I liked the idea of this tourney and figured it would be a good start on getting some gear as a new player. Not sure if it fits in this category, my weekends are not the same as a typical person so I started the timer at 10pm Monday night and just ended it at 3:59 am. This fits in the 54 hour time blocks.
I used an untwinked sorc. I spent a lot of time in game during the 54 hour time blocks. I finished act 1 in about an hour and about an hour for act 2. I stopped counting after that
I started with charged bolt and went into nova. My build suffered about mid way through act 2 until act 5 in normal. I learned a few ways to optimize it if I decide to do this again.
In act 5 normal after I hit 32 (doing baal runs) I respected into a FO sorc.
NM was pretty straight forward. TPed around and got some exp.
I struggled through hell. I tried to do it level 59 and level to 60 along the way as some speed runners do but I couldn't do it. I kept dying and was low on gold and it went very slow. I would definitely change this part of the run next time.
In act 4 hell (or maybe a little before) I went and did some nm baal runs again until 65
Respeced into FO and Firewall maxed for chaos sanctuary and ancients.
I finished hell baal around level 65-67. I tried some various runs in hell but settled on more baal runs in nm until my timer ran out. I finished level 74. My sorc name was Halo, not sure if we have a running tally going.
Anyway, it was fun while playing. My item drops were insane this run.
I got:
10 fcr orb right away, didn't have to shop for
Anya gave me a 20 fcr orb with 2 to sorc skills ( I should have checked earlier, I didn't check until I was starting hell)
I got my first magefist from normal baal runs
I got my first shako from Meph quest in hell
A decent amount of other uniques during my run mostly on my nm baal runs. I did get an um rune in hell chaos when I quested there.
I laughed when I was doing my final nm baal running. If I got a 30+ fcr spirit then I would have hit the 105 breakpoint for fcr. I went to norm and had laz socket a sword I picked up from normal cows. I tped to the countess hoping to get a tal rune so I could finish the rune word. She dropped the rune I needed on the first attempt. I was amazed at my luck.
I go and double check I have the order right, insert the runes in my spirit, look for the fcr... and realize I didn't turn runewordmod on.
I planned to play vanilla until I killed baal hell. Figured someone would get a kick out of that.
Anyway, long write up. Let me know if my selected timing is okay. I probably played about 24 hours or so if I had to guess to get the results I did. I don't think I stand a chance on a regular weekend. I might record my next run for youtube through if you guys like watching other play.