Diablo 3: Difficulty guide! (how to farm efficiently) Quin69

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1. TheMiig1513: You can find best gear builds on the internet if you want, the rest will come as you play^^ If you don't already know about it, get Kanai's Cube :)
2. Travis Baker: 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.)
3. Johnny Moore: I understand how you lose efficiency in expert. But couldnt it still be worth it, because of getting better drops?
4. Sashimi: 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??"
5. ImMannny: +UltraSuperDuperFreak but does the quality of the legendary's go up with torment levels? or is it just RNG based?
6. Oscuro87: 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!
7. RuneChaos1.01: 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.
8. Jeffmetal 42: Gotta say man, you are one of my favorite new finds on YouTube. 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.
9. Mathieu Audet: Here he's talking about 1 to 70 leveling up when season will start.
10. Grompere Kichelcher: YEAH STRUGGLING DIE DIE DIE!!! :D at least I started to die in this game :D I'm newbie and also I need gems for legendary reforges :D but yeah less loot and 5 min bossfights ^^ listen to that guy (quin) he's right. me for my part THE PAIN IS NICE :D heading to malthael TII in 66 ish gear now in 1st playthrough (wouldn't do this in seaosnal or rifts - this meaning what I do atm 66 levlel gear in torment II) :P AWESOME VIDEO@ QUIN69 [also some ppl, like me, are sadomasochists and love it to sometimes die in a game - darksouls - last but not least you can rebuild your champ to mitigate more dmg or simply notstand in it or kite to strong mobs, while you sumons kill them ( 2 mystic allies + 2 champs from amulet stun) aggro the elites/rares or onyl mobs. but yeha surely not "EFFICIENT", stil I have some fun, I'll try killing malthael 1st playthorugh on TII now just for the giggles and the struggle - after this video, luckily i skipped all difficulties 8 including expert) in between going to TII from "HARD", cause I complained about game being to easy, it sure ain't in TII with my gear] topkek - not using dash dodge, I love speed, not using agility mantra (cannot have 25 % speed from paragorn yet, but yeah near death experience, and other passives have been swapped in) 8 million Urzaelk hit the shit out of my monk, needed between 8-15 triues (stopped counting), worst was when i stood in the "shit" andhe was down to 70 million - last but not least thanks for your informative/guiging vidoes and Urzael died - by the time I arrived near adria I had 1 WoL fist, I didn't die but was a long kite fight, but this " crappo" farming, all these boosts, at least if you play to hard you gotta learn the MECHS and that wil surely help later on aka not stay in blood pools, dodge explosions - all other modes you cna almost just not care ( except exlposions I already died to them in normal) but bosses beocme to easy evne in hard ( february 2018 - powpow pow powercreeping D3)
11. Zach Olson: My name is zach also, and I'm good at math :)
12. Sheogorath: 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.
13. Bigslur: what's Expert? Kappa
14. Jo Al: I will never leave normal mode again. Thank you, Quin.
15. Fabian S: +OkatonGF It does except for the grift chart and the missing t7 - t10 values, but i guess you could look that up
16. Pulse: I think expert mode was there for the people who just want a harder difficulty to challenge themselves without adding too much exp cuz like back in the days, people used to play on hard mode over normal mode just to make it challenging and in return they received no bonuses.
17. Jakob Waich: alright alright alright
18. Aaron: 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?
19. killafocker: windows 7 and shit
20. Mike Printz: 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?
21. drew32086: blunt.png lol
22. Teringventje: Algebra hard? Lel, casual plebs
23. Ckinsman: when I started playing diablo 3, I went from normal to expert because it was to easy on normal (and its still to easy)
24. Patrick Banks: If you can't clear a big pack in less than 2 seconds, don't move up.
25. averageboss: bookmark bar, 2nd spot: thepiratebay <3
26. gogoldgoal: Any video on drop rate vs torment level?
27. James Calder: I like meth
28. Matt: 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 =)
29. 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.
30. Enigma: yeah he is one of a kind eh? gg quin
31. Njorunn Fjölvarr: Upvoted for math
32. xblackdemonx: What about the Legendary drop ratio?
33. 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
34. Bawheidbob: Good information - Thanks.
35. prochax: he was doin leveling runs without the alaric quest yesterday, so i guess he did
36. Enigma: http://imgur.com/QQCxbKm quin plz be proud i'm doing it just for you <3
37. 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
38. 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?
39. killafocker: im farming on torment (1st) on my nintendo switch
40. Mentha: 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.
41. Instability01: 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.
42. Phoenix Raven: Just use mods and play on T13.
43. Aaron Cross: lmao I stopped watching after seeing that 'Chart of ridiculous BS'
44. leroy hilliard: yeah i get it, clear as mud ;-)
45. 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?
46. Kazuto Senpai: i think they fixed the expert bug on the ps4, 
47. Anthony Nardone: thanks for the video mate, really helpful.
48. Dez Nuts: has this been updated/changed by blizzard in the last two years ???
49. Jake Hornberger: sooo blizzard is just gonna be like: " nope, totally intentional, fuck your logic."
50. no no: 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.
51. Muffin: +Vernon Albayeros All countries don't have the same education, some people here in Sweden, a developed country mind you, don't go past algebra and equations. You can however choose to learn more advanced maths if you so desire. I've only worked with one greek letter in my education in Chemistry. 
52. James Schofield: the game is too easy though, its better to "struggle" a bit levelling up
53. Simon Terp: More Quin68 please!
54. Peter Schwarz: +Moritz H nvm
55. Teringventje: Muffin lol stfu, you dont need to study math eng etc to understand some gg easy algebra, its just logic dude lel
56. Piotr Majchrzak: Quin68!!!!
57. 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
58. cameron case: +Swecraft100 think you
59. Discoshell: Did you notice they nerfed the Talk to Alaric quest? Great guide btw!
60. jplzzios: 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
61. Grompere Kichelcher: 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.
62. 9Linkz: Quin 68 here
63. 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: http://www.diablowiki.net/Legendary
64. MrAmxMode: Not so useful today, but nice to see it. ^_^
65. No Thanks: lol spin around "quin 68 here", hahaha gg
66. Garit Heaton: nice
67. Marco: 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.
68. Cornelious Stradivarius: I would assume this is based on the fact there are no gems equipped
69. Spiffs Malone: math level t14 lol
70. Jordan ting: +Quin C Hey quin does this grift damage change make your damage reduction guide completely wrong now or just slightly off?
71. Zahlan Bahari: thepiratebay.se  Ahahah.
72. Coruscate: Ahh Debo aint here ;(
73. FarmacyPhlaverd: Spirit generators gonna make a comeback?
74. Abendschein: I followed you a few days ago and you haven't been showing up. :(
75. Cornelious Stradivarius: 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.
76. Lefty Hara: did they ever fix this?
77. SeeFood Diet: Playing the game a while and still learn something new. Go to 5:16 and turn on captions for the secret
78. Thomas Hyjonique: QuinC , the Einstein of Diablo 3
79. Peter Schwarz: +Sherman Herritt Who is Jay Wilson? (I am serious)
80. MrGammaGoblin: Apparently, someone at blizzard disliked this video.
81. Brian Follest: This is a great video, thanks. 
82. Francisco Leal: 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!
83. Stephan Kreidl: Dayum ur content is crazy helpful m8!
84. alelan: Legendary drop chances not included in the calculation it seems... And to be fair I prefer having some challenge. It sucks just steamrolling through.
85. Drew: Can anyone help out a vanilla player restarting the game FTPBASICS #1117 NA and on PC
86. Trooy13: Nice, I love your explanation videos especially with math.
87. tommyR96: 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
88. Taddlet: +MrScreamingSilence with gem of ease and a hellfire ring you can jump strait in on t10 trust me
89. 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.
90. Matt Owens: this completely changed how I choose to progress in this game. Everybody wants to make money fast :)
91. Kael Eppcohen: 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?
92. xblackdemonx: +Quin C Awesome. keep up the good work!
93. Luchezar Soul: So if there's still anyone in the comments, which difficulty should i start with if i am an arpg noob
94. Kriss90: 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.
95. Swecraft100: complete the story once
96. Patrick jDH: Helps alot thanks
97. 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%.
98. Nunya Biniz: 8 minutes to say that it's more efficient to run easily cleared rifts than to struggle through rifts? Soooo many words saying absolutely nothing. At least he didn't say "like" 572 times.
99. CortexFTW: First comment and like!
100. KimChi Preso: The 30 haters must work for Blizzard
101. 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
102. Rodrigo Trinidad: 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%.
103. Oldoldoldoldoldaccount: amazing help thank you mate!
104. 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. 
105. Rabano Bastardo: Dude..END a sentence for god's sake😂
106. Meadhlyn: I love it when people can point out the mistakes from devs, keep up the good work ^^
107. Renegade Zed: hey Quinn69, is this still relevant to 2.3 and the upcoming 2.4 patch?
108. Corey Matzkanin: Agreed! Please address efficiency of loot as well
109. Cornelious Stradivarius: 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
110. Kaelin Curtsinger: 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.
111. 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.
112. Cornelious Stradivarius: lol
113. GoZuHaZa: expert isnt a mistake............ expert is the breakpoint where you earn 2x shards from bounties right?
114. Veerle Ros: 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.
115. Vegetable Madness Ⓥ: expert was meant to be a little lower on the xp to compansate for the double blood shards, so not an "error"
116. Schrumpelratte: wat?... no no i mean nice!!.... fix it pls Bli$$
117. DaylieBanana: 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?
118. FastLikePuma: Is this still relevant? I notice now it goes to torment 13. Just wondering. Im eating this up though.
119. 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:
120. Awestruck: Can you make a quick video on a templar setup plz?
121. Bernrdo Lorente: The Flame Blast879 your gear must be all kinds of fucked up if you can't do t1 even with a fresh level 70
122. Mathieu Audet: My D got hard reading this.
123. alexson james: Thanks Subscribe
124. cameron case: How to get all Difficulty in Diablo lll Reaper of Souls and what level i must be to unlock all difficulty ?
125. O.W.I.M Munteanu: +Instability01 Quin 68 Son of Sam? Nooo Giant son of Peter Dinklage =D Pic Below. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2740440576/nm0227759?ref_=nmmd_md_nxt#
126. MrXterminate: drop rate increase on higher torment to right?
127. Spider Monkey: 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! 
128. Lstknt: I can't speak for Quin but I'm proud of ya! Congratulations and I hope you have a wonderful week! :D
129. zɪəlʃɒk: piratebay.se on Markers Kreygasm
130. Hugo Leonardo: Good work, i love math behind these games.
131. Galactic Research Initiative: +Vernon Albayeros its the fact that its not used in everyday life. After a long time that information get filtered out from the brain because it becomes useless. Had to teach myself algebra again after a decade of not having to use it.
132. Noah and jojo #gaming4ever: 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
133. superghost6: +superghost6 efficiency video*
134. Mackenzie Lamb: 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?
135. hafid lakrakbi: tnx man u helped me out alot
136. mod peace: all or most countries need math past algebra
137. jackal575: blunt.png do share :D
138. Marco: Because I play on Xbox 360 I can't play greater rifts and than I almost don't get legendaries
139. riddick5: "Get on my f***** maths, mate!" -Quin68
140. Shaun Newell: Piratebay link ;)
141. Jay Sheddan: Pirate bay boyz
142. holyender515: u carr that advanced math?
143. Ckinsman: its ironic when you're redundant in a video about being efficient .....
144. David: 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.
145. Ish The Face: My brain melts when the alphabet gets involved in math.
146. Christopher Villanueva: +jshrmstrng lol
147. PhuckyMcPhuck: █▄▄ ███ █▄▄ █▄█▄█ █▄█ ▀█▀
148. no no: 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.
149. Discoshell: +prochax Aha okey.
150. Okaton: Does this still apply to the current patch?
151. 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.
152. LetalisLatrodectus: That's exactly what he said.
153. raven murphy: thanks for putting these videos out, and doing all the maths man. I really appreciate it.
154. 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!
155. Dang Breh: Blunt.png LOL
156. Mike Printz: 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?
157. Jacob Perez: What are the percentages of magic find increase?
158. Bufftucker: blunt.png
159. ffeellix is fine: WOW. Gaming, percentages & graphs and shit in 1 video. Mind Blow
160. The man to scared to get a tattoo: Have your friend carry you for 3 hours. Then you'll be able to farm T10 forever lol
161. Real English: whats your pup's name?
162. John Lyon: 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
163. Cocho Dios: Great job I like what you've done here, helpful for everyone. Keep on 
164. Johnny Bravo: keep making these vids Quin, your voice is a pleasure to listen to, u should do story telling or something like that
165. Wrhodez71: good video breakdown.

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