Expansions and patches in World of Warcraft are the absolute best time to make gold. Coming into the update we typically have all the information we need, which glyphs are being added, which raids, which bosses, what will go up in demand and so on. Making gold during the days and weeks after the patch […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Level 60+ Gear and Gems
The Diablo 3 economy will be remarkably different than WoW for several reasons. Among them will be the fact that everything after level 60 will be exchangeable and will never be bound to a character. The difference between a character who just beat the game on Hell difficult and reached level 60 and a character […]
Gold Find vs. Magic Find
The epic battle between + Gold Find and +Magic Find has just begun. The likely outcome in Diablo 3 will be that players want both or either + Magic Find or + Gold Find, but which one is more important? To find out, we can take a look at how much each contributes to various […]
Farming the Skeleton King
The other day we took a look at what I think is the best way to farm Subtle Essence. Now I wanted to move on to what everyone else is doing and draw a comparison. In the beta everyone just runs the Skeleton King quest line over and over again. It’s easy and only takes […]
Witch Doctor Stat Preview
The Witch Doctor is the last of the 5 classes I took a look at with the goal of finding out which stats and equipment will be the most important for each class. In a few days I’m going to take all 5 classes and combine them in order to get a good picture of […]
Best Way to Farm Subtle Essence (20,000 gold/hr)
Today I went out to find the fastest way to farm Subtle Essence and to make the most gold per hour possible in beta. I did my research and wasn’t impressed with what people were already doing. Instead, I wanted to find the quickest path to a boss to collect magic items and then repeat. […]
Leveling Your Artisans (Recent Changes)
One recent change has gone mostly unnoticed. That is, there are no more Page of Training and Tome of Training showing up in Diablo 3. If you’ve glossed over the Blacksmith and Jewelcrafting leveling guides in the past you’ll have seen that each profession required over a hundred or so Tomes of Training, each of […]
Monk Stat Preview
The Monk plays much like I imagine a Pandarian Monk to play, with quick attacks and a spirit based energy system it dashes around the targets using Dashing Strike. In the beta, I’ve used fist weapons for a long time which is a piece of equipment unique to the Monk. As with the other 4 […]
Patch 13 Changes – Who Cares!?!
All weekend people have been drooling and anticipating the new and significant Patch 13 changes. Mostly the ones that revolve around the gold based auction house and real money auction houses. All together these changes include: The addition of a public chat rooms (Class Chat, General Chat, Trade Chat, etc New Interfaces: Skill & Rune […]