Act II exp farming to 60 (liutenant Vachem)

[DeluksZ]

Hi all. I don't know if we need a topic like this or not. Let the moderators decide. I just want to share my experiences about Act II experience farming, since the wretched mother farm can become very boring, lasts long according to the experience it gives and by the time we hit 60 most of us has already killed the butcher anyway (cuz we can not stay on our arses

I found The road to alcarnus - Liutenant Vachem quest to be superior. To reach this quest you don't really need to face the horrors of Act II. I had to fight 2 champion packs on the way, but since its open terrain, you also has the chance to run away. Once you reach the quest the profit comes. The quest starts right at the gates of the outpost. No random mobs, no champions, no any other obsticles. Just go into the town, speak to the liutenant, then go down to the basement. There will be 8-9 nagas there, kill them, then free the priosners. Outside the nagas will swarm you, kill them and get the 50k xp reward. Repeat.

Pros:
-It's VERY fast, and I mean it. I usually did it in 1,5 minutes. (if you don't talk to the liutenant after the massacre you just need to change the quest next time you create a game and don't have to change the main quest also).
-It's absolutely fixed. No random mobs, no unpredictable things. Even the XP is fix (since there will be always the same amount of mobs). It gave 69686 XP on lvl58 and gives 67108 xp on lvl59. (so 34 runs from lvl59 to lvl60)

Cons:
-You actually have to reach that point first, what can be scary to some.
-The nagas will swarm you. I usually popped Ignore Pain when I started to fight the nagas at the basement (so by the time I free the prisoners and the nagas outside come at me it will be usable again). And I popped WotB outside. Spamming revenge like a madman and some aoe CC helps a lot. The nagas hit hard. ~1-1,5k/hit which can be painful it 6-7 hits you at the same time. Be ready to press your panic button if you feel like you are kinda weak (at this situation I advice you to farm wretched mothers instead).

My stats
40426 HP
4128 DPS
5127 ARM (63%)
174 Phys Res (37%)
128 Light Res (30%)

I hope I could fasten the leveling process for some of you.

[Retardje]

New exploit just came in, which will be hotfixxed really soonish Here is how it works:

You go into a game with 3 friends and do the quest. 3 of you (your party is 4) leave the game and the hit the resume button. Now every1 has a game in which they can turn the quest in. The lower person (the one getting boosted) can now hop in every game and turn in the quest. This means you can get the quest reward multiple times. There is probably a way to maximize this even further, but I heard rumors of people hitting lvl 60 in 4 hours this way. Ill give it a go tomorrow, if they didnt fix it by then.

It has one huge drawback tho People dont learn their class and drop all over the place. The friend I tested this with on a NM kulle run died like 43432049203 times alrdy now, so he both needs this kind of exp(loits) and in the same time he should leave em alone

[omgmir]

Bout to move on to A2 myself was thinking about this, have you compared it to farming Magdah herself?

[Retardje]

Not on hell, havent progressed that far yet. Tested on NM Kulle and Wretched Mother in hell. But if you run the numbers, you can turn in the quest like 5 times for almost 70k each time. Thats almost 350k exp for hardly any work

[omgmir]

Was replying to DeluksZ actually, myself I stay away from any MP exp exploits. They tend to attract people like the friend you mentioned who can't keep a char alive to save his life, those aren't the people I want to be doing multi-player with.

[MoUsE_WiZ]

New exploit just came in

Not really new; people were doing it before Azmodan nerf, so I'm surprised it's *still* possible =/

[DeluksZ]

Bout to move on to A2 myself was thinking about this, have you compared it to farming Magdah herself?

No, I haven't tried Magdah yet. I didn't feel like. XP and predictability (is it a word?) was enough for me to stay here. I don't know when I'll move toward Magdah. Since I hit lvl60 I'm enjoying the Valor stacks in Hell Act I.

[Retardje]

Not really new; people were doing it before Azmodan nerf, so I'm surprised it's *still* possible =/

Agreed, but the only fix I can come up with is putting a timer on the quest, but that in turn means running bosses for items can become a problem.

[Intolerance]

Used this method last night to get my barb from 56-60. My technique was to stand in front of locked cage in cellar, earthquake (zero fury cost rune), IP, and cleave the snakes. Then WotB for the dorks upstairs. Also used revenge and war cry. Runs took about 1:10. Didn't take long to get to 60 this way.

[omgmir]

For kicks and giggles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogt2g0mL0Q