How to get to level 94?

[lumpor]

How to get to level 94?

I'm making a gf barb and I want to have a 100% chance to gamble ilvl 90 amulets, which means clvl 94.

My highest level character is 82, so I have limited experience with levelling frustration. my friend said it took him like 80 baal runs to get to level 90 from 89.

I have no anni or Ondals, and I wonder if there's any shortcut of some sort, or if I'll just have to get ALOT of patience?
Also, what does ondals or anni cost?

 

[Anti-Life]

Re: How to get to level 94?

Join the public Chaos games. They will get you high kind of fast and you can pick up decent stuff too.

Failing that the mind numbingness of baal runs also works but they are not as reliable as they once were.

I would suggest just tagging along in chaos games and trying not to get killed

 

[happysmacks]

Re: How to get to level 94?

yeah i noticed that...

...i have a GF Barb too and i wanted to get my alibabas as effective as poss!
anyways i was level 86 and joing public baalrun games with crazy highlevel paladins 94/95... and i was getting real bad exp

then i joined a private 2player diablorun game with my brother and my exp seemed to be going up better there than an 8player baalrun!?! and i got to level 87 in no time :jig:

maybe its something to do with the level gap between you and other baalrunners or wheter you only get good exp at level 90 at baal? i dunno but for sure i got more exp joy from a 2player chaos run then a baalrun :alright:

 

[krischan]

Re: How to get to level 94?

I'm making a gf barb and I want to have a 100% chance to gamble ilvl 90 amulets, which means clvl 94.?

No, it means L95 When gambling, the ilvl varies from charlvl-5 tio charlvl+4 and you need ilvl 90 for +2 skills. Arreat Summit is wrong with respect to that.

Until L93 or so, Baal minions and CS are the best, but for the final two levels you should do Baal respectively Diablo as well because the XP penalties on all monsters except these two (and Nihlathak) are quite big then. However, that's just theory, I never had a character beyond L94.

 

[lumpor]

Re: How to get to level 94?

Nihla is the only enemy of these where you dont have do beat lots of enemies before him to kill him, so Nihla seems to be the best. Why aren't there any publin nihla runs? Should I do my own private Nihla rus? Or is Baal enough?

I thought items were clvl-4 to clvl+5 when you gambled, but it seems to be the other way around


Could you also tell me how many hours it took to get to level 94?

 

[krischan]

Re: How to get to level 94?

I'm 100% sure that it's charlvl-5 to charlvl+4

Regarding the leveling time, I don't know. It happened over the course of a couple of months by making solo Baal runs with my anti-über zealot and is was in season 3 which lasted 2 years. I went to Baal for MF purposes, not for leveling. There should be a table somewehere in this forum with the average number of Baal runs needed to level up at each level.

 

[sirpoopsalot]

Re: How to get to level 94?

Definitely +4 to -5... level95... for gambling.

My Baal runner is ~93.5, playing solo. I'd guess that I've done 500-750 runs from when I've started in the low 80's, but I've had several deaths in there... I'd probably be level ~94.5 if I hadn't ever died.

Throw in full games, and I think ~200-400 runs should get you pretty close to where I am, and another ~200-400 would do the trick. So, yes, it'll take a while.

 

[Darkoooo]

From 90 to 95 you need ~265 full game runs. But that would be for SP on /p8. Counting in the level differences when pub baaling it would be closer to 300.

 

[Felix]

Re: How to get to level 94?

Nihla is the only enemy of these where you dont have do beat lots of enemies before him to kill him, so Nihla seems to be the best. Why aren't there any publin nihla runs? Should I do my own private Nihla rus? Or is Baal enough?

I thought items were clvl-4 to clvl+5 when you gambled, but it seems to be the other way around


Could you also tell me how many hours it took to get to level 94?

If you do Baalruns with highlevels, it is not uncommon to see some do Nihla while the tele is working his way to Baal. Nihla can't really be done as a group as someone will kill him while half the party is still running around on the upper level.

 

[In the name of Zod]

Re: How to get to level 94?

Quick experience table for monsters found in Act V - Hell (based on 1 player)
153k for a greater mummy (mlvl 85)
150k for a minion of destruction (mlvl 92)
148k for a venom lord (mlvl 93)
139k for council members (mlvl 93)
125k for a fetish shaman (mlvl 84)
118k - 133k for a Siege Beast (mlvl 81-84)
107k - oblivion knight (not doom knight) (mlvl 85)
98k - 107k for a blood lord
88k for a catapult (mlvl 80)
66k - 74k for a stygian fury (not Succubus) (mlvl 81 - 85)
56k - 61k for 1 frozen terror (mlvl 82 - 85)
53k - 61k for a demon imp
34k - 37k for a baal minion

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/monsters/act5.shtml

If the monsters level is more or less than 5 levels your characters level then you'll get less experience deducted as well. I think this comes first then you loss experience based on your characters level, as below.

Experience lost based on level
@level 92 you get 3.42%
@level 93 you get 2.54%

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/basics/experience.shtml

Minion of destruction are good because they are level 92 monsters. Greater mummies are level 85 monsters.

Ooops, got to shutdown before I could finish editing, thunderstorm.

 

[sirpoopsalot]

Re: How to get to level 94?

Quick experience table for monsters found in Act V - Hell (based on 1 player)
153k for a greater mummy
150k for a minion of destruction
139k for council members
125k for a fetish shaman
118k - 133k for a Siege Beast
107k - oblivion knight (not doom knight)
98k - 107k for a blood lord
88k for a catapult
66k - 74k for a stygian fury (not Succubus)
56k - 61k for 1 frozen terror
53k - 61k for a demon imp
34k - 37k for a baal minion

All information taken from Arreat Summit. You'll find the ease of the large swarths of baal minions probably the most reliable way to level if you're patient. Take the figid highlands waypoint, run up to the right and kill the small group then run down the stairs and kill shenk and the large group and continue on down the bloody hills leaping to and fro each catapult. Once you get to Dac Farren kill him and the other rascals and tp to town and join the baal run. Try to get the last hit on the blood lords

The problem with that info is it doesn't factor in the penalties for differences in levels. Once you get to level ~90, you really don't want to spend much time messing with most monsters below level~85 - the penalties grow so much that it's seldom time-efficient. Eldritch, Shenk & Co. aren't really worthwhile by the time you hit level90. In fact, I never bother with them once I get to level88. At that point, I'd much rather kill Pindle, then some random bosses in WSK (better drop possibilities too).

That's on Bnet, btw. In SinglePlayer it's easier because you can just do ~30 second /p8 Pindle runs for a couple/few hours to get to ~90/91.

 

[Kijya]

Re: How to get to level 94?

1) Make a character that you enjoy playing.
2) Play it in CS or baals every now and then. Maybe 10 or 20 runs at a time.
3) Don't die, preferably, ever. :whistling:

I've made two 96 chars, but only because I've enjoyed playing them (actually the second is a rebuild of the first ... so I leveled the same type of char to 96 twice).

The most I've managed to do on chars that I don't really enjoy playing is 93, it gets boring really fast to just leech with such a character.


Goldfinder to 95? If you have 2*comps/tv+comp you could leech in baals and watch a movie ... :wink:

 

[helvete]

Re: How to get to level 94?

All the monsters baal summons are lvl **, none are 85 nor 92.

I'd bite the bullet and join the baals, OR just mule the gold he finds to whatever character I enjoy playing (and thus level) the most.

 

[Bugra]

Re: How to get to level 94?

Pit's are better than everything i think

Good Exp, ~10 Boss and High quality item drops..

Really, it rocks!

Cheers, Bug