Re: Help me design the perfect build for 1.12 HF Rushing
My leveling plan is:
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1-9 Den and Cold Plains
9-15 Tristram (hosted by another char)
15-20 Tomb of Tal Rasha
20-23/24 Council runs
24-32 Eldritch Runs
32-40 Baal Runs
Someone at an MP (was it you Thy ? I don't remember) has suggested that the fastest character would probably be a Fire Sorc, but I doubt she is as fast as a Zealot in the lower levels. She has the advantage of teleport on the other hand.
Please discuss build ideas and equipment.
-Oblivious
I won't say what build but I will comment on where to level. These are the things I have learned from doing "speed runs" to the Hell HF with a single character. The longest part is getting to level 25.
1. If you are not level 25 when you enter act 5, you only get 5% of the possible experience. Try running Eldritch on P8 at 24 and then notice the difference when you hit 25.
2. All side quests waste too much time. Skip them. If you run from the Rogue Camp and follow the paths all the way to Andariel on P8 (I'm assuming you are twinking on some uber-killing weapon initially), you'll get to level 15-16 just by stopping to kill the boss packs you meet along the way and can do that in about 30-40 minutes.
3. Only do specific target runs when the experience is just too good to pass up. My opinion is that there are only 3 monsters worth considering this when you are getting up to level 25, depending on what level you are when you meet them.
a. The Council uniques are is great for getting from level 18 to level 22. It takes ~11 P8 runs to go from 18 to 22 killing only the 3 Uniques that spawn at Travincal or in Durance 3.
b. Mephisto is also great at this range. It takes ~15 P8 runs to go from 18 to 22 by killing only Mephisto.
c. Izual takes about 9 P8 runs to go from level 22 to level 25.
d. Council from 22 to 25 would take 17 runs/set of 3; Mephisto would take 16 to go from 22 to 25. Izual would take about 50 to go from 18 to 22.
So probably the best leveling plan would be to speed run by whatever means you have to get to at least level 18 by Travincal and then depending on your build, run the Council(s), Meph or both of those up to 22. Then switch to Izual to get you to 25 or very close to 25. Diablo gives about 1/10 the experience of Izual when your level is 24 because his monster level so don't necessarily count on him to bump you over to 25.
In my experience, by going as fast as I can and only trying to kill boss packs that I pass, I end up at 15-16 by end of A1, 18-19 at A2 and 21-23 at A3. That would make me only want to do Izual runs to get me over the hump to 25. Once I get to A5, I usually run Eldritch to 30-31 because I can handle Baal/Minions at P8 at that point. A couple P8 runs of them gets you up to 40 pretty quickly.
I do like sorceress as the runner because of static field and teleport. With 3 points devoted to that, you can make a pretty strong build to get you up to level 40.
I don't know if I was the person who suggested it in MP, but I definitely think fire sorc is the way to go for HF runs (where you're actually playing the char in question). HF rushes it's completely irrelevant what the char is since they shouldn't really be doing anything but leeching.
If you're doing your HF Rushes in 1.11+, you still need to get someone to lvl 40 though so it's not completely irrelevant.