03-27-2005, 08:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2005, 08:27 PM by SetBuilder.)
phaedi,Mar 27 2005, 05:45 AM Wrote:i do not agree with that.
albeit the cow levels are not longer THE PLACE for leveling, as they used to be pre
1.10, they are still worth running.
a) i found most of my best stuff in alpcows ( vampires gaze, natys helm, etc)
B) cowlvls are the best place for charms, stones,low-to-mid-runes and, above all,
  socketed items. most of the really good socketed stuff seems to drop here.
c) how long it takes to clear cows depends enormously on your char concept.
  my javazon lvl 74 cleans a alpcow without any problems in 3 mins (and made Â
  her last 6 levles there...), so should do any concept that has any mass-
  attacking. even my pally which only uses holyshock can fight them decently.
i have a question: have hellcows a imunity?
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Maybe I should clarify...
When I beat the game in normal, via /players 8, I'm already at level 50 (assume I'm doing a few Andarial, Mephisto, Diablo, Baal runs for green stuffs).
At that point, normal difficulty cow level gives me nothing, as I said, besides a lot of magics, rares, and a few low level uniques that I've already found 52654632 times, and have transferred to the corresponding mule character. Same for set items. Experience meter only moves once in a cow run, and that's nearly imperceptible, (even on players 8!), and that'd be when I kill the cow king.
Similar concept with nightmare, as once I beat it, plus go through the half dozen boss runs for items, I've already levelled to about 80-82, and experience gained through cow level is nearly non-existant, and they still aren't dropping anything that even comes close to comparing with what I get through boss runs.
By the time I beat the game in Hell difficulty, do the half dozen boss runs (then again, sometimes I don't do Diablo, as he's one I sometimes die against in Hell) I'm at l99, and experience is moot. And even then items are better from boss runs.
So again, this is just my personal opinion, but cow runs wouldn't be worth it to me.
And as far as resistances/immunities on cows in Hell, don't remember. Cow King usually does, don't recall on the rest.
Oh, and regarding Natalya's helm, at high levels, seems pretty commen to me. Found roughly 47 of them, overall, and am rather irritated, as I'd like to find the two items in that set I don't have, so I can start building the character. What is Vampires Gaze? Can't recall, but I probably have one or two of those as well.
Kind of like with runes, due to hell level boss runs, I've found every rune there is (have about 17 ist runes muled away) except for Zod. Only have one Cham, but have some neat unique chaos armor with 3 sockets that's ethereal, so may nead to do some cube conversions to get up that Zod. Seems such a waste of the high level runes I currently have though.