In this thread chaos needs nerf

Nerf hammerdins ty

If loading times weren’t so shit, running strictly nihl ~8-10 seconds would be amazing. Hit 5% just killing nihl at lvl 95 but that’s with 30 second load times

was actually looking for something like this, nice.

im assuming this was killing pretty much everything and not pack hunting? curious if pack hunting would net more xp per hour.

This is useful, but some of your data is misleading

Durace of hate, tristram, and cows are all much better than you listed if you have a good group. These three levels are highly dependent on the speed of the host/tele for creating games

Tristram is 200-300k+ exp per run with elite spawning trick and under 30-40 second games with optimal hosting/tele.

Durace is over 500k exp per run, host should always go to act4 then create new game and immediately tele to level 3 while party runs to act3 tp area. With proper speedrunning technique you should be clearing Durance 3 in under 60 seconds including load times

Cows requires some coordination to match the top zones. Pretele a leg, then host immediately opens portal so there is zero waiting when game starts, then host grabs next leg for next game before joining group. You can rotate tele if host refuses to do this, but it increases exp for everyone

Basically 99 has been rendered down to cow leveling times?

far from it
wish it was

This post was edited by SpAz. on Sep 29 2022 08:34am

yea, I would have never done that in a ladder time span else. Was 1k baalruns in and 2k were to follow.



my loadtimes are decent.





- almost only did p8 runs keeping the full party together (some times games were a bit dry though: short p2 phases, sometimes p5 or p6)
- public runs only

In public runs you have to keep it simple and stupid. I tried to push the party by taking the lead. I was still limited by 99 fcr ama breakpoint. Those are my 3 text templates to make it work:
- Please stick with the party.
- All go RIGHT from their char! In open areas go CLOCKWISE! Stick together for maximum xp!
- All go LEFT from their char! In open areas go COUNTERCLOCKWISE! Stick together for maximum xp!

On tristram, durance and cows:
I did not know about this tristram trick. It is very hard to make this work with 4-7 donkeys in your party anyways
I doubt that durance 3 yields 500k xp on 98. Nonetheless I once again I had no good party there (#28 - 88.349 - Durance of Hate p2-p8) and we did all the levels and not only durance 3 - I agree: durance 3 might be the best choice. 500k per minute seems to be impossible (especially when I remember my baalruns which were super insane 60 minutes of ONLY killing elite packs and only one short tele phase)
Cows is not only bad because of accessability but also because of lack of elite and champ packs. I agree though that your suggested tactic might be a good one but it does not work in public runs.

This post was edited by Druidika on Sep 29 2022 09:17am

Damn :/ maybe if we all write on dbrunskis Youtube maybe he can persuade Blizz for us?

curious where that griffon dropped