Zoltan Kulle Revisited - 5x Experience per cycle (25% increase!)

[ssknight]

I'm sorry to make a new thread as there's already one basically devoted to this very subject, but I discovered the mentioned method on my own before seeing it here but I used an extra step for 5x the experience.

I've been up for 96 hours and writing this from memory, so instead of Player A and Player B im just going to describe it as I did it using a Barbarian (A) and a Demon Hunter(B). Obviously I'm doing this to level the DH.

1. Barb and DH enter game
2. Barb kills kulle. Noone touches the soulstone.
3. DH leaves, creates new game and turns in quest (1)
4. DH returns to original game.
5. Barb leaves game and makes a new game.
6. DH turns in quest now that the Barb is gone. (2)
7. DH joins Barb's new game.
8. Barb (or DH) grabs soulstone.
9. DH leaves game and turns in quest . (3)
10. DH rejoins barb.
11. Barb leaves game and makes a new game.
12. DH talks to adria and gets XP. (4)
13. DH joins barb in new game and talks to Adria for XP. (5)

Again sorry if this is a repost that someone else already discovered, but I didn't see it anywhere. As my DH is 60 figured I would release it. The extra step is definitely worth it as it's not the trek to the stone but rather just talking to Adria. Enjoy!

[Huntermoose]

I think most people doing this recodnized this as a possibility... but having to get the soulstone twice is slower than just turning in the quest 3 times and restarting. (Timed our runs of all 3 sets)

[ssknight]

Not true if you're doing it with a partner in Hell mode and you're having issues beating Kulle. I'd say it's definitely faster regardless, but to each his own.

Edit::Actually not true at all. Whether you use the 3-step or the 5-step version the ratio runs to the soulstone remains the same. The only change in the equation is how often must you kill the fool at the end.

[ikevinc]

Is this actually faster?

[ssknight]

It definitely was for me. Again it matters most in hell mode where it takes more than 1 click to kill Khulle. It can be time consuming for some classes in hell mode. People think this is slower because they think "Well that's just one more long step in the cycle that really has no payoff.", but if you consider it, if you don't do the extra step, you're just going to begin again but this time you'll be killing him.

It would make no sense for it to be slower. Again I'm really tired though. Am I missing something?

Edit::Also, I was two-boxing so there was no communication between me and a partner. If you consider the extra step an introduction of significant complexity between yourself and your partner (this is not an insult, it gets confusing doing it alone after a few hours) then yes it may be more than you want to do. Still though in Hell mode each turn in is 90k exp approximately so I found it worth it.