Classic Ultimate quest

[Beltyn]

Hiya all, was flicking through player match up forum and noticed this ultimate quest thingy.

Basic premise: Make a group of eight chars who only play together, no twinking, no rushing, no outside leveling, no mfing.

Group just plays together.

Idea being gives us chance to experiment with builds which might be either an absolute pain or just unviable if played alone.

Below is straight copy/paste of blurb given in other starter posts:

NOTE: I AM NOT THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS IDEA, SO DON'T START CALLING ME A GENIUS OR ANYTHING. THE CREDITS FOR THIS IDEA GO TO SHADOWCRAWLER, AND ITS SUCCESS IS THANKS TO HIS ULTIMATE QUEST PARTY.

The rules are as follows:

The gameplay style will be untwinked starting from level one. This may seem weak, but before we begin the character builds should be discussed and chosen to complement one another, e.g. Paladin auras with Necro minions. If we take it slow and work together, I think we will be amazed at what is possible.

Create a themed character which you can roleplay. Your skills, in-game conversation, and general appearance should follow a theme. Are you a dark knight who favors vengeance and conviction or zealotry and fanaticism? A rabid werewolf who heralds the coming fiery armageddon? An iron barb who fears nothing? An enchantress who can hold the front lines? A good-natured cleric? A ferocious claw/claw assassin? A cunning trapper?

Do not create players yet. Just think about possible roles, and then we'll discuss who will take on which jobs before any characters are created. Remember that character ideas which would be utter roadkill on their own might excel in party play. Also, choice of mercenaries will be important. This will take planning. Finally, char names will have a common prefix for the group TUQ.

No twinking, item or exp running, or gold muling will be allowed, PERIOD. These characters are only supposed to be played in a group at the specified time period. The idea is to play the game as it was meant to be played. The group should work together to MF, buy/share/trade items, and help level stragglers.

Trading outside the group is expressly disallowed. Unfortunately, running is the order of the day on B.net, so their economy is far too inflated with items, putting it squarely at odds with these rules. No outside gold or items should be brought in, and no member of the group should be rushed outside of party play.

MF can be done, but not as item runs. We should MF only by equipping MF items that we find or create (e.g. ptopaz armor, chance guards) and playing through the game normally. Note that since we are working together, it should be possible to load up some characters in the rear ranks with more MF gear.

Gold and items will generally belong to the group. We should play with the understanding that items which are particularly needed by or are useful to one character should be given to that character. I want honest, mature players who can tough things out if need be. No whining, and though I would hate to have to step in and lay the law down, my decisions will be final.

We will work through all areas of the game, getting all waypoints, completing all quests, and exploring all subareas. The point is one of pride: to show that we can work equally well in all areas of the game. Only those locations with horribly-bugged monsters (e.g. gloams and poison serpents) and seriously-pumped bosses (e.g. uber diablo) should pose any real trouble.

Don't rush it - this is partly a social thing. We should meet each session to plan things out so that we can act as a group. Sure, some people will need to be in town shopping, cubing, or whatever as the need arises - but the general idea should be group play. However, remember that a group is not a bunch of loners who run off willy-nilly after ten seconds of waiting.

Take periodic screenshots and jot down a few quick notes. This is a perfect opportunity to gather some stuff together for a DiabloII.Net article series. It does not have to be anything fancy - just some notes, screenshots, quick comments, and pertinent observations to wet the appetites of our fellow players. Maybe people might even begin using roleplaying games to roleplay!

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Just seems like a lot of fun and could give us a chance to experiment and have fun a little, get to know other classic players a bit, and hopefully start up the roleplaying idea suggested at end of the OT.

Would like to bounce the idea around first before setting anything in stone, can decide realm and stuff at a later date.

Ladder/non ladder wouldn't matter as we're not using items anyway, but thinking ladder would be idea just so if we get an oddball build high enough we could get recognised :)

Hc/sc is an interesting question.

If we do make it into high 80s or so on hc then i'd say its a damn good advertisment for doing more of these.

Flip side, if a char dies and one or more other chars were relying on some aspect of the dead char the party could fall apart.

However, if all 8 chars complement well should make it harder to die, particularly considering have each other available to cover chars who get hit by lag spikes.

that and knowing you could be running around with an extra 7-20 targets + bo/bc/ench/auras might make most builds that little bit tougher :p


Post what you think and if you're interested, going from feedback on other people who've tried this i think keeping it down just to one or two days a week might be best idea, just to save too many people not being able to join in too often.

Myself i'd say probably favour saturday ngihts/sunday, but deal with that once more interest is here.


Oh, and cheers for actually reading all of that :xmas17:

[Kevin William Cox]

OOOkkaayyy, you do realize your in classic right? Werewolf? Claw assassin? Not possible in classic. The idea has been around for a while. Problem is everybody getting together at the same time on a regular. First, do your homework on classic, next set a time table then recruit. See who pops up as probable players. Then start the game. Good Luck!! :xmas30:




Kev

[Dacar92]

OOOkkaayyy, you do realize your in classic right? Werewolf? Claw assassin? Not possible in classic.

I think he was just using examples to make a point.


The idea has been around for a while. Problem is everybody getting together at the same time on a regular. First, do your homework on classic, next set a time table then recruit. See who pops up as probable players. Then start the game. Good Luck!! :xmas30:
Kev


That is the biggest problem. Getting people together at set times. This is the biggest problem the single player forum has for tournaments they set up. When I joined this site, I visited almost exclusively the SP forum. I tried to set up several tourneys and they amlost always fizzled due to a lack of available time for players.

But I am interested and would think about playing after my current project is completed. I would also prefer Saturday nights. I am U.S. Central Standard time. GMT -6.

[Immortality]

So what your saying is... a dungeon crawler theme? Sounds neat, but like dacar said the lack of avaiable time slots and the fact that only about 15 people visit and post the classic forums on a regular basis will make this a difficult feat.


If B-Net is such a problem... then.. why do it on B-net? Use the direction connection option.

HC does sound like a good idea. It raises the stakes a bit and drives teamwork above all else.



I think he was just using examples to make a point.

You mean the guy he copied this from...

Anywho, we are just proud that we play/ed classic

[Beltyn]

Yes the werewolf thing was because i copy/pasted the thing of another thread, sure i mentioned that in originail post though.

For me, saturday nights around 11pm + GMT sounds good and all day sunday.

Probably other times through the week but too sporadic to actually pin down times.

If timing does end up prblem see no reason why it can't be done in smaller groups, even just a group of three opens up many more options than before.

Just think it would be nice to see a little more teamwork besides people leeching in pubby cow/cs games.

[LukeJames]

Heh, I don't give credit to whoever started this trend. After all this is a RPG (Roleplaying Game). RPG's are intended for you to take on a role, based on the tools and devices you are given, it's just that people in the 21st Century are too addicted to their sugar and must make silly names like 'P\/\/NER' instead of Keiser-Vlad or something of a character nature. Not to mention that we also have a fan fiction forum to let people tell you about their character's personality which is pretty interesting.

[fredsta54]

GREAT! i love this idea and im in...

i participated in 1 of these when i played expansion single player (and was farily active member on the sp forums)

It was a lot of fun, however, an 8 player team wont work. In all the games we played, each time only like 6 ppl came, and if you missed a session, you were out. (providing you couldnt make it and didnt give notice to the team)

I think we should try for a 4 or 5 person team, and it should be on tcpi connection so theirs no chance a team member would be unfaithful (assuming they dont hax ~~)



But, yeah.... a barb sorc and din were fairly standard to the succesful teams, however, if you ppl are up for it, mabye we could play none cookie cutter builds? We could still get tele and bo... just no hammerdin that takes the fun out of it










Fred

[LukeJames]

Can I join anyhow?
I'm able to play quite often and I live in EST time-zone so I hope that shouldn't be a problem.

I'm planning for a warrior of the Zuberi tribe, amazons whom specialize in the creation and use of vile herbs and mystic roots, making for a powerful poison. Basically a poison javazon, they don't work extremely well so that is why I figured I might as well try it in a group of non-cookie cutters or I may never get the chance.

[fredsta54]

ok so, so far its me, immortality (he told me in game, but post please), beltyn, and lukejames

thats already 4 people! and to the best of my knowlege we are all easties who can go on in the evenings :)

so... i guess 8 ppl can sign up, but if they miss a session then they are out... if they dont give warning for reschedule in advance








Fred

[Kevin William Cox]

Non-Cookie Cutter builds HC, huh? Hmmm... I don't mind non-cookie cutter builds, but in some builds not haveing certain gear could prove to be very hard past NM. Then again I'm not one of the best players who ever lived, yet.(lol) I could do this. Saturday night for you guys is Sunday morning for me.

Let's say it's 8 pm Saturday Night in NYC. Then it would 10 am Sunday morning here. 14 hours ahead. That's just an example.

HC (sigh) I've never done it actually. But I'm game. I'll try my best. Sorry if I die guys. In advance.

I'm guessing the raid your corpse thing will be in effect also. Never done that either.

We need a leader with whom everyone can contact, in case someone can't make it. Like MSN or something. Or I guess we could use here. Make a post in a thread that you can't make it before the game at speicified time. And I guess rules like, If you miss more than two in a row your out. Make up time for leveling would hurt the team.

That puts it at once a week. Gonna take a while. How long are we planning to play for? 3~4 hours at a time?

And Dacar, when is this project your working on going to be done, anytime soon? Hope to hear from you guys.



Kev

[LukeJames]

Can we have it in softcore?
Just in-case anyone wants to make suicide builds.
Also for the fact that I don't want to be out of the fun in the first three hours.

[fredsta54]

Can we have it in softcore?
Just in-case anyone wants to make suicide builds.
Also for the fact that I don't want to be out of the fun in the first three hours.


i would like it to be sc also, however, immortality told me it would be much better in hc,

and to be honest, if it is a planned out party with builds that benefit each other, there wont be much dieng, there will be owning


Hc or sc - either way is fine for me. this should be voted on









Fred

[LukeJames]

When exactly will this start up? I still have holidays until the 9th so I was hoping perhaps it would start soon.

[Scooch]

Sounds like a good idea, I'd be able to play every weekday at 8:30 PST. I'd prefer hardcore.

[Kevin William Cox]

So far 7. Fred, Immortality, LukeJames, Dacar (if he can make it), Me, Beltyn, and Scooch.

Really need a time table here. How many days a week and what times.

Then HC, or SC. I'll do either. Since it is the first one for us, and we don't know the skills of all the players. SC might be better. Someone might have to play a charectar they've never played before. And dieing might fizzle people out on trying again in the future. If we succeed with this one, the next one could be HC. What do you guys think?

I'm more inclined to be a Barb or Cold Sorc. I've made both many times. But I won't rule out trying something else, if someone can tell me what skills will benefit the team most to begin with.

Hope to hear from you soon.


Kev

[Beltyn]

Sc for the first one and hc if we do more sounds a plan :)

I'm available from around 11pm GMT any day, plus most of the day sunday.

Thinking i'd tend towards either sorc, or necro using mainly CE, curses, and maybe a couple of revives for tanks :)


Let's start getting availability stuck down so we can thresh out good times.

Quick Q: EST = GMT -8 hours? WST = GMT-5hours?

(Pretty pathetic with time zones :()

[Immortality]

I kind of doubt that dacar can make it, I mean he DOES have two kids and a... wife? And we all know what wives do... ahem.



Really, I don't see the point of making ww'ers, blizzs, Dins, etc.
Such Cookie Cutter builds just take fun out of the game. It supposed to be teamwork! Not some guy going rambo.


I opposed to sc because I think it will make people NOT value their lives. And hell, how would sc make a good story?



And If we need a scribe to record our journeys... I think we should borrow some guy from the fan fiction forums :xmas30:

[Kevin William Cox]

I kind of doubt that dacar can make it, I mean he DOES have two kids and a... wife? And we all know what wives do... ahem.


Really, I don't see the point of making ww'ers, blizzs, Dins, etc.
Such Cookie Cutter builds just take fun out of the game. It supposed to be teamwork! Not some guy going rambo.

I opposed to sc because I think it will make people NOT value their lives. And hell, how would sc make a good story?

And If we need a scribe to record our journeys... I think we should borrow some guy from the fan fiction forums :xmas30:

I got that beat, a wife and four kids,lol.

No cookie cutter builds in HC. Hmmm... I admire your.... courage. Might be a short lived game though. How does a Frenzy/War Cry barb grab ya?

I don't like to die. I don't think anyone does, but I understand where your coming from, like dieing a hundred times to Dury just because you can come back. How about three deaths rule? Over that and your out.

If someone from fan fiction is willing to come along that would be cool. I'm not to keen on keeping jornals myself. Maybe if we asked nicely.... :xmas23:

[Immortality]

No cookie cutter builds in HC. Hmmm... I admire your.... courage. Might be a short lived game though. How does a Frenzy/War Cry barb grab ya?




A summoner with a paly with auras should work quite nicely.


Mmm... We could try that baba.

[LukeJames]

Can everyone who will be attending the massive event please post what build they are going to be using and what timezone they are in? Even if we aren't using cookie-cutters -which is great- it would still be best to make sure our party can deal with all elements of Diablo II, yes?
I'll go first..

Build: Poison Javazon
Timezone: EST

[Immortality]

How does a cleric sound?

[LukeJames]

Does anyone know how effective poison javazons are?
I know they are crap versus the demons of CS and bosses.
However they start with good skills early and can pump through non-resistant monsters, am I correct?

[Beltyn]

I'll make necro, mainly CE, amp and LR, thinking with fire golem and revive so party has good meat shield, plus some bone skills.

Gonna keep away from poison skills as conflict with the poison jav build, while curses should help everyone.

Was thinking fire golem just to draw things to it :)

I'm GMT but always up late here (seeing sleep before 2 am is rare :p)

Think gonna start up little story for my guy, give some atmosphere :p

[Xargon]

If we're going to play, i can be a firewall sorc; they really pack a punch after clvl 18. I look forward to finally playing with you guys!
(i'm *Xargon on USWest, but realm doesnt really matter, i'l play on whaterver everyone else is playing)

[mogons]

I was thinking Instead of going in blind with random people and characters why not come up with a build like this. 2 barb’s 1 bo shout bc ww defense 1 bo bc barb ww, 3 sorceress’s 2 blizz 1 enchantress / fire, 2 hammer dins, 1 curses / poison nec with corpse explosion. This way we would have a lot of damage and with these characters if played right we will be able to go in with a strategy. Have you’re barbs and dins up front, put you’re sorceress in the back it only makes sense that way because barbs and pallys are going to have more str and more defense than you. Anyways normal will be easy with 2 sorceress’s with ice blast 2 barbs 1 enchantress should be enough damage to get you through norm just them alone. Then nm you’re barbs are close to having bo and shout, you’re enchantress now is giving you’re barbs a nice buff and you’re pallys are starting to work on their hammer skills the 2 cold sorceress should be close to getting blizz or alredy have it. Ok good not you’re in hell you’re sorceress’s have a decent blizz, 1 barb should have bo the other should have shout alredy maxed, youre dins are starting to do some alright damage and you’re poison nec is kinkin the piss outta everything non emune and you’re enchantress is giving you’re barbs a full buff. So now you’re in hell cs EZ you have 2 pallys that are putting a world of hurt on everything they see, the blizz sorceress are putting out a sickening amount of damage you also have fire and poison and corpe explosion and curses and on top of that all you will have a full bo and shout.

[Immortality]

I was thinking Instead of going in blind with random people and characters why not come up with a build like this. 2 barb’s 1 bo shout bc ww defense 1 bo bc barb ww, 3 sorceress’s 2 blizz 1 enchantress / fire, 2 hammer dins, 1 curses / poison nec with corpse explosion. This way we would have a lot of damage and with these characters if played right we will be able to go in with a strategy. Have you’re barbs and dins up front, put you’re sorceress in the back it only makes sense that way because barbs and pallys are going to have more str and more defense than you. Anyways normal will be easy with 2 sorceress’s with ice blast 2 barbs 1 enchantress should be enough damage to get you through norm just them alone. Then nm you’re barbs are close to having bo and shout, you’re enchantress now is giving you’re barbs a nice buff and you’re pallys are starting to work on their hammer skills the 2 cold sorceress should be close to getting blizz or alredy have it. Ok good not you’re in hell you’re sorceress’s have a decent blizz, 1 barb should have bo the other should have shout alredy maxed, youre dins are starting to do some alright damage and you’re poison nec is kinkin the piss outta everything non emune and you’re enchantress is giving you’re barbs a full buff. So now you’re in hell cs EZ you have 2 pallys that are putting a world of hurt on everything they see, the blizz sorceress are putting out a sickening amount of damage you also have fire and poison and corpe explosion and curses and on top of that all you will have a full bo and shout.

See.. that what we call the cookie cutter builds. We're trying something new... if we wanted that we could go into a cs run and pretty much have exactly what you said..

[Scooch]

We're going to need to get a timetable or something going because we all know there probably won't be a time in which everyone from the boards can all log on at the same time.

[fredsta54]

im available pretty much 7pm-9pm every day... sometimes 6-10, or just sometime in this time frame

Ill be playing as a golemlord... maxed fire golem as main killer with lower resist.. maxed mages//skeleton mastery to back him up, few revives

@mogons: no dins, blizz sorc's, or anything cookie cutter will be participating in this quest







Fred

[Beltyn]

Ok so far looking towards:

Myself: mainly bone/ce/curse necro with fire golem.

LukeJames: Poison jav ama.

Kevin william Cox: Frenzy/WC baba?

Immortality: Cleric?

Fred: Golemlord.

Scooch: ???

Dacar: ???


Going off thread in general, i'm guessing around 6-10pm approx EST on saturdays is sounding an idea.

Thinking consensus is leaning toward hc but is still open, i much prefer hc style of play but can see and appreciate arguements against it.

Realm: guess would be east, have to test my connection on it make sure not too laggy. Not overly an issue as no need for other chars/items (beyond being able to make hc chars if we choose that).

Can someone just check for me, bu 6-10pm EST should be 2-6am next day GMT? :xmas17:

[fredsta54]

Ok so far looking towards:

Myself: mainly bone/ce/curse necro with fire golem.

LukeJames: Poison jav ama.

Kevin william Cox: Frenzy/WC baba?

Immortality: Cleric?

Fred: Golemlord.

Scooch: ???

Dacar: ???


Going off thread in general, i'm guessing around 6-10pm approx EST on saturdays is sounding an idea.

Thinking consensus is leaning toward hc but is still open, i much prefer hc style of play but can see and appreciate arguements against it.

Realm: guess would be east, have to test my connection on it make sure not too laggy. Not overly an issue as no need for other chars/items (beyond being able to make hc chars if we choose that).

Can someone just check for me, bu 6-10pm EST should be 2-6am next day GMT? :xmas17:


Ahhh.. nvm i wont play as golemlord if you are playing as something similar


The realm wont matter if we play tcpi (to prevention curruption of chars on bnet)

I will play as a hammerdin using hacked items... errr... nvm but ill post my desicion soon ;)

Hey, i have an suggestion

How about it is a 5 person team eventually (im assuming that at least 3 ppl wont be able to make it.. and each person is a diffirent character class so we would have 1 of each)










Fred

[Scooch]

I would prefer to be a one tree sorc, depending on the needs of the party I'd pick which element I'd go with.

[Noite Escura]

I won't play, as I can't be online everyday. If you're going non-standard builds, how about a Freezing bowazon?

[mogons]

Ok so go with a pally that will bring Salvation, 2 poison / Curses nec with max lower resistance, 4 orb sorceress, 1 barb with bo shout, it leves room for you guys to tryout stuff the barb has to have bo at least one of the necs have to have max lower resists and the sorceress have to be AOE ether orb blizz frost nova meteor doesn’t really matter.


Edit:These are just suggestions I think it would be neat to see how this combination of characters would work with the lower resist AOE sorcs.

[mogons]

Pritty much everything has been tested before so I think I would just go with a stun frenzy barb with bo. I can play every day EST im not quite sure what time this is going to take place though I will probably be available.

[Dacar92]

I will play whatever you guys need me to play. Name it. Although I am in the middle of a HC Zon ATM. I have to finish or die before I can start this.

[Kevin William Cox]

How's this:

Beltyn: Necro-Bone/CE/Curse with Fire Golem

LukeJames: Poison Jav AMA

Kevin: Frenzy/War Cry Barb with max Bo some shout

Immorality: Paladin or Sorc?

Fred: Barb or Sorc? (would really like one more barb to help me tank,
and your good at it, you could take shout to lighten the load for
me)

Scooch: Sorc- Lighting (TS-meh)

Mogons: Paladin

Dacar: Sorc- Cold (Orb?- Anyone against this?)



Time: 9 p.m. EST - I'm assumeing everyone is in the U.S. execpt me. This
would put it at 9 p.m. in NYC and 6 p.m. in L.A.. There are only 4 time
zones so check your time in connection with 9 p.m. EST.


Realm: TCP/IP - I would say Fred could host, if that's ok with him.

Routine: Once a week on Saturdays at 9 p.m. EST
Some of us have families, others school and work. Yes it will be slow
going, but why rush.

HC/SC: Vote now!
HC or SC-Three Death a game rule! (Die 4 times and your out)

Start: When we all agree on times and builds and Dacar is done with his
other Zon project. There is no need to rush this, rushing will only
mean less players, disliked builds and people agrueing or quiting.

I vote SC-Three Death a game rule!

[mogons]

I think the time is fair it gives me a good 4 hrs of playing with you guys each and every time but I’m hoping we can do this on EST realm instead of doing private we could probably meet in a channel like op experiment and once every body joins the chan we could go ahead and make a game.

[fredsta54]

I object to an orb//blizz sorc being a team member

I guess it could be on east bnet, as long as no-one cheated (used the char in any way w/o the team)

I think that for the team, we should all have the same tag in front of our names, idk what the tag would be tho... CF_(char name) CF stand for classic forum.... just an idea

Hc vs Sc- i am neutral on this one, ill let you guys decide

I would rather not play as a barb if there is already a barb in the team w/ maxed bo... and there already seems to be at least 2 sorcs

Hmm... ive made up my mind.

Ill be playing as a fire zon :D

@Dacar: any idea how long your zon project will take?













Fred

[Beltyn]

Imagination time :xmas17:

Char name: Zoltarach

Zoltarach was taken in by the priests of Rathma as a young child after his village was ravaged by mobs incensed by its ties to 'heretic' and 'deviant' necromancers.

He was schooled to control his rage and maintain personal balance over his emotions. Over time, he came to see the light of their reasonings, and was taken into the secluded community, learning their ways and arts.

Seeking solace and closure, near the end of his adolescence Zoltarach travelled with his elder mentor to the site of his former home.

Upon arriving, both man and boy were drawn to the centre of the old village. A menagerie of animals had formed nests around a small flame continuously pouring out of a crack several yards from where the main well feeding the village once lay.

With Zoltarach staring awestruck at the scene, the elder priest mused quietly toward the faint irridescent flame, passing unnoticed by the collection of animals whose lodgings bordered the luminescence. He squatted in front of the flame, first passing his hand across it several times, then placing a variety of herbs within the flame, his expressions cycling along with the colours of the flame mixed with his herbs.

With barely a pause the greying priest rose, and wandered out of the collection of creatures as seemlessly as he entered, passing past the confused yet intrigued Zoltarach, coming to rest on a dilapidated post on the outskirts of the village.

Zoltarach turned and was about to launch into a tirade of questions when his mentor stopped him, slowly raising one wrinkled finger to his lips, and then motioning with a wave for his young pupil to explore his origins as he saw fit. The old mans eyes stood firm, and Zoltarach knew better than to push the point here.

The rest of his village passing from his mind, Zoltarach encricled the flame and several times, seemingly entranced by it. He paused and gazed into its light for what seemed to be an age. During which, he sensed all manor of emotions; love, hate, joy, pride, confusion, and hope.
Coming back into himself, Zoltarach noticed the lengthening shadows of the trees and deemed it prudent not to delay his mentor any longer. Pulling himself away from the flame, he hurried back to the outskirts of the village, where the elder priest still resting against the old post, but now with a raven on an awning opposite him regarding him with interest, and he likewise to it.

Upon Zoltarach's approach, both man and bird craned their necks towards him in tandem, before returning to each others gaze. The priest made a brief gesture with his left hand before dropping the bird a polite nod of acknowledgement. The raven appeared to return the nod, turned to examine Zoltarach once more, then leaped gracefully into the air and returned to the encricling maze of trees.

Zoltarach approached his teacher slowly, but again his eyes boldly stated that this would not be the time for questions. Outstrecthcing his arm and palm, he gestured for Zoltarach to lead the way back, which the proceeded to do, his mind aflame with questions.


The following day in the temple, Zoltarach could hold his questions no longer. He worked his way round the labyrinthine passageways to his teacher. Finding his door ajar, the boy cautiously pushed his nose forward. The priest was busy musing over decaying dusty manuscripts,

"Sir?" Zoltarach asked.

"Mmmm? Ah my good boy, i expected you to have gotten here earlier. do come in. I expect you didn't sleep very well with everything floating around inside your head after yesterday. No matter, plenty of time to remedy that. pull up a chair.

Zoltarach came into the priest's chamber, gently pulling a small wooden stool near to the priest's desk. whilst normally tidy and free from clutter, the desk was awash with manuscripts, tablets and books, many written in strange scripts completely illegible to the young lad.

"Now then, where should i begin?" mused the priest. "You seemed rather taken aback by the flame of the village yesterday" he continued, "Lost a good many hours gazing into it you did. Pray tell me, what was going through your mind as you looked upon it?"

Zoltarach shuffled uneasily upon his stool, unsure of how to answer the question.

"I'm not sure sir, I, um, well I..." Zoltarach floundered, trying to read the old man's eyes for some idea of how to proceed. Instead, he received an expressionless gaze, with the priests index finger beginning to twirl, pressing for his pupil to go on. At a loss, Zoltarach came out with "Feelings, Sir. Just....feelings. I don't know what else to say."

The priest stared striaght into the eyes of his charge, running his fingers pentatively across the stubble on his cheek. Then he managed to confuse Zoltarach even more, he smiled.

"Good, very good indeed" the priest paused a second, taken in the look of shock which shot across the boy's face. "Don't look like that my boy, if i didn't have some insight into what happened with you then we'd have a problem now wouldn't we? I had a idea but wanted the chance to confirm my expectations before letting you know them. Would be a shame to build up hopes only to have to knock them down again"

"hopes? I don't understand what you mean sir"

The priest chuckled to himself quietly, never letting his eyes leave those of the boy.

"you say you felt feelings, correct?"

"yes but...."

"Stop asking questions you can answer yourself boy, you've been taught better than that" the priest fired in quickly, though still retaining the smile on his face.

"Think about how those feelings felt when they came into your mind. Don't try to question them, just feel them as they are and tell me something about them"

At a loss, Zoltarach closes his eyes to escape the inquiring gaze of the priest, and casts his mind back to the previous day.

After a moment, he replies, "I know them."

"Go on"

"They're familar. At least, they feel..... I don't know. It's like, i know them, and yet i don't". Zoltarach opens his eyes to see his teacher nodding contentedly to himself.

"good enough i suppose. You do know them. Or perhaps to be more accurate, they know you"

Zoltarach searches through all his teachings and memories for an explanation to such a cryptic answer, but everything leads to dead ends. Having given the boy a little time to exhaust his imagination, the priest continues,

"They know you now, and they knew you in the past. That flame is the still present feelings of those who once knew you, of those who still know you in truth. those who once cared for you still care for you, even now, albeit they may not be capable of doing it in the same manor. Those who died the day we took you from that place still watch over you. Your future appears to bear interest for them, and they have no wish to depart without knwoing how it shall unfold."

"But...." Zoltarach began. the priest merely raised his finger to his lips once more before resuming his explanation.

"And perhaps your timing to return may prove fortuitous. We have a small group in the West, on the outskirts of the kingdom of Khanduras, who have asked for a pupil to school further to aid them. They say the land there is troubled, and that we should keep a keen eye upon events and how they unfold, perhaps even intervening if need be. I have taken it upon myself to correspond with this group, and they have informed me they have the ability to train you in whatever of our arts you deem best for yourself"

"Me? But.... I never asked for this! surely their are others...."

"Others have no definate idea of what they wish to learn, after yesterday i sense that you may"

"But how would...."

"Stop asking questions and start looking for answers. Look inside yourself and think. You know of all those disciplines in which we practice. Look to what captures your heart"

Zoltarach stared into the space before him, letting the answer come to him.

"Fire"

The priest nodded to himself. "i shall send word to prepare what you shall require, I trust you shall perform admirably for our friends...

"Wait"

The priest let his sentence fizzle into silence, cocking one eyebrow upwards in anticipation of his pupil's response.

"you said the feeling i felt looking into the flame came from those departed. I want to learn more about that as well"

The priest smiled to himself. "You're more prepared than i thought my lad. Go, and start collecting together all you will need to take with you, i will ensure everything shall be prepared for your arrival. You shall learn the secrets of that which has ensnared your interest if you show them interest in kind. I wish you luck and a safe journey. Hopefully we may meet again someday if fortune favours us".

Zoltarach hurried to the door back to the passageways of the temple, pausing at the threshold. He turned back to the priest, and said "thank you, i won't let you down", and then scurried off back to his room.

The priest sat back into his chair and rubbed his temples.

"For the sake of the world i pray you prove me right my boy"

----------------------------

Whew, imagination overload :xmas22:

Ah well, good bit of backstory for my char, not expecting this off anyone else but if someone else feels the need to empty their brain could be fun :)

[Immortality]

Wow... err ... you sure you don't post on the fan fiction forums, Beltyn?



Well, I've decided on being a cleric. While I really don't think that a cleric is that much differen't from an foh'er, I'll just mainly focus on holy bolt, prayer and that mana regen thingy.






Zombiez R Ez.



Lag might be an issue with the direct Ip connection thing.

[mogons]

Ok there may be a rule on orb / blizz but every sorc has to have an AOE spell. As far as pallys go hammer dins not allowed ether ? its just going to be a waist of time I think we should be doing what we think will be the most effective in placement of orb and blizz. In that case Frost Nova would you could also have the pally dedicated to party resistance ether than damage instead of having people day ok im going to ummmm make a poison dagger necro and deal **** damage wich you can clearly see will not work. I think we should come up with some sort of strategy using characters and skills that are rarely used. If you would like I can come up with a strategy to be tested. Just to inform you I agree to you not being able to use hammer dins and blizz, orb and other common skills like bone spear and spirate, iron maiden but we will have to make exceptions in some areas if we expect to get to get anywhere.

[LukeJames]

Do Open-Connection Battlenet instead of IP-Connection.

Mogons, this isn't some solo leveling stunt in an eight player game we are talking about, it's a large group of people actually working together for once, each of them contributing their own abilities to the party, with a paladin in charge due to his aura. Diablo II is not a hard game when you get a group of people actually working for a common goal.

[Immortality]

Do Open-Connection Battlenet instead of IP-Connection.

Mogons, this isn't some solo leveling stunt in an eight player game we are talking about, it's a large group of people actually working together for once, each of them contributing their own abilities to the party, with a paladin in charge due to his aura. Diablo II is not a hard game when you get a group of people actually working for a common goal.

Open B-Net is for people in and around your local area.

[fredsta54]

Ok there may be a rule on orb / blizz but every sorc has to have an AOE spell. As far as pallys go hammer dins not allowed ether ? its just going to be a waist of time I think we should be doing what we think will be the most effective in placement of orb and blizz. In that case Frost Nova would you could also have the pally dedicated to party resistance ether than damage instead of having people day ok im going to ummmm make a poison dagger necro and deal **** damage wich you can clearly see will not work. I think we should come up with some sort of strategy using characters and skills that are rarely used. If you would like I can come up with a strategy to be tested. Just to inform you I agree to you not being able to use hammer dins and blizz, orb and other common skills like bone spear and spirate, iron maiden but we will have to make exceptions in some areas if we expect to get to get anywhere.


I dont agree with you

You come in here with 10 posts acting like your running the whole place, the truth is that unique//non cookie cutter builds can kill fine, just at a more realistic pace than hammerdins///unfair characters

We are doing this for fun, not to be the best we can be

Btw, classic poison dagger necros can deal 16k poison dmg w/o 2 many + skills , ***** dmg? They can solo hell just by lower resisting, stabbing each monster once, then calmly walking away... you just gotta give the psn time to do its magic ;)



EDIT: Oh, i vote that we do this on east scc/hcc ladder... a lot less laggy than open bnet, tcpi connection, and im sure we will all be faithful




Fred

[Immortality]

and im sure we will all be faithful




Fred

Yeh... Think of the STDs you may get if you arn't... :xmas17:

[mogons]

Im not trying to take over the test operation I’m giving suggestions. Its game mechanics and I don’t know ware you got 16k from poison dagger because all I get is 8474.22 damage over 9.6 seconds per hit with max poison dagger, poison explosion, poison nova, and with max Lower resist on you’re victim with poison dagger. And mind you your only hitting on one character at a time with frost nova you are doing 447 AOE damage equals 4470 with 10 enemies in range I don’t have the cast rates and attack speed on hand so I cant tell you for sure what the damage of frost nova is but I can give it a good estimation frost nova is probably about a 1 second cast so times 4470 by 9.6 and you will have you’re comparison witch is 42912 damage over a area with a shard you can add 1 quarter damage on top of the current damage = 64368 damage over an area. I don’t want to go too deep into all this but you also have to count you’re attack rating and IAS witch I can granite if I took that into account the necros damage would be slightly more decreased. Please I don’t want to get into an argument over this but I don’t appreciate you accusing me of trying to take over this operation my posts are just suggestions I have not once sead that we had to do anything I’ve sead.

[Dacar92]

I am not sure how long my HC Zon project will take. She is at level 40 now. I don't have a lot of time to play now since my vacation is over. I am not sure I should join this time. I may not be able to devote the time necessary to be a team player.

@ Imm0rtality: if you get a host with a nice internet connection you can have little to no lag. I have done 8 player baal runs with graphic overload in TCP/IP games with no lag. You can check your upload and download speeds at different sites around the internet. I know of a few commercial sites that will do it. I have used them to check mine. Only a few, though, are recommended. If you're not sure which one to use, shoot me a PM.

[Kevin William Cox]

Some minor changes:

Beltyn: Nerco Bone/CE/Curse with fire golem

LukeJames: Poison-Jav AMA

Kevin: Frenzy/Wac Cry Barb with max BO and some shout (10)

Immortality: Paladin (Holy Bolt, Prayer, Mana reg.)

Fred: Fire Zon

Scooch: Sorc Lighting (TS only hits one target at a time, correct me if I'm wrong, might be better to go with chain lighting)

Mogons: Sorc Frost Nova (Did I read that right?)

Looks like Dacar can't make it, he wants to give his all for the sake of the team and if he can't do that then he won't play. I respect that.

There was one more person earlier on named Xargon. He wanted to play a Firewall Sorc. Any objections? I hope he is still interested. If not then 7 it is.

So we have 3(2) Sorc, 2 Zons, 1 Nerco, 1 Paladin, 1 Barb

Time: Everyone ok with 9 p.m. EST?

Realm: U.S. East wins. Non cheating is easy, remember everyones lvl after every game. If someone uses outside of the group, you'll know. Hopefully it won't come to that.

Routine: Once a week on Saturday at 9 p.m. EST, is this ok with everybody?

HC/SC-Three death a game rule: I voted, Fred will go either way, Need some input here.

Start: We're closer but not yet.

Mogons, I realize where you're coming from. If we don't have something with some decent killing power we're doomed to fail right? But that's the point. The team is the killing power. Alone we would have a hard time hell mode, more than likely not make it. But together these weaker builds might just be a wreaking machine. And Fred has made many many guides in Classic and is respected as such. I wouldn't go toe to toe with him on stats. His experience will be invauleable in the game.

Fred, he's just trying to give some input the best way he knows how, cut him some slack. He's new to the forums. And could also prove to be useful in the game as well.

We can still change things around. Nothing is concrete yet. The hard part seems to be agreeing on builds, but just a few. Let's iron this out, okay guys?



Kev

[Noite Escura]

Mogons, I realize where you're coming from. If we don't have something with some decent killing power we're doomed to fail right? But that's the point. The team is the killing power. Alone we would have a hard time hell mode, more than likely not make it. But together these weaker builds might just be a wreaking machine.

I know I'm not involved, but I would like to suggest another thing: no Static Field for Sorcs and Smite for Pallys. If you're going to do some RPG, the big bosses should look like real badasses and be hard to kill for real. One guy closing in and staticing/finishing Diablo in 10 seconds simply doesn't look right. If you're playing once a week I could join along in last case, but that would have to be Tuesday or Thursday, I'm not home on weekends. Not the best option, but keep me in reserve.

[fredsta54]

@mogons: Forgive and forget.


Idk who xargon is, and if he should be able to participate. This is for active classic forum posters... and ive never seen him around, correct me if im wrong

I think schooch ment lightning as his primary skill...

starting at 9 pm on saturdays? Hmm... how long would we be playing for? If possible i would like the start time to be earlier, mabye 8? If it were up to me it would be 7pm. That would give me 2 hours of solid playing, b/c i usually get off the computer at 10ish


i think that anyone else joining//changing their mind of what char to build should not be a sorc or zon, we already have 2 each of them








Fred

[mogons]

I’m fine with 8pm I think a good solid 2 hours of playing would be fine before the team had to break up.

[Beltyn]

I don't feel party should do too bad.

My necro can pump out physical damage with CE, along with some fire, plus some added punch with spear/spirit.

Luke has poison covered.

Kevin has physical along with some stun.

Immortality can deal with most undead plus healing, plus i'm guessing a bit of lightning by taking FoH, may be a slightly cheap skill but the holy bolt damage potential can't be overlooked if you wanted to make a themed undead hunter.

Fred can deal fire/physical. I'm particualrly looking forward to watching high level immolation working together with WC stunned monsters :D

Scooch deals lightning, be it nova, chain lightning, TS or a mix of all.

Mogons cold sorc???

My nec boosts physical or elemental damage as seems best, plus adds a tank to help Kevin with fire golem and odd revive or two.


Sure we're likely to struggle a little on bosses, but weren't we meant to do that anyway?

US East 7~9pm ? ? ? certainly wouldn't knock it being times fred suggested as doesn't mean me being up till too silly a time :)

I'm game for HC but appreciate why others might not be. 3 death rule sounds otherwise, if we do another we could do hc then if people choose.

[fredsta54]

Vs undead monsters, clerics kills faster than hammerdins... and only undead monsters, lol.

My damage will only be fire

@mogons: If your gonna be a cold sorc its all good apart from orb n blizz.. frost nova and glacial spike are still good





Fred

[mogons]

Yes glacial spike would be nice to have but I think I’m going to max all synergies because both synergies maxed increases my frost nova by 400% +155% with max cold mastery. but I’m the only AOE unless scooch brings nova.

[Scooch]

I'd prefer Sunday at 7-9 PM est. But if it's going to be on Sat I agree with whoever said earlier than 10.

[Kevin William Cox]

Looks Good, one last time:

Beltyn: Nerco- Bone/CE/Curse- with Fire Golem (and after reading your Intro post,very nice I might add, most likely our storyteller)

LukeJames: Poison Zon

Kevin: Frenzy/War Cry Barb- Max BO and some shout

Immortality: Paladin-Holy Bolt,Prayer, Mana reg.

Fred: Fire Zon- alot of fire

Scooch: Lighting Sorc

Mogons: Cold Sorc- Frost Nova

2 Sorc, 2 Zons, 1 Paladin, 1 Necro, 1 Barb

We have Fire, Lighting, Cold, Poison and 2 Tanks (whimpers slightly)

Time: 7 p.m. EST it is, Speak now or forever hold your peace

Realm: U.S. East

Routine: Once a week on Saturdays 7 p.m. EST

HC/SC-Three Death a Game Rule: Remember Dury, Fang in Hell, These are weaker builds, I still say SC-3 Death, We need to decide this.

Start: We got everything but HC/SC, after that, let's set a date.

One side note, I have a wedding to go to on Jan. 21st Saturday, and can't make it on that day. Sorry guys. Before and after that I'm ok. Just a heads up.

P.S. To anyone else who would like to join, there is one more position open, but you have to play a Nerco, Pally, or Barb. And everyone has to agree to your build. No cookie-cutter builds.



Kev

[Zodijackyl]

Looks Good, one last time:

Beltyn: Nerco- Bone/CE/Curse- with Fire Golem (and after reading your Intro post,very nice I might add, most likely our storyteller)

LukeJames: Poison Zon

Kevin: Frenzy/War Cry Barb- Max BO and some shout

Immortality: Paladin-Holy Bolt,Prayer, Mana reg.

Fred: Fire Zon- alot of fire

Scooch: Lighting Sorc

Mogons: Cold Sorc- Frost Nova

2 Sorc, 2 Zons, 1 Paladin, 1 Necro, 1 Barb

We have Fire, Lighting, Cold, Poison and 2 Tanks (whimpers slightly)

Time: 7 p.m. EST it is, Speak now or forever hold your peace

Realm: U.S. East

Routine: Once a week on Saturdays 7 p.m. EST

HC/SC-Three Death a Game Rule: Remember Dury, Fang in Hell, These are weaker builds, I still say SC-3 Death, We need to decide this.

Start: We got everything but HC/SC, after that, let's set a date.

One side note, I have a wedding to go to on Jan. 21st Saturday, and can't make it on that day. Sorry guys. Before and after that I'm ok. Just a heads up.

P.S. To anyone else who would like to join, there is one more position open, but you have to play a Nerco, Pally, or Barb. And everyone has to agree to your build. No cookie-cutter builds.

Kev

If it's OK, I'll bring in a corpse exploder. Perhaps I'll try CE/golem nec, as we already have a CE nec, or if one is enough, then I'll go combat pala. I'd like to try a zeal/smite pala.

[LukeJames]

Perhaps we could get our own little thread in fan-fiction where everyone could type up just a short little blurb about their character, nothing fancy just a one paragraph story for our writing-impaired. Then we could have the story writer make little stories about each of our adventures.

[mogons]

Yes I like the storey idea.

[Zodijackyl]

I would vote for SC due to the huge lag spikes east has been getting.
On the issue of stories, I wouldn't like to write one. Hopefully it will be optional.
I'll still fill the 8th spot if possible. Since there's already a CE nec, I'll play a smite/zeal pala.

[Dacar92]

Yes I like the storey idea.


That would be cool to read. Who will do the writing? I will PM Snowglare to check out this thread.

[Zodijackyl]

That would be cool to read. Who will do the writing? I will PM Snowglare to check out this thread.

Although it would be cool to read, some of us aren't that good at writing, or in my case, I spend far too long to write short amounts. I am not at all productive with creative writing, although I can (and have) crank out a 22 page paper on international relations in 4-5 hours.

edit: If people will appreciate it, I'll do it too, I guess.

[Immortality]

Whoa... Why is it 7 PM now? I can't make it at that time... can switch back to 9?

[Kevin William Cox]

Fred has to get off at 10 or so, and wanted a couple or more hours to play. How does 8 p.m. sound? Is it feisable for you Immortality?

And a story sounds good, but I'm no Mark Twain myself. Everyone could write their own intro, like where they came from and how they got to the Rouge Encampment in the first place. Beltyn has already done that. If Snowglare agrees to do this, someone is going to have to tell him what happens at each encounter.

Zodijackyl, welcome, I'm sure everyone will welcome you also. A pally sounds great. (whew). Smite might be good for the big Boys.

That's 2 for SC-Three death a game rule, and Fred's either way. Anybody else on HC/SC?

[mogons]

This isint going to work maybe we should have people write a 3 day weekend schedule like for example I can play Friday 6pm-12am, Saturday 12pm-5pm Sunday 6pm-9pm
This is not my schedule and maybe we can find a time that fits everybody’s schedule ?

[Beltyn]

I've been playing ideas through my head and think i can get a good story going for how most of the chars meet, will probably end up editing and (*gasp*) lengthening my first little bit :xmas17:

Rough idea in my head has sorted out the meeting of my nec to the cleric pala, frenzy baba, and fire ama, sure i can crank something out for the rest :xmas30:


If times look like they are gonna be a serious problem with may have to go with an early suggestion and split into two groups or so.

I very much doubt there would be a time to suit all.

Shift got changed for me yesterday so i'm now getting home from work around 11pm GMT this saturday, and that looks likely to hold for a while :(

With silly summer times can someone tell me whether this makes it 6 or 7 EST?

:Edit: I'm easy either way for sc/hc

[Kevin William Cox]

Looking at Beltyn's post I see GMT, that's London time. 11 p.m. there is 6 p.m. EST. They don't jump ahead til spring. So right now you are 5 hours ahead of EST. If we play at 9 p.m. EST that's 2 a.m. for you.

Going by EST, I can play anytime Saturday and Sunday, day or night. I'm a night owl at heart, but I will get up early to play if it calls for it. My schedule is flexable, I realize everyones isn't.

Fred wanted a little earlyier than 9 p.m. EST, and Immortality can't make it at 7 p.m. EST. So I said how about 8 p.m. EST on Saturday. (that's 1 a.m. for you Beltyn)

We're going to have to "bend" our schedules a little here. I think it would be better to play all together considering these builds. I don't know what time zones everybody lives in or their schedules, but I believe this is possible on Saturday or Sunday.

P.S. 2 for SC-three death a game rule, 2 for either way, Immorality? Mogons? LukeJames? Scooch?



Kev

[fredsta54]

8 is fine

Beltyn, could you stay up late for this? :D










Fred

[DougDadyUsWest]

I just saw this post, I would be willing to play a holy freeze zealot, or possibly conviction vengeance? my scheduale until the 18th is pretty open, after that I still have quite a bit of flexibility.

it seems like there are alot of elemental damage builds (poison jav, fire bow, light sorc, fire sorc, etc) so maybe I should try a physical damage char. But if no one else wants to play a conviction paladin, I think he would be a good help... well, maybe that is what I will do then, conviction vengeance... if you guys want/need an extra player :jig: an extra player who can dance! let me know...

[fredsta54]

I just saw this post, I would be willing to play a holy freeze zealot, or possibly conviction vengeance? my scheduale until the 18th is pretty open, after that I still have quite a bit of flexibility.

it seems like there are alot of elemental damage builds (poison jav, fire bow, light sorc, fire sorc, etc) so maybe I should try a physical damage char. But if no one else wants to play a conviction paladin, I think he would be a good help... well, maybe that is what I will do then, conviction vengeance... if you guys want/need an extra player :jig: an extra player who can dance! let me know...

your in reserve if any1 cant make it (which is very likely)

Conviction would be a GREAT addition to the party. Several weak but fun casters with conviction + lower resist will still rape.


If you do come, play as an avenger ;) (or pvm foher... thats not cookie cutter)







Fred

[LukeJames]

We really need conviction, please go with an avenger as my poison would work much better with all the monsters lowered to it.

[DougDadyUsWest]

I was just reading an avenger guide and it sounds like a lot of fun. The build would allow me to max resist fire (something I've always wanted to add on my paladins), giving myself +10% passive max fire resist, and switch on this aura in the CS when faced with conviction and venom lords, or if we have resist problems leave it on when facing them at all times.

I'm a reserve, so my vote counts as 1/2, but I say hc ladder. I don't think anyone in this party should die, I've played a summon necromancer to start the past three ladder seasons, and my parties don't have problems dying. This group will be, in my opinion, much better suited to teamplay.

Skills like war cry basically eliminate the need for dying. Holy freeze is great to have around, as is Decrepify. Glacial Spike or frost nova also would help quite a bit slowing the enemies. And this party has a few tanks in frenzy barb, valks, decoy, golem, or skeletons (avenger maybe).

Also remember that the pace of a group such as this is not the same as regular play where deaths occur. A party working together killing each enemy pack as it comes up rarely has any trouble with taking excessive damage, let alone dying.

[Dacar92]

Hey guys,

I spoke with Snowglare. The downside is that the D2 "trek thru the Cold Plains" storyline has been done to death. Is it highly unlikely anyone in the fan fiction forum would want to take up our story.

The upside is that Beltyn seems to have a decent hand at writing. Perhaps he can do the stories for us. Snowglare said that your original storyline looked like it had hope, but then it seemed to degrade into the same old,same old type of story. It needs to be kept fresh and original. That will be hard, I know.

Here is what Snowglare told me:

"The in-game storyline has been done to death. We've all played through it dozens of times, and any FFF regular has read it about it more than once. It's virtually impossible to make a fictionalized trek through the game interesting. It's too familiar a story, and D2 is too much a videogame, with numerous elements that need to be glossed over or removed to maintain suspension of disbelief.

There are two* good ways to do D2 fan-fic. The first, and better of the two, is to tell a different story. Beltyn's prologue-like tale took this route, though it seems to devolve into a lead-in to the same old story at the end. The second way is to inject a great deal of personality into the characters and find new twists on all the old junk. This way is rather more difficult, and results in a story that doesn't require many (if any) D2 trappings to stand up. The other problem is that if you put that much originality into it, it ceases to be a recording of events. It becomes "based on a true story", and the players may or may not approve.

I think it would be better for one or more of the players to record the adventure themselves. Might find a writer willing to fictionalize someone else's trek through the Cold Plains, and the players might not mind what artistic license s/he takes, if any. Don't know as anyone would be interested, though.

*Not counting comedy, which seems to be a different direction than they want to go."


Now, many of us here do not frequent the FFF, so it may still be an original and entertaining read for us. But to post it in the FFF may subject it to criticism that may or may not be constructive. You are welcome to post it there when it is complete. But let's record it here, first. Then we can all post our thoughts on how to make it better.

What do you all think?

[Immortality]

Well, really the story IS FOR the classic forum, there really isn't many of us here... so...



BTW luke, conviction does not lower poison res.




8... I might.. mmm

[Beltyn]

1 am my time is cool. I'm a student. Days when i don't see 2 am are rare indeed :D

As to the story, from whats going in my head i'm thinking a LOT of what i'm intending to write would be pre-D2 game start, and then tweak from then on as i see fit.

The idea of writing about a group travelling over more and more countryside, slaying more and more monsters just seems like tedium incarnate.

I did read an official D2 novel regarding the warlord of blood (damn if can remember the actual name) and liked the way a lot of things were dealt with there.

I can take up scribing what happens as we play but i really doubt it will provide much to make up a story with.

I think taking the chars themselves, making up a story to go with them within the diablo universe, and maybe picking out odd bits from both the d2 story and our gameplay could work.

One idea buzzing about in my head is taking traits of the players as we play and threading them into the 'story' characters, we'll see.

I have to finish two essays for tuesday for my course, but once those are done think might have a serious hit at seeing what i can come up with in addition to my first imagination dump here :xmas17:

see how things go in time.


We think we should try to do this tomorrow or give it a week to tune out details?

[Immortality]

If we do go the sc route... how does the "If the cleric dies, no one else is able to be resurrected" sound?

[Dacar92]

I did read an official D2 novel regarding the warlord of blood (damn if can remember the actual name) and liked the way a lot of things were dealt with there.


There were only three. The first was about a set of armor that took over a person. He could still think on his own, but his actions were controlled by the armor. It was a cool story. Was it that one? I have the sedcond in the series but it is on my nightstand waiting in line to be read.


I can take up scribing what happens as we play but i really doubt it will provide much to make up a story with.


I'll bet you can make a story of it. I have a few ideas myself. Why not post your story ideas once the team gets going and we all can work on them together?

[LukeJames]

Guys, what if somebody dies in softcore, the cleric has to walk(run) over to him/her and pretend to revive them? It would add some roleplay and let us manage to continue our quest without losing valuable members and without rushing the questing too fast.

[Immortality]

Guys, what if somebody dies in softcore, the cleric has to walk(run) over to him/her and pretend to revive them? It would add some roleplay and let us manage to continue our quest without losing valuable members and without rushing the questing too fast.

Thats what I was thinking... but... I am the Cleric... and I am rather lazy... hmm



BTW, should I max sanctuary?

[LukeJames]

Maybe if you just got holy bolt and shot it at your fallen comrades we could consider that to be a revival?

[Zodijackyl]

Due to some entirely unexpected events in real life, I don't know if Il'l be able to make it. I'll try, but certain things (real life) take priority over others (video games)

[fredsta54]

Due to some entirely unexpected events in real life, I don't know if Il'l be able to make it. I'll try, but certain things (real life) take priority over others (video games)

You hear this dougy? Get your avenger figured out, you may yet join the team :)

[Beltyn]

There were only three. The first was about a set of armor that took over a person. He could still think on his own, but his actions were controlled by the armor. It was a cool story. Was it that one? I have the sedcond in the series but it is on my nightstand waiting in line to be read.

Aye that was the one, sure the armour was meant to be the original Bartuc's, the Warlord of Blood, and hence related to the quest in the first hell level of the original diablo.


I'll take notes once the team gets going, and as i say oncew my work is out of the way this week, think i'll make a proper go at the backstory :)

We gonna try for tonight or next week? probably not going to check forum till get home from work tonight, so if we decide today, make sure someone posts channel/gamename to come to so can quickly jump in here :)

[Kevin William Cox]

Looking real good, might even be able to kick this off today, hopefully this will be the last time I write this:

Beltyn: Necro- Bone/CE/Curse with a fire golem

LukeJames: Poison- Jav AMA

Kevin: Fenzy/ War Cry Barb max BO and some shout

Immortality: Paladin- Cleric (Holy Bolt, Prayer, Mana Reg. and the only one able to revive people) <guess who I'm making sure doesn't die>

Fred: Fire Zon- a lot of fire

Scooch: Lighting Sorc- Chain Lighting (I hope)

Mogons: Cold Sorc- Frost Nova

Zodijackyl: Paladin- Zeal/Smite

Reserve: Doug: Paladin- Avenger with Conviction (That right?)
(P.S. Doug, be ready to play, looks like Zodijackyl might not make it like Fred said)

Time: 8 P.M. EST

Realm: U.S. East

Routine: Saturdays 8 p.m. EST Once a week

Type of Game: From what I read, SC wins, only Immortality can revive you with a Holy Bolt. If he dies, after that it's the same as HC. (Why do I have a feeling Immortality's gonna have the best gear we can find?lol. jk)

Start: I have no problem with tonight.

If you want your charectar to have a little input from you in the story, please be sure to tell Beltyn. Other wise he may decide for himself how your charectar got to the encampment in the first place. After that he will write the story as we go along. Bless him for doing this. I'm gonna write a little intro to my charectar right now.

Beltyn is it ok to PM you the intros? And how soon would you like them?

If everyones in agreement, please post, so we can start.

@Zodijackyl, hope you can make it, if you can't, I understand. I'm a husband and father of four. I know about priorities. Please let us know.

[Beltyn]

I'm home and ready if everyone else is :)

PM whenever you want with whatever you want, nothing is gonna get started till at least wednesday afternoon. (hand ins due in wednesday afternoon, work christmas do tuesday night :clap: )

[Immortality]

Erm... I thought we're gona play tongiht at 8...

[Beltyn]

thats cool with me if everyone is here and willing.....

[Immortality]

Uhhh... doesn't seem many people are showing up...

[Beltyn]

guessing next week start :(

[fredsta54]

just got online


every1 who is on atm meet in channel op fredsta54, we'll see if we can get this thing going




EDIT: i dont think its gonna happen this week, it wasnt even clear if it was certain to kick off this week. We'll make sure it happens next saturday







Fred

[Kevin William Cox]

Is that 3 of us..... hmmm.... maybe next week huh..


Just saw Fred's post. Getting on now.

[Beltyn]

Just to confirm, for those of us who weren't available this saturday, will we all be ready for next saturday at 8 pm EST?

[Scooch]

How long are you guys playing for? No offence but I don't want me whole Sat night taken.

[Beltyn]

was generally thinking between 2 or 3 hours at a time?

That way we manage to get somewhere each week whilst not having to commint to too much.

[Scooch]

Well I'm going to back down now before we get mid way through and I stop showing up. Sorry guys, if it were more of a weekday night thing I'd be all up ons.

[LukeJames]

Why can't we push it back an hour?
9 PM is so much easier to make it to.

[Akukami]

Why don't you guys just get more people involved so you could work out some kind of schedule and take turns playing, like every other week for people who can't get on that often. Of course, level difference will be a problem...unless one of you made a Chanter/Hydra Sorc.

- Akukami

[Zodijackyl]

Sorry, I wasn't able to make it due to real life stuff...

Perhaps we can work out something on a weekday?

[LukeJames]

Weekday would not be good.
People are busy with homework.
And timezone differences would need some people to skip school or sleep just to play.

Why can't we do it on a Sunday?
Who does stuff on a Sunday.

[fredsta54]

im happy with saturday but what about friday? Just a suggestion... no1 is rele busy friday nights.. other than rl of course ;)






Fred

[DougDadyUsWest]

Well I'd probably be available whenever, just give the heads up.

I think this group might have a problem becoming too large, maybe we should consider a smaller more specialized group? three or four unconventional characters would still be able to move through the game without difficulties, and it would be much easier to scheduale.

paladin using conviction/vengeance (synergies)

necromancer using lower resists, summon skeletons/fire golem, & corpse explosion. Poison nova/explosion might be a more unconventional and enjoyable build.

amazon using immolation arrow/freezing arrow, possibly inner sight to help the skeletons

barbarian using war cry / berserk, battle orders, and find item to improve team's gear


If anyone is interested, I think we would have much better luck with a small group like this.

BTW: I'd really only be interested in this endeavour if we are playing hardcore. Playing a softcore party really holds no appeal to me.

[fredsta54]

I also agree with doug on a few points

Come to think of it, i vote for hc

Although a large party sounds good, lets get realistic. Only the members who are sure they will be able to make it on a once a weekend basis should join up

Doug, your pretty much in since scooch quit...

so far..

me
doug
beltyn
kevin $%&^#@* (>< dacar, its an inside joke.. i hope you dont take this as flame) no flame, I understand, but it still is not an acceptable word for this forum. Sorry
Dacar

thats alredy 4 ppl who can commit...

if you know you can make it then post

8 ppl > 4 ppl

4 ppl actually playing < waiting for 8 ppl









Fred

[Immortality]

I also agree with doug on a few points

Come to think of it, i vote for hc




me
doug
beltyn
kevin $%^&#@*r (>< dacar, its an inside joke.. i hope you dont take this as flame)

thats alredy 4 ppl who can commit...

if you know you can make it then post

8 ppl > 4 ppl

4 ppl actually playing < waiting for 8 ppl









Fred
Where did Immortality go?:eek:

Im lonely.:(




EDIT: Friday sounds good to me, Im sometimes are busy on saturday nights... soo..

[fredsta54]

Where did Immortality go?:eek:

Im lonely.:(




EDIT: Friday sounds good to me, Im sometimes are busy on saturday nights... soo..


ahh.. completely forgot about you... for good reason... errr.. nvm ;)

Where would we be w/o our beloved cleric? Probably owning, but thats not the point.








Fred

[Beltyn]

Party of five sounds cool enough. For others how about aranging times so we can have two of these going and compare how we get on?

Could we get a heads up of those who would be good for either Friday or Saturday at 8 pm EST?

[Noite Escura]

Make it tuesday or thursday, and I'm game for the other team.

[Immortality]

Wow, this is kind of falling apart. What happened to Cox's hard work of listing stuff? *sigh* See this is what happens when you let Fred loose.:lol:

[Zodijackyl]

I'll try to be on whenever, just tell me a day or two in advance. Unfortunately, Friday nights, and later Saturday is probably the worst time for me. I'll probably still be able to make it this week.

[Kevin William Cox]

Sorry for the late reply guys, I've been busy with work.

I've read some of the posts, and Friday won't work for me. Friday night for you guys is Saturday afternoon for me and I work on Saturdays. So, anytime Saturday or Sunday (except for 1 hour, 8~9 Sunday night, work) is fine with me.

If you don't want to lose your Saturday night, and I can understand that, how about Sunday morning? Say.... 10 a.m. EST?

And I count 7

Fred-Poison Jav
Kevin-Frenzy/War Cry
Beltyn-Nerco
Immortality-Paladin
Luke-Sorc Frost
Doug-Sorc? (if so, Lighting would help)
Mogons-Paladin (are you still in?)

If I'm wrong on someone, let me know.

HC wins, according to the poll. (may the Force be with us)

We need to lock this time thing down. So we can start.


P.S. Fred, what did you write? My Barbs name? or did you misspell my last name?:lol:



Kev

[Beltyn]

If we work on the idea of doing it at 8pm EST, how many people can come?

I know this ignores a lot of people but we managed 4 of us to turn up last week so i feel thats a good enough place to start.

Even if it only ends up us four again then that should be workable.

[fredsta54]

Sorry for the late reply guys, I've been busy with work.

I've read some of the posts, and Friday won't work for me. Friday night for you guys is Saturday afternoon for me and I work on Saturdays. So, anytime Saturday or Sunday (except for 1 hour, 8~9 Sunday night, work) is fine with me.

If you don't want to lose your Saturday night, and I can understand that, how about Sunday morning? Say.... 10 a.m. EST?

And I count 7

Fred-Poison Jav
Kevin-Frenzy/War Cry
Beltyn-Nerco
Immortality-Paladin
Luke-Sorc Frost
Doug-Sorc? (if so, Lighting would help)
Mogons-Paladin (are you still in?)

If I'm wrong on someone, let me know.

HC wins, according to the poll. (may the Force be with us)

We need to lock this time thing down. So we can start.


P.S. Fred, what did you write? My Barbs name? or did you misspell my last name?:lol:



Kev


i .. ahh.. misspelled your last name lets just say

doug will be playing as an avenger

I would count mogons out, he hasnt really posted in a while, and a 6 team is more reliable in terms of every1 showing up








Fred

[Beltyn]

Can we say for certain that we will be good to go this saturday with a decent number of people at 8pm EST?

Let's try and fix who Will be playing that way we can tweak builds of we need to.

[Kevin William Cox]

I'll be there. 8 EST, Saturday. HC. Hope to see you guys there.:afro:

[LukeJames]

I'm the poison java not the ice sorceress.
I'll be there if I can, which is like 65% possible.

[fredsta54]

im 95% sure ill be able to make it. 8 is ok for me, woulda preffered 7, but i would prefer it if we actually started this thing lol










Fred

[Beltyn]

Well thats 3 or 4 of us to start.

At least if we make the start this week we can have the feedback for if/when ither we do another one or others try arranging one mid week.

[Immortality]

Last saturday, only I, Cox, Fred, Beltyn showed up. So thats about 4 people we can count on showing up.

I say whoever doesn't appear tonight is OUT of the classic quest. I'm tired of waiting. That means you, doug and mogons.

[LukeJames]

I'll try my absolute best to show up.
I just need the channel name.

[Immortality]

I'll try my absolute best to show up.
I just need the channel name.
How does "op classic" sound?

[Zodijackyl]

How does "op classic" sound?

My channel is open: Op UMD2

[Beltyn]

OP UMD2 sounds good then unless there are any major objections

[Immortality]

OP UMD2 sounds good then unless there are any major objections
OBJECTION!

[Zodijackyl]

Well I'm there, goldfinding on NL, but in the channel between runs

[LukeJames]

*sigh*
I really doubt I'll make it tonight, if I can, horrah.

[fredsta54]

8:00 it is. If you dont show up your out. We will wait till 8:15 to start

Steve, your not even in this right? Why we would go to your channel?

op classic? sure, ill be there







Fred

[Zodijackyl]

Account: *z0dijackyl
Char: Maaneskyggen
Zeal/Smite paladin

For build, I'm going to try to use the lower offensive auras until level 30 to maximize effectiveness with fanatacism. Zeal will be my primary killer, but smite will remain as my alternate, and once it is available I will invest a decent amount in Holy Shield. No base dexterity being added, will try to use either a BH or Naga. 100 base str eventually, unless decent +str items are found earlier. This build will be a bit weak in act one normal, but it doesn't require much effort for any char to smack with a short sword in act one. Act one my main wep will be a scepter bought from akara, act 2 I'll pick up a spiked shield from drognan. Will switch to barbed shield as soon as available. Hoping for some decent IAS set items (sig/death/iratha), but will try to stay away from set weps.

[Zodijackyl]

8:00 it is. If you dont show up your out. We will wait till 8:15 to start

Steve, your not even in this right? Why we would go to your channel?

op classic? sure, ill be there







Fred

I'm the 8th. Zeal/Smite pala.
I'm ready, and I doubt 8 people will show up. Hopefully 6 :)

[fredsta54]

I'm the 8th. Zeal/Smite pala.
I'm ready, and I doubt 8 people will show up. Hopefully 6 :)

oh my bad. You are in :/ (damn my bad memory)

op umd2 is chill w/ me, 8:00







Fred

[Immortality]

Good session guys, we finished act 1 and sewers.

[Zodijackyl]

Today's adventure was successful. We're in act 2, with the first quest completed. Most of us are 17.
Fred's amazon FireZonsOwn is level 17
My paladin Maaneskyggen is level 17
Beltyn's necromancer Zoltarach is level 17
Immortality's paladin Sigma_Reborn is level 16
Kevin's barbarian Hayateno_Fuujiin is level 16

[Dacar92]

Did you guys decide to play HC? Tell me about the adventures. Were any bosses hard or all chumps?

[Beltyn]

Ended up being SC. But after witnessing the lag spikes on east i see why this was good idea.

That and Kev dying to Rakinishu :laugh:

Nothing really posed a problem, other than trying to keep everyone together :sad2:

[Dacar92]

Ended up being SC. But after witnessing the lag spikes on east i see why this was good idea.

That and Kev dying to Rakinishu :laugh:

Nothing really posed a problem, other than trying to keep everyone together :sad2:


Lol! I don't think I have ever died to Rakinashu. Bummer. But I did lose a HC Paladin to Normal Blood Raven once, so maybe I shouldn't laugh.

[Immortality]

I died twice in sewers
Kev died once to Rakinishu
Beltyn died twice to... just being owned:wave:


Im almost at lvl 17, but finding undead monsters to bash is rather difficult

[Kevin William Cox]

It was funny. I take it in stride. We were moving through the quests at a little over the speed of light. No shout, useing Double swing, which means no sheild, yea.. painful.

I'm thinking what would be the better skills to help the group, meanwhile Fred's yell'in at me to get my butt in gear. :tongue:

I need better weapons. I decided to go with Mace Class. No dex needed, so more into Strength or Vitality. But then.... There's no time to shop. Zod can relate to the shopping thing. "Kev WHERE ARE YOU?":undecided: Oops.

Yes Rakinishu got me.:grin: I tried to hit him, but my Barb wanted to talk to the Rocks. "These Stones are...." BAM! Little R gets me from behind. He was right in the middle of coarse. So now I'm back in town, "Guys, can I get a tp..." , "Guys..". I had go all the across Stony from the other side to get my body. By this time everyones about on the second level of the Countess. Not really, but thats how it felt.:prop:

I think the funniest thing about this is, I named my Barb, Hayateno Fuujin, which translated means "The God of Speed and Wind". LOL!
I should've named him "The runt who never keeps up!"

Fred tried to help me, God bless'em, brought me a wheelchair and everything. Still couldn't keep up. Sigh... You know you're in troble when you start feeling your age in a video game.

Seriously though, I had a blast. Can't wait to do it again. See you guys on Saturday.

[Beltyn]

First was due to wonderful lag spike :shocked:

otherone asked for tp stepped, through, proceeded to get ripped from the twenty or so monsters left around the tp. :sad2:

Gonna be so worried if we try this in hc with you guys :prop:

[LukeJames]

Alright so are you playing East SC NL?
I might make an untwinked (Obviously as I have nothing on that realm) character, level him/her to 17 and wait to try to get into the next one. I wanted in but my mom was on the computer from 7-10.

[Dacar92]

Why do people have to race through the game? I never understood that. If you're playing as a group, you should wait for the dead person to get his body. Wait for someone to shop, wait for someone to cast shout or whatever for the group.

That's how I like to group play, anyways.

[fredsta54]

Yes we had a productive session. Kevin was definately the slowpoke, when we were lvl 10 he was lvl 7 ><

We are on east scl

@lukejames: im afraid it wouldnt work like that. You'll just have to wait until the next ultimate quest :(

Which will hopefully be on europe hcl


@dacar: andy was easy. everything was easy to be honest, constant healing from immortality's prayer, might, amp dmg + skelly tanks, we basically just wacked everything in the way.










Fred

[GoonShoes]

ive been reading thru this... great idea, ive seen it be4 years ago but never knew how to get involved.

i play classic SC/HC on europe. made my first hc classic in 5~ or so years a couple of weeks ago, shes a untwinked zavajon now lv 71... shes a tank! :P

anyways gimme a shout when you start the europe HC ultimate quest, id love to get involved... for HC id surrgest the chars were abit more planned rather than random, im not saying cookie cutters but planned so we all have more chance at surviving and killing.... i cant see a poison dagger necro gettin far without snuffing it for example :D
i think i could bring alot to the team... if u go for planned chars u'll get onto the ladder with no problems *he says* :P

my accounts *classicgoonshoe *classicgoon (hc one)

PS whats wrong with letting somone join after u've started, as long as u make sure they have brought no items, i cant see the problem. you could check by giving them items to fill their inventory/cube/stash so u know there is nothing in there. tho saying that what stopsone of ur team trading on the sly?

goonshoe

[Zodijackyl]

Why do people have to race through the game? I never understood that. If you're playing as a group, you should wait for the dead person to get his body. Wait for someone to shop, wait for someone to cast shout or whatever for the group.

That's how I like to group play, anyways.

Act one took us two hours :(
We have no sorc, which is going to make things hard. No static+teleport.
I've been charging around a bit to try to find WPs in A2 to help us speed up, but without a sorc the Maggot Lair is going to take a long time.

I'm hoping we can pick up the pace to TWO meeting a week. Also, once we get to higher levels, I'm hoping we'll find some better gear. 8-18 base damage isn't working for me =\

[fredsta54]

Act one took us two hours :(
We have no sorc, which is going to make things hard. No static+teleport.
I've been charging around a bit to try to find WPs in A2 to help us speed up, but without a sorc the Maggot Lair is going to take a long time.

I'm hoping we can pick up the pace to TWO meeting a week. Also, once we get to higher levels, I'm hoping we'll find some better gear. 8-18 base damage isn't working for me =\

We will find better gear :P

Im thinking of mabye allowing each character to do shop runs independant of the group, only in private games and no lvling//trading etc.

Then we could at least have some decent magics to help us out :D

I strongly want there to be 2 meetings a week. Saturday 8pm is fine, but mabye we could find room for another session? Friday? Im flexible on every day basically







Fred

[Zodijackyl]

Shop runs would be great, especially since I was left behind a level while I was trying to shop, and had to make sure I killed almost all the monsters after that just to catch up.

[Beltyn]

Problem with two meetings is time zones.

Not so bad if we were all in europe or all in the states, but gonna run kinda pear shaped.


Who cares about how long it takes and waiting for people?

If we were bothered about speed we'd all be playing cookie cutter twinked characters.

The point of this was meant to be the fun of doing everything with a variety of builds we wouldn't ordinarily try.

[Zodijackyl]

Well, we don't need cookie cutter builds for act one. Act one can be completed by a sorc with no skills added and a short sword in about this amount of time.
Also, several of the builds required higher level for effectiveness. Zeal/smite is nice because I work from level one :)

[Kevin William Cox]

The only problem for me on 2 meetings is the time thing like Beltyn said.

I'm 14 hours ahead of EST. So when you guys are sleeping, I'm working and vice verse. At Saturday 8 p.m. EST, that's 10 a.m. Sunday for me. During the week would run into my work schedule, no doubt.




Kev

[Beltyn]

Add to that me being 5 hours behind EST and its an accomplishment we all made it on the one day :thumbsup:

[Kevin William Cox]

Just a reminder guys, I can't make it this week. I have a wedding to go to out of town. After that, I'm good to go. Sorry I can't make it.



Kev

[Zodijackyl]

Well I guess next week we will pick up with out Saturday night schedule? Maybe we can play from 8-11 this time, or 7-10?

The two hour meeting the first time worked out well. The chars are permed now so they won't expire :)

[Immortality]

Well I guess next week we will pick up with out Saturday night schedule? Maybe we can play from 8-11 this time, or 7-10?

The two hour meeting the first time worked out well. The chars are permed now so they won't expire :)
Mine isn't permed :cry:

[Zodijackyl]

Mine isn't permed :cry:

Sit in a game for five minutes and it will be :)

[Beltyn]

Sooooo....

We leaving this till next weekend or what?

[Immortality]

We might as well, I probably can't make it as welll. For guests are coming over.

[fredsta54]

yah next weekend. Idk if i can make it either... but next weekend will work for all of us i hope











Fred

[Zodijackyl]

So next weekend it is.
Anyone able to add an hour or so on to the time?
7-10
8-11
7:30-10:30

Now that we've coordinated our efforts, we should be able to get through the end of act 3 at least (hopefully)
I'm hoping that we find something with crushing blow to make trav/meph easier. I have the clegs gloves from Andy, so a clegs sword would be nice.
My smite backup should be quite useful once I get some crushing blow :)

[Beltyn]

If we put any extra time i'd like to lean toward the earlier side.

Being 5 hours in front, playing till 11 your time aint gonna have me too alert :shocked:

[Zodijackyl]

Would 7-10 be fine by everybody else?

Also, Beltyn, I play Europe HCCL also, I'm usually on there earlier, between 3 and 5 EST when I play it. So 8-10 for you :)

[fredsta54]

Would 7-10 be fine by everybody else?

Also, Beltyn, I play Europe HCCL also, I'm usually on there earlier, between 3 and 5 EST when I play it. So 8-10 for you :)

7-10 is fine with me, but to add flexibility to the other members, how about we try for starting at 7:30?







Fred

[Kevin William Cox]

I'm cool with that. 9 a.m. Sunday for me. See you guys then.

[Beltyn]

7-10 is fine here.


I suggest we say meet in forum for 7ish, ith aim of starting at half past. If we're all there earlier and good to go then who's complaining? :wave:

[Immortality]

7 is a bit early for me, I'll go with 7:30.

[fredsta54]

7:30 it is, everyone cool with that?





Fred

[Beltyn]

I'm cool :afro:

[Zodijackyl]

Fine by me, but I don't think I'll be able to make it this Saturday. Sorry if I'm not able to make it, but I'll be good every other time. Would Fridays be good for anyone else?

[Kevin William Cox]

7:30 EST it is, no problem here.:grin:

[fredsta54]

Fine by me, but I don't think I'll be able to make it this Saturday. Sorry if I'm not able to make it, but I'll be good every other time. Would Fridays be good for anyone else?

i thought u quit d2?

Id really like to do this on saturday, as we missed last saturday










Fred

[Beltyn]

So are we going ahead this week or what?

[Immortality]

Well, due to some misfortune and some classic Bnet Bullsh*t, my character, Sigma Reborn, has officially expired.

Not sure how, not sure why a already permed character could expire in a course of 3 days(WHY GOD WHY???!??!?) ,but the past is the past and I'm sure you can carry on with your quest without your beloved Cleric.



Good luck, and if you could, incorprate my death into the story or something.


AVENGE MY DEATH!!!!



This is Immortality, signing out.:cry:

[Kevin William Cox]

Well, due to some misfortune and some classic Bnet Bullsh*t, my character, Sigma Reborn, has officially expired.

Not sure how, not sure why a already permed character could expire in a course of 3 days(WHY GOD WHY???!??!?) ,but the past is the past and I'm sure you can carry on with your quest without your beloved Cleric.



Good luck, and if you could, incorprate my death into the story or something.


AVENGE MY DEATH!!!!



This is Immortality, signing out.:cry:


Sorry to hear that Imm., I'll still be there, 7:30 EST

[Beltyn]

Shattered from work, going grabbing an hour, will be on about 7:15 est, post what channel to meet on.

And apologies for the typos when i wake up :cool:

[fredsta54]

im still good for 7:30

As sad as it is that david's cleric is gone, we wont really be missing much :D

Post if you cant make it



EDIT: Ill be in channel op fredsta54 so meet me there






Fred

[Kevin William Cox]

Already on.

[Immortality]

As sad as it is that david's cleric is gone, we wont really be missing much :D




Fred

Once you can't make it through hell, you'll be sorry:grin:

Replaces healing with aura of **** you.

[Beltyn]

Sorry guys, ended up in hospitol for my uncle.

Bad night.

[Kevin William Cox]

Things happen. It's ok. Only me and Fred showed up. Hopefully we can do it next week. Here, flowers for your Uncle.:flowers:

[Beltyn]

Cheers dude, its much appreciated.

Fingers crossed no more unexpected things we can get back on track next week.

[fredsta54]

Things happen. It's ok. Only me and Fred showed up. Hopefully we can do it next week. Here, flowers for your Uncle.:flowers:

so immortality is gone, zodi may be gone, just me, you, beltyn, and who else was there? :/

Oh well. Im glad i decided to spark that blunt, hey kev, pass that **** ;)











Fred

[Kevin William Cox]

ok (hic), eeerree yooouuu goooo (hic).... :drunk:

[Immortality]

Just commit sucide and start over:grin:

[Beltyn]

Thinking it might be an idea to start over actually, and tweak builds just to make sure we have something viable.

What we have now? I was CE/Golem nec, Fred was fire ama, can't remember what Kev was, (and too lazy to go back 6 pages :laugh: )

[Kevin William Cox]

Frenzy/War Cry Barb:cry:

[Beltyn]

What do we feel about starting with different builds or carrying on existing chars?

[fredsta54]

What do we feel about starting with different builds or carrying on existing chars?

lets carry on, we have only lost 1 member (immortality) Zodijackyl is still in :)


P.S. Dacar, why is immortality banned?








Fred

[Zodijackyl]

I'm still here, I'm back after over a week of internetlessness.

[Kevin William Cox]

We still on for this week? 7:30 Saturday EST? I'll be there, hope you guys will too.

[Zodijackyl]

I'll be here 7:30-10:30 tomorrow :)
Hopefully the rest of our team will be.

[Beltyn]

I'm good for it :smiley:

[Beltyn]

Someone post where we're meeting, I'm off nailing some cows with new pala :cool:

[Kevin William Cox]

op fredsat54. I'm on now.

[fredsta54]

just got on



BTW its op fredsta54 n00b


Fred

[Kevin William Cox]

Mornings.... :rolleyes:

[Zodijackyl]

I'm delayed a bit, should be there soon.

[fredsta54]

I'm delayed a bit, should be there soon.


ok. We'll wait.







Fred

[Kevin William Cox]

Act 2 is done. We worked better as a team this time, and there were a few deaths. I died twice, once to lag and once to Dury. I'm still the lowest lvl, lol, at 19. I believe the rest are at 21. All of us want better waepons though and the speed has dropped a little. Picking up items doesn't seem to be a priorty so makeing money is hard to do for repairs and stuff or buying better weapons and armor. There are 4 of us now. Fred, Me, Beltyn and Zodi. A Paddy, a Zon, a Necro and a Barb. Zodi kills the fastest and tanks the best so far, and Fred's got the range and kills almost as fast (argueable, don't wanna start anything here) me and Beltyn kinda of clean up. Though Beltyn's Amp and Golem are very helpful. I guess I'm the weakest and least helpful so far, but I hope to help a lot later with more BO, Shout and War Cry. It was a good run today IMO. Can't wait til next time. Til next time guys.


p.s. Fred I still need that 120 :grin:




Kev

[fredsta54]

Act 2 is done. We worked better as a team this time, and there were a few deaths. I died twice, once to lag and once to Dury. I'm still the lowest lvl, lol, at 19. I believe the rest are at 21. All of us want better waepons though and the speed has dropped a little. Picking up items doesn't seem to be a priorty so makeing money is hard to do for repairs and stuff or buying better weapons and armor. There are 4 of us now. Fred, Me, Beltyn and Zodi. A Paddy, a Zon, a Necro and a Barb. Zodi kills the fastest and tanks the best so far, and Fred's got the range and kills almost as fast (argueable, don't wanna start anything here) me and Beltyn kinda of clean up. Though Beltyn's Amp and Golem are very helpful. I guess I'm the weakest and least helpful so far, but I hope to help a lot later with more BO, Shout and War Cry. It was a good run today IMO. Can't wait til next time. Til next time guys.


p.s. Fred I still need that 120 :grin:




Kev


well summed up :D

But i must say, i think i kill faster than zodi, providing there is plenty of mana ^^

*Puts 120 in mail*








Fred

[Beltyn]

Yeah, would be nice if you left so pots so i can actually pop corpses :laugh:

[Zodijackyl]

And once I have a wep with some damage and IAS I'll do well.

[Beltyn]

As i said, once we manage lvl 24 things should start being damn site easier.

Then we have decrep, immo arrow, frenzy, and can start hurting things :flip:

[Kiwi Legend]

Thought you guys were playing on HC?

[Beltyn]

Decided we'd do that on next one so can iron out quirks of working together on this one.

Personally i feel after this we should try an idea i read about ages ago; the green arse brigade.

Everyone makes palas and go off what you find. Possibilities of a party of 6 palas each with different specialised auras /drool :cool:

[Zodijackyl]

2 holy fire, 2 holy shock, 2 holy freeze, one conviction, one BO barb.

on second thought, replace one holy freeze with an orber, replace one holy fire with fballer, replace one holy shock w/ lightning sorc. Ownage :D

[Kiwi Legend]

2 holy fire, 2 holy shock, 2 holy freeze, one conviction, one BO barb.

on second thought, replace one holy freeze with an orber, replace one holy fire with fballer, replace one holy shock w/ lightning sorc. Ownage :D


Now that idea I'd be down for.. ownage indeed!

[fredsta54]

Now that idea I'd be down for.. ownage indeed!

I would like

chant sorc
hammerdin
fanat zealer
bo barb
4X Multshot zons

Fer private cs runs.

O.o

:)









Fred

[Beltyn]

just a heads up, i'm likely to run a tad late tonight, maybe pushing to about 8pm est, can't be helped :/

[Kevin William Cox]

I can't make it guys, my wife is sick and I have to watch the baby and the kids. Sorry. I'll be on next week no problem. Forgive me.





Kev

[fredsta54]

I guess lets wait till next weekend.. :/


beltyn since your gonna be on d2 want to play some euro hccl? If im not on whisp me on east







Fred

[Beltyn]

coming on now ;)

[Beltyn]

Quick scope, how are things looking for this coming saturday, hoping we might be able to get into nm :smiley:

[CheeseRYummy]

I don\'t get it.

[Kevin William Cox]

I'll be good to go this Saturday. Though I'll be playing from an Internet Cafe. My computer decided to go haywire on me so I had to send it in to get it fixed. The thermal sensor isn't working causeing the internal fan not to switch on which makes the CPU overheat. It was running as slow as a slug. I've had this problem for some time now, and just figured out what the problem was. I always thought it was Bnets fault or I didn't have enough RAM. Anyways everything is being upgraded and repaired. I'm useing my old computer to look at the forums. Windows 98, which can't play D2. At least mine can't. Video card is too old I think. Aaahhh.... no D2 til this weekend. I might have to go outside into the sunlight! (gasp) lol. See ya then guys.





Kev

[PassThatChronic]

Eeek, let me join you guys :P


-Chronic

[Kevin William Cox]

Hey guys we still on for tomorrow? I'll be there. 7:30 right? Hope to see all of you there.


Sorry PTC, we're already in Act 3. Next time will be hardcore, join us then.





Kev

[Kiwi Legend]

Hey guys we still on for tomorrow? I'll be there. 7:30 right? Hope to see all of you there.


Sorry PTC, we're already in Act 3. Next time will be hardcore, join us then.





Kev
Im down for HC. Let me know

[PassThatChronic]

Hey guys we still on for tomorrow? I'll be there. 7:30 right? Hope to see all of you there.


Sorry PTC, we're already in Act 3. Next time will be hardcore, join us then.





Kev


ok :P hardcore is the way to be :)

[fredsta54]

i can make it 7:30, but we'll wait on steve + beltyn





EDIT: meet in op umd2

Fred

[OneFromBeyond]

I'd be interested in joining either SC or HC Ultimate Quest. I played SC on East Expansion and it was a lot of fun!

*OneFromBeyond

[Zodijackyl]

XPAC = crap

btw I'll be back this week.

[Kevin William Cox]

XPAC = crap

btw I'll be back this week.



I hope so. We waited for you last time in the chat channel. Almost got it going. Things happen though, hopefully we can play this week.

[Zodijackyl]

I really don't remember last Saturday at all, and I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

[Beltyn]

It means dont do the same thing again this week! :laugh:


PS just overtook your nec on europe :cool:

[Beltyn]

Everyone looking good for this week?

[Kevin William Cox]

I'm good. Hope to see everyone there. 7:30 EST?




Kev

[fredsta54]

im good. Steve?

7:30 meet in op fredsta54 or op umd2.... although i am guessing we wont "start" until 8





Fred

[Beltyn]

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:censored: :rant: :censored:

[Kevin William Cox]

Hey guys, well, I hope Zodi shows up. If he doesn't, we proceed without him. I mean 2 times with no pre-post to let us know... Anyway, hope to see all of you there tomorrow. 7:30 EST.




Kev

[Demek]

hey, can we do second edition ?
i've just been to a act 1 hell game with summonmancer, chanted his skellies with ~800 fire dmg, returned with a din for concentration and they did 3 k on amped creatures, imagine it with a foher and conviction coupled with ce :) id love to :)