If prices go up or down unexpectedly, this may explain things:
Ooh, don’t drop anyone to be able to add me. It’s still going to be another week or so before I’m up and running. Now the computer won’t recognize my monitor (hey, I know you! You’re the monitor!).
Is SriAravan your account name also, or is it just your paladin’s name? We need to know your account name to put you on the friend’s list.
Also, there are usually 2 or 3 games going on, usually at different levels, so just come to the party as you are, and we can party up, rush you, gear you up with some decent equipment, etc. Sometimes we do mule rushes for high level runes, other times we do hell Meph runs, or hell Baal runs. Obviously, you need to level up to get there, but keep hacking and slashing and you’ll get there quickly with us helping you out.
Ooops heh
My account is BurnMeUp
SriAravan is just my pally
The day’s runs netted (as far as I know) another Arkaine’s and a unique battle cestus, as well as Wilhelm’s Pride and a Demon Limb. I have no idea how well either of first two spawned.
I wrote an article for tdl on common grammar errors. You can find it here. I’m interested mainly in two things: errors you’d like to see covered in future installments and things I didn’t cover adequately in that installment (I know I didn’t do a great job of explaining clauses in general, but that would have taken a lot more space than I really had the time or patience to write).
Well guys, I 'm going to be off of the game for a while. I’m moving tomorrow and I don’t know when I’ll be able to get internet set up again…bad times.
Stay safe and healthy. We’ll see you back here yet.
Public Hell Baaling yielded a few items; a 4S Eth Monarch (I figured I should keep it just in case), a paladin shield with extremely low reqs with 44 res, a rare tiara that spawned eth but should re-roll noneth, an SC, two LCs, I believe, a GC and a troll nest I figured would be good to have.
None really… except that the price for Tal’s Armor seems to be falling rapidly. I saw two people offering it for Um, one was already taken and I bid on the other. As usual, no one got back to me or posted in any of the trade threads answering me. I did cancel the Um, Mal offer on the other one.
Maybe it’s the time difference or something… I’m just having problems getting the deals sealed. Hopefully I can get everything taken care of this weekend…
I think this guy literally means GCs Hell Baal drops, but just in case, Who_me?, I have a few Minions GCs either on my sorc or on the re-roll mule. Also have an LC for anyone who needs mana (+30), or we can re-roll it. Also re-rolled that eth rare tiara and, as suspected, it spawned non-eth. It’s a +1 asn FCR helm. I’ve been told that FCR does nothing for asns because their traps count as attack and thus are subject not to FCR but IAS, so maybe I will re-roll it again. I also managed a rare flail I’d like a few folks to look at and tell me what they think. It’s 145% ED with LL and +2 combat (barb), so maybe it could either be re-rolled or upgraded … or tossed, I duncare. Also nabbed a Minions SC and at least one jewel.
The sorc is to lvl 90 now, and the main reason I’m running her is for nabbing charms and jewels and such. I’ll usually go a dozen or so runs getting nothing but XP (I’m about 100 mil from lvl 91, which is some more than 1/3 to 91, but I’m in no hurry to hit 91), then get 3 things in one run. I’m also making a run up to the new apartment today, so I don’t know how much I’ll be on (it’s only 3 hours away, but I have an entire car-ful load of stuff to carry up a flight of stairs into the apartment, and I have a sizeable trunk, and some of it is heavy) today.
If we aren’t going to be doing a mule-rush anytime soon it’d regardless be nice if two people could get together at some point in the near future and get the sorc to NM Baal. She’s lvl 50 now, and I ain’t running her in norm no more because in the time it takes to do one run with her I can do 3-4 with the lvl 90 and get better gear than Norm Minions drop. I’d also like some help on what fire/cold skills to pump, since both Blizzard and Cold Mastery are maxed (Blizz is doing about 1K damage with +3 all and +2 blizz). She will probably want a few more in cold skills - I’m thinking either glacial spike or ice bolt - but I don’t know how best to use fire skills. I will probably max mastery and Fireball, but I’d like to hear from others more experienced than I with the fire tree what would be the best setup for points.
Who_me?, check the news item I cited, as that might be part of the reason for Tal Armor going down in price. If the URL doesn’t work, just go to d2.net and check out the “ladder problem” post.
http://rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=234310
That would be the link to the Baal GC guy. Sigh. Good to know that with my absentmindedness I’ll be on the road 6 hours, eh folks? :dubious:
I saw the article… I really don’t care why things are getting cheaper, I just enjoy the fact that they are. Of course, since the people offering the things I want keep turning up missing after I make an offer, cheaper doesn’t mean much either… 
I still have an Um offer for Tal’s Armor in along with a couple offers of pgems for Guillaume’s Face and one offer of pgems for another Dracul’s. I want to get these trades done before trying to pick up more items.
Other items I’m going to be going for:
Harlequin Crest shako, actually I wouldn’t mind picking up several but one to start with.
Tal’s ammy and orb, these will at least give the mf sorc the option of using the full set.
Guardian Angel, unless the one we found a few day ago is still around. I believe it’s on one of the community pallys though. Larz needs one.
The clonekiller is our current GA, but as we’ve been instructed to switch it out for Rattlecage when fighting D’’, for all I’m worth you can give it to Larz.
Finds of last night and this morning:
Bstar, and other semi-decent pieces
random Baal charms (this from my pub running)
Ethereal Legendary Mallet
Screwed around for 30 minutes last night in a1 and an Ali Baba popped up out of nowhere…I’m guessing the best place for this is with Og_AwesomeMFer. The 2 ists are still in the OneBox account I believe, but I’ll let Chronos and Iampunha decide what to do with it.
trumpets
I finally got my computer up and running last night. Now all I need is an internet connection. My apartment complex is still in the stone ages, so it’ll just be dial-up, but that’ll do, no? I’m off for a family reunion from Saturday through Tuesday, but I hope to be on sometime next week!
In the meantime, I did some SP. Holy crap is it hard to start completely over! Maybe a summoner isn’t the best way to go, but still, I was getting my arse kicked.
Keep your fingers crossed, I just offered a mal and um for Tal’s ammy and armor.
No. At least, I don’t think so, especially if you’re in an 8-player game including two zookeeper necros and are in the Dry Hills with those beetles everywhere.
Things do seem harder for me than in 1.09, I’ve really had to dump a bunch of points into vitality and pay a lot more attention to elemental resistances. I can’t imagine going into Hell difficulty with less than 1k life and 75% resist all (well, maybe poison only 50%). A pack of champion gloams will take you out faster than you can hit alt-f4 (command-Q for me, but I’m weird). 95% lightning-resistance and they’re still knocking chunks out of my life ball. And act 5 in NM and Hell is no longer the cakewalk it used to be. You better have enough purple pills handy when vipermagi start shooting bonespears at you.
From what I understand, though, summoner necros are one of the more survivable builds these days, now that amp damage and decrep can make many physical immunes damagable. How are you allocating your skill points?
To be fair, I have yet to be in a game with two zookeeper necros, IIRC. I don’t encounter many games with any necros. What I do encounter are games with 7 of 8 casters. Orbing around the screen, fireballs aplenty and meteors being cast ad nauseam don’t make a 56k connection happy either.
Playstyle adds to one’s difficulty here. I play a caster predominantly, and she’s been doing Hell runs since around lvl 79 (though she takes a more prominent role now;)), and her life then was close to 800. I’m now over 1K, but the difference between 900 and 1K really isn’t all that big. A pack of champion gloams won’t take me out because they won’t hit me; usually someone else has alerted me to their presence (sometimes by dying;)) and I just FBall until I don’t see anything bad. The merc will usually wander up to ask questions, and if his health takes a dive I know they’re still out there, so I teleport in place (gets the merc back), put out a hydrascout so I can see where I should shoot, and proceed in similar fashions until the gloams are gone.
People have way too many horror stories about these guys, and most of them usually sum up to not having enough life, encountering fifteen of them at once or lagging ever so slightly. I wouldn’t wish to run across them at 500 life and -100 ltg res, but they aren’t the run-enders folks make them out to be. Hell, we ran into them multiple times this morning on my way to lvl 91 (do I need any more levels to be able to spawn mods on re-rolls?) and intelligent players didn’t die once. Folks running out thinking they could tank the world with casters - they died. That ain’t playing intelligently, though.
A summonmancer is difficult to take past Duriel, fair warning. I didn’t find that the advice re: Iron Maiden and Blood Golem worked terribly well. It may take you more than a few arcane runs before you have the gear and skills to do it.
Well, as usual the trader hasn’t gotten back to me…
I did find an HoZ however… not a good one (159% ED), but it’s still an HoZ. supposedly even bad ones go for a Mal or pul and um, but I thought one of our many pallys could use it and should get a crack at it first.