LFG: Diablo 3 - Dedicated party

[GreenGoo]

I agree (assuming I read it correctly) that we don't bother checking to see if someone needs something. If I am running a Wizard and a Barbarian item drops for me, I just "gift" it automatically (pick it up and then drop it again - making it available for anyone else). The person running the Barbarian can then look at the item when there is free time to decide whether to use it. And I'd say we don't worry about returning unwanted items. They just aren't worth that much. If you decide you don't want it, then vendor/break it down.

I failed to comment on this but would like to. I try not to be uptight but I can't help it at times. A fair bit of income comes from selling items. I fully admit your way is way better for speed and ease, but I don't want to be throwing away cash in case someone needs something. I get a bit twitchy if I don't think I'm getting my fair share. It sounds worse than it is. I'm not greedy at all, but it would drive me to distraction if we all adopted the picked up and drop technique and I started to think everything was being picked up and vendored by a single player. I don't want more than my share, but I don't want less either. Consider it a quirk. Even if I agreed not to worry about it, and didn't worry about it consciously, my sub conscious would be keeping an eye on things. It sucks. Sorry.

Not sure how others feel about it. There is certainly a lot going for the Mix's idea.

[GreenGoo]

Group	OO Name	B.Net Handle	Class Preference
One	GreenGoo	GreenGoo16#1707	None
One	Debris	TBD	Wizard/Demon Hunter/Monk/Flexible
One	Teggy	Teggy#1162	Witch Doctor/Wizard
One	Jaddison	plankowner#1294	None
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Two	TheMix	Drach#1508	Unknown
Two	EliotR	TBD	Monk(?)
Two	stessier	TBD	Unknown
Two	morlac	TBD	Unknown

Mix, I like your enthusiasm, unfortunately unless we lose one of the earlier posters you'll have to try another group, as the only far way to do this is by order of posting, I think. There does seem to be enough for another group though. If not, as long as it's not scheduled for Wednesday night, I could probably fill in as a fourth.

So I guess Group One should start picking classes. Start time is 9pm EST (8pm MST, 6pm PST I think) tomorrow, Wednesday, 6th of June, 2012.

[TheMix]

I agree (assuming I read it correctly) that we don't bother checking to see if someone needs something. If I am running a Wizard and a Barbarian item drops for me, I just "gift" it automatically (pick it up and then drop it again - making it available for anyone else). The person running the Barbarian can then look at the item when there is free time to decide whether to use it. And I'd say we don't worry about returning unwanted items. They just aren't worth that much. If you decide you don't want it, then vendor/break it down.

I failed to comment on this but would like to. I try not to be uptight but I can't help it at times. A fair bit of income comes from selling items. I fully admit your way is way better for speed and ease, but I don't want to be throwing away cash in case someone needs something. I get a bit twitchy if I don't think I'm getting my fair share. It sounds worse than it is. I'm not greedy at all, but it would drive me to distraction if we all adopted the picked up and drop technique and I started to think everything was being picked up and vendored by a single player. I don't want more than my share, but I don't want less either. Consider it a quirk. Even if I agreed not to worry about it, and didn't worry about it consciously, my sub conscious would be keeping an eye on things. It sucks. Sorry.

Not sure how others feel about it. There is certainly a lot going for the Mix's idea.

Oh, I fully understand.

I probably could have added a handful of caveats.

Like... I'm assuming we are just talking about blue items. And ones that would likely only be vendored. And I'm assuming we are only talking about the first play through where the items aren't generally that amazing. And I was only referring to class specific items (the big red X over the item makes that very easy to see). Since most of those sell for less than 200g, I'm not really concerned about it. I figure there won't be that many, so the revenue loss is minimal.

Does that help?

[TheMix]

Oh, and without verifying, I think my id is Drach#1508.

And I guess I should have read the next post before responding. Since we aren't in the same group, I don't have to put up with your neuroses.

[TheMix]

With the "new" ability to link items in the chat channel, and using voice chat, I think what we can do is show the item and ask any players of appropriate classes if they want it. You can then either drop it if you're near them or just wait until you're in town then drop it by the stash so the new guy can pick it up later. If there is confusion or no response, assume the answer is no and vendor/ah/salvage it.

That's an good suggestion to. I think that might be easier though if there is a time set-aside for it. Hopefully peoples' bags will fill up at roughly the same rate. Then it's just an agreement to take 5-10 min, jump back to town, and got through gear. It's just too hard to do that while running around. We could even stop every time we head back for a quest. Depending on how long we were out, there might not be that much that needs to be done.

Honestly, I'm not seeing much in the way of scaling. When running with my girl friend, it's incredibly easy. Last night, she popped back to town to sell a bunch of white crap </sigh>. While she was gone I blew through several packs of mobs including two rare/yellow mobs. Didn't feel any harder than with one person.

My point is, that I doubt it will even be necessary to stop and redo skills when you level. That can easily be done during one of the "stops" back in town. Heck, we could probably blow through acts 1-3 without every changing from the initial skills.

I will say that I felt that Act 4 got significantly harder for my solo character.

[Jaddison]

I am plankowner#1294 on battlenet. Class is whatever works, no preference

[GreenGoo]

I don't have to put up with your neuroses.

I'm starting to like you.

If people don't start picking classes I swear I will start picking them for you. How am I going to be unique snowflake if I don't know how many other snowflakes are out there?

[EliotR]

earicci#1302

[Teggy]

I'm in for tomorrow night.

I'll go wizard. I'm special!

[GreenGoo]

edit: Moved list to original post.

[Debris]

Debris#1902 and I'll pick Demon Hunter since Teggy wants the Wiz.

[GreenGoo]

Mix, your b.net handle is not accurate, fyi.

[stessier]

So I went to download the game and decided to check out the system requirements on a whim. I can run SC2, not at high detail, but well enough, so I just figured I'd be able to run D3. It looks like my video card might be a road block.

The specs say that the GT9800 is supported but at lower quality. When I went to Can You Run It, I failed for that reason however. Does anyone know which I should believe? There is no money in the budget for a new computer, so I don't want to buy the game if I can't run it now.

[GreenGoo]

So I went to download the game and decided to check out the system requirements on a whim. I can run SC2, not at high detail, but well enough, so I just figured I'd be able to run D3. It looks like my video card might be a road block.

The specs say that the GT9800 is supported but at lower quality. When I went to Can You Run It, I failed for that reason however. Does anyone know which I should believe? There is no money in the budget for a new computer, so I don't want to buy the game if I can't run it now.

Download it, beg a guest pass, test it yourself. That's how I'd go about it.

[stessier]

So I went to download the game and decided to check out the system requirements on a whim. I can run SC2, not at high detail, but well enough, so I just figured I'd be able to run D3. It looks like my video card might be a road block.

The specs say that the GT9800 is supported but at lower quality. When I went to Can You Run It, I failed for that reason however. Does anyone know which I should believe? There is no money in the budget for a new computer, so I don't want to buy the game if I can't run it now.

Download it, beg a guest pass, test it yourself. That's how I'd go about it.

Brilliant! Don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks!

[Debris]

I have a spare guest pass if you need one.

[stessier]

I have a spare guest pass if you need one.

Yes, that would be fantastic! Do you need any info from me?

[GreenGoo]

Are we good to go tonight?

With our DH and Wizard, I'm leaning toward melee. Barb or monk. I'll make my final decision when Jadd makes his.

[Teggy]

I'm still good for tonight. We'll use Steam voice?

[morlac]

I am Morlac#1563 on battlenet. Group two needs to get their act together We might need a group leader....Mix i'm looking at you. I will play anything but DH as that is my current 'Main'. Do we want to go for Wednesdays or? Any thoughts on doing one weekend night bi/tri weekly or something?

[GreenGoo]

I should have not been as misleading as to label the second guys group two. As it wasn't formally organized and Stessier didn't/doesn't even have the game yet. My list was more of a first come first served plus everyone else list.

I'll be happy to maintain the group lists or whatever, but I'm probably not going to act a a direct organizer for groups that I'm not participating in. Hell I wouldn't for groups I'm in either, but someone had to do it.

[Debris]

I have a spare guest pass if you need one.

Yes, that would be fantastic! Do you need any info from me?

PM sent to you with the code.

[morlac]

I should have not been as misleading as to label the second guys group two. As it wasn't formally organized and Stessier didn't/doesn't even have the game yet. My list was more of a first come first served plus everyone else list.

I'll be happy to maintain the group lists or whatever, but I'm probably not going to act a a direct organizer for groups that I'm not participating in. Hell I wouldn't for groups I'm in either, but someone had to do it.

I see...so those hearts in your graph were only for group 1?





Maintaining the list would be nice, thanks!

[GreenGoo]

They're hearts because Lawbeef posted hearts as space maintainers in the table. If he had posted coffins or the finger my list would contain those instead.

Hearts are nice though.

[GreenGoo]

I'm still good for tonight. We'll use Steam voice?

That's the plan. You might see me on Steam or maybe in Diablo early, but that's because I'm cheating and trying to squeeze in play time while I'm doing the dishes or chasing the kids around trying to get them into bed. If I'm ready before 9pm EST I'll say so, but until the kids are down my attention will be divided at best.

[EliotR]

Agreed- Group 2 needs a leader. Mix interested, is your battlenet correct as listed? Anyone heard from Stressier? I am good for most Tues or Wed nights 8PM EST.

[stessier]

Agreed- Group 2 needs a leader. Mix interested, is your battlenet correct as listed? Anyone heard from Stressier? I am good for most Tues or Wed nights 8PM EST.

Debris was kind enough to give me a guest pass, so I'll download tonight and figure out if I can play. I'll post when I know.

[TheMix]

Dhrak#1508


So... since I know you want the backstory... my first character in WoW was a druid named Drachknaran. I later started a toon on a Horde server with a friend, but never played him. I shortened the name to Drach. I then moved my druid to that server. But I couldn't take Drach. And I didn't really want the long name. So I changed it up a bit and became Dhrak.

That said, I still have a hard time knowing who I'm talking about half the time.

[TheMix]

I'm Mountain time. It's 2 hours behind Eastern (1 behind Central).

So, I'm planning on being available at 7pm MT/9pm ET. To make it easier, I'll plan on getting on 30 min or so earlier.

I'm willing to try and coordinate. People not in the first group that want to play can look for me. We can see what we can get working and then plan from there. If we decide we absolutely want a 4th, I should be able to get my girl friend to join. Or we can go with 3 for now and then see how it works out for Stessier.

Oh, and since I have toons of each class going, I don't have a strong preference. I'm leaning towards Wizard for two reasons. First, I want a ranged because with four people I suspect that mobs may die so fast that melee may not even get a swing in. Second, my "main" is a DH, so I figured I'd mix it up a bit. I do have a 17 Wizard, but don't mind repeating some of that.

WD has ranged, but most of the good stuff doesn't feel like it would fit well with a group.

Oh, and Stessier, you may want to think about a DH or Wizard initially. Ranged may be a little bit safer if your performance is laggy. It will give you more time to run away before mobs reach you.

[stessier]

Debris' Guest Pass worked and I am downloading. Looks to be another 30 minutes or so. Hopefully it works and I can join in the fun. I'm Ashaman #1437.

[Teggy]

Looks like there's a patch, so people might want to jump on a little early to download.

[GreenGoo]

I'm too lazy to figure out everyone's Steam accounts, so let's skip voice chat tonight. We can figure it out for next time.

[miltonite]

Awww no voice? I was going to play torchlight and ask if I could join the chat.

[stessier]

Okay, that was pretty cool. Thanks to TheMix for teaching me the ropes!

By the way, we used OO's Vent server. We should ask FishPants to make a couple extra channels so we can all be on at once.

[TheMix]

Yeah. Fun. Mostly it didn't seem different than solo or with a friend. But a couple of times there were swarms of monsters.

I was afraid it would be REALLY crazy with four people all going their own way. But mostly we stayed pretty close together.

The Vent server works fine. Of course, I was having trouble holding the Push to Talk button when I wanted to be holding Shift. And vice versa. But no one died.

I agree that we should try and get a couple more channels added to the Vent server. Otherwise it could get really confusing.

[Teggy]

Awww no voice? I was going to play torchlight and ask if I could join the chat.

You'll play Torchlight but not Diablo?

[miltonite]

I was given torchlight. No one gave me Diablo. Plus, after about 30-45mins I am done clicking.

There is also the OO teamspeak 3 server that I usually use. For our borderlands games we always used the steam chat which worked most of the time (although it did give us problems sometimes).

[GreenGoo]

Awww no voice? I was going to play torchlight and ask if I could join the chat.

Next week. I forgot to organize that part and didn't want to eat into our playing time to get everyone set up, especially if there were problems with mic setups and such.

We'll have it going next week.

Our group basically steam rolled everything. 1 death from someone getting over eager and separated, although I was close to death a couple of times too. Like the Mix said for his group, our group experienced a few encounters that were big time mobs. Those were a little more dangerous and a lot more fun.

We're running with a DH, a Wiz, a Monk and I'm a barb. Can't imagine Normal will be anything but cake, but we'll see.

[morlac]

Good time for sure. Group to consist of DH, Wizard, Monk, and WD. Apparently, my WD is too sexy for his shirt as not a single wearable piece dropped for him so far. He does look a little like a zombified Right Said Fred. We are planning on trying to keep him shirtless all the way through act 1 at least. Surely Blizzard made a 'To sexy for shirt' achievement?

Noticed a definite uptick in mobs, especially in a couple key spots where we got swarmed. Mass carnage ensued. Looking forward to the next session.

[EliotR]

Good time for sure. Group to consist of DH, Wizard, Monk, and WD. Apparently, my WD is too sexy for his shirt as not a single wearable piece dropped for him so far. He does look a little like a zombified Right Said Fred. We are planning on trying to keep him shirtless all the way through act 1 at least. Surely Blizzard made a 'To sexy for shirt' achievement?

Noticed a definite uptick in mobs, especially in a couple key spots where we got swarmed. Mass carnage ensued. Looking forward to the next session.

Too sexy for my shirt should be an achievement. If normal is cake going forward we may have to convince morlac to go shirtless to go Fabio through to Diablo. Was definitely enjoyable last night. Exchanging drops, big mobs, and I am sure there will be challenges.