Single Skill Tree Tournament- Resurrected

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Morathi1

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Single Skill Tree Tournament- Resurrected

Hello everyone! Another tournament by me? well yes. After talking to Hrus, he has allowed me to do another tournament despite my other 2 which are running:thumbsup: . (sorry if you are sick of me making torunaments, its what i like doing , and i only play tourny characters)

This tournament is pretty much a re-make of Corax's Single skill tree tournament which he made on the 30th of Aug, 2004 (a long time ago). Before i was a memember and just a lurker i followed that tournament with great intererst and loved each progress that came in. After reading the tournament again for about the 3rd time now (its my favourite tournament) i believe that re-making it will be truely awesome and also because as you may or may not know, my love and dedication for diablo 2 is fading (lost interest in last 2 tournaments i made). So this is a perfect opportunity to re-erergize my love and motivation to diablo 2. Ok enough about me lets get into it.

Inspired by Corax's Single Tree tournament (pretty much same rules, but changed a bit)
Versions 1.11 and 1.10, RRM allowed. (RWM is not, if it is installed dont make a runeword which it allows you to).

Basically each class is allowed to use a single skill tree and none other:
Amazon- Passive & Magic tree
Assassin- Shadow Discipline tree
Barbarian- Combat Mastery tree
Druid- Summoning tree
Necromancer- Curse tree
Paladin- Offensive Aura tree
Sorceress- Fire skill tree

Rules:
1. HC only. However if you cant or really dont want to, you may be SC. Be sure to list your preference when you sign up. SC entrants will be 'dead' when their character suffers their first death.
2. Only skills listed above are allowed. In Case of skills on weapons, you may only use that skill if it is a skill that that character can learn. An example = A paladin may use a weapon with +1 zeal but may not use a amulet lets say with teleport charges. This is because in any case a paladin can not learn teleport but can learn zeal (however in this tournament you cant). CTC items may be used regardless of what skill it does, the same goes for charges.
3. Any players settings allowed.
4. All quests and waypoints are to be collected. using the imbue/personalize isn't required to 'complete' them. (you may save your imbues/personalize etc)
5. New chars only, untwinked.
6. Muling items off is allowed, however nothing may be muled onto that character as this is untwinked play.
7. No Mulitplayer allowed, must be single player.
8. First Guardian or highest level will win the tournament.
9. ATMA may not be used as an extended stash.
10. There is no time restrain for this tournament it goes until someone becomes a guardian (good luck :wink3: ).
11. Mercs are allowed.
12.Areas may be re-run if you choose to. This includes act bosses and other areas etc.
13. If your character dies you may rejoin with another character.
14. There wont be a table for this tournament (too much work and wastes space), if you are joining, or writing progress do it in this format.(see below)


Forum Name: Morathi
Character Name: Skarlath
Character Class: Curse tree Necro
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: none
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment

15. Tourney starts as soon as you sign up.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE WHO DECIDES TO JOIN!!!:thumbsup:

Morathi
 
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Forum Name: inSTAALed
Character Name: lolwut
Character Class: Summoning Druid
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: None
Farthest WP: Rogue

Stop making tournaments, I can't keep up. :(
 
thats for edditing title!,

@inSTAALed. lol yeah i promise no more for awhile :P. thanks for joining and good luck. If you ever get stuck with your summoner , looking through the last single tree tournament is a great idea to see what people do in different situations etc.

As for me i chosed the curse necro mainly due to reading all of Jiansonz post in the last single tree tournament and also this would be my 2nd attempt at a necro (my last one died to normal diablo). I will probably follow his same plan and hopefully do as good as he did *crosses fingers*
 
Of course Im gonna join. Partial as I am to the casting arts Ill choose the fire sorc.

Forum Name: Docturnal
Character Name: Hidama
Character Class: Fire Sorc
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: None
Farthest WP: Rogue
 
Forum Name: Uzziah
Character Name: Passive
Character Class: Combat Masteries Barb
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: None
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment

Well I wish you all luck I will play it Hardcore and see how it goes, This shouldn't be too hard since I get staffmods to play with.
 
Uzziah good luck to you. Using normal attack will be hard and tedious. But my necro will be doing the same :P.

good to see no questions asked so far. I must have made the rules clear :).
 
Forum Name: Saucy
Character Name: Jade
Character Class: Shadow Master Assn.
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: None
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment

This sounds like fun, I'll give it a try. Will get started but will not get much time in next week due to the MFO.
 
Morathi said:
Uzziah good luck to you. Using normal attack will be hard and tedious. But my necro will be doing the same :P.

good to see no questions asked so far. I must have made the rules clear :).
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2. Only skills listed above are allowed. In Case of skills on weapons, you may only use that skill if it is a skill that that character can learn. An example = A paladin may use a weapon with +1 zeal but may not use a amulet lets say with teleport charges. This is because in any case a paladin can not learn teleport but can learn zeal (however in this tournament you cant). CTC items may be used regardless of what skill it does, the same goes for charges.

This rule is really confusing am I allowed to have a helm with +3 bash for example and use bash as my attack since I could learn it as a barb? also you might want to look at the example you gave and the very last sentence of this rule as they contradict themselves.

By the way you might want to check my passive barb guide (written in 2004~2005) I think I'll be fine with the barb just take my time and don't die right :) ancients and Baal are going to be hard though, and I'll most likely need to bow diablo which will take time. Last time I solo'ed Baal in normal with a passive barb it took me 45 minutes to drop him :P



 
This rule is really confusing am I allowed to have a helm with +3 bash for example and use bash as my attack since I could learn it as a barb? also you might want to look at the example you gave and the very last sentence of this rule as they contradict themselves.
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yes i was afriad of that. Well to answer your question yes. Because bash is a barbarian skill and your a barb, you may use the helm with +3 bash. But remember because it enables you to use bash, you cannot go into combat tree and max it. You are stuck only with masteries. And i dought a +3 bash can get you far in the game :P.
 
I've not tried HC before so I don't expect i'll be making it very far with this one, but it sounds like an awesome fun tournament however I have a few questions.

Say I am a fire sorc, therefore cannot learn teleport from the lightning skill tree, am I allowed to use a staff that gives teleport? Reading through I'm pretty sure I can but if you could clear this up it would be great. :thumbsup:

Forum Name: Joosh
Character Name: JumpInTheFire
Character Class: Fire Sorc
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: None
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment

Joosh
 
I remember being in a single tree tournament a long time ago (not as long as 2004) and it was great fun, count me in :D
I can't wait to begin myself but sadly I just got to work which means I have to wait approx 10 hours before I can.. Now I just have to decide on what build to pick, I played shadow assassin the last time so that's the only one I'm sure not to pick.
Good luck everyone!! :grin:

Edit: It IS the same tournament as I parcipitated in the last time xD
 
Say I am a fire sorc, therefore cannot learn teleport from the lightning skill tree, am I allowed to use a staff that gives teleport? Reading through I'm pretty sure I can but if you could clear this up it would be great.
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Yes because your a sorc any item that allows teleport may be used.

@asdfgah. Ah yes asdfgah i remember your sin which you made. I remember you had much fun with her and made it quite far. Yesterday i re-read the whole tournament by corax (all post and pages :rolleyes:), as you could imagine it took some time, 3 hours to be persice. asdfgah there are few changes of the rules compared to corax's, but its pretty much the same.

Forum Name: Morathi
Character Name: Skarlath (aided by Kyoko Fire Rogue)
Character Class: Curse tree Necro
Character Level: 11
Farthest Quest: Sisters' Buriel Grounds
Farthest WP: Cold Plains

As for my own progress, Skarlath's journey began with constant slapping and wacking with his small wand. He was nicely aided with the help of his level 1 skeli. But once he found a nice 2s scepter, the wand was placed straight into his stash and may not come out untill hell or late NM (will be used for corspe exploding). Amplify damage is Skarlath's best friend, it has saved alot of time as it dramatically increases his killing speed. So far i have pumped 4 points into amp and will probably leave it to that for the rest of the game. I am doing this because later on in the game i will have to use more that 1 curse on curtain packs and i dont want the radius of amp to cover the whole screen.
Skarlath has been up and down with his finds so far. His first two jewels were jewels of fevor (20 poison damage over 2 seconds) which he has placed into one socket of his 2s sceptor the other socket a sapphire was put in. The other jewel is in Kyoko's 3s Hunters bow along with a ruby and a sapphire. Skarlath has found every gem so far apart from a topaz and he is not happy :rant:. I am planning with my necro to be assisted by Kyoko for the whole game. This means i will be without an effecient tank but this is where Skarlath comes in. Yes he will be my tank i am hoping to get max block, high life and the use of my curses to sufficiently tank and allow Kyoko to fire arrows at will.

Skarlath so far found his first S/U which came from blood raven (i accidently had weapon switch on, hence the javilin). Other than that nothing else, apart from some rares which i am using.
 
Well the battle with blood raven was long and hard but so far that has been JumpInTheFire's only challenge yet, she left everything else a smoldering ruin in her wake.

She was awarded with a cold merc for her gracious deeds against blood raven, i'll leave the rest of details to speak for themselves. :smile:

Forum Name: Joosh
Character Name: JumpInTheFire
Character Class: Fire Tree Sorc
Character Level: 16
Farthest Quest: The Horadric Malus
Farthest WP: Outer Cloister

Joosh
 
Just a kindely reminder. ANYONE WHATS TO JOIN THE TOURNAMENT AT ANY TIME MAY WISH TO AS THERE IS NO TIME LIMIT ON JOINING!!.
 
I've decided to try an "offensive-aura-onlydin"

Forum Name: asdfgah
Character Name: AvatarOfWoe
Character Class: Offensive aura paladin
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: none
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment

Named after a really cool magic the gathering card ^_^
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Morathi said:
@asdfgah. Ah yes asdfgah i remember your sin which you made. I remember you had much fun with her and made it quite far. Yesterday i re-read the whole tournament by corax (all post and pages :rolleyes:), as you could imagine it took some time, 3 hours to be persice. asdfgah there are few changes of the rules compared to corax's, but its pretty much the same.
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What are the changes really? Like you say it's pretty much the same so I think it would be easier for you to point the differences out than me finding them :X

Reading old tournaments can be entertaining indeed, I did with the money hating barbarian tournament wich was a lot of fun.
Morathi said:
Just a kindely reminder. ANYONE WHATS TO JOIN THE TOURNAMENT AT ANY TIME MAY WISH TO AS THERE IS NO TIME LIMIT ON JOINING!!.
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So start joining now people!



 
Haven't played any tourneys in what seems an eternity, so might as well try another. Darn, I was hoping to be the first Pally to enter :P


Forum Name: Immortal_Slayer
Character Name: Slaxz
Character Class: Offensive Aura Paladin
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: None
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment
 
Well at level 19 I decided I could beat andariel, my only downfall was I was just too cocky, having never played hardcore before I will not make that same mistake again, I will have to ponder whether or not to reenter into this one.

Goodbye JumpInTheFire, your deeds will be remembered well.

Joosh :wink:
 
i enter with

Forum Name: newco
Character Name: Gom_Jabbar
Character Class: Shadow-Assassin :hide:
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: none
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment
 
WOW a death already? thats too bad. If you decide you may re-enter with another character.

Named after a really cool magic the gathering card ^_^
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OMG i play that game with my friend and i know the card your talking about its pretty cool. I also have named character names after magic cards. They have some sick names :)
 
Forum Name: adzicents
Character Name: Vesta
Character Class: Fire Tree Sorceress
Character Level: 1
Farthest Quest: none
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment

Why not :thumbsup:. Name is the Roman god of fire by the way :wink3:.
 
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