Baal and blood runs are good. I did blood runs till about level 50 on normal before 1.10 came out. Great way to level a necro :D. Be sure to do them backwords though. I:E: start from teh waypoint and go to town. not vice versa.

not so easy on hardcore... dont get rushed on hardcore unless u have VERY good gear.

2 questions-

do the levels of the people in the game matter, or only the amount of people present?

and...baal runs dont last long at all, what does everyone think is the longest running full game type?

Edit-
sorry for the dig, but im curious

I've found the best way to LvL at lvl 85+ is to make games named "dclone (something)", have a big ol' amount o' people join, and Jus' go Act 5'ing solo along your merry way.

Also joining 5+ player games doing act 2 or 1 works wonders as well.

I was finding Baal Runs were annoying as sin, slow, and you deal with alot of pricks. Also in my solo hunting I'll find some nice uniques (700 mf), Ohm, Cham, and Gul.

I prefer just going solo and clearing most of act5 hell. It's really great exp.

I'm a Cold Sorc, so can't clear the entire Act that's for sure. Pallies, Barbs, Necros, Zons all can. Strict Cold Sorc's have to ditch out of at least 3-4 of the Areas, which is teh sux.

Doing the Act Solo is fun, but better xp with more people. I'm finding Frozen Tundra and Arreat Plateu are great for Cold Sorcs

this is how i lvl:
first of all: join 8player games, so u get heavy exp

first lvl until lvl3 in bloodmoor and coldplains

with lvl 3 ask a friend to push u act2 2 hire a merc

clean dark wood, blackmoor, tammo and closter

after that u will be about lvl15

clean catacombs or go sewers until lvl 20

kill ancients, and then with lvl 21 kick some cows until lvl 25

join baalruns until lvl38

go nightmare and let someone push you act5 (while pushing uwill get 2 lvls)

kill ancients

do baalruns until 75

go hell

etc.


with this method i am lvl 75 in less then 3hours

My strat (This lvled a sorc for me to lvl 65 in ~12 hrs total)

Lvls 1-5: Join a 8-player game and clear blood moor. You'll get here in moor itself.

Lvls 5-7: Do A1 quests including Den/Blood Raven/Cain.

Lvls 8-14: Clear Black Marsh and Tamoe in 8-player games.

Lvls 15-20: Clear Sewers in 8-player games.

Lvls 20-24: Arcane in 8-player games.

Lvl 25: Ancients

Lvls 26-50: Norm Baal Runs

Lvls 51-53: NM questing/rushing (NM Ancients)

Lvls 54-70: NM Baal Runs

Lvls 71-72: Hell Ancients and Hell Questing

Lvls 73+: Hell Baal Runs

Edit: @Mongo. 3 hours? I doubt that. I spent a WHILE lvling on norm baal runs, doing them at an average of 2:20/run.

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