MP SC Group

[deathmirage]

I'd like to attempt to make a group of SC players to play with much like LprMan did in his thread (Except his group is HC).

Rules:
1. Untwinked
2. Only one of each class (One sorc, one barb, etc.)
3. The games will use RRM and RWM
4. Try to stay away from overpowered builds (Hdin for example)
5. All games will be set to P8 regardless of how many ppl are in game (Makes things more interesting and challenging)
6. Limited "Runs." Only as needed.
7. Play only with group with said character (At least until the group disbands 4 good when that occurs)
8. Melee characters get priority over runes(Runewords). Simply put casters can usually do fine naked or with bad equip. Melee characters may need certain runewords to help them be useful especially in nm and beyond, at least until we find melee users better unique weapons and such. This isn't to say that a sorc will not get a spirit shield/sword or w/e. Just she might have to wait for it :laugh:
9. If you use ATMA to mule any items, have them muled under a new stash (Again until the group is finished for good).

If I think of anything else I'll post.

If you're interested post the following:

1. Character Class (First person to claim a class gets it. And since there are only seven classes available, I'll allow one repeated class. First class to get two ppl gets it.)
2. Build you want to pursue
3. Time of day you are available to play.


I'll start off:

1. Barb.

2. Frenzy/Singer

Skills:
20 Frenzy
20 Double Swing
20 Battle Orders
11 Taunt
11 Warcry
10 Mastery
5 Natural Resist
1 Battle Command
1 Leap
1 Leap Attack
1 Beserk
1 Increased Stam
1 Increase Run/Walk
Rest = Prereq.

3. I'll be available to play pretty much all day til classes start up (End of this month).

[mtzang]

Hey, check your PM inbox. :grin:

[dutes]

This thread is going to be used as the HQ for the MP party including myself, deathmirage, mtzang, skoolbus and omg.

Progress: Lut Gholein Normal

I like the idea of posting our (un)planned builds that way we can offer any advice ot each other as some of us (me certainly) may be playing a build for the first time.

For my light sorc


20 Lightning
20 Chain Lightning
20 Lightning Mastery
20 Nova
1 Thunderstorm
1 Teleport
1 Warmth

and either

20 charged bolt, 1 tk, 7ES
or
16 tk, 10 ES, 1 charged bolt

Now that we're in Act II i suspect we all want to get new mercs :wink3: however its obviously not an ideal situation if we all get the same type. I think we should work out who'll get what but basicly, with 5 of us I see our best options as this

Defiance Merc
Might Merc
Holy Freeze Merc
and two others (blessed aim and ?)

I don't really care which merc I end up with so long as we don't all have the same type. :smiley:

next session next weekend?

[mtzang]

Yes I agree that its a good idea that each get a different merc to cover all available aura. Maybe a prayer merc for that little bit of healing.

My build: Throwbarb

First time playing one. After playing for one session, I have the following (personal) opinions about throwbarbs. Firstly, even 2 mana per throw is too much for untwinked. I'm gulping down mana potions so fast I thought I might have been a sorc trapped in a brute's body. Secondly, the throwing weapons ran out really fast.

My build
1 or 20 Double Throw? (since putting points in it only improves AR)
20 Double Swing (for damage synergy to double throw and maybe act as backup attack)
20 Throwing Mastery
1 Natural Resist
1 Faster R/W
1 Whatever 1-point wonders

Not sure where to put other skills. Howl, Taunt, Totem?

[dutes]

yeah i noticed you were picking up a lot of potions... i noticed cos I could never get a mana potion myself :tongue:

The reason I didnt suggest a prayer merc is because omg is playing a Cleric. Although later on I think we might want him using auras other than prayer, cleansing or meditation (we could always slap an insight onto a prayer merc when we get the runes).

Getting some points in find item mightn't be a bad idea. Seeing as we are playing untwinked we're going to need find some good stuff, with find item we basicly get a double shot at stuff.

[Darkoooo]

we could always slap an insight onto a prayer merc when we get the runes


Just a little tip. Omg should wear insight, cause his Prayer aura will synergize better(He'll have it on a higher lvl) than Prayer aura from merc. That way you'll have mana and life regeneration at a crazy lvl!:thumbsup:

[dutes]

Thanks for the tip Darkoooo, I suggested th merc though because as a Light Sorc, I'm kinda hoping that omg might use conviction everynow and then :wink2:

[mtzang]

OOps actually I wasn't the one picking up all the potions, trust me. I took occasionally, and when you guys run by w/o picking them up.

I buy my own potions too btw.

[skoolbus]

I picked up a bunch, maul ate all 30 some of my mana really fast, I expect fc will do it even faster. Between both of our barbs, I hope that we get shout and BO maxed :grin:. I'm still deciding on oak sage. It seems like a good idea now, but I know in hell it will be more of a pain than help, but if anyone has a burning desire for it, let me know. As for mercs, assuming we all get act 2 ones (which could be good, or I think we could keep act 1, get a act 3 cold, or a barb so that we're not hurting for polearm weapons later on) prayer is definately the most useful aura in normal, and is very useful throughout the whole game. Prayer auras stack, so if we get one from a merc, and one from omg, it's even better. BA, not very useful, defiance, very useful, HF, very useful, might very useful. I think this leaves one merc open for being something besides act2.

I'd also hope for conviction, as would everyone else. It's the best party aura for casters and melee alike by far, but I don't know if omg wants to be just a walking aura with healing capabilities :laugh:.

Not really sure on my build yet, probably max FC, max lycan, max 2 synergies, max bear?

[deathmirage]

Dutes:
I was looking at your skill build and I was wondering why 1 pt into TS? Even when maxed it doesn't do much damage. (Alittle over 1k per hit? With max mastery). One point would have it doing about 400 max per hit if you had mastery maxed.

IMO TS is a waste when your main skills can do 3x/4x more times damage per hit. Not to mention you can cast you main skills faster meaning more damage per second. For me TS is more of a dueling skill (And it looks cool) than a PvM skill.

I think you should definitely max charged bolt if you are going to be a pure build. If you maxed Charged Bolt/lighting/Chain Lighting/Light mastery/Nova then you'd be seeing a CL damage of a little over 3.5k per hit. And lets say you are killing way to fast for the rest of us, then just use nova for around 700 damage per hit. Charged bolt could even be used for about 100 damage per bolt (22 bolts. Spammed = death).


Btw I was picking up mana potions like crazy until I dropped a few points into double swing :) 2 mana does kill a barb's mana, but currently my mana cost is really alittle under 1 although the lying screen says a mana cost of 1.

When are we planning on playing again?? I'm about to catch up on the den and blood raven

[skoolbus]

When are we planning on playing again?? I'm about to catch up on the den and blood raven

Next weekend. Weekends are really the only time it seems we will be able to play, as half of us live around the world from the other half. If you have msn, pm one of us your msn sn and we can discuss much easier than over pm or this thread.

[deathmirage]

I picked up a bunch, maul ate all 30 some of my mana really fast, I expect fc will do it even faster. Between both of our barbs, I hope that we get shout and BO maxed :grin:. I'm still deciding on oak sage. It seems like a good idea now, but I know in hell it will be more of a pain than help, but if anyone has a burning desire for it, let me know.

My build is gonna max BO, but not Shout. Oak sage could help, but keeping it alive might be annoying.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

I have no life at the moment and I'm free all week. Although playing at 3am does somewhat affect how I play lol but I can still manage. If you're all okay to play, just message me on D2 forums and I'll be on.

Until I get the runes for Insight, I'll keep Cleansing/Meditation as my main Auras. Once I do, I'll use Conviction.

[dutes]

@mirage - the reason I put 1 pt into TS is its a prerequisite for Teleport and Energy Shield, as it synergises with Energy Shield putting 16 points into it makes it a 1-1 life to mana drain. So in the end it comes down to more survivability or more damage and given Skoolbus's concerns about a sorc unbalancing things I thought i'd put two options up and see what you guys think. I wasn't opting for TS for damage :grin: although stunlock is useful...

I think we should all post our GMT because I've already forgotten omg's and skoolbus's (-5)
I'm GMT+10
and just for arguments sake I think we should pick a standardised time to work with (say flat GMT?) when organising the time for our games, so theres no confusion.

[deathmirage]

@mirage - the reason I put 1 pt into TS is its a prerequisite for Teleport and Energy Shield, as it synergises with Energy Shield putting 16 points into it makes it a 1-1 life to mana drain. So in the end it comes down to more survivability or more damage and given Skoolbus's concerns about a sorc unbalancing things I thought i'd put two options up and see what you guys think. I wasn't opting for TS for damage :grin: although stunlock is useful...

I think we should all post our GMT because I've already forgotten omg's and skoolbus's (-5)
I'm GMT+10
and just for arguments sake I think we should pick a standardised time to work with (say flat GMT?) when organising the time for our games, so theres no confusion.

Ahh You are talking about telekensis not Thunderstorm :grin: Ok. Gotcha :thumbsup:

I'm GMT+5

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Dibs on the Defiance Merc. :P

dutes: GMT + 10
mtzang: GMT + 10
deathmirage: GMT + 5
omg: GMT - 5
skoolbus: GMT - 5

These hours seem plausible to me for start times, what do you guys think?

GMT - 5
Saturday, 7am-10am

GMT + 5
Saturday, 5pm-8pm

GMT + 10
Saturday, 10pm-1am

All other time combinations I can think of involve some parties in the wee hours of the night. Or whenever we're all on MSN/d2.net and are ready gto go.

As a side note, let's go for Mephisto for our next session. Any of you guys want to run Andy one more time before heading on to Lut Gholein?

[dutes]

I may not be available on Saturday... there's a law conference on at Rydges and that may be both Friday and Saturday nights. I have a long weekend this week though so I can play late at night on the sunday if I can't play saturday (although I think I can)

[dutes]

I will be available on Saturday night, so this saturday 10pm (my time)?

[skoolbus]

I will be available on Saturday night, so this saturday 10pm (my time)?

Possibly, I might need to drive my parents to the airport saturday morning, which I think was around 6, so I might make it back a little after 7 (though I need to call and ask them this to make sure). But I can play once I get back.

[dutes]

we can always open the game and just wait till you arrive :smiley:

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

I'll be up tomorrow. Hope you see you guys there. :grin:

[skoolbus]

I should be there by 7 (good thing I'm going to be up already anyway) but I may be a few minutes late, just start without me.

[skoolbus]

Is the game up? Can someone pm/msn me the ip cause I don't have the one from last time.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Am I hosting again?

[skoolbus]

Am I hosting again?

Please. I don't know where anyone else is though...

edit: I can't connect

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

lol... alright.

74.121.78.169

Game up.

My comp has been left on all night to download a movie, so if it's laggy I'll restart.

I guess I can wait for the rest too or something.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

dutes is on... so am I. By the way, I'm restarting.

Edit: Game up again. If I lag, can you host skoolbus? :D

74.121.78.169

[dutes]

I'm good to go, haven't heard from mtzang or mirage though

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

We're doing Andy, if mtzang or dm comes on, feel free to join us.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Game down. Thaks for playing.

@mtzang/deathmirage: Sorry you guys couldn't make it, we're in ActIV now. If you guys could catch up over the week, that would be great. :smiley: Otherwise, I could rush you guys to where you need to be for our next session. Just drop by a PM, I'll be home all day.

To everyone else:
If you've got a less popular build that's either a Amazon or Assassin, and you are willing to go untwinked, feel free to join us for our next session. We're around level 27, in Act IV Normal. Just drop a message and we'll PM/message you the next time.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Update

skoolbus, dutes, and I are now done Normal.
Hellforge Runes: Ral, Ral, Tal

Fred is level 42
sparky is level 42
DirtySanchez is level 41

mtzang and deathmirage are still in Act 2.

I can rush you guys if you need it to catch up. :smiley:

Current Runes Stashed

4x El
2x Eld
2x Tir
4x Nef
3x Eth
2x Ith
4x Tal
5x Ral
4x Ort
1x Dol

[deathmirage]

I saw where you guys got to act 4 and went ahead and got myself to act 3. Didn't know you where going all the way :laugh:

I'll take a rush so I can get up to lvl 40 faster :grin:

You'll have to host game though. For some reason people can't join my games. I even tried to game my own game using two computers and it won't allow it. :undecided: I'll have to figure out what the problem is so I can host.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

deathmirage is caught up. :afro:

[Nazdakka]

You'll have to host game though. For some reason people can't join my games. I even tried to game my own game using two computers and it won't allow it. :undecided: I'll have to figure out what the problem is so I can host.

Sounds a lot like Windows Firewall. You've got to turn it off in order to host.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Just wondering who's okay with playing this weekend. :D

[skoolbus]

Just wondering who's okay with playing this weekend. :D

Hopefully I can, I'll know for sure in a day or so, but if I can't go on without me :cool:.

[dutes]

I'm actually quite busy these next few weeks but I can play from 1pm (my time) saturday till around 5-6ish, or from about midday sunday (my time again).

So thats like, 10pm-quite late friday/saturday your time or from about 7pm your time saturday night. I can't play friday night because I have to row the following morning, I can't play saturday night because I'm going to the law conference I was supposed to go to last week (was postponed) and won't be back till about 11am sunday. I can't play sunday night because I have to go to school on Monday and I have an 8.05am start on mondays.

Sorry for this long winded post but to recap

10pm-late (your time) on Friday night
7pm-whenever (your time) on Saturday

The weekend after though I'll be unavailable all weekend as I'll be in Townsville for the North Queensland Schools Rowing Championships, I can catch up in my own time if I miss that session though.

[mtzang]

Sorry I've been MIA for so long. Suddenly found myself buried under tons of school work and deadlines to meet (and busy with real life too). Yea I need a rush... :P no motivation to play on my own otherwise.

I figure I will need to catch up before saturday or sunday so is friday ok for a rush, omgwtfbbqpwned?

[skoolbus]

Sorry for this long winded post but to recap

10pm-late (your time) on Friday night
7pm-whenever (your time) on Saturday

The weekend after though I'll be unavailable all weekend as I'll be in Townsville for the North Queensland Schools Rowing Championships, I can catch up in my own time if I miss that session though.

I think I can do the 7pm to whenever my time on sat, but not this friday night. Also, you row dutes? I rowed for UVA a few years ago, but quit cause I didn't have enough time. I'll be on msn whenever I can play, so I'll message you guys.

[dutes]

Thats fine by me. Yes I row for my school (year 12, thats the final year before university or college as the Americans call it) we do sculling not sweep oar rowing. I'm in the Open (ie. First) Quad in bow seat and we won the national Schoolboy title in March of this year (one of the fellas in the boat won the U17 quad in '05, the open schoolboys in '06 and now the same event again this year). Hopefully I'll row at university next year but we'll see how I do timewise.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

I can play when skoolbus plays too. I'll try and give mtzang a rush if I see him.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Our weekendly game is up. deathmirage/mtzang are free to join us when you two come online, if possible. :smiley:

74.121.78.169

To everyone else:

NM Act I. If you are untwinked, feel free to join us.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Game down. I'm too sleepy for a proper update, so I'm heading to bed first.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

UPDATE

dutes (50?), skoolbus (50?), and I (48) are in Nightmare - Act II (Second Quest).

[mtzang]

sorry guys, I think you can drop me from this mp group... there's no way for me to catch up right now. I didn't realise that school work will be piling up so fast and exams in 2 weeks.. :embarassed:

[dutes]

Just letting you guys know that I can't play this weekend (i should be right for the following weekend). I'll be in Townsville leaving 6am tomorrow morning and not getting back till midnight sunday. In 3 weeks time though I'll actually be on holidays so I'll be free whenever you guys want to play

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

@mtzang: Good luck with your studies!

[greenmind]

If I can get in on this I have an untwinked fury wolf in act 2 nm.
Id love too play with you guys@!

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

That would be great! But we play only once a week on weekends. Is that okay?

If it is, what time zone are you in?

[dutes]

Are we playing this weekend? I'm able to play late (my time) if necessary this week

[skoolbus]

I can play this weekend, nights my time would work best, but if you guys come up with another time, I might be able to play then, just message me on msn.

[skoolbus]

I just took an amazingly long nap, and am probably not leaving my apartment tonight, so I can play any time now, or in about 25 hours (11pm tomorrow EST). (or when I wake up tomorrow, 12 hours probably 10am EST)

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

I'm incredibly awake now, and I can play anytime from now till the next 4-5 hours, or tomorrow morning.

GMT - 5

Friday: Current Time - 3am
Saturday: 6am - Any

I'm way more fresh this week (been taking lots of naps), so I don't think I'll pull another stunt like last time, ie fall asleep on my comfy pillow while skoolbus goes get food.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Anyone with a untwinked character in Nightmare Act II is free to join us 6 hours from the time of this post.

[skoolbus]

Just to let you guys know, there is no chance ill be able to play this weekend, except maybe on my sunday night, but go on without me and I'll catch up.

[dutes]

I'm on exam block from today meaning that I don't have to go to classes (only exams) so I can play sunday night your time if thats all that suits (my exam on monday finishes at 11.30 my time which is around 9.30 your time?)

[dutes]

Any plans for us to play this wknd? We could probably finish NM in 2 hours or so

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Hey guys - my school term starts tomorrow. Meaning playing on week days are offlimits now. I can only play weekends, and I can't stay up till 4am on Sundays like I used to, cuz I have a 9am class. Just letting you guys know.

[dutes]

Right, now the tricky part begins :undecided:
Shame to because I'm about to go into holidays where I could play anytime however with me being ahead of you in time its not as helpful as it could be.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Are we playing this weekend? I love to to finish NM. :D

[dutes]

I would like to think so. I'm free all weekend, PM me or MSN (if I'm on) or post here when we can play. I reckon we can finish NM in the next session

[skoolbus]

I don't think I'll be able to play anymore. I haven't played d2 in weeks now and I'm constantly swamped with work. Sorry to have to leave like this, but if anyone wants Fred the fireclaws bear, let me know and I'll send him to you and you can join in.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Ah, oh well. dutes, what do you say? Playing with two isn't really that fun... wanna try and find new people to recruit, or do we split ways now? :sad2:

[dutes]

Sorry to hear that skoolbus. I suggest we try and recruit a new member (PM anyone you think might be interested) but I suspect this is probably the end of our adventures as a team.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

If it is the end, I would like to say thanks to both of you (and mtzang and deathmirage even though it was brief) for the fun times. :grin:

I'll post some help wanted posters around the MP forum, but if no one replies in a few days, then I guess we'll be going off on our own.

Good luck with your workload skoolbus. Sorry to have you go.

[skoolbus]

If one of you pm's me an email address, I'll send you a stash will all Fred's useful items (gems, charms, etc).

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

I've decided to finish the rest on my own. Good luck with sparky, dutes.

[dutes]

Good luck to you too, thanks for the games :smiley: