Tournament: Envious of the Green and Gold

[jiansonz]

@Merlin: nice write-up. How ironic if she will actually use a bow...
I played a Concentrate Barbarian in the first S/U worshipper tourney. Really slow at times but pretty good in the late game when I could upgrade my Shael-ed Fleshrender to elite. He also had decent resists and over 2300 life.

@RIP: good luck with your FoH character. That is a build I'd like to try some day.



Martina and Telash made it through the temples without worry. There was a big snake- and beetle pack in the last temple that made me glad I had Decoy and a good bottleneck to face them in.

Green of the day: Sigon's Wrap. That's my third green belt but it can't beat the Arctic combp at this stage. I hope to collect a nice Sigon's 3-combo. Most 3-combos are good. You may have gloves for big IAS, boots for MF and faster run, helm for big AR boost, shield for good blocking, etc.


Martina the Amazon and Telash the Cold Mage, level 31, 10 S/U items equipped, Travincal next

[RIP]

Thanks jian, it was very easy so far, Thor is now lvl 12, using white scepter with + 3 Holy fire almost exclusively, and i don't think this will be changed in A1...Also found my first set item - Arctic furs which dissapointed me a bit, i hoped that topazed armors will last much longer...I will do real update after finishing A1...

Btw.: I've created similiar tourney not long time ago, but it was on different forum (Czech players only) and it had much more restricted rules - only Unique items could be used, at the beginning and till uniques are found, only items from A1 Normal were allowed (and white and grey ones only), and also type of character and skill points were choosed by random genretaror - Normal difficulty was sometimes as tough as some Hell areas :-)

[Kitteh]

Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Rocky Waste         20          2
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0

Still only 2 set/uniques! They're a good combination though; 35 life/life leech/15@res/hit blinds target.

[crawlingdeadman]

Getting cdm to make a workable table is almost impossible. Thats why I end up doing it for our mp groups.

I really like the idea of this tourney, so I'll probably join, but not at this exact moment.

Nonsense, I make perfectly good tables. I just don't like screwing other people's tables up, nor fixing mistakes. I just don't really get why everyone's still using code tables since they added perfectly good table tools to the forum.

Edit:

Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Rocky Waste         20          2
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains         7           0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0

There, took the time to add my character, though I didn't use his name since it's too long to fit.

[Jason Maher]

We're all doing it purely to spite you, Leafman.

[crawlingdeadman]

We're all doing it purely to spite you, Leafman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LnVIo3Bwzs#t=17s

[Tox FTW]

Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Rocky Waste         20          2
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains         7           0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0

Tipsey danced right through act 1 and 2 with only 5 or 6 NDEs. Pitspawn Fouldog was definitely the closest NDE. A melee character has no business jumping into the middle of a cursed boss pack with all white items, no leech, low life, and no resists. I had forgotten this fact.

Dragon Talon has proven to be a decent skill early on, even without any bonuses from items. Once I got a Shadow Warrior everything moved along much more smoothly. The only S/U was a Greyform in the Jail lvl 2. Andy and Duriel dropped 4 rares each. :( I hate to guess how many rares I've left laying on the ground through the first 2 acts. Even yellow and green jewels aren't dropping (zero so far).

Tipsey the Assassin, level 25, 1 S/U item equipped, Kurast Docks

[jiansonz]

Mephisto has been defeated. I switched to players 3* for that fight and whipped out Crushflange. I so love that I have a Crushing Blow weapon for the act boss fights. They would have been much tougher otherwise. I was a bit worried about my low lightning resist, but once you are into melee with Mephisto, he does not use much lightning attacks. Plus I could get him to attack the Decoy more than me. Telash was barely hit at all. (OTOH, Conviction Bremm managed to kill him)

(* The spawning point for Mephisto is around when you get in line with the entrances to the side rooms (those with Wyand and Maffer). I know this because I always had a short lag here when I had a slower computer.)

The drop had three golds and greens: Steelclash, Cleglaw's Tooth and Sigon's Gage. Steelclash was a major upgrade. 58% blocking compared to 45% on the old shield, plus resists and other stuff.
I now have three green pairs of gloves, each with the option of 1-2 more items in the set.
Cleglaw's sword does pretty good damage combined with the gloves, but that means I give up 20+50 life and IAS from the Arctic gloves and 3-set bonuses. Not sure yet what I want to use in Act 4.

Starting to fill up my slots now. Second ring slot is still empty. Both helms, one shield and my boots are still grey/white. Current MF is 91% for Telash's kills and 66% otherwise. That will drop if I find an S/U helm (unless it's Tarnhelm or Sander's Paragon).

The maximum number of S/Us you can wear is 16 but since my planned skills require two-handed weapons (with the possible exception of the tiny chance of a unique javelin), I am probably looking at 14 in the endgame (13 if I switch to another type of merc).


Martina the Amazon and Telash the Cold Mage, level 32, 11 S/U items equipped, Outer Steppes next

[Kitteh]

Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Arcane Sanctuary    25          7
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains         7           0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0

Briony the Assassin, level 25, 7 S/U item equipped, Arcane Sanctuary


Uniques/Sets Equipped;

• Cleglaw's Pincers
• Blood Crescent
• Umbral Disk
• Sander's Riprap
• Death's Guard
• Horadric Amulet
• Gnasher (switch, for bosses)

Other highlight; 11@res GC.

I've gambled so many bleedin' daggers!

Edit: I just realised that you can't use quest items, luckily I stopped playing after I got the amulet!

[Archone]

Ive never done anything like this! So Im in for a try! Chicken style though!

Wish me luck!

Archone Chicken Necromancer Rogue Camp 1 0


EDIT: Oh, and please tell me how you do that table!