Diablo 3 Fortune Shrine & Other Shrine Tips



Diablo 3 Shrines

Shrine Buffs In Diablo 3 For Farming

While wandering through the dungeons and wilderness areas of Diablo 3, you will encounter 4 types of shrines.  Each of the shrines in Diablo 3 offer a specific character buff that lasts for only two minutes, so you want to use each of the shrines wisely.  There are a total of 4 different shrines that can spawn anywhere in the game.  Of the 4 shrines there are 2 that give the better benefits to farming characters in Diablo 3.

The 4 Diablo 3 Shrines and Effects

1. Blessed Shrine - Damage taken is reduced by 25% for 2 minutes.
2. Enlightened Shrine - Gives a 25% bonus to experience for 2 minutes.  NOTE: The Enlightened shrine stops spawning in games where all players and followers are maximum level.
3. Fortune Shrine - Adds an extra 25% Magic Find and Gold Find for 2 minutes.
4. Frenzied Shrine - Increases attack speed by 25% for 2 minutes.

 

The Best Shrine Buffs For Farming

Of the 4 various types of shrines in Diablo 3, two of them provide the best benefits for farming gold and items: the Fortune Shrine and the Frenzied Shrine.  The Enlightened Shrine is great for leveling characters, but provides no benefit for a Diablo 3 farming character.  Similarly, the Blessed Shrine will help reduce your damage taken and help you stay alive, but has no direct effect on your killing speed or the items that your creature kills will drop.  The 2 clear winners here for farming characters are the Fortune Shrine and the Frenzied Shrines. 

The Fortune Shrine is an obvious boost to farming in Diablo 3 as you will get a 2 minute buff that increases the amount of gold you will find from all sources by 25% and the Fortune Shrine also increases your Magic Find skill by 25%.  This 25% buff is additive and not multiplicative, so if you have 150% magic find, the new total would be 175% with the Fortune Shrine buff.  It is not an extra 25 percent of your current magic find level. 

The Frenzied Shrine also grants another great buff for farming in Diablo 3.  A 25% increased attack speed may even be the better buff between the Frenzied and Fortune Shrines.  While the +25% Magic Find and Gold Find increase is a nice buff, you probably will get better results from the 25% increased attack speed.  Getting a 25% attack speed buff, greatly increases your ability to quickly kill creatures and will help you rack up far more kills during the 2 minute duration of the buff.  this one is great against the Treasure Goblin Clan as well, and greatly increases the odds that you can kill them before they jump through their safety portal.

Tips For Better Shrine Buff Use

• The Shrines in Diablo 3 work during both solo and cooperative play sessions.  Be sure to notify your party members in co-op, when you find a shrine, because each character that is near the shrine will receive the buff.  Don't waste a shrine on just yourself in a co-op group.
• Don't waste time looting until your buff is gone.  If you are looting during the buff's short 2 minute duration, then you aren't using the buff wisely.  Go back and loot everything once the duration of the shrine's buff expires.  Of course, if you have Demon Hunter ferrets, they will loot the gold for you.
• You don't have to get the buff as soon as you find the shrine.  Wait until you find an area that is jam packed full of creatures, then grab the shrine's buff and get to killing.  The more creatures that are packed closer together, means more kills while under the duration of the buff.
• If using the experience shrine buff or the magic / gold find buff, weaken all of the creatures with a AoE ability first.  Once most creatures are near death, then grab the shrine buff and finish them off.  This allows you to quickly gain the benefits from a large group of nearly dead creatures and increases the overall number of possible kills while under the buff's effects.
• Don't waste the buffs on boss kills.  Most of the boss battles take a while to complete and odds are the buff will be gone long before the boss dies.  Worse yet, when your character dies, the buff is also removed.  So don't waste the shrine effects in areas where you are having trouble staying alive, unless it is the damage reduction shrine, which may just be the bonus damage prevention you need to get over the hump.

Diablo 3 Gold Secrets

Which Gem To Use In The Helm Socket?

Diablo 3 Helms And Sockets

In Diablo 3 many helms have an open socket for adding a Gem.  When a gem is added to a piece of Diablo 3 head gear, you get a nice stat buff that corresponds to the color and level of the gem added to the helm's socket.  Regardless of how you obtain your helm, you want to use one that has a socket so that you can take advantage of the great stat boosts too.  Gems all offer different stat boosts depending on what they are socketed into, be it a weapon, helm, shield, or other armor.  The following statistics apply when a gem is added to a helm.

 

Gem Stat Bonuses For Helms

• Amethyst - Up to 18% extra Life.
• Emerald - Up to 31% extra Gold Find.
• Ruby - Up to 31% more Experience Per Kill.
• Topaz - Up to 31% more Magic Find.

The Amethyst Gem bonus is factored in after your other vitality stat bonuses and it stacks, so this is a great way to bump up your life pool.

The Emerald Gem is a great addition for farming gold as long as you aren't having problems staying alive.  It is especially beneficial for stacking onto a gold farming Demon Hunter with Ferrets for collecting the gold for you.

The Ruby Gem is great for leveling your Diablo 3 character more quickly.  Even if your goal is to create a farming character, getting to max level as quickly as possible is always going to be more profitable than farming the lower difficulty levels.

The Topaz Gem is a great addition to a Magic Find build as the Topaz Gem adds a nice buff to your Magic Find.  That is, if you aren't having trouble staying alive.

As you are leveling your character, for the Helm socket I would focus on a Ruby Gem first, followed by an Amethyst Gem if you are having problems staying alive.  Wait until you are at maximum level and are ready to begin your gold and magic item farming career, before switching out to a Topaz or Emerald for Gold Find or Magic Find.

 

Death Is Bad For You

The biggest set back to farming efficiently is Death!  Dying is a major waste of your time, so focus on staying alive before focusing on maxing out your gold and magic drops.  Make sure to focus on having a balance of survivabilty stats and your major damage dealing stat before worrying about the other D3 farming character item affixes.  Dying and running back to your progress point are major time wastes and will drastically eat into your farming potential, if you are seeing the death screen a lot.  Not only is dying a waste of your time, but it is also expensive, as each death increase your repair costs.  These repair costs can get quite hefty when wearing higher level gear.  So try to avoid death at all costs.

DIABLO III SECRETS REVEALED

Demon Hunter Companions - Ferrets For Gold Farming

Remember Kodo & Podo?

Demon Hunter Companion Pet Runes

I chose the Demon Hunter as my main Diablo 3 character for two main reasons.  I had much experience farming in Diablo 2 with the old Demon Hunter predecessor, the Amazon, and because of the great benefit of one of the Demon Hunter's companion options - Ferrets!

At level 17, the Demon Hunter unlocks the option to use the skill: Companion.  The Companion skill starts off by allowing the Demon Hunter to summon a raven companion that periodically attacks enemies, but rarely needs to be recast.  At various levels, the Demon Hunter unlocks that ability to use Runes to modify the Companion Skill to allow for the summoning of 5 additional Companion pets.  You can only ever have 1 Companion pet at a time.

Various Demon Hunter Companion Runes

• Spider Companion (Level 22) - Summon a Spider whose attacks also slow enemy movement speed by 60% for 2 seconds.
• Bat Companion (Level 29) - A Bat replaces the Raven and grants 3 Hatred per second.
• Boar Companion (Level 41) - The Boar has an attack that hits all enemies in the area of effect.
• Ferret Companion (Level 49) - Summons Ferrets that collect gold for you and increased Gold Find by 10%.
• Wolf Companion (Level 59) - Summon a Wolf that does twice the damage of the other Companions, but only lasts for 25 seconds per cast.

Demon Hunter Ferret Companion

The Demon Hunter's Ferret Companions not only run around and pick up the gold off of the ground for you, but they also add 10% extra Gold Find!  How sweet is that?!?  Every little bit of extra gold will add up over the course of your characters Diablo 3 career, especially on the higher difficulty levels of Diablo 3, like Hell and Inferno difficulty.

The Ferret Companions are a nod to the old Beastmaster movie.  Remember The Beastmaster's pet Ferrets, Kodo and Podo?  They would run around and grab stuff for their master.  Diablo 3 Ferrets work just the same! 

This is a sweet Rune choice for the Demon Hunter's Companion skill.  In addition to increasing the amount of gold that drops, and not having to worry about running around to loot the gold pieces, you also can free up one of the preferred affixes for farming characters.  You don't need to equip gear with the affixes that increase the Gold Pick-up Radius because your Ferrets will be picking up the gold for you.  That frees up some item slots for more damage dealing or survivability stats like Resistance or Vitality.

Besides, who doesn't love Ferrets?

DIABLO III SECRETS

Diablo 3 Loot Pinatas - Treasure Goblin Clan

Diablo 3 Loot Pinata - The Treasure Goblin

Treasure Goblin Clan - Diablo 3 Loot Pinata

The Treasure Goblin Clan monsters will soon become your favorite creature to encounter when exploring in Diablo 3.  Whether you are out farming solo or in a team, leveling a Diablo 3 character, looking for gear upgrades, farming for magic item drops or gold, or collecting items to sell on the auction house, you will always be pleased to see the appearance of the Diablo 3 loot pinatas: The Treasure Goblins.  These monsters truly are the loot pinatas of Diablo 3.

The Treasure Goblin Clan monsters appear in four different variants and can be found throughout any of the various Acts I - IV.  These Treasure Goblins can appear anywhere within Diablo 3.  All four types of Treasure Goblins share the same stats and behaviors.  They also will tend to be around the same level as the area that they are discovered within Diablo 3.

The Four Treasure Goblin Variants

1. Treasure Seeker
2. Treasure Bandit
3. Treasure Goblin
4. Treasure Pygmy

 Once a Treasure Goblin sees your character, it will flee at a rapid pace.  While the Treasure Goblin is running away from you, it will drop gold pieces along it's path of retreat.  Soon after fleeing, the Treasure Goblin will summon a swirling escape portal and it will try to jump through the portal and escape.  If you are able to kill a Treasure Goblin before it escapes through the summoned portal, then it will drop multiple magic items and often one or more of these magic items will be rare.  These Treasure Goblins can drop quite a nice chunk of gold and often drop multiple magic items when killed.  You can increase the odds of getting magic items and the amount of gold earned by wearing items with some of the Diablo 3 affixes for farming characters.

The Treasure Goblin Clan Monsters Are Immune To:

• Slow
• Freeze
• Stun
• Blind

Treasure Goblin Clan Killing Tips

Be very careful when chasing after a Treasure Goblin, Treasure Bandit, Treasure Seeker, or Treasure Pygmy.  They can easily lead you into dangerous areas of the Diablo 3 map and into trouble.  Many times I have found myself chasing wildly after a Treasure Goblin and into a larger pack of monsters.  Sometimes my greed and the thrill of the Treasure Goblin chase will lead to my character getting killed.

I have noticed that a Treasure Goblin doesn't always notice you from far away.  This allows you to attempt to safely clear some of the surrounding monsters before the Treasure Goblin starts to flee.  This can be a big help.  You also may be able to move around to the opposite side of the Treasure Goblin and force him to flee away from you back towards an area you have already cleared.  This is handy when you encounter a Treasure Goblin in a long dungeon hallway.  On my Demon Hunter, I like to Vault ahead of the Treasure Goblin and shoot him in the face, which will send him back down the dungeon hallway from the direction I have already cleared.  Without having to worry about the addition of other Diablo 3 monsters joining the battle, you have a much better chance of killing a Treasure Goblin before he can escape through his portal will all of his magic treasure.

Anyone have any funny stories about getting killed from your greed, chasing a Treasure Goblin?

After sharing your funny Treasure Goblin death story - Check out these video tips for farming Treasure Goblins.
http://www.diablo3professions.com/kripparrians-pro-tips-goblin-farming/
http://diablogoldguide.blogspot.com/2012/06/one-of-best-inferno-farming-spots.html

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Making Diablo 3 Gold With Amulets

Amulets For Sale

Flipping Vendor Bought Amulets

The NPC vendors in Diablo 3 spawn random armor pieces that may or not be an upgrade for your character.  A few of these NPC vendors will also sell rings and amulets that you can purchase as well.  The best part about gear in Diablo 3 is that you can sell any gear you find, buy, or have already used because, unlike WoW, nothing binds to your characters.  That means any armor, weapons, rings, amulets, or follower items you obtain can be used by multiple characters and can be sold on both the gold based (GAH) and the real money auction houses (RMAH). 

Amulets Are Easy Money

It's no secret Amulets are one of the easiest ways to make gold in Diablo 3 on the gold auction house at the lower levels.  At lower levels of the game, you tend to find mostly armor and weapons, with the occasional jewelry drop.  When you do see a piece of jewelry drop, the rings tend to drop more often than the amulets.  Therefore, once you unlock the vendors that sell rings and amulets, you will probably be shopping for them for your own character because odds are you won't have found one yet from loot drops.  Don't stop at just outfitting the gear on your character though.  Other players will be wanting to purchase rings and amulets with great stat combinations, to help them level quickly.  Amulets are the better investment, because most players will have seen a handful of rings drop long before seeing any amulets drop from creatures and chests.

Using The NPC Vendors For Your Advantage

Since these NPC vendors in Diablo 3 randomly spawn the items they have available for sale, you never know what stat combinations you are going to have available to you for purchase.  So take advantage of any opportunity you get to purchase quality items when they appear on the vendor.  If you are on your Demon Hunter and the vendor is selling an ideal stat combination item for a Barbarian, go ahead and grab it for your low level or non-existant Barbarian character and transfer or save it in your shared stash.  You may not even get a good stat combination to appear on the vendor, while you are on the character that would best benefit from the item affixes combinations.  So transferring good items through the shared stash is a good idea.

The same thing applies for super amazing stat combination items.  Any of the nice low level damage boosting amulets (2-4 min-max damage boost at level 7 for example) will be good sellers and when coupled with one of the great item affixes for farming characters these good sellers become damn near instant sales.  I have been buying amulets that costs me 2.2k gold and am able to sell them on the auction house for 2-4 times the purchase price.  The best thing is they are selling in a matter of hours, which is crucial to prevent losing your items in the undercutting war.  When the stat combination is an excellent combination, these amulets can sell out in a matter of minutes. 

So if you see a great stat combination for sale on a ring or amulet, stock up and buy a bunch to sell on the dual auction houses in Diablo 3.


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