Nowadays what is best?
Magic find runs or gold find runs?
What is the best magic find run nowadays? Inferno a1, a2, a3 or a4?
What is the best gold find run nowadays? a1, a2, a3 or a4? which level?
I see in youtube ppl claiming gold find runs in a3 nightmare that gets about 400k/hour
Would like to know insights about this topic from the forum members
MF > GF.
Max GF is like ~500,000 / hour. Not very good overall. And the gear can still be expensive because bots use it.
For MF there's really 3 choices (maybe 4).
That's A1: Get 5 stacks from Festering, then clear to Butcher. You can go to the Northern Highlands, Defiled Crypts, stuff like that too. But the later in the Act you get, the better the drops are supposed to be. It's probably easier to just keep farming to Butcher rather than porting all over the place looking for more champs.
Another choice (once you get better gear) is to farm A3. Some people do Heart of Sin > Azmodan, some do Bridge > Siegebreaker... and some do Breached Keep > Azmodan. Depends on your personal preference and what you find easier I guess. Heart of Sin > Azmodan is what I'd rather do.
You can also farm WS which is also pretty decent... gives same drops as A3/4. Though ranged classes are better at it than melee. So if you're melee you probably don't want to do WS. And if you can farm A3 efficiently, you may be better off doing that.
The other choice would be farming goblins in A2... I don't do this. I'd rather do standard runs than look for goblins. But apparently it's a decent way of farming.
But for the most part... A2 and A4 are garbage for MF farming, you want to stick to late A1 and then WS or A3 once you get better gear.
As for GF... it's Sarkoth (Dank Cellar A1) or A3 NM runs (that's the spiders during Heart of Sin). You used to be able to farm the pots in The Royal Crypts, etc but they nerfed that.
The thing to keep in mind though is that a lot of people farm A3 with no MF gear, so you can still MF pretty well in A3 even with 0 base MF. But I wouldn't try that in A1, it's really awful.
MF is a lot better than GF in my opinion. Like I said, the people who buy GF are often botting. No real person wants to farm Dank Cellar for 10 hours a day... it'll drive you insane. And there's no excitement either. The only reason to GF is to get enough gold in order to buy MF gear to farm A1.
I do Act I runs with 236 MF (311 with NV) and 52 GF (127 with NV). I write down how much gold I have before I start and take notes of how many rares I get and how many level 63's I find. Usually I get around 250-300k, 60+ rares and 4-7 level 63 in just over an hour.
Act 2 just does not seem to drop that much gold for me. I've tried it a bit and it just does not seem to yield similar results in rares and money. I also do some goblin runs in this act from time to time. Act 2 is my least fav. act so I guess I'm not prone to grind it too much.Will have to try it some more. Have a friend that prefers Act 2 and says it's the best. Vault of the assassin and Kulle dungeons are packed with elites. Take longer time though.
I also do Act 3 with 115 MF (190 with NV) and I normaly don't make that much gold, get a few less rares and about the same amount of level 63's. Still prefer this since it has higher level drops and is quite fun. Does not have access to instant elites as Act 1 but you still manage to get NV quite fast.
Act 4, why bother. Low elite numbers and oppressors charge off screen ftw.
I tried Act 3 Hell as well but did not make that much money and drops were even more abysmal. So I stick to Inferno. Anyway that is my summary.
I disagree with Sacridoc about act 2 being bad for mf. The difference in gear required to go from act 1 to act 3 is huge and in my oppinion act 2 comes in for the transition period. In act 2, for example, you can go to Road of Alcarnus (1/2 packs), followed by finding Zoltun Kulle's Vault. Finding the vault will take 1 to 15 mins or so, the longer it takes you to find it the more champion packs you will run in to, I think you can get a total of 6 in the Desolate Sands. If you happen to run into the big wurm cave, do it and also do Cave of the Betrayer. Once you've found the vault there are around 8-10 packs waiting for you all the time. After this you can go to the Archives and clear 2 portals there finish with Zoltun Kulle if you want. All in all you'll get around 18-20 rare mobs and Zoltun Kulle add to that a couple of goblins.
You may be right. I'm speaking from a ranged perspective really. Which means I like to avoid fast and ranged mobs as best I can. Seems like there are more champs like that in A2. Same reason I prefer Heart of Sin to Siegebreaker or Breached Keep forward.
Thanks for the answers.
I can farm a1 very very easily, a2 easily and a3 is kind hard and too much pain for me yet.
I am not seeing that much ilevel 63 drops from a1, lots of times i get 0 or 1 or 2 63 in a1.
In a2 i get about 4 to 10 63 in a full run in a2.
A3 i take too long, die too much to get the same 63 i get in a2.
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Magic find runs or gold find runs?
What is the best magic find run nowadays? Inferno a1, a2, a3 or a4?
What is the best gold find run nowadays? a1, a2, a3 or a4? which level?
I see in youtube ppl claiming gold find runs in a3 nightmare that gets about 400k/hour
Would like to know insights about this topic from the forum members
Thanks
Max GF is like ~500,000 / hour. Not very good overall. And the gear can still be expensive because bots use it.
For MF there's really 3 choices (maybe 4).
That's A1: Get 5 stacks from Festering, then clear to Butcher. You can go to the Northern Highlands, Defiled Crypts, stuff like that too. But the later in the Act you get, the better the drops are supposed to be. It's probably easier to just keep farming to Butcher rather than porting all over the place looking for more champs.
Another choice (once you get better gear) is to farm A3. Some people do Heart of Sin > Azmodan, some do Bridge > Siegebreaker... and some do Breached Keep > Azmodan. Depends on your personal preference and what you find easier I guess. Heart of Sin > Azmodan is what I'd rather do.
You can also farm WS which is also pretty decent... gives same drops as A3/4. Though ranged classes are better at it than melee. So if you're melee you probably don't want to do WS. And if you can farm A3 efficiently, you may be better off doing that.
The other choice would be farming goblins in A2... I don't do this. I'd rather do standard runs than look for goblins. But apparently it's a decent way of farming.
But for the most part... A2 and A4 are garbage for MF farming, you want to stick to late A1 and then WS or A3 once you get better gear.
As for GF... it's Sarkoth (Dank Cellar A1) or A3 NM runs (that's the spiders during Heart of Sin). You used to be able to farm the pots in The Royal Crypts, etc but they nerfed that.
The thing to keep in mind though is that a lot of people farm A3 with no MF gear, so you can still MF pretty well in A3 even with 0 base MF. But I wouldn't try that in A1, it's really awful.
MF is a lot better than GF in my opinion. Like I said, the people who buy GF are often botting. No real person wants to farm Dank Cellar for 10 hours a day... it'll drive you insane. And there's no excitement either. The only reason to GF is to get enough gold in order to buy MF gear to farm A1.
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Act 2 just does not seem to drop that much gold for me. I've tried it a bit and it just does not seem to yield similar results in rares and money. I also do some goblin runs in this act from time to time. Act 2 is my least fav. act so I guess I'm not prone to grind it too much.Will have to try it some more. Have a friend that prefers Act 2 and says it's the best. Vault of the assassin and Kulle dungeons are packed with elites. Take longer time though.
I also do Act 3 with 115 MF (190 with NV) and I normaly don't make that much gold, get a few less rares and about the same amount of level 63's. Still prefer this since it has higher level drops and is quite fun. Does not have access to instant elites as Act 1 but you still manage to get NV quite fast.
Act 4, why bother. Low elite numbers and oppressors charge off screen ftw.
I tried Act 3 Hell as well but did not make that much money and drops were even more abysmal. So I stick to Inferno. Anyway that is my summary.
You may be right. I'm speaking from a ranged perspective really. Which means I like to avoid fast and ranged mobs as best I can. Seems like there are more champs like that in A2. Same reason I prefer Heart of Sin to Siegebreaker or Breached Keep forward.
The overall risk is better with MF, yes you may find shit all for 90% of the tiem, but then you get the nice uber item and you're happy times!
Where as gold mmay be steady, but it is something that you have to spend and the AH is SO OverPriced...so not worth IMO
I can farm a1 very very easily, a2 easily and a3 is kind hard and too much pain for me yet.
I am not seeing that much ilevel 63 drops from a1, lots of times i get 0 or 1 or 2 63 in a1.
In a2 i get about 4 to 10 63 in a full run in a2.
A3 i take too long, die too much to get the same 63 i get in a2.