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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Diablo 3 Item Affixes For Farming Characters

Diablo III Item Affixes For Farmers

Diablo III has a ton of affixes for all of the items within the game.  The term "affixes" covers both the prefixes and suffixes that may appear on an item when it is created within the Diablo 3 game.  Items are assigned random affixes when they are created in game, either as drops off of monsters, from crafting, or when they are available for purchase from the local merchants.  Knowing what Diablo 3 item affixes to look out for to not only use yourself, but also to snatch up and sell to others, will be a big benefit. 

Let's take a look at some of the top Diablo 3 item affixes that are going to help out farming characters.  Farming characters (or Farmers for short) are characters that focus on acquiring gold or items to sell for a profit, be it on the Gold Auction House (GAH) or the Real Money Auction House (RMAH).  The basic function of a farming character, whether farming solo or as part of a group farming team, is to maximize the ability to quickly collect resources from within the game.
Here are the 4 most beneficial affix sets within the Diablo 3 Item Affixes options.  Not only will items with these affixes be optimal for your own farming characters, but items with these Diablo 3 affixes will also be good items to sell on the in game auction houses of Diablo III. 

Top 4 Diablo 3 Item Affixes For Farming

1. Magic Find
2. Gold Find
3. Gold Pick-Up Radius
4. Movement Speed Boost

Farming for profit is all about finding items and gold as efficiently as possible.  The top 4 Diablo 3 Item Affixes for farmers all play into that notion of getting items and gold as quickly as you can, but also work on increasing the quality or quantity of the drops in game.  Let's look a little deeper at each of the top 4 item affixes for farming characters.

Magic Find - Magic find bonuses give a % increase to your chances to find magic items.  Increasing your magic find percentage is one of the best things you can do to have a better chance at getting magic items from creature kills.  When you combine gear that gives a bonus to magic find with a multiple player game, you can benefit from both better loot tables and better chances to get those items to drop. 

Examples of some of the Diablo 3 item affixes for magic find are:

• Karma
• Luck
• Worthy
• Resplendant
• Glimmer
• Glittering
• Dazzle
• Scouting
• Seeking
• Ransacking
• Pillaging

Gold Find - Gold find is another great item affix to add onto any farming character's gear.  Gold find will add an extra % of gold to the total gold dropped from monsters within Diablo 3.  This can be a major benefit to farming gold because every single monster you kill will drop a flat extra percentage of gold each and every time.  If you are farming kills for gold drops, then this is a must have on your farmer's gear.

Examples of some of the Diablo 3 item affixes for gold find are:

• Lucky
• Glittering
• Prosperous
• Golden

Gold Pick-Up Radius - The gold pick-up radius bonus item affixes are also nice additions for farming characters.  In Diablo 3 you do not have to manualy loot the gold off of the ground.  You can just run over the pile of gold and it will be looted for you.  The basic radius for picking up gold is rather small and without a gold radius boost, you have to run just right over the piles of gold to loot them.  With an increase to your gold pick-up radius, you only have to get close to the gold pile and you will collect it.  The larger your radius, the farther away you can loot from, which increases your speed and efficiency for farming.

Examples of some of the Diablo 3 item affixes for gold pick-up radius boosts are:

• Gathering
• Greedy
• Miserly
• Avaricious

Movement Speed Boosts - The final of the Diablo 3 Item Affixes that are ideal for farming characters is the set of affixes that increase your character's movement speed.  Increasing your movement speed is beneficial in more ways than you may initial think.  Not only will you be able to more quickly move throughout the wilderness and dungeon areas in Diablo 3, but having an increased movement speed can be a life saver.  Being able to outrun the monsters chasing you can save your character from death.  Getting killed is one of the major setbacks to any efficient and speedy farming run.  So an increased character movement speed will not onl help you progress through the games levels faster, but could save you from the long run back to where you were should you die.

Examples of some of the Diablo 3 item affixes for movement speed increases are:

• Rapid
• Stride
• Jaunt
• Leap
• Flash
• Quick
• Nimble
• Bounding
• Swift
• Fleet

A combination of all 4 of these Diablo 3 Item Affixes for farming characters will be ideal for creating a quick and efficient farming character to earn you profits on the Diablo 3 dual auction houses.  Look out for items with these affixes on the auction house, the vendors, and as monster loot so you can use some of the gear yourself or toss it on the auction house to make a quick profit.

Are there any other Diablo 3 Item Affixes that you think are important for a farming character?

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