Obviously, not because of difficulty. Legendary drops happen every so often... say every 10 hours or so. Either way, I want to be in Act 3 when it happens to increase my chance of getting a lvl63 legendary worth millions on the AH. I know that by playing Act 2, i'm lowering my odds of getting that lvl 63 legendary. What do you guys think? I know alot of people have been farming Act 3 for many reasons.
I mostly do act 1, because of bad gear. And it ends up giving me more gold and loot than act 2 or 3 atm, since I can plow through act 1 like nothing.
Same with act 2, but I'm not a big fan of it. To big areas, annoying mobs, and just far in between packs of mobs.
Act 3 i can do somewhat, but it's horribly slow. So not worth it yet for me
Haven't found anything worth selling yet though, nothing that was worth a lot anyway. RNG is a bitch at times.
I can't farm efficiently A3(some bosses are just way to hard for me currently and requires a change of skill like Cydea), and I can zerg through A1 like nothing even in MF gear, so I just do A1 for farming getting a lot of gold, I sometimes do A3 too but in normal gear(can't kill anything in MF gear) and I have to skip both Ghom and Cydea, I could kill Siegebreaker easily, but due to the facts i can't reliably kill Cydea, I have to skip to Azmodan directly, thus leaving me with only 1 boss in the run, this combined with having no MF beside NV, makes it less good for drops than A1 with 2 bosses and 265MF
I did Act 2 once just to get re-acclimated to my new post-1.0.4 playstyle and then I moved directly into Act 3 and haven't looked back.
Mostly because of loot I have no desire to go backwards in acts. I'd much rather hedge my bets even if I'm not quite as efficient in Act 3 as I am in Act 2. I'm trying to look at it from a MF scenario and not from a pLvl race scenario, though.
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4 Legendaries, 1 JC plan, and at least 6 BS plans since 1.0.4.
I can run act3 without problems, but it's pretty slow compared to A1/2. I mix up my run and pick an act based on how much time i've got to farm. I can't give a positive anecdote about my drops, no legendaries or 6-affix plans to speak of, but I have made on the order of 10million gold from some decent rares I found in the last couple of days.
I have been running Act 3 mostly on my DH for the chance of better drops. Haven't gotten any good Legendarys yet but have had 2 good weps drop that sold for over 15 mill and a couple of BS plans. Run Act 1 on my monk as she is just to slow in Act 3 to be efficient
Build 5 stacks of NV in Act 1 and farm ponies, its painful but it works- 60k repair bill = average 10m return. If you want the drops without the pain, A3 Arreat Crater area. Ponies can be more frustrating but about 20% of the drops are just balls out awesome as opposed to maybe 3% in A3, maybe 1% in A2 (not even sure if its that high- A2 is a pain in the ass anyways, enemies kite and jump around too much to farm effectively, same with A4- with the addition of enemies in A4 of hitting like a Mack Truck, its kinda like ponies but with crappier drops) and the only awesome drops I've seen in A1 are rings and amulets.
I can't do act 2+ with any efficiency so I just do act 1s. 335 MF with NV5. 2h full clears with no movespeed boost. Its a pretty enjoyable and fun way to play to me.
I jump back and forth between Act 2 and Act 3. Act 3 has the best prospects if you can find a good team. Act 2, on the other hand, is a breeze, so it lets me stock up on health potions.
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Same with act 2, but I'm not a big fan of it. To big areas, annoying mobs, and just far in between packs of mobs.
Act 3 i can do somewhat, but it's horribly slow. So not worth it yet for me
Haven't found anything worth selling yet though, nothing that was worth a lot anyway. RNG is a bitch at times.
Ha. Bagstone.
Mostly because of loot I have no desire to go backwards in acts. I'd much rather hedge my bets even if I'm not quite as efficient in Act 3 as I am in Act 2. I'm trying to look at it from a MF scenario and not from a pLvl race scenario, though.
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4 Legendaries, 1 JC plan, and at least 6 BS plans since 1.0.4.
Do we have definite confirmation of that? Seems a bit odd given that they can of course drop ilvl 63 items of qualities other than legendary.
Acts 1 and 2 can drop level 63 items. All items can roll as magic, rare, and legendary. Therefore, legendaries can drop in acts 1 and 2.