Monthly Archives: June 2012

Magic Find to Increase in Value?

Lately, Magic Find has been used on a swap-in basis. Most players do not have a DPS set with +Magic Find, instead they have their typical DPS gear along with their magic find gear in their inventory. Begin combat, do as much damage as possible and then right before the rare pack, elite or boss […]

Why Farming Sucks in Diablo 3

In World of Warcraft players would repeat content countless times in the hopes that they would earn a particular piece of gear. We ran and reran raids for tokens, reputation and the chance an epic upgrade would drop. Since we knew what the drop rates were there was a pretty predictable progression curve, if your […]

Demon Hunter Inferno Build (Patch 1.0.3) & How to Gear Up

Hi friends! I’m finally back from a long trip through Europe! I had a great time, saw some awesome things, and drank a lot of beer! The trip was great, but I couldn’t really enjoy it knowing that Patch 1.0.3 was going to drop and change some key things for us Demon Hunters. Watching the […]

Where to Find Fiery Brimstones

Fiery Brimstones, the legendary crafting material found from salvaging magic, rare and legendary inferno items, are the new hit seller on the auction house. Weeks ago they were selling for 50,000 gold but after patch 1.0.3 the price has started to increase steadily. Yesterday the price sat at 136k and today we’re looking at 180k. […]

How to Calculate DPS

Diablo 3′s damage system is really easy to do your own calculations for, while there are also several advanced spreadsheet based DPS calculators you can actually do it all by hand or even make your own spreadsheet. It’s always better to understand how DPS is calculated opposed to just depending on a spreadsheet. Here is […]

How to Use Jewelcrafting to Make Gold

A lot of successful World of Warcraft players thought they were going to make a ton of gold in Diablo 3. After making millions of gold in World of Warcraft with their professions, professions like Jewelcrafting, they geared up, collected some gems and power leveled the jeweler. Did they get rich? Maybe, I’ll explain how […]

Patch 1.0.3 Changes and the RMAH

The details of Patch 1.0.3 have been circulating for over a week now. Blizzard is bringing big changes to artisans, inferno progression, drop rates and most notably: drop rates. We also expect Blizzard to bring the real money auction house commodities market online for the first time. This will mark the first time players can […]

What’s the Best Class?

I’ve already told you what I thought the best class was in Diablo so far, but what do you think? Obviously there are multiple ways to measure one class against another. There is PvP, which we know virtually nothing about.  There is the classes ability to progress through Inferno solo, its ability to level quickly […]

Bosses by Level

Blizzard setup the leveling so that you would complete the first three difficulties within the same amount of time that it takes you to reach level 60. The first 31 levels are designed to be spent working your way through Normal difficulty, where you familiarize yourself with bosses and just about every active ability your […]