So, I play a lot of Diablo 2 – and one thing that pretty much everyone does nowadays is called the “glitch rush” (bug rush, brush, grush, etc). Since you cannot enter the Worldstone Chamber without killing the Ancients in Act 5, and since you can’t kill the Ancients until Level 20 (normal), Level 40 (nightmare) or Level 60 (hell); you can’t complete a difficulty without actually getting those level targets first. The glitch rush gets you around this restriction (as of Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction Patch 1.12)
How do you do it? Well, let’s start with a list of what you will need:
- A new character (whatever level you decide to get to beforehand)
- Rusher (high level person to blow everything up for your weakling)
- Level 20 buddy who has not killed Baal (Act 5) in Normal difficulty
- Level 40 buddy who has not killed Baal (Act 5) in Nightmare difficulty
- About an hour!
Now that you have all this, have the new character start a new Normal difficulty game. The rusher will then proceed thus:
- Kill Andariel (with the newbie present in Catacombs 4). Talk to Wariv to get to Act 2.
- Help the newb obtain the Horadric Cube, Staff of Kings, and Viper Amulet. Combine the Staff and Amulet with the Cube to get the Horadric Staff. The newbie MUST talk to Jehryn and Cain.
- Kill the Summoner (with the newbie present in the Arcane Sanctuary). The newbie MUST talk to Drognan and Cain.
- Find Tal Rasha’s Tomb, have the newb use the Horadric Staff in the dias, kill Duriel (with newbie present in Tal Rasha’s Chamber). The newbie MUST talk to Jehryn and Meshif. Meshif will take the newbie to Act 3.
- Create a town portal in a safe area RIGHT behind the Council’s little building (the building with the Compelling Orb is), have the newbie port in, kill the Council. The newb MUST talk to Cain.
- Find Mephisto, kill him with the newbie present. Have the newb take the Hellish portal to…Hell! (Funny enough, while it takes Diablo to his lair, it takes YOU to an outpost of Heaven. Convenient.)
- Activate all 5 seals in the Chaos Sanctuary, kill Diablo with the newb present. Have the newb talk to Tyrael, and go to Act 5.
- If the level 20 (or 40, or 60) has not killed the Ancients, kill the Ancients for them (with them present). The newb can chill in Harrogath this whole time.
- If the level 20 (or 40, or 60) has killed the Ancients (or you have) then go and kill Baal’s minions. When you get to Baal, town portal for the Level 20 (or 40, or 60) so they are IN the Worldstone Chamber when you kill Baal. Kill Baal.
- You’re done!
At any point during this, the newb has to be in the same zone as the objective you’re killing (where I say “newb must be present). They can be alive or dead, it doesn’t matter. If they die around an objective, make sure they stay dead until you complete it.
Repeat the above steps for Nightmare and Hell (except Hell doesn’t really matter once they get to Act 4, then they can do Chaos Sanctuary runs for huuuuge XP.
Make sure the cheap newb pays you (either with their Hellforge, or High Runes or something)!