KTA - report & recruitment thread (EuHCL)

[waflob]

KTA - report & recruitment thread (EuHCL)

Hi all,
yesterday, we decided the put the current KTA on ice and start a new one. The main reason for this was that the skill and especially stat placement assumed that the enchantress and avenger would be there and for the last 4 or 5 sessions both have been missing, making the general progress somewhat slow, to the point of lacking some of the fun that was hoped for.

A small confession from me now. I wrote down all the party names on a piece of paper, which I left at home - big duh me ! Please correct / add whatever is wrong / missing.

The theme for this KTA session is bows. Last night, 5 valiant wannabe heros started out on their long quest. None were amazons, but the following :-

enchantress, KTA-OhMyDear
druid hunter, KTA-WildMan
golem necro, KTA-Bowlem
HF/Shock ranger pally, KTA-???
assassin, KTA-???

Apologies to the last 2 for forgetting the char names. When I see the correction, I will have a forehead slapping session.

What happened, I hear you ask. We started out as every team does, with the den. Once we had each found / bought a bow, we dumped our starting gear and became a bow squad. By the time we had gotten our rogue mercs, there were 10 sources of missile damage, often all at the same time. A truly spectacular sight to behold !!

Act 1 is not really that hard and if my memory serves me well, there were no incidents or accidents. Act 2 was a bit more 'interesting'. Most chars haven't had time to build up much lite res and those beetles are then a bit painful. I'm not sure about the others, but I had one very close call, when my measly 5% lite res proved to be no match for a pack of beetles. If only our ranger pally had lite res aura ... No, wait ... he did !! Let me rephrase that - if only our ranger pally USED the lite res aura ;-)) Once this small logistical hurdle had been cleared, we fared much better.

We got the WP by the maggots lair and called it a night, having all reached lvl 18. It was fun and I'm looking forward to the next session.

As you can see, we still have 3 spaces going begging. Would you like to fill one of those slots ? If interested, please post here and indicate your preferred type of bow wielder. As per the previous KTA sessions, we play Mondays, from 19:30 CET until about 22:00 CET. EuHCL, as in the title.

If you need help catching up, no problems, someone will be able to help you. If anything is unclear, feel free to ask. Would be great to have a full team.

DelBoy

 

[MrKaxe]

Heheheh, no probs waflob...

KTA-Athame: Assassin
Venom, BoS, MB & Shadow​

Was a really fun start...a huge sea of arrows! My speed at putting arrows out is silly (10 in BoS so far...might max it as i have no synergies)...shame they only do 9-20 damage!!

EDIT: Think zrk was 'Wildboy' dude, sorry to be anal...can't remember Masa's toon...sorry!

 

[zrk]

Yes this is a really fun round of kta, all bow-chars feels very unique and interesting. Heres a couple of pics of our fight with andariel as appetizers to any possible joiners http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2737/screenshot262ih8.jpg
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2136/screenshot261oe9.jpg

 

[WeSaveLives]

I want to join in on the fun, two questions first, if i were to join would i have to put KTA- at the front of my character name, and would i have to use a bow?

 

[Tikadea]

i can anwer a very positive YES to both your questions.

and actualy we demand a little more.
we play UNtwinked hardcore only, kill all we encounter, dont rush, but play the game it was ment to be played by those who created it. we DO ask a certain ammount of dedication, since showing 2 times, and never since makes a party cripple very soon. hack's, dupes, PKing... all are certain ways to make yourselve VERY NOT wanted in our team.

so please tell us a bit more about yourselve, why you want to join and stuff, if you will be able to play every (well, moost of the at least, its always possible to miss a night for some reason, we all have that sometimes) monday, and what type of build you would like to be. with that comes my last note: we like NON cookiecutter builds WAY MORE then the standard stuff. so if it suits you, please dont make a strafe or froozen arrow amazon... these are just tooooooooo standard. a much stranger zon build would be acceptable, but even better would be something different alltogether. all original idea's are more then welcome, and of cource we are more then willing to help you think of some!

Tika

 

[WeSaveLives]

I love to play untwinked and solo, i'm looking to play every so often; with a group of friendly people, because my necro recently died and i'd rather not play every hour of every day like i did before. I'm going to think about what toon to make but put my down as KTA-Binary, ill be caught up by monday and will be able to play every week.

P.S i do not hack, dupe or pk.

 

[Masahiro]

My charname is KTA-Noes, the Hfreeze/shockadin, damn you all for not remembering! (and have fun with the headslapping) :grin:
And I actually didn't have the lite res aura when you almost died, I had some 4-5 points saved that I dumped into it once i saw we needed it that badly, it's a synergy to shock so no probs, just thought I'd max HF first and taht's why I didn't have it yet :undecided:
Regardless of said incident, it was great fun and I'm sure to show up next week.
I also advice any undecided to take the chance and join this great group of people for this KTA Archer-session.

Masa, Over and out

 

[Unko Talok]

As an aside (I can't be dedicated enough at this time to join up on this), I've always seen those groups of archers in-game and thought to myself "Damn... if only Amazons powned this much..." realizing that the only reason the archers are so deadly is that they are in large groups.

It's about time that we turned the table on those darned Archers. Oo-rah, boys.

 

[waflob]

I found my bit of paper, so here are the correct details :-

KTA-Athame, assassin
KTA-Noes, paladin ranger
KTA-OhMyDear, ench sorc
KTA-WildBoy, druid hunter
KTA-Bowlem, necro

looks like we will be seeing KTA-Binary next week as well, which is good. Any thoughts on your build ? We could use another pally, as different auras go well together. Anyone ever made a fanat ranger ? I did a bowbarb in a previous session, mainly to provide a solid BO. AR is a bit awkward, but was still fun. You should pick a char that you enjoy playing - that will improve your success rate more than anything else.

DelBoy

 

[Tikadea]

actualy we did that already.... :shocked:

somewhere in the jail it was i think, we actualy met a double bosspack with about a dozen quite nasty archers. the first person who ran into them called a warning, and rethreated... but VERY soon we were organised... and they were firing our golem into the ground which was placed in theire middle. i think you can think of what happend the minute they became cursed (amp) and we all started to fire... to help think... we made it to act 2... remember? :grin:

but indeed... i specificly liked the moments when we all fired upon the same single target, usualy the first of a group coming toward us, killed it instantly, and started firing the next... and so on.

you won't believe it... but with this party i actualy think even the maggots lair will be fun... not to mention how much we will own arcane sanc. :badteeth:

@wesavelives, sorry for my rather "stomp" reaction the first time, we got rather bad experience with people yelling very hard they want to join, then showing 1 or 2 times,... and never again.
however, after your 2th reply you dont seem to be one of those people, so welcome to the team.

this leaves just 2 places open for new recruits.

Tika

p.s. if anyone of the current team members got a friend or so who wants to join, please inform them!

 

[Tikadea]

i fully agree with waflob, both a fana pally or a bow barb would help the team inmensly!

i favor the fana pally,... the ias, as well as the AR will be INvaluable to the entire team. dmg for the caracter wont be to much of a problem... a high dmg bow might be, but enchant will help you out a great deal.

just my 2 cents

 

[MrKaxe]

I vote Fana just so i can shoot stupidly fast!!

Nah, we are going to need the dmg bonus! Does it provide party AR though? Thought it was just user AR...

EDIT: Just checked Arreat Summit...Fana gives AR to the pala...looks like i'm still gonna have to find a way to get AR besides the BA merc floating around as Venom gives no AR bonus 0_o

 

[Tikadea]

i think it shares all its atributes with the party, so both dmg, ias and AR. only the dmg bonus gets halved for party members.

we could very easily test this next time however.

all in all i feel that fana would be THE moost party friendly addition availeble at this moment... (aldough conviction would be a very nice choise as well)

i think that with OAK around we can live without BO,... and besides that a bow barb just is a bummer to play. (so is an enchant sorc btw... but hey... you take 1 for the team heh?! :afro: )

 

[MrKaxe]

i think it shares all its atributes with the party, so both dmg, ias and AR. only the dmg bonus gets halved for party members.

we could very easily test this next time however.

We can test it but as per my edit, the way it is written in the AS is that AR is not given...i hope it is...

...although conviction would be a very nice choice as well

With the whole lack of damage and AR we need every shot to count so a consideration for the last char should be this...

...so is an enchant sorc btw... but hey... you take 1 for the team eh?!

Not if you get Raven Claw/Kuko/Demon Machine/Hellcast/Hellrack...then you will be the team...ultimate crowd controller!!

 

[Disque]

I'd love to join you guys, I live in Pennsylvania though, what is the time differential?

I guess I wanna join because I love the game but hate single player and don't have anyone to play with. I've played on and off since the game came out, and I've probly made one of every character at some point in time.

A fanabowaladin sounds wonderful -_-

 

[MrKaxe]

Bows Bows Bows...

Been checking out some of our options runeword-wise and it's not as daunting as first perceived:

Zephyr
2 Socket Missile Weapons
(Ort + Eth)
+33% Enhanced Damage
+66 To Attack Rating
Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage
-25% Target Defense
+25 Defense
25% Faster Run/Walk
25% Increased Attack Speed
7% Chance To Cast Level 1 Twister When Struck​

Looks good for low lvl...2 easy to find runes whacked into a fast bow and we are away!

Edge
3 Socket Missile Weapons
(Tir + Tal + Amn)
Level 15 Thorns Aura When Equipped
+35% Increased Attack Speed
+320-380% Damage To Demons (varies)
+280% Damage To Undead
+75 Poison Damage Over 5 Seconds
7% Life Stolen Per Hit
Prevent Monster Heal
+5-10 To All Attributes (varies)
+2 To Mana After Each Kill
Reduces All Vendor Prices 15%!!!​

Again, a nice affordable low lvl starter bow...if we manage to get some elite bows later on it's even worth it in one but not as worth it as the next two (while still being do-able untwinked)...

Passion
4 Socket Weapons
(Dol + Ort + Eld + Lem)
+25% Increased Attack Speed
+160-210% Enhanced Damage (varies)
50-80% Bonus To Attack Rating (varies)
+75% Damage To Undead
+50 To Attack Rating Against Undead
Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage
+1 To Berserk
+1 To Zeal
Hit Blinds Target +10
Hit Causes Monster To Flee 25%
75% Extra Gold From Monsters
Level 3 Heart of Wolverine (12 Charges)

Harmony
4 Socket Missile Weapons
(Tir + Ith + Sol + Ko)
Level 10 Vigor Aura When Equipped
+200-275% Enhanced Damage (varies)
+9 To Minimum Damage
+9 To Maximum Damage
Adds 55-160 Lightning Damage
Adds 55-160 Fire Damage
Adds 55-160 Cold Damage
+2-6 To Valkyrie (varies)
+10 To Dexterity
Regenerate Mana 20%
+2 To Mana After Each Kill
+2 To Light Radius
Level 20 Revive (25 Charges)​

Stick that in your Blade Bow n smoke it...we will need to cube up runes and get some good HF drops but if we (dare to) run cows we can get the socketables and maybe runes if we are lucky...

There are also a ton of uniques that would usually fall by the wayside that can be made use of to...l could do with an Ichorsting (which i use for lvl ing zons) for the pierce and more poison then upgrade to a Pus Spitter, Wizendraw for Noes (Masahiro) with its -20-35%(?!) enemy cold res and Hellclap with it's plus to fire skills for OhMyDear (Tika) but i'm sure his Leaf staff would be a better buff...to say nothing if we find a Kuko for him...
Then if we hit Meph a bit we might be blessed with the obvious bad boyz like Witchy, Skystrike, Goldstrike Arch...i can't wait til next Monday already!!

 

[MrKaxe]

I'd love to join you guys, I live in Pennsylvania though, what is the time differential?

I guess I wanna join because I love the game but hate single player and don't have anyone to play with. I've played on and off since the game came out, and I've probly made one of every character at some point in time.

A fanabowaladin sounds wonderful -_-

Try this one dude... www.timeanddate.com

There was no Pennsylvania in the North America tab and i didn't know what was closest so take a lookie and compare times with the info posted at the start of the thread...

Glad to see an interest dude and i'm sure you would be welcome...although we do require a fair amount of commital...don't want that to sound harsh just if you have read the thread you know what i mean...get back to us on that one!

dk

(Can't get it to not be a URL link so i'm sorry Mods if this violates the website rules in any way)

 

[Tikadea]

With the whole lack of damage and AR we need every shot to count so a consideration for the last char should be this...



Not if you get Raven Claw/Kuko/Demon Machine/Hellcast/Hellrack...then you will be the team...ultimate crowd controller!!

lack of damage? uhh...?
do you have any idea what dmg a synergised light pala will do? well.. add a good enchant to that... then some might...
actualy conviction will make us VERY powerfull... since the fire dmg from enchant will be super efficient... and since in a while anything and everything will be enchanted... that is if it is fighting on our side ... (if not it will be dead soon :hide: )

could you please explain the bit about that crowd control? do i miss something?

 

[MrKaxe]

lack of damage? uhh...?
do you have any idea what dmg a synergised light pala will do? well.. add a good enchant to that... then some might...

Uhh..yes i do...i have one... i was talking about my damage as i will be relying on Physical as Venom is not going to do a lot with it's capped timer...

could you please explain the bit about that crowd control? do i miss something?

You are the Ench Sorc so i thought it would be fitting to give you all the + x-xx Fire Dmg gear, charms etc and (if we find one) one of the bows (except the aforementioned Hellrack as it doesnt have this) that has the 'Fires Explosive Arrows/Bolts' mod...the Fire Dmg (and lots of other damage mods like the elements etc) will transfer to the splash which thereby gives the 'ultimate crowd control' as it stuns the area it hits (kind of) and does damage to many targets as opposed to one...

 

[Masahiro]

I need one of them wizendraws, nows! If I so have to council/mephrun myself with Noes until I get one I hope it's droppable by the aforementioned mobs...
And I'm all for conviction pala, since party is mostly elemental (well, atleast me and OhMyDear), though a fanatbowdin would also work with all that pretty IAS :smiley: