Having a hard time deciding what is the best use of my time right now. I need gold badly, never been north of 4mil.
Just started playing again, on my Barb, and have been doing MP1 Alk runs for the last week. Not soley for speed paragon runs, but just as a efficient way to farm gold / drops.
I am wondering if I should be doing something else? Like Vault of Assasin Runs or something else completely different? Heck, not even sure if I should be doing MP1 or something higher.
I kind of have a handle on gear and upgrade path, somewhat, but I don't have the funds currently to make it happen. Any help / advise on this topic would be appreciated.
Well I'm not an expert on any level with a barb so I can't give any kind of advice on that, but as for making money it really depends on a few things.
If you know your upgrade path then half the work is already out of the way. If you need gold / drops to sell on the AH then you just need to farm.
The rule it seems is to do what ever MPx you can do with one shooting mobs still. This is because the rate at witch you kill mobs is faster and thus more drops and gold piles hitting the ground. Keep in mind that as you get more paragon levels your passive GF/MF will raise too. There is no real need to gear for MF/GF anymore. The only thing I could see would 'maybe' be some pickup radius but if your doing the WW build farming method your not going to be near mobs when they die half the time so might not need the pick up range on your gear.
As for selling drops I have a thread going on selling stuff right now about my problems I've had getting things unloaded from my stash and what to pick up. Short answer is nothing that will sell for 100k or less will go on the AH. Mediocre items (stat rolls that is) are way to plentiful right now and don't need to even more flooded and pray one of your items sells. I've got to the point of salvaging set and lengendaires and selling the brimstones (witch oddly sell for more most of the time).
While your farming You 'CAN' boost your MF/GF some with your follower but only if you got some gold to toss on him for what you need, other wise it's not worth it because they only get 20% of the contribution to your stats. And hey, at para 100 you don't need any mf or gf and nv and mp boot it over the 300% cap.
IMO what you should do is go down to mp0 and just do alk runs, pick up only legendaries and 63 rares plus 60+ rings/ammys. Also try to find someone who buys unID rings/ammys i got multiple contacts one buys all ringsammys for 90k then i have one guy that only buys 62 rings and ammys but at 300k each. So its a good constant source of income, any legendarys that suck brimestone and sell. Also i would recommend upgrade 5mill at a time, try to see what would make you go faster in mp0? More Dmg? Less Deaths? if less deaths b/c of health/loh/ar? or Movespeed ect.
If you need any more advice pm me, i don't play a barb so i can't help there but i can with farming
I do still believe that GF is the wrong way to go tho, its gonna take a HELL of a lot of piles of gold to make up for a 1m item.
I do Alk runs with my Monk picking up all gold piles. I consistently average a gold farming rate of 650,000 gold / hour. If you pick up the gold, open the chests and turn over the bodies it is quite easy to build up a multi-million gold war chest. It gets even better if you strap on GF & pickup radius items.
Granted, stopping to pick up what drops is a huge killer to XP farming efficiency but what's the rush? When you get to Paragon 100 most folks stop playing or start leveling another character anyway.
so, considering that survivability is not much of an issue, are there any guidelines as to what kind of dps you should have for a particular mp level? i play a 2h ww barb and am around 75k ish dps. mp0 is no problem, will check 1-3 myself but was wondering if there are any guidelines of that kind floating around.
OP here and things are moving along, gear is getting better, yet I still don't have enough crit or IAS. Lots of good feedback.
Good feedback as it may be, the quandary I face is still the same. Do I speed through Alk runs leaving mobs to die in my tornados off screen ... or do I double back to pick up gold and the rares (or even legendaries) that drop?
As a WW barb, if I am not using Tornados, then I am fury starved ... but if I am not doubling back, I am leaving gold/rares to rot.
If I am doubling back, then it's a big waste of time with regards to paragon farming ... and is quite boring to just run through picking up piles / rares.
So, in the end, I guess it's not really something that you guys can answer. If I hate leaving stuff to rot, then I either bump up MP to the point where stuff is dying slower so I get the tornado ticks and am still around killing them ... or I do MP0 and just double back and change my style a bit.
It depends what your goals are. If you want to level then just keep running. If you want to make some money, then pick stuff up. I can tell you I have found some very good items in mp0 including something I found yesterday that could potentially sell for over 100m. Personally, I'd rather keep my half hour runs and know I'm not missing anything rather than level as quickly as possible.
It depends what your goals are. If you want to level then just keep running. If you want to make some money, then pick stuff up. I can tell you I have found some very good items in mp0 including something I found yesterday that could potentially sell for over 100m. Personally, I'd rather keep my half hour runs and know I'm not missing anything rather than level as quickly as possible.
Yea, that is kind of where I am at. I constantly backtrack and pick up a rare that dropped from a nado tick. It's one of the reasons I am not WoTF anymore, as it doesn't make a lot of sense to run real fast through a level, only to go back through on normal speed to pick up stuff.
I guess I am stuck on the "picking up stuff" part. I guess once I get to the point where I have 100mil+ in gold I might feel differently.
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Just started playing again, on my Barb, and have been doing MP1 Alk runs for the last week. Not soley for speed paragon runs, but just as a efficient way to farm gold / drops.
I am wondering if I should be doing something else? Like Vault of Assasin Runs or something else completely different? Heck, not even sure if I should be doing MP1 or something higher.
Here is a link to my profile:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/NinetyProof-1177/hero/4176908
I kind of have a handle on gear and upgrade path, somewhat, but I don't have the funds currently to make it happen. Any help / advise on this topic would be appreciated.
If you know your upgrade path then half the work is already out of the way. If you need gold / drops to sell on the AH then you just need to farm.
The rule it seems is to do what ever MPx you can do with one shooting mobs still. This is because the rate at witch you kill mobs is faster and thus more drops and gold piles hitting the ground. Keep in mind that as you get more paragon levels your passive GF/MF will raise too. There is no real need to gear for MF/GF anymore. The only thing I could see would 'maybe' be some pickup radius but if your doing the WW build farming method your not going to be near mobs when they die half the time so might not need the pick up range on your gear.
As for selling drops I have a thread going on selling stuff right now about my problems I've had getting things unloaded from my stash and what to pick up. Short answer is nothing that will sell for 100k or less will go on the AH. Mediocre items (stat rolls that is) are way to plentiful right now and don't need to even more flooded and pray one of your items sells. I've got to the point of salvaging set and lengendaires and selling the brimstones (witch oddly sell for more most of the time).
While your farming You 'CAN' boost your MF/GF some with your follower but only if you got some gold to toss on him for what you need, other wise it's not worth it because they only get 20% of the contribution to your stats. And hey, at para 100 you don't need any mf or gf and nv and mp boot it over the 300% cap.
Sorry if this was not much help. Happy hunting.
If you need any more advice pm me, i don't play a barb so i can't help there but i can with farming
I do Alk runs with my Monk picking up all gold piles. I consistently average a gold farming rate of 650,000 gold / hour. If you pick up the gold, open the chests and turn over the bodies it is quite easy to build up a multi-million gold war chest. It gets even better if you strap on GF & pickup radius items.
Granted, stopping to pick up what drops is a huge killer to XP farming efficiency but what's the rush? When you get to Paragon 100 most folks stop playing or start leveling another character anyway.
Good feedback as it may be, the quandary I face is still the same. Do I speed through Alk runs leaving mobs to die in my tornados off screen ... or do I double back to pick up gold and the rares (or even legendaries) that drop?
As a WW barb, if I am not using Tornados, then I am fury starved ... but if I am not doubling back, I am leaving gold/rares to rot.
If I am doubling back, then it's a big waste of time with regards to paragon farming ... and is quite boring to just run through picking up piles / rares.
So, in the end, I guess it's not really something that you guys can answer. If I hate leaving stuff to rot, then I either bump up MP to the point where stuff is dying slower so I get the tornado ticks and am still around killing them ... or I do MP0 and just double back and change my style a bit.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions ....
Yea, that is kind of where I am at. I constantly backtrack and pick up a rare that dropped from a nado tick. It's one of the reasons I am not WoTF anymore, as it doesn't make a lot of sense to run real fast through a level, only to go back through on normal speed to pick up stuff.
I guess I am stuck on the "picking up stuff" part. I guess once I get to the point where I have 100mil+ in gold I might feel differently.