05-15-2003, 10:49 PM
Hi,
Yogi_Baar answered most of your questions. The important thing in doing this is not to quit Diablo between exiting the higher level multiplayer game and starting the single player game. Also, if you start a game at a higher level, save it and quit Diablo, when you reload that saved game it will be in normal difficulty again. To reload it at a higher difficulty, you need to start then exit a multi game at that higher difficulty again.
Using that trick, I have played each class through all three difficulty levels in single. Really pretty pointless except for the quests. I have also started characters in hell difficulty. It really is quite easy with a little bit of luck :)
There is no XP limit for killing monsters in SP, so the first kill will take you up to level 5 with 20 points to distribute (IIRC). Money drops are hell sized, so buying pots and gear is no problem either.
Now, the trick to making it is to use ranged attack. The rogue and the mage come ready for that. The warrior can spend his 100 gp for a short bow (if Gris doesn't have one, just restart games till he does). The level 1 monsters are like the Butcher in that they will not move away from you to go around obstacles. Just restart games till you get one where the stairs down to level 2 are close to the stairs from town. *Carefully* attract 1 monster, trap it in the stairwell, kill at leisure -- presto level 5. Repeat a few times and pretty soon you will not be too far off the power curve for playing in hell (SP is easier on all levels than multi, IIRC).
Other than as a stunt, not much reason to do it. If you've played a few multi characters, done a 3@30 or two and understand how to build and play a character, it is just enough of a challenge to do once (maybe once with each class).
--Pete
Yogi_Baar answered most of your questions. The important thing in doing this is not to quit Diablo between exiting the higher level multiplayer game and starting the single player game. Also, if you start a game at a higher level, save it and quit Diablo, when you reload that saved game it will be in normal difficulty again. To reload it at a higher difficulty, you need to start then exit a multi game at that higher difficulty again.
Using that trick, I have played each class through all three difficulty levels in single. Really pretty pointless except for the quests. I have also started characters in hell difficulty. It really is quite easy with a little bit of luck :)
There is no XP limit for killing monsters in SP, so the first kill will take you up to level 5 with 20 points to distribute (IIRC). Money drops are hell sized, so buying pots and gear is no problem either.
Now, the trick to making it is to use ranged attack. The rogue and the mage come ready for that. The warrior can spend his 100 gp for a short bow (if Gris doesn't have one, just restart games till he does). The level 1 monsters are like the Butcher in that they will not move away from you to go around obstacles. Just restart games till you get one where the stairs down to level 2 are close to the stairs from town. *Carefully* attract 1 monster, trap it in the stairwell, kill at leisure -- presto level 5. Repeat a few times and pretty soon you will not be too far off the power curve for playing in hell (SP is easier on all levels than multi, IIRC).
Other than as a stunt, not much reason to do it. If you've played a few multi characters, done a 3@30 or two and understand how to build and play a character, it is just enough of a challenge to do once (maybe once with each class).
--Pete
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