AFK Leg Farming 2.0 - New Method

[IruuL2]

I stumbled across this forum not too long ago, didn't know a site like this existed. I've used a lot of the AFK farming methods mentioned here until they got fixed. Recently I discovered a new method to AFK farm that should not be as easily patched like the others. This method does not get any significant gold or XP, only legs but this is the main goal of AFK farming anyways, as the gold and XP aren't that great in the previous methods. As far as I know, this has not been mentioned elsewhere so I decided to sign up and share this with you guys.

The concept is simple, but the execution takes optimization for your class/skills/gear. Basically, this method takes advantage of the guaranteed leg you get after x hours. Here's a quote from blue on this.

We do have a safety net in place to help even out those long periods without a Legendary drop in the form of (what we call) the “unlucky” bonus. This bonus slowly increases your Legendary drop rate over time and is based on the amount of time you’ve spent fighting monsters without seeing a Legendary drop normally.

This is the basis for all the previous AFK farming methods; it is why killing trash whites will still net legs over time. It seems the timer is roughly 2 hrs before you are guaranteed a leg. However, you DO NOT HAVE TO KILL ANYTHING for the timer to count up, you just have to be engaged in combat. See where I'm going with this? The concept to this method is simple and as follows:

1) Find any large group of monsters (No longer requires infinite spawn locations!)
2) Use a method that will allow you to slowly kill them while afk over several hours
3) ???
4) Profit

Depending on how you do it, a large pack can last for 10+ hours. It will not last indefinitely but will be long enough fort a night's sleep or a day's work. You can easily "reset" by making a new game and starting again. I have done this and gotten the 1 leg/2 hr average that I've been getting with previous infinite spawn AFK methods. The trick is optimizing your set up, but once you do you can start it up trivially.

Here's how I do this with my WD, but this method works with any class. The farm spot I use is A3 Areat Core where it spawns a bunch of those small trash mobs. I stack a lot of LPS and toughness. For my WD passives I use jungle fortitude, blood ritual and physical attunement to stay alive. I also have the ring that doubles your LPS based on your life, forgot the name, as well as St. Andrews Gage for the periodic shield. This shield gives me a buffer time for my LPS to catch up so I stay alive. I also have the shoulder that makes everything not take durability damage.

I run around aggroing everything I can, easily 50+ since there are so many of those little guys. I stick my guy in a corner so I only get attacked by a few at a time while the others wait in line. I spam Hex-Hedge Magic using something to hold down my key to not be afk. Hedge magic is perfect since it summons a guy that does no damage and heals me to stay alive.

For my kill method I use a low level item that has some thorn damage and Bul-Kathos's Wedding Band. Bul-Kathos deals 0.4% of their max life in damage (also heals you, bonus!). Here's a quick table of how much damage Bul Kathos deals by itself:

Time(min) - % Health remaining
0 - 100
1 - 79
2 - 62
5 - 30
10 - 9
20 - 0.81
40 - 0.0066

The ring itself can not kill anything so I use a little thorn damage to finish them off and the first mob dies in about an hour. Since the ring is AOE, once the first one dies, others slowly follow at a steady pace every 10-20 min. I usually wake up to 3/4s dead and several legs. I just remake a game and in 3 min I've aggroed a bunch and set it up again (no more RNG luck to find a specific spawn location anymore!).

So it takes some optimization to get it set up and depends on what gear/skills you have access to, but once you have it down it will work forever. The ring helps, but I'm sure you can figure out another way to do it, be creative.You also might have more luck at different locations and with other mobs. Good luck!

[xenologix]

100% sure you haven't done it.

[bobfromuk]

100% sure you haven't done it.

yeah because he spent that long typing out his post for nothing...

jesus christ, grow up man will you? You have no evidence that he has not tested this...

[Monksoulj3h]

I was thinking same thing alone the line of this, try it my barb in rift, with lots of reg and using shout for 8hrs come back finish rift 0 legs

[Namesuxx]

it confirms just the information i have collected from Friendkeepers.

[xenologix]

yeah because he spent that long typing out his post for nothing...

jesus christ, grow up man will you? You have no evidence that he has not tested this...

Yeah because I should be the one giving evidence ? He's not the only that typed a whole method without testing it on this website.

It's easy for him to prove, just take a screenshot when he wakes up and post it.

[Annihila7or]

I have tested this for 3 hours, didn't get a legendary yet. I haven't got a legendary yet.
I know it's not long, will post back later if i get results.

[jozsab1]

after farming demonic prisoner for 10 days, it's not enough to be in combat, you need to kill things. i got almost twice leg count on t3 solo than on t4 solo. i was killing things faster.
i'm sure the timer is more bullet proof than simply combat

[diabloaddict]

I did it 4 straight hours with barb on T4 with agro a lot of mobs on Arreat Heart, the thing is after 4 hours only 1 blue item and very few gold,
This is fake no timer at 2 hours for sure. I think you must kill a minimun of mob per hours so as the timer works, it would be too easy if not.
An idea and if it was not a timer but a number of mob before timer.
Supposition: killing that kind of mob give you 0.1% chance to have leg if you kill 1000 normaly you have one leg, if not the timer start to count to increase chance of loot leg, it could be the easy way to avoid farm afk.

[Wakamon]

Can be tested easily, just like rats, remove firewalkers and equip a bit of thorns, at least this post makes more sense than the one altering system clock...

[Weirdbeard]

Bul Kathos actually does kill mobs eventually. I tested it.

Did this overnight and got 0 legendaries, however I immediately got a legendary when I came back and started up a rift. Off the very first elite pack.

I'm willing to bet that's all this will do. I guess if you want to guarantee a legendary right away when you wake up and start playing this isn't a terrible thing to do.

[Karls]

If you're going to macro all night to guarantee a legendary, you might as well be killing Ghom or whatever and get 10 instead.

[arkinex]

If you're going to macro all night to guarantee a legendary, you might as well be killing Ghom or whatever and get 10 instead.

Might be the best way or just "play" the game!


No really, I thought I found a good place to AFK farm. I was running bounties in ACT 5, and in the Westmarch Commons, there is an event that randomly comes up called "Home Invasion" that came up.

I went in and started the event and killed all of the undead soldiers in the house, then when you get to the back part of the house that leads outside, there is a purple Elite that spawns (can't remember his name). Anyways I thought to lure him back into the house and then quickly run past or teleport past and get back out to where he spawns.

The undead soldiers continuously keep spawning and the purple Elite didn't follow me back outside. I went to the farthest south east portion of the area and planted myself. So I was killing mob after mob, getting XP and drops like normal...except about 5 minutes or so in...the mobs STOPPED SPAWNING. I was so sure that I found a new AFK spot. Oh well.

Looks like they thought this through and any event where mobs could endlessly spawn, they put a limit on it or now give you NO XP or drops.

Keep a look out peeps for any other events that we might be able to exploit.

So close....so close. =)

[pukie]

Might be the best way or just "play" the game!


No really, I thought I found a good place to AFK farm. I was running bounties in ACT 5, and in the Westmarch Commons, there is an event that randomly comes up called "Home Invasion" that came up.

I went in and started the event and killed all of the undead soldiers in the house, then when you get to the back part of the house that leads outside, there is a purple Elite that spawns (can't remember his name). Anyways I thought to lure him back into the house and then quickly run past or teleport past and get back out to where he spawns.

The undead soldiers continuously keep spawning and the purple Elite didn't follow me back outside. I went to the farthest south east portion of the area and planted myself. So I was killing mob after mob, getting XP and drops like normal...except about 5 minutes or so in...the mobs STOPPED SPAWNING. I was so sure that I found a new AFK spot. Oh well.

Looks like they thought this through and any event where mobs could endlessly spawn, they put a limit on it or now give you NO XP or drops.

Keep a look out peeps for any other events that we might be able to exploit.

So close....so close. =)

Awwwwww : (