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

Well, I hate to say it, but I think our group is nearing its end. One player has apparently lost interest and isn't coming back, as I've seen him onlline playing other characters most of the times we've been on; at least one or two players are very unhappy with party tactics, and I fear they aren't having a very good time; we've been unable to get five-plus players together since breaking for Christmas, save for 20 minutes or so last night; and I think I'm beginning to piss off my wife, who doesn't mind me playing five nights a week or more, but is getting a bit annoyed with my need to be on at precisely 10:00 every single night (save Christmas and Christmas Eve, obviously).

This was a good idea, and it has been fun so far. We definitely had a good group of players who worked well together, for the most part. If we don’t continue the JtH, I’ll still look for all of you when I’m online for general pla--in particular I won’t be able to get this character through hell solo without radically altering the build--but I don’t really think the concept of all eight of us, untwinked, on a consecutive journey to hell, is going to work.

Thoughts?
 
I hate to see it end.... I was having alot of fun, but if that is what fate has sent us so be it. I personally would love to continue, and I have to believe others feel the same. If not for your wife, you would continue, and I dont think Spart has yet missed a night. Ax is also pretty reliable.

I for one will be on tonight. I say let tonight be the deciding game... If you want to continue, show up. I'll keep my fingers crossed...

If the worst should happen, I would love to keep going with you Wath. Especially since I really can't kill squat on my own :)
 
Let it not be said that I jinxed this Joth. No sooner do I ask about a separate clan branch of the forum than we can barely make five players and stirrings of those in the group doing other things on B.ent while we're in pursuit. I'm not all that thrilled with what's been going on, true, but after hearing this that puts me in the position of not being able to leave as I'm the fifth man.

It's also a bit disappointing seeing as this group is supposed to be practicing for blast-furnace Baal runs in LS3, should that happen. Get to the lead with a group of elite killing machines and never look back, that was the idea. Names of the characters, builds, time for group playing laid out, etc. I can't speak for USEast, since we haven't started yet, but it's astounding all the support there was for the runeword hunt yet it's an east player keeping the group at five. I think we do need roll call to make sure these people are definitely still playing.

Right now, I'm still in - granted, barely so. I'll discuss the rest later, I don't think this is the time or place right now.
 
Sorry I missed last night guys. With the party season in full swing if I'm not drunk, stoned or hungover I'm sleeping.

I'll be on tonight.
 
I'll be on tonight if at all possible. We may have friends over for a bit to watch the end of what looks like a lopsided football game so far; not sure when our guests will turn in for the night; and my wife may or may not crash early.

I'm certainly enjoying myself, I just wasn't sure if everyone else was still into it or if we were beginning to differ on tactics too much. Also, I'm not going to be able to do seven nights a week.

freakinrican (aka raskol) is almost certainly gone. He's been on other accounts for the past several nights when we've been in JtH games, so I assume he's lost interest. That's too bad, because he's a genuinely good guy and a good player, but I don't want to hold it against him.

In-game, we should try to communicate more and slow it down. The vanguard frequently left other players behind (myself included), sometimes leaving levels before everyone made the stairs. I myself would like to kill what we come across instead of running past them, pick up gold, and see if there are any decent blue, gray, or superior items as well as yellow, gold, and green.

As for LS3, we don't know when it's going to start, and I can't say what my life will be like then and what games I'll be playing. If I have the time and interest for D2, though, I'd love to participate as much as I am able. I'm actually kind of interested in the Cleric build (the full Holy Bolt/FoH build) for sporadic support play of a ladder-running group. I think we might need to combine the die-harders on one realm, though, be it East, West, or Asia. Time will tell.

See you all tonight, if possible.
 
Okay, good session tonight. Well attended and more smoothly running, I think.

I've updated the website, such as it is: Ex-RuST USWest SCL "Journey to Hell" Page

I've lost track of tlaloc and ao4's levels, so I'll get them next time we're on.

Everyone's availability is spotty over the next four nights, so we'll quest when we get 5 people, and mf when we get less.

Happy New Year, everyone. G'night.
 
yea sorry for any inconvienience.... i will be on tonite (wednesday night to 3am thursday morning est) but thursday/fridaymorning and friday/satmorning i wont be on, sorry to get you all behind.... since im about 3-4 lvls ahead from not missing a night :-) i wont fall too far behind, and since we are on act3 i figure all that i will miss in 2 days time is at most meph/izzy/diablo, which im not overly concerned with needed the extra 1 or 2 lvls i would get questing completely, so if you are past diablo when i get back im fine with being rushed...
 
Well, Ikeren has been listed in the runeword hunt for some time and appears to be interested in joining the JoTH (east, I assume). I have no problem with this, so if we can get a roll call on USEast we might have eight or more already.

Ax2Grind (*?) {}
Cherokee (*?) {}
Corporeal Ghost (*?) {}
Ikeren (*?) {}
Merick (*?) {}
Remlin (*?) {}

There's one more, the regular I play with, and others in the USWest JoTH that are east naturally, and I'm pretty sure Corp wants in, but he's not official. Might also want to think about Selex, as he's online quite a bit recently. I'll run it by him and see. I'm still wondering what happened to some of the regulars, like RedneckRuler. I haven't seen him on at all.

Either way it appears we can make eight easily, but I'm hoping we can make two groups. Anyone else interested?
 
I'm still in.
I just filled another account, so if you need to talk to me, I'll be on *Astrofish3
My Journey character will be my first character on *Astrofish4

I'll be cool with about any build.
 
Five minutes before the JoTH tonight, just making sure no one is going to be there. I'm on USEast, so message me or contact me through Y!M, or reply here if west is on tonight.

Still haven't spotted Corp and haven't gotten people's opinion about the regular I play with. He wants to do the necro thing, too, so he and Remlin would have the dual build should this turn out to be a single group. Since I'm playing a druid on west I'm somewhat reluctant to do it on east, and even though I have a ton of shadow skillers for post-Baal I'm a bit hesitant to play an assassin. Maybe a defense barbarian, or a paladin hoping for some high runes to get Doom/Dream/Dragon/Ice for the ultimate Avenging Ranger. Or the new all-vitality medic with a meditation/prayer merc and a sanctuary scepter (cheap) that will wear Tyrael's Might in end game. Looks like paladin for me. =]
 
Progress on east and update on west

Ax2Grind said:
RUneword Search Thread JOurney To Hell (RuST JoTH)
USEast: 9-11PM EST

Ax2Grind (*New2TheGame0) {DoubleHealix - medic paladin}
Cherokee (*?) {}
Corporeal Ghost (*?) {?}
Ikeren (*?) {?}
Merick (*Astrofish4) {?}
Remlin (*Remlin3) {? - necromancer}
Vahdriss (*RonStoppable) {? - bonemancer}

USWest: 10PM-12AM PST (1-3AM EST)

AlphaOmega4 (*alphaomega4444) {Aellopos - lightning amazon}
Ax2Grind (*Ax2Grind) {CompanyOfWolves - summoner druid}
Be-Were (*Be-Were) {SparticusReborn - vengeance paladin}
DNMorton (*dnmorton) {EchoingRuin - warcry barbarian}
Sokar_Rostau (*Sokar_Rostau) {Sokar_Rostau - cursemancer}
Tlaloc (*tlaloc24) {Nemontomi - claw-abider assassin} AWOL
Wathombe (*wathombe) {Valcina - enchantress sorceress}
? (*?) {? - medic paladin} LOST
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Someone took Double_Healix, can you believe that? Bastards!

Anyway, west has lost one, if not two, so far. Being CLvl53 still and yet to start A3NM, when that level character can be taking on Diablo or even starting A5NM is a bit disappointing. It's slow going and I was hoping to have finished the west JoTH before east's began. Funny thing is I'm probably the lowest character left in the group, so if anything might cause the group to come to a halt it would be the holidays and a lack of playing.

All I wanted was to hit the hellforge and try my luck at a KO, then hit Mephisto and friends a few times hoping a SOL would drop. Early A5NM blade bows start dropping, and you never know if one of them might be superior with four sockets. Guess all of that will have to wait. Wathombe, get these screwballs back into a game, pronto!

Also, if there are people in the west JoTH that are planning to play in the east sign up ASAP. We need to start separating before the builds are laid out. This goes for anyone else formerly in RuST that wants to participate. Check Wathombe's post for the progress report.
 
i might be on tonite but i dunno (friends wedding is tonite and i will be getting home latish 1-2 am (so i might make it or be a lil late i dunno yet))
anywho i can join the east jth but if it could wait a lil that would be key cause as for now im out with my gf till 12 to 1 and couldnt make it any earlier but i could be an alternate and try to lvl on my own for a bit...
 
Wathombe, maybe you can help out on this. Corporeal Ghost (*LiquidFury/*PlutoniYum) has forgotten his password and also which email he used to register the account on. Now, I thought he could just request an automated response and look into the apparant plethora of addresses he has and it'd show up, but he seems to be indicating to me that he has actually forgotten some. So, how can he get his password (resetting it or not) if he doesn't know it or the information he entered originally?

Currently leveling mules and soon Baaling until 1AM EST when the west JoTH is supposed to start. Let me know if everyone is taking another day off. You know, hangovers and such.
 
Ax2Grind said:
Wathombe, maybe you can help out on this. Corporeal Ghost (*LiquidFury/*PlutoniYum) has forgotten his password and also which email he used to register the account on. Now, I thought he could just request an automated response and look into the apparant plethora of addresses he has and it'd show up, but he seems to be indicating to me that he has actually forgotten some. So, how can he get his password (resetting it or not) if he doesn't know it or the information he entered originally?

Currently leveling mules and soon Baaling until 1AM EST when the west JoTH is supposed to start. Let me know if everyone is taking another day off. You know, hangovers and such.
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Nevermind that. Found the pass. Count me in for the east journey. Still debating what character to play, so I may just fill any holes you have when and if we get more people.

Thought I dropped someone a message that I was leaving for 2 weeks over Christmas. Guess not. Anyway, I'm back and will be online most evenings at one point or another.
 
Hi guys...still a bit seedy from NYE, 3 days of drinking does that lol.

I hope I didn't miss anything in the last couple of days as I am still level 50 and don't want be left too far behind.

BTW, for the record I am not a "Cursomancer". I don't know what the exact definition of my build is, but I am primarily a Summoner. I DO have one point in each Curse, but this is necessary to achieve Lower Resist (for Mages) and Attract (to get the first Skellies). As for the rest I have one point in Corpse Explosion and Revive (so I can revive the helpful "medics" such as Sextons along the way), and am maxing Skeleton Mastery, Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Mage and, maybe, Summon Resist. If, by some lucky slash of the blade, we come across some Marrowwalks I will put one point into Bone Armour.

Having only one point in each Curse gives me a degree of fine control as I am able to cast a large area Curse (Weaken for example), followed by Attract on a single monster while at the same time being able to cast Dim Vision, Decrepify and Lower Resist on different targets all without overriding the other curses.
 
Was just going by what Wathombe wrote on his website, so I'll change it to summonmancer variant.

Wathombe, you can now ignore my previous post, I misunderstood what was needed, and in the end nothing was. Ghost got his account back up, as you can see. You still need to join us tomorrow, even for a brief moment in order to receive knighthood.
 
Just as a matter of interest, where are we up to now? The highest quest, I mean. Last time I was on I had passed Duriel but took a detour to Atma's, and had a few ales with Geglash, on the way to see Meshif...
 
Remlin, I believe I have your crest if you still need it.

Does anyone know if oSkills and/or auto-auras benefit from synergies? If so, I'm looking into a quirky conviction paladin build. If not, I'm still undecided.

Regarding the PKK idea, call me if you need me, but I won't be able to do too much but tank my butt off with the barbarian, as I get too large a delay (.5-1 second sometimes) from my dial-up to really hit anything that's smarter (or at least more unpredictable) than monster AI.
 
Greetings All,

The West JTH has slowed a bit, but I think thats mostly due to the holidays, and should pickup. Ax, myself, and Spart are ALWAYS on, and Sokar is pretty regular too. I'd encourage everyone to try to make it on tonight, so that we can finally continue questing (Spart is going stircrazy :]). That means you, wathombe(Enchant!!) and AO4 . We are up to act 3 with no Quests done there, and Spart is lvl56 (shame on you!).

EAST JTH: It looks like my schedule may allow me to play in East too. I would like to try a Charger/Smiter build (might,charge,smite,hs, and vigor) if the pally slot is still open. Let me know, whomever is organizing that one.

** I'd like to get people's opinions on the matter of power level. At the start we were trying to go underpowered builds, to have fun with them. As the West folk can attest to, these so-called underpowered builds are kicking a$$! Everything so far is falling very fast, and while fast can be fun, slow also can be fun. I personally would like a slower journey in East, but thats just me. Lets hear some opinions on the matter, Speak up!

-dnmorton
WestJTH char: EchoingRuin lvl53 Singer Barb
 
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