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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:10:21 GMT, deathsabyss@yahoo.com.au (Ashen
Shugar) wrote:

>I think it was ald <103175.3500@compuserve.com> that wrote something
>like...
>
>>On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:44:16 -0800, Moosen <nospam@buhbye.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:28:58 -0500, ald <103175.3500@compuserve.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:14:32 -0800, Moosen <nospam@buhbye.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:26:51 -0500, ald <103175.3500@compuserve.com>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>Sadly, all of the MP characters in my sig are only alive there still,
>>>>>>they got lost in one or another of my forced absences from playing
>>>>>>online,  although the SP ones are still around here *some*where, I
>>>>>>just haven't played them in forever (last time I was playing SP I was
>>>>>>working a rotation of about 2 characters in each of three mods and the
>>>>>>original game, but (thankfully?) they never got high enough level to
>>>>>>make it into my sig).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>2003 was late enough for you to have seen UT, right? Heh, I should
>>>>>>talk, I still haven't worked an MP character high enough to even
>>>>>>*think* about trying it ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>What is UT? Don't remember that acronym.
>>>>
>>>>Uber Tristram, where you fight three of the act end bosses on steroids
>>>>;-) Hopefully someone who's a bit more familiar with it can refresh my
>>>>memory as to exactly who it is, and the rewards that are possible.
>>>
>>>That a mod?
>>>
>>
>>No, it's in the regular game. IIRC, you collect keys from Nilithak,
>>the Countess, and one other in Hell, and use them to open the portals
>>to Uber Tristram. Could somebody *please* jump in here and clarify
>>this? I'm about at the end of my memory here, and *way* beyond my
>>experience.
>
>In hell diff you run the Countess, the summoner in Act 2 and Nilithak.
>You want to collect 3 keys from each of them for a total of 9 keys.
>Then while you're in Horagath (act 5 town), you put 1 of each type
>into the horadric cube and use the cube to turn them into a portal.
>There are 3 possible portals that can appear, though you can't get
>more than one portal of the same type in the same game, which is why
>you want 9 keys, so you can do the transmute three times and be sure
>of getting all 3 portals.  Inside the portals you'll wander around for
>a bit until you find it's boss.  There's an Andarial type boss, an
>Izual type boss and a Duriel type boss (they're tougher than the
>bosses they're a copy of).  You kill them and get a body part from
>them.  You then use the three different body parts in the horadric
>cube (while in Horagath) to get the portal to Uber Tristram.  Once in
>there you have a Mephisto clone, a Baal clone and a Diablo clone to
>kill.  The Mephisto clone tends to be the nastiest as it has an aura
>that does *really* nasty things to your resistances.  When you kill
>the third of these clones (doesn't matter what order) it will drop a
>torch with +3 to all skills of some particular class.  ie +3 sorc
>skills or +3 druid skills.  It also has like +20 stats, +20 resistance
>and a chance to cast Diablo's creeping fire thingy on attack.  It's
>the same size as a medium charm.
>
>I used to farm them up using a Fireball/Frozen orb sorc to gather the
>keys, make the portals and teleport to the minibosses, then open a
>town portal to let my smiter in on my second computer to do the actual
>killing of the bosses.  The smiter also handled Uber Tristram's three
>clones.

Hmm. Never saw that, must have been added after I bailed. /waves...
Hi Ashen :-)

Sounds like an interesting diversion for once you've mastered hell
level (something I never did, personally), but hardly a post-LoD
expansion pack ;-) I remember getting frustrated from running a
bazillion meph/baal runs (and cow runs) and never seeing a Windforce
(or several other overly-elusive items), so I got to playing mods that
allowed you to pretty easily avail yourself of everything in the game.
Real monty-haul stuff. Wasn't long after that I hung 'er up, if I
recall. The duping and all that was so incredibly pervasive too at
that time, that it just lost my interest. There was no real economy
anymore. I'm hoping they master the art of preventing that stuff, in
D3. Guess we'll find out.
    -Marshall