

With my barbarian, I loved doing Pit runs because if nothing else you get a whole mess of magical exceptional armors that sell for 35,000 gp each and give you a steady cash supply for gambling purposes.

While you probably earn more rare/set/unique items going for Meph than you do in a Pit run, it's practically guaranteed that you already have as good as or better equipment than much of what Meph can drop. For characters under level 80, the Pit is easy experience, and any dual elemental sorceress should be able to run the Pit with ease, as nothing barring a random boss spawn will have immunities to both fire and cold.Ģ. Pit runs will earn you a good amount of experience until your level gets well in the 80s, at which point it slows down dramatically no matter what you do. There's nothing better than levelling while doing item runs. For starters, what monsters can drop is determined by monster level, and since all monsters in the pit are at least level 84 (quite high) Pit runs serve as excellent experience point runs as well. That having been said, there are a few things I like about the Pit runs that you don't get with Meph runs:ġ. All of these recommended runs require doing them dozens of times. No matter what you do, there is no place in the entire game where you are guaranteed a great item drop every time you do it. In fact, don't be disappointed if you don't get anything great the first 10 times you run the pit. Let's put it this way, don't be disappointed if you don't get something great the first time you run the pit. Hell Meph drops 5 or 6 items at a time, and there's a good chance that at least 3 or 4 of the items will be rare or better. So in other words, while the potential pool of items in the Pit is greater than Hell Mephisto, there is a greater chance of Hell Mephisto dropping rare, set or unique items.Ģ.) And perhaps the bigger reason is because Pit bosses drop one item, whereas Hell Meph drops several items. Click to expand.Well there's two reasons why many people prefer Meph runs to the Pit.ġ.) While the bosses on the Pit can, in theory drop any item in the game (and it should be noted that there are items that Hell Meph cannot drop) the chance of them dropping rare or better items is lower than the odds for Mephisto.
