Some Druid mid 90s Exp Ddata
Been running my druid to try and get him to lvl 95. He was 93 when I started this stint, and I wanted to share some data I gathered during the process so far (still a couple of hours left till 95, but I'm done data collecting). I thought some might be sort of applicable to
@PhineasB's exp compendium, but not sure if it should be posted there. Should we post 99er theorycrafting/testing data there phineas?
First off, I'm not a druid fan. There's a reason he was the last class I got to 95. Well also I wanted to save some exp to do for after I found ravenlore, which did end up working out. In
this post from gripphon on the old forum, as well as his post two down from that one, he talks about exp on a mid 90s druid. Specifically, how he thought ventar runs on a windy were likely fastest exp for most people, but AT fissure runs were competitive, and both better than the pit. I had this in mind when exploring these runs. My druid amazingly has a pretty nice pit and AT map. Why can't that happen on a sorc for me?
Pit Windy
I had many people tell me they thought pits windy was fast for this sort of thing. I had done high psetting windy runs in the past and knew I don't really enjoy them. I'm not a windy fan in general, and to me they definitely feel slow. But I only recently found my 7th natural skiller, and probably only had like 3 last time I ran him. So figured it was time to re-test. Plus I recently found a pretty nice circlet (2/20, 15 life, 16@) and also recently found my first eth reapers and slapped my only rjof into it, so figured it would be fun to put this stuff to use and run 163fcr. Running standard stuff with hoto sprit etc. Reapers, gface, treachery merc. I did 30 runs, and they were ~106s which I guess isnt toooo terrible when I can only manage just over 80s with my poison necro. But they felt slowish and I hate dealing with "aiming" those nados. Came out to be 31m exp/hr.
Ventar Windy
Next I tried the ventar runs, but I only did 5 of these runs. I fully believe they are better than including lister or baal. The latter two take AGES on a druid. But wow what a terrible run. The first 4 waves are never gonna drop anything, and aren't fun to do imo. Plus takes him as long to do them as it does a zon to do a full baal run. Anyways came out to 41m exp/hr.
Tunnels Fissure
Then I respec'd to fissure finally to try out the fire druid. Was using -14 ravenlore with a -5/+4 facet, maras, hoto, enigma, phoenix, magefist, fcr ring with light res, fcr ring with cold res and mf, arachs, and rare boots with mf and res. Ran maras and fcr rinfs instead of a caster ammy and soj because I wanted more res on him. Inventory is 7 natural gcs, gheeds, and scs with mana and mf. Merc using cham andys, fort, and infinity. First 20 or runs got around 31m per hour, tying the pits. But then I got better at dragging the packs through the fissures and leaving invader packs half killed or skipping them entirely, and the exp/hr shot up to just over 40m, almost the same as the ventar runs. Good stuff and made me glad. Even found a unique sacred during this testing, but was just templars #3
. Here were the results and a sample runs video.
And at level 94, this translated to 25.3 million exp/hr, about right on expectation, and 8.12 hours to do lvl 94-95. So not quite on pace with gripphon, but I never expect that
. I got pretty bored of the runs after about 40% into the lvl, but
@Albatross kept me motivated to keep trucking in a different conversation, and I just got to 94.75. Should get the lvl in another couple of days. Cheers!