How can I farm the Cows?

Question

Each difficulty level of Diablo 2 has it's own secret cow level associated with it.

When I kill the Cow King I get locked out of the secret cow level for that difficulty level forever.

How can I reliably farm the area without a chance of locking myself out? How does this strategy need to be adjusted for battle.net?

Asked by Stephen

Answer

If anyone kills Cow King for FIRST time (except, a person who has NOT killed Baal/Diablo, see below), then everyone INSIDE the Cow Level will get credit for the (hidden) Cow King quest and will NOT make the red portal anymore. If you don't want to complete the Cow King quest, the safest place to be is in town (use Town Portal scroll!).

However, if you do not kill Baal (or Diablo, if you don't have the expansion) on that difficulty you will be unable to make the red portal, but you will never get credit for the quest to kill the Cow King (because you need to have killed Baal/Diablo to be able to start the quest). If this character kills the Cow King, everyone in the Cow Level who could make the red portal will still be able to open the portal.

Alternatively, you can have one character (who's killed Baal/Diablo on that difficulty) make the portal, logout and then log in onto the character (who has not killed Baal/Diablo on that difficulty) you want to farm the Cows on.

Side note: The Cow King is Lightning Immune on ALL difficulties So if you are Lightning Fury Amazon or a Nova Sorceress, you can avoid killing the Cow King by using Lightning skills (if you don't use a Mercenary or Valkyrie). The Cow King will always drop 8 stamina potions when he dies, you can use this as an indicator of whether or not it's safe to blindly murder all the other cows.

Answered by Krazer

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