03-21-2003, 06:24 PM
The fastest way to level is without a doubt (at least in d2x) to leech hell difficulty games... The fastest of these is probably getting 7 sorcs to clear hell difficulty bloodies for you, the second fastest is just joining a good string of cow killers.
Doing it yourself? Just sorta play with a big group that's not rushing, you'll gain plenty of levels just playing throuh, going from act 1-5 can easily put you to level 30 if you're in a fairly sizeable game. Otherwise, just pop ancients at level 20 to jump to level 25 and then exp wherever your ar or the monster level is closest to you... by about 33 or so, the bloody hills become a viable option.
Just playing through nets you a ton of exp if you stop to kill at least the required areas of travel... as well as giving you a chance to find items close to your level reqs.
Nightmare is pretty much the same idea, except I'd sorta avoid places past act 1 with tons of skeletons, they're always much lower in level then other monsters in the area, and don't provide any leech possibilities. You can easily hang out in nightmare to almost level70 if you start running the worldstone keep once you get near level ~60(upwards of 30k exp per kill vs the 5-10 provided in a bloody).
Leveling in hell is a challenge due to the variety of immunities that become prevelant (most noteably physical immune unless you're a trapper or caster, and then the elemental ones get ya anyways). So many people just get a rush to cows and sorta ignore this and just let the sorc deal with the PI cow... but cows get incredibly boring, and aren't particularly challenging due to the fact that if it's slow it can be killed with minimal threat provided you go about it right.
Also, Death sentry helps a lot in cows, and many other places due to the high damage potential it has... I feel it's worth a few points to any pvm assassin.
-Saga_Keeper
Doing it yourself? Just sorta play with a big group that's not rushing, you'll gain plenty of levels just playing throuh, going from act 1-5 can easily put you to level 30 if you're in a fairly sizeable game. Otherwise, just pop ancients at level 20 to jump to level 25 and then exp wherever your ar or the monster level is closest to you... by about 33 or so, the bloody hills become a viable option.
Just playing through nets you a ton of exp if you stop to kill at least the required areas of travel... as well as giving you a chance to find items close to your level reqs.
Nightmare is pretty much the same idea, except I'd sorta avoid places past act 1 with tons of skeletons, they're always much lower in level then other monsters in the area, and don't provide any leech possibilities. You can easily hang out in nightmare to almost level70 if you start running the worldstone keep once you get near level ~60(upwards of 30k exp per kill vs the 5-10 provided in a bloody).
Leveling in hell is a challenge due to the variety of immunities that become prevelant (most noteably physical immune unless you're a trapper or caster, and then the elemental ones get ya anyways). So many people just get a rush to cows and sorta ignore this and just let the sorc deal with the PI cow... but cows get incredibly boring, and aren't particularly challenging due to the fact that if it's slow it can be killed with minimal threat provided you go about it right.
Also, Death sentry helps a lot in cows, and many other places due to the high damage potential it has... I feel it's worth a few points to any pvm assassin.
-Saga_Keeper