Gah!

[ShadowHM]

I say again, I don't think someone should get a penalty for killing Baal early, if anything it should be considered an accomplishment and the player should be rewarded.  Not that I think players should actual be rewarded, I just think that a reward would make more sense then a penalty.

Be reassured. The chances of anything being changed are pretty low.

However, there is absolutely zero accomplishment in being rushed past Baal. A reward for this makes no sense at all. They already get a reward......they can go to Hell games and beg. :P And I can conceive of no way to differentiate between those being rushed and those displaying skill, if not patience.

And a small nit on the comment about how much experience there is in Single Player mode. I have recently started playing Realm after spending most of my D2 time in SP or TCP/IP games. My characters have reached Slayer status, indeed Champion and Patriarch status at much younger levels than they ever did in SP. You see, in SP there is this very handy feature called 'Players x', whereby you can simulate any number of players in the game from one to eight.