If you have a 98 on ladder, and ladder resets. Is this character done with TZ and can no longer make 99 without 4000 baal runs?
Solution:
Standard of Heroes Cubed creates random TZ portal. Nobody will want to farm Keys/Torches on NL so this will be a chore but not DOA on reset. Incentives to play ladder still heavy here.
At this time, pretty much although Nihl and Diablo are better for 98-99…
Something like that would be a great add for NL benifit. Always wanted to see SOH become a cubable ubers, cow level type end game area.
Yeah agreed Nihl D and top 2 baal are best but it requires a discord group etc. Even then you are looking at about 130 hours of gameplay for 98 → 99. As opposed to the guesstimated 15 hours on ladder TZ. It would honestly be easier to remake a 1-99 on ladder than it would be to 98-99 on NL.
This is like every char is DOA when rolling over if the current ladder only rules apply. When ladder resets, the cost of a torch is about 50x vs NL so getting these standard of heroes will be a legit challenge.
Just the concept of a 98 being stuck at 98 on ladder reset is rough as people who casually play may not see 99 in a single ladder season.