2021 Spring RFL Sign-Up and Running Thread: Round 1 (Moo Moo Farm)

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Hey SPF! It's time for RFL. Round 1 sign up is here.

What is RFL?
RFL stands for Rune Finding League. RFL is a free for all rune finding tournament that has three individual parts. You can participate for every three round or pick only one or two.

During this contest we farm runes in various areas during 17-day periods, with 4 days of rest and planning between each round. (This is a change from the last few years that we are testing out based on feedback in the RFL thread to gauge interest.) Players get points based on rarity of the rune (not its level) and at the end each player posts top 5 highest scored runes to get the final score.

For the first round we run Cow level, second is about running Travincal Council Members and for the last round we run area of one own's choice.

When is RFL?
  • Round 1 (Moo Moo Farm): Friday, March 5 through unday, March 21
  • Round 2 (Travincal): Friday, March 26 through Sunday, April 11
  • Round 3 (Areas): Friday, April 16 through Sunday, May 2
So, this first round starts on Friday 5 March at 0.00 and ends on Sunday 21 March at 23.59. The start/end is relative to your time zone. Sign-up is open for each round until the end.

General rules
These are the rules that stand for all the three rounds. Specific rules for the first round are posted below.

1. For each round, running time is limited to 20 hours of playing (when you mule to stash or in ATMA/GoMule, you can pause clock/counter/online stopwatch or whatever you use). However, when you finish your 20 hours of running, you can start a new batch of running which is again limited to 20 hours of playing. You can play as many batches as you want.

2. You are not allowed to start a new batch as long as you don't finish full 20 hours of the previous one.

3. Every batch is scored individually, and you will get points towards the league according to your best batch from each round.

4. Best batch is the one where your top 5 runes give the most scores. Scoring can be found below.

5. Screenshots of runes are not required, but I assume people would like to see them anyway. You are encouraged to post your findings...

6. ... but only after each round is finished! Don't post your qualifiers when the round is still going. You are warmly welcome to discuss your other findings however. But remember: Don't post your qualifying runes!

7. Runes qualified (giving scores) are all Pul+ runes.

8. Cubing runes into higher ones is not allowed. In other words don't cube Pul runes into Um to get a higher score.

9. Versions allowed: 1.13-1.14. Also version 1.07 is allowed, and this year, we're opening it up to 1.08 and 1.09, given that v1.07 has already been included, as discussed here.

Specific rules for the 1st round
For the first round we will be running Moo Moo Farm AKA Cow level.

All qualifiers from Cow level area counts. Runes from Tristram or Stony Field (when picking up the leg), do NOT count.

Picking up the leg COUNTS toward the total running time however!

You don't have to collect legs and kill cows on a same character, as long as you remember to have your clock running all the time spent in the game!

Scoring
Scoring is based on rarity of runes. System is the same as we had during the earlier RFLs and during RFOs and Zodthon. Combine the points of the top 5 runes from your best batch each round.

Pul 3.4
Mal 5.0
Um 5.1
Gul 7.1
Ist 7.5
Ohm 10.1
Vex 10.6
Sur 13.7
Lo 15.1
Jah 18.3
Ber 20.5
Cham 27.5
Zod 71.8 (not available for the 2nd round)

1.07: (Edits: thanks to @art_vandelay for update to v1.07 and other version scores)
Pul 19,3
Um 29,0
Mal 38,5
Ist 57,8
Gul 76,9
Vex 115,3
Ohm 152,4
Lo 228,7
Sur 307,0
Ber 460,5
Jo 613,5
Cham 920,2
Zod 736,5
1.08:
Same as 1.09 for Cows. See below.
1.09:
Pul 13,4
Um 20,1
Mal 26,7
Ist 40,1
Gul 53,4
Vex 80
Ohm 106,7
Lo 160
Sur 213,3
Ber 319,9
Jah 426,5
Cham 639,8
Zod 2559,1
[Edit: If anyone wants to run v1.10a-v1.13a, let me know, and I can add those from art's calculations. Also, no worries if anyone (cough cough, @art_vandelay wants to run two sets in a round, each in different versions. Just note that plan in the sign up thread.]

Scoring towards the whole RFL
After each round is done, you will get points toward the whole RFL depending your placement that round.

1st: 10 points
2nd: 8
3rd 6
4th: 5
5th: 4
6th: 3
7th 2
8th: 1

And remember, only your best batch from each round counts. While we crown every winner from each round, the biggest champion is of course the overall winner:
The Champion of the RFL is the player who has the most points given by placements total. In case of a tie after three rounds, the winner is the one with a higher scoring rune from Areas. If that is a tie as well, we check the Travincal, and then Cows. If all three are still the same, it's 2nd best from Areas etc.

Sending results
PM me your top 5 runes from your best batch. Please do this immediately after you have stopped running so that we can have results and standings after each round ASAP. Also PM me if you didn't run. Your PM should include: five runes, five scores, and the total score.

Example:
1. Zod 71.8
2. Cham 27.5
3. Lo 15.1
4. Lo 15.1
5. Ist 7.5
total: 137

After receiving your results, I'll make the results thread for each round. There you can brag about your runes, and also post screenshots of your top 5 runes, at least. This is not mandatory however. Claiming to have found 5 Zods may seem strange without screenshots though.

Prize
Eternal glory and the seal of approval from the Zod God.

Participants
Updated to reflect sign ups as of 3/2/2021.
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Vildecor
maxicek
hackedagainanda
Swamigoon
Nano
Babyhell
art_vandelay (1.09/1.14d)
Terroriffic
lillicoder
CaseyJones
Luhkoh
Pb_pal
ffs
Kitteh
D2DC (1.07/1.14d)
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There will be a sign-up and running thread for each round individually. This sign-up stands for "Moo Moo Farm" only.

Please post if you have comments or suggestions. You are also warmly welcome to discuss your builds, running tactics, finds apart from qualifiers etc.! Everything regarding the tournament in general.

Good luck and HAVE FUN!
 
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Sign up is below. I'm not sure if I'll participate this round, to focus back on my untinwked 99er and questing some builds through . . .

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Haven't decided which sorceress build I'll go with, but I'm leaning towards either Blizzballer or Blizznova.
 
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@PhineasB Here are the scores for 1.08 Travincal:
Pul​
10,0​
Um​
15,0​
Mal​
20,0​
Ist​
30,0​
Gul​
40,0​
Vex​
60,0​
Ohm​
80,0​
Lo​
120,0​
Sur​
160,0​
Ber​
240,0​
Jah​
320,0​
Cham​
479,9​
I arrived there by changing @Luhkoh 's spreadsheet for 1.07 into a 1.08 sheet. I can't tell you for the life of me why all of the scores except for Cham are round numbers. I even double checked it, just wth?

EDIT: Figured it out: in 1.08 and 1.09 the drop down weight of runes_n is half the drop down weight of runes_(n+1) for n less than 16. That results in the chance for the higher rune of runes_n divided by the chance for the lower rune runes_(n+1) to be (4/3)*(d_n/(d_n+5)) where d_n is the drop down weight of runes_n. Thus the chance for rune_n divided by the chance for rune_(n+1) is either 1,5 or 1,33. It just so happens that the score for Pul is 10,0 which then causes the other ones to be even as well.
 
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Necro and Javazon are ready. Hopefully I won't kill the Cow King this time.
 
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Sylvia the Javazon is going to try out her new fancy MPK ring on the cows :)
 
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Hopefully Litas will be ready in time to toss a bunch of lightning javelins at some pole-arm swinging Bessies.
 
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It's that time of the year!

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Signing in for 1.09 and 1.14d as an experiment. If I get 1.09 Zod with its 2,5k+ points I will do three rounds of 1.14d to make people believe that 1.09 was a letdown ;)

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I may javazon but I think I'm gonna riftsin for the cows phase.
 
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I've been lurking for a while since the move over from dii.net, but I think I'll break silence and join :)

I've been leveling a new javazon, so this will be a nice incentive to finish her setup.


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TIme to gear up my UT99er sorc as an ES Nova...now I have to go see if I need to farm a respec token or not .
She's currently Nova/ChargedBolt max block build but I find ES more fun!

edit:had enough essences :) - now is ES/Nova/Full energy(-eq req stats), with lightning storm, which is occasionally nice. All that mana lets me spam nova at 105 fcr anyway with the occasional super mana pot fill up. Not a top contender without some RNG luck but near full p1 clears reliably in 4:30 including leg retrieval (p3 pushes up the run time over 5 minutes and playing on linux I haven't been able to get the new run counter to work)

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Javazon for me this year. I've made my way through playing most of the decent cow builds by now (but still haven't ran fissure), and javazon is just by farrr the easiest and most efficient for me. Have her geared up with 8mpk, and like 13 mana leech, and like 800+ mana, and upped titans, so dont have to drink any mana pots unless mana burned. I quite like the setup. I'm planning on running blizz sorc round 2 (ofc), and light sorc round 3, so I considered running fire sorc for this round for the elemental trifecta. But nah java all the way ^^.

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I'll be in as usual with my fire druid, don't think I'll change anything about his gear from last year. Moooooooooooo

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OK in all honesty, I'm pretty fascinated by Path of Exile atm :D but I'll register nonetheless, hoping I'll get drawn back to D2 in time and away from that massive time sink that is PoE. :)

Most of my runners should still be mostly geared from last RFL so there's not much to prepare anyway.

With the new run counter allowing a more detailed efficiency comparison, I plan to more or less evenly split between Java, Necro and Trapper. If there's time and motivation for more cow slaughtering, I might go for another set with some other builds like Nova Sorc and Fire Druid, possibly Fire Sorc or Blova too if I feel like it.


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Will try 200FCR light sorc for kicks...

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My ongoing (and only) character is an untwinked double swing barbarian. So, I look forward to ripping him in a mob of cows in the future.

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Yay, Kitteh is back!

On that auspicious note, I realized I have to throw my hat in the ring, especially because I won’t be running during Round 2. So my Javazon will get at least 10 hours and aiming for full set. Some of the questing characters can wait a bit!

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