The Official Ex-RuST SCL "Journey to Hell" Group Thread

AlphaOmega4 said:
I need help

I won't be about to make it in an hour and a half unless i can come up with a good name. (I hate going with my usual tag with no originally (AO_JavaZon) (how lame))
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Well, let's see, you could go with some sort of feminine derivative of Zeus (Jupiter) or Thor, both of whom were gods of lightning (among other things). Zeus was a Greek god, Amazons are figures of Greek myth, and Alpha and Omega are, of course, Greek letters. Azusa (which is unfortunately a city in So. California), Zosa, Zosia, something like that.

dii.net has a page of Amazon names (click here), which are probably all taken, but from which you might get some ideas. "Asteria," for instance, means of the sky. If that's taken, you could use Astere or Asterie. You could also find an ancient Greek dictionary online and look for word parts meaning "storm," "lightning," et cetera.

My enchantress is Valcina, based on Vulcan, the blacksmith of the gods.

EDIT: morton:
dnmorton said:
BrideOfZeus
ChampionOfZeus
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You beat me to it with the Zeus stuff. :uhhuh:
 
*Be-Were ---- My bro kinda will be able to play with us so i got an 8th if we need it :-) if not i dunno what hes gonna do.... Im thinking imma do a bowazon, max strafe, critical, a little in pierce a few in each dodge and maybe max out valkarie....
 
wathombe said:
dii.net has a page of Amazon names (click here), which are probably all taken, but from which you might get some ideas. "Asteria," for instance, means of the sky. If that's taken, you could use Astere or Asterie. You could also find an ancient Greek dictionary online and look for word parts meaning "storm," "lightning," et cetera
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wow, thanks, seems like you put a lot of thought in that, off to go find a old greek dictionary, i liked that idea

Countdown: 60 minutes to start
 
if it's a lightning fury zon, i would probably say, FearTheFury or FeelTheFury, or something like that. im on idlin in the channel, just waitin to see who would come on

Edit: *looks at watch* some ppl are gonna be late!
 
First session on USWest went well. We had 8+ players, a few people came and went. Most were around lvl 16-18 when we finished. Radament was last quest completed, and Lvl 2 Sewers was last wp reached. Cheetah, Andy, and freakin, if you guys want to catch up, we can blend you back in in future sessions.

If you don't mind, post your build and level reached and I'll try to put together a quick webpage tomorrow.

We're aiming at Sunday 10 PM PST for the next full session.

Night, all.
 
First session was excellent!! The singer barb is well on his way.

lvl18 reached. lvl10 shout, saving for bo and warcry

I also popped the countess shortly after, for a Tal and an Eth... I usually make stealth for myself, but if you want to spam FB wath, its all yours.

I will be on again Saturday 10-12PST. If enough people join me we can do a little more, if not then sunday is the night. GG all.
 
WooHoo, great fun

Aellopos (storm-footed, storm-swift) - Javazon
XP: 383,810
LVL: 18
Last SP Placed: Charged Strike/Plague Javalin
Life: 230 (300 w/oaksage)
Weapon: Rare Javalin
Countess Quest: Tal + Tir

i will be able to play tomorrow and sunday, 3:30 is pretty late tho, bout to die
 
Good game last night, for the most part.

There needs to be a bit more communication at times, I missed a couple of wps if someone can fix me up with them tonight. We should also do more killing on the way. There were times that I went back to town for pots and had to fight my way to everyone else. We are supposed to be doing this untwinked so in order to actually have a chance of finding anything we should be clearing areas, instead we went through some areas kind of fast. Besides, if we do this right there will be no need for Baalruns so there's no point in rushing it. I played a druid through in SP /players8 and he was lvl 49 when he killed Baal the one and only time in Normal.

I have been trying to collect topazes. I saw a few of them for sale at NPCs but couldn't buy them, we need them for mf. Even 3 chipped armour makes a difference. We should all try to get something with topaz in it. While we're wearing crap gear we may as well get some mf value from it.

MERCENARIES: We need to decide on who is getting what merc. There are 6 available auras, Inner Sight and either a Barb or Iron Wolf. Who is going to keep the Rogue? Her Inner Sight will be valuable in Hell. Who gets what aura? And what is the eighth merc? We won't get any benefit having two Defience auras, for example, but it's in parties like this that Iron Wolves become useful. The cold ones are good at taking on one thing at a time. I don't think the melee characters will appreciate the Barb merc much. What would be best for summoning nec, Might?


EDIT: This is from memory. Level 17.
Skull Cap, +2 replenish life ammy, basic +1 Raise Skeleton wand, shrunken head +1 Weaken(?)/+1 Skeleton Mastery, Ring Mail, Heavy Gloves, Sash, Heavy Boots. I am probably going to end up having one point in most curses, one point in Revive and maxed warriors, mages, mastery and resist, 1 point Clay Golem. Not sure if I should get Armour or any other bone skills yet.
 
Quick post, then I'm going to do my Countess, grab the wps I missed, and maybe shop for a good 2os staff for Leaf for my switch weapon.

My wife's using the desktop right now, so I can't put the webpage together just yet. Definitely before the weekend is out, though. My wife and I are busy getting the house ready for holiday guests, but if she peters out before 10, I might be able to play tonight. Else Sunday, although I'll be way behind by that point.

dnmorton: No, go ahead and make Stealth for yourself. I've already got slvl12 Warmth (synergy for Enchant), so I shouldn't have too many mana problems. Besides, once I find the right bow, I won't be a caster, I'll be an archer (if I find the right bow).

Sokar: I'd like to keep the rogue, if that's okay. I'd like a cold rogue, though, and I couldn't tell what element mine was using in the crowd last night. Failing that, I could take the Iron Wolf. I'll eventually be maxing Static Field for fire immunes, so cold is the only element I'll be missing.

EDIT: Oops, also from memory. I'm just shy of lvl 18, which I'll probably hit today doind my Countess run. No good gear yet. Just starting using that rare bow someone left in town. Couple decent rings. White hard leather armor, I think. :uhhuh: Told y'all I sucked at picking things up. I can seriously use hand-me-downs...

EDIT 2: Did my countess. One lousy Eld. Blech. I did make clvl 18. I now have Enchant (w/synergy from slvl 12 Warmth), 144 secs, +16-20 fire damage. Oh, and a very expensive Teleport, which I haven't really started using yet. I replaced my fire rogue with a cold rogue, but haven't been able to level her. Merc levelling is going to be a problem for all of us, methinks. Using a rare bow, orb with +frozen armor on switch, not much else to speak of. Blue armor with life, helm with chippie skulls for mana/life regen, some resists here and there, some little +stat stuff here and there. Beginning to enjoy the character, though. Will be great when the build starts to come together...
 
Sokar: I have a +skeleton mastery/+raise skeleton/+amplify damage (I think) head for you. Not 2/2/2, that I know. As for mercs, pure necromancer summoner usually uses might merc, yes, while a pure druid summoner - me - uses thorns. Right now I picked normal combat (prayer) while waiting for nightmare combat (thorns). Imagine the two of us. =D

I have plenty of chips, rings and amulets. Most are cubers, but at least we're close to the cube.
 
I just did my Countess for an El rune...not bad considering she'd probably drop the same in hell. I have a Defensive merc for the time being and I think I will take the Might merc in NM.

I am now wearing 18%mf (2 chipped topaz) skull cap, rare crossbow or white wand/head (thanks that head will be good Axe2Grind), 2 soc chain mail...waiting for topaz at cube. Only have 2 chips left now. low mf% gloves, 15% mf boots and a rare sash.

I found a rare barb helm with FHR and +2 taunt, and I have a bone shield with 12% all resist (chipped diamonds) both up for grabs.

With the mercs, that's where communications comes in. Let us know your merc is dead and return to town to revive as soon as possible. They should level up fine just so long as we don't get too far ahead of ourselves. So we have Might, Thorns, Rogue or Cold Iron Wolf for Wathombe, who else?
 
multiple things, i did my countess and got el + el, :-/ at least its a start... however on the way to countess i found stoutnail! lol unique spiked club, not that good, but usable none the less lol

i got alot of chips, as well as all of us to, i think we should consolidate them all to one char, same with the runes, we might be able to make some of the classic runewords to use that would be decent... malice is nice, so are some of the new ones when we get amn or sol....

another thing, wath, lets pool some cash to you, i know for a fact you can buy 1-2-3 socket white staffs in act2 that can have enchant, i found a 2 socket +3 enchant staff there on my enchantress for hcl east, so i think we should spend a little time going in and out of town trying to find yourself a unsocketed or 2 socket +2-3 enchant staff for your switch it would be a huge help with leaf or memory....
 
sry for the double post, also got 2 decent rare claws, one with duel leech one with amp dmg on strike, might consider using them with maybe claw block skill :-)
 
I highly doubt that you will reach level 49 by the end of normal even if you kill everything in every area. I have played a good amount of single player and know how powerful the /players x command can be for gaining experience. But on bnet you will be sharing that experience with any body within two screens in the same area.

I have done something like this before in LAN games of diablo 2 and personally I would guess you will be somewhere between level 30 and level 40 when you kill Baal, but this all depends on how you follow Sokar's suggestion. If you speed through areas you will not gain as much experience and even risk not making level 25 by the time you reach act 5. If you reach act 5 before making level 25 you will be missing out on a lot of experience in the long trek from Harrogath to the Arreat Summit.

Be careful how quickly you move through those earlier acts :)
 
I think the fears of being too speedy are quite unfounded. We haven't been doing full clears, but we are killing most of what we see. lvl18 at radimant is not unreasonable at all.

I ran the countess a couple more times, picked up a couple of Tir runes for you wath.

I could care less which merc I end up with. I personally have never really payed much attention to mercs in general. I picked up a BA merc this time around, I guess I'll keep him.

See yall tonight, those who make it.
 
as an avenger i actually speed through my mana and i dont want to rely too heavily on leech so im debating for earlier on making insight for me to use, or even for my merc to use, and im sure the aura wont be objected to by anyone, also think someone with an act1 merc should get her lvled up a bit and then get a cheap edge on her just for the aura :-) and later on harmony for the vigor aura so we all can close in on the monsters with nice speed :-)
 
I played my werebear (shocktrooper) solo in act one because I wanted to enter games with level restrictions and not have to tolerate the spambots. Before I entered Tamoe Highland I was CLvl13; that's amazing given I used to reach CLvl15 by the time I hit Andariel and, sometimes, was only 14. I think it's plausible to be somewhere i nthe forties as Sokar suggests, and I'll take his word that 49 was one of those 'rinse and repeat' kind of things where you rarely clear the same area twice and didn't do a single normal Baal run with eight people in the game.

NEF on Countess, tons of chips, a few rares and socketables, but what to use the imbue quest for or should I wait for a diadem/ethereal dimensional blade-crystal sword from hell?

I should be perfectly on time tonight, currently running Baal with a regular on east.
 
I don't mean to butt in, but make sure you guys all do your hellforges seperately - you'll have a nice stash of tasty runes for runewords, especially when you hit the Nightmare and Hell forges.
 
We're aware of the shared drop, as we all did Countess separately, too. It'd be ideal to do all quest-related drops alone - Andariel, Duriel, Mephisto, etc. - but we can always go hunting later and it's still much faster to beat the snot out of everything all the way up.

By the way, am I the only one not to have died as of yet? I'd like to make Andy proud if he really did leave the party because he's hardcore at heart.
 
another successful night, I think everyone made it to act 3. Kickass staff for wathombe!!!

EchoingRuin : lvl23barb
-10 shout, bunch misc, saving for BO and Warcry
-rare giant sword in 2 hands, nothing notable in gear

Sokar, I hope that the lag issues will go away, I'd hate to lose you from the team. Excellent night all, and good night.

Next Game : Sunday 10-12PST

PS: sorry for the abrupt leaving, my keyboard has a wonderful button that is 1 push exit program.... and its right next to alt :(
 
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