I’d still go for Band of Might right away. Having 80% DR in the Cube early means you don’t have to worry about mitigation for a long time.
Well, it is his sorrow . . . and ours.
If I roll what I want with shards on the first few tries, I always do rings next. Last season I got SS bracers and BoM (no weapon), and it was still pleasant.
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After you do the challenge Rift, do you go after the cube and then gamble your shards with Kadala, or gamble first and then go after cube. Or does it matter?
Doesn’t really matter. I always do cube first, so when I gamble something I want to cube, I can do it right away instead of risk accidentally salvaging it.
Best to gamble at level 1 especially for barb since at level 1 your item pool is limited to those items. The more you go up the more items are added to the loot table this your chance of getting said item goes down.
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Tested it on lvl 32 DH. Spent about 1400 shards, got 5 wraps of clarity, no other legs. So - you can’t gamble Custerian’s at lvl 31-33, only 34+.
Took info here: http://d3resource.com/itemlevel, in common a trustworthy source, author conducted tests and wrote it at reddit
Since it’s impossible to verify everything (perhaps probability depends on item lvl), so to exclude any risks, better wait (couple lvls) until ‘item lvl’ for gamble for sure…
Thanks for the pointer! I set this link up for Hurric4n, who did discover this first, a long time ago (hence the 2.6.1 patch at the top). However, notice how it says ““Item level” is the relevant level for Kadala.” => Wraps of Clarity have item level 34. But as Hurric4n said himself here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo3/comments/ctq2fr/diablo_3_compendium_of_information/exof9y0/#
Riv’s D3Planner is straight up better and always kept up-to-date as Riv datamines every Diablo patch and it automatically updates the planner. And as you can see there, it also confirms that you need to be level 34 to get the Custerian Wristguards.
So just use https://www.d3planner.com/kadala to figure out what and when to gamble. (On a personal note, I personally think the gold bracers trick isn’t worth it.)
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Hail Bagstone!
First of all, thx a lot for your d3resource(dot)com, that helpful in many cases, especially for the Season Journey Tracker https://d3resource.com/journey, which, I believe, everyone gratefully uses at every season start!
Also thanks for the clarification - fixed it to avoid any misunderstanding
As for the gold trick - I agree, of course it’s not worth it when we talk about 5 million gold from the Challenge Rift cache
But in case of Vault, hundreds of millions gold (billions if ancient) can be taken every time.
And mostly important - a Boon of the Hoarder with native 25% chance of explosion of gold on killing that will allow to do the same outside the Vault in a few minutes (as we do Avarice Conquest)
NO other leveling method can compare with it in terms of efficiency!
Looks tempting… so upgrading a one hand MW (as suggested by some youtubers) is not an interesting option anymore?
Still very good, I just think the balance has swing to 2H.
The best things you could get are ambo’s and oathkeeper. The SS and HotA 1handers are too contingent to be very useful.
Are you suggesting the bracers for leveling or at level 70? Because during leveling, a T6 vault at level 35ish doesn’t yield that much gold, I believe. It’s quite a lot, but it’s also the level range where you get level reduced weapons, so usually you can just skip those levels anyways. I was curious how much you get, so did a quick test run, see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgUolImNB4
It’s not bad for sure, but 1) what are the odds of getting both the bracers and a Puzzle Ring? and 2) if I get only one Puzzle Ring, I’d much rather keep it for level 70. Last season we didn’t get a Puzzle Ring until around 20-30 rifts into the season, which meant we couldn’t empower most of the first few rifts. I’d much rather just start a T16 game to get 100-200m gold (that’s about what you get in a non-ancient Vault with no gold find gear, IIRC; 400-500m with max GF).
I wonder if there’s merit to using it at level 65+ though. Because those last 5 levels are damn slow, regardless of your leveling method. But tbh CBA to test right now because I’ve never ever gotten a Puzzle Ring while leveling anyways 
Just for leveling ONLY
Since you hit lvl.70, the only goal is to finish Season Journey as quickly as possible imo
Without bracers Vault kinda useless imo - so better save it for Journey \ Greed
Some points (Total XP/gold to hit lvl) here:
6 701 580 / 45
10 656 080 / 50
31 019 080 / 55
93 380 080 / 60
216 416 080 / 65
576 516 080 / 70
Just craft new one )
A little Tip: Use “Vault” / “Puzzle” Communities to find same-minded ppl )
Hire a Pet for gold auto pick up!! )
With Boon of the Hoarder you will get MUCH more by then!
But not during leveling. Like at 17:30 when I hit level 34 and get the bracers I won’t find people in communities for a Vault 
Also, I aim to play with a full group (or full SSF). If I get a Vault from community I might as well wait and get a powerlevel…
Yeah I wrote that in the comments, just very quickly made this video, forgot about it. Doesn’t matter for the sake of the video and cba to make a new one just because of that.
But we’re talking about the very first Vault. You don’t have BotH there yet. And if you have multiple Puzzle Rings it’s super easy anyways. (Also BotH doesn’t help that much in Vault, BotH scales with many mobs - see Ruins of Corvus or Temple of the Firstborn - Vault has very few mobs in comparison so it’s not that useful there.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/42r8dh/confirmation_you_can_get_boon_of_the_hoarder
So Vault definitely worth Puzzle Ring spent at least b/c of BotH, btw BotH still useless (in terms of leveling / XP gained) without Wristguards
Upd: Ah, misunderstanding here: I mean, you’ll get more gold with BotH outside by the time you are able to make T16 Vault run to get 100-200m
I did not know of this! Thanks. Not that I’m ever gonna use this, but good to know just in case Still would probably rather wanna keep the Puzzle Ring and run it on T16 once we hit 70.
Hey! Does option 2 work for other classss, in particular the necromancer?
Awesome guides thanks
If you mean “MASSACRE killstreaks” with Pox Faulds help - YES fore sure, b/c of it’s legendary affix: “When 3 or more enemies are within 12 yards, you release a vile stench that deals up to 550% (in Cube) weapon damage as Poison every second for 5 seconds to enemies within 15 yards” just run thru mobs crowds
Sounds more like “Madawc’s sorry [guys!]”
Bump (for Season 22)
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