Whats the deal with rushing and forges?

[Srozbun]

I was wondering what the advantage of being rushed is. I suppose you could stand in the back and leach exp, but how high will that take you? Lvl 60+ completing hell? Also, there'd be a great chance of dying if you do so. Also, I've read threads about accumulating wealth where the author says the best way to do so is to get 8 chars rushed through while saving hellforges. How do you complete act 4 without doing hellforge quest? Do you then come back and complete these once you're high enough level to get the rune drops?

[Raistlin_Majere]

Hi and welcome to the forums :thumbsup:

The advantage of being rushed is that you can gain level MUCH faster in chaos runs in Hell than by doing it yourself in normal. Of course you need to have some do all the killing and the monsters can kill you in 1 hit. But if you stay behind it's no big deal.

The best (legal) way to get rich is probably powertrading (buy low, sell higher). This is pretty much the same for every online game :scratchchin:

You can get the rune drop in hell as level 1 - the drop does not depend on level (it's completely random). You can easily complete act 4 without doing the runequest - you "just" need to kill diablo to move on.

[carnivore]

there was a thread about rushing a while ago:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=671874

when you read this, you will see that only one of the chars that get rushed has to to do certain things or hasto be in some places (near the killings).

so basically you have a high level char that is doing all the work, one low level char that is following him around to get the quests and up to six additional low level chars that benefit from this.
with a good team and some practice you will get seven nightmare and seven hell hellforges in less than two hours.

[Srozbun]

Thanks for the welcome. If you join an act 4 game and someone does hellforge mission, then does that mean you lose your hellforge drop as well? So in essence, you should solo the hellforge mission right?

[Benalishhero]

Thanks for the welcome. If you join an act 4 game and someone does hellforge mission, then does that mean you lose your hellforge drop as well? So in essence, you should solo the hellforge mission right?

iirc you just unparty