The current plan is to rush mules starting at 8:00 or 8:30pm EST tonight (8 if nobody has an objection). I’ll be on under *30-foot-smurf.
first game is mulerush/one we’ll probably be starting in the next 20 minutes or so
So I take it I missed the rush? West is a ghost town right now; nobody else is online. I’m thinking that we should have set a time a little more in advance… I’m hardly ever playing that early.
It turns out, too, that tomorrow will work fine for me, if we have to postpone. I had forgotten that class is cancelled on Friday.
The only times that would be convenient for me for a mule rush would be over a weekend due to the fact that I’m in the east and have to get up so early.
In other news, my necro is finding gems of all stripes… except topazes. Oh well, I’ll get the last two I need eventually. I have been running NM Baal and getting so-so drops. I got the unique lvl 28 Necromancer wand (I have no clue as to the name) which is better than either wand that I was using in that it gives me decrepify, which I didn’t have previously. I finally got around into putting a point in revive so I’m almost ready to try the Pit in Hell level again. I gambled ammys in NM and got a +3 cold skill for a sorc and a +3 curses for a necro so I have a chance anyway of getting a +3 necro summoning one.
NM Baal also dropped a String of Ears which I already muled to my barb. I think I’ll do NM Baal runs until I hit level 75 or I get a Harlequin Crest… whichever happens first.
Hey Who, don’t be afraid to ask any of us for stuff like that…I’ve got about 6-8 p.topazes just sitting in my necro’s stash (out of 40 p. gems).
Would anyone be up for a mule rush sometime tonight? We could try for 10:30pm EST or so to make it easier for the west-coasters to join in.
I’ll check with my friend and see if he has plans for the evening, or whether he’d be able to do it.
By the way, i’m going to be trading a bunch of low and medium annis for runes sometime this weekend, probably for Um+, so if anyone wants first dibs on one before they go up for auction, let me know.
Sounds good to me. I’ll be on unless something comes up. I do have 2 comps so I can rush 2 characters or rush one and help with the other.
I’m in, but I might be late, but that’s my own problem…
I’ll help in the run if my I don’t have any character able to join the mules.
theckhd, if you have any anni better than 15/11/9, I’m interested in switching annis.
If we’re going to use my character for NM Baal, then I won’t have a mule in it for the last leg, so I can contribute the services of my other characters. My sorc can teleport pretty well, now, and of course my pally makes short work of bosses. I could even do both, if someone copies my TPs.
And I presume that you mean 10:30 EDT, not EST. That would be 8:30 MDT, or 7:30 PDT. That’ll work for me.
erm, yes, i meant EDT. I generally forget whether we’re in or out of daylight savings time, i just change the clocks when my computer tells me to.
Chronos, I have a character for the normal quest, though i don’t think i have one for nm (i’ll check though). We’ll figure it out when we get there, i suppose. at worst you could rush your mule up to the nm quest, and then we could try and get him done separately in a public game.
Yeti, i have lots of annis better than that, do you want me to just list them, or do you want to give me some approximate constraints and let me find one that matches them?
by the way, i still haven’t heard back from Sokkerman, so i don’t know if tonight is a go or not yet. We could probably push it back to 11 to accommodate Yeti though, if need be. Of course, this is all assuming that Sokker doesn’t just go get wasted tonight :rolleyes:
Update: sokker will be wasted. We could still do the rush though, since i could just use his character (he just won’t get a mule rushed 
). We’ll plan for 10:30 EDT, and start whenever Yeti shows up, i guess. Generally we can take care of the whole thing in under 2 hours, so we should be done around 12:30-1am EDT.
still sound good?
theckhd, 15/15/9 would be a good start as a minimum requirement, I’d be happy with 17/17/9, and estactic if it was 18/19/9 or 19/18/9 or better. My paladin (and Sturmhauke’s) are both at level 69, and a good anni would certainly make things easier in hell for us. He could probably use a good anni too.
Also, don’t start late because of me.
How long does it usually take you guys for a full run before you get to the hellforge on Hell difficulty?
East, West, what? I am gonna try to get online on the other machine tonight, but if it’s West I’d have to bring a new character on account of I’ve got naught yonder. if it is West I’ll probably be on under iampunha, assuming nobody else has gotten that ASN yet.
Don’t wait up for me, though.
puhna we’ll be on west, you’re more than welcome to join us.
Yeti it usually takes us around an hour and a half to two hours to get through norm, nm, and hell acts1-3. After that it’ll take about 5 minutes per hellforge for each person. It’s hard to say exactly how long, but i’d guess towards the low end, because i’m pretty sure i’m better at teleporting than Sokker is. Also it’s no problem to start a little later, it’ll give me some time to trade off a few annis beforehand.
15/15/9 is about as high of an anni as i’d be trading away in the first place, 17/17/9 and above become rather pricy, so i’m hanging on to anything like that. I’m primarily trying to get rid of ones with at least one low stat. The closest one that i was planning to trade off is a 16/14/7. Here are the ones i plan to trade, just pick from this list if there’s one you fancy:
20/12/6
18/13/7
18/11/8
16/14/7
16/13/6
16/11/8
16/11/7
15/12/7
15/11/8
14/11/10
13/17/7
13/17/6
13/12/8
12/18/7
12/17/5
12/16/10
11/15/10
Assuming I can get online tonight (it doesn’t look good for the home team, but this weekend I can get that wireless router if I want, and fizzy sez I can just install the DSL stuff on the other machine, though I can’t find the CD), what sort of character do y’all need? I like mules to be useful beyond “Here, carry this stuff” … when we Easters were doing mule rushes I made prayerdins, which had the dual effect of keeping my butt alive to get quests and keeping my companions’ butts alive when we did multiple mules in one rush.
i think you’re misunderstanding the nature of this type of mule rush. our mules don’t ever have to level, or do anything (i have a bunch of lvl 1 chars in hell as a result). We have a high level char do all the work, and just get quest credit for everything. Make whatever type you like, but don’t expect him to get much past lvl 4-5.
To clarify, only one mule needs to be on the scene. If anyone gets credit for a quest, then everyone who needs it gets credit. So you have one moderately advanced mule (or a first level who’s really good at dodging), and all the rest hide out back in town. The only part where level actually matters is the Ancients, and again, you only need one there.
I finally started playing D2 again since quitting in 1.08 or so, lost all my old characters and items but 1.10 is damn fun. Been having fun just slowly leveling up, taking my paladin with his skewer of krinitz all the way to act 4 normal 
It’s been awhile since i actually did the quests. Well, hope to see you guys on D2 sometime, I’m about to go play some more
No, he understands. It’s just on east sometimes the mules would tag along behind getting experience. He would tag along and put a point in prayer as he got levels. He didn’t have two computers on-line, so it would give him something to do.
ah, okay. just had me confused i guess, since every time i mule rush it’s using a sorc so none of the mules could ever keep up. Also, you don’t need to be alive to get quest credit, so generally staying alive is overrated, it’s easier to just come down and die and let the rushing characters do their thing.
Larz: Do you play on battle.net or single player mode? If bnet, what server?