MFing hell Ba'al
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LprMan
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I think you were really lucky to get a Tc87 off from Baal so easily. I think I have got 4 TC87's from him ever, and I have lvl 94,95 and 96 fishymancers, 92 meteorb, 93 hammerdin...If you are after Tc87's run something else instead, or at least clear WSK on all your runs
He is nice to me.FodderCannoned
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I said that meph could drop those jewels, and i thought that balrog skin was TC81, sorry about that.necrolemming said:
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lol i meant amulets, lots of typos for me today
IIRC Baal doesn't drop TC 84 or TC 87 very often due to how they treasure classes are chosen. I've run Baal quite a bit, and I can only think of three TC 87's I've gotten from him directly: Death's Fathom (20%...meh), Executioner's Justice (double meh), and IKSC (triple meh). IMO he's good for TC 78's and TC 81's; Meph is better for anything lower and Pindle is good for anything higher. Of course there's only one TC 78/81 item worth the effort: Stormlash. Then again, I'm 1 for 1 with unique scourges from Baal and 0 for 6 with pindle, so I suppose I should run Baal more often and stock up on lashes. :uhhuh:
Well Pindy has bored me to tears. I almost never get anything good from him, and I find pindle running the most monotonous thing on earth. But I figured I could take him out quick each Baal run...too bad it seems Baal isn't going to be worth running either. I wish there were more 85 areas, the pit is boring too now. Maybe I'll try ancient tunnels and see how it is.
River of Flame, Chaos Sanctuary and/or WSK are lvl 85 and not that boring. The map is not that important as well as all three start with a WP within the lvl 85 area (you can keep a nice memph map and still run one of these for a change). And they all offer a little extra:
- RoF: Hephasto (monster with highest chance for Zod, don't get your hopes up to high though)
- Chaos Sanctuary: Diablo
- WSK: Baal
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- RoF: Hephasto (monster with highest chance for Zod, don't get your hopes up to high though)
- Chaos Sanctuary: Diablo
- WSK: Baal
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farting bob
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Because that flayer boss must have been from the flayer jungle, a Alvl 85 area, and so can drop anything. IMO all act bosses in hell should be able to drop anything, but i unfortunately dont work for blizzard.Aucon said:
Tarr said:
Indeed, the Chaos Sanctuary horde is a bite in the ass. Mana Burn, Iron Maiden, Amp Damage, it can be quite a mess, especially when it's all at the same time. Although every now and then I take that trip just to carve my initials in ol' Diablo. ( I just can't help myself).
Good luck with the River, I've never gotten anything of particular interest, I have somewhat better luck in the Pit.
farting bob
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I find RoF is good if you have good AoE/mass kill skills (orb, blizz, traps, LF etc). Killing stuiff 1 or 2 at a time becomes a pain there, with eggs hatching and those annoying hag things that churn out babies every 5 seconds.Aucon said:
LprMan
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If act bosses could drop everything...not a good idea actually. Then there wouldn't be a reason to run anything else than Meph. I like variety 1.10 added to this game, there is lots of different and effective MF areas
Oh and Flayer Jungle is snot an lvl 85 area, its lvl 81 IIRC
Oh and Flayer Jungle is snot an lvl 85 area, its lvl 81 IIRC
LprMan said:If act bosses could drop everything...not a good idea actually. Then there wouldn't be a reason to run anything else than Meph. I like variety 1.10 added to this game, there is lots of different and effective MF areas
Oh and Flayer Jungle is snot an lvl 85 area, its lvl 81 IIRC
Well, my problem with this theory, is that as it is there's little reason to run anything but the Pits or Pindleskin anyway, unless you want a higher quality of mid to mid-high quality items in which case you do lots of Meph. If all act bosses could drop everything, of course, each boss would have slightly better than the one before it, so Ba'al wouldn't be so damn useless to run without clearing WSK, and Meph would be the best source for consistent items due to speed (which he pretty much is anyway.) Also, I'm not saying that the act bosses should have a higher drop rate than the 85 areas, but it would be nice knowing I had at least a small chance to get anything. If we had say RTB crunch the numbers and balance the drop rates of the bosses I'd have no fear with the results
Unfortunately, Blizzard doesn't crunch numbers as well as RTB.
agrégatif
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I don't think either that making mephisto being able to drop anything would be a goo idea for the same reasons as lprman.
Baal gives you exp and ilvl99 small charms. That's why he's worth killing. Fortunately not all is about mf in this game.
But still I'm reluctant to run him if I'm not in a MP game since it's so hard. I think that a team with a Blizzsorc and a LFzon could be efficient even at mfing on WSK+Baal.
As for areas worth running for mfing purpose, I would say those are only the lvl85 areas (haven' tried them all so I can't say only the pit and ancient tunnels are good). Even Pindle has disappointed me. You don't drop noticeably more on Pindle than in pitruns (I'd say the time spent running over time spent is the thing that could make Pindle loose the contest) and you can't drop azurewrath or Tyrael's might.
About that flayer boss. The bosses in durance of hate can drop TC 87 only meph can't.
Baal gives you exp and ilvl99 small charms. That's why he's worth killing. Fortunately not all is about mf in this game.
But still I'm reluctant to run him if I'm not in a MP game since it's so hard. I think that a team with a Blizzsorc and a LFzon could be efficient even at mfing on WSK+Baal.
As for areas worth running for mfing purpose, I would say those are only the lvl85 areas (haven' tried them all so I can't say only the pit and ancient tunnels are good). Even Pindle has disappointed me. You don't drop noticeably more on Pindle than in pitruns (I'd say the time spent running over time spent is the thing that could make Pindle loose the contest) and you can't drop azurewrath or Tyrael's might.
About that flayer boss. The bosses in durance of hate can drop TC 87 only meph can't.
