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Re: Is there any interest in a Classic "Tournament"?

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I'll give an actual update this time. :grin:

I've settled on the idea of going with a Mageazon. Reason being, I have a bow in LoD that I want to use for the style points. And since I'm having trouble effectively testing it out I'm going to give it to an amazon and go strafer there. So I'll try out Classic with a mage.

I've reached the Outer Cloister at level 11. Nothing really out of the ordinary so far, and no scares either. Until about level 7 I was using a short sword and cutting up demons left, right and center, but that got boring quickly. So I shopped a 3os bow, and dropped a chippy emerald and topaz in there. Still waiting for a chipped sapphire to add some freeze to the mix, but for the moment the odd shot of Cold Arrow works well enough.

I'm not sure on the final skills. I'm thinking of using a synergised Freezing Arrow, using a partially synergised Exploding Arrow as the backup. I'm split though as to whether I should put points into Decoy or Valkrie as my distraction. Decoy can be acquired earlier, and saves a few skill points (which are probably going to be tight), but Valkryie could fight back and add some physical damage for cold immunes. Not sure here.
 
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Finished up the Fishyzon that I was playing before, so now I'm ready to join this tournament. I'll be playing a sorceress, who I think will be specializing in Blizzard and Fireball, but haven't completely decided on that yet.

I'm a bit hazy on all of the differences between LoD and Classic, hence my indecision. Hopefully I'll figure them all out before I have to make a hard decision as to what to make.

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@Mursillis: Faint heart never won fair maid - you don't need to bother doing any research, just wade on in with your strategy based on memories and half-baked ideas about what you think might work :grin: Nothing can possibly go wrong with that attitude - my concbarb is by no means the slowest and most boooring character I've ever made...
 
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Sorry for bumping, I'd just like to make the list looks nice :)

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EmperorMoo      Bors              Concbarb        21      Lost City (RIP)

Took my concbarb out for a stretch in the Lost City today, but ended up deeds to a pack of Tomb Jumpers. It was not an entirely accidental deeds, as he was doing 5-63 damage at time of death.

Deeds image: http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/2425/pantsbarb.jpg

I think it could be entirely possible that Concentration is the slowest killing skill in the game. I mean, seriously, what's he concentrating on? Algebra? Ancient Greek? C++? Because it certainly isn't killing things. /rant over


Anyhow, have created a zon to get myself back in the game - she'll be a combo bow/spearazon, with skills made up as i go along and as equipment dictates. Surely she can't do any worse...
 
Re: Is there any interest in a Classic "Tournament"?

Sorry to hear about the demise of your barb.

This however, is gold :alright:
I think it could be entirely possible that Concentration is the slowest killing skill in the game. I mean, seriously, what's he concentrating on? Algebra? Ancient Greek? C++? Because it certainly isn't killing things.



 
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I think it could be entirely possible that Concentration is the slowest killing skill in the game. I mean, seriously, what's he concentrating on? Algebra? Ancient Greek? C++? Because it certainly isn't killing things. /rant over

Yep Concentration barbs can be a challenge to get through, as they've no area of effect attack, especially on /players8 they suffer in my experience. On players1 however you can often buy those poison potions, which takes care of most of act2, and a lot of act3 for increased speed. When you get warcry though they're great fun.

Anyhow, have created a zon to get myself back in the game - she'll be a combo bow/spearazon, with skills made up as i go along and as equipment dictates. Surely she can't do any worse...

Good luck with the amazon. :)


 
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I was trying to die to the scimitar (for my lamest HC death ever), but the Tomb Reaver got me instead...
 
Re: Is there any interest in a Classic "Tournament"?

I was trying to die to the scimitar (for my lamest HC death ever), but the Tomb Reaver got me instead...

When I was a b.net kiddie I remember being rushed once on hardcore, my friend who was very experienced was also very carefull, making sure I was in safe spots, no monsters would harm me, etc.

Well he had made a road for me and I remember that I played it like softcore, not really thinking about what I did, somewhere along the way he suddenly saw the following message:

<Insert forgotten name> was slain by a trap

Or something like that, don't really remember, oh man he got mad at me, and it was actually him doing me a favor, but I follow, I mean we had gotten to some place in hell at that time IIRC, though it's very vague by now.


 
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I was looking through my characters and realized that I never seriously played a WW barb. Now you cant call yourself a diablo 2 player unless youve played a ww barb so I guess I have to do it. This tournament complements the simplified playstyle of the WW barb enough for me to try it. Ill update whenever I get through act 1 (I hate act1normal)
 
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EmperorMoo      Bors              Concbarb        21      Lost City (RIP)
EmperorMoo      GudrunII          Amazon           7      Dark Wood (RIP)

I've been away for a few days (damn you work and RL), came back to play yesterday, and managed to get Gudrun killed by Treehead Woodfist. Yes, Treehead Woodfist. /P8 + Spectral Hit can be a nasty combo.

GudrunII will hopefully get a bit further...
 
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EmperorMoo      GudrunII          Amazon           7      Dark Wood (RIP)

I've been away for a few days (damn you work and RL), came back to play yesterday, and managed to get Gudrun killed by Treehead Woodfist. Yes, Treehead Woodfist. /P8 + Spectral Hit can be a nasty combo.

GudrunII will hopefully get a bit further...

I think you made a mistake to place GudrunII on both lists, where it sohuld probably have been Gudrun on the lower list and not GudrunII :)


 
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R.I.P. to the fallen

the pace is a little bit slower in classic, but i like it. Mercs are reduced to mere sidekicks and in the end it all depends on your char. It takes the desert merc ages to kill anything on P5 even with support of concentration aura. The damage output of blessed hammer is slowly increasing (and so is my mana-potion addiction :whistling:).

@ EmperorMoo: I renamed GudrunII in the "deeds table" to Gudrun. I hope GudrunII is still alive and killing :wink:.

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EmperorMoo      Gudrun            Amazon           7      Dark Wood (RIP)
 
Re: Is there any interest in a Classic "Tournament"?

Bump

So how is everyone doing?

Team 1.00 is still on a break here, though I suppose, unless 1.13 comes out, that we'll continue in between now and the next 2 months.
 
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So i finally finished what I was doin' before, and did a fresh install of D2 1.00!

When I started the game, the first thing I did was hit /p 8 lol...

So far so good, savin' my skill points for when I get to some higher levels, although it may take a while to get up there... I will get some more playtime tomorrow though.
 
So apparently there wasn't all that much interest, since I had to go back to page 11 to find this. :dontknow:

Either way decided to finally take Mirax for a spin. She didn't have too much of an issue with the first act. Started off whacking everything in sight, then switched over to a single point Fire bolt after finding a staff that gave +3 to that skill.

This worked well until level 12 when Fireball became available, and then Mirax simply mowed everything down. She does drink mana pots on a constant basis. I'm looking at getting an IV setup for her.

As expected, her rogue mercenary was pretty much useless. She did an ok job as a distraction, but not able to significantly damage even a Fallen. What I didn't realize at first was that in Classic one is not able to give potions to the mercenary. So Mirax was happily drinking potions while the merc died constantly. Since I normally don't play with the DII music on, it took quite a while to figure out that Mirax was using the potion and not the mercenary. This will definitely be an issue later on.

Another thing that came as a suprise, no weapon switch. Not that this is such a huge issue, but I normally like to have a weapon with the plus Static Field mod on it to increase range when fighting bosses. Apparently going to have to do without this time around.

Also haven't found a single orb yet. Don't know if that's a Classic issue or just my bad luck.

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