exp grind via pindleskin

[zebulin]

Do most people who use pindle runs to grind exp find that totally skipping the lesser monsters and just teleporting straight to pindles group and waxing it then logging out straight away is the most efficient means of getting exp?

For a while I had been immediately turning around and also destroying the mob of undead that would gather at the gates to my back after pindle would bite it and it almost seemed as if my experience was increasing faster that way. OTOH everybody I've talked to said my experience should rise fastest if I spendas much of the time as possible in pindle kills and move immediately to the next as soon as he is dead.

[hoi]

Depends on the skill. With chain light you can clear the place in 5-10 seconds. Don't see why you would think killing just the Pindle mob would give you better results. Considering you ussually need more time to exit/create/go to pindle than you actually need to kill him and all the mobs. Going for just pindle is only recommended for MFing IMO.

[§Hex Vex§]

Yeah because if you want experience, then just Baal.

[zebulin]

Yeah because if you want experience, then just Baal.

Won't baal runs be better for Mf as well? Assuming killing baal is fast enough that it won't be a net drain on exp.

[hoi]

Not really. Even cookie cutters take 10 mins to make a baalrun (w/o maphack u lamers) while a pindle run is 2 max. Baal's minions can drop some nice stuff (ussually socketed/eth/elite items for runeword) but I wouldn't count on it. Pindle is simple fast and easy for mfing but p8 baalruns are so much better for XPing.

[AgentMarth]

If you include a light sorc with infinity (RWM) into that cookie cutter category, then they can so do it faster than 10 mins. Even if you are soloing baal in an 8 player games or at p/8, 10 mins would be awful for time wise. On single player, you keep the same map so you know exactly were to go, on bnet, you can party with a group to kill faster. So either method, each has there ways to be faster. I believe I have seen a few threads in the SPF that have shown the 99 runners times from 3-5 mins. Online, I know I could do in about 3 with a easy map and a good party.

My opinion, I would think doing pindle, shenk, and Eldritch would be a fast way to gain exp and mf all in one, but only for singleplayer, gotta fear bnets stupid temp bans online. Chaos would be good too, but only if your sorc can take it. Also, dont forget that it does depend on which level you are when you take into account getting the max amount of exp.

[zebulin]

I should have also mentioned that I SP so my baal runs only require learning the map once per session or even less often if I don't change difficulties.

Right now the Baal runs require just over 7 minutes. Certainly for MF I could do a few pindleruns in that same time frame but pindles odds of dropping the best set and unique items are so much lower than baals that it seems to me that it would take longer to complete my grail via pindle than via baalruns.

If only load times could be eliminated pindle runs would pwn any other option for MF.