Diablo 3 Auction House video walkthrough

Today I thought I would share my current knowledge on the D3 Auction house. Having played around with it a bit in order to familiarize myself with the money making tool, I felt I could go over the main features in a video and show others what they can expect.

Consider this a kind of D3 auction house tutorial.

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This is my first livestream where I am actually talking, so please forgive the uhms and ohs. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to submit a comment. Best of luck to all the Diablo 3 merchants out there.

Diablo 3 Monk run part 2 - does life steal make you invincible

I finished the second part of my Monk run through and the entire thing took me about 1 hour and 7 minutes. I ended up at level 9 when facing the skeleton king.

Life steal did not make me invincible, however the fight was notably easier on the Monk than it was on the Wizard and that is despite the fact that I didn't even use the upgrade runes on any of the skills I had.

Does this mean I will swap to the monk instead for my D3 money making  scheme?

No! I still think the Wizard is the better choice, especially when you get into inferno mode and I am sticking to my guts on this one. Feel free to laugh at me in a month or so if I made the wrong choice.

Check out the second part of the monk run here:

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When Diablo goes live I will be aiming at a run through of under 1 hour for act 1 and then I will take it a bit more slow in the following acts. The aim is to finish Normal mode in the first play session, but that might be a bit optimistic.

How effective is Life Steal in D3?

After my double fatal encounter with the Skeleton King yesterday I wanted to do a fun run with a Monk. But not just any type of run I wanted to make a near invincible killing machine. How to you do that you might be thinking, well in my world you do it by making sure that any life lost is quickly recovered.

So I went over the gear my Wizard had collected, I spend her money leveling the Blacksmith and scouring the Auction house and I came up with these items:

I was super lucky to find the Resplendent Plate on the gold auction house and won them for 500 gold on a bid.

The idea of the set is to regen life constantly and to gain life when chopping monsters up.

First part of my run through with the Life Steal monk can be watched here:

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I must admit that I had a ton of fun, especially when I ran into a treasure gnome that lured me into a knockback Scavenger and a nightmare Grotesque along with all their minions and whichever other normal trash mobs I came across as I was hunting the gnome across the map.

I never got the treasure Gnome, but I did get to kill a huge group of monsters. Check out the carnage at 00:20:40

It is a bit hard to decide whether life steal is awesome based on the early parts of act 1 normal mode, but I will say this. I foresee it being very strong once you start to get some real damage going.

I aim to have the second part of the run through up by tomorrow evening.

Diablo III Beta - Act 1 Speed Run - part 2

I managed to get online first attempt today... wohooo! :)

I also almost made the run through in under 1 hour. I did run into one issue with this though. Because I am running through so fast I was only level 8 when I reached the skeleton king and while it is doable to kill him at that level, it made things a lot trickier than on previous runs I have done. I am embarressed to say that I died twice while attempting to finish. Mainly because I was rushing and the first attempt I simply underestimated how squishy the Wizard is.

It did show me one thing though and that is the benefit of leaving health globes for when you really need them. The 3rd attempt was a fairly smooth kill.

You can watch the second part of the run through of act 1 here. No calling me noob please, my boyfriend already mocked me for dying twice in beta! ;)

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Another thing this highlighted to me was that the Wizard does need to kite a lot and is very dependant on crow control in order not to die too much on the bosses, especially when powering through content and maybe being a little bit too low level.

I can't wait to try act 2!

Diablo III Beta - Act 1 Speed Run

With the current stability, or should I say lack of stability of the D3 beta servers I have given up on doing act 1 in one stretch and instead divided it into parts, lenght will be decided by how long the servers will allow me to stay online.

In the first part I managed a 30 mins run, which got me all the way to retrieving the crown and getting the Blacksmith on my side.

If you are interested check out the video of the first part of my Diablo 3, act 1 speed run here.

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Please excuse the slight lag that you see, my computer was not 100% happy with running the live stream and the game at the same time. In fairness sake I did have three firefox windows with 30+ tabs open so it should be looking better next time when I actually close down everything I don't need.

I do believe that I can manage to do the other part of act 1, complete with killing the Skeleton King within 30 more minutes meaning I have effectively cut off 22 minutes of my best time.

In this run I did not explore anything except if it was right in front of me and I mostly left greys/whites on the floor. I still had 6.4k gold by the end of the 30 minutes which is not too shabby.

I will attempt second part tomorrow, if I am allowed in, but hopefully with Blizzards Diablo Weekend being over the servers will be much more stable. 

D3 beta blues.

Again today it has been impossible to log in to the Diablo 3 servers. I am not panicing though as once the Diablo 3 beta weekend is over things should stabilize so I can do my final fine tuning.
While I wait for that I have put together a list of what I want to check and here it is:

• How fast can I run through the first act in the beta?
• Which level will I be if I power through to the end ?
• How much gold can I earn from the first act?
• How much gold can I earn if I disregard the Blacksmith?

For the first day after release I only plan on selling gold, which means I will probably not level my Blacksmith. On the other hand, leveling the Blacksmith might allow me to get better gear that will make progression faster, which in turn may earn me more money, so it might be a good investment. I have yet to decide which way I want to go with that.

I think, that when Diablo 3 is live, I will play the first chapter through with no Blacksmith and see how difficult I find the enemies in chapter 2.

Edit: In case anyone is getting frustrated with the D3 beta errors, then here is a list of what they mean so you can at least understand why you are banging your head against the wall.

Error 12 - Still under investigation, but can be circumvented by changing your password.
Error 37 -  Server full, keep trying.
Error 3003 - Change Region to Americas.
Error 3004, 3006, 3007, or 300008 - Timeout or creation errors. Server-side issues. Keep trying
Error 315300 - Wrong account or PW details. Make sure there are no additional spaces n your login details.
Error 24000 - Known issue

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D3 Beta servers down

I was going to make a video of one of my Diablo 3 Wizard runs, but due to the free beta access for anyone with a Battle.net account, the beta servers has been down for most of the day. They just game back up, but I am unsure, if I will have the time to sort out a video today. If not, hang tight for tomorrow and in the meanwhile, go have fun with the beta yourself! :)


Update: I just gave it a go and the game crashed after 25 minutes. Now Blizzards servers are down again now, so I will be passing on this and giving it a go tomorrow instead. 

Play Diablo Beta - free access if you have a battle.net account

I am taking a small break in perfecting my run-through time of act 1 in Diablo 3 to make a small note to anyone reading this blog.

Blizzard has opened the D3 beta servers for anyone who has a valid Battle.net account so if you are not in the beta yet, then now is your chance. You can read more about it here

Also on the note of run-through time I am down to 1h22min. At the moment I am trying to find out exactly which skills that are the most effective.

Class choice for making money on Diablo 3

After 2 days of much D3 beta playing I have decided my character class for the experiment of making money on the Real Money Auction house when Diablo 3 goes live.

My choice has fallen on the wizard.
The reasoning behind choosing the wizard is crowdcontrol. In the first act, the wizard is arguably the worst class to play as she can not compete with the damage output and speed of the other D3 classes, however I am not here to just play the first act and I fully believe that with the wizards abilities, she will be the strongest class further into the game.

As such I have made the decission to gamble based on my instincts. We will see whether it pays off or not.

In other news, Blizzard just announed that they will be closing the Diablo 3 Beta down on the 1st of May. This gives me 12 days to perfect my act 1 run through speed.
For now I have prepared a D3 wizard itemization guide for the first 1-13 levels that you can check out by clicking the link.

Picture attribution: Screenshot from Diablo 3 by Blizzard Entertainment.

Making a living from the Diablo 3 Real Money Auction House

I don't think there is a single gamer out there, who hasn't dreamed about making money from playing computer games. I am no different. Ever since I realized that I would have to work to put food on the table I have yearned for a way to turn the countless hours of nerding into a sustainable income.

I do however have what I would classify as a relatively high set of morals, which means I have never been able to get myself to participate in botting or shady gold selling. 

With Diablo 3 however, Blizzard is legalizing the act of selling and buying ingame items for real money and they are even putting a handy mechanic in place in order to facilitate the contact between buyer and seller. The D3 Real Money Auction House.

Last week I lost my job, but instead of being down about it, I have decided to turn this unfortunate event into something positive and see if I can not chase the gamers dream of earning money from playing Diablo 3.

D3 releases on May 15th and here is my current todo-list:

• Decide on the Diablo 3 character class.
• Test out the auction house and get a good idea of how it works, what sells and for how much in comparison to other items.
•  Play through the first act and perfect the runthrough time in order to get a good headstart.

I have access to the Diablo 3 beta and I am currently testing out all the characters
in order to find the one best suited for longterm farming of gold and items. Deadline for choice of character 2012-04-17

I will keep you up to date as project "get rich" from D3 progresses.

Now I am going back to testing!

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