What Is Nephalem Valor Buff In Diablo 3?

What Is The Nephalem Valor Buff In Diablo 3?

It's no Diablo 3 Gold Secret that the Nephalem Valor Buff makes farming for gold and items much easier and more profitable.  Stacking your Nephalem Valor Buff to 5 stacks is highly recommended when farming for gold and items.  So what is Nephalem Valor (commonly seen as NV)?

Nephalem Valor

Only earned once character level 60.

Gain 1 stack of Nephalem Valor per Elite, Rare, or Champion mob pack killed.

Max stacks allowed is 5.

Each stacks provides +15% Magic Find & +15% Gold Find.

Can gain total +75% Magic Find & Gold Find with full 5 stacks of Nephalem Valor.

30 Min buff duration, but refreshed with new Rare, Elite, or Champion mob pack kill.

Leaving game or changing skills removes all Nephalem Valor.

Even a brand new level 60 Diablo 3 character with no good gold or magic item farming gear will see a huge benefit from the Nephalem Valor buff.  The buff to magic and gold find is additive, not multiplicative.  So while the Nephalem Valor buff will stack with the Fortune Shrine and other buffs, Magic Find on your gear, or extra Magic Find from your choice of gems for your helm, you simply add the 15-75% buff to your current magic find.

Preventing Accidental Loss Of Nephalem Valor Buffs

It is important to note that you will lose all buffs if you leave the game, but you also lose all Nephalem Valor if you change your skills around.  So if you need a specific skill set to beat your desired boss target, you must farm your stacks of Nephelam Valor in that same skill set up.

Some players have been complaining about accidentally moving skills around on the skill bar in elective mode with a misplaced mouse click, thus resulting in a loss of all stacks of the NV buff.  A simple fix to prevent this is to turn off Elective Mode once you have your chosen skill set up completed.  This prevents you from being able to accidentally move the skills around on your Diablo 3 character toolbar.

Get A Quick 5 Stack NV Buff In Act I of Diablo 3

Here's a quick and profitable route to a quick 5 Stack of the Diablo 3 Nephalem Valor Buff.

• Take waypoint to Cemetary of the Forsaken
• If Elite spawned kill, if not: Enter Crypts.
• Clear each crypt until you get your 5 NV stacks.
• Teleport to town and use waypoint to get back for each crypt.

Then once you have your full 5 NV stacks, you can head on to kill the Skeleton King, the Butcher, The Warden, or whoever else you are farming.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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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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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