Are there any methods to level which are just as efficient as Baal runs?
Endlessly running Baal is incredibly boring, it would be great if there are other viable methods to level from 90+
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That’s the genuine D2 experience since they pushed a bunch of updates after a majority of the players stopped playing. Don’t you know all the people asked for lower drop rates, less experience per mob killed, and more nerfs so that you can struggle more while trying to beat the game? It was what everyone asked for isn’t it? Because we are all insane now.
You cold also add Chaos Sanctuary. It’s also an area lvl 85 and frequently skipped over. It also make games last longer than 5 minutes. When I games I do both, and they fill up pretty quickly.
This old chart someone made many years ago, is an okay rough guide you can use for xp efficiency / level / act+difficulty. But I look at it as something supplement your own knowledge and experience, rather than the other way around. https://web.archive.org/web/20060516125817/http://strategy.diabloii.net/news.php?id=512
It’s not 100% accurate, because it’s very dated, and because of the way they’re calculated it (read the notes at the top and the comments help clarify some more details), and it excludes things like bosses and baal runs I believe. But if you’re bored of farming the same thing over again, you can use this to find other areas that may have reasonable XP and farm there. I use this often for solo grinding XP on my hardcore characters, and I find it very useful. Unfortunately the chart is just per act/difficulty, and not per area. So keep that in mind when selecting areas to farm. WSK is going to net you much more than Bloody Foothills, etc.
One other thing you’ll notice is that Act 4 Hell is categorized as being more efficient than Act 5 Hell all the way up to level 94. Again, not perfectly accurate, (i.e. Baal runs will still beat anything in Act 4) but if you want to mix it up, River/Chaos runs are probably going to net you decent relative XP up to the mid-90’s. This is already the primary source of endgame XP for Classic players, so it has to be at least possible. People have grinded to 99 just doing River/Chaos runs.