With the upcoming ladder season, everyone is going to be in a hurry to MF mephisto and to find all the shakos and occys. Don't be the only one teleing in the wrong direction! Here's a pretty cool technique to find the Durance of Hate level 3 fairly quick (without haxing).

How To Find Meph Fast and Legitly

First off, I hope most of you know this little technique already. This guide is for the newbies. Also I'd like to say I've seen a guide about this already on jsp but I couldn't find it. If you have the guide (or know where it is) feel free to post it!


What is this guide about?
Using the game design to find meph quickly and legitly.

Is this method 100%?
Yes, though sometimes the game will give you a upward facing entrance on the top of the map, in which case you may want to kick someone in the teeth. Don't be discouraged if you can't find it.

So what is the method?
When you enter the Durance level 2 using the wp; look at the structure. The door to Durance Level 3 will be to the top left corner of the opening. For some people this may be hard to visualize, so I drew this with my pro paint skills:



Here it is in action:
Wp structure facing right, with the top left corner upwards.


The door facing down.



If you'd like to see more examples, check out these pics.

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/4779/bottomleft.jpg
and
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6266/leftbottom.jpg

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3426/rightbottom.jpg
and
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8403/bottomrightc.jpg

http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/9712/topright.jpg
and
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8260/righttopd.jpg

Good luck!

This post was edited by Grillz9909 on Mar 18 2010 10:32pm

um to make it even more easy, just simply go to the chars left . Thats the chars side that the sheild would be. However some of the maps do have meph in the center of the map or off center too. Also a common mistake is people teleport or run allover the place instead of sticking to 1 direction.

Yup. Though some people may confusing going to the left of the character with going to the left side of the durance. >.< That's why I made the picture. And yeah sometimes the maps really shaft you by putting the entrance in the middle or on the wrong side (but still facing the correct direction).

thx for tipp

Nice and I like this idea, but you could also add the directions to Andy, Countess, Nihl, and maybe something else. I may have screenshots if you need.

DoH L2 -> DoH L3 (stairs) can be summarised as follows,

Stand on the waypoint, face towards the open corridor (opposite the dead end). Teleport clockwise along the edge of the automap.

Except for the rare occasion when the stairs are located in the interior of the map.

Hmm you are right but if you look into his picture you will see that in #1 and #2 it's better to teleport in counterclockwise direction, because the chance to find lvl3 there is higher.

This post was edited by Sladeinflame7 on Mar 19 2010 07:44am

For the red and blue maps, you should redo the locations of the stairs.

They are not located exactly as you drew them.


I know what you mean, but it is still clockwise on the automap as a whole.

I have done thousands of Meph runs over the years, so I know the maps quite well.

This post was edited by Eywa on Mar 19 2010 07:52am

Thanks for the feedback guys.



Yeah you're right. Those would be the ones with the doors on the side. Still that wasn't really the purpose of the picture; it was to show the way the entrance structure was facing. If I update the guide I'll definitely fix that.

And I guess I could add the nith maps andy maps too. Also someone asked about glitching meph, which might go well in a guide like this. The possibilities are endless...

Aha! Found the original guide. http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=14529063&f=57&o=0
That really should be placed in the other list of guides too as it doesn't only apply to classic.

This post was edited by Grillz9909 on Mar 19 2010 10:15am

Countess too please! Oh and, if you need any screenshots, I've once drawn some for my friend when I tried to teach him to farm keys, I can pm them to you after lunch if you want, they might be useful.