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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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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