Effective Paragon xp farming a.k.a. 'Alkaizer Method'

[vv3]

I haven't seen any topics around here, so I've decided to repost the guide made by Moldran on diablofans.com

A3 Farming Route
Log out with Q "Kill Azmodan" directly in front of him (Checkpoint). Each run will start directly before Azmodan.

Clear Core of Arreat to the WP
WP to Tower of the Damned lvl 1, do one circle
WP to Arreat Creater lvl 2
Teleport to town, WP to Bridge of Korsaikk, clear Fields of Slaughter
Teleport to town, WP to Keep Depths lvl 1. Immediately enter Keep Depths lvl 2 and clear it.
Teleport to town, Log out, Resume Game

I gave it a go yesterday, and with mediocre gear I was able to pull about 20m xp an hour (with 29% gem and 30% leoric's signet), so I think it's pretty decent. I've decided to change one thing - I'm not very fond of Fields of Slaughter, so I usually skip or clear the whole keep instead.

PS If you don't know who the Alkaizer is - he's a guy who hit 100 Paragon lvl on his barb yesterday. He did that without botting

[Iaccidentallytwink]

I remember people saying it would take at least a month or so to hit 100. What's it been, 2 weeks? haha.

[vv3]

Aye, my thoughts exactly. But hey, if I wasn't a working man, had no personal life and was blind to the fact that d3 is just sooooooooo fracking boring at times - maybe I could beat him to it :P

[eigah]

inferno only ? can u kill the mobs quickly with exp gear ? is it doable with wizard ?

[Kotzu]

was this done solo?

[vv3]

I've tuned in a couple of times to his stream on twitch.tv and each time he was farming solo. As for XP gain gear, he was only using Ruby in the helmet and 30% leoric's signet - but at some point he gave that ring to his enchantress, so he had only a quater or so of that bonus XP. Someone asked him why did he choose to give that ring to his follower and he said that speed at which he was killing (standard tornado/whirlwind build barb afaik) was more important.

Also, he only picked up legendaries, so his downtime was as low as humanly possible

[freddeee]

Any1 know some good place to farm EXP in act 2? Cant go in act3 yet with my barb

[sHoveToMe]

i do 18m / hour without leorics signet on core/crater runs only in HELL modus

so i think pure crater/core runs on inferno should be alot faster than his route

[vv3]

Well if farming hell is sooo efficient, why didn't you beat him to max paragon lvl? :P

As I said before - I have mediocre gear, hence my kill speed is so-so with my 30k dps as a monk...

[akuxmlg]

Im running this route with 34%ms 93k dps unbuff (monk) and 27% xp gem and im doing over 90 elite ~ 45min

And nice xp

[vv3]

What is your mil xp per hour, akuxmlg?

[akuxmlg]

Just hit 35 in 2h (54mio) from empty 34

So ~27m of xp/hour but my ruby is only 27%

Btw im running about 120 elite/hour and picking 62-63 ilvl yellow items

[TimÄÄ]

how can u know if the item (just drooped) is levl 62 or 63 ?

[Iscariote]

how can u know if the item (just drooped) is levl 62 or 63 ?

Either by:
1) Knowing the base item names and their levels
2) Hold Ctrl while hovering your mouse over items in the ground