market price on it since there's nothing up quite like it, but it'll probably be in the millions. I don't want to post it here because it will make any 60 Barbarians very, very sad.

Finally finished Nightmare mode. On to Hell now for gearing up and farming. Any tips?

Also the Staff of Herding plan. Does it drop off of Normal Izual, or does it have to be another difficulty? Would having MF on help increase the chance of it dropping?

That's pretty rad; I haven't looked into it in detail or the rolls, but I know that the Stormshield is pretty much the shield to get, at least for some rolls on it.

We should totally rock that Act 1 runthrough I linked above, I've done it twice now and it's been fairly successful.

I know I'm probably a lonely scrub since I just hit 52, but anyone wanna do some Hell mode sometime later? I need to work on my gear a lot, but I've been finding some good stuff here and there. Also: fuck jailor and arcane.

Dagget, I wouldn't mind doing some Hell with you. I've got a 58 Demon Hunter in Act 3, but wouldn't mind at all dropping down to an earlier act. I'll be on in a few hours probably and will send you a friend req.

I wouldn't mind joining in on some of the Inferno action either, with my 60 wizard. I'm probably only a liability above act 1 at this point though.

Sounds good. I've got some stuff to take care of in the house and cook and all that good shit. My gear is absolutely awful, but I'm going through act 1 hell trying to find some decent stuff to sell and make gold from.

Two pieces away from making that Staff of Herding (finally got Izual to drop the book) I just need the bell and the rainbow. Yay cow level.

Is it just me or was there no link to any guides in that post?

Nice find on the Stormshield there. If you ever decide to bail out of D3, that thing will get you some monies for sure.

I wish I had good luck in finding legendaries. I found one last night while playing a low level hardcore character and it made me mad because I knew it would be worthless right off the bat. Just superstition, but I feel like finding that has lowered my chances of finding anything good while playing on my Inferno chars.

I haven't found any set pieces, either. Didn't those things drop like crazy in D2?

Oh sorry about that, here's the link: Konvict's Guide to Act 1 Inferno Farming - Forums - Diablo III

I make one or two small variations but overall it's pretty solid. you're basically replaying most of Act 1 starting from the end, but you're skipping most chunks that have little to no elites, especially in hindsight.

I gargle bleach.

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/6829/whatew.jpg

Extremely lucky I found that. (lol editing skillz)

You son of a bitch. Why do you keep finding the uber DH gear that I need? Enjoy your tens of millions :(

Oh, cool. I've done some runs before where I start from that quest, but I just run through areas pretty haphazardly. This will be nice to give me some direction.

Now all I need is MF gear that's not terrible. I have a pretty generic set of MF gear that gets me around 200 MF, but putting all of it on tanks my stats horribly and I haven't bothered with it since the change to chests. I still get a fair amount of rares from running around with just 5 NV stacks, but trying to do goblin runs without NV sucks a bit.

Also, hurrah! I sold some more junk for $5 ($4 after blizz takes its cut). If I can keep selling things like this at a rate of one per week, it'll only be 13 more weeks until I've made back the cost of the game! Woooooooo

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me that that achievement exists. At last, that crappy lowbie legendary xbow I found can be put to good use.

Seeing you people sell things on the AH makes me wish I'd hit 60 yet. :(

Whose fault is that?

Yours.

So. Dumb Question. If I start to farm Act 1 Hell (at least up until Skeleton King for now) for gear to try and complete the rest of the act, what should my DPS be at? I'm at about 3k (2.5 if I equip MF stuff) Or should I just equip gold find and then build my stash back up?

Also IIRC on that now that we can see item levels it has to be a Legendary that's iLevel is actually 61 or higher. Apparently pre-patch that was an issue as ilevel 60 legendaries won't always generate Brimstones, and Level 60 Legendary could actually be iLevel 60-63. I'm 99% sure I tested it post-patch with an iLevel 60 Legendary and I got 3 encrusted hoofs -_-. I've also read you can get them rarely from rares and very rarely from blues, but I Salavged a shitload of each and no go. Post patch if you're on Inferno it shouldn't take you that long to get one, and honestly if you just care about the achievement you could probably locate a shitty i61 Legendary of any type on the AH for like 50k or something.

Oh snaps and dang, I wasn't actually sure what the achievement was. I guess I'm not that interested in spending any money to buy a crappy legendary either. Oh well. :(

3k DPS isn't enough to complete Act I? How much gold do you have right now? I don't exactly recall my progress through Hell, but I don't think I really had any problems going straight through it. The damage on weapons ramps up insanely with each new level, so DPS was never really an issue. I also had my account hijacked right when I hit 50, so this was going off a mostly fresh start too.

I'm a little bit higher than that DPS and I'm getting through Act 1 Hell (getting frustrated at the minimum level for quests since I killed the skeleton king about six times before gaining a level) without much trouble. I don't think I've spent more than $5k on any piece of equipment yet and in party games I'm doing at least my fair share of damage. I did have some issues going solo when I hit a particularly nasty mob with certain stat bonuses. Think there was one with invincible minions and arcane enchanted which I couldn't slip by that made me bail on the game. Currently I'm sitting around $250k in stash after buying all the pages of the stash and upgrading the blacksmith/jeweler like an idiot.

Are you guys as annoyed as I am with how the AH has completely made low-level gems worthless? I can buy the a perfect square gem (or whatever the one is that's sitting around 350 gold) for cheaper than I can do any sort of upgrading. Why even include the low level stuff when they're so far from even being necessary? 13 tiers of gems is a joke.

Also, totally agree with the question about set items. Is anyone using them?

I'm just getting skullraped by some of those rares and champions. The game has a nasty sense of humor of wanting to throw me wallers and jailers, mixed with plague or mortar. Best fucking one was a waller, jailer and desecrate. I die like 7 times before I can kill one of the minions (yes, I know. I suck) and when I kill the main mob itself, it wants to give me crap.