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~misfit~ - 29 Apr 2005 13:56 GMT

So, my HC necro was playing in agdhchell all by himself. He killed Andy
first and she dropped a Goldwrap and a Sparkling Mail. Hmmm, thinks I, maybe
a good seed. We cleared the pit and found Venomgrips and Hwainns Bill. I had
people over to watch a DVD so I left him running in the outer cloister while
we watched it. (Ocean's 12 sucks). I came back to the game and decided to go
for the smith/malleus as I hadn't done that. On the way, just inside the
barracks I killed a pack of champion/fanatic Shamen and they dropped a
Burrito *and* a Unique Naga (forget the name). I went back to the Rogues to
ID them and stash them. Cain IDed them, I went to click on my stash
and.......... Nothing.

Everything froze for about 45 seconds, then I got the disconnect screen. I
tried to rejoin the game as I intended to play it for all I was worth, (it
was a *great* seed) and all I got was game doesn't exist. I tried several
times, then made agdhchell. On checking my stast there was no Burrito and
Naga! My best finds in HC yet gone! And the game gone too! I was going to
play well into the night with that seed. I mean, two uniques from one group
of monsters! Five uniques from 15 minutes play.

Grrrr.
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~misfit~

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Orion Ryder - 29 Apr 2005 14:05 GMT

> So, my HC necro was playing in agdhchell all by himself. He killed Andy
> first and she dropped a Goldwrap and a Sparkling Mail. Hmmm, thinks I, maybe
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> --
> ~misfit~

Cripes! That is teh sukc!

I expect that game also had an eth Needle, a Shako, Marrowwalks, Tal's
Silks, IK Armor, Tgods, just to name a few.

You had a chance to be everybody's favorite Santa Claus and Bnet
screwed you (and us).

I have learned a valuable lesson from this. With a good seed company,
sleep, work and rolling in the hay will have to wait. :)

Keep up the good work. You are doing a great job.

Misfitmancer's Creed:

Live and MF forever or at least till Bnet or the DSL carrier screw you
on the MF part.

Orion Ryder

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~misfit~ - 29 Apr 2005 16:01 GMT

>> So, my HC necro was playing in agdhchell all by himself. He killed
>> Andy first and she dropped a Goldwrap and a Sparkling Mail. Hmmm,
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> I expect that game also had an eth Needle, a Shako, Marrowwalks, Tal's
> Silks, IK Armor, Tgods, just to name a few.

Yep. I've had nothing like that in HC before. I've since done two hell
Andy/pit runs and not one unique. I think I missed my chance. :-(

Gonna mule off the echoing sword and the venomgrips etc and give it one more
go for the night.

> You had a chance to be everybody's favorite Santa Claus and Bnet
> screwed you (and us).

For sure.

> I have learned a valuable lesson from this. With a good seed company,
> sleep, work and rolling in the hay will have to wait. :)

LOL, yes, I wished I'd ignored the company and kept playing.

> Keep up the good work. You are doing a great job.
>
> Misfitmancer's Creed:
>
> Live and MF forever or at least till Bnet or the DSL carrier screw you
> on the MF part.

:-)

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~misfit~

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Mark - 29 Apr 2005 23:00 GMT

> Everything froze for about 45 seconds, then I got the disconnect screen. I
> tried to rejoin the game as I intended to play it for all I was worth, (it
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> group
> of monsters! Five uniques from 15 minutes play.

That really sucks, it's tough enough to find the good items. But to then
have them snatched away from you is the pits. But there must be something up
with B-net. I was in a game where we took on Normal Mephisto with some
juvenile enchanted characters. A L9 Barbarian bit the dust courtesy of some
nearby Night Lords. The player immediately left the game, and to my surprise
re-entered the game a minute later still alive. This is just another example
of how unstable B-net has been lately.

Regards-
Mark

Bongo-Fury

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~misfit~ - 30 Apr 2005 01:24 GMT

>> Everything froze for about 45 seconds, then I got the disconnect
>> screen. I tried to rejoin the game as I intended to play it for all
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> That really sucks, it's tough enough to find the good items. But to
> then have them snatched away from you is the pits.

It is a shame. You know how hard it can be to get good items in HC. I've
actually had to bail out of the pit lvl 2 a couple of times when my merc and
minions die really quickly. I've had good seeds in SC before and one good
seed game can be worth 30 normal games as far as items found goes.

> But there must be
> something up with B-net. I was in a game where we took on Normal
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> still alive. This is just another example of how unstable B-net has
> been lately.

I'm pleased to hear that! Doesn't make me feel such a sense of loss now. :-)
Swings and roundabouts. (Although a lvl 9 character isn't as hard to get as
a good seed game with a MFer in it).
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~misfit~

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~misfit~ - 30 Apr 2005 15:28 GMT

>>> Everything froze for about 45 seconds, then I got the disconnect
>>> screen. I tried to rejoin the game as I intended to play it for all
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> now. :-) Swings and roundabouts. (Although a lvl 9 character isn't as
> hard to get as a good seed game with a MFer in it).

Ho hum. The MFing progresses apace. The drops are miserable compared to my
SC MF necro but then he has 400%+ MF and maxed resists whereas my HC guy has
about 150-200 MF (Must count it up) and marginal resists. I've found one or
two nice items. Nice in the context of HC play, in SC I'd be dropping them
in agd. Tonight I found a Stealskull and a Kuko. Both low stats but still,
better than anything else I have in HC. If my 'Zon hadn't taken a dirt nap
the other night she would have loved both of those. Also found a Coldkill
hatchet, a Blade of Ali baba and a Bonesnap. Oh, and that set spired
helm...... Ondal's almighty.

I've been soloing in agdhchell for the last eight hours, on-and-off. Nobody
else there. I've done a few Andy runs, a few pit runs and progressed as far
as the Lost City act 2 solo. Maggots was a pain but bone spirit and CE saw
me through. I'm amazed at the dearth of resist charms. I swear that in SC I
would have found plenty by now. I've got a whole mule full, I was forever
muling them off and twinking other characters with them. I'd get three or
four an hour. I'm lucky to find one every second day in HC.

I had one *really* close call in the catacombs. I was shaking for about 5
minutes afterwards. Down to less than 5% life and poisoned, still totally
surrounded and hit <esc> in my panicked state and of course I couldn't drink
a pot with escape hit. Somehow managed to hit escape again and a fat purp in
time.

Still, misfitmancer is level 80, halfway to 81 and really enjoying strutting
around in his shiny new Marrowwalks. Trying to replenish the Pgems stock
too, they seem a bit harder to come by in hell than they were in NM for some
reason. Could be the slower kill-speed.

It's all good. I do need a better weapon and maybe armour for my merc
though. 95% of the rejuves are being used on him. I need a Bonehew, Hone
Sundan or (preferably) an Obedience thresher. Still looking for the runes.
Might have to collect Pgems and try to buy the runes.

Cheers,
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~misfit~

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