With the new changes I kinda wanted to get a bit of pre-RoS gear just to help with leveling a bit so was gonna farm yet without bounties/rifts where do people farm? I heard bosses are pretty good now with the removal of NV n stuff.
I'd say the loot changes and density adaptions make every act a good choice, so go for what you enjoy the most. Of course one place might be more optimal than the other, I just don't think the difference justifies boring yourself with the same run over and over.
I'll never understand why people desperately search for reasons to neglect 90% of a game's content and prefer mind-numbing, rinse & repeat, 2 minute farming sessions in one area.
Do freaking campaign playthroughs. You'll never ever again see the campaign after March 26. Play the game for fun. Unless you're a robot I don't see a reason why anyone would prefer to farm one single area for days and days and days instead of switching to different acts.
Personally I think looking for the most efficient farming route for your playstyle is a fun challenge. Of course, once I've found it and done it a few times, I'll switch to something else regardless of efficiency. To the OP, I suggest my half-assed but likely sufficient method:
1) Pick out the zones in each act that intuitively strike you as being the most dense or efficient, maybe half of the total number of zones.
2) Do these zones in each act ten times, along the same route (something practical like a circle from WP or something). Write down XP/hour for each zone for each playthrough, so you have a good average that will more or less cancel out variables such as xp shrine or whatever.
3) Pick the 3 most efficient zones in terms of your recorded XP/h from each act, and do them in order for variety and efficiency, or simply do the 3 zones from the most efficient act if you prefer robot-like grinding. You can safely assume that higher xp=more loot, since every kill is a chance for loot (more kills per second = more xp/loot per second).
4) Share findings with us (include build of course).
I'll never understand why people desperately search for reasons to neglect 90% of a game's content and prefer mind-numbing, rinse & repeat, 2 minute farming sessions in one area.
Do freaking campaign playthroughs. You'll never ever again see the campaign after March 26. Play the game for fun. Unless you're a robot I don't see a reason why anyone would prefer to farm one single area for days and days and days instead of switching to different acts.
So what your trying to say is, i'm wrong because I have fun in a different way to the way in which you have fun? I don't enjoy running through the campaign personally, I find it restricting and I prefer to run through zones and farm so naturally if i'm doing this I might as well do it efficiently. On top of that the best places to farm are usually the best because they have the highest mob density, and for more more mobs = more fun.
As regards having fun and playing efficiently, I fail to see the dichotomy if not the distinction. It's been a while since I played, and what I miss the most is 1) figuring out how to make the most of what little time I have to play and 2) putting on some coffee, loud, fast-paced music and grinding mindlessly for a few hours until real life demands that I do something that matters. There is of course no intrinsic point to playing this way, in the sense that how fast you progress doesn't affect anything besides how fast you progress. No one else cares, and if you don't either, then play differently. But to say that instead of playing efficiently one should play for fun, is a meaningless statement unless playing for fun somehow entails not playing efficiently. Certainly for me, it can occationally be more fun to wander around aimlessly in-game while talking to friends on skype. But usually it's more fun to play fast and to see how much you can do in a given time. D3 for me is a racing game where the finishing line is the (reasonably relative) inability to get further upgrades and paragon benefits.
That having been said, I much prefer finding the efficient way to do it myself (in terms of which route to take, what to pick up, whether to do it solo or multiplayer, if so what classes, which build is more efficient etc). If you simply search the forums for an answer, then - in my opinon - you rob yourself. "Hacking" the game is half the game.
I'll never understand why people desperately search for reasons to neglect 90% of a game's content and prefer mind-numbing, rinse & repeat, 2 minute farming sessions in one area.
Do freaking campaign playthroughs. You'll never ever again see the campaign after March 26. Play the game for fun. Unless you're a robot I don't see a reason why anyone would prefer to farm one single area for days and days and days instead of switching to different acts.
Fun > Efficiency. I love doing campaign playthroughs with the progress-reset function. It makes them really really rewarding EXP wise.
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http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/80961-what-location-would-you-recommend-to-farm-when-2-0
Here's what was mentioned in this ^^ thread:
-Act 1
-Act 2
-Act 3
-Act 4
-Whimseyshire
TL;DR: Everywhere. /thread
I'll never understand why people desperately search for reasons to neglect 90% of a game's content and prefer mind-numbing, rinse & repeat, 2 minute farming sessions in one area.
Do freaking campaign playthroughs. You'll never ever again see the campaign after March 26. Play the game for fun. Unless you're a robot I don't see a reason why anyone would prefer to farm one single area for days and days and days instead of switching to different acts.
1) Pick out the zones in each act that intuitively strike you as being the most dense or efficient, maybe half of the total number of zones.
2) Do these zones in each act ten times, along the same route (something practical like a circle from WP or something). Write down XP/hour for each zone for each playthrough, so you have a good average that will more or less cancel out variables such as xp shrine or whatever.
3) Pick the 3 most efficient zones in terms of your recorded XP/h from each act, and do them in order for variety and efficiency, or simply do the 3 zones from the most efficient act if you prefer robot-like grinding. You can safely assume that higher xp=more loot, since every kill is a chance for loot (more kills per second = more xp/loot per second).
4) Share findings with us (include build of course).
http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/sodomir-2220/
That having been said, I much prefer finding the efficient way to do it myself (in terms of which route to take, what to pick up, whether to do it solo or multiplayer, if so what classes, which build is more efficient etc). If you simply search the forums for an answer, then - in my opinon - you rob yourself. "Hacking" the game is half the game.
http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/sodomir-2220/