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[2018] Tournament: Set/Unique Worshippers 2017 [by jiansonz]
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Wow, that is some wonderful luck she’s having with not much MF! Very useful drops indeed. That’s was a great roll on the Valkyrie mods, did she have both poison and amped damage? Good luck in NM.jiansonz said:As expected, my new Prayer buddy had no problem killing the critters on the Foothills and the Highlands so that I could get to save the barbarians and hire one that I could equip with the mighty Bloodletter.
Almost halfway through the Foothills, Sigon's Shelter dropped. This was great, because I wanted a helm/armor with potential to last a long way to socket a topaz in. Here was one with good lightning resist (sometimes hard to come by) and with a number of good partial set combos. But I needed 10 more Strength to be able to wear it, and had no saved points at this time. It worked out perfectly, though, because Viri gained two level-ups here, the last one on Shenk himself. So now she is back up from zero to 27% MF (Perfect topaz and a Lucky charm).
I dunno if that 27% helped, if I was just lucky or simply that the act is so darn big (and the phenomenon with ilvls being too low for some S/Us fading out more and more) but there was quite the haul to be had during the rest of the act:
Berserker's Hatchet (Frigid Highlands)
Sigon's Shelter #2 (Crystalline Passage)
Blinkbat's Form (Bonesaw Breaker)
Sigon's Guard (Halls of Vaught)
Angelic Halo (Nihlathak)
The Chieftain (Frozen Tundra)
The Diggler (Frozen Tundra)
Cathan's Seal (Ancients' Way)
Isenhart's Case (Throne level)
Venom Ward (Baal)
Tancred's Crowbill (Moo Moo Farm)
Not much to say about the gameplay. My barbarian merc Lanth (and then Damien from WSK 3 and onward*) simply owned everything. Viri has now maxed Decoy and taken Valkrie to level 7. I'd like to keep it there for a while, because there may come a time when my merc wears MF stuff and then I don't want the Valkyrie to steal kills for him/her. A level 7 Valkyrie uses a rare Spear while a level 8 Valkyrie uses a rare Lance (around 8x higher base damage!). Of course, now that I have found Sigon's Guard, I can choose between a Valkyrie that just tanks or one that can actually kill.
Useful Valkyrie weapon mod:
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Viri tried out the Chieftain. She liked it so much that she spent a hefty number of stat points to be able to wield this:
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I don't usually have my band attack Achmel's pack head-on, but merc + Valkyrie were so strong that I did so here. Viri's job was to smack down those Death Mages as they kept rising:
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I still have white/grey items in my gloves/belt/boots slots. All of them are Demonhide items. Gloves are ethereal (5 durability left - I have spare whites if they break).
(* Why switch mercs? I wanted to get the XP for the suicide bombers on WSK 2 so I hired a temporary Cold Iron Wolf for that level. His damage and my Chieftain were enough not to make it tedious. We failed to gain XP for only two of the bombers)
Viridissima the (still!) undecided Amazon and Damien the barbarian mecenary, level 48, NM Rogue Encampment
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I feel your pain, Wuzhul has found two Amulets with +1 Necro and the rare one had some other very useful resistance mods as well.Wolron said:
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Destroyer Jathnolf, level 50, NM Black Marsh
Just a brief update here. I've slogged through the monsters as far as the Countess. It's been fine except for some nasty LE bosses, which included Treehead Woodfist. Treehead vs Oakbrain, it was an ugly fight but the forces of Light prevailed with the help of more than a few full rejuvs.
Tristram was unusually tame, with the only annoyance being an Unholy Freeze aura Griswold. I aggroed him early by either bad luck or carelessness, and his freeze effect made it impossible for Jathnolf to deal with the usual scrum of monsters in the middle of the village. I had to howl away a lot of monsters and then kite Griswold out to the north.
My first Exceptional Unique dropped in the Black Marsh: the sharkskin gloves Gravepalm. Not immediately useful, and rolled with average stats. Even so, the big increase to damage against the undead means I'll keep them around for the next act where I think they'll do sterling service in all those tombs. The Countess dropped a Thul, if you're interested.
Up next: the Hole, then the Pit.
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@Drystan: Iron Druid Chronicoles remind me of the Dresden Files from what you said about it...maybe I should give it a try! Loved the Dresden Files.
@all: I've been away for some time. Back then it was considered standard to post links to pics instead of posting the pics themselves. Also, there was no way for non-premium members to attach pics to a post, so we had to use external sites to host pictures. That was before everybody had broadband, though
Thanks to the flu I made rapid progress while being sick at home...
Oberon found his 4th Gem Shrine and was overall lucky with his Gem drops. I managed to get the full set of flawed Topazes for my merc and me and made a 50% MF Breast Plate
Apparently this helped, because I shortly after found Civerb's Ward with Pluckeye just around the corner (yes, as a rule of thumb, I do the Sewers after getting the Horadric Cube)
When I obtained the Horadric Staff, I was unstoppable for some time, because of the inherent 50%IAS. Does anyone know, what base item type the game uses für the Staff of Kings/the Horadric Staff? Whatever it uses, this thing is fast...With 250 damage per hit with Fire Claws and this thing, I breezed through Act II...until this dropped and I had to either equip both Pluckeye and Shadowfang or had to leave my merc weaponless:
I won't complain though - an upgraded Shadowfang is usually able to take you through NM and Hell, although for my build IAS is far more important than Weapon damage...
Then ... nothing. My streak of luck with S/Us ended. On the bright side, I ended Duriel's life, too. Without any problems at all. Havin 600 life and doing lots of fire damage apparently helps when facing Duriel
My S/Us so far (in the order they dropped):
Infernal Cranium
Hsarus' Iron Fist
Nagelring
Civerb's Ward
Pluckyey
Shadowfang
Oberon, Level 28 Fire Claws Druid, and Haseen, the Defiance Town Guard, Normal Kurast Docks next
EDIT: What happened to using tables btw? I usually find it helpful to keep track of the participants, even if there is no winner declared
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I think the software limits it to 10 pictures per post.Grisu said:
[URL='https://www.diabloii.net/forums/goto/post?id=8828751']Grisu said:
Couldn't you have given Pluckeye to a merc and kept going with the Horadric Staff?
(until you had to 'use' it in the orifice)
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EDIT: What happened to using tables btw? I usually find it helpful to keep track of the participants, even if there is no winner declared
Yeah, we've reached the stage where a table would indeed be useful. I've just forgotten to make one. You are very welcome to make one, I'd be thankful. If you do not, I'll make one soon.
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Would have had to switch back to a Rogue merc though, which I didn't want to do - but yeah, would have been possiblejiansonz said:
btw, do quest items have the same status as other uniques? Say I find a unique Polearm weapon for my merc, may I equip Khalim's Flail on my character and stash Pluckeye for some time? All 3 weapon slots would be equipped with Sets/Uniques in that case.
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I have one almost finished, if you give me another 24-36 hours, then I can post it
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(And third weapon slot has Shadowfang, right?)Grisu said:
Yes, you can do that.
(You can view quest items as 'wildcard' items, because they won't force you away from white/grey weapons if those slots are still open to them.)
Grisu said:I have one almost finished, if you give me another 24-36 hours, then I can post it
Great.
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AndrewNiteTorch has taken the reins from my other tournament character (final update in the other tourney thread hopefully soon) and moved along at a fairly slow clip. In the jail, he found his third S/U weapon, the Dragon Chang.
While good that it is a nice weapon for an act 2 merc, which is what I plan on using for at least the rest of normal difficulty, it did take away my current merc's ability to use her weapon, and she did the vast majority of the damage for the team. So, the Gull dagger had to pull offensive duties, with the help of a level 4 might aura, in taking down the rest of the creatures in act I. The merc did what she could with her bare hands and the Biggins' Bonnet.
There were lots of these guys.
Pitspawn showed up early and restricted our maneuver space.
We got a green BP in the catacombs so we lost our merc's magic finding. Andariel died to multiple stab wounds to the ankles and thighs and dropped her usual.
Act 2 saw the town guard replace the rogue and finally AndrewNiteTorch can relax a bit and let the merc do the work while he collects the goodies. Biggins' Bonnet plus level 4 might plus 100% damage to undead on the weapon makes for a stout killer at this stage of the game.
AndrewNiteTorch, level 23 paladin, Dry Hills
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Habacalva, Level 22 Melee Enchantress, Dry Hills, Sets/Uniques Found: 3
Habacalva found a Cleglaw's Claw halfway through Act 1 (but missing screenshot) and then found another Cleglaw's Claw:
Habacalva finally unlocked her true potential at level 18 and began to learn the art of Enchanting her weapons. This made the most innocuous items, powerful weapons in the right hands.
Andariel fell to Habacalva and Gaile, the Cold Rogue, but she was not carrying anything of value:
When they reached Lut Gholein, it was with great sadness that Habacalva bid Gaile goodbye:
Waheed, a Combat Desert Mercenary, joined Habacalva in Gaile's stead and they pressed on. Waheed discovered the Arctic Binding which Habacalva reluctantly wore...for her existing belt had many more slots. The set belt did provide some useful Cold Resistance. It was though Gaile's spirit had stayed with Habacalva and even now watched over her:
Radamant fell to the poisonous, flame enchanted Trident that Waheed wielded:
Habacalva had reached the Dry Hills waypoint but could continue no further for her arms were weary after countless swings of her tiny, green sacred globe.
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