KTA-Necro-Sorc Marriage Run with a bit of Patsy...

**MrKaxe** · 06-03-2012, 09:21

Good day HC forum and KTA followers

The poor, poor Assassins! We had a strong party with a good blend of skills but the run dragged on so much with all the deaths, leavers and then holes in attendance due to the time of year so that run fell apart spectacularly but the new run last night started with vigor so long may that last! The discussion of builds and what-not is at the end of the Assassin thread (http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...sin-Run/page23) and here are the builds for this crazy shenanigan!

Me: KTA-Valois; Summonmancer
Adam: KTA-asdfman; Poisonmancer
Pat: KTA-Unbeliever; Bonemancer
Joe: KTA-Melissandre; Fire Sorc
Pete: KTA-Whatever; Cold Sorc
Tommeh: KTA-MissSparkle; Lightning Sorc

We are also using the 'Patsy' idea Pat suggested in the last thread in terms of coloured armour, of which we decided on using no armour until we get a Breast or Gothic Plate and then the first slot is the corresponding gem to the skill used, which is:-

Me: Skull
Adam: Emerald
Pat: Amethyst or Diamond Pat?!
Joe: Ruby
Pete: Sapphire
Tommeh: Topaz

A lot going on with this run! Exciting as well! The complete range of damage types covered and the way there are applied meant we sped right up to the start of Act 2 and we started 30 mins later than usual! Looking forward to our builds developing! I took some screenies, will follow up with them soon!

**Sweet_Shadow** · 06-03-2012, 10:32

Good start I say!

I think Adam named his necromancer KTA-asdf

Diamond/white would suit bonemancer better than Amethyst I guess :]

**Pyrotechnician** · 06-03-2012, 15:01

I'd just like to say this run sounds like a whole ton of fun, and I wish you guys the best of luck, I read through almost all of your assasin run and it seemed, unsuccessful, but no matter, I'm sure you guys will charge through this one in no time!

**MrKaxe** · 06-03-2012, 18:09

The start (with Tommeh refusing to co-operate as usual :P)

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/174...nshot049do.jpg

Andy going down fast

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/7...enshot050q.jpg

**FredOfErik** · 08-03-2012, 12:19

Good luck on the run! Looking forward to reading along.

On the whole armor business this clicky might be of interest to you. It turns out that crafted armors can be colored by socketing gems into them. Don't know if you know it already, but it was new info to me

**MrKaxe** · 08-03-2012, 13:22

I did not know that indeed FredofErik so thanks for putting that forward!

**MrKaxe** · 12-03-2012, 10:18

Who is as excited as me today?!?! Can't wait for this day to be over so we can kick the poop out of Act 2!!

I think we should totally abuse the recipes for armour http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp...teditems.shtml and socket our appropriate gems into them to make the colour thing awesome! It does mean we would have different armours though as, for instance, a a Safety Armour is the originally chosen Breast Plate but being surrounded by skeletons I would prefer a Caster armour, which is a Light Plate. Do we have a group consensus of more than one armour type? Maybe just the ones indicative of crafting?
I also wouldn't like to see a Skin of the Vipermagi go to waste if we find one and as the skin is blue I guess Pete gets it being the blue armour person...the lucky git!

**Sweet_Shadow** · 12-03-2012, 10:27

I know some in our group love crafting! I like the idea : )

**Krupa** · 12-03-2012, 11:21

nice info about the coloring thing. it got me thinking:

if a crafted armor is colored with a gem and one removes the gem afterwards, will the color stay?
same goes for grey items. once a gem colors it and is hel'd out, does the color stay? it could mean colored runewords...
but i guess those would be common, if it were this easy...

for armor bases the hit-power ones seem to me the most attractive ones. fhr and ctc frost nova coupled with a bit of resis or life would make a decent armor, however easily beaten by a 4 sock armor with the color gem and some mixture of shael, ral, ort, ruby...

since we are a dating theme, imo one couple of chars should wear the some base armor: e.g. 1st sorc & nec breast plate, 2nd gothic plate, 3rd leather armor

**MrKaxe** · 12-03-2012, 11:56

Originally Posted by Krupa

nice info about the coloring thing. it got me thinking:

if a crafted armor is colored with a gem and one removes the gem afterwards, will the color stay?
same goes for grey items. once a gem colors it and is hel'd out, does the color stay? it could mean colored runewords...
but i guess those would be common, if it were this easy...

I thought about that as well dude but came to the same conclusion as you; in so many years of playing we would collectively know by now

Originally Posted by Krupa

for armor bases the hit-power ones seem to me the most attractive ones. fhr and ctc frost nova coupled with a bit of resis or life would make a decent armor, however easily beaten by a 4 sock armor with the color gem and some mixture of shael, ral, ort, ruby...

I thought about that one but deduced I wouldn't be getting hit with a Skelly-shield...well, at least I hope not!

Originally Posted by Krupa

since we are a dating theme, imo one couple of chars should wear the some base armor: e.g. 1st sorc & nec breast plate, 2nd gothic plate, 3rd leather armor

An excellent idea dude! We shall sort out who is married to who tonight based on who wants what armour-wise for crafting etc and whose skills sync up and all the other factors I could list but...well...I'm going to lunch!