Running Baal

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fluff

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Running Baal

Okay, this isn't exactly just sorc-strategy so I thought this is the best place to post this:

Running Baal for the sole intention of magic finding. Don't care about the XP. Up until now my little magic find sorc has been equipped entirely for magic find, but only ran Mephisto/pits. But now I want more. However, I couldn't cope with Baal's minions until I changed her equipment to be geared towards +skills/+mana/+fcr, this means very little magic find. I have been reccomended to make a Hammerdin to run Baal, but I don't have an Enigma to teleport to the Throne Room.

Should I build a Hammerdin anyway, or is it worth running Baal with the small amount of magic find (about 150%) my sorc has? Or maybe there's other options I haven't considered. My sorc is the generic Meteor/Orb build if that's any use.
 
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Dracoy

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Make a hammerdin. Walk baal. The best drops come from the random packs of monsters going up to baal. baal has ok drops but the BESt drops come from all th emonsters on the way. All have 85 clvl
 
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Ebuski

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If you dont want to take the time to get Hammerdin gear and you have excessive amounts of Sorc gear just stick wiht a sorc, keep MF gear in stash and killing gear on you.. use the killing gear up until Baal, tp to town and switch.. one downside is your stash will fill up quickly.. it's your choice though in the end

Beh dracoy makes a good point as well, i was just thinkin of BAAL himself, but yes I have found my best items from random monsters--- (ik armor from random doom night before diablo etc..) Finding good items is partly MF partly Time and partly Luck.. i hope this helps.. if you have anymore questions feel free to ask
 
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ThereIsNoSpoon

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My MF sorc is able (though not as fast as hammerdin or necro) to solo hell baal. Maxed fireball with firebolt and fire mastery, also lvl 20 frozen orb for fire immunes. Her gear: ptopaz shako, ptopaz skullder, isted occy, rhyme shield, maras, soj, perfect nagel, magefist, arachnids and nice rare mf boots (that also give 20 r/w, 25 cold res and 29 lit res). Also annihilus, gheds, couple 5 res all sc's, 2 fire skill gc's and rest vita sc's. So as you see noting really fancy, but has over 300 mf and can do baal and his minions solo. But good merc is a must, otherwise minions will slaughter you.
 
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sheepgoat

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i'd say make a hammerdin and get Naj's Puzzler (set Elder Staff). it gives 69 charges of lvl 11 teleport. run most of the way, but if you need to get through a wall you can. repairing it is a bit expencive, but if you sell what you find you will have more than enough. you can just use a tele ammy, but i like the excessive ammount of charges on the staff. i also think that the hammerdin works better in the pits.
 
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