Finish the game as fast as possible

[Khabarak]

Hi, I've heard many things all over the place, I just want to get it straight. What are the quests you have to do to finish the game (if you are getting rushed)?

I know you can just kill Andy in A1
A2, do you have to get staff? I guess so, in order to open Duriels
A3, have to kill travincal?
A4... kill Diablo
A5 have to kill ancients? Troublesome cuz of level requirement... I heard if someone in your party sees Baal die while you're in town, you get quest. right? Does this go for every quest?

Thnx!

[gunner9090]

Yes, you have to get the staff.

Everything else is right.

[totoer]

About Baal, it's not absolutaly exact, if yoy want to advance difficulty without killing the ancients, you need to be partied with someone who:

1) is in the worldstone chamber when Baal dies
2) hasn't got credit for killing him yet

So you can't be rushed by some nightmare or hell character for this quest.

[Khabarak]

2) hasn't got credit for killing him yet


ahh that explains a lot. thnx totoer :drink:

Followup question:
does that Baal thing he mentioned go for all bosses or just baal?

[totoer]

I think it should, but I haven't tried.

Can someone confirm this?

On the other end, unless you are planning to do some low-level duelling, there is little point to do that.

[Khabarak]

i was thinking more along the lines of rushing mules to hell forge. plus you get 3 socket quests along the way.

another thing, my friend was rushing me through act2 the other day, got claw viper, maggot lair, made staff. so now i could take his tp to arcane, but not to canyon or tal's tomb. Do you have to go through red portal in arcane before taking tp to canyon? it's little things like this that confuse me, if any1 rushes mules through the whole game would you please share the steps?

cheers :drink:

[totoer]

Well, when I want to have a rush, it usually go that way, if IIRC

Act 1: (2-3 minutes max)
Take TP to Andy
Kill Andy
Ready to go

Act 2: About 10 minutes
Talk to ? (City's headmaster)
Get Cube
Get Staff
Get Amu
Build staff of kings
Talk to Drognan
Talk to ? (City's headmaster)
Take TP to arcane
kill The summoner
Take TP to Canyon of the magi (grab WP)
Take TP to Duriel
Kill Duriel
Talk to Drognan
Talk to ? (City's headmaster)
Ready to go

Act 3: About 2-5 minutes
Take TP to Travincal
Kill the council
talk to Cain
Take TP to Mephisto
Kill Mephisto
Ready to go

Act 4: Normal: 2 minutes Nightmare: 5 minutes Hell: 10 minutes
TP to Diablo
Kill Diablo
Ready to go

Interlude: 8 players Exp runs (Should take about 1 hour max, best char to help do the killing would be a chain lightning sorceress IMO)
Lvl 1-15: Tristram runs
Lvl 15-20: Canyon of the magi runs
Lvl 20-24: Cow runs

Act 5: Normal: 5 minutes Nightmare: 10 minutes Hell: Not required for Hellforge, but should take about 15 minutes
>= 24
TP to Mount Arreat
Kill the ancients
TP to Baal
Kill Baal

If lvl <= 24
Join a Baal QUEST game (not a baalrun) and make sure A5Q6 can be done
or create it yourself
Party up
And wait till Baal is dead. Hopefully, at least one char will get credit, and so will you.

[Khabarak]

big help, thnx for the time
on me :drink:

[kryo]

If I'm not mistaken, you can speed up act 2 using a Duriel Opener (a character who has gotten the staff before and used it, but not killed Duriel) to create the game after you've done act 1. Granted you've got to walk since you can't take tp's without vipers done, but it's still faster with no staff....

[plasmo]

Duriel Opener ... Granted you've got to walk since you can't take tp's without vipers done, but it's still faster with no staff....

Hmm, where would you have to walk?

Take TP to Palace, walk to Arcane, walk to Summoner, walk to Tomb, walk to Duriel's hole. Also, since you're a low-level character, you're gonna have to have the rusher kill stuff on the way so it doesn't kill you.

That seems longer than having a sorc TP to cube, staff, ammy, Summoner, Duriel's hole.

Or am I wrong about something? AFAIK, the new changes made Duriel mules pretty much worthless.

[Truedge]

You can take a tp directly to the Arcane after doing the Tainted Sun quest, just have to talk to Deckard first..