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Okay I'll do blizz sorc if thats okay? I think our best bet would be just to put in a solid block every Saturday and perhaps the occasional Sunday, otherwise if we play week nights some member will inevitably be up very late and for others an evening slot midweek could clash with work or social events. I'm in GMT so right now its 18.05, I can do anytime on Saturday or Sunday and 18.00-24.00 weeknights.

 

My final papers are today and tomorrow, and I have one heck of a long holiday after that. I used to play Guildwars with the europe version, where the timezone had about several hrs difference, so I'm used to late nights or whatever. No problem there.

As for clashing with a cold sorc, summoners dont really need that many corpses once their initial army is raised. Skellies are very tough, and the few that fall can easily be replaced by corpses that dont shatter.

(its 1246 where I am now.)

 

OK, Mongerman is 7 hours ahead of SP time, meaning he and I are at the furthest apart at 13 hours difference.

I would then propose we try for a two hour stretch or so, once per week. If we decide on a day, I can certainly get home from work a little early, so we can start at 23:00 SP time. That will make it 22:00 UK time, 17:00 East Coast U.S. Time, but 06:00 the following morning in Singapore. I don't know if that's acceptable to Mongerman. I know I don't get up at 06:00 unless it's to go to work.

Also, I would recommend that Viking play a more melee oriented build. Perhaps the conviction medic paladin. Right now it looks like we'll have a party of 4:

Aldeth: Barbarian (concentrate)
Mongerman: Necromancer (summoner)
Duffin: Sorceress (blizzard)

It seems that party balance would indicate another tank. The paladin sounds great, or you could try out a druid. Honestly, IMO, life should not be a problem with maxed BO, but that doesn't get to be a high level until Act 5 Normal. Oak sage is available considerably earlier.

As far as what I would recommend in terms of mercenaries:

Duffin - with a cold sorceress and (potentially) a conviction paladin running around, it seems like that holy freeze merc is your best bet.

Mongerman - tons of skellies running around? I'd go for thorns.

Me - if I'm truly going to be the life and defense provider, I'll take a defiance merc.

Viking - regardless of what class you end up deciding on, the only remaining merc that will be very useful is the might merc.

EDIT: Also, I'm always interested in seeing how people make their builds. I know basically how to make a blizzard sorceress (although I'm not sure the order you max stuff out), but I have no idea how you expend your skill points when making a DV/Summoner necro.

 

Any time is fine with me. Like I said, I have totally nothing on from tomorrow till January. And I used to play GW till 5am.

A summoner/dv necro would have

20 RS
20 SM
20 DV
1 point in clay golem.

Rest in reqs and and CE. Max out RS and SM first. DV comes into play only in later nightmare and hell.

 

Yeh that times fine with me any day of the week, although I'm usually out Friday nights. My preffered day would be a Saturday what about you guys? Blizzard sorc should be pretty simple the only real question is whether to max cold mastery or blizzard first.

It'd be nice to have a few more party members, as experience increases with party size and if we have a max time difference of 13 hours, it shouldn't be a problem fitting extra players in.

 

My best nights would really be Wed or Thu.

I can't do Mon / Tue, and weekend evenings are tough to promise away (wife and social calendar, you know).

The Conviction Medic will not be a great frontliner, as the build I had in mind wasn't based on too much holy shield. We also have a lot of meat shields to take the brunt of the damage frontline wise, so I was thinking more towards some sort of Undead slayer attack - FoH / Holy bolt (More healing, baby).

A couple of things on the merc front:

1) The skellies demand a might merc without a doubt.

2) We need an Insight stick for mana regen, and it sits fantastically well on a prayer merc. Get's wonderful bonuses. More life regen than you can shake a stick at.

3) Defiance merc is a nice add.

4) Holy freeze is always good for safety, though we're now looking at a lot of shattered corpses for the CE.

I'll give my basic build for the medic some more thought, then post here.

The std for a skellimancer would be 3rs/1sm until rs maxed at least. Take key curses as they become available (amp and decrep in particular). DV comes into it's own later. You've got to love the ability to shut down the whole screen in one hit.

 

You really think a prayer merc is going to be more useful than a thorns merc? I know skeletons get tough at high levels, but they do get hit. A high level thorns returns something like 1000% damage to the attacker. You do bring up a good point with the holy freeze paladin, as his aura will affect everyone too, meaning a ton of stuff is going to shatter upon death. So I'm more inclined to sub out the holy freeze pally for the prayer pally.

 

Yeh I agree. So the party looks like the following:

- Aldeth, Barbarian (Concentration with Defiance Merc).

- Mongerman , Necromancer (Summoner with Thorns Merc).

- Viking, not sure yet possibly some sort of melee/tank? (with Might Merc).

- Duffin, Sorceress (Blizzard with Prayer Merc).

I dont mind starting the session an hour later if Mongerman does'nt want to get up that early.

I can't really do Wed (college early the next morning) but Thu would be okay for me, what about Aldeth and Mongerman, what days are good for you?

 

I'm OK with 11pm start either night. Thursday is probably preferable overall for me too, though I cannot make next week Thursday if we were hoping to start then.

Those mercs should be shuffled around a bit, but otherwise tick most boxes. (The might merc should be with the nec. Throns as I've said is pretty useless in NM and Hell, Might for the skellies is crucial for damage output).

 

I'm fine most days. Just have to tell me the extact time so we'll be in sync

 

Well, this Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., and I will be travelling out of state for the holiday. So maybe a week from this Thursday?

 

So will it be fri 6-7am where I am?

 

@Mongerman -

Let's get confirmation from the other two guys first. But let's see here.

I'm 6 hours behind SP time. Viking and Duffin are 1 hour behind SP time, and you are 7 hours ahead of SP time.

So, if I get home by 1700 next Thrusday, it will be 2300 SP time. So for Duffin and Viking, that's 2200, which is late, but not horribly so. For you Mongerman, it's already going to be 0600 Friday morning.

 

I'm okay with that time, it would seem 6am is the most inconvenient of all the times. Is that okay with you Mongerman?

 

I should be fine. Just need to smooth the path with the wife.

 

OK then. The next step is to decide which realm we're playing on, what we're going to name the game, and what are characters are going to be named so that we know when we're all there. Alternatively, if we don't want anyone else in the game for not being a team player, we can always just set a password for the game.

 

Europe or North America would be the obvious server choices either one should be fine. We could name our players SP_Aldeth, SP_Mongerman etc. if those names arent already taken unless you have any other suggestions. Cant install the game to check myself at the minute as I'm waiting for my new computer to arrive which should be Saturday and I've taken both disc drives out of this one . I'm sure we can come up with a game name closer to the time. If we had a public game it could be useful in hell incase we need a particular role to be covered which we don't have in the party, on the other hand you get PKers and people who just do there own thing outside the party making it more difficult, so I'm more inclined to suggest a private game. What do you guys think?

 

Well, especially considering that this is HC, I don't like the idea of a public game at all. All you need is one idiot, and countless hours of gaming go down the tubes.

 

So, when will the games be arranged? Day and time (GMT+00)? Since my other group has dispersed, game ended, I wouldn't mind testing my BO/double-throw barb a bit further. I'm currently lv.30 and nearing the Ancients, so I could join you by the time you are at the same place.

 

The current plan is to start next Thursday night, at 2200 England Time - (I think that's GMT). Or to aboid confusion, it would be 2300 SP time.