Talons Diablo 3 Guide

Inferno Farming Spots Discussion

Introduction

There are a bunch of different posts with links on how to do various farming runs. I thought I would make a consolidation of these, and 1 spot where we can all discuss various farming locations in Inferno.

First, the options, sorted by general gear requirement to do them:

1) Royal Crypt Farming:

http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo3/comments/ufe19/inferno_gold_farming_stats_to_400khr/

Pros: near-zero threat of death. Easy to get access to this location.

Cons: could die from boredom. No chance at getting that lottery-ticket 30 million dollar item.

Estimated G/hr: Roughly 250-500k gold/hr

2) Act 1, Dank Cellar:

http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo3/comments/ue2s4/dank_cellar_farming_numbers/

Pros: near-zero threat of death. Easy to get access to this location.

Cons: Could die from boredom. Small chance at getting that lottery-ticket 30 million dollar item.

Estimated G/hr: Roughly 250-500k gold/hr

3) Butcher/Warden 5-stack valor farming:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5ju_GuBmw

Pros: Low gear requirement. Still relatively easy to get access to this location. Non-repetivive (relatively speaking) farming.

Cons: Highly fluctuating reports of success here. I tried it and got almost entirely garbage.

Estimated G/hr: Roughly 250-400k gold/hr, but I have a hard time believing that. This is absolutely going to drop farther as Ah gets more saturated with higher ilvl gear.

4) A4 Aspects farming:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/ueqmv/witch_doctor_act_4_inferno_zombie_bears_farming/

Pros: Access to top ilvl weapons here. Chance to pull in that 30 million dollar 1650 dps 2her.

Cons: Could die from boredom. 30 second runs are very repetitive. Very very streaky farming. You pull in so much gear that you can flood your AH account and “get stuck”.

Estimated G/hr: 400k to 2+ million/hr. Note: this is very hard to estimate, since it is so streaky. You do pull in 2-3 blues every 30 sec, so the baseline G/hr just selling these is around 300-400k gold.

5) Siegebreaker 5-stack NV farming:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/ubxat/my_barbarian_act_3_inferno_farming_guide/

Pros: Access to top ilvl weapons here. Chance to pull in that 30 million dollar 1650 dps 2her.

Cons: One of the hardest places to farm, you need to be in the top 1% of geared people to do this successfully. Killing lootbreaker is easy, but getting Act 3 stacks of NV can be hard, considering how many tough monsters there are, elite or not. I’m talking Pestilence (green hand of death mobs), tons of ranged mobs, dragons from the sky, tongue spitters, etc… easier as a group.

Estimated G/hr: 400k to 2+ million/hr. Note: this is very hard to estimate, since it is so streaky, similar to A4 aspects farming. You pull in more yellows in this place, but way less blues, this could make it even streakier than A4 aspects in this regard.

6) Inferno Ponies

No guide on this that I can find. You can go into the diablo room, cancel the cutscene and then the staff can be bought – no need to actually kill diablo.

Pros: Could be the single highest Ilvl place in the game (inferno ponies). Could be easy to do (getting 5 stack NV will be cake at least, and this is one of the biggest time sinks in NV stack farming strats.

Cons: may be very very hard to do, in terms of the actual pony level. Comments in this thread suggest that inferno ponies only drop ilvl 50 gear. This could be a dealbreaker, and it makes no sense to me, unless blizzard just doesn’t want pony farming to be what people do, and the pony level to be “neat” only.

Estimated G/hr: Completely unknown at this point.

7) Rakanoth 5-stack NV farming

No guide on this yet, but it is something that has been milling about in my noggen. Rakanoth has upgraded loot tables. Certain classes can kill Rakanoth fairly easily, via gimmacky builds and what have you.

Basically you would build up a 5-stack NV buff (this could be the harder part, but as we gear up this will be easier and easier), then go kill Rakanoth. Now a preliminary question would be this….. does Rakanoth drop better loot than Siegebreaker, because this is the most obvious direct comparison to this farming strategy. If SB/Rak drop same ilvl loot, then this method would likely not be a good choice, just farm the lootbreaker pinata instead. However, if Rak drops better gear than SB, then this could actually be the best spot to get the absolute highest ilvl gear with only diablo or inferno ponies as other options. As the AH floods with A3 level rares, this could be the “next step”. Anyone know any answers on ilvl of Rakanoth vs Siegebreaker drops?

Pros: Could be the one of the highest Ilvl place in the game.

Cons: Massive barrier to entry. Must be able to both kill rakanoth easily and to be able to farm A4 elite packs at a reasonable rate.

Estimated G/hr: Unknown. This could be the next step though, if it drops high ilvl gear, and siegebreaker runs start getting less and less profitable.

Short Personal Opinion to spark Discussion

So feel free and go ahead and discuss your best strategies for farming. I’ve personally been doing the A4 aspects a lot, and making great money. However, now that prices on the AH are dropping, even getting a 1300 dps 2-her won’t make a whole lot of money. It’s getting to the point where you need yellows, not blues, because yellow armor will usually sell better than anything but the most insanely high rolls on weapons! Heck, even a 1450 dps 2her will net less gold than geting nice rolls on some bracers/gloves/ring/ammy, etc.

Siegebreaker seems like the next (or actually the) best place if you want to farm gear, but is it more efficient than simple gold farming? This is a perfect transition into….

Deflation of the AH

Also to consider is the fact that AH values are coming down and down and down, yet the chance to get insane rolls on this gear is obviously unchanging. I predict that there will be a point where farming gear will actually not be optimal, and farming gold will be the best way to get good gear. Obviously, if a lot of people then switch to gold farming, you will get less flood on the AH, and we’d reach an natural equilibrium where the two methods are equally valid, possibly slightly favoring magic finding, since there is a higher barrier to entry for MFing.

Thoughts? comments?