Huge Repair Debts Tourney

purplelocust

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[highlight] A Very Simple Tourney: The Huge Repair Debts Tourney![/highlight]

This is a simple tourney, somewhat on the silly side. The object is to have the largest possible repair bill for repairing an item or collection of equipped items.

This is kind of the opposite of the GF "Piles of Money" tourney from before. Instead of trying to make large amounts of gold as quickly as possibly, the object is to make large repair bills as quickly as possible.

There are four categories:

1) Single item greatest repair bill, no charges considered, durability only.
2) Single item greatest repair bill, durability and charges allowed
3) All equipped items greatest repair bill
4) Timed repair contest.

The object is to have the largest possible repair bill (from your favorite repairer: Charsi, Fara, Hratli, Halbu, or Larzuk).

[Highlight]Guidelines:[/Highlight]

All classes allowed.
All builds allowed.
All existing characters or new characters of HC/SC, any version are eligible, and Vanilla/RRM/RWM/CRM are allowed.
Twinked items, ATMA, GoMule, all allowed for preparation.
You may even kill monsters at /players 1 and open chests at /players 8, for once! Not that it will do you any good.

[highlight]Rules for the timed repair category:[/highlight]

Spend all the time you want building, equipping, and preparing your character.

When ready for an effort, make sure all equipped items are fully repaired and fully charged by visiting a repairer and clicking "repair all" and seeing a zero balance.

Then look at a clock, begin playing for 10 minutes. No equipment changes are permitted during the 10 minutes. If an item completely breaks during the 10 minute session then you need to use the already equipped gear on weapon/shield switch or continue to play with the broken item.

No use of charges from items during the 10 minute effort.

At the end of 10 minutes, return to town immediately and check the cost of "repair all."

No suspending of time- if the phone rings or a puppy starts eating your shoes, you can either ignore it or deal with it as part of your 10 minute effort.

Multiple efforts are permitted.

Multiple characters are permitted, but each effort can use only a single character.

Single-player only. No MP-ing for the timed effort category.

[highlight]Scoring Tables:[/highlight]

Record your efforts in the tables below:

[highlight]Single item repair, durability only[/highlight]
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Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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[highlight]Single item repair, durability and charges[/highlight]
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Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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[highlight]Complete equipment "Repair All"[/highlight]
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Forum Name               Character                    Items                 Total Repair Cost
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[highlight]Ten minute timed durability loss bill[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name             Character              Build      Items             Repair Cost
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Resources:

You don't actually need to pay the bill. The object is merely to generate the largest bill. For these cases, the following will be very useful options:

1 Ort Rune + Weapon = Fully Repaired Weapon
1 Ral Rune + Armor = Fully Repaired Armor
1 Ort Rune + 1 Chipped Gem (any kind) + Weapon = Fully Repaired and Recharged Weapon
1 Ral Rune + 1 Flawed Gem (any kind) + Armor = Fully Repaired and Recharged Armor

Comments:
I'm playing a character now in whose future I foresee potentially huge repair bills. So I think I will have some good efforts in a while.

Clarifications:
None yet, but I'm sure there are things I forgot to mention and I can put them here later when I realize my mistakes or ambiguities.

Edit: this is just about equipped gear. Merc resurrections don't count as bills- that could be another contest, to see who can kill their merc the most times in 10 minutes... The only bills that count are the repair bills from the repairing NPCs.
 
This is absolutely hilarious. Has anything like this come up before? I probably won't get around to participating, but I'll definitely read about it :p

As for the merc revival idea: Tomb vipers. That is all!
 
I tried to repair ethereal gloves, but charsi says - money cant buy! do I win?

Anyways, fun stuff, Id say winner of 2, will be some rw with charges and staffmods made in staffmod heavy cadusceus (high dura) ...
 
Ethereal items give a big fat 0 repair cost, even if they do give a great deal of heartache when they wear out...

Indeed, staffmods are a big factor on expense. It might be good to have a separate category for runewords, actually.
 
I remember I had a CoH in a superior (?) archon plate, and it was mighty expensive to repair a few durability. Marrowwalk charges are expensive, too.
 
I'm sure I can do better than this, but I thought this would be a good item to start with, as I remember spending a fair amount on repairs in the Crafted Items tourney with Altjira and this axe:

Code:
Altjira's Ghoul Rend War Spike 
One Hand Damage: 132 - 221 
Durability: 0 of 26 
Required Level: 81 
Required Strength: 133 
Required Dexterity: 54 
Fingerprint: 0xa96dfe46 
Item Level: 81 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
+20% Increased Attack Speed 
342% Enhanced Damage 
+9 to Maximum Damage 
+17 to Attack Rating 
6% Life stolen per hit 
+19 to Life 1 Sockets (1 used) 
Socketed: Shael Rune

But with no staffmods and charges, it turned out to be just a mere pittance of 24960 to repair from 0 to 26 durability. He also had a caduceus on switch but (fortunately at the time, unfortunately for this) it has self-repair. I'll have to dig further...

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[highlight]Single item repair, durability only[/highlight]
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Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted ettin axe             24960


[highlight]Single item repair, durability and charges[/highlight]
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Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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[highlight]Complete equipment "Repair All"[/highlight]
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Forum Name               Character                    Items                 Total Repair Cost
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[highlight]Ten minute timed durability loss bill[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name             Character              Build      Items             Repair Cost
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Don't mean to make your cost sound low or anything, but a fortitude costs more than that with just 1 point of repair. I think mine is ~57k per point. I think I will go to normal and let some fallens wail on me for 10 minutes or until it breaks and put the repair cost up.

-Edit-

Well didn't work as well as I hoped. I did nightmare and my merc needs to be dead. the ice bolts triggering from fortitude kept killing fallens and what that didn't kill my merc killed. I only managed to lose 5 points of durability in 10 minutes for a 285696 gold repair cost.
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I reckon this might be a good untwinked tourney. Entry fee and prizes are a rediculous amount of gold... :whistling: HC/SC gold would have to be split up though. Perhaps at certain key areas/times, repair costs are collected/posted, and points towards the final score are given. Hilarious and unique concept. :thumbup:

I'll be watching this thread though - see what some people come up with. Throw Carrion Winds and quad Demon Limb's with 0 charges, and see how it that goes.
 
A wand with lv3 lower resist charges is another ridiculously expensive item to repair. I have one of those. However I don't think I can compete in the charged item department, due to lack of expensive charged items. I am not really sure I want to try and win any other category of this tourney either. I mean I have a little over 70 million in my gomule bank right now. If I put forth a real effort in this I could easily see that cut in half. This seems like a tourney I am not sure I want to win.
 
you dont have to actually repair the item through vendors;) read the op, there are repair recipes costing you RALish rune and chipped gem
 
I had another effort with a crafted caduceus, with only a +2 zeal staffmod, which wasn't nearly what I expected at 43264. It's pretty clear that runewords will be the way to go, as anticipated. In a little while I'll be using my Beast caduceus and expect some big bills there, but before that I'll try my crafted claws to see how they rank as I remember them as being expensive to manage.

Code:
Storm Call Caduceus 
One Hand Damage: 75 - 87 
Durability: 0 of 70 
Required Level: 88 
Required Strength: 97 
Required Dexterity: 70 
Fingerprint: 0x3405c946 
Item Level: 87 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
5% Chance to cast level 4 Frost Nova when struck 
+1 to Paladin Skill Levels 
104% Enhanced Damage 
+150% Damage to Undead 
Adds 1 - 4 Cold Damage Over 3 Secs (75 Frames) 
6% Life stolen per hit 
+2 to Zeal (Paladin Only) 
Attacker Takes Damage of 5



[highlight]Single item repair, durability only[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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 OneNoob                                             Fort dusk shroud, partial    285696
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted caduceus              43264
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted ettin axe             24960


[highlight]Single item repair, durability and charges[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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[highlight]Complete equipment "Repair All"[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name               Character                    Items                 Total Repair Cost
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[highlight]Ten minute timed durability loss bill[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name             Character/Build      Items                            Repair Cost
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OneNoob                                     Fort dusk shroud                     285696
 
I enter with Raven, my Harmony-based budget Strafer, and my second Matriarch. I remember her running almost out of gold in Hell Act V.

Duress in a superior Dusk Shroud at 13 durability: 729,088 gold to repair.

[highlight]Single item repair, durability only[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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 felixbavaria                Raven                   Duress dusk shroud (13/22)   [URL="http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s369/felixbavaria/Screenshot002.jpg"]729088[/URL]
 OneNoob                                             Fort dusk shroud, partial    285696
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted caduceus              43264
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted ettin axe             24960


[highlight]Single item repair, durability and charges[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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[highlight]Complete equipment "Repair All"[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name               Character                    Items                 Total Repair Cost
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[highlight]Ten minute timed durability loss bill[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name             Character/Build      Items                            Repair Cost
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OneNoob                                     Fort dusk shroud                      285696
 
When I use the bear charges on my beast weapon the repair bill goes to 180k per charge. And it's not even a superior weapon!
 
This seems like a fun tourney so i think i will enter with my perfect defense(+15%ED) CoH Archon Plate for starters. I'm looking forward to see what other crazy repairs show up later on:thumbup:.

Code:
Chains of Honor
Superior Archon Plate
DolUmBerIst
Defense: 971
Durability: 0 of 60
Required Level: 63
Required Strength: 103
Fingerprint: 0xced2f067
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to All Skills
+200% Damage to Demons
+100% Damage to Undead
8% Life stolen per hit
+85% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
Replenish Life +7
All Resistances +65
Damage Reduced by 8%
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

[highlight]Single item repair, durability only[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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 Face                                                CoH Archon Plate (0/60)     [URL="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/526/cohrepair.jpg/"]1270784[/URL]
 felixbavaria                Raven                   Duress dusk shroud (13/22)   [URL="http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s369/felixbavaria/Screenshot002.jpg"]729088[/URL]
 OneNoob                                             Fort dusk shroud, partial    285696
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted caduceus              43264
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted ettin axe             24960


[highlight]Single item repair, durability and charges[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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[highlight]Complete equipment "Repair All"[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name               Character                    Items                 Total Repair Cost
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[highlight]Ten minute timed durability loss bill[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name             Character/Build      Items                            Repair Cost
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OneNoob                                     Fort dusk shroud                      285696
 
Well done Face, first to hit 6 digits! I forsee repair bills, at least total repair bills, in excess of what a single character can carry. I remember seeing something for sale in a shop which was more than a character could carry (Godly Sacred Armor of ? or something like that) which made it unpurchaseable...
 
OK, my Beast-wielding avenger is now in A3 hell so I made an effort at the timed durability loss category, using the large supply of flayers provided by the jungles. A fully repaired Beast +3 Veng/+2 Conviction superior caduceus fell from full durability (77) down somewhat to 53 durability remaining, giving a total bill of 539,644 for the 10 minute effort. I think with a faster-hitting character using the same weapon and also bringing more expensive armor into play, there could be some much higher scores for the 10 minute effort category. No charges were used in that 10 minute run and most of the bill was from the weapon, but there was probably some armor expense as well in there.

Code:
Beast
Superior Caduceus
BerTirUmMalLum
One Hand Damage: 141 - 164
Durability: 77 of 77
Required Level: 66
Required Strength: 97
Required Dexterity: 70
Fingerprint: 0x971c08e1
Item Level: 81
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Level 9 Fanaticism Aura When Equipped
+40% Increased Attack Speed
282% Enhanced Damage
+150% Damage to Undead
20% Chance of Crushing Blow
25% Chance of Open Wounds
Prevent Monster Heal
+3 to Vengeance (Paladin Only)
+2 to Conviction (Paladin Only)
+3 to Lycanthropy
+3 to Werebear
+27 to Strength
+10 to Energy
+2 to Mana after each Kill
Increase Maximum Durability 10%
Level 13 Summon Grizzly (5/5 Charges)
5 Sockets (5 used)

Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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 Face                                                CoH Archon Plate (0/60)     [URL="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/526/cohrepair.jpg/"]1270784[/URL]
 felixbavaria                Raven                   Duress dusk shroud (13/22)   [URL="http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s369/felixbavaria/Screenshot002.jpg"]729088[/URL]
 OneNoob                                             Fort dusk shroud, partial    285696
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted caduceus              43264
 purplelocust                Altjira                 crafted ettin axe             24960


[highlight]Single item repair, durability and charges[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name                Character                    Item                   Repair Cost
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[highlight]Complete equipment "Repair All"[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name               Character                    Items                 Total Repair Cost
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[highlight]Ten minute timed durability loss bill[/highlight]
Code:
Forum Name             Character/Build      Items                            Repair Cost
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purplelocust             SantMarti/avenger    mainly Beast caduceus               [URL="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/805/timedrepair.jpg/"]539644[/URL]
OneNoob                                     Fort dusk shroud                      285696
 
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I think it is pretty obvious that the way to go in this tournament is expensive runewords in expensive superior items. In my opinion it would be much more interesting to exclude runewords.

Im curious if crafted items or rare items would win being most expensive.
Crafted items tend to be pretty expensive, but rare items can come with triple durability. I can imagine a 207 durability rare seraph rod with insane staffmods (and charged skill) would be more expensive to repair as a 70 durability crafted caduceus.
Battle cestus comes with highest durability (72), but is pretty hard to find with triple durability since you will need to farm monsters between lvl 75 and 84. Also you need a lvl 54+ assassin to lose the durability :P
Ilvl 99 items can come with more expensive affixes, since they can come with maxlvl charged skills.

my guess is that a 3x dur rare seraph rod dropped by baal, has the best papers to become the most expensive non runeword weapon with the highest repairbill.
 
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