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

I used to have my alarm set to 1AM...

Be-Were said:
I agree lets make sure ahead of time we have at least 5 from now on.... im getting a little frustrated being one of 2 or 3 ppl that show up, especially since i end up getting on at like 12:30 and waiting till around 2:00 - 2:15 to make sure no one is showing up, when i could be either doing other things or even sleeping......

Tonite, the 30th, post in here if you are going to be able to make it...
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Then, after switching it to 6AM, I was used to expecting the JoTH - even when we had trouble during the holidays. Since Wathombe's been gone, however, we haven't been doing anything, so I've been leveling with Jester on East. I lose track of time when spears, spirits, teeth, meteors, orbs and fireballs start to fly. Anyway, I reset my alarm, but I still might be a few minutes late, and I need to know that we have the whole team showing up tonight.
 
Ghost is all over USEast right now

Be-Were said:
ax, so far its just you and me... hope some other ppl decide to show up / post...
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So I'm pretty sure he'll show up in an hour. Don't know aboutthe other five, including Wathombe.
 
Hey, guys.

Sorry to be absent. I was exhausted for two nights after returning home, and I've been sick as a dog since then. On top of that, I'm trying to hold together two huge deals at the office, so I can't even sleep it off during the day.

I'll get back on as soon as I can, and try to give some sort of indication here. See you all soon.

Is Sokar's machine up to speed yet?
 
Hi guys

I'm still without a CDD. They expect me to pay for a courier to Sydney, which I am unwilling to do, so I have to post the damn thing when I next get paid...which is next Tuesday. So, sorry to say, it looks like I'm out, at least for the time being. If things are still going when I'm fully functional again I will gladly rejoin you, but I expect everything would be done by then.

I also just won Lord Shinnok's East Giveaway so I now have functional accounts on 3 realms lol. When I do get up and runnning I will see what Shinnok has for me and hopefully I will be able to set up one of the more expensive Battlemaids I want to try. If I can do that I'd like to do a twinked JTH if anyone is interested, with all off class builds (things like Dream/Kingslayer Enchantress, Storm Ranger, Pyrodin and stuff like that).
 
Sokar Rostau said:
Hi guys
2 things....
First (2 parts...) Wath, glad to hear your back and sorry to hear your so tired and got alot of stuff to do, well be ready for ya whenever, part2: on the last page i put an idea of allow ppl to change it so everyone can see whether or not person X will be able to play that night, take a look at it and tell me if its feasable to include on your website, would make it alot more useful :-)

second, there is something ive been DYING to try, altough it will be EXPENSIVE AS ALL F*CKING GETOUT....
An Auradin.... Complete with (First 3 on merc) Might/Concentration/Thorns/Defiance/Fanatacism/HolyFire/HolyShock/HolyFreeze
Further Description
Might Merc with Pride and Bramble
Holy Freeze main Aura Paladin with, Exile, Beast, Dragon (armor), Dream (helm)... and then use zeal with a max synergy for the attack....

Any Comments.... besides that fact that it would take
Pul
Um
Mal
Ist
Vex
Ohm x2
Lo x2
Jah
Ber
Sur x3
Cham
Not to mention the perfect items for each :-) but we will see if i can get enough donations.... i think it would be a very key build if we have a bunch of melee in the journey :-)
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Be-Were said:
Sokar Rostau said:
Hi guys
2 things....
First (2 parts...) Wath, glad to hear your back and sorry to hear your so tired and got alot of stuff to do, well be ready for ya whenever, part2: on the last page i put an idea of allow ppl to change it so everyone can see whether or not person X will be able to play that night, take a look at it and tell me if its feasable to include on your website, would make it alot more useful :-)

second, there is something ive been DYING to try, altough it will be EXPENSIVE AS ALL F*CKING GETOUT....
An Auradin.... Complete with (First 3 on merc) Might/Concentration/Thorns/Defiance/Fanatacism/HolyFire/HolyShock/HolyFreeze
Further Description
Might Merc with Pride and Bramble
Holy Freeze main Aura Paladin with, Exile, Beast, Dragon (armor), Dream (helm)... and then use zeal with a max synergy for the attack....

Any Comments.... besides that fact that it would take
Pul
Um
Mal
Ist
Vex
Ohm x2
Lo x2
Jah
Ber
Sur x3
Cham
Not to mention the perfect items for each :-) but we will see if i can get enough donations.... i think it would be a very key build if we have a bunch of melee in the journey :-)
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Had a similar thought, except I put Doom in instead of Beast and figured it'd go Conviction primary. Then I had the thought of transferring it to an enchantress--minus Exile and adding Phoenix for extra lowered fire resistance. Considered Phoenix for the paladin as well. Of course, I believe this is more expensive, particularly if we want Infinity on a mercenary for the resistance breaking capabilities. I was even gonna go after it, but if I do, I'm in for a whole lotta MFing and trading, if not just stripping the characters I have. If I had to choose one of the classes, I'd go with the sorceress--maxed Enchant, three masteries, Warmth, with Cold Mastery being last.

Otherwise, I'd like to play a dual Stormlash wielding Crushing Blow Frenzy barbarian, but I feel the sorceress would be far more fun.

Edit: Switch from Exile to Phoenix means mercenary is now Defiance over Might.
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I forgot about doom.... hrmm
My main idea with this build was the basic 3 dmg% auras, might,conc, and fanat, then on top of that you can just add mid range elental with the other 3... looking at the potential gains, maxing fanat and going doom weapon would be better... the looking at the remaining possibilities, is up to the users, allbeit the thorns is the only remaining armor non duplication, and defiance can only switch with redemption, and looking at it for a party, the added defiance will be a help i assume... then again 400%+ edmg on a shield with redemption wouldnt be a bad thing either.... :-)
 
Nice to see some interest in an untwinked JTH.

Only real problem would be cost and some heavy micromanagement as far as auras go.

Supposedly (according to the Sorc's...) Dream's Holy Shock aura stacks if you use both shield and helm then gains a bonus from Lightning Mastery on top of that for massive Lightning Damage. The Enchantress I would like to see would use Kingslayer, Dream Helm and Shield (if auras stack) or Phoenix shield (if auras don't stack) with an Infinity merc. Maxed Warmth, Enchant, Fire/Cold/Light Mastery. Throw an Ice bow on switch ;) .The marginally cheaper version uses an Infinity polearm.

I have been writing a general Battlemaid/Palazon/Tankazon guide and in doing so I have found that the number of equipment choices are huge (One type, as far as I know the only pure Amazon Caster, has a total of about 15 different set-ups with three that are most desireable), depending on what type of soldier you want to be. The version I most want to try is the Phoenix Shock Zealot/Avenger. Dream Helm, Phoenix, Passion, Fortitude, Destruction/Kingslayer/Grief and Phoenix on switch. My current Palazon uses Passion, Fortitude, Kira, SS with Gimmershreds and Medusa on switch and she can kill everything so this alternate equipment would make her godly strong (the equivalent of a 900%ed cryptic sword dealing lvl 5-7 Berserk and Zeal with 40% CTC Firestorm :)), Infinity merc with maxed D/A/E. It's complicated simply because of the sheer variety of set-ups the build can use.

The runewords with fixed aura levels wouldn't cause a problem but a Paladin would be limited to only a few auras that are not available elsewhere (Salvation comes to mind here). The thing is if we were to go ahead with something like this we would have to put up with auras that change, at least to a certain extent (I can see, for example, there being multiple Fanaticism auras of different levels), otherwise the builds would not be complete.

I can see a Paladin Zealot using Last Wish Sword (with Oath on switch?) or Voice of Reason to great effect

Also gotta think of all the Merc variations with bows etc...

Anyway it's all horrendously expensive.

EDIT: OMG I just counted 20 possible set-ups for that Zon caster I mentioned, with 4 strongest versions...
 
Sokar Rostau said:
Hi guys

I'm still without a CDD. They expect me to pay for a courier to Sydney, which I am unwilling to do, so I have to post the damn thing when I next get paid...which is next Tuesday. So, sorry to say, it looks like I'm out, at least for the time being. If things are still going when I'm fully functional again I will gladly rejoin you, but I expect everything would be done by then.
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Well, I'm currently on USWest, and I only see TLaloc. I'm sure Ghost will show up, since he's been on USEast all night, but if Sokar, Wathombe and at least one other person can't be here I don't see the point, even if the other five do show up. We don't want to leave everyone behind. Post if you're showing up.
 
Be-Were said:
I forgot about doom.... hrmm
My main idea with this build was the basic 3 dmg% auras, might,conc, and fanat, then on top of that you can just add mid range elental with the other 3... looking at the potential gains, maxing fanat and going doom weapon would be better... the looking at the remaining possibilities, is up to the users, allbeit the thorns is the only remaining armor non duplication, and defiance can only switch with redemption, and looking at it for a party, the added defiance will be a help i assume... then again 400%+ edmg on a shield with redemption wouldnt be a bad thing either.... :-)
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Still thinking I'd rather play the sorceress, though neither is going to happen. I suppose she is somewhat less party friendly, although she would hit for some sick elemental damage, and be able to teleport into any enemies giving the other party memebers problems. I'm assuming that either of these builds is way over the budget for the entire team combined, though.

Edit: Good for west tonight 'til at least twelve, though it doesn't look like we's doing anything. Going back to East. Find me on PlutoniYum or LiquidFury.
 
Hey, guys.

This flu thing is kicking my a**, and I just can't see foregoing sleep until I'm over it. On top of that, I'm super-stressed at the office trying to put these two deals to bed. I'm hoping I'll be better within a day or two. If I get on top of things at work, though, I might take a day off, and if so I'll go on realms during the day with the laptop to try to catch up on nm Baal runs or something (poor Valcina don't do so well solo in Hell yet).

I'll keep everybody posted. Sorry to screw everything up for everybody. :(
 
Update, kind of

wathombe said:
Hey, guys.

This flu thing is kicking my a**, and I just can't see foregoing sleep until I'm over it. On top of that, I'm super-stressed at the office trying to put these two deals to bed. I'm hoping I'll be better within a day or two. If I get on top of things at work, though, I might take a day off, and if so I'll go on realms during the day with the laptop to try to catch up on nm Baal runs or something (poor Valcina don't do so well solo in Hell yet).

I'll keep everybody posted. Sorry to screw everything up for everybody. :(
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Good luck with the ailment. Though I picked up (and still do) more viruses when around people, and continued to work even when sick, I'd think sleeping and playing computer games would be the ideal for the flu. It was when we were kids!

Anyway, just a reminder, after we grabbed the Viper Amulet last night I got offline (no one was on east) and my computer started going berserk. Mainly it was my hard drive, which I've been having problems with. I'd thought it was a power issue, since I would hear it turning off then trying to turn back on only to turn right off again. Of course, this happened after about three to four days of continuous use (I'd leave the system running when sleeping with Y!M using the appropriate status), so I now turn my system off with regularity. Unfortunately, it happened tonight after less than six hours of use and almost ten powered down before that.

Anyone running Win2KPro knows you can't do Scandisk in desktop or from the boot menu (if there's a way it's not evident), so I eventually got into Safe Mode with Command Prompt and after several fits decided to run CHKDSK (not the same as Scandisk, if I'm not mistaken) on D: and found it wouldn't complete. I reran it with the fix option enabled and found a host of errors. Most appeared to be directory issues, so I braved a normal start and here I am. I've scheduled both C: and D: to run on next boot, so I may not be there tonight or any time soon (120 GIG HDD), but at least you all have the details.

If issues concerning the secondary partition's directory stability in NTFS can cause a drive to shut down, and Win2KPro still demands information from the affected regions, and thus cause the system to blue-screen, well the problem might now be solved. If not, who knows.

Get well, Wathombe, get the CDD back soon Sokar, and get back in here from whereever you are RaskolRican. I don't need the other four pinheads blaming me for not having enough to quest. :p

Good grief, I hate technology.
 
Elite socketable/superiors on trade forum

I've gone through all of my ladder characters, now, and - with the SocketedCrap account - listed all elite items people may find desirable for runewords I have in inventory. This doesn't include magical, rare, set or uniques but it does include some already socketed (Ardent in a phase blade, Zephyr in a gorgon crossbow or Strength in a feral axe, for instance). If anyone who still plays ladder on east is interested in anything let me know before someone bids for it. You'll find it in the USEast Trade forum.

Remember, these still can't be used in the next JoTH (should there actually be one), but they may come in handy afterward.
 
Hey gang,

All healthy and robust now. I was actually up for D2 last night, then our neighborhood had an effing blackout (*sigh*).

Assuming circumstance and spousal fatigue align, I'll be online tonight as close to 10 PM as I can manage.
 
Is this back on for tonight?

wathombe said:
Hey gang,

All healthy and robust now. I was actually up for D2 last night, then our neighborhood had an effing blackout (*sigh*).

Assuming circumstance and spousal fatigue align, I'll be online tonight as close to 10 PM as I can manage.
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Saturday only three people showed up. If I remember correctly (I was half asleep) Wathombe was already there, then Ghost peaked his nose in for a minute. Last night, due to the Super Bowl(TM) I didn't even bother to show up, I figured no one else would either.

And no, I didn't watch the damn thing.
 
Calling it Quits & Items

I'm afraid I am going to have to call it quits on the JTH. It was a blast to play, and I doubt we would have had any problem bustin up baal, so I consider it a success. The workload at school is picking up (midterm season) and I simply cannot pull these late nights anymore.

I've PM wath with the password to my account. I have on the account EchoingRuin, a gem mule, and an unrelated character. I plan to keep the account, so after the JTH finishes I will be changing the password.

This brings up the issue of Items after the JTH. Echoing Ruin has some nice stuff (ie. SoJ, and Skin, frostburns) that I would like to keep, but I recognize that I don't really have a good claim on them. I think a discussion should be held on the issue. First off, I think that any class-specific items should stay with the person wearing them. Beyond that...

Lets hear some thoughts on the issue!
 
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