Ancient's Way Viable?

[nckswt]

Ancient's Way Viable?

I've been looking at a lot of stats for areas like the pit, ancient tunnels, mauseleum and so on, all really good high level areas, but i didn't notice any informaton about the ancient's way. I've found plenty of stuff there, including the IK armor, but i want to know if i'm wasting my time by running it. does anyone have any statistics on the monsters or chests there?

 

[Gaza0469]

I've been looking at a lot of stats for areas like the pit, ancient tunnels, mauseleum and so on, all really good high level areas, but i didn't notice any informaton about the ancient's way. I've found plenty of stuff there, including the IK armor, but i want to know if i'm wasting my time by running it. does anyone have any statistics on the monsters or chests there?

Its not listed specifically as an Area 85 area... here is the complete list of 82-85 areas.




Name HELL LevelName Notes
Act 1 - Cave 5 85 Pit Level 1
Act 1 - Cave 3 Treasure 83 Underground Passage Level 2
Act 1 - Cave 5 Treasure 85 Pit Level 2
Act 1 - Crypt 1 A 83 Crypt
Act 1 - Crypt 2 A 85 Mausoleum
Act 2 - Tomb 3 A 82 Claw Viper Temple Level 1
Act 2 - Tomb 2 Treasure 82 Halls of the Dead Level 3
Act 2 - Tomb 3 Treasure 83 Claw Viper Temple Level 2
Act 2 - Lair 1 A 84 Maggot Lair Level 1
Act 2 - Lair 1 B 84 Maggot Lair Level 2
Act 2 - Lair 1 Treasure 85 Maggot Lair Level 3
Act 2 - Sewer 2 A 85 Ancient Tunnels
Act 3 - Travincal 82 Travincal
Act 3 - Dungeon 2 B 82 Flayer Dungeon Level 2
Act 3 - Dungeon 1 Treasure 82 Swampy Pit Level 3
Act 3 - Dungeon 2 Treasure 83 Flayer Dungeon Level 3
Act 3 - Sewer 1 84 Sewers Level 1
Act 3 - Sewer 2 85 Sewers Level 2
Act 3 - Temple 1 84 Ruined Temple (In Kurast Bazaar)
Act 3 - Temple 2 84 Disused Fane (In Kurast Bazaar)
Act 3 - Temple 3 84 Forgotten Reliquary (In Upper Kurast)
Act 3 - Temple 4 85 Forgotten Temple (In Upper Kurast)
Act 3 - Temple 5 85 Ruined Fane (In Kurast Causeway)
Act 3 - Temple 6 85 Disused Reliquary (In Kurast Causeway)
Act 3 - Mephisto 1 83 Durance of Hate Level 1
Act 3 - Mephisto 2 83 Durance of Hate Level 2
Act 3 - Mephisto 3 83 Durance of Hate Level 3
Act 4 - Mesa 1 82 Outer Steppes
Act 4 - Mesa 2 83 Plains of Despair
Act 4 - Mesa 3 84 City of the Damned
Act 4 - Lava 1 85 River of Flame
Act 4 - Diablo 1 85 Chaos Sanctum
Act 5 - Ice Cave 1 82 Crystalized Cavern Level 1 (Crystalline Passage)
Act 5 - Ice Cave 1A 83 Cellar of Pity (Frozen River)
Act 5 - Ice Cave 2 83 Crystalized Cavern Level 2 (Glacial Trail)
Act 5 - Ice Cave 2A 84 Echo Chamber (Drifter Cavern)
Act 5 - Ice Cave 3 82 Glacial Caves Level 1 (Ancient's Way)
Act 5 - Ice Cave 3A 83 Glacial Caves Level 2 (Icy Cellar)
Act 5 - Temple Entrance 83 Nihlathaks Temple
Act 5 - Temple 1 83 Halls of Anguish
Act 5 - Temple 2 84 Halls of Death's Calling (Halls of Pain)
Act 5 - Temple Boss 84 Halls of Vaught
Act 5 - Hell 2 82 Hell2 (Pit of Acheron)
Act 5 - Hell 3 83 Hell3 (Infernal Pit)
Act 5 - Baal Temple 1 85 The Worldstone Keep Level 1
Act 5 - Baal Temple 2 85 The Worldstone Keep Level 2
Act 5 - Baal Temple 3 85 The Worldstone Keep Level 3
Act 5 - Throne Room 85 Throne of Destruction
Act 5 - World Stone 85 The Worldstone Chamber

 

[nckswt]

yeah, but it should be up there, shouldn't it? how else could i have found the IK armor there?

 

[melianor]

yeah, but it should be up there, shouldn't it? how else could i have found the IK armor there?

Its not a lvl85 area as far as i know, but maybe you have been killng a boss there that can drop that item! IK is armor class 87.

 

[nckswt]

I've looked at some monsters, warped ones are level 83, frozen creepers 82, moon lords 82, spike fiends 80, dark lancers 81 and afflicteds are 70. is that why it's not on the list of 82-85? because of the afflicteds, spike fiends and dark lancers? i find it's a great place to mf, especially if you're fighting the warped ones. there's just one thing that confuses me, how did i find the IK armor if none of the bosses there could drop above TC 86? unique monsters get a +3, right?

 

[Gaza0469]

Mel is right - U must of killed a Boss that had the required MLV, pretty lucky!

 

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

Hum... I never tried Ancients Way b4...

I always do Pit / Meph / Baal / Diablo & Chaos Sanc.

I'll try couple times and see what I get. :spy:

- Dennis

 

[nckswt]

i've been getting good items there (eaglehorn, 2 tal rasha's crests, ik armor, 3 socketed nat's shadow ) and that's only been about 10 to 15 runs there, so am i just really lucky or is it actually a good place to mf? i also get loads of experience for my ** FO/CL sorc

 

[melianor]

i've been getting good items there (eaglehorn, 2 tal rasha's crests, ik armor, 3 socketed nat's shadow ) and that's only been about 10 to 15 runs there, so am i just really lucky or is it actually a good place to mf? i also get loads of experience for my ** FO/CL sorc

nckswt, you left out one important little bit. That IK armor of yours surely did not drop in the lvl "Ancient's way", but in one of the sublevels, called "Icy Cellar", which you can reach through "Ancient's way".

Ancient's way itself is crap for MFing, but Icy Cellar is a lvl83 and both Death Brigadiers and Hell Temptress can drop IK Armor there :thumbsup:

 

[nckswt]

no, it was definately in the ancient's way, what i didn't say was that it was a frozen scourge, not a frozen creeper (though they're both found in the ancient's way) that dropped it. I've been looking at all the moster stats in he ancient's way, and it looks like frozen scourges, level 84, are the only things in the ancient's way that could reach tc 87, so it was a frozen scourge boss that dropped it. it turns out im just incredibly lucky!