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D1 Experience Table

From Diablo 2 Wiki

This page presents a table with the experience gained in all dungeon levels/difficulty levels, broken down by Character levels. As the key explains, the best experience is earned in the red areas;

Legend

The table and all the content below courtesy of FreshMeat84.


Key for the table below.

Char-level
The level of your character.

Difficulty Level
From level 1-20 only Normal skill is listed, as you're not able to join Nightmare- or Hell-games. From 20-30 it shows both Normal and Nightmare, but not Hell as you still can't play it. After level 40 you won't get any exp at all in Normal games, no matter where you go - or what you kill (except some bosses). So from 40-50 only Nightmare and Hell are listed.

Average experience per monster
This is what it says, the average experience points per monster in a level. As you can see above, a character with lvl 28 gets 190 experience points in average from one monster on dungeon level 2 in Nightmare skill. What you should look for, is the highest number below the limit (which is 200*c.lvl. Our level 28 can therefore only get 5600 per monster). If you kill a monster that gives 6000 points, you will "lose" those 400 points above the limit. When you reach level 29, you will not only get more points from that monster, but it would also be easier to kill. So, don't kill monsters that give more exp than the limit. Better kill other, weaker monsters, and get all the points from it.

Average exp per monster hp
Same as above, except the hitpoints of the monsters are taken in account. This number shows how many points you get (in average) from each hitpoint of each monster in the level.

This is often more correct to use on than just plain experience points.

Underlined
Marks where you get most, and second most, experience per monster below the limit (200*clvl). If two dungeon levels give the same, the lowest is marked.

Bold
Same as above, but marks highest exp per monster per hp

Highlight
Tells where I recommend as the best place to gain experience points. I always highlight whole "sections". That means either Church, Catacombs, Caves or Hell, and not the actual dungeon level. In the example, Nightmare Caves is the best place for a level 28 character. When I consider two places to be as good, I highlight them both.


Experience Table

c.lvl Diff.
Dungeon Level
1 2 3 4

 

5 6 7 8

 

9 10 11 12

 

13 14 15 16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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14

 

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18

7970
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1460

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10000

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