My guess is that it is blurred out because it contains spoilers. Not everyone feels the need to play every game perfectly. I, for one, enjoy exploring the game myself, and I do not mind dying here and there if my build is not ideal. I do realize that if I open a guide, there will for sure be spoilers, so blurring seems unnecessary here. It makes more sense to blur spoilers in replies to other threads (non-guides).
Because it’s written in old forum format. It was originally spoilers tag. This forum posses dropdown menus, which are of course better suited for long guides.
Updated the formatting and any broken links… hope I got everything alright.
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On the getting items part: it’s a vicious circle to recommend nemesis to players who are in the leveling stage. That sequence would be good for an acceptable lvl100/finished build. My (1st) toon is 100, it could do those, I guess, but for example I’ve reached nemesis stage only with four factions.
Farming nemesis is the sort of things interesting for people who don’t need this advice anymore (as source), but as optimization.
For genuinely levelling characters, particularly If is about the first toons, not so many items banked, not a clear idea what to do with them etc, is better to focus on that char specific needs rather than Kupacabra or even Conley, and mainly through MI. Rogue-type char? The mines should drop some “murderer” armour. Acid weapons? Rift scourges and pasquill. Piercing? The derampteran caves can deliver a truckfull and other goodies etc
But for that you absolutely need to raise every stone in game for two-three playthroughs to get an idea of what & where instead of the speed runs recommended by cool kids. Those are for later.
“You want to get to lvl 94 to get many purples”. No, you don’t, not as a beginner, not if you feel like I do. Every other day I have to dynamite 1-2 stash tabs of purples, of which I have no idea whatsoever if they re decent or not. I can’t spend my time on watching internets arguing on every other purple and make a decision. Not to mention blues, some of which, just as double rares, can be better than purples. So I decided to hold onto purple set items and everything else goes to dynamite if it doesn’t have something truly amazingly obvious even for a beginner like myself (Silverbolt e.g.). Did I vendored bank-able epics? Did I destroyed amazingly useful purples? Absolutely. Do I want even more of this “I don"t know what I am doing” feeling? Lol, no. There’s zero value in farming efficiently if you don’t know what to do with the loot. And keeping everything without labels and catalogues and infinite storage cheat is impossible.
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A “little” late to reply, but here it goes:
I agree. It would be silly on my end to recommend levelling toons to farm nems.
However, as you’ve correctly pointed out, it takes awhile to get “Nemesis” stage. At which point, your toon should ideally be out of the “levelling phase,” and transitioning to the end game stage.
P.S: There are plenty of tips in the guide which do not revolve around farming nems 
Not sure I understand what you’re saying here. So apologies if my reply is irrelevant.
I am not suggesting you specifically hunt for MI’s. I am saying that you should hold onto them if you happen to chance upon a good one.
As for players without a clear idea with what to do with their specific build: The above “how-to” cannot hope to cover every single build type.
Again, as you’ve pointed out, that specificity comes with experience. And the new player may either:
- Do several playthrough to get that experience for themselves
- Check out guides posted by theorycrafters here and rely on their experience to see what’s needed
Why wouldn’t you want to get as many purps as possible? While you cannot control which legendary item will drop, surely maximizing the rate at which you acquire them means increasing the possibility of finding gear which is relevant to you?
Also, if you are farming in a way which is yielding more legendaries than you know what to do with, it also means you are farming in a way which will yield the most amount of items with rare affixes.
And even if your luck is that shitty, having a massive stash of purps is extremely valuable for trading, or even just vendoring.
Surely we can agree that the above is what’s known as “a good problem to have” 
You should always be building a spec with an end goal in mind.
In general, this involves having an item set (e.g. Justice set). Which in turn means you want to get as many purps as possible to find said items as quickly as possible.
Further, you can fill the rest of your item slots with any cool toys you may chance upon
It is possible.
Alternatively, you can just sell duplicates, and keep the best rolled ones for yourself…
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The Lord of the Builds: The Return of the Spanks
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May be a looooong while before I post builds again.
I do have some ideas I would love to be able to test out one day though
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I SEE A GHOST 
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You made the first step though, welcome back! 
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I don’t have a computer which can run GD anymore