uberdrops?

[Thecla]

Would this stop all efforts to get some characters 'rushed'? No. But it would greatly hamper doing so. It would require some intelligent and co-operative play among those involved to carry it out. And that is something that I do not see from the mass ranks of players out there.

Well, it would certainly slow down rushing, but my guess is the mass ranks of players would catch on pretty quickly if it came to rushing. (Who knows, maybe Maphack would add some new rushing "features" in addition to all those other great labor saving improvements it has that Bliz mysteriously forgot to include in the game ;) .)

Actually, I don't think it would be such a good thing to completely prevent rushing, giving waypoints etc. There are often reasons someone wants to do that, and the game sometimes does feel like too much of a linear waypoint/quest treadmill when you go through it on your own. Where I think the game really could use a different system (don't ask me what though) is in the way experience points are allocated and shared. If xp leeching weren't possible the way it is now, the odd lvl 1 character in Hell/Act V wouldn't matter at all.