Collateral.Damage said:
[2015] The Committed Tournament [by kestegs]
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Southpaw8668 said:Krelos and Oriana have completed Act II on /p8 and have some good leveling to show for it. Entering Act III we are changing things up a bit, by adding more power to our mages and removing three skeleton warriors. The mages seem very adept at shooting fast movers over the rivers and canals in Act III, which should be a nice change up. They also provide nice scouting behavior in the dark underground places when they start firing at monster quite a ways off.
During our travels through Act II we managed to find quite a few runes, gems, Isenhart's armor and sword and Duriel dropped the Beserker helm. Krelos is wearing the Isenhart's pieces on his switch, which he'll probably never use unless really necessary later on. Oriana now wears the Berzerker's helm providing her with max FR.
Decent gambled circlet for a Lord of Mages:
Krelos and Oriana, Level 28, Starting Act III
GooberGrape said:
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kestegs said:
felixbavaria said:Act II is done. /p8 all the way.
Two notable unique items: Nokozan Relic and The Diggler. Too bad that Cisa can't dual wield a dagger and a claw.
The Duriel fight was not exactly easy this time, and we did have to portal out once to restock on potions. The problem was that once we rushed Duriel, Elexa would get into the range of his Holy Freeze aura. We portal parked Duriel on the opposite side of the entrance, then re-entered and cast a Shadow in his face. This did the trick - he kept his position long enough for Elexa to engage him, and the rest was history.
Ethereal failed unique Blade Talons, meh. But the ring is useful, with LR, GF, and AR.
Cisa, Elexa and Shadow, level 27, Kurast Docks
Dezrok said:
jiansonz said:Don't think so. His look more like the Bone Mages in Act 1.Dezrok said:
Probably different monsters, although Bloodwitch the Wild could theoretically drop both.Dezrok said:
Dezrok said:
You think of Duriel of as a female demon? Pretty manly voice, I'd say, but you never know with demons.
So would this entity be the Lady of Pain, then? I thought she was in another (awesome) game...
Wow, that sounds big. How far from the screen are your eyes? Too close and one would risk losing a good overview.Dezrok said:
Nice going with Marita. Assassins are interesting in this tourney, as all of her skill trees seem to allow for decently playable builds.
Azimuthus said:
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Southpaw8668 said:Ema has slain Duriel on /p8, which was a rather nervy fight. I wasn't a bit surprised nevertheless. My forethought was to enter the chamber, chuck a poison javelin in his face, throw up a portal, switch and nail him a few times with my newly made Malice broad sword and bone shield of deflection. This sword was slightly slower than my Steel crystal sword, but I decided to give it a shot with the doubled chance of OW, ITD and -TD.
This wasn't going well with Ema's low CR, even after chugging thawing potions she was barely making any contact. So, she took the portal grabbed the rest of the full purples in the stash and tried to just use Poison Javelin and run laps while he was slightly chilled from the cold charms. This approach was working slowly, which I was a bit surprised given my poison damage with Poison Javelin.
Once again, back to town for more health potions and now that I have used all my full purples, I was becoming slightly worried as he was still above half health and not dropping as quickly as I had hoped. Plan C on the fly, I switched to Plague Javelins with lower, much quicker poison potential and presto his health started to drop big time when I lapped him since he was slightly slowed and circling around in the Plague Javelin clouds!!! What a relief and I actually had some health potions left when he finally fell. Leaving a decent drop I suppose for no MF. The only item of any use was the charm adding some more needed FR and additional poison damage. I can't even keep the unique sword for my Iron Wolf, since it is a two hander. I'm hoping to have the runes to eventually make him duel Spirits anyway, or something with FCR.
Ema the Green Javizon, Level 27.98, Act III start.
jiansonz said:
Dezrok said:I was sure one was wearing a "Mago" t-shirtjiansonz said:
jiansonz said:You think of Duriel of as a female demon? Pretty manly voice, I'd say, but you never know with demons.
So would this entity be the Lady of Pain, then? I thought she was in another (awesome) game...
Actually I think of Duriel as genderless but didn't want to offend by calling it an 'it'. But I met a women once with a voice like Duriel, so wouldn't like to judge on that alone.
jiansonz said:
It's nice to be sitting back a bit. Makes a change from hunched over the laptop peering into dark corners looking for baskets. And not so big that there is risk of losing a good overview. I have noticed a lot of detail in the graphics that I've never noticed before though. It's almost like a new game.
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Southpaw8668 said:
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Pb_pal said:Okay, I said I would enter once I was finished with Calabi, so welcome Yau the Titan Mauling Grizzly to the mix.
He will focus on Maul and Shockwave to stun everyone into oblivion while he smacks them around, and use almost exclusively 2-handed weapons (as soon as he can equip one, anyways). He will use an Act V merc for even more two-handed stunning fun. That is, assuming he can make it that far by himself. Normal will be played on /players 8. Let's get started!
Yau started his journey by throwing away his shield (he doesn't believe in them) and smacking things around with his club until he had the strength and money to buy and equip a 2-socketed Large Axe. He stuffed a chipped emerald and chipped sapphire in there once he found them and went on his way, ripping through everything. Once we got to level 6 and got a point in Werebear, things just took off. While shifted his life total is quite high despite base vitality, and having all points going into strength means he's doing quite a bit of damage for this stage of the game.
Blood raven's bow had ctc amp and chilling, so she was the first monster that made Yau drink some potions. Despite that, she still died pretty quickly:
After that it was smooth sailing again, even Coldrow and Griswold didn't give him any trouble. We did however meet up with this nasty pack of archers in the Underground Passage. They hold the title of first monsters to make Yau's life dip below half. We knew this breezy ride wouldn't last forever, as the monsters' damage starts to catch up with Yau's life total he will begin having a tough time. Oh well, we're just going to enjoy it for as long as we can.
We had one scary moment in the Countess' tower, where he unshifted in the middle of fighting a champ pack of ghosts. With a couple quick rejuvs and some running, we were able to shift back and take care of them without any major danger. We definitely have to get used to remebering to re-shift to refresh the timer at slow spots. The Countess dropped us half of a "Steel' weapon:
Like we predicted, things started to slow down in the Catacombs. Yau had to start being more careful and using the doorways to funnel monsters. It is good practice for later, as it's going to be interesting to try and make it all the way to Harrogath before having any help. Shockwave will help once we get there, but we have to get there first.
Andariel was pretty straightforward. We led her over to the stairs and came back through our portal to clear out the level so we could take her on alone. Then we ran back and took her on, buffed with antidotes and with more in the belt:
Even with the increased PR, we had to portal out a few times. So with a few town trips it was over, and her drop was unexciting, but what more can you expect with 0 MF? I'm actually really enjoying playing with 0 MF, it's a cool dynamic and a nice change.
Finds:
- Cleglaw's Shield; useless for Yau, but it was our only S/U.
Yau the Titan Mauler Bear - lvl 20, Lut Gholein
kestegs said:
Southpaw8668 said:Pb_pal said:Okay, I said I would enter once I was finished with Calabi, so welcome Yau the Titan Mauling Grizzly to the mix.
He will focus on Maul and Shockwave to stun everyone into oblivion while he smacks them around, and use almost exclusively 2-handed weapons (as soon as he can equip one, anyways). He will use an Act V merc for even more two-handed stunning fun. That is, assuming he can make it that far by himself
Yau started his journey by throwing away his shield (he doesn't believe in them) and smacking things around with his club until he had the strength and money to buy and equip a 2-socketed Large Axe. He stuffed a chipped emerald and chipped sapphire in there once he found them and went on his way, ripping through everything. Once we got to level 6 and got a point in Werebear, things just took off. While shifted his life total is quite high despite base vitality, and having all points going into strength means he's doing quite a bit of damage for this stage of the game.
Blood raven's bow had ctc amp and chilling, so she was the first monster that made Yau drink some potions. Despite that, she still died pretty quickly:
After that it was smooth sailing again, even Coldrow and Griswold didn't give him any trouble. We did however meet up with this nasty pack of archers in the Underground Passage. They hold the title of first monsters to make Yau's life dip below half. We knew this breezy ride wouldn't last forever, as the monsters' damage starts to catch up with Yau's life total he will begin having a tough time. Oh well, we're just going to enjoy it for as long as we can.
We had one scary moment in the Countess' tower, where he unshifted in the middle of fighting a champ pack of ghosts. With a couple quick rejuvs and some running, we were able to shift back and take care of them without any major danger. We definitely have to get used to remebering to re-shift to refresh the timer at slow spots. The Countess dropped us half of a "Steel' weapon:
Like we predicted, things started to slow down in the Catacombs. Yau had to start being more careful and using the doorways to funnel monsters. It is good practice for later, as it's going to be interesting to try and make it all the way to Harrogath before having any help. Shockwave will help once we get there, but we have to get there first.
Andariel was pretty straightforward. We led her over to the stairs and came back through our portal to clear out the level so we could take her on alone. Then we ran back and took her on, buffed with antidotes and with more in the belt:
Even with the increased PR, we had to portal out a few times. So with a few town trips it was over, and her drop was unexciting, but what more can you expect with 0 MF? I'm actually really enjoying playing with 0 MF, it's a cool dynamic and a nice change.
Finds:
- Cleglaw's Shield; useless for Yau, but it was our only S/U.
Yau the Titan Mauler Bear - lvl 20, Lut Gholein
Funny, Ema the Green got the same Raven roll on her fight, which didn't help her much because of Ema's quickness and ranged poison attack really frustrated poor Red.
Dezrok said:Marita has defeated Mephisto and cleared Act 3. All smooth sailing.
Some gambling at the start of the Act netted us this rare belt. The 24% FHR allowed us to reach the 48 breakpoint with just the Stealth armor. Handy preparation for all those Flayers to come. Then before tackling the tombs I decided to make Nadir, the CoS charges would be handy for dealing with stair traps in the temples. At the same time I cubed my 3 Tals and 2 Rals into an Ort and made a Zephyr comp bow, handy for any Water Watchers that were out of reach. In the end I was able to reach all the Water Watchers with a kick, so didn't need the missile attack at all. The only near stair trap was this one and it didn't need anything except our kicks.
In Kurast Bazaar we were able to get our first Pgem, a Topaz, using a gem shrine. Then after defeating the Council in Trav I realised I'd forgotten to mule back on Khalim's relics. So a S+E after finishing the clear, mule on the relics, make Khalim's Will (which would have been a pretty handy kicker weapon), then run into the temple, dodge the Council, smash the Orb, dodge some more while waiting for the smoke to clear and the passage to the Durance to open and dive down the hole away from the Council. Fun!
Meph was easily tanked at a cost of 2 blue pots. 2x 3% ll rings are plenty to keep our health bulb full at the moment. His drop was Steelgoad and a pile of yellows. The only other S/U for the Act was Bladebone back in the Flayer Jungle.
In summary, Marita is super strong at the moment and very little gives her trouble. AR with Dragon Talon is over 3K so she doesn't miss much. Even dolls don't slow her down (yet). Along with the Nadir, there is a rare amp dam Blade Talons in the stash for dealing with any PIs that come along, although we now have a few points in PS and that may be a better option. Never having used PS before I probably should start practicing with it a bit, before I really need it.
This rare circlet was gambled and made me very happy (that might be an under-statement):
Marita the Kicker, Lvl 32, Normal Act 4, Pandemonium Fortress
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