~ Undeadcraft Tournament ~

[felixbavaria]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to allow Teleport (charges) for Nightmare type characters? After all, it's the speed skill par excellence ...

[Bogan]

Never tried to use a barb with just Grim ward before... Not even natural resistance or a couple of cries?

[Mezion]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to allow Teleport (charges) for Nightmare type characters? After all, it's the speed skill par excellence ...

Yes indeed that would make sense, I will add it to the list of skills available for him, ty for the suggestion

Never tried to use a barb with just Grim ward before... Not even natural resistance or a couple of cries?

If you're referring to the mummy, the main concentration of skills that it can use are from the Druid and Necromancer, but Grim Ward is allowed also since it's on theme and can be found on items (Grim Ward Charges). The skills section represent all the skills usable for that character. You can still make a barbarian if you want but it would be extreme :P

"ALIVE"
Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score
AchmelTheCursed   Mummy/Druid/Reaper/Shadow Affinity         pharphis        12     1    4
Katabatic         Vampire/Assassin/Reaper/Shadow Affinity    SunsetVista     1      1    0
JohnnyMnemonic    Banshee/Paladin/PathOfTears/Bonecraft      Mezion          10     1    4

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Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score

Now for my progression:

Johnny punched is way through the blood moor and den of evil. Some nice starting boots were found during the purging of the cave (Eth + Self-repair, hell yeah!).

JohnnyMnemonicAct1.jpg

After some level the no-weapon problem solved itself: I gambled for a Spiked shield and fortunately it generated "of Spikes" making it legit. It also have a great 5-9 smite damage so the smiting begins (and it gives a nice dark look ).

[felixbavaria]

"ALIVE"
Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score
AchmelTheCursed   Mummy/Druid/Reaper/Shadow Affinity         pharphis        12     1    4
Katabatic         Vampire/Assassin/Reaper/Shadow Affinity    SunsetVista     1      1    0
JohnnyMnemonic    Banshee/Paladin/PathOfTears/Bonecraft      Mezion          10     1    4
KaldiWintermaid   Wraith/Sorc/Witchcraft/Terror              felixbavaria     1     1    0

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Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score

OK you sucked me in. Thunderstorm / FO sorc it is. Going to start out with Ice Blast, that is.

Edit: So we can use skills provided by items that we are allowed to use because of our talent?

[Mezion]

OK you sucked me in. Thunderstorm / FO sorc it is. Going to start out with Ice Blast, that is.

Edit: So we can use skills provided by items that we are allowed to use because of our talent?

Yes. you can . I'll add the "Also any skill charge on these items may be used by the Character" line that was for Paths also to Talents since I forgot to specify :P

[logoutzero]

So, if I understand correctly, any vanilla D2 character can be any "Undeadcraft" character type, but they are limited to using the skills listed? If I grasp the concept, you merely sorted each character's skills by vanilla characters for the sake of familiarity?

As an example, I could play a Vampire built around vanilla's Barbarian, but would be limited to charges and oskills of the Assassin, Necromancer, and Paladin skills listed, correct?

[Mezion]

So, if I understand correctly, any vanilla D2 character can be any "Undeadcraft" character type, but they are limited to using the skills listed? If I grasp the concept, you merely sorted each character's skills by vanilla characters for the sake of familiarity?

As an example, I could play a Vampire built around vanilla's Barbarian, but would be limited to charges and oskills of the Assassin, Necromancer, and Paladin skills listed, correct?

Yes that is correct, you would be limited to that.

[Jocular]

I dunno how much time I'll have for this...but it looks like too much fun to pass on it! Can't wait to get started. And hopefully choosing reaper will pay off, I'm hoping to find 2 Gulls to hork with. Though having to spend 2 socket quests just for that might be a bad idea...Eh. We'll see if I even find 2 gulls.

Also I'd love to document Grunkle's journey, but the colors for Diablo II are a bit wacky for me if I try to print screen. I'm currently running it on Windows 7 with these compatibility settings:

Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
256 colors
Run program as admin

These are unchecked:

Run in 640x480
Disable visual themes
Disable desktop composition
Disable dsiplay scaling on high DPI settings

And that's pretty much it. Yet if I try alt-tabbing out and back into D2 the colors change, and if I try to print screen them it looks wrong when I copy it into paint, though everything looks fine while playing. It's very odd, I've never had this problem before. Anyone have any ideas?

I'd like some clarification on what skills are allowed. For GraveGolem I'm allowed to use Natural Resistance. However, the pre-req for that is Iron skin. Does that mean I can only use the skill Natural Resistance in regard to a Barb class helm giving +1-3 to it? I'm guessing no, but just wanted to be absolutely sure.
You say

Skills: Any of the listen skills can be used (from Skill Tree, Charges or gained from an Item)

and I'm guessing that the "skill tree" part of that sentence means we're allowed to put 1 to a skill if it's a pre-req for a specified skill for our Character?

"ALIVE"
Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score
AchmelTheCursed   Mummy/Druid/Reaper/Shadow Affinity         pharphis        12     1    4
Katabatic         Vampire/Assassin/Reaper/Shadow Affinity    SunsetVista     1      1    0
JohnnyMnemonic    Banshee/Paladin/PathOfTears/Bonecraft      Mezion          10     1    4
KaldiWintermaid   Wraith/Sorc/Witchcraft/Terror              felixbavaria     1     1    0
GrunkleStan       GraveGolem/Barb/Reaper/Shadow              Jocular          1     1    0
DEAD/RETIRED
Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score

P.S. Just noticed how difficult it's going to be to find any armor until I have a cube to craft some...should make my survival interesting beginning of Act 2, as Act 1 should be fine with just a weapon.

[Grisu]

Also I'd love to document Grunkle's journey, but the colors for Diablo II are a bit wacky for me if I try to print screen. I'm currently running it on Windows 7 with these compatibility settings:

Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
256 colors
Run program as admin

These are unchecked:

Run in 640x480
Disable visual themes
Disable desktop composition
Disable dsiplay scaling on high DPI settings

Do you run "diablo ii.exe" or "game.exe"?

I have win 7 and have no problems at all: I run "game.exe" with
windows XP (service pack 3)
disable dekstop composition
run program as admin

IIRC the crucial part to get it to work was "disable desktop composition". Oh, and I play in windowed mode (-w in the command line), don't know if that makes any difference..


very nice tourney btw! Haven't had one roleplay centered one since Wolron's last tourneys, I think...unfortunately, I still have 10 or 11 tournament characters in progress (even one from the Afterlife tournament and from the tourney before: the obsession tourney), so I won't be able to participate :sad: good luck everyone!

[Mezion]

And that's pretty much it. Yet if I try alt-tabbing out and back into D2 the colors change, and if I try to print screen them it looks wrong when I copy it into paint, though everything looks fine while playing. It's very odd, I've never had this problem before. Anyone have any ideas?

It used to do the same thing for me. I switched to windowed mode and could take screenshot without a problem (using in game screenshot, just set it up to a key, aka print screen :P). Only "problem" with windowed mode is that it turns of the perspective :P

I'd like some clarification on what skills are allowed. For GraveGolem I'm allowed to use Natural Resistance. However, the pre-req for that is Iron skin. Does that mean I can only use the skill Natural Resistance in regard to a Barb class helm giving +1-3 to it? I'm guessing no, but just wanted to be absolutely sure.
You say (...)

and I'm guessing that the "skill tree" part of that sentence means we're allowed to put 1 to a skill if it's a pre-req for a specified skill for our Character?

Yes you're right; you can put a point in a Skill if it’s a preReq to another (iron skin). But you cannot put additional points in that Skill after that.

P.S. Just noticed how difficult it's going to be to find any armor until I have a cube to craft some...should make my survival interesting beginning of Act 2, as Act 1 should be fine with just a weapon.

Lol for me it's the inverse :P I have only clothing and a shield so far :P. I'm relying on "Smiting" my enemies down and letting Thorns kill them (Running around fallen to remove my armor bonus so they can kill themself on me is very nice). My Merc is so bad it's hilarious, letting her getting kill with Thorns is actually... good. No love from the Banshee, not even to Merc.

DiePlz.jpg

very nice tourney btw! Haven't had one roleplay centered one since Wolron's last tourneys, I think...unfortunately, I still have 10 or 11 tournament characters in progress (even one from the Afterlife tournament and from the tourney before: the obsession tourney), so I won't be able to participate :sad: good luck everyone!

Thank you! That's a lot of Tournament characters :P And don't worry, there's no rush.

"ALIVE"
Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score
AchmelTheCursed   Mummy/Druid/Reaper/Shadow Affinity         pharphis        12     1    4
Katabatic         Vampire/Assassin/Reaper/Shadow Affinity    SunsetVista     1      1    0
JohnnyMnemonic    Banshee/Paladin/PathOfTears/Bonecraft      Mezion          14     1    6
KaldiWintermaid   Wraith/Sorc/Witchcraft/Terror              felixbavaria     1     1    0
GrunkleStan       GraveGolem/Barb/Reaper/Shadow              Jocular          1     1    0

DEAD/RETIRED
Character Name----Type/Class/Path/Talent---------------------Forum Name----Level--Act--Score