what level was your char that did 1/5 of a bar? i assume around 93-95?

98 to 99 took me 17 days

98

Took me 2 hours of P8 games doing solo TZ.

And sorry I meant 2 hours to get a full bar so 1/10.

I calculated the time before TZ’s existed and doing chaos/nihl etc during P8 Baal runs it was like 100 hours to go from 98-99, now it seems to be around 20-30 hours depending on your luck with TZ’s.

This post was edited by dewjustin on Jul 7 2023 04:52am

If you have a crush char. Save ancient q here.

This post was edited by oranelle on Jul 7 2023 02:51pm

When you say solo clear, does leaving the party have a beneficial effect/is necessary, or can you still stay in the party?

It won’t matter unless someone is in the area with you. I usually join the party just so it’s easier to see when people leave and go to the next game.

As you’re aware 98-99 the old school Diablo/Nihla/Baal exp route was a slog. I’ve done this running coordinated pub games and was basically chasing >2-3mil per hour. The 50% boost from shrines was worth chasing.

98-99 these days is easy. Host your own pub baals, Tele throne, set tp, run off and clear TZ’s solo, remake by when all leechers leave after Baal is dead. Easy 10-15mil + per hour and even more when when the top tier zones pop up. Exp gains are obviously going to vary based on which class/skill you’re running.

I realize it’s harder to find and maintain consistent p8 games online but fwiw going from 98-99 can take like 12-16hrs now if you’re truly in p8 games the whole time now and depending on clear speed and maps you get.

I’m a weirdo and 99’ed on single player recently and going from 98 to 99 took me about 15hrs. But obviously I could just set players setting to p8 and run the whole time which online folks can’t do.

single player even manual 99 is super easy because you will never have to deal with connection interrupts where your character is just standing and monsters are beating on it until its dropped from the game - that is the most common cause of death of a d2legacy lvl 98. so you ensure your character has stacked res, max block, max dr, uses barbs bo (56 bo 56 shout - always) and has a leveling team with a druid with oaksage to get your life into a safe range of 10k-15k

another benefit of single player is totally perfect gear - hero editor

you cant at least in d2 legacy get dclone without plugins but its easy to import items to that character with hero editor that cant be made in single player: anni + ladder only runewords.

also when you exit single player and reload the game - its the same game difficulty setting, same static maps that are already open its totally easy to level. the hardest part of leveling online is not the leveling but dealing with other players, they will hostile you, steal diablo exp when you got a shine, or they will unparty and attempt to get last hit on baal to steal all of his exp. a well done run in full game should clear all of chaos then kill diablo, kill nith, baal waves, kill baal. now if everyone is in town and your char is the only one clearing expect 125k-150k exp per run @ 98 (d2 legacy 1.11/12/13/14a) and that is just massive exp. when your on single player the conditions are perfect, you get the exp of a full game but dont have to park players or have players go to other areas so they dont grab exp and reduce the efficiency of that run. if you are leveling with a team @ 98 you could get anywhere from 40k for a baal run or 70k for a chaos baal run while in a team. another benift of leveling on single player is you can run as fast as you want and not have max hourly game restrictions, realm down, ip restrictions. it makes leveling super ez. now if you tried that online you would be stuck at the login screen because your cdkeys will need a cool down as you made too many games too fast.

another faster method of leveling is a leveling team clears chaos by poping seals, half of the team goes to act 1 and spreads out 1 char per warp using map hack to find shrine locations with an exp shrine. the fast leveler joins game, enters tp takes shrine moves to act 4 takes tp to chaos while holding odonalds and the chaos killing team exits area except for the dkiller (a cs zon) so the exp is between the 1-2 hits to kill diablo and the exp lecher - all done in about 20 seconds per game for the leacher. other teams prep new games clear chaos and find shrines and pop tps and wait for leacher to join. because the games are very fast you will have to change cdkeys / proxies often but thats how its still done.

d2r is basically leveling easy mode. players think they are good at d2 playing d2r lol they have already forgot d2 legacy is much much harder then d2r

This post was edited by WiseWolf on Jul 17 2023 12:18am

Bro who is using hero editor to make perfect gear and then manually leveling to 99 in sp?

Lol exactly. I certainly ain’t doing that

But seriously 98-99 in 12-16hrs is very possible online too. I realize there are more complications but it can definitely be done.