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[senji]

by saying it is more dangerous you are automatically raising the price of destruction keys and thus making other uniques that are wroth the same utterly worthless.

in this case if i got 10 destruction keys i would have 5 ist runes by your value . how many tgods or skullers that equals to? bleh

sorcs have low life no leech thats why its dangerous on the other hand its too easy with a barb leech + nature's peace.

i don't see why you would use a sorc when you can ge bo and 100% safety with a barb.

nithlithak's place is far from the most dangerous area in the game. the most dangerous monsters are areas with convicted souls curse fanatiscm bloodlords dolls packs etc..

ever been to the icy cavern? place can spawn with blood lords dolls succubees souls i think that beats nihlithak any time

if everyone sold 2 destructin keys for a ist rune im sure market will mess up like hell

 

[rettet181]

Why wouldn't I sell 2 keys for an ist? In a free trade economy, which is essentially what Diablo II is, you always sell as high as you possibly can, unless you're doing some sort of charity (friends, random streek of kindness, etc.). You'd be hard pressed to find someone who sells them for less, though it may be different between the realms (I'm on West).

About the danger, let me put it differently: It's the most dangerous of the farming locations. No one in their right minds would attempt to run chrystaline cavern repeatadly, unless they had a death wish. Pindle, Meph, Andy, Pits, and Shenk/Eld, are all relativly easy to run, with little danger (why do you think sorcs with 550 mf can do it?), while in comparison, in a nihlithak run death can occur several different ways, unless you have a character geared specifically for that area.

I use a sorc for one reason: teleport. With teleport, I can get down the stairs in ~5 seconds (only 3 maps), to nihlithak in ~10 seconds (at least on second try, there's a pattern), and kill him in 10 second. That's 25 seconds, which is faster then any other run you could do, save Shenk/Eld. Teleport also provides a defence against vipers, as their bugged cloud only effects you if you run through it (not that I take any damage anyway, gotta love integer DR).

 

[senji]

do you know how rare and hard is to find a ist rune?
finding a ist rune can take you days weeks. finding destruction keys takes no longer than 30 minute. barb can do it just as fast as a sor provide you got good fast run.
maybe only you think that area is the most dangerous but i know alot of people run it with a barb and just walk/leap through everything with out much life lost.

if your trade is acepted everyone would make a char and doing nithlathak key runs. why waste time mfing for shakos storm shields.

storm shield? shako ? don't need to find it i'll just get 8 destruction keys!
seriously if that was true i'd do it

 

[rettet181]

do you know how rare and hard is to find a ist rune?
finding a ist rune can take you days weeks. finding destruction keys takes no longer than 30 minute. barb can do it just as fast as a sor provide you got good fast run.
maybe only you think that area is the most dangerous but i know alot of people run it with a barb and just walk/leap through everything with out much life lost.

if your trade is acepted everyone would make a char and doing nithlathak key runs. why waste time mfing for shakos storm shields.

storm shield? shako ? don't need to find it i'll just get 8 destruction keys!
seriously if that was true i'd do it

I fail to see what you're arguing about. Yes I agree, and ist rune is much rarer. To me, an ist rune is worth FAR more then a destruction key. But obviously, to some people, it isn't. I just take advantage of that.

Nihlithak isn't the most dangerous place to me, but it certainly is to most characters. I'm geared well enough that I can tank Lister in Hell, and take very little damage doing my Nihl runs. However, a standard mfer with sub-par gear can have a lot of trouble, and not many people use barbs (though it certainly works, just not many people do).

Realize that I'm not arguing against you, I never did in any of my posts. For some reason you're just assuming I'm attacking you, no idea why...

 

[F1R3STR1D3R]

Ists can be gotten pretty easily via hell hellforge rushing or tons of countess runs. I actually use barb now too for Nihlathak runs, kill nihla 100% of the time (not immune to magic/physical), life leech, never die, etc. Barb also has same FCR breakpoints as a sorceress so if you have enigma, getting there fast is no problem.

Something else I found out... I just switched to 2D mode and 800x600 resolution for dueling but now I get realm downs and failed to join a LOT more. Now its create game, fail game, create game, fail game, etc. And when I was on 640x480 and 3D I NEVER had a realm down from nihla runs. Also my barb runs Nihla a little slower than my sorc so I don't think that's the problem. Any correlations?

 

[helvete]

HC is about courage. For those who don't play ES sorcs or CTA nigma hammerdins, it takes too much courage to go down to nihlathak. What would you rather have? Your ist or your lvl 80+ HC char?

 

[DarthStephinus]

I use a light sorc to run nihal and have an incredibly easy time doing it. I dont just kill nihal though i try to take out all the monsters down there if possible. I have found 2xecara down there in a very short period of time doing that. Which is worth far more than an ist