Warrior's rest (Act 1) - Detailed elite farm guide

[Gramexer]

This is post based on this post http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/diab...spot-farm.html ([Farming] A1 Inferno, decent spot to farm) so don't yell "lol, repost noob!" at me. This is just more detailed guide, to help you to farm this spot efficiently.

Warrior's rest is a very small dungeon with one elite mob always inside of it, it's pretty easy to kill, because it's in act 1 mob. There is also 2 chests very often and a random shrine.

Why to farm this?

Well in patch 1.0.3 Blizzard buffed drop chances, so ilvl 61,62,63 can drop in Act 1. And Bcause Unique (purple) mobs doesn't drop anymore 2 blues with 100% chance, this is my alternative to aspect farming. I also get a rare item every 2nd or 3rd run, with 30mf. I don't know if Blizzard has dramatically increased rare drops from champ packs or just my luck.

How to get there ?

1 - Select Quest 9. The Imprisoned Angel - Chamber Of Sufferings New patch requires you to take The Broken Blade - Talk to Alaric. Otherwise you wont get a Checkpoint
2 - Take a waypoint to Festering woods
3 - Search Warrior's rest and enter
4 - You should now get a checkpoint inside
5 - Kill Elite, Loot, TP, Leave game and resume
6 - Repeat previous step

Selling loot
Outdated: No need anymore, since you don't get checkpoint in town while in The Broken Blade quest
When your bags is full, don't tp and just run to vendor, or otherwise you will get checkpoint to New Tristam, check image below for "safe movement", so you won't get the checkpoint



If you anyway get saved to tristam, change the quest to Cursed Hold and continue from step 2


QA:

Herp derp - Repost
Yeah, I told in first sentence

I got saved to Tristam and can't get checkpoint back to Warrior's rest! What to do?
Change quest to Cursed Hold or back to Chambers of Suffering

Lolz, what is that random shitty build? D
Just my random pop cd's and kill everything

Any rares?
My bag after 10 runs




And at the and, I want to ask if you other people get good amounts of rares without mf from this spot?

[pqs]

+4 rep. i find this is quite a good place when u get bored of others. Haven't found anything worth more than 100k yet but i've only farmed for 1 hr.
Thnx for share

[freeanime]

Very nice guide. It gives lot of blue items quickly and rares also drop often.

I 'm trying to find if your guide is better than my old run, using the following waypoints :

1 - Northern Highlands - Watch tower dungeon (go north west) - if not there I skip this part
2 - Festering woods - I clear the cavern like in your guide then I roam around to find packs, there are usually 2 packs
3 - Cemetary - I do all the crypts & the elite that often spawns close to the waypoint
4 - Cathedral 3 - There is often an elite close to the waypoint, if not there I skip
5 - Leoric Manor (go in the manor, don't go in Halls of Agony) - again there is a guaranteed elite outside but you can find up to 3 packs in this area.

Once done i remake another game and do it again. This route is quick and takes advantage of the 5 Nephalem Valor stacks. I'm sure godly geared ppl can clear that full route in like 10 minutes or less.

But for my HC barb - meaning not geared like sc ones are - I'm not sure this route gives more rares than your guide... gonna bench it more and report I presume.

EDIT : forgot to add that in my run there are also frequent treasure goblins & a guaranteed respl. chest in the watch tower.

[TheGlow]

Nice reminder. I was doing this when I first hit inferno then realized it wouldnt give ilvl 63 stuff so I stopped and moved along.
I can go back and get in on this. I just opted to use a 2h now with this nerfed dam so earthquake should clear that out real fast.

[ultrablack]

Very nice guide. It gives lot of blue items quickly and rares also drop often.

I 'm trying to find if your guide is better than my old run, using the following waypoints :

1 - Northern Highlands - Watch tower dungeon (go north west) - if not there I skip this part
2 - Festering woods - I clear the cavern like in your guide then I roam around to find packs, there are usually 2 packs
3 - Cemetary - I do all the crypts & the elite that often spawns close to the waypoint
4 - Cathedral 3 - There is often an elite close to the waypoint, if not there I skip
5 - Leoric Manor (go in the manor, don't go in Halls of Agony) - again there is a guaranteed elite outside but you can find up to 3 packs in this area.

Once done i remake another game and do it again. This route is quick and takes advantage of the 5 Nephalem Valor stacks. I'm sure godly geared ppl can clear that full route in like 10 minutes or less.

But for my HC barb - meaning not geared like sc ones are - I'm not sure this route gives more rares than your guide... gonna bench it more and report I presume.

EDIT : forgot to add that in my run there are also frequent treasure goblins & a guaranteed respl. chest in the watch tower.

this is more useful, especially with the need of valor to get the guaranteed rare from each pack of elites.

[Retridin]

Thanks got a hellion crossbow with 515 base dps on my 2nd try boom 1300 dps xbow!

[Duecez]

Thanks for sharing this, been getting some pretty good items in this place. I usually get at least one chest as well in there.

[droopie28]

GTFO, your lucky as hell dude

Thanks got a hellion crossbow with 515 base dps on my 2nd try boom 1300 dps xbow!

[CWolfCW]

Why not use Broken Blade - Talking to Alaric as starting point? Then you don't have to worry about checkpoint and you can have Leah in party as well.

Is there higher drop benefit to starting at a later quest?

[Gramexer]

Why not use Broken Blade - Talking to Alaric as starting point? Then you don't have to worry about checkpoint and you can have Leah in party as well.

Is there higher drop benefit to starting at a later quest?

Well that works too. I usually always farm acts with final quests, so I have access to every checkpoint, if I don't want farm one spot anymore.

[threattii]

Great guide, thanks a lot for sharing this!

Another very effective way to farm gold in A1 is to choose the quest "The Legacy of Cain" and "Explore Cellar".
After that just simply teleport to "The Old Ruins" and run through the courtyard to "Old Tristram Road".
After running for a bit you'll see a small house with "Dank Cellar" next to you, get in there and kill the unique monster and its 2 henchmen. (The cellar might be sometimes randomly closed, but you just gotta try again.)
When they're down, pick up all the gold.
Rinse & repeat.

(You will get an even more efficient result by using the gold find gear. The more gold find you have, the more money you'll get or you can opt for Magic Find if you want more Magic/Rare items, but I prefer just more gold straight away.)

Cheers!

[Devish]

I've gotten a good amount of legendaries from warrior's rest in the festering woods. In one day i was able to find a decent andy's visage a ehh mempo and a decent Gladiators gloves. I usually go kill every elite mob in act 1 and save festering woods as my last place to go before the halls of agony. On avg you can get 3 - 6 legendaries from this dungeon. Also they drop good rare ammy's and rare rings

[willbnu]

i think they fixed the checkpoint

edit

you need enter in the quest before that

[exulx]

doing this for ages and only got shit drops

[xXK1ll3rXx]

After my 10 runs i only got 2 Rars Seems like Rng hase to be on your side for it to be worth it.