10-02-2003, 12:09 PM
3 person teams are pretty easy to organize (or were) locally for me. But I know 2 other serious D2 players in town.
As for herding, outside of Cows, I've never seen in done in a fashion fast enough to be useful. In Cows, I've seen a bonewall suck in every cow in nearly half the level. That necro didn't need party members, he just used whatever corpse got created by anyone. If only he hadn't insisted on casting them next to other players....
"using an enchantress as a bot" :o
...well, why stop at one? :P
It's true, I'm a reformed bot user [I needed to learn javascript so I picked bots as the teaching vehicle]. That's one of the reasons why I think any new level requirements will be ineffective. Actualling testing "uber" builds gave me a far different perspective on the game (i.e. very few published builds actually turn out any good in practice). My goal was the character that could kill anywhere, anytime. As a twinked Zon and Druid, I could do that. I could never get the Necro though, which is why I read these posts.
As for herding, outside of Cows, I've never seen in done in a fashion fast enough to be useful. In Cows, I've seen a bonewall suck in every cow in nearly half the level. That necro didn't need party members, he just used whatever corpse got created by anyone. If only he hadn't insisted on casting them next to other players....
"using an enchantress as a bot" :o
...well, why stop at one? :P
It's true, I'm a reformed bot user [I needed to learn javascript so I picked bots as the teaching vehicle]. That's one of the reasons why I think any new level requirements will be ineffective. Actualling testing "uber" builds gave me a far different perspective on the game (i.e. very few published builds actually turn out any good in practice). My goal was the character that could kill anywhere, anytime. As a twinked Zon and Druid, I could do that. I could never get the Necro though, which is why I read these posts.