Diablo 2 - NPF Campaign

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Oh sure, but let's do my wishlist first.

- A 2 socket wand with +3 to bone spear and at least +1 to another skill (like lower res, so I don't have to spend a point in it) For the runeword white. (Dol, Io)

- A 4 socket Monarch for Spirit (Tal, Thul, Ort, Amn, missing the Amn right now and the Ort, but those are rather easy to find) - Or alternatively a Homunculus, but I prefer the Spirit Monarch.

- A Skin of the Vipermagi. (one with 35 to all res, of course) aka pimp coat

- A pimpin' rare circlet with +1 to all necro skills as well as a bonus to resistances, cast rate or, even better, both.

- Two pimpin' rare rings with extra cast-rate and mana regeneration and/or leech (Really, cast rate over +skills, I speak out of experience.)

- A pimpin' rare amulet of +1 to all Necro Skills and ideally resistances and/or cast rate

- I'm not too sure about the boots, but they should be pimpin' as well. I used to have rares with lotsa resistances I found because I was lucky.

My wish list doesn't feature expensive rune words, but rares so that should even it out.

My runes are: 2 Tal, 2 Eth, 1 Ith, 1 Nef, 1 Thul
I'm not quick enough with grabbing runes most of the time :(

EDIT: Of course I don't expect anyone to give their precious runes or anything you need for yourself. Those're hard to find.

[waddle2120]

When they added the new runewords did they make it so that runewords are the most powerful items for those slots?

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Some of those runewords are pretty insane, yeah. They're not the best persé I'd say, though. But most of the really good ones are way too expensive for mortals anyway.

Also, Menarker: I see you want SoJ's. I suggest the following. Andariel on Nightmare is, as far as I know, the first monster to be able to drop that ring. And she also drops a lot of other good stuff (the low level kind that's still good in the high levels). So we should do runs for Andariel on Nightmare and equip someone with MF gear to deal the finishing blow. That way we can get us some pretty solid stuff. When I did this with some friends back in 1.11 we got two Mage Fists and even some armor (forgot the name) with MF per level. While we didn't get a SoJ the probability of finding one is the highest with Andariel. Finding one might take a while, but even if we don't find one we'll have enough other stuff that's useful for us.
Unless of course you want acquire one by other means like trading.

[Sithdarth]

So I fought my way to Act 5. Diablo was a bastard with that stupid red chain lightening. However, I prevailed and now I'm in act 5 and level 26. I'll probably play some more later tonight.

[waddle2120]

I see a couple of folks on, not sure what the plan is.

I made a new game with a lvl 1 character, gonna start heading through act 1-

npf1/imp

[01d55]

We seem to be having some trouble all getting on each other's friends lists. Some people can't add anyon as a friend at all! Here's how:

/f a [account name]
Adds someone to your friends list. D2 friends lists don't check for the existence of an account so if you get it wrong (say, using a character name instead) it'll just put the wrong name on your list.
/f l
Lists all your friends, if they are online, and if so what they are doing. If you are mutual friends it will tell you the name (but not password) of private games, otherwise it will just say "in a private game."
/f w [text]
send a whisper to everyone on your friends list

Oh, and if your d2 account name isn't your forum account name, mention that.

Got some more runes:
El (x3) eld tir ith(x2) tal ral ort thul sol

Hit pindle a few times, got the unique war scythe for my trouble. Prevent monster heal!

Also got a nice rare battle staff: +1 sorc skills, +2 fire mastery, +57 mana, 6% mana leech, and change.

[Amake]

Well, I decided to risk my nifty Median files to try and brave the murky waters of reinstall. Turns out my trepidation was decidedly foresightful as my computer crashed in the early stages of installing LoD. So I downloaded it, reinstalled again and got a little worried when I still couldn't get past the unfinished LoD install. So I uninstalled everything again and am currently downloading the basic game. (5 hours remaining.) Unless the ghost of the killed install process has actually cursed my computer by supernatural means, I'll see you soon.

(Maybe it doesn't want me to play Necromancer.)

[Vauron]

To uninstall Median, all you needed to do was replace Patch_D2.somethingorother with one from an unmodded game. I've still got all my median stuff in a folder, should I decide to switch back.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I'm gonna list some folks I know the names of, maybe it would be a good idea if we had every player in one neat list so everyone can befriend everybody else. So far I'm the only one I know of who has a different name than his NPF account. Because my horribly generic name was already taken. So I took the name of my snobby alter ego who only ever speaks German. You don't have to get that joke, you weren't there when Atomschlag was born.

List o' NPF users on the US West of the Diablo Two (The ones I know of)
NPF: InsaneGenius
Account: Atomschlag
Character: Ketsarku
Build: Bonemancer (His Spear pierces everything but solid walls and the shrubbery in act 5)

NPF: Vauron
Account: Vauron
Character: Vauron (not sure about that, but I think that's it)
Build: Lightning Sorceress (Electrocutie)

NPF: waddle2120
Account: waddle2120
Character: Behemazon
Build: Bowazon (Raining arrows on, like, everything)

NPF: Menarker
Account: Menarker
Character: Sharl
Build: Windy Druid (No use runnin', Stormbringer comin')

NPF: The Wandering God
Account: thewanderinggod
Character: Bjarki
Build: Bear Druid (A frikkin' bear)

NPF: Sithdarth
Account: Sithdarth
Character: Sorry, I don't remember
Build: Paladin Zealot (Crusher of the infidels)

NPF: 01d55
Account: 01d55
Character: Daddori
Build:

It's not like the character name is important, I'm just listing it for completions sake, some people have more than one anyway. Mostly for muling purposes.

EDIT: Added Builds to my knowledge, because I'm bored.
EDIT2: I just did a quick game before dinner to kill Mephisto. His drop was pretty crappy, but a random mook dropped me a Amulet with +1 to the Druids shapeshifting skills and about 30 to life. The first time we killed Baal he dropped a Circlet with +1 to all of the Barbarian's skills In case someone new decides to play a barbarian.

[Vauron]

Originally Posted by InsaneGenius

Build: Lightning Sorceress (Electrocutie)

That amuses me more than it should.

In unrelated matters, the fact that the Countess gives better runes than the hellforge annoys me. (Eld? Really? At least she gave 2 Tal runes.)