KTA 2.0 ... A few close calls
Hi All,
A real adventure last night.
We started in Act 1 Nightmare in order for KTA-Minx to get the last quest and reach Act 2 where the others were up to. We were 6 to start with, although our 7th, the Barb was in channel prior to the start of this evening adventures, but disappeared when we began Act 2.
The missing barb and his missing BO made quite a difference as we were soon to find out. While going overland through Dry Hills I was fighting off to one side, when I saw our Necro's icon at the top of the screen just about completely empty of life. I think it was a monsters death explosion ... but whatever it was, a rather shaken necro staggered out from a pile of corspes. I too had a couple of instances were a combination of being poisoned and lightening damage from those scarabs, bought me down to less than 1/4 life.
Thanksfully we still had Oak from our Druid, otherwise things could have been alot harder for us. To a certain degree our team has been pampered with extra high life thanks to Oak and BO ... that to suddenly lose 1 of them, dramatically changes the amount of care that is needed in playing.
It was our Sorc's turn to have abit of close call while journeying down through the Palace, and I think this was probably my fault. I was first to find the next set of stairs down, so I type a message "here" ... and the other moved in my directions, which I think left our Sorc alone amougst a bunch of archers who plucked her life down to 1/2 before she could get away. Sorry about that KillThemAll.
Later on while clearing out the tomb where Duriel was hiding out, our conviction Pally got caught on the wrong side of a doorway, and the rest of us couldn't immediately get through to help, I saw Chillers life take a hammering. Before it got dangerously low, she drank a rejurv, I put up a decoy and our Druid (wolfie) broke though the doorway to relieve the pressure.
Well, we continued on all the way to the entrance to Duriel Chamber, when our Charge Paladin got dumped out of the game. Since we didn't really want to complete Act 2 without him, we then cleaned out the other false tombs
in order to give him time to get back in. After 15-20 minutes, and still no Chargedin, we decided to slap Duriel around and move onto Act 3 ... which is where we stopped for the night.
KTA is still pretty fast at killing monsters, but without BO, and some crappy resists, some of us have to be on the ball, ready to quickly drink health / rejvs in order to stay alive.
My character the Spearzon, with her -9 / 25 / 49 / -5 resists, and no shield particulaly has to take care. A few times I had to back off while trying to read boss mods, only to find that by the time I had read them, the boss had since been wasted by the rest of the team.
Well I for one wanted more of a challenge, and I think I have it. My character needs careful handling otherwise I will see "the deeds screen". Hell is really going to be Hell ... for me
Big thanks to Chiller, normally our conviction Paly, who also used her lightening resist aura when we were surrounded by those lightening scarabs. Certainly helped me to handle these encounters with abit more confidence.
Last night was abit of a wake up call for us all. We are not the uber cookie cutter builds of KTA 1.0 and it is showing. We need to be alot more careful if we are to reach guardian status.
As usual people, it was a a great deal of fun last night with the added spice of some near death experiences. What a game !
See you all on Wednesday.
Regards Syxx / KTA-Minx
(PS ... and good finds worth mentioning ?)
Hi All,
A real adventure last night.
We started in Act 1 Nightmare in order for KTA-Minx to get the last quest and reach Act 2 where the others were up to. We were 6 to start with, although our 7th, the Barb was in channel prior to the start of this evening adventures, but disappeared when we began Act 2.
The missing barb and his missing BO made quite a difference as we were soon to find out. While going overland through Dry Hills I was fighting off to one side, when I saw our Necro's icon at the top of the screen just about completely empty of life. I think it was a monsters death explosion ... but whatever it was, a rather shaken necro staggered out from a pile of corspes. I too had a couple of instances were a combination of being poisoned and lightening damage from those scarabs, bought me down to less than 1/4 life.
Thanksfully we still had Oak from our Druid, otherwise things could have been alot harder for us. To a certain degree our team has been pampered with extra high life thanks to Oak and BO ... that to suddenly lose 1 of them, dramatically changes the amount of care that is needed in playing.
It was our Sorc's turn to have abit of close call while journeying down through the Palace, and I think this was probably my fault. I was first to find the next set of stairs down, so I type a message "here" ... and the other moved in my directions, which I think left our Sorc alone amougst a bunch of archers who plucked her life down to 1/2 before she could get away. Sorry about that KillThemAll.
Later on while clearing out the tomb where Duriel was hiding out, our conviction Pally got caught on the wrong side of a doorway, and the rest of us couldn't immediately get through to help, I saw Chillers life take a hammering. Before it got dangerously low, she drank a rejurv, I put up a decoy and our Druid (wolfie) broke though the doorway to relieve the pressure.
Well, we continued on all the way to the entrance to Duriel Chamber, when our Charge Paladin got dumped out of the game. Since we didn't really want to complete Act 2 without him, we then cleaned out the other false tombs
in order to give him time to get back in. After 15-20 minutes, and still no Chargedin, we decided to slap Duriel around and move onto Act 3 ... which is where we stopped for the night.
KTA is still pretty fast at killing monsters, but without BO, and some crappy resists, some of us have to be on the ball, ready to quickly drink health / rejvs in order to stay alive.
My character the Spearzon, with her -9 / 25 / 49 / -5 resists, and no shield particulaly has to take care. A few times I had to back off while trying to read boss mods, only to find that by the time I had read them, the boss had since been wasted by the rest of the team.
Well I for one wanted more of a challenge, and I think I have it. My character needs careful handling otherwise I will see "the deeds screen". Hell is really going to be Hell ... for me
Big thanks to Chiller, normally our conviction Paly, who also used her lightening resist aura when we were surrounded by those lightening scarabs. Certainly helped me to handle these encounters with abit more confidence.
Last night was abit of a wake up call for us all. We are not the uber cookie cutter builds of KTA 1.0 and it is showing. We need to be alot more careful if we are to reach guardian status.
As usual people, it was a a great deal of fun last night with the added spice of some near death experiences. What a game !
See you all on Wednesday.
Regards Syxx / KTA-Minx
(PS ... and good finds worth mentioning ?)
