The much anticipated Tuesday thread!

[Kung Poo]

The much anticipated Tuesday thread!

Tsk tsk, slacking, aren't we? It's already about 9:00AM over here in the states. Ah well.

I took my WW barb, Kahn, to Andy and showed her the meaning of "beat down". Thats pretty much it; he's sitting pretty in Act II, dreading the undead/unleechables he has to go fight.

Have a nice one.

~K_P

 

[Shade]

I knew there was something missing from the forum but I just couldn't think what it was... a daily thread.

Ah well. Been playing through Act V Hell, and it is much fun. Mowing down swarms of Succubi is a nice recreational activity...

Have a good day everyone!

 

[addicted2macs]

I took my zealot from the Crystalline Passage, to the Ancient Tunnels--clearing everything along the way. Haven't really found a thing worth keeping....

Killed NM Ancients at Players8--whoo hoo! I know it's not a major feat, but the FE bug still got me, even in NM, which I'd never seen before. One hit death from Madawc... I had another death due to a cursed extra strong whirler, but that was due to my reluctance to use purples. Stupid, I know.

I do love the Crescent Moon, though it's considerably slower than the Lightsabre. When all the bad fellas light up with that Static Field, I get all warm and tingly inside.

Tonight, I'll kill off old Baal. I may hang out for a while in the WSK, but I'd like to get into Hell so I can try the Pit soon. My other zealot did pretty well there, and his gear and stats were less than ideal.

 

[LprMan]

Hmm...One thing I really want in this game is to find high-end runes. Based on Urlik's guide, Icy Cellar seems to be good place, it has super-chest and wraith-type monster sometimes too But I don't know which char I should use to run that place and if I should kill Snapchip only and open the chest or would full clear be better? My fishy is safe solution but Snapchips pack near the chest is pain because they always shatter, so no CE. Tried my hammerdin but those PI witches pwn me totally and dying on lvl 94 isn't fun. Still need to test my sorc, I guess she is fastest because of her ability to teleport

Ok, now im going to hunt down few Zod's :lol:

Have a nice day :wave:

 

[Uzziah]

last night I decided to finish nightmare with my traps tree only.

I got to the ancients opened them thought whatever they throw at me I will "give em hell". Thats when 2 are lightning immune, 1 is fire immune, all 1 is aura enhanced and 2 are lightning enhanced. needless to say after a 5-10 minute fight getting maybe 1/8th of their life bars I run out of potions and am forced to TP out and reroll.

I reroll basically the easiest ancients I have ever faced the first falls with the second round of LS thrown out. 2 potions later all 3 are dead. I move on to Baal. I polish off all of the WSK and kill listers pack without even seeing it(gotta love Placing LS/DS and running away so you just see one of the points of the trap). I face Baal and keep laying down traps for him my blade fury was not even cutting through the festering appendages. after about 5 mins he fell leaving me 4 rares and a short was bow not that I already have 7 of them.

 

[spiral55]

Played my wannabe-IK-conc barb, EternalElvis (think about it ) for a while, getting him to level 22, but now I'm really beginning to wonder if I want to do a conc barb after all. Attacking one thing at a time with Concentrate, when barbs have WW and Frenzy to choose from... I dunno. I think EE is about to enter the bathroom at Graceland unless things get more interesting soon.

Also got my LF zon from the City of the Damned waypoint in NM through NM Baal, finishing at level 70. She had some rotten luck, constantly getting various LI and/or unleechable monsters in all of the caves, the WSK, and the Throne of Destruction. Had she not had her ethereal Demon's Arch on switch, I'd probably still be slogging my way towards the Ancients. High physical damage + decent fire damage + jab = teh gude. No really notable finds along the way, just dimensional sword, arbalest, gladius, full helm, greater talons (depressingly low ED, but still, since it's my second, I might be forced to make a dual-claw 'sin), and a 4-socket war scepter with +2 to Holy Shock (perfect for making Holy Thunder for a beginning Tesladin). Since she's a bit too low level for Hell yet and she's got a fairly decent WSK map, it looks like she'll be doing a few NM Baal runs, hopefully to get a Tgod's Vigor along the way.

Nothing else to report today. Take it easy and have a nice day. :wave:

 

[Howitzer Al]

Well, I've been out for a few days with a ruptured appendix! I'll tell you what--I've had a relatively easy time of it and it's still not a fun thing to do. I'm home from the hospital now and it looks like I'll be off work for about 2 weeks recovering. I'm up and about now, but I'm nowhere near full strength.

You'd think this would be great--2 weeks to play D2!! Unfortunately my reflexes and mental with-it-ness aren't quite up to par. Both of my current characters are in A1 Hell so I really don't feel like getting either of them killed over and over. Maybe I'll start one of the new characters I've been wanting to try.

 

[Muffassa]

Played my wannabe-IK-conc barb, EternalElvis (think about it ) for a while, getting him to level 22, but now I'm really beginning to wonder if I want to do a conc barb after all. Attacking one thing at a time with Concentrate, when barbs have WW and Frenzy to choose from... I dunno. I think EE is about to enter the bathroom at Graceland unless things get more interesting soon.

Also got my LF zon from the City of the Damned waypoint in NM through NM Baal, finishing at level 70. She had some rotten luck, constantly getting various LI and/or unleechable monsters in all of the caves, the WSK, and the Throne of Destruction. Had she not had her ethereal Demon's Arch on switch, I'd probably still be slogging my way towards the Ancients. High physical damage + decent fire damage + jab = teh gude. No really notable finds along the way, just dimensional sword, arbalest, gladius, full helm, greater talons (depressingly low ED, but still, since it's my second, I might be forced to make a dual-claw 'sin), and a 4-socket war scepter with +2 to Holy Shock (perfect for making Holy Thunder for a beginning Tesladin). Since she's a bit too low level for Hell yet and she's got a fairly decent WSK map, it looks like she'll be doing a few NM Baal runs, hopefully to get a Tgod's Vigor along the way.

Nothing else to report today. Take it easy and have a nice day. :wave:

I wouldn't abandon EternalElvis (especially beacause of the cool name) - rather modify him to be a WW Conc barb. Just put 1 point in WW for now - max mace mastery and BO (we really want him to smell!). Then get WW up to about 10 and Conc up to 10 - dont' forget the obligatory 1 in Berzerk. Put the rest in Shout, and of course the 1 pt wonders (iron skin and Nat res).

I think he could still be an awesome build without much work

 

[Eagle Eye]

Ahh all my assesement is out of the way no til next friday. Unfortunaltly i have alot to do for that assesment so i can't waste my days playing d2. However in the time ive been allowed over the weekend and such ive managed to get my WW barb to lvl 49 and at the start of act2 in nm. He has found the rockstopper which he is now where helping resistances nicely and also the damage reduction is wonderful. Even so things aren't going along wonderfully, my life bar generaly looks like its bouncing on a trampoline which is disconcerning.

Hope every one has a great day

 

[FrolfFreak]

My fishymancer is up to the very beginning of Act 3 now, encouragingly close to NM Meph, whom i plan to farm for a good looong time. The dtalon/trapsin is still parked in act 2 NM because, well, because i have not the discipline to stick with any one character for a long time. Due to the same problem, i now have a frost zealot in act 1 NM and a new-born Conc barb wannabe in act 1 normal. The baby conc barb has allowed me to experience the joys of over-board twinking; at lvl 12 he's looking super bad-*** wearing the full Sigon's set and wielding some normal unique 2-handed sword i thought i'd never use. w00t! Oh, yeah, there's also the would-be LF/bow hybrid zon that's also still in act 1 normal. Can you say "short attention span"?

-FF

 

[Zoelef]

Xanth, my fishymancer (starting over from scratch + a bit of twinking), is Lvl23 and just trudged through the Maggot Lair; ugh. Single skeletons = sloooow. Then I go back into the desert and BAM everything normal drops in 1 hit.

I managed to find a Rare +3RS P. Head back in the Catacombs to go with my +3RS Wand and Tarnhelm (thanks Lothric) so now I have L27 Skeletons... Oh, and I'm wearing a bunch of stupid low-level MF gear - ~80% at this point and waiting on L27 for my Goldwrap. :evil:

 

[Lothric]

It's Tuesday (well, 1am on Wednesday morning, but close enough) and all is right with the world.

Just finished setting my question paper (it only took a three-day marathon to set something I am satisfied with). That of course means that starting tomorrow I can once again look forward to spending my evenings in the warm embrace of D2 rather than staring at Word wishing that the numbers would merge together to form something resembling a barbarian or amazon.

Hope good days were enjoyed by all. :thumbsup:

 

[Fafner]

Lpr, maybe a Strafezon would have good luck in the Icy Cellar...Sorc would do ok too

I'm home sick...slept 15 hours, D2 for 3-4. Thought I'd pop over to see if I had an PM's...nope. Fenris_Ulf has entered Act 4, Hell, with nothing really to show for it drop wise. I got a battle hammer to continue my theme of finding an item good for my class...And I found 2 dual mod 7% MF charms, one with 8% FR, the other has really high defense for a small charm (high 20's? 30's maybe), a Ko dropped in Upper Kurast, so now I can cube up and still have one left.

I compromised my resists, archer problem by putting a b-star and stormshield on him, when all is clear he uses IK maul (and for bosses LoH gloves, they dropped from a chest, I saw it as a sign that I needed to run Meph). He cleans out pit fast when merc has reapers toll, but pit lvl 2 is too dangerous to consider him for MF duty there.

Someone should have warned me about cyclone armour, how you cant cast when you're a wolf...luckily only 2 points lost in that experiment.

Good day all...