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Gial, there's no wrath to fear from me I only had some starting challenges to overcome in the previous session. While leveling a BM for a DA session, I ran across the E'sal helm which I promptly transferred to my Daemon to hold on to for Ari. IIRC, it's a level 30 or so helm and it has life leech so that should be quite invaluable!

I was going thru to see about buying the old handheld games again, when I discovered this great gem site that has them all for free! If you ever had one of these when you were younger, or are just curious I'd recommend this trip down memory lane! The emulation is quite accurate to the actual Mattel handheld games. http://www.peterhirschberg.com/handheld/ledhead/

My birthday was last Saturday on June 9th, and I forgot to add that to my profile until just very recently. If any here want to wish me a late happy birthday, they are welcome to do so.

Thanks so much for not only your quick work, but it's really very well done and has a bit of attitude to boot!

I have two of the Daemon other forms as part of the five CA selections you get. Both Energy and Poison Daemon are at decent levels, so if there is a weakness to Poison in the group I can address that with the Poison Daemons resists. Unfortunately, the downside is that it adds poison damage and those Dark Elves are resistant to poison. I'd much prefer to keep using the Energy Daemon buff which should have significant effects on melee and ranged damage. I'm hoping the buff that I was regularly giving to Gial boosted the damage quite a bit.

Schot, that's a great idea to have a time set aside for preparation and another for going thru the area. The main reason I mentioned Zhurag Nar is that I want revenge on the Dark Elves for almost denying the others the right to have that portal. My Daemon is primed and focused, though I lost some really good 90% RSM daemon boots due to a server crash. I doubt I'll ever seen anything that good ever again soon.

Thank you very much Ari! I am greatly looking forward to the banner and the Samurai Silver session on Sunday!

I found a way to bypass that troublesome mission. I'd like to think that I'm fairly good at these space flight sim games, but obviously I needed some assistance. Sheesh! To me it's quite annoying that I need some really good flying and combat skills to get thru that mission. P.S. - I did find a very useful way to survive capital ship attack runs by putting all my power to my shields.

To use a StarCraft analogy(which I'm currently playing), your Spider Arrows act like Zerglings that swarm and attack a hapless opponent.

I was thinking of starting out at Zhurag Nar on the next session, but we could go elsewhere if others have weak poison resistance. Gial, I could transfer some WE set items to your character with a WE character of my own if you wish. Just let me know what you're looking for. The same goes for Gogo. I know my Daemon has the Uriell seraphim blade, and a higher level seraphim may have additional items Gogo is seeking.

I have too many characters to list off, so if I supply my account name of Eternal Dagger then you may see me online. I would have been online earlier today if I felt I had enough time to level up my Battle Mage. Perhaps within the next few days, you will see me.

Definitely an interesting build, though I wonder if any mods like +damage effect the spiders at all. It does not seem so, and I also wonder how this CA could have any sort of killing power once you hit Platinum or higher.

I tried the mission again, and failed it due to a cloaked torpedo bomber. This always seems to happen, so I must be taking too much time. I had the Blind Fire, 80 Screamer missiles, and two extra fuel pods. I felt I took out the defenses and engines fairly quickly. I just DON'T know what it takes to pass this mission. I guess I need some elite piloting skills.

I've come close to reaching level 100 with other Hardcore characters besides a level 140 Gladiator slowly rusting at Niobium, but usually get killed in the 80s. I'm seeking to change that fate with the latest attempts at building better characters.

I've seen Gogo's and Ari's signature banners, and I'd like to personally request a banner made for me. The only things I'd like in regards to the banner is that it should be from somebody who wants to do it, and that the banner should contain a Minotaur within it somewhere(Moca is fine from Sacred, but I would greatly encourage unique creativity).

I just got my Daemon to level 35, and a few days earlier got the Dark Elf up to level 30. All I have to do is to get my BM up to level 40 for the DA leveling sessions, and I'll be good to go for this weekend. I still have all the waypoints except Shaddar Nur if anybody needs them. I don't have any Underworld waypoints right now. I did get a Byleth BM shield and the Recundis Vampiress shield for Schot and Ari during general quest running while leveling to 35.

Another option to try getting used to different builds is to go to my Web page at http://members.cox.net/dave.caspermeyer/ to obtain any of the multiple Single Player builds I have. There are standard, unusual, and unique builds that you can try if you wish to.

I gave away my hoard of mentor potions to help Ari and Schot. Fortunately, there were still some that dropped. As soon as Schot exited the caves, the potion drops were very few. It was fun helping out others so that they could get into Silver. I had the tables turned on me when Gial was level 29. I was touch-and-go for a while even with my Daemon buffed, but we all got pretty good after some patience. I even shared the mohawk look with Gial multiple times

I power leveled Schot and Ari, and am starting a Silver game...

I'm ready for Silver right now. My Daemon is sitting in the lobby online for the others to join in

During the downtime of the DarkMatters site, I continued along with my Blizzard Wood Elf adventures. I completed the Ancaria campaign with her earlier this morning. Oddly, the other dragons seemed more vulnerable to Call of the Ancestors than D'Cay was. The roughest parts were doing the Lich Lord quest in Gloomoor(sp) where I was close to dying due to the massive mobbing when I entered the dungeon, and killing D'Mordrey who was insistent on mostly avoiding the Call of Ancestors waiting outside his throne room. In terms of treasure, I was able to complete the Octanion set for a set build Wood Elf, but I'll be running thru with my Battle Mage, Seraphim, and standard Wood Elf to see if I can get the Octanion items at a lower level(level 70+ for items I did acquire). Other characters got buffed with items I transferred over, so overall about 8-10 characters got a power increase from the items the Blizzard Wood Elf exported. I have a level 60+ Wood Elf mule character that I gave 66,666,666 gold to the Blizzard Wood Elf. The mule still has 400 million gold to give away to other characters that get to level 75-100. I've posted a few screen shots of her in action during the final part of the Ancaria campaign. Enjoy as always! Dragon hunting and Wind Element More Dragon hunting Poor Wirt! - Diablo Sakkara Demon Ancaria quest boss P.S. - I found the Lloraneth set leg greaves and socketed them with two +3 Trade amulets. With all of the +Trade gear, my Trade skill is close to or slightly above 150! She ended her Ancaria campaign adventures at character level 75.

Gogo, it's been the same way with Clan DA's leveling sessions. My Battle Mage frequently encountered long lag situations, so it's possible that Teamspeak will not provide much of a benefit. The only way to address the lag is to create multiple server sessions. Depending on the number of players, that means either 2 or 3 servers ready for the next session.

Thanks for asking the questions memories! Gogo, please don't rush that person to play Hardcore just yet. I'd recommend trying a few characters in Single Player first, or he could even go to my Web page at http://members.cox.net/dave.caspermeyer/ to download level 50 SP characters to try out the different CAs, skills, items, etc.

Clan DA uses Teamspeak as a way to bypass lag caused by typing. For some reason, the lag workarounds remind me of Diablo 2's issues where using a Glide package was the best way to play the game. Oddly, D2's performance plummeted under every other video setting.

That move looks almost like the Gladiator's Stomping Jump, but much more bloody and brutal. Hopefully, this new attempt at the CA is not as bugged as Stomping Jump still is for the Gladiator.