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Originally Posted by Rathji
Just sitting at/near the waypoints? or any particular direction?
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At the Ancient Path waypoint, it could be immediately to the East or just further up that direction until you get to the top of the switchback.
At the Alcamus waypoint, there is a small area around the waypoint with exits to the north and east. It spawns in that small area fairly often.
Personally, I don't goblin hunt... too boring and not enough reward...
Act 1 is far better overall because you can kill much faster (which offsets more than enough for the lower drop rate.)
You can kill ~15-20 elites in about 30 minutes or less, with an option to go longer if you like.
My run:
Start with Imprisoned Angel/Chamber of Suffering quest.
- Take the Northern Highlands waypoint and look for the Watch Tower in the NW or W area from the waypoint. If there isn't one, start a new game. The Watch Tower has up to five (!) elite/champion packs in a very small area. Personally, once I see that there is a Watch Tower, I usually proceed to the next steps first and come back later once I have my NV built up. No harm in just going into it right away though.
- Take the waypoint to the Cathedral Level 3, quite often there will be one elite/pack either right near you, or back in the rooms by the top of the stairs where you rescued the templar
- Go to the Cemetery of the Forsaken and do all three underground areas. There are usually 1-3 elites/packs per area, plus the side quests. Edit.. there may be one above ground in this area too (about 1 in 3 times or so).
- Go to the Festering Woods. The two underground areas are guaranteed to have an elite there every time. Plus that whole area usually has 2-3 above ground and quite often a treasure goblin. And it is pretty small area... clear it out.
- This is where if I have skipped the Watch Tower I go back and do it with full NV
- Go to Leoric's Manor. Quite often there is an elite/pack back in the manor upstairs or sometimes downstairs. Regardless, clear that area and continue west (backwards gameplay wise) to the courtyard where there is almost always at least one elite/pack there.
- Lastly I will drop by the Dank Cellar (west of the Old Ruins) just for kicks as it only takes a minute.
Optional at this point is to go kill the Butcher, run through the Cathedral Garden (if you plan on this, skip the Cathedral Level 3 step above), and/or check the first little bit west of Highlands Crossing waypoint. That last one can be hit or miss to find anything at the end of the bridge, but who knows, at this point, you have full NV and it only takes a couple minutes to check.
I am running ~150 MF without NV at this point and am able to quickly kill the elites/packs so like I say in about 30 minutes for this run it is likely I will get over 30 rare items. Plus there are usually 3 or 4 treasure goblins during that time.
You may be able to do this run even faster than I do as I usually wait for my Archon to reset before hunting the next pack. That Archon/Improved Archon for the Wizard just melts everything in its path.