There are other things you could add along with Meph in order to stretch out the time. As well as preventing getting bored from doing nothing else but Meph.
He drops things like war travs, arachs, sojs, maras. A fair number of Andys and Shakos as well, their prices have dropped but still tradeable. I paid for all of my high end gear by just farming Meph. I’ve recently switched to doing Chaos runs instead just because I’m looking for high runes to either trade or make runewords with. Found an Ohm a couple days ago. Hoping I find something higher soon enough but we’ll see.
The first tile method is only part of it. Yeah that’s the basis for it but after you do a few thousand runs you start to notice other patterns in the map which help. For instance if I make it to the bottom left of the map and there are stairs going up there, most of the time that means I need to teleport up towards the northeastern portion of the map to get to the down entrance. If the wp is on the left hand middle side of the map with the exit pointing up a lot of the time the down stairs will be in the bottom left of the map from there. If you were to follow the standard method you’d go around the whole map before finding them. There are rare cases where the down stairs end up being smack dab in the middle of the map or something like that which is just bad luck when it happens and difficult to predict but overall if you do it enough finding the down stairs fast becomes pretty automatic to the point where I’m almost doing it subconciously now. But yes, I don’t have some perfect method which works 100% of the time, just most of the time.
That is what I meant, yes. I understand how MF works. It just increases your chances for a unique drop, it doesn’t affect what actually drops in terms of item types. I meant that if you hit him often enough, since he has a chance to drop up to 5 items you end up with a fairly good chance of seeing a decent item type (like a spiderweb sash or battle boots) drop as unique from him. You’ll also get a lot of Shakos, Andy’s, Occys and stuff like that along the way. He drops quite a few unique rings and amulets as well I find so you have your chances for sojs and maras. I’ve found 3 of each from him.
There was a urban legend yeaaars ago. When you kill Mephisto very fast, you get better Drops. Thats what i mean.
Ah yes the urban legend of more kills = more drops. Spooky.
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Psst OP… there’s this thing called a brain, have you tried using it? You could sneak in a Lower Kurast and Pindle so you’re not just idling for that 40 seconds…
Average meph run takes around 1 min to complete so no this doesnt kill meph runs sorry.
Lower Kurast with 1 player in game is useless js.
The fact is running meph takes around 1 min and you can just make a game right again after the fact.
how are you finding the entrance to durance of hate level 3 fast enough to kill meph before the game creation delay timer runs out?
if you’re really having this issue, add something else to your run. instead of doing just a meph run, do andy+meph or meph+pindleskin. you don’t have to spam one 30 second run every time.
This is what im sayin without MH it takes 1min to 1:30 to kill mephisto.
Why? just starti killing elite packs on your way down and you are fine.
honestly until it is fixed i would just stack more mf gear and kill a bit slower with higher mf since you have to wait for the timer if you kill fast anyway. I have hope it will be fixed in the 2.3 patch