My first team play in TSW mod.

 After over five years of playing TSW mod alone, I got my two cousins play TSW mod together. But they had not played Diablo 2 for over ten years, not to mention TSW mod. Yet they watched me play before, and I just told them it is a hard mod as they could see. So at first when I invited them, I just thought we may stay in Nightmare. 

But to my surprise, we finally finished Hell. Although they don't play it later, at least the end was complete without any desire. With this experience, I learned more about myself as a TSW mod player and learned about the difference between me and other players. And also, there are some other things that are not in my prediction in a little negative way. Which can let me improve for the next time even though I don't know whether there is next time or not. But preparation is always valuable. Because what you prepare may be useless, but by doing this things you learn are always with you.

So we decide to play TSW mod. At first, I recommended some careers that I thought as top tier for new players. Since I had played it for a couple of years, I could imagine what situation we may meet by different combinations. I let them choose first, and I was the last one to choose my career as an insurance. They picked FoH Paladin and Trap Assassin which I recommended for safety. I did not suggest melee career. And I picked Dual Amazon. It was easy to use and was able to make a comeback if they both died.
So let me jump to the conclusion, I found that there are some accidents during the whole game. One is we finished Hell. And the next one is that FoH Paladin was not strong enough for multiplayer. Because the damage was not enough to kill monsters efficiently, which leads to a result that Paladin was not sustainable enough due to higher mana consuming. This is out of my prediction in a non-ideal way.

And the other difference the depth of understanding TSW mod. Even though I though we may be different because I had played and searched for data for over ten years while they were not. I still found that we had a gap of communication. My explanation was too hard to understand for them. So what would happen? That was the difference of understanding and it would show as the usage of skills. It was a misunderstanding but for them they may not know this. Here is the scene, I picked Dual Amazon, and I knew its pros and cons. I knew what time and how to use the right skills. So I knew every chance that I could show. And I also knew how to avoid to expose my disadvantages. But to them, they didn't know about their careers, thus they didn't know what and how to use their skills, which meant they usually used the wrong or inefficient skills and looked not inefficient. So it turned out to be that I looked strong and they looked like doing nothing. But I knew it was actually they did something in a implicit way and the rest was they did not play it in a highly efficient way, which needed a long term training as they did not have.

I thought it was not so fun for them so they stopped playing TSW mod after we finished Hell Baal. So at least to me, I got a team play experience. And I also think more about the questions: What do I want from team play? Do I want to go through Hell with help? No, I can do it alone. So I thought that for me, team play is not necessary. It was actually something I didn't know before. I learned that it is for fun on condition that I can play with teammates as good as me. But I know now, this condition is very strict, I'd better not to expect that. And also I am a "retired" player, for me right now this is not important anymore. Just let it be.