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Trick to keep Pindle portal open
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Hank
2007-08-13 20:40:19 UTC
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Guys,

Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
ArtDent
2007-08-13 22:22:43 UTC
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Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
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We apologize for the inconvenience
Hank
2007-08-13 23:10:20 UTC
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Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
--
We apologize for the inconvenience
Ok thats great.
Thanks.
Polarhound
2007-08-13 23:13:17 UTC
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Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
Incorrect.

In order to make the portal disappear, you must get the HoP waypoint
*and* kill Nihly.
wizofwas
2007-08-14 01:07:48 UTC
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Post by Polarhound
Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
Incorrect.
In order to make the portal disappear, you must get the HoP waypoint
*and* kill Nihly.
Art is right to keep the portal open, just DON'T hit the waypoint in the
Halls of Pain. To close the red portal, just hit the waypoint. It'll be
closed
the next game.

wizofwas
ArtDent
2007-08-14 02:28:54 UTC
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Post by wizofwas
Post by Polarhound
Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
Incorrect.
In order to make the portal disappear, you must get the HoP waypoint
*and* kill Nihly.
Art is right to keep the portal open, just DON'T hit the waypoint in the
Halls of Pain. To close the red portal, just hit the waypoint. It'll
be closed the next game.
wizofwas
If you get the wp, I think it closes even if you don't kill Nilly. (no
more absolute 'need' for it then)
Not one hundred percent sure but don't really want to 'waste' a char
checking it either
I am one hundred percent sure that to keep it open, go ahead and kill
Nilly as many times as you want, just do not get the wp in HoP.
--
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Polarhound
2007-08-14 02:33:57 UTC
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Post by ArtDent
Post by wizofwas
Post by Polarhound
Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
Incorrect.
In order to make the portal disappear, you must get the HoP waypoint
*and* kill Nihly.
Art is right to keep the portal open, just DON'T hit the waypoint in the
Halls of Pain. To close the red portal, just hit the waypoint. It'll
be closed the next game.
wizofwas
If you get the wp, I think it closes even if you don't kill Nilly. (no
more absolute 'need' for it then)
Not one hundred percent sure but don't really want to 'waste' a char
checking it either
I am one hundred percent sure that to keep it open, go ahead and kill
Nilly as many times as you want, just do not get the wp in HoP.
Every character I have ever created has gotten the HoP waypoint, and as
I don't bother with Nilly, every character still has Anya's portal open.

I have used HoP for leveling for years as it is playable in hell 8
player without major dangers. In each of those runs, Pindle via Anya
portal was part of the run.
wizofwas
2007-08-14 03:27:41 UTC
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Post by Polarhound
Post by ArtDent
Post by wizofwas
Post by Polarhound
Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
Incorrect.
In order to make the portal disappear, you must get the HoP waypoint
*and* kill Nihly.
Art is right to keep the portal open, just DON'T hit the waypoint in the
Halls of Pain. To close the red portal, just hit the waypoint. It'll
be closed the next game.
wizofwas
If you get the wp, I think it closes even if you don't kill Nilly. (no
more absolute 'need' for it then)
Not one hundred percent sure but don't really want to 'waste' a char
checking it either
I am one hundred percent sure that to keep it open, go ahead and kill
Nilly as many times as you want, just do not get the wp in HoP.
Every character I have ever created has gotten the HoP waypoint, and as
I don't bother with Nilly, every character still has Anya's portal open.
I have used HoP for leveling for years as it is playable in hell 8
player without major dangers. In each of those runs, Pindle via Anya
portal was part of the run.
OK, you may be right about having to kill Nilly too. I always kill Nilly,
so I wouldn't know if you have to do both for the red portal to close.

wizofwas
Virtual Den
2007-08-14 02:43:43 UTC
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Post by ArtDent
Post by wizofwas
Post by Polarhound
Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
Incorrect.
In order to make the portal disappear, you must get the HoP waypoint
*and* kill Nihly.
Art is right to keep the portal open, just DON'T hit the waypoint in the
Halls of Pain. To close the red portal, just hit the waypoint. It'll
be closed the next game.
wizofwas
If you get the wp, I think it closes even if you don't kill Nilly. (no
more absolute 'need' for it then)
Not one hundred percent sure but don't really want to 'waste' a char
checking it either
I am one hundred percent sure that to keep it open, go ahead and kill
Nilly as many times as you want, just do not get the wp in HoP.
Simple just do not get the two. You can hit the wp if you do not kill Nilly
or you can kill Nilly if you do not get the HOP's waypoint.

VD
Vladesch
2007-08-14 13:00:05 UTC
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Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
--
We apologize for the inconvenience
That cant be right.
I always get halls of pain WP and ive never had that red portal disappear.

My guess is its to do with the nihilihak quest.
Falko Rudolph
2007-08-14 14:49:23 UTC
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(snip)
Post by Vladesch
Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
That cant be right.
I always get halls of pain WP and ive never had that red portal disappear.
My guess is its to do with the nihilihak quest.
It definitly works, at least it did last ladder seasonf or me. Maybe you
have to take the wp _and_ kill Nilly to close the portal like said elsewhere
in this thread. This would explain why you can take wp and still take the
short way to pindle. But ArtDent is on the safe side, too.

Regards

Rudi
Ashen Shugar
2007-08-14 14:59:26 UTC
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I think it was "Falko Rudolph" <***@gmx.de> that wrote
something like...
Post by Falko Rudolph
(snip)
Post by Vladesch
Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
That cant be right.
I always get halls of pain WP and ive never had that red portal disappear.
My guess is its to do with the nihilihak quest.
It definitly works, at least it did last ladder seasonf or me. Maybe you
have to take the wp _and_ kill Nilly to close the portal like said elsewhere
in this thread. This would explain why you can take wp and still take the
short way to pindle. But ArtDent is on the safe side, too.
Regards
Rudi
I think it's that you need to complete the kill Nilly quest. You can
still kill Nilly if whoever made the game had done so previously.

How you do it depends on what you're planning on doing with the
character. If you only want to run Pindle, then you don't have a use
for the WP anyway. If you want to run Nilly for keys though, then you
have to either decide whether you want to start from the WP and make
the run a little bit quicker, but make it take longer should you want
to visit Pindle with that character, or just go through Pindle
everytime you go to visit Nilly. I always took this second option
with my sorceress. My barbarian took the first, going from the WP
since he couldn't teleport. WW and leap meant he could get past the
mobs easy enough, but he still had to follow the corridors.

If you can run two computers at the same time, you can have one
character that's done the kill Nilly quest create it, then have your
Pindle/Nilly running character that has the WP but hasn't completed
the Nilly quest join in and do the run. Because they won't get the
quest completed when they kill Nilly, the red portal will always be
there when they create a game to do Pindle runs.

Ashen Shugar
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MD-R Ar28senal v2.0b
2007-08-14 17:56:38 UTC
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Post by ArtDent
Post by Hank
Guys,
Whats the trick to keeping the portal open to Pindle that Anya
creates? Im in NM and what to start doing a few runs there.
Very simple.
Do NOT hit the waypoint in the Halls of Pain.
That's it.
--
We apologize for the inconvenience
BOTH Art and Polar are correct.

Because logically, if

A (get HoP wp) AND B (kill nilly) THEN C (red portal disappeared) ,

it also means

NOT A (don't get HoP wp) OR NOT B (not kill nilly) THEN NOT C (red portal
remains)

- Matthew.

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