Also check out the Auction House or Not Web App, Auction House, Salvage or Sell Guide, Farming Tips and the Inferno Gearing guides.Inferno Act 1 Farming Guide
Guide submitted by coelomate.
Statistics: 1 run takes me ~35 minutes, including vendoring. I've averaged a bit under 1 ilvl 63 rare per run, and LOTS of gold, ilvl 61-62 rare armor, excuisite essences, and perhaps most interestingly rare rings and amulets.
I use a wizard with wormhole teleport to move quickly speed and 195% base MF. I use a shield to minimize "oh @*#(#"moments and still kill fast enough
item Pick-up philosophy: Too many trips to town can kill run speed. I pick up all ilvl 61+ items, all blue items (easy to figure out vendor/sell/AH), and ignore all rare weapons and most rare armor under ilvl 61.
Guide:
- Step 0) Start a game using "The Imprisoned Angel - The Cursed Hold" quest per a normal butcher run. Once the game starts, WP to the northern highlands and run west. If the watch tower didn't spawn (25-50% spawn rate dungeon with 1-6 elite mobs, 0-1 resplendant chests, and 0-1 treasure goblins) re-make the game. If it did spawn, we'll come back with 5 stacks (since treasure goblins respond to stacks).
Edit: here's a pic of what to look for. It's often a bit further from the WP, but always on that western edge:http://i.imgur.com/dNOng.jpg
- Step 1) Go to the festering woods. There are 2 guaranteed small dungeons with a champion pack in each. You should find at least 1 champion in the area. Town portal out and way point back inbetween.
- Step 2) With 2-3 (probably 3) stacks, go to the cemetary. There are 3 small dungeons each with 1-2 champions. Since they might only have one, leave (town portal -> waypoint) as soon as you kill the first). This gets you to 5 stacks. Clear all the tombs even if you get 5 early.
- Step 3) WP to leoric's manner. Run through the manner (0-1 packs) and outside. The courtyard has a guaranteed pack.
- Step 4) Butcher run as normal. You'll get several packs, maybe a goblin or two and the warden and butcher drop well enough to be worth killing.
- Step 5) WP back to the northern highlands and clear the watch tower.
- Step 6) Optional - go to each other WP and check for very close / obvious champion packs.
A note on large areas: As far as I know, most large areas spawn with 1-3 champion or elite packs. For that reason it's rarely worth searching after you've found one. Even if on average each has 2, it takes a long time to run around an entire map if you find nothing.
But what about act 3?
I'm still not sure what the actual efficiency of act 1 vs. act 3 will be. Act 3 is SO much harder that it will always be slower and riskier. The drop rates are also only marginally better. I think the overwhelming majority of players, even those who have cleared inferno diablo, will now see the best returns on their times running act 1 at blazing speed.
Act 1 and Act 2 Rare Farming Guide
Submitted by al780555.
I had been farming non-stop Act I for items that can get me through Act II before I solo'd it on my barbarian. I have since stopped it since.I can farm Act II effectively now and Act III mobs still hit too hard for rare farming. These routes are made from a barbarian's viewpoint, but the route should be able to be completed by any class.
Act I farming route is basically quickly finding 5 rares and rush to SK for rare drops.
- Open a game with the quest Royal Crypts (Reign of the Black King)
- Run to the outside of New Tristram
- Find the 2-3 rares that spawn just outside and kill them
- TP back and use the way point to Cathedral Level 3 and kill at least 1 rare packs that spawn in it and move to level four
- Kill the one rare that spawns in Level 4
- Rush to SK and kill them
My Act II farming route is quickly finding rares near waypoints to farm them. Open a game with the quest "Unexpected Aliies"
- Kill the rare that spawns in it, if it has a hard combo then you might want to skip it.
- TP to "Road to Alcarnus" and go into Alcarnus and kill the 2-3 rares that spawn in it, they are usually very easy ones to kill and should not give you any problem even if you are under geared for it.
- TP to Black Canyon Mine and find the 1-2 rares that spawn near the waypoint, sometimes there won't be any just skip it.
- Restart and repeat.
You will need to skip some mobs in favor of time and this is where farming Act I should still be done if you want efficiency. The only reason to do Act II should be because of the weapon drops. The items that are definitely better in Act II are the rare weapons, armors in Act I are a lot of the times better than Act II.
When you are going to attempt to kill the goblins in Act II make sure you clear EVERYTHING around it then start it. You will need a lot of damage to kill it and sometimes it is worth it to change spells and give up buff to kill it(depending on your play style and class).
Note: These runs are just for speed, if you want good drops then go farm Magda. Oasis is also a very good choice too.
Another Diablo 3 Farming Route:
- Go to Leoric's manor.
- Go backwards and do the watchtower.
- Go farm your way until the Warden and kill him with 5 neph.
- Kill the butcher.
- Go back and search for specific superuniques that you know have a pretty good spawnchance/checktime.
Highlands Crossing:
If you are desperate and can't seem to farm Act 1 Inferno, try going to Highlands Crossing and killing elites there. Should not be too tough.
More Farming Tips:
- Blacksmiths Wife + Dank Cellar
- Butcher + Warden with 5 stack valor buff (Get buff quickly in graveyard along with uniques leading up to butcher and warden).
- Alcarnus Resplendent Chest (Only 50% now)
- Magda 5 stack valor buff (What I personally do now). Get buff in various areas up to Alcarnus, Magda is easy enough to kill.
Butcher Inferno Youtube Videos
Submitted by Soy Beans
Submitted by Soy Beans
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