The quest for level 99- progress thread

[Psywire]

Psywire, since you are sick, you should be resting then rather playing 10+ hours :wink3: :grin: .

Ahhh yep! I have Bronchaitis atm- lots of coughing but lucky for me, i'm not bedridden. (its contageous & many people die from it; so i'd feel kinda guilty if I passed it on to some defenceless old lady). The doc says I have to stay home.

Yep your right- rest is always good, but I guess theres only so much rest you can get before you go mad haha- plus, a true fan would overcome anything to play D2. Just look at Aman- playing d2 from his hospital bed. Thats what you call determination! :wink3:

@grogs: ~200k runs!? Is that just cLvl98-99 or cLvl94-99? Thats insane...

Hmmm the only reason I don't do baal is because my meteorb sorceress sucks at killing minions of destruction on P8. I was reading some of the posts from earlier months & they compared 5min baal game to 20second pindle. It came out with about 50 hours of play difference. But then, my baal games would take 10mins each haha. What do you think?

[Corrupted]

95 by Pindle isn't all that difficult, 96 takes a while, 97 takes forever.

[grogs]

@grogs: ~200k runs!? Is that just cLvl98-99 or cLvl94-99? Thats insane...

I know that you get ~2700 exp at /p8 from each pindle run. 291 million exp from 98 - 99, that's 107K pindle runs from 98 - 99.... Assuming half that from 97 - 98 (it'd be slightly less, but not much:rolleyes: ) that's 150K odd from 97 - 99...... Keep going backwards for a few levels and you get to 200K pretty quick:shocked:

Hmmm the only reason I don't do baal is because my meteorb sorceress sucks at killing minions of destruction on P8. I was reading some of the posts from earlier months & they compared 5min baal game to 20second pindle. It came out with about 50 hours of play difference. But then, my baal games would take 10mins each haha. What do you think?

For items that works, as baals minions drop like champions. For exp it is quite different. Using the numbers above and considering at clvl 98, one (1), /p8 baal run will nett you 80,000 exp, that equates to just over 29 pindle runs.

At 20 seconds per pindle run that means 9.8 minutes to get the same exp as one baal run (my hammerdin can do a baal run in 3 minutes)

Times that by 3500 runs from 98 - 99 and you get a rather more significant difference in total time than 50 hours and that's only from 98 - 99

EDIT: This is why there are so few 99ers - it's just a massive task no matter how you look at it. It would take most people months to get through 400 + hours of baal running.... and that is why DC's effort was so amazing, not just that it was in HC, but that he got from 98 - 99 in a month!!!!

[Psywire]

@Grogs: Are you serious- a month!?!? Thats increadible. Hmmm what build did he manage that with?

[herobomberman]

@Grogs: Are you serious- a month!?!? Thats increadible. Hmmm what build did he manage that with?

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthrea...ght=kara+facet

[Corrupted]

@Grogs: Are you serious- a month!?!? Thats increadible. Hmmm what build did he manage that with?

A month doesn't say all that much, you can assume 400-500 hours total.

[Psywire]

@Corrupted: Ahh definately- hmmm its gonna take so many hrs on P8 Pindle for me.

@herobomberman: Cheers for the link- I found it quite inspiring! He has a pretty nice setup there.

Perhaps i'll stop at cLvl95-96 & start either a Blizzballer or Fishymancer. Maybe even work my cLvl80 Hammerdin towards 99.

Any of those 3 would have a better chance than my meteorb lol.

[aman]

Though i have not tried too hard , you will have quite a hard time getting to 99 with a Fishy.

Another build i found to be quite a good baal runner is a pure light amazon.

For me this is the most fun to play and out of the ones i have tried(blizz/hammerdin) have had the easiest time with.

[DarkChaos]

We did the math on IRC once. IIRC, it would take approximately 2.5 times longer to get to 99 off Pindle than Baal... Maybe it was a bit more. Somewhere in the vicinity of 250k runs, was it? Argh, I can't remember!

[grogs]

DC that sounds about right given my qick math above :P, you'd be sick of pindle well before completing over 200K runs......... In fact most people would be well sick of Baal before completing 5000+ runs......

Baal comp tonight ftw.......... you know you want to get started on that 2nd 99er