Rushing to Baal

[Dennis]

Act I
Go straight down to the Level 4 catacombs. Once you are in level 4, kill everything except Andy. Open TP and bring the mule down, Wait for Andy or draw her near you. Kill quickly. The mule needs to be at least a screen level within death. You will know if you are successful when you get a level 4 portal. Take the mule to Act 2.

Act II
Do Claw Viper Quest for Arcane wp. Get the Staff of Kings (Maggots lair), and the amulet. The mule needs to get the amulet (Claw viper temple lvl 2). Your High level character will kill everything. TP and mule just comes in, open the casket and get the staff and amulet and the quest. The mule will use the cube to merge the king of staffs and the claw viper amulet to get the horadric staff. High level character goes to arcane.

Get near Summoner, Tp for mule. Make sure Summoner is near. This gets really tricky, but timing is important. It helps to kill everything except Summoner, bring in the mule and kill Summoner within screen level of mule.

Find the right tomb. Bring in the mule to open Duriel’s cave. You can kill Duriel with the mule safely in town.6Make sure the mule talks to Tyreal first, because if you dont, it will say you can’t complete quest. Talking to Tyreal makes the game think you were there when Duriel died.

Act III
Go to Travincial. Kill everything around the council area. This is very important, because the priests run from the High level character, they will home in on the mule. So make sure everyone is dead. Don’t kill council just yet.

Bring in the mule. You can also try to position your mule on the ledge behind the building the council is in. Try to draw the council to you, but protect the mule. You must kill all council members within screen shot of the mule or your mule will not get the quest! Be careful of FE or Cold enhanced. Their death won’t hurt you, but will take out your mule.

Give your mule Durance wp. Go to Durance level 3. Kill everything but Mephisto. TP your mule down. Your mule should be ok off to the side while you hack away at Mephisto, he doesn’t last long. Mule should be able to take the red portal to Act IV.

Act IV
Hellforge: kill everyone, tp mule down and your mule will get hammer off the ground and smash the soulstone.

Diablo. Kill everything. Try not to do all portals; if you do, no sweat, it’s just easier to position your mule in a safe spot before you summon Diablo. There is a corner northwest of the pentagon that you can tuck the mule away in. And yes, the mule needs to be down there when you kill Diablo. Kill Diablo. The mule will take portal to act five.

If you’re doing normal/NM rush and you have a powerful rusher, you don’t have to kill everything in Chaos. Once you kill all the seal bosses and hit all seals, all monsters still alive in Chaos will vanish. Place a TP right by the column for the mule to get down before you hit the last seal. Use the moment when earth shakes for sorc to teleport to pentagon and mule get down to hide behind column.

Act V

Get the socketed quest and runes quest. For socketed quest, have the mule screen view when killing Shenk, shouldn’t be too hard if you are careful.

Go to Arreat summit, have the mule activate the ancients, kill the ancients when the mule is there closeby (Tricky!)

Ancients Quest requirements:
Normal: lvl 20+
Nightmare: lvl 40+
Hell: lvl 60+

You do need 2 valid Keys and 2 installs of diablo to get it done. If you do it for your own character…This also can be used to rush other online people ofcourse…

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