With this new variable game creation delay that they’ve added they’ve basically killed off Meph runs completely. Previously I could still do them with around zero to 20 seconds of wait time between runs. Now I’m averaging around 40 seconds (or more) of wait time between runs which is totally unsustainable. I really hope they are actively working on a rewrite of the game creation service because these creation delays are completely ridiculous. Guess I’m stuck farming Chaos or Cows instead.
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Add in LK to your run…still not enough? Shenk Eldrich? Chaos?
Making a route of a few places to farm instead of just one is the better option with the new timers.
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Eh, Mephisto runs or Andariel runs are very inefficient on their own anyway. Maybe do both bosses in one game, or add Council to the start/end of your run or add Pindle to either. You’ll save yourself headache and improve your odds at finding gear too.
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Do andy + meph, that’s always the way to go.
I’d normally include a few more areas that my build can do quickly to end up at about 3-5 minute runs.
Been telespanking andy/meph/baal over the past several nights. They have all been dropping a bunch of hogwash.
The best drop was an Ali Baba from a rando monster during one of the runs.
Working my way up to 91 though. 
RNG is being mean to me!
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Well lol depend on class 
with Hammerdin nothing can beat on the speed but running Chaos + Pindle
Got two Andariel’s Visages, a Stormshield, Mal and some other okay-ish gear in one night last week. Pretty stoked because the rest of the days that week prior to that, I got nothing, lol.
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Oh, yeah oops. Forgot Meph dropped one of those… OK Ali Baba and Mal.
Been using firewall/frozen orb build. Andy dies in like .5 seconds lol
I’m considering respecing again just to shift some power to frozen orb to help speed up wave 1, 4, 5 on the throne room.
Edit: Just shifted points from Warmth to max out cold mastery… Oh yeah, waves 1, 4 and 5 are dying noticeably faster. 
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All my best drops have come from regular stuff, I tend not to just telly straight to a boss anymore. I got Tals amy off a trash mob in Halls of Pain this morning on my way to Nith…Nith gave nothing.
Most of my best drops have been from hitting Meph back to back quickly. If you can hit him fast with a lot of MF on your char you have a chance to get some pretty good stuff from him. Mixing in other bosses like Andy just slows things down a lot. I can usually make it to Meph in like 30 secs max (usually around 10 to 15), kill him in about 5 secs, then use telekinesis to immediately go through the portal then quit, new game, repeat. Hitting him that fast offers great odds of getting good drops. At the moment I am having to mix other stuff in because of the timeouts.
Nice. After 20 years that urban legend comes back…
Or you mean you get better stuff because when you kill him faster you can do more runs, more runs=more items? Well then thats correct.
What urban legend? Nothing in the quote is inaccurate.
You should adjust the way you play D2 to conform to nu-blizzard’s ineptitude
How about no
Meph is the worst place to magic find, what can he possibly drop that can help you trade for a gg item?
He is not a good farming location for runes.
He is not a good source for base items.
He does not drop any of the sought after uniques, ie deaths web, griffons.
It is a waste of time to farm meph imo.
It depends. If you clear the council and open the superchest behind, it can be a pretty decent farm route. Council have relatively high chance for runes.
Yes, you have to kill the council and I did get a Lo rune from meph’s council last week, however I stand by my statement. Running meph exclusively is not a great time investment if you want to get the high end items.
I know the theory of reading the map and still end up having to teleport 90+ times around the whole map to find level 3 most the time.
20 seconds sounds impressive.
Mephisto
Wisp Projector
300mf 1:6,854
600mf 1:5,869
0mf 1:16,181
There is no way he is doing it in 20 seconds with any consistently. Methods of reading the map based off the first tile can speed up the average travel time but are not perfect.
Are they going to properly fix any of these problems, or are we just going to be left with bare minimum user hostile “solutions”? Pathetic how they blame the players for everything, like many of the fanboys in this forum.
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