Anyone care to help Grush a fresh character for me? Would love to do this tonight if possible! Thanks y’all.
What is Grush ???
Did you just start playing?
There are two forms of rushing in Diablo 2. The first one is know as Crush or Classic Rush. It’s where you play on Classic Diablo(non-Expansion) and rush a character through Normal, Nightmare and Hell via the first 4 Acts(since Act 5 does not exist!!). Yet you can only do this with the Classic Classes in Amazon, Necromancer, Paladin, Barbarian and Sorceress. Crushing is not easy since you don’t have overpowered runewords or uniques jacking up your skill levels to obscene levels.
The other rush method is GRush or Bug/Bump Rush. It basically utilizes a higher level character that hasn’t completed Normal Difficulty yet(Level 40+ is ideal) to push low level characters into Hell Difficulty. To defeat Normal Difficulty, you have to defeat Baal but you cant defeat Baal without defeating Ancients. Yet to do this requires that you be level 20 for Normal, level 40 for Nightmare and level 60 for Hell. Since you have a level 40 “Bumper” who hasn’t killed Baal, all you have to do as the rusher is rush the low level characters to Act 5 whereupon they sit in town. The Rusher and Bumper go to Worldstone and kill Baal whereupon the act of doing so completes the quest for everyone in the party(even those in town).
You then repeat the process in Nightmare with the Bumper grabbing all quest related items(Staff, Amulet, Organs in A3 if you go that route). With Bumper being at least level 40, you do Nightmare Ancients and promptly kill Nightmare Baal. Then repeat the process again but on Hell all the way through to Act 5(pre-Ancients). It’s unlikely the Bumper will be level 60 but if they were, I’d do Ancients for the bumper if I was the rusher as a massive thank you since Grushing a group of 5-6 low level characters can net you a nice amount of Forum Gold on JSP for example. Could also net yourself some runes too if that’s your fancy.
Low level characters would then level up in Hell Chaos(leeching XP). Above is not recommended on Hardcore given one bad move or one firestorm from Diablo and you’re dead.
No I’ve been playing every year since the beginning…last I remember they fixed uber rush didn’t they? And normally I just do regular rush like a regular person. I guess the G stands for Glitch? Makes sense why I didn’t know since I don’t use glitches
Yeah they patched out Uber leveling awhile ago. When I first started, my friend leveled up my first character that way. Terror Zones break up the monotony of doing one Baal/Chaos run after another but that’s pretty much the only way to level now. As for Glitch rush, I suppose that’s another way to call it. Sooner or later, they’ll patch that out too because you used to be able to do Mephisto without even doing the organs to gain entrance into Durance. I mean yeah there’s a work-around but it’s somewhat annoying.