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Game Forum / Role Playing Games / Diablo 2 / June 2007Ladder Reset!
http://www.blizzard.com/ -- MC > http://www.blizzard.com/ > > -- Yes sir!!! I will get rid of all my stuff and will begin on the HC ladder. Could the TP hack be fixed? I doubt it but it would be great. Also obviously I will hire the Defensive merc. VD >> http://www.blizzard.com/ >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > VD Perhaps we could get all the AGD2 HC players (not so many I don't think)on one realm so we can combine our efforts, make it easier to develope playing partners, have an outlet for nice items we find but know we will never use. Just seems like our small HC community is divided between the east and west so it is even harder to find relatively safe community games. I don't have a preference and will play on either realm. Anyone got any thoughts on this? Just an idea.... I know HC is a bit of a solitary way to go anyhow..... but...... just maybe? Jaffir >>> http://www.blizzard.com/ >>> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Jaffir Hey, I've been waiting for months for this to happen. I'll migrate to the west and this weekend finish a softcore normal round to get some HC character ready for the ladder game. It will be good to get back into the swing of things! EB Snip > Hey, I've been waiting for months for this to happen. I'll migrate to the > west and this weekend finish a softcore normal round to get some HC > character ready for the ladder game. It will be good to get back into the > swing of things! I am not sure if I understand correctly but you do not need to play Soft to create a HC account. It was fixed a long time ago. VD >> http://www.blizzard.com/ >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > VD Normally TP hack is fixed for a few months until the scriot kiddies figure it out. But it should be a good couple of months of clean fun. EB > http://www.blizzard.com/ * I've got 3 sets of Keys. Anyone interested in doing the Pandemonium quest before the reset? * Does anyone play WHC nonLadder? I've got a bunch of stuff you're welcome to; torches, anni's, skillers, lots of other goodies. * I'm thinking of going back to East for the new ladder, it seems like there is a much bigger HC community there than on West. And my ping is better on East. What are the other HC players planning to do? * I'll probably do like last time and build a Chanter first. She goes quick, finished by mid NM, and then all my following characters will develop a lot faster. My next one will probably be a DisposaSorc (Orb/Telekinesis) for some quick MFing. Regards- Mark Bongo Fury >> http://www.blizzard.com/ > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > develop a lot faster. My next one will probably be a DisposaSorc > (Orb/Telekinesis) for some quick MFing. We (Swan and I) have at least 3 sets of keys as well so should probably do the runs in the next couple of days, too. And I just started to build a sorc for the first time and now this! LOL I'm thinking sorc and trapper for my first new characters. Engram *Alyson1 *Alyson2-4 (mules) USWSCL >> http://www.blizzard.com/ > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Bongo Fury I am up for East..... ready to go back to HC also. Jaffir >> http://www.blizzard.com/ > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >faster. My next one will probably be a DisposaSorc (Orb/Telekinesis) for >some quick MFing. Ack! I guess I shall discontinue my WHCL play for the time being. Oh well, perhaps this will bring out more players for the fresh ladders. >* I'm thinking of going back to East for the new ladder, it seems like there >is a much bigger HC community there than on West. And my ping is better on >East. What are the other HC players planning to do? I'm not sure yet. My ping is a little better on West, but the East HC community is definitely larger, I don't know why. I'm certainly only going to play on one realm, and it will probably be whichever one my wife prefers for AB games. -- Roy L > I'm not sure yet. My ping is a little better on West, but the East HC > community is definitely larger, I don't know why. I'm certainly only > going to play on one realm, and it will probably be whichever one my > wife prefers for AB games. Well I guess we know now who wears the pants in your family. LOL JK That's a big part of my motivation for going back East, the AB HC East crowd is much bigger than the West. And the West just gets up to speed usually when I'm ready to go to bed. And the Dii.net HC crowd is substantially larger on East. I really don't want to leave some of the fine folks here who I've played with, but the game is dying and I feel a strong desire to go where the largest community is playing. Regards- Mark Bongo Fury >> I'm not sure yet. My ping is a little better on West, but the East HC >> community is definitely larger, I don't know why. I'm certainly only >> going to play on one realm, and it will probably be whichever one my >> wife prefers for AB games. > >Well I guess we know now who wears the pants in your family. She has a much larger and closer circle of AB friends, so the choice of which realm means a lot more to her than it does to me. I really don't care, but as we share mule accounts, I do want to play on the same realm where she will be spending most of her time. >That's a big part of my motivation for going back East, the AB HC East crowd >is much bigger than the West. And the West just gets up to speed usually >when I'm ready to go to bed. And the Dii.net HC crowd is substantially >larger on East. I really don't want to leave some of the fine folks here who >I've played with, but the game is dying and I feel a strong desire to go >where the largest community is playing. Yeah, same here. -- Roy L > * Does anyone play WHC nonLadder? I've got a bunch of stuff you're > welcome to; torches, anni's, skillers, lots of other goodies. No thanks. I've always played ladder. > * I'm thinking of going back to East for the new ladder, it seems like > there is a much bigger HC community there than on West. And my ping is > better on East. What are the other HC players planning to do? I practically live on top of the US West servers, so I'll be starting all my characters over on the new ladder on West as usual. > * I'll probably do like last time and build a Chanter first. She goes > quick, finished by mid NM, and then all my following characters will > develop a lot faster. My next one will probably be a DisposaSorc > (Orb/Telekinesis) for some quick MFing. I'll miss you if you go. If anybody is planning to start HC on the new ladder, let me know so I can get your characters in on the next US West player list, coming July 1st. Mark. *TymmeRMortis *AveAtqueVale  SignatureWhile I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.--V. On Jun 21, 3:42 pm, "Mark P. Nelson" <markpnel...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > * Does anyone play WHC nonLadder? I've got a bunch of stuff you're > > welcome to; torches, anni's, skillers, lots of other goodies. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short > of deliberate.--V. Hello Mark, it has been a while. I will have one HCL (US West) account. I do not know how the reset works, if I need to have a new account name or the account I have will "go away" from the HC server and I can make the same (damn, did I loose you?). At any rate, the one I have now is Strongfok-HC and if it is possible I will have the same account, if not, then it will be Strongfok-HC1. I am really looking forward to do this HC thing a full effort this time around. Juan aka Strongfok > I do not know how the reset > works, if I need to have a new account name or the account I have will > "go away" from the HC server and I can make the same (damn, did I > loose you?). Your account will remain. The only difference is that you will lose the gold text 'Ladder Character' beneath the green text 'Expansion Character' you see in the charaqcter screen. Your existing characters will remain, but they will only be able to make/join nonLadder games. Any new characters you make on that account will be Classic/Expansion, Softcore/Hardcore, Ladder/nonLadder as you choose (the same as it is now. If you have no room on your existing account, you will need to delete your nonLadder characters to make room for the new Ladder characters (as I will be doing) > At any rate, the one I have now is Strongfok-HC and if > it is possible I will have the same account, if not, then it will be > Strongfok-HC1. I am really looking forward to do this HC thing a full > effort this time around. You'll be staying on West I presume? Regards- Mark Bongo Fury .....Snipped...... > > At any rate, the one I have now is Strongfok-HC and if > > it is possible I will have the same account, if not, then it will be [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Bongo Fury Yes I will be on West HCL (Strongfok-HC and Strongfok-HC1. Juan aka Strongfok > I practically live on top of the US West servers, so I'll be starting all > my characters over on the new ladder on West as usual. Damn, I was hoping that maybe you'd consider a Realm change as well. I haven't decided anything as of yet, but I'm certainly leaning towards East. If there's any character you'd like to finish up or play before the reset, please let me know and I'll make any of my gear available to you. I'm probably going to keep 2-3 characters around just in case I want to play them on NonLadder, but the rest are going to be deleted in a few days. Along with 4 accounts worth of mules. So anything I have is at your disposal (or anyone else who wants to play HC the next few days). News of the reset has pretty much killed my desire to play my existing toons. I may try to get my Avengeress through the Ancients and make Guardian, and/or use up my stock of Keys. But otherwise, I think I'm done with the Realms till Monday. Regards- Mark Bongo Fury f> "Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:Xns99568B69A57F5mpndisorg@207.115.33.102... >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > haven't decided anything as of yet, but I'm certainly leaning towards > East. I hate to break up the gang; I'll give East a try in the next couple of days and see if it'll work for me. I also hate to break up the gang we've got going on West at the moment too, so now I'm not sure what I'll do.;)þ > If there's any character you'd like to finish up or play before the > reset, please let me know and I'll make any of my gear available to [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > and make Guardian, and/or use up my stock of Keys. But otherwise, I > think I'm done with the Realms till Monday. My desire to play my current characters is not too high now that the reset has been announced too. I will give east a quick try, but I'll probably finish up the Fallout 1 game I've been trying to get done with for a month. Mark. SignatureWhile I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.--V. > If anybody is planning to start HC on the new ladder, let me know so I > can get your characters in on the next US West player list, coming [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > *TymmeRMortis > *AveAtqueVale I have never played HC with any success. But, am willing to give it another go. Who knows perhaps with a few others around to progress with, I might make it farther than the Den of Evil ;) I'm in the same boat as Juan, if I can use my current account, it's swtbbyray. See you all in the new season, Ray > http://www.blizzard.com/ > > -- > MC LIES! HOW DARE YOU BLASPHEME! angst aka poindexstar > http://www.blizzard.com/ Major W00Tage! A ladder reset while i'm on a break from studies. Life is all good!! Just need to decide what sort of char to build first. Something that will progress thru the levels quick and have decent MF would be a good thing in a fresh clean economy i'm thinking :) > http://www.blizzard.com/ > > -- > MC Am I the only one who is pissed? All the time and efforts I spent on my characters and items are gone. Now I either have to play with restricted functionalities (a.k.a NL) or spend the time doing MFing, twinking MF characters, then more MFing. And all these for what? Just so that dupers would get higher profits? >> http://www.blizzard.com/ >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > twinking MF characters, then more MFing. And all these for what? Just > so that dupers would get higher profits? pissed? More disappointed. I just started getting back into the game about a month ago after a far too-long hiatus, kicked off about 6 new ladder characters (I like the idea of the ladder rune-words and cube recipes, not that I EVER had anything high enough level to actually use any of them). One of which is about to finish normal, untwinked, completely on his own (about 1/2 way through act 5). OK, I have never been the Diablo Heavy (don't ask my wife), but this was really cool. Oh well, i get to try it again... Wonder what will happen with those with equipment that was ladder specific (e.g. Ladder-only rune words)? Will that equipment act like it did pre 1.09 when so many things got nerfed? (i.e. if it was made in a ladder game, it retains it's ladder-like qualities?) sigh... (while everyone else is rejoicing) Enjoy the new green fields. --Michael SCL USEast > Wonder what will happen with those with equipment that was ladder specific > (e.g. Ladder-only rune words)? Same thing that happened every other ladder reset, it becomes usable by non-ladder characters. > --Michael > SCL USEast >> Wonder what will happen with those with equipment that was ladder specific >> (e.g. Ladder-only rune words)? > >Same thing that happened every other ladder reset, it becomes usable by >non-ladder characters. Exactly. And you now see the same thing happening that happened during the previous resets: people are creating Ladder Only runewords like crazy, as 'trading material' for after the reset. I myself did the same last night, burning up my supply of HRs: Made 1 Fortitude Archon Plate, 1 Grief Phase Blade and 2 Infinities in ethereal Colossus Voulges. I also have a bunch of 5 socket Phase Blades left, a few very nice armors (both ethereal and non-ethereal), a lot of Mals (and even more Ums, which I will cube up to Mals), so I've posted a request for 10 Lo runes on d2jsp; let's see if I can make some more Griefs and Fortitudes. ;) Of course, the Non-Ladder market will be overflowing with Ladder Only stuff right after the reset, but I think I'll wait a while (a few months at least), and then start trading away my ex-Ladder stuff for d2jsp forum gold. For this same reason I spent all of the Spirit and Insight packs and Hels I could get my hands on this last year or so, on rerolling Spirits and Insights... Regards, Patrick. > >> Wonder what will happen with those with equipment that was ladder specific > >> (e.g. Ladder-only rune words)? [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Patrick. Would an eth. CV good for Infinity? I have 1 eth. CV (no socket yet) but I am scare of its high str requirement. I have 1 eth. Cryptic Axe but sadly it has 5 sockets, so I will make an Obedience in it. I have 2 APs and 2 eth. armor (Wyrmhide and Wire Fleece) in 4 sockets, so I will make at less 4 fortitude. Are your characters on uswest sc? - Matthew. >Would an eth. CV good for Infinity? I have 1 eth. CV (no socket yet) but I >am scare of its high str requirement. If it's the only ethereal Elite 4 socket polearm you have, yup, sure, why not. Yes, I'd also rather make it in an ethereal 4 socket Cryptic Axe, or perhaps an ethereal 4 socket Great Poleaxe, but these are a lot rarer than an eth 4 socket CV. >I have 1 eth. Cryptic Axe but sadly it has 5 sockets, so I will make an >Obedience in it. Obedience doesn't trade for much in NL, at least, that has been my experience with the ones I (tried to) trade away after the last reset. >I have 2 APs and 2 eth. armor (Wyrmhide and Wire Fleece) in 4 sockets, so I >will make at less 4 fortitude. What is their defense? >Are your characters on uswest sc? No, I'm on Europe SCL. Regards, Patrick. > >Would an eth. CV good for Infinity? I have 1 eth. CV (no socket yet) but I > >am scare of its high str requirement. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > perhaps an ethereal 4 socket Great Poleaxe, but these are a lot rarer than > an eth 4 socket CV. Ok, I get the point. I may use it for Inifinity. > >I have 1 eth. Cryptic Axe but sadly it has 5 sockets, so I will make an > >Obedience in it. > > Obedience doesn't trade for much in NL, at least, that has been my > experience with the ones I (tried to) trade away after the last reset. But Obedience is the only useful runeword for 5 sockets polearm. And it won't cost much. If I find no other use for hel, ko and fal in the next 2 days then Obedience it is. > >I have 2 APs and 2 eth. armor (Wyrmhide and Wire Fleece) in 4 sockets, so I > >will make at less 4 fortitude. > > What is their defense? APs - 482 and 491 eth. wyrmhide - 897 eth. wire fleece - 877 They are not high end but the best I have. The 3rd highest defense 4-socket armor I have is a 479 great haubark. > >Are your characters on uswest sc? > > No, I'm on Europe SCL. I see. No trade for your pb then ^_^ > Regards, > > Patrick. >> If it's the only ethereal Elite 4 socket polearm you have, yup, sure, why >> not. Yes, I'd also rather make it in an ethereal 4 socket Cryptic Axe, or >> perhaps an ethereal 4 socket Great Poleaxe, but these are a lot rarer than >> an eth 4 socket CV. > >Ok, I get the point. I may use it for Inifinity. Unless you can acquire something better of course. ;) >> >I have 1 eth. Cryptic Axe but sadly it has 5 sockets, so I will make an >> >Obedience in it. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >won't cost much. If I find no other use for hel, ko and fal in the next 2 >days then Obedience it is. Destruction perhaps, but that's a lot more expensive, rune-wise. I'm not saying Obedience is useless, for from it even, but it is not a runeword which will trade nicely on NL, if that's your aim of course. If you want to provide a kick-a.s merc weapon to someone playing NL, by all means, make it. >> >I have 2 APs and 2 eth. armor (Wyrmhide and Wire Fleece) in 4 sockets, so >I [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >APs - 482 and 491 These are nice. >eth. wyrmhide - 897 >eth. wire fleece - 877 These are a bit on the low-end of the scale, especially with the bugged cube recipe around. >They are not high end but the best I have. The 3rd highest defense 4-socket >armor I have is a 479 great haubark. APs are more popular armours. So only use the Great Hauberk if you have nothing better available. >> >Are your characters on uswest sc? >> >> No, I'm on Europe SCL. > >I see. No trade for your pb then ^_^ Heh, nope, that's going to be a bit hard. I was planning on filling my 5 socket PBs with Griefs. I posted a 'Need 10 x Lo' on d2jsp, but not many takers anymore. :S It's also a bit short notice to offload them to other people who do have Los available, so I might try to trade these 1:1 for a Lo when the going really gets tough, sometime during sunday or so. ;) Regards, Patrick. > >> If it's the only ethereal Elite 4 socket polearm you have, yup, sure, why > >> not. Yes, I'd also rather make it in an ethereal 4 socket Cryptic Axe, or [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Unless you can acquire something better of course. ;) In 2 days' time, I don't think so ^_^ > >> >I have 1 eth. Cryptic Axe but sadly it has 5 sockets, so I will make an > >> >Obedience in it. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > If you want to provide a kick-a.s merc weapon to someone playing NL, by > all means, make it. I should state that I am not into the pool of NL trading in the first place, my bad. I just want to make the best use of my resource before reset. > >> >I have 2 APs and 2 eth. armor (Wyrmhide and Wire Fleece) in 4 sockets, so > >I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > These are nice. thanks > >eth. wyrmhide - 897 > >eth. wire fleece - 877 > > These are a bit on the low-end of the scale, especially with the bugged > cube recipe around. They are bugged. Maybe these are the last 2 resort for my limited supply of Lo. > >They are not high end but the best I have. The 3rd highest defense 4-socket > >armor I have is a 479 great haubark. > > APs are more popular armours. So only use the Great Hauberk if you have > nothing better available. Indeed. All 4 sockets armor I have : 2 APs (as mentioned above), a 425 dusk shroud, a 446 wyrmhide, a 464 scarab husk, a 443 wire fleece, 2 great hauberk (439 & 479). And those 2 eth. ones. So resource is limited unless I trade. > >> >Are your characters on uswest sc? > >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Los available, so I might try to trade these 1:1 for a Lo when the going > really gets tough, sometime during sunday or so. ;) Good luck. - Matthew. > Regards, > > Patrick. >> Unless you can acquire something better of course. ;) > >In 2 days' time, I don't think so ^_^ You have a few hours/minutes left. ;) >I should state that I am not into the pool of NL trading in the first place, >my bad. I just want to make the best use of my resource before reset. Ah, ok, well, then by all means make an Obedience; it's one of the best merc weapons if it's raw damage + crushing blow + self-protection (the res-all on it) for one... And for the runes involved: it's a bargain! >> >eth. wyrmhide - 897 >> >eth. wire fleece - 877 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >They are bugged. Maybe these are the last 2 resort for my limited supply of >Lo. Oh, well, perhaps the following advice will help you make a decision: whenever I find a plain, non-superior, ethereal 0 socket armor, I multiply it's defense as found with 1.5. If the resulst of that is below 1000, I sell it to Charsi. If not, I will invest the Tal+Thul+PTopaz to try and get 3 or 4 sockets into it (a bugged 3 socket armor is still very nice for Duress, my merc armor of choice before I can acquirer Los by the bucketful :). >> APs are more popular armours. So only use the Great Hauberk if you have >> nothing better available. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >So resource is limited unless I trade. The 464 def Scarab Husk is perhaps nice. It's pretty close to the max def on a non-superior Scarab Husk (which is 474def). The others are a bit on the low side... >> It's also a bit short notice to offload them to other people who do have >> Los available, so I might try to trade these 1:1 for a Lo when the going >> really gets tough, sometime during sunday or so. ;) > >Good luck. I finally got 10 Los. Made about 6 or 7 Griefs (nothing spectacular), and about 3 or 4 Fortitudes. 2 in plain Armors, 2 in ethereal bugged armors. One of these got out pretty nice: base 1062 def ethereal 4 socket Great Hauberk, and I believe perfect life and 29 resall (1 from perfect). This should be tradeable in NL... But we'll see about that after the reset and how heavily NL is flooded with ex-Ladder items... Regards, Patrick. > >> Unless you can acquire something better of course. ;) > > > >In 2 days' time, I don't think so ^_^ > > You have a few hours/minutes left. ;) I was sleeping while you posted this and waked up after the realm had already down, so no time left for me ^_^ Actually I made an insight out of it (after 5 tries and used up all tirs I had, only yielded a level 14 meditation), then traded to someone who needed an insight or open socket eth. CV for an 16/12/10 anni. I am pretty sure he would hel'ed the stick and tried a better insight or even infinity. > >I should state that I am not into the pool of NL trading in the first place, > >my bad. I just want to make the best use of my resource before reset. > > Ah, ok, well, then by all means make an Obedience; it's one of the best > merc weapons if it's raw damage + crushing blow + self-protection (the > res-all on it) for one... And for the runes involved: it's a bargain! Odedience made. > >> >eth. wyrmhide - 897 > >> >eth. wire fleece - 877 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > into it (a bugged 3 socket armor is still very nice for Duress, my merc > armor of choice before I can acquirer Los by the bucketful :). Both made fortitudes, since I had no better use for Los. They might be a few hundreds defense less than acceptable range but with ~2700 defense still good. I will take your advice in the new ladder though - less than 1000 defense belongs to Charsi. > >> APs are more popular armours. So only use the Great Hauberk if you have > >> nothing better available. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > on a non-superior Scarab Husk (which is 474def). The others are a bit on > the low side... Made 3 fortitudes : 2 APs and the 425 dusk, before I read this post. I chose dusk because it has the lowest str requirement in all. > >> It's also a bit short notice to offload them to other people who do have > >> Los available, so I might try to trade these 1:1 for a Lo when the going [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > should be tradeable in NL... But we'll see about that after the reset and > how heavily NL is flooded with ex-Ladder items... Good result for you. I always have bad luck for runewords : my fortitudes in 26 or 27 resall, griefs 369/40, 341/40, 378/38 (I know speeds are good but damages are very low), CTA 3/3/3, both Hotos are 30 resall, faith 1skill/12fanat, duress 11%damage/150%defense, lastwish 332ed/69cb (again low damage though good cb) ^_^ - Matthew. > Regards, > > Patrick. >> You have a few hours/minutes left. ;) > >I was sleeping while you posted this and waked up after the realm had >already down, so no time left for me ^_^ Heh. ;) >Actually I made an insight out of it (after 5 tries and used up all tirs I >had, only yielded a level 14 meditation), then traded to someone who needed >an insight or open socket eth. CV for an 16/12/10 anni. I am pretty sure he >would hel'ed the stick and tried a better insight or even infinity. I was, luckily, in the process of 'upgrading' an eth CV in the same way, but hadn't rolled a lvl 17 Insight yet. Bunged out the crappy Insight, and stuck Infinity in. I also had another spare eth 0 sox CV around, so socketed that, and bunged another Infinity in. I think it's pretty safe to assume any ethereal 4 socket elite polearm at that moment in time would be used for something like Infinity (or another of the 4 socket polearm runewords). >> Oh, well, perhaps the following advice will help you make a decision: >> whenever I find a plain, non-superior, ethereal 0 socket armor, I multiply [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >hundreds defense less than acceptable range but with ~2700 defense still >good. There's no such thing as a 'bad' Fortitude, to be honest. ;) >I will take your advice in the new ladder though - less than 1000 defense >belongs to Charsi. What also helps make your decision, is to also divide the defense of a found ethereal armor by 1.5: you then get to the base defense of that armor if you'd found it non-ethereal. If that's well below the max according to the Arreat Summit, it makes it so much easier to sell it to Charsi. >> The 464 def Scarab Husk is perhaps nice. It's pretty close to the max def >> on a non-superior Scarab Husk (which is 474def). The others are a bit on >> the low side... > >Made 3 fortitudes : 2 APs and the 425 dusk, before I read this post. I chose >dusk because it has the lowest str requirement in all. Dusks are very popular, and I'm not quite sure of what a Scarab Husk would get. I can still remember the somewhat 'surprised' reactions of people when I was selling a Fortitude Great Hauberk after the last reset. Still, it went for as much as all the other Fortis, since it was, after all, still a Fortitude. >I always have bad luck for runewords : my fortitudes in 26 or 27 resall, >griefs 369/40, 341/40, 378/38 (I know speeds are good but damages are very >low), CTA 3/3/3, both Hotos are 30 resall, faith 1skill/12fanat, duress >11%damage/150%defense, lastwish 332ed/69cb (again low damage though good cb) >^_^ Well, those Griefs aren't too bad; some builds require the 40%IAS on Grief to be there, so they look less at the +damage mod. You are by the way aware Call to Arms and Heart of the Oak can also be made in NL? So unless you had the runes for that laying around, doing nothing, and you wanted to get rid of them, you could have just as well made these after the reset, or traded the runes involved away directly. This is also the reason I didn't spend all of the Vexes I had amassed during the last ladder (all cubed from Guls I traded 1:1 for Ist). I'll keep an eye out for the price of Vex, and only trade these away when I like what I see. ;) Anyway, enough rambling, the Ladder's been reset, I've create 3 new chars already: Li sorc (ElectricChick) which will probably run out of steam, pending an Infinity polearm, somewhere around late NM/early Hell), Summoning Necro (NecronomiTom was free again) and a Trap Assassin (DeathStarlet). The Li sorc is clvl6, the others are being burned in in a 'mule parking' game as I write this. I should also create an Uber Smiter ASAP, and get him to Hell, so that I can start making overnight 'Diablo-waiting' games again, so that I'm ready when people start hunting Annis again... So much to do, so little time... ;) Regards, Patrick. <big snip> > Well, those Griefs aren't too bad; some builds require the 40%IAS on Grief > to be there, so they look less at the +damage mod. You are by the way [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > cubed from Guls I traded 1:1 for Ist). I'll keep an eye out for the price > of Vex, and only trade these away when I like what I see. ;) I am aware that both CTA and Hoto are NL runewords. But you got me right : runes there, socketed flails also there, nothing else to do. - Matthew. > >>http://www.blizzard.com/ > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > --Michael > SCL USEast My semi-untwinked (I repeat quest occasionally and I use mules) berserker just entered hell act 2 at level 71. Sigh... The only reason I was able to play untwinked was because I thought I had paid my due and had almost everything I would ever need. Magic drops were not important to me anymore. A steeldriver was better than a windforce. Now, I'll bet 80% of the characters on the new ladder would be those few easy builds doing endless MF runs. Right now, plugy looks much more tempting than the new ladder unless they release a new patch. > http://www.blizzard.com/ > > -- > MC Of course there is a ladder reset. I just got my Necromancer through hardcore hell solo three weeks ago, so therefore, I get to start all over again. Computer was down for two weeks and I am only reading about the reset today. I guess I'll play a couple of my other games which have been waiting for me to install them, then get back to HCL. Are any game updates anticipated with the reset? Regards RPJ Ross Jackson > > http://www.blizzard.com/ > > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Ross Jackson For the moment blizzard only announces the reset and no game update. But indeed there were some updates in the last 3 ladders, so we will see. For the reference : 1st ladder - 1.10 patch, with ton of new items, and of course, the 1st world event 2nd ladder - no patch, but adding 23 ladder-only runewords 3rd ladder- 1.11 patch and the 2nd world event, both released a week before reset - Matthew. |
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