Other than Experience, are there better places to farm items/runes rather than Baal?
I am a level 89 Hammerdin, playing pretty much solo. I’ve currently been doing Countess, Diablo and/or Cows, but am wondering if I should throw Baal in there somewhere.
Travincal, river of flame chaos arcane sanctuary lower kurast, its pretty much random just pick the place you feel more comfortable farming
Why not? Baal has a chance to drop a high rune.
Farming for experience would be for random party.
Thanks!
I usually walk from the River of Flame to the Chaos Sanctuary, since I don’t have Enigma. I’ve found some OK stuff along the way. But I also heard that LK is not really worth it if you are playing Battle.net P1.
Over the many years of playing this game I can tell you one thing I’ve come to realize, It doesn’t matter where you farm unless you want those few specific items that only certain bosses can drop. I’ve found many many many gg items from random trash mobs in non 85+ zones.
Well, I wasn’t sure if the increase in difficulty outweighed the increase in drop chances. Or if the amount of experience is that much greater than other places.
i’m an 88 hammerdin right now without enigma so speed isn’t my thing. i do frigid highlands > then pindle > then the countess > then andariel > then mephisto each game. i also keep two stacks of keys and open every single chest since i’m walking everywhere which is where i’ve found most of my high runes. been pretty lucky, found soj/travs/hoto runes/cta runes/shako/shield for spirit/40 chancies. i found everything to equip my paladin to a decent state playing solo like you.
That’s awesome!
So between Meph and Diablo, why do you do Meph (serious question)? Diablo is so much easier to get to, but I am still not sure about loot tables and whatnot.
i actually don’t do meph every time, i just like mephisto because of nostalgia lol. if there are a lot of stygian dolls i will just bail on meph. my hammerdin is pretty tough but not tough enough for durance of hate every time. i will use vigor and i have some faster run/walk stuff so sometimes i just run as fast as i can from stygian dolls and hope i make it. so i do mephisto last every game incase i want to bail. i don’t do diablo because doing all of the seals takes longer than just running quickly to mephisto but it’s however you want to play
You have go to 85lvl zone, some areas have sparkling chest.
Act1: → Mausoleum, → The Pit (Tamoe Highlands)
Act2: → Ancient Tunnels (Lost City), → Maggot Liar (Far Oase)
Act3: → any Temple Basements (Travincal), → Sewer lvl2 (Upper/Bazar Kurast)
Act4: → from River of Flames to Chaos are whole 85lvl
Act5: → Worldstone Keep Lvl 1 (85lvl, too) till the last level.
Cow Level isn’t 85lvl, but it’s good to farm, too.
with a teleport staff getting to meph is piss easy
Chaos is good because there’s the guaranteed three super unique mobs from each seal. Good experience and then there’s Diablo himself at the end.
At /p 8, chaos actually gives me more XP than straight Baal runs (lvl 92).
I usually only do Cows to try to find bases, and the very, very off chance I can get some sort of HR there. I’ve heard of people getting Ber and Jah, so those are the only reason I do it. Plus, it’s quick-ish.
So 85lvl zones can drop any item in the game, right?
hell no, you have to be a psychopath to farm this place
I haven’t had much luck finding one from the vendor. I just stopped checking after awhile lol.
I don’t lol. Just to inform for the case if you have like superb WW-barb would be no problem at all.
akara in act 1 is where i got mine, just check her inventory and if she doesnt have one, waypoint to cold plains and back and her inventory will refresh
haha especially as a hammerdin. each maggot lair run would be 6 hours long as you want to smash your keyboard because your hammers fly into the tunnel wall. maybe if you have enigma but even then, it’s a time consuming run for just a sparkling chest
Cows is great for rune farming as well, since its not based on MF, and only number of kills.
I didn’t know that zoning away would do that!
Does the staff only spawn in a particular difficulty, for a particularly leveled character?