Green with Envy II Tournament

I decided to go green, once again. My first green character was a Fire Druid, and I really enjoyed a successful run with him in the original tournament. This time I will try a different fiery character.

Introducing Pepper, the tempermental Fire Sorceress. Her temper quickly surfaced when she encountered an early Fire Immune, and angrily bashed his skull with her staff. Pepper started out with 10 quick points in Fire Bolt, which worked just fine. The next 12 points went to Fireball (boosted to 15 with a shopped white staff). Just about everything is a 1-2 hit kill, even at p8. Yay fireball! (So that's what those stupid vamps have been firing at me all these years!) Next I opened up TK, Tele, and Meteor's prereqs. I think I'll focus on Meteor for a while. Hmmm... my experience with Meteor includes charges on Moonfall, ctc on Skystrike, a wacky Wirt's Leg imbue, and that's about it! So this should be fun. :smiley:

Acts 1 and 2 have been p8 full-cleared. Pepper is resting in Kurast. My green count is 4: Berserker's Helm, Arctic Belt, the Case, and the Seal. Incredibly, I've yet to see a unique, which is a record starting-game drought for me. All gambling attempts have focused on MF, namely Arctic Furs/Mitts (to go with the belt), without success. My green druid had 60% MF at this point. Poor Pepper is stuck at 0%.

My moron, Fazel the Prayer merc, is equipped with an eth poleaxe (which he rarely gets to use). He's more or less a walking minor healer.

Pepper's "assets":
141 chips
31 flawed
1 perfect Emerald
30 low runes
23 jewels, only 1 of them is green (Tin) :tongue:

Tidbits:
1. Treehead nailed by Fire Shrine.
2. Disappointment after clicking a Monster Shrine right next to a Hawk Nest. It didn't transform into an uber boss-nest, which wasted the shrine! Grrr...
3. Pepper flattened a trio of Cloister-rogues with a well-placed fireball, and each of them dropped a chipped sapphire simultaneously. Weird! :cool:
4. Pepper's streak of avoiding Amp ended when she walked through a mummy boss poison cloud, late in Act 2.
5. Scored a Shimmering (10) Grand Charm, ilvl 14, what a nice early gift!

[highlight]Pepper, Fire Sorc, level 28, Act 3 Normal, Kurast Docks[/highlight]
 
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Welcome back Insane Wayne....good to see you playing D2 again :thumbsup:. I look forward to hearing more about your adventures with Pepper.

Hope you have read the rule changes on the extended stash and the merc :smiley:.

PS. About my Cosi the druid. He is doing fine and is resting at the Outer Cloister waypoint. I will hope to progress further tomorrow and hopefully complete act 1. Then i will post a more detailed update.

PSS. May the next person who posts a table make sure its updated with peoples progress and also if you could add Insane Wayne.

Thanks guys :thumbsup:.
 
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Name            Character    Class      Area          Level    Points 
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DuesNox         MutNinjaTurt Assassin   Pandemonium     30       39
Road Ratt       Rebel Jen    Amazon     Kurast Bazar    31       38
Es Mors         Kelkis       Necro      Kurast Docks    24       25
Bassano         envylord     Necro      Spider Forest   25       24
EmperorMoo      Monster      Necro      Lut Gholein     19        9
Ikuze           H-lessChick  Amazon     Palace Cellar   25        7
sequana         Filip        Necro      Dry Hills       21        6
Profound        Roy          Barbarian  Lut Gholein     20        5
Arkansaw        Sincro       Necro      Burial Grounds   8        1
Morathi         Cosi         Druid      Rogue Camp       1        0
Slayer37        ?            Assassin   Rogue Camp       1        0
jiansonz        Allisandrina Assassin   Rogue Camp       1        0
Low Key         Avarice      Assassin   Rogue Camp       1        0
Hoop76          ?            ?????      Rogue Camp       1        0
howdidigethere  Mikey        Paladin    Rogue Camp       1        0
Ikeren          Javazon      Amazon     Rogue Camp       1        0
Derivial        Zealot       Paladin    Rogue Camp       1        0
erimatbrad	Futility     Sorc       Rogue Camp       1        0
Barkstav        Dorothea     Sorc       Dark Woods      15       -2
linkato1        RIP Albert   Paladin    The Barracks    17       -3
jgreg7          Venus        Sorceress  Dark Wood       14       -4
Insane Wayne    Pepper       Sorceress  Kurast Docks    28       ??

I think I got everyone. DuesNox, based on the numbers you give, your score is 39, not 45, hope you don't mind me correcting. :smiley:

Well, I finished act 2, hoping to get level 24 before Duriel so I could get decrepify to help me out. And what do you know, after I had cleared all the tombs and the canyon of the magi, I needed ~300 exp until lvl 24! I spent 10 minutes running around in the canyon to find a monster, but there were none. Then I spent 10 minutes running back and forth from the waypoint in Lut Gholein to Drognan, hoping to find a white or grey wand with + to decrepify, but no help there. So I went in to Duriel's chamber, he swiftly killed all my skeletons and since I had spent so much time in the game, all the bodies in the canyon and the tombs had dissapeared... I ended up running in circles in Duriel's tomb, drinking potions while my merc slowly shot him to death :grin: At least he dropped me a set armor, saving the 1 green per act statistic.

P.S. I'm sorry for your death, linkato1, at least you got the honor of being the first!
 
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Es Mors said:
Then I spent 10 minutes running back and forth from the waypoint in Lut Gholein to Drognan, hoping to find a white or grey wand with + to decrepify, but no help there.
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It's probably good you didn't -- the wand would have had a level 24 requirement.



 
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erimatbrad said:
It's probably good you didn't -- the wand would have had a level 24 requirement.
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Yeah, after a while I figured maybe I couldn't even "spawn" such a wand at Drognan's, because my level was to low, so I stopped...

Insane Wayne, your skullbasher sorc print screen is hillarious :grin:


 
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Hey, A quick update, and please add me to the list :P Currently only 1 green, but civerb's Icon which is nice for my sorc. I have gambled all my saved pennies on arctic set but with no luck what so ever, just bought my act 2 defensive merc and off to the sewers it is! Although i did manage to find a nagelring!

MrsGreen, Meteorb Sorc, level 20, Act 2 Normal, Lut Gholein +5 Points
 
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I think I got everyone. DuesNox, based on the numbers you give, your score is 39, not 45, hope you don't mind me correcting. :smiley:
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Hah, Im usually good at head math, which is probably why I didn't double check, dunno what error I made there. Oh well, thanks for correcting me.
 
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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me out by posting a list of all the set items and/or set bonuses which add to MF? Thanks for any help you can give
 
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StevehRogers said:
Hi, I was wondering if you could help me out by posting a list of all the set items and/or set bonuses which add to MF? Thanks for any help you can give
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Sure thing, but it's slim pickings:

Angelic Rainment - Ring (+50 w/ two other pieces) and whole set (+40)
Arcanna's Tricks - Amulet (+50 w/ one other piece)
Arctic Furs - Light belt (+40 w/ one other piece)
Cathan's Traps - Amulet (+25 w/ two other pieces)
Sigon's Steel - Boots (+50 w/ two other pieces)
Tancred's Battlegear - Amulet (+78! w/ one other piece)
Vidala's Rig - Amulet (+50 w/ one other piece)

Aldur's Watchtower - (+50 w/ any 3 pieces or +100 with full set)
Cow King's Leathers - Heavy Boots (+25), whole set (+100)
Griswold's Legacy - Corona (+20-30)
Immortal King - Avenger Guard (+25-40), War Boots (+25 w/ one other)
M'avina Battle Hymn - Whole Set (+100)
Orphan's Call - Whole Set (+80)
Sander's Folly - Cap (+35), Whole Set (+50)
Tal Rasha's Wrappings - Lacquered Plate (+88), Mesh Belt (+10-15),
Tal Rasha's Wrappings - Set Bonuses: 3 items (+65) or Whole Set (+130)



 
Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

I have died... Engulfed in the flames of a fetish shaman that is. :(

Es Mors, Kelkis, Necro, Swampy Pit lvl3, clvl 25, 30 points

I'll probably re-enter with another character :thumbsup:
 
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StevehRogers said:
How come you don't cube up your chipped and flawed gems?
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I will cube up the flawed, but not the chips. It takes 81 chips to make a perfect. Instead, I'm going to use the chips for rerolling cheap magical scepters/staves, and selling them to NPCs for gold. (Most will spawn with staffmod skills and sell for max gold.) I'll start this in Act 3 and continue throughout the game. For the equivalent of 1 Pgem, I can get 27 rerolls. With hundreds of thousands of extra gold, I just might nail an elusive set item via gambling. It's a longshot, but I see little alternate value for chips, at least in this tournament. But I am open to suggestions.



 
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Thanks, i knew there must be a reason for it, i know what you mean, ive been spending ALL my money on gambling arctic set and Sanders cap. No joy as yet!
 
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Those are good items to try for, which are thankfully cheap. I'm also taking shots at kite shields. They're pricier, but I'll try it whenever I don't see the other items I want available. In the original tourney, I gambled Arctic gloves (Act 2) AND Furs (Act 5). Amazing. However, the latter was wasteful, I didn't really need it, I only gambled it because it was there and I was bored. I remember scoring Iratha's gloves (in Hell) in another tournament, after specifically trying for it for a long time. So it's definitely possible.
 
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Also remember you can re-roll jewels with chipped gems and you have a chance for the graphic of the jewel to change. And if your lucky it changes to a green with a nice mod :azn:.
 
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Unfortunately, jewels require PGems to reroll, not chips. Otherwise I'd definitely go that route, quality green jewels are priceless. I'll probably use PGems for charm rerolls.
 
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I'm planning on starting up a druid for this tournament soon, so I'll just be putting my name in here with the slew of other level 1s that haven't started.

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Name            Character    Class      Area          Level    Points 
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DuesNox         MutNinjaTurt Assassin   Pandemonium     30       39
Road Ratt       Rebel Jen    Amazon     Kurast Bazar    31       38
Bassano         envylord     Necro      Spider Forest   25       24
EmperorMoo      Monster      Necro      Lut Gholein     19        9
Ikuze           H-lessChick  Amazon     Palace Cellar   25        7
sequana         Filip        Necro      Dry Hills       21        6
Profound        Roy          Barbarian  Lut Gholein     20        5
Arkansaw        Sincro       Necro      Burial Grounds   8        1
Morathi         Cosi         Druid      Rogue Camp       1        0
Slayer37        ?            Assassin   Rogue Camp       1        0
jiansonz        Allisandrina Assassin   Rogue Camp       1        0
Low Key         Avarice      Assassin   Rogue Camp       1        0
Hoop76          ?            ?????      Rogue Camp       1        0
howdidigethere  Mikey        Paladin    Rogue Camp       1        0
Ikeren          Javazon      Amazon     Rogue Camp       1        0
Derivial        Zealot       Paladin    Rogue Camp       1        0
erimatbrad	Futility     Sorceress  Rogue Camp       1        0
Imploder        Kyouken      Druid      Rogue Camp       1        0
Barkstav        Dorothea     Sorceress  Dark Woods      15       -2
jgreg7          Venus        Sorceress  Dark Wood       14       -4
Insane Wayne    Pepper       Sorceress  Kurast Docks    28       ??

RIP
Name            Character    Class      Area          Level    Points 
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linkato1        Albert       Paladin    The Barracks    17       -3
Es Mors         Kelkis       Necro      Swampy Pit lvl3 25       30
 
Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Alright, so tonight I sat down and played for 6 hours, intending to do the rest of act one (I was just at cold plains in the last game)

I didn't finish.

I did full clears, and it took forever (I was very meticulous, and I picked up lots of items). My Amazon is halfway through 17 and just at the Outer Cloister Waypoint (killed nothing in the outer cloister thus far). Hypothetically, this will put me at about ~20 at the Andarial kill? One of the things I did was found experience shrines, then dragged big swarms of monsters to them, hit the shrine, then started slaughtering.

No real near death experiences. The build was slow killing, since I'm saving my skills for lighting fury at the moment. I spent 95% of my gold gambling trying to get artic furs. I made 100ish gambles (I counted 97, but may have missed one or two).

Found 2 green gems (one +6 life, one +4 damage/+9 fire resist). A fair number of chippies, but not a single gem shrine, so they're all chippies. My rogue scout has a hunters bow with 3 chipped emeralds, I'm using simple javelins, and all our gear is mundane and picked up, with one joyful execption: I got Cleglaw's Shield in Tristram.

The only thing that kept my damage reasonable was always using charged strike and chugging mana potions, +some charms: I have a grand, large, and small charm of blight (+18 poison over 3 seconds in total) and 1-5, 1-4, 1-4, and 1-3 lightning damage (Grand, Large, Large, Large) for a total of 4-16 lighting damage added. My countess drop was an el, which I muled to my general runes stash, since this character won't make use of it by tourney rules.

1) Way points: 6 = 6 points
2) Quests: 4 = 8 points.
3) Set Items: 1 = 3 points
4) Levels: 17 = -17 points

Total Score: 0 still.
 
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@ Imploder, welcome to the tourney and to the SPF. Note there are 2 rule changes so far, one on extended stashes which is at the top of page 2 and one on the merc which is on page 8.

@Ikeren, I hope you no what you are doing :undecided:, because as far as i know there are no set javalins, so lightning fury and all the other javalin/spear skills look pretty useless. That is of course if you find 3 set weapons :grin:.
 
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Name Character Class Area Level Points
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DuesNox MutNinjaTurt Assassin Pandemonium 30 39
Road Ratt Rebel Jen Amazon Kurast Bazar 31 38
Bassano envylord Necro Spider Forest 25 24
StevehRogers MrsGreen Sorc Arcane Sanc 25 14
EmperorMoo Monster Necro Lut Gholein 19 9
Ikuze H-lessChick Amazon Palace Cellar 25 7
sequana Filip Necro Dry Hills 21 6
Profound Roy Barbarian Lut Gholein 20 5
Arkansaw Sincro Necro Burial Grounds 8 1
Morathi Cosi Druid Rogue Camp 1 0
Slayer37 ? Assassin Rogue Camp 1 0
jiansonz Allisandrina Assassin Rogue Camp 1 0
Low Key Avarice Assassin Rogue Camp 1 0
Hoop76 ? ????? Rogue Camp 1 0
howdidigethere Mikey Paladin Rogue Camp 1 0
Ikeren Javazon Amazon Rogue Camp 1 0
Derivial Zealot Paladin Rogue Camp 1 0
erimatbrad Futility Sorceress Rogue Camp 1 0
Imploder Kyouken Druid Rogue Camp 1 0
Barkstav Dorothea Sorceress Dark Woods 15 -2
jgreg7 Venus Sorceress Dark Wood 14 -4
Insane Wayne Pepper Sorceress Kurast Docks 28 ??

RIP
Name Character Class Area Level Points
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linkato1 Albert Paladin The Barracks 17 -3
Es Mors Kelkis Necro Swampy Pit lvl3 25 30

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A Few questions about re rolling charms and jewels, if i keep my really old low lvl jewels (which is what I've been doing so far) when i re roll them will they stay at roughly the same ilevel? and thus wont be that powerful, or will their ilevel increase correspondingly to my clevel? Is this the same for charms?
 
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