Templar does15% weapon damage. He was too strong earlier in the beta and they wanted him to fill a tanking/healing role, not a killing everything with impunity role (which is your job)
I actually enjoy the grind. It makes me feel good to chip away at it a little by little everyday. If you finished everything in a few hours, what would be the point.
The magic find will get you is more items to be salvaged. No, you arent likely to find legendaries every run, but over an hour of time, I bet 125% (or whatever it was) will produce alot more blue items. These blue items likely wont be useful, but when you salvage everything, it will be valuable (you will get some rare and legendary salvage mats too). And lots of mats will be needed for high end crafting.
MF vs GF will all depend on the trade off costs of the salvage mats vs raw gold.
I dont want to see ranks. Will just cause people to whine and cry. I dont want blizzard balancing a PVE game around whiners in PVP. That said, I definitely will be PVPing alot. I really enjoyed that in D2 - I just dont want awesome skills nerfed, since I plan on playing every class.
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Also for Old tristram road - Here is a new Keepsake box location - http://imgur.com/gJcbq and http://imgur.com/EiOzl
Putting tougether a massive collection of areas like this for release will be invaluable.
MF vs GF will all depend on the trade off costs of the salvage mats vs raw gold.