Hell Unleashed

[Corrupted]

It's finally here! The HU MP thread! :badteeth:

Three weeks ago I presented this mod and it drew attention. The discussion thread is here (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=607677)
The HCWF has finished so it's time to get this thing rolling. The purpose of this group is what's demanded in Hell Unleashed; teamplay, teamplay and more teamplay.

Rules

Hell Unleashed v1.2 (Duh?)
Softcore
Team-oriented classes/builds
Different builds to ensure versatility
TEAMPLAY!
Untwinked


Other

Single Pass - HU doesn't become 10 times easier because you grind some gear. For certain fights I might even encourage grinding as preparation.
Full clears - Some areas are vastly enhanced in size in HU, full clears will just make it last 2 years before we hit normal Baal :badteeth:


Builds
I encourage cookiecutter builds. HU is not easy. I will not dictate people's builds, but it would be good if we occupied the strongest team-classes first; Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer and Paladin - I will personally play a Barbarian because it's very universal in a party. A healing paladin makes bossfights much, much easier. Druid adds more life, Necro has many useful curses and tanking summons.

Build suggestions

Paladin: Hammer+Holy Bolt+Prayer, Avenger
Druid: Windy+Oak, Fire+Oak, Fire Claws+Oak, Frost Bite+Oak
Necromancer: Skeletons+Golems+Death Knight+CE, Bone+Golems, Poison+Golems
Assassin: Shadow Master+Traps, Shadow Master+Blades
Amazon: Lightning Java, Valkyrie+Phys Bow, Valkyrie+Immolation
Sorceress: Blizzard, Telekinesis, Blaze


Did I miss anything? Suggestions?

[moiselvus]

so how do we deal with playing? i can't play at set times, because it happens a lot that i have work/ school work to do at diffrent times... if we can play sp//at difrent times i'm in, don't know what build tough, else.. i don't know, maybe just play normal d2, and HU when someone wants to play with my nova sorc...

[Jaago]

Whee! :prop: I'd like to play either a fire/fireclaws druid or a (again fire?) bow zon. But I'm open for suggestions, too.

[Corrupted]

so how do we deal with playing? i can't play at set times, because it happens a lot that i have work/ school work to do at diffrent times... if we can play sp//at difrent times i'm in, don't know what build tough, else.. i don't know, maybe just play normal d2, and HU when someone wants to play with my nova sorc...

I think we're going to have a set time of Saturday afternoon/evening with the occasional reschedule. That's what I gathered from the interested players in the discussion thread anyway.

Jaago: Sounds good :)

[Magicboy]

Sorry guys but I only have a set time of Saturday morning every week. Sometimes I have times when days off from school.

Anyways, are we making new characters or keeping the ones that we already made? I currently have a (will be) frozen orb sorceress as a cookie cutter build.

[Glenstorm]

I'm definitely in, but I'll hold off on my build until I see what others are making.

[moiselvus]

saturday afternoon? i can usually play from 13:00 to ~ 17:00 then (GMT +1), but as i said not every week, , dunno how good that is for you guys, and when we miss a session (sorry, never paid much attention to the hcwf... :P) i would like to play with a either a singer barb (are they viable? i figure something like 20 BO/20BC/20WC/20shout, rest in passives?) or an avenger (conviction and sanctuary makes for good party play... :P), the singer would have my preference if viable, but if you say it won't work/1 barb is enough, the pally can be fun too... that is of coarse, if my times mach up with those of the others...

[nubikoen]

Where are the games taking place? TCP/IP or on the HU realm?

Sorry if this has been covered in the 'Change of pace' thread, I've searched it but came up with nothing.

[moiselvus]

i think it'll be TCP/IP, but does it really matter?
EDIT: i mean, could you not play tcp/ip, or battlenet...
i cannot host myself, but others can, or we can se up a hamachi network, so tcp/ip shouldn't be a problem, while the bnet thingie might have more lag... (it'd be easier when you miss a session tough)

[nubikoen]

It does matter AFAIK.

If we were to play through the HU realm, our chars would be stored on the server. Similar to how closed B.net works.

TCP/IP is how we normally MP here, ie. one players is hosting.

I was just wondering if the realm for HU would be used instead.

[Corrupted]

Definately TCP/IP. I can host myself.

[Magicboy]

If we are using tcp/ip then I'm assuming (though I shouldn't) that we are using our already made characters?

[colony]

How well do untwinked bone necs do in HU?

I don't really mind what class I play, but I'd prefer either the bone nec (if it can actually hurt anything untwinked), a blizz sorc, a light zon, or a wind druid if no one else plays a druid.

I should be able to play any time from the mid-afternoon at weekends (~3PM, I like my sleep), until quite late (GMT+0).

[Jaago]

If we are using tcp/ip then I'm assuming (though I shouldn't) that we are using our already made characters?

I believe we will be starting with new characters and always do the questing together, similar to what the HCWF was like (the details can be checked from the thread). It seems that we can do some grinding on our own.

[Magicboy]

I'll have some time for around 2 hours starting from now. If we are ready then we can begin i suppose.

[Corrupted]

I hope we can start this Saturday.

colony: Bone necros are very powerful! We could definately use one of those.
moiselvus: An avenger sounds good! I don't know if we can start that early though. Colony prefers to sleep until teatime!

That gives us:
Corr - Barbarian
Jaago - Fire Druid
colony - Bone Necro
moiselvus - Walking Conviction Robot

[colony]

moiselvus: An avenger sounds good! I don't know if we can start that early though. Colony prefers to sleep until teatime!

Hmm, change that time to 1pm then, I'll just have to go to bed earlier on Fridays:badteeth:

[moiselvus]

okay, so avenger it is... now whe need some sorcs that can use the conviction, so far only me and jaago will have real use out of it.... (-def is good but it really is about the -res...) what kind of barb will you play cor? i mean exept for the obv i'll be your bo slave ^^ :P based on the other thread, i think there's a few people missing, i think the list there had 8+persons on it, and i wasn't even there.. :P

[Glenstorm]

I'm thinking I might go with a tanksin using
20 Claw Mastery
1-5 in Weapon Block
20 Cloak of Shadows
20 Fade
20 Venom
Extra points going maybe to shadow master, probably.
Edit: Definitely some points into cobra strike

The idea is to use weapon block rather than a shield because it can block ~everything~ and use the physical and mag resists from fade to survive what hits I do take. The -pois resistance from fade should help boost venom enough that I'm not entirely terrible in the damage department.
Any tips/suggestions are welcome :)

@Corr: I'm not sure what type of barb you were looking at, but this should open you up to a lot of dps builds, I hope. (leap attack barb with giant 2h weapon sounds fun)

[Magicboy]

I'll make a brand new sorc if needed. Preferably single element frozen orb. Currently I'm back to 1.11b for trading purposes but as soon as this starts, I'll change back to Hell Unleashed.

[OneFromBeyond]

I'd like to jump into this as well. I am playing and it looks like a lot of fun...the most fun is that a healing paladin is a possibility and that War Cry has real synergies this time!!!

[Corrupted]

My barbarian will be a WW/Berserk hybrid centered around tanking.

Glenstorm: I would probably lower the points in CoS and add more for Shadow Master and aim for Blade's as my main attack. I don't have much experience with Assassins though.

Magicboy: Frozen Orb is a very bad spell versus bosses. Many bosses have counter-attacks, they fire such whenever they're hit by a spell/attack. The problem is, Frozen Orb shoots 32 or 64 ice bolts if I remember correctly, everyone of those can produce a counter. Also an FYI: Sorcs can't teleport through walls, obstacles, cliffs and such.

OneFromBeyond: Sounds good! Any ideas on class?

[colony]

Are you planning on starting this weekend (tomorrow)? Or waiting until next week?

[Magicboy]

Next week please. I am quite busy this weekend.

So.... what should I make? A pure lightning tank sorc with energy shield? I have some plans for it anyways...

20 energy shield
20 lightning
20 chain lightning
20 lightning mastery
20 telekineses
1 pt. thunder storm
rest into charged bolt

or... I could go the non sorc path....

[DX-Crawler]

well okie dookie a healing pala for me

I can host aswell

[moiselvus]

So not today.... well, i'll be here for a few more hours, but if indeed noone shows// people thinks we should start next week, i'll do something else... i'lll be here for the next three hours to say the least, so just warn me what you think should happen

[Corrupted]

Ok. I think we've already waited enough but as Magicboy is busy and I'm not quite on a free schedule myself I will postpone the start to December 1st.

[Jaago]

When/how are we going to set playing times? I won't probably be able to play on december 8th (maybe after 20:00 GMT but I would be very tired). It would be nice to have somewhat extendable playing times but then again settling on next time's times every game seems too much of a hassle.

My idea would be to set certain time on Saturdays and Sundays and always check which day would have better/easier participation.

[Magicboy]

So does anybody know problems with the build that I posted above?

[Corrupted]

So does anybody know problems with the build that I posted above?

It's quite a good build. I'd say ditch the ES or save it for later. Telekinesis is very good, especially versus the few "mini-bosses" that are capable of being stunned/knocked back.

Jaago: I think we're generally talking Saturday afternoon/evening (CET) with Sunday as backup.

[Jaago]

I'm not saying I know much about this (I don't), but I'd put more points into charged bolt to increase damage output. I think +skills are somewhat abundant relative to normal D2 so Energy Shield shouldn't need so many points in it.

But as I said I have no clue as to how diminishing returns set in with ES and so on..

[Magicboy]

So I think my build plan should go as follows...
Pretty much completely ditching the ES idea but still using telekinesis for minibosses.

20 charged bolt
20 lightning
20 chain lightning
20 telekinesis
20 lightning mastery

[Corrupted]

Ok. I've learned that Fire Claws utilizes the hunger animation and with the right craft (not too hard to make actually) it's capable of reaching 2 fpa! Wow. Huge fire damage and 12.5 attacks per second to apply crushing blow... gotta make a mean boss killer. What do you think Jaago? :badteeth:

[Jaago]

Ok. I've learned that Fire Claws utilizes the hunger animation and with the right craft (not too hard to make actually) it's capable of reaching 2 fpa! Wow. Huge fire damage and 12.5 attacks per second to apply crushing blow... gotta make a mean boss killer. What do you think Jaago? :badteeth:

Sounds pretty meh. :tongue:

Actually it's pretty cool (Shame that CB is so nerfed in HU). Sure I'll try it. You can tell me more about it.

Edit: I can see 3 fpa but 2 fpa is still far away. Are the ias mods in HU possibly that much bigger, or does the quad socket add 4 sockets to a weapon with already 2 os for a maximum of 6 os?

[Corrupted]

IAS mods are the same, "of Quickness" with a maximum of 40%. However, the Death crafts add IAS and an elite Death craft can go as high as 50% IIRC. Then you have four sockets with uber amethysts worth 30% each. With a -10 mace, Scourge or Caduceus for instance, 210% = 2 fpa

The amount of CB you can get is vastly nerfed but it's still the strongest tool versus bosses, especially when coupled with amplify damage.

[Jaago]

Oh, right. I forgot about them Amethyst giving ias. :rolleyes:

[OneFromBeyond]

So I'd like to get in this too. Any suggestions for builds? I have played around with a Fury/Poison Wolf and a Singer Barb and both seem to do well. The healer Paladin sounds interesting too. Any other new types of builds that could work?

[Corrupted]

So I'd like to get in this too. Any suggestions for builds? I have played around with a Fury/Poison Wolf and a Singer Barb and both seem to do well. The healer Paladin sounds interesting too. Any other new types of builds that could work?

Well the only new type (skillwise) I can think of is a frostbite werewolf. It's pretty much the same as fireclaws, just cold damage and a tad slower :smiley:

Warcry barb would be good as an alternate tank. Meteor sorc is capable of dealing alot of damage.
Golemmancer is somewhat cool too because you can have all four golems spawned at the same time in HU, I don't know how useful he is though. Would take some heat of the tank(s) in bossfights.
Hunter druid would be nice too, that would give us a maxed Spirit of Barbs which reduces curse duration among other things.
We can pretty much always use more healers. Sometimes it may be hard to keep an eye on 7 different healthbars and switching between 2 or 3 different auras during bossfights. Having two would put a little less pressure on DX :badteeth:

Everyone else: We start tomorrow! yay! But when? Early afternoon? Late afternoon? Evening? I'm talking GMT+1

[moiselvus]

i'm available from 9:00-17:00 (GTM+1), so evening's out for me, i'd like to start early afternoon (around 13:00)

EDIT: so should i got two handed with my avenger? i'd like that, but i suppose 1handed/shield would be better for the party, right?

[Jaago]

I'm available (awake) if we start between 8am and 8pm (gmt +1) So pretty much all the day. I'm mostly concerned if the people from other continents would have to wake up very early for this.

HCWF started at 7pm (gmt +1) and poops was usually eating breakfast at around that time. DaveW had to wake up at 5am or something...

[moiselvus]

guess i could wake up a bit earlier if it's needed then :)

[moiselvus]

i'm awake, and ready to play, but i suppose we start later, right?

[Corrupted]

i'm awake, and ready to play, but i suppose we start later, right?

Yes, colony needs to wake up. DX is ready, Jaago is supposedly ready and then we're missing word from these players:

Magicboy
Glenstorm
OneFromBeyond

[colony]

I just woke up about 2 minutes ago, I'll be ready in about 15-20 minutes.

Edit: BTW, how useful is it to have more than 1 point in each golem, will they have enough life or just die very quickly? And how good is the Raise Death Knight skill at higher levels?

I was thinking of something like 20 Spear/Spirit/Teeth, 20 in Raise Death Knight, rest in Skeleton Mastery + pre-reqs. Or will meat shields before level 36 be needed?

[moiselvus]

Glenstorm is online atm, jaago isn't but was an hour ago

so that leaves magicboy and onefrombeyond to get online i guess

edit: glenstorm just went offline :/

i don't really know, but death knight get an aura right? so i suppose more points==better

[Jaago]

I'm here...

Colony, you could also get a few curses like amp and LR. Maybe Decrepify, too, but it is nerfed. Edit: Oh well, they're all nerfed and Decrep is still a prereq for LR, but you get the picture...

[moiselvus]

so corrupted, you can host right? i'd like to start now, even though we're not complete...

I was just looking (created the char, but didn't do anything with it) at the syneries, and i noticed the resist aura's not being synergies to vengeance.... i think it might still be usefull to put a point in all of them, any opinions o that matter?

EDIT: interesting, i cant start without the cd in my drive, while i normally can, as long as any cd's in the drive(i ave an image mounted)

[Corrupted]

I'm here, I can host and I will soon (within an hour?)

Colony: Bone spells+curses+IG and Golem Mastery is the way to go from what I have heard.

[colony]

Ok, a new plan then: 60 in bone spells, 1 in all curses (or none in certain ones and more in others), 20 in IG, rest in GM.

[Corrupted]

Ok, we're rolling.

[Magicboy]

I'll be ready in around another half hour or so. Sorry for the late reply. (timezones)

[OneFromBeyond]

I may be on later (sorry there was a blizzard here)

[moiselvus]

thanks for hosting cor!
so what about next week, same time?

[Corrupted]

GG! First session has ended. Colony, DX, Jaago, Moiselvus and I have reached the Inner Cloister waypoint, we're level 18.

Magicboy, OneFromBeyond and Glenstorm - if you're still in we'll help you catch up before next session. We'll have to figure something out though, Moiselvus is generally only available this early and I guess the US players don't want to get up that early every Saturday :badteeth:

Edit: If you have trouble waiting I suggest you buy yourself a level 12 physical rogue and start leveling her. Spend gold gambling jewels of wrath until you can fill a 3 socket bow, 3 socket skull cap and 3 socket armor and you'll see some carnage :badteeth:

[colony]

That was good fun, despite my inability to stay alive.

I'll be around in a couple of hours if any of the other 3 (Magicboy, OFB, Glenstorm) want some help getting up to the Inner Cloister, got to do some work first though.

[Corrupted]

That was good fun, despite my inability to stay alive.(...)


What? I noticed other players who had much more trouble than you staying alive :grin:

[Jaago]

I noticed that life was pretty important for staying alive...

Thanks guys, it was great fun for me.

[colony]

What? I noticed other players who had much more trouble than you staying alive :grin:

I know, I just really dislike dying, especially in Act 1 Normal, even if it is in a mod that makes the game a lot harder.

[moiselvus]

What? I noticed other players who had much more trouble than you staying alive :grin:

What? you can't be talking about me, can you? :hide:
ok, i did die a lot, so i might do some runs for better gear, and hopefully a level... i don't know why i died that much tough, as i did have a good amount life, 40% block, and 35%res all, with fire and cold being higher... i guess i'll have to live with it till level 50 or so :P

[Glenstorm]

Oops, I didn't think to check the thread last night, so it didn't even occur to me I might have to wake up at 7 for this :cry:

Sorry I wasn't there, I'll try to level in SP and be there with you guys next time.

@corr: If you're making your barb as a tank, should I build my sin as more of a dps character? How helpful is it to have multiple tanks?

[Magicboy]

so it didn't even occur to me I might have to wake up at 7 for this

Sorry I wasn't there, I'll try to level in SP and be there with you guys next time.


Don't worry, I missed it too. Actually, I think that we should form two groups as there is nooooooo way that I can get up at 7 am on a saturday morning.

Any suggestions?

[Jaago]

Does Moiselvus have free on sunday nights? If yes, we could play on Sundays instead...

Edit: We could play from 18 to 21 or from 19 to 22 your time. I would prefer a larger group, especially because there are only 3(?) US players.

[moiselvus]

yes, i do have free on sunday night, however, i do have parents too, and i do not think they'll allow me to play till later then 22:00.... if that won't be a problem (we could start at 16:00, for example, and then take an hour's break at 17:00 for dinner) but even then, my parents could get annoying, as dinner's at diffrent times here, and i need to do the dishes too, so an hour might be too short... :/ I think it'll be best to split up in 2 groups for this reason

[Magicboy]

Unfortunately, I do not have much free time on Sunday. The preferable time for me would be 10 to 12 on Saturday (GMT -5).

[Corrupted]

I have no idea how we solve this. I believe moiselvus needs to get a new job :badteeth:
The best we have is Saturday night but we're missing moiselvus then :(

IIRC Jaago is not available next Saturday, so are we going to push it to Sunday late afternoon/evening (GMT+1) or what?

[Magicboy]

so are we going to push it to Sunday late afternoon/evening (GMT+1) or what?

Which would leave me out of the party. I still *highly* recommend splitting into 2 groups and keeping at around the same pace so that we can plan out a time to form 1 big group and kill a big boss. For just normal questing, 2 groups would be much easier.

[moiselvus]

or i just drop, so you can play all together, if there wont be another good solution, so be it.... I'd like to see another solution though, actually, i think magicboy might be right, just go two groups that can go together when we're fighting the *real* tough bosses, and help eachother out...

[Jaago]

No way I'll let our Conviction on a stick drop out. :laugh:

Even though I like bigger gangs I can live with playing in 2 groups if needed. (Maybe I can play in both if I have time :tongue:)

[Corrupted]

I think that is our only solution. I think we'll have some trouble staying synchronized though but only time will tell... Euro group plays Sunday afternoon this weekend then?

[moiselvus]

If we play on sunday, It'd have to be sunday night (19:00-22:00 on the earliest), as i will work from morning till about 18:00 this sunday, and next sunday... (i usually don't work sundays, but there was some trouble, and it does mean double payment...)

[Magicboy]

USA group play 10-12 AM (GMT -5) on saturday?

[Jaago]

You might as well count me out on next weekend. I have no Idea what time I will be home on Sunday but it will be much later than I first thought. I'm probably going to miss the games anyway.

If I can't play on the weekend, I will need some help getting through places.

[Glenstorm]

We need to get up to inner cloister some time during this week to catch up to the euro group.

Where should be the first point where we meet up? Catacombs 2 for andy? Or would that constrict progress too much?

[moiselvus]

cata 2 seems fine, as jaago said he won't be there this week, that gives you guys a little time to catch up, and we wouldnt want to do andy twice with the euro group, now would we?

on a side note: as USA will play a diffrent group, why don't euro play on saturdays, seems to me we could play more then... (I'm talking about something like 14:00-17:00 GMT+1 here)

[Magicboy]

Ok. If anyone has time and can host, we will try to catch up Thursday. 13-16 (GMT-5).

[Glenstorm]

Sounds good to me, I may be a little late as I have to get home from class, but I should be there fairly quickly.

I've been able to get hamachi hosting working, if nothing else is available.

[Magicboy]

Ready whenever you are Glenstorm.

[Glenstorm]

Hop on hamachi, server is
Name: Hell Unleashed
Pass: diabloii

[Magicboy]

Thanks for hosting Glenstorm. We couldn't kill the countess but shall try again tommorrow same time.

Edit: Post number 444 (just found that amusing)

[Glenstorm]

Games down, thanks for playing mois and magic.

Didn't have time for countess, but we got leoric :)

[Glenstorm]

@Magicboy
Game up for finishing run to inner cloister
I'll be killing random bosses till you get here, gotta pass you in exp ;)

[Glenstorm]

Down, we're at inner cloister with you guys now :)

[Magicboy]

Thanks for hosting Glen! That sure was a struggle against some bosses. I die too much. :undecided:

[yetidiah]

where are you guys at right now? and can I still join in if I catch up?

[Glenstorm]

Both groups are at Inner Cloister, ~ lv 18

I'm sure we'd all be happy to have you if you caught up, its really tough single player though, so you might want some help

[Corrupted]

where are you guys at right now? and can I still join in if I catch up?

No, you may not.

[Corrupted]

Are we heading for Andariel today?

[moiselvus]

should we go further then? I mean, jaago can't play this week, and I think some people are thinking euro plays on sunday.... Obv. I'm around, and will check the forum ~everery 30 mins, so...

[colony]

I'm around, but quite busy this weekend, finishing off a lot of work. I can probably manage a couple of hours though.

[Corrupted]

Oh I didn't pay attention to the clock. Let's play some

83.88.225.133

[Magicboy]

Alright Glenstorm, I'm up. Ready for a game? We probably fell behind the other group by now.

[Corrupted]

Game down. We killed Andariel, Radament and Juggernaut

[Magicboy]

Thanks for playing Glen. Too bad we never got to kill andariel. We will catch up to them sometime during the week I suppose. Game down

[Nommie]

Anyone want to play D2 LoD 1.11b now? Hell difficulty.. Hamachi server please-
Dec.10-2007

[DX-Crawler]

hmm how about make a new thread nommie this thread is MP in the hell unleashed mod thread not standard D2, and you have better luck having someone playing if you make an own MP thread

[Magicboy]

Just gonna say... Hell difficulty in Hell Unleashed? That would be a killer!

Anyways if the main group could push their time on saturday back a little bit, me and Glen might be able to join. We are having quite a bit of difficulty on our own and I don't think we can even kill Andariel.

[moiselvus]

Meh, RL is a bit confusing//busy for me right now, so i guess i'll drop... that'll give you times wich work, and if you can find someone who is willing to join (yetidiah), I suppose I could sent him my char(if i can), so you can continue with conviction... If noone comes, I might get around with these times, but I missed last session too, so now me and jaago are both behind.... :/

@mods, could i do this? I know I normally can't, but as this char won't interact with the trade//mp pool anyways...

[Jaago]

Is anyone willing to play today so I can get through Andy and maybe Radament? I'm available from 3pm onwards [gmt+1].

[Glenstorm]

I'd be willing to play for sure, cause I need to do those too, as does magicboy(if his tight schedule will allow it)

[Magicboy]

I have time on Thursday (tommorrow) from 1-4 PM. (GMT-5).

[Magicboy]

Actually I have pretty much all day today. Not very busy. From now (8AM) to 4PM anytime is fine for me. (GMT -5) Anyone up for a game?

[Jaago]

I'd be ready pretty soon.

[Magicboy]

ok. I can host via Hamachi. Did you complete the Andarial quest? I still need to do it.

[Jaago]

I didn't complete it either. My last wp is the Inner Cloister one.

[Magicboy]

K i'll host shortly. My last wp is catacombs level 2

[Magicboy]

Hamachi:

Hell Unleashed
password: diabloii

[Corrupted]

How far are you now?

[Jaago]

Going to beat andy soon

[Magicboy]

Game down.

We beat andy, radament, and juggernaut.

Caught up with you guys now.

[Glenstorm]

Jugger was the cruelest prank ever.:banghead:

[Magicboy]

Does anyone know how my stat layout should go?

Currently i have around 40 strength, base dex, 110 vitality, and 15 energy (all without gear)

With gear I have around 400 life and 200 mana

[DX-Crawler]

Yeah that juggernaut wasnt nice to my pala either guess I need to pump my vitality for awhile now, will be easier to pump it with my new toy which ensure my manapool not to run out, bought a +2 blessed Hammer +2 Concentration and 2 sockets for it. Put in 2 Tir in it to get 16 mana with each kill:jig:

[Corrupted]

I'm not sure if i'll be available tomorrow, if that's the case I hope DX or someone can host and you guys can sort it out

[DX-Crawler]

Yeah I can host just let me now when you are ready I can play at any time

Would be nice though if anyone more than me and Corrupted was using X-fire so much easier to sort things out

[Jaago]

I'll be available for the whole day from now on, too. I'd guess it'll take some time to get our American friends online, so sometime in the evening for us.

[DX-Crawler]

oki I will set the game up in 3 hours and 40 minutes and counting that would be 6 pm in sweden and we are at GMT +1 how does that sound to you

Would be 10 am in American Eastern time
Is there anyone in our group that is on western side of the us we might have to wait some more

[Glenstorm]

That should be fine, magic and I generally start at around 10 our time

Edit: woops, 6 pm there would be noon here, not 10

[Magicboy]

Ok I'm ready:

Hamachi:
Hell Unleashed
Password: diabloii

[Jaago]

Aren't we going to play with DX hosting?

Any news on Colony and OneFromBeyond?

[DX-Crawler]

no word from colony yet or ofb

[colony]

I'm here, didn't get up until an hour or so ago though.

[DX-Crawler]

Oki guys game up at 83.254.246.247

Will start in 10 minutes so all have chance to log on

Got an x-fire crash will be up soon again

[DX-Crawler]

ohh man I crash all the time this time I got unhandled exception

no idea y:cry:

And the antihack say error connecting to server

[colony]

I could host if you want.

[Jaago]

I can't connect to the server...

Edit: Oh...

[Glenstorm]

The anti-hack only needs to connect if you're playing on their realm

Edit: We should probably have col host

[DX-Crawler]

I could host if you want.

Yeah colony set up a game

[colony]

Up: 130.88.189.238

[DX-Crawler]

you go ahead and play I will try one more time got unhandled exception again

Well crashed again I need to sort this out

[Glenstorm]

Well, we got TO duriel.

Couldn't win

Hate the tomb of tal-rasha.

[Magicboy]

Whoa duriel? Looks like im behind quite a bit. I only finished the claw viper temple.

[Glenstorm]

Looks like im behind quite a bit.

You have no idea :dizzy: :hang:

Edit: Amusing sceen (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Glenstorm/Screenshot007.jpg) from this week's session.

[Corrupted]

Duriel is fierce if you don't have the right means :badteeth:
Who was in yesterdays session...Colony, Jaago, Glenstorm and Magicboy?

I believe DX, moiselvus (?) and I shall catch up during the week and be ready for Duriel next Saturday!

[Magicboy]

I was not. I only played for awhile with Glen and Jaago but I need some catching up during the week to duriel. I only finished the claw viper temple.

[DX-Crawler]

Yeah I'm rebuilding my hammerboy since my statpoints is a bit off will be ready for act2 when we will catch up with the other later this week

[OneFromBeyond]

Aren't we going to play with DX hosting?

Any news on Colony and OneFromBeyond?

Sorry guys I have been playing on the server (and haven't been following these posts too much). Let me know if you need more players.

*OneFromBeyond

[Jaago]

There's room for you, at least. Plus I like having more people around.

[DX-Crawler]

Need help with my new hammerdin to kill the bear guy and andariel, jump on 83.254.246.247

[DX-Crawler]

Well game down thanks for all who joined we are now up to date with the others

[Magicboy]

K, I will have some time to catch up during the break. I am on Harem level 1 next.

[Jaago]

What time are we going to start? IIRC, Glen and Magic are usually starting at 10 am their time, which I assume is 4 pm gmt +1. If magic needs to catch up, we might need to start a bit later or rush him through the Arcane Observatory in the beginning.

[Magicboy]

I'm ready to start in the Harem level 1.

This session will be to catch up to the main group. (hopefully)

Hamachi:
Hell Unleashed
P/W: diabloii

[Magicboy]

Game down. I finally caught up with the main group and finished the summoner quest.

Duriel some time during the week when we can all meet together?

[Corrupted]

Judging from the active users list everyone is present and ready for Duriel now?

[colony]

I'm here and can play.

[DX-Crawler]

I'm here but someone who have the staff have to host

[Jaago]

I'm here but Magicboy had to go, I think.

Edit: @ Corr: No idea, really. He just said towards the end of the catch-up session that he has to go.

[Corrupted]

I'm here but Magicboy had to go, I think.

Ah, shame. Maybe he'll be back later?

[DX-Crawler]

are we postponing it doesnt matter for me I can play all night:grin:

[Glenstorm]

You know how sometimes you go nuts trying to figure out whats wrong with the internet and it turns out someone just barely nudged the router cord out of its socket :rolleyes:

I'm back now if we want to get something together :cool:

[Magicboy]

Ummm can duriel be held off for a bit? I'm quite busy for the rest of the day. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[colony]

Any chance of getting everyone together to do Duriel today or not?

[Jaago]

I can play.

[Magicboy]

I don't have time now but maybe later in the afternoon. Like in another 3-4 hours or so.

BTW, I made an interesting discovery. I picked up a wand with an Oskill. It is +1 life tap that doesn't say necromancer only! I'm keeping the wand for now incase it is useful later on.

Wand requires level 20

[Jaago]

The wand doesn't work. I saw one, too, and tried it but it was no good. It's just missing the Necromancer only text.

[Magicboy]

I will have some time today although I do not know how long just Duriel will take.

This will definitely not be a normal session and will perhaps be much shorter (An hour?). I only have around an hour to kill duriel.

If we can get together for just an hour to finish duriel (I don't have time for longer) then perhaps we could do it today. Otherwise, we might want to wait until we all have enough time for a real session of 2-3 hours for killing duriel and then act 3 questing.

Any opinions?

[Jaago]

We're having Christmas celebrations here in Finland (and some other countries) tonight so it's definitely a no-go.

Duriel would probably take close 2 hours even with a full gang because the way there is very long.

[Magicboy]

K then that means after Christmas (26th?)

[Magicboy]

EDIT: Nevermind. Probably don't have enough time anymore

[Jaago]

So, today? I'll probably have some important business at around 5 pm (gmt +1) but it won't take more than an hour. I can join later if we start around that time or just leave and stay in the game to get the quest if we start earlier.

[DX-Crawler]

I can play today doesnt matter which time we start so anytime will do for me

[colony]

I can play today doesnt matter which time we start so anytime will do for me

As can I.

.

[Drystan]

Can you guys post pics in here? For those of us who gave up on the Solo version because it doesn't fit my schedule.

I mean... I got to the Summoner in the Arcane Sanctuary, and fought him for god knows how long! I had that fight won from the very start, it just took that long. Then running through Duriel's lair for an hour or two, followed by a very quick slaughter of my army. Heh.
I'd like to see some pics of special monsters/fights though. :)

[Magicboy]

I can play today doesnt matter which time we start so anytime will do for me

I may be able to. Not right now though.

[Glenstorm]

I'm up for a run any time too, I'll only be able to check here around once an hour or so, so I might be a bit late joining

[Magicboy]

Ok if I play now, I only have around 1 1/2 hour. If it isn't enough then I might have more time later tonight.

[DX-Crawler]

Well me and corr cant host anyone else have to host since we dont have a complete staff we dont wanna run through maggots lair again are we

[Magicboy]

I can host tonight. I have the complete staff. In around 2 1/2 hours? or tommorrow?

[colony]

2 and a half hours works for me, though that will mean starting at 11:30 PM so it might be a bit late for some of the others.

[Magicboy]

2 and a half hours works for me, though that will mean starting at 11:30 PM so it might be a bit late for some of the others.

Oh... I didn't think about that. The time in 2 and a half hours for me is 6:30 PM.

EDIT: Actually if everyone is able to play tonight then I can host

[Magicboy]

Ok I can definitely play today. Is everyone else avaliable?

[Magicboy]

Kk i'm ready.

I can host via Hamachi

Hell Unleashed
P/W: diabloii

EDIT: Hmmm apparently no interest.

[Jaago]

I can play any time today but I'm not going to check the forums too often as I'm doing homework. So don't worry if I'm a little late.

[DX-Crawler]

I can play aswell

But the host must be one who have the staff and not using Hamachi, I think colony could host

[colony]

I can host, I've opened the entrance to Duriel's chamber, so no staff, but it is open. Might take a bit of tweaking to my firewall to get it working though, had to reinstall Windows recently.

When do people want to start?

Edit: Also if anyone's using xfire can they add me? It'd make things a bit simpler. Username's colony423

[Magicboy]

Well if you already have the entrance to Duriel's Chamber, that means that it won't take long right? I have around an hour if so. Also, I have the staff.

[colony]

Ok, game's up:

130.88.189.238

[Magicboy]

Well apparently I entered just as soon as they killed duriel. :banghead:

Oh well, I'll catch up with the other group.

[colony]

Game down, Sszark was fun.:tongue:

[Jaago]

We're gonna play today? I'm free.

[Magicboy]

Yes we are killing Duriel and catching up with the main group today.

In an hour. (In another hour, I have a LOT of time)

[colony]

I can't play today, not for another 4.5 hours anyway, got exam revision to do.

[Magicboy]

I can't play today, not for another 4.5 hours anyway, got exam revision to do.

If memory serves me correct, you were in the main group that already completed Duriel Quest. If so then you don't need to worry about it

[Magicboy]

Game up

Hamachi:

Hell Unleashed
P/W: diabloii

I can only host on hamachi.

[Jaago]

Hey, where is everybody?

(Some help needed :tongue:)

[Glenstorm]

Sorry about the late notice, but its my birthday, and I have a lot of setting up to do before people get here, so I won't be able to play.

Which is really bad because I missed last session :(

[Jaago]

only to take duriel NOW?

Me and magic can't do it with just the two of us

[Magicboy]

Alright me and Jaago need some help here. Just another tank... *looks at Glen*

[Magicboy]

Game Down. Thanks to Jaago for playing.

We weren't able to kill Duriel with just the two of us. Looks like it will be continued next week.

[Magicboy]

I have pretty much all day today. Anyone wanna play?

[Magicboy]

Ok. So is anyone able to help us take down Duriel this week?

If so then post here and i'll make a game now.

EDIT: Still no interest? This is my fourth post in a row now...

[Jaago]

I can play if we get more people.

[Glenstorm]

I'm up for taking down duriel today ;)

[Magicboy]

Hmmm I don't have time for the rest of the day. Anybody have some tommorrow night at 6:30 PM? (GMT-5)

[Magicboy]

Ok if anyone has time right now to fight Duriel then post.

Glen: If you want to join and fight Duriel now, you have to host because I already used up my staff and completed that quest.

[Corrupted]

I'm sorry for not telling you lads. I've lost motivation in this project as I have experienced most of HU by now. I'll happily give you some tips if you encounter seemingly impossible battles.

Good luck

[tableclown]

Anyone here interested in starting? Im working on a character solo but that wont get that far since its really hard. Post here if your interested.

PS: CAn I play my single player character in multiplayer if I host a TCP/IP?

[Magicboy]

Just to tell you all, I'm very busy this saturday.

You probably won't see me post at all on saturday.

[Magicboy]

Is this thread dead?

[nebularat]

Is this thread dead?

it was till now. =D
It encourages teamwork for most of the game. I was only able to get to Far Oasis solo with a Fire Amazon, and that was a few patches ago. It's a great PvM mod that challenges people that breeze through regular Diablo 2, without making it stupidly tedious (until later difficulties where heading through Act 1 for a third time is just obnoxious).

But yes, just about every part of Hell Unleashed is an improvement on Diablo 2. Anybody with a friend or two willing to try it out should, if you have the time to devote to hour-long or more quests.

more info can be found here:
http://arimyth.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/hell.htm

[moiselvus]

First up, sorry for the huge necro, but I feel this thread has a lot of usefull info in it, so i decided not to create a new one.

I was wondering wether people are interested in HU. I'm currently downloading the mp version again, and i'd rather not play alone. I'm not talking about an MP playgroup(that failed for me the last time as my playing times are too irregular) but just some people who play solo, and just mp from time to time.

The download should finish in about 30 minutes, and i'll probably play for about an hour then. PM me for hamachi details if you want to mp a bit :)

EDIT: installing took a while longer then i expected, so i'm going to bed now

[moiselvus]

Okay, i'm going to clean the den, Pm for hamachi details if you're interested in joining

edit: game down, cleared the den, but that took me some time, and without merc i couldn't hav done it...

[Andyhasit]

Anybody up for hell unleashed solo edition softcore via tcp/ip?

[Corrupted]

Pft. Solo edition is too easy. Especially when you're more than one ;)

[Andyhasit]

Is it? Havent tried this mod yet and the fact that theres no town portals in multi made it sound less appealing :D
And if the HU reset is going to come in some weeks then no use playing it on the realm yet?

[OneFromBeyond]

The reset just happened (or is starting back up now). If anyone wants to play message me on their server *OneFromBeyond . It is totally based on teamwork, soloing bosses is just about impossible. Rushing is impossible too.

[Magicboy]

Alright on the request of daAZNkid, I will restart this thread up.

Currently, both of us are in act 2. If you would like to join our group, get caught up during the weekdays, as we play together during the weekends. If you would like to join, but have trouble killing Andariel, you can ask for help, and we'd be glad to help.

Magicboy: Jav_Master lvl 22 Lightning zon (creative name, right?)
daAZNkid: AfterDeath lvl 23 Bone necro

We are playing version 1.2 of Hell Unleashed (Although there do seem to be newer versions out there)

[Scorp]

Hi, i rly need help with andy, so if anyone is playng atm maybe i can join or so, sry for bad english

[Corrupted]

Hi, i rly need help with andy, so if anyone is playng atm maybe i can join or so, sry for bad english

Are you playing the solo or multiplayer version? And what class/build?

[deadbeat]

hi im new to HU. how do i connect to a server? i can play single player and i can do tcp/ip but i dont see anything about a server like amiryth or anything. just uswest east etc. can anyone help/ id like to play this with others. kinda tough solo'n it. probably should have downloaded the single player version.

[slap]

hi

I too have just downloaded Hu and setup a new account for online, if anyone would like to play then please leave me a message.

.....

[erikvagyok]

Hi all i make a new server ! with hell unleashed mod ! www.d2hu.fw.hu view the web site for more info and if you like it connect to my server :D