Essentially one of the better ways to farm items in Diablo II was to repeatedly kill Mephisto, the A3 boss. Sorc (or another class with Enigma which is an item that was introduced in patch 1.10 and granted anyone the teleport ability) was the best class to do this with as you could just teleport directly to the boss, kill it, rinse and repeat.Please explain this concept. I recall seeing people playing dob2 and teleporting about crazily.....
What the hell was that
And you'll be able to do it in 3?
Mephisto was located in Durance of Hate level 3. DoH level 2 had a waypoint (meaning once you've activated it you can go directly there at any point (there was always a waypoint in town, and whenever you created a new game you started in town). So people would just take that waypoint and teleport around until they found the entrance to level 3...which could take some time because they made DoH level 2 pretty huge with patch 1.10.
So basically the people you see teleporting around are probably just doing MF runs (basically the term for farming in d2) and skipping everything in the way in favour of the boss since in Diablo you can just endlessly repeat a boss by creating new games.