Diablo 3 Gold Farming Tips - Abusing Summoning Creatures



Diablo 3 Tomb Guardian - Skeletal Summoner



Diablo 3 Gold Farming Tips

Creatures That Summon More Creatures

Here is a Diablo 3 gold farming tip that I have experimented with on the live Diablo 3 servers.  While leveling my first Demon Hunter in Diablo III, I decided to play around a little bit and test out some of the in game mechanics related to the Summoning Type creatures within the Diablo 3 universe.  What I found was a handy bit of information that can be used to maximize the farming ability of your character as you are running through the various Acts and difficulty settings of Diablo 3.  Let's look a little deeper at what I found out and how we can use it to our advantage to make gold in Diablo 3.

Within Diablo 3 there are creatures, champions, and bosses that summon in more creatures to join the fight.  The first ones you run into on Act I that summon more creatures are the Tomb Guardians.  Tomb Guardians are skeletal magic casters that shoot arcane orbs at you, but the Tomb Guardians also create a purple portal to summon in more Skeleton warriors during the battle.  Here's where it gets interesting. 

Normal Summoning Creature Mechanics

In most games, the developers have the mechanics of summoning creatures set in one of two ways.

• Summoners are worth XP and Loot, but their summoned minions are not.

or

• The pre-existing summoned creatures are worth loot and experience, but any future summoned creatures do not reward XP or loot.

Diablo 3 Summoning Creature Mechanics

In Diablo 3 the mechanics of some of the bosses, triggered events, and spawning towers follow these same rules, but not all of the do.  As a matter of fact, I found that Tomb Guardians and other summoning creatures do in fact reward XP, gold, and loot.  The pre-existing summoned creatures protecting them are worth XP, gold, and loot and the creatures that they continue to summon in also award XP, gold, and loot.  Most games don't allow a loot table or experience to be gained from the freshly summoned creatures to prevent people from just farming the summons.  Well, it may just be a bug or something overlooked in Diablo 3, but the summoned creatures are farmable on some creatures, champions, and bosses in Diablo 3 and they each continue to award XP, gold, and drop loot too!

Taking Advantage Of Diablo 3 Summoners

You can gear up with a set of magic find gear, gold find gear, or a combination of both of these great farming item affixes to further increase your rewards from the summoned creatures.  Not all summoning creatures and bosses follow this same pattern though.  All you need to do is watch your XP bar and see if gold and items drop off of the creatures that get summoned in to the fight to see if this hold true for the creatures you are battling.  A single Tomb Guardian can summon in 10 or more Skeletons to join the battle before running out of mana.  Jondar the boss in the Cathedral that is killed by the Templar is easily abused in this same fashion as well.

I like to kill all of the pre-existing creatures first and avoid attacking the summoners, then I just kill the summoned creatures for extra XP, gold, and loot - including magic items.  It's gets real nice when you find a group of 3-4 Summoners that continue to pour summon creatures onto you giving you even more loot, XP, and gold.  When you find a boss or a champion that you can abuse the same way it is even more profitable as they drop better items, more gold, and award more experience.  Do this at the higher difficulty settings and with even more gold find and magic find gear for even more of a Diablo 3 Gold Farming extravaganza.

Happy Diablo 3 Farming!

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