Only if you swapped cd keys.
If you don't know what I mean then why are you writing a guide on it in the first place?
You could get a temp ban from gambling too fast in those days too.
Also how fast you created a game would risk this too not just how fast you were running the bosses. ie: you couldn't just exit a game and create one instantly.

For casual playing you could run trav 1/2 a dozen times quickly but any longer than that you would risk the temp ban.

The ideal GF baba was one that could fill stash in 5 runs or less for this reason. Then chill and gamble it in a longer game. Or do a c/baal run then after it ends stay in that game and gamble so you can level up aswell as gamble.
If you didn't fill stash in the 5 games you would do some other areas like I mention. Or just chill and chat with friends or something.

This is also why we used armors like wealth on our mercs, or tomb reavers. Or buffed them. Because sometimes you would get 3 or 4 low ass gold runs so if that happened you would swap your merc to the slow killing gear with the max GF so you could chill ingame longer and not risk the temp ban.

We basically had a cap of 2.5m + cLvl x 10k, so the cap was really quick, so I get the point about maxing gold per run with a 3-min timer. That said, even people in single player did that shit. The timer was a non-factor as a matter of strategy for a lot of more laid back users.

Tomb Reaver was always a bad choice as well due to the corpse revival risk, since you lose p7 Find Item on high value targets.

This post was edited by Exokek on Mar 4 2026 04:39pm

Who told you 3minute timer?
It's not 3minutes lol. You run 3 min games like this over and over back in the day you will get temp banned. Especially if you are gambling too.
You can run a 3min game for like 1/2 a doz games any longer you risk the temp ban.

And no-one had these kind of builds in single player. You can grind SP for 10yrs and you still won't have a full inventory of warcry 40% charms...
And any 'laid back' user back in the day wouldn't have a build like this. These GF builds are high tier builds that can't be pulled off with noob gear or low lever chars. Only laid back users would have been those who were botting inbetween.

And yea tomb reaver is not the go to item to use. But my two biggest gold horks ever came from using it still. If you want the absolute max gold hork that's the merc item for it. Same goes with fort and the shatter corpse thing. You use any other armor you risk your merc dying which in the OG days was a massive pain in the ass compared to D2R.

Brother it was a 20 game/hour limit (roughly) w/hard delays on games created in quick succession, with a daily cap of 100ish? I forget. It's been forfuckingever. CoH > Fort thanks to LL and resists, if you're focused on Trav specifically. If you need general farming through Merc carry, Fort works because its damage buff isn't Demon-specific.

You might as well use Eth Hone Sundan if you wanna get a 3os weap for Lems and you're unconcerned w/fast clears anyway. And again unless you were doing p7 most of the benefits of Goldfind come from Find Item being a virtual cheat code, not from Merc kills.

This post was edited by Exokek on Mar 4 2026 06:16pm

No it wasn't 20game/hour limit.
As I said before you played for an hour like that you will get temp ban.
Maybe you are forgetting that players swapped CD keys to do that. And that you can get temp bans from gambling too fast or dropping too much gold on the ground.
There wasn't a daily cap either.
The only way you could run 24/7 bots or horking was doing runs around 10-12min or by swapping CD keys. Or by having a reasonable delay time at the start of every game created. There was no other way around it.

Also keep in mind the fort use for leveling. We didn't have tokens to re-spec so to level your barba with this setup you need to join chaos/baal runs or be able to go in tankier areas like Shenk/Pindle.
COH is the modern build choice. Fort is the oldschool choice for a reason. Fort and ebug wealth. I don't think D2R has ebugs but you didn't have the space to store 3x armors in the stash to cover all bases. Stash is small in the OG days.
You needed space to swap charms in the stash to gamble still.

Best stash items were +3warcy amy, bo helm, demon limb, wealth armor, eth tomb reaver for mfing. If you had 3x armors and 3x spears in stash you wouldn't have any room for pickups for crafts or anything along the way and you would be gambling just one item at a time and selling it rather than gambling and filling up then using the sell item tool to reduce how much you needed to click or drag.

This post was edited by Insein on Mar 4 2026 06:55pm

swapped to ebotd gt/ gface( no cham ) and fort, damn the killing speed is sick. time to invest in better gf gear now

Cham'ing the gface is the next easiest big improvement, then switch to coh later. Enchant him with dlim if you aren't already too.

This post was edited by Ateamer on Mar 4 2026 10:45pm

Please stop.

20 game limit per hour per account
100 game limit per 12 hours per IP

And yes, fast clicks and shit could also trigger it but these two where the most important aspects when configuring your runs.

You sound like someone who manually farmed in legacy lol

This post was edited by ropa on Mar 5 2026 12:44am

Of course it's manual farming with this character. You couldn't bot a GF baba like this with D2NT. You obviously didn't have a top tier GF baba in this day either or you would know this.
Gambling huge horks, fast gold drops, smashing warcry and mfing on this level creating trav games every 3 minutes would get you temp banned no doubt about it. You could get away with maybe 1/2 a doz runs like that before risking the temps.

Good, so you acknowledge you're a manual farmer with no idea about game limits spreading missinformation on the d2jsp forums.

Glad we're finally in the same page.

Also, proper (minimal) setups is one cdkey swapper for lead host in p7 games, or p4 games if you couldnt afford multiple IP setups. So yup, I didn't run a gf baba like this in d2nt alone, no one with any idea of what he was doing did. You clearly struggled, but now you have a bit more info maybe you can go back to legacy and try again. There were other gimmick setups with an open game and dedicated gambler were gold was dropped in-game by helpers, but this is just people being funny with too many keys.

This post was edited by ropa on Mar 5 2026 01:34am