Diablo II, the art of power leveling.

[Don]

This is a breif run down of trial and error methods to quickly leveling.
Preferrably you would have a mega high sorceress doing any neccessary teleporting, and then mass orbing everything to death.

Starting out, the noobie days
Levels 1 through 15. act1 - tristram (requirements: rescued cain. only if you are creator of the game otherwise no requirements)
Levels 15 through 20. act2 - tal rasha's tombs
levels 20 through 24. act1 - cow level (requirements: kill baal, only if you are creating, otherwise no requirements) (Dave's Note: You can't create if you killed the king cow in a previous game)
levels 24 to 25 act5 ancients
levels 25 through 40 are act5 baal

I dont have concrete numbers for nightmare yet. ill followup on this later.

Notes: dont count PER KILL exp with a high level in your group, it will be lower than average. the rush is because that level 80 sorceress can kill 30+ mobs for every 1 you would kill.


Update: July 29, 2008
See http://community.purevanity.net/showthread.php?p=4445 for more info on Glitch Rushing Diablo 2.

[derfy]

You only get credit for killing the King if you are in the Moo Moo Farm - partied or not - and someone kills the King who has never done so before. This means if you've killed the King before - you are free to kill him over and over with no ill effects to the other people in the Farm.

Don't try telling people on b.net this, however. They = stupid, and won't believe you.

[Dave]

Ah, cool. Thanks derf.

[derfy]

See http://www.diabloii.net/battlenet/secret-cow-level.shtml for more info on the cow level. Very little has changed in 1.11.

[derfy]

It appears this HAS changed. wootage_ii lost the ability to make hell cow games when partied with someone who claimed to have killed the king before. Either he was lying, or this has changed.

[Dave]

Note from Don:

<@Don> you CAN create a cow plow if you've opened the tristram portal, but didnt rescue cain
<@Don> you can kill the king as many times as you want
<@Don> and still create cow portals
<@Don> however, this is unconfirmed

[Dave]

Another note from Don:

7:21.42p <@Don> btw if you want to add another update to that. .. at level 40 when you go to nightmare, just get a rush straight to baal and then do baal runs to 60, rinse and repeat for hell except go until you finally get bored of it all and make a new char

[Unregistered]

i wanted power levelers man not info is there power levelers out there ??

[derfy]

...You don't need powerleveling for Diablo II. Bloody runs, Worldstone Keep and the cow level are there.

[derfy]

Expect an update on how to effectively rush and power level in the near future.

[Don]

ive made a new thread discussing how to glitch rush, if you wanna do that as an alternative to this slow and boring way, check out http://community.purevanity.net/showthread.php?p=4445