Never have hit 99 on a character in 20 years of playing Diablo II.

Got a 99 bowazon back in the day. Farming cows with Multi.

Same.

I had 60-70 characters who were all between 70 and 95, but never hit 99. Never really tried for it either, I was more about leveling them all roughly the same.

I'm not even sure I'll go for it this time around; I have 2 in the 90s and everyone else 85-89 so far.

I've had like 3-4 level 99 characters throughout the years, mostly during the 1.07 - 1.10 days. I don't remember it being too slow or anything, just mindlessly running p8 cows with my

Nova Sorceress after school, competing against all these Javazons /

Multiple Shot WF Amazons

My highest level in D2 in old days was 93. Now I have a sorc of 95 which is near 96 lvl (3 epx bars left). One of my Diablo challenges this tie is to reach 99 lvl. But I enjoy the idea it's not easy and fast because it can give me months of game pleasure

ALLEyezOnMe wrote: 3 years ago

I've had like 3-4 level 99 characters throughout the years, mostly during the 1.07 - 1.10 days. I don't remember it being too slow or anything, just mindlessly running p8 cows with my

Nova Sorceress after school, competing against all these Javazons /

Multiple Shot WF Amazons

Ya.

Nova Sorc, lvl 99 on something like 1.08.

Nova, Thunderstorm and Mana Shield to the fullest, 2x SOJ,

Shako,

Lidless Wall afair was part of the setup. No Mercs, no runewords and cows were for leveling. Soon after i hit the 99, i gave my whole bnet account to a kid who was pleasently surprised. I got rid of my addiction, he got a smile on his face... Hey! If youre reading this: Krautwurst was the tag - contact me

rantha wrote: 3 years ago

Ya.

Nova Sorc, lvl 99 on something like 1.08.

Nova, Thunderstorm and Mana Shield to the fullest, 2x SOJ,

Shako,

Lidless Wall afair was part of the setup. No Mercs, no runewords and cows were for leveling. Soon after i hit the 99, i gave my whole bnet account to a kid who was pleasently surprised. I got rid of my addiction, he got a smile on his face... Hey! If youre reading this: Krautwurst was the tag - contact me

Hahahah, yeah, I never had a merc on any of my characters, lol

I was rocking 2x Occy rings + bugged

Tal's armor on my Sorceress and she was pretty much immortal, although teleporting quite a bit, in case she got hit

And my Barbarian was slicing the cows with 2x

Ith swords, actually managing to kill them relatively quickly himself, instead of relying on the sorceresses and amazons.

ALLEyezOnMe wrote: 3 years ago

...
And my Barbarian was slicing the cows with 2x

Ith swords...

I remember using rare colossus swords... which were rerolled or socketed in the cube with chipped gems and then puttin those ED/IAS jewels in?

Highest I got was sorc 97lvl, back in 1.13 - mostly because of multiple 8pp wsk/

Baal runs. Then I just felt too lazy to continue.
Right now, I have 3 online chars - sorc 94, sorc 93 and dru 93. Again - too lazy to play a new character, and don't feel eager to elevate these 3 further - bc I can't emulate 8ppl for exp gain. Yes, I could rob another player's games, but that's too miserable approach for me - so only split farm option remains. Will play a bit more for awhile, but feel like I deserve some vacation after 5 months of everyday "work" . Could use a break, I think.

rantha wrote: 3 years ago

ALLEyezOnMe wrote: 3 years ago

...
And my Barbarian was slicing the cows with 2x

Ith swords...

I remember using rare colossus swords... which were rerolled or socketed in the cube with chipped gems and then puttin those ED/IAS jewels in?

I was using two of these (it is basically a Silence runeword, made in a

Zod-bugged

Eth sword with removed runes):
They were sold with 6 open sockets, so mine had 6x 40/15 jewels.

With certain builds it seems to be significantly easier to level up after 90+ because they are better at clearing the areas that give the most XP. I spent most of my playtime on 3 characters (zealot pally, fire sorc, lightning sorc) and out of the 3 the lightning sorc has the highest level (95 compared to lvl91 of the two other) despite logging the least amount of playtime.