its for your mercenaries.. eg templar, enchantress and scoundrel

no need to craft jewels and blacksmith..waste of money..gems are cheaper to buy than crafting it..higher level later then start crafting high level gems

Equip your Templar, Scoundrel or Enchantress, depending on items. Templar requires STR, Scoundrel DEX, Enchantress INT.

I just prefer to craft my own gems even though it's more expensive fun + I'm a rich feg (in-game only)

My tip? (obviously not for speed runners if you're a beginner)

1. pick up EVERYTHING. Teleport ANYTIME. Teleport is FREE now!
2. Sell ALL white ones (almost).
2. Sell ALL blue ones that are <100 gold. I believe salvaging <100G items will result in essence (and tooth) can can get you around 100G.
3. Equip as many items that you can that provide you with x% to get magical items. it helps A LOT.
4. Don't be so kedekut and not sell. No point upgrading your stash. Upgrade your blacksmith and jewelery (if you want).
5. If you follow step 3, you have no use of merchant-sold items so no need to buy stuff.
6. MONEY COMES EASY FROM ACT III ONWARDS. So if you have upgraded all by the time you reach ACT III, it's just all money for you to spend

This post has been edited by C-Fu: May 21 2012, 01:42 PM

Speaking of % of finding Magical items...

Socket a Topaz into your helmet for more %

I was thinking of keeping a set of +% of finding magical item also.... at least for normal mode. Once you hit NM, you will need proper gear.

oh forgot one more thing

7. Don't bother combining (or even saving) those chipped topaz. Use them whenever you want to. Once you each ACT III, you'll start getting flawed topaz and topaz already. Once you reach ACT III, you can unequip those gems from your items.

So if you follow my tip, when you play ACT III you're gonna have money to buy good stuff at Auction House, upgrade your jeweler to max quickly, and every quest that you make in dungeons can give you 4-10k if you teleport all the time once your items are full.

Do the teleport-sell-repair-equip-salvage-store-dungeon-teleport run enough times, and your downtime (while in town and not in dungeon) will be so fast you won't even notice it anymore.

This post has been edited by C-Fu: May 21 2012, 01:53 PM

white color armor/weapons definitely not worth to pick up, they sell for 3 gold each. An inventory full of them only sell 90 gold...
not very far in the game you kill one monster edi drop 100 gold.

the time use to tp back to town to sell all the white stuff you can kill 100 monsters liao

but my followers can u use it for some reason? Are there charms in d3?