Quote:That's a fun little glitch. Not quite new, though.;) It's on the DSF list under "Spell Queuing".

This also reminded me of some last resort item recovery tactics involving spell queuing: http://realmsbeyond.net/diablo/stratcdstairdeath.html

In the weeks following those posts we had some... very good opportunities... to work on our item recovery tactics under live fire. When the stairs are *really* hosed, I think precasting town portal may be the best last resort. Particularly in a coop game, you can get that town portal off as you are loading the level and your partner can use it without it disappearing. It shouldn't be nearly as hot as the stairs, so he should have time to at least get a second portal off to the edge of his screen and now you have multiple ways to attack the level.

Quote:When the stairs are *really* hosed, I think precasting town portal may be the best last resort. Particularly in a coop game, you can get that town portal off as you are loading the level and your partner can use it without it disappearing. It shouldn't be nearly as hot as the stairs, so he should have time to at least get a second portal off to the edge of his screen and now you have multiple ways to attack the level.

Quote:The downside with precasting town portal is that the TP will appear in a random spot in the level, in which case you need to still fight your way back to the stairs, generally with your second best equipment

Quote:Of course, if your character isn't big enough for these tactics, you probably don't have much worth recovering anyway.

--Pete

Quote:I never met someone who didn´t mind losing their equipment

Quote:Hi, my name is LennyLen. Nice to meet you.
You have now.

Quote:Then why do you care who stole the cork from your lunch?

Quote:Because a man's bottle is not a part of his equipment, but a part of his soul.

Quote:I'll drink to that.

Quote:I'll drink to that. Pete - I correct what I said earlier; I have only met one person who doesn't care about his equipment.

Quote:Cheers!

But I was being truthful about not caring about equipment. My favourite part of the game is early development, and just using whatever comes to hand. I abandon most of my characters by age 20, so I rarely come across anything particularly worthwhile.

I've never really been a fan of muling either, so if I do come across a high quality item that's not much use to that character, I either sell it or give it away.

Sometimes I also just find it fun to throw everything away and start anew.

Quote:Hi,
Make that two.:) Look up Immortal Heros sometime.

--Pete

Quote:I never understood the fun of Immortal Heroes. Doesn't that just keep you always playing at levels that still give you exp, but are too easy? I think a really enjoyable part of the game is playing in levels that are over your head where you know you will probably get killed at some point - and trying to recover your equip with multiple tp casts and deaths is somewhat exhilirating as well (well maybe exhilirating is too strong a word); hard to do that with an immortal hero.

Quote:I don't really think you would see much of anything on a video. A lot of sorcerers become accustomed to casting mana shield (via right click) while the level is loading so the monsters don't get so much of a head start. If you try to cast too early it won't happen. But if you time it just a little before the level finishes, he is already casting the spell as you start to see the level. Well, if you use town portal in the same way, he will again already be casting the spell as you see the level. But the blue portal will end up somewhere based on the coordinates you were at on the previous level, possibly far away from where you are right then. Or if you had cast teleport, instead of the portal going to that location, you teleport there yourself.