Diablo 3: Difficulty guide! (how to farm efficiently)

[@Jeffmetal42]

Gotta say man, you are one of my favorite new finds on KZbin. Been following you for a couple weeks now and the builds you discuss took me from fighting tooth and nail with a gr32 to being able to do a gf37 with a decent fight but feel I can push it to 40 with the right rift. Of course I switched back to playing my Monk again but still, its perfect for me. Super fast builds and on screen mayhem. Keep up the good work.

[@schoof31]

great video, but when you talk about greater rift scaling (6:15 min) your data isnt up to date anymore! since patch 2.1.2, from greater rift level 26 and onward, the monster deal only 10 % more dmg per level instead of the old 12.5%! it was even mentioned in the patch notes: "Monster damage in Greater Rifts level 26 and higher has been reduced". some people on reddit (or d3 forum) did the math and published the exact numbers!

[@Trooy13]

Nice, I love your explanation videos especially with math.

[@Anesthesia90]

yeah he is one of a kind eh? gg quin

[@jakedajuggernaught]

sooo blizzard is just gonna be like: " nope, totally intentional, fuck your logic."

[@nono4805]

The are likely to say, true, but not going to spend the effort to fix. One can hope they would fix it as it does have an impact for new toons in a new season.

[@jshrmstrng]

no no or they'll say "It will be adjusted in a future content patch" in the year 9000, when the rest of the human race no longer exists

[@SeeFoodDie]

Playing the game a while and still learn something new. Go to 5:16 and turn on captions for the secret

[@B3tterTh4nU]

When they first released the new difficulty system, I immediately realized the difference in the Expert mode. I believe the reason (unless it is just a typo) for it not fitting the trend is that when you're initially leveling, Expert would be the most efficient difficulty for the majority of the leveling process if it followed the trend. I believe that they intentionally tried to displace people from a single leveling difficulty by making them choose between an easy, slightly-too-fast-to-be-efficient, experience with Hard mode and a slightly-too-slow-to-be-efficient Master mode.

[@ravenoftheredsky]

I do appreciate the correlation you've gathered here, but mob health is only one consequence to the many rewards of playing torment. Not to mention you're rolling over your gems and learning the strategy of your character build. Personally, I prefer torment because enemies have more modifiers to keep you on your toes and keep the game feeling fresh.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

I would assume this is based on the fact there are no gems equipped

[@renegadezed]

hey Quinn69, is this still relevant to 2.3 and the upcoming 2.4 patch?

[@GlennGJ100]

expert was meant to be a little lower on the xp to compansate for the double blood shards, so not an "error"

[@PorplSnek]

quin you are smart this is helping us console scrubs on the ps4 (we don't both have good computers) seriously I came from dark souls and was like "OOOOOH HARDER MODES GIT GUD" so to learn that I'm challenging myself somewhat pointlessly when i could be getting more experience faster in easier difficulties is a big help.

[@_Strats_]

Can you do one of these for legendary drop chance relative to difficulty, and in general how magic find affects legendary drop chance? And in your opinion the most effective way to farm legendaries, most people say doing t6 rifts and only killing elite packs and continuing to the end of the rift after the boss is the fastest way =)

[@johnnybravo2292]

keep making these vids Quin, your voice is a pleasure to listen to, u should do story telling or something like that

[@Meadhlyn]

I love it when people can point out the mistakes from devs, keep up the good work ^^

[@TheReaper5640]

If you haven't beaten Act IV, the highest difficulty you can access is Expert. So the XP/HP ratio for Expert might have been intended.

[@KaiLuck]

I'm gonna stay on Hard for leveling 1-70 for S2. Jump to T1 to farm sets once I crated/find a few legs.

[@spidermonkey3333]

Breaking it down to the point that anyone can understand it, I've come to expect nothing less. Great work! Shout out to Quin68 (Zac) brilliant M8!

[@neverokay8]

So... basically don't go up a mode unless you spend most of your time running from one pack of mobs to the next, and stuff just melts in 3 seconds. With one exception: to complete a seasonal journey objective.

[@KelsonArwhi]

Well hell, I always leveled up new characters in Expert (despite the fact that the discrepancy in the numbers always bugged me as well). No more of that! D:

[@travisbaker7178]

Ik this is kinda irrelevant to the video, Quin, but do you think The Fist of Az'Turrasq has any spot in current monk (season/nonseason) just for an EP build, like t6 farming, or do you think furnace/torch, is just all around better (used with the optimal build ofc.)

[@patryk1734]

has this been updated/changed by blizzard in the last two years ???

[@C4N4D4M4N]

If 2 enemies are tagged with EP Essence Burn and die at the same time, does another enemy hit by both the explosions take twice the damage since it was hit by 2 EPs? Or does the second explosion just refresh the duration of the first explosion buff?

[@aretlev]

I will never leave normal mode again. Thank you, Quin.

[@Emka877]

Very good guide, thank you. Never bothered to calculate the efficiency of each difficulties, this opened my eyes. Q: Does this still apply to the new torment levels in patch 2.3? Thanks!

[@buzzboy199]

But when you are at the point where you can kill monsters in T4 just as quickly as you can kill them in Normal mode (instantly killing everything), then it is just completely beneficial. You can't just do T6 and expect 10000% more experience and to hit Paragon 500 after killing 4 skeletons. That being said, expert mode is definitely a bit off with the exp ratio

[@LetalisLatrodectus]

That's exactly what he said.

[@mattowens8800]

this completely changed how I choose to progress in this game. Everybody wants to make money fast :)

[@noahandjojogaming4ever244]

i dunno if he mentioned this but if your able to live and kill in higher difficulty the xp boost is much much more efficient because the higher difficulty the more enemies so more xp

[@sashimster3243]

I cannot get over the fact that to me the entire later ~half of the video sounds like they are talking abouth meth. "He's out of my league when it comes to Meth". I had this running in the back ground while reading emails and when they started saying math (meth) I was like "uwatmate??"

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

lol

[@pentuprager6225]

He talks about airy in another video and knickerless or knickerlace in another. He's on something. He's fun. He also thinks he be black. Straight up man.

[@aaroncallahan119]

This is super late. But holy cow thank you. I'm up to Torment 5 on my Crusader and your video helped me. I can probably get the same out of T2 or regular Torment. The experience gain for my Paragon levels doesnt seem to be faster either way.

[@RuneChaosMarine]

Would you comment on why, "i find many more interesting legendaries in expert mode, like the whitching hour and strong arm bracers" is that just my opinion? perhaps with the lack of xp increase, they incresed they leg % compared to hard and normal.

[@ImLeviathan]

Great video guys.. I don't think blizzard made a mistake, look at it from a monetary kinda view, they are just aiming for the casual players as they don't farm and play for the fun of it.. difficulty in this game (at least for me) works as a method of making the game more interesting but most casuals will never step up past expert. Remember money is always a very important aspect. Also another aspect they took into consideration is how the economy in the game won't get over inflated with all the casuals getting more gold (as difficulty also affects the amount of gold you get) .. just my two cents!

[@elitebattlefield2]

I flew though Hard mode on D3 in 1 day and currently flying through RoS. I really don't care too much about levels/hp/Atk bonus I only care for drops. Do you have a current model on drops for Legendaries/Sets vs difficulty levels? Why play normal if to only get crappy drops?

[@EKLAT92]

QuinC , the Einstein of Diablo 3

[@stephankreidl1999]

Dayum ur content is crazy helpful m8!

[@Whenclownsattack888]

Can you make a quick video on a templar setup plz?

[@gogoldgoal]

Any video on drop rate vs torment level?

[@cochogod]

Great job I like what you've done here, helpful for everyone. Keep on

[@HugoLeonardoVG]

Good work, i love math behind these games.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

I actually used to lvl in Master all the time (sometimes even Torment if I got lucky with loot i.e. Furnace) with no real problem but it seems last 2 seasons (currently in Season 15) Blizzard have nerfed the XP or buffed the mobs, i really cant tell. Adn even Expert feels wrong so I just stick to Hard now.

[@MrGammaGoblin]

Apparently, someone at blizzard disliked this video.

[@nerdydevildog8126]

I like to push myself to the harder difficulties for the better loot more than the experience and gold though

[@cako666]

But loot does get better with the higher the difficulty, right?

[@GrimLearns]

TL:DR - On hard for killing 2 mobs worth of hp you get 1,75 mob worth of exp and it gets worse and worse

[@jharris2975]

At around 10 mins, instead of 70%, it should actually be just about 73.4% which means the 63 was then just a small mistake, off by one number.

[@mikeprintz9358]

With the Taeguk gem, RCR beyond 6.6 makes stacking non-functional with sweeping Wind. Will the additional RCR on the Cindercoat effect our max RCR point?

[@mikeprintz9358]

Now for the more technical question: If X=Y+ (CHD*CHC)(elite dmg)(elemental dmg), then one has to question how do you ride an alpacas?

[@anthonynardone3722]

thanks for the video mate, really helpful.

[@V2INSANITY]

So I'm fairly new to diablo 3 before I went to work I could change the difficult to hard, expert and master when I got In from work it went back to normal, hard and expect difficult ant way to change it back

[@ratosc2]

I dont 100% believe blizzard messed up with the Expert difficulty, I believe they made that outlier because for any new players who just bought and installed the game the only 3 difficulties they have are Normal, Hard and Expert. Most people go to either Normal or Hard however some people like the challenge of going to Expert without out-leveling the campaign content (which 125% would do). This is really my only reason to believe why blizzard would make Expert only 100%.

[@nanaboru3276]

whats sad is that i cant find any good gear to make me ascend into torment difficulty

[@ImMannny]

How does going up in torment mean relative to the legendary that will be dropped? Like are the legendary's better? or does it have no effect overall?? except the drop rate of legendary's?

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

As far i know the legendary are the same. Drop rate goes up tho for sure. Also you must be lvl 70 for some set items to drop. Here is more info if you need: www.diablowiki.net/Legendary

[@ImMannny]

UltraSuperDuperFreak but does the quality of the legendary's go up with torment levels? or is it just RNG based?

[@Zomious]

ImMannny Its RNG. You'll still get trashy legys with horrible rolls but since you're getting more of them, the chances of getting a good one are higher at T6 than T1. Also you'll get more ancient legendarys at higher torment levels. These can still roll shitty stats though. TL;DR - just farm in the most efficient difficulty.

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

ImMannny Well by saying they are the same i clearly meant stat wise aswell. But yea its RNG ..you can find a SUPER item on T1 and then go to T6 and find identical item with CRAP stats, only the drop rate changes. You know the link i gave also ansered your follow up question :P

[@Marco-zy4sq]

I am on tournament 1 and it takes me like 5 or more minutes to kill the rift boss. And it takes forever to kill a normal boss and elites and all that stuff. I don't now what to do.

[@bernrdolorente1249]

The Flame Blast879 your gear must be all kinds of fucked up if you can't do t1 even with a fresh level 70

[@instability0153]

Great vid Quin, but I'd suggest getting some tips from Zach if you want to get on his level. Zach is potentially Jay Wilson.

[@o.w.i.m]

Instability01 Quin 68 Son of Sam? Nooo Giant son of Peter Dinklage =D Pic Below. www.imdb.com/media/rm2740440576/nm0227759?ref_=nmmd_md_nxt#

[@hafidlakrakbi2413]

tnx man u helped me out alot

[@nono4805]

So long as the most important thing to you is XP, I would agree with not moving up, till it is easy mode. If on the other hand, you are at least as interest in increased legendary items, then moving is worthwhile. Going to T2 from T1 gains increased odds of a legendary. Going from Master to T1 can yield legendary items, not availble at Master.

[@Animeanem]

Here he's talking about 1 to 70 leveling up when season will start.

[@superghost6]

I hope he will make an effieciency similar to this one explaining the change in legendary items drop rate in comparison to monster health

[@superghost6]

superghost6 efficiency video*

[@cmatzkanin]

Agreed! Please address efficiency of loot as well

[@okaton6559]

Does this still apply to the current patch?

[@hellboy19991]

+OkatonGF It does except for the grift chart and the missing t7 - t10 values, but i guess you could look that up

[@JR-kv6ez]

What are the percentages of magic find increase?

[@kylaestoya]

Thank you so much for this. I hope you're okay.

[@ukbigman91]

Still the same XP bonus for Expert all these years later lol. Good video, though, and I really enjoyed the mathematical rational for why it should be 125% XP bonus vs 100%.

[@LEXICON-DEVIL]

Lol Math dude at the ends like "and I'm out bitches"

[@chefpunjab]

I love math. Feels like we found blizzard in a conspiracy. Great vid guys from u.s.a

[@akse]

The things I hate about this game. I love some other games where you must challenge yourself and play the hard content to even gain any decent exp or gain the best items. In D3 you just adjust the difficulty to be in the sweetspot.

[@GrumpyCoffeeBean]

Legendary drop chances not included in the calculation it seems... And to be fair I prefer having some challenge. It sucks just steamrolling through.

[@BlitzIn4]

The only excuse, the only one, bliz is nerfing Expert mode xp gains to keep you from power leveling, because on your first playthrough you only have access to Normal, Hard, and Expert mode. If that's not the excuse, bliz needs to fix it.

[@MrScreamingSilence]

Good thing I never bothered with expert mode. The first character gets to level on normal, hard, and then master or t1 and once I have my gem of ease at rank 25 and a hellfire ring all the other new characters get to start on t1 with a random lvl 70 weapon.

[@Taddlet]

+MrScreamingSilence with gem of ease and a hellfire ring you can jump strait in on t10 trust me

[@jxhunger]

Did you notice they nerfed the Talk to Alaric quest? Great guide btw!

[@prochax]

he was doin leveling runs without the alaric quest yesterday, so i guess he did

[@jxhunger]

prochax Aha okey.

[@forevergogo]

If you can't clear a big pack in less than 2 seconds, don't move up.

[@Mircheeks]

Spirit generators gonna make a comeback?

[@Kielbass]

So if there's still anyone in the comments, which difficulty should i start with if i am an arpg noob

[@brianfollest6572]

This is a great video, thanks.

[@nanananannanananana]

Really love your advanced guides so far. I'm still puzzled about doing full clears or just to the guardian for rifts. Especially how that changes on a new character while going from T1 to T6. So far I switched to full clears (hunting blue/yellows and mostly skipping trash) as soon as I can destroy the given content. It feels worth it, even on the shards since you get the shard goblins from time to time. Is there even an actual answer to it?

[@SimonTerp]

More Quin68 please!

[@wrhodez7185]

good video breakdown.

[@oldoldoldoldoldaccount1071]

amazing help thank you mate!

[@PPsqueezer]

My buddies and I play torment because its boring to wipe mobs in seconds. Whats the point of playing a game if you aren't challenged?

[@FastLikePuma]

Is this still relevant? I notice now it goes to torment 13. Just wondering. Im eating this up though.

[@GrompereKichelcher]

basic functional studies :D forgot all about it, but Zack's right. exponential courbes we called it in french y=x+1 (a+b)^2= a^2+2ab+b^2 well you did more then basic algebra, you did a reverse functional study and draw back the formula - algebra = only was you hammer ( aka tool), the excell shets evne have some of the formula's predefined and recognize them ( basic ones), it's called macros - but GG's on your friend. had to do this "shit" often in chem lab physichs lab etc. - very logical, I hated it. guess why I'm a player and not a programmer :D programming = maths and logical thinking at it's highest.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

Im kind of crap at maths these days but seemed to be really good at algebra more than normal maths when I was a kid...go figure lol. But this was fascinating

[@whateverppl1229]

when I started playing diablo 3, I went from normal to expert because it was to easy on normal (and its still to easy)

[@cameroncase8731]

How to get all Difficulty in Diablo lll Reaper of Souls and what level i must be to unlock all difficulty ?

[@Swecraft100]

complete the story once

[@cameroncase8731]

***** think you

[@xblackdemonx]

What about the Legendary drop ratio?

[@xblackdemonx]

***** Awesome. keep up the good work!

[@ljs444]

I know this videos 4 years old but something seems extremely off. There is so much not being considered when going up higher in the torment levels. Considering the HP of the monsters versus the XP just seems plain stupid I've never heard anyone compare the too. The reason why people sit higher Torment level is for better drops When people talk about farming they could care less about how much HP and xp something is giving them. When someone goes out farming the best suggestion is to find something that you can one shot normal monsters and two or three shot a boss then you are farming efficiently. A rift or a greater Rift farming should take you 3 to 4 minutes if it takes you longer you need to lower the rift level or the Torment level. This was recommended mean buy KZbin to watch and it just seems plain stupid.

[@wop52000]

I understand how you lose efficiency in expert. But couldnt it still be worth it, because of getting better drops?

[@z4ng3tsu1ch1g0]

a lot of p-leveling guides have you transition to master from hard in the beginning. If ur gonna move up the difficulty ladder it's more efficient to just skip expert. That's how bad expert is

[@Bawheidbob]

Good information - Thanks.

[@danielrodgers6939]

Someone is a genius....

[@RealEnglishNow]

whats your pup's name?

[@patrickjdh6687]

Helps alot thanks

[@Marco-zy4sq]

Because I play on Xbox 360 I can't play greater rifts and than I almost don't get legendaries

[@aaronalex1731]

dude looks like a priest of rathmar

[@chefpunjab]

My hardcore character died then other day....video on my channel. I waa set up to die. Was helping a friend get more loot. Had no follower. Cheat death popped up. Anyway... I made another one even though season starts soon and I'm leveling up solo and have noticed everything you are talking about with hard compared to expert.

[@5riddikk]

"Get on my f***** maths, mate!" -Quin68

[@mackenzielamb6513]

doesnt master mevels, or torment, oddly diablo is different on every console it seems. kinda dumb for trying to look this crap up for PlayStation 3. but don't you get higher magic item find per master as it claims in the description when you choose a harder level in the game or is that mathematically messed up to?

[@Fjolvarr]

Upvoted for math

[@Jester2189]

How about the drops though

[@MrAmxMode]

Not so useful today, but nice to see it. ^_^

[@Kazuto344]

i think they fixed the expert bug on the ps4,

[@AbendscheinLGN]

I followed you a few days ago and you haven't been showing up. :(

[@PPMV]

How is this suddenly showed up in my suggested lol

[@KrissD19]

I need T7 and higher......T6 is just too easy. Or, just a GR vendor so i can buy GR40+ cause leveling keys sucks and is boring.

[@nothanks1077]

lol spin around "quin 68 here", hahaha gg

[@9Linkz]

Quin 68 here

[@averageboss92]

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