Looking for players for a D2 game

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

I am looking to recruit 7 players for a Diablo 2 LoD, v1.11 (newest), 8 player, new character, hardcore game. The game will go until the party is completely wiped, or until we beat the game on hell mode. The game will always be set on players 8, and it will most likely take multiple sessions to play this through. Post here if you are interested.

**B12ad** · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 202 Location: Toldeo, Ohio

I would but I don't have the time sorry matt, I'm always hooked up with other games. Sorry.

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**websurfertai** · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 242

Ooh, ooh, pick me!

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

You are picked. 6 more.

**Cyclone** · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 454 Location: Fredericksburg, VA

if i could ever find my expansion disc......
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**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

I found another player, so now I just need 5 more. This is an SOS to all you D2 fans out there!

Dont worry, we'll probably all wipe sometime in nightmare.

**Pat** · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 56 Location: WI

Im in, got to dust it off first.

Say... after we beat the entire game we should all kill each other.

**wuLFe** · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 2679 Location: Richmond, IN

what kind of playing schedule are we talking here?

I'd be interested to give this a try, but I have a pretty tight schedule what with working 8-5h30 Monday-Friday, and not having much time to play over the weekends.

I really wouldn't like to be the person who is holding everybody else up (also, a game with hardcode characters would probably result in me dying on that Maggot boss on the second stage as usual

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**websurfertai** · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 242

Don't worry wulfe, I'm not that good at D2, so I'll probably die somewhere along the way in either Normal or Nightmare. I'm not good at Hardcore.

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

OK, so we have me, websurfertai, wulfe, pat, and my friend from college so far? thats 5, we're close to my goal.

Wulfe: The schedule would be To Be Determined; we would probably play weeknights if thats what works for you; I work 8-4:30, so I am in the same weekday schedule as you pretty much.

**wuLFe** · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 2679 Location: Richmond, IN

Yeah - weeknights shouldn't be a problem for me - doubt I'll last too long though - I've never really tried to play a hardcore character, but I know my non-hardcore characters died a surprisingly pathetic amount of times

Fun game though!

**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

Just remember the following skill trees that benefit the entire party the most:
Paladin- auras
Barbarian- shouts
Necromancer- curses

When done right, a groups whole should be greater than the sum of their parts.

**NetStormer** · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Swift Current, SK

My first post in over a month!!! I've been too addicted to WoW to bother with GH...

A-anyway, a fool proof way to not have anyone die and have maximum carnage is to have everyone be a skellie mancer. (Skeleton summoner). I used to play one all the time because my computer would always lagg up, and I needed something to keep up with the game.\

Only downside to that would be that everyone would have huge lagg, and in nightmare and hell difficulties, getting the first few skeletons is difficult.

It sounds like fun, but I'm too into WoW and my schedule conflicts with the times that you'd be playing as I mostly work nights and weekends.
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**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

Well thats what hirlings are for...
But skelemancers have a few tough spots.

First, andaria, because she has poison that can hit everyone around her at once (killing your skeletons in normal mode because they are still weak).

Secondly, the sand maggot lair, because the skeletons have to attack one at a time because of the narrow passageways. Although skeleton mages help a lot here.

Thirdly, diablo, because of his ring of fire, will kill most skeletons in one hit in normal mode. And with 8 people all having skeletons and skeleton mages, that is probably a good 60 corpses wasted when diablo does his ring of fire.

But you could get lucky.

That is why I want diversity :p
But I'm not going to ask anyone to decide or even reveal what they are going to be before the game starts. Its more fun for it to be a surprise.

**Sakst82** · Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 681 Location: Beaver Falls, PA

count me in.(If I can find my disks, I haven't played once since WoW was released) can I please be a paladin?

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