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May 10 2022 04:10am
So we all know how they now made Act 3 "unskippable" by having to find the items on each difficulty. Well guess what, you still don't have to. I'm taking all the credit for this one so better quote me everywhere :)

Now in the old days we'd only have to kill travincal, and then you'd have a tp waiting at Mephisto and you were good to go. Now, you can't enter the tp if you don't actually do the quest first.

But there is a workaround. It's not as fast as it used to be, but it sure beats teleporting throughout Act 3 every time.

This workaround requires two different games.

1st game the person rushing creates the game and goes to Travincal with the quest obviously already completed. He opens a town portal in travincal and the person being rushed goes down the stairs. Now the person being rushed still can't go in a town portal in Durance of Hate. But he can walk to Durance level 2 and collect the waypoint (the rusher can obviously clear the way/find the next level/find waypoint fast.

Once you collect the waypoint the person being rushed creates new game and uses the waypoint directly to Durance level 2. After that he walks to durance level 3 behind the rusher and when Mephisto dies you can enter the Portal to Act 4.

I'm open to donations :bouncy:
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May 10 2022 07:33am
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May 10 2022 08:39am
Its slower than farming the organs, unless the rusher is clueless xD
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May 10 2022 09:03am
Why would we donate to someone for pvm advice
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May 10 2022 09:20am
Been doing this myself in ladder starts the last years. You can do it with as many characters as you wish. You do the entire act 3 in one game, then run through with the other characters down to the durance wp. A pair of hsaru's boots or similar is really helpful ^^ Man you save so much time doing that. Can be done in other acts too to save time, although you have to level the characters up later, but that's usually faster if you find multiplayer games.
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May 10 2022 11:47am
Yeah sounds much better just have to clear the walkway
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May 10 2022 11:53am
a sorta similar tip, and this one has a little more hc relevance: when rushing people if ur getting the organs you can full clear trav council without your rushees having to be in trav when u kill them. they can still pick the flail and make/smash it to complete quest. you no longer have to port behind the house and hope no hydras kill the lvl 3 grushees
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May 16 2022 07:18am
Quote (roky8 @ May 10 2022 12:10pm)
So we all know how they now made Act 3 "unskippable" by having to find the items on each difficulty. Well guess what, you still don't have to. I'm taking all the credit for this one so better quote me everywhere :)

Now in the old days we'd only have to kill travincal, and then you'd have a tp waiting at Mephisto and you were good to go. Now, you can't enter the tp if you don't actually do the quest first.

But there is a workaround. It's not as fast as it used to be, but it sure beats teleporting throughout Act 3 every time.

This workaround requires two different games.

1st game the person rushing creates the game and goes to Travincal with the quest obviously already completed. He opens a town portal in travincal and the person being rushed goes down the stairs. Now the person being rushed still can't go in a town portal in Durance of Hate. But he can walk to Durance level 2 and collect the waypoint (the rusher can obviously clear the way/find the next level/find waypoint fast.

Once you collect the waypoint the person being rushed creates new game and uses the waypoint directly to Durance level 2. After that he walks to durance level 3 behind the rusher and when Mephisto dies you can enter the Portal to Act 4.

I'm open to donations :bouncy:



Good one. Thank you but it might be slower as a normal rush, when rusher is good at pathfinding.
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May 16 2022 07:19am
Does anyone know whats the point they patched it unskippable? Was it just a sideeffect or did they fix it on purpose?
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