Hardcore farming

General Discussion
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What is the best place for a HC Monk to farm?

Thanx for your help

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what are you farming? Generally the most efficient farm is the GR level you can clear in 3 minutes or less.

spam keystones, then run GRs and get to GR 70 and you can farm anything you desire efficeintly

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Gear drops everywhere. There are no specific areas you need to farm.

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Goblins, Goblins, and more Goblins…

This is a route I use at least once every time I log in; lifted from Icy-Veins.

https://www.icy-veins.com/d3/goblin-farming-guide

Recommended Goblin Farming Route

You cannot target specific goblin types or rely on guaranteed locations, so you will need to settle on a route that suits your purposes and farming style. If you are farming for cosmetics, run on a low and non-threatening difficulty — it will not affect transmog drop rates. If you are hoping for good drops from goblins though, farm on the highest difficulty you can handle while still being efficient (one-shotting trash, clearing elites in a few seconds and never losing a goblin due to it running away). The following is a list of popular Goblin spawn points; add or subtract to your route depending on how often you want to restart the game; shorter runs can be annoying with their frequent restarts.

  • Teleport to Act 1, Southern Highlands , run across the bridge and make a circular run through the area to find the Cave of the Moon Clan . Make a full clear of both Level 1 and 2 of the Cave.
  • Teleport to Act 1, Northern Highlands , and make a full sweep of the entire zone — both the lower area where the waypoint is, but also up the stairs and the entire upper area as well. You can conveniently end the run at the Leoric’s Manor Courtyard waypoint.
  • Teleport to Act 1, The Royal Crypts , and go through the entirety of this short area, all the way down to the entrance to the Skeleton King.
  • Teleport to Act 1, Cathedral Level 2 , and walk backwards to the previous zone, Leoric’s Passage . Check this very small zone in its entirety.
  • Teleport to Act 2, the Ancient Waterway , and go upwards to the next zone, Western Channel Level 1 ; clear it as best as you can and do the same with the following zone, Western Channel Level 2 .
  • Teleport back to the Ancient Waterway and go to the right, into the Eastern Channel Level 1 and all the way down to Eastern Channel Level 2 .
  • Teleport to Act 2, the City of Caldeum , and take the nearby zone transition into the Sewers of Caldeum . Do a quick sweep of this small zone.
  • Teleport to Act 2, Stinging Winds , and walk as straight south as you possibly can. As soon as you hit the Black Canyon Mines , teleport out.
  • Teleport to Act 3, The Core of Arreat , and do a clear of this simple, one-corridor zone.
  • Teleport to Act 3, Tower of the Cursed Level 1 , and do a complete walk down the winding stairs — including the following zone, Tower of the Cursed Level 2 .
  • Teleport to Act 3, Tower of the Damned Level 1 , and do a full circle around the level. Once cleared, head down and do the same in Tower of the Damned Level 2 .
  • Teleport to Act 3, The Bridge of Korsikk , and head into the Fields of Slaughter . Do a sweep of the zone to find Caverns of Frost (but NOT Icefall Caves!). Clear both of its levels.
  • Teleport to Act 5, Pandemonium Fortress Level 1 , explore the zone as well as you can while being time efficient, and then teleport to Level 2 . Interestingly, if you spot 1 goblin in these maps, you are guaranteed to find a second one — so keep exploring.
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I’ve had good luck farming gear by blasting through T16 rifts solo.

The last time I logged the drops of 10 consecutive rift runs from start to killing rift guardian, I averaged a bit over 10 leg/set items per run with a low of 4 drops, and high of 19 drops. Pop all chests along the way as well, because a good number of drops came from them. I haven’t yet logged from start to end stone…

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bruh, i cant wait till you post about your first goblin rift. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Farming mats I would do groups
keys and dbs the Highest rift you can do in 3-4 min

gear as mentioned on GRS

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Goblin rift? Ive been away from this game for awhile, excuse my ignorance on things.

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In Nephalem Rifts (and Bounties / open maps) it’s possible to encounter goblin packs, which are groups of at least 10 goblins (of varying types) all in one area. This is random, and rare. You can also encounter Goblin Shrines which have a slightly different look to other shrines / pylons, in that the top of them, rather than looking like a crystal, looks like a little loot bag. When these are clicked on, half a dozen goblins pop out.

Encountering either of these things will lead to a lot of loot.

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a dozen is 12… so half of it would be 6… It would be few if only 6 gobs spawn in a goblin shrine. :thinking:

@OP: if you have a Puzzle Ring or Bovine Bardiche, that would be good to cube and enter “vault” and “not the cow level” realms.
For vaults, you get to have guaranteed 2 legendary items (not that it is always useful, though).
But doing rifts is also good, you get to farm GR keys and Blood Shards.

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Thanks for the help guyz! I have more questions, should i make new posts for them?

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I’d say if they are about different subjects, yes create new posts, but if it’s just more questions on gearing up, I’d ask them here, since we all already have a dialog going.

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Is it better to have set items? MF doesnt really do anything?

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Effectively, you have two gearing choices. Either you make use of set armour, where each set tends to massively boost specific abilities, or you make use of the Legacy of Dreams gem (or Legacy of Nightmares ring set) that give you damage / mitigation bonuses based on how many non-set legendaries you’re wearing. Just wearing random legendaries (without LoD / LoN) won’t get you very far and, in HC, dead very quickly.

Magic Find on gear hasn’t really been much of a thing since Reaper of Souls came out in 2014 and, now that we’ve got so many Torment levels available, with each of those giving higher and higher chances to find gear, +MF isn’t useful. For example, take a look at… https://d3resource.com/difficulties/index.php …and notice the values for Torment 16, e.g. 1760% legendary drop rate in T16 rifts.

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Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions everyone!