Diablo – What are the precise effects of the Fortune shrine

The entire Nephalem Valor concept has been removed since Patch 2.0.1 (live on Feb. 25, 2014). Along with this change, two new concepts have been added to the game (Official Patch Notes):

Pools of Reflection have been added to the game

• Pools of Reflection provide a 25% bonus to experience
• This bonus persists until you reach a set amount of bonus experience (equal to approximately 10% of the current amount of Paragon experience needed to reach the next Paragon level) or your character dies
• Gathering additional Pools of Reflection bonuses increases the amount of total experience bonus a character can receive until character death, stacking up to 10 times
• This experience bonus persists on logout

Nephalem Glory has been added to the game

• Occasionally during battle, monsters will drop Power Globes when damaged or killed
• Power Globes grant the Nephalem Glory buff, which causes players to deal additional damage in the form of golden lightning bolts and increases their movement speed for a short time
• This buff can stack up to three times

Besides obviously getting better quality items I honestly invest in magic find over gold so that I can salvage the items. This allows me to stock up the crafting materials so that I can take advantage of the lower price of items from the black smith sooner. It is also a handy thing to store up so that a new character can just craft a few items for themselves as well upon get go.

I think gold in D3 is being valued more by being more rare so this may change later on, but early on I feel the magic items for salvaging will win out.