Question: Which quests to do simultaneously?

[mwoody]

I'm running two characters through to the endgame simultaneously, as it saves me time doing quests and such. I play the pally, and just TP the barb in when it's time to finish a quest. My question, though: I know that certain rewards can only be gotten once, such as the hellforge super-drop and the countess' chest. If both characters are there, will one drop be "wasted"? Or will it drop double the normal amount?

[Pherdnut]

HF drops will be wasted. Do those seperately. The ancient's quests have a level limit so skip those for the extra guy but this can be a good thing since you will be able to level to the 90s and then do all of those for instant level boosts that would have taken weeks of play otherwise. Also if you don't do the boss kills seperately, you won't get the first time drop bonus twice, but that's not a huge deal. I certainly wouldn't bother killing Duriel twice. AFAIK, any quest reward that requires you talk to an NPC to get it won't be wasted but your extra character has to be level 8 to get the Charsi reward which is easily garnered from Trist runs later. Always fun to run a whole account full of mules through and then gather up all those Rals, Tals, and Orts. It can also be fun to start a character that already has 12 skill points at level one.

[buttershug]

HF drops will be wasted. Do those seperately. The ancient's quests have a level limit so skip those for the extra guy but this can be a good thing since you will be able to level to the 90s and then do all of those for instant level boosts that would have taken weeks of play otherwise. Also if you don't do the boss kills seperately, you won't get the first time drop bonus twice, but that's not a huge deal. I certainly wouldn't bother killing Duriel twice. AFAIK, any quest reward that requires you talk to an NPC to get it won't be wasted but your extra character has to be level 8 to get the Charsi reward which is easily garnered from Trist runs later. Always fun to run a whole account full of mules through and then gather up all those Rals, Tals, and Orts. It can also be fun to start a character that already has 12 skill points at level one.

I don't think the ancients are level boosts, just lots and lots of experience. I'm sure at least once I didn't go up a full level, and other times went up a level and a half.

[mhl12]

true, you do not get a full lvl when you do ancients. If you're at lvl 98 and do hell ancients, your experience bar will only go up by an inch or so.

[mwoody]

But it is now capped (I think that's a recent change) at a maximum of one level; that much I know. So no just barely getting to the level cap then shooting up into the stratosphere. =/

Thanks for the info, though; My hammerdin and Frenzy/WW barb (haven't decided) thank you too. ^_^ Though I have to say, neither are any where NEAR as much fun to play as a skelemancer...