A collection of tips to make your travels in the world of Diablo that much easier. Let's get started!

Item tooltips on the ground

A huge time saver

If you hold down the CTRL key while mousing over an item on the ground, it will show you the items stats. I use this all the time to quickly scan random items on the ground. It is much easier to just quickly glance over items before picking them up than having to open my inventory and search for them in there. An extra tip, if you have your inventory open while holding CTRL over an item on the ground, it will compare it to your currently equipped item

Elective Mode

Elective Mode improves the game so substantially that it completely baffles me why Blizzard decided to hide this option in the menus. Basically Diablo 3 skills are broken down into 7 categories such as Primary and Defensive. By default you are only allowed to pick one skill from each category at a time, but if you turn on elective mode you can pick as many skills from any category as you would like. For example a Monk could choose Serenity (An invincability shield) and Breath of Heaven (A healing spell) two defensive skills at once. Many of my friends hit level 60 without ever knowing this option existed, I really hope Blizzard makes elective mode the default in the future. Until then you can find Elective Mode under the interface heading in Gamepay options.

Advanced Tooltips

As you can clearly see with Advanced Tooltips turned on you are presented with much more information to help you decide what skill is the best for you. No longer will you have to guess at what skill does more damage.

Comparing second ring or weapon

When you mouse over for example a helm, the game compares it to your currently equipped helm, however for rings it only compares the stats to one of your rings. But if you hold down the ALT key it will compare it to your second ring, or offhand if you are comparing weapons

Note - this also works in the auction house.

Quickly skipping conversations

There is no point in reading dialog for a quest you have already completed, by simply pressing the ESC key you will instantly finish any conversation.

But wait that's not all! For ingame events that have a NPC talking before doing a certain action you can simply press space to skip ahead in the conversation. Normally it takes about 30 seconds for the Cow King to open the secret level, but you can skip through it all by just pressing space a few times.

Stop people from joining your game

Want to play by yourself without having your friends randomly joining your game? Simply go to your options and under the Social tab turn off "Allow Quick Join" and people will no longer be able to disturb your solo play. Turn it back on whenever you are feeling social again.

Force move - Stop accidentally clicking monsters

Have you ever needed to run away from a monster but accidentally clicked and attacked the monster you are running from? Well I sure have, this can be fixed by keybinding the "Move" button in the Diablo 3 options. You can keybind move to any button you want, I personally made mine the F key as I can easily press it in the heat of the moment. Pressing the move key will walk your character to wherever your mouse cursor currently is, ignoring all monsters in the way.

Linking items

If you ever played World of Warcraft than you should already know how to do this, have your chat open to talk in party or to whoever you wish and then shift click any item to link the item into chat. A easy and simple way to show off your items to your friends.

Attack and cast spells without moving

Who needs a target?

Holding down the shift key while attacking will basically "plant" your feet in place making you not move. This is useful as a melee class when you are on the edge of molten or desecrator and dont want to walk into it (Because fire hurts!). It's very useful for ranged classes who wish to sit back and spam spells without accidentally moving.

Quick chat commands

Sometimes typing is too slow

Pressing any numpad key from 0-9 will make your character say in game phrases that appear in the chat but also can be heard by all other players near you. It's way faster to press 7 on the numpad to tell everyone to run away, than to actually type it out.

Quick fire tips!

• Right clicking a spell buff removes it.
• You gain 20% of your Followers Magic and Gold Find.
• Dual-wielding grants a 15% bonus to your attack speed.
• Hitting "g" will drop your banner wherever your mouse currently is.
• Turn on friendly player health bars with the D key.
• Turn on enemy health bars with the V key.
• Pressing "alt" will display all item names on the ground. However in the options you can turn on item names to show permanently.
• Get a zoomed in view of your character by pressing Z.
• Hardcore mode is unlocked at level 10.
• Magic and Gold find are averaged between your group. For example if you have 3 people in your group and everyone's magic find added up equals 90, every member will have 30 magic find.
• When you are in town clicking another players portal will teleport you to them, you can even teleport to a dead player.
• If a champion or elite pack has a skull over them, you need to run away as the monster enraged and will kill you much faster. This can be reset by simply going back to town for 2-3 seconds.
• Every random spawn dungeon that has 2 floors will always have a Resplendent Chest on the second floor.

The first day had prices all over the place with people trying to unload all their extra useless items for $1.25. However that did not last long and quickly even sub-par gear was going for over $100! Not to mention all the $250 sales. Unfortunately due to the random range of prices I was not able to get a good idea of how much I should of listed my items for and I am currently stuck with no available auction slots for another 6 hours, which means I won't be selling anything today. Oh well the first day was pretty fun and I made over $300. For a full history of every item I sold go here here

Until the market settles it's possible to make a fair amount of money by utilizing both the gold and real money auction house to your advantage. For example the string of ears I sold was bought from the gold auction house for 1 million gold and in-turn got me $128 in profit. Until Blizzard brings up commodity auctions in the real money auction house, expect gold to be undervalued allowing you to buy cheap items for gold and sell for real profit at a hugely inflated price. My current feeling on why this is happening is due to the fact a lot of players were not able to farm act 2 and later items to sell for gold since the launch of Diablo 3 and thus were stuck with 300-500k total gold and the inability to buy anything on the gold auction house for weeks. But now the real money auction house allows them to bypass that hurdle of needing gold. I am quite sure once gold is able to bought, people will be much more likely to buy gold and then use that gold for items. Making right now the best time to sell your items before commodities sales start.

On the topic of D3RMT and the "Auction House Price" tracking section, we are waiting until the market has settled down a bit before we start tracking. Expect price tracking to start sometime around the start of July.

Other than that I have finally cleared all of Inferno on my monk about a week ago after getting a much needed life on hit weapon upgrade. I am currently spending most of my time farming Act 3 & 4 for items to sell on the auction house.

Click the images if you want to see my base stats and the weapon I used to clear all of Inferno.

The day has finally come, the RMAH is now available. Prices are pretty random right now with stormshields selling for $100-$200 and then other really good items selling for only $1.25. Expect prices to stabilize in a few days once people realize selling something for $2 will only net them about 30 cents if you cash out.

Today's server restart came with a couple new hotfixes aimed at fixing a few exploitative farming methods players have been using. However the most interesting is the fact monster damage will no longer increase when additional players join your game, a very much welcomed change.

Due to various issues with the Gold Auction House, Blizzard has pushed the release date of the RMAH back even further to an unannounced date. Although this is saddening news it is definitely for the best, the gold auction house has had many bugs that have caused users to lose items and gold.

This website in large is built for the RMAH and we do not wish to start commenting on the economy till it has had time to settle. I have a lot of guides and other things I will begin uploading to the website, but the main content will not be uploaded until the RMAH goes live.