Stranger in Need - new exp farm event?

[vv3]

I've found something interesting on reddit, I'm at work ATM so I can't test it myself unfortunately:

I haven't seen this run posted yet, but after stumbling upon it while questing I figured I'd put it out there. Basically it is just a repetitive run of the Stranger in Need event in the Halls of Agony level 2 exit.

Start in Act 1, Imprisoned Angel : The Cursed Hold. Take your waypoint to the Halls of Agony Level 2 waypoint, and proceed to the exit for Highlands Passage. I believe it is usually on the east side of the map. Down in the pit, right by the exit is where the event will spawn. It seems to be right around 50% spawn rate in my experience so far. Once you exit to the Highlands Passage you will get a checkpoint. Portal back to town, leave the game, then resume. Your portal will take you back the Highlands Passage where you can immediately go back to the Halls of Agony Level 2. You'll know immediately when you enter the halls if the event spawned by the little yellow dot on the map that will show when available. If you don't get the event spawn, portal to town, quit, and resume. Don't need to reset a quest or anything, and the event chance seems pretty high.

The event itself is easy. There are no elite packs that you need to worry about, and the boss that spawns for the event is easily kitable. On my decently geared wizard I can run it on Torment 6 no problem. There are some white mobs as well for extra experience. The event itself on torment 6 gives 9,537,000 exp and 80580 gold. I timed myself for 15 minutes and without trying all THAT hard to run it as efficiently and quickly as possible, I managed about 190 million exp. Also you get drops from killing the boss, I got 2 legs in my 15 minute run.

So yeah, give it a try if you want. Maybe it'll be a feasible alternative for some people. Maybe I'm an idiot and there are better options, that's likely as well. Regardless, happy hunting!

Stranger in Need (Maiden run) : diablo3

[einar300]

I've found something interesting on reddit, I'm at work ATM so I can't test it myself unfortunately:



Stranger in Need (Maiden run) : diablo3

Will take a look, EU is still down for me, no idea why it wont update.

[Phantons]

190 million exp in 15 minutes is not happening for me. Not even close.. I feel like the poster was efficiently farming T6..

[einar300]

190 million exp in 15 minutes is not happening for me. Not even close.. I feel like the poster was efficiently farming T6..

Well, I do not really care about the exp, I am in for the gold. This is not the best quest to take, there is another one that gives you 12 million exp in matter of minutes. Will post back once EU is back online

[Fumi]

Still think Royal Addiance is the best quest to run.

[Voltex]

i farmed that event after 2.0.1 came out and that event was nerfed and now it spawn way less times than it used to.

[joburocks]

I ran this for 15 minutes and farmed 102.5 mil xp. I did forget to take my follower which may have slowed me down a bit. There are several problems with this area.
1. The spawn rate is RNG. I had 8 games in a row where the event did not spawn. Then 4 in a row when it did.
2. The boss you have to kill has some thick skin. It takes a bit to burn him down.

i guess other than that it's nice to have options for changing up how we farm xp. Not sure if I'll use this much.

[GetGot]

i am getting way over 190 mil exp in 15 min, i'm roughly getting about 250-320 mil

I ran T6 with a sorc with 220k unbuffed dps(300k bufffed) and 404k toughness