PvP tournament January-February 2011

[NagisaFurukawa]

Using only what you can carry sounds fair enough. Losing two GCs never gimped any of my characters when carrying 'Call to Arms' in the inventory. As far as Thundergod's Vigor, it's fine. Some of my trappers used to do just fine in normal games with only ~ 5000 or 6000 maximum damage.

Oh, and if you feel some prizes would attract more attention, you could hand these out to your top three. maareek [allegedly] doesn't mind.

1.13c SC FAM (CRM/RWM)

Jeweler's Monarch of Deflecting 
Monarch 
Defense: 145 
Chance to Block: 42 
Durability: 86 of 86 
Required Level: 54 
Required Strength: 156 
Fingerprint: 0x67919ef6 
Item Level: 88 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
+30% Faster Block Rate 
20% Increased Chance of Blocking 
100% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items 4 Sockets (4 used) 
Socketed: Ist Rune 
Socketed: Ist Rune 
Socketed: Ist Rune 
Socketed: Ist Rune

Death's Fathom 
Dimensional Shard 
One Hand Damage: 30 - 53 
Durability: 50 of 50 
Required Level: 73 
Fingerprint: 0x4fc5bc68 
Item Level: 88 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
100% Chance to cast level 37 Blizzard when you Die 
+3 to Sorceress Skill Levels 
+20% Faster Cast Rate 
Adds 24 - 38 Cold Damage Over 0 Secs (3 Frames) 
-5% to Enemy Cold Resistance 
+35% to Cold Skill Damage 
Lightning Resist +32% 
Fire Resist +26% 1 Sockets (1 used) 
Socketed: Rainbow Facet

Tyrael's Might 
Sacred Armor 
Defense: 1406 
Durability: 60 of 60 
Required Level: 84 
Fingerprint: 0x313b2e99 
Item Level: 87 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
Indestructible 
+20% Faster Run/Walk 
+8 to Maximum Damage 
+98% Damage to Demons 
Slain Monsters Rest in Peace 
+134% Enhanced Defense 
+29 to Strength 
All Resistances +24 
Lightning Resist +10% 
Cannot Be Frozen 
5% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items 
Requirements -100% 1 Sockets (1 used) 
Socketed: Viper Gyre

P.S. Not sure if I'll join yet.

[Pyrohemia]

:shocked:

[jdkerr]

Sign up list : 
bassano
scrcrw
Pyronoob
jdkerr

I'm in! Sapphire had better watch out for my wolfbarb.

As far as the controversies go:
* I have no problem with TGod's.
* Are you allowing 1.10s "Call to Arms"?

[skiffcz]

Screwup is that Ill be fully occupied by school until the the very day this is planned to start. Even through xmas, instead of chewing fish, Ill be feeding my brain turing machine stuff. And I abandoned all my RWM chars, and have no decent PvPer in vanilla yet.

But I have a fun build in mind, and game keeps dropping me things for it, so Ill give it a chance maybe, even if just as a cannon fodder.

Controversies:
No problems with TGods (it counts as two sources of sorb, nai?).
Also, no problems with any kind of buffing. These are duels right? People should be armed to their teeth.

Hm, better at least start lightly running LK for charms, here my lackage is serioustest

[bassano]

jdkerr: beta CtA are allowed

for now opinion take everything what you are able to carry in inventory seems more probably but I will wait for another opoinions

[Pyrohemia]

for now opinion take everything what you are able to carry in inventory seems more probably but I will wait for another opoinions

I don't think that you can make everyone forgo their stashes for buffing and yet still allow gear swapping for absorb or resist. It is decidedly unfair to allow someone to have an optimal gear setup for every occasion tucked away in their stash and yet not allow someone to use the items in their stash for buffing purposes.

I think you should either:
a) Make everyone play without ever visiting their stash.
or
b) Avoid prescribing what players can and can't do with the item slots available to them on their character and in their stash.

I would heartily advise the second option as that is what our pvp characters were designed for, whether or not certain builds put it to use.

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

suggestion: ban sapphire

(lol)

It is decidedly unfair to allow someone to have an optimal gear setup for every occasion tucked away in their stash and yet not allow someone to use the items in their stash for buffing purposes.

pvp tourney day: everyone comes with a fully loaded paladin. ;D

PROBLEM SOLVED

[nulio]

omg giebs nulio beta bramble :P and then I won't buff my sorc and complain not having weapons for my BvC

[NagisaFurukawa]

It is decidedly unfair to allow someone to have an optimal gear setup for every occasion tucked away in their stash and yet not allow someone to use the items in their stash for buffing purposes.

Relatively speaking, it's not unfair to have items like Thundergod's Vigor, Hotspur, Stormshield, different charms, etc. in your stash. You ultimate make a sacrifice of some sort to equip those items, and every character possible theoretically has access to it. Not every character can be given a "free" 95% ES at the cost of absolutely nothing except other people's time.

Don't get me wrong. I don't care if you want to allow prebuffing, and my characters rarely, if ever, bring gear for swapping to begin with. I just don't think it's fair to compare gear switches to buffing Sapphire's ES.

[frozzzen]

It seems like everyone got hooked on beta Brambles those days

Pyro you do realize that buffing puts some chracters in big disadvantage. What would amazon prebuff? Valkyrie? :( I understand that this is something that you made your chracter for, but buffing from skillers seems like a little over the edge. I can understand gear swap for higher ES lvl, heck I've done it myself. But buffing from skillers is just wrong. And prebuffing BO lvl with Shako,Maras, Sojs etc. This is probably most fake way of presenting chracter. I might be only one thinking that way tho.

Sapphire is very powerful character. With BvC being effectively banned from this tourney I don't see anything that can defeat her in 1v1 situation if we don't resort to 2 sorb items and that is not the way I'd like to play. Not with Hotspurs and Nokozan relic. I don't want to cripple your sorc, but swaping out enitire gear doesn't seem fair to me. Line must be drawn somewhere.

Like I said before, there is smaller issue with ATMA bugged hax then with prebuff.