This is a great spot and it's very fast and easy. I've found tons of awesome items and I've only been doing it for a few hours. Check it out. Feedback would be awesome Cheers!
old spot. Was nice before nerf. Now without 5nv is usless
the run is supposed to be done with high MF gear, due to the easiness of the elites. I have had unreal success doing it without NV stacks. and the speed of the runis unbeatable
Yeah. This is an inefficient waste of time; since you aren't stacking NV.
Um...wow. Yeah, the video is a waste of time if you just kill, quit and redo. However. combined with the other "definite" spawn points you can easily acquire the five stacks without looking for elites and then the real hunt starts.
Spots I know that are 100% guaranteed are the two in festering woods and the one outside Leoric's Mansion.
Then there's the champ in the graveyard, I find he only spawns about 80% of the time, but still good enough to go check.
That's, if you're lucky with the last one, 4 stacks already.
The last one can easily be found by zooming through one of the defiled crypts in the graveyard, there's usually up to 3 champs/elites in one area.
On an interesting side note, I did the watchtower level 2 the other day and found about 8 elites/champ packs in there. It was pretty awesome, haven't done testing to see whether this is a high possibility and haven't even bothered googling it.
Um...wow. Yeah, the video is a waste of time if you just kill, quit and redo. However. combined with the other "definite" spawn points you can easily acquire the five stacks without looking for elites and then the real hunt starts.
This guy is talking about killing this elite; leaving game and restarting. That is a total waste of time. Especially since the festering woods has another dungeon (like 10 seconds away) that has another elite. And can spawn up to 4 in the forest itself. And he goes for 1 and quits? Stupid.
May as well spawn at Leoric's manor and kill the set in the courtyard. Exactly the same thing. Just as pointless.
Yeah. This is an inefficient waste of time; since you aren't stacking NV.
Um...wow. Yeah, the video is a waste of time if you just kill, quit and redo. However. combined with the other "definite" spawn points you can easily acquire the five stacks without looking for elites and then the real hunt starts.
Spots I know that are 100% guaranteed are the two in festering woods and the one outside Leoric's Mansion.
Then there's the champ in the graveyard, I find he only spawns about 80% of the time, but still good enough to go check.
That's, if you're lucky with the last one, 4 stacks already.
The last one can easily be found by zooming through one of the defiled crypts in the graveyard, there's usually up to 3 champs/elites in one area.
On an interesting side note, I did the watchtower level 2 the other day and found about 8 elites/champ packs in there. It was pretty awesome, haven't done testing to see whether this is a high possibility and haven't even bothered googling it.
I can assure you that the elite pack in the graveyard does not spawn anywhere close to 80% of the time. In all the runs I´ve done (which is probably 40-50) that pack has spawned an absolute maximum of 50% of the time. I still go there though, as well as to the watchtower. But the watchtower must´ve been nerfed as well becuase in the last 15-20 runs the average amount of elite packs in there have been about halved. It may just be bad luck on my side, but I sincerely doubt it. I´ve had alot of runs where there have been only 1 elite pack in the tower and at least 2 where there have been none at all.
This is what I'm currently doing when I don't have the time to do an Act 3 clear. It's about as efficient for me as it is to farm act 3 (and less repair costs) but it is pretty mind numbing. With the 290+ MF that I run with I average between 1-2 rares per 30 second run.
To the people saying OMG WHAT ABOUT NEPH STACKS? It doesn't matter when you run in your full MF gear. The key point here is that it's so easy (and you get your cooldowns for every run) that you can run this with crappy max MF blues that only have 1 stat on them. This is hands down the best spot to farm in Act 1 if you have a great MF set. I get something worth 5M+ every 2 hours or so. I get 1 legendary every 2-3 hours (will be great once they buff legendaries) as well.
This is what I'm currently doing when I don't have the time to do an Act 3 clear. It's about as efficient for me as it is to farm act 3 (and less repair costs) but it is pretty mind numbing. With the 290+ MF that I run with I average between 1-2 rares per 30 second run.
To the people saying OMG WHAT ABOUT NEPH STACKS? It doesn't matter when you run in your full MF gear. The key point here is that it's so easy (and you get your cooldowns for every run) that you can run this with crappy max MF blues that only have 1 stat on them. This is hands down the best spot to farm in Act 1 if you have a great MF set. I get something worth 5M+ every 2 hours or so. I get 1 legendary every 2-3 hours (will be great once they buff legendaries) as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhP8WVqiULs
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the run is supposed to be done with high MF gear, due to the easiness of the elites. I have had unreal success doing it without NV stacks. and the speed of the runis unbeatable
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cheers to this
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They already nerfed Festering Woods. It is still worthwhile to hit up, but it isn't remotely game-changing like it was before.
Watch Tower is better, honestly (and you can reload quickly to get it).
Um...wow. Yeah, the video is a waste of time if you just kill, quit and redo. However. combined with the other "definite" spawn points you can easily acquire the five stacks without looking for elites and then the real hunt starts.
Spots I know that are 100% guaranteed are the two in festering woods and the one outside Leoric's Mansion.
Then there's the champ in the graveyard, I find he only spawns about 80% of the time, but still good enough to go check.
That's, if you're lucky with the last one, 4 stacks already.
The last one can easily be found by zooming through one of the defiled crypts in the graveyard, there's usually up to 3 champs/elites in one area.
On an interesting side note, I did the watchtower level 2 the other day and found about 8 elites/champ packs in there. It was pretty awesome, haven't done testing to see whether this is a high possibility and haven't even bothered googling it.
This guy is talking about killing this elite; leaving game and restarting. That is a total waste of time. Especially since the festering woods has another dungeon (like 10 seconds away) that has another elite. And can spawn up to 4 in the forest itself. And he goes for 1 and quits? Stupid.
May as well spawn at Leoric's manor and kill the set in the courtyard. Exactly the same thing. Just as pointless.
I can assure you that the elite pack in the graveyard does not spawn anywhere close to 80% of the time. In all the runs I´ve done (which is probably 40-50) that pack has spawned an absolute maximum of 50% of the time. I still go there though, as well as to the watchtower. But the watchtower must´ve been nerfed as well becuase in the last 15-20 runs the average amount of elite packs in there have been about halved. It may just be bad luck on my side, but I sincerely doubt it. I´ve had alot of runs where there have been only 1 elite pack in the tower and at least 2 where there have been none at all.
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cemetary clear (3-4 nv stacks) (about 3-4 elit packs atleast)
V
festering wood clear ( 100% sure 5 stack ) (about 3-4 elit packs atleast)
V
leroic mansion -> butcher (full act 1 farm clear whit 5 stacks) (5++ elit packs)
20-30min run for good-very good geared, might take more for new 60s
To the people saying OMG WHAT ABOUT NEPH STACKS? It doesn't matter when you run in your full MF gear. The key point here is that it's so easy (and you get your cooldowns for every run) that you can run this with crappy max MF blues that only have 1 stat on them. This is hands down the best spot to farm in Act 1 if you have a great MF set. I get something worth 5M+ every 2 hours or so. I get 1 legendary every 2-3 hours (will be great once they buff legendaries) as well.
Cheers!
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What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger.
this!
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