Guardian Turgon holy knight of Westmarch

[newco]

Guardian Turgon holy knight of Westmarch

First of all I want to thank OldSoldier and roninDOG for hosting the very interesting “Knights of Westmarch Paladin Tournament” .
http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=634324
A paladin tournament with single pass, untwinked and individual restrictions.

Turgon is a Templar (FoH) with the following restrictions:
- No equipment shopping or gambling. You can buy potions and scrolls, but nothing else, and you can't sell anything.
- No buying scrolls, either ID or TP. Manage those Town Portals wisely. A purist would not even buy tomes, relying instead on finding them, but buying one each is OK.

So basically an untwinked “use what you find” character.

Stats:
Str: 72 (70)
Dex: 179 (176) max block with level 7 holy shield
Vita: 299 (249)
Mana: 22 (20) hmm, 5 misspent points

Life: 1496 (953)
Mana: 470 (147)

Resistance: 75/67/75/52

Main Skills:
FoH 26 (20): 2364-2484 lightning damage + 1370-1405 holy bolt damage
Holy bolt 23 (17): 2737-3082 holy bolt damage + 51-108 HP healed
Holy shield 7 (1)
Conviction 26 (20)
Redemption 7 (1)
Cleansing 7 (1)

Mercenary: holy freeze desert mercenary (INSIGHT or “Hone Sundan” against Baal)

Items: SPIRIT sword + SPIRIT shield + Harlequin Crest + PDR stuff

Play observation:
This is a solid character. Not a cookie cutter, but versatile and flexible enough to solo Hell as long as you use a holy freeze merc.

- Is this character a good SC character? NO! This character will bore you to death! Not as boring as the plain vanilla necro summoner, but close to.
- Is this character a good twinked HC character? NO! Same as SC.
- Is this character a good untwinked HC character? Yup! A solid choice, maybe a little boring, but save and very cheap. Comparable to a windy druid (OK maybe the paladin has a slower kill-factor)

The only tricky part was Hell “Brem Sparkfist” (LI + holy freeze + cursed), a hell moonlord boss pack (I used a teleport amulet in both cases to bypass them) and hell ancients. It took me 12 rolls until I had ancients without a LI mod. But even then there was a lot of screaming and running around in circles. Not a suitable behaviour for a paladin :grin:, but it did the trick and after running ~ 15 times around the summit I was finally able to separate them. Afterward it was quite easy. Hell Baal took a while due to a lot of clones and tentacles distracting my merc.

Notable finds:

An IST from hellforge

Turgon's Harlequin Crest
Shako
'Sol'
Defense: 131
Durability: 12 of 12
Required Strength: 50
Required Level: 62
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 74
Fingerprint: 0xfa26678d
+2 to Strength
+2 to Energy
+2 to Dexterity
+2 to Vitality
Damage Reduced by 7
Damage Reduced by 10%
50% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
+2 to All Skill Levels
+126 to Life (Based on Character Level)
+126 to Mana (Based on Character Level)
Socketed (1: 1 used)

This one was quit useful against Baal:
Hone Sundan
Yari
'ShaelAmnShael'
Two-Hand Damage: 138 to 282
Durability: 15 of 15
Required Strength: 91
Required Level: 37
Spear Class - Very Fast Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 86
Fingerprint: 0xd38a18a3
+175% Enhanced Damage
+20 to Minimum Damage
+40 to Maximum Damage
7% Life stolen per hit
40% Increased Attack Speed
45% Chance of Crushing Blow
Repairs 1 durability in 10 seconds
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired), Socketed (3: 3 used)

Not useful on a caster, but IMHO still remarkable:
Sharp Grand Charm of Vita
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 69
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 79
Fingerprint: 0xc66aaf1a
+39 to Life
+54 to Attack Rating
+10 to Maximum Damage

[Drystan]

Congrats on the Guardian, but where are the readouts? I want to see how you get +50 Vita from items! [See edit :wink3:] That's some nice FoH damage too!
Were the runewords made up from mostly Act 5 rune reward runes, or did you get some lucky finds elsewhere as well?

Congrats again, and what's next?

Edit: Do they? Heh, they do too. I thought that was energy (thinking of the +mana. :grin Funny how I never look at the Vit on em. Only FCR.

[Cygnus]

congrats on the guardian!

drystan: dual spirits add a lot of vita

[Cyrax]

Congratulations on a very nice char and a pretty speedy guardian.

I don't know how you seem to be having such an easy time in hell. I'm already having close calls in NM. Maybe it's a difference in restrictions?

I'd like to see the other items you're wearing as well. Now you just post a few nice things, but let us hanging at the interesting stuff.

At least now we've got a score to aim for. Now go and make a more difficult char you wuss:wink3:.

[newco]

as demanded the rest of my items. As you can see I used every emerald and ORT/RAL/TAL to craft safety items. And trust me, I burned a lot of them.

Turgon's Holy Chain Mail of Amicae
'RalSol'
Defense: 145
Durability: 45 of 45
Required Strength: 48
Required Level: 43
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 58
Fingerprint: 0x8b8b0d32
+92% Enhanced Defense
Damage Reduced by 22
Fire Resist +30%
Socketed (2: 2 used)

Storm Knuckle
Gauntlets
Defense: 27
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Strength: 60
Required Level: 36
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 61
Fingerprint: 0x9b455873
+64% Enhanced Defense
+14 to Attack Rating
Damage Reduced by 4
Magic Damage Reduced by 1
Lightning Resist +20%
Cold Resist +9%
14% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Gale Cord
Demonhide Sash
Defense: 40
Durability: 12 of 12
Required Strength: 20
Required Level: 35
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 58
Fingerprint: 0xc787af98
+15% Enhanced Defense
Damage Reduced by 4
Magic Damage Reduced by 1
Fire Resist +9%
Cold Resist +27%
Poison Resist +25%
17% Faster Hit Recovery

Doom Slippers
Greaves
Defense: 17
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Strength: 70
Required Level: 48
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 62
Fingerprint: 0x203d1442
+10% Enhanced Defense
Damage Reduced by 3
Magic Damage Reduced by 1
Fire Resist +7%
Lightning Resist +34%
30% Faster Run/Walk
10% Faster Hit Recovery

Plague Knot
Ring
Required Level: 56
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x999e1d40
+4 to Vitality
Damage Reduced by 2
Magic Damage Reduced by 1
Fire Resist +20%
Lightning Resist +4%
Cold Resist +4%
Poison Resist +4%
Level 2 Dim Vision (25/25 Charges)

Dwarf Star
Ring
Required Level: 45
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 72
Fingerprint: 0xdb8865f2
+40 to Life
+40 to Maximum Stamina
Heal Stamina Plus 15%
Magic Damage Reduced by 14
100% Extra Gold from Monsters
15% Fire Absorb

Scintillating Amulet of the Wraith
Required Level: 40
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 62
Fingerprint: 0xea9aea75
All Resistances +13
5% Mana stolen per hit

Amulet of Teleportation
Required Level: 48
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 61
Fingerprint: 0xf8212c6e
Level 1 Teleport (22/22 Charges)

[DeathMaster]

Another amazing guardian.

Am I the only one who feel more and more people advanced to the elite group, while left us "n00b" behind?

[OldSoldier]

Congrats on the Guardian newco. That was one well played character. I made the mistake (twice) of going all blue/yellow only with my Templars. Not the third time baby! Well done and congrats.

[roninDOG]

Well done newco! Congrats on being the first Guardian from our tourney! Well played and awesome finds. Eth Hone Sudan and Harley are incredible for untwinked play, and enough runes for a Shael Shael Amn, and 2 Spirits....thats some good luck right there. On to the next one

-rD

[newco]

Well done newco! Congrats on being the first Guardian from our tourney! Well played and awesome finds. Eth Hone Sudan and Harley are incredible for untwinked play, and enough runes for a Shael Shael Amn, and 2 Spirits....thats some good luck right there. On to the next one

-rD

I had insane luck on AMN runes with this char. 3 alone in NM act 2 fake tombs, which was a remakable series. 1 more in NM act 5. And 2 more in Hell. I was lucky that I had those SHAEL's left in my stash, because I already considered to delete them, to clear up room for full rejuvs (no need for IAS on a caster :grin. But even if an eth "Hone Sudan" is nice to look at, it dropped near endgame form the unique Yeti guarding Anja and was only used against Baal. And due to the tendency of my merc to ignore Baal and to attack the tentacles instead of Baal, I switched back to INSIGHT because of "mana-issues".