First legendary drop! And some yellows.

After few days of farming, I finally got my first orange item!!

It's certainly not the best item that I looted, but I'm still pleased to have it. And will be even more pleased to sell it for good $$$ on AH :) I didn't play tank, but hopefully "Reduce damage from melee attacks" is a valuable stat.

As far as drop goes, I'm really excited each time I get yellow ring or amulet - these things often cost a lot! For instance I've updated my rings today with these freshly farmed ones (Act III Hell):

This pulled my damage stat to a new record of 31K (with magic weapon and glass cannon). Attack speed IS the king!

Attack speed FTW

By the way, I discovered just recently, that attack speed is really important dps stat for mage. Just by getting those blue gloves with 15% attack speed my damage increased by almost 2K!

I also found that very few items may have AS on them, so that is a valuable stat to have.

Inferno progress

Inferno is going tough, managed to finish Act I so far. Played it a bit with Monk tanking - that part was much easier, without tank its a lot of kiting which is time consuming.

I was trying to wear high magic find gear set, but didn't get any significant drops yet. Thus decided to switch to optimal damage/defense instead and progress ASAP, hoping to find something on the way (e.g. good farming opportunities).

As of now, with magic weapon and glass cannon buffs on I have 31K health, 19788 damage and 57% magic find (no nephalem buff):

As you may notice I also wear couple blue items because nothing better has dropped and prices on AH for similar yellows are 200K+. Time to hunt some luck on this long weekend!

Hell, yeah!

Diablo down three times now, entering Inferno level.. this is where the real challenge supposed to start, right?

First legendary item!

OK, it didn't drop (I still haven't seen neither orange nor green drops), but I got it from AH:

Isn't it cool? Boosted my damage by about 800 instantly! But that's not the best part. Remember how I sold amulet for 750K? Guess how much I paid for legendary weapon? Ready??

I got the weapon above just for 70K!! AH ftw. Can't wait for real money one ;)

Auctioning on Hell ... 750K sale

Oh my god! Posted a rare amulet this morning for 890K gold and it is sold now!! +750K in cash just from one item drop on Hell. Wondering if the buyer hopes to resell it for real money in a future OR it was indeed such a great amulet..

Vitality or Magic Find?

Heh, you may have noticed how I built high magic find (~100%) into my items set. Of course it comes with a sacrifice of some other useful stat, mostly vitality in my case (i.e. it is extremely hard/expensive to find  items that have both intelligence, vitelity and magic find).

However since I'm playing on hell, sometimes I'm getting in trouble with rare monsters that kill me waaaaay too fast. Thus I have secondary item set in my bags, which has about the same damage stats, but replaces magic find with vitality. If I wear all those items on, I'm suddenly a 38K health mage with 5700 damage and 22% magic find! 

Impressive, huh? However even that much health often not enough on Hell (lvl 57), so I'm planning to build alternative sets. Things to try stacking: crit chance/crit damage, armor, resistances. 

What's your items priorities?