Diablo 3 Farming Tips by Ben

June 17 - NOTE: Dank cellar/treasure goblin drop rates have been nerfed and are no longer time efficient. Act 4 ghost farming Tyrael damage has been nerfed and is no longer profitable for melee classes.

The 'we' who wrote this are Ben and Andrew. We are dedicated gamers - at the moment we are playing Diablo® 3. We have Level 60 Wizard, Demon Hunter and Monk in Inferno Act 3.


These are the farming areas for level 60 characters, that we have found to be the most profitable

(post chest exploit patch, and post ninja patch of replenishing chest drops)

Act 1- inferno mode

dank cellar MF farming – est time 30 seconds.

(The mob drops ~2000 gold and a few gems +1-3 blues every run (sometimes a rare or legendary)

start any quest other than the first quest in act 1, go to the waypoint and select “Old ruins” walk back through the ruins towards New Tristram, you should get a checkpoint at the edge of the ruins, proceed following the road, the first building you see has a random spawn “dank celler” with an elite accompanied by a trash mob inside. The point of the run is to kill this mob and collect the drops, leave game, rinse repeat. The mob is very easy to kill, if you are a ranged character (DH, wiz or WD) you can stand in the archway and kill them without them ever attacking you. If you are a Barb or Monk you can easily take them out with a few close range AOE attacks.

Act 2- inferno mode

Treasure goblin farming- est time 30 seconds

(drops ~2000 gold, 1-5 tomes of secrets, 1-4 blues, sometimes a few rares and legendary items)

note: we suggest you either do this with a DH with ~40k dps without sharpshooter, a wiz with hydra/blizz combo and ~25k dps, or a very, very, well geared barb or monk.

select the quest “Lord of Lies” or any other late game quest that gives you access to the “Ancient path” waypoint. Proceed through the waypoint and run up the curves till you hit the checkpoint at the top. Leave and resume the game, run down the curves and kill the treasure goblin if it spawns. Then go to the waypoint at the bottom and select “Hidden camp” you can then leave the game without having to wait for the 10 second logout timer. The DH has the easiest time with this run because they can use SS/prep to run all the way down and leave in about 8 seconds if there is no goblin.

Act 3- hell mode

The Lord of Sin MF/GF farming- est time 15 mins

(drops vary depending on how much you clear the area, if focused on MF you are looking for rare armor pieces, not weapons, weapons will be crap)

select the quest “Heart of Sin” and start at the beginning. It is pretty straight forward, go glass cannon and blow through the quest killing everything in the way. This area has a very high concentration of elite mobs making it very profitable if you can go through it fast enough.

Act 4- Inferno mode

Ghost MF farming- est time 1.5 mins (assuming you are helping Tyrael with damg)

(drops high level 1k dps+ weapons)

note: you can do this with any class because at the moment you do not need to do any damg, although this run will be a lot faster if you can do a decent amount of damg. Be sure to bring lots of evasion/speed/protection skills.

Start the quest “Prime Evil” and go to the waypoint “The Crystal Colonnade” and run through the gateway to the crystal spire, run PAST Leah, she is virtually unkillable, take the teleporter to the next level. Talk to the ghost that spawns right next to the portal (Magdah, Kulle, or Mira) and kill them.

Mira- just leave the game, its normally not worth the trouble trying to kill her unless you are a monk or very well geared.

Magdah- just talk to her and wait for her to transform, as soon as she transforms switch places with Tyrael and hide behind him as he kills her for you

Kulle- talk to him and run back towards the portal, with a little practice you can get Tyrael in the right spot and Kulle will get “stuck” trying to chase you while Tyrael kills him. You will probably have to move 1-2 times during the fight because of Kulle's freeze bombs. If you fail to get him stuck then just kite him around the portal until tyrael kills him.

Bug?- how to get to Acts/Quests in Inferno Mode without having to complete the prerequisite quests.

Example: I am a lvl 60 Monk and I want to get to Act 4 quest Prime Evil to farm Ghosts. Select quest Prime Evil in Hell Mode, start the game and then leave. Now press join a Public game the game will automaticly select Inferno mode quest Prime Evil by default. Join the game and then leave, now press resume, you are now in Act 4 Inferno mode quest Prime Evil.