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Syxx
03-06-2004, 09:21
Hi All,

Yes indeed, KTA 4.0 is over. Last night 6 adventurers reached the Throne of Destruction and gave Baal a jolly good thumping and obtained their Guardianship. The team started a number of weeks ago and was made up of ....

FrenzyBarb - Guardianship
LeaperBarb - Guardianship
Fire Druid - Guardianship
Bonemancer - Guardianship
TrapperSin - Guardianship
Hydra Sorc - Gaurdianship
PoisonMancer - Died Worldstone Keep NM to Gloams (?)
Wind Druid - Died Far Oasis NM to Maggots
FOH Paly - Died NM (?)

Yes, I know the above is 9 players, but the Trapper was replacement for the dead Paly.

Last nights game started with a rerun of Ancients as our LaeperBarb missed the quest on Monday night. Same as last time. The 1st 2 ancients were rather easily taken out with Fire and Lightening spell, but Talic the toad, was Fire Immune and took alot bashing to kill. Then it was a slow journey through Worldstone keep, taking extra care not to die at this late stage of the game. A few dicey moments where players life dipped worryingly low, but fast rejurving, and backing off kept us all alive. Lister wasn't a big deal, but Baal, cloned himeself and having to kill both of them took awhile.

At this stage our Bonemancer had to leave, so the remaining 5 of us decided to complete the last outstanding quest .... Nik. The first 2 levels were not so much a worry of dying, but more a matter of doing the entire maps to find the stairs due to bad-luck navigation (Don't you just love not using MH ? hehe). Eventually we did reach level 3 and those scary Tomb Vipers. Up to now, my Merc who had only died once in the entire 5th Act, died like 4 times to the Vipers. Man they're truly scary. As for Nik, he was toasted rather easily with spells and an in-your-face Frenzier. Gogo Chiller.

I think this was one of the harder KTA teams to play. We lost 3 players in Nightmare, which made Hell rather differcult, as we had lots of Fire Damage, but not any other type of Elemental damage. Our Lightening Trapper was out of action for a few weeks with PC problems.

We never had an army of minions to hide behind, as neither of our Necros used Skeletons, and our Druids did not use doggies or ravens. However to made up for lack of minions, we had a bouncing Barb who's hopping on the spot kept all the monsters constantly stunned. Ever seen 20 plus Oblivion Knights pinned against the walls of Chaos Sanctuary unabe to do anything thanks to a bouncing Barb ? Awesome crowd control skill... saved our butt many times.

Being untwinked as usual added a extra problem to overcome .... crap gear. Resistance is always hard to maximize when you are dependant on what the parties finds. However we did find a few nice items on our journey.

Last night for example Hell Pinkle drop a 42% War Trav. We also found a 800 + Defence 4 slotted Armour. A future 'Stone' in the making ? I know our Frenzier is sporting a rather nifty unique hat, but its name as slipped my mind.

What other nice finds were made along the way, people ?

In closing I'd like to thank my comrade-in-arms for so much fun over the last number of weeks. Its been a real pleasure as always playing with you all. The team spirit, friendliness, humor and sharing ensure I'll never get bored with Diablo.

Thank you all.

Regards
Syxx

(See you in KTA 5.0 .... KTA meets Kill Bill)

greenbarret
03-06-2004, 10:14
congrats people, that sounds like a great job you did :thumbsup:

i had a very nice chat beforehand with you in the KTA channel, and i really am looking forward to monday... when KTA-5.0 -KTA vs. KILL BILL- starts.

i do have very few items to twink my furysin for that, but if i understand you guys right some of you would be able to donate me some stuff. i will finalise my build today (on paper .. hehe) and then make a list of my needs, from moost urgent to just nice wannehaves. then i will poost here, and see what is possible. of cource i will make sure to keep my needs rather cheap and low-profile, but as i understand it certain items are really a MUST for a furysin :scratch:

about that leaping barb:
i made a leaper myselve on softcore, and a maxxed leap MUST be the MOOST OVERPOWERED and UNDERESTIMATED team skill in this entire game. agreed.. you can't kill with it... but when everything is stun/hitrecovery locked.. well.. you all have seen the effect.. dolls, oblivion knights, even champions, 50 flayer bosspacks... even lister and his entire crew... they just become motionless carpets on the wall at which the rest off the party can hit at ease and without any danger.

anyways,...

congratiulations on th e guardianship again :winner:

Aerath
03-06-2004, 11:24
Congrats all on Guardianship.

And I must say that a Frenzy and Bunnybarb became more appealing per minute ;)

Mn_Swe2
03-06-2004, 11:45
Nice going guys :clap:

Good to hear you toasted Nihlatak as well :)

/Magnus

greenbarret
03-06-2004, 11:45
well.. i have had them both, and i must say... they are both awsome fun.

i can't really think of a more fon barb build then any of these 2, while i tryed all other builds except for s singer.

that may be your 3th candidate for a FUN barb.. that singer.

on the other hand.. i think a combination of some of these might actualy be very possible.
just make a singer or a frenzyer with 20 points into leap. its leap that makes the bunnybarb so effective and fun, not the leap attack (which is slow killing, and can't controll a thing)

i can see a build with
20 BO
20 frenzy
20 leap
20 frenzy synergy

work pretty well

det
03-06-2004, 13:15
Hi Ho...and kudos to us all. That was truly a great achievement and ranks with KTA 1.0 among my fondest memories.

Find of the sessions for me was the Wizspike that dropped from a cocoon in act 3 hell...my sorcs will truly love this. And KTA_Dante is now looking forward to exploit the marrowwalk bug until Silver needs them back.

Screenies will come later tonight, as I am at work atm.

Do we make a new thread about our Kill Bill team? Or do we go ahead here? I thinkk a few of us have decided on their builds and the places of barb (KTA_Bud aka KTA_sidewinder) and Pally (KTA_Bill aka KTA_Snakecharmer) are also taken.
I guess we really need to sort out things like who uses Mindblast, who CoS. Don't want all monsters on the screen converted all the time as six sins blast ahead :lol:

greenbarret
03-06-2004, 13:38
agreed with your ideas on making a new thread, makes things easyer i feel.

about your mindblast idea... IMHO a sin without mindblast aint a sin.. so I for sure will have it. how much i use it depends on how much we aer in trouble. it would be ok with me if all sins have and use MB, and if to many monsters are converted all the time, we just talk about it and use it less.

viamede
03-06-2004, 13:52
*takes hat off to KTA 4.0*
:thumbsup:

Zavior
03-06-2004, 13:54
Nice work! :)

Baroni
03-06-2004, 14:23
FOH Paly - Died NM (?)

The cheek of it!! You think I would get myself killed in NM? It was actually act1 Hell ^^. Must remember not to type whilst fighting a bunch of bad guys :lol:.

Last night went pretty smoothly imo, with just a couple of close calls for me from those accursed gloams (having a mighty 2 LR didn't help). Oh and the snakes in Nihilithaks area got me down to less than half life a few times too.

Best item I aquired was a +3 traps amu that someone else found (can't remember who sorry). My gear at the end was truly ghetto.

Can't wait to get up and running on Monday. It will by my first ever Phoenix Striker, and to make her as effective as possible, I may go without any backup from Fade/SM/MB and pump those synergies to the max (will use BOS though). Obviously not a wise choice single player but I can get away with it in a team.

Now..off to read some strat guides.

Chiller_babe
03-06-2004, 15:51
Well thankyou all for a very interesting trip - although I was last minute replacement for, Humm Vectom was it? I had a whale of a time and have ended up with the best equipped barb I ever had!

Who said untwinked wasn't fun my eqpt at the end looks like:

Veil of steel (50 Res All)
Courpsemourn armour (26ed rare jewelled)
Crescent Moon Highland Blade
Lightsabre or rare 266ed legend sword (dependent on gloams/nongloams)
LOH gloves
Wartravs boots
Rare ring with dual res and mana leech
Cathans ring (lol wore this from the start)
Dual res Rare mesh belt with life
And a 23 res all and life ammy

Not bad for untwinked - if only we had found that IK armour:lol:

Sorry I will be missing out on KTA 5.0 - but I may put in a couple of guest appearances if needed as it is a twinked team!

GL all and I will be reading your exploits every week, thx for an enjoyable couple of months of Mondays/Wednesdays.

with you all in spirit if not person

Chill

greenbarret
03-06-2004, 16:31
sry.. wrong thread

det
04-06-2004, 11:59
I promised screenshots.

here are screenshots :D

www.det-animation.de/guardians1.jpg

www.det-animation.de/guardians2.jpg

WingBlade
04-06-2004, 19:31
Grats 2 KTA - since the creation of KTA... I have enjoyed reading bout your journeys...


Even though 1 KTA crew bit it quite early... I think it was KTA 3.0 where the team got massacred - iirc it was NM A2 - Canyon of the Magi


Looking forward 2 your future endeavors...


Wing

Mn_Swe2
06-06-2004, 04:35
Grats 2 KTA - since the creation of KTA... I have enjoyed reading bout your journeys...

Even though 1 KTA crew bit it quite early... I think it was KTA 3.0 where the team got massacred - iirc it was NM A2 - Canyon of the Magi

Looking forward 2 your future endeavors...

Wing

I'm not an active part of the current team, but I was a part of KTA[1.0] to [3.0].

And you are right, [3.0] went out all blaze and glory in the Canyon somewhere around lvl 72-74. But it was in Hell, and it was thx to 3 or 4 bosspacks loaded up at wp :lol:

Will be fun to read about KTA[5.0]... KTA meets Kill Bill :)
/Magnus

det
06-06-2004, 11:58
He Magnus...check your diary :)

KTA 2.0 was slaughtered at that WP, then we decided to go all out twinked and start KTA 3.0.