Since there are many people trying to grind paragon levels nowadays, i gonna copy one of my threads over to this forum, which will show you the most efficient way to farm experience.
Ever since the information about the global Paragon system get released, there haven't been much else to do in the game, other then leveling characters in preparation.
So i thought i could share what i have been doing towards this goal.
Route:
1:The festering woods (for valor stacks)
1.5: If we only got 2-3 stacks in woods, we go Leoric mansion for 1-2 stacks
2: The Fields of Misery
2.5: If The Decaying Crypt and/or Scavengers Den spawns, clear them out (always made sure we had 5 stacks before doing so)
3: Repeat
Doing this run with a geared group, you can gain 350-400 mil xp per hour on average Some "Pros" for doing this act1 run
- You can get 5 stacks in Festering Woods very fast (sometimes even 6stacks: 2 elites in Crypts, 3 elites outside + 1 out of 2 random Events)
- You can get +1 stack very easy in fields of misersy (random chest outside - "the old man" + chest in random dungeons)
- You got a decent chance to find ether 'Scavengers Den' or "Decaying Crypt" (both are awesome for exp/hour)
- All Mobs in fields are pretty fast (you can pull them all together with a wd using locust swarm - pestilence rune)
- Inside the "Decaying Crypt" you can make all those female zobies double or even tripple spawn using locust swarm - pestilence rune (afik they spawn 3 3 2 1 zobies and yes they all give exp + loot)
- 95 % of the Mobs (except trees and beastes myb will die to a decent stacked crit rend of 2 or 3 barb in a 4 man Party)
- The map layout is always the same in fields (easy team coordination)
Group composition: 3x WW/Rend barbs + 1x puller Which doctor Reasons for a WD
- To kill elites to get to 5 stacks very fast (use fire bats + Voodoo+ Mass Confusion/hex 20%dps + Soj)
- To lure all Mobs together in fields of misery using locust swarm - pestilence rune + place your Voodoo im big packs
- To make all those female zobies in the decaying crypt double or even tripple spawn using locust swarm - pestilence rune
Reason for barbs
- To find all those elite outside the crypts in Festring Woods very fast ( barb is most effective due to perma Speed buffs)
- To freez the elite with a cold soj while in festering woods (they wont run out of the wd's bat range that fast + mass dps)
- To kill all the trash the wd lured together using rend with massive crit dmg and crit chance up to 93 %
So onwards to the video showing how its done, and proof for my claim in title Diablo 3: Level 1 to Paragon level 100 in 34 hours, featuring a average 405mil xp per hour run @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEyZKTq5-vk
(showing gear and build at the end of the video)
I picked this "only 3 stacks in woods" video to avoid the accusations for a cherry picked run.
You can top out at over 450mil xp per hour in single runs, if you are lucky...
I would also like to add that its even possible to do it quite a bit faster faster then 34 hours. I was playing mostly solo in the start, and that slowed me down.. I would guesstimate ~30 hours is possible with the right "know how" and group.
If anyone have any comments or questions, feel free to ask
I would also like to add that its even possible to do it quite a bit faster faster then 34 hours. I was playing mostly solo in the start, and that slowed me down.. I would guesstimate ~30 hours is possible with the right "know how" and group.
I have been leveling a new barb with especially this in mind, so all farming was done in group using the exact route and setup shown in first post...
Sadly i missed my mark by 25min Guess i can blame nubtro for this failure, as i have been carrying him around for a few hours
Official time: Level 1 to Paragon 100 in 31 hours and 24 mins.
So as iam getting closer and closer to my goal of 10x paragon 100 barbs, i thought it could be time to update this thread alittle..
Not much have changed in this run over the close to 3 months I've been farming xp, but there is mainly a difference in how we start our runs nowadays.
Instead of just taking the chance on RNG, and hope for a Crypt spawn, we take a more active approach instead.
As you can check fields if Crypt spawned in fields in merely ~10 seconds*, we all scout for it in each of our own game.
First one that find Crypt invites the 3 other players, and we "resume normal operation", as explained in first post in this thread.
One other thing other thing i would like to note, is that experience per hour gain is hugely dependent on the "pathing" of your puller WD. So its really important for the which doctor to know how to clear both Fields and Crypt efficiently. (in the video posted below you can checkout the route of one of the best puller WD's i know)
In a group consisting of the same 3 barbs, the witch doctor can decide if your getting 350 or 450mil xp per hour by knowing where to go when..
And again to avoid accusations of a cherry picked run, i will upload a video netting us over 500mil xp per hour, with only 4 stacks in woods and no xp shines
Since i was recording this run, i was only playing with 10-15 fps which made alittle hard to control to say at the least
78.374491 mil xp in 9min and 20 sec -> 503.8 mil xp per hour
This number actually rivals some of the pre-prep runs i have seen other people doing, which btw ain't efficient in (real) time used/ xp gained at all)
Who said it was easy to rack up high xp per hour numbers ?
Nowhere in this thread is there any gear/MP requirements, it only show the most effective way to farm experience, both in ingame and "in real life" time.
There are many clowns that spend ~ 10 minutes pre-prepping MP10 crypt and woods, and use 10 min clearing it, and it seems like this is thought to be the most effective way to paragon level, in the eyes of the "general public". Atleast by judging on the popularity.
Its not.
And now we are back to the meaning of this thread, to show that theres a more effective way to level. But it should go with saying, when you have lower damage output, you should play at a lower monster power level..
A basic rule of thumb: You lower the MP until most white trash dies from 1 rend each of the 3 barbs.
Just as explainedin the first post.
- 95 % of the Mobs (except trees and beastes myb will die to a decent stacked crit rend of 2 or 3 barb in a 4 man Party)
Ive had a few comments like yours in the "main thread" on the US forum. And it kinda seems like when "lesser geared" people cant reach the same xp/hour numbers as shown in the video. They get on the offensive and miss the whole point of the thread.. With comment exactly like the one you made here.
But what did you really expect ? To be top on the board, setting "world records" left and right with low-end gear, in a gear-based game ?
hi mate!your gear is somethink crazy for me. myone is thistone: http://eu.battle.net/d3/it/profile/Alterego-2439/hero/28034413
if i change some pices i can do mp10 but too slow for that i changed the helm for have more dps and now i'm farming mp7 in solo,and for me is the best way...can you doing some guide for people with a "normal" gear ^^
thank's mate!
HeyAlterego
I took a quick look at your gear, and it seems like your at 1.74 APS buffed.
This is 7% ias over the minimum 1.67 APS recommend rltw breakpoint, and 8% ias under the next breakpoint at 1.82 APS.
This basically means that the 6% increased attack speed on your "Baleful boon" ring, does nothing for you. (Other than give you higher useless pDPS)
If you have the opportunity, i you recommend you to swap out that ring with something that have more/higher "hard damage" modifiers. (str, cc and cd) On a dual wield build i would include average damage, but since your working a limited budget and using a 2handed skorn, i would view average damage as a luxury.
Ive seen rare rings with ~100+ str, ~4 cc and ~40cd go for as low as 500k to 1mil gold (buyout), which would be a nice upgrade for you.
If you play the waiting game, you can get lucky and get a ring with same or higher stats for as low as ~3000 gold. (bidding right before auction ends)
Very well detailed explanation. I should really pull myself together and start doing this. I'm putting more time on PTR and it seems like a waste when i can be leveling up my paragon.
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Original thread can be found here: (contains alot more information) http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10039054064?page=1
Hey guys,
Ever since the information about the global Paragon system get released, there haven't been much else to do in the game, other then leveling characters in preparation.
So i thought i could share what i have been doing towards this goal.
Route:
1:The festering woods (for valor stacks)
1.5: If we only got 2-3 stacks in woods, we go Leoric mansion for 1-2 stacks
2: The Fields of Misery
2.5: If The Decaying Crypt and/or Scavengers Den spawns, clear them out (always made sure we had 5 stacks before doing so)
3: Repeat
Doing this run with a geared group, you can gain 350-400 mil xp per hour on average
Some "Pros" for doing this act1 run
- You can get 5 stacks in Festering Woods very fast (sometimes even 6stacks: 2 elites in Crypts, 3 elites outside + 1 out of 2 random Events)
- You can get +1 stack very easy in fields of misersy (random chest outside - "the old man" + chest in random dungeons)
- You got a decent chance to find ether 'Scavengers Den' or "Decaying Crypt" (both are awesome for exp/hour)
- All Mobs in fields are pretty fast (you can pull them all together with a wd using locust swarm - pestilence rune)
- Inside the "Decaying Crypt" you can make all those female zobies double or even tripple spawn using locust swarm - pestilence rune (afik they spawn 3 3 2 1 zobies and yes they all give exp + loot)
- 95 % of the Mobs (except trees and beastes myb will die to a decent stacked crit rend of 2 or 3 barb in a 4 man Party)
- The map layout is always the same in fields (easy team coordination)
Group composition: 3x WW/Rend barbs + 1x puller Which doctor
Reasons for a WD
- To kill elites to get to 5 stacks very fast (use fire bats + Voodoo+ Mass Confusion/hex 20%dps + Soj)
- To lure all Mobs together in fields of misery using locust swarm - pestilence rune + place your Voodoo im big packs
- To make all those female zobies in the decaying crypt double or even tripple spawn using locust swarm - pestilence rune
Reason for barbs
- To find all those elite outside the crypts in Festring Woods very fast ( barb is most effective due to perma Speed buffs)
- To freez the elite with a cold soj while in festering woods (they wont run out of the wd's bat range that fast + mass dps)
- To kill all the trash the wd lured together using rend with massive crit dmg and crit chance up to 93 %
So onwards to the video showing how its done, and proof for my claim in title
Diablo 3: Level 1 to Paragon level 100 in 34 hours, featuring a average 405mil xp per hour run @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEyZKTq5-vk
(showing gear and build at the end of the video)
I picked this "only 3 stacks in woods" video to avoid the accusations for a cherry picked run.
You can top out at over 450mil xp per hour in single runs, if you are lucky...
I would also like to add that its even possible to do it quite a bit faster faster then 34 hours. I was playing mostly solo in the start, and that slowed me down.. I would guesstimate ~30 hours is possible with the right "know how" and group.
If anyone have any comments or questions, feel free to ask
I have been leveling a new barb with especially this in mind, so all farming was done in group using the exact route and setup shown in first post...
Sadly i missed my mark by 25min Guess i can blame nubtro for this failure, as i have been carrying him around for a few hours
Official time: Level 1 to Paragon 100 in 31 hours and 24 mins.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/cZZgWNR.jpg
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPaofJymsyg
Some statistics for my run:
Total xp needed from Paragon level 1 to Paragon level 100 = 10,454,400,000 xp
Total time used from level 1 to level 60 = ~1 hour and 45 mins
Total time used from Paragon level 1 to Paragon level 100 = 29 hours and 39 min
~10400 mil xp / 29.5 hours = ~ 352 mil xp per hour including everytime (deaths, looting, repair, identifying, etc etc)
Special thanks go out to "main" farming group: (no particular order)
Which doctors.
Akisto @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Akisto-1566/hero/31579655
InSSoulrage @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/inssoulrage-2760/hero/31308419
MunQ @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/MunQ-2808/hero/31740002
Rob @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Rob-2628/hero/30437409
Barbs.
Heroman @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Heroman-2376/hero/31740595
Tiiitou34 @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/tiiitou34-2464/hero/31158196
Crexus @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/crexus-2518/hero/31365228
Duus89 @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Duus89-1849/hero/31209624
Masterbubbel @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/masterbubbel-1262/hero/31395707
Rob @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Rob-2628/hero/30835620
Nubtro @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Nubtro-2147/hero/30382844
Zaramos @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/zaramos-2604/hero/31567660
Zeratul @ http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Zeratul-2588/hero/31729196
So as iam getting closer and closer to my goal of 10x paragon 100 barbs, i thought it could be time to update this thread alittle..
Not much have changed in this run over the close to 3 months I've been farming xp, but there is mainly a difference in how we start our runs nowadays.
Instead of just taking the chance on RNG, and hope for a Crypt spawn, we take a more active approach instead.
As you can check fields if Crypt spawned in fields in merely ~10 seconds*, we all scout for it in each of our own game.
First one that find Crypt invites the 3 other players, and we "resume normal operation", as explained in first post in this thread.
One other thing other thing i would like to note, is that experience per hour gain is hugely dependent on the "pathing" of your puller WD. So its really important for the which doctor to know how to clear both Fields and Crypt efficiently. (in the video posted below you can checkout the route of one of the best puller WD's i know)
In a group consisting of the same 3 barbs, the witch doctor can decide if your getting 350 or 450mil xp per hour by knowing where to go when..
And again to avoid accusations of a cherry picked run, i will upload a video netting us over 500mil xp per hour, with only 4 stacks in woods and no xp shines
Diablo 3: Advance group xp farm netting us over 500 mil xp per hour @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6iDupnwl0
Since i was recording this run, i was only playing with 10-15 fps which made alittle hard to control to say at the least
78.374491 mil xp in 9min and 20 sec -> 503.8 mil xp per hour
This number actually rivals some of the pre-prep runs i have seen other people doing, which btw ain't efficient in (real) time used/ xp gained at all)
Players seen in video:
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/wesfeye-1142/hero/33165141 (Which doctor)
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Xiansai-2641/hero/33222107 (refreshing to see a doomhammer rend barb
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Crexus-2518/hero/33246495
* = How Can I Find The Crypts *faster*? @ http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=69196977&f=68
The great GRIND is over, paragon 1000 barb! @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xGiBwYu5bs
@DarkDreemer
Who said it was easy to rack up high xp per hour numbers ?
Nowhere in this thread is there any gear/MP requirements, it only show the most effective way to farm experience, both in ingame and "in real life" time.
There are many clowns that spend ~ 10 minutes pre-prepping MP10 crypt and woods, and use 10 min clearing it, and it seems like this is thought to be the most effective way to paragon level, in the eyes of the "general public". Atleast by judging on the popularity.
Its not.
And now we are back to the meaning of this thread, to show that theres a more effective way to level. But it should go with saying, when you have lower damage output, you should play at a lower monster power level..
A basic rule of thumb: You lower the MP until most white trash dies from 1 rend each of the 3 barbs.
Just as explainedin the first post.
Ive had a few comments like yours in the "main thread" on the US forum. And it kinda seems like when "lesser geared" people cant reach the same xp/hour numbers as shown in the video. They get on the offensive and miss the whole point of the thread.. With comment exactly like the one you made here.
But what did you really expect ? To be top on the board, setting "world records" left and right with low-end gear, in a gear-based game ?
Very well detailed explanation. I should really pull myself together and start doing this. I'm putting more time on PTR and it seems like a waste when i can be leveling up my paragon.