Favourite areas poll

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I think act 2 desert (and town *g*) for outdoor areas too... as for
indoor, yeah, probably the ice caves. Or the act 2 tombs, I just love
that whole act.

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Stephen van Ham wrote:
> What's your favourite act for indoor areas?
>

I loves me the Maggot Lair! Bad guys can only come at me one at a
time... Oh, yeah!

> What's your favourite act for outdoor areas?
>

Act I from Stoney Field to Tamoe Highland. Lots of critters to pop and
splat.

> My least favourite indoor areas would probably be act 1, and for outdoor
> areas, it's probably a tie between every act other than 2. :-)
>

Ugh, the Forgotten Tower and the Arcane Santuary are absolutely
horrible! Stupid PI mana-burning ghosts...

The Arreat Plateau (where the captured barbs are) is incredibly
boooring.

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> What's your favourite act for indoor areas?

I like the Crystalline Passage, Glacial Trail, and Worldstone Keep. The
paths are wide enough for more than one body, but not completely open so
that it's easy to get swarmed when running away!

> What's your favourite act for outdoor areas?

Definitely Act 1. I love the rolling green grass with bits of open dirt and
rocks.

> My least favourite indoor areas would probably be act 1, and for outdoor
> areas, it's probably a tie between every act other than 2. :-)

Least favorite indoor area would have to be the Maggot Lair and Catacombs
for the doubling back that's often necessary. I hate dead ends! I've also
always disliked the Arcane Sanctuary because your merc and minions are too
stupid to follow you closely and you frequently have to go back and "get
them."

Least favorite outdoor area would probably be Act 2. It annoys me how the
waypoint is often in the corner furthest from the entrance and the exit to
the area. Runner-up would be Act 5 for all the randomized monsters, it just
breaks the mood of the place to see Leapers and Skeleton Archers. Blah!

Thank goodness for Vidala's Fetlock!

Dave S.

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Stephen van Ham <svanham@xtra.co.nz> writes:
>
>What's your favourite act for indoor areas?

Probably the Harem/Palace Cellar in Act 2. I generally don't like
indoor areas, though.

>What's your favourite act for outdoor areas?

Act 1 and Act 4.

Least favourite are Act 5 (there I even prefer the indoor areas) and
the jungle in Act 3.

- anton
--
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Stephen van Ham <svanham@xtra.co.nz> kirjoitti:

> What's your favourite act for indoor areas?

Act II, by far. (I'd say Act IV, but just because the CS is a
favourite MF run and that's about the whole indoors Act IV, so that's
not a fair comparison.) Arcane Sanctuary and Maggot Lair are the
favourite places, there's enough variety with the others and I even
like the prototype indoor enemies of the act, the revivers, the
skellies and everything. (At least they're not nearly as annoying as
the other acts' recurring enemies.)

> What's your favourite act for outdoor areas?

There's no such thing.

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Stephen van Ham wrote:
> What's your favourite act for indoor areas?
>
> What's your favourite act for outdoor areas?
>
> For me it's act 5 for its indoor ice caves and worldstone keep areas, and for
> outdoors, it's act 2 and its desert areas.

Indoor: Glacial Trail, Crystalline Passage, and all ice caves. Don't
like Ancient Way because the rats' spikes are very hard to see.

Outdoor: Rogue's grassland.

> My least favourite indoor areas would probably be act 1, and for outdoor
> areas, it's probably a tie between every act other than 2. :-)

Indoor: (before today) Jail, Catacomb. What is up w/ the Rogues
torturing their sisters? (after today) Halls of Vaught. Yeah, thanks
for giving me a tour, Alan. Btw, FatherofSonofJorel orders you to move
to Ladder now.

Outdoor: Lower Kurast, Kurast Bazaar, Upper Kurast - can't see those
doom apes and hell swarms. Frozen Tundras - skellies' cold arrows have
same color as the background.

> --
> Oh great, an El rune...

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Stephen van Ham wrote:
> What's your favourite act for indoor areas?

Act 1

>
> What's your favourite act for outdoor areas?

Act 3, before Kurast.

>
> For me it's act 5 for its indoor ice caves and worldstone keep areas, and for
> outdoors, it's act 2 and its desert areas.

I don't like the cold places because I spend too much time being blue.
I feel like Papa Smurf.

>
> My least favourite indoor areas would probably be act 1, and for outdoor
> areas, it's probably a tie between every act other than 2. :-)

I love the pits, the DoE and the Monastary, they are necro heaven.

Mickey

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Garret wrote:
> > I love the pits, the DoE and the Monastary, they are necro heaven.
>
> What does DoE stand for, and where are the pits? I've heard alot about
> the pits, but I don't know where they are, or why they are so good.

DoE = Den of Evil

The Pits are located in the Tamoe Highlands. You take the WP to the
Outer Cloister and follow the path back. One fork in the path leaded to
the entrance to the Black marsh, the other to the entrance to the Pits.

Mickey

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jerk-o wrote:
> After going to <http://tinyurl.com/2tnqw>
> "Mickey" <mickeyb@comcast.net> wrote
>
> >
> >Garret wrote:
> >> > I love the pits, the DoE and the Monastary, they are necro heaven.
> >>
> >> What does DoE stand for, and where are the pits? I've heard alot about
> >> the pits, but I don't know where they are, or why they are so good.
> >
> >DoE = Den of Evil
> >
> >The Pits are located in the Tamoe Highlands. You take the WP to the
> >Outer Cloister and follow the path back. One fork in the path leaded to
> >the entrance to the Black marsh, the other to the entrance to the Pits.
>
> You can also get good items from all the champions and bosses in there in hell
> mode.

Absolutely, as it, along with the Ancient Tunnels and the WSK are the
highest TC areas in the game.

Mickey

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<royls@telus.net> wrote in message
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> Depends what I'm doing, but one thing is constant: the worst area of
> the game is the Kurast Sewers Level 1, because it is so hard to find
> your way around. The Maggot Lair is also tiresome because it is so
> narrow and you can't use the tactical options that are available in
> wider areas. And any place that can spawn stair traps is bad for HC
> players.

I agree with all of the above. The Kurast Sewers are probably my least
favorite single area. It's too dark, I can't see a damned thing down there.
Those friggin dolls come out of nowhere and you can't react to them. Causes
me to creep along like a senior citizen with his walker.

I'll also add that I don't like the Dark Wood. All the trees make it
difficult/impossible to see the monsters. Many times I'll think I have
cleared an area, but while looking through the loot some little bugger will
be wailing on me.

I also dislike the open spaces of A5, but that's due mainly to those
annoying teleporting Imps. They're a real PITA to kill without a skill like
Frozen Orb.

> I like the A2 tombs a lot, partly because the graphics are so good. The
> deserts are too bright. The open green areas around the Rogue Camp are
> also easy on the eyes, and tactically easy too.

I like the A1 open spaces best of all visually. But the monsters there are
not challenging enough in Normal and NM so I usually just blow through those
areas on the express train.

Regards-
Mark

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