Green with Envy II Tournament

[Denton]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Morathi, thanks for the answers before, and sorry if I were being too nitpicking. I'm considering to join this tournament, I just need to decide on a character build.

After reading what Insane Wayne said, that he had to put points into dexterity to accommodate a set bow he found, one more thing araised into my mind, and I hope this one is quite valid one to ask:


[highlight]1)[/highlight] In the case an item slot or multiple item slots had to be left empty because of the requirements of the set items found so far, is it required to allocate status points (Str, Dex) towards the set set items' requirements?

[highlight]1.1)[/highlight] For example, if I wanted to go base strength and dexterity and wanted to put all of my status points into vitality, is this allowed, even if it means I would have to leave item slots empty because of the requirements? (yes I actually might consider to go all Vit)


Two more examples:

[highlight]1.2)[/highlight] I don't have any set weapons yet. I find a set weapon which would require me to put 5 more stat points into Str in order to equip it, do I have to do so even if I wouldn't necessarily want to equip that set item?

And finally, this question is valid only if the answer to the previous question is yes:

[highlight]1.3)[/highlight] I'm level 75, and am very unlikely to gain any more levels before my character either dies or reaches Guardian. I have 10 status points saved. I have not found any set belt so far, so belt slot is empty. Then I find a heavy-ish set belt that would require me to put 20 stat points into Str in order to be able to equip it. Do I have to put the 10 saved stat points into Str even though I would know I would not be able to gain 2 more levels to get the remaining 10 points into Str?

 

[StevehRogers]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Is the Cow level allowed?

 

[Morathi1]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

[highlight]1)[/highlight] In the case an item slot or multiple item slots had to be left empty because of the requirements of the set items found so far, is it required to allocate status points (Str, Dex) towards the set set items' requirements?

Yeh, once you find a set item you must equip it on ASAP and replace your white/grey item. This means you need to meet the requirements and then place it in the allocated slot. Or if you want chuck it on your merc (if it is a weapon, armour or helm) and then you can switch it back onto your character when you have met the requirements.

[highlight]1.1)[/highlight] For example, if I wanted to go base strength and dexterity and wanted to put all of my status points into vitality, is this allowed, even if it means I would have to leave item slots empty because of the requirements? (yes I actually might consider to go all Vit)

Ummm, that would be quite stupid but once you as i said above you will need to meet the requirements to equip the set item.

[highlight]1.2)[/highlight] I don't have any set weapons yet. I find a set weapon which would require me to put 5 more stat points into Str in order to equip it, do I have to do so even if I wouldn't necessarily want to equip that set item?

Yes you would have to....or you can place it onto your merc.

[highlight]1.3)[/highlight] I'm level 75, and am very unlikely to gain any more levels before my character either dies or reaches Guardian. I have 10 status points saved. I have not found any set belt so far, so belt slot is empty. Then I find a heavy-ish set belt that would require me to put 20 stat points into Str in order to be able to equip it. Do I have to put the 10 saved stat points into Str even though I would know I would not be able to gain 2 more levels to get the remaining 10 points into Str?

The chances of that happening are very unlikely but if thats the case then yes you would have to. But remember once you have all slots with set items you are free to do what you want with other set items that drops. You may change them, swap them etc. But make sure that once a set item is in a slot it remains a set item. (you cant go from a set item to a white/grey item).

 

[Morathi1]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Edit- Arrggghhh stupid internet posted it twice. Sorry

 

[Morathi1]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Edit- Cow level is allowed yes.

Edit Edit- Omg Internet posted it 3 times....lol....i guess i better go to bed and give my internet a break its gone all crazy all of a sudden.

 

[StevehRogers]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Thanks, i don't think its the net i think its just this site! I'm having problems too

 

[Insane Wayne]

Pepper received an early "gift" in Act 4: Isenhart's Sword. It's not really helpful, but it did reduce the number of future points needed in Str to equip it. (I was pumping Str to eventually equip Cleglaw's sword). Now I only needed 48, instead of 55.

Since I lost the +Fireball staff, I'm getting used to Meteor. I'm still sloppy with it, but the results look promising, and the damage potential looks great as I add more points.

Fairly routine clear through the Outer Steppes, although a bit slower against some fire resistant baddies. At least the spawners went down easy. But then I encountered an unexpected freaky spawner pup. AHHHH! Uber baby boss! Pepper doesn't like spawner pups, (she says they're "really gross"), and she found that boss especially disturbing. So we left it alone for a while.

After clearing the area, and leveling up, Pepper added just enough Str to equip Isenhart's Sword and Mil's Shield. Finally a little MF! With the added shield protection, Pepper felt better about hunting down that nasty spawner. Unbelievably, it had changed its name! Undaunted, Pepper toyed with it for a while, before ending its miserable existence. The kill provided neither a boss drop, nor any XP. Boooo!

With Tyrael's bonus skill points, Meteor really began to shine. A well-placed shot is devastating. I'm looking forward to many one-shot wipeouts, because I know it won't last forever. Hephasto went down in a shower of gold, which was better than the El I got from Hellforge. Not even a single emerald either. :tongue:

Diablo quickly fried my merc. No problem, Pepper went solo against big D, exchanging fire spells; a brief contest that Pepper easily won. I wasn't scared of him, because Pepper had 2 nice Garnet GCs, both 23%, plus lightning shrine protection. No greens or golds from Diablo, extending my uniqueless streak to 4 full acts. Earlier I added a couple more green weapons to my stash: Tancred's Pick and Death's Sword.

30 waypoints = 30
21 quests = 42
8 greens = 24
Level 36 = -36
Total = 60

[highlight]Pepper, Fireball/Meteor Sorc, level 36, Act 5 Normal, Harrogath[/highlight]

 

[Ikeren]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Chart hasn't been updated in a while, so I did it.

Hope I got everyone right.

Updates since page 17:
sequana --- level 30 --- 37 points
Road Ratt --- level 57 --- 100 points
Isane Wayne --- level 36 --- 60 points
StevehRogers --- level 43 --- 54 points
Imploder --- level 7 --- -3 points
Ikeren --- level 25 --- 12 points.

 Name            Character         Class      Area          Level    Points 
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Road Ratt       Rebel Jen         Amazon     Lost City (N)   57      100
DuesNox         MutNinjaTurt      Assassin   Rogue Camp (N)  46       60
Insane Wayne    Pepper            Sorceress  Harrogath       36       60
StevehRogers    MrsGreen          Sorceress  Nithalik        43       54
Profound        Roy               Barbarian  Lower Kurast    30       42
sequana         Filip             Necro      Pandemonium     30       37
Bassano         envylord          Necro      Spider Forest   25       24
Ikeren          Javazon           Amazon     Lut Gholein     25       12
EmperorMoo      Monster           Necro      Lut Gholein     19        9
Es Mors         Prisikelk         Necro      Lut Gholein     16        8
Ikuze           H-lessChick       Amazon     Palace Cellar   25        7
jgreg7          Venus             Sorceress  Sewers          21        4
Morathi         Cosi              Druid      Lut Gholein     20        4
Arkansaw        Sincro            Necro      Burial Grounds   8        1
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
Derivial        Zealot            Paladin    Rogue Camp       1        0
Barkstav        Dorothea          Sorceress  Dark Woods      15       -2
Imploder        Kyouken           Druid      Cold Plains      7       -3
erimatbrad      Futility          Sorceress  Rogue Camp      12       -5
topoada         NaturalKingCole   Druid      Cold Plains      1       -6 

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

 

[Morathi1]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

But then I encountered an unexpected freaky spawner pup. AHHHH! Uber baby boss! Pepper doesn't like spawner pups, (she says they're "really gross"), and she found that boss especially disturbing. So we left it alone for a while.

Did you find that uber baby? or was it the cause of a monster shrine? because i have never seen a unique spawner pup :undecided:.

Pepper felt better about hunting down that nasty spawner. Unbelievably, it had changed its name

How in the name of is that possible......must be a spawner pup with a split personality :grin:.

With Tyrael's bonus skill points, Meteor really began to shine. A well-placed shot is devastating. I'm looking forward to many one-shot wipeouts, because I know it won't last forever. Hephasto went down in a shower of gold, which was better than the El I got from Hellforge. Not even a single emerald either. :tongue:

Wow Wayne, awesome screenshots you got thier....you are like the king diablo screenshot taker :tongue:.

 

[jiansonz]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

extending my uniqueless streak to 4 full acts.

Wow, that must be some sort of record.

Meteor is very good and user-friendly against Diablo, since he often does not move for a couple of seconds. I remember that from my 1.09 fire sorc.
I have very little experience with Fire Ball, though (but it was my favourite spell back in Diablo 1).

Tancred´s ammy would be pretty nice to find now, huh?

 

[Road Ratt]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

I decided to finish out act 2 with an a3 cold merc, his freeze and valk shattering monsters helped a lot in the tombs. It took over an hour to clear the final tomb for our battle with duriel which was played at p3 and was uneventful as he dropped nothing worth keeping. Along the way to duriel I had another green drop and a surprising drop with no mf at all (the ring was a perfect 7/8 manald heal that I muled off). While still in the tombs I found a very nice large charm. In act 3 I switched to a a2 might merc, he's very fast with the Hwanin's Justice and has us moving along fairly well now. Just before I finished for the morning I got my first green for a3, but without any resists on them I kept my sig boots on and muled them off.

64 waypoints = 64
42 quests completed = 84
11 set items equipped = 33
Level 63 = -63
Total = 118

Nightmare Upper Kurast, Lev. 63, 118 points

 

[Insane Wayne]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

@Morathi: The baby boss came from a shrine. Pepper has been unusually blessed by Monster Shrines, finding 2-3 per Act. I have a few monster types remaining to complete my weird boss grail: torment worm, baby maggot, and maggot egg (not sure if the egg is possible).

@jiansonz: Meteor worked great against Diablo, he does indeed like to stand still, just long enough. Fireball is handy on the left-click, in between meteor casts. Points in Meteor synergize it nicely.
Gib Tancramulet! Or at least Arctic Fur/Gloves. Damn, I need some MF badly.

 

[DuesNox]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Well, MutNinjaTurt met her demise against the Smith, Didn't notice the fire enchanted mod on him before he got killed. He hit me once, bringing my life down, I killed him, and he finished me off with his body explosion.

Final Points....

Level 48 = -48 points
31 Quests = 62 points
45 waypoints = 45 points
6 sets = 18 points
Total = 77 points

Goodluck to the rest. I will most likely make another assassin in a few hours, and post the progress in a few days, going a different root this time.

[highlight] MutNinjaTurt, Assassin, Act1 Outer Cloister NM, Level 48, 77 points [/highlight]

 

[slayer37]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

@ Road Ratt

Wow. Slow down buddy. Your progress is fast considering you are a Valkazon. You are making the rest of us look bad. :grin:

IMO, you have serious luck in finding not 1 but 2 Hwanin's Justice (only weapon equippable by Act2 mercs in this tourney)! I hope D2 gods will grant me at least one for my soon-to-be HF merc.



Bella has shown Diablo what terror really means. It was a red vs white lightning hose and I really regret not being able to capture a screenshot. I was busy dodging Diablo's hose knowing 1 will kill Bella because of her 0 LR and low life. :grin: Merc bit the dust after a few seconds and Bella decided to go on without him. The gameplan was to lay traps and circle around Diablo (dodging his hose) while the traps did their job. Bella placed the traps in a pentagram position with Diablo in the middle most of the time.

Some SS:
1. Sigon's Sabot - 20RW, 40 CR... LR would have been better but beggars can't be choosers.
2. Berserker's armor - useless really but complements my Berserker Hatchet already equipped.
3. Swordback Hold - 1st unique in the game! Useless though.
4. Cathan's Sigil - goes well with my Cathan's Seal giving set bonus of +10 str which allowed me to equip Sigon's boots without having to invest more in str.
5. Ichorsting - 2nd unique! Useless in this tourney and for my build.
6. Hephasto's demise - an Amn drop! Never found anything noteworthy before with him except the sure drop Hammer. Runes and RWs are useless though in this tourney.
7. HF drop - No emeralds! Darn.
8. Diablo's demise - all rares! Crap.

Total Points = 58 pts
Level 35 = -35 pts
21 Quests = 42 pts
30 WPs = 30 pts
7 sets = 21 pts

[highlight]Bella the Trapassin, clvl35, Act5 Nml Harrogath, 58 pts, Shenk and Eldritch next.[/highlight]

 

[Road Ratt]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

@ Road Ratt

Wow. Slow down buddy. Your progress is fast considering you are a Valkazon. You are making the rest of us look bad. :grin:

:shhh: I don't want everyone to know that I have way too much time on my hands to play games. :smiley:

IMO, you have serious luck in finding not 1 but 2 Hwanin's Justice (only weapon equippable by Act2 mercs in this tourney)! I hope D2 gods will grant me at least one for my soon-to-be HF merc.

I'm surprised at it so far myself, I really didn't think I'd be able to find much of anything running around with no mf. I should've kept count because I believe I've actually had more unique items drop than set items. :shocked: Hopefully it holds out as I'm still missing some set items I'd like to see drop.

 

[Brakstav]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Dorothea has progressed rather easily. The Black Marsh presented no problems, except for the fact that I found a second Cleglaw's shield in the tower. Tamoe just swished by. She had an NDE in Jail level 1 where a LE Goat boss was severely underestimated. After that, I played a bit more careful and finished killing Andariel on p8 with my Blaze, it takes a few seconds. Just crappy rares. Then I almost killed Dorothea off trying to pick something up in the fires in the back of Andariel's room. I misclicked and I guess I was a short second from death there.

Anyway, Dorothea now resides in Lut Gholein, eager to brave the sewers.

[Highlight]Dorothea, Sorceress, Act 2 Lut Gholein, level 20, 8p [/Highlight]

 

[sequana]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

[Highlight] Filip, Necromancer, Act V normal-Harrogath, level 32, points 50 [/highlight]

lvl 32..............-32
Qs 21...............42
WPs 31............31
greens 3.......... 9
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Total ........... 50

In Chaos Sanctuary Filip found his second green – Irathas Cuff. Chaos Sanctuary and Seals were cleaned on /p8, Diablo was killed on /p1 – not brave, I know, but I have always troubles with this act boss, this time it was quite ok, but no pownage, skeletons were burned in first Diablo’s fire breath. But in the end merc (act 2 offensive) +golem+decrepify did good job. And Diablo dropped third green item – Civerbs Ward.

 Name            Character         Class      Area          Level    Points 
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Road Ratt       Rebel Jen         Amazon     Upper Kurast (N)63      118
Insane Wayne    Pepper            Sorceress  Harrogath       36       60
Slayer37        Bella             Assassin   Harrogath       35       58
StevehRogers    MrsGreen          Sorceress  Nithalik        43       54
sequana         Filip             Necro      Harrogath       32       50
Profound        Roy               Barbarian  Lower Kurast    30       42
Bassano         envylord          Necro      Spider Forest   25       24
Ikeren          Javazon           Amazon     Lut Gholein     25       12
EmperorMoo      Monster           Necro      Lut Gholein     19        9
Es Mors         Prisikelk         Necro      Lut Gholein     16        8
Barkstav        Dorothea          Sorceress  Lut Gholein     20        8
Ikuze           H-lessChick       Amazon     Palace Cellar   25        7
jgreg7          Venus             Sorceress  Sewers          21        4
Morathi         Cosi              Druid      Lut Gholein     20        4
Arkansaw        Sincro            Necro      Burial Grounds   8        1
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
Derivial        Zealot            Paladin    Rogue Camp       1        0
Imploder        Kyouken           Druid      Cold Plains      7       -3
erimatbrad      Futility          Sorceress  Rogue Camp      12       -5
topoada         NaturalKingCole   Druid      Cold Plains      1       -6 

RIP
Name            Character    Class      Area            Level    Points 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
DuesNox         MutNinjaTurt  Assassin  Outer Cloister(N) 48       77
Es Mors         Kelkis       Necro      Swampy Pit lvl3   25       30
linkato1        Albert       Paladin    The Barracks      17       -3

I hope table is correct :smiley:.

RIP MutNinjaTurt.

 

[Es Mors]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

I'm done with act 2 again. Boy, did the summoner kick my butt! My skeletons already had big problems getting to him through all those pesky stairs and then he started freezing them stiff! Also, one of his blue bolts took 96% of my life. 3 NDEs and many full rejuvs later, I had won the battle.

I managed to gamble a unique, but no sets. Found a Civerb's Ward in Magot Lair lvl 1 and an Angelic Sickle in the Ancient Tunnels. They both went to my swap slots as I wasn't ready to say goodbye to my wand and zombie head. I also found a nagelring (28%) in the stony tomb lvl 2!

Duriel was easier this time because of my golem, even though I once again didn't get to level 24 and decripify (I'm beginning to think that it is impossible?). In it's death, Duriel took revenge by dropping a Berserker's Hatchet - bye bye wand . If I had been in act 3, I could have equipped the angelic sickle on an act 3 merc, the axe in my swap slot and kept the wand, but the second non-bow set weapon just had to be dropped by the last monster in act 2! :rant:

19 Waypoints = 19 points
12 Quests completed = 24 points
3 Set items equipped = 9 points
23 Levels = -23 points
TOTAL = 30 points

Es Mors, Prisikelk, Necro, Kurast Docks, lvl 23, 30 points

 

[Imploder]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Did you read the merc rule change on page 8? I'm pretty sure you're allowed to change your merc now.

 

[jiansonz]

Re: Green with Envy II Tournament

Es Mors, how many set weapons do you have now, and what types?