As I am feeling kind of nostalgic lately, I may just add alittle story from the old ages (anyone remember 1.03):
[Start D1 narrator voice]
Once upon a time, long before Heroes swarmed the slopes of Mount Arreat and some hidden place that has become the major meat sorce for the famous Rogues "D2X-Burger", on a realm named Europe. (close eyes now and remember the Star Wars Theme playing)
During this time a great battle swept across Europe. Two teams determined to win some odd race for "first level 99 Realm Char" engaged in fierce competition and laid constant siege to Diablo's hideout. This battle later became known as the Great Conflict.
[End D1 narrator voice]
The two teams competing were "Gerbarb" and "Rusbarb". Due to not having any source of good exp past some point back then, someone came up with the idea of creating a team character. Games usualy consisted of three stages:
-first: a "sweeper" team [btw, those teams usualy consisted of a Sorc (Static field), a Paldin/Amazon Combo (none of them alone were realy fast back then) ... ah those were the sweet days Bowazons were as popular as elemental druids are today]
cleared the way from River of Flames Waypoint and all of the Arcane Santuary leaving just one seal. After that one or two of the team search for an Exp shrine and open a tp next to it as well as one in the Chaos Santuary
-second: game is filled with supporters leaving one space free, inform the "coordinator" that the game is "ready"......wait for a while (anything from 1 minute to 1 houre, depending on coordinator's skill)
-third: team character joins game and is informed where to find exp shrine, on go "sweepers" and "fillers" open last seal, release Diablo and bring him down to 1/3 or maybe 1/4 life. In the meantime the Teamchar uses the exp shrine, takes the tp down to the CS, leaves the party and kills diablo (says thank you and leaves for next game)
...rinse, repeat...
Well, this was not the way the game was meant to be played but OMG it was a real adrenalin rush. (especialy because one of the core team let me take the Teamchar for about 1/2 houre...feeling responsible for the work of roughly 100 players is rather arousing) To me it best compared to playing foootball/hockey or any other teamsport.
After reaching the 90s, the PK-community identified "Gerbarb" and "Rusbarb" as prominent targets to easily gain some sort of reputation (and/or to tip the scale towards the favored team). To prevent those assassinations a friend and I transformed our Paladin/Amazon Sweeper Combo into a pair of Bodyguards :ph34r: :ph34r: (read PKKs).
Some may despise me but it was actualy fun to be called into various games (average interval 5-10 minutes) and show those PKs that with good teamwork a little paladin and a weak amazon (bow bug) could more then handle them, so yes I got my "kicks" but I don't realy feel guilty about that.
As I see it, PKKing is absolutely legitimate if used as means of self-defense / defending others, even if you are not eyewitnessing it but are called for assistance by people you know (and you can trust).
'nuff said. ;)
P.S. Thanks for providing me a vent for my nostalgia, even if it is within a dead beaten topic.
[Start D1 narrator voice]
Once upon a time, long before Heroes swarmed the slopes of Mount Arreat and some hidden place that has become the major meat sorce for the famous Rogues "D2X-Burger", on a realm named Europe. (close eyes now and remember the Star Wars Theme playing)
During this time a great battle swept across Europe. Two teams determined to win some odd race for "first level 99 Realm Char" engaged in fierce competition and laid constant siege to Diablo's hideout. This battle later became known as the Great Conflict.
[End D1 narrator voice]
The two teams competing were "Gerbarb" and "Rusbarb". Due to not having any source of good exp past some point back then, someone came up with the idea of creating a team character. Games usualy consisted of three stages:
-first: a "sweeper" team [btw, those teams usualy consisted of a Sorc (Static field), a Paldin/Amazon Combo (none of them alone were realy fast back then) ... ah those were the sweet days Bowazons were as popular as elemental druids are today]
cleared the way from River of Flames Waypoint and all of the Arcane Santuary leaving just one seal. After that one or two of the team search for an Exp shrine and open a tp next to it as well as one in the Chaos Santuary
-second: game is filled with supporters leaving one space free, inform the "coordinator" that the game is "ready"......wait for a while (anything from 1 minute to 1 houre, depending on coordinator's skill)
-third: team character joins game and is informed where to find exp shrine, on go "sweepers" and "fillers" open last seal, release Diablo and bring him down to 1/3 or maybe 1/4 life. In the meantime the Teamchar uses the exp shrine, takes the tp down to the CS, leaves the party and kills diablo (says thank you and leaves for next game)
...rinse, repeat...
Well, this was not the way the game was meant to be played but OMG it was a real adrenalin rush. (especialy because one of the core team let me take the Teamchar for about 1/2 houre...feeling responsible for the work of roughly 100 players is rather arousing) To me it best compared to playing foootball/hockey or any other teamsport.
After reaching the 90s, the PK-community identified "Gerbarb" and "Rusbarb" as prominent targets to easily gain some sort of reputation (and/or to tip the scale towards the favored team). To prevent those assassinations a friend and I transformed our Paladin/Amazon Sweeper Combo into a pair of Bodyguards :ph34r: :ph34r: (read PKKs).
Some may despise me but it was actualy fun to be called into various games (average interval 5-10 minutes) and show those PKs that with good teamwork a little paladin and a weak amazon (bow bug) could more then handle them, so yes I got my "kicks" but I don't realy feel guilty about that.
As I see it, PKKing is absolutely legitimate if used as means of self-defense / defending others, even if you are not eyewitnessing it but are called for assistance by people you know (and you can trust).
'nuff said. ;)
P.S. Thanks for providing me a vent for my nostalgia, even if it is within a dead beaten topic.
I am not trying to post like a Wanker but my english has a pretty strong krautish influence.
Feel free to flame the content but give me some slack on spelling an grammar, thanks
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Feel free to flame the content but give me some slack on spelling an grammar, thanks
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There's no place like 127.0.0.1