Diablo III - New patch 2.1 Coming Aug 26

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

Blizz took out their nerfbat to the Scoundrel Run. Just got a quick update/patch that says as much. It's probably not much worth doing anymore.

I've done it since the patch, still as good.

(they eliminated a boss drop, which the equipment sucks anyway regardless)

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Tried the scoundrel run a few times on Hell and the gold isnt anywhere good enough to justify not progressing. If I get stuck in Inferno I might consider it, though.

What Gold find do you guys have, to find it good?

I think I'm at +125%

[Rathji]

Did a quick test this morning with 101 GF in Hell difficulty.

Looks like in 12 mins I can do it 5 times and get about 14k. Also got one decent piece that might fetch a few thousand on the AH.

I guess if I am tight for cash it certainly works.

[Hemi-Cuda]

so who has unlocked Whimsyshire? i've played through it on normal and nightmare with a buddy who has the staff, but i'm unable for the life of me to get any of the components to make my own. i did probably 2 dozen runs at Leoric's Manor on normal mode to try and find his shinbone in the fireplace, but it never spawned once. the only piece i have so far is the mushroom

[KTrain]

I spent a couple hours last night and got them all. I have the normal and nightmare ones.

It was a pain in the ass and I actually got a couple of the items after saying, "frack, I'll try one more time and if I don't get it I'm going to bed." I did look on YouTube for a couple hints about finding the items.

It's $500K for the hell staff so I'm on the fence about getting it because, with my current gear, nightmare is pretty easy. I might just downgrade my stuff to gold find and run through nightmare a bit.

[Rathji]

The stuff for the staff was pretty easy, but I had the mushroom and rainbow stuff before I even knew what it was for. I thought the shinbone was the easiest of the rest of it, the most annoying, aside from the money, was the stuff from the frozen cave. I think I had to do that 15-20 times to get it, and it's not a short clear like it is in the manor.

In the end, at least for level 60, I think it is far better to do Whimsy than to do scoundrel, since you get NV to amplify the gold. That is a pretty big investment though, especially at Hell.

[KTrain]

I got the gemstone from the frozen cave randomly on one of my runs but I could see how that would be a huge pain in the ass. The actual plans was the last thing I tried to get and it was the most annoying because after you kill Izual, if he doesn't drop it, you have to log out and start the quest again.

[Bobblehead]

How many legendary drops are people getting?

[Rathji]

I have 3 legendary drops in the time it took me to level from 1 to 60

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

If you want to farm some gold quickly, on Nightmare of all places, the mission where you meet the scoundrel and continue to get the 2nd shard will net you about 15K +/- in about 10 minutes. About 90K in 1 HR. It's not the greatest, but it helps out so in a few hours you can actually afford an actual decent weapon or two to make Inferno a bit less difficult.

I wonder if that is why they nerfed Nigel in the latest patch.

[Raekwon]

I made 1 million gold yesterday in about 5 hours farming act 4 inferno mini boss run. My WD has 28k DPS but had to go down to 35k health. Its cheesy farming but can net a huge gain.

Edit: Sorry I meant selling drops not from gold dropping. Very little gold drops its all about big pay drops.


Also at 60 had 3 legendaries total drop. An axe, shield and helm all crap

[photon]

Level 34 and have had zero legendary drops.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I have 3 legendary drops in the time it took me to level from 1 to 60

level 59, had one legendary drop so far (Leoric's Crown)

[Icon]

level 40, just got my first one... a lovely 2h sword with primarily Intelligence stats on it.

Whoopdeedoo.

[Flaming Choy]

Most of the legendary stuff I've seen kinda suck. I lucked out with a monk helm I got, with dex, vit and life %. Useful stats for my monk. It's since been replaced by a much better rare item.

[Hanni]

I got a Legendary hand weapon that was worse than the rare I was using on my level 32 monk, so I put it up on the AH for 50k and actually got the buyout price.

[silentsim]

60 and 0 legendary

[Caged Great]

no legendary for me either

[Tinordi]

What do you typically do with rare and magical items? I just salvage them for the most part. So annoying to get rares for a class you aren't even using.

[Caged Great]

I convert them into gold.