02-10-2004, 05:37 PM
The best way to do it is to track the rune quality you get per time. I've doing NM Countess runs on USEAST Ladder SC. I average about 1 Lum per hour. I try to go as fast as possible to the Countess, and haven't been killing or breaking barrels or chests along the way- not sure which is optimal.
I tried running the Hell Countess but found it to be too slow. The monsters are a lot tougher, but more importantly the Tower maps are a lot bigger so it takes longer to find the Countess. I do about 12 runs an hour on NM but only 6 an hour on Hell using a BOS boosted Assassin.
I haven't done Hellforge runs to compare b/c my buddies haven't been playing lately, but if you can do better than 2 Lum's an hour on the Hellforge (splitting spoils between the rusher and rushee) then that would beat the NM Countess.
I agree it's very frustrating- if you anyone has better performance let us know.
I tried running the Hell Countess but found it to be too slow. The monsters are a lot tougher, but more importantly the Tower maps are a lot bigger so it takes longer to find the Countess. I do about 12 runs an hour on NM but only 6 an hour on Hell using a BOS boosted Assassin.
I haven't done Hellforge runs to compare b/c my buddies haven't been playing lately, but if you can do better than 2 Lum's an hour on the Hellforge (splitting spoils between the rusher and rushee) then that would beat the NM Countess.
I agree it's very frustrating- if you anyone has better performance let us know.