[US East SC L] "Area 85" semi organized mf runs

[Ghist]

Tired of any of the following things in public games?:

1. Cannot MF Baal and Baal's minions as someone will have pickit and you never get any of the drops :rant:

2. Trying to run the Pit in 8 player Baal games and games do not last long enough or people leave at the sign of first Black Soul

3. Trying to run any Area 85 and people complaining about you teleporting for them or they leave the game.


Well, I'm tired of this so I have been thinking about a concept for "Area 85 runs" which would let a group of people to do effective mf runs on high level areas like Pit, WSK, CS etc. The primary idea is to form smaller sub groups that will tackle each area. In full 8 player game this will provide few nice benefits like high amount of item, charm and rune drops not forgetting high amount of experience gained by doing this. Other principle we should use is:

All drops are divided between people on the same area. So if you run The Pit alone, then you get all those drops. If you run Throne and Baal with 4 other player, you get average of 1/4 of the drops on that area. This means no pickit of course (I heard there is an easy way to detect if someone is using it by asking them to type $$ or something, can someone confirm this?)


I might be subjective on my opinion, but to me it looks like a win-win situation for all participants. Good areas to run would be:

The Pit
Mausoleum
Ancient tunnels
Travincal (not area 85, but Council is too good to be omitted from the list)
River of Flame
Chaos Sanctuary
WSK1-3
Throne + Baal


So what do you think? Interested?

[ShadowXIX]

Sounds cool I got a sorc or a barb up to the job message me *shadowxix
what time you on bnet?

[FOUR-SKIN]

thats a good idea i got a nice sorc. with good mf

[chipmc]

I'm interested. I have a level 86 Strafeazon I made for pit running with around 300 mf. Her resists are pretty low though so I usually stay away from the WSK. She can run River of Flame and Choas Santuary though.

Account name is *alucard_zx. I'm usually on most weekday afternoons and late at night.

[Kargor]

All drops are divided between people on the same area. So if you run The Pit alone, then you get all those drops. If you run Throne and Baal with 4 other player, you get average of 1/4 of the drops on that area.
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I might be subjective on my opinion, but to me it looks like a win-win situation for all participants.
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So what do you think?

I'm in Europe, so this is just a "what I think": you might want to be a little more detailed about the drop division. 1/n sounds good, but who is getting what if in a 2-player group you get a shaftstop and a windforce? Or, for that matter --- if a 4-player group gets a Windforce and nothing else? :-)

Just curious :-)

Christian

[Ghist]

I'm in Europe, so this is just a "what I think": you might want to be a little more detailed about the drop division. 1/n sounds good, but who is getting what if in a 2-player group you get a shaftstop and a windforce? Or, for that matter --- if a 4-player group gets a Windforce and nothing else? :-)

Just curious :-)

Christian

Well, I have been doing this with several different ways earlier. Here are few ways how we have done it.

1. Taking drops turn. All drops on area go to the player having a turn. With 4 players you get all drops from every 4th run.

2. Pooling all found good items on loot, then after few hours of running dividing. This involves usually some discussion and last time I remember we had Azure as the top item. 2 players wanted the Azure out of 4, and I gave up in order to get few more lower end items. If the runs are short then we usually try to remember if someone got a very good item, so that he does not get the top pick next time. It's of course possible, that some item is wanted by everyone, in that case we need to have a small lottery. So far we have never ended up having lottery.

3. If everyone agrees then a subgroup could just use normal grapping, but if there is one objection to this, then some other method should be used.

4. If you run the area alone, then you get all the drops from that area. In many cases this would be a very valid choice.

[black_death6]

i would like to join,i have a lvl 76 blizz sorc has maxed synergies and decent equipment 440 mf

[chessman4991]

I'll join - I have a lvl 80 hammerdin, but he doesn't have good equipment, so I only have a little over 150 mf, only about 5k hammer damage, and bad resists. However, I'll do all I can.

[Ghist]

It's been a long time since last post in this thread, but I have also received some messages from other people not listed on this thread about it and I'm just going to give it a try today around 9:30 PM EST. I will be using either Javazon for solo cows or Hammerdin to solo Chaos Sanctuary. I addition to this I will use my 2nd computer to bring in a Barbarian so I can give BO for everyone at the start of the each run. One run will last around 5-10 minutes. I will create a channel named: Level85MF and be there from 9:15 to 9:30 PM EST. Then I will start doing those runs. Pick up your areas and join me for some nice MF action.

:howdy:

[black_death6]

well i made a hammerdin now he can solo chaos sanctaury to :P lvl 80 and my sorc is lvl 84 or 5 or sumthing there both pretty good sorc can do meph withen 30-60 secs if i find it fast enuf or it could take to 1min - 1min 30 secs

ps : i dont use mh i just did like 100 runs straight and got familiar.

and will you been doing this every day around the same time?

[AlexanderGreatII]

I will join if theres any room left, but my hammerdin is still in training at lvl 72 nm baal doing roughly 4k+ damage. Of course the main thing I will be looking for is MF items while mfing since my mf on my character is mostly accidental.

[Appleman1]

If you dont mind I also would like to join. I have a level 89 Blizz Sorc with max Sys energys 660+mf. and a nice Kick *** lvl 89 Merc.

Aim - UltimateFury87
D2 - Tdc-Appleman