there’s nothign curious about it. the OP was lamenting the lack of baal run games. my own comment had less to do with what class anyone plays, and more to do with how people play the game, and the game’s mechanics therein.
in order to do baal runs without wasting other people’s time, you need a runner or teleporter who is high enough leveled and geared out enough to survive when the map spawns those extra-sinister combinations of mobs. people want to run baal, to get the levels, to gain the damage and health, to survive farming the high level areas and have a chance at getting goodies. once you get around lvl 90 it becomes way more feasible to “make your own” baal run games.
i do make my own. if you see “baalin out 0x” that’s probably me. but right now i only do it in normal and nightmare because i get one-shot in hell mode.
stop being so condescending to people who are venting their frustrations here.
I took my “broken” sorceress at level 50, stuck in NM, I bought a token and respecced, and have got her to 87/88 now. I did not even do Ancients or Baal until 86, no reason to. I MF with her, and trade what I find (even though there is not much trading going on). I do not see a need to run public games, unless I know the players maybe and we are playing together.
I have all the mules full and it’s come to the point of stopping until they give us more stash space.
i call bs. you are being facetious and trolling. just because it’s “technically” correct doesn’t mean it’s pertinent to the discussion at hand. yeah, i could technically do those things, if i wanted to spend hours clearing one zone while dancing back and forth between the mobs and town, whittling them down from range while trying not to get hit.
it’s also technically possible to survive falling out of a plane from over 30 thousand feet. there are documented survivors. it doesn’t mean it’s advisable or fun to do.
Act V → Frigid Highlands → Eldritch, Shenk (if not surrounded by Slingers or Quill Rats)
Act V → Arreat Plateau → Thresh
Act V → Pindleskin
Act V → Halls of Pain → Nihlathak (this takes a bit of time but it’s more fun that the others)
Act IV → Diablo (this takes much longer, so not very often)
Sometimes I clear a few areas, sometimes I teleport straight in, depends.
I have been doing this for at least 10 levels now when I play the Sorceress. It is the best class for this.
PS meant to say, level 87
skills: lighting + fireball + hydra + ES - 285 points to energy - 115 to life
MF gear: enlightment mage plate, splendor grim shield, Hoto flail, shako,
cheaper gear: peasant hat or lore, spirit sword, skin of the viper + gem/rune
i was responding to the guy talking about clearing it naked, no gear at all.
i have two circuits i run, a quick one and a slow one.
the quick one, i hit black marsh and clear any packs between the waypoint and whenever i find the tower, then clear the whole tower. the highest rune i’ve gotten from the countest was a fal, but i’ve gotten a gul and several um and pul from the ghosts on the way down. then i zip over to the pit and clear it, then andariel. i skip trav and mephisto. i don’t have the resists or the health to bother with the council or durance. it’s not that i can’t do it, it’s that i have to slow down so much, i could do the previous part of the circuit three or four times in the same time it would take me to do council+meph. so i jump from andy to act 5 and hit pindle and shenk, and start back over with a new game.
if i’m not in a hurry, i hit the mausoleum, black marsh, the tower, the pit, andy, ancient tunnels, trav council, meph, chaos sanctuary and diablo, pindle, shenk, then finish with worldstone keep and killing baal.
the problem is not that i can’t do it. the problem is that it takes so long, i’m done for the day after two or three runs.
They are there. It takes patience and a little sleuthing to find the live ones. Reroll the list until you see something that looks like a continuous Baal game especially with a non generic name. Click it and extrapolate what number they are on based on how long that game has been going. Works 90% of the time. Great way to find full Baal games.
Exactly my thoughts. This game requires ultimate efficiency because odds are so low. You just need to have many kills (and /p8 if it existed). And go buy things with your runes or lucky finds.
oh didnt know the issue with lack of games is something with lobby not showing all games. damn, thats really crap! Blizz devs needs to play pd2 and learn something from them.
You can literally do it with zero gear on and do an andy run in legit 5mins flat. You have teleport baked into your character, you would have to be a damn fool to not take it at your level.
I take it back, a normal person could. You on the other hand obviously suffer from the Souls series sickness known as, “GG”
I still think it’s game lobby fault, I think there are games out there, you just can’t see it.
Many times, more than 50%, I enter i.e. “Baalrun-07” and it’s already done. Same for “Baalrun-08”. The ongoing game is like “Baalrun-10” and it doesn’t show on game list.
I solo Baal runs all the time. I am level 86 but was doing it at lvl 85 too. Are you talking about joining a game that is of 8 people and you break off and do Baal or creating your own game to solo? If you are trying to do it with a full group then I can’t answer on that as I solo Baal making my own games just for me.