What is death farming? And has it gone mainstream? What are the advantages?

Level up to 60 or whatever.
When you’re almost 61, suicide until xp % is 0 again.
Keep killing monsters until almost 61 again. Rinse and repeat.
Purpose? To farm for items. Wear magic luck gear for optimal results.

Using some magic luck is the trade off with less damage and defense.

If youre cool with dying a lot for the chance of better drops. Then this is for you.

Death farming is simple.
Level a character to 55-65 (Which ever you prefer in that range, I personally like 59).
Farm maps/eps/whatever with either ML or not.
Die to keep yourself from leveling. Usually go down to about 10%. If you have a few passes on the character makes it easier.

Advantages: You stay within a specific level range that gives you a chance at MQ items.

Disadvantages: Time consuming, no prof gain, boring at times.

That's the gist of it.

in b4 nerf

This. I don’t want to mention the luck I’ve had lately from death farming ….check the sexy thread. I’m pretty sure 90% of those drops were from death farming.

Personally, I drop my exp down to about 25-30 because I’m too lazy to keep dropping lower.

I also highly recommmend you invest in good life regen gear so 1. You don’t accidentally shrine something that was supposed to be sold/kept and 2. It only takes about 40 seconds to a minute to fully regen. (Sometimes I use that time to mute something and essences sell as well)

I also like to keep a lvl 1 robe on hand so when I need to drop my health bar quick, equip that.

Finally I have a weapon that I can never use (it shows as red) with my items I use in the left and the items I sell in the right.

i mean, whats the point of going through all level 1-55 and 70+?
1-55 is basically a waste of time seeing only really the 55 drops matter and 70+ is just a pain in the butt to kill anything.

it's like being on diablo where instead of farming in hell on a character which is mean to farm hell, you're restarting with a level 1 character and going all the way to baal each time, which one do you think farms more items?

I would say that analogy would make sense if death farming would consist of only killing EP's, but I don't think it is (I don't do it myself so maybe I'm wrong).
But when so much of the kills are 'regular' monsters I think it makes more sense to re-climb and fight EPs along the way rather than just the trash.

Others summed it up pretty well here.

I did a bunch of death farming, wasn’t for me as it’s pretty boring tbh lol

the point is as i said, if you normal climb you fight 1-45 mobs which is basically pointless and level 70+ mobs which are just too much effort for a drop which is the same as a level 55/61 drop.

fight the regular mobs no matter if you're doing 1-mq or death farming.

so think the analogy is fine myself, even in d2 quite often the random chaos mobs drop the hr's, rather than diablo himself