![]() ![]() ![]() The single biggest downside to Nihl runs is the risk of dying (and increased number of aborted runs). ![]() Now this doesn't account for XP shrines, which will have a greater benefit for Diablo than Nihl (theoretically no increase in run time, as well as no chance to get it cursed off so more reliable, and a higher nuber of shrines to check so increased odds of getting one), but there is no way that XP shrines alone would make up the difference. Or on the flip side, I'd have to kill Diablo in 64 seconds or less for him to catch up to Nihl. Just for comparison's sake, my Nihl runs would have to be slower than 42 seconds for Diablo to catch up in terms of XP/time. I would imagine the same applied for hammerdins, or pretty much any other character that can kill nihl in a reasonable time. I did a " class="link link-internal"]comparison of my sorc running the 3 big targets (Baal, Diablo, Nihl) in the untwinked 99 thread, and Nihl came out on top easily. Nihl should almost always be considerably faster than Diablo. I don't exactly know how this compares to killing Diablo, so I wait for Grip to come with the real numbers. When Nihl spawns with Mana Burn or Magic Resistance he dies noticeably slower, so that's the biggest downside (along with the squishy merc) it seems. Fastest run was 27.3 and that didn't even feel it went very well. Timed 20 runs with avg of 35.413s which can be improved greatly by better map and bit of practice. His movement is very much akin to the Oblivion Knights in CS, plus the teleporting, so not exactly easy to hit with hammers. Nihl is annoying target but I think he is that for any characters. Maybe some other gear would be better for him. I think it's quite safe, didn't really have much problem even with the vipers, except that the merc was kinda fragile, he died few times to vipers and other shooters. Switched Delirium/Reaper's/Treachery for merc. Swapped Nature's Peace on to prevent the CE, and it's handy against the vipers too with the dr. I tried this quickly with my lvl96 CS running Hammerdin, just to see how he fares in case I want to try this in the future. ![]()
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