I’m on the Americas, softcore, and looking on Hell difficulty for baal run games. All the Baal runs I see are games over 20 minutes old and only have 1 person in them who is obviously just off doing something else or is AFK and never left the game at the end. But the game list does not show any active Baal runs.
What’s going on, here? Certainly people are constantly doing Baal runs, right? It should be easy to find them.
Because Blizzard killed them. If you try to join the next baal game before it’s made, you’re locked out for a minute. Which means you don’t get in. If you type it in wrong, you are locked out for a minute. Which means you don’t get in. If the game fills up before you can enter, and you try to enter it, you’re locked out for a minute.
So people don’t bother with public ones much anymore. Blizzard killed them with their ineptitude and stinginess.
Yep, baal runs are currently impossible to do reliably atm, same with trist runs, tomb runs etc. I really hope they fix this.
Plus, I’ve had a couple of runs murdered by some clown coming in and going hostile on everyone to get gold, or just be a jerk. Nobody wants to chance dying and losing a few hours worth of exp, so everyone just bails.
ty for gold earlier, was used to gamble a soj off anya
The only reliable baal runs are on JSP currently.
I only play legit. None of that stuff for me.
Same
because the good ones fill up instantly or they’re ran private via d2jsp.
you dont lose xp if you’re killed by a player. Cmon that’s like noob 101
You can’t use waypoints or portals if you’re hostile. So doing a baal run is totally safe since it takes even the fastest sorceress a while to teleport all the way from Harrogath to Throne of Destruction.
That wp thing is only for 15 second.
I have been complaining about this on these forums and in bnet lobby too
Why is there so many baal run games over 1 hour old with some afk dude in them? Baal runs edict is to leave when its done. There are reasons to this
To break this edict shows you have no idea what you are doing and do not belong there, or you are purposely being a troll trying to be disrespectful.
But every game in my game browser is usually over 2 hours old with 1 person in them afk. Chaos runs, Baal runs, rush a1-5 games, all games really old, with someone just sitting there afk…
Like devs can do stuff to the game browser to help find games, but the players can also help by not AFKing in RUN games sooooo much.
like if you want to afk, its not hard to put a password and make it private, but to join a RUN game made by someone else, to just sit afk in it? like wth
The lobbies need some work we can all agree there, but let’s get this queue junk fixed too
That is because a lot of the baal runs are ran by bots. So when the bot hangs, it stays in game. Its also people sitting in game so they dont deal with the queue. Comon you dont really think people grind baal games back in the days manually do you?
There aren’t any public baal run bots for d2r yet. I’ve joined quite a few, I have yet to see one bot running baal or chaos.
I agree, bring /players 8; to combat this.
I stopped hosting baal games after I got 95. If I’m going to do baal, I host Itelechaos, and solo baal. Then I don’t have to share xp or drops.
There were lots of public baal games after the first few days, and for a couple weeks. Now most people who needed xp have it and they’ve moved on to farming p8 games or playing private split mf or something.
Any baal games that exist at this point fill up almost instantly.
Even my Itelechaos games fill almost instantly, and I don’t even farm chaos until I’m done with key runs or w/e else I feel like doin’ at the time