HurtSmash404 wrote:2 questions. First, now that bosses no longer drop Arcane shards/crystals and just unique items, is killing Nihlathak and Mephisto in one run the fastest way to farm Arcane Crystals? Second, is farming Rocky Wastes/Stony Tomb and hunting Grubbers in Nightmare the first place you can "farm" gold and thus you there is no good way to do it in normal?
Gold farming doesn't open up really until you can enter Island of the Sunless Sea, until then, I think the best you can do is what you already suggested. Craft 2-3 runewords with increased gold drop, like
Summit
,
Berith
and
Nomad
. You could do the same with Grubbers in normal but I don't think you will get more than 3-4k gold from each before modifiers. In regards to Arcane Crystals, Nihlathak sometimes only drop 1 unique, seems to me that Mephisto is still more effective for purely uniques with Nihlathak being second.