Tag Archives: Artisans

Farming Manglemaw – 100+ Subtle Essence / hr + 190 gold/minute

Thanks to a follower of Diablo 3 Artisans, DonReader, I’ve got the fastest way to farm gold and magic items in the Diablo 3 beta. This one is really good. How do I know it’s the fastest? Not only does it produce over 100 Subtle Essence PER HOUR but you will also find 190 gold […]

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 […]

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 […]

Diablo 3 Gold Sinks

In any virtual economy there needs to be “gold sinks” – assuming the currency is gold. Otherwise the amount of gold in circulation increases too quickly. A gold sink is an expense that players pay which has the effect of taking gold out of the economy. This prevents prices from getting too high as more […]

What Aspect of Diablo 3 Will You Use to Make Gold?

This question was posed by Markco at Diablo 3 Gold Guide but the answer isn’t something I can put my finger on just yet. There will be more strategies to make gold than we can write about coming in Diablo 3 but they will break down into 3 general categories. The Auction House / Market […]

Sweeping Changes to Stats and Artisan Leveling

After last week’s announcement, among other things, that they were removing the Mystic Artisan (I never saw her anyways) and removing the Nephelum Cube today we’re met with Patch 10. What’s in Patch 10? More sweeping changes. We’re sitting at about 1 month after the latest projected release date and we’re still talking about what […]

Mystic Removed from Diablo III

That’s right, the Mystic Artisan is being removed from Diablo III. This was among several significant game changes that were announced this morning. These changes are part of what is ‘holding up’ the Diablo III release which was originally estimated for the end of 2011. Without a release date, we’re still at least 2 months […]

Gambling in Diablo 3?

In Diablo 2 Blizzard implemented a system specifically to meet the needs of the gambler. They put an NPC in each town loaded with several normal quality items and after you purchase them you would be able to find out whether they were rare, unique or elite. After early bugs were taken care of, the […]

Rune Dust and Runestones

Runestones are going to be really important in Diablo 3. There will be 6 types of Runestones each with 1 of 7 ranks. These Runestones are applied to your skills similar to the way that glyphs are applied to your character in World of Warcraft and with similar effect. These effects range from the sort […]

Why Brute Force Market Manipulation WON’T Work

There are a lot of people talking about using different types of market manipulation in Diablo 3 and I want to be among the first to warn you and to think about this before you think you can corner a Diablo 3 market. One strategy that is floating around is to buy out all the […]