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How To Beat The Avarice & Avaritia Conquest

by - 9 years ago

In Season 2, we saw several Conquests added to the game to provide new challenges for players looking to immortalize themselves among the first 1000 completions. Only one of those conquests returned for Season 3 – Avarice/Avaritia. In this conquest, you must complete a 50 million gold streak while outside of both areas of The Vault. As soon as you tick over 50 million gold in the streak, which is easily tracked in the lower right corner of your screen, the toast will pop up and you will be rewarded with your Achievement…but will you receive the Conquest? At the time of writing, both boards are currently still far away from their 1000 maximum, so let’s hurry and get you on your way to obtaining this one for yourself. It’s relatively simple, but requires a bit of preparation and smart play.

Setting Up

Initially, you need to select a class and a build that will put you in the best position to complete the task at hand. While there isn’t any one set way to do this, as all classes are currently represented on the Avarice & Avaritia leaderboards, your best bet is to use a class that can both move effortlessly and quickly while still putting out plenty of damage. Builds that come to mind are the Whirlwind Barbarian, Dashing Strike or Tempest Rush Monk, and Teleport Wizard.

Traditionally, this Conquest was earned by setting up the Ruins of Corvus. You would run through the entire map, spawning all of the Scarab enemies in particular, and then go back and murder them while hoping there were enough to drop you the gold you need. This is still a valid strategy, but with the amount of power creep introduced in Season 3 through the new and reworked sets, you don’t have to put that much time in. All you need now is to look out for a Torment 6 Nephalem Rift with a large map. Some of my favorites are the ones based on Battlefields of Eternity, Dahlgur Oasis, Fields of Misery, Weeping Hollow, and Northern Highlands (although continuing the streak up to the Leoric’s Hunting Grounds area can be tricky.).

From there, your goal is to simply kill mobs at a steady rate and increase your gold streak slowly but surely. Here are a few key gearing selections to help you achieve the necessary gold drops.

Key Items

Boon of the Hoarder

 

Funny enough, the one area that the developers didn’t want you to go to complete this conquest still requires a visit. As of Season 3, the Boon of the Hoarder Legendary Gem can only be obtained from The Vault. The easiest way to do this is by utilizing a fairly common Act I bounty – The Queen’s Dessert, which spawns at the Caverns of Araneae and requires you to kill spiders in order to interact with six cocoons on the map. Among the varied results, some cocoons spawn a Treasure Goblin. Your odds for goblins are pretty high and, eventually, one of them will give you a portal to The Vault. You can only obtain The Vault from Treasure Goblins found in Adventure Mode and outside of rifts.

I recommend taking this gem up to at least Level 25 before attempting the conquest, as the additional movement speed will aid you in keeping your streak alive at times that you need to find new enemies quickly. Of course, the higher you take the gem, the better, as you want the best chance to spawn gold from an enemy. Each rank provides an additional 1.5% chance.

Avarice Band

 

The other major player to farm up is the Avarice Band. This ring holds a legendary power that will allow you to have an unbelievably high Gold Pickup radius when fully stacked. This works to your advantage when utilizing one of the aforementioned highly mobile builds, since you won’t have to double back as much for gold while you keep pressing forward for more kills. You can farm this ring by completing all five Act III bounties. You should attempt this as early as Torment II, since that difficulty provides a 50% chance to get a bounty-only Legendary item from the Horadric Cache.

Honorable Mentions

Goldskin, Goldwrap, and Gladiator Gauntlets exist as a sort of pseudo-Gold Find set. If you can work Goldskin into your build, it’s an easy way to pick up a guaranteed 100% Gold Find increase, but more often than not, you’re going to want to make sure you have XX% Extra Gold from Monsters as a secondary affix on as many of your pieces as possible. You also want to put as high of a level of Emerald gem that you have in your helm for additional Gold Find. If your build can support it, utilizing a Leoric’s Crown to potentially double the bonus would be nice.

All of the above should put you at more than a high enough level of Gold Find to produce significant gold piles in Torment 6 rifts.

Strategy and Execution

Now that you’ve identified your rift, swapped in all of your Gold Find gear, and have your Boon of the Hoarder ready to go, all that’s left to do is kill monsters. The reason I suggest doing this on Torment 6 is because each level of difficulty has its own bonuses for many of your Adventure stats. Torment 6 gives you a base of 1600% Gold Find and each amount that you add increases your Gold Find multiplicatively. This means that it’s possible to achieve in the upwards of 9000% Gold Find relatively easily. Don’t forget that you can also put 50 points into Gold Find under the Utility page for Paragon.

Execution inside the rift depends on always encountering new enemies. Stopping for elites or items means potentially halting your streak. If you can kill elites as a happy accident of killing more of the easy trash mobs, that’s good, but not necessary. Think of a path that moves you around the map without backtracking through previously cleared space. It will take a few minutes, but you will build up the streak as you go and you will feel that rush of relief when you finally arrive at 50 million! Once that’s over, of course you can run back around and pick up all the sweet loot you skipped, too.

Having trouble visualizing this? Here’s a video of my successful clear earlier this season utilizing a Whirlwind Barbarian on a Battlefields of Eternity rift level.


What do you think? Up to the challenge? Let me know if you use this guide and make a successful attempt at Avarice or Avaritia! Feel free to also leave a comment to ask for clarifications or suggestions on how to improve your runs. Lastly, if I’ve missed anything, feel free to chime in below and let me know.

 

 


JR Cook

JR has been writing for fan sites since 2000 and has been involved with Blizzard Exclusive fansites since 2003. JR was also a co-host for 6 years on the Hearthstone podcast Well Met! He helped co-found BlizzPro in 2013.


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