Sorceress only. Because teleport rocks our world at fresh ladder resets. Criticism is welcome. This is a guide for lonely players who are looking for best way to level up and rush themselves. Start with fire or cold sorc. Cold sorc (full blizzard) is good overall and a must to compete in hell mode. *Note: If you can, leechers (loaders with level 1 characters) are a way to accelerate. 3 will do. 3 loader meaning 4 players game is more than enough for fast leveling. Level 1-15-20. Aim for getting the Cain Quest. Kill everything on the way to Stony Field and Dark Wood. Take the stony and dark waypoints. Complete Cain quest. Abuse Tristram runs. Kill packs of monsters and the unique ones up to level 15 - even more. Go further to Black Marsh. Skip the countess, but considering killing her is not bad at all, it gives more exp (5 dungeon levels). Kill Andariel. Level 15-20 up to 25 or more: In Act II, go quickly after the Horadric Cube. Don`t forget to activate the Dry Hills waypoint, so you can return near. Firstly, activate the Far Oasis waypoint. Afther that you must go to maggot lair. Take staff from Maggot lair. Kill vipers and The Summoner. In here, you can extend the leveling. In Arcane and Canyon. A level of 25 would be enough. In Act III, repeat the waypoint activation. *Note: You can exploit all Act III by getting from another player(s) the Travincal waypoint, kill councils and get the Durance waypont. In Act IV, aim for the River of Flame waypoint. Kill Izual only if it`s on the way and need more skills. Kill Diablo. In Act V: here starts the leveling galore! Killing Shenk, Eldritch and Pindleskin in same game, over and over again, until you ding 45-55. Nightmare should not be an issue. When you`ll reach Travincal in nm mode, abuse them for uniques (vipermagi, oculus etc.). In hell mode, if you chose full blizz sorc... Teleport to Catacombs waypoint, Kill Andariel. In Act II since you have teleport, the only real quest issue is the Vipers. Just recreate games until you can teleport directly to the altar and grab the Amulet. Act III, tele, tele. If you reached travincal you`re on holy ground. Try to farm for "Reaper`s Toll" unique tresher. Very good for merc. Any mercenary (might or holy freez). Now, having the merc solid, return to Act I and try to make some countess though cold immune. The merc should kill and be alive until countess, her minions and monsters nearby wich are not cold immune will be gone. Make some runes for a CTA. Maybe for a hoto. The maximum rune can drop is LO rune (Countess hell). *Hint: For getting cta/hoto bases, kill Griswold from Tristram in Nightmare mode (only). Nightmare Griswold drops: flails(any type, quality or socketable), and dusk or mage plates.
I also start with sorc, but for different reason (not for teleport). On early levels, lightning / chain lightning is one of the most killer skills. Mana-hungry, yes, a light sorc drinks more than a whole squadron of marines on a boring travel. Yet, it also rocks all the way to lvl 30+. Then respec for frozen orb (use Q reward from norm a1q1). Frozen orb rocks up to nightmare Baal kill. Blizz comes handy for more focused damage once you boss grind on hell (duri, mephy). Before that? It is way slower than the alternatives. Shenk - Eldritch - Pindle won't give you lvl 55 in sane time. After 40, better go forward. For lvl 52..54 you have to grind around Ancient's Way / Icy Cellar. Kill everything. That is the power of the frozen orb. On Baal run, lvl 65 is easy, lvl 70 is still possible (but too much time). Before you get the reapers toll, you can grind out kelpie snare (unique spear "fuscina"). Makes town guard merc more tanky against bosses, and even norm baal run waves can drop it out. All in all, good guide, cheers
To me Fire Ball is overpowered in early levels. Once you get to the nightmare, you can respec your skills and go for Blizzard. In this private realm leveling is not an issue. Just kill some bosses in your way, just for fun. You won't even need to repeat anything until nightmare Baal. Stealth (tal+eth) body armour would be a game changer for a long time even in early hell difficulty. When you have the runes, go for it. You can farm Countess in normal difficulty to find runes. Hell could be a challanging for a lonely sorceress, you are very welcome to join us: https://forum.europebattle.net/threads/ladder-reset-team-18-07-2025.547718/
