Diablo III
45 Achievements
1,000
60-80h
Xbox 360
All That Glitters
Pick up 5,000,000 gold.
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How to unlock the All That Glitters achievement in Diablo III - Definitive Guide
vSully
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Edit: I made a video showing my gear, skills, and a single 15ish minute run that yielded about 88k gold (that's ~350k per hour). It's at the bottom of the solution.
This achievement is completely cumulative over every character you play, be it in standard or Hardcore mode. You can check your progress from the pause menu by choosing "Challenges," then "General," then scrolling down to the "All that Glitters" challenge.
This achievement will obviously come over time (a very long time, I might add) without going out of your way, but since you're reading this solution, I assume that, like me, you can't have a single achievement hanging over your head without working on it in the most efficient way possible.
When I had completed every other achievement, I had logged around 25 hours and was at ~850k gold. So I needed to grind just over 4 mil gold, which ended up taking me about 25-30 more hours. I play a Barbarian, btw.
I started by grinding in Inferno difficulty on Easy. My setup was Frenzy (Maniac), Rend (Lacerate), Revenge (Provocation), Battle Rage (Marauder's Rage), War Cry (Charge), and Sprint (Marathon). Sprint was crucial so I could run through areas quickly. I immediately started working on adjusting my gear to focus on +gold from monsters and ended up maxing this stat out at 300%. Remember that a fraction of +gold from monsters on your follower counts, too.
I'd set the quest to Heart of Sin, then start at the Arreat Crater level 1 and work my way through the Arreat Core. I didn't explore at all, instead just making a beeline for the next area. Even as I "downgraded" my gear to include the + gold from monsters stat, I could still absolutely breeze through everything. With this method, I was able to "pick up" about 150k gold per hour. I spent a while farming gold like this and improving my gear along the way. Lots of legendaries drop, even on Easy.
I was discouraged at the prospect of having to grind for so long, so I did some experimenting to try to maximize on gold. I tried a Whirlwind build but found that there simply are not enough enemies to keep Wrath of the Berserker active, so I went back to the previous setup.
I tried playing Inferno on Master I but I was killing so much more slowly than on Easy that it wasn't worth it. I continued playing on Easy until I was about 3.5 mil gold. Gear upgrades had pretty much stopped at this point and I wasn't even picking up any rare items any more.
I tried playing through the same section in Hell difficulty on Master 1. Killing speed was slightly slower than Inferno/Easy, but I found that I was getting much more gold- 300k+ per hour. The only downside was that legendary items were only level 56, but my focus was on this achievement, so I didn't care. Another nice bonus was that I was getting lots of Tomes of Jewelcrafting, which don't drop in Inferno and are needed too upgrade Square gems (which do drop in Inferno).
EDIT: apparently a patch has made it so square gems no longer drop in Inferno.
As far as enemies go, champs/uniques and treasure goblins are the primary objective. They almost always drop a bunch of gold. Normal enemies seem to have somewhat of a tiering system regarding their drops, and this is what I found in all the hours I spent grinding this achievement:
"Small" enemies (I use these descriptive terms loosely) rarely drop anything, including gold. I'd kill a dozen Stygian Crawlers, for example, and nothing would drop. All the damn time. I'd rarely focus on these guys, instead just making them collateral damage when killing enemies worth my time.
"Medium" enemies seemed to drop slightly better than the small ones. I'd usually engage them if there were a bunch, but run past one or two. Stuff like succubi, blood clan guys, hellhounds, and fallen shamen.
"Large" enemies almost always drop something, usually gold (sometimes multiple piles) and/or a gem, a tome (of secrets/jewelcrafting/blacksmithing), or a random item. These guys are always worth killing- Phasebeasts, Golgors/Malachors, Demonic Tremors, and Herald of Pestilence.
Also, chests (including demonic vessels) always seemed to produce piles of gold, so I would open any that weren't out of the way,
So I'd just sprint through the areas (literally- using sprint whenever I was moving), killing the worthwhile enemies, opening chests, and ignoring most of the trash enemies. I only picked up legendary items, gems, and tomes, and didn't mess around in my inventory during runs as to not waste time. Your mileage may vary depending on your gear (and character).
By the way- I never tried loading up on uber gear and grinding Inferno on Master difficulties, so I don't know if you can get more gold per time that way.
This achievement is completely cumulative over every character you play, be it in standard or Hardcore mode. You can check your progress from the pause menu by choosing "Challenges," then "General," then scrolling down to the "All that Glitters" challenge.
This achievement will obviously come over time (a very long time, I might add) without going out of your way, but since you're reading this solution, I assume that, like me, you can't have a single achievement hanging over your head without working on it in the most efficient way possible.
When I had completed every other achievement, I had logged around 25 hours and was at ~850k gold. So I needed to grind just over 4 mil gold, which ended up taking me about 25-30 more hours. I play a Barbarian, btw.
I started by grinding in Inferno difficulty on Easy. My setup was Frenzy (Maniac), Rend (Lacerate), Revenge (Provocation), Battle Rage (Marauder's Rage), War Cry (Charge), and Sprint (Marathon). Sprint was crucial so I could run through areas quickly. I immediately started working on adjusting my gear to focus on +gold from monsters and ended up maxing this stat out at 300%. Remember that a fraction of +gold from monsters on your follower counts, too.
I'd set the quest to Heart of Sin, then start at the Arreat Crater level 1 and work my way through the Arreat Core. I didn't explore at all, instead just making a beeline for the next area. Even as I "downgraded" my gear to include the + gold from monsters stat, I could still absolutely breeze through everything. With this method, I was able to "pick up" about 150k gold per hour. I spent a while farming gold like this and improving my gear along the way. Lots of legendaries drop, even on Easy.
I was discouraged at the prospect of having to grind for so long, so I did some experimenting to try to maximize on gold. I tried a Whirlwind build but found that there simply are not enough enemies to keep Wrath of the Berserker active, so I went back to the previous setup.
I tried playing Inferno on Master I but I was killing so much more slowly than on Easy that it wasn't worth it. I continued playing on Easy until I was about 3.5 mil gold. Gear upgrades had pretty much stopped at this point and I wasn't even picking up any rare items any more.
I tried playing through the same section in Hell difficulty on Master 1. Killing speed was slightly slower than Inferno/Easy, but I found that I was getting much more gold- 300k+ per hour. The only downside was that legendary items were only level 56, but my focus was on this achievement, so I didn't care. Another nice bonus was that I was getting lots of Tomes of Jewelcrafting, which don't drop in Inferno and are needed too upgrade Square gems (which do drop in Inferno).
EDIT: apparently a patch has made it so square gems no longer drop in Inferno.
As far as enemies go, champs/uniques and treasure goblins are the primary objective. They almost always drop a bunch of gold. Normal enemies seem to have somewhat of a tiering system regarding their drops, and this is what I found in all the hours I spent grinding this achievement:
"Small" enemies (I use these descriptive terms loosely) rarely drop anything, including gold. I'd kill a dozen Stygian Crawlers, for example, and nothing would drop. All the damn time. I'd rarely focus on these guys, instead just making them collateral damage when killing enemies worth my time.
"Medium" enemies seemed to drop slightly better than the small ones. I'd usually engage them if there were a bunch, but run past one or two. Stuff like succubi, blood clan guys, hellhounds, and fallen shamen.
"Large" enemies almost always drop something, usually gold (sometimes multiple piles) and/or a gem, a tome (of secrets/jewelcrafting/blacksmithing), or a random item. These guys are always worth killing- Phasebeasts, Golgors/Malachors, Demonic Tremors, and Herald of Pestilence.
Also, chests (including demonic vessels) always seemed to produce piles of gold, so I would open any that weren't out of the way,
So I'd just sprint through the areas (literally- using sprint whenever I was moving), killing the worthwhile enemies, opening chests, and ignoring most of the trash enemies. I only picked up legendary items, gems, and tomes, and didn't mess around in my inventory during runs as to not waste time. Your mileage may vary depending on your gear (and character).
By the way- I never tried loading up on uber gear and grinding Inferno on Master difficulties, so I don't know if you can get more gold per time that way.
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So are you sure that 88k run was typical? I do exactly what you do, I have 299% gold find BEFORE NV stacks and M1 bonus (so total 435%). I have 60k more dps than you. I am a DH, but I can pretty much vault the entire time and when I stop to kill, I do it faster than you.
I'm averaging about 50k a run and it takes me about 13 minutes. I've watched your video and I can't see how you're doing anything different than what I'm doing. Am I missing something?
I'm averaging about 50k a run and it takes me about 13 minutes. I've watched your video and I can't see how you're doing anything different than what I'm doing. Am I missing something?
By Eurydace on 13 Sep 2013 06:46
Wish I could explain what was different. This was a typical run for me though. I got my last million gold in about 3 1/2 hours.
By vSully on 13 Sep 2013 11:27
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I want to write this guide mainly to help Demon Hunters though it will work for anyone and is the best for anyone. It's mainly the same as vSully's guide (and he includes a video so you can see it in action as a Barbarian).
At the end, I was getting a consistent 375-400k gold per hour. Nowhere else got anywhere close.
Where and What?
Hell Mode. Act 3. Master 1. Choose the quest to kill Azmodan.
You will start by porting to Arreat Crater Level 1. Make a bee line all the way through the Act until you ENTER the Heart of the Cursed. At this point, port back to town and then go to the Core of Arreat. Run through there until you get to the entrance of the Azmodan fight. Don't kill Azmodan - he drops very little gold and it's not worth the time.
Now, star over. If you went to all the areas I said, the first area will have reset and you can clear it again keeping your Nv stacks.
What to Kill?
You'll want to kill only the elites and bigger enemies. Bigger enemies means Heralds of Pestilence, Phase Beasts, Golgors, Malachors, and Demonic Tremors. They almost always drop gold. Everything else rarely does. Elites of course always drop gold so they're worth killing.
You'll also want to stop and open all chests and demonic vessels as they always have gold as well.
Gear
Of course, you'll want gear with Gold Find on it. There are lots of options and if you can find others to give you gold find items, you can get quite a lot of it. The maximum gold find you can have on your character through items and Paragon levels is 300%. You can check this on Easy. The extras from Master 1 and Nephalem Valor will add to the 300%. Thus, the max you can have is 435%.
Generally, any item with gold find is better than anything else as long as you do enough damage to kill things quickly. You should be fine with anything more than 100k damage in the character screen and that's easy to get (I ran with 160k and also prioritized move speed and pickup radius).
Demon Hunters
Here you go. First and foremost - the most important thing to learn that I didn't discover until I had already lost hundreds of thousand of potential drops - DO NOT USE THE FERRET COMPANIONS. "But why!? They give me 10% gold find and pick up my gold for me!" Well, as it turns out, the gold the ferrets pick up DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR TOTAL. Yup. Don't make the mistake I did. This inspired me to write this guide.
Abilities:
Bola Shot - Imminent Doom (There's not much use for this, but it's better than the alternatives for non-hatred abilities and it's useful against the illusion elites)
Rapid Fire - High Velocity (Use this to kill everything quickly)
Shadow Power - Night Bane (Heals you to help kill reflect damage elites and gives you a little extra hatred so you can go longer)
Vault - Tumble (If you're moving, you should be vaulting)
Preparation - Focused Mind (More vaulting)
Strafe - Stinging Steel (Or drifting shadow if you don't have a lot of crit. Use this to generate preparation on the run if you're out. Otherwise, never use it)
Passives:
Night Stalker (More discipline means more vaulting)
Vengeance (Extra base hatred so you almost never run out and more discipline means more vaulting)
Tactical Advantage (The most important one - Wait 2 seconds in between each vault)
Generally...
Vault through the areas until you get to an enemy you want to kill. Kill them with Rapid Fire, then keep vaulting. Use other abilities as described above.
At the end, I was getting a consistent 375-400k gold per hour. Nowhere else got anywhere close.
Where and What?
Hell Mode. Act 3. Master 1. Choose the quest to kill Azmodan.
You will start by porting to Arreat Crater Level 1. Make a bee line all the way through the Act until you ENTER the Heart of the Cursed. At this point, port back to town and then go to the Core of Arreat. Run through there until you get to the entrance of the Azmodan fight. Don't kill Azmodan - he drops very little gold and it's not worth the time.
Now, star over. If you went to all the areas I said, the first area will have reset and you can clear it again keeping your Nv stacks.
What to Kill?
You'll want to kill only the elites and bigger enemies. Bigger enemies means Heralds of Pestilence, Phase Beasts, Golgors, Malachors, and Demonic Tremors. They almost always drop gold. Everything else rarely does. Elites of course always drop gold so they're worth killing.
You'll also want to stop and open all chests and demonic vessels as they always have gold as well.
Gear
Of course, you'll want gear with Gold Find on it. There are lots of options and if you can find others to give you gold find items, you can get quite a lot of it. The maximum gold find you can have on your character through items and Paragon levels is 300%. You can check this on Easy. The extras from Master 1 and Nephalem Valor will add to the 300%. Thus, the max you can have is 435%.
Generally, any item with gold find is better than anything else as long as you do enough damage to kill things quickly. You should be fine with anything more than 100k damage in the character screen and that's easy to get (I ran with 160k and also prioritized move speed and pickup radius).
Demon Hunters
Here you go. First and foremost - the most important thing to learn that I didn't discover until I had already lost hundreds of thousand of potential drops - DO NOT USE THE FERRET COMPANIONS. "But why!? They give me 10% gold find and pick up my gold for me!" Well, as it turns out, the gold the ferrets pick up DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR TOTAL. Yup. Don't make the mistake I did. This inspired me to write this guide.
Abilities:
Bola Shot - Imminent Doom (There's not much use for this, but it's better than the alternatives for non-hatred abilities and it's useful against the illusion elites)
Rapid Fire - High Velocity (Use this to kill everything quickly)
Shadow Power - Night Bane (Heals you to help kill reflect damage elites and gives you a little extra hatred so you can go longer)
Vault - Tumble (If you're moving, you should be vaulting)
Preparation - Focused Mind (More vaulting)
Strafe - Stinging Steel (Or drifting shadow if you don't have a lot of crit. Use this to generate preparation on the run if you're out. Otherwise, never use it)
Passives:
Night Stalker (More discipline means more vaulting)
Vengeance (Extra base hatred so you almost never run out and more discipline means more vaulting)
Tactical Advantage (The most important one - Wait 2 seconds in between each vault)
Generally...
Vault through the areas until you get to an enemy you want to kill. Kill them with Rapid Fire, then keep vaulting. Use other abilities as described above.
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man positive on the solution,now if i could get some good items im only at 150% gold find and im only getting about 120,000 an hour this is brutal,where can i get better gold find items and stay alive because im on medium,master 1 was to much ha (: im lvl 60 +3 but my eq,sucks for gold.
By BLUESTEELRUNS on 15 Sep 2013 01:48
I'd give you some but I sold the game the second I got my 1000. I tossed around my items to quite a few TA members so maybe one of them can be so generous.
For you I'd recommend farming Inferno for a while. I did so for about 8 hours and got up to 300% gold find. I actually lost 100% duping items for someone but I replaced it with Hell level legendaries (including Goldskin) and that made up for it.
If you can only do Normal then that's fine. Master I is worth 60% gold find. It's less significant the better your gear is.
For you I'd recommend farming Inferno for a while. I did so for about 8 hours and got up to 300% gold find. I actually lost 100% duping items for someone but I replaced it with Hell level legendaries (including Goldskin) and that made up for it.
If you can only do Normal then that's fine. Master I is worth 60% gold find. It's less significant the better your gear is.
By Eurydace on 15 Sep 2013 07:08
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EDIT: Before vote negative PLS comment first
The "Normal" Method
The normal boost method is.
Play to Inferno akt 3 on EASY
Get around 200+% gold find
A pickup radius of round 30 inch/yard/meters
Backtrack from the Waypoint "The Keep Depths Level 3" in the Bastion back to Level 1.
With this setting i get around 100-150k gold in one hour. Round 50 Hours later and the achievement is done.
The "Ultra FAST" Method
I found out in a private Co-Op Session on one console with a friend and two 60 Champions that, when you play the game in Co-Op there is no split screen and there is NO "Single" loot.
ALL the items and gold in the session drops for ALL players and ALL players can grab it. But the best and funniest part is that it looks like that magic and gold find are "Stacked" from ALL characters for ALL characters.
With a second player i found round 400-500k gold in ONE hour. If you can get 4 Co-Op players on ONE console together and they have all 4 round 200+% gold find and only ONE grab the gold, with a high pickup ratio, then you can get this achievement ultra fast and very easy.
With this method i got the chevo in round 17 Hours playing.
If you play Co-Op you can play ALONE with 2-4 connected controllers the other players follow your champion the hole time :D
That's the solved mystery
Have fun and good luck to boost this Achievement :)
If you work on this achievement you get automatically the
as well
Edit: Gold find and boosting for gold is in every difficulty best in akt 3 in my opinion :)
The "Normal" Method
The normal boost method is.
Play to Inferno akt 3 on EASY
Get around 200+% gold find
A pickup radius of round 30 inch/yard/meters
Backtrack from the Waypoint "The Keep Depths Level 3" in the Bastion back to Level 1.
With this setting i get around 100-150k gold in one hour. Round 50 Hours later and the achievement is done.
The "Ultra FAST" Method
I found out in a private Co-Op Session on one console with a friend and two 60 Champions that, when you play the game in Co-Op there is no split screen and there is NO "Single" loot.
ALL the items and gold in the session drops for ALL players and ALL players can grab it. But the best and funniest part is that it looks like that magic and gold find are "Stacked" from ALL characters for ALL characters.
With a second player i found round 400-500k gold in ONE hour. If you can get 4 Co-Op players on ONE console together and they have all 4 round 200+% gold find and only ONE grab the gold, with a high pickup ratio, then you can get this achievement ultra fast and very easy.
With this method i got the chevo in round 17 Hours playing.
If you play Co-Op you can play ALONE with 2-4 connected controllers the other players follow your champion the hole time :D
That's the solved mystery
Have fun and good luck to boost this Achievement :)
If you work on this achievement you get automatically the
as well
Edit: Gold find and boosting for gold is in every difficulty best in akt 3 in my opinion :)
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Hey, is there an easy way to unlock the higher difficulties with my extra controllers? I came play on Hell mode as the other controller hasn't beaten the lower difficulties. If i spend 8+ hours running through the game twice more is that really more efficient?
By Sniper JZA80 on 06 May 2014 14:32
it works perfekt! i dont know why my solution is hardcore downvoted i tested it twice!
By Sambaweb on 18 Feb 2014 15:18
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EDIT: Ok, it turns out I didnt read the solution below me first. Mine is quite similar, But I feel like I went into a lot better detail and hand holding to guide you through it 
I will preface this solution by first saying that I scoured all over the internet and could not find anybody EVER suggesting to do this actually very clever method. I will also say that I have not tested other classes as I only have a Witch Doctor and it may work for other classes.
Requirements:
1. Witch doctor with the passive skill for 3 Dogs and also the Gargantuan and a follower for a total of 5 "followers".
2. The Puzzle Ring
3. A wired controller or some way of keeping a wireless controller going for long periods of time.
4. As much gold find % as you can possibly have (maxes out at 375% just fyi)
Ok, ready for the magic? Here goes. Assuming you have followed my requirements up until this point...load up the start of the last quest in Act 3-Inferno-Easy difficulty. I'm sure that this will work on other difficulties but doing it on Inferno EASY will make sure that A) You don't die, because its easy and B) BECAUSE its on Inferno...you will be getting lvl 60 loot as well. Anyways, when you spawn in town, first go to the blacksmith and repair everything. Then go to the waypoint and go to Arreat crater level 1 and keep moving through the level until you find one of these steel dragon head fire breathing "traps" that do damage to you, Clear out all the enemies around it so that nobody bothers you. Stand yourself so that you are getting hit 5-6 times by the fire breathing steel dragon head. Voila!
Now...you may be wondering to yourself, "uhhh....Phonyspoon...what am I accomplishing? Well, young Padawan, by getting hit by the Steel Flamey Dragon Head thingamabob, everytime it hits you is a chance that it will spawn one of those weasily little Treasure Goblin/Pygmy/Whatever nincompoops. You, being a Witch Doctor with the requirements I set up for you (or being another class and figuring out ways of your own), will just sit there while your minions kill them before they can scamper off into that horrid portal.
Now that everything is set for lots of idling time, I will tell you how I test this. I set it up at about 5am right before I went to bed one night. I woke up at 1130am to a GLORIOUS GOLDEN BED of, well...gold all around me that ended up totaling about 64k. Interestingly enough he only dropped one legendary.
Herein lies the problem and the no so minor oversight by yours truly: Durability.
At some point in the night my puzzle ring and its feeble 28 durability (along with every single other piece of equipment i had on my shriveled little body), broke. Which means, you guessed it, it stopped serving its purpose of spawning those little worms.
So, here's a modification to this process: Do everything I just told you...but check up on it every once in a while. Maybe every hour or so go to your inventory and see what the durability of your puzzle ring is. If its not up to par, fast travel back to town and repair, then go back. If you are like me, try not to move at all when you are within the depths so you can pick up all that glorious loot in one fell swoop. Thanks for reading people and feel free to leave a comment and an up vote if it helped you....or at least leave a comment if you down vote please!
P.S. If you are going to leave it on for extended period of time, PLEASE for the love of god install the game to your Hard drive. Think about the poor Xboxs kids. The Xboxs.....
I will preface this solution by first saying that I scoured all over the internet and could not find anybody EVER suggesting to do this actually very clever method. I will also say that I have not tested other classes as I only have a Witch Doctor and it may work for other classes.
Requirements:
1. Witch doctor with the passive skill for 3 Dogs and also the Gargantuan and a follower for a total of 5 "followers".
2. The Puzzle Ring
3. A wired controller or some way of keeping a wireless controller going for long periods of time.
4. As much gold find % as you can possibly have (maxes out at 375% just fyi)
Ok, ready for the magic? Here goes. Assuming you have followed my requirements up until this point...load up the start of the last quest in Act 3-Inferno-Easy difficulty. I'm sure that this will work on other difficulties but doing it on Inferno EASY will make sure that A) You don't die, because its easy and B) BECAUSE its on Inferno...you will be getting lvl 60 loot as well. Anyways, when you spawn in town, first go to the blacksmith and repair everything. Then go to the waypoint and go to Arreat crater level 1 and keep moving through the level until you find one of these steel dragon head fire breathing "traps" that do damage to you, Clear out all the enemies around it so that nobody bothers you. Stand yourself so that you are getting hit 5-6 times by the fire breathing steel dragon head. Voila!
Now...you may be wondering to yourself, "uhhh....Phonyspoon...what am I accomplishing? Well, young Padawan, by getting hit by the Steel Flamey Dragon Head thingamabob, everytime it hits you is a chance that it will spawn one of those weasily little Treasure Goblin/Pygmy/Whatever nincompoops. You, being a Witch Doctor with the requirements I set up for you (or being another class and figuring out ways of your own), will just sit there while your minions kill them before they can scamper off into that horrid portal.
Now that everything is set for lots of idling time, I will tell you how I test this. I set it up at about 5am right before I went to bed one night. I woke up at 1130am to a GLORIOUS GOLDEN BED of, well...gold all around me that ended up totaling about 64k. Interestingly enough he only dropped one legendary.
Herein lies the problem and the no so minor oversight by yours truly: Durability.
At some point in the night my puzzle ring and its feeble 28 durability (along with every single other piece of equipment i had on my shriveled little body), broke. Which means, you guessed it, it stopped serving its purpose of spawning those little worms.
So, here's a modification to this process: Do everything I just told you...but check up on it every once in a while. Maybe every hour or so go to your inventory and see what the durability of your puzzle ring is. If its not up to par, fast travel back to town and repair, then go back. If you are like me, try not to move at all when you are within the depths so you can pick up all that glorious loot in one fell swoop. Thanks for reading people and feel free to leave a comment and an up vote if it helped you....or at least leave a comment if you down vote please!
P.S. If you are going to leave it on for extended period of time, PLEASE for the love of god install the game to your Hard drive. Think about the poor Xboxs kids. The Xboxs.....
FFaddic
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In addition to the other solutions, there's a way to farm a small amount of gold without interaction. Namely, the puzzle ring.
Equip the puzzle ring and start a game of the highest difficulty where your follower/minions can quickly kill a Treasure Goblin by themselves. Then, find an item in the environment that will repeatedly deal damage. I used Act III Tower Of The Damned and found one of the demon heads that spews fire.
Let yourself get hit over and over and a goblin will appear approximately every 12 minutes. The gold and items it drops should stay for as long as you are in the area. I tested this on Normal Master V and was getting about 1100 gold each time, plus legendaries (though normal ones).
This equates to only 5500 gold or so an hour, which is why you shouldn't rely on this soley. However, it should help to get some gold while you're sleeping, working, etc...
UPDATE: On Hell Easy difficulty, I was getting around 4700 each time. This is with 260% gold find.
Equip the puzzle ring and start a game of the highest difficulty where your follower/minions can quickly kill a Treasure Goblin by themselves. Then, find an item in the environment that will repeatedly deal damage. I used Act III Tower Of The Damned and found one of the demon heads that spews fire.
Let yourself get hit over and over and a goblin will appear approximately every 12 minutes. The gold and items it drops should stay for as long as you are in the area. I tested this on Normal Master V and was getting about 1100 gold each time, plus legendaries (though normal ones).
This equates to only 5500 gold or so an hour, which is why you shouldn't rely on this soley. However, it should help to get some gold while you're sleeping, working, etc...
UPDATE: On Hell Easy difficulty, I was getting around 4700 each time. This is with 260% gold find.
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The video is me playing same route as I did on console. It's MP10 (Master V on consoles).
I am one of the first people in the world to obtain this Trophy and overall Platinum in Diablo 3, and first in the world according to psnprofiles.com, and lately I am getting a lot of questions from people asking to help with this trophy, so here is my guide.
Lot of people are asking me on PSN how I managed to get 5 million gold Trophy so fast and some tips to help them out, here is a guide on my route for farming. I know it's PC version, but I don't have capture card for PS3/Xbox so I just recreated my PS3 route on PC and captured footage. It's essentially the same.
I found that Alkaizer route worked best for console, since mob density in Act 3 is much higher than anywhere else. After playing around and tweaking my routes, I found that the most loot and gold come from Arreat Crater Level 2 and Keep Depths Level 2 since they have the best mob density in the console version of the game.
I recommend playing this route with either WW-Rend Barb or Tempest Rush monk, since they will have insane speed boost due to their abilities and overall have excellent efficiency. Close 3rd would be Archon Wizard. Other classes or specs simply will take 2-3 times as much to achieve it.
My route is reverse run of "Areate Crater Level 2" and "Keep Depths 2"
1. Start fresh Act 3 checkpoint on Quest "Heart of Sin - Kill Azmodan"
2. Go to waypoint "Tower of the Cursed Level 1"
3. Now run back up the stairs, you will get Checkpoint
4. Proceed running back to "Arreat Crater Level 2"
Now the farming itself starts. Just kill everything in your way, those huge packs of white mobs give insane amount of XP and decent chance to drop loot/gold. You want to run reverse back to waypoint at the start of the map.
5. After you get to the waypoint go to "Keep Depths 1"
6. Again, as in my video go to level 2 and clear it until you get to the exit.
After you are done - teleport back to town, quit the game and resume. You will have portal to "Tower of the Cursed Level 1", and you can start new run.
Repeat until you get your achievement/trophy.
Few more things that might help you:
Easy, Normal and Hard on console are equal to MP0, MP2 and MP4 on PC, but unlike the PC version of the game you don't get any bonuses to MF, XP or GF. So there is no point to struggle on hard if you were unlucky with your gear drops. Master 1 to Master 5 on the other hand are same as Monster Power 6 to Monster Power 10 on PC and they do give bonuses to your XP, MF and GF.
If you can easily handle Master 1 and can handle Master 2 or 3 it doesn't actually mean you should farm higher difficulty, it's all about efficiency. You want to kill monsters fast. If it takes 60-90 seconds to kill an Elite and 30-40 seconds to kill an white mob pack - it's probably better to switch to lower difficulty, since MF/XP/GF bonuses are not worth the extra time to kill mobs and elites on higher difficulty. Same thing with co-op, it's good only if your party is geared as good as you and they can move as fast as you, if not - you only gimping yourself.
B.net profile: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Larrius-1653/hero/2995367...
PlayStation Profile: [http://psnprofiles.com/Shizo
I recommend you guys watch video about farming efficiency from user "Moldran" on YouTube, he is one of the best Diablo 3 theorycrafters on PC.
About my build and play style:
Now I played as Barb on consoles, unlike my PC barb who is only 155k DPS unbuffed, my console barb was already 191k DPS by the time I started seriously grinding this trophy. You get lots of speed, crowd control immunity and DPS boost if you maintain Wrath of Berserker buff, to maintain it you need Battle Rage - in to the frey ability to get your fury back from crits. So more CC = better. But you also need mobs to survive for 5-6 seconds, otherwise you will kill them too fast. Now this will sound ridiculous to you, but you might actually need to drop your DPS a bit if you kill mobs too fast. By the time I was at 3.5 million gold out of 5 I already had 317k DPS unbuffed, so I had to tone it down a little bit, otherwise I couldn't maintain WoTB.
The math behind it is simple on one hand you have you DPS, say it's buffed with Battle Rage, you might think it's faster to farm if you kill mobs in 2-3 seconds without WOTB, but in reallity you get about same DPS if you able to maintain WOTB, but you also get additional bonuses such as movement speed and crowd control immunity.
So if you have to tone down your DPS - first drop the gear with Crit Damage, Avg Damage and maybe get weapon with less DPS. Don't ever ever drop crit or attack speed.
And finally here is another trick that I personally didn't use, but many people did:
Local co-op trick
Also I didn't think of the trick someone else discovered it will make this potentially much much easier - if you have 2+ controllers just put one of the controllers and play as your main character, even if second character die you still get bonus for having multiple players in game.
The bonus from multiple players as well as Nephelem Valour are multiplicative, meaning that they are more effective with more GF/MF from difficulty and gear.
Let's say you have 400% GF from difficulty + gear, with 2 players you will have 440% GF ("your base GF"%*0.1 + "your base GF"), NV and Fortune Shrines will apply bonus on top of that. So the more controllers you have - the better.
Again, this trick is worth it only if you have enough gear to keep going at the same speed without dying.
I am one of the first people in the world to obtain this Trophy and overall Platinum in Diablo 3, and first in the world according to psnprofiles.com, and lately I am getting a lot of questions from people asking to help with this trophy, so here is my guide.
Lot of people are asking me on PSN how I managed to get 5 million gold Trophy so fast and some tips to help them out, here is a guide on my route for farming. I know it's PC version, but I don't have capture card for PS3/Xbox so I just recreated my PS3 route on PC and captured footage. It's essentially the same.
I found that Alkaizer route worked best for console, since mob density in Act 3 is much higher than anywhere else. After playing around and tweaking my routes, I found that the most loot and gold come from Arreat Crater Level 2 and Keep Depths Level 2 since they have the best mob density in the console version of the game.
I recommend playing this route with either WW-Rend Barb or Tempest Rush monk, since they will have insane speed boost due to their abilities and overall have excellent efficiency. Close 3rd would be Archon Wizard. Other classes or specs simply will take 2-3 times as much to achieve it.
My route is reverse run of "Areate Crater Level 2" and "Keep Depths 2"
1. Start fresh Act 3 checkpoint on Quest "Heart of Sin - Kill Azmodan"
2. Go to waypoint "Tower of the Cursed Level 1"
3. Now run back up the stairs, you will get Checkpoint
4. Proceed running back to "Arreat Crater Level 2"
Now the farming itself starts. Just kill everything in your way, those huge packs of white mobs give insane amount of XP and decent chance to drop loot/gold. You want to run reverse back to waypoint at the start of the map.
5. After you get to the waypoint go to "Keep Depths 1"
6. Again, as in my video go to level 2 and clear it until you get to the exit.
After you are done - teleport back to town, quit the game and resume. You will have portal to "Tower of the Cursed Level 1", and you can start new run.
Repeat until you get your achievement/trophy.
Few more things that might help you:
Easy, Normal and Hard on console are equal to MP0, MP2 and MP4 on PC, but unlike the PC version of the game you don't get any bonuses to MF, XP or GF. So there is no point to struggle on hard if you were unlucky with your gear drops. Master 1 to Master 5 on the other hand are same as Monster Power 6 to Monster Power 10 on PC and they do give bonuses to your XP, MF and GF.
If you can easily handle Master 1 and can handle Master 2 or 3 it doesn't actually mean you should farm higher difficulty, it's all about efficiency. You want to kill monsters fast. If it takes 60-90 seconds to kill an Elite and 30-40 seconds to kill an white mob pack - it's probably better to switch to lower difficulty, since MF/XP/GF bonuses are not worth the extra time to kill mobs and elites on higher difficulty. Same thing with co-op, it's good only if your party is geared as good as you and they can move as fast as you, if not - you only gimping yourself.
B.net profile: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Larrius-1653/hero/2995367...
PlayStation Profile: [http://psnprofiles.com/Shizo
I recommend you guys watch video about farming efficiency from user "Moldran" on YouTube, he is one of the best Diablo 3 theorycrafters on PC.
About my build and play style:
Now I played as Barb on consoles, unlike my PC barb who is only 155k DPS unbuffed, my console barb was already 191k DPS by the time I started seriously grinding this trophy. You get lots of speed, crowd control immunity and DPS boost if you maintain Wrath of Berserker buff, to maintain it you need Battle Rage - in to the frey ability to get your fury back from crits. So more CC = better. But you also need mobs to survive for 5-6 seconds, otherwise you will kill them too fast. Now this will sound ridiculous to you, but you might actually need to drop your DPS a bit if you kill mobs too fast. By the time I was at 3.5 million gold out of 5 I already had 317k DPS unbuffed, so I had to tone it down a little bit, otherwise I couldn't maintain WoTB.
The math behind it is simple on one hand you have you DPS, say it's buffed with Battle Rage, you might think it's faster to farm if you kill mobs in 2-3 seconds without WOTB, but in reallity you get about same DPS if you able to maintain WOTB, but you also get additional bonuses such as movement speed and crowd control immunity.
So if you have to tone down your DPS - first drop the gear with Crit Damage, Avg Damage and maybe get weapon with less DPS. Don't ever ever drop crit or attack speed.
And finally here is another trick that I personally didn't use, but many people did:
Local co-op trick
Also I didn't think of the trick someone else discovered it will make this potentially much much easier - if you have 2+ controllers just put one of the controllers and play as your main character, even if second character die you still get bonus for having multiple players in game.
The bonus from multiple players as well as Nephelem Valour are multiplicative, meaning that they are more effective with more GF/MF from difficulty and gear.
Let's say you have 400% GF from difficulty + gear, with 2 players you will have 440% GF ("your base GF"%*0.1 + "your base GF"), NV and Fortune Shrines will apply bonus on top of that. So the more controllers you have - the better.
Again, this trick is worth it only if you have enough gear to keep going at the same speed without dying.
Shiftie
Every time you kill an enemy, open a chest/coffin/etc., sell an item, you get gold (which you need to pick up if it's dropped in the environment, by walking over it). The amount of gold dropped by enemies can be increased via the gold finder skills found on items. No matter what, this will probably be your most time consuming achievement, thankfully your challenge progress takes into account gold picked up by all of your characters, Hardcore and non-Hardcore alike.
In general, the best place to farm is the very end of Act III on Hell, with max gold find (300% in gear) and on Master I difficulty at least.
Note: Gold found by the Demon Hunter's ferret companion does not count toward the progress.
Eurydace
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I want to write this guide mainly to help Demon Hunters though it will work for anyone and is the best for anyone. It's mainly the same as vSully's guide (and he includes a video so you can see it in action as a Barbarian).
At the end, I was getting a consistent 375-400k gold per hour. Nowhere else got anywhere close.
Where and What?
Hell Mode. Act 3. Master 1. Choose the quest to kill Azmodan.
You will start by porting to Arreat Crater Level 1. Make a bee line all the way through the Act until you ENTER the Heart of the Cursed. At this point, port back to town and then go to the Core of Arreat. Run through there until you get to the entrance of the Azmodan fight. Don't kill Azmodan - he drops very little gold and it's not worth the time.
Now, star over. If you went to all the areas I said, the first area will have reset and you can clear it again keeping your Nv stacks.
What to Kill?
You'll want to kill only the elites and bigger enemies. Bigger enemies means Heralds of Pestilence, Phase Beasts, Golgors, Malachors, and Demonic Tremors. They almost always drop gold. Everything else rarely does. Elites of course always drop gold so they're worth killing.
You'll also want to stop and open all chests and demonic vessels as they always have gold as well.
Gear
Of course, you'll want gear with Gold Find on it. There are lots of options and if you can find others to give you gold find items, you can get quite a lot of it. The maximum gold find you can have on your character through items and Paragon levels is 300%. You can check this on Easy. The extras from Master 1 and Nephalem Valor will add to the 300%. Thus, the max you can have is 435%.
Generally, any item with gold find is better than anything else as long as you do enough damage to kill things quickly. You should be fine with anything more than 100k damage in the character screen and that's easy to get (I ran with 160k and also prioritized move speed and pickup radius).
Demon Hunters
Here you go. First and foremost - the most important thing to learn that I didn't discover until I had already lost hundreds of thousand of potential drops - DO NOT USE THE FERRET COMPANIONS. "But why!? They give me 10% gold find and pick up my gold for me!" Well, as it turns out, the gold the ferrets pick up DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR TOTAL. Yup. Don't make the mistake I did. This inspired me to write this guide.
Abilities:
Bola Shot - Imminent Doom (There's not much use for this, but it's better than the alternatives for non-hatred abilities and it's useful against the illusion elites)
Rapid Fire - High Velocity (Use this to kill everything quickly)
Shadow Power - Night Bane (Heals you to help kill reflect damage elites and gives you a little extra hatred so you can go longer)
Vault - Tumble (If you're moving, you should be vaulting)
Preparation - Focused Mind (More vaulting)
Strafe - Stinging Steel (Or drifting shadow if you don't have a lot of crit. Use this to generate preparation on the run if you're out. Otherwise, never use it)
Passives:
Night Stalker (More discipline means more vaulting)
Vengeance (Extra base hatred so you almost never run out and more discipline means more vaulting)
Tactical Advantage (The most important one - Wait 2 seconds in between each vault)
Generally...
Vault through the areas until you get to an enemy you want to kill. Kill them with Rapid Fire, then keep vaulting. Use other abilities as described above.
At the end, I was getting a consistent 375-400k gold per hour. Nowhere else got anywhere close.
Where and What?
Hell Mode. Act 3. Master 1. Choose the quest to kill Azmodan.
You will start by porting to Arreat Crater Level 1. Make a bee line all the way through the Act until you ENTER the Heart of the Cursed. At this point, port back to town and then go to the Core of Arreat. Run through there until you get to the entrance of the Azmodan fight. Don't kill Azmodan - he drops very little gold and it's not worth the time.
Now, star over. If you went to all the areas I said, the first area will have reset and you can clear it again keeping your Nv stacks.
What to Kill?
You'll want to kill only the elites and bigger enemies. Bigger enemies means Heralds of Pestilence, Phase Beasts, Golgors, Malachors, and Demonic Tremors. They almost always drop gold. Everything else rarely does. Elites of course always drop gold so they're worth killing.
You'll also want to stop and open all chests and demonic vessels as they always have gold as well.
Gear
Of course, you'll want gear with Gold Find on it. There are lots of options and if you can find others to give you gold find items, you can get quite a lot of it. The maximum gold find you can have on your character through items and Paragon levels is 300%. You can check this on Easy. The extras from Master 1 and Nephalem Valor will add to the 300%. Thus, the max you can have is 435%.
Generally, any item with gold find is better than anything else as long as you do enough damage to kill things quickly. You should be fine with anything more than 100k damage in the character screen and that's easy to get (I ran with 160k and also prioritized move speed and pickup radius).
Demon Hunters
Here you go. First and foremost - the most important thing to learn that I didn't discover until I had already lost hundreds of thousand of potential drops - DO NOT USE THE FERRET COMPANIONS. "But why!? They give me 10% gold find and pick up my gold for me!" Well, as it turns out, the gold the ferrets pick up DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR TOTAL. Yup. Don't make the mistake I did. This inspired me to write this guide.
Abilities:
Bola Shot - Imminent Doom (There's not much use for this, but it's better than the alternatives for non-hatred abilities and it's useful against the illusion elites)
Rapid Fire - High Velocity (Use this to kill everything quickly)
Shadow Power - Night Bane (Heals you to help kill reflect damage elites and gives you a little extra hatred so you can go longer)
Vault - Tumble (If you're moving, you should be vaulting)
Preparation - Focused Mind (More vaulting)
Strafe - Stinging Steel (Or drifting shadow if you don't have a lot of crit. Use this to generate preparation on the run if you're out. Otherwise, never use it)
Passives:
Night Stalker (More discipline means more vaulting)
Vengeance (Extra base hatred so you almost never run out and more discipline means more vaulting)
Tactical Advantage (The most important one - Wait 2 seconds in between each vault)
Generally...
Vault through the areas until you get to an enemy you want to kill. Kill them with Rapid Fire, then keep vaulting. Use other abilities as described above.
Sarmion
stratege.ru
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This guide was translated automatically.
For the trophy, you need to pick up gold that falls on the ground (chests, killing monsters).
In order to get the trophy as quickly as possible, you need to collect things for the Gold Search, you can also give these things to your companions (jewelry, weapons, shields) from which a small % will be given to you. There is an item in the game that will greatly help in getting the trophy - Golden Skin (+100% gold when killing monsters and when you hit enemies, gold may fall out of them).
With difficulty Master 1, you will be given some hefty bonuses to the Search for gold, magic items and experience. The most important thing when choosing difficulty is the speed of killing monsters. If it takes you too much time, it is better to reduce it to the difficulty level - Low. If you are on Master 1 and go through it quite easily, then you can increase the difficulty further, as the bonuses increase.
It’s better to farm Act 3 , quest Heart of Sin -> Kill Azmodan. We run from the city to the lower floors of the fortress and clean it up to level 3. And basically, that’s it. On the lower floors there is the highest density of monsters, you can also run into the Stone Fort (for the key). Who wants to farm the gear Heart of Sin -> Second Heart at the same time. We run from the Tower of the Doomed level 1 to Azmodan, then the lower floors of the fortress, the Stone Fort, from the Korsikka Bridge quickly to the Rakkis Bridge.
But to quickly get the trophy, it is important to remember that it is better not to pick up objects that have fallen from monsters.
+ some classes have bonuses:
Demon Hunter - Pet (Ferret) 10% gold.
Barbarian - Hammer of the Ancients (Birthright), Menacing Shout (Gloomy Harvest).
In order to get the trophy as quickly as possible, you need to collect things for the Gold Search, you can also give these things to your companions (jewelry, weapons, shields) from which a small % will be given to you. There is an item in the game that will greatly help in getting the trophy - Golden Skin (+100% gold when killing monsters and when you hit enemies, gold may fall out of them).
With difficulty Master 1, you will be given some hefty bonuses to the Search for gold, magic items and experience. The most important thing when choosing difficulty is the speed of killing monsters. If it takes you too much time, it is better to reduce it to the difficulty level - Low. If you are on Master 1 and go through it quite easily, then you can increase the difficulty further, as the bonuses increase.
It’s better to farm Act 3 , quest Heart of Sin -> Kill Azmodan. We run from the city to the lower floors of the fortress and clean it up to level 3. And basically, that’s it. On the lower floors there is the highest density of monsters, you can also run into the Stone Fort (for the key). Who wants to farm the gear Heart of Sin -> Second Heart at the same time. We run from the Tower of the Doomed level 1 to Azmodan, then the lower floors of the fortress, the Stone Fort, from the Korsikka Bridge quickly to the Rakkis Bridge.
But to quickly get the trophy, it is important to remember that it is better not to pick up objects that have fallen from monsters.
+ some classes have bonuses:
Demon Hunter - Pet (Ferret) 10% gold.
Barbarian - Hammer of the Ancients (Birthright), Menacing Shout (Gloomy Harvest).
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you need to look in the tests... it shows how much gold you have already collected.. You just need to collect gold (chests, mobs, etc.)
By Serega_73 on 16 Sep 2013 20:15
This trophy is the longest, so I recommend focusing on GOLD from the very beginning. Orient both clothes and stones into the “crown” to get more coins. Whether they kill you or not - it doesn’t matter - you can handle it. After all, it's just a game. If you want PLATINUM quickly, earn GOLD! 
By ss_bo on 21 Oct 2013 00:43
MagicDeMode
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This guide was translated automatically.
A couple of tips from me. I hope I don't spoil it. 
Firstly. When collecting items worth % gold, pay attention to the fact that the game has a limit on finding gold - 300%. The restriction is imposed !only! for clothes. That is, all sorts of buffs and difficulty levels will continue to increase your percentage, but not the things you wear. So don't overdo it.
Secondly. Try high difficulty levels. It's not worth it. Turn on Inferno - Light. And show any act over9000 times.
Third. Don't overwork yourself by farming in a certain place. I measured gold/hour in many places, the values vary greatly depending on, oddly enough, luck. Don't miss chests, and don't pay attention to small mobs (as a rule, they don't drop anything at all). Go through the acts again, study the locations. Try to get at least some pleasure from the game.
Firstly. When collecting items worth % gold, pay attention to the fact that the game has a limit on finding gold - 300%. The restriction is imposed !only! for clothes. That is, all sorts of buffs and difficulty levels will continue to increase your percentage, but not the things you wear. So don't overdo it.
Secondly. Try high difficulty levels. It's not worth it. Turn on Inferno - Light. And show any act over9000 times.
Third. Don't overwork yourself by farming in a certain place. I measured gold/hour in many places, the values vary greatly depending on, oddly enough, luck. Don't miss chests, and don't pay attention to small mobs (as a rule, they don't drop anything at all). Go through the acts again, study the locations. Try to get at least some pleasure from the game.
