Well I don´t know......people keep talking about my approach, even so I hit 95 with very solid gear - Eni! But I´m not upset or angry with anyone, I just feel my goals in D2 are different to most peoples in this thread!
If u make it with true or false:
- I do wanna hit lvl 99 UT: True
- I am willing to run LK till I got Eni + Infi: false
- I was willing to grind it up: true
- I will reach lvl 99 UT: most likely your guys are right and it´s not gonna happen!
Well, you are the only person in a long time that appears to have different goals comparing to pretty much everybody in this thread, so i think i can call my goals "universal", especially since i adopted them from other players from this and the original thread. It does not mean everybody has to have the same goals as me of course. Quite refreshing to see somebody doing something different.
Yeah, i've heard many times that HC is just superior and achieving anything there is the best thing you can possibly imagine. I don't hate on HC, but i personally don't like the idea of loosing my char with all it's gear, because of some small mistake i make or the game being sort of unfair with all those bugs and combos that can crush my char in a blink of an eye. I have playing twinked chars in the future in my mind and HC does not help with gearing them.
I don't mean your approach is bad and you would fail no matter what. I just mean that there are things one can do to minimize the risk, therefore maximize your chance of winning. If your goal is to just play HC and die at some higher lvls, that's cool, but as @Pax1990 said, it's the 99er thread, so the ultimate goal is to get to 99, so if you die with your HC char, you sort of failed, don't you think?
Don't know what's wrong, but some fresh HC players that joined this thread came to the conclusion that we are hostile here, cause we mostly play SC. It's quite interesting, cause i've seen 2 HC barb players so far that went for more or less the same path and had mentioned issue with the community ^^
You´re right, that it´s me failing with people and not you! And you are right, that this happens alot! And you are right, that I shouldn´t post anymore in this thread!
If u feel I failed so be it.......for me personally it´s still a success! And I personally don´t get why it´s such a big issue for you to convince me?
But having said this, I know that I´m the 1 person and u are many!
€: What I don´t get is why people are almost offended by the way I played!
As mentioned before, you are reading between the lines something that is not true. Don't know why is that, but it also looks like there is no way for us to convince you, that we don't judge you and that there's nothing wrong with your playstyle. We just try to give you advice, so you can rethink your choices and maybe make different decisions in the future to improve your experience. If you don't want to do that, that's ok.
I personally have a problem with your mentality, cause you try to make youself a victim as much as you can. It's not an issue to me that you play in your own way. What's an issue is that you want to convince me that i meant something i didn't and that we are hostile here towards you when it's not the case.
I will end this conversation for now, cause it went a little bit too much into off topic territory. Have a nice day everybody and have fun with the game ^^
Yeah, i've heard many times that HC is just superior and achieving anything there is the best thing you can possibly imagine. I don't hate on HC, but i personally don't like the idea of loosing my char with all it's gear, because of some small mistake i make or the game being sort of unfair with all those bugs and combos that can crush my char in a blink of an eye.
Don't take it personal, you're not the only one they do it to. And more Specifically, the one constantly biting at you heals in this thread, will harass you to no end until you do it the "universal way" or until you quit. Don't quit though, just make your own thread doing your own way and if he continues to harass you for not doing it the way he tells you to do it, just block him using the blocking features. All that beig said, this is an UT99 thread that is several years old that has been carried over from the old forum, so you should probably not respond in it anymore if you're not going to play by the thread's challenge rules. If you don't stop reacting, the other guy won't either until a mod steps in, and believe me, when that happens, things wont get better for you.
Well, well, well we have the almighty AtomicPunk on board. Long time no see. Keep giving @Tears85 advice, so he end up like you after faking your barb's death and using back up files to still play him. That's what an amazing HC player would do. The true hero of all HC barbs.
Btw. i like the fact that you and i talk about me giving advice to Tears even though i don't think i gave him a single advice how he should play his barb. All i said is just that the stuff he did may not be the best possible option to pick and all of a sudden i am the bad guy who says people how they should play their characters and how they should build them. Funny fact is that Tears himself asked people for advice and they gave him many, but he just ignored most of them.
Also, worth to mention that it was pretty much only you who got a message from a mod. I didn't get a single one. Maybe literally everybody is against you? Maybe there is even a reason for that? Who knows, must be some conspiracy going on i guess, cause why would any mod want to talk to someone who is pushing the rules a little bit too much and finally just breaks them?
In the end it's a happy end for you both. You fit together very well.
I will try to not answer anymore, but damn it's really hard when everybody understands the problem except the one creating it and that one dude is just spitting lies about you to other people...
Please don't answer, so i don't have to read more of this stuff. Be the one smarter out of two of us, or i should say three.
@Tears85 I'm not a part of the UT99er thread really, except reading it for fun, but buddy I've seen you posting around on the SPF and I love your enthusiasm. Please don't leave. I loved reading about your barb and all the stuff he was up to. You always seem like you're having the most fun of all time playing this game and when cool stuff happens for you you have so much enthusiasm. You're already a part of the character of this forum dude, we need you around and more people like you. I think you should go for that hybrid assassin guy because it sounds like you've got a lot of excitement for it.
Sorry to hear about your barb, I didn't expect you to go down!! Given your extremely awesome luck in the past I think you'll be able to grind up a new character again in no time
Before I post my next update i have a question.
How do I create those readouts that post my gear, my inventory and the items i found? With stats and everything.
Ok i will post this update and then take a break or start a 2nd character.
Iam pretty tilted right now.
I died 2 times in a row and lost a lot of exp which pisses me off so hard.
First time i get smacked down by lister and then i die to those stupid dolls -.-
Anger has mad it to level 92.
With the ml leech rings things a going pretty well. Iam 70 baal runs in at around 4-5min each run. Depending on throne room and lister wave.
Some noteable drops where:
Zaka
Titans
Vamp Gaze
Alma Negra +1
Goreriders YEAH
Shaftstop
4sox eth GPA
Stone crusher
PC SK
But yea after the last 2 rips i kinda lost motivation. I tried hard not to die at level 92 and then i happens 2 times in a row. **** me
EDIT: When I reply to a post to get the tables i cant remove the name i quoted... So i couldnt move my character up to sort it according to level. It messes up the quote.
Dolls are harsh. I'd just wait in a corner and let my merc tank them if there were a lot of them. If there were 2 or 3 I'd WW over them one at a time haha. They're scary. The worst spawn you can have in my opinion is dolls and souls together in the throne. Those times, I'd just reset the run. I always say this, but I died once per lvl until 95/96, so it may take some time to learn what situations one has to immediately bale out of. Deaths do make us angry, tho. I don't know how to escape that... maybe meditation.
Dolls are harsh. I'd just wait in a corner and let my merc tank them if there were a lot of them. If there were 2 or 3 I'd WW over them one at a time haha. They're scary. The worst spawn you can have in my opinion is dolls and souls together in the throne. Those times, I'd just reset the run. I always say this, but I died once per lvl until 95/96, so it may take some time to learn what situations one has to immediately bale out of. Deaths do make us angry, tho. I don't know how to escape that... maybe meditation.
yea i guess i have to reset more often then.
I could deal with one death but 2 in a row was just too much. so much time wasted... makes me so angry
the thing is i wont even get stronger so those deaths can happen any time ...
@Pax1990 You didn't post the tables properly, so i can't do anything with them XD What you should do is to edit your post, press "toggle BB code' on the right, near the preview (it will turn the quotation into normal text), delete the previous post, so you have only the tables, press toggle BB code" again and then post your update.
We can also do it in a different way. I will reply to the post that had the tables right, add my update and then update your char in the tables.
@ResTTe sry for messing them up. i allready turned off my pc and iam on my phone. this toggle option or even the preview option is not available. so pls do it the other way
As i said in one of my previous posts, the update will come when my sorc reaches lvl 97 which should happen this week...
Better later than never, so here we go!
I could have lvled her up a few days earlier, but i had a pretty busy week and i didn't feel like playing at all. The weekend has come and i got some D2 motivation boost and got her to 97 today's afternoon.
Currently sitting at about 2,8k two seal runs. Still about 3,8k runs to go. My last update was posted when she reached 94 iirc, so it was quite long ago. Not that much happened though. Got some decent charms, rares, mid runes and other things. Won't post most of it, cause it's just mediocre stuff. There were a few special drops, but you have to check the spoilers to see them ^^
Only 2 of them, but that cham rune was classy and more will come for sure xD
Of course it dropped. It's an obvious thing for me. I got it in on my barb way before i started lvling and i found it on this sorc at the start of CS farming...
Another troll drop. Griffon's would be pretty sick
Found 2 Arcanna's amulets and 1 Telling of beads so far. Still no Tal's
Can't use it, cause i can make a better combo from other charms and Life > Res imo
Probably the best pair of boots i found on this sorc
I have an amulet for lightning build, but where's my Griffon's?
That's my 5th unique Mighty Scepter...
and that's a pretty good troll XD
That's officially the best Jeweler's armor i have found so far...
and the best skiller i found on this sorc.
What's funny to me is the fact that i got most of the possible troll drops. That is Templar's, set Diadem and Unique Dimensional Blade. Now i only need to find failed unique Lacquered Plate and failed set Dimensional Shard to have them all xD I must say, getting items with that sorc is really tough. I barely find anything with her. Maybe saw like 3 dimensional shards total and items like caduceus and archon staff basicaly doesn't drop at all.
The biggest upgrade i got was an Eth Insight Base. I think i found 3 eth polearms total in 2,8k runs and the 3rd one rolled 4 sockets. Got it after like 2k runs probably. Would prefer a faster base for merc to proc aura quicker, but it's not like i can complain ^^
Rolled that in it after about 25 tries
I am doing occasional crafting when i get some materials. Didn't get anything super juicy, but i am rolling quite a lot of sorc amulets. The best one i've crafted is probably this one.
All i need at the moment is +sorc/cold skills with life and some res, preferably fire. All i'm getting is +fire skills with mana and res XD Maybe i will just find Mara's and everything will be nice, who knows ^^
I was using a prayer merc untill now. Decided to switch to holy freeze. Maybe some of you have any recommendations or tips to make this farming even better? ^^ I am pretty much sure i can't swap delirium, cause it's just too good, but maybe there is something more i can do and i haven't figured it out yet.
Decided to push myself a little bit over the course of the last few hundred runs and my exp went up drastically. Was doing well over 12,5 mil exp per hour at 96 which would be something like 5,1+ mil at 97. I played more aggressively, decided move on when almost full pack is killed and stopped picking up every item i find. I think i died 3 times at 95, cause i was still getting used to playing sorc and died 2 times at 96. All of those deaths were because of me pushing to much and playing with some combo like might infector with amp. Could be easly avoided, but i was testing how far i can push and i think i finally have an aswer for that. Hopefully i won't die too much at 97, cause those deaths kinda hurt now. I have a feeling i figured out that build. May sound silly to some of you, cause sorc is the most popular class and probably the easiest one to play, but i really have small experience with her, cause i've only played this game for 4 years and over 3/4 of that was farming with barb XD
Kind of hard to tell how often i will post the next updates, but will try to do some before i reach 98.