10-31-2003, 12:57 AM
scavved from D2.net
oh, well, it was fun while it lasted.
Unfortunately, I have noted that, although people work together out of necessity, theyre still as item pinching as ever, and as stupid...
5 of us in a corridor of the maggot lair (no, not the forum, the area in act 2) I'm down to 20-ish HP (as a bear druid with no lightning resistance) due to all the dung soldiers... I try to get out of the room full of them, everyone else is blocking me... the idiotic excuse for a sorc keeps blasting them with fireball, resulting in mucho lightning flying at me. I got through 1/2 a belt of pots just trying to stay alive... argh. Actually, I could well have found myself with the kind of sorc to whom team play is a non-term, used to frozen orb-ing anything in sight... at least... that's my theory.
anyway, back to the topic, were ladder characters really intended for those of us who just wanted a cleam economy? or just so some other people could get on the ladder? I'm sure if Blizz had really wanted a totally clean economy, there would have been a realm wipe. The idea was for people to rry to get to the top fastest without any head-starts, and that is what it's done.
-Bob
Quote:Ladder Chars Triumph
One of the first group of Ladder Characters on USEast to beat Hell Baal have mailed in to let us know it's been done.
Very early this morning, a group of 7 couragous, high level ladder people became the first group to kill Baal on Hell Difficulty to earn their final titles. After many trials and hardships, including having the Diablo Clone spawn with Baal's Minions, the team of Aethelwolff, Marton-Stro, RIONs-zonm, Spankage, Shankness, Vxi and Myself (Letah) finally engaded the monster beast in his own lair. After 10 min of hard fighting and only 2 deaths, Baal was vanquished forever, ending his reign of torment.
Zero to Matriarch/Patriarch in just over a day and a half is pretty impressive, with no twinking or turbos. Congrats to everyone.
oh, well, it was fun while it lasted.
Unfortunately, I have noted that, although people work together out of necessity, theyre still as item pinching as ever, and as stupid...
5 of us in a corridor of the maggot lair (no, not the forum, the area in act 2) I'm down to 20-ish HP (as a bear druid with no lightning resistance) due to all the dung soldiers... I try to get out of the room full of them, everyone else is blocking me... the idiotic excuse for a sorc keeps blasting them with fireball, resulting in mucho lightning flying at me. I got through 1/2 a belt of pots just trying to stay alive... argh. Actually, I could well have found myself with the kind of sorc to whom team play is a non-term, used to frozen orb-ing anything in sight... at least... that's my theory.
anyway, back to the topic, were ladder characters really intended for those of us who just wanted a cleam economy? or just so some other people could get on the ladder? I'm sure if Blizz had really wanted a totally clean economy, there would have been a realm wipe. The idea was for people to rry to get to the top fastest without any head-starts, and that is what it's done.
-Bob