How to powerlevel your own heroes without boosting from others?

With this method of power leveling you don't need someone who must waist their time to boost you, but you will need someone other. The big difference for the other player is, he will get rewarded for helping you with gold and xp. If you read already my blog, you know which run we will do.

Preparation:

1. You need a lev 70 hero, who can do T6 Bounty Act 4 (Clear the Hell Rift)
As I recommend in the guide a ranged hero is preferred and it is also doable with medicore gear.

2. level your hero to lev 5+.

3. Find someone who needs gold or / and xp. This player must not be geared very well.

4. Provide the player all information about Hell Rift Farming T6  or sent him this link to the guide.



Your Powerleveling starts now:

1. You open a T6 adventure game with your lev 70 hero and look for the act 4 bounty "Clear the Hell Rift".

2. If you find a game kill all except 1-5 monsters.

3. Invite the other player and wait until he ported to you.

4. You port to town, leave the game, switch your hero to your leveling hero and join the resuming game. The other player must wait.

5.  After you joined the game and ported to the other player, he can kill all remaining monsters and finish the bounty.

(If your partner is geared enough, he can try the cursed chest and hope for the white monsters.)

6. Repeat until lev 70

Current Play Time: 1 Hour 9 Minutes, but this char was also used for storing items.

Your hero will get a high amount of experience per run and level very fast.
At low level you will get 4 level per run, above 64 you only get 1 level per run.

I leveled my crusader, witch doctor and 2nd monk with this method, but I forgot to count the number of runs. I did some math and it will be less then 25 runs to level from lev 5 to lev 70.

During the time you search and prepare a game, I recommend that you partner don't waste his time. The best thing he can do is farming legendary crafting materials.

Following Guides for farming legendary crafting materials provide this blog:
Shard of Entsteig Plate (Aughild's Authority Set)
Born Key (Born's Command Set)

Hell Rift Farming T6 - Gold & XP

This short guide provide all necessary informations about one of the best possibilities to farm Gold & XP.

We are doing the Act IV Bounty "Clear the Hell Rift" and therefore this run is called Hell Rift Farming.

Maybe this bounty will get nerfed soon.

This can be done on a moderate geared range class on Torment VI. (or you do it on Torment V if you don't feel confident). If you do it in a group and you are more efficient.

You open a game until you get this bounty. If you do this in a group, everyone open a game for themselves and the player who find the bounty first, invites the other one.

Take the WP to Hell Rift level 1, ignore all monsters and run straight to the portal to level 2. You can use teleport as wizard or vault or smoke screen as demon hunter. Illusory Boots (act2 bounty reward) can also help to run through monsters. They have the bonus "You may move unhindered through enemies".

After you arrive in Hell Rift level 2 you kill all monsters. There are no elites, but sometimes there spawn a rare monster, but with some kiting and practice they are no problems.

You reward for completing these fast bounty you get

421.770 gold and 65.569.000 XP

Additional Reward - Cursed Chest

Sometimes you will find a cursed chest. My suggestion is to open these after you complete the bounty. If you are lucky, you must only kill some normal monsters, if not you must kill an elite group. Then I would run away and port to town. For the cursed chest you get an additional reward.

200.770 gold and 24.650.000 XP

Last tip:
Try to do it in a group, you are more efficient in searching for the bounty and kill monsters faster. Only take range classes. Their gear must not be very good, if they optimize their skills for this short run. If they people, don't know how to run, then you can link them to this guide.


Soon I will provide a further short guide who to skill and equip a demon hunter to do this run.

My Monk's Shopping List

Because I must gear my monk for inferno I made a shopping list.
In the first step I want very cheap Items, so the random stats must not be perfect and are not this important.



Helm
Inna's Radiance
2 random stats
all resistance, dex/vit, resistance

Shoulders
Vile Ward
2 random stats
dex/vit, resistance


Chest
Inna's Chest
1 random stat
all resistance, resistance, dex/vit


Pants
Inna's Temeperance
1 random stat
vit, all resistance, dex/vit


Belt
The Witching Hour
3 random stats
dex, vit, all resistance, resistance


Boots
Natalya's Blood Footprints
1 random stat
vit, resistance, dex/vit


Ring
Natalya's Reflection
3 random stats
crit, crit damage, average damage, vit, all resistance, resistance

2x Weapons
rare 1H Weapon
> 900 dps
life steal
socket

(crit damage)
(dex)
(vit)

Patch Notes 1.0.7 Preview

You can find the hole patch 1.0.7preview here.

I will comment the most intersting parts.

Not directly in the patch preview, but from the forums.

NV stacks will presist across acts.

I don't think that there will be new and more effective farming routes then in act 3, but there will be new possibilities for diversification.

New acount bound Crafting Recipes and Crafting Items.
Account-bound crafting reagent called Demonic Essence, which drops from Elite monsters in Inferno.
Recipes drop randomly in the world or from bosses.

More account bound crafting items is very good to get a feeling of a success after farming for hours. A new goal to farm, not only for exp or the lucky 100 million drop. The %chance todrop Demonic Essence increaes with higher monster power, this will lead to more players farming on higher monster power and will be looking for cheap and effective farming builds on higher monster power, like my keyfarmer.

New gems quality "The Marquise"
cost 3 Radiant Star gems, 20 million, 1 Demonic Essence
The design will drop randomyl from lev63 monsters

 Further option to improve your charakter and spent your money.

Monster power in public games

 For me it will not make public games more interesting.

More Experience Bonuses in Inferno on higher Monster Power

 This will lead that most players will try to play on higher monster power and not farming on mp 0-2, because it is now the most effective method to farm experience and items. This also makes farming in a group more attractiv then until now. I'm welcome you to farm with me together on EU Server! :)

We're also increasing the base pickup radius by a small amount.

 Good thing if you play with 0 pick up radius. I don't do this, but I like this small change a lot.

We're removing the incrementing resurrection timer on consecutives deaths.
It will now be a flat 5 seconds in Softcore.

Nice change,  waiting for 30 seconds after dieing several times in a row, because you pulled 2 elite packs at once is very annoying.

How to get 24% movmentspeed for barbarian?

To solve the problem to reach 24% movement speed (ms) with items, this short guide will help you to find a solution.

There are 4 different item slots which can offer 12% movement speed.

Rare, Set or Legendary Boots with movement speed
(Best Boots would be Ice Climbers with 12% movement speed.)
Bracers - Lacuni Prowlers
Chest - Tyrael's Might
Pants - Inna's Temperance

You can combine them as you want.

The best solution would be
Lacuni Prowlers with crit
Ice Climbers with movement speed
rare Pants
IK Chest

If you can't afford Ice Climbers with movement speed then there are 2 other good good options.

Solution #2
Ice Climbers without movement speed
Lacuni Prowlers
Inna's Temperance with Strength
IK Chest

Solution #3
Rare, Set or Legendary Boots with movement speed
Lacuni Prowlers with crit
IK Chest
rare Pants

If you can't afford good Lacuni Prowlers then there are 3 other options.

Solution #4
Rare, Set or Legendary Boots with movement speed
Tyrael's Might
rare Pants and Bracers

Solution #5
Rare, Set or Legendary Boots with movement speed
Inna's Temperance with Strength
IK Chest
rare Bracers

Solution #6
Ice Climbers without movement speed
Tyrael's Might
Inna's Temperance with Strength
rare Bracers

There are many ohter possible combinations of these items to reach 24% movement speed.
The decison is dependant how good your other gear is and which items you can afford.


I'm playing with following combination:
Tyrael's Might
IK Boots or Flamewalker (dependant what I do)
Rare Pants
Rare Bracers with crit

A good skill to break barrels

A good skill for the Demon Hunter to break objects like barrels or weak wooden doors is  
Chakram - Shuriken Cloud.

You must run very close along the barrels to break them. If you Vault it doesn't work. This is a very good skill for gold or magic find runs in weaker areas, because you are not dependent on all your skills slots.

Nephalem Valor Buff

With lev 60 after defeating a champions group or a rare monster you get the Nephalem Valor Buff.

The buff increase your magic find and gold find for 15%.
The buff stacks 5 times, this means 75% magic find and 75% gold find.
The buff lasts 30 minutes.
The duration resets to 30 minutes with each kill of an elite pack.
The buff ends if you change skills.
You get the buff in all difficulties, also normal and nightmare.
With this buff you get additional item drops if you kill a boss like skeleton king. (This is not 100% confirmed now!) 

There are many possibilities with this buff, which must be discovered now.

Tips for leveling adventure

Some useful help for tonights leveling adventure.

Charakter progression

Following sites can help you during your level process. They offers a very quick overview which skills, runes or passives are activated on which level.

Barbarian progression
Demon Hunter progression
Monk progression
Witch Doctor progression
Wizard progression

I will have opened the dh site on my notebook right to me.

Overview weapons

Keybindings

pdf for printing

Follower

Followers are only in solo play available.
Follower basics

Making Gold

Diablo 3 Gold Secrets Guide
Free Gold Guide Blog