Pepapepa

Ledge is great for regular farming but very bad for this bot, as far as I can tell. You cannot predict the map layout in the same way that you can with Forest or City of Sarn and the mob density is not high enough to compensate. Ledge will be nice when or if we get pathfinding. The forest is nice since you can somewhat predict the path and there are monkeys everywhere, adding to the probability that the bot will complete the run all the way. City of Sarn lacks the mob density but the map is so predictable that it is extremely easy to make a brute pathfinding script for it. Similar with Twilight Strand. None of these maps contain any dangerous mobs, with the exception of Perpetus in Sarn, and they all deal physical damage (and lightning for the archers in Sarn) making it possible to ignore resistances and just stack armour.

You get 2,5% less drops per level difference between you and the zone you are in, except the first 2 levels. So if you are 68 in Sarn (61), you will get (68 - 61) = 7 level difference. The first two levels dont count so you have 5 effective level difference. That means 12,5% less drops (forgot about the 2 free levels in my previous post). However, for the purpose of this calculation, your level is never considered to be higher than 68 (because the original highest zone before changes was 66, not considering maps, so it was done so that you would never have any penalties mainly for map drops when farming the highest level zone available to you). So whether you are 68 or 88, you will always have 12,5% penalty to drops in Sarn and zero penalty in Catacombs or Lunaris.

There is no reason not to level up. Farming Sarn Merciless is best, since you can get maps and chisels. After level 68 , you dont get anymore penalties to drops. So at 68, you have 17,5% less drops in Merciless Sarn. You can easily counteract that with IIQ. More importantly, as you level up further, this penalty does NOT further increase and you can easily get to 76-78 just by farming Sarn. That means access to better gear and more points to spend on passives. As you level up and get stronger, you will be able to clear Sarn faster with less time per run. That means more currency. Also, you can now substitute more of your equipment for IIQ or now even IIR gear since we can pickup uniques to maximalize the yield. So, why exactly do you want to stay low-level?

City of Sarn + Leap Slam Marauder with 4000 life + Checkerboard pattern + 200 seconds runs with 40 second monster-no-kill timeout + AHK script = over 15 exalteds in wealth over the last two weeks. For me, the bot is perfect. Well not perfect, but sufficient.

I can confirm that Leap Slam is THE build to be using. I am level 76 right now, build focused on survivabilty. Marauder, took all the life nodes possible and some attack speed, bought 400dps twohander and now I have 2000 dps Leap Slam and 4000 life. Leap Slam linked with Quantity, Melee Physical and Blood Magic.