Score More Legendary Loot  After Diablo 3 Patch 2.1

 

The above picture is everything any Diablo3 player dreams of. Loot and more loot baby! And more importantly legendary (Orange coloured) loot!

Diablo III’s patch 2.1 for the PC introduced new endgame content: Greater Rifts. These are tiered, higher level dungeons with a 15-minute timer and with a boss at the end who almost always drops awesome loot. And there’s a smart way to finish these dungeons and get huge amount of legendaries.

Here’s our favourite Diablo III veteran Kripparrian—the guy who managed to kill Diablo back in the day on the hardest difficulty in hardcore mode, first in the world—with his own take on running Greater Rifts.

It’s relatively easy and you don’t have to cheat or do anything fishy:

  1. When you kill a boss in a normal rift, there’s a chance to get a “Keystone of Trials.”
  2. Doing a trial with this key will let you do Greater Rifts. These are tiered dungeons, from level 1 to 100. Kill a lot of monsters during the trial and you’ll end up in a Greater Rift around level 10-20. Teleport out of the trial and you’ll be on level 1. This is exactly what we have to do here.
  3. Level 1 Greater Rifts are a complete joke, so it’s easy to rush through them in a few minutes without even losing health. The boss in the end however will almost always drop pretty great loot, legendaries included.
  4. You can upgrade rift levels at the end of the dungeon. Faster clears earn bigger jumps, but if you end up with 4:30 minutes or less left, you’ll only jump 1 level. And that’s what we have to do. Jump from level 1 to level 2.
  5. Try to do as many lower level rifts as possible, upgrading only one or two levels at the end of each run. Level 25 is the equivalent of the game’s hardest difficulty, Torment 6, so lower level runs will be easy for a while. The bosses will almost always drop legendary items and, if you have too much time left on the timer, just teleport out and do some bounties on the world map.

We’ve not had time to try this out ourselves. Seeing as we are busy with our new journey into the world of  World of Warcraft, Diablo 3 has taken a back seat, for now.