Monthly Archives: March 2012

Impact of Patch 14 on Diablo Economy

I realize it’s still the beta, but I feel like it’s a good opportunity to take a look around and take note of what’s going on. Thursday Blizzard released patch 14. Among the changes included tweaks to the cost of vendor items, sell value of items, drop rate of gold, cost to craft at Blacksmith […]

How Does +Gold Find Work?

I wanted to find out exactly how +Gold Find and +Magic Find work. Their tooltips say that they increase the amount of gold or magic items you will find by a certain percent. If you have 100% +Gold Find does that mean that gold is twice as likely to drop from something or are you […]

Patch 14 – Changes to Artisans & Farming

Today, Blizzard has been working on pushing out their latest patch, Patch 14. From the patch notes, nothing really jumps out. Players seem most excited about the addition of hardcore mode along with a two-fold increase in damage from monsters. Maybe it will be possible to die in the beta now? Unless the game is […]

Farming Gold in Diablo 3

Over the last few weeks I shared with you a few ways to make gold by farming bosses. Shortly afterwards Blizzard told us that we wouldn’t be farming bosses… right. Next, I wanted to figure out the fastest way I could farm gold without depending on the sale of crafting items. It’s entirely possible that […]

Inferno Starter Gear

One of the big things we can take from our experience in Azeroth is that there are certain points in the game where the difficultly suddenly steps it up or new gear is available to your character. Back in 2005 when leveling was a big deal, Hunters and Warriors would suddenly be able to wear […]

The New Magic Find and Gold Find

This is probably old news for most of my readers, but late last week blues confirmed that +Magic Find, +Gold Find and +Experience are being split across your entire group. This is a pretty notable change so I let it bounce around my head for the weekend before I commented on it. At first I […]

Boss Farming in Diablo 3

Farming bosses in Diablo 2 was a favorite pass time for most players. You could make gold and get powerful gear. In World of Warcraft it’s the primary way to gear up your character. You run the same heroics over and over and over again and then the same raids each week on each character. […]

Diablo Release Date April 17th

That’s right, you heard it here first! Diablo 3′s release date will be April 17th. Okay, you got me. It’s just a rumor. A very popular rumor. So popular that you probably heard it before you saw it here ): Is it true? If it isn’t, the release date is going to be damn close […]

Best Farming Class

What is the fastest way to farm in Diablo 3 and what is the best class to farm with? Players are going to be asking themselves these questions once they reach level 60 and start wondering how they can make more gold. That’s why I’m asking this question now.

Farming 21,000 gold/hr with the Demon Hunter

Today I put to test Shattered Crown runs with my Demon Hunter. I originally overlooked this quest because it involved running to the north part of Tristam, entering a cellar, and killing a dozen zombies. This takes well over the 60 seconds that my farming Subtle Essence runs took. However, with the Demon Hunter’s Vault, […]