Where do people lvl now?

[mike1117]

I stopped playing D2 about a year ago but now I'm back. I got rushed to act 5 and am now lvl 14. I remember I used to make games where people would lvl in act 5. Do people still do that now?

[WebDragon]

Rough Guide:

1-15: Tristram runs
16-20: Tomb runs
20-25: cow runs
25-26: Ancients
26-40: Baal runs

Then get into nightmare, do cows, ancients, baal, rinse, repeat.

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[mike1117]

Thanks,

Is there any particular reason people stopped lvling by killing Shenk and running back down to town?



Rough Guide:

1-15: Tristram runs
16-20: Tomb runs
20-25: cow runs
25-26: Ancients
26-40: Baal runs

Then get into nightmare, do cows, ancients, baal, rinse, repeat.

Oh, and welcome to rpgforums.net! Enjoy your stay. :thumbsup:

[LorveN]

well, simply that baalrunning gives more exp i suppose :uhhuh:
Still, while people teleport down to baal, i (and many others) tend to go kill shenk/eldrich for some extra exp, they still give you exp, and can drop funny things... just running bloody foothills isnt that exp/time-effective anymore compared to baal

[EgafrU]

Rough Guide:

1-15: Tristram runs
16-20: Tomb runs
20-25: cow runs
25-26: Ancients
26-40: Baal runs

Then get into nightmare, do cows, ancients, baal, rinse, repeat.

Oh, and welcome to rpgforums.net! Enjoy your stay. :thumbsup:

what are Ancients? heh just got d2 this week

[LorveN]

The Ancients are a quest (quest 5 in act5) where you are up to kill 3 barbarians on a summit. When facing them, you can not leave the mountain, if you do, they will reset, and you will have to fight them from scratch again. Only by killing them all 3 without leaving the mountain (dying included) you will complete the quest.
When doing this, you will get a reward of some experience. This reward is well enough to give you a lvl up. (Normally it would give more than just one level, but it has been limited so 1 level is max)
This quest can only be done once. (or... you will only get the reward once. the barbarians themselves give 0 exp to kill :thumbsup: )

[gmcbroom]

Yeah thats what I thought too. I remember playing the game and even though I killed the Ancients ALOT; I only go the massive experience once. Therefore The Ancients arn't a really good place to lvl seeing that once you've beaten them. Any other time you fight them you wont receive ANY experience. Sorry to butt in I just wanted to save people from making the same mistake I did.

[jiansonz]

I haven´t "levelled" since Classic. Back then, it was almost required if you wanted to take on Hell but now I find that you get enough XP full-clearing each area once (that´s how I prefer to play).

Helpful numbers for what level a one-pass full clear gives (this is Single Player so I have complete control over number of simulated players and I get to kill every monster in the game):

/players 1 (or solo if on the realms):
End of Normal: level 37
End of Nightmare: 67
Start of act 5 Hell (haven´t finished on this setting yet): 82

/players 8:
End of Normal: level 49
End of Nightmare: 74
End of Hell (played on /p3 mostly, /p1 from Ancients and onwards): 87

[Wyrmy]

This is a great chart to use while levelling yourself or your merc .. it shows in which level/act to get the most experience by character level ...

http://strategy.diabloii.net/news.php?id=512