i got that same problem with my sorc as well... it sucks bigtime to not be able to play her by any means.
KTA - Team SPEED - starting now!
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i got that same problem with my sorc as well... it sucks bigtime to not be able to play her by any means.
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Hi Team Speed!
I just came back to D2 after a couple years, currently in the process of playing through normal to unlock hardcore, and I would love to be in this kind of group play. Used to be in a sur5all if anyone remembers that, a mostly dutch and norwegian group from this forum.
Is there still a way for me to join your group?
Don't know yet which character I would like to play. Fireclaws bear, cold maiden (since strafezon is taken) or any caster come to mind.
Good luck and happy slappin' tonight!
Hi Team Speed!
I just came back to D2 after a couple years, currently in the process of playing through normal to unlock hardcore, and I would love to be in this kind of group play. Used to be in a sur5all if anyone remembers that, a mostly dutch and norwegian group from this forum.
Is there still a way for me to join your group?
Don't know yet which character I would like to play. Fireclaws bear, cold maiden (since strafezon is taken) or any caster come to mind.
Good luck and happy slappin' tonight!
Hi Nest!
are you familiar with KTA? (the speed thing is just the theme for this round)
if there are any spots free you could lvl a character to our point in the game and just join in on monday evenings. for more info just read this thread every now and then, should keep you updated as where we are etc.
the caracters you name are not exactly speedy guys/girls... but i suggest you reed the beginning of this topic to learn more.
i got to go now, as play starts in mere minuts!
cya around!
are you familiar with KTA? (the speed thing is just the theme for this round)
if there are any spots free you could lvl a character to our point in the game and just join in on monday evenings. for more info just read this thread every now and then, should keep you updated as where we are etc.
the caracters you name are not exactly speedy guys/girls... but i suggest you reed the beginning of this topic to learn more.
i got to go now, as play starts in mere minuts!
cya around!
"if there are any spots free..." is what I'm asking you guys.
I've been following earlier KTA group threads so that shouldn't pose a problem. Like I said playing in this kind of tight knit group is what I'm looking forward to.
I was under the impression that my char suggestions were rather speedy. Not as much as a zealot, strafer etc but in the same league as nova sorc, smiter and others that have been mentioned in this thread. Frostmaiden and especially firebear require a fast weapon of course, which I realise will be in high demand.
Suggestions?
Btw as extra qualification, I play a rather speedy drumset. :jig:
I've been following earlier KTA group threads so that shouldn't pose a problem. Like I said playing in this kind of tight knit group is what I'm looking forward to.
I was under the impression that my char suggestions were rather speedy. Not as much as a zealot, strafer etc but in the same league as nova sorc, smiter and others that have been mentioned in this thread. Frostmaiden and especially firebear require a fast weapon of course, which I realise will be in high demand.
Suggestions?
Btw as extra qualification, I play a rather speedy drumset. :jig:
Kraz3yIvan
New member
Hey Nest!
Yeah any build you feel happy with is fine - we are a bit light on the elemental side - just my holy freeze - at the moment.
A few have been make noises about fanaticism being missing... ;-)
We are all going to have to get lucky weapon wise - but we seem to be rolling along quite well.
Yeah any build you feel happy with is fine - we are a bit light on the elemental side - just my holy freeze - at the moment.
A few have been make noises about fanaticism being missing... ;-)
We are all going to have to get lucky weapon wise - but we seem to be rolling along quite well.
so yesterday evening it was time to play again!
we met in channel and soon enough we started a game and started killing stuff... with good speed of cource. then however... not even being in the game for 5 minuts the lag beast kicked in... first with a few dropouts, but within a few minuts our entire game got killed and all kicked out. for the next 15 minuts or so we tryed making a new game... but the failed to join bug made this impossible. just when we were getting very annoyed and started thinking about what to do our KTA gem mule found out that he could create.. so another 5 minuts later we were all in that game again and ready for battle. well... by all i mean the 6 of us... we havent seen our sorc. neither do i know if any other members were missing?
we managed act 2 without to mane problems... except for 1. i think it was somewhere in Tals Tomb that all off a sudden MrKaxe toke HUGE damage. so much actualy that it caused him to shake off his wolf form and run away as a human... with just 1 hitpoint left. a real quick purple, good reactions and a bit of luck to not be hit just at that time saved the day. of cource we toke our revenge on duriel... who toke some time to get into... but once the fast hitting got going things were out of control for the big maggot.
we ran into act 3, got an eye and an hart, a gidbin and a jade figure and 2 waypoints (spider and flayer), having completely evaded the march (aldough noone seems to miss it :grin:
we ended the session bieng lvl 23 or 24 (not sure now).
Nest: we seem to have at least 1 spot available, so you are more then welcome to join the speedy ranks. about your character choise: i think i was a bit confused yesterday, as i now know what you mean. i think some elemental attack would be our best bet, as we lack that severly.. (we only have cold so far, and light if our nova sorc is around). maybe a nice suggestion could be a super fast cast fire ball sorc? with as secondary skill a bit of enchant? (that would be HUGELY effective, seeing the huge number of hits we are looking at)
i had a great evening, despite of the lag.
Tika
we met in channel and soon enough we started a game and started killing stuff... with good speed of cource. then however... not even being in the game for 5 minuts the lag beast kicked in... first with a few dropouts, but within a few minuts our entire game got killed and all kicked out. for the next 15 minuts or so we tryed making a new game... but the failed to join bug made this impossible. just when we were getting very annoyed and started thinking about what to do our KTA gem mule found out that he could create.. so another 5 minuts later we were all in that game again and ready for battle. well... by all i mean the 6 of us... we havent seen our sorc. neither do i know if any other members were missing?
we managed act 2 without to mane problems... except for 1. i think it was somewhere in Tals Tomb that all off a sudden MrKaxe toke HUGE damage. so much actualy that it caused him to shake off his wolf form and run away as a human... with just 1 hitpoint left. a real quick purple, good reactions and a bit of luck to not be hit just at that time saved the day. of cource we toke our revenge on duriel... who toke some time to get into... but once the fast hitting got going things were out of control for the big maggot.
we ran into act 3, got an eye and an hart, a gidbin and a jade figure and 2 waypoints (spider and flayer), having completely evaded the march (aldough noone seems to miss it :grin:
we ended the session bieng lvl 23 or 24 (not sure now).
Nest: we seem to have at least 1 spot available, so you are more then welcome to join the speedy ranks. about your character choise: i think i was a bit confused yesterday, as i now know what you mean. i think some elemental attack would be our best bet, as we lack that severly.. (we only have cold so far, and light if our nova sorc is around). maybe a nice suggestion could be a super fast cast fire ball sorc? with as secondary skill a bit of enchant? (that would be HUGELY effective, seeing the huge number of hits we are looking at)
i had a great evening, despite of the lag.
Tika
Kraz3yIvan
New member
Whoa nice idea Tika!
Enchant the team for maximum kick-assary
Nice review too - bloody dupers!
Enchant the team for maximum kick-assary
Nice review too - bloody dupers!
well... i think that once in hell we will be getting a pretty hard time. not so much with surviving, as we will have both BO and OAK and plenty of good tanks... but with killing. why you ask? i think because moost of our builds are pretty weapon dependent, and chances of finding decent hell proof weapons aint all that good. second reason is the abundance of physical dmg, but the great lack in anything else.
enchant would solve the dmg type problem, help the total dmg output a lot and help greatly with AR issues. a combination with some CB in gear should be able to get us true hell.
not even a fully synergised enchant could make all the difference, since even a few hundred extra fire dmg per hit counts when you hit as much as we do. and since a fire sorc has fire mastery maxxed anyway, it should be decent with only 20 points in it and forget the synergy.
conclusion: a fire sorc with 20 fire ball, 20 fire mastery, 20 enchant and the rest in other fireball synergies would be a GREAT addition.
enchant would solve the dmg type problem, help the total dmg output a lot and help greatly with AR issues. a combination with some CB in gear should be able to get us true hell.
not even a fully synergised enchant could make all the difference, since even a few hundred extra fire dmg per hit counts when you hit as much as we do. and since a fire sorc has fire mastery maxxed anyway, it should be decent with only 20 points in it and forget the synergy.
conclusion: a fire sorc with 20 fire ball, 20 fire mastery, 20 enchant and the rest in other fireball synergies would be a GREAT addition.
MrKaxe
Active member
I had 2 instances of huge damage Tika!
I was using the Horadric Staff post making it in Act 2 due to the 50% IAS so when i put it in the orifice (heh :tongue: ) i had no weapon...quick TP, halfway to stash i get 'Quick!' messages flash up so i grab my axe and run back into the TP that was put up in the chamber only to find half my life gone as i step through as i stepped onto Duriel's head! He got a few jabs in but i managed to run away and recast everything (he took out my wolf buddy as i retreated!)
The worst NDE was when i charged into Szarzak the Burning's group (in the Spider Cavern on the quest for the Eye in Act 3) to Rabies the huge mob of monsters then start Feral Raging on their asses when i immediately got cursed by him and hit by him and two of his minions either side of him...i swear i must of had one life left!
All in all a good session and I hope we get to level 30 soon as lvl 24 skills holds no joy for me as i have none i need to use there! A big furry tank and a hella fast attack await me...
P.S. Hi Nest! As Tika said, a pure Fireball/Enchant sorc would be great! By all means max the Meteor synergy but if you so much as use it once...
*shakes wolfy paw
:laughing: j/k
I was using the Horadric Staff post making it in Act 2 due to the 50% IAS so when i put it in the orifice (heh :tongue: ) i had no weapon...quick TP, halfway to stash i get 'Quick!' messages flash up so i grab my axe and run back into the TP that was put up in the chamber only to find half my life gone as i step through as i stepped onto Duriel's head! He got a few jabs in but i managed to run away and recast everything (he took out my wolf buddy as i retreated!)
The worst NDE was when i charged into Szarzak the Burning's group (in the Spider Cavern on the quest for the Eye in Act 3) to Rabies the huge mob of monsters then start Feral Raging on their asses when i immediately got cursed by him and hit by him and two of his minions either side of him...i swear i must of had one life left!
All in all a good session and I hope we get to level 30 soon as lvl 24 skills holds no joy for me as i have none i need to use there! A big furry tank and a hella fast attack await me...
P.S. Hi Nest! As Tika said, a pure Fireball/Enchant sorc would be great! By all means max the Meteor synergy but if you so much as use it once...
*shakes wolfy paw
:laughing: j/k
i feel the same about my lvl 30 skills... at the moment i am doing little but leaching of you guys and pretending to hit something. well.. i DO hit some stuff.. since my AR is quite good... but dmg is quite another thing.
btw... i doubt my dmg would improve much with WW... but at least i hit much and start to look cool :afro:
btw... i doubt my dmg would improve much with WW... but at least i hit much and start to look cool :afro:
:grin: :thumbsup: 
not only strafe... how about fury, wirlwind, zeal and blade fury? (for BF i dont know if the fire dmg works... i DO know that the AR works and that AR is a major problem with this skill at higher lvls)
that is not even counting all the mercs and other minions.
actualy enchant would work supurb for this entire party... except perhaps the novasorc.
that is not even counting all the mercs and other minions.
actualy enchant would work supurb for this entire party... except perhaps the novasorc.
Kraz3yIvan
New member
Yeah i remember that quick message - went through the portal and was in duriels face unable to move! not pleasant, but he bit the dust
My damage at the minute is looking quite nice, i do forsee a need for armour shortly that has better Def than 46..... ;-)
But i did save a 2os breast plate for maybe stealth.
On tonight if anyone is playing........ !
My damage at the minute is looking quite nice, i do forsee a need for armour shortly that has better Def than 46..... ;-)
But i did save a 2os breast plate for maybe stealth.
On tonight if anyone is playing........ !
MrKaxe
Active member
I won't be on 'til quite late dude as I GM ShadowRun on a Tuesday night but it will be around 11:30ish when i do...
drinkturps
New member
Not this evening here either. I've got a bonus ball booze bonanza waiting for me in the pub where I won the Lottery bonus ball competition. i.e. £98 to spend on beer and pub snacks and watch the Hammers stuff Coventry (well hopefully).
An Enchantress is a splendid idea with maybe a pimped static field? Could help out due to the lack of crushing blow.
We're doing really badly on the Ruby stakes at the moment. I'll try and get a screeny of the gem stash up although I have no idea about this imageshack malarky.
An Enchantress is a splendid idea with maybe a pimped static field? Could help out due to the lack of crushing blow.
We're doing really badly on the Ruby stakes at the moment. I'll try and get a screeny of the gem stash up although I have no idea about this imageshack malarky.
MrKaxe
Active member
I have an ImageShack account if you want me to post them dude or the best thing to do (which i started doing towards the end of the last KTA run) is email the pics to oOmpie as he host them on his own site...let me know if you need his email and i'll PM it to you...
Hi guys,
I'm leaning toward a firebear atm, which would add another tank, three distracting wolves, strong fire damage (the weapon only needs to be fast, I can ignore physical damage stats. "Steel" in a cutlass should be plenty for hell) and another aura for attack rating and ed% for the rest of the team. The attack rating bonus is about 3/4 that of enchant at lvl 20, in combination with blessed aim that should net a comparable result.
I might also get shockwave instead of wolverine for massive stun duration. Or a backup oak sage maybe...
Will probably also start the fire sorc that you all crave and find out how it feels, then decide which char I'll bring on monday.
As for blade fury, I remember that all elemental damage is applied at a penalty, 3/4 iirc.
Are there still any merc auras missing? I could use a defiance guy.
I may be on tonight, message me *Blum7 if you want to play. Don't have a char running yet though.
I'm leaning toward a firebear atm, which would add another tank, three distracting wolves, strong fire damage (the weapon only needs to be fast, I can ignore physical damage stats. "Steel" in a cutlass should be plenty for hell) and another aura for attack rating and ed% for the rest of the team. The attack rating bonus is about 3/4 that of enchant at lvl 20, in combination with blessed aim that should net a comparable result.
I might also get shockwave instead of wolverine for massive stun duration. Or a backup oak sage maybe...
Will probably also start the fire sorc that you all crave and find out how it feels, then decide which char I'll bring on monday.
As for blade fury, I remember that all elemental damage is applied at a penalty, 3/4 iirc.
Are there still any merc auras missing? I could use a defiance guy.
I may be on tonight, message me *Blum7 if you want to play. Don't have a char running yet though.
Kraz3yIvan
New member
Hey Nest
All 3 Act 2 Normal mercs are in use at the moment - holy freeze is irrelevant as thats me!
So feel free to try both out this week and see which you could live with.
I'll message you if your on tonight! May see you too MrKaxe - but will only be for 30 mins or 45 mins, your mate was good fun last night with the amazon! Get him on again! :-D
All 3 Act 2 Normal mercs are in use at the moment - holy freeze is irrelevant as thats me!
So feel free to try both out this week and see which you could live with.
I'll message you if your on tonight! May see you too MrKaxe - but will only be for 30 mins or 45 mins, your mate was good fun last night with the amazon! Get him on again! :-D
