Best way/place to lvl up my lvl 87 pure lighning sorc?

[Conanbarbarian]

Hey guys,

Doing Pindle runs for MF I've got my pure lightning sorc up to 87 (the highest I've ever got any character through 8+ years of playing diablo II!). Now the white bar is going at a snails pace... I've stopped running pindle as my brain was starting to melt and have just randomly started running different area's. I want to get to ** before going after the ancients at the arreat summit (I tried them once and died in like 5 seconds!)

So which areas are best for lvling up a sorc?

Cheers

 

[Yann]

I think Crystalline Passage is the area with the highest monsterlevel (82) that doesn't have Lightning Immunes (apart from possibly bosses ofc), although Claw Vipers have 90% light res. Also, Arreat Plateau and Frozen Tundra only have one possible LI type (returned mages), and those have relatively few hp/can be ignored, mlvl 81 for both areas.

 

[Dazliare]

Do you have infinity? If not, I think my recommendation would be to go farm LK for it, at which point you could do ancients, then baal for levelling. If you don't want to do that, then perhaps chaos sanctuary, though you would need a strong mercenary for LIs

 

[dhaos]

Hi Run pindle up to lvl **-94, run baal 94-99
Grettings

 

[Gripphon]

From 87 to ** shouldn't take much more than an hour of Pindle running. You just have to do it piece by piece if you can't do it all at once. At Pindle leveling goes quite fast up to level 90, then you start to feel it takes longer and longer to level up. Don't know what level you wanna reach with your sorc. If that is 89-90, then go for ancients whenever you want. If you want higher level, then simply run Pindle until you reach at least level 90.

Then straight to Baal which is anyway probably among top choices for leveling lite sorc, even without Infinity, but it requires to stay alive. If you are struggling to survive ancients battle, then you will definitely have hard time at Baal.

 

[japanzaman]

Pindle is generally regarded as the fastest leveling option up until about 93-94, if done at P7/8 efficiently. My trapper averages 25 sec per run at P8, and only has one skiller to boost trap damage so it can be done without top end gear. After that, it's generally Baal's minions until 97 or so, then Baal.

 

[krischan]

I would visit Pindle and (mainly to avoid getting bored) Chaos Sanctuarium and other L85 areas until L93, then Baal. Full Tal's + Spirit are enough for that, although Tal's is more suited to a dual element sorc. Meet the 117% FCR breakpoint for (chain) lightning. If you have Infinity, you can do Baal right now, with the /p setting as high as possible. Baal himself needs just /p3, he won't give more XP at higher /p settings IIRC and he will always drop 6 items as well then. From L94 on, Baal minions provide only few XP, so if it helps at speeding up the issue, do them at /p1 and switch to /p3 before facing Baal.

If you still lack halfway decent gear, do Andy and Meph as well.

 

[Conanbarbarian]

Hey thanks for the replies guys!

Only have minimal gear on my sorc really anf no Infinity as of yet! Playing self found and re-started from scratch not long ago... I was just getting bored of pindle so I'm now mixing it up with some Mephisto runs + pit runs which seem to stop me getting bored so easily