Diablo 3 Artisans

Best Demon Hunter Build

Best Demon Hunter BuildNow that I have actually had the time to play the Demon Hunter in the live version of the game I’m going to answer the question what is the best Demon Hunter build? The best build may vary based on whether you’re farming, playing hardcore, leveling, planning to PvP, fighting a certain boss or trying to beat a certain pack of mobs. The build you see below is a core build built to specialize into all of these specializations. » Read more…

Vendor Your Magic Gear!

If you haven’t noticed already, the market for trade goods has already collapsed. I wrote yesterday about how to make gold with subtle essences as their auction house value gets closer and closer to their vendor value. The vendor value of Subtle Essence is 14 gold, Shimmering Essence is 30 gold. Magic items, on the other hand, have somewhat inflated vendor prices considering the low material prices. » Read more…

Simple Auction House Manipulation – 6k gold in minutes

I’ve been doing a lot of complicated stuff on the auction house to make gold, some of it works and some of it doesn’t. But this is the most simple way I have found that works and is repeatable at just about any time of the day. On average I’m making 10,000 gold in a few minutes. You have to let the auction house ‘rest’ between so you can only do this once or twice an hour but it has worked every time. » Read more…

How to: Secret Cow Level in Diablo 3

If I had a penny for every e-mail, instant message and text message with people asking me: “how do I get to the secret cow level” I’d be… well I wouldn’t be rich, but I’d have some pennies. In Diablo 2 the cow level was used by some players to gather gems and to just have fun. In Diablo 3 we don’t have much information yet how to get to the cow level but we’re pretty damn certain it exists. » Read more…

Don’t Combine Gems

If you haven’t noticed already the prices of gems have already crashed. They are more valuable in their low-quality form than their high quality form, and anyone who is combining gems is losing money big time. » Read more…

Best Class for Noobs in Diablo 3

Now that Diablo 3 has been live for about 12 hours we have a better idea of how the classes break down past level 20. Even though the servers have only stayed up about 8-9 hours most semi-hardcore players are sitting at level 20-25 and they might even begin to reroll. If you haven’t picked your class yet you might enjoy these considerations: » Read more…

Making Gold with Chipped Gems

As promised, here is a tested and proven way to make gold right now in game. This gold will turn into real money when Blizzard gets their shit together and enables the RMAH. The markets are young and people don’t really know what’s going on. Here is how it works: » Read more…

Error 37 – The servers are busy at this time

If you participated in the “launch event” I’m sure you’re already familiar with Error 37. As I write this very few people are able to create a character and the game has been “live” for over an hour. Blizzard’s servers simply were not able to handle the 12:01 PDT launch time and I can’t imagine it getting much better over the next 24 hours. While there are certainly a massive number of people trying to login now, there will be even more people throughout the day who sit down and try to enjoy their copy of Diablo III.

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Final Gold Making Ideas for Launch

Launch is about 8 hours away, hopefully you’re sleeping getting a good rest before the servers open up and the Skeleton King gets pummeled by over a million first-time players. Here’s a list of mental notes I have sitting at my side that I think will be beneficial » Read more…

Diablo 3 Gold Secrets Review

If you’ve been reading Diablo 3 Artisans then you’ll realize that at the end of every post I have a little mention about the Diablo 3 Gold Secrets guide. It’s what I refer to as Marcko’s Diablo 3 Community. What you might be looking for though, is a honest review of this community. So hopefully I can answer some questions some people might have on their mind that is limiting them from buying. » Read more…